skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to disagree with that. If your priori are particularly bad then you should expect your estimates to change quickly based on new evidence.
See the "What is the Sympto-Thermal Method" section: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control...

EDIT: posted the wrong link before...sorry =)
Yup, that's the glaring thing I also saw without paying much attention. Also thought I'd be seeing a huge "Spain" in the late 1500 - early 1600s, since if it applied to the Spain-Portugal affair, it should also to the rise of Phillip II. Anyway, ignoring the errors or misplacements it was interesting to see, which is almost good enough :)
So people are upset that a chef who makes delicious food gets a big payoff, but not upset when moronic CEOs of financial firms run companies into the ground and then still take home millions of taxpayer dollars?
It's correct that a normal distribution is assumed in physics, but you are not correct that a standard deviation is defined in terms of a normal distribution.
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You've obviously never worked in a support position of a failed startup. Those are the people that don't get paid - the developers having been able to see the writing on the wall weeks before the paychecks stop coming.

The support staff (tech support, office managers) keep coming to works as the CEO promises paychecks "by the end of this week". Its not like its trivial to find another similar job on a weeks notice, and living paycheck to paycheck has a paralyzing effect. An established company has far less risk for support staff.
That made me laugh, thanks :).
I kind of agree, though those are all development tools which shouldn't influence packaged apps.
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"we could build one that generates net energy today". That's a pretty broad claim, considering the article linked itself notes that we've only hit a Q factor (output/input) of 0.7 with a test reactor measuring all the available energy. We still need a Q of 5, or a little under a factor of 10 (7.14) jump to be able to even have sustained fusion, as we specifically need the energy of the alpha particles, and need an estimated Q of 10 (factor of 14.3 jump, "Indispensable Truth") to be able to extract useful power. Any engineer will tell you jumping the efficiency of almost any system enough to get a 14.3x jump is not trivial.

We are making steady progress, and we're at least getting near break-even, but we're still a ways from rolling out Tokamak's as the one true solution. Frankly, I think the final solution may be a combination of strategies (magnetic confinement, inertial confinement, electrostatic confinement, and / or maybe one of the other ones, like sonofusion or the z-pinch).
I feel like that has a very limited scope of usefulness. Datacenter machines are on 99.9% of the time, and generally speaking, thieves don't go through the trouble of stealing hard drives from datacenters.
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I'm doing remote work. Currently in an underdeveloped country.
Last I heard they recruited a witch.
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I didn't know this was a thing but I think I'll make April STFUApril for me and give it a try.

I definitely complain too often. I even complain about others who complain.
btw, I think those are both birth control.
FYI, emacs lisp already does have lexical scope. It is optional, as I understand it. Not sure how you choose to use it.
What took so long? And, come on, you have to at least mention Latex.

edit: they do, on a more full citation: http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm
Ok, I understand now, but it isn't well explained in their site.

Aren't there any services out there for sharing of music played alongside the sheet, just like they do in the example, mostly for classical music?
I want a phone that I can modify and change the apps. But not running everything as a web app/javascript.
I've never used it but it looks like it might be what you are looking for: https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan
Completess of the state space seems relevant.
That's why it's so incredulous and negligent. Not a single verification and Rogers bypassed every security measure in place.
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The long term intention is to create a common inner market for the entire EU. I don't see how unified laws could be avoidable if such a beast is to be created.

Disagree with the law as implemented if you wish, but it is obviously created at the correct level of government.
This is sort of what canonical is trying to do with Ubuntu and Unity. The phones they'll be coming out with later this year are said to be a "full os" in the form factor of a phone. The interface is made to allow you to pair your device with an external device (say screen and keyboard) and the interface adjusts its self to that form factor (think "responsive design"). So at say a public library, they could have these cheap terminals that people with phones can just walk up to and use with their phone as the computing platform and the peripherals as just an input interface. Right now every major manufacturer is putting out two OSs (chrome/android, windows/winphone, osx/iOS), and I think they're just now realizing it doesn't make sense, I mean google even touts chrome as mobile OS, why the heck are they making two? I don't think they have any plans to combine the two projects, but I really hope we aren't using java vms everywhere in the future. It seems microsoft is now rethinking windows 8 and their phones aren't selling well (for a number of reasons) and I think most likely they'll be coming out with a convergent OS soon. It'll probably be a rip off of unity or gnome shell.
>Bitcoin solves a problem which is not actually a problem in real world.

Well, it solves more than one problem, and a few of them are certainly real-world.

