skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking about playing sports. The article is about watching sports. Or, since it's not just watching but talking about, identifying with, and generally obsessing over, fanboying sports.

The two are, i think, not at all related. Indeed, if we accept the analysis in the article, they are opposites - fandom is about subsuming your identity into a herd defined by its submission to some set of idols, whereas participation is about asserting your identity as an individual or member of a team defined by your (intended) domination over your rivals.
It's also a method dropbox can use to save storage space. Inevitably, two or more users will put the same file in their DB. By computing and comparing hashes they can simply just store one copy of the file and point all users to that single instance of the file (they may do an exact match check too once the hashes collide since hashes can have unintended collisions as well).

I have no idea how much efficiency this buys them, but the same mechanism can be used against a blacklist of known copyright or illegal materials. In this case, having a hash that matches something in the copyrighted materials list AND sharing it triggers this action.

Just as easily, putting some child porn in your DB could also have them check against illegal material hashes and trigger an automated notice to some law enforcement agency or something similar.

This can even be used for National Security without violating the classified contents of the documents. Say another Snowden-type grabs a bunch of classified documents. The agency could give DB a list of hashes with instructions to "call us" if a user uploads a bunch of leaked documents to their DB. They could even do this blind, just send DB a hash of every classified document or piece of data they ever produce and catch leakers before anybody in the agency even knew something was leaked internally.
Funny you should mention Forth; the "concatenative" languages are very Forth-like, and if you constrain yourself to what they call "point-free" style in Haskell, it's also rather Forth-like, or at least past simple cases you have to play the sort of weird games you do in Forth to make up for not being able to name parameters.
Gang violence preceded the "war on drugs".
Come on, if you went through the process, you should know that patents (for right or wrong) can be derivative, as long as they apply the existing ideas to new/novel situations.

The granting of your patent doesn't mean you'd be able to successfully sue someone for paid searches, however you would have stronger grounds if they were executing paid searches on a fashion search engine with a character builder interface.
The J Programming Language [video]
I broke my arm in kinder garden.... what of it?
Funciones del Ministerio de Finanzas
Frank de Lima, reconoció a través del Ministerio de Finanzas de Panamá que su país puede llegar a ingresar en la lista del GAFI, esto se sabrá en el mes de junio. Esto se supo a través de una reunión que se llevo a cabo sobre el sistema tributario.
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> Lots of people on the other side of the hills (Concord, Moraga, Walnut Creek) have this idea that Oakland is a really scary place. I think it's partly racial (because of the higher percentage of African Americans here) and partly a PR issue (the 24/7 news cycle only presents sensational items).

Those may each be part of the issue, but I think that a big part of the issue is the actual crime statistics that show that, indeed, Oakland is, in fact, a dangerous place by comparison to those other places.

I mean, there's something about Oakland having a little over 3 times the population but a little under 20 times the number of violent crimes as Concord in 2012 [1].

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Crime-up-in-Oakland-much...
class Penguin : Bird{
override void Fly(){
throw new InvalidOperationException("can't fly");
}
}
If your office is loud, the last thing you want to do is to drown that out with headphones and music! You want earplugs, which can be subtle enough that they fit in socially, even in a no-headphones office.
and can be ordered by the government to change their code so that it does collect your password in order to enable decryption of your files.

And they can be ordered to do so secretly with no notice, neither to company management nor to you nor to any judicial body that could review the decision.

That's the lesson of Lavabit.
>The idea that VR now has a viable market is not patentable.

You're missing the point. The issue wasn't that VR now has a viable market (it always did), the issue was that a good implementation was now viable. And its not just that it can be implemented, its that we generally know how they did it. From this perspective, after having seen a fully working prototype, it can seem obvious that VR technology was just on the horizon. My point is this is a fallacy; its easy to say climbing mt. everest is possible when you can look down and see the path someone else just treaded before you. In a similar vein, judging something as "obvious" and thus not patentable after it has been invented is flawed.
I have no idea what most people do. Most of my friends and colleagues spend 2+ hours a day working on side projects and/or learning new technologies.

Unfortunately, in my experience I've found in fast paced environments you learn the minimum to get the job done.

Sure I could switch companies every 18months in order to keep learning via work or i could add a ton of business value at my current company by working a more reasonable number of hours and focusing on my personal development in my own time.
You could always do this with any process no matter what language it's written in. The issue is in support for debugging at a higher level.
well, most open source projects have a small set of core developers, a larger set of testers (users who discover bugs and report them properly) and larger set of passive users

being more popular will only slighly enlarge the core, and keep it healthy (if a member drops, someone else comes in)

popularity is good for OOS projects ...
i also disagree that a larger community will increase the bad, again the core developer size will probably remain small enough to work coherently

more testers cannot be bad
more libraries can never be bad, it will just increase the likeleehood of having good ones happen

another reason for languages need for popularity is that it really take a lot of time and effort to master one
if you spend years mastering a tools, you sure want it to be popular for more years ... to get a chance to use this knowledge
Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS: 2nd edition available for preorder
This is revealing and utterly heart-wrenching. It's sad to hear that things like this exist in countries as wealthy as the United States.

