skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You might be describing something close to science in some ideal but certainly not what it looks like in reality.

Wait, are we discussing science or the problems science is designed to solve? You could make your remarks just as well about law, arguing that, because laws are broken, therefore they shouldn't exist, or they don't really mean what they say. You could also say this about mathematics, which only rarely exactly agrees with experience, but is still extremely useful in making predictions about an imperfect world.

Science is meant to be an ideal, that's its purpose.

> If you want to rule out everything where there's a strong human, non-mechanical element from the world of science, then there's very little science going on to talk about.

How are you missing the point that science is supposed to represent an alternative to everyday human affairs? And how are you missing the fact that, no matter how emotionally attached to a particular outcome, no matter how driven, a person still has to toe the science line in order to accomplish anything useful?

> ... I don't think it serves any useful purpose to pretend that science actually happens in a clean room.

True -- only good science, memorable science, happens in a clean room.

I can't believe you haven't figured out that science exists precisely because people are the way they are. If this were not the case, if people could divorce themselves from passion and perceptual distortions when circumstances required it, there would be no science -- what we call science would be one variety of normal human behavior and no one would think about it.
You're the one who evoked "blub", essentially insinuating that the reason for his inability to appreciate the language was due to him not being used to it.

I addressed that, and your counter with that it's "hard to make a programming language"?

Of course it's hard. And the problem with Swift is that it tried to do so many things at once, even with the hard constraints it had. And this is precisely why the language ends up short of its goal.

Speaking of ObjC 3.0, the point of the author is simply that an incremental improvement on ObjC which simply removes redundant syntax from ObjC would have been just as useful but much easier to get up and running.

The features that Swift tries to incorporate are admirable and interesting for the most part, but the implementation falls short because it's quite simply too ambitious to even reach "usable" until 3.0 or something.
append a '.compact' to your reddit url. I found the experience to be much better than any reddit app
Whoop, broken link. Fixed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0
About right. Myself and many others made it through the dotcom boom simply by working at companies that seemed to have rational business models and were diverse in their interests. They never pegged their entire existence on one product or industry.
Link broken. Fixed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0
They have been dealing with it for a while now.

> We’re experiencing a large spike in traffic that is slowing service on the site.

http://status.soundcloud.com/post/98424504745/slowed-service
I cannot be "illiterate" about what happens in the country, merely "ill-informed".

FYI, there is a category of Indians who are not NRI and it might surprise you to know there are countries other than the US and....surprise.... currencies other then dollars!! Oh wow!!

What has being an Indian citizen got to do with the truth?

I write what I write so that the rah-rah-yay-yay idiots like you could draw their attention to the real problem in your country -- a civilization more than 10,000 years old that still cannot fix basic sanitation issues, where women are raped on a regular no-comment basis, where corruption is prevalent from birth-certificate to death-certificates, where swathes of your population are being driven to Naxal violence by the state as a means of defending their homes, culture and patrimony from greedy corporations. In the face of the staggering problems you face as a nation, shouldn't you turn your and your peer's attention to them rather than trying to rejoice at "look white man, me too MARS"?

You may also be surprised to know, "Technological Advances" have been advanced enough for a couple of hundred years now to the point that sanitation, roads, etc are a non-issue -- you don't need to go to Mars for that! Or perhaps Slumdog tourism generates enough income for you to want to keep it that way? http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/slumming-it

Down-vote me all you want, happy to give you my points if you make an honest effort to understand the point I make.

You will also note that I post under my real name as I do not feel ashamed about having an honest discussion under my identity -- how about you?
For most changes of habits where it's possible, taking a hard line is much easier.

When I went vegetarian, I went cold turkey. The first two weeks, I wanted meat all the time, and it was hard to resist the temptation to eat it. The next month or so, I still wasn't sure I'd be able to keep it up, but it was easier.

Since then (years), I sometimes want meat, but it's gotten far easier.

I sometimes think about loosening up--I've considered rules like eating it once in awhile if I know it was humanely and environmentally raised (as much as possible), or bringing seafood back, or even eating meat that I know will otherwise go bad (which basically ends all my ethical objections).

The biggest reason I haven't is that it would be way harder and probably make my life worse overall. At this point, being vegetarian is super easy. I only sort of remember what most meat tastes like, I'm very used to not eating it, and I know I can do it.

Critically, it's never a decision I have to make; it's a given. If I made the line blurrier, then every time I saw meat that looked good, I would have to make a decision. The cognitive load of being a vegetarian would skyrocket, and I would probably have more of a feeling of missing out because I would think more about the possibility of not missing out.
What's Keeping You from COBOL 5.1?
An answer that usually works:

Absolutely, because there have been no large scale terrorist attacks.
Thank you for posting this.

