skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The money line is this:

> Indeed, R.B.’s lawyers won’t let its marketers claim that MegaRed [krill oil] pills actually lead to a healthier heart. They can only suggest it with scientific-sounding language like “supports three markers of heart health”: triglycerides, C-reactive proteins and the omega-3 index.

It's rare to see such a straightforward and clear admission of how much bullshit there is in advertising. Using weasel words that don't actually mean anything (so that the customer can't say that your product didn't deliver), and selling stuff that people don't really need but which they buy because they make them feel good. Of course, this is more obvious in OTC health products, but actually present in most categories of ads. I think that the omnipresent advertising we're facing in the modern world is nothing more but pollution of the mind, implanting thoughts that aren't really our own but that only serve a for-profit purpose of a multinational corporation.
That said, when we were bootstrapped (the first 14 months or so of CircleCI's life), we still offered a free trial.
Hi there! If you like C, I'm working on a small (like REALLY small) virtual machine called Carp.

I've no idea what I'm going to do with it, so feel free to chip in!

http://github.com/tekknolagi/carp
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It says twice as much as they spent on the ads. That's a measure relative to the ad spend, not a performance measure compared to their other channels or campaigns. Big difference.

"the campaign generated about twice as much revenue as R.B. spent on the ads"

Which is put into light by the channel cost comparison from the article: “I can go to television at a quarter the price.”
Yes, you're right - it was Columbia. Sorry.
Whoops! Thanks for the heads up, dang.
Indeed, it's kind of a round about metaphor for John the Baptists 'repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand'. Which also concisely demonstrates why many don't give the the singularity or related notions (even the possibility of strong ai) credence. It's a little to religious ie unknowable.
I just recently switched. Turns out, this is the same font that Codegansta uses, as seen here: https://gophercasts.io/

So you can get a nice preview of it if you like :)

(though, i think he uses 12pt, i use 13pt personally.)
But how do you truly define progress?
Airbnb for meeting rooms :)
No worries, mate :) My sister does have a fake "Princeton Law" shirt though.

You're also right about the bar. Everyone I know from top-tier law schools down to those at the lowest rung schools spent an extra several months at least in week-long marathon bar study sessions.

Craziness, you would think passing the bar is something that ought to be taught in law school, not self-(re)learned prior to the test.
Thats clever! The longer a year has gone, the less likely you will say "last year", "one year ago", "two years ago" and rather go for the years "full name" like "2014". This could be a reason for the revivals.
For someone who's not very knowledgeable about architecture shifts, what software changes would be require to make this happen? I'd assume that the Mac OSX itself might be able to make the shift easily, given that Swift and ObjC code seems to run on both iOS/ARM devices and MacOS/x386 machines. What else will have to change? Or is this purely a hardware choice?
He does say "This riverside park doesn't figure much in Warsaw criminal lore" at the start of the second paragraph.
More info? That's certainly not what I've heard from global warming activism people.
It is disconcerting how difficult we've made it in America to practice law. The law is the cornerstone of our nation. It protects our rights. It compels behavior. It is how we as a nation formally decide allowed and prohibited behavior. And yet, you cannot professionally participate in the core of this system without years of school (or perhaps a long apprenticeship). This strikes me as a classic case of using licensing to keep out competition and keep wages high. Imagine how much worse off we'd be as a society if we required a similar system for professionally developing software.
The way I see it, the US is currently using its influence to hold Israel back. If it weren't for the US, Israel would have long ago already performed a "first strike" against Iran.

Anyway, I think Israel's "occupation" of the Gaza strip technically ended in 2005. Gaza is the current location of conflict once again, because Hamas (not "Palestine", but Hamas specifically) is using Gaza as a spring board to launch rockets into Israel.

I understand Israel's point of view. Israel _gave up_ Gaza 9 years ago, and the current conflict is the thanks that they get for leaving. Mind you, it is Israel that supplies water, power, and utilities to the people in Gaza.

Furthermore, the "Palestinians" are hardly a group of unified people. They are a divided, complicated group that have been proven difficult to reason with. IE: Hamas does not represent the typical Palestinians, and Israel seems to understand that.