>However using it as a currency in this kind of implementation with complete disregard to anything else doesn't work in the long term.

Would you care to expand on what you mean by "complete disregard to anything else"? I mean, clearly this is hyperbole, but I'm curious what you are referencing specifically.
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For everyone wondering about this method, it's called the sympto-thermal method and is not the same as the rhythm method. Planned Parenthood lists it as 99.6% effective with perfect use. See the "What is the Sympto-thermal Method" section in the link below:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control...
Perhaps he's suffering from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder? History is full of brilliant geniuses with tough mental illnesses. With some speculation, you can most certainly create a scenario where it is at least possible the guy is the real Satoshi.
I always hesitate to post this on HN, because it almost never goes well

It never goes well because it goes into a corner of academia, takes a relatively new and by no means universally accepted redefinition and decides to not only add that definition to the word "racism" society-wide, but replace the existing definition entirely.

My personal opinion on the terms has gone back and forth so much that I don't even care about this pissing match anymore, but it's become clear to me why people aren't getting on board.

As if redefining instead of just adding a 2nd definition wasn't enough, what it attempts to define is already better known as "institutional racism," a subset of racism (where racism is just racial prejudice). If you don't see a new category being defined, it's hard to see the purpose of splitting these hairs as anything other than to redefine racial-prejudice-minus-power as something without the baggage the term "racism" carries around. It smacks of conversation re-framing through linguistic prescriptivism.

Or, occasionally it is interpreted less charitably. Someone does see a new category being codified, just not the one you want. They see it as a category of below-"racism" racism emerging that gives a pass to expressions of racism from traditionally disadvantaged groups, even in circumstances where the institutional racism isn't at play.
But this was built to solve problems the author was having at the time he/she created it. In the future, as the web evolves, those problems will change, and you're saying the framework shouldn't adapt to solve new problems?
The guide is based off the building of a TODO app. http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/getting-started.html
so, October Sky 2014?
(In June, 2013.)
I agree. If they wrap this into their MSDN subscription packages, then it opens up a ton of new users.
So if I'm understanding you right, industry as a whole chose a method which though it has benefits also has drawbacks – so much so that they ignored research?

And it was religious people who continued fundamental research?

Very interesting! And not what I've seen in other cases. I'm happy to have my stereotypes challenged.
While his work on distributed computing was certainly great, I find it curious that the press release doesn't even mention the achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people: The creation of LaTeX. Sure, its not something typically honored by the Turing Award but leaving it out entirely? Come on!
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Why? Please share your experiences. I don't understand what's the utility of event emitters if not for serving as glue to all the separate components of an app. Am I wrong?
I worked in the defense industry for a few years (1998-2002). I didn't see it at the time. Everyone works in isolation, no one talks about work and everyone is micromanaged to bits and separately motivated. It's heavily draped in propaganda as well, most of which is horse shit. It's all much like the promoted status of imperialist armies.

Obviously september 11th 2001 happened and to see your colleagues actually see that as job security and a way to sell more weapons and celebrate that turned it for me. I started to question the ethics of what I was doing and decided it was best that I left. I bailed one afternoon, gave no notice and spent three months selling Sun kit on ebay before taking a job at a web agency selling whiskey and houses instead.

Most people didn't get that "moment" and are still prisoners of the inane propaganda. The same is true of those at GCHQ.

My children are doing GCHQ sponsored mathematics work (cryptography challenges) at the age of 10 probably in the vain hope that they will eventually see this as normal and be recruited before they have a chance to question the ethics of it all.
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It has reached the point where Javascript Framework coders don't know Javascript.

Looks like Javascript IS the Assembly of the Web.
I've seen and used just about every approach to this, yet the author completely skips the most lucrative approach, the subscription based model.

I've used this on larger clients and have had great success with it. It gives them a sense of comfort since they're paying me monthly to keep their content fresh and SEO up-to-date and still have the opportunity for a redesign after a year. Plus, it gives me a nice chunk or recurring monthly revenue and establishes a long-term relationship.
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I'm not a novelist but I rather enjoy being able to annotate my work with the review features in Word. That's the primary benefit to me over a plain text editor. I would assume an author working with editors and such would find these features to be even more valuable.
It's about the principle. I'm not saying that the problem has no solution, I can convert the files using someone else's computer as you are saying. Why should I get a USB CD drive that I will use only to convert documents that I expect to be readable anyways? Why should I spend time looking for someone with iWork'09 installation and use their time to convert my documents? It is just unacceptable from a company that is proud for user experience of its products. I should be able to do that from my chair, legally, with a download of a conversion tool or with an upload to a conversion service from Apple, not a third-party.

