skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the important thing about the language being free is that it is key enabling feature of the list you just gave. If the Wolfram Language truly was free then Wolfram Research should be able to publish and distribute a language specification and it should be possible for a competing group like, say the team that made Octave, to create a competing platform for the Wolfram Alpha language. Besides a few bells and whistles in the IDE, a piece of source code written in the Wolfram Language should be portable to any platform that implements the language specification. At least, that is what I would like.

I think the reason this isn't done is because Wolfram Research would have to really take responsibility for calling this thing a programming language. They'd have to publish their sources or at least the requirements for what qualifies as a valid source. They'd also have to publish their curating methods so that anyone with access to their sources and the language specification could produce identical results to identical source code. Basically, their position would be no more privileged than Microsoft's with respect to CSharp and the .NET framework. I don't think Wolfram Research wants to face a Mono-like competitor for their language and that is why portraying the language as some general purpose tool for everyone rings hollow.
Sean Carroll is a physicist, and a good one.
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Jeff's LispMicrocontroller is another example of this sort of thing (but a bit further along, it seems):
https://github.com/jbush001/LispMicrocontroller
LOOOL

How about real life happens in your story:

- Look outs realize there is an anomalous vehicle staged in the neighborhood & alert the team. How do you not get detected?

- Drug dealers arn't home so they send a child/girlfriend to pickup the stash/cash from the home. Do you arrest and charge the 14 year old son of the dealer?

- Dope boys have children/women runners do the logistical aspects. Arrest the dealer, go in the house and find the stash, the girlfriend claims its hers. Dope boy walks free.

Congrats you have done nothing but charged a 14 year old relative and/or girlfriend of the dealer, alerted the hood that its under surveillance and your target flees to a different zone/state/country.
It'd be really nice if it didn't impose a hard choice of json-ish to use for the manifest, even though that's a rather small thing. Just don't want to be stuck with toml if it doesn't gain wider acceptance than it has so far.
"We’re building a business and a product that has never existed in the market before. There’s no precedent,"

I always find these kind of statements amazing. No precedent at all?
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Even amongst the most honest, hard-working, and brotherly partners-- ugly disputes can happen. Worth bearing in mind, for your agreement, a smart shareholder clause to resolve disputes called the "Mexican Shootout".

Full description, read Felix Dennis, The Joys and Perils of Partnership, pg.175

http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/dp...
A Yeoman generator for AngularJS and Spark
Their web development practices closely match their software development practices.
If the police hadn't approached the home with confrontation in mind they may have noticed some other telling clues that the situation may not be what they thought it would be.

This is also the us (cops) versus "them" (non-cops) mentality and will lead to even more violent standoffs because situations like this will further lead non-cops to view cops no longer as "the good guys" which will lead the cops to view the...
Your last sentence is not warranted and has no place on this site. The Medicaid bump only applies to states that enacted it. It is also a recent thing.

People without healthcare insurance often find out they have cancer far too late. While they may find treatment for free often times it is too late. If the free healthcare that hospitals provide was anywhere near adequate then people with insurance would dump it and save money. The fact that people with health insurance aren't dumping it in droves proves that care without it is inadequate.

Old people are costly to care for. They are unprofitable from the insurance industry perspective. Medicare was enacted because the country at the time was civilized enough to not want millions of elderly to do without health insurance. It is not disputable that this benefits the insurance industry.

You can't directly lose your home due to medical bills. You can lose for not being able to afford payments because medical bills for needed healthcare cost too much. There are lots of examples of this. Medical bills are the number one reason for bankruptcy in the u.s.

It is not known why the U.S. has lower life expectancy but the lower rate is correlated to income and education. I did not say our health outcomes are the worst. I said they are among the worst. In terms of happiness, overall health, life expectancy, etc. we do badly. There are areas where we do well.
With all the options, it's too bad the authors had to choose the name of a popular emacs mode.

Just makes it harder to find either.
"In most states, if you get cancer without insurance you just die. Period. And not by euthanasia, by the way, because apparently that is mortal sin / slippery-slope to mass murder."

This is patently untrue. Do a google search for "disproportionate share hospitals" and "charity care". In my line of work I've spoken with numerous oncologists and I've asked them "what do you do if your patient can't afford cancer treatment?" and the answer was always "I send them to the local hospital that treats them regardless of ability to pay."
Typing via a mapping to the keys is a normal feature in some integrated synthesizers. E.g. the K2600 does it... certantly beats entering in labels for patches via a little wheel or 9-key.
They don't specify why a third of the time it was unknown. But feel free to make more baseless conjectures I guess.
Part of the problem is that it may be individually rational for US citizens to avoid STEM jobs.

