skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't even know what to call the Kickstarter exchanges. You're not allowed to call it a purchase because there may or may not even be a "reward" or "product", especially with projects like Reading Rainbow. It's not a donation, because they can offer rewards and are apparently required to provide them if they are successful.

They do seem to promote the idea that you're making an investment, just without the sort of potential (or scaling) returns you'd see from a conventional investment.
"Fact is, if you can't trust your language because of its type system, you develop tools to build that trust around your particular application of the language. If that is 'too much work for you' .. then by all means, avoid the work by reinventing the wheel."

But aren't those tools (that can build trust) something that could be built-in & available to all users of the language, therefore avoiding "reinventing the wheel"? Why would you want to do by hand something that can be automated?
HPV vaccination jumps to mind.
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The "vaccines cause autism" crowd have been successful in carving out "personal exemptions" from otherwise evenly-enforced rules.
These people do not participate in science.
String[] word_list = {"hat", "dog", "cat"};
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extra brackets but pretty identical
Such nuances are lost in an anonymous internet forum. It doesn't have to be read that way (what does?) but that doesn't matter—look at the effect it has had.
Depending on the resolution you need, the OpenStreetMap derived world coastline may work better:

http://openstreetmapdata.com/data/land-polygons
In contrast this was one of the things I most liked about Everquest (in its early releases).

First, most loot had a reason to be there and some logic to it. You need bone chips? You'd go whack a skeleton. You needed some beetle eyes? Go whack a beetle. Bear meat or skin? Go hunt for bears. It gave the world a cohesiveness and logic that you didn't even have to think about.

Also in the early days you could give mobs items and they would equip them. If you traded a sword and shield with a skeleton and it would drop those back to you when you killed it. This was also pretty cool, because you could tell what damage to expect from the mobs based on what the mob looked like. If it was a skeleton wielding a staff you knew you'd found a catch because those would sell for a pretty penny.

Later on, in subsequent zones that all started to break down a bit more. But overall, I think it kinda retained this in essence. Had the game had a stronger crafting mechanic behind it (instead of being broken from the get go), it would have been quite interesting.

I agree whole heartedly on the just blindly gathering 100's of rat tails or wolf pelts being boring beyond redemption. But there's some charm to being able to hunt for what you need.
Python is definitely more friendly than those you've mentioned. I think as introductory courses, the number one goal to achieve is to get students interested, rather than throw every possible details at them and intimidate them away.
I think Python is the perfect first language for beginners. Yea we all know it's not fast or low level or the best language to teach about types or advanced CS topics etc. But it is extremely readable and easy to understand, it makes coding fun and once the students are engaged and know the basics it is much easier to teach more advanced concepts like typing and memory allocation.
Love this - bringing even more focus to the pain point.
The .info is icing on the cake. I worked for @Comm many years ago (www.atcomm.com) and telling people my email address was always awkward.

"My email address is myname at atcomm dot com"

"Huh??"

"Here's my card."
Well, first let me state that I am not sure what to make of this Non-sovereignty.

However, here are some of the arguments I find interesting:

- A decent amount of videos about this topic can be found on youtube, most of the feature also Schäuble (Minister of Finance) saying that Germany neither is nor ever was souvereign.

- Untampered elections are necessary but not sufficient for democracy. What if you elect someone and the newly elected just do as they please after the election? (see US or Germany)

- free press: This is my personal opinion but I often find that very interesting things happen worldwide and the German press doesn't care or all major journals have the same opinion (example: EU is good, Russia is bad, Ukraine is Putin's fault)
Ask HN: I have a startup idea, how to I look for investors?
I live in London. I came up with a startup idea that may or may not be good, and I would need at least 3 other people to work on it beside me. What's the best way to look for investors?

I imagine I would have to prepare a concept idea and present it to someone, but I have no idea who.
That sucks.

If someone has an opinion, it should be free to be debated. The only way we can fight ignorance in science is with public debate. If someone wants to deny it, fine (otherwise it's not science) but put the hypothesis on the table and let people actually test it and debate it publicly.

The proves only that the BBC has various political opinions and agendas and is not an unbiased source (as many people surely quote).

For ref, not a denier. I hold no opinion (a perpetual state of 'mu') because I haven't read any papers on the subject. I refuse to confuse media and science.

Edit: the down votes proving that rationality doesn't come anywhere near this discussion...
I do think it is both right to view the problem as a savings glut and a genuine lack of worthwhile opportunities for the entities responsible for the savings glut. Why? Because the entities responsible for the savings glut, the multinationals, are the biggest hegemons the world has ever seen.

