skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To my mother, Ayn Rand and God"

Remove the comma and their mother is both Ayn Rand and God. That's a really terrible example since the Oxford Comma actually works slightly better than the alternative since the problem there is the ambiguity created by the ordering, not the punctuation.
I wrote that given that the nature of VMs and reselling them, you have no control over what people do with them.

Let's say you're a web host that provides "root servers", those basically end up being VM instances. However, the issue is that there is a lot of waste that ends up being accumulated.

In your situation, if you are reselling root servers, you can't combine multiple sites under the same IIS instance.
As funny as this is, it's not real. Jobs never had a daughter named Sarah.
Exercise definitely mitigates ADHD. It's been known for years and years and years. This is nothing new.

But it's only part of the solution. Just like meds are only part of the solution. Meds alone or exercise alone are totally not enough to treat the situation, and should be combined with a comprehensive treatment program -- often including cognitive behavioral therapy (especially when diagnosed later in life), organizational help, and the multitude of coping mechanisms that need to come into play when dealing with ADHD.
Which parts of what? Modern game engines? Nearly all of it, minus often gameplay scripting.

In the hypothetical C++/Rust fusion engine? Whatever hasn't been rewritten yet in Rust, and specifically things that interop with other C++ libraries will remain in C++ for longer times.

Edit: Ohh Servo? Similarly, things that haven't been rewritten yet, specifically javascript interpertation/compiliation. AFAIK Servo is focusing on rewriting layout.
True, though it's jank nonetheless. I just expected a little more from a demonstration of a "jank-free" experience. Had it been a font-rendering library, I'd gladly be more forgiving. Maybe their demo should have been some kind of parallax scrolling (from whence so much of this scroll-related jank seems to originate)?
It most certainly is if you count the gains captured with SEO.
The first time I saw this idea was in Rust, which calls its type Any. I haven't seen the need to use it yet, but this seems like a decent case.

What other languages have this? How is it often used? I've never heard of a similar type in, say, Haskell.
Looking round the rest of the pages [1], it doesn't look like it's Steve Job's .mac site.

On the other hand, this is a fascinating glimpse of how things you put on the internet can stick around for a long time (courtesy of the internet archive) . MobileMe was rolled out in 2008 but the url here is from a .mac site (so was in use before that roll out).

[1] e.g the family photo http://web.archive.org/web/20090215001259/http://homepage.ma...

Edit: And site goes back to June 2002, which is interesting as .mac was launched in July 2002 [1]. So either this site is from the predecessor (iTools) or perhaps it was a showcase site to demonstrate what .mac could do. I wonder, since we can only see a couple of albums, one video, one newsletter and an event as well as a cheeky resume. None of these things appear to change from 2002-2009.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileMe#History
Isn't this right out of Snow Crash?

Big slowdown at the intersection of CSV-5 and Oahu Road, per usual, only way to avoid it is to cut through The Mews at Windsor Heights.

TMAWHs all have the same layout. When creating a new Burbclave, TMAWH Development Corporation will chop down any mountain ranges and divert the course of any mighty rivers that threaten to interrupt this street plan -- ergonomically designed to encourage driving safety. A Deliverator can go into a Mews at Windsor Heights anywhere from Fairbanks to Yaroslavl to the Shenzhen special economic zone and find his way around.

But once you've delivered a pie to every single house in a TMAWH a few times, you get to know its little secrets. The Deliverator is such a man. He knows that in a standard TMAWH there is only one yard - one yard - that prevents you from driving straight in one entrance, across the Burbclave, and out the other. If you are squeamish about driving on grass, it might take you ten minutes to meander through TMAWH. But if you have the balls to lay tracks across that one yard, you have a straight shot through the center.
... and urban sprawl in the U.S. and illegal logging in the butterflies' Mexican wintering ground.

The headline is definitely editorializing.
That's great, but honestly, can it link against MSVC++ generated libs? I've meant to try it out, but kept trying to build rust from scratch, which may be a mistake.
I'm not sure the pain you're trying to solve is real or at the right junction. I process data from all sources daily, and many are email attachments. Just extracting the attachments is not difficult. Then my BI process will unzip if necessary and process the files. There are different connectors for different file types: HTML, PDF, CSV, Excel, etc.. I think processing the files should be at a latter stage, not during the extract phase.
Reminded me of this penny-arcade: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/02/21

I know I got tricked into doing math when I started playing ccg's and pen and paper rpg's when I was really young. I didn't learn anything crazy, but it seems like my desire to crunch numbers and learn statistics was always min-max gaming driven
Does Rust's patches affect codegen? Hypothetically, if not, you should be able to just feed the IL files into the PS4 toolchain.
Serious question: are you sure you'd actually be happier? I like efficiency as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean that I'm looking forward to companies more efficiently marketing to me. Especially if it's going to be constant.
It's like they got the concepts right, but the execution extraordinarily wrong.

