skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has just changed so that the media won't report something and then will try and discredit any amateur reports later. The BBC has many large gaps in its reporting at least and seem to favour an almost tabloid approach to some issues.
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Pythagoras would have that crown IMHO, Turing was relatively recent.

I wonder whether there can be said to be some overlap between the non-Dialectic philosophers of old and the pioneers of computing.
Unlike a downvote, this is something to which I can reply.

Pointing out flaws in the setup (or interpreration) of an experiment does not require staging a counter-experiment.

Also note that the broader question is the value of psychological experiments at large (how do artificial settings relate to real life), and it by itself cannot be proven by an experiment :)

It's turtles all the way down. "Experiments above anything else" is a dogma in its own right.
That's because so many people asking are focusing on micro-optimizations without having profiled and while ignoring bigger factors, or else don't have working code yet.
Grammar fail: The first time I read this headline I had to think which Doctor it was in 1976 that would have discovered Ebola, and came up with Tom Baker. :-)
I always have this problem. I typically book flights, hostels and travel in between seperately. I typically only stay in a place for 2 days so I need a new hostel and mode of transport for each place + a list of places to visit when I get there (with opening times/prices etc.). I usually put all of this into google doc, though simple things like pushing everything back a day are hard.

To me, the most in need of this are gap year travellers i.e. people travelling for a month or more around the world.
The opportunity in travel these days is targeting people new to travel. Forget North America. Target young Chinese travellers who are just now beginning to learn there's a way to travel without staying in hotels and doing bus tours from highlight to highlight. Or wealthy Russians. You have to go really niche if you want to make money.

25 years ago when companies like G Adventures, Intrepid etc. started, nobody knew about small group travel, mingling with locals etc. Now that's all the rage for westerners. Bring that idea to markets that are new travel and you've got some opportunity.
http://www.medianama.com/2014/10/223-layoffs-yahoo-india/
Ahh, the Peanut Butter Hula Hoops crazy licence: http://www.billthelizard.com/2012/05/which-open-source-licen...

The more I think about it the more I like this dual licencing setup which seems a realistic way to ensure those working on OS get paid.

It lets everyone experimenting enjoy the code, whether they are a destitute student or an aspiring startup.

Meanwhile, if you are someone who wants to actually make money from this AND want to hide your own code, you've got to pay the piper.

Otherwise you end up in BSD land (or is it MIT land) where everyone takes from your project and give nothing back.
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Apple’s Scene Kit vs. Unity3d
Unfortunate to discover that this new-to-me paradox isn't a paradox at all. "Some things we know/understand can't be written down [easily], thus we know more than we can explicitly explain". It's not counter-intuitive at all, and doesn't oppose itself in any way.
What brings Y Combinator to Europe? We caught up with Kirsty Nathoo to find out
At least from a US perspective, it's worth reading up on the Hearst newspapers. That whole Pancho Villa v. Pershing ...thing? Hearst.

Granted, this is not the 24 hour news cycle but there are numerous examples of newspapers drumming up panic.
Cutting employees in India instead of US or Europe is clearly not a way to reduce cost.
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Absolutely. I'm not saying it's acceptable, only giving background. "I'm being blunt." "I'm just being honest". etc. These are not excuses for being an asshole. The same information can be shared without being an asshole about it. Being an asshole towards others publicly on the mailing list is just another form of bullying. If he wanted to be blunt or whatever, he could do it in private messages. There is no need to publicly shame people.
To me, this story is only incidentally about toast.
Very cool! Now we have a great way of answering that all too common question on the Clojure group, "how do I find a project to contribute to?"
Clearly I'm not the only one who saw a headline about Doctor Who.

Wasn't there a rule once about only capitalizing names and the first letter of a sentence? Sticking to that might prevent some confusion.
Thanks, that makes sense, I read the fooN functions but didn't make the connection with "syntactic sugar".
So when prominent women receive specific death threats (see links below), they're just supposed to delete them? I don't understand why you think this isn't relevant; you said "just grow a thick skin" and I'm attempting to show why it's much more complicated than that.

https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/506307716558495744

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...

>But disappear is exactly what she did next. Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, a well-known provocateur, hacker, and anti-Semite, circulated her home address and Social Security number online. He also made false statements about her being a battered wife and a former prostitute. Not only did Sierra find herself a target for identity theft, but all the people who had threatened to brutally rape and kill her now knew where she lived.
This looks to me like the file is in something like the IFF format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format
The other response you'll see all the time? "Measure it!"