I'm not an astrophysicist, but I'm involved in a project that involves classifying certain time-varying sources. I therefore thought it was pretty rock-solid that black holes DO exist because my collaborators (astronomers at Caltech) refer casually to blazars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazar) and AGNs as black holes. They have never qualified these statements.

Thus, yesterday's article (with its very strong claim, literally, "there is no such thing as a black hole") puzzled me, and I didn't believe it. And, there was no pushback in the HN comment thread, which was a double surprise.

The article you've linked mentions the difference between stellar-mass black holes that result from gravitational collapse, and larger black holes that, in the best-known cases, are at the core of galaxies and form differently. This caveat helps give some context to the question.

I note that the article you link, and the earlier article, are clearly still in conflict, because yesterday's article flatly denies these super-massive objects are black holes.
I love this design! It pops.

Not sure what folks are having an issue with regarding scrolling. Works fine on Chrome, UBuntu + XMonad
Hah, you are totally right. Don't know How I forgot/confused the two.
> it was the best career decision I've ever made

I hear this a lot, and I'm not debating whether it's true or not since ymmv. I'm curious if anyone here has gone the other way.

I used vi in my teens then switched to emacs, which I used for over a decade. A couple years ago I switched to JetBrains IDEs and have never been happier. I hadn't used an IDE since Borland Turbo C, and forgot what I was missing.

Are there any other former vi/emacs users (like, hardcore - I used to browse the web in emacs) who ditched it for an IDE?

I found that the mouse really wasn't a productivity killer for the few times you need to use it in a modern IDE.
Depends on what you define as responsible.

The NSA's bulk data collecting has been cited as the investigation's initiating factor in 4 out of 225 terrorism-related investigations, that's 1.7%.
Is 1.7% worth it? I guess the Australian government said yes.

Source: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/13/review-finds...
I'm wondering what the point of this reply is. It comes off as accusatory and obvious, given the comment you're replying to. Is having struggled with addiction a point of pride for you? I ask this as someone who's struggled with it. The person you're replying to went through a good deal of trouble to make it clear they weren't trying to be insensitive. It just seems kind of rude to someone who seemed to be genuinely trying to understand a horrible affliction.
Submittable (YC S12) Is Hiring a Front End Developer
I was ashamed to be an American when the PATRIOT Act passed and when it was reauthorized.

And today, I get to be ashamed to be an Australian, too.

There's no need for these laws, and they'll be abused to do anything but "fight terrorism".
MasteryConnect Collects $15.2M So Teachers Can Teach to Students, Not to Tests
iOS 8.0.2 released to fix TouchID, cell network woes on newest iPhones
The Oatmeal Launches Another Crowdfunding Campaign to Build the Tesla Museum
I drank 3 bottles yesterday. (750ML x 3 of Whiskey)
Notion – Smart Sensor Has Raised $134k on Kickstarter
This is not surprising at all. What would the alternative be? The protoplantary disk that became the Solar System contained free hydrogen and free oxygen but no compound thereof? That's sounds unlikely.

Water forms naturally given enough hydrogen and oxygen at a wide range of temperatures. Since hydrogen is everywhere, and since main-sequence stars produce tons of oxygen via fusion, there's probably a lot of water floating around in the universe. When a nebula collapses into a protoplanetary disk, the increased density makes it even more likely that gas molecules will meet one another and form compounds.
I am logging back in specifically to address this comment in case it prevents somebody from trying AA due to misinformation.

First as others echo if you don't understand the addiction consider yourself lucky. If I drank one drink at the end I was physically compelled to have another. Imagine a terrible itch. You have to scratch it. Heavy drinking alcoholics have such strong physical addictions that detox without medical supervision can be life threatening. Your reaction wondering why millions of people choose AA and abstinence vs trying to "cut back" is misinformed but not uncommon.

Second and more importantly IMO the misconception that AA requires a traditional faith or GOD experience is what kept me out for years. Part of working the steps is finding "a higher power" and I know many atheists in the program that consider that to be Good Orderrly Direction (GOD) vs a spiritual or dogmatic experience.

But the true "work" of the program is centered around confronting your wreckage of the past and confronting life on life's terms vs utilizing alcohol as a mechanism to check out of life.
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No? You've never ever heard Java/C++ programmers complain about ObjC's syntax? I find that... unlikely. http://bit.ly/1CqrYY4
When you start you make 0. It is difficult to make less. And time is money.
Keyboardio is making keyboards better
I wonder how many people in ordinary taxis got assaulted during the same time period. The DA's "failed background check" example reminds me of how one Model S caught on fire, and everyone freaked out and forgot that regular cars do that all the time, too.
This is pretty old. Bryan O'Sullivan is currently at Facebook and he's not running a startup on Haskell. One well known company that is actually running a company on Haskell is Galois, Inc. Another one is FPComplete (https://www.fpcomplete.com/).
Notes: http://chintanparikh.github.io/blog/2014/09/25/how-to-start-...
18ml is not a drink in England, which is the place we're talking about for 'units of alcohol'.

