skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the committee on the horizon. The SOA musings have been spreading like an infection for two years. The erasers being thrown over inheriting a Person that just has a name attribute vs building it right into the supposed child class. I see more time being spent in meetings and coworkers gathering in niches than actual productivity.

There's only one important part to the processes and applications we built: data. Protecting, serving, logging and preserving data. Nothing else matters.
Most of the array methods are explicitly defined in terms of indexing rather that iterators, so for(of) is incorrect. On the other hand indexing is still faster than iteration in the major implementations.
How does Stripe deal with the currency conversion? Is this tracked by Alipay on an individual level (i.e. so consumers can't spend more then the legal conversion amount of 50k USD)?
the only issue is i'd like to differentiate between iterating arrays and objects at the syntax level. Coffeescript uses `in` for arrays and `of` for objects, but I agree that becomes confusing. Open to other suggestions!
OK, so, to the best of my knowledge, 1 kg of cocaine is worth about $20K. Assuming cocaine has roughly the density of baking soda, this amount ought to be easily disposable in a single flush. So you could flush $100K worth of coke down a toilet in under a minute.
Pay police brutality settlements out of the officer's pension fund. Problem solved.
>> You can't exactly flush a kilogram of cocaine down the average toilet in a matter of minutes

I would think you could - that's the 'brick' size you see in the movies, I would guess you could flush that down in 2-3 flushes as long as it didn't clump up too bad.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7649815.
The typical utility company truck (gas, electricity, water) can be parked outside and someone could install any number of objects that contain cameras/microphones, but don't look like one. Resorting to an obvious strawman does nothing.
That's just abolitionist propaganda trying to upend the proper order of things. These uppity blacks you're talking about? They've just been fed all sorts of wrong-headed ideas from other people. Envy is a sin, you know.
I have clothes, therefore I should accept whatever I'm told to accept. I'm glad the founding fathers did not think as you. They revolted over taxes on tea, freedom and privacy was paramount. I understand revolution perfectly, and I fear a government that has absolute power, which is any government when you don't have privacy and the government has all your secrets. I fear that far more than I fear any terrorist boogey man.
Submitted a pull-request that does decrementing iterations which in some browsers / engines can give an increase in performance due to less instruction.
The problem for the OP, perhaps, is if he is not in Canada on a proper work visa, getting "gainful employment" will be very tough. You must have a Social Insurance Number to get any type of job. The only option for that is "cash under the table" at a place that hires illegal workers - those exist. But the conditions aren't going to be great. Those places underpay the minimum wage and expect 6 days a week of work from you. Working 60 hours per week at $10 per hour is going to be tough work when he can, as you say, make 10X that as a Python developer...
Yeah, it looks like this guy needs to learn more Verilog before he can make progress on the CPU implementation.

It reminds of teaching some VHDL in a hackerspace a few years ago (I had learned it in college some years previously), and this software guy was constantly trying to write functions and loops, and was having trouble with the concept that all signals were propagated concurrently rather than sequentially!

Sure, it looks like code (in fact, VHDL's syntax is purposefully similar to ADA), but it sure isn't code.
The native bind in Firefox is much faster than the fast.js one (not surprising, since it has explicit JIT support).
New AWS vCenter Plug-in – The Good, Bad and Ugly
This video is pretty disingenuous in my opinion - it appears this woman remains in the home when people rent out a room (such that she share experiences with them according to the video). Looking through listings in NYC, this is not the common case at all - it's actually expected that a unit rented through Airbnb will be empty during your stay.

It's also getting more common that people are purchasing real estate for the sole purpose of renting it out through Airbnb. When I stayed in NYC via Airbnb, I never even met the owner of the unit (keys were dropped off at a coffee shop across the street) and it was very obvious that nobody ever lived in the unit.

I also have a problem with the tone of the video - "_I_ should be able to do this because it is a good thing for _me_." What about everyone else that lives in the building? They never signed up to live in a hotel. As a condo owner myself, I don't want random people that haven't been screened getting access to my otherwise secure building. I don't want to have to pay for any damage that they cause and I don't want to deal with any of the association rules that they break (noise regulations, pet regulations, parking, etc). While Airbnb might be great for the people renting out their home, it's a sum negative for everyone else legally living in the building.
Nah we don't have thermal imaging that precise yet, also, the thermal difference between outside the house and inside the house sort of washes away any lingering body heat you might be looking for in most cases.
This shouldn't be surprising to anyone who pays attention to the struggle of women and minorities.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When a police department forms a swat team, they're going to use it, even for minor offenses.
That's not the main problem. The main problem of not having a bandgap is that you don't have a transistor...
Why Job Simulation Works
We have the same thing in the UK, you won't see any flash bangs being used here though.
And it can be made even faster ;)

http://jsperf.com/fast-iter
We should (for some value of "should") respond to the expected value plus something like the Kelly criterion. In practice, my understanding is that the research consistently shows that we are systematically less sensitive to severity than certainty. Of course the severity needs to be sufficient that it can't just be written off as a cost of doing business, but that is true long before we hit "draconian". You can insist that, in spite of the research, we're all perfect little economic calculators acting rationally, but know that you run significant chance of being wrong.