Low-level optimization is not a task to be undertaken casually. If you don't know where to look, you can end up just wasting a lot of programmer time for zero real-world benefit. If you don't measure before and after, you may even make things worse...

The SQLite folks didn't make these changes with a hope and a prayer; they carefully profiled, changed, and profiled again... And they invested years in building a test suite to ensure that such micro-optimizations don't inadvertently break the logic. The results are impressive, but so was the time and effort invested in achieving them. If you're not willing to be so diligent, "premature optimization" is exactly what you're doing.
Suppose you read a paper and think. Ahh but they where used blue towels if they used red towels things would be different! Great, but until you try that you don't actually know what changes that has. So, doing anything else but running the experement is basically a waste of time. (Pointing out say a math error is generally not considered critique.)

As to psychological experiments there reproduceable even if they don't generalize. So, clearly your measuring something.
Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India
No, you see, only victims deserve empathy. Not someone of whom the media, police and prosecuters have already determined that he is a criminal
The paradox is the part where things that are hard to write down (i.e. do laundry, trim your fingernails, make a sandwich) seem extremely easy and seem like the first things machines would have taken over, whereas things that are easy to write down (playing chess, arming nuclear missles, diagnose a tumor) seem very hard but are relatively easy for a computer to do.

(And yes, it still doesn't qualify as a paradox, in the mathematical sense.)
Misleading headline... Why emphasise 'Everybody' in the headline when this is not the case?!

From the article: "out of 2250+ people in Yahoo SDC Bangalore, only 250 remain".

Well, if 250 people will remain (plus the "Yahoo India teams, which looks at Yahoo.in web properties [which] are untouched") then quite simply, this is not 'everybody'.

"Yahoo India is Laying Of 89% of it's workforce in India" is just as click-baity, but 100% more honest.
I wasn't really talking about electronics junkyard. Screws are generally made out of metal. But the reason electronics junkyards don't exist in most places in America or Europe is because almost everything gets sent to China. There are some pretty big piles there.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1870485...
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This seems to be unconfirmed rumour.
Docker Acquires Koality to Accelerate Development of Docker Hub Enterprise
Yeah, I don't get it either. I'm reading the comments here trying to even understand what a "travel planning site" would look like. I SORT of get it, but everyone seems to have totally different ideas of what this product would be.

I don't care, really. I just got back from 5 countries in Europe in 4 weeks. I just... went. I mean, we booked a couple places to stay ahead of time, and I planned my car rentals and bought tickets, but none of that was remotely difficult.

I never once thought "gee, I wish I could... uh.. go to a site.. and ..click things".
And how exactly is Blockchain "very different from something like Coinbase/Circle/Xapo"?
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I just received a well-crafted apology email "from the founders" (I'm guessing it's "on behalf of" instead of "from", but I might be wrong about that). It's interesting because it's quite long and aims to cover all of the problems that led to their failures yesterday.

The email to me communicates that they were just completely ill-prepared, which doesn't bode well for a company with growth aspirations. In a highly competitive environment, I can appreciate their frankness about the problems that they faced, but in truth, each one of them should have been tackled BEFORE planning such an event. None of the problems can be considered a surprise, and I think that they will have to do a lot more damage limitation to get consumers to trust their operations.

For those that don't have access to the email itself, I've dumped it in a Gist [1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/kartikkumar/486208fa7aa3913b8932
It doesn't. Java and clojure interop is generally very clean. You don't find namespaces in clojure like scala.collection JavaConversions for example.
New Costly Cancer Treatments Face Hurdles Getting to Patients
Not for the same database obviously, but SQLite databases are cheap. If your data can be split into different databases, you can pull off parallel writes.
>community cheers every time there's a new bank, or centralised exchange, or processing network, etc

More exposure = more publicity = more people buying in. If there is one thing about the community is consistent about, it's about getting rich off Bitcoin.
For me this looks like pressing enough: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/legacy-danger-old...

I hope that I am just hysterical and there is some solution planned since long time, and maybe there is totally no danger at all and we can continue for long time enjoying sea products from the channel.
ZenMate now available for iOS 8
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Interesting tech
Imagine you like something and have 40 hours implement it. Now spread those hours over one week, or over several months. Second cas will be much better because people will contribute ideas, you spend some time thinking about this task outside your job and so on. There is some overhead with constantly restarting your work, but that is negleable with good methodology.
The old testament bit of the bible is clear on it. The new testament has a lot more wiggle room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean_animal#Christianity).
Looks like there's a pre-order campaign. Probably will ship early 2016 once they wash out all the... bugs.... :-D
Can't wait for integration with taproot.js
extracting stuff seems to be a common use case so added an example to the readme for ya:
https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare#examples
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The idea is really based on crowdsourced discounts. Creating a win-win for advertisers and consumers. Will be interesting how the market reacts.
Well, I think the imporatant part to note is that SQLite has been through basic performance review, it's been heavily tested and used at this point. It is a mature piece of software.

