skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no, unless you count any passenger rail or air systems as "successful" and "private." But that's not really a sufficient argument.

Well actually that is not bad. I mean air systems are private and they work. So a good argument. Not without heavy regulation but nevertheless. Now, one can argue that looking at just aircraft flying in the sky is not enough, one has to obviously look at airports. And there it is back to government allocating and sponsoring development.

What about passenger rail? I can't think successful modern national-level private passenger rail systems.

> Does that mean I don't get to propose new solutions and argue for why I think they should work?

Sorry, I meant the difference between just showing that highways produce some inefficiencies. That is not hard to do, it is a simple argument in a way. Some imminent domain is taken, government paid for some of it. Makes rail more expensive, so can't quite compete with it. Is that a basic rehash? A more interesting argument is to propose something that works. Say, privatize roads. How would that work and why are there no large scale examples of it, if it is supposedly a good idea.

> I can make an argument for how libertarianism

I guess I misunderstood your argument as more being about showing an inefficiency in a government run project. That is not too hard. But what to do about it. It might seem "privatise" is the clear answer. But the other answer is "not have it at all" or have something else, or even enhance government control over it.

We are almost there with the post office. It is inefficient, outdated, and dying. But it still delivers mail to places where it makes no financial sense to deliver for someone like FedEx. If USPO shut down, I think necessarily in many places there would anything in its places. Maybe that is the correct answer or maybe it isn't.
Let me give a concrete example:

In the WWII Pacific Campaign, the overall allied strategy was called "Island Hopping" and the intent was to establish a chain of bases to allow the supply of airfields within range of Japan, and bypass most of the islands the Japanese had conquered. Anything action beyond achieving that goal was superfluous.

In one campaign an Australian field commander on a disputed island fought a vigorous offensive against the Japanese garrison. His job was defending the airfield, but as a consequence of his excellent leadership and tactics, he managed to capture almost the entire garrison with little loss.

MacArthur was, reportedly, furious:

1) The Japanese garrison was starving and almost out of ammo and posed no real threat.

2) Now supplies would need to be diverted to deal with the Japanese prisoners.

3) Ammunition and other supplies had been wasted and lives put at risk to achieve non-objectives.

Great tactics, but counter to the strategy, and thus unproductive.

A more recent example:

The US invasion of Iraq was a superbly executed piece of tactical planning and execution in pursuit of an idiotic (stated) strategy (conquer Iraq, the people will happily become democratic, and the Middle East will be inspired by their wonderful example). It's possible the real strategy was to generate business for large defense contractors, in which case job well done. Bravo.
it may be sensory overload, variant by person. for me, it's definitely light. i feel fried and cranky within minutes of being in bright sunlight.

i use a program similar to flux and, while it's shifted going to sleep a couple of hours earlier, i still have as much difficulty getting to work by 9. maybe i'm still working through decades of deprivation.
Thank you for your efforts. Some people may be giving you flack for "making just another Go web framework", but I wouldn't even be looking at a Go web framework if it was using reflection. Sometimes, you just don't want to pay the performance tax of reflection. I'd actually reckon that the use of reflection is a common reason for why you see alternate implementations of many libraries (i.e. JSON encoders)
Even if they release the original design files, it won't be open source hardware. Requiring binary blobs clearly violates the Necessary Hardware Criterion. See the OSH Definition 1.0:

http://www.oshwa.org/definition/
Most bureaucrats are smart. Most politicians are smart. When you lament why the people in charge seem so dumb, its probably worth reflecting that they're still in charge. They understand something you don't.
iPhone app feedback please. Comments/Critiques, thanks
>The two techniques that most help me to fall asleep when I’m under pressure are to write down what’s on my mind (to get it off my mind) and to breathe deeply if I’m still staying awake — in to a count of three, out to a count of six.