At the graduate level, the RAND institute concluded that the American aversion to STEM degrees is rational and market-driven:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

A professor at the University of Washington, William Zumeta, reaches a similar conclusion

http://www.issues.org/19.2/p_zumeta.htm

Now, STEM is broad, and software development is a different thing. But a lot of people are surprised to learn that the median wage for registered nurses in San Jose ($122,990) is actually higher than it is for software developers in San Jose ($116,610). In San Francisco, dental hygienists earn 106K a year, only a bit less than software developers (110K a year). I don't really have any problem with this, I'm happy that these workers make good salaries, but it is remarkable that we talk about the urgency of getting more people into an field where there is a severe shortage when other fields in these high cost areas earn about the same amount, and perhaps with considerably better career security as you enter middle age.

(see http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings)

There are good reasons to want to do one or the other, but I certainly wouldn't say that the intangibles clearly break in favor of software development. Silicon valley leaders act like the shortage of STEM workers or software developers is a foregone conclusion. I'm not saying that there's no case to be made for it, but I the evidence suggests that salaries in software development are not remarkable on average, and there are considerable career risks long term.

We need to consider the possibility that avoidance of STEM is actually a very economically rational decision for a high talent student. It may be why Americans are avoiding the field, and it may be why women are avoiding it.
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> variables are overwritten. It would be better to have a mandatory list of allowed variables that can be extracted.

You can set the EXTR_SKIP flag to do something like that. There are a bunch of other flags as well to control how it works.
I wonder which projects does actually need that.

Hey I'm not bashing here, I thing it's kind cool for learning purposes attempts to do such thing, but I truly wonder if there is an actual production need for such thing.
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/White-Ops-Secures-7...

This is a more descriptive article on this funding round and what White Ops does. The company uses side channel analysis across an array of variables to detect behavioral differences between humans and bots.
There is support for tagged arithmetic in 32-bit SPARC CPUs.
And yet we keep voting for candidates who support the drug war. This kid's blood is on our hands.
"don't mind me poor 100% black community im just here from ADT to install this randomly hallarious HD camera and wireless antenna facing this decrepit house"

king of non-suspicious behavior
TXT records are now supported, FWIW.
These are my favorites, because they seem less likely to disappear in the future:

https://ip.appspot.com/

http://whatismyip.akamai.com/
I'm fine with using the word homophobia to describe homophobia.

Just because most people were something doesn't mean they weren't that something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
This is a nice script. If you write a blog post about what you do, why you wrote the script, and how it it works, I bet people on HN will want to read about it.
Pay to Share, Even if Its Just Advice.
We started with Github, and I've now added BitBucket.

Codebase will be next.
Perhaps the next "next Java" or "next C++" had better focus on also being a more or less universal platform, such that the reimplementation of standard libraries becomes a thing of the past? The CLR strove to be this, but this didn't take off because of its association with Microsoft.

The "designed to be hosted" structure of Clojure points the way to how this could be approached. Stallman's designs for Scheme and GUILE are along these lines as well.
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I can't argue with that, just felt the need to defend APD a bit, as a lot of people are confusing them with the redneck swat team who threw the flashbang into a crib. APD has changed a ton for the better after Turner became chief. Before that, Pennington from New Orleans PD was clearly a mistake for the city, and led to many of the largest APD scandals in recent history.
Just saw this, but please note that Processing is not being run on the Arduino, but rather it is controlling the Arduino through the serial connection. And you can control an Arduino via a serial connection using just about any programming language, including Python and JavaScript.

So again, you can't run Java or Processing on the Arduino. Keep researching.
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There are two separate questions that you're confusing.

You seem interested in "is the use of SWAT systematically _more_ biased against minorities than law enforcement in general."

The report seems to be addressing "is the use of SWAT systematically biased against minorities, _regardless_ of the state of the rest of law enforcement."

Both are interesting questions, but it's silly to criticize an attempt to answer one question for not answering the other. Minority individuals abused by SWAT probably won't be cheered up by "don't complain about SWAT's bias, you also get an unfair bias in jaywalking tickets."
Yes please!!! I want to play old Windows Games in my browser in my Windows PC... Oh wait...
Your question is why we have laws for how police can operate.

Yes, if I were in their shoes, I would not want to knock. Which is why we need to make it a legal requirement to. Don't give them a choice.

