skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For French speakers out there, here's the original version: http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Trait%C3%A9_des_excitants_mode...
I recommend trying out Chrome and Chrome developer tools. Very robust without a bunch of third party add-ons.

To add to your list jsfiddle.net is a great tool for testing out small features and experimentation.
80s and 90s Unix.
> As opposed to what? Controlled by Coca-Cola? Starbucks? -- "Do you have a degree?" -- "I sure do, I graduated with MS in coffee arts (MsCA) from Starbucks University, Phoenix". Or just got a "PhD in applied lobbying from Lockheed"

School vouchers are a great alternative to public schools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher
Are you shitting me? Stockman is a grade a douchebag. Let me guess you still think that the IRS scandal is real? Also, I love how not paying your fair share is patriotic somehow.

This site has become a fucking joke.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. FPGAs simply weren't competitive for applications that were limited by sheer floating-point/integer throughput. It's not that they weren't good for a single very narrow application, they weren't good for a very broad swath of compute-intensive applications. That explains the low adoption rates.
> 'cling to a dying lecture/exam model that hasn't evolved for centuries'

It dawned on me this week that Y Combinator itself is structured more like this 'dying lecture/exam model', set in a physical place where 'students' and 'instructors' can interact directly rather than being intermediated by some app, screen or paper. If there is any group in any place who would be more likely to disrupt education by the application of high tech, I'd be surprised. That they adopt a model you say is dying suggests that there may be more life in it that might be expected.
Searched around and haven't found anything to indicate that.

Hogeg's angel fund (the only identified investor) may have multiple people in it, but they could all be _his_ friends and family.
I find that quite wordy, but thank you
Can someone tell me why this is downvoted? We have a similar experience with GHE. I share this sentiment.
The path of mastery is also fractal. You can iterate & zoom in on concepts & practices. Over time, repeating patterns will be seen & seemingly unrelated concepts will be connected in simple ways.
EDIT: The second "the article" should read "the editors".
It makes sense to use pypy if you're writing pure python code. The second you need a C extension, you're pretty much out of luck. This kills a lot of the appeal for people in the scientific/analytics side of things, who make heavy use of legacy C and Fortran routines.
Another quote echoing the exact same sentiment: "One in a million is next Tuesday"

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2004/03/30/104...
"Invested" != "Spent"
Seems a bit unfair as "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" was published in 1948.
I did some reading about the subject when I was still in college, and I gathered that tuition was used to pay the interest on loans the university system took out to fund expansion (e.g. buildings & development) in order to attract more students.
This is bad advice. Dont put a unique_ptr in a container.
My father-in-law works really well as someone I am scared to report key metrics to.

We can always find someone we respect and fear (just a little) and yet has enough business background to make intelligent judgements.

It is really up to us if we want to have the judgement, and put ourselves in thrall to that judgement.
My problem with the terminology is that garbage collection already has a well-defined but different meaning in SSDs.
I believe part of the problem last time was also that a storm was in the recovery area.
> Polymorphism moves the burden of reasoning about types from compile time to run time,

How? Doesn't this depend on the specific kind of polymorphism/implementation of which, rather than being about polymorphism inherently? What if types are erased at compile-time and the compiler generates functions and such for all the relevant types that you need?

> but in practice understanding much of the polymorphic code ive worked on still requires a mental process of "OK, if it's THIS type then this happens; if its THAT type then something else happens."

I think this is impossible with parametric polymorphism - if you say that the input data can be any type, you can't make any assumptions about what type it might be. If the incoming type only has the constraint that it can be tested for equality on other values of the same type, they only function you can use on it is ==, and so on.
Saw that happen.

Adjunct instructors went out of their way to be friendly, and non-confrontational. They would let stuff slide, exam do-overs, class meetings held at coffee shops etc etc.

Tenured professor not giving a damn about teaching, or being at least socially cordial. Some are just complete assholes.

Even saw the the behavior change when a professor got tenure. It was a pretty sharp switch to "don't give a fuck about anything" in a matter of a semester.

I am saying this as an average pattern I noticed, at one particular place, there are exceptions of course...
My primary issue with school vouchers is the poor state of private schools, at least here in GA (outside of the major cities like Atlanta and Savannah). The Catholic schools are decent to good, but often are only K-8. There are few private secular schools. The rest of the private schools are very conservative "Christian Academy" types whose education leaves their students complete morons in some fields (math, science, history, civics; I guess, really, everything).
zecho: "students have been choosing essentially the same degrees for decades, regardless of job prospects in those fields"

Yes, but recently the cost for this education has risen exponentially. We've all known STEM offers great job prospects for over a decade now. There's no reason to put this kind of money out there for a degree that won't pay you back.