There is a plethora of good opportunities to be exploited out in the world, but not if you're holding $180 billion in savings (I'm looking at you Apple). These huge savings gluts are, effectively, liquidity traps, because these entities (besides, perhaps, governments) can't possibly hope to effectively deploy such large amounts of capital effectively. Add to the mix that inflation is so low, and hanging on to vast sums of cash starts to look like one of the least foolish things the Fortune 500 are doing right now. There isn't a shortage of good opportunities, it's just that good opportunities look so tiny to the big boys.

I don't have much hope that targeting a higher inflation rate will do much, but I think it's worth a shot.
I assure you that is not an advertisement.
Next up: muting people who don't agree with the fact that inflation is good because the only people who deny it don't participate in economics.
> If someone points out a subtle-ism it seems like it would be fine to ask for clarification and/or additional concrete examples.

Or to reject the accusation. That's also fine. It's fine especially when the accusation is absolute and utter bullshit.

If you think your accusation has merit, see me in court.
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These articles are accurate. Of course - can we also agree that the US Government post WW-2, coming off the largest war-time mobilization in history, is not the same government we have today?

To say that the government had a huge hand in silicon valley, and thus all government efforts to produce commerce and innovation are going to have equal results, confuses the issue. (not to mention the universities have changed too). Which I think is the point of most of these pieces.
Firefly is planning a larger (1000kg) launch vehicle, which is still much smaller than a Falcon9.
The company books would probably just show a loan. Then he could loan/repay the company with his winnings.
It's good, but even better turned up to 11 with audio support:
http://iaincollins.com/giflinks/demo/
I'm going to go out on a limb here and not recommend a book. Good architecture and design take practice. You can get that practice by working with someone who understands it (some of the better, larger open source projects might be a good way to go).

Books can help to a certain degree, but you have to make a conscious effort to practice what you're reading. The best thing to do, assuming you can't get the experience on the job, would be to find a big project and understand and contribute.
Misleading title, actual title:

"BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal airtime to climate deniers"
Why Podcasting Works for Software Companies
They should ban Songs of Praise as well then...

Edit: if you're going to down vote at least have the balls to explain your position.
"Another sort there be who, when they hear that all things shall be ordered, all things regulated and settled, nothing written but what passes through the custom-house of certain publicans that have the tonnaging and poundaging of all free-spoken truth, will straight give themselves up into your hands, make 'em and cut 'em out what religion ye please: there be delights, there be recreations and jolly pastimes that will fetch the day about from sun to sun, and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream. What need they torture their heads with that which others have taken so strictly and so unalterably into their own purveying? These are the fruits which a dull ease and cessation of our knowledge will bring forth among the people. How goodly and how to be wished were such an obedient unanimity as this, what a fine conformity would it starch us all into! Doubtless a staunch and solid piece of framework, as any January could freeze together."
Looks neat but can you add a github (or google/otheroauthprovider) login...the register page is way too daunting for me. Either that or provide an account-less mode for trying out the product before prompting signup..and even then i'd much rather not type into many fields when i can just auth with something else. Thanks again for the putting this out. look forward to playing with it :)
Dissenters should be given air time proportional to the quality of the counter arguments they put forward. "Nuh-uh" isn't a very strong counter argument.
http://fluoridealert.org/content/communities/ "Communities Which Have Rejected Fluoridation Since 1990"

"Satanic Ritual Abuse" aka Satanic Panic also had a field-day in the courts, if not the legislature.
Interesting article about inflation: http://business.time.com/2013/03/12/if-theres-no-inflation-w...
Democracy Now! Interview with Julian Assange
I was confused by your wording and checked the slides myself.

For some reason I was convinced that these were name attribute values, not an `autocomplete` attribute.
That's not what the rules dictate.
More like astroturf dissent is no longer going to be subsidized by a stupid journalistic policy. Yes it's a victory for real science. If climate deniers want to debate the real science that door is wide open as always.
Possibly the worst CAPTCHA ever.
SarBox? FATCA?
NameError: name 'string' is not defined. :)

print(word) means it's even easier for grandma to understand!
Brilliant. Every time someone asks me whether they should go to Harvard or MIT, I'll send them this link instead of my usual rant.

