skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it ironic that Australia is singing the praises of copper? Can you imagine anyone thinking it would be a good idea to hang dollar bills from wooden poles in a war torn country? After looking at Australia and Somalia's history, geography and current economic development why would anyone think what is good for one country would necessarily work for the other.
You "also find the name ironic?" Who else found the name ironic? And what is the irony? I have reread your comment three times now and can not identify any irony.
The whole point of the code is to concatenate two C strings at runtime. That's the big problem.
As I mentioned in the orginal comment im aware of the blocked coding patterns, but as I said I hoped they had found a way around it, since they obviously had made a gread amount of effort to get the VS13-> Cordova intigration working.

The problem ain`t to patch the Angular source to pass the rules, but its all the other libraries used in a Cordova app which also voilates the rules. ( In my case I use Zurb Foundation, which used modernizr which again voilates the rules.)

Patching and maintaining one libary to support Win8 would be acceptable, but to maintain all liberys with special Win8 work-arounds would be a mess.
In a typical web-app work flow where one used Bower for maintaining external libarys this would be even worse.
There is this angle that says that natural laws are good, better than "artificial" laws. It seems trendy nowadays and is emphasised in the article.

But another angle, that seem to describe more closely the long term evolution and progress of human societies, is that laws and ethics have been slowly built by human societies against the law of nature. The direst way to express this is that in a natural environment, the weak and the disabled are left aside and die quickly, which we humans have decided to try hard to avoid.

So maybe a softer, more informal, "stateless" society like this Xeer could be valuable. But if it was, it would be because it would better protect us from the law of nature.
That's what JSON-LD and other formats are for. As a mediatype, application/json is certainly useless for REST, but there's nothing wrong with using it as an encoding for more semantically relevant formats.
>>It might work well in Somalia

Nope. Have you seen Somalia?
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Almost incredible.

An extract (translated to English): "no hyperlink TO [our site] can be done without prior agreement". I hope they're suing Google too :)
> For me, one of the points that this article seems to imply is that modern hardware can be extremely fast, but in our efforts to save "programmer time", we've sacrificed an order of magnitude or more of that.

There's still plenty of reasons to write fast code. If the code ends up being run repeatedly and is known to be the bottleneck, optimizing a piece of code may save on hardware costs. And power and cooling costs.

Or if we're talking about a mobile device, doing something quickly and then powering off the CPU will save a lot of those precious milliwatts. (I do this in my day job)

In this case, there was a 10x improvement in the time it takes, allowing the CPU to be powered off for 2 seconds. That translates to longer battery life and happy customers.

While you're right in that CPU time is usually cheaper than programmer time, there's still a time and a place for writing fast code. Computers may be "fast enough" but the hardware is still expensive and the power it consumes is more important than ever.
I have no idea what kind of character mr. Gonzalez is (and suspect neither do you), but how about this hypothetical example. Imagine you were wrongly accused of child abuse 20 years ago. Charges were eventually dropped for lack of evidence.

Do you really think information like this would have no influence on your life or that you wouldn't care?

I know far too little about this ruling to have an opinion of its impact, but I am not a free-speech absolutist because of cases like the above where lives are unjustly impacted long after publication.
The same applied to ancient Jews, I believe. Asking for interests for borrowed money was forbidden by the Laws of God. And then there was a Jubilee once every 7*7=49 years, when existing debts were condoned, and a man could return in possession of his house if he (or his parents) somehow had lost it. It was a system promoting mercy and hope even for those who lost everything, rather than creating oppression and exploiting the poor.
One argument for why this is a bad idea has its roots in politics. Imagine if a candidate running for office (or any public figure) had the ability to santitize his search results to remove all 'bad' listings. The public perception of a candidate or political figure could always be distorted in a manner that is always favorable to the candidate. Public dissent could therefore be surpressed.

