skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and weirdly enough google services that compete with eg yelp are almost always at the top! sure couldn't be them using their near-monopoly in search to juice their other businesses, could it?
I lived in Winslow and am in Flag currently. I think you are exactly the type of person I was hoping to reach. There's only so much that words can describe when it comes to cultural differences. I know that now -- I was hesitant to reach out because I wasn't sure if anyone understood the challenge of Rez-life. Ahéhee'!!
I've never heard "emotionally invested in atheism" mean "you actively want to see religion gone". In fact, I find that idea quite disrespectful. That's just as bad as a religious person trying to push their religious ideals onto you.

I know a large number of religious people who would consider themselves "emotionally invested in their religion" but I would never describe any of them as "actively wanting to see all other beliefs gone".
Got an android tablet for 94 year-old grandma a week ago. To simplify her experience I turned off most services she doesn't need. Every time I visit, Google has hoodwinked her into switching something on. Location services, Google+, Google now. She only wants mail and pics. Yesterday I got her an iPad because Apple just makes money on the devices and doesn't spin their BS web of ad-based services at grandma.

From an ex Google absolute fanboy writing this on a Nexus. They used to be an example of open trustworthy behaviour. Now they're just another company to me. The ultimate 'you're the product' company at that, and I dislike that phrase.
> Internet radio is bandwidth intensive, which tends to eat profits. I would work on something else where you are more likely to make money in the near term.

Out of curiosity, I ran the numbers. 10k users at 96 kbps for two hours a day would consume 315 TB/year.

On AWS, that would cost you $246k/yr, just for the bandwidth. However, if you use a dedicated hosting like 100TB, you can get the cost down quite a bit lower. I think you'd need four of their servers at $215/mo each, which comes to $10k/yr. (Note that a single gigabit port has enough bandwidth to serve nearly all 10k listeners concurrently by itself, so four servers would cover peak usage.)

There will be other costs, of course, such as licensing. The yearly cost is potentially low enough that advertising could cover it. Also, a $5/mo premium account would generate enough revenue to cover another 30-60 free users.

A related thought: Internet radio is an ideal application for peer-to-peer distribution, since even a low-end DSL connection can support several other peers. It can also tolerate dozens of seconds of latency. If each listener is capable of supporting two more listeners on average, you'd be able to run the radio station from your home internet connection without any permanent infrastructure.
The function you wrote:

a) takes O(n*lgn) time; the method in post uses O(n) time
b) use extra memory; the method in post uses O(1) extra memory
c) have logical error: the problem asks to find the first missing positive (in range [1, infinity)).

So firstMissingPositive([4,100]) should return 1, instead of 5. But the problem is not stated in the post, so let's assume you are implementing the first missing positive in range(A[0], A[-1] + 1) for sorted(A), your code does not handle corner case well.

For example:

a) your firstMissingPositive([100]) gives ValueError: min() arg is an empty sequence
b) your firstMissingPositive([]) gives IndexError: list index out of range

It is attempting to write three-liners that seems to solve the problem, but it is far more important to solve the problem in time and space efficient way. At least, it is important to handle the corner cases well.
Wow, seriously!? This is great! I just got started learning how to use CakePHP (PHP was my first love). I will definitely be in touch!
Xerox PARC environments and their derivatives keep being partially reinvented.

I really wonder how computing would look like if those systems had succeed in the market, instead of UNIX.
This kind of work was published on scientific american about ~10 years ago.

Anyway this post was more detailed than the introductory on scientific america. This kind idea did not expolode over the past ten years. Something in detail might be wrong.
I would sell them on any site you can find. Not one site will work I think the best is to expand your exposure as much as you can. Even if you get only 1 extra view that is a potential. :)

We just opened up a forum section where you can list domain names for free. No fees, just list and you can sell it private without paying the extras that others pay. We only have one listing, but then again we only opened the forum today: http://killerdomains.com.au/forum/aftermarket
UNIX pipes are just a basic version of what is possible when data structures and objects are combined instead.

