skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My heuristic is that non-anonymous persons get more conversational leeway. I'm more willing to invest time in conversations with people who have invested in their identity.

Your current level of argumentative dickishness would probably disqualify you as a useful interlocutor for me regardless of how much you stand behind your words. E.g., the "you never asked me my name" bullshit. So I'm done with you.
Thanks, I don't ask to be partisan, just to gain a better understanding of the situation. I hope the conflict dies down quickly and that there is less death and destruction for everyone to worry about.
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The box for "Try haskell expression here" is a little confusing, I tried to click on the white area to focus and didn't get any response. You apparently have to click on the same line, near the lambda symbol to focus?

Edit: Additionally, I really miss the lovely download page http://www.haskell.org/platform/ - and the non-home pages feel a little underwhelming and underdeveloped in general.
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It began at the FDA, which doesn't routinely handle substances of this type. That's why it was transferred to NIH in Bethesda temporarily while the CDC team came up from Atlanta.
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looks kinda generic but it's quite nice.
Wait, are you saying the pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries fund fringe science, and that they can't tell the difference?
Selye uses the term "stress" with a specific meaning different from the popular conception (he pretty much coined the term as a physiological concept, but it has been co-opted). In his work "stress" is energy demands in excess of the organism's ability to deliver without compromising structure. By energy he means real joules and ATP, not some amorphous psychological reserve.

When people talk about "good stress" and "bad stress" it kinda indicates they don't get the context. What Selye found was that under his definition of stress there is no "good stress." All episodes of stress accumulate indelibly on the organism as aging.

If an activity does not exceed the energy capacity of the organism then it's not stress.
Possibly, but most reports never mention specific coordinates.

Israelis already have complete drone coverage of Gaza Strip, they don't need reports on hits. Palestinians cannot possibly use coordinates to aim homebrew rockets being used. Hit radius is e.g. around 1km for far range rockets.
>how can you explain the modern world, in which the poorest residents of the industrialized countries consider their birthright many things that the Kings of old could literally not have gotten at any price?

You mean the world in which regulation and enforced redistribution of profits created a thriving middle class and spurred a boom in tech innovation? The world which started dying around 1980, when regulation began to be eroded?

The world which is now over, leaving a working population crippled by debt, unable to afford basic housing even on a way-above-average salary?

Tech is an exception. Kind of. Some of the time. For now. The important word there being 'exception.'

What made kings kings wasn't a pile of stuff, it was the ability to set policy.

How much influence do you have over national and international policy?

Do you think the question is ridiculous? It's not. It's the fundamental question that defines democracy.

How big is your area of interest? You? Your family? Your friends? Your company? Your country? The world?

How wide and detailed is your predictive horizon?

>Don't just read the propaganda, think.

Don't just think and persuade yourself that you're right - research, fact-check, and challenge your own beliefs.

Talk to people outside your comfort zone and usual circles. Go find out what's happening on the streets, in other countries, in the areas of the planet that are becoming increasingly inhospitable and difficult to live in.

Then we can talk about the modern world means to the people who live in it. You may find not everyone is as comfortable as you are.

Capitalism is a naive, wasteful way to run an economy. It explodes regularly in boom/bubble/bust cycles, it wastes human and natural resources with insane abandon, and it enforces a tacit caste system which puts a huge brake on social mobility.

My iPhone is nice. So is medical care. The Internet is definitely a win. Last time I looked science and engineering invented most of these things. Capitalism tried to sell them to me, not always in a good way. Sometimes it kept me from trying to find better alternatives. (Richard Gabriel is good on this.)

So I'm not yet convinced everyone couldn't have equivalent things - perhaps much better things - without having to pay a wrenchingly high price in avoidable economic instability, and questionable, sometimes corrupt, policy.
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I wouldn't be surprised if that's a load of bullshit.
"Try haskell expression here" + lessons is very nice.

Just a little nitpick:

λ map (+1) [1..5]
can't find file: Imports.hs
λ map (+ 1) [1..5]
[2,3,4,5,6]:: (Enum b, Num b) => [b]

though the first expression is what suggested in lesson 4.

Edit: looks like some random bug.
Thanks for the suggestion! Twitter is being used since many users already have it setup including push notifications.

I would love to build a push system of my own (it's also right up my alley), but onboarding users to a proprietary system would be significantly harder.
Maybe, I'd have to see the actual class.

Remember that if this is a 4-year curriculum, they may eventually be expected to write code for a hashmap in C or some other low-level language as part of a data structures or algorithms class. And often, a class like that will spend time on analysis and algorithm design tradeoffs. The best way to understand why accessing a hashmap can be done in O(1) time is to actually code one for yourself.

