skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perl 6, by default, stores all strings given to it in NFG form, Normalization Form Grapheme.

Perhaps in specification, the feature comparison matrix suggests that NFG is Not Yet Implemented in any implementation in practice:

http://perl6.org/compilers/features

I wonder if that "significant and rapidly growing chunk of the planet's programmer population" will find that an untested and partially implemented feature suffices for their needs in the real world.
"The Volokh Conspiracy" used to be an independent blog at volokh.com. It was one of the better examples of web journalism. So now they relocate their blog to the Washington Post's site and start questioning whether web journalism can be trusted?

By the way, can the mainstream media be trusted? Or are they too afraid of losing their corporate advertisers and government insider contacts to risk pissing off the powers that be?
Non mobile link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/cern-may-no...
"DevOps folks" is mentioned in the article. Similarly you can use things like 'DevOps staff', 'personnel', or just plain 'DevOps'.
"There have been many competitive versions of Life written over the years."

Mistaking "Conway's Game of Life" for "Cellular Automata in general" can produce sub-optimal results. The same thing that makes Life so interesting is that from its simple rules, extremely surprisingly things result. In some sense it is in the class of maximally interesting "suprisingness" as it is Turing-complete. But this same surprisingness and the wolly, humanly-unpredictable way it manifests make it almost entirely useless for game playing.

The general idea of cellular automata can be turned into game form, but you're better off defining your own rulesets, which can produce things like http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/. I also remember playing a game that actually resembles the linked page, but where each player moved a mouse cursor around, the cells tried to follow each corresponding player's mouse cursor, and the various blobs would eat each other. Probably one of the most clear examples of a game I god good at (relative to my opponents) and couldn't even begin to verbalize my strategy, even though I had one.
Then how you explain the fact that USA has one of the lowest life expectancy among the developed world?

I think that what the author tries to explain is that, in some places, societies have gone too far in the seek of productiveness and, ironically, people there is less happy and healthy.

I guess finding the good balance is more important than trying to be the number one.
It's a David Carr opinion piece. The NYT generally protects its columnists, regardless of how bizarrely out of whack their statements may be (some exceptions exist, usually involving getting the public editor Margaret Sullivan involved).

For example, have you read some of the things Joe Nocera has said about Apple (or others, for that matter)? The guy is basically a real life version of a liberal Stephen Colbert: being wrong is a sport!
CrossBrowserTesting.com provides both live testing (over 750+ browsers), automated screenshots, and automated selenium / junit testing.

All VMs are destroyed after each use. It is more expensive to have to restart each time, but we feel it is the right way to do it, and it ensures a clean uncompromised configuration (disclaimer - I am one of the cofounders, so extremely biased :) )
"It took nearly 30 years for “The Joshua Tree,” the 1987 album that was U2’s breakout ticket to megastardom, to reach 30 million people."

That's a bit disingenuous. More people than that would have heard all the major songs off of Joshua Tree on the radio and on MTV in one single market - the US - in just the first few years. U2 was everywhere from 1988 - 1995. It's very likely that college radio stations alone ended up playing the entire Joshua Tree album for 30 million people in the US over the first decade of its release.
You don't even need to make it sexual to highlight the difference. If you say "Can someone help the guy at reception?", most people would head to reception expecting a male.
Sorry, I didn't fully explore your link. This example is for pelleting cells which takes a 2-5k centrifuge not a mini as linked.
I don't think that is very fair. You would be able to test it out on your own VM, for instance.
I think some of the data in here is not quite accurate. Apparently there is a lead software engineer on $750,000 USD which doesnt seem right.
Why must this be malicious? It could be a researcher, or someone interested in building a hidden service index, etc.
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I wrote a post about the reasons why I switched (~10 years of vi, now ~5 years of emacs) here: http://evan-tech.livejournal.com/261214.html

I also use evil-mode.
This was perhaps a 20-hour project, and we're already using it in our Java codebase. Are you instead recommending a Scala rewrite for a 100,000-line production system?
> risk his legal strategy

Is that an euphemism for "risk a lawsuit"?
You're right that there seem to be interaction rules that are not stated in the tips. If you play a long game, then new pixels added later in the game are wiped out easily.

Having recently done some agent-based modeling work which is related to automata (even though in this case non-deterministic), I wanted to try out how few pixels I could add from the pseudo god mode to turn the tide in different situations. And, as you noted, late in a single game, established colors have some sort of implicit advantage with much higher numbers, regardless of how many new pixels you add.