I'm pretty glad I don't have a house that yells "COOKING PERIOD IS OVER" at me while flashing the text in bright red letters on my TV when dinner is ready.
In theory, given the attribute, and macro system, it should be possible to implement this as a library in the language, correct? I think that is vastly preferred over a constant runtime always hanging around.
You think university is about education. To an extent, of course, this is true. However, the reason "top" universities pay off better is not the quality of education. The difference in aptitude of students easily trumps the advantage an Ivy league university has over a state college.

The real value in the university is the sunk cost of education for everyone already in the workforce. Ivy leaguers control management of most companies, and choosing against Ivy leaguers means saying they are themselves ill-educated ... they don't. So higher up jobs are more available to people who've paid the same sunk costs as the hiring managers.

It's that simple.

This will fall flat on it's face if they really open up admissions.
The open closed principle is just a result of a deeper "law", Conway's Law:

"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations"-- Melvin Conway (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law)

Entities should be closed to modification by parties not responsible to maintaining the code. Extension interfaces are used to rationalize the interdepartmental dependencies in a streamlined way that lowers the communications overhead of coordination, negotiation, and control.

That is pluggability reduces having to sit through meetings with agonizing coworkers and being closed avoids having to yell at Bob from three floors down who just borked your code base.

But anyway the bottom line is that the open closed principle is not a principle but merely one common view of organizational design reflected in code architecture.

Conway's law is more important because it is more predictive and more powerful. You can refactor code or the human organization or the communication between people.
The bigger issue is the inherent moral hazard with a monopoly-level company delivering media (via CaTV) and internet service (which, as a platform, provides direct competitors of CaTV).
I suspected there weren't very many legitimate criticisms, that this was mostly emotional iconoclasm.

Silent downvotes are a sort of confirming evidence.
GMO plants require fewer, not more pesticides.

For one thing, insecticides become less important as plants can fend for themselves.

But even herbicides - a typical non-GMO plant is sprayed by half-dozen herbicides at different stages of growth cycle, whereas a GMO plant would be sprayed with roundup exactly twice.

If you want to avoid pesticides altogether, you'd have to weed out pests manually, which is way more expensive, so is only used for boutique foods. You can argue it's worth the price, but it's not a GMO fight.
Someone else has already commented that populations have tended to stabilize quite quickly when childhood mortality drops. Worries about exponential growth always seem to fizzle out within a generation. So I don't think this is a practical concern.

But honestly, quite apart from that, I really think you need to be more alert to the moral and personal implications of your thinking. Even ignoring your use of the word "pest" to refer to human beings (which I'm sure you meant in a joking or ironic way, but is still pretty horrible when you actually stop and consider it), the underlying message of your point here is deeply troubling.

No matter what concerns you may have about population growth, what your point here boils down to is this: even if we have the power to prevent it, you might be willing to leave thousands or millions of mothers and fathers to watch their children die before their eyes. You might consider a respectful visit to look at (say) Eric Meyer's tremendous pain this weekend to get a taste of what your calculation would actually translate to on a human scale.

I know there are hard choices that we face in life, but this isn't one of them. Human overpopulation can be addressed via education and birth control, which I will assert are unquestionably better options than knowingly condemning countless other people to high rates of preventable childhood mortality. Even if those routes were harder and more expensive, they'd still be better. But in fact, as already noted, history has shown that these concerns are self-correcting.
> why not use objs for named args?

Because then there is no way of conveying the order of the parameters. In this case, it's ambiguous whether the method we are calling is colorWithRedGreenBlueAlpha, colorWithGreenBlueRedAlpha, etc.
>susceptible to petty, hyper-local personality politics

Well, that puts most small local municipal governments out of the running too.
I'm sorry, I'm a web developer and I don't see the point in this either. Chrome and Firefox have mobile browser simulation features already and I can test my sites in more than one screen size using them.
The funniest thing are

1) Who is going to hire the Steve ?

2) And, Steve will show whom reference ? Woz , Mark zukerberg? haha
I guess it comes down to a difference in acceptability of intrusive advertising. Personally, I am absolutely disgusted when adverts are tailored towards me (especially since I don't see them most of the time with Adblock).

Seeing tailored advertisements brings me a feeling of despair, in the sense that your personal privacy is being exchanged for money. It only serves as a sad reminder that you must actively fight to protect it, and that we, as consumers, are failing at it right now.
Welcome to the US, where parties that would be villified for being extreme-right in Europe are actually on the left side of the aisle, and the left side as it exists in Europe simply doesn't exist.

Welcome to the country where the major leftist party is actually arguably anti-union. In most areas it's actually quite a bit right-of-center, in economic cases it's extreme right.

