skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm certainly not an American, but from where I've been standing I haven't seen a liberal in your administration since I've been alive?
Lisp Machines provide ways to 'manually' manage memory for things like network stacks.

If a Lisp Machine is doing a global full GC (which it wants to avoid as much as possible), then it does not react in any useful way to inputs, the network, ...
Do not forget that, whatever the strength of Russia's conventional forces, Russia also possesses nuclear weapons. For that reason, it would be unthinkable for the West to fight a head on war against Russia.
I'd love to know your thoughts on using WebP (image format that supports animation) versus WebM (video format) for GIFs.

Do you think it's worthwhile? If not, why?
On Loneliness: Art, Life, and Fucking Human Beings
>This is nothing specific to Yubari

It's not implying that it's specific to Yubari.

It's implying that it doesn't have the crime stats that are usual in decaying cities of the rust-belt.

Comparing decaying cities of the rust-belt with an average small city in Japan wouldn't be fair. Comparing them with a decaying city on the other hand makes sense.
150 colors for your VIM
Yes, someone else gets it - keep it simple!

I made quietyoutube.com (put 'quiet' in front of any youtube video) and get a page of just the video, nothing else. I made it a couple years arg. Shame I can't get the SSL cert, though the bookmarklet I made works well enough.
Nextdoor.com is trying to bring back that sense of community that you talk about. You should give it a go.
>This is not unheard to have villages dying in Europe

This is not a village, it's a city with a population of 120k falling down to 10k.

A population of 120k would put it as a top-5 city in any medium-sized European country. And it is completely unimaginable that such a city would die this way (unless it were destroyed in a war).
While that might be true for people who have absolutely no previous computer (i.e. Windows) experience (not even as much as seeing someone use it in, say, a TV show) this is simply not the case in reality, sadly.
Maybe but maybe not. nsfwyoutube.com uses a similar idea of appending "nswf" to the domain and has been around for years.
3.4 sec is quite respectable, but nothing boasting about a top speed of "over 120mph" can possibly qualify as a supercar.
I'm actually quite hurt by this comment.

Firstly, I have worked for the past three years as a software developer. I've had to deliver things to a manager, figure out exactly what a client wants, and work collaboratively. I think that I've at least had a taste of the "real world".

Secondly, the idea that I lack some kind of mental capability to "understand or imagine what is possible outside of the school" is deeply flawed, and frankly unfounded. In fact, the condescension that arises from this statement is exactly the kind of attitude towards children that discourages them from taking risks and exploring independently.

I hope the next time you talk to or meet a 16 year old, you don't assume that they lack any ability to understand the "real world".
The Lethality of Loneliness: How it can ravage our body and brain (2013)
I'm flabbergasted that only ~6% of Americans are unhappy. Don't something like 30% of Americans have a negative net worth? How can you be satisfied with your life when you literally don't have two pennies to rub together?
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The Perfect eBay Listing: How We Boosted Our Sales by 220%
What you are describing is essentially higher-kinded types (HKT). It is known that we want this, but it's probably going to happen post-1.0.
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How did Italians take Greece? This was a great moment for the West because Mussolini invaded Greece from the North and he was repelled. The first moment where the Axis forces showed weakness-it showed that Hitler's forces where just humans and that resistance is possible-organized well it could mean victory.
chest.js - The Easy Metafile Manager
Customer support should be everyone’s job. The why and how to make it happen
only works with hosts that support aliases and I doubt that's many. nice idea though!
It sounds an awful lot like the modern equivalent of ELIZA's doctor script. I'm sure Joseph Weizenbaum is turning in his grave.
Consider that modern day fascists are (rightly) reviled by modern mainstream society, yet communists are tolerated. There are even communists being voted into various parliaments and no-one bats an eyelid. Aren't you curious as to why this is, given Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim family, even Castro?
But presumably there was a different intent behind Mao's actions. It seems to me that the goal of central planning was prosperity, not death.
Ask HN: What tools/add-ons/sites do you use to get most out of Hacker News?
I use hckrnews.com along with chrome extension to get 'Top stories' and also to catch up with days when I don't have access to internet. I'm curious what other add-ons other members use? I also noticed people reference old threads in discussions. How do you keep track of them?
I'd love to see online patching on the free tier of Linux distros (Fedora, ubuntu, etc) as its the ideal test location.