At very least, the Israel Electric Corp who are sending their engineers to fix power lines to Gaza (while under rocket fire) are willing to work with the people living within the Gaza strip.

Don't boil this discussion into a silly "Red vs Blue" fight. The politics of this region are very complicated.
"Yesterday" has suffered greatly lately:

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=yesterday
Is the channel cost comparison relevant given that we don't have the ROI of TV spend?
Thanks! It was tough but well worth it. Had (still have) a wife and a newborn to support, so you can imagine I was working night and day for a long time to get our dreams realized.
"The Facebook folks countered that such specific targeting would be very expensive. Under Facebook’s auction system, advertisers compete for limited slots in the users’ news feeds; the more targeted the pitch, the higher the cost for reaching each 1,000 people. With only a small pool of targets, R.B. would be competing with other brands that wanted to reach those same people, forcing it to pay more to be the advertiser that won the slot."

If you go for the more general targeting doesn't that mean your ads are just going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel, served to people nobody else wants to target?

I understand how this is in Facebook's best interest but fail to see how it benefits the client.

If you know your customers are those who care about heart health it seems like targeting others and having to convince them first to care about their heart and then to buy your product seems like a huge barrier.
Haha. I hope its that way, because the alternate reality is pretty cool :P
Why Cont when Either would do?
The transition from powerpc to x86 was surprisingly relatively painless. There was some pain but most apps ran fine in the translation layer and eventually the native apps moved over.

It'll probably be even easier the next time since apple has done it once already and knows how to provide the proper dev tools.
I'd be down to meet-up for a coffee and chat. Email me dan [at] techendo [dot] com
The same thing applies to studying for the patent bar. I don't know anyone who didn't take the patent bar review class (giant thing in giant halls with non-stop lectures with no questions please). Taught me what I needed to pass the damn thing when the passing rate was below 50%

http://www.uspto.gov/ip/boards/oed/exam/past/results/
Offer an alternative, or get out of the way.
Original code:

if some_error_condition then
None
else (
// everything else in the function is nested
)

Why not use a Maybe/Either monad like:

x <- some_maybe_value
// everything else in the function isn't nested, and "x" is available (if some_maybe_value was Just)

Kind of like exceptions, but a bit more explicit.
Wow. I always thought i was the only crazy one around . The reasons you mentioned are exactly the ones for which i have been running a story for so long (Not as long as you though, i started 5 years ago). I weave my personal frustrations, pain points and unfulfilled wishes into this universe and since i control that universe it helps me feel more in control of myself. Another very important aspect of this is that i am extremely hyper-active, and my brain is always, always thinking. Escaping into this world is the only way i know to shut out all the external thoughts and let me my brain loosen up a little.
I primarily use Firefox for browsing, but for development I usually use a mix of Firefox and Chrome.
It might be just me, but it's very common when I use the JavaScript debugger in Firefox that it either freezes the site, the debugger, or Firefox itself. That causes me to give up and head to Chrome.
I also wish they put a visual queue on the web page when you pause the debugger like Chrome does. Everytime the site get's unresponsive I have to click around few times, wonder what I screwed up, and then realize that the debugger was paused.
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Actually, #3 is the only thing like a "defense" that can be raised. #1 and #2 might provide legal causes of action against Google, but unless Google is acting as an agent of the state, the exclusionary rule doesn't apply, because the exclusionary rule only applies to information that results from an illegal search and seizure by the state (including private parties acting as state agents), not to evidence illegally obtained by a private party acting independently of the state which is then transferred to the state. So, even if the information was illegally obtained by the arguments that fall in categories #1 and #2, that's not something that's useful to the defense in a criminal prosecution without #3.
Exactly why the power grids are so challenged is a bit above my intellectual or educational pay grade. (I'm neither an electrical engineer nor a city planner.) But I do know that the system is aging and is stretched to capacity. SoCal, in particular, is riddled with more issues than NorCal -- probably because of greater population, more A/C usage during the hot summer months, etc.
The fact that iOS shares a lot of the same code as OS X will make this a much easier transition. Apple can take a lot of the low-level stuff from iOS, where they've had years to figure out how to get Darwin working smoothly on ARM.