But sure, let's run with your assumption.

"The problem is that certainty of punishment is difficult to achieve"

"X is hard, therefore Y," without establishing that Y is worthwhile, is a piece of reasoning responsible for many ills. Yes, it's a cost-benefit thing, but bear the following points in mind:

When you have (X * Y) in general, and X >> Y, you can make a much bigger difference with a small change to Y than a big change to X (unless it's an exceptionally big change to X).

Costs of long term imprisonment scales with the medical needs of the people we're imprisoning, which is much faster than linear.

Draconian sentencing means we're doing harm to the those we falsely convict (which will inevitably be above zero); this means increasing the risk to innocent officers, which lowers the quality of officers we can recruit.

"especially where co-offenders have a strong incentive to back each other up - in this case, groups of police officers :-("

This is a tremendous issue, for sure, but it is one that needs to be resolved for a whole host of reasons, of which this is only one.

Note that a more draconian sentence reinforces this - if I think there's a chance my innocent buddy is getting sent up for life, I'm more concerned (and therefore, presumably, more willing to stretch the truth) than if I think there's a chance my innocent buddy is getting a slap on the wrist - so if I'm mistaken about my buddy's innocence, raising X might actually decrease Y. (Actually, that holds even if I think my buddy is guilty of something that doesn't deserve so stiff a penalty...)
Like any other compiler, function calls sometimes get inlined. And sometimes not. Depending on compiler heuristics of various sorts.
America is among the top places we got in this planet, though.
>People are notoriously bad at estimating the probability rare but extreme events will happen to them.

Yes, people are known to underestimate the likelihood of such events happening to them relative to others.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimism_bias
Easy solution. Turn off the water to the house and they'll get one flush, two at the most.
It probably depends on the design of the sewer system, but an ex's father worked for the city sewer system. He was asked by police on one occasion to help out with a bust where they thought evidence was going to be flushed.
Npm require modules to follow semver. https://www.npmjs.org/doc/package.json.html#version

Now sure why you think the culture there doesn't respect semver.
I never wrote up all the details (which seemed somewhat mundane, since the bugs were in unproved code) but see Section 3.1 here:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi11-preprint.pdf
Game engines, anything that needs to do cycles at a high rate (rendering, algorithms, etc)
The return has been alright. I've backed some cool stuff and some so/so things and some... uhh... controversial things.

Here are a few, I'm not going to attach any labels:

FTL - http://www.ftlgame.com/
Wasteland 2 - http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/
Stonehearth - http://radiant-entertainment.com/
Grim Dawn - http://www.grimdawn.com/
Light Table - http://www.lighttable.com/
Double Fine Adventure - http://www.doublefine.com/dfa
I'm a programmer, not a comedian. :P
and so the astroturfing begins...
Check out OSCulator if you're on a Mac.
http://www.osculator.net/
You can route MIDI, plus a number of other types of physical controllers like a Wii Remote to keyboard commands, mouse movements, AppleScripts, and more.
Very little; to be honest. But the convergence has happened from both sides over the last 150 years or so. Much of theoretical mathematics could probably land in the philosophy camp, but there's no clear delineation even from university to university. In some schools, symbolic logic is considered philosophy, in others it's mathematics, and in others it's computer science.
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Visual Studio certainly is an option for Android, iOS and OSX development, when combined with Xamarin. I even think this is the best crossplatform mobile toolset that currently exitst and others think so too [1].

If you think the Android SDK is very good, have you ever started the emulator and tried to debug an app? It's horrendously slow and buggy, if it works at all. iOS and especially WP are so much faster and easier to develop for.

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/xamarin-3-enterprise-edition-re...
The police threw a grenade into an innocent child's crib. Nothing you've said ends in '...and that's why they clearly had to burn a hole two year old'.

> Don't be a criminal and don't associate with criminals and this doesn't happen to you.

Ok, but how far does this 'association' go? Where is your line where the excessive police response isn't justified. We can already see that your line is past throwing grenades at children. What's next? SWAT team mows down a preschool with gunfire because a drug dealer was picking up their kid at the time?
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> I rather have a dead criminal than a dead police officer.

But they're serving a warrant, and we still have due process (or at least some shred of it), so these SWAT teams are going after suspects.
On that note: what even is a correct translation of C when it has so many undefined behaviors in it's spec.
FAA Bans The Use Of Drones To Deliver Packages
>Is one grenaded baby worth finding even 100lbs of meth? Not to me. //

Does it matter if the meth might be causing far more pain to more people?

