skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem you haven't noticed is that the language covering what you care about, using Shen to write programs, is in many places (potentially at least 7 by a count I just made), and you, or, say a lawyer for your company, has to read and understand the whole huge thing to make sure your intended use is OK. And that the multiple times it tries to say the same thing are not ambiguous.

It's also explicitly not open source ("We are therefore not open source."), and should you find yourself needing to fix a bug in a language implementation your legal burden massively increases.

Compare this to the licenses you name, they're all well understood, and in at least some cases validated in court. For that matter, the GPL has been validated in at least US and German courts.

As for Ocaml, it uses the Q Public License (as well as the LGPL); it's short and a quick glance didn't indicate it tries to say the same thing more than once. It's been around for a while, to the point it's an OSI and FSF approved licence, so others have looked at it, as they did for Qt prior to version 4.0., and KDE based on it prior to then. About which there was much todo, so it's be thoroughly analyzed.

So it may be "weird", but it's significantly more palatable than Shen's license.
Yes, unless their landlord is able to evict them for whatever reason. (And, to be clear, all or essentially all rental units in SF are subject to rent control).
Take a look at http://uberspace.de !
It is not a complicated game. Would not have been to hard to do it natively.
I make six figures and I couldn't afford to live in SF anymore, so I relocated to the east bay. This is entirely reasonable...
I'm speaking of ROI to the reader. Of course the business/self-help/productivity literature industry extracts a lot of return for its authors/publishers/distributors without necessarily providing equal value to its customers. This is not what I'm commenting on, nor is it interesting to me. So I didn't overlook the point so much as not give a shit about the undeserved return that the author got from writing this drivel.

There are a lot of self-proclaimed gurus that will come up with numbered steps and claim that they are broadly generalize-able, but are in fact just too vague to easily disprove. I think that this is a destructive act on balance, for various reasons, and so it is worthy of derision. In fact, it's kind of funny that this article specifically claims to be "actionable" when it's anything but. It's a collection of vague and unoriginal principles. And like so many of its ilk, not worthy of anyone's time.
Not to belabor the point, but could someone please attempt to explain what rational goal is served by our society's choices to keep entire segments of the population in conditions the well-off regard as absolutely terrifying nightmare lives?

Controlling the people through fear doesn't sound like the "free world", you know.
> there are already DX->GL compatibility layers, although most of them are in house, by companies that produce ports (ala Feral Games).

And this is Valve releasing their particular variant mostly targeted at other major game studios. There is no reason every studio should be forced to create their own in house compatibility layer.
Most of these were paid for long ago in the age of Internet Explorer, I bet it works fine in that. Hopefully gov't contracts now focus on open technologies and have to support more browsers now but all of them are broken.

I use AZ and Nevada, Nevada was horrid but got a little better, still on par with insurance sites or offshored services. These types of systems would never survive if they didn't collude a useful or required service behind them.

The worst services I have to deal with are paying my state taxes (EFTPS for federal isn't too bad) and insurance websites for healthcare. The healthcare.gov site, even though it launched bad, actually looks good and has some usability, relative to the insurance/tax/govt sites of the same caliber.
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You automatically go month to month.
I wonder if Vinayak works for Kayak because his name is so similar.

-http://andrewgelman.com/2005/08/05/dennis_the_denv/
There is no money to "fix" and IT system that "works". Think of the children you'll be taking money from to pay for this non-essential work.

Why yes, I have been in THAT meeting, just not in Delaware.
PAH world hypothesis
>The obvious solution to rapidly rising prices is to decrease demand.

FTFY. Seriously, there's two parts of a fraction. Why are we subsidizing immigration and children?
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama [video]
> would there be interest in a young guy with startup cred but no political background?

The novelty/outsider schtick, alone, rarely does much for a candidate unless they are also a well-known non-political celebrity, and youth isn't all that powerful a selling point. You need a message, and you don't yet seem to have a compelling one.

> i'm not sure which party would make the most sense

Which suggests that you're currently pretty far from the level of political sophistication that it would require to function effectively as a Senator. That's not an insurmountable barrier.

> i think my personal story is compelling, and i'd campaign on a platform of honesty. if you look me up online, you'd find all this "incriminating" shit on me, and i'd just say "yes that's because i'm human".

That's perhaps a nice way to deflect potential attacks, but its far from even the beginning of a platform. "I don't lie about my past" doesn't tell anyone anything about what you'd do as Senator.
I had this a lot while developing 2048. At some point, I'd feel like I could collapse letters while typing, and that's when I decided I should probably stop playing so often.
would there be interest in a young guy with startup cred but no political background?

To be elected Senator from California over an insanely powerful incumbent? No.

Put your energy into helping someone with better chances.
So why can't she just drive to somewhere where rent is cheaper?
It just won on 1st attempt here. Good job
I'm getting that as well.

