skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"And all they offer is money." - I think that's part of the problem you experienced. I've worked with some good investors in the past and they offered great mentoring and networks. A serious question would be "Did you go looking at them primarily for the money?"
I'm convinced this is the only sane method when you are self-teaching. If you try to write an entire LALR grammar at once and then you screw up, you're in a world of hurt trying to figure out what went wrong.
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They also have a lot of employees
It is true that the market is efficient in getting people what they want and that the government is not.

However that is not desirable in this case since it makes it too easy to live on government money with little incentives to take whatever job you can. If you lived in a government room, got your government clothing and ate in your government chow hall/mess tent/whatever then you could get a benefit out of shoveling dogshit for 10usd/hour since you could get a better shirt, a more tasty meal, etc. You can't sell access to a government bed because every person would be entitled to one, you can't sell access to government food if any person could show up and you could sell your government shit, but to whom? That person would also be able to get 5 shirts.

With government money you would have to check that that person wasn't working under the table, you would have to provide incentives to work (since it is better for society), etc.

When we truely have human level AI we can make the Culture and nobody has to work. And it will be an epic achievement, but in the transition period we still have to use the carrot and stick.
How do you determine what "minimum" means? Depending on who you ask, "Basic Living" is high speed internet and all new iProducts on release along with a new car every 5 years. Where do you draw the line?

Also, how does this propagate after a few generations? We can already see the welfare lifestyle being inherited - will this be any better? Especially since there is much less reason to try to be better under this system.
> Huh? If you dump data you miss events. Imagine if Process Monitor decided to suddenly dump half of the system calls it monitored. Wouldn't that be ridiculous?

All sorts of systems have worked like this in the past (search for "ring buffer overwrite"). If you can't assume unlimited storage, you have to make a decision whether it's more important to have the latest data, dropping older samples, or whether it's more important to maintain the range of history by lowering precision (e.g. overwriting every other sample).

> but for a ton of other types of events you really need to track each and every event.

If you really need this, you have to change the design to keep up with event generation. That's outside the scope of a low-level kernel API where performance and stability trump a desire for data.
Among other things, HN was a test case for programming in Arc, and mostly by one programmer: pg.

So the likely reason that HN does not allow Markdown is because there is/was no Arc implementation of Markdown.
Yeah, and Roma was a port and the sea was way closer to the city at the time, as far as I recall.
I offer a simple API decision which has condemned generations of programmers to useless toil. The decision in .Net to not map database NULL to programming language null. Perhaps there was some higher level philosophical distinction being drawn which mere mortals are not capable of understanding.
There are lessons there for improving live editing environments (whether Khan Academy's, or p5.js', or ...), but also a call to rethink teaching (programming) in general.

Processing is clearly on the right track given all the wonderful things that have already been made with it ... consider how many more people it could reach, how much more wonder could exist, if Processing were to move beyond `ellipse(50, 50, 80, 80)` (for example).
As far as my experience goes, the only thing that gets checked in russian airport (for resident) is your passport. Passport control doesn't know where you are heading nor they care, nobody else checks it.

Maybe this is different matter for some flights (for example, to Israel or the USA), where the airline does additional checks on you, but you fly out to Europe and most other destinations unchecked (despite needing a visa to enter).
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Inefficient in what terms? If you want to optimize for a nice current life for that person you give money, if you want to optimzing for getting back to work without starving then you given physical goods.
It would matter a great deal. If it was just radiated photons a la the Pioneer Anomaly, that's pretty boring. Yes, you can make a drive that runs on pure energy by shooting photons out the back. This is well known, and not very interesting. A flashlight is a really, really, really low-powered rocket. But the thrust you get out for the energy you get in is extremely small, and there's no way to improve on it with the same principle beyond increasing the efficiency of the system. Energy->light systems can already be built with 80% efficiency or better, so there's not much headroom.

What would make this phenomenon interesting if it actually works is not merely that it requires no reaction mass, but that it's much more powerful than a photon drive. If it turns out to just be a photon drive, then the magnitude of the effect has been greatly overstated, and this is a really complicated way to achieve the same effect as pointing a laser out the back of your spaceship.
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Facebook acquires encryption startup PrivateCore to better protect its servers
>Let's not kid ourselves what the Russians are really doing. This is basically trolling on an international government scale. Putin certainly doesn't believe Snowdon is a freedom fighter, and his actions around support for Snowdon are hypocritical in the extreme given the sorts of activities Russia are almost certainly engaged in themselves.