In fact, most countries don't use the same measures for alcoholic drinks as the USA does. I'm surprised you don't know this.
At work we call them npp's (negative producing programers)

You spend so much time fixing their poor code that the project velocity actually slows down. Worst of all, since they "think" they know, they tend to never improve.
for those who want the raw data:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040623191611/http://niaaa.cens...

On the data tab, the zip files unzip into a text file that is column based. The SAS convert program gives codes for those columns. Codes can be converted to questions using the code book tab.
> to our existence

a government that wants to stay in power
I think you misunderstand then. I think he's all for a new language, the problem with Swift is that it's not quite the language he hoped for.
I spent a year of my life drinking 8-10 imperial pints a day, which is way over this 10 standard drinks thing. Part of that was accomplished simply by drinking for 6+ hours a day (usually 8pm to 2am)

After a year of that I stepped back to one or two a day. It was never an addiction thing for me, more just a social environment and expense account that encouraged drinking (which in retrospect included several hard core alcoholics)

I've watched people close to me really struggle with addiction and do a lot of harm to people around them with smaller amounts of alcohol. It's not necessarily an issue of quantity, I believe that why you drink may well be the determining factor
Didn't ask for it? If I've learned one thing from this whole affair it's how understanding and kind complete strangers can be. Your feedback is hugely appropriated.

That said, a few thoughts:

1. The link based penalty stems from the fact the traffic drops correlate exactly with Penguin release dates. Also, the "official" volunteers and other good folks over at the Google Webmaster forms came to the same conclusion. Before those exact dates I had ranked on page 1 for "php web form software", and page 1 or 2 for "web form software", since mid-2008.

To that end, you're 100% correct the market is tough, but we're a very specialized form builder, made especially for developers.

As far as deserving Page 1 - Google used to think so for several years, as my product is pretty darn great if you need flexible form software. We have four versions, two of which are free, covering both self-hosted and SaaS models. No one even comes close to offering such a wide variety of solutions.

In short, if you need form software and you find my site you're guaranteed not to be disappointed. If nothing else you're able to choose between two pretty awesome free versions, something no one else offers. I'm also ecstatic to answer questions and help users out, even if they don't buy or use my software. I would think this would be of high value to Google -- and it certainly used to be before the penalty.

As far as the site recommendations: I'm taking these to heart for sure, though I have to say, the previously mentioned Google Webmaster forums -- the current site is a direct result of working with them for over 3 months, making the exact same types of changes and improvements. Nothing, and I mean nothing, worked.

I didn't know at the time, but it was recently stated by John Mueller from Google that a Penguin recovery is simply not possible until they refresh and release a new version of the Penguin algorithm.

So at the end of the day, sadly, (and please do not take this as dismissive as you bet I'll be making changes): my problem is not content or structure, it's that darn link penalty.

All the while, and again, I'm not sure who this benefits.
Not to be too ad hominem, but the man who said this is a former rugby league player known as "the brick with eyes" and not generally well-known for his national security expertise.
Try terminal Vim. I don't use MacVim and have very few issues with sluggishness.
There's no normal workload under which Vim should ever slow down noticeably. I routinely have long-lived Vim instances with hundreds of open buffers, and some of the files can be quite healthily sized (tens of thousands of lines). It should even be fine for "pathological" cases (multi-megabyte log files, files with stupidly long lines etc).
Case Studies – FP Complete
"Why are you waving that handkerchief?"

"Keeping the elephants away..."

You know the rest.
A "drink" in England is a pint of lager, making the 10 ml measure even sillier. What are you talking about?
So is time to switch from Fastmail now?
Countdown to these laws being used for copyright prevention.
Lazarus should stick to oval shaped balls.
I wish I had the option if I disabled JS on my work machines none of the insurance company portals would work.
Prepare to buy stock like crazy when everything gets insanely low.
It's interesting to contrast this article with the update that was just emailed out to the Uber Oklahoma list:

"Today, we are thrilled to announce that the Tulsa City Council and Mayor Bartlett have paved the way for a permanent home for uberX in Tulsa by signing the recently passed rideshare ordinance."

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8d2fd6968b2b5c64d0d22dba...

