skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why you Borklandian yorlix, hasn't everyone been slashed or thwacked with a magic wand or had a morningstar or two broken over their head as a kid? Shit, if that's the worst thing your Mother did, you should consider yourself fate-blessed and smooch the ground she hovers over because you probably deserved it.

Fracking wurtbag..."

Scrape CL, apply a lexical categorizer (porting Syntactic[0] to Python now), pseudo-randomize, apply Tangle[1] as a front end; allow users to scale between language species-norms over categories and submit their creations, apply a speech-to-text tool, there's a voting board involved.

The point here is that I find prescriptive morality to be quite droll. Upon reading this HN title, I immediately dashed over the CL to see if any analogues might exist. The CL in my State took on a characteristic countertone to this HN post. I intuited this immediately. The output post above is a follow-up to the OP [on CL], where the output post is consistent with the HN OP. But there's more hilarity now.

Goal: Use "nerd" activities to diffuse prescriptivism. Now I have a port to consider and maintain.

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[0]: http://syntactic.omershapira.com/
[1]: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
I spent a whole day just trying to figure out what was wrong with my code on the site. Worked fine in dev, but when pushed to AppEngine, it just flat out broke my API calls. FWIW, if you want to get a virtual IP on AppEngine (which fixes the 'problem'), it's like $40-something a month extra.
"Blowing up the amount of vertical space that code takes up by a factor of six really is a problem."

Is it? Maybe I'm the only person who has never experienced this problem. Especially with editor code folding, method nav, tags, etc., vertical space is almost never an issue for me. (Horizontal space, OTOH, is the bane of my existence...)

Marginalia is interesting, though...thanks for the pointer!
Ok, Norman Bates, thanks for the advice.
The battery and current time service I think is inherent to the iPhone, not necessarily whatever software is running. I've seen that a lot when doing totally unrelated BLE/iBeacon stuff. A... clever combination of CoreBluetooth and iBeacon is used for discovery, messaging is actually handled via data connection. We toyed with some ways to transfer data directly (multipeer and decidedly-not-multipeer), but we haven't used those in this release.
For raw speed at crunching through arrays (which is still vitally important in many areas of scientific computing), it's still FORTRAN. It also has very good (and well-tested) libraries for all sorts of mathy-sciency things.

A PhD friend of mine who does scientific computing works almost exclusively in FORTRAN.
Good coffee does not come from McDonalds.

Well, okay, we can agree on that; but "safe temperature" McDonalds coffee is even worse than hot McDonalds coffee.

when they admitted that they preferred to settle 700 cases

There's no business on earth that does McDonald's level of product distribution that doesn't have hundreds or thousands of attempted baseless suits. It still says nothing about whether or not McDonalds was distributing a product that its customers wanted in the way they thought their customers wanted it - and whether or not they're responsible for resulting mishaps.

McDonalds could have offered two temperatures

As though the woman didn't have the choice to not order coffee at all? The woman could have made the decision to go into McDonalds and cool it herself by putting cream in the coffee or even a piece of ice. McDonalds did not force her to buy coffee on that day.

full thickness burns are a medical emergency. They can be fatal

A car accident over the speed of 50mph (for argument's sake) can be fatal too. Would you suggest that any auto manufacturer that offers an automobile that goes over 50mph is responsible for any accidents that occur at that speed?
With this "fast lane", could I theoretically get "for free" 1gbps while paying for 1mbps?
Python is such a ubiquitous language, even outside of scientific computing. It seems like mobile dev is the only area where its not present.
Looks like the web crawlers for Bing and Yahoo are not sending SNI, according to this reporting. Can anybody corroborate?
You could say the same thing about many goods. For example, "I'm purchasing food, not because I really want it, but because I need it to exist. Therefore, no one should be able to use review systems to decide which food to buy. [or make a profit, or be run by private corporations, or whatever other remedy is merited because of the human need for food]."
Then you have something like the X1 Carbon which compounds the touchpad issues with a wacky keyboard layout.
That's how idiomatic one-way-to-do-it generic languages slowly win. They raise the bar for the specialty languages so that, for example, after R the next statistical language really, really needs to shine in what it does in order to justify the trouble of learning another language over using a Python with a statistics library.
You have no idea how nice the majority of web is that way. Sites load fast, they don't spawn annoying rubbish, tracking is mostly broken, cpu usage is low, etc etc. Maybe I should write about it some day.
Maybe they have visions of a NYTimes "news channel" added to your internet service that you pay for and receive whether you want it or not.

Greed or ignorance are generally my first guesses when trying to analyze what appears to be propaganda.
The IMDB example in the Entertainment section is showing a pretty weird result for "Shawshank Redemption". Instead of the well known movie, the highlighted result is an episode of a quite obscure TV series ("Dating a Puppet").

