skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rap music is art (make believe, in case that's not clear), and this was real. This guy literally went on a killing spree and killed multiple people, and the manifesto was his, well, manifesto. And the co-founder who was axed was praising little pieces of the killer's writing. Totally inappropriate.

OK, now that's the basic part of why it was wrong. Now why it was really wrong is that the co-founder was trying to use the killing spree to bring traffic to his site. Lots of people are going to be googling about this killer, lots would be googling his manifesto, so I think the co-founder was trying to make sure his site would come up when they did so. Pretty scummy.

Basically, the context of this being the hate filled manifesto of a guy who just killed people is why.
Sure. In any given case, they may or may not be bad for you. But in accepting processed foods over home grown, you are taking on faith that the provider shares your values. (Would they add more sugar and salt than you would to improve taste? Would they put in additives you wouldn't, and hide them under funny names?)

I'm not an off-the-reservation eat everything raw person, but I am skeptical that most managers would make food less addictive to make it healthier. There are exceptions, but this is one of the negative aspects of a market economy.
It must be getting close to expiry at this point -- wasn't it filed in the mid 90s?

EDIT:

I did a little digging and some calculations in the USPTO's horrible, horrible expiry calculator and the list of patents in wikipedia (which TBH, I haven't dug into to figure out how relevant they are but the list below is roughly ordered from "fundamental" to "interesting things you can do with RCU"):

http://www.google.com/patents/US5442758 -- should have expired last year

http://www.google.com/patents/US5608893 -- will expire very shortly, but is noted as "lapsed" due to non-payment of fees

http://www.google.com/patents/US5727209 -- will expire next year

https://www.google.com/patents/US6219690 -- this one will be a few more years

http://www.google.com/patents/US6886162 -- even longer
Twitter's API is too limited for historical data. (you'll hit the rate limits quickly for any meaningful volume). Reddit's rate limits, however, let you process a million comments every day.
What is the point of creating a twitter account if you're just going to use an algorithm to choose your tweets. This is just spam in my book, and the value of this will go down as more people use it.
Javascript won the "language lottery" when it was created for the web browser, how would another language capitalize on that?
I assume if you subsist on a diet of liquids alone that your teeth get upset due to complete underuse.

Anyone know if that's true?
Who cares? Isn't it already available?
My experience was Go was about 2-3x slower (development speed) than Python for prototyping. Web programming, though, which is a particular strength of Python and a particular weakness of Go. YMMV, of course.

I actually really do miss list comprehensions and properties and pervasive protocols for built-in types and really concise keyword/literal syntax. I don't miss metaclasses, and I only vaguely miss decorators. (Go has struct annotations and compiler-available-as-a-library, which in some ways are better.) Properties in particular are really useful for the evolvability of code; otherwise you have to overdesign up front to avoid a big rewrite as you switch from straight struct fields to accessors.

I'm actually leaning towards Java 8 + Jython 2.7 as I consider what language to write my startup/personal projects in. Jython 2.7 gives me basically all the language features I actually cared about in Python, and it fixes the Unicode mess that necessitated Python 3. It has no GIL and solid multithreading support. The Java layer gives you all the speed of Go and more. And the interface between them lets you seamlessly use Java within your Jython scripts, so you can easily push code down into the Java layer without having to rewrite your whole product.
I don't know why people are leaving Python for Go when they could be using PyPy or Shedskin. There are plenty of ways to be fast using Python.
I'm afraid that still won't kill Python.
Also tapping the bottom of the screen reveals the chrome, which is really useful for not losing your place.
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Vitaa : Sur le dancefloor comme premier single 
Écoutez le nouveau single de Vitaa, intitulé Sur le dancefloor. Ce morceau est le premier extrait de son prochain album, faisant suite à Ici et maintenant.
It's at github.com/adkennan/logo but is still very much a work in progress. My goal is to get it running nicely on a Raspberry Pi.
One also wonders what happens to all that muscle one has to run their digestive system.
You can jump to the top of most native iOS scrollable content, including web content in Mobile Safari, by tapping the system bar at the top of the screen
Not a doctor, but I'm wondering what you mean by "upset"? Teeth are calcified body tissue, if I'm remembering HS biology correctly, and I don't know how having them not mashing down on things could damage them. Curious to hear other thoughts on this.
Good point. I didn't know there was another way to do it. I fixed it. If there's an easier way than this I would really like to know it. I created this project because deploying Django has just been one headache after another
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> No matter how fast the OS can spin up another process, you still have to contend with the overhead of Python initialization itself.