This may simply be a preview.
The sentence in the article that reminded me of Dennett was this one: "Crick was working on a paper that suggested our consciousness needs something akin to an orchestra conductor to bind all of our different external and internal perceptions together."
Maybe you should think about putting up an rss feed, or throttling yourself the information posted to kind of sum them up in the meantime
Not really for latency - throughput is more variable between instance type, particularly for services like Rackspace that have instance specific limits.
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I have a friend who sometimes asks, to stoke conversation: "What's one thing you believe that no one else does?"

One answer? The law school boom isn't over.

I have a J.D. from Stanford (though I spend my time investing and working on my own projects), and though the legal education industry is in many respects quite hidebound and deserving of a downward correction, there is one swift wind filling the sails.

It's what Milovan Djilas[1] called "the new class." Djilas was a Yugoslav Soviet dissident. For a brief instant he was a true believer. But Djilas saw by 1954 that a large government tasked with redistribution was giving rise to a new elite: the redistributors. He wrote articles about "the new class" and was kicked out of the Party.

A friend of mine, a law professor in Knoxville, wrote about this in USA Today yesterday:

"Here in the United States, a lot of programs officially aimed at the poor look suspiciously like subsidies to the New Class, too. Among "means-tested" programs, Food Stamps, now officially called SNAP, cover about 46 million people up to 125% of the poverty line (set at about $16,000 for a single mother and child). Other programs, such as the Earned Income Tax credit, cover people at slightly higher incomes, up to 200% of the poverty line. When federal spending on the dozens of programs are added up and state and local contributions included, the budget for assistance is about $1 trillion.

"If we simply handed those people, perhaps 60 million of them, their share of the cash, that would be more than $16,500 each. A single mom and her baby would get over $33,000, twice as much as a poverty wage. A family of four would land more than $66,000, $15,000 more than the average family income.

"So where's the money going? To people who aren't poor, such as doctors paid through Medicaid or landlords paid through Section 8. And to tens of thousands of members of the New Class, people like social workers, administrators and lawyers who run more than 120 different means tested federal programs."[2]

And law school is the gate to a federal job. That's a powerful expansionary force supporting legal education.

Also, a Maserati dealer has just opened in Arlington, Virginia.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milovan_%C4%90ilas#Dissident

[2] http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/07/07/regulations...

[3] http://www.arlnow.com/2014/07/07/maserati-of-arlington-now-o...
Why would I do a `configtest` with a thing that starts or stops a service in the first place? That's what `apachectl configtest` or whatever is for.

I wouldn't expect to go to Windows' list of services, right click one and run arbitrary commands either.
One could argue that if one didn't know very many military people, I suppose.
It's not "the future of color fonts", it's just the present of emoji in Windows. And I really don't like the way they did this.

The technical approach is smart, but lazy, and the resulting emoji look bland and lack definition. No wonder, since this approach doesn't support the way artists work. It's not SVG, it's not PostScript, it's not a bitmap, it's just a glyph sandwich. No opacity, no gradients, no effects. It must be a pain to split your pictures in layers so they can be in a font like that.

As far as using this for text... the novelty of such effects faded out sometime in the 90s when Word Art was all the rage among design-blind office workers.

In the modern world of Unicode, it's even less likely we'll start making fonts with hardcoded layers of cheesy effects when you need to cover a good range of international characters, weights, cursive, hints, kern pairs, ligatures, alternate versions and so on.
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Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, ask a lawyer acquaintance of yours instead of trusting me if this is any more than idle curiosity.

A lawyer's job when buying a house is mostly dealing with the mortgage. They can explain the mortgage paperwork to you, and find traps like balloon payments or weird escrow structures that a layman might miss. If you pay out of pocket, there's generally a lot less for a lawyer to do.

There are of course exceptions where a lawyer is very important, like reviewing the bylaws of a condominium or homeowners' association, or explaining unusual clauses in the sale contract. Unfortunately it's hard to tell when you've run into one of these without having past experience or hiring a lawyer.
Same deal...we would love to add it but none of us use Clojure. Anyone who's interested in helping us add it (on a contract basis) should email me at sqs at sourcegraph.com. Or follow the issue at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph.com/issues/154.
The cause&effect actually seems to be reversed - it seems that relaxation of heavy-handedness is simply an early visible symptom that the regime is finally so weak that it's forced to accept compromises that it never had to.

The regimes would never ever accept them unless they were already close to toppling (Gorbachev times are actually a nice example, http://www.aei.org/issue/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional... is an okay description), since [appearance of] strength is required to keep them in power.
I do, it was my job there.
Americans also use Potato per salsa sauce or something as unit of speed.
It doesn't seem to support function declaration.
Good suggestion. An RSS feed sort of exists already, and twitter is just a better vehicle to deliver these alerts.

We could try to throttle ourselves, and better filter e.g. duplicates, that is true.
Thanks for answering Zach! Your answer certainly helps make it more clear.

