skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In English, at best it sounds woefully inaccurate as that isn't really how blood works, but bloodlines are generally the sort of thing either discussed by people who trace royals and believe in the divine rights of kings and stuff like that, or people or are worried about theirs being diluted due to a woeful misunderstanding of how biology works that would be amusing if they didn't tend to be such utter bastards, or those who breed weirdly malformed dogs and then take them to shows, rather than those who are particularly interested in the parentage of someone.
I see what you're saying - but for the 1% that are influencers (who share and curate web content) - there is a strategy called POSSE http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)

Basically a lot of people have their own independent rig, and then spam out the link to the silos, while at the same time, operating 5-7 social media accounts where they engage with the feedback on those silos (app.net/ello, etc)

We all know these 'web personalities' - the Grubers, Anil Dashes, Marcos, and even the Gaynors
This doesn't help either....

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/august/prison-black-laws-...
The parent may have confused good behavior with parole. The federal system does not have parole, so you can expect to serve at least 90% or so of your sentence, even with good behavior.
Wait. He has a link to his twitter account in the header of the blog. What is the last tweet? 9 hours ago, a link to this article. He hopes that twitter will go away yet he uses it constantly? I'm confused to say the least. I don't know what this man wants!
Upvoted because you don't deserve to be downvoted for this post. It shouldn't be light gray.

I'm taking an agnostic viewpoint on whether the qualities we want are genetic or cultural and educational, an whether IQ is a valid measure of intelligence.

I generally agree with most of what you're saying. However, even if we assume that desired traits are cultural, it's still bad for the world to penalize thoughtful people.

Evolution happens over much longer time-scales and represents a slight force in an extremely noisy environment

I disagree. Evolutionary progress took billions of years because nothing in nature favors complex organisms so strongly that amoebas would turn into cats with a straight-arrow certainty. Natural selection is very slow and noisy, as you acknowledged, which is why it happened at an evolutionary (e.g. slow) pace.

Throw in artificial selection (e.g. our impact, intentional and otherwise) and the genetic mix can change rapidly. Elephants in Africa are becoming tuskless due to poaching, dogs are a human-made subspecies of the wolf, and fruit flies, with their rapid generations, can be brought to "evolve" well within a human lifetime.
It's sold out online now: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productI...

I wonder how many that was.
> encrypted HTTP everywhere

Do you really think everything, everything deserves encrypted comunication? cat photos too?
It's interesting how the advertisements for tech these days all feature beautiful people in their 20s interacting with Facebook + Youtube + Twitter etc. Whilst all saying "awesome" to each other. Doesn't seem long ago that all the ads had beautiful people in their 30s sending each other messages about meeting sales and marketing for a presentation at 11, then taking a long lunch with their spouse, as well as updating their portfolio, and maybe buying tickets to a Nicks game. An actual physical game in meatspace. How retro can you get?
Are there any good and reputable programming bootcamps in Canada?
I'm in Canada right now (Alberta) on one-year long Working Holiday programme. I started Python programming 7 months ago and I want to switch careers. I'm not decided yet but I'd either like to do web development (Python, Ruby etc.) or mobile development (Obj-C, Swift).

My level is basically beginner but I do grasp the concepts quite good (getting around in command line, VIM, etc).

I've read quite good things about these bootcamps though I can see some disadvantages by not being Canadian resident (I'd be coming back to Europe) - it seems like employers are interested in succesful graduates.

What are your opinions?
I enjoyed the technical explanation of the law as viewed by the author.
You can rent and stay in Rosslyn Castle, very close to the chapel. I stayed there once, and it was one of the neatest places I've been. The only shower is on the way to the dungeon.

http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/r...
Well, we can't really know everything he said is valid (he might be mistaken or deceived, for example) but certainly some of it is. But one doesn't need Snowden to know government will expand its powers if allowed to do so. You don't need Snowden, you just need a good history book and a bit of thinking. Snowden revelations showed how bad exactly it has gotten. But you could predict that it's going to get bad just because the government has been given wide powers and no substantial control over them. There's no way it would not go bad, it always does.
The word is "society". I, for one, like living in one.

Also as a single 38 year old man with no desire to have kids, I'm glad other people do. I'm happy for my (Australian) tax dollars to support them.
I wonder if it would be usable for navigation.
I guess it would be impractical because it lacks a compass?
for a second there i was hoping to see that they had merged https://github.com/fix-macosx/
this isn't a slippery slope, there wasn't a progressive increase in power, the powers were granted (mostly) at once.

the powers were granted due to reason X, but not restricted to reason X. So now they are being used for reason Y.

you could even go so far as to argue they're still used with their original and beautifully nebulous intent: national security
The premise that fundamental rights for minorities is or could be the subject of reasonable political debate is preposterous and disturbing. The cause he donated to was not merely "conservative" and was not decried because it was insufficiently liberal. It was cruel and wrong.
Oh the irony!

