skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a tournament featuring six of the top nine chess players, playing a game heavily geared towards draws, Fabiano Caruana won his first six games and finished 7-0-3. For perspective, current world champion Magnus Carlsen was second with a 2-1-7 record; his only loss was to Caruana.

This just doesn't happen. The last time anyone dominated such a high-level tournament was in 1994 (Anatoly Karpov at Linares).
The fishy part is that they were shutting down for a phony reason. They never had a trademark, so it made no sense to shut down the company when they ended up not getting one. Twitter wasn't suing them or cutting off API access, they were just against the trademark. Coincidentally (perhaps), the service was hemorrhaging users while storage costs remained pretty constant. If they wanted to soldier on and continue the service there was absolutely nothing stopping them.

It smells like a big scare tactic to put the mess on someone else's plate. It worked I guess.
A poorly written article in Slate? I'm shocked, shocked.
It seemed to me many years ago that there was an odd pattern in the schools, perhaps exaggerated in Catholic schools, but probably present in the public schools also. In the earlier grades, the girls, who sat still better, had better small-muscle coordination, and were more verbal sooner, pulled down the As, while the boys did more poorly. Somewhere in the middle school years, neat handwriting counted for less, and the boys started to catch up on other fronts. The girls, not always unwillingly, fell back. A cousin of mine infuriated me by saying that she got Bs in high school--boys didn't like girls who got As.

But, as they say on HN, the plural of anecdote is not science.
Yeah, I was wondering if the parent meant this. However, the Silicon Valley is arguably the highest concentration of CS talent in the world, and the researchers from the closed office may not want to move to Seattle when they can easily get good offers from the likes of Google/FB/Dropbox!
An article was unexpectingly political: it is about a tournament with all players from top-10 except for those who are Russians, an article starts with bashing Russians and ends with bashing Russians? It even manages to mention Putin several times. Is it what competitive chess about?
Ahh! I went to his SXSW talk this year and was absolutely entranced with the Wolfram language. It seemed like a real step forward in innovative thinking and actual "natural language" programming, but I was sad it's proprietary.

I think the power of it is really undervalued - using all the knowledge of the wolfram-alpha engine to create objects? Such a neat idea! Imagine if Google built a similar language based on their search engine data - the kinds of programs people could build and might accidentally build just playing around boggle the mind.
I've played competitive chess for a short while, and the level of concentration involved leaves you absolutely exhausted at the end. Imagine computing hundreds of scenarios, each of them up to a dozen levels deep, for four hours straight. In other words, you have to get in the flow state and stay there for a very long time.
I actually really agree with you, and I even know most of old chess champions since I've been a chess fan for a long time. The article randomly jumped every few paragraphs for no reason to something completely unrelated. I just could not read it, nor understand what the point was.
previously they had your private key, so they could see unencrypted plaintext anyway.
I know what "equivocate" means -- but when you equivocate by conflating one sense of a word with another sense of the word, its not described as equivocating the first sense with the latter sense. You might equivocate with a person (the person to whom you address the equivocation), or equivocate by interchanging one definition with another.
I don't see becoming CTO as heading for retirement. If he wanted to semi-retire he could adopt some other title like Chief Software Architect.

Also your mention of his eventual death sounds insulting. There are plenty of better things to pick apart Ellison for besides his age, and he isn't all that old. There isn't a single mention of his health in the wikipedia article about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
Corporations cannot plead the 5th. That only applies to individuals. And it only applies when there is any reason to believe there is a risk of self-incrimination.

So yes, if you are in a circumstance where pleading the 5th is allowed, then you may plead the 5th and therefore not comment. But in the case of a corporation, or in the case of circumstances where you may not plead the 5th, then you cannot escape punishment by asserting that you are in a catch-22.
Because if all shares of the company is valued at X, and the tangible assets of the company are valued at Y, and X < Y, then isn't Yahoo's stock objectively undervalued? I'm not some sophisticated investor, I just buy index funds, but isn't this kind of objective valuation of companies the basis of value investing a-la Warren Buffet?
“The greatest peacetime challenge that the UN has ever faced.”
A nice piece of writing might have an intriguing headline (this did), it then follows up with an opening that gives a brief hint of why the headline was justified (this totally failed), then you get background into the situation that led to the intriguing part (nope), then it ties it all together into a satisfying resolution (nope nope).

