skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the scenarios, which has been credited as reasonable, is a big fire in the aircraft [1].

In the scenario depicted, "all the busses are pulled", in which case the airplane goes silent, then restored one by one, except that because of the fire, restoration hasn't been possible.

If that will prove to be the case, I think prevention measures would be quite hard - circuits were silenced.

[1]=https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13cv1gohsmbv5jmy22...
Nice. I thought I was the only one using end-of-line semicolons in R! Don't listen to the haters/purists that tell you against them.

Note though you missed the first two statements of 'somaWrapper' and in the return statement of 'optimxWrapper'.
#2 is exactly how I pitched a migration to a micro-service architecture to my CEO yesterday. Feeling rather pleased with myself right now.
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"Bills"?
JavaScript isn't a fad. Node.js is.
Please don't feed the Manjoo troll. It only encourages him.
That was some nice ass kissing. Megalomaniacs love it when people do that.
Probably just some kind of tax loophole.
My take would be: I want to work in the areas where Java is used, but not use Java.
Ung. Imagine having to use your Real Name with Google Plus to use GitHub.....
I'm the founder / lead developer of Bedrock Linux, which as dalias said uses musl (as of our latest release). They've been very prompt about fixing any issues we have with musl and making it very hard to find excuses not to use musl.
I'm in love with your out-of-the-box analysis, but it also makes basic mistakes.

The informal definition of rational is having good sense and good judgment. If your formal definition results in agents that never do anything, or are in basic conflicts with millions of years of evolution and survival, then it's far more likely the formal definition is wrong, or your understanding of it is wrong, and not humans.

I understand the benefits of strict formal rational analysis. You can reason about it. But then if you'll talk about that, don't compare it to intelligence. Strict rationality is not intelligent. It's a tool we've made ourselves that has specific strengths and weaknesses born out of its restrictions.

And strict rationality is absolutely dependent on the model you apply it on. Wrong model + perfect rationality = disastrous decision. No one talks about the models, ever, it seems.

This is the real problem with AI - that we try to implement our very rough (at this point of time) idea of what intelligence is. If we knew all the details of animal/human intelligence, we wouldn't be sitting here debating it, we would've just implemented the AI with it.
When reading chapters 1 and 2, the author focuses heavily on the "nothingness" (hvl - wisp of air) of all human endeavors. But I think it's significant that he does not loose hope altogether:

"There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor."

So the philosophy of Ecclesiastes is almost hedonistic (and views god more as blind fate than a benevolent force or being).
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> the chance to be educated with the help of Bill&Melinda foundation

Not just educated, but nourished and relatively healthy. BMF has done a lot to make the world better.
tathan, if you're going to link to a separate article in your blog, please just link to the article, rather than making us jump through multiple links, unless you have something constructive to add (which I didn't see on you blog), and I almost missed the actual article, which can be found here

http://www.jmlalonde.com/way-of-doing-things-right/
Thanks for sharing. Helpful reading.
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That was a good story and quite interesting. But it didn't really give much perspective to the question "Can the Bloomberg Terminal be 'Toppled'?". Do you have any insight on that?
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After university I hunted for and found my 1st 1bedroom apartment. Even in my little dorm room I didn't feel cramped and I definitely got along with my roommates in most cases. But there are so many tangible benefits to living on your own.

- Personal hygiene: my roommate wasn't the cleanup. In fact, the only time he got into it was when he had company (a girl) coming over.

- Personal finance: I was able to get the landlord to split the rental but this was not the case for heat, electricity, cable, and internet.

- Personal space: We were both guilty of this. Our girlfriends, unofficially, moved in at some points. Normally, not a problem but if you've ever had to wash your face in the kitchen sink because the bathroom was occupied for hours sometimes.

Sometimes you have to pullback and focus. If you are constantly surrounded by the same faces it can be easy to do "work" without actually doing anything productive.
That was some nice sticking it to the man. Megalomaniacs hate it when people do that.
Ha! I just noticed he actually wrote a column for Slate entitled "Stop calling me a troll". I guess that's how you get to be a tech columnist for the NYT. Well, that and writing songs about your iPhone, like Pogue.
And the end of everything else.
"we are all".. "we all agree"..

a bunch of commenters on a news site don't all have the same opinion on everything. go figure.
Yeah, somewhere else inside of the compound.
tptacek, are you involved with this?
So you are saying that there is a bug in the Android copy-paste? :-)

(even though the 2 links are completely different)
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Why settle for a single color when you can have the HN topbar in literally every color of the rainbow?