I've won once.

The 'technique' I used was to keep the numbers on the left hand edge.

Then using left, down and up built up the rest of the tiles with the movement to left hand edge being the preferred move when it is possible.

I've not managed to repeat the victory yet though.
But could she get on the plane?
What empathy is one supposed to have for this person? She lived in their house, refused to pay rent, filled it with trash and feces, started fights with neighbors and refused any help. What empathy are you expecting people to have at that point?
Wow, I didn't realize that CA had gone that far off the track. I get mad when they don't allow 3rd parties on, so I guess this is just vote from the approved choices crap.
They advertised as an email-sending service...but you couldn't actually use it to send email: http://blog.sendwithus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Screen...
Well, ideally candidates that neither lied nor campaigned with those positions would be great. For reasons that I can only speculate about, they don't seem to exist.

My least 'fringey' theory is that those who want to rule are almost by definition unfit to rule.
> 6. Use environment variables to configure npm

Seems a very nice tip. I would love to hear more about this.
http://isup.me/github.com. Down for everyone
Ouch. They crashed hard. Can't access the website either. Simply no response.
> Debian picked up systemd because it was a popular decision, not because it was better. As far as i'm aware there was nothing broken in sysvinit that systemd fixed; there was just a vocal minority that wanted some new features and insisted it be shipped as default.

I don't feel that's a fair summary of the lengthy debate had about this. There is a long page here [1] listing the reasons for selecting systemd. There is also [2], a very good summary by Russ Allberry of the different init systems being suggested (including staying with sysvinit). Debian has rarely been accused of taking a major technical decision because it is hip.

1: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd

2: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00234.html
Works for me!

(Scotland)
I imagine it being more like Papi/Doodle Jump, but with constant upwards velocity, and perhaps some instability in moving left and right to dodge objects.
I wish there was actually a feature to show only public domain or CC movies.
I don't think you have to go quite that far.

$~1300 will get you a decent Studio/1BR/Shared in the East Bay (Dublin, Livermore). Not bad neighborhoods, close to BART.

Go even a few miles East of these areas, rent drops rather quickly.
> Have you ever shopped for high-end routers, like Juniper or Fortigate?

A lot of people don't understand that this isn't just high-end routers. It's actually all electronics.

Try to buy a motherboard directly from the manufacturer, or a monitor, or really, anything else.

The manufacturer will direct you to their sales wing, at which point, you will be instructed to buy from their approved distributors. Those distributors are large companies that work as middle men.

And then even those distributors will not sell their goods to you unless you have a reseller license and go through their application process.
“the C.I.A.’s search may also have violated the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as Executive Order 12333, which prohibits the C.I.A. from conducting domestic searches or surveillance.” -Sen. Feinstein

Yet, the NSA is not prevented from domestic searches and surveillance? How is this possible or consistent with EO 12333, let alone the U.S. Constitution?

Methinks Senator Feinstein doth protest too much. She supported NSA's massive and unconstitutional domestic surveillance. Now she knows what it feels like to be spied upon, eh?
Consider this game:

You choose either Die or Coin.

If you chose Die, I will roll a die. If the die is 1, I give you $0; otherwise, $1000.

If you choose the coin, I'll give you $10 for heads, and $20 for tails.

If you use a minimax policy, you will choose the coin, because the worst outcome of that choice is a $10 payoff. The 'best' 'worst' outcome is what you get with minimax, and that's $10.

It is true that, as you say, if you instead get $20, you will be pleasantly surprised. "extra advantage for you", as you put it.

But it should be crystal clear that minimax is nonetheless the wrong decision policy here.
If you use a minimax policy when the outcomes are random, you will generally be doing it wrong.

There are exceptions (e.g. you are starving and need $10 or else you'll die; or you are in my casino, and you think I'm using loaded dice, in which case the outcomes aren't random and you have an adversary; etc.) but in general, minimax is just wrong there.

>your argument here (and elsewhere in this thread) seems to be: if the opponent is random a stochastic strategy is best. This is simply not true.

No - my argument is that if an opponent is random a minimax strategy is generally not best.

>Stochastic strategies like MC search have an advantage over game-tree search when the game's branching factor limits you to considering just a few ply ahead (e.g. as in Go).

Yes, that's also true.
you have 10 customers. deleware has a million residents.
With tools like Subversion, you will have to work hard to get the ability to commit locally, and it will cause all sorts of merging difficulties as soon as you get to non-linear history (two people make local commits and then want to upstream them—you simply can't do it without rewriting history). Non-distributed version control systems are simply not designed for that mode of operation. A DVCS is designed to cope with these issues: you don't need to go out of your way to be able to commit locally: it works that way by default.
We've been promised a relocation package but they haven't provided the details. Since we have to apply for our jobs, the salary would be appropriate for the location.