A friend of mine once told me as I was feigning sleep one evening as usual to: "just breathe like you are already asleep"

And 5 minutes later I was out like a light.
I'd look. I'd wonder whether I could afford still more luxuries. I wouldn't stress about it much, though I don't stress about it all that much presently.
I bet if you reworded your post to remove the offensive analogies to the mentally disabled, then framed it as a list of common myths and their polite rebuttals, you'd be upvoted instead of downvoted.
SPY 1 year return is 22%. It's cool if you want to buy single stocks and not index funds, but you should diversify your holdings. At least purchase 5 more names.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversification_(finance)
Second project should be a Library for rigorous verification of non-linear arithmetic, but was empty, save for a readme and license: https://github.com/nasa/Kodiak

Or, is that a punny statement about non-linear arithmetic?
Seems like a weird attitude.
Almost everyone with the resources to do so is going to want their app distributed as widely as possible across multiple platforms.
Personally if I was at Apple I would be accepting that and trying my best to make iOS the platform you have the best dev experience on so that you are encouraged to put as much time as possible into the iOS app and update it more or at least as regularly as elsewhere.
Yes, startups have a structural advantage.
A common example of this is an intersection. But even without that example, I don't know how that could ruin the explanation. Zero switching time is just used to simplify the analysis, the overall phenomenon should be clear.
That is assuming the same type of cars and same driving patterns will be used. I actually think cars have a horrible user experience so there is plenty of room for innovation and improvement; you are stuck in a seat, can't move your legs much, have no workspace in the back seat, I have to maintain my own car, gasoline is expensive, etc.
Though if you're invested in Chrome apps, at the end of the day it's still web technologies. It'll run anywhere, even if Google is backing off. In some ways it's a safer bet for developers.
+1, I've seen this talk, very approachable.
Halfway into The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I only just saw this and with the time decay on posts it's too late to do much. The submitter's welcome to repost it with the url, though.
Abacus (YC W14) is hiring iOS engineers in NYC
This is yet one more piece of evidence on the mountain that came before that the FISA court is a kangaroo court rubber-stamp approval engine, not a court of thoughtful application of the Constitution. Over 35 years, they approved 35,000 requests and denied 11, while coaching the government (in that nice ex-parte fashion) how to ask in a way that would get approval.

This should be shocking, but all it is is evidence that the court got tired of doing all that one-off rubber-stamping and just got a bigger stamp.
> I agree that people shouldn't exaggerate their skills but you need to be cautious about how you go about proving that they do not. It's easy to prove that someone is clueless by quizzing them about specific technical details or syntax.

I agree, which is why I gave GROUP BY HAVING as an example filter for 'advanced' SQL skills (especially as my team manages data warehousing and analytics).

It's not a minor implementation detail, it's the major tool for filtering on aggregated values - something like 'find customers who have purchased two more products in one month' can either be done as a query of an aggregated sub-query, or as one query using HAVING to filter for customers with a COUNT(*) > 2.

Again, this is only for people claiming advanced skills, and it's not that an 'advanced' feature. I don't expect every developer to know about SQL:2003's window functions, but HAVING has been around since at least 1992.

I agree with not asking silly technicalities, as a Java developer, knowing why new Integer(100) == new Integer(100) but new Integer(1000) != new Integer(1000) is an interesting piece of trivia, but using it in an interview is a waste of everyone's time.
And they're testing it on their own people? http://www.laserpointersafety.com/news/news/nonaviation-inci...
> That sort of manic movement is, I think, what really sets apart the elite FPS players of the Doom, Quake, and UT era

In those days, my friends and I used to get into UT quite a lot. Most of the more experienced UT players I watched would use the double-tap of the left/right arrow button to trigger the short sideways leap as a means of rounding a corner (for a better chance of surprising an enemy), or to make it harder for an enemy to keep a bead on them when they were being fired on. I was always surprised at how - to me at least - this simple mechanic made such a difference to how dynamic the combat felt.
I was always amazed at how many people would paint the eyes on a portrait with white, when the eyes are one of the darkest areas on the face.
I've been using Plug for about a year, and I have to say it's my favorite player. The past month I've also started using SoundMate and Radiant, but I still feel that Plug is the smoothest and least in the way.
There's some interesting stuff in the "Second Amended Order Granting Ex Parte Application for a TRO":