Note though, I'm not necessarily for or against this bill. It could be very useful fot private citizens but we should consider how public figures are effected as well.
To the second: no. This is of public interest and public record.
Have you? I lived there from 1988-1991, and I can assure you that Xeer is a reasonable framework for a modern society.
I ended up kinda doing that. Generic data needed by my views is loaded through dumb API calls and cached client side. Smart queries will be cached with memcached since most likely an individual user will only need them once but many different people could request them.
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"forcing Google to remove it from their index is at best a middling measure "

I think you underestimate the power of search engines - simply having Bing/Google remove a reference to something, will eliminate it from view for 99%+ of the population. It's a lot more than a middling measure.
But not fast enough
It might be some fascist myth (and if so, I am sorry for spreading it, please educate me!) but wasn't one of the reasons for Jewism being condemned by many places that they took interest?
Perhaps you have some facts to support the Australian argument; but generally older tech is supported and propped up by entrenched interests, focused on their own profit margins, public good be damned.
The title is misleading, but subtly so: Interest is most definitely charged, just in a far more indirect method than most banks. To take a loan you are required to have kept a proportionate amount of money in the bank,without being paid interest on it either.

Therefore, they demand as their fee that you pay the opportunity cost of the interest you would have earned by keeping your money in another bank.

I don't really see the point. All banks do need to charge interest, true, but the least they can do is charge you it in a fair and straightforward manner. Normal banks charge you, but at least they are explicit about what they are charging you, whereas this one charges you in an abstruse way that you need training as an economist in order to understand fully.
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It did in terms of HPC. Not Gfx, which failed miserably.
Does Google have 99%+ marketshare? Will they always?
I was a big fan (had been since I first saw the images for Alien as an 11 year old in the UK), however my wife (who is Swiss and knew his son, apparently) is less of a fan of him as a person. I'll spare the details (since, in the interest of fairness I cannot remember the whole story accurately and would not want to mis-represent it in this forum) but yes.. like most people he had his less than perfect moments.

But this should come as no surprise to anyone who's lived a bit. One can be well respected for ones art, but be less respected (in some quarters) for how one acts.

Regardless, I am saddened by the news. It is a great loss IMO.
The wayback machine seems (to me) to be breaking EU law before we get to data protection; there is a copyright issue as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine#Legal_status
I agree it looks more like Perlin noise due to the finer detail not seen in diamond square [1] and the lack of directional artifacts in midpoint displacement [2].

[1] http://www.gameprogrammer.com/fractal/heightmap.jpg

[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Plasmafractal....
I think OP meant, "Why does the experiment always succeed on mice", not "Why do we perform experiments on mice".
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Because then the Old API would no longer be developed. And CAD industry dont want to port the application to a whole new API.
> "the organization"

Therein lies the problem. Courts can play whack-a-mole all day, but it's very hard to suppress something on the Internet. The only sensible thing to do is go after the original publisher and then Google takes care of itself. This idea of forcing takedown on search engines is treating the symptom not the disease.
Anecdotally, tests for skin-contact carcinogens can be skewed because the lab mice are prone to develop skin cancers anyway.
that might be true, but I don't like idea of having a MiTM. That's an additional point of potential security issues
> It's year 2014 and you have to wait for your computer. It's so much faster than you, but you are waiting for it!

The same is also evident on the web. In so many cases you need to wait for content, maybe couple of KB of text, to load even with our tens of Mb/s at last mile and tens of Gb/s at datacenter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Case(s) in point: Dark Tourism (visits to "dark" sites, such as battlegrounds, scenes of horrific crimes or acts of genocide), Disaster tourism (the act of traveling to a disaster area as a matter of curiosity) and, slightly related, Doom Tourism (emerging trend involving traveling to places that are environmentally or otherwise threatened). Also, Slum Tourism...
Being in your same bootstrapped situation for 18months... I'm curious about what's your company about/name.
OP >> 90 to 99% of ads deceive and manipulate people into consuming a product

This thread has been characterised with the opinion from people like yourself that advertising is immoral, akin to lying, manipulative, deceiving etc etc <insert descriptor>.

My point stands - advertising is just an extension of social interaction. If you hate advertising, you essentially hate yourself since you advertise continually.
A lot of people would probably fail to reach "their Facebook" if it wasn't for Google...
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I doubt Tyler Durden would spend a lot of time on Hacker News railing against corporate culture.