If a rightist party in most European states proposed reducing a European national health insurance to the level of the ACA, they'd immediately be cordoned off and laughed out of parliament. They know this, and so it never happens.

I still find it absolutely incredible.
For the record, AppleScript is not “natural language programming”; it is merely more similar to English than most programming languages. As with most mainstream programming languages, human terms (usually English) are used for keywords like “if”, “then”, “else”, “while”. It still has a very limited and structured grammar, like most programming languages.

In deference to the expressive flexibility demanded by humans, it does provide a few alias terms (“=“, “equals”, “is equal to”) and a few places where something can be written either left-to-right or right-to-left (“name of document” vs. “document’s name”), but even that is common in other languages. e.g., document.name vs. name(document), foo(bar.baz()) vs. bar.baz().foo(), and C’s support for both ”! && ||” and “not and or” operators.

Obviously, tastes vary, and I’m not trying to convince anyone that they should like something they don’t, but often people who complain that AppleScript is unlike languages they are more familiar with have only taken a cursory look at examples of AppleScript and are unaware that it has a syntax that is in fact similar to other languages. The primary differences are that it is very light on punctuation and prefers using descriptive words over abbreviations, because its goal is to be approachable for first-time and casual programmers. Even for AppleScript experts, this often helps make understanding or maintaining code easier.

Personally, I’d like to see AppleScript support some more “compact” syntax, like square brackets for array references, but I do not think it’s reasonable for AppleScript’s target audience to have to learn the meaning of “a ? b : c” before they can read simple conditional statements like “if a then b else c”.
Dictionary of Navy Slang [pdf]
Ahh, understood now
What's the best book/website/app to learn chess?
What's the best book/website/app to learn chess? I don't mean the rules of chess (I know them) but I mean chess strategy.
For me it is mostly about the involuntary nature of it. I actually don't mind myself, but I do mind not having the ability to turn that tracking off (well, without manually disabling Wifi all the time anyway) or in any way control or affect the profile it generates.

Interesting to compare to Google who tracks customers around the internet. Crucially, if you don't log in to a Google account you are only one 'clear cookies' away from erasing your profile (I wonder occasionally if Google reconstructs profiles across different cookie sessions or not ...). At least on that side, you have some control. You can't change your MAC address nearly so easily.
The book is on GitHub here: https://github.com/rpicard/explore-flask
No, I'm not sure. However, I suspect we have some way to go before ad tech gets good enough to creep me out.
Seems like they have passed the Turing Test for the first time. Oh the irony, as their servers could manage to pass the Slashdotting Test.
To play devil's advocate, they already have to worry about:

- exceptions short circuiting one of the side effects (C++, C#, etc.)

- the indeterminate order of execution of the side effects (C, C++)

- macros with conditional evaluation behavior (such as assert depending on... _DEBUG? NDEBUG?)
The early Math Blaster series that I played as a kid in the 90's was amazing to me. Just thinking about those games gives me nostalgia. IIRC, there was an actual storyline and the math mini-games were absolute fun. Thinking about it now, it felt like I wasn't even doing math, but just playing a typical fun game.

Probably wouldn't work these days, though. Before, you had the coolness of just being on a computer and didn't care much about 3D graphics.
On the other hand, they are also actively developing the ominously named 'iBeacon' functionality. A more cynical viewpoint would be that they are trying to sabotage any possible systems that would compete with their own proximity based marketing solution.
The game developer, the CIA, and the sculpture driving them crazy
I'm pretty sure most American conservatives advocate for less democracy (corporations are people, my friend!), less rule of law (if not by voting, by actions: be it sexual misconduct -- from rape to child molestation -- or outright abuse of power for personal monetary gain) and less individual rights (from gay marriage to the surveillance state).
I have already started to notice ads targeted at me. Ads for niche outdoor gear companies that I patronize.

I can report that it has indeed made me happier, as compared to when the ads were "Click here, Millionth visitor, and win a prize!". The dragnet advertising is a constant assault on your intelligence.

It also helps that the targeted ads I am seeing are tasteful & well designed.

I adblock 90%+ of the time, but I let ads through on some websites.
Interesting post! Great insights I see in here..
The only real takeaway from this article for me is that Klout really sucks... Not just that it sucks on its own, but its suck is screwing up Bing SRPs and therefore incentivizing spambots.
That just made my Sunday night. Another perk is it seems friendly enough to show non-programmers, but I dont think they will appreciate it as much.
Hi, Charlie here, co-founder of Mathbreakers (not the OP tho). This game really is different; there are no worksheet style problems (NumberMunchers et al.)

Our whole idea is to treat math and numbers like toys that fit together, so you can experiment and play with numeracy and interesting calculators.

