skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only World Cup qualifier that I could find (going back to 1990) are the play-off games between Turkey and Switzerland in '06. Switzerland wins the first game 2-0, and Turkey wins the second one 4-2.

Nothing as dramatic as a 7-0 margin as suggested by the article's data though.
In Python 3 you'd be right, but I think people still call mostly that language "Python 3" and mean Python 2 when they say "Python".
to thin, to tall, and most importantly the x height is much too high so CamelCase is less obvious
I think it depends on your audience. If I expect pedantic responses, I might prepend my assertion with "I think."
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https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/1603 ?
I'm actually pretty disturbed by the comments here. Of all of the comments, I don't see a single one that basically goes after the fact that some one has a revenge porn site, that identifies users, and that is using TOR to enable it.

Because there's nothing fruitful to discuss. Yes, it's a terrible thing and the people behind it should be prosecuted and convicted. Most of us take that for granted, there's no point in saying it.

Pure anonymity is almost as evil as no anonymity.

The thing is, when you're talking about important enough acts, like dissidence from authoritarian regimes, there's no such thing as "non-pure anonymity". You're either anonymous or imprisoned (or worse). So there's really no much we can do if we want to keep Tor as a useful tool for whistleblowers. After all, the same software that powers pinkmeth.com also powers SecureDrop; the technology can't tell your intentions.
Speaking of "grammar", this trend of beginning a sentence with "Seems" instead of "It seems" is getting annoying.
Exactly. The Marines did not ruin the F-35. The planners and politics that insisted on a single, joint service aircraft ruined the F-35.
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The site feels too flashy, and the giant photo feels distracting. It would be nice if it felt "cleaner." As it is, I feel like a newcomer would find it somewhat overwhelming visually.

I think something nice and simple like Rust's homepage[1] would be nice. Or maybe something like Racket's homepage[2].

[1] http://www.rust-lang.org/
[2] http://racket-lang.org/
You're very much still in your own head. I have confidence you're going in a good direction, but I encourage you to work on your ego.
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There are historical precedence for US agents extracting people from countries without that countries consent. There were repeated attempts to kidnap Marc Rich from Switzerland (which failed since the State Dept kept tipping him off.) It is risky because just like spies those US agents will face criminal prosecution themselves if caught.

The bigger issue for the Maldives is does the US care. For a country like Switzerland, it created diplomatic issues. In the Marc Rich case, the problem was a prosecutor (Rudolph Giuliani) who was fucking with US foreign policy. I think the same thing has probably happened in this case.
How is that a grammatical error? The first sentence is well-formed. If you have personal issues with the title, that's something entirely different.
I've been using this for a while and it's just nice to use - easy on the eye some how.
Wouldn't it make more sense if the nearby items themselves were broadcasting iBeacons? I think this is what Apple intends to do with the protocol.
To be fair, the belief is a little more that anything wider than 1024 is typically too wide. Find me a site that lets text run for even that long. Typically you box things in much more heavily.
The new Dropbox for Business website
I think it's completely legal by now, since the patents expired a couple of years ago (or something like that).
Rational agents in what sense? Consensus pool membership will not be a free for all and running a node will have costs, so we the only people who have incentive to run a node should be those who have an interest in seeing the pool succeed.

Of course, people who want to see the pool fail could run malicious nodes, but given appropriate membership restrictions and that fact that all an attack can do is pause the pool temporarily the incentive there should be pretty low.
Normally most outgoing links that are meant to be private are bounced through a redirection that results in the referrer being a generic Google redirection page. That's probably the solution that was applied here.
Loads on an iPad 2 Safari and the crashes the browser shortly after a city is selected.
The cheat is absolutely brilliant reasoning.
A little too thin for my tastes. I quite like Consolas or good old Courier New. To me the font width isn't all that important compared to the font height as I am not pressed for width but an extra couple of lines visible vertically is almost always wanted. Consolas is a nice balance at 11pt.
I'm no expert but I guess Bitcoin-like system for internet payment?
I believe you're right. I could do that, since I don't live in the US. :)

Consolas was designed for ClearType, and for Windows. And I remember liking it very much on Visual Studio. But I'll just leave it be, I'm happy for now as it is.
Thank you a lot. It was useful grok me some Haskell.
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Interns are typically not fully licensed to practice medicine without supervision, which is the point of a residency program (they take more exams to this effect at the end of the residency). This is why the hospital has enormous bargaining power over them and the hours/wages are markedly different from those of attendings. Unionization of residents is still very rare because the hospital essentially has the power to end the residents' careers for such behavior.
But we're more accepting of someone crawling our site trying random URLs than we are of people trying hundreds of passwords.
> Well, that's throwing people implementing subclasses under the bus, IMO.

