skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This kind of Orientalist armchair psychology is standard in high-bullshit cultures like ours[1].

Do you actually know anything about psychology, or are you just talking out of your ass? Because the idea of high and low context cultures is not a recent or controversial one, and high context cultures are not all "Oriental." In fact, they can be found in southern Europe (not to mention other non-Asian parts of the world) as well.

> The reasons for Alibaba's success might have more to do with the unique political and economic conditions that obtain in China than any special feature of the Chinese consumer mind that makes them favor lack of focus.

1. Similar conglomerates exist in most other Asian nations as well, so it can't be explained away by China's politics or economics.

2. So basically you have no idea of your own as to why Alibaba is successful, other than for the vague claim of "unique political and economic conditions." If anyone is contributing to the high level of bullshit in our culture, it would definitely be you.
I live in Austin currently. Could you provide more information on your background and what you do, and what your skill set is like? Thats really what is the main factor when negotiating pay. There are a ton of opportunities in Austin, and the startup scene here is great. However, without knowing what you do is hard for me or others to really give you the answer you are looking for.
Greg Shahade is really entertaining as well.

https://www.youtube.com/user/GregShahadechess
The definition of "fast enough" varies.

A while ago, I was doing some exploratory work — basically trying out various approaches to a problem. There was a particular piece of code that was quite expensive to execute and that was executed a lot. The net result was that a single calculation of the required matrix took about two months.

It took more than a month of hard, full-time work to fit the problem into fixed-point registers and the SIMD model used by Intel SSE. Over two weeks from that month were spent on debugging, even though I went through multiple versions in C, each one closer to the target assembly. But the resulting speedup was well worth it: about 600x.

Now think about it. 600x. We went from "a single try/iteration takes two months" to "we can try six variations overnight".

So yes, assembly matters, for many reasons of which I only outlined one.

As a side note, people tend to focus on big-O algorithm performance, neglecting the constant. But the constant matters in practice, more than most people think.
I think as the earlier comment pointed out this really was about the additional data from AMS that helps refine and/or add confidence to the possible theories - some of which are dark matter related and some which are not. Unfortunately, the article title was blatantly incorrect.
Imagine being constantly portrayed as someone who can be beaten or killed for any perceived injustice or poorly chosen word in public just because of his/her perceived sexuality. That's a real example from my life, but still doesn't give me the right to dictate what someone else should enjoy in art or entertainment.

Your argument doesn't really rebut my original statement that arts and entertainment aren't a human right and you don't get to tell me what I can enjoy or even have access to; nor can I tell someone else what they can and can't enjoy as art and entertainment.

Your 'social justice' is misguided. You can't impact art and entertainment until you impact culture. One drives the other; history proves that statement correct. You want to have an impact on these video games? Get into education or youth development of some kind and start with them.
Investigate onscreen language in about 87,000 movies and TV shows
And the corresponding service: http://movies.benschmidt.org/
You could say this about any product. I think the essay would be considerably longer if it concerned a typical PC or phone, not to mention a car.

I also think the essay can be written with cynicism instead of wonder, e.g. with an anti-capitalist slant. With one innocuous affordable purchase you can deforest and pollute four continents whilst giving yourself diabetes and dental caries!!!
Apple iPhone 6 Plus – The Word That Shall Not Be Spoken: Phablet
the same way that many are dependent on gmail
Sadly no, it is not a crime. And it is nearly entirely the reason that one creates a legal entity (and LLC in this case) to "hold" the liability. The flip side is that it is also not a crime for someone to take a million dollars of someone elses money and spend it paying themselves and some friends a salary while building a web site devoted to cat pictures while buying a bunch of hardware on credit. Only to have the web site go bust. In both situations, monetary judgements can be levied only to have the entity "die" and take with it the liability it was holding.

The "win" here is that "do it on a computer" patents are being invalidated left and right by the courts and that is crimping the revenue stream of trolls and having them re-evaluate their portfolios.
The drivers have to pay for their own insurance, so it's not that. Hard to see how a background check requires 20% of all revenue.
See my response to the other child comment.
Suppose I own a piece-of-art and a copy. I swap molecules between them gradually, until the original no longer has any of its original molecules, and the copy has them all.

Which is the piece-of-art?

The art world probably has bizarre ideologies because they serve as investments and status symbols to elite patrons/customers. (And while the artist lives, they'd like to get paid. But our world isn't dominated by artists, so their subsistence isn't considered as important.)
A story sometimes referenced by Milton Friedman: http://youtu.be/4ERbC7JyCfU?t=19s
http://www.emojilisp.com/prog/m55YcVcbfUBFXf4S
Please don't downvote this.

What is on debian today that you can't get on or don't like about OSX? I ask this as a former Linux die hard. What am I missing back in the Linux world these days?

