skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A really sly option would be to, effectively, allow infinitesimals. So 10/0 would return 10/0 (perhaps a kind of NaN but with more information retained), and if you multiplied it by 0 elsewhere you'd get 10. Probably a bad idea for novice programmers but interesting to consider.
To be fair, you probably wouldn't have been caught for most of that stuff unless you were doing it during school hours, on school grounds. The knee-jerk massive overreaction stuff is mostly perpetrated by school administrations, whose primary concern is preventing a lawsuit, not contributing to the child's development.
I seriously don't know how myself and my brothers survived. The article was more then just familiar it was growing up. Now that I'm a dad it's hard to think of letting my son do the same crazy/stupid things however I know it's better that he does rather then be scared of the world.
I am the "free range" parent and my wife is more of a helicopter parent–which is weird because my wife got in way more trouble as a teen.

When I was a kid, I took my BB guns places I shouldn't have, I never owned a bike helmet, and trampolines didn't have safety nets. Other than some things like that, I let my kids (ages 6, 8, 9) do as they please during their free time. My over-arching rules for them are "have fun, be kind to each other, and be safe". I'm sure I'll have to set more specific boundaries as they get old but for now it's fun to watch them just be fun, wild, dirty, creative kids.

(on a side note, I'm not sure "delinquency" is the term Id use)
I've just used the open source code to make one for the Australian Parliament, @AussieParlEdits
Um. ...red-heads...? Do you mean hotheads, perhaps?
Because you can't do that from within javascript, and my HTML was really just a stub to load all the javascript I didn't want to have to otherwise deal with.
I think illumen is referring to the concept of "deterministic destruction", which exists in refcounted languages but not in GC'd ones. It's not quite the same as "determinism".
Worse yet, just return the highest possible value of the data type. Probably a 32bit integer.
The rule is that unlike real life, fiction has to make sense.
Though HSA isn't just about CPU-GPU coherence. It includes DSPs, etc. TI makes plenty of DSPs. Not sure about Samsung.
But in which monitoring system is that a problem? I've just never seen it.
Ask HN: List of companies with 4-day work week?
Which companies do you know have 4-day work week?
If the US were not that culturally focused on suing each other until death for stuff like spilling yourself with hot coffee and then suing McD for damages, kids in the US could be kids again.
Pretty sure your comment was tongue in cheek, but as a parallel to the older generations and this guy - consider that an autobiography is the author voluntarily revealing details about their life to a potentially massive audience. This is the same sort of thing, but without the narrative. It's also a work of art.
More info on the toaster oven: http://hforsten.com/toaster-oven-reflow-controller.html
Bazinga? The picture of the street with water in it was actually from tears of fans.
Visual Basic has this mode. See 'on error resume next':
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa266173(v=vs.60).as...
Well, then.
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index also relevant
In the case where the reader doesn't understand `.join()`, they should look up the following page and read its documentation (which is about as clear as it can possibly be):
https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html#multi...

Also, I would suggest that the physicist in your example hire a software practitioner [who can be expected to know 'join'] to write his software correctly (rather than trying to half-ass it himself).
The short version: I've been reading a lot about the World Cup and why locals didn't want it despite their devotion to football, it inspired me. The semifinal game made it that much more urgent as the country now feels like they lost a war.

I would like to expand the program into all of Latin America once we "fine tune" our ideas.

I'm sure it is, that is exactly why I want to find some natives to work with.

I hope Argentina wins today, no one is giving this team enough credit. Messi is great but there are a lot of other playmakers on this XI.
Ask HN: Easiest way to get tabular data on the web for people to slice and dice?
I have a some public data that I've rescued from PDFs, turning them into regular CSV files. In total, it's about 20,000 data points, about 2 megs in size. I'd like for people to be able to do reporting, generate graphs, etc without my involvement. I'm not averse to renting an AWS instance to host the data and whatever is needed to allow people to display and render it. The data is in a standard form (now, after I worked it over) so it would be trivial to set up a database with 10 tables, but it's the user-driven reporting and graphing I have no idea about.
Write less but do more #JavaScript
That's the idea behind the Reader pattern: http://blog.originate.com/blog/2013/10/21/reader-monad-for-d...

Essentially, your business logic operations return a function of Implementation => Result, rather than just your Result, and you then call the function with whatever implementation you need at the edges of your application.
Seems to be a meme that "back in my day kids just played and that was good!" Yeah, sure I played with Lawn Darts that were basically 12" long pieces of flying death, but I'm pretty sure I was lucky not to get injured. I try and get my son off the computer to do things, but I feel all these articles are more anecdotal than factual. I let my son fire of fireworks and what have you, but having had to rush the neighbor's kid "who doesn't get much supervision" to the hospital, I can say there is no invulnerability shield around children. They should play and have some risks, but as I was recounting just yesterday how I engulfed my childhood best friend in a giant fireball from a a gasoline fire, I was thinking maybe there are some things kids don't need to be doing...
What was living in Brazil like?

