skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it is different. The "normal" mugger gets caught and goes to jail, this one has a loophole that allows hum to walk off with your wallet without being arrested.

It's a basic scam created by a law. You see it with some injury cases[1] and many of the lawyers suing businesses based on the ADA. The law is meant to protect people from an injustice done, but can be used in the opposite manner.

Chilling affects like these are often mitigated by documentation by HR. Specifically, performance reviews and performance improvement plans. He was not equipped to provide the documentation.

This is just a reality and cold logic. You can say he is "Sad", but he is expressing the "stick hand in fire" learning of the situation. The sadness should be expressed to the folks who fit into the spirit of the law that has been abused.

1) often with headlines "X who collects disability enters a triathlon" or similar sensationalist stuff.
As a major OneNote fan, this is great news. Super fast import of existing notebooks too.
I sent this article to a friend who is a patent attorney, and he hasn't followed the case but based on this: http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/03/software-patent-eligibil... the Forbes article's claims are unlikely.
So I wasn't saying that it's a matter of determination for people with real problems and wasn't in no way proposing it as a solution.

I was trying to suggest that there can't be a one size fits all - some people are fat because they practice impulsive eating at midnight and/or when upset and some people are fat because their metabolism is seriously malfunctioning (e.g. people with diabetes or a predisposition to diabetes). Can you agree that we've got at least these 2 categories? Can you see how these 2 categories require different types of treatment?

In regards to treatments sometimes doing more harm than good and my problem with an ADHD diagnosis from my experience in talking with people diagnosed as such is that the diagnosis itself is often without any hint to the root cause, being often about the symptoms. For example a magnesium deficit can lead to ADHD symptoms. If a person with a magnesium deficit takes drugs that don't treat this deficit, it's easy to see how the treatment can do harm.
The Big Bang theory is not about the "explosion" of our universe from a point.

Firstly, the universe may have always been infinite in size. It's just that every small piece of that infinite universe has been expanding since about 14 billion years ago.

Secondly, "explosion" is a misnomer. The universe is expanding, not exploding.

As a theory, the Big Bang theory makes various predictions, such as the cosmic microwave background radiation, the relative abundance of elements in the universe and of course the expansion of the universe.

But it doesn't predict that the universe will be the same in all directions. There just isn't time for energy fluctuations to have evened themselves out due to the transfer of energy from hot spots to cold spots. That process can only happen at the speed of light (energy is transferred at the speed of light).

Because of the way space is expanding, the speed two points move away from each other depends on how far apart they are. Thus, very distant points on opposite sides of the sky are actually moving apart faster than the speed of light. What this implies is that there's no way they can have had time to reach thermal equilibrium (i.e. have reached the same temperature)!

But satellite observations tell us the observable universe is very nearly the same temperature in every direction!

The problem is resolved by the Theory of Inflation. This is a time of exceedingly(!!) rapid expansion which occurred before the time described by the Big Bang theory (remember the Big Bang theory is not about the "explosion" of the universe from a point, but about the subsequent expansion of the universe after inflation).

The reason inflation solves the problem is that a very, very tiny region of space (subatomic scale) expanded exceedingly rapidly in a tiny fraction of a second, smoothing out any temperature fluctuations. What we see as our observable universe is just the temperature fluctuations in a subatomic sized piece of universe from before inflation happened.

After that tiny fraction of a second, inflation stopped, and normal Big Bang physics took over.

Moreover, inflation explains the formation of galaxies. Tiny quantum fluctuations became the seeds of galaxies, clusters, superclusters and giant strings of clusters that make up our universe today.

Note that almost everything written in the current Slashdot summary of the breakthrough is completely wrong!
Setting aside the larger issues I find it's curious that Dave doesn't even take a moment to consider that perhaps "Roy" just didn't like working in the style that Dave demanded. Some people do need to think a lot before pooping out the golden gem or perhaps just need some reflection before they can move on. Some people are hard to collaborate with, maybe Dave was, for Roy?