Also, One Note is killer isn't it? It is so much nicer than Evernote. I've loved One Note ever since the first time it shipped with Office. It's so great to see Microsoft porting their better apps to other platforms.
I find AT&T syntax to be completely impractical to work with, and I'm surprised people put up with it.

But, as a side note, all PC assemblers are crap. They could do so much more. I don't know why I'm expected to handle register allocation, or think about inter-unit dependencies that cause stalls.
They are the two most common node abstractions. You can get by without them but it's pretty important to know about them.

Streams are the more important one. Once you embrace streams in your applications a lot of things become easier. For example here's a small script I wrote at work to process some csvs and do stuff with them

https://gist.github.com/jb55/0ea6aba86e269f1e526b

Needless to say before I knew about streams that program was twice as large and twice as buggy. Also check out substack's stream handbook to learn more, they are really handy.
The last time I worked on Android (which was about 6-12 months ago) I tried to get the x86 image working on my laptop, but it apparently requires an intel processor[1]. Do you happen to be aware of any speedups for AMD processors?

[1]: https://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#vm...
Do you mind expanding on your first statement, perhaps with an example? How do you apply something like fire-walking to a software team without breaking some workplace safety and labour laws?
But I think a primary aspect of the essay had to do with a seemingly simple item costing only $0.50.
Mind the End of Your Line
NMK004 ROM dumping progress
Is the ammonia dangerous? Or can it be? How much ammonia can a person consume before it becomes dangerous?
This. I tried to develop for Android once. Went groveling back to Xcode, apologizing for cursing its many flaws.
From Reducing Friendly Fire to Analyzing Social Data: Joseph Misiti Interview
Yup, I know. My day job used to be writing firmware for nCipher/Thales HSMs :)
I'm actually surprised LinkedIn's widget doesn't say "X people viewed your profile in the past Y days" while constantly modifying Y so X can change without actually changing... since that's one of the many shitty attention whore things they do with email alerts.
Now everyone can afford to destroy the planet!
You are correct to point out that the U.S. population is still growing, but you are incorrect to assume that the birth rate is responsible for the increase. The current U.S. birth rate is 1.88 children per woman, bellow replacement levels. Europe is the same, birth rate insufficient to sustain their population.

Many first world nation still have growing populations which is due to 2 causes:

1) Immigration which, because we are talking about global population levels, is another way of saying that developing and third world countries have high birth rates.

2) People are living longer, which unless we solve mortality, is only a temporary factor.

So yes, poor areas have high birth rates. Perhaps those areas will stay poor or keep their high birth rates after becoming wealthy; those are valid points to make, but I think that as those area become less poor their birthrates will drop and thus global population will stabilize.
coming from a woman doesn't preclude it being sexism - sexism is a structural rather than individual problem, and women are just as immersed in the overall sexist culture as men are.
tl;dr Edward O Wilson reports on the alien-ness of ants. He describes the limited role of males, the disposability of elder/injured ants, and their biological differentiation by role. The title is more geared toward "teach us nothing about how to structure our society."
How is the data formatted?
Very cool, Looking forward to seeing how uberStarter grows. I think you have a good model to target incubators and accelerators.
Interesting article, though I'm not sure every item in the list qualifies. Regardless, feminism in Sci-Fi is definitely something worth analyzing! I see some personal favorites in that list.

Also interesting is that, because feminism/equality aren't binary issues and there are actually degrees to them, not everyone agrees on whether a particular work of fiction is a triumph of feminism. For example, this article mentions Alien's Ripley -- an example I definitely agree with! -- but I recently read on Twitter someone singling out the final scene with Ripley in underwear as completely out of place and a sexist embarrassement...
Ammonia is a gas at standard temperature and pressure. Unless they are intentionally pumping ammonia gas into the final product there should only be trace amounts. Furthermore it isn't poisonous in small quantities, we have an enzyme that breaks it down.[1]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbamoyl_phosphate_synthetase
The problem is not the portrayal of racism/sexism/murder in the game, the problem is that the game is racist/sexist in the way it was constructed.

Kind of like how minstrel shows are racist, in contrast to films like "12 Years A Slave".
Yes.

Its such a lame end for "the story of Mojang". Let's see how long it takes for the word "mojang" to be forgotten. Lego is still called Lego, and Pixar still hasn't yielded its name to Disney (they sortof managed to coexist) to take just two examples.

The sad thing about Mojang is people are inspired by "vision". Money ? sure, we all want to earn as much as we can... But when did money give anybody any inspiration.
> "Let the market work."