That's what I read too. It is sad, Brazil could be so much greater if it truly supported it's people.

Where can I do that?

I am Indian, my country's problems are very similar.
This is the FIRST article I have ever read that gave me a no bs explanation on what bitcoins really are. It was a great read. Thanks.
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Firms Using Malware-Laden Handheld Scanners
Compile time around third party code, or just yours? Because I was trying to extract a point of difference where AOP does something you couldn't do otherwise.
I liked the ternary operator where you provide an alternate value in case the denumerator is 0.

One more idea I didn't see is to mark the variable as "invalid". A general "this variable doesn't have a value because the program did something bad", which carries a full stack trace with itself. Then, if you ever use that value anywhere, the result is again invalid, with the new operation attempted on top (i.e. if the invalid value ever appears in an expression, the entire expression yields invalid and no function calls are attempted; an exception would be boolean operators - true or invalid is true and false and invalid is false - there may be other exceptions to that, too). Once that value is no longer referenced anywhere, you log a nice long description of the entire chain where things were wrong and continue business as usual. Maybe email the trace to the project lead or something.

Something like the Maybe monad basically. It will work with anything else that can fail, too, and you can allow people to construct their own invalids. And the program will continue to run as long as the error isn't too deep, which is what is really wanted here, I think.
The basis of the components do not matter. We make judgements on the whole.

In the UK a shotgun is simply a series of tubes with some minor metallic parts. Does not mean because tubes and hammers are legal you are allowed to build one and own it.

Seriously; this is like arguing with a child. Stick to technology and leave the law to actual lawyers and Judges. You don't have the reasoning for it.
Wow, I had mistakenly assumed that you couldn't do 0.8 mm BGAs on a hobbyist-level PCB. The solder lands are actually within recommendations.

The author mentioned that this is a test board without much hooked up. That really helps, since not every pin needs to be broken out. On a more complex design with higher pin coverage you'd need more layers to be able to route it all.
Let's not. If you are incapable of understanding why your comment is flawed then we are going nowhere.

How about you explain which parts of your comment were intelligent?
Caviar is the only reason to order food in Manhattan. Time after time, they have done the right thing by me. They are on the top of the charts with customer service and relationship management. They could seminar school 99% of businesses out there on how to do right by people. And, this says nothing about the quality of the restaurants they provide. Truly world class, and I hope the GPs make a killing on their equity stake. ;p
An Amazing DIY Single Board ARM Computer with BGA
A common misconception.

There are no European security interests in invading mid-eastern or latin-american countries, propping up dictators and toppling democratic governments in these regions and creating/financing the next wave of "terrorists", so that tab is all yours.

Furthermore, there is no "on your behalf" for the troops stationed in Europe. While some would argue that these are occupying forces in all but name, it's really in many cases just a convenient staging area for operations in the middle east.

In addition, and this tends to be forgotten, the nuclear shield is not a sign of generosity, but simply a tool to maintain US nuclear supremacy, by trading protection under the shield for a guarantee that those nuclear-capable countries under the shield don't, in fact, go nuclear.

US troops are stationed in those countries as assurance, human shields so to speak: if those countries are hit with nuclear strikes, US troops will die, ensuring a US retaliatory response.
I think it's reasonable to replace "which is weird because" with "which makes sense because" in this remark.

The version of your rules that I grew up with was "trust God and do Good". Religious angst aside, I don't think there's a minimum age for being able to tell the difference between serious, considered principles and ridiculous, unfounded assertions like "If you don't wear a helmet, you will get hit by a car and die."
This was also featured on hackaday
http://hackaday.com/2014/07/11/an-amazing-diy-single-board-a...
Origami in Space[video]
The woman in Liebeck v. McDonald's [1] suffered third degree burns to 6% of her body and had to have skin grafts. The coffee was served around 180-190F (82-88C).

On the face of it, it may sound like a frivolous law suit but if you look into the details, it was far from it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restauran...
Yes. Pedantically speaking his solution may be faster for the pathological case of the input consisting almost entirely of duplicates.
I think it's the only language I have worked with that's so happy to chug along and ignore errors that arise in execution

Other technologies designed to render content for web browsers do this also, such as javascript and the django template rendering engine.
Is your argument that certain crimes are not crimes in your eyes?

You must see how that is completely incompatible with any functioning society. You have decided arbitrarily, in opposition to the majority of society according to our legal and civic models, that you are going to ignore the law regarding DRM?

That is fine. But you would be the first to call the police if people decided to ignore the law and it negatively impacted you. Your hypocritcal attitude is equalling breathtaking and juvenile.