So optimizations like this can certainly no longer be considered "premature".
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I think the 250 are those who manage the Yahoo.in teams. It seems pretty legit (fwiw, I don't have any 'secret' information, but the rumour all over town - I live in Bangalore fwiw )

). And yes the headline is exaggerated a bit. Hey more clicks.
Hate stuff like this
The Open Source community is young, like the rest of the field of software engineering, and we're still childish and uncivil towards one another, derived from a root of individualism, fed by the promise of a vast and plentiful uncharted territory.

Eventually we will install a system that will protect ourselves from one another. I hope it's a good one.

On a more specific note, PulseAudio sucks and I could care less what Lennart thinks.
I had to read the article to understand what on earth the title means. I guess "pips" is slang for "beats" or "surpasses"?

It's also interesting that Turing's "bombe" is not capitalized, even in its Wikipedia article, while its counterpart, "Enigma", is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe
Look's cool but I can't really see the difference between this and the market incumbents. What are you differentiators to:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Cabbage_a...

or

http://www.leekrecipes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/leeks-food.j...
Quick question; I'm running Linux Mint on a not-very-high-powered laptop (with onboard GPU), trying out this demo in both Firefox (32) and Chromium (37), I find the framerate in Chromium to be significantly better and smoother than in Firefox.

Any idea why this could be? Something about Firefox, or maybe my own configuration? How do I test whether it's actually using hardware acceleration? (or is there no software fallback and I wouldn't see anything in that case?)

Switching to lower polycount objects, even the cube, doesn't do much to improve the framerate either.
It would be easier to consume if the design were more modular...
That's not even correct. Yahoo Software Development Center is either laying off or transferring 89% of its workforce to consolidate its engineering. There are other Yahoo operations intact, and Yahoo is still in the process of investing in Indian startups; at least they recently acquired Bookpad. The "everybody" part is just hyperbole.
My main issue with OOP is that classes/objects conflate a whole bunch of notions, and end up not being very good at any of them.

Modularity and design-by-contract are better implemented by module systems ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML#Module_system )

Encapsulation is better served by lexical scope ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Lexica... )

Data is better modelled by algebraic datatypes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type )

Type-checking is better performed structurally ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_system )

Polymorphism is better handled by first-class functions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function ) and parametricity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_polymorphism )

As for an alternative to "CRUD app using MVC", I'd probably recommend Functional Reactive Programming ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_reactive_programming ). MVC is a way to architect interactive simulations and games, developed in the live environment provided by SmallTalk.

However, I imagine your intention was for something closer to the server-side code of a form wizard on a Web page, rather than a game. In which case, I'd avoid MVC-style approaches completely, since they're inappropriate. It's much more straightforward to model servers as UNIX pipelines turning HTTP requests into HTTP responses ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(Unix) )

Pipelines turn out to be a great fit for functional programming: lots of small, single-purpose pieces, composed together into a server which requests flow into and responses flow out.
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"Suppose you read a paper and think. Ahh but they where used blue towels if they used red towels things would be different! Great, but until you try that you don't actually know what changes that has."

If the design of an experiment is faulty or doubtful, I don't know what the correct result would be, and you're right that I can't prove the result was actually incorrect (until I run a counter-experiment), BUT I am entitled to say that the result is doubtful.

Having only a broken watch, we can never be 100% sure that it shows wrong time at any given moment, as long as we have no data to compare it against. And sometimes it will be showing right time indeed. It's just not reliable.

This is especially true in the field of "soft" science such as psychology rather than physics etc.

"As to psychological experiments there reproduceable even if they don't generalize. So, clearly your measuring something."

Something, yes, but it is often open to debate just what that SOMETHING actually is :)

Dismissing these doubts by namecalling ("pop psychology", "keep quiet the adults are talking", and so on) does not strike me as very scientific. It is a disguised ideological stance.
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You can't actually buy it yet. But you can contribute to its development via Kickstarter. Acquaintance level donation at $5 will give you email updates when Carrot grows. Friend level at $20 and you'll get a Carrot seed. Baby Carrot level at $50 will get you a spot in the first harvest once development is completed in 3 to 33 months.
Clojure is much, much less complex then Scala and it is functional and OO. Many people see clojure as purly functional but clojure programmes are often designed in OO style as well.