To use your feature rich cloud, would one have to use your spark core board or one can roll own CC3000 based board + your open source firmware but pay you and have it talk to your closed cloud for scale? When is your plan to announce pricing for this feature rich cloud?
I am a gun owner from a small town. What do I know?
It's a somewhat limited shell. You can't make local definitions. Normally you'd do that using `let` in GHCi, but this prompt only evaluates expressions.
That doesn't answer the question. There's no particular reason a bot can't have an email address.
I think you did a good job! Nice start! As you're saying, adding more criteria would make it better.

I entered "800" for all 3 scores and only got a few schools. Are you limiting the results?
Neat! A nitpick: I haven't used Haskell, so I'm trying to read the prime sieve example in the corner, but there's very little contrast between the background and the nonalphanumeric characters. Some brighter syntax highlighting would be a better choice against that dark background.
This, this, a thousand times this. I graduated from a T25 school in 2011. I was one of about 15% of my graduating class that had a job lined up going into their third year, a time when strong candidates were typically choosing between several competing offers.

The proportion of people in my cohort not working in the law (including myself) is small only in comparison to the proportion who regret their career decision now that they've experienced the reality of legal practice.

For anyone considering law school, take a hard look at the criteria above and give yourself honest answers. Appeasing family members isn't worth committing yourself to a career you despise or ruining your finances indefinitely.
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Anyone know how to get this running on Linux Mint?
I would add a number 8: If you're interested in public service and would like to be either a lawmaker or a government official--but the above passion/connections still hold. (That's the value-neutral version compared to 'power-hungry pol' or 'ambitious bureaucrat'.)

If you want to run in those circles, you need to know how to keep yourself and your employer/patron out of court, and be able to squeeze the opposition--legally, of course.

The trick remains managing the school debt during the apprentice/ladder-climbing years--but at least you can still think of yourself as a lawyer. Because you are. Until you take the fall. But if you don't see it coming, you aren't much of a lawyer.
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Do you have any more sources on these claims? (I'm genuinely interested to read more about this)
Sorry but I disagree, the fact that Apple is taking 30% off the table is completely relevant to the price charged. They are saying, in effect, we need to get $70 from this App to cover our costs, since Apple is going to take 30% we have to set the price at $100 to get $70.

As a "boss" I do get employees who point out that their cost of commuting is significant. There is a distance vs location vs salary metric that people are constantly min-maxing to improve their net take home pay. If I hire a web developer that can work 5 minutes from home by bike, or an hour from home by car at my place, that it going to figure into the salary that they require to take the job.
That number seems ridiculous, but without comparing it to other countries it's more or less meaningless.
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You can use function declaration in the same line it is used.

`let { f x = x ^ 2 } in f 2`
Linky? This sounds interesting.
Show me an ICE vehicle that can survive extreme sheer forces.

"Gas tank explodes after experiencing extraordinary sheer forces" and it'd be non-news.

This, uh, also happened several days ago ... and was reported on many more reputable sites (often with, surprisingly, less rabidly paranoid comments).

TL;DR: we still don't know what happened. Sit down and wait for a report.

Flagged as blogspam.
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Was there not a debate recently on wether to dispose of the last vials of smallpox because there would be no need to produce a vaccine as the virus had been eradicated.....
Not normally. Typically you'd pick the 'least marked' version of the name and just use that.
For 2400 there are no Reaches since you'd be in the top for every school. There's an issue with the random selector so schools get duplicated sometimes, so I'll fix that.

Update: For the matches there's only six results in total which is why the output is so little. If you've got a perfect score, pretty much everything is a safety ;)
I'm not a huge fan of Facebook but that is one impressive bug bounty and turn around time. Nice job to both parties.
Well the conflict itself is not apolitical.
Kind of related, in German we mostly say "die Ukraine" (the Ukraine", exactly the same as "the Netherlands" and surprisingly Slovakia (and former Czechoslovakia, but not always "the Czech Republic", only when we say "die Tschechische Republik", not "Tschechien" (which is informal, to be fair, as is "Slowakei" - but afaik "Tschechoslowakei" was official).
Did I confuse you already?
There's also "die Elfenbeinküste" (Ivory Coast), and certainly a few more.
could that be any less informative?
Depends on the sort of tasks you're doing. Someone above mentioned receiving ~$0.27/min of translations. This is a relatively high figure in comparison to a lot of tasks, but if the task you're doing isn't entirely mind numbing then being a Turker isn't as bad as it sounds. $0.27/minute is something like ~$16/hr - if you're working at a gas station with a computer handy, you'd be able to more than double your wage. Are the tasks undervalued? Not sure it's fair for us to say. The HITs keep coming in and they continue to be completed, so something is working.
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"die Elfenbeinküste" (Ivory Coast)

My German is pretty bad but it looks to me like "elephant bone coast" in German.
The idea of just cutting all those social programs and handing out the cash instead seems like a huge vision for a new, freer, society. I really like that.