I also agree with you that the interface adds to the frustration. It takes a long time to place pixels, when I imagine the interesting part for most people is the result of different placements, not the challenge of getting the pixels into place.
I'm not sure what culture you belong to, but my culture definitely does NOT hate women.
Unfortunately, belief systems that rely on the Just Worth Hypothesis[1] is are very common. Once consequence of this is the very common belief that if a change is made to the legal definition of what is "good/moral" vs "evil/immoral", then <i>reality will conform</i> or otherwise adjust itself such to maintain some sort of "balance".

You see this at the core of many political and arguments: baning abortions "obvious" stops people from having sex, restricting drugs "obviously" causes people to stop using them, so banning copying and restricting the legal (meaning "moral") methods of use to a DRM scheme "obviously" prevents people from viewing that data for free.

Unfortunately, this suggests that it will be very difficult to convince anybody to reverse these beliefs, because it would require them to accept that some particular type of justice is not an inherent property of nature.

TL;DR - It is way too common for people to believe that because [they think] reality ought[2] to work in a particular way, they end up blind to what reality actually is.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
You could just untick the box after you installed the app though.
I was thinking the same thing. In the reply too, this is mentioned : https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-Septemb...

you shouldn't assume HSDir is private in any case; and if enumeration
is truly a concern, fast flux onions is a thing. these are location
hidden, not existence hidden :)
What does [flagkilled] mean?
The overlap goes well beyond the question of whether an literal database software system is used: Knowledge representation (as in modern AI), feature representation (as in ML), and relational data modelling are essentially all different branches of the same domain of study.

Consider, for example, the connection with logic resolution languages like Prolog.
Management didn't buy it because it lowered per patient revenue.

Another flaw of insurance covering normal doctor visits.
The race to 0 is awesome
Years ago I remember reading stories of a market for "White" guys to rent themselves out for business meetings in China. If you looked anglo, and could look presentable in a suit, the Chinese companies would hire you to make them look more serious as though you were their American officer/VP.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06/29/china.rent.white.peop...
> BBC produce a lot of high-quality, professionally-produced media
It should be pointed out that the BBC is funded by a tax (the BBC license fee) that is levied whether you watch the BBC or not. Forcing people to pay for content they don't watch, whether it is high quality or not, isn't a good model (unless you are the BBC of course).
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/adobe-spyware-reveals-...

Don't miss what gets tagged along on drm. Key quote:

"Adobe claims that these reports are not quite accurate. According to Adobe, the software only collects information about the book you are currently reading, not your entire library. It also collects information about where you are reading that book, how long you've been reading it, and how much you've read. "

Oh and the released that so it sent the information totally unencrypted even if you are completely batshit insane enough to "trust" a company that will be a completely different collection of people in 10 years time with different policies, different corporate ethics etc etc.

What you're reading. How long you've been reading it, where you are when you are reading it, what you are up to, which parts you read more than once. Don't miss this part of the DRM debate because any for DRM and against that really needs to be yelling it really, really, really loudly right now or it will be assumed this is what DRM is for.
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wow. this still exists?!
Thinking about it, it is probably no coincidence that this was done in Canada which has public healthcare.
How many programs in a typical Unix installation are complex? Not many. Most of designed around the concept of pipes and filters. They don't need a database; they are transformative maps.

Complex systems often require complex data storage. If you have more than one process storing information into a file or set of files, you have to control that type of information. When faced with the option of writing complex, ACID like code or dropping in a PG or MySQL or SQLite option that takes from 1 MB to maybe 128 MB, most will go with using existing tools at the expense of RAM.

Is Oracle the solution for every project? Sure, if you're Oracle. However, one shouldn't throw out databases for alternatives simply because they are a bit complex. In fact, I think that raw file IO is more complex because it is not the norm.
Yeah, you can't compare actual album sales with free listens.
Regarding #3, do you have a source for that? I believe the programs are administrated by the states, but I think the funds are from the national government.

Not sure if this link is accurate or inaccurate:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/federalbenefitprograms/a/Feder...
With a premium number you can get the money directly. Just get a premium number and pump calls to it. But there are other legitimate destinations that are rather expensive. So you could setup shop and proxy calls to hacked boxes. But then you've gotta get customers, accept payments from them, etc. - sounds like more work.
I'm of the opinion that it's perfectly fine for the author not to name names. While there was a clear message that this VC would never want to work with the "unnamed" name, there are countless examples of people being forced to work together in the future, even after making such claims. Not naming names provides a degree of wiggle room if such a case arises.

