skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If any Poles say otherwise, feel free to correct me, but my impression of Poland's religiosity is largely dependent on the strong role of the Catholic Church in recent historical affairs (Pope John Paul II, keeping Polish culture alive during USSR era, etc.) and less on the population being more "religious".

I don't think the majority of Poles are actively "Catholic" in their religious metaphysical beliefs, but rather they all belong to the church because of its cultural importance. I could be wrong, however, as I don't live there.

It makes me wonder about other countries where the church plays an important cultural role (Italy, for example.)
This only shows that people no longer self-identify as strongly with traditional religions. This doesn't actually show that America is becoming less religious though in either beliefs or practice.
Separation of Duties (2004)
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Marc should know about monopolies. Microsoft started giving web browsers for free to undercut Netscape's business model. Once your competitors go out of business, you would be free to raise your prices.
It isn't a limitation of the OS, or of Emacs really. There is a build where you can embed GTK widgets inside of Emacs. It just isn't at all standard or, last I checked, well supported (on the level that the usual Emacs distribution is).
Where have you got this data .. also any points about the technologies used?
Did you even read the readme? He clearly says hes changing a bunch of stuff and doesn't think outside people can contribute much yet.
Really? Religious businesses being tax free and endorsing political candidates is not a problem?

Any regular 501(c)(3) non-profit would lose their status in a blink of an eye, but not them.
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Web server is just nginx. The RAM and CPU usage are really low, there isn't anything CPU or memory expensive in the game to be honest.
I'm curious if there's any survey data along the line of "Do you attend religious services once or more per month"

Cultural identity tends to get so intertwined with religion that you can't always separate the two.
>Instead of repeatedly trying and failing to bring about meaningful change, we should adapt -- because that is the reasonable thing to do.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5602) rather than directly to the PDF. From the abstract, one can easily click through to the PDF; not so the reverse. And the abstract allows one to do things like see different versions of the paper, search for other things by the same authors, etc.
I've always read it as F. How can you rule out the possibility that, before certain advances in dental technology [1], most people spoke with a lisp, so what you read is what would have actually been said? It's not like there are recordings or standardized international phonetic alphabets to record the sounds represented by the letters.

[1] I seem to remember George Washington's dentures a technological marvel of his day, or something.
The title of the article exploits our narcissism ever so well.
On a side note, I got a request to push me notifications from your site. That was a tad unexpected/annoying from a blog.
Interesting idea here:

Draw from a pool of people who wish to be involved in cerebratory pursuits, and who are willing to accept and give ideas freely to others. Out of this pool, some combination of 4 or 5 individuals within the same geographical region can be drawn randomly from this group for cerebration sessions following a few Asimov Cerebration Guidelines (ACGs):

-"ease, relaxation, and a general sense of permissiveness."

-"short reports to write, or summaries of their conclusions, or brief answers to suggested problems, [and be paid for that]"

-"educate the participants in facts and fact-combinations, in theories and vagrant thoughts."

-"meeting in someone’s home or over a dinner table at some restaurant"

-"a session-arbiter will have to sit there, stirring up the animals, asking the shrewd question, making the necessary comment, bringing them gently back to the point."

After the session, the session can be given an evaluation by each of the participants:

A. did the session feel neutralized by any of the participants reputations?

B. was any insight gained?

C. was the session jovial?

I think I, as well as some others, would be interested in attending something like this if it could be organized well.
Here is a link to an ungated copy of the paper mentioned in the article: http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/events/2013/november/...

(The story itself should still point to the qz.com link, however, since that is more relevant for most readers).
Do you actually have examples of this, or are you just beating up a straw man?
"Feynman's Rainbow" has a dialog on how to get new ideas, with some advice from Feynman. Chapter five I think.
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Comments from brand-new accounts posting from Tor IPs get killed by default, because of past abuses by trolls.

When someone lets us know about them, we unkill good comments that should obviously not be dead. Since there are too many posts for anyone to see them all, we rely on all of you to help us. The reliable way to do that is by emailing a link to hn@ycombinator.com. General complaints are less likely to reach us, for the same reason that the original problem probably didn't.

We have a plan that I'm optimistic will greatly improve this situation. It involves turning most of this moderation, including what's [dead] vs. not, over to the community. But we don't know yet when we'll be able to implement it.
Don't worry, Microsoft will fix it when it's rewritten in C#. :) I kid, I kid <I hope>.