The title sure was nice though.
I guess it depends on when and where you went to school. I had hardly any male teachers and I am a student of the 90s. In Australia less than 30% of all teachers are male, divorce rates are very high and single parenting is increasing. I think young boys really lack male role models in society today.
>It defies most conventional notions of a startup... It's unbelievably unfocused, it does pretty much every kind of business you can do on the Internet.

It defies the Silicon Valley notion of startup. China's internet market is still new, and Alibaba is like Yahoo in the old days - it does everything online.

Hopefully it doesn't turn out like Yahoo.
You are clearly correct that it would be in everyone's best interests not to indulge in the politics of spite. But man, the stuff I've been hearing out of UK leaders sure sounds like the politics of spite to me. Maybe that's just tactical to try to scare Scottish voters and after a "yes" referendum they'd pivot to minimizing carnage. But I wouldn't want to bet on that.
Fair point. GUI is definitely faster for putting together an invoice (i.e. on paypal). However LEWT is all about extracting your data from existing sources and processing it, I maintain my invoicing data (hours worked) directly in my google calendar now so I manage that all in a GUI. I use LEWT to pull and process that data. I agree that monkeying around in a CLI isn't always great, for me however the convenience and time savings comes from only having to maintain my data in one spot. To try and answer your question - its CLI for expert convenience, it has an API so it can be wrapped in a GUI of your choosing at a later stage.
Coincidence I guess. I've never read Kafka so I don't actually know what his writing style is like.
One more thought occurred to me (I didn't see it mentioned around here?) that you keep some control of the relation with Cloudflare, you can pull the plug instantly at any moment you wish if need be, and because of that, they in theory must be more "on their toes" all the time, can't become spoiled too easily. Or at least should they become, you have some concrete leverage. Also if some competition for CF arrives, you now have the freedom to switch.
That was an excellent summary, thanks. Even re-skimming the article that point is thoroughly buried. They barely even mention Caruana until a third of the way into the article.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that Microsoft is already considered bad/inept/stupid pretty universally in Silicon Valley, and that this doesn't change anything.
Asm.js under consideration by Internet Explorer
I would guess they won't see anywhere close to $11M. People will simply start listing on Craiglist or other forums and avoid the whole AirBnB hassle.
You don't see addresses on this website? Look just below the randomly generated name.
People are quick to downvote when it's inconvenient to their vision of the world.

What he says is true, and innovation seems to affect fewer and fewer people - the rest can only dream of it.

Good drugs are being banned, electric cars are being laughed at by people who can't fathom that an electric motor can put out the same performance as a V6, smartphones can be used as full digital assistants yet they're used for phone calls/Skype and alarms, SpaceX - what's that, etc.

Not to mention that "over 3B (billion) people are below the poverty line..." as angersock said.

Those who are lucky enough to be touched by innovation surround themselves in a bubble and dismiss everyone else.
SAP Buys Concur Technologies for $8.3B
There's something similar in python https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fake-factory
You're right, I adjusted the numbers a bit. That leaves $9.7bn of free money laying around, if you can get at it.

(minus taxes and discounts on the value, etc.)
Well we can always console the boys by telling them they'll get paid more once they get a job.
It's the wars. The Scots do not want to ride along on our next misadventure, which will hasten the end of the dollar as reserve currency.
The real reason - it gives him a differentiated brand which drives certain types of entrepreneurs to Founder's Fund. Since he started down this branding exercise with that New Yorker piece in 2011, I'm sure he gets much more inbound interest at Founder's Fund. Plus, his hedge fund was being wound down, making him refocus on his VC brand. Everything with a grain of salt people!
I wish I could talk to people this easily ;P
isinterneton.com implemented something like this circa 2011 but it looks dead now.

