skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'm sure his grandmother had no problem understanding the general theory of relativity. Do you have other end all discussions quotes to share?
Could you tell me how 'trial by public opinion' in this case is different than a call for a boycott or picketing? That is, I assume that you think people should have a right to boycott and picket. Those are well protected free speech rights in the US.

McCarthyism and the blacklist involved decades of government pressure, including passing various laws against Communists at both state and national levels. The blacklist specifically started after various people were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

That's hardly the same as a few organizations calling for a boycott of Firefox and a few people threatening to quit their jobs at or stop volunteering for Mozilla, is it?
OWS was investigated by the FBI using counterterrorism agents[1]. He should be glad he's not dead or tortured in a secret prison.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/occupy-movement-w...
After installing sysdig, when I trying to run it I get the following error:

# sysdig fd.type=ipv4

error creating the process list

Has anyone seen this one before? Any help would be appreciated.
Do you think this is a unique problem to Facebook? Google appears to have the same incentives.
Strawman, you are misrepresenting what I just said. My point was writing hyperboles and comparing what is not comparable doesnt strengthen one's case.
He was accepted - at the CTO level - with his unpopular opinions - even after they became public in 2012 - for years.

But there's a big difference (to me, at least) between being the CTO and the CEO. It's that step people are unhappy with.
I think it's sad that we've gotten to the point where we're telling people who remained consistent over time to "be more like the politicians, and just lie to suit the masses." It seems like we'd be complaining about that in a different post.
IRS sued for leaking Prop 8 donor list to HRC, Huffington Post
Well, yes, elected politicians doing things their constituents want so that they'll get re-elected is surely the point of the system.
The phrase "the right way" always makes me chuckle a bit. We all seem to know what it is, yet we seldom agree on it. My first 10 years of programming was spent working on a system built on Windows. First ASP/COM and then later ASP.net -- and that thing practically printed money. Did we build it "the right way"? No, certainly not. But our stock options didn't seem to notice, and at the end of the day, that is what matters to me.
Oddly, the google cache version won't load for me either. The google cache header is there, but the content area is blank, with the chrome status bar saying "Waiting for blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk".

Looking at the source... there's some weird things going on, I think maybe the _original_ page loaded it's content with Javascript, and the google cached version is just the JS skeleton, waiting on trying to load JS from the original (overloaded) site which will actually load the content?

Ugh. The trend for JS-dependent sites for simple content breaks the web, people.
Maybe sleeping all night is dangerous, but just napping should be ok.
Very useful info. Thanks for posting.
I should note that this is a very old article (from 2006), before D had compile-time function execution. D was still around version 0.166.

I suppose that only makes this project more impressive, although its techniques are obsolete compared to modern D capabilities. With CTFE, you'd write the raytracing code as you would normally, then simply force evaluation to have it interpreted during compilation.
Or it's just that people are ok with CTOs having unpopular dodgy opinions (because the power and influence of that position is limited) but that becomes a -much- bigger problem when they move to being the CEO (figurehead of the company, etc.)
Wow, very timely, yesterday I needed to brush up on C and was wondering how I would go about it. Thanks. Very minor note: the link to "Learn C the Hard Way" on the faq page links back to the faq page.
R didn't bring open source to science. It brought free (as in price) software to stats

This is a very powerful statement. Never underestimate the power of free. It is very hard to compete with. Look at the browsers.
I thought the saying went: "You can't get laid on Reddit" but whatever...
I work at a university and just clicked on it.
Geep: Rare 'goat-sheep' born on Irish farm
I think there's a very good chance they'll accept incremental, high-quality changes to the language. For example, I've proposed some small features to provide better interop with C#; they should fit nicely into the language without requiring major changes. On the other hand, major (re-)design proposals to include features that only really matter to very advanced functional programmers don't have a good chance of being accepted.
> best is entirely subjective

Indeed. For starters, I won't run on a Mac. Or Linux. Or BSD. Does it do Java as well as Eclipse or NetBeans? Can I write Clojure code with it?
WiX is missing all the ease-of-use features it needs to be a non-agonizing process. Deprecating installer packages in favour of WiX would make sense if they provided a migration path and better tooling for WiX.
It was "S4174 - How to Design a Language Integrated CUDA Compiler with LLVM" at the GTC 2014. Videos should be up in a month or so.
Here's a different book you might be interested in ("Practical Foundations for Programming Languages":

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf

It gets pretty math-heavy at times, at least in the beginning (you can probably skip the first chapter if it's too rough), but ultimately the book is about programming language design and different ways of designing and evaluating typed (or un(i)typed) languages. It also looks at a large number of important languages including PCF, Typed/Untyped Lambda Calculus, System F, Gödel's T and ALGOL (the last of which is interesting because it uses what we now call the IO Monad).