To me this is the first step, the second is doing the same with system libraries. If zlib gets updated what do I have to restart to ensure running applications are using the right version? Right now the answer is a reboot.
Considering the fact that about half of Americans are single, and the vast majority are single by choice, this tells me that people who are lonely write articles complaining about it, but population statistics tell a completely different story -- many people who have tried the usual solutions to loneliness end up preferring loneliness over its alternatives.
I managed to fall through an external wall and ended up underneath the map :D
Very good point, I was merely glancing at a timeline and listing the interesting bits and I must've changed some wording with Greece. The Italians definitely didn't "take" Greece, but they had invaded by October 1940 and were subsequently repelled a few months later.

Hitler actually blamed Mussolini's "idiotic campaign in Greece" for his failure in securing major victories against the USSR, so we definitely have much to thank the Greek army for.
If Hitler had managed to fight England and Russia separately, he could easily have won. That's the true lesson here.
>I hope the next time you talk to or meet a 16 year old, you don't assume that they lack any ability to understand the "real world".

Most 16 year olds in the developed world do lack an ability to understand the "real world" (by that I mean the adult experience) because 16 year olds lack adult responsibility by default. Having a part time job is not the same as working to provide food and shelter for you and your family. At 16 your parents shield you from the freedoms and consequences that come with being an adult, and with no experience of those freedoms and consequences, you can't really internalize what it means to be an adult.

In addition, the human brain doesn't fully develop until around 25, so your judgment at 16 is fundamentally flawed.

There's nothing wrong with being 16, but in 10 years you'll look back and laugh at 90% of what you know right now.
Gmail[1], Outlook[2], and Yahoo[3] supposedly support aliases, and everyone who uses Google Apps for their email also support aliases. I've only verified with my Gmail, so can anyone else confirm Outlook and Yahoo?

[1] - https://support.google.com/a/answer/33327

[2] - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/add-alias...

[3] - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/creating-aliases-sln3240.html
Yes, true, but in politics the outcome is all that matters, not the intent. As has often been said, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
It's not impossible. It's "easily" done if you have a JIT, but even without a JIT, you can inline the call on the bytecode level using similar techniques - you have to be able to rebuild the chain if someone asks for it. One can (easily) argue that the complexity is unnecessary and the speedups are unclear. It really depends how hard you try :-)

PyPy is generally achieving speedups mostly by:

* avoiding allocations by escape analysis

* avoiding escape through frames by removing frames

* avoiding another level of allocations by inlining calls (and avoiding frames)
Also interested. mplayer?
It's like here in the UK millions of people voted Lib Dem without reading the Orange Book, then were surprised that they're actually to the right of the Tories.
Emily Ratajkowski on Getting Her Dream Role
I have always lusted over Leica cameras and lenses. All of my favorite photographers have used them at some point or another.

I finally got a great deal on M6 with a 50mm Summicron. Now I have a M9P.

For a while, Leica was the only camera company to produce cameras with the same ergonomics of older film cameras. It may have been stubbornness on their part, but I loved the fact that I could have a digital camera that allowed me to control aperture with my left hand, change shutter speed with my right, and have all lenses have focus markings on the top.

I feel that Leica is in danger due to companies such as Fuji, who are creating cameras that have even more options for control than ever before.

Want manual focus markings? There are lots of new lenses from Fuji and Olympus that allow you to shoot with auto focus, then pull the barrel back and enter manual mode so you can do things like zone and hyperfocal focus.

Want to change aperture on the lens and shutter speed on the top? The xt1 and x100s both have it.

Sorry for hating, but if Leica's answer to cameras such as the Fuji xt1 is to throw up a camera resembling a Sony NEX 3 with a "better touch screen" is kind of a joke really. They're coming from totally left field with this one.

They can try and hold on to their legacy of amazing lenses such as the Noctilux, but Zeiss(sony) and Sigma are doing a lot of innovation on fast glass, and will soon probably come out with a 50mm f/.95 or faster lens just to shove it to Leica.

You can view my photos at "moarbokeh" on flickr if you're curious.
Maybe not exactly rule 1 of web design (also applies to ui design in general), but pretty close:

DO NOT fuck with basic functionality.
That's easy to answer -- people who have money care about money, people who don't, care about something else, like their immediate family, or fishing, or reading mystery novels, activities that cost almost nothing.