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>which has been credited as reasonable

No it hasn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7431715
Can someone add (2002) to the title?
This comes as a huge surprise!
Calling being unable to decide what to wear as "only being able to make rational decisions" is interesting, but it's not what's really happening.

Every decision has a ROI. The line where ROI meets costs is your maximum budget for a decision, after which point it costs you more to remain in the decision phase that it costs you to follow the best of the few "imperfect" decisions you have in mind (one of them includes the decision to stop "deciding", do nothing, and move on - that's still deciding).

That idea so far is rational. If you wear nothing you'll remain naked. If you don't eat you'll die.

And most of all, being stuck deciding forever just about anything is not rational.

So this person is unable to sense his "decision budget" and decides forever, while most people have facilities (impatience, impulsiveness in some degree, boredom etc.) to work around us being stuck forever after our decision budget is spent.

Spending to get positive ROI is rational. Spending infinitely beyond that point is not.
The London Congestion Charging scheme is an interesting example of this.

There is a network of number plate recognition cameras to enforce the congestion charge. But there were initially assurances that this wouldn't lead to a blanket database for policing, they can just request particular images.

Pretty rapidly there was an exception for "national security" purposes, and more recently the mayor has proposed giving the police full access to the camera network[1].

[1] http://www.london.gov.uk/media/mayor-press-releases/2014/02/...
So, we put our 90 day plan online. Is this foolish or useful?
There is a private and there is privacy.

Walking around outside is not considered private. Following someone in public is considered stalking and is illegal. You can do things in public and still claim some semblance of privacy.
A simple entry into the field is to imagine that instead of storing a row in which you have a single balance, you would instead have an append-only table in which you store all transactions including their timestamp and auditing info.

The balance would then be calculated as the sum of transactions, and you could modify the query to view a balance in the past by only including transactions before a certain point in time.

A reversal or correction would be an append action, not a modification to existing data. Thus giving you an accurate history of the data.

This is a simple entry point, as bitemporal modelling usually affects the entire datastore and also has to handle potentially massive data and so requires ideas of how to archive old data, and provide performant ways of knowing the current state. There are lots of tricks here, and the sum of those tricks is how bitemporal modelling is achieved.
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I think for the crowd you described, why not use Prolog? Prolog's idea is very much like what Math is to me (I only have a undergrad math degree, so don't count what I think is by any means absolutely correct)- here are some truth/axioms, can you deduce further theorems, and give result whether certain statements are true or false.
Is it just me or is this whole industrial-surveillance complex highly physically vulnerable right now? Both Maryland and Utah have had bills floated (not with any expectation that they'll pass, but to make a point) proposing cutting off power or water to their respective NSA datacenters. Even if such a bill could never pass, I'm not sure it would take much more than the collusion of a few disgruntled utility company employees to blind the US.
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Automation is the game changer. Long term data storage, new algorithms, combining databases, new algorithms that find out stuff etc. lead to huge changes that must be taken into account when designing systems.

Leave the house with the zipper down on Monday. Have a silly argument with a neighbor on Friday. Isolated incidents that will end up in the "Worst of Houshalter" - file, either available for everyone, or just a group of decisionmakers.

Am I seeing this right, or am I exaggerating?
I think the bug is in my fingers
looks pretty nice, but I'd recommend talking the viewer through, rather than the overly dramatic music. nice work on the app though
Revenge by texting works of Shakespeare to rogue Internet seller
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A shame I won't be in LA this month to support the petition.
Having read Larry Niven's Ringworld, I'm brought to think of an eerie possibility this might create; that is - what if this currently non-biodegradable material becomes biodegradable? What if the colossal supply of this material (which as a hydrocarbon, had bound-potential-energy in it), over what's going to be a colossally long period of time, gives enough interaction surface that somewhere out there, a bacteria evolves that breaks down plastic?

I hardly expect this would be the collapse of civilization or anything (as depicted in the book), but it really could have some nasty consequences. Plastic is relied on almost for precisely that reason - the fact that it doesn't decay/rust/collapse over time. That's why we use it for stuff like medical implants, safety gloves, food storage, sanitary containers ... you name it. It could lose its un-decayable and its sanitary property in one go.

Kinda like the problem with overuse of antibiotics.
I don't see the problem. `<span ng-show="form.length.$error.float">` makes total sense to me. You show the content of that span when form.length.$error.float is truthy. Probably when it exists.

And yes, AngularJS absolutely defines its own language. The directives create an enhanced HTML (that you can enhance even further), and it has its own expression language where you can ask the value of `form.length.$error.float` without fearing null pointers.