If they need to touch this argument in an overridden method and they don't know what they are doing, then yes.

> Why not just add @param annotations in your docstrings instead?

I'm using Sphinx and it renders them separately. I want the empty dict to show up in the function signature.
For my pharmacology class, I had to attend multiple AA sessions. From my experience, in two separate regions, AA replaces the addiction with an addiction to social responsibility and moral responsibility (through a deity). In my honest opinion, judges are prescribing religion (or Kohlberg?) as a replacement addiction. My outside observation was cult behaviors with a climbable hierarchy of social power and control.
Thousands of people working in enterprise are being banned from using Google Drive right now.
Indeed, but it sounds out of place regardless of the target. Now I understand what it is, "request" or similar seems a more appropriate word. "Prayer" evokes some kind super-legal meaning or precedence onto the request that is out of place in a matter-of-fact setting.
Well, I'd say no, not in "Python".

It seems to me that when people say "Python" they still mostly mean Python 2, where range returns a list and xrange a generator. In Python 3 there is no xrange and range returns a generator, but I think people still most often call that language "Python 3", not "Python".
That's still pretty bad, there could be millions of leaked document URL's in the logs of severs all over the internet and users haven't been notified.

It looks like Microsoft Onedrive did a similar thing too:

https://blog.onedrive.com/update-for-shared-links/
>"We chose not to disable all previously shared links, because the change only applies to a small fraction of shared files. If customers disable and then re-share a document, this will prevent further access to a document that might have been accessed."
Double false, monofur is the champion of programming fonts.

Monofur is also known as "Oh my god that's horrible why are you using that?" by my heathen work colleagues.
What is more strange is actually having other food allergies. I have bad Oral Allergy Syndrome, and eating various things like cantaloupe, bananas, avocado, grapes (and wine), among other things, make me sick, some worse than others. Included with that is a mild latex allergy.

So people, especially health food nuts,tend to thing I'm a weird, unhealthy bitch when I tell them I can't eat banana or fruit salad. I sucked it up recently and ate a few bananas and two days in a row had to keep myself from vomiting. Same with wine: I've had a single glass of wine before and vomited later that night. Avocado doesn't give me the indigestion but it does make my mouth and throat very itchy, but I still tend to eat it.
Thinking about this a bit more, I suspect the reason for the superb sonic reputation of a lot of inexpensive "Class T" digital amps is that they push the frequency-domain distortion problems into a different frequency. Digitally switching at far higher frequencies than audio and then modulating audio onto that signal is a pretty brilliant approach. You get the cost benefits of digital switching amps, without audio frequency domain artifacts from all the many kinds of low-level signal crud. The artifacts are there - they're just several octaves out of band for audio.
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Every WMD program in existence? The apparatus of our surveillance states? Private companies and wealthy individuals would not pusure these things because it would be illegal and also pointless. Only governments want and pursue stuff like this. Of course, plenty of government directed research and government funded research is positive, but the private sector is intertwined with all that (funding and execution) and it's not true to say just because the government funded something it wouldn't have happened otherwise. At the extreme you have states like USSR and North Korea that spend almost everything on ghastly projects.
The Facebook study, sampling, and the principle of delayed decision
Remember, the target audience is newcomers to Haskell. The purpose of a code sample is to give them a glimpse into the syntax of the language, which should be understandable enough that it piques their interest to learn more.

It would be to the detriment of haskell.org to showcase a superior algorithm that is harder for newcomers to follow.
And what does "consenting" mean? Something written in the ToS, or that you can't deny, like "if you visit this site, you agree to use our cookies...and share everything with the NSA/FBI"? That sort of "consenting"?
Log in/authenticate to your Raspberry Pi using a NFC tag or phone
Becomes less and less of an issue as sites switch to HTTPS though, right?
You're right. I still wouldn't recommend looping over indices, but rather using itertools.islice(xs, 1, None) instead of xs[1:].
There are lots of similarities but also some very key differences.

The main one being that there is no native currency like XRP, so there is no risk of a similar situation to the current fiasco arising.

hyperledger is designed to be far more light weight and flexible than Ripple, meaning that instead of just being a conduit to trade other assets, hyperledger allows organisations to also issue their own assets, which they have complete control over.

We also have a different notion of pools. Anyone can create their own consensus pool with its own membership requirement rules or features, such as private transaction.