I may be offbase here, but I read all the details provided by the author as a sort of trail to be used for an implicit identification. I'm guessing the author is smart enough to know that these details could be used, given all the work displayed for every Satoshi post on the board.

So, I read the post as the author not explicitly naming the investor, but at the same time, providing enough information for someone motivated enough to track them down. It's the mark of a clever investor, having it both ways.
I love databases for the data they contain. And for the ability to make sense of that data more easily when it's in a nice, structured format.

I don't care as much for the dev-ops side of it.
It would have been amazing if they released the album for free but people had to download it. By making it mandatory, they showed they were very tone deaf and ruined the promotion.
EMR is not dysfunctional because it's EMR; it's dysfunctional because it's enterprise software for the Windows desktop.

It's very easy for the HN demographic to forget what it's like to use an "average" Windows machine. Startup and login times in the minutes to tens of minutes, extreme disk latency everywhere, nagging popups to update Java (has happened in my doctors' office more than once) and virus definitions, etc. Cheapass hardware is frustrating by default.

A surprising number of network-based Windows line-of-business applications are written with inexcusable naïveté - the application simply doesn't respond while waiting for network/server and a request that gets dropped or whatever will render the entire application inoperable for several minutes (or some other irrationally high timeout, if there even is one) unless you kill and reopen it.

Because Windows desktop management is so brittle/difficult/expensive and so many applications don't play well with MSI, updating is a manual process of walking around the practice and waiting for computers to be unoccupied so that you can load the new .exe onto them. In practice this sometimes just doesn't get done.

Add on the incredibly poor software quality that comes with lowest-bidder offshore development, zero attention to UX, and very aggressive and well-funded sales teams, and you get roughly the situation we have today.

I can't wait for somebody to take this on with a well-written web or Linux application. Even better if it targeted a domain-specific, stripped-down, locked-down Linux distro that could be netbooted by thin clients around the practice and deployed in a high-availability setup inside the firewall.
Perhaps if you would like not to be misinterpreted -- if that indeed is what it is -- you should use words that mean what you intend. Grumping that I don't understand when you used the wrong word is ... special.
Yes. Keyboards with thumb clusters, e.g. one made by Maltron or Kinesis, make key chords as natural as pressing a single key on a regular keyboard.
While this is fixable with the customization options, I find the readability in the demo lacking. The transparency, the color choices or some combination of both doesn't make it look nice to me. I like the simplicity of the solution though.
Curious as to how you're determining that...?
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I was thinking about how it would be kind of nice if their was an official equivalent of a W3C guideline list for teaching programming. Simple things like "start with a working script that your student can experiment with which includes no unnecessary code. Then work backwards to explain how the code works."
Marcus also broke with tradition on the succession. Previously, emperors would look for someone who seemed to fit their idea of a good heir, and then adopt. Marcus broke that tradition and simply passed the throne on to his biological son, with disastrous consequences.
There's a video of outshine being used here,[1] along with some other tools.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqE6YxlY0rw
The risk of not finding the root cause of the bug is that you don't really know for sure whether your fix is good - it may have just changed the state of the system in a way that masks the underlying problem, perhaps by causing it to appear under different conditions that you haven't encountered yet (but which your users may find very quickly).

Also, the code you just pushed may not have been the cause of the bug - it may have just exposed a pre-existing bug. If you just back out your change and try something else, you'd just be sweeping the bug under the rug.
OK so it could be something else, but the Higgs Boson is still the simplest theory that fits the data.
There's also the King's Assembly.[1]

[1] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/70308014/kings-assembly...
I use Karabiner and Seil which are great, but unless you are using an Apple keyboard with a numeric keyboard, you don't get a right-control key, which will matter for many of the most used commands for emacs.

For me, when recently trying to remap the left-shift key I found out that it was not a problem for the supposed best practice of using it for C-g/x/c etc, but that instead I had been using a worse practice for typing ":" or """ when the wrong characters turned up al over the place.

Anyway, I suppose the left option key would be pretty good to map to control for emacs, since it's rarely more needed than the right option key.
"...not for themselves, but maybe for society. Or for their boss."

A lot of things (like this) remind me that we are often barely different to bees and ants. Even down to our queens.
I like editing in vim, but as I'm increasingly doing clojure(script) / racket I'm interested in using emacs for better integration.
Your culture inherited a language.
> French press makes coffee that's way over extracted.