This is basically what Angular is about, and why it works as nicely and cleanly as it does. And it's true; learning a new framework is absolutely comparable to learning a new language. Rails is not simply standard Ruby; it defines loads of new stuff that automatically handles things for you below the surface. Spring completely changes the way you work with Java. Grails has its own DSLs for various tasks.

Every framework has a learning curve. And a framework that doesn't change how you think is as useless to learn as a language that doesn't change how you think. But if you don't like learning, you can always simply stick to what you're familiar with.
At the point they have such a script, that’s right, it becomes no longer okay. They should need to get a warrant before they can do anything with the data, and we should have an open public debate about exactly what data they should be allowed to store, for how long.
>>had USD in my Coinbase account afterwards

Unlike btc-e.com, I don't think you can have a USD balance on coinbase. If you sell your BTC, you _must_ select the bank to have your money wired too.
I know hating is easy, but this is a genuinely commendable thing that the Gates are doing, and they deserve praise for it.

If you want to call out Gates, you can criticize his attitude towards closed source software, IP, etc, but his charity contributions are awesome. Compare him and his family with the current generation Waltons, for example.
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Your net worth difference between those two scenarios hinges almost entirely on how your real estate purchase in the Bay area changes value. (You are highly leveraged and concentrated in the Bay area home ownership case. That can cut both ways.)
The best actionable advice I've read to date regarding giving money to kids without spoiling them - For every dollar they earn, give them $N. That way they have to work, but they don't have to work a repulsive yuppie job to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle.

http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/
DK2 is expected to start shipping in July, no date has been set for consumer release but people seem to expect a consumer product release date either at the very end of this year or sometime in 2015. Any dates around the consumer product release date is pure speculation at this point though.
XHTML is on the way out, I'm afraid. Angular is designed for HTML5.
Originally, it seems it was closer to

Miranda: Lazy evaluation should be the default.

Haskell: Miranda is closed-source.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
Only if they can get the code for that efficient enough to run on the actual Pebble on their arm.
Bill Gates has always said he wouldn't do that. This is not news; good he is not coming back on it though.
I'm neither a liberal nor a pluralist, so I totally feel comfortable calling this abberent and cultish. I don't think this is healthy for the kids involved, and I doubt they're getting paid enough to make the sacrifice worthwhile. It just seems like preying on some young males who don't have much of a social life and putting them in a situation that precludes them from developing one. This happens a decent amount in other fields. My friend is a chemical engineer in the middle of nowhere, and while he doesn't live on a cult campus he has a similar problem of social isolation, and its really hurt his mental state. And of course all the young guys working on oil rigs and whatnot. But those guys are often in a situation where they have few other options.
Github has lots of paying users too.
Looks like the description for one of those Android apps that doesn't know Google punishes keyword lists
I agree. Kidding aside. I think Eloquent Javascript is better geared towards experienced programmers:

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

Edit: It seems like the post I replied to was deleted, but my following statements still holds true.
Doing things in a list which allows reorder, choosing which items in that list will get done per time period, and communicating that in short time periods. That is a methodology of management which embraces change, not micromanagement. Scrum doesn't micromanage, managers do. If you are being micromanaged, quantify the overhead of meetings and planning vs. the amount of time being derailed or working on things that wouldn't have been prioritized. You may get more done without management, but is what you are getting done what needs to be done? That is what Scrum is about.

I think XP's original stories and tasks on note cards in planning meetings were a better way to shorten tasks than Scrum leaving that open though- time estimation can be a problem in Scrum without proper planning.
It's a lab.
Wow, it's so great that patents are here to protect the little guys from the big guys. Imagine, without patents, Creative might have just ripped off Aureal instead of ripping them off and suing them to death.
I understand the logic behind it, but I disagree. If you are a very wealth person and your children decide to become volunteers for the red cross, you'll give them less money than if they decide to become bankers on Wall Street?
"the lack of consistency in the format (in some cases, there's at least several hundred 'tags' for the same or similar financial line item) makes any large scale data processing from EDGAR a massive undertaking."

Izyda, you are absolutely correct on the issues with XBRL. I'm the co-founder of a company called TagniFi that is working on a solution. We have a standardized dataset that makes comparing this data across companies, industries and sectors possible. We are in beta so you are welcome to check out for API for free:
http://www.tagnifi.com
I believe that people have the right to privacy, but I don't believe that cars have that right. Cars are too dangerous to not be tracked.
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So.. SOA.

Is anyone doing SOA+ESB in a non-Enterprise environment?

Is an ESB actually useful beyond the idea that it is supposed to let "non skilled" people "develop services" (which I'm somewhat cynical about)?
I'm in the market for something like this.