I would not mind buying a floppy drive and all necessary adapters, install Atari ST emulator and write Kamenicky encoding converter in Python to convert 1st World Plus documents from '89 if I had to convert documents of my parents. I would not be complaining about obsolescence of the format at all.

My problem is not technical, it is about user experience and productivity.
I think jaidoretta's comment is a bit too optimistic about fertility-awareness methods.

The CDC has an information sheet about the effectiveness of different methods of contraception[1] which cite on the order of 18 pregnancies a year for these methods. Interestingly, newer fertility-awareness methods appear to be more effective than this estimate[2].

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/UnintendedPregnancy/PD...

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028204...
James Surowiecki also tells the story of the search for the Scorpion in his book The Wisdom of Crowds, where I first read about it.

The Wikipedia article [0] gives a basic account, and the article on Bayesian search theory [1], in addition to describing the procedure quite well, mentions several other searches in which the method proved successful.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)#Search:_...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory
> Dependency Injection is still a key differentiator between Angular and other client side frameworks

Why not just take Require.JS and use it as a dependency injector, like any other client-side frameworks allow you to do?

IMO Angular is trying too hard to be everything, while it is now de facto a template system with an excellent support of custom directives and two-way data-binding.

For example, Angular could be a good choice for a View layer of an app built on top of Backbone, since it moves away from opinionating the View layer. But it's just too much fuss happening around this templating system in Angular.
I love Gonzalo and Adrien! Two of my favorite guitarists, and they're super nice people.

I'm always amused when worlds collide (Django the framework, Django the musician, Soundslice the product). Thanks for the nice words. :)
Was that to me? I am agreeing with you? So not sure it was to me.
Hi lhorie, I like this. I want to use this. How long will this supported is my concern. Or is this a fun side hobby you worked on and plan on moving on to the next with no future updates?

Cheers.
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I once saw Leslie Lamport speaking at my university about TLA+. He recently had switched to Microsoft research.

He started his talk with a short rant on how formal proof of APIs is futile and a worthless task. Now, I don't know if he knew, but most of the professors sitting in the first row were precisely doing that.

I've never again seen a talk where the feeling of "just you wait for the Q&A" was in the room. Sadly, most questions were just low stabs about him being an MS employee now.
The general concept is that the game isn't skill-based anyway; you have a randomly generated X that will have a payout of Y. If you have generated a bingo card + a ball sequence that will lose, then you can map that as a video poker hand that will lose and display that to the customer; if you have generated a bingo card+ball seqence that will win a multiple of 10, then you show that to the customer as a video poker hand that has, say, a full house combination and write in the 'rules' that having a full house hand will pay out a multiple of 10. Sure, it's not proper poker; but it's poker-themed enough to be attractive and such games are manufactured.

You just construct an artificial mapping between losing and winning positions in both games, the rest is cosmetics. You can have an "opponent hand" that is revealed afterwards or deal out "your hand" to you as in hold-em poker - it doesn't mean that the cards need to be "dealt" fairly; they are just illustration for a pregenerated loss/win/bigwin decision.
And, even if it didn't compile (which is a big "if"), you'd still have a postscript or pdf file of the presentation. I have yet to find a non-DRM'ed pdf old enough to cause me trouble when trying to view it.
Sounds like GOG wants to make sure they can have a presence on Steam Boxes. Good call.
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What are you saying here? People who suffer from discrimination should just learn to understand why they get stereotyped and be more tolerant about it? That's extremely self serving and entitled. If you're in a position of privilege, it's up to you to make the effort to treat everyone as fairly as you can. It's up to you to help break down the unfair boundaries that benefit you. It's your responsibility to do that. Otherwise you're tacitly helping to perpetuate those boundaries, and are therefore complicit in their existence.
It's a reference to Alistair Cockburn's "Ports and Adapters" pattern, also called "Hexagonal Architecture".[1] The only reason I ever heard of it is that it was mentioned in the book "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests", by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce (a good book in my opinion).

[1] http://alistair.cockburn.us/Hexagonal+architecture
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> It's much better to write your application as a shared library that Guile can load and thus extend Guile.

That's how I usually use Lua.
> You optimize for what you need; there is no absolute best thing. If you have fantastic latency, but your throughput is not good enough to meet your needs, then, no, latency is not more important.