Good point... but isn't part of that possible to reduce a little when python itself forks? I've not looked at the code, that might very well not be what happens when you use the multiprocess-module?

> And I don't quite understand what you mean by the "full number tower".

I was thinking of:
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3141/

but apparently confused as to what had changed in python3 (mostly the change to division/true division -- which I still think is more pythonic, but less of a change than I thought).

So eg:

$ python2 -c "print(1/2)"
0
$ python3 -c "print(1/2)"
0.5

But I also thought there might be some differences wrt doing stuff like:

$ python -c "print(2**10000)"
19950(...)9376

But there isn't :-)
I have very often seen people criticise Philosophy from a point of ignorance and then follow up by espousing their own very bad philosophy. It's kinda like criticising a Mathematical proof without understanding Math. You can do it, but you're highly likely to be off the mark.

It's not that Philosophy doesn't have areas worthy of criticism. I personally believe that the best reason to study metaphysics is to learn why metaphysics is useless. Ironically, understanding why it's useless is actually quite useful :o)
Really, you enjoy paying for Parallels (over and over again)?

That's one product i'm absolutely looking to get rid of - problem is lack of _suitable_ alternatives (i.e. comparable performance in 3D apps)...
Thanks for that, fixed it now. The algorithm is not very good right now, but I'm working on a system of manual curation supplemented by machine learning, with the eventual goal of making it mostly automated.
I can't wait to see someone legitimately design a better sewerage system by using twitter's geolocation.
>>> from pprint import pprint; pprint(list_of_tuples)
The term big data is going to disappear in the next 2 years
As far as I can see the only reason colony collapse is seen as a mystery is because companies selling pesticides issue press releases saying so that get spit out verbatim by journalists.
Sure thing, I'll write your name down and let you know when Twitter is up.
Can we do better than R-squared?
Rich landowners of centuries old tourist landmark that is essentially a natural resource want to condense the tourism revenues onto their bank accounts by diluting out mainlanders. Big surprise: secessionist movements often arise in oil and mineral rich regions of larger states; in this case it just isn't a natural resource, but it may as well be.
Might be password re-use?

I wonder how many of them used the same details for eBay and Apple?
My uncle, who admittedly is pretty weird, used to only eat Costco pasta and peanut butter for 95% of his meals. The other 5% of the time he had lavish dinners with friends and family, and felt free to spend quite a bit. His logic was "I would rather have one amazing meal every now and again instead of a bunch of mediocre meals spread out." This may or may not be insane to you in terms of philosophy, but the biggest flaw is that he only ate two kinds of food for weeks on end. I imagine Soylent would be perfect for people like this: on a limited budget they can enjoy the occasional lavish meal without sacrificing nutrition for all their other meals.

From the people I know who like the product, it seems to me that Soylent caters to people whose eating patters are already strange. I find it appealing because I tend to obsess over making sure I'm getting all the right nutrients and food groups (I never am). I like the idea of drinking Soylent every morning as an insurance policy, I know I'm at least getting all the nutrients I need once a day.
Ask HN: Internal Transfers in Acquired Companies
Ask HN: Internal Transfers in Acquired Companies

Im currently doing e-commerce research within a company acquired by Google, but may be better situated in a different department located within the main campus. However I hear a rumor that there is a company policy which states that I would need to sit a coding interview before this would be allowed. Can anyone verify for/against this? I'm thinking it may be a bit hit or miss in terms of whether it routinely happens or not?