We achieve consensus by a slight different method. More info on this to come, please check the FAQ: http://www.hyperledger.com/faqs.html#ripple

Currently we are a small team of two, myself on the business/marketing side (we will be building commercial products on top of the open project, just as any user could) and feichtinger who is the main technical side. A bit more info on the contact page. Happy to answer any specifics here.
Here are some examples of bibliometrics:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index The big one. Used to judge researchers.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-index Another one for researchers. I haven't really come in contact with this one very much.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I10-index Google's own little algorithm.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor Older. Used to judge journals

The first and last articles have fittingly long "criticism" sections. A key point to make here is that these bibliometrics succeed at their basic goal (providing one platform by which to judge all academics/publications) at the price of misaligning incentives.

Resultantly: you do get to judge all academics on an even platform, but that platform is a weighted average of how well they do research and how well they play the politics/popularity game, scaled by the popularity of their field (good luck finding me a researcher in theoretical plasma physics with an h-index over 30 -- I'm not sure there are even 30 theoretical plasma physicists in the US.).

On top of this, sites like ResearchGate (like LinkedIn, but for researchers) give people their own score, which is pretty opaque, and display it in bright green next to everyone's profile picture. It introduces a lot of competition to a field that doesn't really need it.
#3 is a very interesting point to be made and something that I (as Ambition co-founder) think about a lot. We've tried to make our product powerful in a responsible way but there's definitely the fine-line of "what's best for the company" and "what's best for the person paying for the product". We receive requests every day from managers asking for the ability to manually manipulate the (objective) data that we're automatically pulling in from CRMs, Phone Systems, Spreadsheets.

I remember talking to PG a couple months ago about how Ambition could potentially decrease office politics and thus "optimize work". Maybe it's a fool's errand given a company of X size or Y age.
M+ thin is too thin, and M+ regular too bold, for my taste. And though I do like leading, M+ has too much built in; it's easy for a user to add, but difficult to remove.

Currently I use Fantasque.
Anonymizing datasets still doesn't work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8010061
How incredibly, incredibly scummy.
Well FBI agents like to show up uninvited in different countries so this is the next logical step.
matched_words = set(lyrics_list).intersection(make_wordlist())
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Can you elaborate on this? I'm not clear what you mean either.
I don't like the idea of gamification. At least the "do stuff -> get points" kind of gamification.

I find that it makes people do the right thing for the wrong reasons. I should work hard because it's what I'm supposed to do. It is the right thing to do! Not to say that these systems can be "gamed" (pun intended). It gets incredibly demoralising for a hard worker, doing stuff by the book, to see a colleague exploiting and cheating the system.

Imagine it with software development. You get points each bug solved. The hard worker will carefully correct it, the right way, with proper testing, acessing impacts, all that stuff. The "exploiter" will just thow around a quick hack so that it works correctly, in about 1/5 of the time. And he can use the remaining 4/5 of the time to solve more bugs, and earning more points!

TL;DR: It encourages people to do stuff for the wrong reasons and, in my opinion, that is bad and wrong.
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TFA quotes Premature optimization — everything one tries to optimize before profiling and running tests on a working system.

Perhaps that same thinking needs to apply to readability. Premature readability—everything one tries to improve readability before running tests.

Readability seems a lot like pornography[0]; people claim to know it when they see it (or, in this case, when they don't) but are hard-pressed to offer a well-defined or objective description.

What we get instead are well-meaning but subjective prescriptions.

Shouldn't the alleged gains of readability practices be held to same measuring requirement as optimization?

Are there solid, objective studies on what makes code more readable? In a small group it might be best to have a discussion about coding practises to achieve some consensus, but if that's not feasible then some guidelines based on research would help.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
I'm a professional programmer. I know quite a bit about computers. I don't claim to be the smartest guy in the room but I'm no dummy.

And I have no idea how to install a font. I download the zip and open it and there are 43 (43!) ttf files. I can install them by double clicking the file and selecting Install Font.

But then what? I now have 43 new fonts, but how do I know which one to use in my editor? Can someone explain this for a dummy?
Yes it does, plenty of options in fact, but as far as I can tell there is nothing in this article tying it to a particular backend
I didn't think "Anyone with link..." setting promised any kind of security. Honestly, I don't think this was a 'security hole', more like a digital equivalent of a home owner hiding house keys under the carpet, hoping no one will look.
I guess it is Doug who has already responded, and the thread you are referring is this- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641398 ?
There wasn't anything egotistical about his comment. It was relevant and thoughtful. The topic just happened to include his personal experience.
Well, if this passes I see many stories like this one coming to light:

http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massiv...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html?page...