Which was possible already in Lisp and Smalltalk based OS.

Combining functions raises the experience to another level. :)
I actually skimmed this at breakfast in the International Edition and wrote it off as another cute Chinese billionaire rags-to-riches story. As I usually live in China, just south of Sichuan in Yunnan province, as a long term vegetarian I can confirm that fresh food is excellent, possibly the best in the world in terms of the volume and variety of ingredients available.

When I saw global warming in the title, it made me think of internationalism and a lesser known fact about Chinese steamed buns, or baozi (not dumplings, or jiaozi): they are actually Turkish, and they were brought to China with the Mongols. We know this from preserved cookbooks of the Yuan Dynasty.

One of my favorite parts of the day in China is jumping on the electric scooter with my wife and deciding which of the three (3) massive fresh food markets within a five minute radius we want to go to. When I say massive, I mean bigger than an average American supermarket - and it's nearly entirely all fresh food, with a few restaurants or snack vendors about the edge. Each market has different hearty breakfast vendors including at least hot soy milk, various types of noodles, beanflour porridge, other soups, fried and baked breads and pastries in both western and Chinese styles, dumplings and steamed buns. Yum.

It's kind of weird reading the comments here, because Americans don't have the same fresh food appreciation that Europeans (especially French) and Chinese have. There's this blind assumption that refrigeration is good. In China, we largely eat food that's in season. As a rule we don't maintain appetites for exotic foreign foods. In rural areas (a huge portion of China) most organic waste goes to pigs. We enjoy going to the market on a daily basis to establish a relationship with our favorite vendors and to select produce for our meals. When you walk in to a restaurant in China, it's at least as likely to have an array of vegetables and meat displayed in a vertical fridge as it is to have a printed menu. Locals 'n long-termers go straight for the ingredients. The discussion revolves more around ingredients selected and available methods of preparation than costs and frenetic worries about MSG, spicyness or latest-western-fad-diet-strategy. The number of vegetable colors in the average meal exceeds at least three, but frequently five or ten. Chinese believe it's best to drink warm drinks when eating, because they learned eons ago that cold stomachs don't sit comfortably with food.

The flip side of eating out in random places constantly is that I've had salmonella about once every two to three resident years on average. Unpleasant, for sure - but all it takes to knock on the head is an antibiotic regime and a drip... assuming it sufficiently advances to warrant hospitalization. That costs about US$25 including a night in hospital, but is even cheaper and medically equivalent options are available in rural areas.
I'm an undergrad at Stanford right now, and my understanding is that they do everything they can to meet demonstrated need.
I could be wrong, but I think nearly all student loans (public and private) can be deferred indefinitely while you're in school. I'm not sure what you plan on studying. There are many fields that can put you in a position to pay your loans off rather easily, given that you put in the sweat.
Is there anything else stopping you from coming back? The finances seem to work if you want them to.
>if Americans were civilized and tasteful enough to demand them

Clearly the objective scale of civilization is having narrow streets.
Not perfectly 'dark' or we wouldn't see this at all. Still makes it dark matter for all practical purposes. Given the absolutely massive amount of dark matter that is out there the fact that there's a tiny emission line hinting at its existence that has taken us decades to find indicates that its still pretty damn dark (assuming this holds up).
This is reassuring to read. There aren't a lot of people around me that I can relate to, so when it comes to the situation I'm in, I guess I panicked a little because I'm actually on the streets now. I have a few cents in my bank account, but I am hopeful as ever. Thank you
Well, all the empirical evidence suggests otherwise. So by resisting the change you are helping inflict damage on more lives.
Nitpick... Stanford is not an Ivy, but instead part of the Pac-12.
Your assumptions are outdated and this is FUD.

Promises that implement Promises A+ are consistent. The fact that jQuery's implementation is broken has no relation to promises whatsoever (nobody seriously calls them promises anymore).