I know boulder has a good tech community but it's at least and hour and a half commute for me (I love south of Denver). My local options would be limited to the DTC area.
>I believe that is how I was intended to perceive it.

This should be all one needs to understand to pull back the veil of US propaganda.
The Great Lakes Are Now 90% Iced Over – Almost Breaking the Record
> "Not wait until there is a candidate President to be presented to them, but join the parties they are interested in, and push and vote themselves for the kind of candidate they want to have?"

In a country of 300million people, I don't think that "get to know the person that you want to be president, so that you can personally endorse them" is a scalable solution.

For most citizens, that would play out as "join a party, receive the newsletters in the mail, feel good about the direction the party is going, and get lied to every two years."
>"Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars!"

Oh wow, a "My tax dollars!" complaint in the middle of a "My tax dodge is inconvenient!" complaint with a little "Thanks, Obama!" thrown in for good measure.
It stops automated IP tracking from watchdog lawyer orgs. That's about it, but that's a whole lot right there.
Shit like this makes my blood boil.
I'm not entirely sure about this, but it seemed like Grunt was more for front-end developers that haven't quite jumped into Node.js yet (or had no intention to).

I've noticed some culture differences between front-end and back-end javascripters.
Does economics need a rethink?
No love for CFEngine?
When people talk about configuration management it's always Puppet, Chief, Ansible, Salt, etc.

CFEngine 3 - the oldest and most mature of them all - seems hardly mentioned. The same goes when reading job adds.

Why is so?
You know, I found the same thing. I really hate ads.

I'm using coinbase for all transactions at the moment. It's very straight forward and easy to set up.
Quality of Code – Avoiding A Rewrite
The actual system is a bit more nuanced, (or less nuanced, depending on your perspective) which is everyone runs in the same primary, there are no party divisions and the top two candidates proceed to the general election.

FWIW, it was proposed and supported by Abel Maldonado, who is a GOP politician, and it was opposed by the state Democratic party.
Works for me [Chapel Hill, NC, USA]
Incidentally, you could just do:

* {
pointer-events: none !important;
}

If you did want to make a site work like this.
I'm not convinced it's "off the track". Third parties are allowed in to the primary, they just need to place in the top two to be allowed into the general (just like anyone else).
Competition among states that want business is a good thing at the core though.

Delaware and Nevada want to attract business so they have better prices. Regulation and law allow it, and this is healthy to have states competing for business.

If this competition did not exist state licenses and taxes would be like paying for broadband from one provider and probably thousands a year to license instead of $300 and taxes would be immense.

Small business especially already pays higher taxes so really any advantage given to small business really helps the economy as a whole even if that means lower taxes by registering in another state. The only way to fight the market is with regulation or competition, the latter always means cheaper prices and will allow more small business.
I don't know what "native linux ports" is exactly, but Kerbal Space Program uses Unity and has a very nice Linux build. It even has an x86_64 build, which isn't available for Windows or Mac.
It would be interesting to speculate on what is achieved by this botnet. Perhaps an overall traffic metric? Or air-cover for legitimate traffic? Tin foil hatters probably can find a covert comms network in there somewhere.
I wouldn't call 35,000 accounts "massive"

Fake accounts are literally everywhere on Twitter. I have no doubt there are "botnets" out there that are far more sophisticated, more difficult to detect, and contain many more accounts than this.
I was a DR-DOS user, too (Novell DOS 7).
I feel like I am missing something, I don't see why this is interesting. It doesn't sound like the "botnet" has any objective beyond being annoying. No propaganda, no ads, etc.

Waste of resources sure, but interesting results have come out of these accounts like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_ebooks
It's a matter of complexity. If you're munging files and using regexps, shell is fine, and quicker than Python. If you're starting to think "I need a set" or "I need real error handling", it's about the time I move to Python or Perl.
God I hated this when I was at Tufts. But its far from the only university system to do this. I suspect a middleware vendor somewhere.
Why hasn't Twitter shut it down yet? There has to be some sort of reason for it--unless it's the same reason why spammers keep spamming blogs...
To clarify something not evident in the title, but which became obvious when I looked through the doc, this is about small-scale parallelism. The kind you find in a single (non-exotic) machine.

Massive-scale parallelism uses different data structures, algorithms, and programming models not discussed.
Huh, that's a lot of downvotes. Sorry for, you know, mentioning an event that occurred that provides context for the article.
Bitcoin stinks and it enables scams like this.
> This is surreal.

Sure, but we still end up paying less for gas than our neighbors.

Don't get me wrong, if it were up to me, this would be gone in a heartbeat ... but it's not the end of the world.
These are some great tips. By keeping the highest number in corner and making sure I am not forced to move it, I have been able to get till (~20000 score) 1024, 512, 256 etc and then game over :( Going to try again.