This https://www.google.com/search?q=mother+on+meth+kills+child gives a lot of pretty stark reading material.
The research and article only state it knocks them off the path to professorship - not success or positions at fortune 500 companies.

> It also questions whether it’s women’s general lack of self-confidence that explains why just 23 of the chief executive officers of the Fortune 500 companies are women or why only about one of every six of executives in these companies is a woman, as reported by the non-profit group Catalyst.

The research and article as written do not support the assertion of the title, unless you define 'success' only as 'getting into a PhD program'.
I have a controversial view of this. That is, why are so many men forced or pressured to go into a STEM career? This is the exact same question, just framed from the perspective that there are plenty of other jobs that pay well enough and are easier.

Computer science for instance is sitting behind a desk all day every day more or less constantly using your brain and concentrating. This is kind of a bad choice of occupation even though it appeals to some and has some upsides.

We know from the "pay gap" that women's lower pay is balanced by fewer hours, shorter commute, better environment, and other benefits of that kind; there's essentially no actual discrimination for the same work. This makes me wonder whether women are choosing this result, or whether men are steered away from working easier, less well-paying jobs.

It could be that women aren't going into STEM in equal numbers simply because they have subjectively better choices available. If that's the case, then programs to equalize the numbers will doubly discriminate against men by being forced into it in the first place and then getting less compensation in the second.
It is not even the fastest. This article did well to leave out actually fast transistors, only comparing to graphene transistors which most people don't really consider fast in the first place.

Checkout Indium Phosphide HEMTs (High electron mobility transistors): http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4419013

Mark Rodwell's group in UCSB (http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty/rodwell/rodwell_info/rodwell...) has been working on these transistors for a while. I think they're pushing 2 THz currently.
How quickly do you think they will get quieter?
I cannot argue the noise aspect, but I do thing not allowing experiments in drone delivery a bad thing. I strongly suspect that self-driving cars are on the horizon. With that presumption, I suspect self-flying cars would not be far off and that the technology that would drive that would come from parcel delivering drones.
Care to elaborate? A-priori is generally used to mean that it does not rely on experience or observation. So while the words and symbols we use to explain 2+2=4 (i.e. Two, plus, four, equals) are leaned concepts, the truth and the ability to understand that truth is independent of that experience.
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Net educational spending isn't even the right metric.

Unless we want to agree that spending $15,000 per pupil from a family with an income of $30,000 equates to the same education as $15,000 per pupil from a family with an income of $200,000.
I have an excellent technician at my school who manages to be as flexible as possible, while keeping within the bounds of school policies.

We've now setup OpenStack on a server, and are in position to give every student in the school their own Linux VPS next year. They'll ssh in using putty, have full admin rights to their instance, be able to apt-get whatever they like and all of a sudden the IT policies of the school no longer apply.

I'm suddenly really looking forward to teaching Computing next year.
Sorry, I didn't actually answer your initial question: yes, Alipay is only available through a checkout.js integration, not a stripe.js integration. I think it's unlikely that we will do a stripe.js integration for Alipay - as Patrick mentioned above, it would probably have to be a redirect model like Alipay's other integrations.

However, it's possible that we could do a special alipay.js, which I think is what you're getting at with #2. This wouldn't be Stripe Checkout, exactly, but a standalone Alipay product where we provide the UI is certainly something we'd think about down the line. We don't have any specific plans here but feel free to email me at avi@stripe.com if you want to talk more about that.
This is pretty interesting, though I've always felt that the 'fortune 500 ceo' gap isn't nearly as illustrative of current rates of discrimination as other metrics, for the simple reason that most fortune 500 ceo's are 45-60 years old and so started their careers from 1975-1991.

Academic discrimination makes sense to me as a source of major issues, though, and in the startup world there're definitely issues with VCs and Angels. You've got a situation where individuals have immense control with little oversight. We've put in place a lot of checks and balances in the corporate world (though that's not done), but I don't believe it's there for advanced academics as yet.
The optimisation mentioned by the grandparent is specific to looping overso-called "live" collections of the DOM. NodeList [0] is sometimes a live collection, and is the return type of querySelectorAll, so it's likely you've dealt with this type of collection.

The reason it incurs an overhead is because the DOM is traversed every single time the property is read, to ensure nothing has changed. You can see why caching the length is a reasonable optimisation, as you're unlikely to be modifying the collection while looping.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/NodeList
What do you use to lock the front door?
Something seems wrong with the data for the past 4 years. 0 is certainly incorrect for 2012 and the previous 4 years average 17 raids/year.
Yeah. This happens to me all the time.