But I was talking about a different kind of consistency: consistency in your code. Errors not being swallowed, the same representation for all async values.

The performance post you linked to is almost a year old and is quite outdated. Since it was posted, Bluebird[1] was written and leveled up the game:

file time(ms) memory(MB)
promises-bluebird-generator.js 171 16.52
callbacks-baseline.js 197 20.68
promises-bluebird.js 280 26.64
promises-lvivski-davy.js 616 58.75
promises-dfilatov-vow.js 672 80.59
promises-cujojs-when.js 731 68.74
callbacks-caolan-async-waterfall.js 733 44.57

[1]: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/benchma...
Read the article more carefully. The author explicitly considers both theories.
It's satire -- it's from The Borowitz Report section of The New Yorker, by Andy Borowitz [1], who, among other things, created The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (yes, really).

Now, you'd think, even if one isn't aware that The Borowitz Report is meant to be satirical, that the word "humor" in the URL would tip people off, but apparently, this isn't so -- in fact, it's enough of an issue that The Awl has a piece entitled "The Borowitz Problem" [2], which is an interesting read. It starts with this statistic:

According to Thompson, “The Borowitz Report” was responsible for six percent of all of NewYorker.com’s traffic last year.

And then makes this point:

But when you publish a fake headline that sounds almost real, place it on top of satire that's soft enough to skim without really reading, give it a newyorker.com URL, and promote it on Facebook, where basically every headline sounds like satire now, you know what you're really doing.

Not always, but frequently, these posts are going to go viral as the result of people who don't know they're jokes; as a bonus, every few months, a foreign outlet will aggregate them as if they're genuine. That Travolta story had, at one point, over ten thousand Facebook shares, not because a sophisticated joke flew over thousands of heads, but because its form is intentionally misleading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Borowitz

[2] http://www.theawl.com/2014/07/the-borowitz-problem
For the containers, sure. Not for the contained messages that are opaque payload.
That's exactly what we all need! Airlines just do not care about their customers!
What obvious collective action problem is fixed with this law?
I’d rather fail at something awesome than succeed at something inconsequential
I have worked with quite some PHP frameworks in the past. Do tell me if I could help you with anything at all!
I don't see the contradiction; competent engineering knowledge has little correlation with political thinking, and is only limited to a small subset of the population. It says nothing about the millions of unemployed and underemployed people, the housewives, and politicians.

The aspects in health care and same-sex marriage are not and have not been particularly controversial in Western Europe as a matter of social policy in that time span. They are interesting points of policy but by themselves nothing special when compared to the number of forward-thinking policies most countries in Western Europe have.

What I have seen, from both personal experience and an amount of anectdote that goes beyond mere personal recollections, is a remarkable lack of interest and knowledge in foreign cultures, and an incredibly regressive management culture in the workplace.

All countries have technological outliers. The point is that they're exactly that, outliers.
Hey! Founder of Transcriptic here. This is exactly what we are. We're growing quickly and have customers at over a dozen academic institutions now. One of our key issues right now is that biologists aren't programmers and so we're doing a lot of hand-holding - we'd get really excited about someone building higher level tools (Heroku to our AWS) on top of us for specific domains that you know better than we do.

If anyone in this thread thinks this is an interesting topic I'm easy to reach at max@transcriptic.com.
It's a pretty lousy 'after the facts' metric though.
Driving dangerously is generally not visible until you're faced with a situation that requires all your attention, and then it's probably too late.

Too many people under the influence of alcohol or drugs are under the impression that because they can drive in a straight line and stop at red lights they are not dangerous and are being 'careful' and 'responsible', yet their judgement and reflexes are nonetheless impaired and this makes them dangerous.

Besides, you can't reasonably equate aspirin and chocolate to the dramatic effects that even a moderate amount of weed and alcohol have on your attention and brain response.

