skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Benford" not "Benson". :-)

If I were to approach this from the point of view of actual proof, I'd note that the problem is one of representation. In base 2, the result is trivially true since the reverse of all powers of 2 is 1. In base 5, likewise, the reverse of all powers of 5 is 1. Base 10 = 2*5, which may or may not be significant...
i wonder what the failure rate on the interior coating is? How often are people ingesting disolved aluminum?
On top of which, that doesn't look like a card catalog. Rather, if it is then why are there three different card sizes when there are only two major types of card catalog sizes? See http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jg28doe/13... .

(Only one of those boxes looks like it might be the right size.)

Plus, the card catalogs I've used have a rod that goes through a hole in the bottom of the card. This helps keeps the cards from falling down, or falling out should someone drop the drawer. The rod is usually visible on the front of the drawer.
Can you please identify exactly what part of Hitman "rewards sexist and racist" behavior? I assume you've played the games?

You can kill women in Hitman, but this is not in itself sexist. You can kill men too, with a penalty if they're not an armed guard. There's no difference between killing a homeless man or woman that just happens to be in the way of your plans.

It seems to me that this line of criticism is actually that the game is too violent in general. It's just that sexism is used as the tip of the spear, because we as a society are significantly more likely to be outraged - because we are sexist - by violence against innocent women in games than violence against innocent men. Against the ultra powerful player character, both are just as defenseless.

If any gender is dehumanized by Hitman, it would surely be men - more than 95% of who you kill in an average play through are male guards that are simply there to be a gameplay element, like ghosts in Pac Man. You violently kill them, dump their bodies and forget it seconds later. The female opponents are highly powerful assassins with names and unique faces.

There is plenty of low hanging fruit for criticizing Hitman. It's quite a disturbing game (and it happens to be one of my favorites). I'm all for deconstructing and analyzing the games we play, but doing it in an intellectually lazy way does nobody any favors.

(I can't speak to the other games, as I haven't played them)
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These books are super dense with that sort of thing. We bought them when we moved out to the country, I've barely scratched the surface. Not really durable though.

http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Wisdom-Know-How-Everything/dp...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579123686/

http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Wisdom-Know-How-Everything-Harv...
The BBC have been experimenting with these kind of long-form "rich media" articles too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8701/index.h...

It's an admirable attempt at telling a story and I appreciate the journalism. Perhaps I'm ADD, but I just don't have the attention span to get engrossed in this kind of format and follow every word through to the end.
It's very difficult to change career later in life,

Perhaps I am showing my age, but a significant fraction of the seriously good developers that I know do not have CS degrees and sometimes even university time. Heck, I am quite happy with my career, and I went to university before there were even CS degrees to be had.

I think this is more true in this field than any other.
I agree with GajanticFounder's comment that the solution is to make anonymity unnecessary, though it might not always be possible. I hope it can eventually apply to big company executives too.
Is there a latency angle to webserver performance that /is/ valid? I have heard anecdotal information that single-thread performance does affect webserver response latency and I can see how an optimized server could make a difference there.
Platforms have denied games and game content for well over a decade now and games seem to be doing just fine thanks.

I'm unsure which popular and lucrative options are being removed though. Could you provide examples of what you think will magically disappear?
The mandate to use Yahoo Mail for corp users is from the last month or two. Perhaps it does not cover the entire company, but my understanding was that it did.

Yahoo corp mail was previously Exchange (!). Also awful, but at least it supports IMAP.
I guess I would just want something like this as a desktop application and not something where my information was out on the internet like that. I know I have stacks of physical papers in my office that never get filed. I'd love to be able to just scan them in bulk and have some nice system that was able to read them and learn what they were, sort and tag them, etc... Many of these documents are sensitive in nature. It's a huge thing to trust a 3rd party with. Even if I scan and upload via https, and you encrypt them, you must have a way decrypt them so you can display them back to us, etc...
I do have a final interview at a big and well-renown company soon, and its kind of acting as leverage. I didn't mean for it, but the recruiter asked me where else I was interviewing and I was honest about it. That sped up the interview process quite a bit.

I do feel like the place is a nice one to work at. I like many of the people i interviewed with. But honestly, I'm the kind of person who dedicates a significant effort to his job. And I just want to be compensated well for it.

Honestly, having an idea of the progression of salaries of good programmers would be something I would really be interested in, just to have something to compare against. Right now, I'm out in the dark: I have to ask friends, and they are very reluctant to disclose that kind of information.
So you think some "we" can be clever enough to manage economics but some "we" (perhaps same, perhaps different) can't be clever enough to manage cancer. Bummer.
I managed the tech/product aspect of Opera Mini and its direction for most of its first decade (we started in late 2004). There's 250+ million monthly active users of it now (most in places like SEA, Russia, India, Africa, South America). Reading stuff like this is quite rewarding.