Liberal arts educations ARE good; when they're cheap. Paying 10k+ a year for them makes zero sense and people making these decisions aren't thinking clearly.
I'm pretty sure Bionic has diverged quite significantly from BSD libc.
Only for the major unis.

For everyone else... I'm pretty sure sports COSTS money.

That said... keeping a few young ladies running track can't possibly be the cause of the imbalance people are talking about. I'm pretty sure the money is sucked up by administrative and non instructional staff. But without the spreadsheets it is difficult to say anything with certainty.
>As opposed to what? Controlled by Coca-Cola? Starbucks? -- "Do you have a degree?" -- "I sure do, I graduated with MS in coffee arts (MsCA) from Starbucks University, Phoenix". Or just got a "PhD in applied lobbying from Lockheed".

False dichotomy. There are plenty of things that fit in between "rapacious megacorporations" and "government cronies". Like, for example, unsubsidized nonprofit educational institutes. You know, like you might have found in the 19th - first half of the 20th century.
You assholes can downvote all you tucking want. Its still republican bullshit.
Minor note: the openbsd support (at least for 2.x) is amd64 only. Building for i386 at some point requires running a bootstrap process that doesn't fit in memory.
Let me quote from a C++ post:
"We already "fixed" C++ largely by writing sane libraries, by having great compilers and IDEs, detecting issues with linters and so on."

This is how old languages work. You want a nice language? Switch! People get Scala working on Android, I hear.
Your tone is less than constructive and I agree with the down-votes.

But I also have to agree with your assessment given the contents of the article. The bill typifies the sort of "you're so stupid/corrupt/ridiculous we can't even talk with each other" attitude that is causing so many problems of late. "Made me chuckle at those other people" does not constitute good leadership.

edit: the title of the bill is "The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act". Tell me that's not some juvenile and unbecoming of a representative of the government of the united states.
Maybe moving libraries & code to Python 3 should be the priority.
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The OpenBSD Foundation has actually been one of the most receptive projects when it comes to software portability. Yes, they target OpenBSD first, but they provide compatibility shims for all other platforms. In general, their philosophy is that it's better to reuse tried and tested code, rather than reimplement poorly from scratch. And their politics reflect that.
This was using the demo code that was already on the page.
Wait. Minecraft is on (coming?) to the Wii-U? My son would love this, but up until this point we've not been able to find it for Wii-U (which we have for many of the reasons already mentioned).
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I will lay a decent amount of money this is the next meme - it is succinct and yet once you understand applicable everywhere.

I will certainly be quoting the phrase "quality is fractal" - so will you soon:-)
It's pretty arbitrary and dependent on the school. MIT thinks of itself primarily as a science school, so they only award BSes. In contrast, Oxford gives out BAs in everything, even math/physics/computer science.
Steve Stockman is "less than constructive". Anyone who would link to his site is brain dead. Just Google some of the crazy hatred this guy has put out there...
Absolutely. Mastery is knowing what details to pay attention to. When you're learning, you don't know which ones, so you pay attention to all of them until they progressively become more automatic.

This requires a lot of focus and mental energy, but it deeply rewarding in it's own right.
non-dischargeability was probably a 'good intention' gone horribly wrong. Because on the plus side, the student's APRs are lower because the lender can be guaranteed to own a portion of the student's labor for the specified term unless they die. And because the higher educational institutes really ought to be entitled to continue extracting their students' value.
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Interestingly, Leiningen is very much usable as a Maven replacement even for pure Java projects. I've tried it, it works fine. Just specify :java-source-paths in project.clj, and you get all the goodies like lein uberjar for free.
Which spec sheet? Would like to read more about these.
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Rep. Thomas Massie ( https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie ) , who is partially responsible for this:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-statement-massie-l...

is going to serve on a hearing about lost IRS emails soon.

Supposedly, a "crashed computer" caused 2-years worth of Lois Lerner's emails to be lost, though many emails were recovered through "other sources."

He wants to know, does anyone have any questions he should ask the IRS? He says on Facebook that he will personally review all questions sent to him.
>Does anyone know of a representative dataset (by "representative" I mean "not the UC system, not an ivy with >$10b endowment, etc") that would include this information?

All government employee salaries in the state of Texas are public info [0], I used to check out how much my professors made. And how much my dad made. You can see salaries by employer as well. I'm not sure where to find historical salary data but it has to exist somewhere.