Actually, I wish Minecraft had been open-source like Notch was originally talking about. The community could fix most of these issues, in lieu of introducing new features.
It is hard to tell from raw data whether there are cultural differences. Who knows why Americans appear to be more religious?
That sounds pretty slow - by job hopping, it can be quite feasible to raise your salary by 200+%, and learn more to boot due to progressively increasing responsibilities. The market for software engineers is quite cutthroat.
So they are writing code similar to this:

object array
for( large )
{
object n = new object //heap allocation
if( n == array[i]) //do something with n
//do stuff
//n is not needed anymore
}
It happens all the time. From a month ago, for example:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/10/12/past...
Good point. This is why a healthy and educated populace is bad for the economy.

Merica!
Are there any studies that compare actual EQ to self-estimated EQ?

In my experience, nearly everyone vastly overestimates their own EQ.
The link surprises me. Of all things, I had expected EQ to at least have made an impact in a company focused on sales.
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I would ban every language in interviews. Ask people to code in advance or look at their opensource projects.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States

See also:

http://www.amazon.com/American-Grace-Religion-Divides-Unites...
Fifty-six models of iPad? Is that a typo or hyperbole?

Aside from that, I don't really see the content in this article. This is almost a long tweet about long-term market capture in a resale-rich environment and doesn't really share any opinion or interesting insight...
Yes, if you watch an experienced developer in Xcode, you will see that the autocomplete makes writing out these sorts of things very, very fast.
For those that didn't get the Latin reference: Bread and Circuses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
I'm glad there will be something like clojure, only with semi sane start up times. (pypy based interpreters are still slow to start.)
This chart from the friendly article gives a very clear indication that "unaffiliation" is growing across all age groups:

http://pix-media.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/838/religion_5.png

Note that ~10% of 20-somethings in the 1990s were unaffiliated, and 22 years later those same now 40-somethings have gone up to ~17%.
Very nice!

Cameras based on a single pixel, or a single-row array of pixels, have uses at wavelengths where two-dimensional pixel arrays are impractical.
"not a problem with religion"

In other words, your blame is misplaced.
Even more-so a place like 4chan, hence why it seems to churn out memes and follow on's more than anywhere else.
Regarding assignment, you're not required to have a work for hire agreement in place, and if you do, there's nothing stopping you from releasing code that you own and paid for under the open source license of the project. Take a look at Django's contributor license agreement (https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/cla/) as well, as it may be a useful construct in your work. Gratipay may make sense here if you're looking to fund general development toward a specific contributor, where as BountySource is a more feature-specific. If you do decide to go the non-profit organization route, your contributions now will be deductible if / when 501(c)(3) status is granted (http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Charitable-Organi...). Either way, your best bet is probably to reach out to the developer behind the project to discuss the details.
> The CDC's worst case, last I heard, was 1.4 total million infected with Ebola in January.

That was a "no new action" estimate in late September based on data through late August [1]. There has been considerable new action since late August (in part based on the report, or, to the extent that the action in some cases preceded the report, at least an understanding of the general principles behind it.)

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6303a1.htm
I just wanted a general picture of where the boundaries are being pushed in the industry. I have some ideas that came to me unexpectedly and now I want to realize them. I just need to learn about the industry from end-to-end.

I'm VERY familiar with all the tube sites, torrent sites, and most major studios. I was 13 when I got DSL, I'm 24 today. I think I've hit the 10,000 hour mark in fapping by now.
What does it mean for a person to be "secular", anyway? What a weird label to self-identify as.
Without getting into a religious argument about truth, science, the existence of God, etc...

I think there is a real unintended consequence of younger generations turning away from all forms of religion or absolute spiritual truth in any form. In short, there is a set of morals and ethics that is deeply rooted in Christianity and Judaism that for a long time helped steer this country in a generally good direction. In the absence of any great sense of moral authority, right vs. wrong, good vs. evil, etc. you have a completely situational and relative morality.

That is to say, what is right and wrong depends on who you are, what you believe, and your own personal sense of justice or fairness. Eventually, things are only wrong if they are deemed illegal, and laws can be written to say anything or do anything. At some point the only thing that is "wrong" is upsetting someone more powerful than you. As in, it's only wrong if you get caught or get in trouble.

For example, many international companies play on the fringes of the international tax code by routing money through various shell companies and intermediaries so as to avoid paying taxes in various countries. If it was the mafia and they sold drugs instead of software or advertising, it would be considered money laundering, which we should all agree is illegal and wrong.