The people that annoy me are those who say things like, "Joe Smith is worth a million dollars." Implicit in that sentence is the idea that someone who has no money is worth nothing.
Absolutely. I hope that every year of my life, I look back, and laugh at the things I 'knew' 10 years ago. Is it the same for you?

The oft-repeated idea of an "underdeveloped" teenage brain is a bit old. Scientific American did a piece on it in 2007. (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-myth-of-the-te...)
Match has the syntax of:

match value {
pattern(variable-binding) [if guard-condition] => matched result
...
}

In this case, the first 'even' is variable declaration binding it to val. The next 'if even % 2 == 0' is the guard expression, qualifying the range of values of the 'even' variable. The 'if' is a keyword, indicating a guard expression. The next '=> Some(even)' returns an Option type wrapping the matching 'even' values.

The wildcard _ matches whatever left, which is the non-even values of val.
For more information on the multi-processing feature, check out this blog post: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/12/mozilla-plans-release-elect...

Some general information regarding the features of coming-up versions can be found here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Release_Tracking
Yeah, all they need is a library and a food bank and they'll be ahead of Japan in no time...
I use http://www.tophackernews.net by a friend, which captures only news that hit front page top 3. Mainly follow @TopHackerNewsHQ to read on Twitter.
Much depends on the options that the kid even considers. If they're growing up on a farm environment, then their natural curiosity will drive them towards the skills that are useful and interesting in that environment - from the article it appears that they are learning a lot of skills that are useful for a farmer or a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, since it brings immediate feedback and is consistent with the opportunities that they have there.

Have they interacted with lawyers, saxophone players, programmers, art historians, ballet dancers or microbiologists in any meaningful way to practically consider it a viable lifestyle that they could understand and identify with, to consider it as a normal available option? Given their current situation, will they do so in any time soon? A few years in college would do it but that's a bit too late. You can't really understand if you'll like a profession if you haven't seen/felt how the daily life of it looks like, that's why this choice is often dominated by your local environment and public role models.

The point of general education is that kids are in the process of 'searching for themselves' and a large part of them don't and can't choose their future direction until near-adulthood or later. If at the age of nine you're consciously preparing to be an astronaut ninja fireman or unconsciously preparing to be a farmer, then it doesn't really correlate with "what your passion is" and what you'll want to do when you're 20 or 30. And at that time point, if you have significant gaps in key education areas, then it cuts off your options. If after puberty you figure out you'd really like to be a doctor, and you spent two hours per month (as the article states) on science and math, then you're simply not getting in med school.
Jack confirmed that he's home.

> Finally home. See you tomorrow #Ferguson.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/500900374559981568
> Why would it be more important for a 5 year old to learn to read rather than, say, spend their time building Legos, practice crafts or climbing into trees?

The hypothesis that I think should be tested is whether there is correlation between being a child prodigy in a technical field (in math, physics, computer science or engineering) and getting to read early.

It makes sense theoretically -- if you learn to read by age 8, is there enough time for you to grasp all of high school math and computer science by age 14, like Manjul Bhargava?

While I can imagine my hypothesis being true, that doesn't make it into an argument against later reading age. It just means that for a group of kids this might not the best decision. (And since most of us think of themselves as the "smart kids", maybe that's why a lot of us here are opposed to it.)
Some of those solder joints look terrible!
> Just because people are more open doesn't mean that the therapy is effective.

But when therapy works, it's not because of a particular therapeutic method, or psychology, or psychiatry. This has been proven over and over again -- when therapy works, its because of the personal skills of the practitioner, not the school of thought to which he/she belongs.

Studies show that in effectiveness, a therapist is indistinguishable from a sympathetic friend. For the majority of cases, the only reason therapists exist is the breakdown of the small village and a 19th century-style circle of neighbors and extended family.

I say this because there is a widespread misconception that therapy is based in science. It isn't. It's based on a social vacuum caused by the breakdown of small communities of individuals who talked to each other.

EDIT: Nothing is more annoying that anonymous cowards who, out of ignorance, consistently downvote posts consisting solely of easily verified facts.
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2015/2016: Support in GNU Compiler Collection [pdf]
Mail.app on OS X also does this
>I think they should have their kids placed in state custody and not even considered letting their children back in their care until they have had a full psychiatric evaluation.