HN is subsidised by a pure market economy entrepreneurial construct- a construct in which advertising has a firm place at the table. It is very likely the antithesis of Tyler Durden.
It'd be interesting to see an animation of the diamond/square iteration progressing in 3D, starting with a flat surface and ending with the finished terrain :)
So how does one go about asking Google to remove a front page search result about yourself that you do not wish to exist?

Google are famed for having virtually no way of contacting them, does it require the individual to jump through hoops to do so?

And no, not thinking of myself... but wondering just whether there are mechanisms available already to those who will now seek to exercise their right.
Hi, author here. :-) Thank you for the fun anecdote and kind words.

Hopefully we can collectively get better at addressing these problems.
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Indeed, especially as we're all governed by quite literally the same free speech laws.
The NSA, etc, never forgets...
The Python 2 "stayers" choices are:

1: stick with Python 2 forever

2: move their skills to another language

3: let go of Python 2 and move to Python 3 despite their concerns

Armin seems so disillusioned that I get the sense he'll either go for option 1 or 2, which is very concerning for people using Jinja2 and Flask and all his other stuff (most of which he has converted to Python 3 albeit unenthusiastically). He has said in one of his blog posts that although he has ported his code to Python 3, he does not use it himself at work and doesn't intend to. Having said that, his stance has softened significantly over the most recent 12 months as evidenced by the full porting of Flask to Python 3.

Zed I'm guessing initially go for option 1 and given his previous disposition to change technologies, might get sick of Python 2's deadness and go for option 2. Zed's public proclamations appear to have invested him quite heavily in not going with Python 3 so it's hard to see what would ever lead him there. Zed's "Learn Python the Hard Way" is the gateway through which new Python programmers are learning and thus all those new developers are starting out as Python 2 only people. If a way can be found to satisfy Zed that some future version of Python is "a good thing", then he will bring his students/followers with him.

But who knows.

It would be good if there was:

4: Zed and Armin and the other most vocal Python 2 advocates specify what they want to see in Python 4, somehow it gets included, everyone happy.

Zed and Armin are by no means the only first class Python developers there's tons of others, but they write really interesting stuff, they are extremely outspoken in their criticism of Python 3, and they have a large and loyal following who respect their opinions, so it would be nice to see them happily participating in Python's future.

What can be done to bring the Python 2 stayers to the most recent releases of Python? Who knows. It's not healthy for Python 3 to have such vocal critics so something should be done.

Even as the 2 versus 3 war continues, Python 3 seems to be gaining real momentum at least as measured by the number of libraries that are now available for Python 3 - it seems that even though some people are sticking with Python 2 there's a groundswell of support for Python 3. After all, for the ordinary programmer trying to get a website built, what's the point in learning the six year old version, all that leads to is the question of "ok, at what time will I learn Python 3?". I'm a beginner and a very ordinary programmer and I find Python 3 much easier to wrap my head around than Python 2 - I dread the times I have to dig into Python 2.

Python 3 will be fine. It has momentum, it will grow, eventually Python 2 will be so far in the past that there will be no way to look at it except in the same way we see OS/2, Amiga and DOS - long gone. It would be much better though if everyone was happy.

Python 4 (maybe it should be 3.6) should be the version that ends the civil war and gives the stayers what they want somehow.
I think the paper you are referencing might be [1]?

It's one of my favorite papers on CRDTs and provides practical pseudocode for learning how to implement CRDTs yourself.

The structures they present are simple to understand and have good performance characteristics compared to similar CRDTs [2].

A key insight from the second paper is to write CRDTs that optimize for applying remote operations over applying local operations, as the ratio of remote operations to local operations will be greater. i.e. 100 clients making 1 change to a CRDT will require all 100 clients to each apply 99 remote operations and 1 local operation.

[1] Replicated abstract data types: Building blocks for collaborative applications - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1931272

[2] Evaluating CRDTs for Real-time Document Editing - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/62/95/03/PDF/doce63-...
>out the European Union.

This is IMHO highly unlikely in practice.

Succession/secession law regarding EU membership is untested, but the simplest suggestion is that rest-of-the-UK retains membership, and Scotland has to reapply as a "new" member. I think that's what you're saying. But, this is awkward and probably not legally correct because it treats the two newly formed countries differently.

This is also not in anyone's interest, except for perhaps Spain (Spanish politicians are pushing this solution because they are worried about Catalonia): it forces two countries to do the opposite of what their electorate would prefer.