You can still see how it worked: http://whois.domaintools.com/isinterneton.com

It defined a few nameservers,

IS-INTERNET-ON.TITLE.ISINTERNETON.COM
YES.BODY.ISINTERNETON.COM

The server reads these values and constructs a page like,

<title>Is Internet On</title>
<body>Yes</body>
If an inmate could have a large number of books, searching cells would become quite time consuming.

Unconnected computers can be hacked to an outside line. Again, searching the contents of them would be time consuming.

Exercise equipment makes great weapons.
I didn't read it as an attack so much as saying that Ellison may very well never step away from the company, short of being forced to by death.
Tangentially related: While expecting our first child, I learned that hospitals are now offering nitrous oxide to mothers during childbirth. The mother inhales just for the duration of the contraction. Apparently, the gas nitrous doesn't stay in the body as long as opiates and less likely to affect the baby.
> It's unbelievably unfocused

That's because Jack Ma is unbelievably focused.
Top player meet fairly often, but about half of their matches end one draws. A simple model of 25% win, 50% draw, 25% lose gives a top player a 1/4^7 change (about 1:16000) of winning seven in a row against another top player.

http://www.64to1.com/2014/09/04/expected-wins-in-top-level-c... has more info, but, surprisingly, doesn't do this simple calculation, which I think is a better model.

So, you would have to play about 2500 of these tournaments to get one such result where one player wins the first seven games.

Cases where one player scores seven points or more in ten games are way less rare, as there are 10 over 7 or 120 ways to get seven wins in ten games.
C99: 6.5.3.3 p5: The result of the logical negation operator ! is 0 if the value of its operand compares unequal to 0, 1 if the value of its operand compares equal to 0. The result has type int. The expression !E is equivalent to (0==E).

C++11 (or a near enough draft): 5.3.1 p9: The operand of the logical negation operator ! is contextually converted to bool (Clause 4); its value is true if the converted operand is false and false otherwise. The type of the result is bool.

and 4.7 p4 on integral conversion: If the source type is bool, the value false is converted to zero and the value true is converted to one.

Both seem to suggest that when you apply !, you end up with something that is 0 or 1 when used as a number, and adding more ! won't get you out of that.
Life in Timbuktu: how the ancient city of gold is slowly turning to dust
Because most of what passes for innovation in the last decade is vapid garbage with negligible impact on society's well being.
A little more here:

http://www.anatomics.com/products/cranial-implants/acrylic/
>How many people could really get to grips with Newtonian physics? I'd hazard a guess that a reasonable percentage of the world's population, given boundless resources for education, lots of time, etc, would be able to get their heads around it.
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>Now, how many people in the world, under the same circumstances, are capable of understanding QFT, to the point of doing something with it in the applied space? I think the percentage just dropped drastically.

You know what? I don't think so. I think that the borderline for raw intelligence necessary to understand modern physics and mathematics hasn't actually gotten much higher, but we academics like maintaining our sense of belonging to an intellectual elite so strongly that we've simply neglected to work on improving how we teach the deeper material. After all, if a student fails to understand, it's because he's stupid, inferior, and destined to change majors into Journalism, so we don't have to try.
Zero chance any real company will pay 40% in taxes on stock sales. They have their ways.

http://online.barrons.com/news/articles/SB521330210524938232...
Actually, the Alaska prison system allowed personal computers to inmates up until about 18 years ago. As of 2003, I knew you could have a playstation or nintendo handheld game system, if you were active with required programs and held a prison job. After that I do not know, as that was the last time I was there.
What's the definition of a document? Is there a page limit?
"You appear to have N cores, N-1 more than Nodejs can use."
Yeah, I'd be incredibly shocked if they didn't preserve the scalp.