Not only that, but you also have to ignore the things the current Russian government could, would, and has done to people like Snowden to think this has every been some altruistic move on their part.
On the other hand, ordinary people in Russia seems to stand firmly behind their government and its' actions. Putin's popularity hits record hights (ridiculous 87% in latests polls - http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/putin-s-approval-...), overwhelming majority of people believes MH17 was downed by Ukrainians (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/mh17-vast-major...), etc.
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> Please be advised there was an intermittent technical issue with one server during the closing minutes of a few auctions on Saturday, August 2nd. You were involved in one of these auctions,

> As a result, in fairness to any bidder that was attempting to place a last minute bid, we will re-run 3-day private auctions for all participants. All bidders will be included with their last accepted bid amount.

> We will issue a full refund for the domain you won: (...)

> We assure you this is a very rare situation, and corrective measures have been put in place to avoid this happening again in the future.

I don't know. Technical glitches can occur during auctions, I don't think it's necessarily improper of them to repeat the auction after the glitches have been fixed.
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The motivation is the same as one gets from moving from C to C++; you start with a small language (in this case, assembly) and then build on top of it. I've tried this recently in my own course, and found that the morale boost from having something that actually ran and produced results that they understand significantly improved learning.

As for AST design, it is easier to design the AST first than you might think. Just ask the designers of Lisp.
About your China point - I would not consider anything that involved forced abortions to be a solution.
I guess a good lesson is to always take it away from eNom...
I think if you measure productivity in terms of coconuts over man hours, productivity could rise indefinitely if it's at all possible to make robots that repair themselves and don't require any non-renewable resources.

Anyway, I think the first people to lose their jobs would be the ladder makers.
Boeing, of all people, are building a Government smartphone: http://www.boeing.com/boeing/defense-space/ic/black/index.pa...
Permalink to PDF: http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/42851.pdf

Google Research Page:
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub42851.html
> it turned out that using their service to secure your website was not free

All they claim is to provide free certificates for non-commercial use, and that they do provide. If people read something else into that it isn't because they were deliberately led to.

Though many people picking up a cert without really knowing the infrastructure won't know about revocation infrastructure and such so might have mislead themselves by having not read the Ts&Csm.
> I'm wondering how they would design an AST for a language they haven't seen or haven't thought about how to parse.

A third alternative would be to start in the "middle" with the AST, and go both forwards and backwards from there. :)

So, start with the AST as a given, or even have them design it, and use it to drive the design of the concrete syntax, static analysis, code generation, etc. At each phase, cover relevant concerns (i.e. "here's how to avoid shift-reduce conflicts in the concrete syntax").

I know nothing about teaching, so probably this wouldn't work, just speculation.
The 'Better UX for Enterprise' example you have makes it look more like an admin UI (sort of like django-admin) than an end-user UX. Is that a fair description?
Let's kill small ISV and raise the bar of entrance to the internet. Oh certificate management is too complex and expensive for too little ROI ? Well see, here we have a nice "cheap to the eye" cloud solution just for you.

Security isn't the priority here. Selling cloud is.

Edit: IMHO, same goes for SPDY/HTTP2 by the way
A job is a means to an end. Technological innovation is a means to make our lives better. There is no end goal because there is no limit to how good we can make it.
Squarespace sounds like a good alternative. My startup yet to be revealed is working on WYSIWYG editor in very low pricing point unique to others, so we are researching market now. We hope to be ready to advertise on HN within 6-9 months (yes, its hard work on WYSIWYG editor...)

Thanks for input :)
Why wouldn't it be? The article begins with "his year-long leave to stay in Russia had expired on 31 July" and it's hard to imagine Putin not prolonging Showden's permission to stay cause it would be somewhat costly politically for him even if the relationship with the US hadn't deteriorated during this year.
This is how a good sales deck looks like
If he's lucky, the US will end up at odds with China in a few years, giving him another large nation on his "side".
I'm aware of that but it effectively doesn't exist for the public if it's gated behind a developer option. This goes double for Safari on iOS.

That said, I was happy to have it run well on my system with WebGL enabled since that should make it a smooth transition when Safari 8 is released.
And beyond that, a work of fiction that focuses on storytelling first, and science... well, not second, but maybe twenty-ninth or so.