I stopped using twitter mainly because of Alex and other similar figures in
the python community.

I quickly found out that twitter(or maybe the social media in general) brings
the worst in people. I was following people because of their status in the
software community and I hoped that I might get informed about tech stuff
directly "from the source".

Instead, what I got were stupid jokes, rallies against "hostile" people that
used "he" instead of "she" (oh the horror!) and other political nonsense.

I put up with the brain farts of people I used to admire only for a few months.
I then decided that twitter probably isn't for me.
There's a case before the SCOTUS right now that was argued back in October that has to do with something similar, where "forgotten law" (the police officer allegedly forgot what the law was for a broken tail light and pulled the person over anyway) led to a traffic stop, which led to a cursory search of the vehicle, which led to the discovery of a substantial amount of cocaine (relatively speaking). While one might argue that the court could easily rule for the government in this case given that the defendant consented to the secondary search (perhaps out of ignorance of the law), what's troubling for me in this related case is the government's position outright: namely, that it doesn't matter if the police officer does or does not know the law as long as a stop is "reasonable." To me that sounds like a pretty awful precedent to set.
My law professor loved to ask us, somewhat condescendingly and to paraphrase John Adams, "are we a Nation of men, or are we a Nation of laws?"

Indeed.

[1]http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2014/2014_13_604
Another example of why legislating in a fit of passion is generally a bad idea.
It seems fair to me.
Did he tell you what "existence" is? Because I can't find the answer to the second thing until I know what that is.

It's very practical and convenient to just decide that material existence is the ultimate objective reality and I don't blame anyone for taking that route - but for a lot of people it's much more complicated than that (and fun to think about!) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence
I think he's a smart guy...but for the most part his public success is propped up by VCs. That's why for CEO/founder standards, he owns a pretty small portion of his own company
I ordered online but canceled and just swung by my local (West LA) store in the morning to pick one up. I called late last night to ask about stock and was told they couldn't tell me anything about future products (even though the website/online orders were up and a couple hours later they were advertising a "fitness launch event" in the store the next). When I dropped by the store, it was predictably empty (and it took some time to flag down someone to help me, which never happens at the Apple Store), but I got a chance to make sure on my sizing and picked up the device. I set my Band up in front of the store (took about 10 minutes) and have been wearing it all day. Everything seems to work pretty well so far, although I haven't stressed tested it...
Not sure, just a fan, and a dreamer of an existence of a powerful online CAD program.
Kudos to Verbnurbs for what they have achieved.

I would agree that OpenCASCADE is bloated - it has been since Matra Datavision failed to make a commercial product of the pre-open CASCADE that they ripped out of Euclid. There isn't much else out there in open source b-rep solid modeling kernels though, and at least they are LGPL 2.1 (instead of their own "LGPL like" but not actually GPL compatible) licensed these days.

But for OpenNURBS you're getting commercial maturity - part of a successful product (Rhino) - and a very reasonable license (which is rare in the CAD industry) so there is a lot to like.
P.O.S.S.E – Publish on Your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
> Just because Tim Cook is gay doesn't make him Mother Teresa.

It's depressing to see this myth perpetuated that Mother Teresa was a good person.

She was a horrible human being who denied poor and sick people the help and medicated relief they needed just because of her religious beliefs. Of course, she also denied abortion, contraception and all other kinds of medical help that were not in line with her religious beliefs.

She was convinced that suffering brings you closer to god, so she made sure everyone under her care suffered as much as possible.

She was a sick and twisted person and the faster she gets forgotten, the better.
I've seen the moto 360 in person, on a smallish wrist (compared to mine) and it looked fine, I only noticed it was the 360, because the screen was off.

Somehow it looks thicker in the pictures than it does on your wrist, then again I don't really care because I got a WP which won't work with any of google's stuff D:
Free speech != voting to legislate away the rights of some minority. This is a rampant conflation.
Our Machine Masters
Looks like a case for a Code Mode light:

http://s.higg.im/image/3B2W1p0A1T1e
Look what just appeared http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/10/30/Stability.html
Here's a diff between the 10.9 package list [0] and this one: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/014e71ac38a4776811f7

Few changes, but some interesting things pop out, like the addition of libmalloc and libpthread and the removal of memcached and securityd.

[0] http://opensource.apple.com/release/os-x-109/
i do. why let verizon or at&t inject trackers...even for cat photos?
I don't think that's a technically ignorant argument for a prosecutor to make. There's certainly a factual inference that could (but does not necessarily have to be drawn) between retweeting and being friends. Especially in the context of getting someone disqualified based on conflict of interest.
> These environments that can't use encoding/gob with unsafe, can't be that common

They aren't, but I will provide one example that benefits from this change. As of 1.4, because of this change, it will be possible [1] to use encoding/gob (and other packages that import it) in the frontend via the GopherJS project.