On the other hand, if she did have an exposed skull, I think there's like half a century or more of media which says you pretty much have to leave it transparent. You can always wear a wig or a baseball cap, but how else will people know you as an incredible (evil) super-genius without the exposed brain?
The Wolfram Programming Cloud even has a free tier. The online IDE does not have quite as smooth an experience as the desktop IDE, however. https://programming.wolframcloud.com/
Rewrite your Ruby VM at runtime to hot patch useful features
I just did a WL equivalent of those Pi shirts you sometimes see: https://twitter.com/wolframtap/status/512754733476352000
Share Your App Idea
Alibaba sold a hell of a lot more than 0.1% of itself today. About 125 times that number. And the price wasn't driven to zero. There's a lot more depth in US equities markets than you think.
I never even knew Twitpic was an independent service like Imgur. I thought it was just an url shortening/caching feature built right in to Twitter (I don't Tweet)
So I guess people should stop preparing for Google interviews by looking at and practicing the myriad of coding puzzles they've previously asked. You'd be stupid not to.
You can roll about 5-6 tiny cigarettes from a single regular cigarette. These miniature cigarettes give about 30-50 seconds of light time. People would pay a "book" of stamps (20) for one of the mini's. Figure 200 cigarettes to a carton, makes 1000 mini's. So, about 20000 stamps can be received for a carton.

The seller only accepts whole "books", not poker-chip (separated) stamps. The federal system lets you mail out whole books of stamps. The post office will buy them back for face value.

Its quite profitable supporting smokers' habits in prison.
Tweetgram?
Here are some good reasons why Scotland should not become independent: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/opinion/paul-krugman-scots...
Lack of demand for rental property construction is assuredly not the problem.
I wonder how much of the "small, composable functions" nature of FP can be attributed to the types of programs you write in functional languages, and the types that you don't.

Unix-like tools such as grep (or ghc) are very much like pure functions: programs that accept input, and produce an output data. It's not surprising that they lend themselves well to FP techniques. But other programs, like the web browser I'm using now, have lots of "inputs" and "outputs." There's many knobs that can be turned, and output goes to screen, disk, network, other programs...

I suspect these programs have a larger essential "hairiness." grep only has to search text. But Find in a text editor has to show a progress bar, cancel button, intermediate result count, etc. These features are intimately intertwined with the algorithm itself, and that's often hard in FP. Try writing a Haskell function that does text find/replace with live progress reporting. It's not easy, and it ends up looking a bit like Java.

Note that the land of unix-like coding isn't very good at UIs either!
To be clear, they mean the first 3D-printed skull to go in somebody's head. We've all given people 3D-printed skulls before.
FYI both a TCP SYN and SYN/ACK can carry a payload (which could be the GET and RESPONSE)
I would say it's more about speed and learning to be direct.

Interviews go crazy fast and the competition is insane. You don't want to spend 5 minutes answering a question that can be answered in 10 seconds.
iknorite. Job post for pool boy at Hugh Hefner's mansion - tons of applications. Stall cleaner at adult video arcade - just a trickle.

You're comparing a fun job to a job where at best nobody ever says anything to you and at worst, you're taking the blame for the whole company's servers being down.
Unconscionable rates of incarceration?
The OO being addressed here is the statically-typed variant made popular by C++ and its followers. Many of the points made (classes being types, interfaces, type variables, etc.) do not apply to dynamic OO languages in the Smalltalk vein.

