skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> So one could say that there's a low prior for such a system to exist.

I have no other knowledge, but just from the information in your comment, can we test the low prior assumption?

Would this bh still have been identifiable as the most massive known, if it did not have both of the following characteristics?

- blazar, pointed directly at us (makes it noticeable)

- binary, (makes it measurable at such a massive scale)
> you gain almost nothing from Haskell, and you might have been better off writing your code in another language.

Don't know about that. Even if you write everything in the IO monad, Haskell is still a pretty great imperative language and many people say it may possibly one of the best imperative languages ever written.

If you only use IO, then yes, you no longer gain the ability to reify and isolate effects as values but all the other strengths of Haskell's type system mostly remain invariant and just as useful.
The term "functor" is badly overloaded in general -- almost every language that uses the term has its own definition. In C++, it's an object that can be called as a function (by virtue of defining 'operator()') [0]. In Prolog, it's the head and arity of a term [1]. In ML, it's a function from structures to structures [2].

[0] http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106l/course-reader/Ch13_Func...

[1] http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?predicate=functor/3

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML#Module_system
The following links in the submitted article as text, but are not given
as clickable links. They give more details about the field testing being
done.

http://www.callux.net/home.English.html

http://enefield.eu/
haha, yeah, I was just about to point this out.

It's quite a bit easier to die from "disruptive food" than "disruptive lodging" in my personal experience from roughing it once upon a time.
The existence of a "spectrum disease" is a misnomer. The people who invented the term clearly defined it as an approach to researching disease, merely a psychological crutch to use when thinking about disease and not something that actually exists. This flawed "research view" unduly medicalizes problems which are simply challenges people face in life.

There was talk of including some limited use of the term spectrum in the planning of the DSM-V but that's all it was, talk.
Mostly not large things. (Or at least, mostly not things that are large in Haskell.) An example recently -- I wanted to consider, let's say you have two finite rooted trees, S and T, with T having more vertices; and you you have a bijection f from the set of subtrees of S (subtrees have to have the same root as the original) to the set of subtrees of T, with certain restrictions on it; and then to f you associate a system of linear equations; and if the solution set to this system isn't contained a hyperplane aligned with the axes, then (if there exists an f for which this is true) I'll say "S interferes with T". And then I want to check for various T whether there is any smaller S that interferes with them.

Basically without something like Haskell, or at least something like Haskell-or-ML (I didn't need typeclasses and I don't know how much I needed laziness), it seems like that would have been a complete mess.

Of course, the above example is perhaps not the best as it meant I had to [either look up a library, or, what I actually did] implement row-reduction in Haskell, obviously not a great language for it! But ultimately it wasn't too terrible. And the rest as I've said would have been terrible in another language.
They are pictured on a set of scales. A heavy can will depress the scales more and be lower.

People seem to be trying to go out of their way to read deception into Gates' article. Can't we accept it as slightly fuzzy figures, just like all real world figures are?
Only for a while.

Right now, ARIN IPv4 addresses are easier to get than ever before, as providers are handing out IPv4 addresses out like candy so that they have as much IPv4 space under their control as possible when ARIN runs out.

The next phase, as has already begun in the RIPE region, is where IPv4 addresses are bought and sold on the private market. Right now, they go for published rates of between $7-$15 per IP, depending on the size of the block they're sold as. This will probably go up dramatically once all the regional registries (and in particular ARIN) run out.

We'll probably then see the price of IPv4 addresses go up higher and higher, as utilization efficiency increases. It remains to be seen how high the costs will go, but it will probably get to a point where the costs of acquiring IPv4 will generally be higher than the costs of implementing IPv6. It will likely only be then that we see wholesale adoption of IPv6. Large portions of the Internet may begin using it before then, but the problem is that IPv4 will continue to be necessary until the whole of the Internet is on IPv6.
The trick is to reduce parts where you duplicate a lot of code by using generalized functions to abstract things out.
The Renegade Roots of Hollywood Studios
Tutorial Source for Apple Swift Language
Swift-Tutorials.com bundles tutorials about Apples programming language Swift
Are the blogs of IT people or of nurses more likely to be posted here?

Which group is more likely to share their opinions of their work life online in the first people?

I've certainly heard friends in nursing mention this to me in real life.
That would probably be my list as well. And immersion circulators (for sous vide) can now be gotten for very reasonable prices as they've gone at least somewhat mainstream.

I use my circulator and my pressure cooker on a regular basis and play with the siphon from time to time.