[1] https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/commit/7d67c77e85187c7f...
Calculator built with ReactJS/Flux
I hope that the proliferation of JavaScript languages does not mean we need abandon the whole concept of "HTML static pages".
> But for OpenNURBS you're getting commercial maturity

Commercial maturity like, no tests! :-) see http://files.na.mcneel.com/opennurbs/5.0/2011-11-22/opennurb... How would someone be expected to contribute to an open source project with zero testing, especially on something requiring so much correctness and validation?

But yeah, all kidding aside and other than no tests, it's pretty good. BRL-CAD had to re-implement all the stuff Rhino ripped out, like surface-surface intersections :(. But at least we have that now.
The Library as a Map
EU financial policy counts on accurate Hooker counting
RSA Laboratories – RSA-768 is factored (2009)
OT:

13.2 "You know what buzzfeed is"
Prior to the trial against The Pirate Bay, when the police raided the ISP he was running with some partners, he was online and complained about it on a Swedish forum for web masters. Basically bragging about how they would never find any dirt on him, how the prosecutor was stupid, police were stupid and that "torrent linking site" just happened to be colocated on his servers.

I could link to it, but it's in Swedish and pseudonyms were used so you probably wouldn't get so much out of it.

My point is that complaining about your equipment being seized on an internet forum is not a smart thing to do.
If I'm understanding the whole situation right, silencio is female, and your comment doesn't quite apply. rglullis was probably complaining about the political correctness of melvinmt's statement.
The removal of launchd is a bit of a bummer.
> LGBT movements empower both genders, feminism empowers only one.

I suppose this is a common misconception, but it is not true. Feminism also frees men from restrictive gender roles. It is feminism that says that men are allowed to cry, to hug one another, to have dreams and hopes and fears.

Giving up some privileges -- privileges which are not right for us to have anyway -- is a small price to pay, I believe, for becoming whole human beings.
I am _incredibly_ excited about working with a language where we ship every six weeks. And furthermore, that these are compatible releases. It changes a lot of things in a really positive way.
Overriding a user's stated preference by silently reverting it is what we're talking here, not changing the default.

If you change your view to "Most Recent," it should stay that way, regardless of what they think it does to "engagement."
No evidence for the O2 boost for yawning. Actually, we don't really know what yawning is good for.
When they pay developers to do so, yeah.
The surprise is he lasted so long. I really hope this is not the last we've heard of him.

Sundar appears to be walking proof that victors get to write history, but I'm not sure how long he'll be able to keep that act up.
He doesn't want discussions with people he doesn't agree with.
CAMERA None

Such a strange feature to highlight.
Excellent points, and actually in line with my line of question as well: I think my assumption of a thread of consciousness was a semantic mis-communication, as bringing that idea into question was indeed where my questions were leading.
> Luckily I gotten into a bad habit of placing all the money I will need for my taxes at years end into my account and just not touching it.

If you need to pay taxes in the US are you not supposed to be paying the estimated tax quarterly, not at the end of the year?

That way you'd get more stable expenses.
Eich was not fired or forced to do anything else.

Here's what often gets missed in this debate: Eich's handling of the outrage, demonstrated incompetence at his job. An exec is a leadership position by definition - the entire Mozilla thing showed us that Eich is not fit to lead.
Yeah, I'm for sure missing launchd and memcached. But I suppose they've got their reasons.
If you donate to organizations that are not linked to terror, exactly nothing would happen to you. If they are linked to terror, it's completely different league.
This thread just 4 days ago on HN is interesting in this context.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8506911

Google employees were implying that Andy Rubin got bored of Android and left to work on robotics and people suggesting the opposite were getting downvoted. It still could be true but looks less likely down.
Reddit makes it much harder for you to completely shelter yourself from people who disagree with you (compared to, say, facebook). Some of the content of his post strongly suggests that he defines 'community' by his ability to block people he doesn't like or agree with.
Well, for Javascript it's obvious. Not sure about the rest.
Mississippi’s Race to the Bottom
How often do the people breaking into computers use broken-into computers belonging to a computer security expert who knows how to protect their systems from such break-ins?

I know it's counterintuitive, but all the time. Until only a few years ago, it was almost as if every security expert was being publicly owned constantly. Hackers hack each other.

The dirty secret that explains why they would hack those who can protect their systems: nobody knows how to protect their systems. The best firewall is not pissing off hackers.
The only good references I know of:

http://p2.berkeley.intel-research.net/papers/EvitaRacedVLDB2...