This post somehow made me think of the first English language blog post from early 2006 that really appreciated what we (me and my team) accomplished:

http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/1008770

"Opera Mini: Best Mobile Web Browser Bar None

Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:41 pm"
It may be easier for you to convince other people of that as a father than it would be if you were a mother, unfortunately. I've seen complaints before (admittedly, in other industries and academia) about fatherhood being seen as something that enhances men's ability to do their job and motherhood a thing that distracts women from theirs.
I've had both separately and at the same time. Anxiety causes me to have a panic attack, but its the depression that causes me to dwell and feel trapped by the anxiety. Otherwise with no depression I can easily shrug it off and continue as normal.
> edit: dragonwriter nailed it with "unfair preference"... "fraudulent conveyance" must be something else.

Well, "fraudulent conveyance" would seem to be the right tort if it is a tort; "unfair preference" would be a possible grounds for disgorgement even if the elements of fraudulent conveyance weren't met. Either would seem possible in the scenario described.
And then you apply it in testing, note the regression, and either don't apply it in production or apply it as you push out an update.
Well, they asked me for what ballpark I was looking at before the first technical interview. And when I named the number, they still went ahead with the process. I don't know how else I could have answered that question..?
He edited the piece to note that one. I love this tool chain type piece. Someone should write one about computer tool chains.
cpp-netlib provides an embeddable HTTP server based on boost::asio, which adopts a proactor pattern. As with all things boost, it is well made and elegant, and takes a bit getting used to.

The Poco Net libraries include a more traditional thread-per-request server which is very easy to use, with a clean OO approach.

I think ACE includes an HTTP server as well, but I have no experience with it.
In my experience, there is an astonishing amount of work to do just keeping your head above water. Particularly in a corporate environment where you spend 90% of your time getting permission and buy-in for the other 10% where real work occurs. It's demoralizing to say the least.
> but I can throw 1000x as much processing power at this via cloud & a scripting languages

This kind of stuff is why I stopped teaching and mentoring. It's like trying to convince creationists with facts.

Also, it's wide knowledge programmers spend the vast majority of time debugging. The other day I wasted an hour because a popular high level language doesn't warn users when comparing apples to oranges. I've spent on ocassion a lot of time chasing bugs in cloud services that make debugging close to impossible, too. There's no free lunch.
For comments, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341158 from 6 hours ago.
Is there any reason to believe the criminals aren't still maintaining a presence in Home Depot's networks?
Instead of just trying to remove themselves from the process for legal reasons, surely they're at the size where they could entertain providing project managers to help coach entrepreneurs through their venture? It's not like YC steps back and abandons each batch to see who survive, they coach them through to maximise success.

If a Kickstarted project is tackling manufacturing of a physical product for the first time, they risk making the same mistakes as others before them. YC in a case like that would put entrepreneurs in touch with advisers or others who've gone before them who learnt from their experience.

Or is this something they already do? Kickstarter hasn't been opened up to Australian projects until recently, so I'm not sure.
Benefits like those would be very difficult to tax in a practical way, and would definitely have undesired consequences. The better your work environment the more the company withholds from your check? No thanks.

Health insurance is entirely different, as it's fundamentally monetary in nature (in the form of premiums and underwriting other expenses). Not only should it be treated as (or more like) income, but having it funded so much by employers mean that a lot of people don't even know what they are paying for health care. It keeps them uninformed, which is yet another way it's not a "free market".
Although I imagine we all appreciate an attempt to provide evidence, it's worth noting that the Daily Mail is basically a tabloid, notorious for misreporting studies and outright lying about things.

I think you can get to the paper from http://theworldunplugged.wordpress.com/, though I've not followed through and read it yet.
No more so that the security used for painkillers like Oxycontin. I haven't seen armed guards doing deliveries at CVS, but you never know. There are a lot less suspicious ways to acquire cocaine than to hijack a semi.
Reviewmatic - I send your iOS and OSX app store reviews to your inbox, every day
Nowadays yasm is quite better and backwards compatible to nasm.
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Unless you're a little backed up...
"The crucial scientific question for policy isn't whether the climate is changing. That is a settled matter: The climate has always changed and always will. Geological and historical records show the occurrence of major climate shifts, sometimes over only a few decades. We know, for instance, that during the 20th century the Earth's global average surface temperature rose 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Nor is the crucial question whether humans are influencing the climate. That is no hoax: There is little doubt in the scientific community that continually growing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, due largely to carbon-dioxide emissions from the conventional use of fossil fuels, are influencing the climate. There is also little doubt that the carbon dioxide will persist in the atmosphere for several centuries. The impact today of human activity appears to be comparable to the intrinsic, natural variability of the climate system itself...