-- Edit: I've just noticed the query goes straight to imdbapi.com, which returns the same results when searching for "Shawshank Redemption", without the "The" prefix. Which is still a bit weird, but has nothing to do with DDG.
There are a few solutions:

- Use a folding editor.

- Buy a bigger monitor.

- Use a split-pane editor with two+ views of one file (e.g. Vim).

- Write shorter functions.
Apparently you got downvoted because this doesn't answer the question: no data is not insecure data. There is no hardware RNG that guarantees full time availability of unlimited secure data. Even if a black image would generate insecure data, it's easy to detect a black image.
I don't think your average customer assumes anything about what their service payment covers. I bet most think it just covers the wire into their house. Would the perceived regulatory need go away if cable companies made clear: "we reserve the right to charge the sources of data you download, not withstanding the service charges for your connection."

I mean, its like Hulu Plus. The fact they charge a fee doesn't preclude them from charging advertisers to market to you.
Why do all the P9 files use `void main` instead of `int main`?
Recently deleted from Wikipedia as being not notable by a former Oracle employee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

edit: that page refers to a deletion that happened a year ago but lmdb had a page much more recently than that - even a month or two ago, I think - so apparently deleting the lmdb page is a hobby for someone. I'm not familiar enough with the tools to dig in and figure out what's going on there.
Yeah, I was minutes away from buying an X1 Carbon until I saw the home and end keys where my pinky expects Ctrl to be mapped.
Please don't write about it. The world could do without more of you.
This is interesting, I must give it a try because I practice echolocation in real life. I have perfectly good eyesight but seeing some documentaries about blind people who echolocate prompted me to learn some myself. I'm not very good but I can improve my situational awereness in darkness.
This is exactly the sort of thing that I have been absolutely terrified about for a while now. When you're being hired, companies often tell you that they're going to run a professional background check, and I am concerned this may mean they buy data from Google, Facebook, cell carriers, etc.

Unsavory political views? Get blacklisted.

Don't get along with a relative? Get blacklisted.

Indulge a porn habit more than the HR manager likes? Get blacklisted.

I cannot stress enough how dangerous this is.
The wooden collar has a leather thong around it that you can loosen. Then the collar can be removed, and the carafe washed.

However, since it's glass, you'll probably be drinking the coffee fairly shortly after it's made, and you can just rinse the chemex and be done with it.
Does he strike you as a happy and fulfilled person, like you would want to be like him?

It's like with Jobs. No parent seriously wants their kids to turn out like Steve. They may mean they wish their kids to be as influential or as successful, but no wants to _be_ Steve Jobs.
You couldn't possibly be more wrong. Comments that describe the code and not the intent are terrible for obvious and clear reasons: They are not checked by the compiler, and they are not checked at runtime. There are no assertions that flag when the comment has gone out of date. Comments that talk about what the implementation does are virtually guaranteed to be wrong. This is simple fact. The thing comments can do that code is less good at is express abstract intent, and they should be saved for that. However, more powerful and expressive languages can express much of that in code as well, and thus even such comments can often be removed.

Look. What is code, and what are comments? Code is stating some fact that is expressed in a well-defined grammar. It can be both 1) read by machines, and 2) read by humans. Code says something specific, and it has a specification or at least a reference implementation which describes the exact meaning of what the code says. Sure, it can be wrong, which simply means that it says something other than what the author intended, but what it says is well specified.

Comments, on the other hand, have no restrictions at all. They can be written in any language. They can be fragments of sentences or multiple paragraphs. If they do follow some structure, it is not enforced unless by some external tool, in which case the comment is, in fact, code as input to that tool, and the complexity of the program has increased by an order of magnitude as it is now written in multiple languages at once.

Comments are worse than useless and should always be seen as the last resort. Wherever there is a comment, there should be a language deficiency that prevented whatever needed to be said from being said in the language itself. If there is no such thing, and the comment merely states what the code already says in a well-defined manner, the comment is wrong and should be removed.
I much prefer French press coffee. OTOH, the paper filter removes something that causes LDL cholesterol to increase, which at the time it was reported, was considered a bad thing.
An animated visualization, for example.
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I don't blame you, but it worked for me without signing into anything and I deleted my Facebook account several years ago. I do have an actual Quora account, which of course it would be a nuisance to have to sign into every time as well, but for whatever reason, it seems to either keep me signed in or sign me in automatically; maybe try to see if you can get it to do this? I'm using Chrome if that matters.
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One of my favorite phrases from the Refactoring world is "speculative generality". Adding customization points in the present can make adapting in the future easier if the future aligns with your expectations, and harder if it doesn't.
That is not the real problem, it's just an exacerbation of the underlying issue:

Comments must never describe WHAT the code does, but WHY it does so.