"4. There is good cause to believe that Defendant Vitalwerks has engaged in and is likely to engage in acts or practices that violate the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (15 U.S.C. § 1125) and the common law of negligence, and that Microsoft is, therefore, likely to prevail on the merits of this action."

According to Wikipedia:

"The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), is an American law enacted in 1999 and that established a cause of action for registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name confusingly similar to, or dilutive of, a trademark or personal name."[1]

The Order also states:

"All Malware Defendants: ... Using sub-domains containing Microsoft’s protected marks ..."

So this suggests that Vitalwerks (doing business as No-IP.com) may have been helping distribute the malware by registering innocent-looking domains for the victims to click on (something like "microsoft.com.malware.me").

I'd find it hard to believe that a legitimate company that registers domain names for its users wouldn't have a mechanism to filter out obviously fraudulent ones (especially since there's a law that prohibits the use of such domain names). There aren't really any legitimate reasons to have a domain beginning with "microsoft.com.", for example, unless you happen to be Microsoft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Pr...
If you think Detroit is out of touch and slow moving I can hardly believe you're advocating getting hundreds of municiple governments involved.
I think it's really cool that you're writing this library for Go. It will be nice to have some native GUI library.

When it's further along, you should consider giving people some way to exploit platform-specific GUI features. Something that gives people that ability to be portable if they want, but also optionally use platform-specific GUI features would be the Go-like way to do things (as opposed to the Java-like way of bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator.)

Multithreaded GUI toolkits do seem to be hard. My favorite essay on this is:
https://weblogs.java.net/blog/2004/10/19/multithreaded-toolk...

It sounds like you may have encountered some of the same issues. The new handler design seems sensible.
Because the trick Knuth pulls is to express this intuition without appealing to the definition of probability. It's quite clever.
I'm surprised there was a big demand for this service. Most (all?) laundromats, car washes, other "coin-op" services already have change machines. Many that I've used also take credit cards. Heck even the Coke machine in my office takes credit cards.
Awesome Airplane Proposal
Most "coin-op" services I've seen that take credit cards issue tokens instead of real quarters. I guess that is why.
OK, my bad, I should compare LXC which is basically chroot, like jails or zones.

What I am trying to say is that chrooted envs for process segregation (like running a separate mysql instance) is not such new and exciting idea, and it has more disadvantages than benefits, at least for production use. (It is substantially slower and unpredictable due to memory access and I/O bottlenecks).

On the other hand, for 98% of Docker = "containerization" (a new shiny meme) = cool, without even a bit of understanding what LXC is.
Large swathes of Houston are made out of stroads.
While all leap seconds so far have been positive, that is not a requirement. Negative leap seconds are a possibility - one accounted for in any valid implementation.

More significant for this particular suggestion, leap seconds do not occur/become necessary on any nice linear basis. They are tragically bound to the rotation of the Earth, which does not care about what would be nice for us and changes in a non-linear fashion.
Agree 100%. Also, it has serious streaming problems. Don't bother starting a podcast unless it's 100% downloaded.
Today you can more or less stick in 4 x64 cores and forget about it.

That only works for embarrassingly parallel tasks. Start requiring coordination, and today's hardware makes efficient parallelism plus concurrency hard.
Pretty much all botnets target consumer devices and thus have ip addresses that are common for consumer devices. I'm not sure I buy that a mobile IP is worth more than a Comcast one, especially factoring in the available bandwidth.
Yeah, but it only works for Python sessions, right? doitlive does shell and Python sessions. Perhaps other kinds some day?
My budget won't allow me to get an i7 processor unfortunately, unless I limit myself to only 8gb ram (vs 16 with the i5).