Dave's position seems to have been "there's one way to work, you can't do it with me on these big things so let's try the same method on these smaller things. Oh that doesn't work either, let's try the same method with a different person."

Never any critique of the methods used by the authority structures.

I reckon this does, in fact, have great bearing on the larger issue.
Software Patent Eligibility: Alice Corp v. CLS Bank on the Briefs
Wall Street set for tech IPO let-down
please let me know! your "zoom" is bossy
One parallel I would point out is sexes in other species. If you look at many other species, sometimes females play dominant roles, sometimes males do, but very often males and females have different roles. Even though we are an intelligent species, many of our primal traits still shine through. I'm not saying a male or female should be forced to any given role, but rather let people choose the roles they want and don't force diversity for the sake of diversity.
I know about guys like Carmack. He was the one I was thinking about when asking the question.

But I never met one like him.

To me, such people simply are far away in some big companys across the sea.

I always hope to meet such people to learn from them "how to do it".
America Has a Black-Market Problem, Not a Drug Problem
The Los Angeles Times Assigned a Robot to Report on the Earthquake
For some reason my mind first just picked up Twilio & Natural Language and got quite excited at the prospect of an additional layer on top of Twilio to run NLP on SMS/phone call streams.

Like if you could just create smart NLP around SMS menus, you'd solve the third world's sms-as-a-helpdesk frustrations.

Or think of the premium subscription services you could charge for when people can interact on the level of natural language instead of just replying with simple commands.

"for the first time, the developers themselves do not have to be experts in the field, or face the prospect of huge expense to bring in that technical knowledge from elsewhere."
- I love that the building blocks of building cool experiences become more well-polished and easier to fit together.

It's a good time to be alive, that's for sure!
Isn't the problem Automatic DI, and not DI?
js_of_ocaml has excellent DOM bindings:
http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/api/index

I'm also looking at whether TyXML can be used with js_of_ocaml for statically typed goodness:
http://ocsigen.org/tyxml/
Make it 3-d print bitcoins from Raspberry Pi and I'm there :)
It's offline actually, I deleted my github account because of recent events at github.

Since you ask...

3rd iteration: It already took me too much time to write this comment.

The code is really not interesting, the implementation of nolang is broken, I did not find time to debug it, not only "I want to do too much things at once" syndrom but I also wanted to mock the idea of some part of the "final" app, in a browser and apply it in the context of Culture&Empire to reach potential dev/users. Since the web is not my primary target, it doesn't really matter in any way but there's still valuable (to me) ideas in the app. This is the most exciting thing that I ever had in mind. It might sound also kind of naive: instead of pushing Pythonium forward and getting a Python framework similar to meteor or derbyjs I will do "no".

https://bitbucket.org/amirouche/no-no-more-updates

The primary application I will build on top of "no" will be something like the venerable delicious bookmark website.

As far as I can think, I would like to be able to boot a computer to be a "no" node with the very minimum. Code & Data will live primarily in the DHT.

[0] The following link is lying. the exact definition of the compliant mode is "wanna be compliant" or "can be compliant"

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pythonium [2]

[2] As a Python dev (with JS knowledge), I really like the veloce mode... veloce mode generates perfect javascript code ie. with no overhead. The overhead of compliant mode is between 100 and 10 i don't remember correctly (based on pystones.py).
This is the real takeaway here. Statistically any class of people who have a 'special power' to use against you will eventually have a person who will use it against you if your exposed to enough of them. Applies to police, protected employment classes, a wild bear attacking you, etc.
who is is john galt
I updated my profile w/ my email address
Basketball is a pretty narrow field though. Anyway, wouldn't you say Linus is a good 10x type of programmer?
Why can't I have 3 flag buttons? Even if they all registered the same single flag signal, it would be gratifying to be able to mash them all in this case. This is less a blog post than an elaborate, carefully timed troll.
In France it's very hard to fire. What ends up happening is that consulting companies are popping up left and right, the result is that salaries are lower for employees (less leverage when negociating, no room for promotion, company cut, smaller term contracts, terrible perks), and for the company "renting" the consultant: higher costs and less commitment.