[0] http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee...
I doubt executive salaries make up a significant portion of any school's budget. Overpaid non-executive administrators are a much larger cost in aggregate, because there are so many of them.
They just aborted the attempt for today
Launch just got aborted again.
World Cup Visualization
Then my results disagree with yours. Do you have the source code to your benchmark ?
That reminds me of the hilarious talk "The Birth & Death of Javascript" where everything get converted to asm.js, even operating systems.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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You can use these C and Fortran routines on PyPy, just not with the CPython C extension API.
It seems to me that in almost all cases, the "specialty" Courts tend to rule on the side of what they were meant to "judge". If it's a "patent Court", then they will almost always rule in favor of the patents. If it's a spying Court (FISC), then they will rule in favor of the spying, and become a rubberstamp Court for surveillance requests.

So maybe we should get rid of specialty Courts, no?
My team threw this together this week. It's a simple aid to intuition for which World Cup teams are strongest, based on goals scored and goals allowed so far during this world cup.
Looks like they won't go to space today.
http://xkcd.com/1133/
Launch aborted - possibility of trying again in 24hrs
Ask him if he still wants to get rid of healthcare for poor people. How are you guys linking to tea party assholes?
Because it's very tricky to remove.

Ruby also has a GIL.
Like the idea but the page and line layout is problematic. I think at a minimum the text areas should be larger and it should eat a whole line at a time instead of a single word. Somehow I completely lose my place every time I make a mistake.
Bors does have some github integration and it will automatically merge pull requests and I believe it does update the status, but yes, the details of its interactions are by posting normal comments.
I'm not so convinced about the tradeoff.

With your own patches you know exactly the reason and intent for each one - you wrote it! So you can rapidly figure out what to change to make them fit with the new release.

But in reverse you are going to have to grok every new change sent your way, and that it going to be a massive amount of work.

Some of it will be easy stuff: It's clear what they are doing, or it patches cleanly and you don't worry about it.

But then you'll run into more confusing changes and you're going to have a harder time. There is a human tendency to ignore that which you can not understand, and you'll have some of those, then a patch on top of them, and the final result is more work than you started with.
like 'are you asleep ?' ?
the problem is that higher education is the only product aside from used cars in the US which can be sold without an implied warranty of merchantability.
No Child Left Behind is anti-productive. How anyone could believe an education initiative by a president who thinks captain crunch discovered america in 1975 could be of any value is beyond me.
Compiled versus interpreted has no bearing on this. The patent and the source code in it exists only to instruct, and by itself the invention claimed is neither made, sold or used and has no commercial effect. Unless an unlicensed third party does anything with it, it is not being made, used or sold, and so cannot infringe. Software that is lying unused and unexecuted on some computer readable media is still infringing if it was created without license because the act of copying code on to or distributing that media counts as "making" or "selling". I I cannot imagine under what interpretation a patent itself could count as an "unlicensed third party".
sounds like education in Mexico
Something like this:

http://www.spectracomcorp.com/Desktopmodules/Bring2Mind/DMX/...

The units are a bit confusing but the accuracy still translates down to a handful of nanoseconds per month, I believe.
There are many options. Some of the cheaper ones have little or nor external memory, which might be an issue for some projects even though the internal memories in modern FPGAs are getting reasonably large. Some interesting vendors:

http://www.xess.com/
http://papilio.cc/
http://www.terasic.com.tw/en/
“I want to fail on both iOS and Android”
What I hear when a scrappy first-time app entrepreneur with limted resources insists on launching a cross-platform app
Agreed.
The implication is, to change a low-quality X to a high-quality X is a huge amount of work, that scales super-linearly to the complexity of X.
And, reverted: https://github.com/mozilla/servo/pull/2685. Broken on mac. Maybe next week...
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> Building for i386 at some point requires running a bootstrap process that doesn't fit in memory.

Seriously, it takes more than 4gigs to build PyPy? Is that also necessary for other platforms besides OpenBSD?
You explain the concept, but where do you offer any evidence to support it? I don't dismiss the concept, in fact I think its an important one, but if you are making such a bold assertion, you would be well served to have something supporting your claim.
I bet that if we switched to vouchers then you'd see a lot of new private schools catering to a wider audience. It also might be reasonable to exclude private schools with religious instruction from the voucher program.
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Did the part where lots of fire comes out start pointing toward space?
> School vouchers are a great alternative to public schools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher

Are there universities on the voucher system?
Pah. We've already solved the windshield problem, if crudely. Think bigger, and also smaller.

What about glasses/goggles, which are too small for wipers?

What about artificial heart parts, which have problems with blood clotting, presumably because it sticks to the surfaces and stops moving. If we could coat the parts we implant with this stuff, would it prevent blood clots?

Boat hulls.

Skis/snowboards.