I hope some smarter reader comes here and says this article isn't an accurate representation of the truth, because as it stands now I almost am not able to take it.
Agreed about raganwald's bias; surprised to see such a naive (IMO) "don't use class hierarchies" post from him.

Your point about "don't access superclass variables" is also spot-on--I don't see how he misses that "self-enforce not calling other objects' properties" (because the language doesn't do it for you) is really not very different than "self-enforce not calling superclass properties".

Per his article, I agree that fragile base classes are a problem, but not every base class is automatically fragile--you can design an API for subclasses (in Java/C# worlds, by being very explicit/thoughtful about what you make private vs protected), just like you design an API for external callers.
People don't get worked up over movies, TV shows, or dumb news stories on the internet the way they do about sports. They don't pledge allegiance to a single movie, go out and buy costumes displaying the movie's emblems, or engage in verbal and physical conflict with fans of rival movies.

Well, some do. But we consider those people to be nutcases.

No, the only other things that people get as worked up about as they do sports are nation, religion, and sometimes politics. Which, now i come to think about it, are subjects that are even more ridiculous than sports.
This is a good time to note that ClearSkies [1], the open source BTSync alternative, is having a fundraiser: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/clearskies/fundraiser

1: https://github.com/jewel/clearskies
How is a program correct if resource leaks cause it not to perform the intended task?
I don't think even ipv6 without nat would guarantee 100% (not that we can count on ipv6 coverage in the next decade anyway).

1. Stateful IPV6 firewalls still need hole punching to connect peers, thus a stun server.
2. Think about a corporate network with complex routes and potentially multiple firewalls (for load balancing or route optimization). No guarantee you use the same gateway to get to the stun server and the other peer. Thus, punching fails.

At least that's my uneducated guess. PS there's nat for ipv6 too (linux supports it). Misery is not going to end.
That was a primary motivation for me writing this. More hours is not the metric we want to use to measure output or who's working "harder" or better.

It all comes down to the managers, who, unfortunately, are often influenced by this "longer hours must be better" mentality which is simply not true.
A Dropbox employee looking through your files for filenames with DVDRIP would be actively looking. Hashing a file and comparing it to a blacklist is automated scanning. I think a blacklist is a perfectly reasonable solution to this problem and is as minimally invasive as possible. How would you approach this problem differently?
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It's pretty much a promotion/defense for SmallTalk.
Why everybody has grudges against JavaScript?
Clearskies (BitTorrent Sync alternative) fundraiser
Short Answer: The Actor Model
Believe me, it happens. I personally know people who brag about endless hours in the office simply to sound relevant and "hip", not because they are actually accomplishing anything additional. Typically, these people are seeking attention as "hard workers" when in reality they are going about things all wrong.

I've experienced it, that's why I wrote it.
Well your vote would be proportional to your investment, $100 out of $2.4M, in this case.

> That would basically mean potential acquisitions would become public knowledge

That would kind of be the point, it would be about fairness. People may not want to invest in a promising project that could change the world, just for it to be bought up by the next FB/Google.
Sports is cool because it's a documentary-style narrative about people trying to overcome their limitations and most of the time coming up short. To be honest, I enjoy the failures than the successes, the show of vanity and insecurity than the squeeky-clean polished professional athlete.

Some cool sports-related books and doc's I've watched over the years,

Seven Seconds or Less; about Phoenix Sun's "Run & Gun" season which reads more like a kladeiscope novel about the star players, role players, injured players and coaching staff. The Sun ultimately falls short of their goal of winning an NBA championship. The morale of the story is that it doesn't really matter if you win in the end, the point is to try something different (score in 7 seconds or less of your posession clock, play unselfishly and make the extra pass). And even a Canadian unatheletic, relatively undersized white guy can become the NBA Back-to-Back MVP, by owning up to who he is.

http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Seconds-Less-Season-Phoenix/dp/0...

The Finish Line; about Steve Nash (the former MVP)'s potential last season with the LA Lakers which reads more like 'Old Man & The Sea,' about a man's denial of his aging, struggle to defy against it and his slow acceptance and somehow finding dignity and putting on a last fantastic hooray against the elements.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-finish-line-episode-3-...