The market includes feedback mechanisms. Game criticism is one of said feedback mechanisms. If people are criticising a game, that is an element of the market at work.
Another example is Mongoose. It's small, easy to config and embeddable(I've used Mongoose on android with NDK with no problem). Unlike H2O, Mongoose is using an old school one-thread-per-request approach, so I would expect the throughput won't be as high as H2O, which seems to be using an event based approach similar to ngnix. Be aware of the license of Mongoose though, it used to be MIT (or apapche?), but now it's GPLv2.
This. I think the biggest problem startups make is finding a problem and building a solution, but not realizing there is a difference in problem size, value and pain per your medicine analogy.
Why can't it be classified as RICO? It's such a classic racket / shakedown scheme.
but neither is any comment that includes the phrase "social justice warrior"
pffff, that's not even a word. It's two words stuck together.
car and cdr emojis are very nice
>> The current incarnation of "Social Justice" is so far from what individuals like bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Maxine Greene and Henry Giroux had in mind that it's fucking ridiculous and absolutely infuriating.

http://books.google.ca/books/about/Reel_to_Real.html?id=hRtG...

>> "Although it may not be the goal of filmmaker, most of us learn something when we watch movies. They make us think. They make us feel. Occasionally they have the power to transform lives. In Reel to Real, Bell Hooks talks back to films she has watched as a way to engage the pedagogy of cinema - how film teaches its audience. Bell Hooks comes to film not as a film critic but as a cultural critic, fascinated by the issues movies raise - the way cinema depicts race, sex, and class. Reel to Real brings together Hooks's classic essays (on Paris is Burning or Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have it) with her newer work on such films as Girl 6, Pulp Fiction, Crooklyn, and Waiting to Exhale, and her thoughts on the world of independent cinema. Her conversations with filmmakers Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and Arthur Jaffa are linked with critical essays to show how cinema can function " - preface to bell hooks' "Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies"

You're full of it. Real Social Justice philosophers have always paid heavy attention to media, because in capitalism, our media basically assimilates, swallows up, and instrumentalizes (in the service of consumption) anything else we may want to describe as our "culture" and "tradition".
Seems nice :), but just a tad bit confusing. Maybe a better tutorial in the start when signed in for the first time.
And just to think, you could have saved that $0.50 and drank some water, but then the human chorus that is coca cola would go quiet..
The Littlefield collection is/was probably the finest in US private hands. My understanding is the original owner died recently, and the heirs have no interest in running the museum, so they've split it up and auctioned it off.

Nicholas Moran, who is the armor history expert for the World of Tanks video game, has made several videos about interesting vehicles in the collection on his YouTube channel (TheChieftainWoT). The amusing part is watching him trying to shoehorn his height into some of them. Especially the Soviet designs, since crew comfort was far down on their list of design priorities.
Just a few comments:

> if (!(this instanceof MyClass)) return new MyClass();

If you really want, just throw an exception and kill the program at compile time. Catch programming errors in testing and not do some magic to 'autocorrect' code.

> var localFile = fs.createWriteStream('localFile.tmp');

Always catch 'error's in stream objects. Otherwise, it might thrown an exception at runtime.

localFile.on('error', /* do something */)

Coding style:
In most cases if you write you code properly, you don't need to nest more than 3-4 levels. If it gets deeper split it out into separate functions. Otherwise, it's a perfect job for async.series.
There are also reasons to think the Permian-Triassic was caused by volcanic activity burning a lot of coal.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110123131014.ht...
> coca-leaf which comes from South America and is processed in a unique US government authorized factory in New Jersey to remove its addictive stimulant cocaine

According to Wikipedia "The Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant, which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, the Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis, Missouri, pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use."
Conflict-Free Minerals and Intel
I don't know about "extreme rituals" but I did recently experience the power of bonds forged in the (metaphorical) trenches. i.e. Among those in the trenches a "Us vs Them" mentality takes hold. Us being the ones in the trenches and "Them" being everyone else. So when a peer is in trouble then people will do whatever it takes to help (since he/she is one of "us") but when a general shows up the nobody is willing to go beyond the bare minimum (since the general was not in the trenches and is not "one of us"). Might not be ideal in terms of the overall picture but in terms of group dynamics I've never seen anything even vaguely as powerfully as that "Us vs Them" loyalty.
CDC leak: 500,000 Ebola infections by January
> Also, no unix shell and package managers, how do you deal with it?

There's shells for windows very similar to (some of which are ports of) unix shells, and chocolatey exists.
Oh jeeze, both the article and the research are utter crap. 150 students. 11% said they felt isolated and 19% said they felt "distressed". That is hardly a conclusive study and touting it as fact is silly.
|What is on debian today that you can't get on or don't like about OSX?

Freedom.
Note that this is just a generator yielding callback functions/promises. You need an interpreter such as co to actually run them.
How Sugar Daddies Are Financing College Education
Seagulls?
Yeah, my intent is not to overly praise that particular department, as much as highlight the difference in their mission statements. Whether or not they adhere to those is another thing.
Read what I said. It establishes him as being referred to as "the necromancer", but he doesn't actually do anything necromantic. Ever.