Seeing him go to all the effort of building an adjustable table and then just using a laptop on it, rather than add a separate keyboard and/or monitor, seems kind of weird.

Doubly so since in my research I've found plenty of stands that will support a laptop and that can be easily adjusted up and down. If you don't use a seperate screen and keyboard, then the adjustable desk seems entirely unecessary.
Interviews about books, in the spirit of usesthis.com.

I'm publishing a new interview every week (you can follow @bookflocks on Twitter for announces).

There's still much work to do:

. RSS feed

. A page collecting all the books mentioned in the interviews

. Better mobile version

. And so on and so forth…

I hope you'll find it interesting, feedbacks are definitely welcome
If two different families are doing this, then it's exploitable: Alice earns 1 dollar, receives 5 dollars from her parents, gives them to Bob, Bob tells his parents he earned them, receives 25 dollars, gives them back to Alice, Alice tells her parents she earned them, receives 125 dollars... Or even in one family, the child could "reinvest" part of the $N received this month to get more money next month. The obvious workaround is for the parents to check the child's salary slips, but if the child's employer is in on the scheme, that won't help.
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In many ways a new programming language is similar to a a new product bashing its predecessor in able to position itself as a more superior alternative.
> Should this be marked as Angular 2.0 BETA?

Not really, since it's not remotely in Beta yet. It sounds like early alpha at best.
> There are a lot of new firms targeting individual investors

Can you please list a few, I would really appreciate that.

> your product has to compete against something like the Vanguard lifecycle funds

I think you are confused with what we do. We are not a financial advisory firm. We just take the raw data from convert it into financial charts and valuation models. The end user then can make his/her own investment decision based on that data.

There are plenty of retail investors who want to do that and that is our target market for now.
I bet they won't even consider married candidates, or even anyone over 30.

We did something like this some 14-15 years ago when we were a 7-8 employee startup, but it was voluntary. Want to stay in the house? Be my guest, we have plenty of bedrooms. Wanna commute? Any time, but be sure to spend at least 6 hours daily in the office house. Worked like charm.
Well I've been downvoted but this is what I'm talking about.

I am interested in this, I'm interesting in the technology, crowdsourcing and stuff to find the plane.

All I got was a jpg link to a person's dropbox, with no information about today's finding / sighting as opposed to yesterday's. Just a picture of a blob.
Need not be two different families. Two kids from the same family can pull of this trick as well ?
Bill Gates has already won at Money, why do you think he'd still be interested in playing?
Isn't his goal to have given it "all" (leaving a few tens of millions for the kids) to charity before he dies?
> Pick up a Backbone book and in two weeks your dangerous enough to use it. A month, you're in the groove. 6 months: Angul-who?

Is this supposed to sell Backbone? Because I'm on a similar curve with Angular with just the online docs. Doing stuff in Angular is really unbelievably easy once you let go of your old preconceptions. It's a new way of thinking, but it's one that's very effective.
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They aren't alone. There's a movement called "The Giving Pledge" started by the Gates' and Warren Buffet that very wealthy people (read: billionaires) are signing up to that promises they will give away at least half of their fortune. Over 100 have signed up so far.

You can read about them all here: http://givingpledge.org/
How were the first microprocessors programmed?
What did the original post say?
Had a look through and really enjoyed the picture examples, can even remember some of those examples from uni.

And I see you are using vectorisation of hand drawn diagrams (maybe you write on a whiteboard and then take a photo and vectorise it). If you have an ipad I would recommend GoodNotes and a good stylus (maybe the Adonit Jot Script).
Surely for psychological impairments the line is blurred. Nearsighted is trivially diagnosable, and it's mainly a physical problem.

ADHD is fuzzily defined and overdiagnosed. People can be different from one another. "Curing" someone from being active and unfocused has uncomfortable implications.
In my family I could imagine this being pretty ruinous. Being in the software field, it's a lot easier for me to get a job, and one that pays more, than my sisters. I can tell there is already resentment towards this, but if it also meant that I was being given even more by my dad, than I don't want to think what that would do to our relationships.
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You can not say that is always true. Microsoft is a software engineering company as well, but they do have a dedicated R&D team and offices.
What law would deter them from doing so? They are microsoft's computers. I'm sure the EULA has them covered legally, and I bet they asked their legal team before going in.
Source:

http://m.seattlepi.com/local/article/Ex-Microsoft-employee-c...
Yeah, almost assuredly they approved of an abridged version talking about how Apple has hit a rough patch after Steve's death and how it costs $2 to make a $20 adapter (which wasn't a part of the interview to begin with). Please.
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