Moral of the game:

Connections trump everything. Talent means nothing. With seven billion people on this planet, what you can do means nothing. Your access to capital is all that matters. Making capital is insanely hard. Convincing others to give it to you is much easier. PG went to Harvard. Zuck went to Harvard. Gates went to Harvard. Go to Harvard. Don't drop out of high school, and don't listen to people who've only gone to Harvard.
Subtle: "climate deniers" instead of "climate change deniers".
I expect no more religious output from the bbc
But science isn't about someone agreeing with a theory. If you can disprove a theory, great. Otherwise no one really cares about your flawed arguments.
No! There is no climate! There's no such thing!
Making it possible to use the functionality outside of KDE applications is the entire point of splitting it into a bunch of standalone libraries. http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/ says Solid is supported on Linux, Windows and OS X, so I assume they've just implemented all of the platform-specific versions needed.
You're Delusional If You Think Price Of iPhone 6 Won't Be Crucial To Its Success
How many of Microsoft's customers are being used for malicious purposes? Am I as an ISP allowed to summarily disconnect all Microsoft customers from my network?
The conventional wisdom is "no", usually accompanied by anecdotes about firms that assigned negative hiring weights to candidates with PhDs, based on the idea that the work processes you internalize in order to obtain a doctorate are radically different than what's required by commercial software development.
"1 billion consumers worldwide will enter the middle class in the next 15 years – 80% of this growth will be outside of the U.S."

Saying that 200 million Americans will enter the middle class in the next 15 years might be worth pointing out though. Where is he getting that statistic?!
CIS 120 at UPenn uses OCaml for the first half of the semester and Java for the second half.
This guy famously has an email address that can only be parsed one way... with a little thought: http://dotat.at/ (scroll to the bottom for mail)
I'm guessing easy resource allocation, either through local machine quotas/cgroups or the easier ability to move specific services to different machines as you need to scale them.
It's subtly otherkinphobic that you limited the discussion to human beings.
Atmel buys Wi-Fi gear maker in push into 'Internet of Things'
Never trust MS.
Also the majority of the people won't move. Even moving an office from the South Bay to the City will cause a lot of people to quit.

Source -- I work for a company that moved it's office from the South Bay to the City and a lot of people quit.
Religious dissent? Unqualified, uninformed dissent? Yes, quell the hell out of it.
Grapnel.js, a tiny JavaScript router
People have tested it and debated it publicly, and 97% of those professionally qualified to test it and debate it are of the same opinion.
"it should be free to be debated."

Right but it shouldn't be subsidized and given an artificial equal weight with a vast scientific consensus of experts. That's misleading which is the opposite of what journalists are supposed to do.
This isn't mine, but it looks really cool. I think more of the JS world needs to start following the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well" - in this case, routing.
From the article, it looks like the BBC reporters were actually going out of their way to ignore the opinions of interviewed scientists and went to fringe groups to gain a contrary opinion. If a contrary opinion is so difficult to find maybe that would have been the better report.
> i strongly believe for universities sml/ocaml/haskell or even rust are far better choices.

Rust is a horrible choice now, because it hasn't stabilized. When it has stabilized, it may be a suitable choice (at one point, it looked like it would be too large of a language to a be a great intro language, but since then its been getting smaller, so I'm less convinced that it will remain unsuitable for that role.)

Python's a pretty good intro language; as is Scheme, and Haskell might be, though I haven't seen any good intro-to-programming material built around it, and while I think a good intro should prefer a largely-functional style (as the best Python and Scheme-based courses I've seen have), I'm not convinced that a pure FP language is ideal for an intro to the field (though it certainly a good thing to learn in the course of an education in the field.)
Increasing the maximum block size would cause a hard blockchain fork. That sort of thing has been done before on a couple of occasions but it's by no means a small deal.
If someone holds the opinion that onions are actually evil aliens sent from the planet Zorlax to colonize the earth, should we also given them equal airtime? You need to draw a line somewhere, otherwise the airwaves will be full of nothing but crazies and their pet theories.
I don't read the Guardian comment section. What is the difference between the Guardian and a comparable major German newspaper w.r.t. comments?
Also, if you can swing https://washingtonpost.com?page=securedrop, the request will just look like it's to https://washingtonpost.com since query parameters are encrypted with ssl.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver had a great bit about this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg
I think this in the same vein as "We don't interview a psychic every time there is a murder".

If you want the BBC to be unbiased, then you could make the argument they have previously being biased towards climate change denial, given that a 50/50 interview on TV is not representative of the ratio of scientists who believe/don't believe in climate change.
Sorry, I meant "fringe" conspiracy theories. Otherwise my point was kind of off topic to bring up. Imagine if that "vaccines cause autism" crowd didn't get air time. Perhaps they wouldn't get personal exemptions.
Not the point. When there is limited air time, it is unfair to give 50% of the time to those whose opinion is supported by <2% of experts in the field.
> If someone says "hey, we should work on addressing this sexism," and the response is, "be quiet, there isn't any sexism, you just hate fun," that seems pretty stinking sexist, doesn't it?

No.