It's tough to find the right balance: at will employment can lead to unfair situations for the employee, and strong regulations can lead to people abusing the system (like that guy I worked with who had been there for so long that he was cheaper to pay than to fire).
That had me puzzled too. If the CEO would have documented every interaction with the employee in writing (e.g., "on 3/17/85 I gave him job #1, explained what I wanted done, and he failed to do this, and said..."), he would have had a pretty solid case for having fired him for incompetence. It's what any competent HR person or employment lawyer would have advised him to do, especially since the employee was a member of a protected class.

What really surprised me is that the same guy could have later been hired at Apple.

This whole story is a bit scary, since I'm over 40 (the age at which U.S. age discrimination laws kick in) and I wouldn't want bad experiences like this to deter an employer from hiring me.
I take it as evidence that we are doing it wrong. I can only hope that in 50 years time people will look back and wonder how we managed to get it so wrong.
In the original 2048 I only used the arrow keys.

In the 3D version I noticed it worked with WASD(QE). The arrow keys still mapped to WASD.

This version separates WASD from the arrow keys, they now control completely different movement dimensions.

I had to read the instructions a few times before it clicked that I had two use WASD and the arrows for two different tasks.
Not only is sorting a Python list implemented in C, the algorithm was sufficiently impressive to be picked up by Java for non-primitives: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/bfd7abda8f79

The reason it's for non-primitives is because it's optimized for sorting lists where comparison is relatively expensive , such as the dereferencing Python does on every item and Java does for non-primitive items.

Thanks for putting the effort in and testing it! Very interesting results.
Embarrassingly I spent a couple seconds clicking around before I decided to view the source.
The article begs an interesting question ignoring its link bating headline. Mainly is the supreme court over reaching when it comes to patent law and if so why.

>The United States has an expert “patent court,”the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, that hears every appeal from around the country in cases that arise under the country’s patent laws. From California to Florida, any patent appeal goes to the Federal Circuit. Unlike areas of the law, the Federal Circuit creates nationally uniform legal standards for patent law. One of the key reasons the Supreme Court will take a case is when lower courts disagree on a legal issue. But, with patent law’s single appellate court, no such splits arise.

I get the reason why the court would want to not hear these cases based on this but I feel like it isn't clear why they would, and by that i mean a legal basis besides the obvious a philosophical wish to dismantle patent law (after an appropriate amount of googling I still have no answer) any lawyers or law-school dropouts turned programmers around who might explain this?
Is there anything worth clicking? I'd like to avoid that if possible.
For every one of you who takes the meds route, there are others who change careers, jobs, or learn exercises and methods to stay on task better. This has been the traditional way to deal with these problems.

I am not saying that I would not do any different if I were in your shoes, but changing your career to match your brain sure sounds more natural, and that is usually a good thing.

It is sad how science and technology has made normal people have a medical condition. A couple of hundred years ago you would have been a farmer rather than a banker. Now you are on mind altering drugs the rest of your life.
(I'd actually made it before that, but you prompted me to post it here. :) )
Unity 5 revealed – includes improved lighting and audio
PetSquare, more than just a social network for animal lovers
It is extraordinarily difficult to fire people, at least in some countries. This is perhaps for good cause, it stops managers being able to boot people out of the door like you see in movies.

It's very easy to 'discriminate' against someone without realising. You need to make sure that the terms of employment are very well defined in the contract. If terms are hazy then they may well turn back and say that they were doing nothing wrong. If you don't record absolutely everything that happens, the employee could turn around and say this is the first time they heard of the problem.