Note: This question applies specifically for Google, but Im interested in what other companies' practices are.
As a doctor, I'd like to point out that we don't spend much time learning about this kind of thing. I suspect, but have no evidence to support, that veterinarians would actually be your best resources for this type of question.
Dilbert's take on this:

http://i.imgur.com/lr5ko7L.gif
Great article! I've always intuited the rules with which we operate on imaginary numbers as a hack - we don't know what to do with i other than squaring it, so we avoid doing anything with it and algebra our way around the issue.

Example: (i + 3) + (i + 3) == i^2 + 6i + 9 == 6i + 8 is about as logical to me as (x + 3) + (x + 3) == x^2 + 6x + 9. Sure, if we knew what the heck x was this operation would have been easier, but since we don't, we just use FOIL to work around it. In the former, somehow we know what i^2 is but not i, so we can reduce a little further but not completely.

Of course, I don't know how sound this gutfeel impression is.
For long term backup, too bad that tape backup are still expensive for the individual user, as they seem to me as the more resilient type of backup compared to HDD or WORM media. Cloud backup are very dependent on your connectivity.
The best option is to rely on 3rd party cloud provider like amazon Glacier.
It seems like a great solution to the “forgetting to eat” issue while hackathoning.
All this really is, is ground up rice, a vitamin pill, and some oil. No Thanks.
Since you're looking to gain weight, try adding a scoop or two True Mass by BSN to a shake after a workout. That took me from 170 to 230. Syntha-6 is the leaner version which you'll want to switch to when you reach your ideal weight.
Good digging.

If the original RCU patents are expired, it might make more sense for the BSDs to start to use RCU, it makes things much easier in the long run, and should scale a lot better than this proposed solution.
What's your poop like?
Disclosure: I'm the founder of Beatrix

Seems eerily similar to http://beatrixapp.com - even down to the categories on offer.

Beatrix categories: http://beatrixapp.com/use-cases

I notice that this requires credit card payment to start a free trial - is this an MVP or is it an actual functioning app?

Either way, good to see more folks interested in this space. Buffer have been slowly moving more into content creation too, it's a validation of the problem. And it's a big problem to solve!
If you turn it off, and then turn it back on again, are all your searches still there?
Soylent is a huge first step. Henceforth, we'll know "what we don't know" about specific humans, and what is a general baseline throughout. That'll help us (humanity) make directed efforts to automate soylent mixture tweaking. I really can't wait for a device that scans me before each meal and decides what I need. Nutritionists would be in high demand, because who's going to trust a machine? At least for N years until entire generations have been through this system.
Why "live on it"?

I don't live on exclusively on anything else. It's a cool idea and I hope it replaces "some" meals because occasionally I just don't have the time and it has to be better (and more convenient) than fast food. Why do we have to take good things to extremes and set up unnecessary "all or nothings"?
and I don't know how having them not mashing down on things could damage them

Stephan Guyenet had a series of rather interesting blog posts on malocclusion. One of the factors he mentioned in conclusion was the toughness of food.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.dk/2009/12/malocclusion-di...

There are three main factors that I believe contribute to malocclusion in modern societies:

1. Maternal nutrition during the first trimester of pregnancy. Vitamin K2, found in organs, pastured dairy and eggs, is particularly important. We may also make small amounts from the K1 found in green vegetables.

2. Sucking habits from birth to age four. Breast feeding protects against malocclusion. Bottle feeding, pacifiers and finger sucking probably increase the risk of malocclusion. Cup feeding and orthodontic pacifiers are probably acceptable alternatives.

3. Food toughness. The jaws probably require stress from tough food to develop correctly. This can contribute to the widening of the dental arch until roughly age 17. Beef jerky, raw vegetables, raw fruit, tough cuts of meat and nuts are all good ways to exercise the jaws.