I'm taking the class (15-312) right now, and as homework we typically implement an interpreter for some language using SML (OCaml would likely work fine for the general use case), and then prove a few things about the language. Our languages rely on our Abstract Binding Tree (ABT) infrastructure that we developed early on in the course. You can find the course page at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rjsimmon/15312-s14/index.html if you want to check out what we're working on.
Maybe high schools just need to do a better job of preparing students for college?
I'm getting pretty good results from Facebook CPC. I pay $0.12 per click and get around 50% "conversions" from that. I run a service which doesn't require any registration though and a conversion is just someone doing anything in it.
Ah the yeasts! I recently heard that middle-eastern ancients regularly rubbed old-bread on wounds to speed recovery. Probably more for penicillin mold, but maybe the yeasts were at play as well?
OK, let's make it direct then.

If you found a minister of a non-specific religion who refused to marry to black two people just because he just didn't see marriage in his faith as something that happened between black people, how much faith would you have that he had nothing against black people, that it was just about he saw marriage?
Or even better, a mobile app install ad on mobile and a FB app ad on desktop.

I'd love to see one of these experiments that isn't trying to get website signups / sales which is something FB is notoriously bad for.

I spent a few years at an SPMD, and I would really advise against anyone who doesn't know exactly what they're doing to use the FB self-serve anyway...
Lots of us are really weird, but only a few of us are in charge of mid-to-large organizations. And of the examples that you gave, I don't think any of them worked to have their brand of weirdness enforced over other people as law.

Eich claimed to support LGBT equality at Mozilla, but when given the opportunity, he refused to say anything like "I regret supporting a law that had negative consequences for our employees" or even "I would abstain from supporting a similar law in the future". This silence suggests he may advocate for equality at one level and against it at a higher level, which is hard to reconcile.
Very light on the details, essentially says "we found something." Now my curiosity is piqued :)
I saw this a while ago, it sounds like what you're talking about. It is for Bike Messengers who are injured on the job.
http://www.bicyclemessenger.org/
Whoa, that's ridiculous.
As the most public embodiment of the organization, wouldn't Mozilla's policies of equality ring hollow if they'd left him in place? His values did not align with the organization. As Jobs always said (perhaps with a bit of false modesty): "The CEO serves at the pleasure of the board."
(Side comment about "all those gays" noticing: I can't believe you a genuinely a stranger to opinions and convictions being held in secret.)
This isn't a problem. A problem occurs only if people assume a click is worth one amount when really it is worth another amount.

Simply run your campaign for $X and measure your resulting sales, $Y, and now you know if you are wasting money or not.

If Facebook 'fix the problem' then the CPC rate will simply increase.
> He started on Lexapro, and ended up committing suicide a week later. I had to sit there and read testimonials of people that lost friends and family attributed to taking lexapro.

I don't want to belittle you're experience, because losing a friend to suicide is always brutal, but I do feel that its important to look at reports of anti-depressants causing suicide with a critical eye.

Almost all ant-depressants carry a warning that they can cause suicide, but there are a couple of factors in that:

1. Almost by definition, people who are prescribed anti-depressants are more likely to commit suicide in the first place.

2. I can't find the source on this one, but I've certainly been told by psychiatrists that the first few weeks after going on anti-depressants carries a higher risk of suicide than before going on them. The theory is that during those first few weeks you've been given enough of a kick by the drugs to provide a bit of motivation, but you've not yet had the chance to address the actual cause of the problem. That combination can result in having just enough motivation to carry out your desire to kill yourself.

Unfortunately you'll often see doctors prescribing medication without then following it up with the necessary therapy to help their patient move on from whatever got them into the situation got them to this point to begin with.
No repeatedly your analogies incorrectly assume things that are not true about the way HFT works.

In the vast majority of instances the HFT are not buying something and reselling it at an inflated price before another interested party has access to it. They are changing the price on things they themselves had already set the price for.

A closer analogy than what either of our gas stations makes is I own ten gas stations in a line down the high way. At the first one a tanker truck pulls up and takes all the gas I have at that gas station, then at another and another and another so on down the line such that I no longer have any gas.

When I go to replenish my stocks I find out that some big company needs tons of gas and has driven the price well above the 3.99 I was selling for. This means I just took an extreme beating in the selling gas industry. I don't mind, that is a cost of doing business.