I'm all for the decriminalisation of drugs but I'm also in favour of zero tolerance if you choose to get behind the wheel.
And of course "JavaScript". A moment's reflection tells you all you need to know about Java's unique combination of ambiguity and marketing power in the mid/late 90s.
There is an alternative : use technology to take control of the planet's climate.

There are a number of papers investigating various means of controlling global temperature, from ships that blast water into the athmosphere, to using bombs to put reflective particles high in the athmosphere, and others.

The advantage of this would be that such a system cannot be defeated by a single sizeable dissenter. Additionally, the big problem I would say most conservatives have with global warming policy is that it requires a global government with real authority, which they oppose (and I agree with that, freedom, democracy, transparency in government, human rights and the like are not exactly global values, rather the opposite. Any real move to a global government will worsen personal freedom, human rights, corruption and the like).

The big disadvantage is legal and moral responsibility. What if we can make the Sahara a paradise, but only if we turn France (just a random example) into a desert, or say, Norway, Sweden and Finland into frozen wastelands ? What if we analyze things and conclude that locking global temperatures at the current, very high, levels is actually desirable ? Who gets to benefit at whose cost ? Does one person's significant disadvantage justify not improving a lot of people's lives ?
Even if they do, you still need an account there.
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My favorite bit from the reader comments at the time:

"As an interesting sidenote about professionalism on code comments, there's a document that shows some comments by Linus Torvalds from a very early Linux kernel. The thing I like about these is that they communicate an air of humility, good humor, and friendliness which set the right tone for successful collaboration.

Man, did that ever not last.
Emerald doesn't really exist yet, and I believe they misrepresent their automation. They've posted a very pretty site with a bunch of mockups. They have a set of workflows that work for their internal antiviral research, but "Heroku for Science" is a completely different game.

Transcriptic, on the other hand, started taking orders six months ago and has customers at Stanford, Caltech, Harvard, and more.
You're neglecting a critical little detail: Once Facebook has your data, there's (currently) nothing you can do to stop them from subsequently electing, or being forced, to hand it over to someone whose use-case is, let's say, "less benign" than mere ad targeting.
Team of 30? Team of 3000!
I also thought research was the promised land. Went to Cornell for undergrad studying biological sciences and was amazed at the research opportunities... but then worked in a lab studying type II diabetes. I pipetted, cleaned beakers, measured out chemicals to prepare solutions, sucked up cell cultures and extracted DNA all day making $8/hour in extreme boredom. There were postdocs with Ph.Ds and loads of experience from prestigious schools doing the same grunt work alongside me, often confessing they were completely miserable and wishing they could start their life over again. They worked 7 days a week and long, long hours each day. I got the hell out of research and am enjoying my life much better now in tech. I also feel like the work I do is a lot more impactful. All of my peers did the same and went to consulting, finance or tech. In my view the basic research field is in total crisis...
Nintendo buys Technical Illusions.
This is my field. I trained as an architect and work as an urban designer (somewhere between an architect, landscape architect and planner). This article hits on some good points but misses a lot of others. Some dot points to keep it short:

* People (especially those with children) often prefer to live in houses with space which are more private rather than in narrow apartments (required if you want low building heights and for everyone to walk everyhwere) on top of their neighbours. Do you really want to hear 3 screaming babies next door every night. Because that's how it works.

* Modern business don't work in low desnity environments like this. You simply need to be as accessible as you can to as wide a market (of workers and other businesses you work with) as possible. Maybe once we are all working on the internet it will shift this way - but it hasn't gone far yet.

* Even the 'traditional cities' shown will have outskirts with houses which are a pain to walk to rather than just apartments in a centre.

* There is no single 'traditional city'. There are differences even across Europe. England has its widened-road market squares. Italy has its hill towns. Places like Japan usually built out of timber (which doesn't last) rather than stone. Etc.

* There are plenty of examples of tower cities with bustling urban environments and low car ownership. Like Hong Kong. Dehumanising? Perhaps. It depends on your definition.