The police are playing an inherently rigged game. They operate with one hand tied behind their back, giving criminals an inherent advantage because criminals, by definition, don't worry about following the law. The only reason this works is because the police can bring to bear vastly greater resources and numbers, but their possible actions are much more limited.

And that's how it should be. The term for a place where the police have no limits on what they can do to bring in the bad guys is called a "police state".

I don't doubt that police really really want to handle situations like this with quick and decisive action. Which is exactly why they must not be allowed to.
How does the use of encryption affect/play with DayOne?
You're essentially saying that the only way to stop this is to use an excessive force in return.
>arrest anyone who writes code that is vulnerable and is exploited by a malicious party and causes damages.

That is your logic.
It's really a configuration format that mistook itself for a serialization format.

What I wouldn't do for a cut-down YAML standard with most of the serialization crap cut out.
(I'm Canadian and work at Stripe)

How often do you actually buy things online with interac? I think I've maybe done it once, and the redirect-to-the-bank flow is pretty awkward. My sense is that this isn't ever a barrier to conversion for Canadians (except maybe for very large purchases?), but I'd be curious to hear otherwise.
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I said that it "sounds sad to me". You escalated it pretty quickly into "my values are better than your values". Did you even read that one-line comment you just cited?

And I'm not talking about casual acquaintances, nor superficial "friendships". I'm talking about real, deep friendships with other human beings. The human race is a social species. This means that it is in our very nature to spend time with other humans and develop bonds with them. Being without friends i.e. lonely can even be detrimental to your physical health [1][2]. Kids at various ages react largely positively to close interaction with other kids [3]. Lack of friendship was also shown correlated with other life problems and behaviors [4].

This is not an issue of being introvert or extrovert. Saying that "computers interest you more than friends" just sounds very cruel and uncaring of others. It is in our nature to empathize with other humans: extreme lack of empathy is often understood as one of the primary symptoms and grounds fro diagnosis of psychopathy [5]. Of course, not to say anything close of the parent comment, but if you really do care about computers more than you do about your friends (and, I assume, implicitly about other human beings), it is maybe wise to think about why is that the case.

[1]: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/conditions/07/27/moh.heal...

[2]: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/study-dont...

[3]: http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/do_kids_need_friends

[4]: http://psychcentral.com/lib/the-importance-of-friendship/000...

[5]: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/j...
You can found a company where colleagues occasionally go to the bar together - as long as it is not mandatory, either implicitly or explicitly. But things that are a part of your hiring process are different than things that are optional parts of after-hours socializing. You should not be allowed to require such behavior because we, as a society, have decided that our employment should not be contingent on our lifestyle.

Also: bars are places that people go to socialize while drinking. You are not obliged to drink at a bar, but you are expected to. People who do not drink are likely to feel some social pressure about their decision while in a bar. That is not okay for a job interview. I have friends who do not drink. I consider it rude to ask them out to a bar because then we are going to an establishment that is clearly not for them.
You seriously don't have clue about either programming or Stack overflow. Blocking stack overflow over network would do more harm than good. It is the best possible resource for developers.
Yah, I do that when it's just a few variables, but it gets unmanageable when the number starts increasing.

It's also error prone if you have several feeder/user functions since you have to change them in multiple places.

Or if you have two code paths that end up with two different sets of variables (probably controlled by a semaphore variable) then this won't work.
Just curious, which small town in Missouri did you go to school?
It became somewhat about money, but that's a fairly recent development in policing in general -- it's not much different from allowing the executive branch to keep all or part of other various fines.

But there's nowhere near as much money coming from seizure as is coming from the government to fund the manpower and equipment used to do the seizing.

The enforcement divisions of the DOJ seize less than 2B annually. (That's FBI/DEA/ATF/etc combined.) Their combined budget is ~27B.

Seizure (and prosecution in general) is more a problem due to perverse incentive schemes: Police are incentivized to seize money not so much to have the money directly, but to have those seizures show up on their performance reviews. Not unlike prosecutors trying to rack up convictions or traffic cops trying to fill ticket quotas.

The Drug War is much more about race.
Some substances are extremely valuable per unit volume. Especially prohibited ones.
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> Part of the problem is a double standard with regards to America.

I don't know what that means.

> The other part of the problem, is that America bashers know a lot more about America, than the average person is likely to know about their country, so the basher feels free to attack and never fears their country will be put under a spotlight for its terrible qualities. It's a game of bash and hope for ignorance.