Then the next week they come and do the same thing and on and on for years. Eventually, I tell the manager of the first gas station to call all the other managers the minute a tanker truck shows up so we can adjust our prices and not get wiped out.

The big gas company now has to pay a much more appropriate rate for the gas. This drives them crazy so they go on 60 minutes and tell everyone on the planet that the game is rigged because I have this super sophisticated technology that lets me "front run" them.

You hear this and start thinking to yourself, man I can't trust that they are going to charge me more money for this gas as soon as I pull into the station. You start buying less gas and calling your senator. The big gas company then goes on CNBC and says, "See I told you those little gas companies were no good. Now they are eroding the faith of gas buyers in the fairness of the market place."

When in reality all that is happening is that the big gas company can no longer take advantage of me to get cheap gas.
Liberace appears to have had a homosexual relationship, but he himself denied it. "Gay" to me implies a person who openly embraces a lifestyle including exclusively homosexual sex; under such a definition he was not gay. Indeed he won a libel case against a newspaper and stated he wasn't homosexual and had never taken part in homosexual acts. His supposed live-in lover also failed to show he was homosexual.

There's evidence to suggest he was [also] interested in women. Wikipedia doesn't mention it but a BBC article, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22099082, says he was engaged. Of course that could have been a way to court interest from [female] fans; but it seems equally others could have lied about the extent of his homosexuality. Often people mistake flamboyant-camp for homosexual, it's possible to have either without the other.

The whole Wikipedia page for Liberace appears to be an attempt to force him in to a mold that he refused repeatedly. Perhaps he was asexual as some reports hint, or maybe bi-.
Would you mind expanding on what you think is modern about C#?
Understanding waves through hydrodynamics
Union groups for freelancers and independent workers do exist, with a focus on providing things like insurance coverage and other benefits many indies forgo or have to overpay for at group rates. Freelancers' Union is a good example: https://www.freelancersunion.org/
I wish this article had more evidence. It's really hard to evaluate the claims either way.

What makes me skeptical is that there's no obvious motive for this. Imagine if you're one of those people that happens to be super rich enough to be part of the 1%. The OWS people probably just seem like ants to you. You might not take kindly to them, but you probably have other things to do with your time, especially since this is well after the movement (basically) failed. This sort of petty revenge seems like the kind of thing that happens when you have nothing better to do, it's high school politics, so I just have trouble imagining the motive. I'm not saying it didn't happen, I just don't see the evidence yet.
As a QQ user I'd like to note that it seems quite superior feature-wise to MSN messenger, Gtalk, Facebook messenger and Skype IM. You can for instance paste multiple images straight into the input box and send them just like text, and it also has an extremely quick and easy to use screen capture feature. Not to mention a reliable, indexed message history, offline file transfers (you send it when the other person is offline, and when they sign in they'll be able to receive the file), and accurate notification whenever a message you send fails to be delivered.

Note however that I'm referring to the International Version; the mainland Chinese version is less appealing, full of advertisements, and hides some features behind paywalls.
Turkish court orders partial lifting of YouTube ban
Mono's SGen garbage collector is a massive improvement over the older, non-generational GC. SGen still may not be as a good as the GC in the .NET CLR on Windows, but the performance difference is much smaller now (especially since Mono 3.2.x).
Spot on. One major reason why languages such as numpy are slow compared to what they are implemented in is precisely what you said, gratuitous creation and destruction of costly temporaries. In the Numpy world this can be mitigated somewhat with tools like numexpr. R is lazy, so I expected it to be faster than Numpy so was surprised that its is so much slower.

Julia seems headed in the right direction and I am very excited about it. I really wish they had a mechanism to desugar vectorization syntax in to dumb loops which could then be JITed. Vector syntax can be really expressive, aligned with the problem domain and succinct, I would hate to let go of that in the interest of speed. Its strange that many correlate verbosity with clarity/readability.

@ihnorton sadly I can only offer a single upvote
Why is that? Tooling support at this point is much better for Scala than it is for many JVM languages, including Xtend.

Checkout: https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid

You can do that in combination with IntelliJ IDEA for example, which has awesome support for both Scala and Android. Google's new Android Studio is actually the same as IntelliJ Android plugin that they distribute as part of their open-source distribution. It's also the best IDE ever.
In the US, this is already present, to some extent, with FDAAA 801 [1], which requires that all clinical trials be registered before they start. Missing things like required publication and the "human-readable" digest, but the absence of data can be factored in by the FDA when considering approval -- that is, studies that terminate without reaching a finding can be considered weak indicators of problems, and in the long run, potentially point to organizations or individuals who might be suppressing negative results.