* Most 'traditional cities' couldn't be built for anywhere near the same cost as a modern development.

Overall though, this is pushing in the right direction, just not quite thought through as thoroughly as it might be.

[edit] Perhaps the most successful attempt at building in this vein in the west recently has been Poundbury, England. It was Prince Charles' pet project. It has done some things well (like managing to break the highways codes) but in the end perhaps still isn't as nice as a traditional town or as attractive a location for modern living as other places being built. You can see it in streetview here: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.712904,-2.463939,3a,75y,145....
"It attempts to prove that a shell language can be a handy interface to the operating system and a decent programming language at the same time; Many existing shells recognize the former but blatantly ignore the latter."

Wasn't that the reasoning behind csh[1]? (She scripts csh by the c source). Did you have a look at plan 9's rc[2]?

I welcome attempts at new/better shells -- doesn't look like elvish will be my saviour (partly due to the heavy use of backticks) -- but there is always need for fresh blood in the battle for the terminal.

I suppose that "vi keybindings that makes sense" and "a programmable line editor" is meant to indicate that rlwrap isn't good enough? I must say, after a few years (has it really been years) of "set editing-mode vi" in .inputrc, I actually think it works kind of nice with (plain) bash. I suppose there's room for improvement in terms of history editing etc... But either due to lack of imagination or force of habit, I've never really felt a pull towards zsh (or fish, or other "improved" shells). But playing around with ipython and/or Conque for vim has made me consider looking for greener shells than bash.

The secret, I think, is to avoid doing to much in the shell, and rather try to subtly improve on the "simple programs build complex pipes"-idea. I actually think some rethinking of core command line tools (cat/tac/tee, grep/sort/uniq, seq etc) might be a better investment than "better syntax".

Not that better syntax is a bad idea -- a "strict" subset of modern bash would be good, with saner handling of words/expansion/substitution -- essentially defaulting to proper checking for empty variables ("${might_be_empty}a" == "a") (but isn't [[ -z "${var} ]] always better anyway..?), always defaulting to "${var}" rather than $var, ${var}, and preferring var="$(some_command_that_outputs)" to var=`dirty backtick command`...

Essentially getting rid of all the crazy old cruft that's needed for backwards compatibility, and defaulting to sane, modern versions (it's what's hard about scripting (especially posix [k|b])sh -- there are 5 wrong ways to do everything, 2 mostly right and 1 perfect -- but which is perfect often depends on context...).

[1] I'm not a csh-fan, for some reasons, see:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ But mostly I'm just grumpy and conservative, and having mostly figured out how to properly get things right in ksh/bash, I stubbornly refuse to use something else ;-)

[2] http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/rc.html
This post does a pretty nice job articulating some of the really deep challenges in building a proper FRP system.

Currently with current gen FRP, theres a rough trade off between generality of abstractions and strength of performance guarantees.

That said, theres a LOT of smart folks attacking this problem from many angles, and I think if theres a way to get generality AND performance, someone will figure it out in the next decade.
Woah!!!
Poor families trust the government, you say?
Thats the whole point of risk. I risk not coming back because i wont have any idea what the immigration laws will be or how hard it is to return. I am ok with taking that risk, many are not.

But so far in my experience I have always found that there is always an option/a way to your goal. It might be shitty, long (as in multiple years long) and tons of headache and hassle, but there is always a way.
I would revisit this. Financial aid at Stanford is extremely generous... I was a beneficiary myself. Someone in that office will help you figure this out. I am still in the Bay Area, so if you need someone on the ground, let me know.

To be honest, your $20K loan sounds like an error. Alumni like myself do not donate back to Stanford so that things like this happen.

EDIT: Added the final paragraph.
You live in KM and you are reading Yuan Dynasty cookbooks? I'll be in town in September; we should have a beer at Salvador's (or elsewhere if that's not your thing) and talk tech and food. Email in my profile.
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