The code itself should clearly describe what it does. If you need comments for that, you've written unreadable code and need to write more readable code. Comments that describe the what just absolve the programmer from doing that, while putting more effort on everyone coming after them.

A comment that describes why a certain bit of code does something, describe something that the code itself cannot and thus help everyone.
R I thought.
I have a Ruby project that parses IMDb data into a database, and which can also supplement itself with data from Rotten Tomatoes and Freebase. It's fairly generic and could be extended. Email me if you want to chat.
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This article is way, way off base.

First of all, most syntax coloring de-emphasizes comments because they are not code. They are not necessary. They are potentially helpful hints which may or may not be needed. Ideally they aren't. So, they should not be attention grabbing.

The idea that making them attention grabbing and ugly is great because it encourages you to have as few of them as possible is ridiculous. It's trying to accomplish a reasonable task (minimal comments) by totally ass-backwards means (making the comments the most obvious thing on the screen.) It's like replacing the click of the turn signal noise in your car with a blaring klaxon to try to get old people to turn them off with more regularity.

Here's a tip for the author, who I can only assume is a novice programmer; if there's a universal practice which has been a certain way for several decades and you think it's wrong, re-examine your assumptions.
No software running on your x86 chip can stop System Management Mode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode
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If He wills, it's done.
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I bought an Android 3.x tablet in rapt anticipation of using the Android Python interpreter, but what killed me was a lack of packages that I could easily deploy and use, most notably Tkinter.
If python is good enough to replace R or Matlab for you, then you are using a negligible fraction of what those platforms have to offer.

R is a lot like vim or javascript. It has a lot of warts, but it's an incredibly expressive toolkit for its task. I usually buy into a language once I find a few extremely gifted developers working with it (and who seem to do so voluntarily). For instance: for vim it's Tim Pope, for R, it's Hadley Wickham, for javascript it's Mike Bostock.

Python, despite its many good decisions, is likewise full of warts.
So, who are good developers to follow in the python/numpy community?
I wonder what it'll take for JavaScript to start taking over Python's niches. Is there a numeric library (like Scipy/pandas) hooked up to asm.js yet? I can imagine that being faster than Python.
Indeed. Visual studio will often link together a severely broken executable, which will be fixed upon full rebuild.
I can't believe I'm saying this at 28, but that's a really young-person point of view.

You have to understand most of us younglings grew up with the Internet and have adopted text as the de facto mode of relaying information. Sadly, most of the business world is made up of people who've learned to communicate (in their formative years) before the Internet was a thing.

These business people cannot easily change their main mode of communication, and will have a hard time adopting email the way a newer generation has.

The generation following you (and me) has already moved past email, to instant messaging.
>Why would they commit to spending anything before they know what kind of revenue & retention your game will have?

Why would you sign a publishing deal if you know that your game has awesome retention and big revenues?

The idea is to share the risk.
More details: http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2013/08/latex-in-cloud.html
Can be a couple of things

1. It intimidated him. Happened to some friends of mine.
2. He realized history is better than writing procedural code . Should have learnt haskell
Not to be tok contrarian here, but isn't there a massive moral hazard (eg one that Netflix takes advantage of) in enforcing Net Neutrality?
This article is just about what you'd expect from a non-technical blog writing about something complex and technical that its readers don't understand and have had no exposure to.

It's filled with inaccuracies, misunderstandings and oversimplifications, from referring to vim as vi to claiming that "even the biggest Vi detractor will not dispute that it's faster than Emacs".

In the above claim, the author is probably talking about vim, not vi, and he's probably referring only to startup time, not to anything else. On modern systems any difference (if there is one) in startup time isn't noticeable -- especially if you run emacs in server mode and use emacsclient (of if you just keep emacs running).

Startup time just really isn't an issue for most users these days. Much more of an issue is default keybindings (emacs and vim are hugely different here, but the emacs can emulate vim keybindings quite well with evil[1]), the various available plugins available for both editors, default scripting languages (vimscript vs elisp), and the amount of time you have to dedicate to learning and customizing both editors.

[1] - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
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Thank you so much for that. I was new to Unix/Linux (DEC Osf-1) when I first happened upon it. At the time it was much needed comic relief for me.
> Talking about "stature potential" is a bit misleading too. It implies that the more height you manage to get, the better.