Which is not a criticism. Not all science fiction has to be hard. But none of the technology is a product of scientists sitting down and thinking about how the technology of the future might work. It's a product of writers thinking about what technology would make for good stories, and any explanation you come up with (e.g. impulse drives are reaction drives with warp fields that let them have an exhaust velocity higher than the speed of light) is a retrofit made up to appease fans and sell more books.
Yeah that was high on my list of things to do (even with paying for another year), but they "auction lock" domains for some number of days after winning (I'm guessing in person-to-person transfers they want to make sure it's legit).
Alcubierre drive is not a thruster, you can't attach it to a spaceship to move it. It's something like: "If you put a spaceship inside this, and it stabilizes the gravity field using that, then it will travel faster than light in an external reference frame." It travels at a constant speed, so it doesn't need to emit particles to change the momentum. (On the other side, it uses exotic matter that no one has ever seen, so it may be impossible to construct.)

When you say "reactionless" you mean that the device doesn't emit anything and it breaks the momentum conservation law? The previous experiments tried to give some theoretical explanations, but usually they were equivalent to emitting photons or gravitons. The conservation of momentum is a very fundamental law. It's possible to change the physics laws, but you need to have very good experimental evidence. (Hey! I believe in the Higgs boson!) This is like the faster than light neutrinos. It's very exiting if it were true, but the easier explanation is an experimental error.
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Those solutions just make the problem worse. If you make direct voting happen then it will be even easier to raise the limit and even more difficult to lower it.

The root issue is that votes should be linked to net tax dollars paid - the more you pay the more you get to decide.
I would argue that his ideas, outside his domain, are not communicated well because they are not well-formed. Criticizing him for being boorish and ill-informed about social issues does not take away from him being an accomplished biologist. Assuming that he's just botching the expression of an otherwise worthwhile thought is furthering that appeal to his inappropriate authority.
Is there any objective investigation into who actually shot them down? (I'm asking honestly)
If the shoe were on the other foot, and you lost out on a domain due to their technical glitch I'm sure there would also be uproar.

[Funny how their downtime actually brings in more money]
This doesn't seem to work without Flash. I'm a little disappointed.
Fully agree, that's why I don't use yelp and preferred just the bite-sized reviews. The twitter style reviews managed to all impart useful info in a time frame I can consume between door of restaurant (begin check-in) and table (already have 3 inspirations on what to order).

Sadly most of my friends who don't use foursquare haven't seen it my way.

But my point is, they're still building and supporting 1 check-in app... If they'd just called that one foursquare and not remove any features, and make a new app for the rest of the world, they could still pursue that larger group of non-obsessed users that they need without alienating the people who would be happy to keep supplying them with behavioral data and content forever.
Right, because the only costs associated with any content service are due to distribution. Producing said content is free, right?
This needs to have the year after it, as it's continuously been reposted.

That being said it's still good advice and a good read.
I have another idea, based on the observation that traditional compiler building courses are like a "waterfall" and the OP's proposal is simply a "reverse waterfall."

What if the course was designed based on an "Agile," evolutionary methodology?

In that course, you would divide the course work in 4 "scrums". In each scrum you do a little bit of everything (little bit of lex, little bit of parse, little bit of syntax analysis, little bit of code generation). In the first scrum you also would cover the architecture and high level overview of the "roadmap."

Of course, at the end of the first "scrum" you would have a very primitive compiler for a very primitive language and without a lot of error checking, but students would have been exposed to the end to end experience.

The second and subsequent "scrums" would only deepen each part of the compiler, and students would benefit from knowing the interactions across modules and simply learning more sophisticated techniques.

I remember when building my first compiler in college that I really had no clue why we were learning about tokenization and state machines for so long when I really wanted to generate optimized code.
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A superconducting version of the EmDrive, would, in principle, generate thousands of times more thrust. And because it does not require energy just to hold things up (just as a chair does not require power to keep you off the ground), in theory you could have a hoverboard which does not require energy to float in the air.

If they have just solved flying cars and hoverboards, I think we can officially declare this to be the future already.
"Transporting goods inland was hard because..."

I think it should be something like "was even harder than you would think because..." Sure it was harder before efficient harnesses, but even after efficient harnesses were invented, indeed even in good terrain, horses and carts were very expensive. Note that not only were railroads and trucks a lasting revolution in commerce, they were a radical improvement on another (less enduring) radical improvement before that, extensive artificial canals (very famously the Erie Canal, but there were many others, some successful). Rivers and canals were central to inland commerce in Europe and America because even with good harnesses, enthusiastic breeding of suitable strains of horses, and various other refinements horses and carts are still expensive per ton per mile.
As a European I wonder how hard this will really hit us? I have been hoping for a complete embargo against Russia and russian made goods for a while now, but I know come winter some of Europe will freeze.
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What's the strategy? To be what 'Carsabi' was in order to get acquired? Still needs work.