OTOH especially the health sector does not work as a market, as demand is for health services for sick people is simple infinite (e.g. they pay every price).

For the rest, I agree.
Since the virus survives freezing there's certainly some frozen bodies that harbor the disease as well. The idea is sort of dismissed in [1] but the CDC quotes there are more about the prospects for a pandemic then whether the virus is likely present all over the arctic (etc.) or not.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/will-smallpox-reemerge-in-siberia-as-corp...

edit:

According to [2] things like tundra smallpox are the reason the US didn't want to destroy the last lab samples.

[2] http://www.livescience.com/2403-climate-threat-thawing-tundr...
I have no contact in twitter, but you can try contacting twitter support via https://www.linkedin.com/

There are about 3k people from twitter on linkedin. I am sure one of them might be able to help you.
It happens whenever you scroll into a new section of the page and the JS animations trigger while you're scrolling.
Question for those with knowledge -- would a 60-ish year old sample still be virulent/communicable/whatever?
I think bringing up Biohazard[0], a book about soviet bio warfare experiments and the culture they were conducted in seems pertinent. In particular it is illuminating, if not factually accurate, how Soviets covered up accidents at their bio weapon research facilities. Book paints a grim picture of how this could have been handled, in light of that I applaud actions taken by NIH and CDC.

http://www.amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biological-...
just respect the usage limits like any other service being provided for you for free.
The main problem is too many defenders who seem more comfortable attacking than defending.

They haven't played too well throughout the tournament, and they came across a German team with accurate passing and clinical finishing.

They simply couldn't maintain their nerve and their discipline after the first goal.
For discussion see later submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8004244
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This is really awesome. I wish I had the skill to make something like this work.
Is there any "moneyball" style analysis on the teams?
Love it! Looks like all that's missing are the "View Examples" links under the features.

One note: the quick walkthrough mentions "up there" in reference to the repl, but the repl is actually to the left of that text when viewing on a non-mobile-sized screen. It should probably just not mention the relative positioning.

I suspect Fibonacci would be a more familiar code sample than Sieve, no?
It's obviously not the secret sauce, but they have also used some ... aggressive tax maneuvers:
http://dealbreaker.com/2013/07/renaissance-technologies-buy-...
> It advocates using someone else's trusted server as a data source

Wrong; it advocates using your own server, but proposes public servers for tests. Here's an excerpt of the README:

DNSChain is meant to be run by individuals!

Yes, you can use a public DNSChain server, but it's far
better to use your own because it gives you more
privacy, makes you more resistant to censorship, and
provides you with a stronger guarantee that the
responses you get haven't been tampered with by a
malicious server.
Sounds a lot like http://electricimp.com
I think it's a lot more useful if you have a layer of inderection on the input. I.e. what you type goes through autocomplete or an IME before being sent to the application you type into. It eases the need to switch to a different keyboard altogether just to input emoji, you just type "heart" and choose from the candidates.

That's a reason it is so heavily used in Japan, where they already have a two layer input system anyway. We might also have it easier and easier in ascii based languages as autocomplete like features develop and become ubiquitous.
Cannot recommend The Longest Journey enough. The sequel is so-so, but this adventure is amazing and one of the best I've played.
Just think of Emoji as the ASCII smiley-faces- :) :( :D D: - version 3.0
"Manager" is a power relationship. There are other ways to organize teams.

For example, at my last startup we had a shared vacation calendar and we'd just negotiate time off. We'd manage projects and timelines by discussion. We'd figure out who was working on what through short conversations every morning.

A major tomato processor has no power relationships; nobody can tell anybody else what to do:

http://morningstarco.com/index.cgi?Page=Self-Management

They're now putting together an institute to teach people their approach:

http://www.self-managementinstitute.org/
Milton Friedman was very supportive of a single, national, flat, 'basic income' type redistribution.
Wasn't there a sublime plugin for sourcegraph?
Not sure if it will help, but I've contact a few Twitter folks I know and alerted them to this thread.
No doubt.
Your freedom to avoid doing so rests (arguably) on the fact that US picks up the tab for all that posturing on your behalf.
"when people trade freely, they are both better off (otherwise they wouldn't trade!)" isn't true. Instead, it's that both people think that they are better off when they make the trade. A subtle distinction but also the most important criticism of a purely free market.
> Why does everyone assume it's Google's responsibility to save the internet?

It's no one's specific responsibility, but it's a sensible stance. And Google seemingly changed theirs from vocal advocate to indifferent observer (in this case).
Most of the optimization algorithms use self-adaptive data structures - execution tree in rule engines, entity cache are some of the algorithms I have built in the past.