In the ingredients department, I picked up a variety of thickeners etc. to experiment with but, to be honest, I haven't done a lot with them.

There are some good ideas and techniques in books like Modernist Cuisine at Home. There are also instructions for making an omelet that would probably take hours. I won't be doing that.
Comcast has laudably been on the forefront of deploying IPv6. And several other major consumer ISPs in the U.S. are working on deploying it as well (and in the interim, AT&T is offering tunneling with 6RD).

Amazon, on the other hand, still does not support IPv6. I browse the Web from Comcast with a Firefox extension that tells me if a site is using IPv6 or not, and the lack of websites supporting IPv6 concerns me way more than the pace of IPv6 rollout by consumer ISPs. There's simply no conspiracy here.
If you plan to work in the industry in the next few years. Then definitely Objective-C. No serious company is going to rewrite an existing app in Swift just because it's a cool language.
Addicting! One thing is that I have tons of barracks and stables but can't seem to be able to create soliders and cavalry for some reason ...
You can tell if its mining, your machine, laptops especially, will let you know something is up.

I do think its an interesting area for development though. I would be ok with a low mining instead of ads.
User Interface Algorithms
You need metal for soldiers
Project Euler is offline
With more personal storage/NAS oriented features, a more desktop-like interface with file management features and this could become a nice open-source competitor to the likes of Synology. If this ever becomes a direction you'd like to take with this project, I'd love to contribute. My email address is aniki [at] pantswrestling [dot] com. My relevant skills/experience include: ZFS/btrfs/ext[2-4], Linux/*BSD hacking of all sorts, Python/Ruby/Node/etc.
Can we get this put on S3? Would love to play around with it.
But the traffic is going out of your cables at some point no? Is it not possible to capture that even if it's on a different network?
Eh, laws are written by men. They are not some kind of ethical commandment from god or similar. Lots of laws are even downright unethical and get overturned from time to time.

I don't have some strong feeling about what AirBnB has done. I am passingly interested because I previously wanted to be an urban planner, before life got in the way. I find it intriguing that the Internet is reshaping how urban space gets used. We clearly need to create new mental models here. Our old ones are basically dinosaurs that ignore this new reality.
I haven't ever observed him in full blown mania myself, but I've seen him in profound hypomanic episodes before. The frequency with which I observed it makes me very concerned, at the least.

You're correct that true mania is a whole lot worse than hypomania. My perspective is that you should at least be getting regular guidance and treatment from a qualified psych, even if you aren't on mood stabilizers, to make sure you don't end up in the grips of a manic episode.
What if you live in a warm climate?
A potential factor is improved efficiency due to not relying on an electricity transmission and distribution grid, and generating the electricity where it is needed...

1. Electricity grids have to account for a loss factor due to the accumulated resistance of the wires between the power station and where the electricity is actually used. This power is lost as heat radiating from the transmission wires. That said, I'm unfamiliar with gas transmission networks so I would assume there is some degree of potential energy loss through gas leaking from pipelines, etc. I expect it is lower than electricity grids however?

2. If the power generation is decentralised, I would assume that less would be spent on electricity substations, although that might be countered with a greater spend on maintaining the gas distribution network. I'm not an engineer, but I get the feeling that perhaps maintaining the pressure of gas to balance fluctuating demand is easier than maintaining the voltage/frequency of AC in a grid?

2.
Thank you everyone for reading, and for your kind remarks. It means a great deal.
The Lady, or the Tiger?
Hi Brandon, good question and good answer. I'm a graphic designer looking to reach early-stage startups to offer my brand identity creation services. I have used Twitter and LinkedIn to get my name out there, but looking for other avenues as well. The startup scene is a little new to me but I think it's really the best "new frontier" for graphic guys like me to make any significant impact going forward.
Perpetual Motion in the 18th Century (2013)
We need to get a lot better about dealing with the biochemical piece of depression but mostly we need to get better at dealing with the social constructs that keep people stuck with "unsolvable" problems. That seems, more often than not, to be the real roots of depression.
Well, for the sake of theory, it's a good thing to think about what the most powerful person in the bitcoin ecosystem could do bad.

But please, don't stop here. What the most powerful political leader in your country could do bad ? What the most powerful economical leader in your country could do bad ?

"Power" as a concept is something that would need deeper inspection by everyone, and should probably be dissolved as much as possible (that's the point of democracy). If 51% attack scares you, push your reasoning to its ultimate point.
Mobile devices have long-since surpassed the GameCube generation of consoles, and in some ways are past the Xbox 360/PS3 generation. Mobile devices have architecturally modern GPUs, and only lack in core count and clock speed (given the lower TDP than consoles).
How does US insurance work?

