skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wendy Doniger is known to have an interpretation of Hindu texts that is hostile to traditional understanding of the texts [1]. Some specific examples in this particular article are:

1. The Bhagvad Gita is commonly understood to be a discussion of appropriate duty. In this case, Krishna's argument was it is Arjuna's duty to go to war, considering that all other peaceful solutions had been explored and rejected by the Kauravas (Arjuna's opponents)[2]. In fact, Krishna himself had acted as peacemaker, and asked Arjuna to take take up arms only when that failed. The use of the Gita by Indian Nationalists fighting for Indian independence from the British has to be understood in this context.

2. Doniger says that the war was "lawless", but the Mahabharata war was an attempt at a "just" war, as understood in its contemporary context. Deviations from just behaviour are noted and held up as examples of unjust behaviour.

3. The so-called "Doomsday" manifestation of Krishna is in fact him showing his universal form, which is supposed to be beyond the capacity of ordinary humans to visualize, which is why Krishna had to grant Arjuna divine vision to be able to comprehend it. Doniger's use of the Abrahamic term "Doomsday" is loaded, because the understanding of comprehensive destruction or "Pralay" [3] in Hinduism is very different. Sure Doniger understands the difference, since she is a professor of Religious Studies.

4. She seems to be applying guilt-by-association by tying the Gita to the RSS and the assassination of Gandhi, and she criticizes Richard Davis for being too respectful of Hindu understanding of the Gita. Overall, the impression is that her anti-Hindutva agenda is spilling over into being an anti-Hindu agenda.

[1] http://creative.sulekha.com/risa-lila-1-wendy-s-child-syndro...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurukshetra_War#Krishna.27s_pea...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pralaya
If style issues are missed in FreeBSD before commit they're graciously accepted afterwards from what I've witnessed
In my formulation, x is the proportion and L the total weight, so I believe it would be x^2 L/2.

I also just realized that the denominator ought to contain xL, not L. My solution is a mess, clearly. The original idea is right, though.
Which would explain why Erdos might be confounded by the answer. He was an expert at numbers, not psychology.

Proofs are built with an adversarial mind set. Always assuming the worst possible case and proving that a theorem holds in all conditions. The "hand of god" (or in this case the game show host) doesn't move to make theorems easier to prove. That isn't the universe works!
Sorry to pick on you, but the responses of net neutrality advocates vis-à-vis competition sound like the standard strategy of the Foreign Office when dealing with crisis from Yes, Prime Minister.

"maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do", it's a natural monopoly.

"maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now", they already have a stronghold.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751831/quotes?item=qt0190692
Ah Fry's. A wonderland of gadgets, electronics, and all kinds of fun toys, with an 80% defect rate.

There was a period a few years back wherein everything I bought there had some defect. Literally 5-6 things in a row: cordless phone, monitor that could not be adjusted, LCD TV with a single dead pixel out of the box, DVD player wherein the drawer would close by itself within 2 seconds of opening, etc. The crazy thing is that it all worked. It just didn't work properly.

I kept thinking I was having bad luck, so kept trying before finally declaring I wouldn't buy from there. I sincerely think they are/were selling used and/or known defective stuff as new. To make matters worse, the return process of our local store makes customers feel like criminals when just trying to get a refund for their crappy crap.
The OA EGU Journals have been doing a good job of reviewing. The review process is open to the public with anyone able to read and comment on a paper, while they also invite/require several experts to participate. While some papers are only reviewed by the invited reviewers, many are reviewed by 5+ people. Having the entire process open to the public is the way forward.
Yeah, pretty far into bong hits territory there. But on the meta level I think the article makes a case that Bitcoin might not exist without the mathematical innovations of Nash.
> researchers exploited vulnerabilities in the publishers' computerized systems

...

> But even the most secure software could be compromised.