Pipes/drains in hard water areas - if the water doesn't stick around, it won't evaporate to leave limescale behind.
I recommend starting at the top and working your way down piece by piece, over coffee of course. Lots and lots of coffee. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31565/31565-h/31565-h.htm

And if you like the translations, I should add that most were completed by four women. In particular, Ellen Marriage who published under the name James Waring.

http://balzacbooks.wordpress.com/translations/
What DO you know or use? Did you think that the GIL was an obvious and stupid oversight made by stupid people for no good reason?
So, for people who aren't tea-party morons, here's what actually happened:

The irs keeps 6 months of emails on tape; when investigators asked for emails in mid-2013, tape was available through late 2012.

Lerner's computer crashed in mid-2011, and there is contemporaneous documentation of this crash.

2011 < 2013, it's not as if she could know that her emails would be requested in the future.

Some emails have been recovered the obvious way -- by querying the other parties.

one of many (nonmoronic) sources: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/06/yet-another-ir...
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Here's a set of questions that anyone in IT who thinks they might
ever be the focus of a similar frenzy might want to consider:

http://sharylattkisson.com/lois-lerners-lost-emails-question...

(basically, it is a long list mostly of: what did you know, when did you know it, and how did you document that?)

Personally, re the e-mails, I'm less inclined to blame malice, and
would look to incompetence, aided by years of patchwork backup and
support processes.
The French Shuffle
He doesn't expect it to actually pass, it's a way of shaming the IRS.

How else should he do it? A strongly worded letter?
Here's [1] data for all the public universities in IL.

[1] http://www.ibhe.state.il.us/PA96266/search.aspx
The problem is simple. Teachers teach because they want to teach, administrators "administrate" for the money. And that's where it goes.

The market won't work right for teachers because some of them would do it for free if they had some other way to eat. To fix it will take more than administration. It will take leadership.
I know the author didn't write the headline, but trolls are not "mortally wounded;" they're barely scratched. This ruling will have little effect. The Supreme court declined to offer any guidance about what "abstract" means, so courts will go on making it up according to the feelings of the presiding judge.

Legislation like the Innovation Act that could be brought back next year would be much more important.
Pluto, it seems, may be accepted back into the club of planets.
Are you sure this is the defense you want to muster? Universities are basically where liberalism/progressivism comes from. It is where it is in its strongest power. Government money everywhere; tuition, research grants, special projects, tax breaks. Administrative staff benevolently administrating massive diversity programs of every kind. 90%+ of the staff are progressives/liberals. Not being progressive/liberal can be pretty much reason to be drummed out. It is the very beating heart of the anti-"capitalist" regime, the blueprint by which they would remake the rest of the world.

And it's still under assault by "little regulation" and "harsh capitalism"? If it's so frail in the real world, then pack it in; the philosophy has no hope of success. It will never find any more fertile ground than it has there. If you don't like the result of decades of liberalism/progressivism's control, perhaps it's time to find a new governing philosophy.
> The second you need a C extension, you're pretty much out of luck.

In theory, shouldn't CFFI be the foundation of the solution to that problem?
> You know, like you might have found in the 19th - first half of the 20th century.

19th century? So it is easier to imagine going back to 19th century than a system with an accessible public university system without student loans.
Coursera + the CLEP exams = real, tested learning, and college credit on the cheap. (Not that you can get a full degree just on the basis of CLEP tests, unfortunately...)
Strongly agree. I'd love to see the study or what Nathan Bowers wrote.
It renders to Canvas, so it should be already possible; three.js even already conveniently allows creating texture from a canvas:

var texture = new THREE.Texture(theCanvas);
texture.needsUpdate = true; //refreshes the texture from the source canvas

Now combine it with React.js to avoid redrawing unless necessary and forward the mouse events back to Webkit.js, and you have an interactive HTML texture :)
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Oh hey, I got bored one day and decided to write a console script to achieve any WPM you want, a gist can be found here: https://gist.github.com/emgeee/9dfa0ac113f933afda0b

As others have mentioned, if you get above 100 WPM they make you do a captcha test to form your AREN'T scripting it, which I can't beat but it was a fun exercise none the less.
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CPython is both compiled and interpreted. His point was that the Python source code does not get interpreted, it gets compiled to bytecode that gets interpreted by a bytecode interpreter (a VM).

He was dispelling the common misconception is that Python is an "interpreted language" and Java is a "compiled language," when the reality is that (in their most common implementations) both of these languages are compiled to bytecode that is then interpreted by a VM.

This is in contrast to both languages that are purely interpreted (like toy Lisp implementations are and I think Ruby MRI used to be) as well as languages that are purely compiled to native binaries (like C/C++, Haskell, Go).