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mengmeng/papers/datalog2.0.pdf
Then next time, kindly just don't post.
Where does error handling stand (there was a trait-based error handling RFC)? I guess that can be done in a backward compatible way post 1.0.
would love to get your comments on our efforts at Surfmark (now focused on education but still open for everyone)
required disclaimer: founder, surfmark
I just mean you reminded me of it when you said "you know what I mean ..." and I remembered reading about that.
>>> He left because he couldn't deal with the consequences of his actions.

This is incredibly misleading way of putting it. He left because he had no other choice, and an organized personal destruction campaign against him was what did not leave him this choice. Of course, you can claim this campaign was result of his actions, and it is true, that this campaign was triggered by his actions and wouldn't happen if he did not donate to what he donated. However, this campaign was not an inevitable consequence of his actions - it was a voluntary act of his political opponents, in order to send a message to him and his supporters and achieve political goals. It's like if somebody says something you don't like to you and you beat him up, the beating is a consequence of the saying, but it doesn't remove the blame of the beating from you, and you can't just say "he's in hospital because he couldn't deal with consequences of his actions". No, he's in hospital because somebody beat him up. And Eich left because of the campaign against him, despite no proof that his opinions have ever interfered with his professional judgement or that he ever did anything inappropriate. Except for expressing a private opinion.
out of curiosity, what did you found horrible about string handling?
Like you said, all the negative things you feared would come to pass have, in fact, already come to pass. Companies regularly hide information, mislead everyone they're legally allowed to, and outright lie. And no one is surprised.

No one in business, any business, at any level pays for goods and services what they think they are worth. They pay the minimum that they think will be accepted.

The idea that someone on the opposite side of the negotiating table has your best interests at heart and is going to be as generous as they can with you is naive. Occasionally it happens, but it's not probable and not something anyone should rely on. And this holds whether we're discussing purchaser-supplier, founder-vc, employee-employer, or customer-seller.

This is not to say that the people opposite the table are bad people, and once the terms of the relationship have been agreed upon, they will often go above and beyond to help you out. But everyone will negotiate in their self-interest first.
Do they not create bootable, installable images of Darwin anymore?
Just today: https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-minutes/blob/master/wee... (aka #236 got merged, #243 is still under discussion)
JavaScript: Splitting a string based on spaces, commas and dots
Do you have a better definition for a confluence of people that uses irrational FUD to tilt public policy away from certain people having rights?

The commercials sponsored by this group are freely available on YouTube. I suggest you go watch them, and then re-evaluate whether you feel the campaign doesn't qualify as a hate group. Violence is not the only or most important qualification in defining what a "hate group" actually is.
this looks awesome--i'm excited for the linux version
I really wish I could use rust for my current work, but it has to be runnable in the browser and it looks like it would take a lot of work to get emscripten on to the same version of llvm as rust.

I just spent two hours debugging what turned out to be a "0" where there should be a 0. Turns out that 1 + "0" > 9.
Yes, there is a lot of negativity here. Do you really think that its based on a misunderstanding of his post? Maybe the negativity is a result of people understanding his post, and having different - arguably better - values than he does.
And this is the other important fact, right here, what you just said. Not only is Eich a bigot who supports other bigots with his own money, he very obviously still has those views because he didn't do even the slightest thing necessary to defuse the outrage. He could have said "Yeah, that was a long time ago", thrown a symbolic $1,000 at GLAAD, and it would have literally wall went away overnight.

In the face of that, his repeated assertions that he can somehow keep his personal and professional lives separate (yeah, the human mind does not work that way) ring very hollow, at best.

Here is a person, incredibly talented, well paid for his work, that decides his personal beef with LGBTs takes precedence over his professional life and everyone else at Mozilla.

That, right there, shows a tremendous lack of decision making and prioritization skills. Kiss of death for a C-level position.

I think that if he hadn't resigned, he'd have eventually been asked to leave anyways. You do not, as a company, go out of your way to promote an image of inclusiveness and togetherness, and then hire an unrepentant bigot for a high level position. Mozilla would have lost huge amounts of credibility.
What progress I made in learning a foreign
language, for both vocabulary and appropriate
usage of the words, was from learning phrases
and not individual words one at a time. Or,
to learn several words, it's much easier to
learn a phrase that uses those words than just
the words themselves. And learning the phrases
lets you start to think in the new language
and not keep going back via 1-1 word to word
from your own language to the foreign one.

One way to learn a lot of those phrases is to
have a little story with maybe 20 such sentences
and then read the story out loud maybe 20
times a day for a few days. Then practice
making the sounds correct via use of language
lab where hear a recording of a native speaker
reading the story and, then, correcting your
reading of the story.

Can learn a lot of a foreign language that way,
quickly.

So, this approach is radical: Start with reading
and speaking and leave writing and grammar until
later, say, after have already learned a lot of
phrases. Or, in English, how does one learn
I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are?
Sure, not by memorizing such a table but by
lots of phrases that are examples of the content
of such a table. Then, when have lots of good
examples, learn the rules later.