However, this covers development up to age 17. What would happen to the teeth of a grown up man if he stops using them, I'd also be interested to know (from sheer curiosity)
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1. Soylent doesn't seem to be entirely based on fine chemicals. When you go through their ingredients list, "fish oil", "oat flour" and "rice protein" likely contain a lot of the "(nonessential) nutrients" you fear missing out on.

I still wouldn't want to be the guinea pig to exclusively live off of Soylent.

2+3. Having said that, there is plenty of research on "Total Parenteral Nutrition" and "Enteral Nutrition" for those that cannot consume regular foods for medical reasons. It isn't exactly a solved problem however, there are still issues.
It is all available to the public to begin with anyway. I don't see the dilemma here.
The poor hacker's desk delivered lunch. There's so much overhead which goes into putting meals together. Just having to make ONE more decision is a day can totally derail me. That decision could be "what's for breakfast?"

Personally, I would rather drink from a bag all day and then throw a fiesta for dinner to make up for bag time.
Would their leader be a Doge?
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logogo, gologo, goturtles?
Convert it all to Dogecoin.
I think there's definitely an optimal medium between:

1) Fully automated (Bad)

2) Fully manually managed (Time consuming)

That's what we believe at http://beatrixapp.com and we designed our workflow with human participation in mind. In other words our job is to show you great ideas for content - which you then approve or tweak. And not just "auto posting" things endlessly.

We did start off with an "autopilot" feature, but soon realized that although there is demand for such a thing, it's not really a part of the industry we want to participate in. We want to be known as a way to create great content easily - not as a way of enabling spam account. We ended up removing that feature.

More info on our findings here:

http://beatrixapp.com/blog/5-social-content-rules-we-have-le...
> Is the RCU patent really still an issue?

Only for BSDs; RCU is free to use under LGPL and GPL.

(It was originally only usable under GPL. Later on, after Mathieu Desnoyers implemented a userspace version "liburcu", IBM granted permission to use RCU under LGPL to allow liburcu to use that license, making it more universally usable by arbitrary userspace software.)
Another "stop liking what I don't like" view. You could make similar arguments against fast food and other products of convenience.
I don't know the answer to your question, and it may have been rhetorical, but I subscribe to two magazines; Discover and Scientific American.
I loathe what The Verge has done when browsing the site on an iPad. That awful little black box stays stuck in the middle of my screen, and even selecting close just makes it a smaller black box in the middle of my screen.
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Given that the functional programming story in JavaScript is much more developed, "vastly better language" may be true as long as you only consider the object-oriented side of it.
I won't comment on Parrot, because I know nothing of Parrot or Perl 6 internals. But from what I hear and read on the internet, the new VM, Moar VM is doing pretty good as a parrot replacement.

P6 still faces an adoption cycle that's more difficult than that of Python 3.

I don't see how, especially when p5 developers are saying they will continue to support p5 long after p6 is released. And p6 is such a far drift from p5 that you can almost call it a new language. And no one if their right frame of mind will re write all p5 software in p6.

So it will be p6 for any new projects and p5 supported all along.

There's no plan for P6 to replace Perl (partly to avoid that adoption pain, for one, and partly because P6 has taken so long, there wouldn't be any Perl users remaining unless P6 had publicly changed its strategy).

From what I read(Again, I have no personal contributions or sources and I rely on what I read or hear on the internet) in http://jnthn.net/papers/2014-fosdem-perl6-today.pdf [pdf] rakudo is very close to spec completeness. And bulk of the effort currently is implementing last bits of spec and improving the speed.

Python's transition hasn't been quick or easy, but it's gone much, much better than the P6 fiasco.

Python is hardly comparable with Perl 6. They just changed a print statement and iterators in Python 3. Perl 6 is a very different story completely altogether.
The Patent Office considers everything patentable. Last month they issued a patent on literally calling up two pharmacies to pick the one that offered your drug cheaper. They even fast tracked that application and didn't ask a single follow up question about it.
Would be perfect for me. Never heard about it.
I have a nasty food intolerance (rare from of gluten intolerance) that I was not aware off and made my life miserable. Unconscionably I realized that eating is not good for me when I worked as a scientist and had a heavy workload. Hence I lived on coffee, skipping breakfast, skipping lunch and ate my first meal around 5 or 6pm. One day my feeling for hunger was gone. First you form habits, then they form you I guess.