How do u ETL the data? Scrapers?
If he would have mistakenly put a bid higher than what he wanted would they let him retry?
The idea of "Easter Eggs Manager" seems delightful.
hm, im not sure what to think about this. Despite beeing another 'framework/library' that promises to ease the learning curve for non programmers to produce graphics, i do not fully understand why using it should be
more easier than drawing to blank 'raw' canvas element with a bunch of wrapped drawing methods.
Eg. why do i need to an 'updatePixels' wrapper of putImageData, just to ensure syntax equality, overall the abstraction layer just seems really thin. Should we not accept that every platform has its own tools, and stop
making the ultimate crossplatforn artist drawing framework. Wouldnt it be better to accept the languages own features and try building stuff on top of that, instead of trying to mimic another language, also without considering the target languages limits (eg. p5.js isnt caching anything, constantly getting context via getContext('2d') is just slow...).

sorry for the rant
Nobody in the West seem to think about hundreds of innocent civilians dying because of the brutal attempt of the new pro-Western Ukrainian government to subdue pro-Russian separatists in what they unashamedly call "Anti-terrorist operation".
I've seen "mm" used very frequently as millimetres. 1cm/2=5mm.
I disagree with the assertion that rerunning the auction was fair.

> As a result, in fairness to any bidder that was attempting to place a last minute bid

Hey, guess what? If you choose to participate in auction sniping, latency, technical glitches, etc. are a risk you run for not submitting a normal proxy bid ahead of time. If you want to auction snipe, you should be subject to these risk factors - not get a do-over if your snipe was unsuccessful.
This is only the case on the crap-infested, ad-riddled Play Store. On a market like F-Droid, where the apps respect your freedom, they also respect your privacy much more. The flashlight apps available there only require the permissions they need, and don't collect any kind of personal information.
No easter egg for me :(
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Not on any major providers, at least in Ontario.
Bell, Rogers, Cogeco are all definitely metered and limited (for all reasonable price ranges at least, $90+ for unlimited bandwidth is not reasonable compared to prices in other countries).
Wasnt the faster-than-light neutrino myster solved? It was an optical cable not plugged in all the way.
Are you trying to suggest here that Baez isn't aware of the existence of virtual particles? He's done lots of work in quantum field theory.
The app looks really pretty, and I like the animations. Just wondering, how do you sync the lists, is it through iCloud?
Maybe the legal/tax implications of a for-profit entity accepting donations outweigh the benefits? I really don't know; I'm just brainstorming possibilities.
> Basic income is not a left vs right issue.

Yes, it is.

> Lots of libertarians (including Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek) support basic income as a more efficient safety net than government-run programs.

Well, first, "libertarian" says nothing about left vs. right. "Lots of libertarians support one side of the issue" doesn't mean it doesn't split left vs. right.

Second, neither Milton Friedman nor Friedrich Hayek can be counted as current supporters of, well, anything.
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I have some selenium based ui tests for my web application and want to run them on real devices. I can run my tests on emulators using browserstack and saucelabs but they dont suport real devices. appthwack helps us run native app appium tests but not web app tests.
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Here's a demonstration video of the EmDrive in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57q3_aRiUXs

However this test rig apparently doesn't adhere to the same strict experimental setup used by NASA.
I like the way you think, if you're being facetious that is. But yes, without bad investments moving money from the 1% to the bourgeoisie and the petite-bourgeoisie, then it just stays trapped up there, which makes politicians turn into street-walking whores - over-eager to sell out the populace. Venture capital is the new communism. They're the new "takers" in our economic society, or perhaps the new "Robin Hoods."

And I applaud their efforts. It's not easy turning bull into gold. And there's a big difference between regular bull (the news, everything you see on all media, advertising, your co-workers' worthless opinions) and turn it into convincing bull.
Interesting. I think it's possible that Infiniband will one day work its way to desktop computers, but there are a lot of players in the game that have to agree to make it work and make it popular.
Love to be able to read this. But a huge full screen non dismissable "share this content" box is blocking the entire thing. The lunacy of asking someone to share an article before they've even read it combines well with the fact that it probably wasn't tested on mobile.