skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me: Do you have more hair on your head or on your eyelash?
Goostman: If I say that I haven't more hair on my head or on my eye lash - will it satisfy your inquisitive mind? By the way, what's your occupation? I mean - could you tell me about your work?

This is not passing the Turing test by any stretch of the imagination.
The canonical text on garbage collection by probably the most respected person in the field considers reference counting (automatic or otherwise) to be GC (http://gchandbook.org/contents.html). I know that's appealing to authority, but what else can you use to prove the definition of a term? Also see [1], which argues these algorithms are all the same thing anyway.

[1]	D. F. Bacon, P. Cheng, and V. T. Rajan, “A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection,” presented at the Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA), 2004.
Thanks! I didn't know that. Its truly interesting that many of our languages is evolving and converging.
A while ago, some fusion researchers answered questions on Slashdot. They posted this graph of fusion funding:

https://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg

They said that fusion is not a certain number of years away, but around 80 billion dollars global funding away.

Here is the full QA

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/11/0435231/mit-fusi...
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Just keep saying hello to it and imagine it is a real people.
The writer chose to construct that list in a confusing & ambiguous way.

You could say "To Ayn Rand, God, and my mother" and lose the ambiguity.
There's a ton of evidence we aren't doing what's in our best interest at minimum a significant minority of the time. In any event, the claim of economics isn't that people act in their best interest, but that they try to maximize happiness* -- whatever that is (it's rather recursively defined -- happiness is produced by voluntary transactions, which in turn are voluntary because both parties believe that the exchange will make them happier).

* or whatever it is makes transactions pareto optimal.

Meanwhile, behavioral economists have shown humans aren't even great at pursuing happiness; perhaps they have reached their high water mark, but they're certainly not completely wrong.
The ISS is perhaps "the exception that proves the rule": its political value is vastly greater than its scientific value.
> Really, how was the EU not able to squash that myth?

When people like Rupert Murdoch are heavily invested in having people adopt a particular view it's rather hard to make headway with anything so unimportant as the truth.
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Because that conclusion would be nonsensical, that leaves the alternative that "Ayn Rand and God" are an entirely separate part of the sentence. At least for me, removing the Oxford comma made it much clearer that Ayn Rand was not the mother when reading the sentence. You're mileage may vary, but using nonsense interpretations seems odd for a sentence that is not meant to be read by a computer.
As is often the case, the subheading is more informative than the headline.
You need to speed up the game by a factor of 5 to 20.

Also, I have infinite grains, so I just keep selling 10000 of them when there is demand again, which brings the price back to 0.
That's absurd. The majority of budget isn't the military.
http://www.johnsphones.com/store/item9 - John's phones not even have a screen!
“What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'

Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.”
The first bullet point reads "Learn all the important elementary to advanced rules and errors."

How many of you had to re-read it at least once, or rescan mid-sentence, to understand?

I won't even discuss the second bullet point: "Write skilfully, and write powerful and eloquent blog posts, books, and more."

It's quite disturbing to see this language in a guide that is all about grammar, writing, and the importance of being well-understood.

Or am I just a grump old man?
I was involved in the Australasian Formula SAE competition back in 2002. In a gist, it's pretty much a startup experience, condensed.

It was my penultimate year at University, and I was looking to gain some work experience. I worked mainly on the marketing side (e.g. website maintenance, newsletters, video collages, etc.), but was also involved in some component fabrication and QA + compliance.

It was my University's first entry into the competition. The core team has tried to raise funding for the previous year's competition unsuccessfully. They did finally secured some funding from the University, but still had to raise quite an amount to cover the $50k needed to build / complete the car. We raised some cash for operating expenses from BBQ sizzles, raffles, etc. The bulk of the car was built from in-kind sponsorships (e.g. free / heavily discounted materials, free fabrication services, free use of CNC machines, etc.).

We managed to get a car together in the last-minute, and flew over to Adelaide to the Mitsubishi testing grounds for the competition. Unfortunately, our car didn't finish on the endurance stage. If only we had another week, we could be spending that time tuning the engine management system for fuel efficiency :)

However, it was quite impressive to see what the other University teams had achieved. University of Western Australia in particular, fielded a formula SAE based on a carbon-fibre monocoque chassis whereas others built the standard alumunium / alloy spaceframe. From what I've heard at the time, they've managed to invent a chemical curing process for carbon-fibre composite, instead of the normal vacuum oven process. From my recollection, they took first place that year.