In some jurisdictions you need a second opinion that would be considered impartial before letting someone go; don't have that? Instant discrimination case. Didn't have a disciplinary meeting so they could have their say? Unfair dismissal.

You have to jump through all the hoops to keep things above board.
Yeah, I should've addressed this in my post. Right now multicore doesn't mean squat to me as I'm using it for JavaScript support. I did investigate this, but forgot to add the links (others have already replied with) about work that is progressing nicely.

I'll update the post once this traffic calms down a bit :)
Sure. You can do that anytime you want. But then you would split the namespace.
Bitly. The power of the link.
These games are really not good for my productivity!
built with node.js
"Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right, I AM the Messiah!"
That's right, if they had known me they'd have been much less pessimistic, neurotic and depressive. Freud would have written:

Civilization: Some Losers Are Still Discontent

The Interpretation of Dreams: Nobody Cares

Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar, and It's Not Always About Your Mother

Hemingway would have written:

A Farewell to Small Arms: Ladies Love Big Biceps

The Long Happy Life of Francis Macomber After He Met Karn and Stopped Being a Loser

The Snows of Aspen: My Life as a Ski Instructor
I went to enter my bracket on Yahoo, same as I've done for the last 15 years, and it's demanding to "verify" a mobile number for me, and forcing me to agree to accept marketing txts.

There's no way for me to "verify" a mobile number without agreeing to marketing txts. There's no way for me to create a bracket without "verifying" a mobile number.

Yeah, no.

And thus ends my 15 years of using the site for this, with an angry feeling on my side. Well done, Yahoo.
They stalk someone, use him to re-launch, send a media frenzy on his turf, he responds with a legally binding method and they pull this… prank? “Well, the letter doesn’t have our postal addressed spelled properly: you see, it’s not ‘Newsweek, Clueless Town, NY’ but actually (…) so that’s factually incorrect…”
i hate this game now
Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller demo AirPort (1999)
I would say the exact opposite, really. Players can't jump straight from high school anymore. So you have a larger base of extremely talented freshmen.

Also, I would consider the Pomeroy rankings to be better (many more variables, Sagarin uses point differentials which are silly).
The trouble with Ocaml is that you will probably get something like:

$ ocaml o.ml
File "o.ml", line 2, characters 0-13:
Error: Unbound module Graphics

And after you've googled for a while and had done:

sudo apt-get install liblablgl-ocaml-dev

The thing would install 23(!) packages. And after that you will get:

$ ocaml o.ml
Exception: Graphics.Graphic_failure "fatal I/O error".

After which, if you've been in the industry for a decade or two, you will probably decide that you'd better stop wasting your time on that particular language. Besides. It just looks ugly. Almost as ugly as perl.
FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average
Absolutely correct, and for F# too. I do want to get the word out, it really needs some love and eyeballs, but perhaps I overdo it.
Even that wouldn't work. Their are a lot of parts of the CPU and all of them work together. RAM access, Cache access, Interrupts, and Memory management is handled globally not on a pre-core basis. You'd run into the problem of needing multiple north bridges (do we even have those anymore or are those on chip now?) which you couldn't have.

You have to build an entire OS with real time I/O at heart. They do exist, some are secure (Blackberry's platform) but they aren't deployed to the test industry. The most likely version is licensing fees, nobody writings Data Acquisitions for them.
Adding real world context to your apps with iBeacons
I would hang up on this guy, because he is a total d*ck and I would never work for this type of person. He just wants a machine to do his programming.
for those like me :) to whom it's not obvious: how come?

Skype is from Microsoft and Hangouts is from Google, right?!

Thank you for your patience in the face of my utterly stunning cluelessness.
> My training set is specifically designed to be conversational interview and personal questions, but I think a lot of the people who reach the site don't grasp that.

I did not either, as soon as I start to ask about general questions about you (e.g.'what's your email address'), the result got better. Now I know your answer is predefined to your personal info, I know why other questions won't work well.