This is nonsense, it is nothing to do with software vulnerabilities. It would be no more or less "secure" if I mailed in printed paper with a cover letter saying "Thomas Edison would be a suitable reviewer, his phone number is 555 5555 5555".
This is an excellent question and the answer is it depends on which subset of Costco customers we're discussing; it isn't one size fits all. Let's start with a background of the demographics of Costco shoppers (2004 research). 85% are affluent or living comfortably and 15% are getting by or poor. For many in the 85% how much they're spending isn't a major concern and your question about alignment with needs is a valid one. But there are many exceptions. Some of that 85% are shall we say “fiscally diligent”. I personally chatted with one woman in Costco (who clearly looked affluent with the fur coat and all, and she had a cart full of stuff) who said "Oh my husband will love this, he's always complaining about how much stuff I've put in the cart and complains we're spending too much and that we don't really need half of it." Does a shopping cart function serve as a sanity check in these situations? We think so. “Gee c'mon Myrtle, look at that, the app says we're on the hook for over $500, do we really need all of this?” Contrast that with the typical scenario of not really knowing and showing up to the cash register and the clerk says “$510.25”. At this point if people are surprised rarely do they don't start removing items. They just pay up. And perhaps fight in the car on the way home? ;-)
Even those who are very penny conscious, those who shop at Costco because the perception is they are saving money, can get carried away with impulse purchases. These are anecdotal but on more than one occasion I've heard conversations in the aisles similar to "Husband: wow look at the price of that. That's way cheaper than at X store." "Wife: yeah but are we going to use all of that before it goes bad?" If it's unclear to the couple whether or not they should purchase it, the app adds an additional data point of “Hey, we really can only afford X dollars here today, and the app says we're already near that total, let's skip it for now”.
And regardless of which demographic you fall into others want to be able to confirm that what gets rung up at the cash register is actually correct. Mistakes still get made, price cards on the display are sometimes at odds with what is in the cash register shows. Having a shopping cart function that details every product and what the price is you're expecting to pay is a great feature for some people. “Wait a minute, that's supposed to be $14.99 not $17.99.”
Lastly, the shopping cart is only 1 of 4 core features that TallyUp provides. The product discovery (new products, sales, seasonal), price and stock notifications and nearby stock search are, in our opinion, all very compelling features.
Add Twitter mobile to your home screen. For me, it's exactly the same experience. Actually it's better! I don't get notifications about who to follow or some person tweeted or retweeted something!
What I meant to way was that you're not being ranked amongst your peers. Saying that you're "better than 100%" or any other percentage is just a result of the assumption that a really good score is 200.
Ellen Friedman – Seeing with Your Eyes Closed
> Wikipedians take it on faith that their website is better, more useful, more ethical, more informative, etc., than other websites.

I've been a Wikipedia editor for about 10 years. I don't think that your perception of the community has any basis in reality. Lot's of Wikimedians are pretty vocal about their disagreements with the Wikimedia Foundation on a wide range of issues (including this one). There are lots of discussions within the community about the limitations of Wikipedia's model.
To me, the thing that I don't want to see is some web sites being throttled (or blocked!) on broadband.

Considering most (wired) broadband is bandwidth-limited at this point, varying that bandwidth limit based on what site I'm talking with just feels wrong, and I'd love to see the practice banned, because as you mention, a lot of users have no choice in what broadband they can subscribe to.

Wireless broadband is almost all capped in the quantity that you can use, however, and the T-Mobile "free streaming" options mentioned give you something extra for "free." This is in stark contrast to blocking/limiting something you're paying for, and I would be fine with this limited exception in the wireless space.

But what I would like to see, since this is effectively a utility, is for that "free streaming" to be available on an equal opportunity basis: And T-Mobile seems to be doing exactly that by allowing customers to vote on what services to include.

What feels like unfair competition is (as you mention) Comcast shaking down its competition by way of not providing customers equal access. And until that last-mile competition problem has been otherwise resolved (Google Fiber everywhere?), I think we do need those regulations to prevent monopolistic behaviors.
Again, let me repeat this because you seem to be totally deaf: All I'm doing is defending use cases for the Web Crypto API.