The goal is twofold: Change kids' mindsets towards math to make it more fun, and to help them understand emergent properties of numbers (like you can use any factor of a number to add up to that number in quick succession)

This is just the first step towards that, and it's aimed at elementary students. Soon we hope to be making 3D graphs with enemies on them that you have to "graph" out of your way (and other cool game-y applications)
MIT's continuance came at the expense of cuts to another project: The international fusion project, meanwhile, was funded at $200 million, $25 million less than the administration had originally requested.
>How do you know the up-votes on a StackOverflow answer were not fake/bots/paid for?

Because the quality of the top voted answers speaks for themselves in 99% of the ocassions.
What Android 4.4.3 could mean about the future of Android updates
The Swiss do it all the time and can vote directly on legislation already passed by the legislative body. It just takes a petition with enough signatures.

Yes, people that are dummy can be deceived. There is no system that will ever prevent that. But even dumb people learn to not vote for things that they don't understand.
I know it's debated, but it wouldn't be the first time humanity rediscovered forgotten knowledge! What intrigues me about it is it still lines up with Occams Razor and the KISS principle, if mystics and academics of the day wanted to encode secret knowledge this would fit the bill perfectly at the time the original chapel was built.

I haven't looked I to the actual history as much, I ran across Rosslyn reading about art history and cathedral architecture and I spent a lot more time reading about Chladni patterns than I ever did about Rosslyn itself. Thought the link would be interesting in light of the original article.

Now what I am wondering is the shapes of these patterns on non-square and non-circular plates. I haven't seen many exotically shaped plates so it leads me to wonder if the patterns don't show up as well on other shapes. I'm curious from a visual perspective what 'patterns' occur in nature like some people obsess about relationships between made-up numbers ;)
I suppose sometimes it might be, but then the question is whether it was worth it. On GMOs particularly, there are a ton of malnutrition problems we could potentially solve with this technology, and sacrificing that for political expediency does not seem reasonable.

Edit: And we've only begun to scratch the surface of what GMO is capable of; even if banning it were worth it now, what future applications are we preventing? It would be like deciding the internet wasn't worth the child porn it facilitated, but in 1996 (certainly banning the internet then would be simpler and more expedient that trying to figure out how to monitor it for that kind of thing). So more generally: killing technology because of it can be misused destroys not just its current utility but all sorts of unimaginable future potential. So the bar for being worth it should be set very high.
Arista, Uber, Silicon Valley
One of the interesting things about the ECJ case was that Google Spain was forced to remove links to the information, but the Spanish Newspaper was allowed to keep the information.

A cynic might see it as territorial favoritism. Google's the foreign group, so it has to watch itself. The Spanish paper was local, so the man can't exercise any right to be forgotten against it.

http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014...
http://www.greatcall.com/products/jitterbug
Jitterbug fits the description. My grandmother just got one. Big, simple buttons and no other features. I don't even think it has texting. One of the more interesting features is operator assisted calling.

What I find interesting is the Jitterbug phone is relatively expensive for how simple it is. They sell it on their site for $100. I found it on Amazon for $80. Similar "simple" phones with other carriers can be found for free, or $10 or so.
You are assuming that the customer is you, the schlub with the iPhone, are the customer in mind here. It isn't -- product merchandising in stores isn't rocket science. Any decent retail manager handles this stuff just fine and Wal-Mart has been able to track merchandising effectiveness using the registers for like 25 years now.

The customer here is the product manufacturers and distributors, and the product is shelf space. In big box and department stores, strategic shelves like end caps and the area near the escalators are paid placements.

Ditto for the supermarket. Ever notice that in different chains, Coke or Pepsi is always either in the front or back of the store across locations? That's because they bid on the preferred location.

Retailers are focusing on stuff like this because most mass retailers have unsustainable business models and aren't making money at the core job - selling stuff to people.
While I don't have evidence, I think it's reasonable to postulate that store A is able to offer the same products as store B at a lower price due to being able to offset it with the extra revenue earned from people having to walk across the store and buying additional products that they would not have otherwise. While you (and I) might value our time over saving 50 cents on a loaf of bread, a significant portion of the population would rather spend 50 cents less on a loaf of bread and be forced to walk across the store. For other people, the better experience might be saving 50 cents, whereas for you it's saving time.

Same thing with Google and TV commercials. For some people, privacy and security and saving time is a better experience, but for most, saving a few dollars here and there is a better experience.
Yes, implementing the object-oriented Apple Event Object Model (the conceptual model used to refer to properties and elements in another application) can be challenging to implement in a non-OO language like C. These days, Cocoa Scripting (in the Foundation framework) provides most of the code to map from Apple Events to Objective-C method calls, and using a language like Objective-C makes writing the rest of the code much more straightforward.