Perhaps many people, like me, only read the div starting with "Let's chat", but then get started immediately (because the red recording button caught my attention right away) and totally ignored the div "I'll try to answer here" with your intent written.
First-class functions in Java 8 (video)
So maybe "middle of the road" and "pragmatic compromises" are overrated.
Are you sure you're not just under-thinking it?

Those 30 lines of code require the hundred or so lines of ngmin to actually work correctly, and then results in the extra (im assuming) hundred or so lines of grunt-ngmin and all the tooling around that. And then all the tests, the issues for the main project and all of the related projects, every bug that anybody has ever faced with minification of angular apps.

The auto-di is not that much simpler than the array format, and the array format is also actual valid javascript. They are abusing language features in such a way as to bypass the semantics of the language itself.

The fact that it doesn't survive minification is a sign that you shouldn't really be doing it to begin with. There are 3 different formats, and one of them introduces some crazy magic into the main framework, that is all really unnecessary and could just be as easily avoided. Auto-Di is the 'wonky' format in any reasonable context, I'm afraid.
It seemed like too short a time. I figured someone had thought of it first, but I still couldn't help saying something. Nice work!
Or go. Or haskell.
Or 2048 in one dimension.
The multithreading situation in Haskell is pretty exciting. Simon Marlow's Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell is the best new programming book I've picked up in a long time. And there are new developments since he wrote it (http://www.haskellcast.com/episode/004-simon-marlow-on-paral...). It would be a shame to give all that up.
the "print" option often serves as a gateway into various things.. PDF and other format converters.
They ARE a thing. Work for any large and successful software company and you'll find (or hear stories about) at least one. Look for the people that are consistently put on mission critical projects.

There are more types of extraordinary developers, but 10x is the only one I hear consistently mentioned.
Florida has a higher percentage of winning every round than Louisville, but Louisville has a higher overall chance of winning the tourney.

What am I missing?
Very nice. I've run a marginally similar site for a few years that I had just decided to sunset (http://randombracket.com). Too much work for about four days of usage :)

I'm glad I have your site to use now.
The desire to reduce something as complex and hurtful as discrimination and gender harassment to an algorithm of limited choices is pretty much a perfect example the issues at Hacker News.

For those with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
how do you play with a phone? i can only swipe tiles but I cant change dimension. there need to be some sort of "two finger swipe" for WASD keys.
>I made a github issue about it, and the devs acknowledged the issue, saying it was no longer part of angular 2.0

Ok so I read all both of your other articles and found them to be interesting. I was disappointed that there wasn't some kind of afterword to go with the sabre rattling. Seeing that you put in an issue makes me feel alot better about the whole series.

As I read these I kept thinking... yeah but... and then thinking of a feature that annoyed me that changed from release to release.

And ultimately I think the biggest thing I have always liked about angular is how quickly the community has learned from potential mistakes and shed chaff code....
Another vote for Digicert for corp certificates - their support team is top-notch and if you opt to chain to Entrust you get browser support back through 1999, if you need to support older devices.
And maybe we could do something about our policing problem at the same time... What, with using national (military) spying apparatus to go after drug dealers, police seizing assets from private citizens who they often don't accuse of a crime, the rampant militarization of domestic police forces...

Well, it's nice to dream.
yes, men are less careful ?
TPG is the only ones i know of at that price point, and they don't exactly over provision their internal network
Or maybe Introselect, which does Quickselect, but switches to Median-of-Medians (i.e., BFPRT) if the recursion depth gets too big. It has the average-case performance of Quickselect, but, like M-of-M, requires only O(n) comparisons when given a list of length n.
Amazon’s Set Top Box Will Be A Dongle Like Chromecast
The internet trolls are the least of his concerns; when you're possibly worth 400 million, you need to worry about criminals. You're a target. That story put his life in danger.
They fine you if you don't attend, You can drop a blank or invalid ballot paper