You're right. I didn't intend to imply that. Just because someone has achieved their "potential", ie. have grown as tall as one might expect them to based on their genes, does not necessarily mean that it was good that they did so. Maybe they would have been better off health-wise if they grew shorter than that; what height would be optimal (or: what percentage of their """""height potential""""") would be hard to guess, I reckon.
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While it's certainly possible for smart people to be wrong and for a "stupid" idea to work out great, this seems more faux-inspirational to me than anything else. Genuinely smart people tend to have very good reasons for believing your idea might not work, and to just entirely disregard the thoughts of all people who think your idea won't work seems counter-productive. That's not to say they can't be completely wrong though, but so can you.
Javascript will need to fix the mess that is its numeric types. As it currently is, you either need a bignum library with an ungodly syntax, or you are open to losing precision above a certain level, without warning. I tried solving Euler problems with JS, but it's so painful I switched back to Python after a few.
Oh, that's neat. I was on the lookout for a Arq-like client for Tarsnap, this looks promising and I'll definitely give it a shot. At first I thought that's the one being posted on the Tarsnap mailing list [0] lately but it's not and looks easier to install than the other one.

[0] https://github.com/arnt/tarsnap-gui
I don't think that in github the additions are green because are good, but because +=green and -=red
no opposite..lookup learning theory.. MIT, etc

LOGO was crated as part of the new learning theory explorations at MIT and else where during the 1980s..

But in your friend defense Logo was designed for kids at a certain mental age...obviously your friend was beyond that age when exposed to LOGO
It's fairly ironic that you've spent so many words re-iterating the argument that "code should be self-documenting".

You're right that comments don't maintain themselves, though. That's the job of a programmer, and if the programmer isn't doing their job, they probably shouldn't be working on a project with other people.
"I would rather have the comment jump out at me."

Really? The only time you need to know that removing that line will cause a segfault is if you are going to remove that line; but, if you're going to remove the line, you're surely going to check the comment above it, even if the comment doesn't jump out at you. Even an important comment is still irrelevant except when you are looking for clarification about the code it comments on; so I don't think it ever makes sense for comments to be emphasized more than the code.
Depends entirely on what you are doing for. Basically for any give task you'll probably find a language better suited than python, but it will be a different language for each task. That is why python excels, no other language is "good enough" for so many different things.
I see my mother every weekend, no need for a call, I just when there.
awesome ! can the plugins be written in any language ? or is it just perl ?
And what if you have 2/4 of those? Or have their privacy to max status? How do they account for those? Like you said, the algorithm is only as good as the writer.
Which part is that? I had a look through the archives but couldn't spot a post which looked like that.
I often find myself guessing at some of the DDG goodies or !bang searches, and more often than not the thing I want already exists.

I wish the !bang searches in particular were more discoverable, though. Perhaps if you search for "foo site:bar", or "foo bar" where bar is a well-known site or service, DDG should suggest 'Try "foo !bar" or "!bar foo" to ...".
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Systemd detractors seem to view the pre-systemd landscape through rose-tinted glasses or at least completely ignore what has been going on with the desktop. I hardly think ConsoleKit embodied the UNIX philosophy, and if the various desktop environments end up replacing their own subtly different session managers with systemd user session management that seems like a step forwards to me, both for the Linux developer community and for the end user.
It's a nuisance, but not that hard to fix with a screen film.
The Kivy project seems to be making progress recently. However, I believe it still has a limited scope. It has poor support for native framework features/UI.
It annoys me that people invoke Chinese dissidents, MIT OpenCourseware, and Wikipedia in the context of an issue that, to date, only involves for-profit companies. I don't get how people can work up a moralistic fervor over a dispute between two giant highly profitable industries. Its not that I don't believe that the internet is a tool to deliver education to the underserved, or give voice to the politically marginalized, its that there is no indication that these aspects of the internet are at all threatened. Maybe I'm cynical, but I'm skeptical when these for-profit enterprises cloak themselves in internet utopianism to lobby for policies that have the primary or even sole effect of giving themselves a bigger slice of consumer entertainment dollars.

And if core values are threatened, why not have laws narrowly tailored to that danger? Why not just make it illegal for ISP's to discriminate against websites based on politics, race, etc? Surely that'd be easier to get passed, and people would be happy, if that's what this all was really about.
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I lost my mom when I was younger. I have started realizing the point you are making more as time has passed and try a bit harder to keep things happy for my dad. It was good to hear your advice.
Yes. Instead of returning an integer you use the function exits [1] and the value appears in the shell variable status.

[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/exits

This is an introduction to programming in Plan9 C:

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/programming/c_programming_in_pla...
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I still think Twitter is stupid/vapid...
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Agreed. In particular, systemd detractors rarely have answers for questions like "so how would you solve that problem?".