Beyond that, all apps on the OS X app store will have to be recompiled and resubmitted. None of the binaries installed on current OS X machines will still work, unless Apple includes an x86 emulator like they did for the transition from PowerPC.

This will also open up the possibility of running iOS apps natively on OS X, but I doubt Apple will pursue that at all (for UX reasons).
This project is a mess. The boring has stopped until 2015 due to damage done to the drill and the cost has been steadily increasing. You can read more at http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024187017_berthadela.... Turns out that boring large tunnels under cities is never straightforward.
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They've done it twice, not once. They moved from 68k to PPC in the early 90s, again with full emulation. In that case it was even more extreme, as much of the OS ran emulated in early PPC releases (yet it was still quicker than running on actual 68k hardware!).
Url changed from http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/watch-2600-years-of-..., which points to this.
i'm surprised the article doesn't talk about The Stanley Parable at all.
I think it's technically irrelevant, how many people from the 68k/ppc era are still there, and the os/tooling/techniques back then have probably nothing to do with what's in place nowadays.

Pyschologically it still matters though, as you said, they did it twice and the first was surely a harder task.
Yeah, when well-timed a cutscene can be part of a syncopated rhythm, or be a satisfying moment when you can throw down your controller in exhaustion after an intense piece of action, or they can be used to frame a shift in gameplay.

That's not to say they're not overused in general, but they can have their use.

On the subject of overuse, one reason is that a linear story and movie-like cutscenes are easier and cheaper to write and make, at least compared to the alternative. The processes are well-known and so they're easier to budget for.
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I think there may be a large pool of ex-prisoners who know the law very well. Many have worked as jailhouse lawyers, either on their own case, or fighting cases for others, for years, and have a very good real-world understanding of criminal law and sentencing. Many of them are good enough to write legal pleadings. The problem is, having a conviction, it's extremely hard, if not impossible, to become a lawyer in the US. The best they can hope for is to become a paralegal or research assistant.
There is no shortage of lawyers in usa. America produce so many lawyers, that they have trouble to find work. Plus, there is no country in a world where law practice does not require years of study.
You've highlighted the big difference this time. Switching from Intel to ARM would be a step down in performance, or at least not a step up. There's no headroom for a legacy emulation layer.
Contact me asap. I explored the same idea last year including an interview series with prominent entrepreneurs experiencing depression.

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True, but I mentioned continuation-passing semantics! Peaker's right though—and Either might be a little easier to understand.
We ran the numbers on this last month, for our SaaS startup (shameless plug at end of this post). Certainly Patrick is right that the marginal cost of an additional user is low. It's why the math works on a "free for life" entry level plan. But in our case, we offer SMS (including international) on paid plans, so a free trial has a real non-zero cost for us. And there's an additional risk attached to offering a free trial and ending up with a riptide of unprofitable customers.

Of course, not having a free trial could also have a non-zero cost. We made some assumptions and played with a model but in the end we followed our gut. We have that free for life plan, and an affordable, under $10/mo entry-level plan. We offer free trials to customers when it seems appropriate, and we'd certainly give one out if asked, but it's a manual process for us and we like that.

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If this happens I hope entry level Mac’s get below $500. I bought a MacBook Air for use as a Windows machine with the plan to learn iOS development at some point. It was worth the cost since I can use it as my day to day machine running Windows. I wouldn’t be able to justify spending $1000 on a Mac Laptop that could not run Windows. I could justify $400 for an entry level Mac Mini running ARM but not a lot more then that.
I'm just weary of any bridge to ObjC, having seen the caveats first-hand. But I suppose it's mostly just in principle.
ROI for other channels vs FB would indeed be the missing variables that would give context to the article. Cost of channel (TV in this case) is part of ROI, and it's the only other hint provided.
It would be very interesting to know how this happened, I guess this is the downside of using wide spread products.
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> It might be just me, but it's very common when I use the JavaScript debugger in Firefox that it either freezes the site, the debugger, or Firefox itself.

If you have a test case and steps to reproduce, please file a bug! We can't usually fix the bugs we don't know about.
My experience is significantly different. I find that developers who use Vim and Emacs are generally more experienced and have chosen their tools with care. They understand the importance of simplicity in design. They don't pull in large libraries arbitrarily. They commonly write more efficient code to provide the same functionality, with less bloat.