Replace sexism with unicorns and reread your premise.
How to Get Paul Graham to Beta Test Your Startup Idea
I'm sure they're using compromised hosts for the servers, which would change pretty often
Autocomplete doesn't make typos so why shouldn't it work?
You may read a bit on US history and the role religious dissent played in it. It's no accident that religious freedoms are in the first amendment.
The totally over-restrictive GMO regulation in the European Union is based on very efficient, but scientifically unfounded, propaganda by some NGO's.
That doesn't mean they're right or proposing different hypothesis' is suddenly forbidden. That's not science.

Aristotelian physics was superseded by Newtonian Physics.

That's science.

I'm not suggesting that anyone will come up with a different conclusion but there's no excuse for this stupid dogma and religion getting in the way of rationality.

Feynman is doing 500rpm in his grave...
Yelp seems pretty useless for mid-range or focused restaurants. Think of a Mexican place that is inexpensive, but has great food that comes out in plastic baskets. Their Yelp page will be full of complaints about the plastic baskets.

There's a great ice cream place near me that gets complaints about their customer service. You're buying an ice cream cone! It takes like 3 sentences; how much service do you need? No joke, there are 2-star reviews like "Stopped by after dinner; the line was out the door and the owner seemed tired. The ice cream was delicious though."
It's also worth pointing out that all sorts of realistic history has all sorts of random stuff being carried by combatants. Organised raiding parties that are returning will be carrying loads of valuable odds and ends. Stories abound of the stuff that was initially being carried on the retreat from Moscow for instance e.g. milking stools!

In the non-humanoid space you have nesting/crow like behaviour - i.e. "shiny" things, the most famous being dragons and gold. So it's entirely possible for whole classes of creatures to generically carry certain things.
Will Ruby on Rails be better for fast deployment than Ruby?
10 Ridiculous Kickstarter Campaigns People Actually Supported
What is the alternative? You change the code, the behavior gets changed but the compiler doesn't warn you. At this point you have two possible paths:

1- You wrote tests which start failing. You must now spend time changing them. You don't manage to avoid working in order fix your safety net (be it static type checking or your test suite).

2- You didn't write the right tests, and don't notice the change in behavior. The program later fails in production.
Terms are chosen for emotional impact, not for accuracy.
Gowex to File for Insolvency, CEO Quits on Fake Accounts
And now it's being used to pimp YC startups.
I'm not an expert, but my opinion mostly comes from this seminar by Michael Jordan: Are you a Bayesian or a Frequentist? http://videolectures.net/mlss09uk_jordan_bfway/

Around the 10-15 minute mark, he talks about how the two schools of thought naturally arise from conditioning over the two arguments of the loss function, either conditioning over the models or over the data.

(Incidentally, he also characterizes Bayesianism as optimistic and Frequentism as pessimistic. So maybe I'm wrong in that regard above.)
But science isn't about someone agreeing with a theory.

Those who advocate blocking dissent with theories in the name of science would disagree. Apparently, it's more important that people agree with a body of work that is largely impenetrable than it is to question it or disagree with it.
I've been on both sides of the fence with regards to vendor support. In an extreme case at one company I worked with, when I'd report a slight irregularity or outage to my boss, the first question he'd ask is what is the vendor support ticket number. After all, the company was paying for the support, so it was a very high failing if an employee spent any energy in trying to solve an issue.

The problem with this, of course, was that I don't want to open a vendor ticket until I have something to give them to work on. A random program crashed? First I'd blame the programmer or some other issue, not a kernel bug. But that particular manager just wanted to pin everything on the vendors no matter what.

As an aside, since I've been supporting Linux systems for the last 1.5 decades, I've only had to call in OS vendor support twice -- once was to verify what I already new (clock skew due to a bad hardware timer chip), and another time to satisfy an app developer manager who wouldn't take responsibility for his team's code.

Actually, I should add something -- with Red Hat support, you also get access to a whole history of past case logs at access.redhat.com -- these are discoverable through a Google search, but to see the full solution you have to be logged in. And this has actually kept me from needing to call Red Hat on a number of occasions, so I guess this can count as using Red Hat's support indirectly. And their knowledge base is very well written, esp. when explaining the root cause of specific known past issues.
What I took from the Coursera version of the UW course was that SML gets out of the way and let Grossman cover the material at a higher level of abstraction than language syntax. On the other hand, his Programming Languages class is not intended to be introductory.

I won't say anything about Python.
Many of the better European universities teach FP languages in their introductory courses. Off the top of my head, Oxford and Edinburgh use Haskell and Cambridge teaches Ocaml.
If Firefly can get their weight down by use of better materials and a more efficient engine then they could get a significantly lower cost to orbit. That's a big if, but I say it's worth the attempt.