Some people are not going to be covered by insurance during a sub-let. Those people might be the host or guest or apartment owner; but in the case of catastrophe someone is going to lose out.

So there is some value to customers of having listings vetted by AirBnB so that everyone knows that the sub-let is legal and insured.
I wrote a ruby gem to help manage project euler problems a few months ago.

https://github.com/yaworsw/euler-manager

Most of the problem descriptions are in the data/problems directory. You could use the gem to continue to do most of the project euler problems.
The Ternary Calculating Machine of Thomas Fowler
Why the Japanese Don't Litter
"min" is a pathological case for a macro because it isn't what macros were meant for.

Tell that to Kernighan and Ritchie. The second macro in K&R (I googled a PDF of the second edition) is

#define max(A, B) ((A) > (B) ? (A) : (B))

Yes, that's lowercase 'max', and they even mention "This macro will work for any data type; there is no need for different kinds of max for different data types, as there would be with functions"

Macros certainly were intended for this, as it was the only way to guarantee that the compiler inlined code (probably the only way it ever inlined function calls)

And for the curious: the first macro they give is

#define forever for(;;)

That certainly is what macros were meant for :-), and doesn't even save on typing.

But yes, in modern C, nobody would use a macro for this.
I think a torrent would be better. There will probably be lots of interest in this, so S3 can get expensive.
If I can say anything to the admins, it would only be that I very much appreciate being open and clear about it, and of course confirming that passwords were hashed. It was the only piece of personal information I had on the site.

Project Euler admins, thank you and good luck in resolving the matter.

Edit: Upvotes! Well if I can add to this message: so far 12 other people agree and want to wish you good luck as well it seems :)
It's bad for them because the market has, over time, negated the advantages of all the monopoly privileges they used to have.
Hardly Airbnb related either, here's a response I got back from a craiglist ad for a temporary sub-lease (that I declined):

> My place is available for the whole month of June, and is located at xxxx. Subletting isn't technically allowed at the building, so you would need to be careful around the staff.
Coin Pocket becomes the first Bitcoin wallet for iOS to re-enter the App Store
> The reality is that in most municipalities you cannot simply cook food in your kitchen and sell it.

Lots of stuff sold at food co-ops and farmers' markets skirt these rules and no one bats an eye. Yet they're doing pretty much the same thing as Airbnb and Uber -- performing valuable services while entering questionable regulatory territory.

It's weird how baking pies in your own kitchen and selling them is considered a very wholesome activity, yet using your own car to drive people around is somehow objectionable.
hmm thats a good question. In most games like that the interface is awful.

This is not an rpg but 'frozen synapse' and 'frozen endzone' are actually good examples of a UI for controlling multiple guys acting simulataneously.

Also I remember dungeon siege having a pretty basic interface but also being quite functional (with 8 people in you party!)

The 'eye of the beholder' / 'might and magic' / 'legend of grimrock' way of doing things is effective but it basically turns your 4 characters into one big one
I was expecting a response like this, and it completely misses the point of my comment. Notwithstanding the potential benefits to hosts and guests in ensuring that activity on AirBnB is above board, I focused on a simple question: even if AirBnB doesn't have a legal obligation to help enforce private contracts, does AirBnB not have a moral obligation to address the issue because it is almost certainly aware that a good number of its hosts are violating them?

It seems like your response is "AirBnB has no moral obligation to try to discourage its hosts from violating an agreement it knows likely exists", but I'm curious as to why you chose to throw this back to me as a question rather than stating a concrete opinion. Do you hold other companies to this same standard, and are you comfortable stating on record that what's good for the goose is always good for the gander? If so, why disguise your opinion as a question?

On the point of corporate morality, I'd note that companies in certain industries are frequently lambasted for acting amorally. Just look in finance. Big banks, mortgage lenders, hedge funds, high frequency traders. They face almost constant criticism for engaging in behavior or failing to prevent behavior, even when their actions do not violate the letter of the law.

Are there no AirBnB supporters who have criticized other companies for amoral behavior?
Running a box that smoothly maintains hundreds of millions of sessions (a household might would peak at about 1000 concurrent sessions) is a different expense than running boxes that just statelessly route the packets for those hundreds of millions of sessions.
Because it is a show?
Funny you make that comparison and take away the completely wrong conclusion from it.