I can almost guarantee that these kids will turn out better with their parents than if they are raised in state custody.
Outcomes are far far worse for foster kids than for unschooled kids.

Where do you draw the line. What about parents who don't pay attention to their kids, sit them in front of the tv and provide no education or emotional support other than putting them on the bus in the morning?

These kids can read and write, there are many kids in public school who can't.
There are way more kids living in bad school districts with uninvolved parents who spend less than the 2 hours a month studying that these kids do.
Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? (2011)
Should businesses abandon the Myers-Briggs test?
Video games and cartoons can be valuable learning experiences. We learn a lot through play. If you got into minecraft you'd be doing engineering. If you got into Wildstar or WoW or some other guild-based combat system you'd be learning leadership and social dynamics - how to keep a team together and happy - and also a certain amount of math. If you got into Quake-like games you might discover the modding community and get interested in learning how to be a level designer, a programmer, a visual artist, or an architect.

Or take "watching cartoons". You might discover stop-motion and start making your own. Or if you got into Anime you might get interested in learning Japanese.

The Sudbury schools emphasize the power of boredom. When you don't play videogames that much you might FEEL like you could play them all the time if allowed to. But if you were ACTUALLY allowed to, you'd eventually get bored and want to go deeper. And then you'd inevitably be learning stuff. A repeated discovery was that most kids eventually DO decide they want to learn math, in part because it's something other people can do that seems like it might be useful. And when kids are actually interested in the subject, they can learn it in a really TINY amount of contact hours and it doesn't harm them at all to have waited a few extra years.

The reason standard schools waste so much time teaching math is that they're trying to force kids who aren't interested at all in learning it on the school's schedule rather than their own.

As for "english grammar", you can learn that just by using some of your freed-up time to read lots of books.

Here's a story that involves teaching 6 years of math in 20 hours of class time:

http://sudburyschool.com/articles/free-last
I am disgusted by this cover.
It's like Kevin Rose's feature in Businessweek in 2006 http://images.businessweek.com/mz/06/33/0633covdc.gif but worse in so many more ways.

It's so easy for media to generalize a huge group of individuals working, engineering, and building successes and failures in Silicon Valley. This only exacerbates the problems leading to protest and general feelings of dislike towards all things tech here.

This is one issue of Bloomberg Businessweek that makes me sad I ever picked up or purchased one in the past.
If there is a bright light at the end of this tunnel, please tell me.
I don't think it's necessarily true that "Merit pay invites rivalries among teachers, when what’s needed is collaboration."

If my pay is only affected by my performance then I'm quite happy to collaborate with other staff members to help them improve.

Personally I like Warren Buffett's approach to merit pay: 80% of your salary is due to your performance, while 20% is due to the performance of your other team members [1]. This gives an incentive improve your performance and to be a team player.

[1] Page 19 of Buffett's 2010 letter to shareholders:
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2010ltr.pdf
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I remember reading a study for early education that found that simply touching each student (high-five, hug, etc) every day significantly improved their performance. I imagine the need for a personal connection to the teacher diminishes gradually as we mature.

The problem I see is how do you scale personal connections and foster more social bonds?
Not quite the same thing, but self studied online CBT was the final nail in the coffin of my depression. I highly suggest checking it out for those who struggle with it, it helped me so much.
This is completely orthogonal to whether a virtual therapist is as effective as a real therapist, which is the subject of the story. If treatment A and treatment B are equally effective, that doesn't tell you anything about treatment C. I think we can both agree that talking to a therapist or talking to a sympathetic friend (as you mentioned) have some efficacy, so the question of whether a virtual therapist can give the same effect is relevant.

Aside from all that, I'd love to read up on this research -- happen to have any links or recommended starting points? My knowledge of therapy simply comes from experience on both sides in the mental health field/community, not a scientific standpoint.
Could you add your email to your profile or contact me via my own? I'd love to discuss some aspects of this site.
Elizabeth Green , in her book[1] claims that this whole debate regarding teacher evaluation, free markets VS teacher autonomy is wrong. The answer lies in better teacher training. [2] Is an interesting article about that, which shows what can be done and how does it work when you offer better teacher training.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Building-Better-Teacher-Teaching-Every...

[2]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html...
How do you spend time with your family, fish, read mystery novels, or do anything other than study, work, or look for work when you're basically one step away from homelessness?