Ultimately you believe "the law should stand except when I want something; then I should be allowed to steal it because the internetz and copyright is slaveries and yada yada...

Honestly. Grow up.
Any differences from Zite (now owned by Flipboard)?
> At least that's what C and C++ do. And it's useful for optimizers,

And for security exploits.
Did she think it was ice-coffee? Had she ordered an ice-frappe and been delivered hot coffee which is typically made with freshly boiled water?
> One more idea I didn't see is to mark the variable as "invalid".

That's what NaN is.
Really? 7 days experience. Wow.
After watching the video I think Ill wait for your intro to selling cars course.
Should've called it clesthora's eye
What do you think about the approach taken by http://random.co?

http://www.datascienceweekly.org/blog/19-random-predictive-c...

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Everyone's reality consists of unique connections between things. To someone "art" is more strongly connected to "abstract art" than "photorealistic art". For someone else "art" refers most strongly to "oil paintings". Our system tries to capture and understand what kind of unique connections an individual has. Random tries to understand what "art" means to you personally and what kind of related things might be interesting to you.

The app also allows you to connect things freely thus letting you express both your rational and irrational self. There're no universal categories or connections between different things - rather it's about an individual's own "ontology" that's created through usage. The "associative ontology" evolves continuously both through the actions of the individual and other people using the system.

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Well, private colleges are essentially businesses. I'm not sure if the government can mandate them to release information about their... clients?

That said, we don't need super personal data. Summary statistics would be fine.

On that note, the NPR article cites this survey[1], wherein participating private colleges contributed data that was then used to calculate aggregate statistics about students in the US in general.

What we'd want is probably more specific than that. We need per-school statistics, so that trends in how colleges charge and discount may be identified (what if colleges on the East coast are more likely to mark down tuition? What if advertised tuitions are relatively constant, but actual tuition paid varies with cost of living? these are interesting threads to explore). The difference between the average student's tuition after grants and the sticker price, along with the standard deviation of that distribution, would be a good place to start. Quantiles would be even better.

[1] http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/about/pressreleases/2013TDSP...
Machine Learning with Torch7
The article fails to realise that in most of the anecdotes retold; today the state would intervene at the behest of a neighbour and "I read it in the New York Times" will not really prevent the investigation into why you allowed your child to play with knives, live for 3 days at the top of a slag heap of rubble or hold a loaded handgun.

Also - teenage mortality has reduced drastically[1]. It's hard to argue that could be a bad thing.

It is probably because we don't let them (wherever possible) carry out activities that might kill themselves.

I am a parent of 3; I will happily take my children mountain climbing, skiing, snowboarding, trekking, wild swimming. In a few years we plan to trek to Everest Base Camp and they are coming with me to the Andes.

We engage in controlled risk. If they break a limb skiing then they break a limb skiing. They pushed beyond their abilities in some way. I don't need to give them wrappers of cocaine from a criminal and a handgun to be a better parent.

There is also a very real risk of the "Tom Sawyer" bias. Each generation thinks their generation took greater risks and had more vivid adventures than the one previous. The cognitive dissonance curiously avoids the higher levels of child abuse, abduction, injury, poisoning, asphyxiation, malnutrition and disease. My father used to have great adventures playing as a child in asbestos riddled houses. You can talk to his friends about it sometimes...well the few that have not died before 60.

Oh look here is a group of kids that used lethal asbestos as chalk. [2] They really learned a valuable lesson about ad-hoc citizenry there.

[1]http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/gezondheid-welzijn/publi...
[2]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-24942338
Technicalities: interactive scientific computing #1 of 2, pythonic parts
I like the idea of providing an alternate value or even alternate flow of execution.

The action to take when dividing by 0 is based on context: it is a business behavior. In my opinion, it is no different than any other business requirement (for example: passwords must be longer than 8 characters, etc.).

A language should allow a developer to configure the action to take when a division by zero occurs within a given context: the default being an exception and/or termination of program execution.
Aside from certain areas of abuse like software patents trolling and the huge monetary loss of being involved in lawsuits even if you are innocent, as an immigrant I think that the US judicial system works more-or-less.

Specifically, the hot-coffee lawsuit for McD was IMHO a genuine lawsuit that only gets bandied about because it 'sounds frivolous'. The plaintiff sued because McD was significantly overheating the coffee to reduce costs, much more than expected, and all Liebeck was looking for was to cover her medical expenses for third degree burns. There was the usual - "ignore and be dismissive about the problem" perspective from McD officials that led to heavy punitive damages being awarded by the jury. See more details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restauran...
I realise the article is about Private Colleges but it opens with some fairly odd fears about cheap sushi. The author needn't (necessarily) fear cheap sushi:

1. Sushi doesn't necessarily contain any fish and almost never contains ingredients "flown around the world". You can make a Makizushi or Futomaki roll very cheaply using vegetarian or cured ingredients. Even when it does contain fish, it could be canned tuna or processed crab sticks (less tasty than fresh but durable) or cured salmon.