You do know IPv4 addresses are a mathematically limited set of numbers right? Once you're out of it, there's no "let's make up more numbers" or "Maybe we'll look in other dimensions" (funnily enough that's what NAT does). Not for oil, not for ipv4, and not for green parallel lines that form a red circle.
This is a key quote, and anecdotally I've seen it playing out with people I know: "[T]he drying up of cognitively demanding jobs is having a cascade effect. College graduates are forced to take jobs beneath their level of educational training, moving into clerical and service positions instead of into finance and high tech. This cascade eliminates opportunities for those without college degrees who would otherwise fill those service and clerical jobs. These displaced workers are then forced to take even less demanding, less well-paying jobs, in a process that pushes everyone down. At the bottom, the unskilled are pushed out of the job market altogether."
If you look at the author's profile you also realize that maybe he should reflect more on what he just wrote. I am referring to his ownership of tobacco company stocks (MO and PM). Is it really a good idea to own tobacco companies even if one is amoral about investing, esp. in light of what the author said about long term thinking?
It seems these days there are a lot of Java and C# focused people who are unfamiliar with what came earlier. They have a hard time making these sorts of comparisons.

To me the comparison that makes more sense is going from C to objc. Or alternatively, comparing objc and C++ (especially C++ as practiced in the 1990s, not the RAII or template patterns that emerged later).

Say you're looking at the landscape as it existed a while back, and you've decided to make language changes to C in order to add objects. On the one hand you have C++ as it existed then: a language that can't seem to figure itself out, that has a very complex syntax and lots of troubling situations you can walk into.

Then along comes objc. In contrast to C++, the language delta from C is tiny and easy to keep in your head. Especially before Apple started doing all this compiler-fu of recent years, it felt like just a few keywords bolted on, and most of the important additions seemed to be in the runtime library.

When I first saw objc it kind of clicked for me as the anti-C++, in a way that is truer to C and doesn't add a lot of complexity. At the time that seemed refreshing, though I think I see more good in C++ now that RAII and templates are more of a thing. (If only there existed a set of 2 people who could agree on what C++ features to use.)
You didn't specify a time period, but I assume you meant relatively recently (otherwise double-entry bookkeeping and joint stock companies might be candidates):

* LinkedIn for recruiting

* Yammer for in-company communication
In older C, people tended to be unwilling to trust the compiler's ability to inline functions, so there was a lot of use of macros to avoid small repeated function calls.
The post is from March 18th. Did Chris end up hosting the data somewhere?

Edit: Talked to Chris on Facebook. He is in the process of uploading it to someone who has volunteered to host and I have offered to host on Summon.com

If you can host/mirror this data please reply here.
Even this picture makes me think the same thing:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/136063main_bm4_high.jpg

Then to get an astronomically bigger picture of just how small we all are, I start getting dizzy at even the thought.
From my experience when someone deems themselves above "extremist politics" they're someone who doesn't have to worry every day about the issues affecting those they're wagging their finger at. The single word "either" betrays the presumption that one can place themselves "in the center" as a rational "referee" of sorts -- to use your word, this is a "fiction." Looks like this fellow has some more to learn.

Human socialization and socially constructed systems of inequality makes it impossible to be impartial about an issue -- everyone is within the issue. For example, the rich can not fully know what livelong poverty is like. Us men can not full know what being female is like in society since birth. And so on...
Nobody made that assertion. You made an assertion that standardization is "a pretty significant factor". You've yet to clarify what it's a significant factor in, nor have you provided evidence that it is, in fact, significant.

I also didn't state that it's fine that Dart is proprietary, and I'd appreciate you not putting words in my mouth. My position is that your premise is incorrect and Dart is not proprietary.
Great, thanks for the examples. I should have specified recently.
You finished it, which is by far the most important thing. Without that, it doesn't matter what the code looks like because you'd have achieved nothing.

My first Flash game that I wrote in two weeks had some god awful copy pasted code that made me embarrassed to show anyone. But it made six figures over the years and launched what turned out to be a viable career in game development (I've never had a real job).

Code quality is important to work on, but it's just there to help you with the primary goal: shipping something cool.

You got there, so fuck the code. Great job.
It's people like you with your ablesist bias that are the problem. You conflated lower test scores with lesser moral worth. I really hope that was just an arguing tactic, i.e. a lie because if your estimation of people's moral worth is based on their IQ…
Agreed, those charts do a great job of showing what's going on in CS. But it's also useful to look at percentages because college enrollment has gone up severely in the past decade, so the increase in the raw number of women in CS could merely be because there's more people in college in general. Showing the percentages communicates if women have proportionally enrolled more/less in CS.