Skip Bayless, Stephen A's conversation with TO; which watches more like the last act (on St.Helena) of Kubrick's "Napoleon" if it was made). It shows a broken down once high flying and flameboyant professional athlete coming to terms with his vanity and ego, after it's already too late. But that's the beauty too, of a man accepting who he was, how the situations turned against him and appreciating life because the circumstances forced him to grow, even if it meant no longer in the NFL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6UouXlWuvo

Other similiar doc's: Run Ricky Run (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1617299/), Survive & Advance (http://vimeo.com/62966564), Hoops Dream (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110057/).

Hope you can find enjoyment and value in sport as much as I do.
> First, the quoted formula doesn't assume a zero value for human life.

I suppose technically it could value human life at a million zillion and three, but it's irrelevant because that value appears nowhere in the equation.

> Second, even if you assign an explicit finite value to human life, a lot of people will call that psychopathic.

I said "nonzero," not "finite." I suppose I should have said "positive." Nitpicking aside, the point is that being utterly indifferent to the life or death of innocents, except where it may directly threaten your net worth, is pretty psychopathic.
As I already mentioned, patents aren't supposed to concern themselves with ideas and there is no fundamental effort or risk beyond initial idea when it comes to slide-to-unlock or bounce scroll, they are both extremely simple implementations. A bit of freshman high school math at best.

And as far as your Oculus example goes... actually lots of people cared a great deal about VR back in the 80s and 90s. VR was a huge deal back then, it just kinda sucked.

The brilliance of Oculus/Palmer Luckey (which I don't mean to diminish in any way via this post) is recognizing that fundamental technologies (mostly in the form of advancements made for the smartphone market -- which Oculus didn't create themselves) had finally caught up to the point where convincing VR was possible. But the idea of strapping some head-mounted displays onto a system with various gyroscopes and such is very old and the early systems for it looked quite a bit like the Rift at a high level, they just performed much shittier because the fundamental technology wasn't ready yet.

This is similar to tablets where various players like Microsoft and Apple themselves put a lot of effort into them a decade before the iPad came around.
Source: https://01.org/blogs/tlcounts/2014/bringing-simd-javascript

Is this a competitor to asm.js?
SpaceX CRS-3 Launch delayed
But that's an example of why inheritance-as-subtyping is dubious - sharing implementation doesn't -> sharing behavior, and for subtyping common behavior that can be relied on by clients is what we want.
Some of it is, yes. It's combining a number of markets, though. The most problematic is people who are basically running classic, 1920s-flophouse-style, unlicensed and uninspected hotels in places like NYC. I would guess those will eventually be cracked down on. But there are two other big categories. The second is the "couchsurfing for money", people who really are renting out a spare couch or spare bedroom. These are also often illegal, but at least if they do it less often than "always", and fairly discreetly, are much less likely to run into trouble than the person running a full-fledged flophouse operation. The third category are people running fully licensed vacation rentals. AirBnB has somewhat accidentally captured a good portion of this market as well, in large part because its competitors in much of the world range from poor to "don't have an English website" to nonexistent. I rented a house in Crete in this category last year; it was a place that otherwise you could rent directly or via a travel agency, but I only found it via AirBnB because their internet presence apart from AirBnB was poor. I think even in the U.S., which has VRBO as the incumbent, AirBnB is picking up some of this business.
I hate the over use of the term Dickensian to describe modern social conditions, but this is pretty much it. When you reinstitute debtor's prisons, you're essentially reinstating an institution and its associated societal cruft desribed in such novels as Oliver Twist. It's a massive step backwards for American society, and quite frankly, utterly disgraceful.
FYI, this was a recent submission to longform.org. If you like longform journalism on a wide variety of topics, that site is highly recommended.
Why there are so few female Economics majors
The simple solution is that all fines must be forwarded to the State and absolutely none kept locally. (Including everything, even fees, everything.)

That would solve virtually all of this.
Edit:

Before Haskell, I used Common Lisp, Python, and Clojure. I was impatient, generally more interested in hacking than math, and was happy using untyped programming languages.

Haskell changes the equation, it (alone, for now) provides even better leverage and expressiveness than untyped languages like Clojure, Python, or Ruby. Further, it does so in a way that is more powerful and reliable because you have the leverage of the type system behind you.

Learning to think about code in terms of types is a transformative experience.

Types is where the future is headed.

I've been getting people started with Haskell for the last ~3-4 months. It's not that hard to learn at all if you use proper learning material and do the exercises.

Don't waste any time, just learn Haskell and find out for yourself.