Now, when people read stories on that topic, they comment that Google or Apple aren't doing anything wrong because what they are doing is "perfectly legal", even if they are going out of their way to avoid the spirit of the law. Shareholders are fine with this behavior because they are greedy and it makes them more money. As long as nobody is thrown in jail, what does it hurt right?

A stronger moral standard would be to say that if you are doing business in a country, you should pay a reasonable and fair tax rate along with everyone else doing business in that country. To skirt tax obligations through financial maneuvering and engineering the flow of money is somewhat akin to stealing.

I am not pro media companies ripping people off, but people take a very similar approach to illegal file sharing for their favorite shows and movies. If something is available for rental or purchase at a reasonable price, people should pay the $1-4 to rent or about $5-15 to buy. However, many people choose to download things illegally without any intent of paying the producers of their favorite movie, game, or tv show. At some point, theft is theft.

I'm not saying that life is perfect if everyone is a Christian believer or anything like that. What I'm saying is there are morals and ethics that are falling by the wayside amongst Christians and non-Christians and I've seen nothing in secularism, athiesm, or agnosticsm that is doing much to replace them.

I don't know where we end up as a country, but the trend away from faith and any sense of moral or ethical absolutes is going to be one of the worst unintended consequences of the modern "enlightenment" of science and technology.

For all the technical or intellectual progress we've made in the last 100 years, morally and ethically we seem to be worse off.
There are twenty-two different hardware configurations. OP must have included different color combinations as well. http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/
"During the industrial revolution, the goal of progress in technology (and machines to be more specific) was always to, one day, have no humans working to survive, but living lives and do whatever they want."

I'm curious what gave you that impression? If you have links/references, I'm all ears.
Look, we actually agree on most things. But smart money also knows there's a durable advantage in patience, time frame, and liquidity. Something that the individual can general have an advantage against funds in (given substantial knowledge in fundamental valuation techniques and market dynamics - no small order). Describing it as a 3 year low is completely accurate. Saying there's a lot of dumb money in retail is, too. I respect your not playing a game that is set up against you.
Stacked bar charts are terrible.
Just to add to this, there is a body that covers "secure chip" technology: GlobalPlatform[1].

[1] http://www.globalplatform.org
Less religious, but perhaps more orthodox.
Generally it means that you do not identify with a particular religious sect. It may also mean that you do not believe in the organized supernatural ideas that most religions do.
Ditch the Swagger
How is that not clear?

To borrow one definition:

(of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.

Another:

Secularity is the state of being separate from religion
That's fascinating because it is very much about the same problem.
Yes, there was a very large European root CA that was compromised and was actively being used for MITM attacks except this time the web browser address bar would still "turn green". Which is pretty much as bad as it gets.

Root CAs are not really trustworthy. Manually trusting a self-signed cert is, probably, more secure in the long term. You take control of trust, rather than delegating it out to some faceless corporation who can be corrupted or hacked.
You do realize that that was an intentionally chosen endorsement specifically done in protest of the Johnson Amendment? It's a bit of a reach to extrapolate that into "it happens all the time".

You do also realize that the IRS has agreed to investigate the tax status of churches participating in such protests? http://ffrf.org/images/jointmotiontodismiss.pdf
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NYC has a open data policy. http://iquantny.tumblr.com/ has great analysis and commentary on a lot of the open NYC data that you might find interesting.
What if the noncoding dna sequences are comments and the genome is just extremely well documented FOSS?
Americans (outside of big cities) are genuinely more religious.
In the future, you really might want to link a screencap instead -- if a page is hacked it's quite possible some malicious code has been added too. This link could be trying some attacks against every visitor
Right. If it is true that kids are getting out of school barely being able to program their way out of a paper bag it is really astounding to me that startups are not actively seeking programmers with ten or more years of experience to get things done. At the very least there has to be room there for some kind of a consulting position to guide away from bad decisions.

Of course, there are people so set in their ways that they simply refuse to keep up with technology. We are not talking about that group here, least I don't think so.
It takes a serious amount of resources to search for a cure or vaccine; they could just have easily made it available on request without limiting the amount of people who could work on it.