Edit Here's a copy of the ordinance: http://councildocs.tulsacouncil.org/SuperContainer/RawData//...
Don't single out cancer without considering all-cause mortality. A number of studies show that moderate alcohol consumption results in overall less death even if cancer risk is increased.

"The beneficial effects of alcohol are not only evident in cardiovascular disease, but also in reducing mortality from all causes."

http://www.medhelp.org/heart-disease/articles/Alcohol-Consum...
There is also a current surge when the bulb is first turned on, which shortens the lifespan and is also often the final straw that eventually blows the filament.
About the same purpose fur serves on mammals, I would guess. Flight would come later.
I work with a number of sales folks who changed my impression of what it means to be a "drinker." I know personally several people who will easily and regularly down a few (3-4) 4-ounce vodka martinis before dinner, split a bottle of wine at dinner, then drink five spirit-based drinks after dinner.

More than one of these folks has admitted they simply "don't get hangovers." They could be lying, but with the amount of alcohol they can drink and still be perfectly functional the next day, I bet these folks skew the average.
So this would be the first reason, then?
Keep in mind that a "potential benefit of moderate alcohol consumption" is not the same thing as "NOT drinking is actually considered a risk factor."

If the science clearly indicated that "NOT drinking is actually considered a risk factor for heart diseasee" do you think AHA would:

(A) Refrain from mentioning the risk factor.
(B) Present the risk factor with a stipulation that individuals
"consult your doctor on the benefits and risks of consuming
alcohol in moderation"
I think you don't understand what "flippant" means. The parent's response was certainly flippant. He displayed a (to borrow the phrase from dictionary.com) frivolous disrespect for my curiosity and questions.

I would absolutely agree that my frame of reference is different (I wouldn't say "skewed"; that's a bit of a weird and disrespectful way of putting it), but I'm asking questions with the intent to try to understand better what people who have struggled with addiction have to go through to get better.

You accuse me of being dismissive, but I am anything but: I am asking questions trying to understand the forces at work here. The parent was very dismissive of me and my effort to understand.

Let's teach by example here.

Dismissive: I think addiction isn't real because I've never experienced it.

Dismissive: I'm going to imply that your questions are stupid and invalid just because you haven't experienced what we're talking about.

Not dismissive: [pretty much everything I've said up till now]
Lighter, thinner.
> New middle-class jobs might not be an oxymoron after all ... I have seen $17–$20 starting hourly wages at new factories in Mississippi and South Carolina.

That's $40K per year at best. Hardly a middle-class salary in contemporary United States. In fact, it's barely above minimum wages in many other countries.
I've been wondering lately if it has something to do with Airline. I'm using its visible buffer display and when doing C-movement s between buffers it feels so terribly laggy (on a top of the line MB Pro).

When switching via ctrlp everything is instantaneous, but that requires more commands than just C-k or C-j.
I am amazed you can do that without getting alcohol poising. If you are serious, you are killing yourself. Hope you are trolling.
I got a request to share my project (15k LOC) with the compiler team because they had no larger projects to test on. This was less than a month ago. Draw your own conclusions on how much Swift has been used internally at Apple. Oh, and compile times for any change in that project was 50-60 seconds. That's a minute for changing a single character in one of the Swift files.

Since they don't seem to be scrambling to fix that problem, I can only assume that there's no urgency internally at Apple to fix it.
Marry the right girl
I started with terminal Vim, began having issues with redraws, and made the switch. I find that MacVim is faster and more stable.
They said they made a version of it in Swift. The actual version deployed on the App Store was written in Objective-C.
>...are there non-religious versions of AA?

i've heard mention of a group? system? called rational recovery.
Australia: A New State of Terror (Infographic)
I lost an expensive (and weak) GE LED lamp I bought a few years ago. In fairness, they weren't rated for a super long lifetime - or at least they didn't have a very long warranty.
What if most people support these laws? What happens when a democracy decides to vote away its own freedom? Should it be somehow prevented from doing so?
> ... no, that's still subjectivity, you just shifted the goal post. That kind of subjectivity might be your threshold for accepting some cognition as close enough to your supposition of objectivity, but it still requires trust on an individual level.

You're making the post-modern argument. Are you aware of this? Everything is subjective, there are no objective shared truths, it's all a matter of opinion. But you haven't thought this viewpoint through to its logical conclusion, which is that, if it's true, then it applies first to the argument itself, fatally undermining it.
It says that Lithium, Beryllium and Boron are made by cosmic rays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_spallation

This is crazy.
I don't understand why people use Core Data. The sweet spot for Core Data is really tiny, yet everyone seems to be using it (and regretting it).
Good point, the title of the article should be modified to include the year. Recent events make it sound like the story is changing.