The whole point of this post is that if you have low latency, there are easy ways to trade it away for better throughput. Whereas there are not easy ways to trade high throughput for better latency. And, therefore, latency is fundamentally more important.
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What's the point in bringing that up if it does not at all impinge on one's ability to access the internet? Plus the whole financial distress argument doesn't at all sound plausible either, seeing he still has a house and apparently no major debts. No one in his family even brought it up in any previous incident.
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He's at least partly right. Most studies in this area are directly or indirectly sponsored by the church. This doesn't make the sympto-thermal method a religious thing and the studies are still scientific, but the church was one of the few who gave financial aid.

Thing is, the method can be done on a piece of paper. So far, not many people had commercial interest in further research. The few who had, used their finances to build birth-control monitors (a piece of hardware) and tied their studies to their specific products.

So, yeah, the church definitely put money in it whereas not many corporations or investors did.
Landline and email are not secure by any means.

If you want secure communications, the transport layer (3G, internet, land lines, postal, talking to people) should always be untrusted and cryptography should be used.

However you can only trust one method for the long term which is a pre-shared manual one time pad. Other methods are proven to be somewhat variable in their implementation and ability to remain secure.
"Basically, we were in a race to develop new anti-fraud techniques and they were in a race to develop new ways to steal money. The by-product of it was all our competitors got wiped out because as the Russian mobsters got better and better, they got better and better at destroying all of our competitors." - Max Levchin on the history of Paypal.

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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It is not a failing concept, it is the basis of all Western civilization. If you think there would be less violence and suffering without clear boundaries you are mistaken.
Suddenly, accurate statements are important in this story.
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That's probably true, but on the other hand - in my experience if you're really interested in attracting real talent, interviews are as much about selling your company to them as evaluating their skills. Building an interview process that doesn't allow interaction beyond pasting instructions might be a signal to the developer that they don't want to work there.
Same as Python with the PEP's.
The award for 2013 is being given in June 2014, it was only announced today -- http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2014/turing-awar...
And I don't want to discount the secular contributions to the research, because they have been there the whole time.

But especially in the Catholic church, after Humanae Vitae, there was a lot of motivation to be able to offer an acceptable alternative to contraception.

I'm glad this is becoming more popular in secular circles. I always figured it would, given how health conscious people have become. Women don't want to eat GMOs or gluten, but are just fine with taking hormones that shut down a major component of the body?
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new function(window){}(this) is kinda weird to me. Sorry that's nothing valuable to add to your code.
Sorta like Backbone... People definitely love adding plugins and definitely don't count it as a negative when comparing to other JS MVC frameworks......
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And my point is that absent knowing what your needs are, it's silly to talk about what is "more important". Because of the lopsided nature of the tradeoff (small latency harm for big throughput gain), it's dangerous to keep around "latency is more important" as a mantra.
Running this on random is actually a nice Javascript benchmarker - e.g. Chromium-stable runs much faster than Firefox-stable.
>it's because the package installs a bin you would want globally available

Everything in that list.

You conveniently ignore that the express guide tells you to add express to its package file, express-generator is a separate utility. No one installs libraries globally.
Well, LaTeX is a (slight) improvement over TeX, which was written by D Knuth. I don't think that is what they would give a Turing Award to someone for.
"Ahah neat, going to check & save this for later... Oh, tweet 3rd party paywall. Nevermind."
I wish I could download these but I have no Twitter or Facebook account :( I don't see a public repo so I guess these are proprietary? What is the licensing besides the "Free For Commercial Use"?
An yet another simple text blog that is 100%, completely, utterly broken an useless without JavaScript enable. There isn't even any compelling feature. Besides the sliding out mention there is _no_ reason JavaScript even needs to be on this page.

I don't get why BlogSpot an so many other sites require javascript to o absolutely nothing of value just to see the site. It's maddening and appalling.
https://github.com/search?p=1&q=Stripe.api_key+%22sk_live%22...
#facepalm
What took so long, indeed. As long as I have been associated with the ACM on behalf of the practitioner, I have complained about this to anyone and everyone. Many thought he had already won (!) and a few believed that he didn't deserve to win because he is "merely a popularizer" (!!), and some (rightfully, probably) encouraged me to inject myself in the process if I felt so strongly about it. There was no way I was going to do that, so I had resigned myself to a lifetime of merely complaining about it. I was elated to discover this morning that my complaining has been cut short, and that Lamport has won the award that is long overdue to him!