I'm coming from web development to ios development, so I'm not sure if I'm going to be taking advantage of hyperthreading.
I should be clear that I'm only referring to the superficial characteristics about the frameworks. Nothing about the API itself seems very corporate. Thanks for the pointer to the performance characteristics. I'm interested in differentiating factors.
There is a trend of minimalism in software system naming. I personally like it, SEO is overrated.
> Google doesn't have the experience with liability that traditional automobile manufacturers

Consider how Elon Musk is disrupting entire industries by refusing to think like this. IMO inexperience can be an advantage when competing with an entrenched industry. And experience can easily be bought where needed by a well funded company.
Do you draw severely jaundiced people? A human eyeball is white, outside the iris.
Brainfuck is just a set of symbols that map to the actions a Turing machine can make. I believe that the symbols themselves were chosen to make it difficult to read and write much like Whitespace. As for Turing machines, I'm sure there are programming books about them but I'm pretty sure their point is about studying computational theory rather than practical use.
Not so much functional as just useful methods for working with arrays / maps. It would be functional to include a compose method... also currying is going to be painful because of how the arguments are structured (data first).
They're not exaggerating. Over the course of a decade.

DTC (Denver Tech Center) and Centennial Airport sprawled for miles around with tech companies and their employees who migrated from Southern California.

In the North West (Broomfield) around the Front Range Airport (or whatever they call it these days) tech companies and R&D centers started popping up all around Interlocken including Sun Microsystems.

Boulder is home to a number of smaller tech startups including SparkFun Electronics, and a Google facility downtown.

In the South West Lockheed Martin has a number of facilities that work on space systems (ie rockets, satellites).

Downtown Denver doesn't have much in terms of tech but the city is going through an urban revival and the light rail system is supposed to connect it all together (if they ever build the northwest rail line).

High wages and increased standard of living are a win/win.
Bah. I raided an Egyptian tomb, and ever since I've been followed around by smart people. They talk complex philosophy, discuss string theory, rave about Haskel, and talk about some the boast some French fella or another wrote in some book (in the margins I think). It's really annoying. Now that's a curse.

This article is just about how smart people have issues just like everyone else. Gee.

Edit: Ooh, some of "smart" people can't take a joke.
The color is white. The shading is usually not.
I am guilty of imposter syndrome, however I recently heard myself speak about a subject I care a lot about. And I giggled because I actually sound smart. That was a revelation, although I am still not convinced.
How to program an AI
High IQ people have the "clever silly" problem.

"... an increasing relative level of IQ brings with it a tendency differentially to over-use general intelligence in problem-solving, and to over-ride those instinctive and spontaneous forms of evolved behaviour which could be termed common sense. Preferential use of abstract analysis is often useful when dealing with the many evolutionary novelties to be found in modernizing societies; but is not usually useful for dealing with social and psychological problems for which humans have evolved ‘domain-specific’ adaptive behaviours. ... when it comes to solving social problems, the most intelligent people are more likely than those of average intelligence to have novel but silly ideas"

http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2009/11/clever-sillies...
That is a problem with Facebook too, I know a lot of women get many unsolicited friendship requests.

I guess it will be a problem with any social network for that matter. Unless you get a totally protected account, like you are invisible to everyone else, except those with whom you want to be friends.

But then for a such thing, email and Whatsapp groups work just fine.
Try and query anything.no-ip.biz. At the moment, I'm getting regular timeouts on queries to both ns7.microsoftinternetsafety.net and ns8.microsoftinternetsafety.net. It shouldn't take much for microsoft to log all incoming dns requests and put in an NS record to let traffic continue flowing down to no-ip's actual nameservers. A simple `dig whatever.no-ip.biz @a.root-servers.net +trace` will show you this.
The principle only holds if you are comparing switching between north-south or south-north. If you compare switching to not switching, it doesn't hold.
> making it possible

Possible if you have a giant antenna and a large power source attached to your phone. I'll believe it when I see it. Getting LTE over that distance is very unlikely to work with standard hardware. Also consider that the Balloons power is very limited compared to a base station on the ground.
Total property tax rate (school + city) is between 2.7 and 3 percent, depending on valuation. I live in an area with fairly moderate swings in valuation.