Society's choices in the years ahead will necessarily be based on uncertain knowledge of future climates. That uncertainty need not be an excuse for inaction."

Much better than I expected of the WSJ. If it consistently took this line instead of buying into absurd conspiracy theories or claiming snow in January means climate change is a hoax, our national discourse would be much healthier, on both sides.
Privilege does not mean you have had a problem free life. It means you haven't had to deal with certain things that other people have to deal with.

If you are a white dude, you've never had a bank officer refuse you a loan for bullshit reasons because of his own racism. You've never had your resume skipped from a stack because the person looking at it didn't like your foreign sounding name, or because they were worried you might get pregnant. You've never had coworkers contribute to a climate of harassment because "it's just a joke" about rape, sexism, race, etc.

I grew up really poor. Like, collecting bottles and exchanging for food poor with my single mother and sister. I had to work my ass off to get where I am today, but I did it by being able to get loans, being able to get apartments, by connections I made because of other white dudes.

It took me a long time to realize that privilege isn't "you have everything"; privilege is "you don't have drawbacks that other people have to deal with daily no matter their situation."
I don't think your evaluation of human ability to cultivate environments realistic.

The vast majority of the external effects of forests and wildernesses is the effect of a few major species. In nature, those species are supported and interacted with by a complex network of other species. However, this established relationship isn't necessarily optimal for the few species of interest to us.

I find it likely that we're able to cultivate select main species of interest in forests if we set our minds to it, especially considering the large scale agriculture that we already do.

There's simply nothing to suggest that you can't construct an ecosystem with many fewer elements or the elements rearranged to, say, make room for houses, that has the same external effects as other ones. In fact, the success of many environments-in-a-bottle, indoor marijuana production, etc, suggests that we do have the ability to make relatively stable environments in which the necessary components of an ecosystem can thrive.

No one is suggesting that we do something silly like wipe out all the major predators while we let herd animals run free (which is the case with wiping out the wolves in Yellowstone), but rather that we can get away with a lot less moving parts and that we can tune the parts quite a bit to suite our fancy.

The only large scale human dependencies on plants relate to weather, oxygenation, water flow, and soil control. The last two we know we can do with intentionally seeded groves and other such constructs of plants we choose (using a reasonable selection), and don't need to replicate the full array of plants. In terms of oxygen, seeding the oceans with an algae would be far more efficient, but we really only need ferns, which are incredibly efficient at producing oxygen and are relatively hardy plants.

The final complexity is weather, which I must admit I know relatively little about, but am dubious there's any material reason it wouldn't work fine with planned forests.

Again, no one is saying "Fuck it, kill all the things". I just think we can get away with many fewer species - and sometimes who groups of species, where another can reasonably fill its role.

Or are you telling me we couldn't survive with 3,500 kinds of beetle... we really need all 350,000.
Seriously I think outright rejection of all sweetened drinks is probably the best ROI for a dietary change one can make.

The whole truth about what soda pop and other heavily engineered processed foods do to one's metabolism and general health is going to be shocking to people when it is finally revealed, and I think tooth enamel is the least of your worries.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but rendering is done on a server farm, at least partially, so J2ME itself is not entirely responsible for a good UX.
Tony Robbins came immediately to mind when I read this because it looks like the mechanism of Robbins and other Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT) seminars is to use the psychological bonding effects of shared harrowing experiences to separate people from their money. Read up on James Arthur Ray for a particularly crooked (and lethally careless!) example of such underhanded manipulation.
The increase in efficiency adds to the economy: taking a taxi example, the taxi company doesn't have to pay workers anymore, so those resources are freed. The government could simply tax a large part of that freed income (but not all of it of course) and use that to train the workers. The government doesn't even need to tax the resources directly, it can confidently pay assistance to the workers by increasing taxes anywhere since the economy essentially increased in value "globally".
Yeah nothing will make games fun again like making yet another brown shooter with women of color (TM) as avatars. Revitalized indeed.
">Note that it's exceedingly rare that one should be writing an entire program in assembly.

My mention of in-line ASM should have made that obvious that I'm not arguing for pure ASM."

That wasn't me arguing with you, it was an attempt to clarify my position on the matter in light of what else I said.

"You hand tweak your ASM, I deploy additional cloud clusters. We'll see which scales better"

That depends tremendously on, again, the context - including where one already stands on the various curves and on how parallel the problem is.

"(pro-tip: optimization is notoriously prone to diminishing returns)."