There's even a footnote referencing Kay-style message passing OOP, but it suggests that message passing languages are not "available today in the mainstream". There are several major OO languages today based on message passing, so I don't know how that claim is justified.
As an amateur chess journalist myself I was really excited to see chess coverage from a mainstream journalist that respected the subject matter and wasn't filled with excrutiating misconceptions and downright mistakes. So that colours my thinking. But I also think the piece was just an example of good magazine style writing. The individual parts of the story were introduced in detail and the whole thing came together in the end. Unlike you I thought the click-baity headline was the worst thing about the article. I excused the author on the basis that he probably had no input on the title Slate chose to run his piece with. My apologies for the unnecessarily snarky tone in my original reply.
Not a skin transplant, just the skin. "It is almost impossible to see that she's ever had surgery"
They probably use some type of bone cement to help close up gaps between the implant and the skull.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_cement
I think 8.5 billion dollars of extra work is very hard to award. I think there are very few people if any people in the U.S. government who could credibly promise to award 8.5 billion dollars of work which Microsoft could bid on.
What % of your time do you spend FINDING issues versus FIXING issues?
http://dig.whois.com.au/dig.php?dom=jamiehankins.co.uk&type=... appears to have fixed it.
They have yet to say that they aren't still removing all old pictures and changing domain names and thus breaking all tweets. All they've said is that they are acquired which doesn't actually clear up the problem.
>See any gods in there? See anything that cares about us? Nope. All I see is a tiny grain of sand in an endless black void of nothingness. We are basically dust mites living on that grain of sand. This photo basically proves that we know very little about where we are, where we come from, and where we are going. People looked at that picture and said it was beautiful and inspiring, but secretly somewhere deep inside I wonder if the reaction wasn't metaphysical horror...

>Stare at it for a while... you'll see it.

I'm just not seeing it. Instead, this one favorite song starts playing in my mind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p5OyLFQLCc). I see a species many of whom ignorantly believe that the world is only a few thousand years old, and yet who have not the slightest idea how young they truly are, and how far they have to grow up. I see sad, pessimistic depressives who grew up in darkness for so long that only the tiniest minority have any idea what light actually is or looks like.

And yet they struggle for every day and every tiniest gain! And each step of struggle, each plateau where a man falls tired, becomes the starting point where his successor begins and climbs yet higher! Every man climbs and climbs and will keep climbing until climbing through the heavens themselves!

These creatures contemplate their history and see it as either a line or a circle, but only the tiniest few have yet grasped that the path their race walks on is a spiral: turning endlessly around to recapitulate what came before, but always greater than ever before! They fight and build endlessly even though they have no coherent idea why or wherefore!

Think of where the human race comes from and consider everything they've accomplished, and think of all they will soon do. Think of the utterly insignificant timescale of it all, from the astrophysical and geological perspectives, and thus think of the unbelievable speed with which these people think and move!

Dust mites? Fear the empty black? Never! These are the finest, bravest, and wisest beings yet produced in this universe, who are forced to turn to their boundless imagination to find works exceeding their own!

(Yes, I know what the above sounds like. I still endorse it. On a good day.)
Corporations don't pay tax. Sheesh. ;)
As Mitt Romney was fond of saying, "corporations are people"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_S...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard_and_James_Byrd,...

http://www.alternet.org/story/27726/hate_crimes_in_prison

On one of my con-air flights, I sat by a guy who was being transferred to court for a new charge from the U.S. Supermax at Florence, Colorado. He was, of course, doing life. He joked with me that the only way he got to travel and see the sights and eat some good food was to kill a guard every now and then.
Great question!

I'm finding that FP tends to shave the "hairiness" off things, many times in ways I had not anticipated.

UIs are a completely different animal. I've done a lot of UI stuff in the OO world in the past, and some in C/C++. The couple of apps I wrote in F#? I ended up doing a kind of functional-reactive thing. I really like the FRP paradigm for UI work, but I need a lot more experience to say anything useful about it. One of the things I started doing was setting up derived types from Win32 objects. Looking back, with that kind of attitude I was probably headed down the wrong road.

A web browser, eh? that's very interesting. One of my projects does some screen scraping. I found that scraping could be done in a pipeline -- get the page, score the sections, run some rules, do some QA, etc. Each stage did some work and left things for the next stage. But, of course, I was processing many pages at the same time. Rendering one page for a user sitting in front of a screen is a completely different scenario. I think.

Writing a pure FP browser would be a hoot.