Other people eat because they are hungry. I eat because I know I have to sustain my body. It is often hard for me or even annoying to eat food and I have difficulties getting my calories every day. Yes, I would buy this drink.
Here's the Changelog: https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.20.0/pod/perlde...
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They are on the right track weigh-wise. And it is obvious that boards should be molded out of carbon fiber and all the electronics and batteries should be inside. It is also obvious that wheels themselves should be out-runner motors. All four of them. From pure tech perspective this should be it. So Marbel team might be on the right track.

I hope they also will be able to make the board actually useful. That's the best part of the Boosted team achievement by the way. Their board (I ride the thing 2-3 days a week) is a) actually usable b) fun. There are many un-obvious variables that come into the usability equation, especially for a piece of sports/recreational gear. In my opinion, boosted had managed to circumvent some of these by building their design around a good longboard and trying 'not to ruin' the experience of a longboard. Even that took them a while, with quite a number of redesign iterations (see. http://boostedboards.posthaven.com/ ), including building a custom controller (that apparently had removed a nasty noise problem of the early releases). It looks like Marbel team decided not to go that way, they are building the board from scratch. Should make the challenge harder in my opinion. But hopefully they will overcome it and will be able to make a 3rd generation board :) that is actually useful :)
Two possible explanations for lack of observable neighbors are: 1) Any sufficiently advanced civilization will learn how to stimulate/entertain itself to the point of not needing external stimuli such as exploration and conquest. In other words, E.T. is too busy playing his holographic, neural-tapped X-Box to communicate or look for us. (E.M. Forrester's prophetic story, "The Machine Stops" foreshadowed this for mankind in 1909.) or possibility 2) A.I. and/or sentient life evolves into a higher-level, transdimensional abstraction beyond our perception and understanding (also known as the Singularity).
I'm someone who loves food. I enjoy cooking wonderful meals. Almost every day I spend twenty to thirty minutes making lunch. It's not uncommon for me to spend an hour or two making dinner.

Generally, I'm pretty confident that my diet is "healthy."

But, when thinking about Soylent, people seem to be comparing it to perfection.

Why not compare it to some other things.

For example, would it be healthier to have a burger, fries, and a milkshake from McDonalds, or to drink Soylent?

Isn't the answer obvious?

Even as someone that regularly eats healthy meals, I still occasionally find it hard to have a healthy meal.

Whether or not Soylent should be a complete replacement for food, it's probably a great replacement for so much of the garbage junk food that many people eat very, very, regularly.

Maybe someday Soylent will put fast food out of business. The benefits would be obvious.
Material costs only dominate your price if 1) you're minimally improving the material, and 2) you're selling so many units that all of your fixed costs get spread very thin.

Both assumptions are not likely true for Boosted Boards. If they sell 10,000 boards per year, each $1 million in overhead costs equal $100 per board sold. And even the companies that sell 100 million units per year, like Apple, have to spend a lot more than material costs on assembly, testing, support, warranty repair, payments processing, marketing, and probably uniquely high liability insurance costs for Boosted Boards.
If you have a kinect with a usb adapter you can try out microsoft's kinect sdk. There are a lot example apps including several 3d scanning ones (called kinectfusion I think?).
Fairly normal, maybe a bit paler.
> If the original RCU patents are expired, it might make more sense for the BSDs to start to use RCU, it makes things much easier in the long run, and should scale a lot better than this proposed solution.

Optimizations and new versions of RCU are patented as well: preemptible variations, scalability optimizations, tiny/embedded variations, and many common data structures.

However, I agree that even the most basic RCU implementation will scale far better than referencing counting for many applications.