The real threat is in 10/20/100 years in the future, where someone with a desktop bioprinter decides to fuck up a subway station.
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According to the post, the problem is passing objects as parameters instead of individual values as separate arguments. Each time they do this, that allocates an object. C# has value types, unlike Java. So the BlockPos structure wouldn't need an allocation, just some stack space.
Interesting, the linked page displays that up to 80% have a religious affiliation, but the wiki article says that only 36% actually attended religious services.
I know there is a huge coolness factor to this but why do I need 3-axis moving thing to do 2-axis drawings? Can't I just use software to print them out straight out of printer?
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Yes that sounds very logical. In the end this is probably true for every job on every level. For example, as a programmer it's good to have a high IQ, but if it's too high you might not fit in the company anymore.
> Apple lets the old products stick around longer – at a lower price. This reduces the resale value of the products in a product line.

At what point are there supporting arguments in this article? Am I missing something? Is the rising cost of Apple products in relation to re-sale companies and consumers selling off their used devices because they have to compete with Apple's lower pricing?
Not quite. The post describes the usage of a "BlockPos" vector that describes the x,y,z (and presumably rotation/yaw/pitch) for a world position. I think previously they were using primitive integers and floats, and have migrated to using an immutable object instead. Because of the amount of coordinate lookups each engine tick, this generates a vast number of objects.
Slightly tangential: I would like to see a new search engine & index focused much more aggressively with much more powerful search capabilities as an interactive console.

That is to say, I'd like to be able to use a search engine much like a relational database. Intersection, unions, grouping, etc. Up to and including batch jobs computing statistical analyses of the systems.

I don't know any immediate business case for such a system, nor the research state of search... but I still want it!
Why the heck did they decide to pass around objects instead of parameters? This sounds weird, sort of like an internal a framework that has gone too far.
Mormon church, prop 8. They only made a movie about it...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1484522/
Yeah so I didn't mean that you should sell it for free, but the issue here is that I an easily rent a VPS (and I do) with better specs for cheaper and it's not super clear exactly what you're offering on top outside of "VPSes to run database x" on.
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Rediscovered via https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20141020 .
I doubt Crunchbase was hacked. Likely just his account.

https://gist.github.com/674efaa1a8b941761f1a.git

Note that Gist has a screenshot of it.
GCC will probably never be replaced. The current C++ standard is so monstrously complicated that implementing a full compiler would be an enormous task. But it doesn't matter, because eventually few or no new projects will be done in C++. Consider the fate of COBOL, which was once a shiny new language, a real step up from coding business application in assembler. It's now a tired old has-been, used only for patching up legacy systems.

As a system ages, it becomes more and more complicated because it is serving more and more purposes. Accordingly making upgrades while preserving backward compatibility becomes harder and harder. I remember hearing about an old AT&T switch with software so intricate that in the end it required one meeting for every line of code changed. And so progress grinds to a halt.

At some point, you either break backward compatibility or face stagnation. Careful modularization and upgrades can push back the boundary, but not forever. Even good practices, good people, and a good organization can only tame so much complexity.
Ah, this is great. I had forgotten about this essay. I think this part is particularly relevant:

> Even as high as DH5 we still sometimes see deliberate dishonesty, as when someone picks out minor points of an argument and refutes those. Sometimes the spirit in which this is done makes it more of a sophisticated form of ad hominem than actual refutation. For example, correcting someone's grammar, or harping on minor mistakes in names or numbers. Unless the opposing argument actually depends on such things, the only purpose of correcting them is to discredit one's opponent.

It's really easy to end up doing this when replying inline.
The 501(c)(3) rules prohibit campaigning for specific candidates. They do not prohibit campaigning on issues.

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51% in Europe believe in a God, and another 26% believe in some sort of spirit or life force. 20% do not believe in a God, spirit, or life force. Source: Eurobarometer Poll 2010, quoted in Wikipedia [1].

Poland is not the highest for belief in God. They are bested by Malta (94%), Croatia (93%), Romania (92%), Cypress (88%), and tied with Greece (79%). Others above 50% are Italy (74%), Ireland (70%), Portugal (70%), Slovakia (63%), and Spain (59%).

Germany is at 44%, the UK at 37%, France at 27%, and Sweden at 18%.

Note the above is belief in a God. When you add in the spirit or life force belief, some of the countries shoot way up. Sweden is only 18% belief in God, but 45% spirit/life force, with only 34% not believing any of that.

That still leaves Sweden with the third highest unbelief, behind the Czech Republic (37%) and France (40%). Germany is 27% unbelief and UK is 25%.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_European_Union