I'm not and have never defended this specific app. All I'm doing is pointing out that your wholesale dismissal of browser crypto is unwarranted.

You're clearly just trolling me now because you've refused to answer any of my questions specific to the valid use cases of browser crypto and how ANY software that is updated or updates itself is susceptible to issues you've levied at browser crypto.

I've been reading infosec arguments on the net since the 90s. I've heard everything there is about the dangers of creating your own crypto systems and every one of your snide remarks. tptacek has made a career off of the same 15 things you've said over and over and over again. I get it.

I also completely disagree with tptacek and every other dude who outright dismisses browser crypto. I also thing that there are a lot of important benefits from attempting the very difficult task of creating secure browser crypto environments.

Your general approach to the issue is to turn in to a raging asshole and attempt to make anyone who is exploring these issues look like a fool. You engage in an incredible amount of personal attacks and you attempt to justify the means by harping on about the importance of the ends.

I fundamentally disagree that the means can and ever will justify the ends for anything. When you do that what we're left with is assholes like you who make the world of crpyto and security an environment that is incredibly toxic to creativity.
Sorry for the delay, busy few days.

1) The three volumes of Lichtheim's Ancient Egyptian Literature

2) Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh

3) Black et al, The Literature of Ancient Sumer

4) Foster's From Distant Days (Akkadian)

After that there should be some major works from India, but I haven't gotten around to that yet, so it's, uh, (counts) 14 volumes of Greek lit, philosophy, and math instead. A few Chinese authors ought to be represented along with the Greeks, but again, haven't gotten to it.

I usual prefer accuracy over readability in translations if I have to choose between the two, but I make an exception for some epic verse. Mitchell's Gilgamesh is one of those cases. It's not an abridgment or a retelling, but it errs on the side of readability. Great read, I'd definitely recommend it.

Lichtheim's introductions leave me wanting more, but those books are still very good, and they make the Sumerian and Akkadian volumes seem really bad in comparison. AFAIK there's not much out there better than those two, so those literatures may be in need of a good, well-edited anthology. The Literature of Ancient Sumer is serviceable, but I wasn't even able to finish From Distant Days and I'm considering getting rid of it. Part of that's the literature itself (seems like a big step down from Sumer, IMO) but part of it's the poor work of the editor, annotator, and translator, Foster.

Only the first few works in Vol. 1 of Lichtheim predate the Sumerian and Akkadian literature, and most of the stuff in Vol. 3 is all the way up in the first millennium BCE, but I keep the trilogy together anyway.

(1) http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Egyptian-Literature-Middle-Kin...

(2) http://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-English-Version-Stephen-Mitc...

(3) http://www.amazon.com/Literature-Ancient-Sumer-Jeremy-Black/...

(4) http://www.amazon.com/Distant-Days-Poetry-Ancient-Mesopotami...

[EDIT] formatting
[EDIT 2] If you're only going to buy/read one volume of Lichtheim I'd recommend Vol. 2 (not the one I linked)
Qualities of a Successful Founding CEO
My score: 4785 :) (all options, number limit = 50)
I've played with many of these. And this one is pretty good. One thing that I'd like to see is a "verbal" option in these types of apps. I have trouble "hearing" math and keeping it in my head. I envision an app speaking the problem, then you have to type in the answer. It requires both math and keeping the problem in your head. Lastly, a verbal or speaking option maps to many real world scenarios.
There is no explicit way on iOS to check what other apps are installed, but they can check whether an URL scheme is supported, and from that you can infer the app is installed (not guaranteed, many apps can register the same scheme). If the app doesn't register a URL scheme I don't think there is a way to detect it.
sato also means village, koto means thing, etc.