Your mileage may vary, but the best developers I've personally worked with all use Vim or Emacs.
The things you count as progress should be important enough that you don't need an app to remind you. If your house is on fire, it's obvious to leave the vicinity for example.
So you want something more like this? http://i.imgur.com/MCKla78.png

We have it working and will be adding it very soon. It will also be very easy for library authors to add their own event parsers to our tools.
Apple does look like it's making chips to handle heavy workloads, not just to compete with the latest Krait or whatever. But I'm not sure ARM Macs are the direction they'll take that.

It'd make some business sense for them to instead position iOS so it can take over more and more traditional Mac duties. The IBM push could be an example of that. Investing in iOS gives Apple the tight control and the 30% cut they're used to from that space, and it avoids the Windows-RT-ish heartbreak of "why is this ARM OS like my Intel OS but without all my apps?" (If there were Mac-on-ARM, I'd expect it to be Mac App Store only.)

Anyway, the A7 is already a beast (http://www.anandtech.com/show/7910/apples-cyclone-microarchi... does various measurements, http://cryptomaths.com/2014/04/29/benchmarking-symmetric-cry... is an interesting case study), and there are still future process nodes and microarchitecture changes that will let them make better chips. I don't know if an ARM MacBook Air is specifically where this goes, but they're certainly making ARM capable of more serious stuff.
Our school (not law, CS) ended up with one big exam that was supposed to test almost all subjects from previous five years. Pass rates are higher then law bar, they do not aim to be cruel on that exam. 2 months of intensive preparation seems to be equivalent of what good students here need for prep.

No matter how great your teachers were, you forget some things and need to revise before such huge and important exam.
I'm a technical person myself and working with my partners on an idea in healthcare. I'd be happy to meet up to chat. Email me dathoang [at] gmail [dot] com.
Actually, it looks a lot like PragmataPro: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7c5yifw5saip3ae/pragmata_vs_input....
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Thanks for the comments. You're right, "SomeReallyFancyTypeName" was a bit of a strawman on my part. But even with shorter type names you still have the same problems if you use column alignment. I actually gave up column alignment long before I started using a proportional font. I just found it to cause more headaches than it was worth.

You mentioned that "editors don't handle tabbing very well". All the editors I use most frequently - IntelliJ IDE, Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, Komodo, Sublime Text, UltraEdit - handle both tabs and proportional fonts without any problem, so that hasn't been an issue for me. I'm curious to know what editors have trouble with tabs.

Anyway, I try not to worry too much about tabs vs. spaces. My only real objection is two-space indents. That's just not enough for many people including myself.

Of course many editors don't support proportional fonts, but that doesn't cause a problem for those of us who like to use proportional fonts in the editors that support them. It's really easy to write code that is equally readable in a monospaced or proportional font.

Regarding the line lengths, my coding style lends itself to very short line lengths, as shown in the example above. I think that helps give some freedom to use wider indentation.
My idea is not that difficult to get to MVP, but here it is anyway:
In a nutshell: an inverted ecommerce site, where you ask for the best phone under $200, no contract, and this and that are important to you, and people bid and tell you their recommendations and why (along with buy links / affiliate links).
What this shows is the old NY Times house style oddity where they described CDs as "compact disks" rather than using the trademark Compact Disc. (Pre-1980, it is not clear to me.)
Haskell has its Text library type. Which is a great example of how complex UTF done right can be... And how it can be done quite nicely as a lib. String literal overloading is pretty important (and library-level rare) though.
I wonder if this will mean the end of Flash Player for Mac? Will Adobe bother releasing an ARM version?
it would be nice to have routers with pre-configured exit nodes
It doesn't matter if it's right for Facebook to take advantage of them. What matters is that Facebook makes money off the developing countries.
This is interesting. Who is being gamed here?

How likely is it that someone at Lyft not only realized that users would take advantage of the $25 free rides, but was also smart enough to realize that some of those users would share their interesting stories, and generate free publicity for Lyft?

(99% likely, I guess)
It's quite ironic considering Abraham Lincoln was one such autodidact.