"Stripped of personally identifiable information", "consenting" [which is probably just a throwaway paragraph in the ToS/privacy policy that no one reads] and "liability protection" in the same bill.

Yep. That will end well. I guess the good news is it is voluntary so, in theory, companies like DuckDuckGo can make it point they differentiate on from a company like Google. I'm not seeing that being a major selling point since most people don't understand that these "anonymity measures" are of limited value unless you can prevent people from connecting literally any dots.

The problem with 0 dots to connect is it would be worthless from a security perspective since a given attack vector is already generally shared when its discovered. :/
I find it especially helpful to add location when posting a photo of some landmark or public event. I wouldn't tag tweets by location when I'm at home, but if I'm out it's a neat way to complement the tweet.
Copay, an open source multi-signature Bitcoin wallet from BitPay (beta)
I guess I'm nitpicking, but the amendment mentions Congress, not the judicial branch. I suppose you could challenge the judge with a separate case -- I'm pretty certain our legal system would support that.

Doing a quick Google search, it appears that at least one court has found mandated AA unconstitutional: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Appeals-court-says-req...
The Navy's camo looks bizarre (it doesn't blend with trees, ships, or office equipment), but turns out it's main purpose is to hide the stains that a sailor picks up during their duty day, from oil & grease to paint drips. So as a duty uniform, it succeeds.

The Air Force camo was introduced as a pure ego move. It doesn't blend, oil & hydraulic stains can't be wiped off the boots, and it's too hot. And unlike the green polyester duty uniforms of the 70's & 80's you can't shorten or roll-up the sleeves.

My understand why they don't all buy the multi-cam is that the design is copyrighted and the DoD and the owner couldn't come to an agreement on the licensing fees.
What ever happened to advertising as a form of revenue?

In print publishing, all newspaper/magazine articles are typically space filler to direct your attention path to the accompanying ads.

With a decent sales staff and correct ad pricing there should be no reason to charge users to read an article online. Sure, printing costs are high, but repurposing content for online publication is cheaper by an order of magnitudes.

I've been in (newspaper/magazine) publishing over 30 years. I surfed through the waves of insanity when the internet started to become ubiquitous and publishers were pulling their hair out over fears that it would be the death of them. It's nothing more than an excuse for greed. It could have been handled properly by establishing ad revenue pricing structures early on, but it was easier for them to cry, complain and voluntarily remain ignorant of new tech while the owners of the publications bemoaned that their paper publication is not making enough money to stay afloat and keep their trophy wives in sport cars and designer jewelry at the same time.

I have no pity on these ignorant fools. If the New York Times goes bankrupt/offline it won't affect my life one bit. Other, more fiscally responsible individuals/organizations/bloggers will fill the niche and do it right.
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In many/most editors you can adjust line height (although in TextMate it is surprisingly hard to perform such a thing).
>Find me a site that lets text run for even that long.

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Hmmmm. When teaching basic physics, I sometimes have trouble illustrating the difference between energy and work for my students. But this solves it! Post something with a title of "The best x for programmers is y", and you can watch the expenditure of an enormous amount of energy - yet, zero work.
Docker is great because it allows you to avoid simulating an entire virtual machine.

Think how ridiculous it is that in many cases today we run an entire simulated computer, with a full general-purpose operating system, just to power a single application (e.g. web server, database, etc).
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Stop treating people like users
^^ this. Statistics help them average out their wins/losses across an entire season. But if the bookie's business model was to predict only the final game of each season and make odds for it they would _not_ be in business for long
Like every tool, you need to know the pros/cons and be able to apply them to your situation. Unless your goal is to make a super simple app that has 100% coverage across all mobile devices, Phonegap shouldn't be the tool you use.

The market share of phonegap in hybrid apps is depressing to me. It's not hard to learn the Apple/Google sponsored way of doing things and then progressively decide when to bring in html/css in a webview.

I even open sourced a starting point I've used on my apps that I'm hoping will get more people to avoid using phonegap and learn iOS / Android: http://imbed.github.io/

Refs:
http://dojo4.com/blog/why-phonegap-sucks
http://dojo4.com/blog/imbed-for-android
Also a strong Inconsolata fan, it's one of the first things I change on a new editor.
People are different - who guessed.

The two main problems are:

1) Popular science & media don't understand how the gut works enough to actually give beneficial advice en-masse.

2) The 'Fad' is the food industry selling even more processed junk under the moniker of 'Gluten Free' in the same way that 'Low Fat' and 'Sugar Free' foods are often worse overall nutritionally than those they replace.

As usual, the elephant in the room is how there's no real downside to a sugar-free diet, but the food industry don't want that as food isn't as addictive.