My guide for learning Haskell:

https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/8739525
I have more mixed experiences. The space is indeed usually bigger than a hotel. Whether it's cleaner and nicer is mixed. I would say housekeeping is not as consistent as a good hotel chain, though it is not usually too bad. Non-sleeping amenities are usually a bit better (good chance of some couches, decent kitchen, etc.), while bed is usually a bit worse. However the part that is really more of a hassle (in my fairly limited experience, again) is check-in and check-out: you really have to be much more diligent about exchanging phone numbers, arranging meet-up times, and double-checking everything, to avoid showing up at a location where there's nobody waiting for you. Whereas with a hotel you can just show up and there's a front desk.
Somebody, please tell Facebook about responsive design
Perhaps three things:

* Haskell is (very) strongly and statically typed and Python isn't. Haskell's type system can prove the correctness of many functions at compile time. In contrast, Python usually waits until runtime to throw exceptions, even for something obvious like a syntax error.

* Because the types are known, there's an incredibly powerful testing framework called QuickCheck that is capable of e.g. generating tens of thousands of valid inputs and seeing if it can automatically disprove your assertions about your code. Python's typing is insufficient for this.

* Qualitatively, writing Python feels like writing instructions for computing something, and writing Haskell feels like simply describing what something is, and the system works out how to compute it for you. It often feels compelling and magical.

Lastly, some tone stuff: Function pointers have nothing to do with functional programming. And why hate on a language you haven't studied? And why does there have to be a TLDR version of a mind-expanding experience like learning a new programming style? Why form a strong opinion about something you don't know in the first place, and why feel entitled to challenge someone to explain it all to you? It's pretty frustrating.
The Amiga was more powerful, thanks to its multiple chips offloading the CPU for many tasks, but the ST was a simpler, more elegant, design. In the end, the evolution of the ST family was easier, as the machine was less tied to NTSC timings and other design compromises that betrayed the gaming console origins of the Amiga. TOS/GEM was a very limited stack, but we shouldn't judge the hardware by its default software.
I'm not sure what it is about VR that short circuits people's brains and they lose all concept about how things still have to work in the physical world.

I mean, can you really see a fashion conscious teenager coming home to chat with their friends looking like this? http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/images/manampli...

There's lots of issues with VR, it's definitely got some cool potential, and I've seen some really nice applications of it over the years.

One of the problems I remember from the 90s was the disembodiment problem. You can't see where your hands and arms are (even if proprioception informs you where they should be). Some versions tried to map your virtual body to your real body, but it's never the same and the illusion breaks. Other cases just ignored it, but then you're left fumbling for control surfaces you can't see. It's an uncanny valley you can't overcome unless you track every part of every limb and map it to a realistic simulacrum in the virtual space.

Haptics and feedback then become the next problem and on and on and on, there's a very long stream of issues that need resolution before it comes close to what people think they are fantasizing about in their heads. 3d head tracking goggles are the simplest problem to solve in this equation.
April Fools' Day Android App
I made a simple app that works like a traditional fortune cookie app, but also lets you send videos that will pop up at full volume on an Android device without explanation.

Just download the free app called Fortunate on a friend's phone:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fortunate

A one-time create an account screen will appear when the app is first opened. The account is used to identify what device to send the video to, so just type in something quick and memorable. It doesn't have to be an e-mail address.

Then you can go to this website:

http://fortunate.parseapp.com/

and schedule a video to pop up on a friend's phone. So you could send a Rick Roll, Archer or Jurassic Park virus video or even an embarrassing inside joke video that you upload yourself. Please keep things fun and friendly.

Enjoy!
Mass participation experiment reveals how to create the perfect dream
There were plenty of consequences for doing that, and hence the new policy. Do you think Microsoft just did this for whimsical reasons?
African Americans statistically do commit more crime than other American ethnic groups, so if you say bad things about high-crime areas then you'll end up sounding racist. If you ever want to generate some mental discomfort, look up the demographics of the highest crime cities in America.
Well sure if you use another program to encrypt the file then Dropbox can only see the encrypted bytes, but that's not what mbrutsch was objecting to. A particular truecrypt volume could still have a takedown related to it.
As a holder of a number of patents (pending and granted), I'm obviously conflicted here. My early patents came from my days at Nokia Research Centre where there was a "patent quota". Yep, we had to come up with a set number of patents per year, regardless of the quality.

My views on patents were (subsequently) very strongly influenced by this paper: "Against Intellectual Property" by Brian Martin:

http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/95psa.html

I would encourage anyone with an opinion on the topic to take a look at it. I'm not sure I agree 100% with everything in there, but the reasoning is very good.

These days, I'm much more in the "abolish software patents" camp than I used to be. The only valid reason I can think to have one now is for "freedom to operate", but I can attest from bitter experience, that simply doing a defensive publication of the core idea is significantly cheaper than obtaining a patent on the pretext of freedom to operate.

In any case, a system that necessitates spending upwards of US$100k to obtain freedom to operate, has something diabolically wrong with it.