For now, this is just a propaganda designed to frighten voters: some other arrangement would be made.

Wikipedia has a large amount of detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_enlargement_of_the_Euro...
Reminds me of the robot that wins rock-paper-scissors every time: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/nov/06/japa...
It will require a judge in the EU who will submit his findings to the legal representative of Google EU.

If there will be enough of these cases infrastructure for the legal representative to handle the cases will be put in place; but I didn't see any requirements for Google to offer a procedure for taking down personal info.
One way islam allows for making up for the depreciation of value is that you loan out gold instead of money.

And then the borrower has to return back same amount of gold irrespective of its value.
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Exactly How I feel. We are adding up abstraction over abstraction, backwards compatibility, hardware compatibility, software compatibility, unrelated ui/ux features, animations..

I believe modern computing has 80/20 rule in a bad way. We use 80 percent of the computing power to do unrelated 20 percent of the job.

we need to re-find Unix philosophy for modern day computing. Software should do a single task but do it well.

Also have a look at Zawinski's Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_law...
Here's the official press release (PDF) explaining the ruling:

http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014...
And the new book - "1,001 terrible jokes for techies" - will be published in June.
> And then there was a Jubilee once every 7*7=49 years

In modern Sweden, you are debt free in 5 years only, not seven, by invoking "skuldsanering".

Paraphrasing you, modern Sweden has a system promoting mercy and hope even for those who lost everything and the Jubilee law meant creating oppression and exploiting the poor.
they did the same thing to lebitcoin.fr last year

http://www.numerama.com/magazine/26352-le-bon-coin-demande-a...
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I'm ashamed to be french when I see this kind of horse shit.
The internet is not compatible with their TOS.
"Gentlemen," he said, "I invite you to go and measure that kiosk. You will see that the length of the counter is one hundred and forty-nine centimeters-in other words, one hundred-billionth of the distance between the earth and the sun. The height at the rear, one hundred and seventy-six centimeters, divided by the width of the window, fifty-six
centimeters, is 3.14. The height at the front is nineteen decimeters, equal, in other words, to the number of years of the Greek lunar cycle. The sum of the heights of the two front corners and the two rear corners is one hundred and ninety times two plus one hundred and seventy-six times two, which equals seven hundred and thirty-two, the date of the victory at Poitiers. The thickness of the counter is 3.10 centimeters, and the width of the cornice of the window is 8.8 centimeters. Replacing the numbers before the decimals by the corresponding letters of the alphabet, we obtain C for ten and H for eight, or C10H8, which is the formula for naphthalene."

"Fantastic," I said. "You did all these measurements?"

"No," Aglie said. "They were done on another kiosk, by a certain Jean-Pierre Adam. But I would assume that all lottery kiosks have more or less the same dimensions. With numbers you can do anything you like. Suppose I have the sacred number 9 and I want to get the number 1314, date of the execution of Jacques de Molay-a date dear to anyone who, like me, professes devotion to the Templar tradition of knighthood. What do I do? I multiply nine by one hundred and forty-six, the fateful day of the destruction of Carthage. How did I arrive at this? I divided thirteen hundred and fourteen by two, by three, et cetera, until I found a satisfying date. I could also have divided thirteen hundred and fourteen by 6.28, the double of 3.14, and I would have got two hundred and nine. That is the year in which Attalus I, king of Pergamon, joined the anti-Macedonian League. You see?"

"Then you don't believe in numerologies of any kind," Dio-tallevi said, disappointed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault's_Pendulum

PDF: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/acharya/Inputs/Books/Foucault...
You are confusing two separate issues.

Social Networks and Search Engines are not sources of administrative data. A CEO cannot bury that he was sued as the matter is a public record.

Should he be able to have that information removed from search engines who provide no context and social media accounts he owned? Absolutely.
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Makes sense, as CeX is essentially just a fence for stolen tech products.

Tip for those that lose a laptop to theft in the UK - go and have at look at your local CeX the next day, you'll probably find it behind their desk.
And when you need to glue lots of things together that do just a single task, you end up spending much more (development and run) time at the joints, as in, constantly converting and parsing data again.