One thing that struck me just now, we went to the local Go-Kart track in O'Connor (Perth) for some driver training and selection. The guys at the track kept a hall of fame with the name and age of the drivers. I was 0.23 seconds off from our team's fastest driver, but apparently the record is held by some kid, faster by almost a whole two seconds from our fastest driver. I should've remembered the name, but I'd like to think it was Daniel Ricciardo, reassuring myself that my Go-Karting skills isn't all that bad after all :)
jq 1.4 released
Thanks a lot, this was really helpful. More base sounds like the right approach here...
Which is only the beginning of a full mapping since the method is actually a descriptor. The method lookup has to go through a bunch of rules that mean we get the correct descriptor behaviour in a given context.
You could try using something like mailbox.org, although you're then tied to you@mailbox.org for something that is 1 euro a month I think.

It works in most browsers and it comes with encryption as a default.

There should be other workarounds too, like maybe using your own webmail (risky as well).
Building an Open Source wearable smart watch with Xadow.
>If this becomes the trend (which in my opinon would be nice) it will become a big problem for companies that specialise in customer tracking e.g. for supermarkets and big department stores.

That's terrible! Poor them!
By the way, Richard is also the guy behind JavaScript Is Sexy (http://javascriptissexy.com/), a great blog about JavaScript (I always recommend his "How To Learn JavaScript Properly" post: http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly... )
Hi choffstein, I'm also one of the Mathbreakers founders.

Counting Kingdom looks awesome -- thanks for sharing! We definitely share the same philosophy about learning through games. Popup worksheets != gameplay!

We'd love to chat and nerd out with you and your sister. How do we reach you?

Cheers!
Vivian
Perhaps you are indeed a "grump" old man, as both those cited sentences are grammatical.
I don't think you understand how population growth works.
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I agree the first sentence is a bit awkward (I would suggest something like "Learn all the important rules and errors, from elementary to advanced"), but what's wrong with the second example?
Does anyone know if it would be possible to design something like this today? One that would be quick and easy to use so a programmer does not have to waste time moving their hand between the keyboard and the mouse.
And do tell me where housing is actually hot right now? Every single second+ tier city I've visited this year has had large amounts of new empty housing, the entire country outside of a few first tiers has long entered bubble territory.
Noncompete Clauses Increasingly Pop Up in Array of Jobs
But it remains unavailable in Google Chrome and they don't plan on implementing it until it hits the standards board.
Is there script or something going on? My resources keep getting set back to 1000gold and 400grain/ore

I was saving up for a village... :|
Guy Steele actually mentioned this in some talk or other. The money quote (loosely from memory) was "APL makes you a better Common Lisp programmer. I was doing a matrix-tensor multiplication routine, and I was thinking about the nested loops, and then I realized it was mapcar of mapcar of apply, done." Sadly, I can't find the video.
Swift provides high-level concurrency as well; it just does so via Grand Central Dispatch rather than any built-in language primitives. (While there are no intrinsic language features comparable to Go's channels, I was told that part of the reason for the new trailing closure syntax was so that GCD invocations would look more 'natural'.)

I don't think Swift is trying to sell itself based on the 'override' modifier, overflow-checked arithmetic, Unicode variable names, or any of the other minor features which people keep on talking about. It has a far more capable type system than Objective-C ever had. Its pattern matching is far more than "C's switch statement, but without automatic fall-through". Except for backwards-compatibility, it de-emphasizes or eschews the many at-runtime dynamic features that Objective-C had (e.g. creating and modifying classes and methods dynamically). It has tuples. It's a huge departure from Objective-C, not just incremental improvements packaged into a new language (not that it invented these new features, of course), so it's doing more than just addressing 'minor qualms'.
excuse my ignorance but does that mean if one is to use a locally administered address a device is free to take whatever they please?
What would be advantage of paying to the IEEE for a universally administered block?
I am not saying that they are the same thing. Just that the same argument applies.
No, but macro names give a lot more context about whether an argument will be evaluated than function names give about side effects and exceptions.
Jank is a slang word.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10303816/Derp-YOLO-and-Ja...

They seemed to not know about proper terminology such as jitter.
> I don't believe that there are any private enterprises capable of or willing to do the type of long-term engineering research that we'll need to get a working fusion reactor.

Considering that there are private companies willing to invest in a project to mine asteroids, I think this is too pessimistic.

Also, you are implicitly assuming that governments are better at long time horizon projects than private companies. I've gotta disagree with that. A government's time horizon is the next election cycle. Yes, projects like MIT's fusion reactor can continue to be funded for decades, but in order to keep that funding coming, the people working on the project have to spend a significant amount of time every year or two convincing the government that the project is worth continuing to fund. We're only hearing about it now because they weren't able to do that this time around.