As is parallelism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
I'm guessing that by "far more radical" the GP meant "directly evals s-expressions." Especially since, IIRC, that's how PicoLisp works. I don't think there is much benefit to that approach over simpler register machines, but it's an interesting idea at least.
> One possibility: global warming, war, and desperate overexpansion of agriculture causing complete terrestrial desertification.

I'm considerably more worried that a giant space rock is going to come turn my continent in to a pool of molten rock.
"Seagulls" amazing! I'm used to calling them pyramids of doom, or laser guns.
Unlike e.g. in Python, in Node people aren't so eager to use (partially) autogenerated docs that document functions and classes. Sometimes this is an advantage (because handwritten docs are usually better), sometimes not (when the docs no longer match the actual API).

As to whether Node.js projects in general are better documented or worse than the average project in other languages... I dunno, that seems kind of anecdotal. Basic building blocks like `async`, `underscore`, `commander` etc. all have great documentation.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've had vague memories of this for years, but I was so young when I saw it that I didn't know what it was.
You are right, the only fun games have grimdark bald white guys with stubble.
The Last Day of Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley
What was most frustrating to me about J2ME was how few device manufacturers/service providers were willing to open up to third-party app developers. In the U.S., I found these phones to be about as open as video game consoles: You have to get the carrier's blessing before you can even start development on your app.
We run the Opera web browser core on the server side, in many, many instances. The J2ME client paints stuff like it would paint a PDF or Flash document. Obviously we paid extreme amounts of attention to compressibility/amount of bytes transferred. (Most of our work on this aspect happened while we were using GPRS (and later EDGE) ourselves.)
If I understand your question, then yes. Take for example the former US embassador to Haiti who warned against "resurgent populist and anti-market economy political forces—reversing gains of the last two years." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide#Return_t...)

Capitalist economies are carefully implemented by states; refusal to implement these artificial things puts your country at risk of terrorism by militant capitalist states. You may like Graeber's _Debt: The First 5000 Years_ for a useful perspective.
I worked on some J2ME applications around 2004. While we built usable apps, it seems if you want any kind of user interface that doesn't look like crap, you need to implement it yourself. The default text fields and labels did not look nice.

Another problem was that each carrier pretty much determined what you could do, such as using GPS or network access. So one some phones it works, others it doesn't. Of course, that's assuming you can get it onto a customers phone in the first place. There were app stores, but they sucked. We used Nextel's "store", and it was not fun.

I hope the situation is better today for J2ME, since when the iPhone and Android came out, it showed the carriers that people actually do want to use their phone's full capabilities. And have an easy way to get apps onto the phone.
Works amazingly. Can someone share, how does it works internally ?
I think I realize what it is now. It's this sites refusal to allow meaningful links. So we get crap like, "Faced with change, an all-female indie dev team evolves to a higher form" . This is a completely meaningless title for a link but I click on it anyway, find a wall of text, try reading a bit to see what it is about and...nothing.

It's not that I have a short attention span. I have multiple options and delving into an unknown article which has the only merit of being linked from hn just isn't good enough if they don't want me to know what it's about either.

At least if I have an idea what they're aiming for I can read it critically, but no luck there either. I despair that people can write so well and yet write such crap.
A brilliant paean to the free market and the invisible hand. Milton Friedman once described the manufacture of a humble pencil in this way.

(edit: just saw a link to an essay entitled "I, Pencil" at the bottom .. this might have pre-dated Friedman).
I never drank until a Vegas trip a couple of months ago. I still don't stock beer in my fridge, but when I go to bars, beergardens, I do get a glass.

Beer is really an acquired taste, but I do like its taste. I tend to drink after a lot of beer, so I don't get drunk, I do feel a little buzz though.

As a teetotaller for my whole life, what do I feel? The main reason I stayed away from alcohol was my fear of addiction. And that fear is still there...I don't want to drown my sorrows with alcohol, ever. I want to be able to feel the complete pain, get over it, and move ahead with life.

So my advice is: you have a choice. You don't need to drink a lot. But one beer and a few shots won't make you drunk. On the contrary, it makes you appear much more sociable. It sounds like a cop-out, sure. But each to his own, I guess.
> That's a racist stereotype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M
There was a prior article attributing J2ME to Whatapp's success: http://blog.textit.in/your-path-to-a-$16b-exit-build-a-j2me-..., discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7269258
I hadn't seen the degrading skills side, so good point -- perhaps a little cushion is due. But it would be even better to instead spend the freed resources to train them to do a more demanded job (yea I didn't mean useless, just not-demanded), assign them into related government jobs, or other skill-conserving tasks!