I don't know if that is intentional, but it might be what happens.

But this could easily swing the other way - a lot of non-Americans know about America, so they can discuss it and amplify anything that they think is positive about it.

> For example, if America doesn't have paid maternity leave, that's considered very backwards, and America frequently gets bashed for such things. If Spain has 34% real unemployment, somehow that isn't considered wildly backwards by comparison, because hey they have paid maternity leave and six weeks of vacation.

What? The ridiculous unemployment of young people in Spain is seen as a big problem. Certainly a bigger problem than a small amount of maternity leave.

If it is viewed as barbaric by comparison, then it might be because maternity leave is a matter of social policy, while unemployment is obviously not. It might be a symptom of mismanagement by the government, but no a matter of social policy.

I think Spaniards are more busy with protesting the government than with feeling smug about being better than Americans. On the other hand, a lot of them have a lot of 'free time', so who knows. :)

> Or if Albania (or Nigeria or Congo or Vietnam) has a drastically better gini number than the US, somehow that's considered amazing. Except it's ignorant analysis.

Oh come on. I have never seen America been compared to countries like Congo over stuff like this, except perhaps hyperbolically.

> I see this all the time in regards to Europeans bashing the US. They're counting on Americans not knowing enough about most of Europe to lodge a counter response.

Thankfully for America, there are plenty of prideful Americans willing to take a stand, it seems.

Keep in mind, though, that not all America bashing is from Europeans. Americans can do it, too. And even if a European (or whatever) country is being hailed as better than the US, it might not be people from that country who are saying it.
Sorry for the last comment, but you're repeating several claims that are untrue and have no basis in fact.

Another example: "Medical bills are the number one reason for bankruptcy in the u.s.", again, not true. The correct statistic is "Unpaid medical bills are the most common debt owed during bankruptcy filings", someone could have a medical debt of $10 and that doesn't mean it caused their bankruptcy.

"Interestingly, it turns out that research commissioned by the Canadian government shows that 15% of people over the age of 55 who declare bankruptcy cite a medical problem as the primary reason. Medical bankruptcies can, as I've been saying for a while, be driven by something other than the lack of free government provided medical care."[1]

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/09/bankrupt...
It sounds feasible, but I believe you would also have to augment data values in memory with this type. Every 32 bits in memory would also need a few bits associated with it for type and the memory buses would need to be widened to move these around.
> Bullshit. The police can throw me in jail before a trial, preventing me from going to work. How's that not a violation of due process?

Because the police, over time, have put laws in place to protect their jobs even in the case of severe abuse. Why do you think the POA (Police/"Peace" Officers Association) goes around endorsing/attacking local political candidates?

Consider the shootings in Albuquerque. 26 people killed by ABQ cops in the last few years; and not a single officer held accountable. Even when there's unambiguous police video of abuse!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/06/20/albuquerqu...
Excellent - yes, I was hoping I was simply getting a higher exposure to 'learn to code' companies.
It may be that they plan to introduce long-term energy use stats and information.
They don't specify, but keep in mind that the police departments are the ones reporting these statistics, and they have an interest in showing how dangerous the situation was and in justifying their use of force.
Exactly. And that approach seems to work well in just about every other Western country.
Belarus would probably qualify too, not that "repressive dictatorship" is a whole lot better for the comparison than "civil war".

Anyway, us Americans manage to normally live our lives because stuff like this is rare. Remember: if you see it on the news, it is not common pretty much by definition.

I'm far more worried about being run over by a truck or my house burning down than I am about being shot by the police. That's not to say that it's not a problem. This is a huge problem that needs fixing, like, now. But it doesn't directly affect my ability to live life without fear.
It wasn't "we have to go in, better arm up." They could have watched the house and gathered more information. Since they have a warrant, are cops allowed to thermally image a house to get a headcount? Technical question: would that work or am I imagining something from TV?
gosh...this is so outrageous !!!
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I agree. I minored in philosophy, and the one overarching issue isn't the comments made about philosophy by scientists, it's the misunderstanding of what modern philosophy consists of.

The article states three example criticisms. I find the derision of the first two completely fair -- neither are very useful criticisms. The derision of the third is misguided. The criticism is completely fair -- which is why philosophy itself is the biggest voice of that criticism! Analytic philosophy is philosophy's answer to that entire criticism of (what is now called) continental philosophy.

The biggest problem with scientists is not their criticism, it's that their criticism is dated. Philosophy had this debate decades ago and has since changed as a result.
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