Any sequence of consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel is quite likely to be a Japanese word.
Would it be considered cheating making love to your girlfriend's clone?
By Occams Razor, however, it’s probably better to assume that it formed spontaneously on Earth: "Just turning on the spark in a basic pre-biotic experiment will yield 11 out of 20 amino acids." [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment
And what/how do you charge your clients? Is it hourly based or project based? Could you provide specific details (numbers) for your pricing? Thanks!
being christian fundamentalist, her stance is obvious.
Not replying on whether or not Web crypto is effective because you and William seem to have that discussion covered pretty well (and honestly it's too long for me to read right now), but you're right that we should have had an option to authenticate the OTR; thanks a lot for pointing that out!

I just deployed a fix that I think is actually pretty clever (haven't seen anything similar done anywhere else, anyway). Rather than intruding on the existing UX, I'm just automatically generating a shared secret on the first client and putting it in a fragment at the end of the generated URL, which is then used by both clients for SMP. So now, to successfully mitm a Cyph chat server-side an attacker would have to have compromised both our server and the users' SMS/email/etc., and even then they'd still have a pretty small window of time in which to execute their malicious code on the Cyph backend.

It's not strictly foolproof, but it's still a hell of a lot better than leaving unauthenticated as the default. Combined with the two-factor auth feature we're rolling out in a few weeks, this should put us in a pretty good state. The only (mildly) inconvenient thing about this solution is that it precludes us from adding buttons to automatically text/email the link to your friend for you (since that would involve passing the secret to our server).

re: checksumming, the plan is to do it client-side, not server-side (I could have misread/misskimmed but it sounded like you were mistaken on this), and have the user manually agree before applying any updates to local appcache. The idea is essentially to cram a traditional release cycle into the Web, with a stable channel with biweekly formally audited known good payloads. Still need to prototype this and see if it's feasible, but on paper it sounds good to me.
Nice! I made something similar a while ago - http://www.speedsums.com :)
well, early residential connections were paid per minute, so I don't see how that was any better. There's nothing wrong with rate-per-byte, because some of the costs actually are per-byte.
How do you feel about non-neutral treatment of Wikipedia traffic? Does this differ from your feelings on non-neutral treatment of Netflix traffic?
I don't think it's practical to require the likes of Facebook to monitor for terrorists and the like. After all one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. However it would be quite reasonable for them to choose to look out for that and bullying, grooming and the like especially if the posts are semi public.
https://atom.io/packages/regex-railroad-diagram
The main diagram and regex packages are separate node packages, by the same author.

It's nice because it automatically detects when your cursor is in a regex and opens a bottom panel. works for js and Python.
Getting Smart on Interaction Design
Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. This is the only sane standard.
And now that GitHub has replaced resumes... poor Ken. :(
My understanding is that in both situations as you described above you should switch. You are still in a new conditional state. Telling you that the host opened another door by chance and it is a goat removes the possibility that he opened the door with the car behind it by chance. You have eliminated one of the options and you have the 2/3 chance of winning by switching.
This is a pretty bad idea (and English-centric). Stripping diacritics can fundamentally alter a word's meaning.

A small example (Portuguese):

país ("country")
pais ("fathers")
Let me demonstrate the problem to you, I have two tabs open on my browser

Radioshack.com 10 foot HDMI cable $29.99 "marked down" to $15.99 plus sales tax

amazon.com 3 meter HDMI cable $7.49 plus... plus nothing, free prime shipping

So I can order from amazon right now and have it in two days, or wait days/hours until I have time to visit a legacy brick and mortar and pay twice as much.

So without even looking at the radioshack price, amazon will ship me a rasp pi B bare board for $37.69 prime. I'm guessing $75 at the shack. I go to radioshack.com $119.20 Reg Price $129.99 Pi starter kit. Well, thats got a case, a protoboard, some parts, a flash card, figure maybe $20 worth of stuff.

I'm just not seeing it.