I usually control that with the time the grounds are in contact with water and the size of the grounds.

But heck at $10 + paper filters I will get it and try it out. Might even have to get the cute little metal hot water pot. I have to say, like any proper addiction, the ritual of making the coffee, the anticipation, the smelling of grounds and so on. I can see how this provides those elements.
Actually, extremely prevalent. Musicians have a very long and famous history with carpal tunnel and other forms of RSI. Among the most problematic instruments are piano, clarinet, flute, violin, and guitar. Piano is particularly infamous: you might look up Leon Fleisher.
The author didn't include an optimisation that the React example has.

In React you can use the PureRenderMixin [0] to avoid re-rendering subtrees if the arguments passed in are the same. In virtual-dom there's something similar called Thunk [1].

I did a partial implementation of the demo here [2] using Thunk. You can see that it performs much better than React for many thousand items. Adding items is also faster using virtual-dom.

[0] http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/pure-render-mixin.html

[1] https://github.com/Raynos/vdom-thunk

[2] http://nthtran.github.io/mercury-demo6-v2/
Bringing on a VC is such a huge commitment and with capital becoming easier and easier to come by, I'm often baffled by why there's currently no place online to openly talk about investors and others' experiences with them.

It seems terribly one-sided that investors demand company financials, founder profiles, go through the entire due diligence process, while the community is relatively hush-hush about openly discussing bad experiences and shitty investors.
Very nice! Nicely presented as well ... and timely too, I was just thinking about something today this would be perfect for.

It seems like you could extend this to put more information on the coats. For example, I'd like to use one coat for help text and another to convey state changes. A data-purplecoat-class on the button (that then is applied to the generated div) could describe this easily enough ... in general, are you thinking of adding more power to what can be specified?
Crypto PRNGs are secure as long as their internal state is secret.

Normal RNGs are not however. A common RNG under Unix used to cycle between even / odd every other number.
Personalized news aggregator. Useful to anyone? Solved my pain points
That's why apple keyboards (macbooks, imacs) bother me, they don't have a right ctrl key. (I set the right option key to ctrl in both iterm2 and gui emacs.
U.S. Bill of rights, article 7: "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger;[...], nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"

I am not a lawyer, but I do have to wonder, how is 'civil forfeiture' as a whole compatible with the U.S. constitution (or for that matter, that of any country with both rule of law and capitalist property rights)?
Startups: More than ideas (2012)
I'm watching NeoVim - they seem to be making solid progress and hope it will give us a scriptable/embeddable vim. Would be great to have 1st-class scripting support for Python or Ruby.
I totally agree that some of the data is suspicious. I did spend some time cleaning the data, and removed any data points that looked too unrealistic. That particular one actually was discussed in the original thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8573423), and I chose to leave it in because it's definitely feasible.

There are lots of unavoidable issues with self-reported data sets, which is partially why I added the list on the right to increase transparency and let people make their own decisions about confidence in the data.
The rationale was "His presence would be disruptive to the educational environment." (That's a very generous translation of「皆に迷惑かけるだろ。」) Forgive me if I have to be oblique about the rest of the story, but it does not include "When apprised that this happened, people in a position of authority immediately said 'That is outrageous! Enroll the kid!'" A school which would take him was eventually located.)
Incidentally, the "yell fire in a crowded theater" quote is also frequently abused, as it was part of a blatantly wrong and later overturned Supreme Court opinion holding that it was illegal to oppose the draft (which probably is an essential freedom).
Don't forget the fourth:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I don't get how this is still considered constitutional.
Indeed, it could just be someone trying to make the equivalent of a search engine.

Perhaps these "fast flux onions" should be called "green onions". :)
I disagree. "www" (just like ".com") denotes a URL. Something.anything doesn't look like an address unless you put "http://" in front, which is too technical for most people. I think "www" and ".com" are here to stay.
Seems like there might be an opportunity here. Definitely a lot of hard work, and adoption would be pretty hard, but you have to start somewhere. Is there nothing quite like what you described yet?
I read the title as "Toward a Vim: like Emacs"; was confused when the article was talking about making Emacs like Vim instead of vice versa :/
So who's going to prosecute them for it? If the government, police and judiciary are all in on it, who can stop them?

There's only 2 political parties in the US and they're both in on this, you can't even vote for a party to reform this...
Needs population count as a live graph.
They sound like sysadmins to me :)
The foundation for this is the War on Drugs, which many well-meaning citizens support. Only if those attitudes can be changed can we expect any change.