A private company that is willing to make a long time horizon investment is not going to have the same overhead required to keep the funding going, simply because there are fewer masters to answer to.
You aren't grumpy, this is just grammatically correct but with extremely poor rhythm. A technically correct writer is not a good or great writer by any means, and it is always useful to know when rules should be broken.

Maybe the authors are going for irony?
You can grab her by e-mail: hello@littleworldsinteractive.com or twitter: @LittleWorldsInt
The problem with this theory is that military force is the begin and end of sovereignty. Once you let go of that, weaker regions become beholden to the Wishes of the stronger ones.
Do you know what companies never do? They never ask.

I see dating ads, cars advertisements, feminine healthcare products, insurance ads, etc. What do I want to see? Travel accessories, computers, hardware, games, tech gadgets, etc. I never see these ads.

Why doesn't Google say, hey, you're going to see Adsense all over the internet, advertisements before videos on YouTube, etc. Would you like to select a few categories so that time is spent seeing some cool products that are relevant to you?

I've been on the internet for 15+ years, and no one stopped to ask just once. I could select categories in about 20 seconds that would be more accurate than all this data collection and profiling that happens every day.

Instead, I just block ads, and install ad block on every computer I come across. I make my living off ad revenue, but ads are absolutely awful, irrelevant and too often malicious. If they gave me the option to select some categories in the past, I probably would have discovered some decent products to buy, and keep them turned on. But nope, I can't recall clicking an ad in the past decade.
In the beginning God made the Earth, and the Corps of Engineers has been tampering with it ever since.
Perhaps it's not quite that bad. Places like Home Depot use AT&T, so the AP is called attwifi. If you've ever used the wireless at a Starbucks or McDonald's, you've likely already approved your phone to connect to attwifi.
The rhythm is all messed up. Not eloquent at all.
> (Student, from the promo video) -- "This should be our homework".

What a good idea! At least for some part of the homework.

I remember we had our course back when I was in 7th through 9th grades. It used to be called "Informatics" (this was in a ex-Soviet Block country).

First we used these strange MSX, Z80 based machines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX), then donated used IBM PC machines running DOS, Norton Commander and all. And we did some "boring" stuff like learned to copy files with NC. Did some spreadsheets, but the best part was we got to play games for grades. Sokoban (including a strange MSX clone of it). Then Lemmings. Then others. They would usually be logic games. That was really invaluable and kind of maintained my interest in computers.
The PRC is not interested in taking over "every country around them"; they are interested in Taiwan and a handful of island territories.
I don't know F#, but Scala certainly addresses all three of his issues:

1) override (also in C#, IIRC)

2) The Option type (which, being a monad, also has compositional ability null/nil doesn't have)

3) Case classes
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All of that is just the answer to the question "what if there was a ubiquitous wireless network?".

Once you've got that network, its just an art project. No wonder Apple won.
You do realise nuclear power is safer than any other base-load generation technology currently employed? Nuclear kills fewer people per kilowatt-hour electricity generated than even roof-top solar, including the deaths from Chernobyl and Fukushima. [1]

1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...
As a developer, what can be done to protect against this if you are already signed to one?
> Well right off the top how do you define "qualifications"

Well, I don't really know. I agree with you that standardized testing is not a good way to do this.

Perhaps a system where anybody can attend but the public tuition stops being paid for them if their GPA falls below some threshold? But then you get the problem of shoddy colleges popping up that accept everybody and give everybody good grades. I think restricting the public tuition to non-profit schools would help solve that problem, in addition to strict caps on salaries of different classes of university employees. As long as people don't see running a shoddy university as a way to make money for themselves, they'll probably stay away from it.
Daniel? :-) He had his first win yesterday in Canada. Really awesome character, he was crying at the radio. I race too, on a Lotus Elise, but I'm really good at it.
I've asked the HostAP mailing list about this as a feature request for wpa_supplicant.[1] From what Jouni Malinen says, it should be relatively straightforward.[2] (I think. I used a poor choice of words in my request.)

BTW AFAIK Android uses hostapd/wpa_supplicant.

Its beyond by technical abilities, but hopefully someone submits some patches. (Or Jouni graciously does the deed. Because he is awesome.) HINT HINT WINK WINK.

[1] http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2014-June/030405.htm...

[2] http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2014-June/030406.htm...
It's worth noting that average life expectancy in 1900 was 47, vs. nearly 79 today.

1900: http://demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html

2013: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/life-expectancy
This may be true if by "basic science" you mean being able to rigorously derive the behavior of a complex system like a plasma from first principles. I don't have a PhD, but I have a Master's in Nuclear Engineering, and a lot of the plasma physics I studied while getting it was full of heuristics and phenomenological laws rather than rigorous or at least semi-rigorous derivations from first principles.