OO here meaning polymorphism over types of your data 'object'. The diffrence is that you usally never mutate your object.

It is fair to say however that the emphasis of clojure is functional and your code is expected to be functional style, only when you really need it, you start adding polymorpism but even then protocolls are expected to be a implementation detail quite often. Also, we access our objects the same way we do our hashmaps and even the same function often work on both objects or hashmaps.

Some people might of course dislike this approche where OO is not really not used in the traditional way and is kind of pushed down. So clojure I would say, is techniclly multi-paradigm but culturally its not.
Microsoft creates room-based gaming technology [video]
Have a look at http://owegoo.com
I talked to the founder yesterday. Basically they are a search engine for destinations. Good if you know what to do but not where to go.
Chernobyl was a graphite-moderated reactor in relatively the same way one can claim C++ has a garbage collector.
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I have a Moniker account with one domain and the access log shows an access on Sep 26 from 88.150.178.59 as well. The email I got yesterday with PLAINTEXT passwords was extremely strange and prompted me to start shopping around for another domain provider, this just makes me want to get it done today.
For someone who's a techno-libertarian, like myself, it's hard to have a good response to the "computers are taking all our jobs" argument.

The most straightforward response is "It will PROBABLY turn out OK, new jobs will probably show up", but that just isn't a very satisfying retort, even if it's the truth.
I resent Scala because it takes up a spot in the JVM ecosystem that I wish a ML family member would occupy.

I really hope Java 8 will slow down Scala's growth.
> To me, the fundamental problem is that Lua is designed to be an embedded extension language.

This. When people like myself want to use it outside that small goal we end up switching to python or go despite how amazing projects like openresty are.
My thoughts exactly. As other economies rise so will their thirst for travel.
Not to be pedantic, but it's hate stuff like that.
You could type things like headers in Go too if you want to, by introducing a new type for each header in a similar way, get them to check values are valid on being assigned etc. (std lib does it in a simpler less robust way but it's quite possible). Go could then do compile time checking for those types, e.g. something like:

http://play.golang.org/p/GeUgsjitVS

func respondWithHeader(h HttpContentEncoding) string {...}
Velocity is relative, but slow growth contradicts the definition of a startup. See http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
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this is the real question we should be asking

what sort of quality of life improvements everyone could have if we all got off our high horse
SLAs are an artifact of the current business model where you have compute resources and I buy them from you. If we alter that model slightly where everyone buys compute from everyone else, the need for SLAs disappears completely. It's not surprising such a model would carry an immense amount of trust for availability, given it would be difficult for everyone to be 'down' all at once.

The table listing the "confidence" levels of the providers is designed to impart a certain amount of trust on the end user. The provider is basically saying "you can trust me, not because you can see how I operate my network, but because I'm willing to put my money at risk through an escrow statement that is applied to all my customers". This isn't really useful to everyone as Sue's use case may have a high net worth and Bob's use case has a low net worth.
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+1 to Ubuntu. Meteor (officially) only supports Linux and OSX, so I run Ubuntu along Win7. Some time ago I tried Mint. Mint is basically last version of Ubuntu with windows inspired niceties (theme and drivers). I still prefer the main distro.

As a Windows user Linux environment hurts a bit. Windows have a GUI for almost everything, Linux not so, even if you can easily make stuff through Terminal (like installing software) that makes you think that Linux approach is not that bad. The problem is the huge learning curve (at least for an hobbyist as me). It's like driving a Ferrari at night without knowing how to use the lights. You feel the speed in the moments that you know what you are doing and can see the way but sometimes you have to completely stop because you are in the dark..
But absolutely no one is dumping nuclear waste into the sea at the moment. It's something that has been done decades ago, so why would it be stopping us from using nuclear power nowadays?
Don't get me wrong - we've done huge damage to the environment by dumping our waste into seas, lakes and just general carelessness. But using that as an argument to stop using nuclear power now is.....illogical?
Actually, Clojure interoperates with Java much more cleanly, and easily than Scala. Every Clojure collection is a Java collection and vice versa. Every Clojure map is a Java map and vice-versa. Plus, because Clojure is less statically typed than Java, Java typing idioms don't clash with Clojure's.
Cute, but inaccurate. Small? Not quite.

http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/

Fast? No again.

http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/benchmark.html

Note that LevelDB itself isn't exactly the speed king here. It's just the clearest example. To its credit, SQLite does fare well when it comes to reliability.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...

So ... choose one?

(Downvotes from those who despise facts in ... oops, already happened.)