There's really no evidence in Lord of the Rings that Sauron is a bad guy at all. The Nazgul smell bad and their horses are scary looking, but the only real war crimes we see are committed by the Riders of Rohan and Saruman. So, it's quite possible that Sauron was simply a victim of bad PR, much as we might refer to Sarah Palin as "The Moron" whereas she's merely of average intelligence.

There is quite a bit of circumstantial evidence against Sauron in Silmarillion. (E.g. the dwarf kings all meeting sticky ends, and of course the human kings becoming Nazgul -- but maybe that was because they wanted immortality and thought he was awesome. Which he kind of was. It's not like he went around telling people that dying of old age was a "gift".) But again, no necromancy that I can recall. (It's been a long time, and Silmarillion is mostly very, very boring.)
Yep, We're working on a tutorial (something like intro.js) for the new users! Thanks for the feedback! :)
Very interesting -- it seems redis is used more and more for of its data mangling capacity.

I have 2 questions, although I don't use redis in prod I'm interested in it:

- Why use key -> json ? There are a decode and an encode to be done on each operation. The naive way to do it would be hashes (http://redis.io/commands#hash) with the likes of HSET and HMSET, and a structure like 'a' -> 'spend' -> 3. which not only make operations faster but should also take less space thanks to memory optimization of similar keys in a hash.

- What do you do for persistance ? Which one did you choose ? Are you okay with the slight delay ? Or do you just make it all in-memory ?
This sounds like a very positive step.

As concerned as I am about the new or novel infectious agents, such as ebola, the largest problem will come from common pathogens that are only treatable with the strongest of antibiotics (that often have more serious side effects).
My favourite version of this is a picture of a boeing 787 and where all the parts are manufactured: http://seattletimes.com/art/news/business/boeing/787/partsen...

Of course if you could break it down further into smaller parts and tools to manufacture those parts, you'd get an even greater variety of countries and companies.

The center where I work actually does work slightly related to this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JC24CBVsdo
SJW's are a self-proclaimed group (much like "conservative" or "liberal" or "foodie") with some general, widely held beliefs within that group.

Pretty hard to objectively discuss a group when you go out of your way to avoid describing them.
You should also add in the fact that the study found 19% of only 150 total 17-23 year olds responded to a written, university study after 24 hours that they were distressed. Only 11% said they were feeling isolated. There are so many things wrong with the conclusion that its a disgrace to any reader. That somehow equates to addiction to smartphones for a large amount of young people?
Notice something not on the list of best practices: documentation. While Node itself has excellent docs (for the most part), the Node community is terrible about documentation. If you're lucky you'll get a single README.md file with the basics covered.

Pick any category of module and there's a good chance the most popular modules have little documentation; certainly nothing close to comprehensive.
How to turn a tanker into a sailboat
Looks like it will be here: http://www.ethos-os.org/

@JonSolworth (https://twitter.com/jonsolworth) occasionally posts progress updates.
Even though I don't advocate application programmers using assembly, I strongly disagree with your statement "Even interpreted langs seem fast enough these days". This is true probably for a small subset of programmers who are mostly into web programming (and using the logic that network and not the CPU is the bottleneck which is plain nonsense), but not true for programmers who create useful applications used by many companies around the world. To give some examples not necessarily related to interpreted languages but to show how fast software is getting worse and worse,
1. My Windows 2000 start-up time on a 1GB machine was probably slightly higher (4-5 seconds) than Windows 8 start-up time in a 8GB machine. It looks like improvements in hardware have not made any difference to the user experience. Similar for Linux, but that may be driven by distributions bundling more things at start-up.
2. In Excel 2003, I could right-click on a cell and format - the formatting dialogue would open up instantly. In Excel 2010, I need to wait 2-3 seconds for the dialogue to open up.
3. I regularly use software like TOAD and SAS at work. Given that both are often used to examine data, I need them to work very smoothly after they have retrieved the necessary data from the back-end database. TOAD is ok, but SAS has gotten progressively worse over the years. I don't care whether your developer time is costlier than compiler time, I need the software to work as fast as it can only constrained by the specifications of my machine.
4. Laptop at work is encrypted using Symantec products. The software is so bad that the hard disk light on the laptop just keeps on "glowing", indicating HD activity, continuously without EVER stopping. All applications are slowed down too because of this activity.

I could just go on and on about how software is getting worse day by day. Even John Carmack recently tweeted about this - how smartphones with massive processing power and small resolutions can't display graphics decently as compared to very old machines. Anyway, thanks for letting me vent out my frustration which has been building up for quite a few days now.
This is exactly what came to mind for me.