However, it's not clear that we need to know all that to achieve controlled fusion, and the fusion reactors that are being pushed for global funding are not being pushed as improving our basic science about plasma physics. They are being pushed as engineering efforts that will achieve ignition. As I said in another post upthread, we know what conditions we need to achieve for ignition; we just don't know how to engineer a device to achieve them. That's what ITER and these other devices are supposed to help us figure out.
I think you can work in California regardless (IANAL, of course):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California
How do you separate human endeavour from politics and money? They seem to be inextricably. Or rather, they are one and the same thing and we use the terms 'politics', 'money', 'human endeavour', and whatever other terms are fashionable in the social sciences this week, as a convenient way to communicate about specific aspects of the human condition.
Someone I know recently started a lower level tech support job and he asked me about a non-compete he had to sign. I couldn't believe it! People just starting out in lower level positions have no bargaining power so they have no choice but to sign these or they won't get the job.

These companies are just screwing themselves because once these new non-competes begin to harm lower level employees then the laws will be changed so these agreements are invalid.
This is very costly to do. Listen to a political candidate's speech, then try to validate what they are saying on your own. It's incredibly time consuming.

A ratings service that relies on the person being rated to pay results in conflicts of interest. You will also find it hard to have anyone want to pay for anything that might be critical of them.

A service that did this would require a strong guiding mission, because it's cheaper to shill blog spam than to actually dig in and do accurate research while citing sources.
Python has bignums by default. I was curious how PythonJS implemented bignums, so I tried it, and the answer is: it doesn't. It just uses ordinary JavaScript doubles.

This is a critical difference that ought to be called out, especially in the "add" micro-benchmark, which is measuring two very different things in the two implementations.
It's odd that you're imagining that the concluding that the person's mother is Ayn Rand and they are dedicating a book to God is a sensible reading. Having known some Randoids the non-Oxford form's interpretation actually seems more plausible to me, but the sentence is nonsensical whatever punctuation you use and neither form seems any less nonsensical to me.

If that's the best case they have against the Oxford comma it seems to be an exception that proves the rule.
lol the piano with the computer built into it.

It's funny how for the most part, houses haven't got any of that stuff. I'm in a house that was built in 2008, and it has something like 5 RJ45 jacks, none of which are in particularly good locations for anything except maybe hooking up a TV.

Most smart home things have fallen flat on their faces. About the only 2 things that have come together are smartphones, and that kid using the computer at the piano would have been using a tablet instead. The connected TV thing barely works, if at all.
To clarify:

"Object" as in Java is a type for any tagged box type. Primitives, such as "int", don't derive from Object, but can be promoted to a corresponding boxed type, such as "Integer".

The story is a little more complex in C#, where ValueType derives from Object and "value types", both primitive and user-defined, are truly subclasses of Object. Types not derived from ValueType are considered reference types.
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Hi tiglionabbit,

Which router do you have, and which firmware version? Which OS/Browser are you testing on?

Thanks,
Nathan
There's a simple solution, of course (besides outright banning of such clauses): require that the employer continue to pay the employee's salary until they are released from the clause. See how many summer camps continue to ask for or enforce such clauses then.
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Isn't that such that you can declare a dictionary or array as constant by using 'let' in the declaration? I think the designers wanted to avoid complicated annotations for constant the way it works in C++. Being able to use 'let' also seems to make collections available for matching in case statements. I recommend watching this[1] tutorial - the way switch/case works in Swift was really impressive to me.

[1] http://fitacular.com/blog/swift/2014/06/08/apple-ios-tutoria...
Don't worry about the downvotes. Things have gotten pretty bad around here lately, especially after the whole "downvote if you disagree" policy was encouraged.

A lot of totally correct and perfectly valid commentary ends up getting downvoted these days, often with no attempt made to explain why. It's particularly likely to happen when members of the Mozilla, JavaScript or Rust communities are involved. They're particularly sensitive to anything that might contradict their beliefs, and apparently they're particularly eager to downvote, for whatever reason.

These days, many of us have started to read all of the downvoted comments. Aside from occasional spam, they're often among the most insightful comments in any given thread.
Perhaps we should take a moment and remember that Grammar can be fun (or so they tried to convince us between Saturday morning cartoons) (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuuZEey_bs)
The Get started button on http://analytics.twitter.com is just a link to the same page. Is the service not available yet?
I 'hear' only one stress in each.

moMENtum [beat] syncoPATion [beat] rhythm-and-PATtern [no beat so continues straight on]

And all three patterns, including the beat, take the same time, with the remainder of the sentence continuing at the same speed as PATtern.