In small cities like mine, it's killing the housing stock, as taxes are increasing faster than wages, and people are deferring maintenance.
> Clearly the end game for self driving automobiles is far, far fewer cars in the world. [...] Of course Google and Detroit aren't going to see eye to eye on this.

Arguably, reducing the number of cars in existence at any given time doesn't reduce the number of cars sold. Rather, you'd have to reduce the rate at which they wear out and/or reduce peoples' reliance on transportation.
Quite common, actually. Check out the Racket list documentation[1] or the Common Lisp list docs[2], for example.

1. http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/pairs.html

2. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node149.html
"no one in her right mind will penalize you for not being immediately available"

Not deliberately, but depending on how bad they need to fill the hole, they may find someone good enough that they don't bother holding out to see if you're better...
Both of my kids went through Suzuki string programs. I'll admit that I was skeptical due to some of the criticisms noted in your link. I learned according to what my teachers called the "European" method that focused on reading from the very first note.

However, what I've observed is that most American teachers don't adhere strictly to Suzuki's methods. Within the space of no more than a couple years, most kids are reading, and using repertoire from outside of the "official" Suzuki books. In other words they're sight-reading by age 10.

Both of my kids now read quite well, but they also pick things up by ear easily, for instance fiddle tunes or even popular music.

Now, I follow web forums for bassists, and the issue of reading is phenomenally divisive. As I understand it, most guitarists and electric bassists learn to play without reading standard music notation, and there is relatively little written literature available for popular music genres. A fair number of transcribed bass parts from recordings circulate in tabulature format.

There is somewhat of a division in the music world depending on reading skill, but plenty of enjoyment to be had on either side. I happen to be both a fluent sight-reader and good ear player, but I'm lucky to play in situations that exercise both of those skills regularly.
You used to be able to buy bags of coins from the US Mint at cost using a credit card. Some clever folk would continuously buy coins on their credit card then turn around and deposit them in their bank to immediately pay off the credit card bill. They did this to rack up airline miles or something like that. That is why you can't buy money at cost with a credit card.
In my opinion, this is not a problem. Tinkering with small things is tough but it is the way to go. This tells that you care not only about the big functionality but also small nitty-gritty stuff that makes big difference at the end.

One suggestion that I can give is to give undivided focus to any particular task (say icons) and not worry about time until you get it right. Mind you, you may revisit and change it again.

In case of a doubt, push it to A/B testing.

So, keep calm and carry on :)
That's the very first option everyone turns off because it gets in the way.
Luboš Motl reviewed it. http://motls.blogspot.com/2014/05/constructor-theory-deutsch...

He didn't like it, as if there were any doubt.
Maybe it's lovely now. Twenty years ago it was a dump, literally ... the TAMU socialist party newsletter (yes, really!) busted employees from the local Elf/Atochem factory dumping arsenic into the local reservoirs at midnight.
In retrospect this might literally be money laundering.
Perl got it's inspiration from many languages.
See Wikipedia or the original Perl book. Including BASIC, but that's not mentioned in Wikipedia.
> There is a reason Apple does what it does (supposedly to match a real keyboard) but it's not strong and doesn't matter.

Wow. Really? That a silly reason for an otherwise indefensible UI decision. I really wish the iOS keyboard changed case. Ever since iOS 7, I can't tell whether shift is on or off. Maybe I'm just an idiot, but sometimes I fumble with it a half dozen times before getting it right. It's worse than trying to plug in a USB cable.