Even required publication is no cure for this; a result saying "we inadvertently broke the blind" or "the protocol was poorly implemented" is perfectly possible even in good faith.

[1] http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/manage-recs/fdaaa
Why's that? If you're worried about generating lots of extra inner classes, isn't that still a problem with Xtend? Other than that, what's the problem with using Scala on Android?
In an interview with local news station KGTV, Kristoffer said: "I was like yea!" Haha, this is great! Such enthusiasm over the matter.
>Bring that up if it turns out that he is blacklisted across the valley, and unable to land a new job.

Well, McCarthy era victims were also able to find the odd job here and there. McCarthyism is about the practice, not about if the effects are in full force or not.

I wouldn't be surprised if no major company would want to hire him for a public position now, lest they suffer the same public backslash.

>If you don't see the difference between people being upset about having a known supporter of discrimination in a role where he is shaping public opinion about an organisation like Mozilla, and the person ultimately responsible for a workplace vs. someone being blacklisted across an entire industry, or worse, and paraded in front of congressional committees to confess their "sins", then that shows a scary lack of understanding of just how nasty McCarthyism was.

Actually, it's the above that shows lack of understanding of what was wrong about McCarthyism. It wasn't that the blacklisting was total ("throughout the industry"), it was that the blacklisting existed at all. Even if people would only got fired from one job and left alone after that, McCarthyism would have been as bad.

It also shows a lack of understanding of the ramifications against Eich. Take the top players that could hire a well known Javascript/TCO guy like Eich. Would Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Opera, Abobe, etc hire him now?
Their PR persons will tell them not to touch him with a ten-foot pole.

As for being "paraded to confess their "sins"" that has already been done -- Eich was forced to confess his sins in public posts and promise he'll be good (as if he gave any indication that he was bad in the workplace all these years in this regard). Well, in his case the commitee wasn't "congressional", it was a tech media one. I'll give you that.
I think it highly depends upon how you're targeting and what kind of product your selling. I've got a friend who is using fb CPC for physical products (that includes a concierge service) and my jaw hit the floor when he told me the ROI. Admittedly, they have a pretty high revenue per customer, but my point stands that it depends on what you're selling.
>> "I met a great cofounder and wife at college" doesn't seem to logically follow to "you have to go to college to meet a great cofounder and wife"

It sure helps. Where else in your life are you going to be surrounded by thousands of other young people that you can date, or classes full of like-minded individuals who you might start a business with?
> even if I have a coin biased badly against coming up heads, if I toss it enough number of times I will get `x` heads.

I'm pretty sure a "trial" is a statistically significant study of many patients. So in this case, your analogy to the coin is flawed. A better analogy would be x groups of 10,000 coin flips, and to take the average of each group in x. Now, no such average would favor the less probably side of the coin.
Ask HN: Social network for your house
A while ago a service which resembled a social network for your house/dorm, with ability to set up duties for people, and communicate with the landlord and stuff, hit the front page. Now that I need it, I cannot for the life of me find it, via google or otherwise. Anyone remember what it's called? :)

Otherwise, this might be a cool project.
Thanks. I've fixed the link.
Yes, with the caveat that only 20% of Dutch high school students attend secondary schools that have "go to university" as their desired outcome. Virtually everyone who successfully completes that secondary programme gets into a university (the variation in quality between them isn't nearly as great as it is in the Anglo countries) but it obviously isn't fair to compare that 20% with everyone who graduates an American high school.
Can i get an pdf/epub version of this book?
>"He actively attempted to detract happiness from the lives of others."

Go on.

Those who would have Christians deny Christ and embrace sin do the same: ergo anti-Christians should also lose their jobs?
The .NET reference source is licensed in a way that Mono developers can look at it without scratching their eyes out afterwards.
Being allowed employment and being the leader of a diverse company including people you've helped to discriminate against are two different things.

He was fine as a CTO because of his brilliant technical mind. His actions, however, make him unfit to lead an organization as diverse as Mozilla.
CPC is just the wrong model for Facebook. It turns into "spray and pray". In this case, nobody is looking for a personal budget app, it just shows up uninvited. Whereas with Google, we know someone is likely looking for it when the ad appears.

I don't know what Facebook's long term business model is. IMO, this isn't it.
You missed the part which says "Most":

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics". It's not like someone posted some trivial Republicans vs Democrats story.

You also missed the part where it says: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.".

Do they find this story interesting? Well, it was upvoted to the first page, wasn't it?