LOVE the game. Who knew I could single-mindedly focus on one task for hours and not get distracted.
Selling followers.

The accounts make tweets to appear active and legitimate; they are given profile pictures lifted from other accounts, etc.
There are sometimes reasons for odd stuff like this. We take our tax payment system offline for a short period every day for several reasons. First, the actual system that stores the data is on ancient system where the database needs to be shut down to do backups. Most the system was written in the early 90's, and we hope to replace it soon, but it is easier said than done. (We tried once, and lost close to $1m when the vendor folded 2 years into the migration) The second reason is if you begin your transaction at 11:55 the system calculates your amount owed based on the day the transactions begins, but if the transaction doesn't complete until 12:01 then (in the case of late payments) the amount paid is inaccurate with regard to penalty and interest. Technically we're not allowed to take partial payments, so we have to do some silly things to ensure that we follow the law (we would have more control if we processed credit cards internally, but that is done by a payment processor.) So while I know nothing about Delaware, I can sympathize with building systems like this inside of government rules.
They can be sold as followers

Want 10k followers? I have a few these ones, look at how active they are etc.
> I get mad when they don't allow 3rd parties on, so I guess this is just vote from the approved choices crap.

Actually, its, at least superficially, the reverse -- California replaced traditional partisan primaries with non-partisan "open primaries". Under the old partisan primary system, the general election featured the winners of the partisan primaries plus qualified non-party candidates, under the new non-partisan primary system the "primary" is a poorly-named open general election run using majority/runoff, if no candidate wins a majority in the "primary", a so-called "general election" is held which is actually a runoff election between the top two vote winners from the "primary".
The solution is making a proper release instead foisting development issues onto end users. Repeat after me: A repository is not a release.
The primary factor underlying these issues is that congress and the executive are beholden more to those who fund their campaigns than those who vote for them. Nothing gets through congress or is signed by the president without the approval of the top 100 campaign donors.
Boeing 777 Infographic – By The Numbers
I think that SteamOS/Steamboxes could be a win for people who are not currently PC gamers. I do some minimal gaming in Debian on my laptop (KSP, occasional minecraft), but I could see myself getting a Steambox to do some proper gaming (I haven't played a GTA since GTA3, but the most recent looks pretty cool. If Steamboxes got that I'd get one in a heartbeat).
I thought @horse_ebooks was an experimental art thing and not a bot at all
> This IRS scandal should have the press howling at the stonewalling of the administration and the suppression of the rights of Americans trying to participate in the election process

Which IRS scandal? This one[1]?

"Further investigation revealed that certain terms and themes in the applications of liberal-leaning groups and the Occupy movement had also triggered additional scrutiny, though possibly at a lower rate.[3][4][5][6][7] The only known denial of tax-exempt status occurred to a progressive group."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_IRS_scandal
works for me (Australia)
"FWIW, it was proposed and supported by Abel Maldonado, who is a GOP politician, and it was opposed by the state Democratic party."

The notion being "this wasn't forced through by the majority party", and it might therefore be more "fair"?
Car dealers exist because they isolate the risk of local car sales from the manufacturer. This includes not just inventory management but credit risk management and other business considerations. Business-wise, this is a very good thing. Car manufacturers are in the business of making cars, not selling them. (This is an important, if subtle, distinction.)

From a customer standpoint, they also provide a guaranteed location at which the car can be serviced. If you buy a common car like a Ford or a Toyota, you'll have your choice of mechanics. If you buy an import or a Fiat, your only option locally may be the dealer you purchased the car from.

As technology progresses, these franchises will increasingly rely on the manufacturer for assistance in solving problems that are not simple.

Yes, but if any such problem is severe enough that only the manufacturer can deal with it, they've got a mandatory recall issue, and the manufacturer would be forced to handle the problem. Car dealers usually have the best-trained (and first trained) mechanics for any model of car, pursuant to franchise licensing agreements.

real advantage to Tesla is that the feedback loop is faster.

In the real world, fast iteration for physical products is not a good thing. You end up turning any particular iteration of the car into a commodity, which lowers demand because buyers will want to just wait for the next iteration.
It moves the more important, and potentially decisive, election for all affected offices to the lower-turnout, more-conservative-electorate, and now badly-misnamed "primary" and only has a "general" election at all for an office if there is no majority vote winner in the primary.

Basically, most offices (but not Presidential elections) in California now have what is really the general election as the "primary", with a potential runoff as the "general election" if needed.
I've never understood why people think this guy is interesting. He's just a socially awkward dude that makes loud, strange noises and acts like a child when he plays games. Meh.
Imagine that abuse and entitlement scaled up by 10000, would you still want the money?
Right. Now we just need to switch the open primaries to approval voting.
Tesla sales will be banned in New Jersey starting April 1st