I assure you that in the 80s comparing Radio Shack to a place like Jameco mail order the prices were vaguely competitive by the time you added shipping and handling and there were minimum orders. RS wasn't a bad deal decades ago, believe it or not! I'm not sure how/why they lost that. From personal experience/gossip and OPs article its not labor costs seeing as paychecks apparently haven't changed much nominally since the 80s. Maybe building rents have exploded? Bad corporate financial deals?
They do have to share your personal data to the fulfilling agent just like you have to share your personal data to book a flight. The hotel has to have your information to complete the reservation and I'm sure it's buried somewhere in the terms and conditions.
Oh yes it does.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html
Thanks for your advice, I agree with you, it is super important to stay pragmatic. Maybe this can be just a starting point and it is possible to evolve and build their own stuff, learn new languages, but to start ASAP with something simple enough, and with something that have an economic model, is the key. Thanks!
But you never had an opening for an engineer (during last several years, I believe) ;)
Why? I mean, Yosemite is easily the ugliest GUI since, ... ever really. It won't last long.
The carbon in the fuel comes from CO2 which is captured out of sea water.

The problem with fossil fuels is that they transfer old carbon which used to be stored underground into the atmosphere.

This process only uses carbon that is already part of the active carbon cycle, so it is carbon neutral as long as the electricity source is.
A New IRS Horror Story That Makes Past Scandals Pale in Comparison
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for nostalgia sake

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html
Interesting, I will try that out. Curious how it reacts :)
The most straightforward explanation I've heard is this:

The chance is 1/3 the car is behind the door chosen at first. The chance is 0 for the opened door. As the three chances must sum to 1, the last door has a chance of 2/3.
I have to disagree with that.

While I'm not saying this might be true for every book out there, but I completed most of my bachelor's and my master's engineering degree by buying low priced edition from India and SE Asia and I used to verify and compare with US editions and never once did I find any major differences in context or additional problem sets.

The quality of paper wasn't as good, but the price difference was huge and well worth the effort for me to be able to afford them.
Yosemite is gorgeous!

Oh, wait, computer thing... nevermind.
The riots went on for 3 days with the government actively participating in arsoning, looting and murdering. It is not even close to the current situation in Missouri.

You choose to believe the Supreme court headed "investigation" committees as though they are the gospel of truth. If you're from India, do I need to remind you how the judicial system in India works? Most of the evidences have been destroyed the police and the judiciary in fact has been further victimizing the riot victims. There is video evidence of Modi instigating a mob to cut people up which has been ignored by the judiciary.

Moreover, the riots were not an immediate reaction but they were being planned since years. Thousands of weapons don't land up in the hands of rioting mobs overnight.
One wonders whether Github reserved it, or whether the entire global community of developers knows better than to choose "ken" as a username.
This is a bullshit stance by Wikipedia. If when Wikipedia started there had been some popular ad supported encyclopedia that received preferential ISP treatment Wikipedia would not exist today.

Maybe it makes sense for the established internet companies to oppose net neutrality because they're the ones that would get packaged up by the ISPs. But it's bad for everyone else.
Exactly. I've worked in several small companies and it used to be a case always... I guess the challenge is to have a similar structure in relative big organizations (e.g. 200+ engineers).
Ruby is really good at writing DSLs, Javascript sucks at it.

I'll happily admin that this is user error, but I always have trouble editing Gruntfiles when I start to bring in other packages. Adding an additional task to a Gruntfile is way harder in than Rake, or make, or even Ant for that matter, mainly because you are dealing with hand editing a huge JSON blob.

Tweaking the file to add a different path in or whatever is fine, but there are many times where I wanted to to copy and paste something in to make it work, and I spent as much time fiddling with the format of the js file as I did solving my problem.

A lot of people love grunt, but I'm not one of them.
I wonder if there would be any difference in the results if the numbers were stacked vertically instead of horizontally
Have you ever heard the term "social primate"? If not, or if you do not accept that human beings belong into that category, there is not much of a discussion to be had.
Yes, it is. Isn't that obvious from my tone?