2. Sushi can only really sit in a display fridge for about 8 hours before the rice dries out. At the end of the day, everything is marked down for quick sale. It's not necessarily poor quality, it just needs to be sold quickly. If you see a sign that says "All sushi, 50% off", this is probably what's going on.
My instinct is to agree with you, but I've not yet found a reasonable justification for compelling a private company to publish the set of prices with which it has transacted with each of a large number of private individuals.

There may be many reasons you want your scholarship/discount information to remain private. Perhaps you got a great deal, and you don't want your roommate to feel bad if s/he didn't? Perhaps you don't want people to know you paid full price or paid zero, thereby exposing that you are at one end of the wealth scale?

Releasing only anonymised data may help with concerns for individual privacy. Degree-granting institutions are licensed by the government, so perhaps you can argue that releasing anonymised data on this sort is a fair trade for being granted that privilege.
I'm really interested in this stuff, and I did some Googling along these lines. The most useful thing I've found so far is this "Common Data Set" initiative[1] that essentially has colleges fill out a form covering basic summary statistics (e.g. total dollars given in financial aid, number of students admitted, etc). You can look up "common data set [college name here]," and probably find their version of the form.

I'll try and do some more research and maybe analyze some of the CDS data tomorrow. If you find anything interesting, please post it as well!

[1] http://www.commondataset.org/
What project oriented Python book will you recommend? Thanks.
Nick this is awesome, thanks! As someone who is just learning C++ for my day job this is a great resource and gateway into rust (and potentially fun side projects).

Just a gentle suggestion, have you considered putting some syntax highlighting on the code portions of your site so that it is more readable? I find it a little hard with the grey on grey scheme even though the Rust itself is super elegant.
The question is - what is the right temperature for hot coffee to be called hot?

Coffee served by McD (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit) will give a person third-degree burns in two to seven seconds, while home-coffee brewers normally serve coffee at much lower temperatures (130 two 140 degrees) which won't immediately burn you. Yes, Starbucks and other joints do serve coffee at the hotter temperatures -- because some customers prefer it -- but then again, they get sued for it also.

Also, she attempted to settle for $20,000 at one point, and McDonald's refused

You may have heard that she got millions of dollars, when the final award was $640,000. Then from that you take out the medical bills (hint: skin grafts aren't cheap).

But she has to take some responsibility, right? She may not have been driving, but she was trying to open the lid in her lap so she could add cream and sugar. That's kind of careless, isn't it? Why couldn't the jury see that?

Well, they did. That's why the compensatory damages portion ($200,000) was reduced by 20 percent, because they ruled it was 20 percent her fault.
Is Siri Making Us Less Polite?
I would be really interested to see your stats change by being effected by different diets. I'm interested in something like Paleo vs Veganism.
I have used MBA 2012 for all the stuff you mentioned with addition to it i also used it for Music Production, and basic video editing.
Try to get one with most RAM, 8GB will be fine.
Goodluck!
> We engage in controlled risk.

This is probably why your children are much less prone to socially objectionable activities; they get it out of their system.

On the other hand, I think it is the easy access of information and videos on the Internet about everything that help younger people be less curious about what will happen if they do this and that. I don't think it is parents stopping their kids or the neighbours calling the police. Neighbours used to call the police in the past too. Those police were the parents themselves.
annotatorjs.org
Doesn't sound good. What age groups are affected by Common Core? I wonder if this helps or hurts the homeschooling crowd.
I'd say the Chinese have been fairly separate from the West, with 3 primary peaks in power (Han dynasty, Tang-Song, and Ming-Qing), with perhaps a 4th (PRC) on the way. So there's been at least two separate hegemons. But in the West it's hard to say when one hegemon is different to another. The Romans spoke a different language from the Greeks, took over by conquest but let the Greek language be spoken in their empire, until the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire "evolved" from the Roman Empire. So you could say the Greeks ruled for 2000 yrs from Alexander the Great (400BC) to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks (1500AD), though the Romans ran things for 500-odd years in the middle. So there's certainly many complications.
Dear America.

THEN != THAN

Thank you for your attention.
Either way, it's likely that reducing the child mortality rate down to zero might have more consequences than just having a bigger percentage of children being able to grow into adults.
Not quite, marking a variable as invalid in this context is essentially a job for the type system. For example, in C, you can have a void* which can be null. This can lead to seg faults, and NaN has the same pitfall. Instead, with the Maybe idea above, the type system explicitly makes you handle the NaN case since the type is a discriminated union. This is like `int?` in C#.
Souq, Dubizzle and Naspers. A bit of analysis
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