It reminds me of the time a guy told me about how he hated cops and that, just the week before, he was just walking down the street, a squad car pulled over, the cops got out and beat him up. He wasn't doing anything but walking down the street!

I am positive there is a side of this story not being told.
Xamarin.Forms has some potential
I have to agree with inscrutablemike here. Seems to me that all forms of human knowledge have both an empirical and a rational component.
1. Can a person belonging to minority community dominate and trade in Majority dominant country without support of the Majority in most profitable, yet risky trade ? (possibility of being minority being made a scape goat ?)
2. All being said and done, It doesn't matter what colour and state of the kid, its a crime from the SWAT, if it is actually happened.
3. Unfortunately in any Surveillance state, there is no watch dog to make sure what various wings of the state are actually doing are Right - lawfully, morally and ethically.

There is always a way for them to escape from the charges.
When the parent says "adjudicated" he does not mean one needs to go through a criminal proceeding. If there is a property interest involved[1], the government cannot deprive you of it without due process. The level of process can vary depending on a balancing test and the facts involved, but usually will require some sort of notice and pre-deprivation hearing.

[1] An at-will employee will not have a property interest, but a government employee with a contract will.
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Proposal: Darpan – People Directory for companies
Sure, it looks like code (in fact, VHDL's syntax is purposefully similar to ADA), but it sure isn't code.

Computer science grad here. I had to keep reminding myself about the HDL part of VHDL. It's not algorithmic description like programming is, but hardware description.
The Srebrenica massacre was less than 20 years ago.
No, the war on drugs is not the root cause. If there was no war on drugs there would be a war on alcohol or gambling or sex or homelessness...

- Who benefits from a war on drugs?

1. prison industrial complex - guard unions, vendors for food, uniforms

2. drug cartels - controlling supply like DeBeers does with diamonds

3. drug enforcement agencies (see above)

4. fear mongers - anyone who uses fear as an argument in debate over immigration, gun rights/control, war

- Why does this work?

Some citizens do not recognize that it is happening, some don't know how change it, some are too busy trying to survive.

- Why dont people know that stuff?

Lack of critical thinking skills, logic, applied math.

- Why?

Our schools are segregated by race and wealth. Our curriculum is geared towards testing instead of teaching. Our teachers are poor. Our students are hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and always tired and hungry.

Conclusion: The root cause is that our system of governance has been allowed to become corrupt due to a largely uneducated and poor citizenry.

We are one of the most prosperous nations in the history of humanity.

Why are we poor and uneducated?
Go onto youtube and search for "german police beating". There are hours of footage of German police kicking the crap out of protesters (punches to the face, etc). The German police are notorious for being very physical.
Me:

> It would be a non-violent crime, probably. Non-violent crimes shouldn't result in swat teams.

Where in here do you see 'hard drug ring'? Or 'hard drugs'?

You:

> I don't think "nonviolent" is a good description of a lot of hard drug rings. They aren't being violent right at the moment, but if they see a cop standing outside the door, they very well might just shoot him. No-knock warrants are by and large a horrible thing and SWAT teams are drastically overused, but that doesn't make the problem they are meant to address any less real.

> This seems so disconnected from my comment that I'm not even sure you responded to the right one. Either you mis-replied or you have mentally transformed me into a bizarre caricature of what people who don't completely agree with you must be like.

Funny, I thought that is what your comment was.

I was talking about no knock warrants on nonviolent crimes and you make the false claim I was talking about armed, hard drug criminal organizations. That somehow them being "overused" makes the problem "less real".

I never claimed the problem wasn't real either. I claimed they shouldn't be used in relation to non-violent crimes/criminals in general.
I’m freakishly good with email. This is my trick.
A few years seems reasonable but when people go straight into rails and build apps in a few months without any prior knowledge I'm starting to think if i should go on that path as well.
Depends, how fast can you run from our future robot overlords. Point being, noise should be the the least of concerns http://rt.com/news/167168-riot-control-pepper-spray-drone/
Also motorcycles, airplanes, some cars and quite many people.
I really don't think so. Positivism is more a feature of how philosophers of science tried for a while to describe science than it is of actual science. And it seemed to fall out of favor decades ago. Actual science is marked by commonsense, naive realism. It has more in common with how a plumber looks for a leak than with most of the formalisms dreamed up by philosophers.

EDIT: And this is the big one that the article leaves out: the main complaint by scientists against philosophy is that it's so often wrong, especially about science. Many scientists who get curious about philosophy dip into some "philosophy of science" for obvious reasons, and don't recognize there any of the descriptions of the science that they're familiar with. And when philosophers try to apply their general principles to instruct is about how the universe works, they're even more wrong. Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy is a good introduction to this wrongness. He devotes a good deal of it to showing how Kant derived so many wrong conclusions about physics that he thought must be true because of general principles.