skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who feels like there's a lot of hidden things in Javascript that I am unaware of and keep coming across, this appears to be doing a good job of covering them. It is meant for people who have prior programming knowledge/experience and is designed to help understand javascript and its peculiarities.
Exactly--a company I worked for did a stock split that was at least partially rationalized by being able to offer candidates higher share counts. Companies also hand out explainer sheets with their grants that don't really help, inasmuch as they seem to be intended to get you excited about the value of the shares disregarding the exercise price (and the fact that in most scenarios, you're paying normal tax rates on what's left).
The inconsistency is that I don't think anyone would say Google isn't one of the most if not THE most successful web era companies, and according to pg the founders weren't driven by a "spirit of benevolence" which in the current essay in question he attributes the most successful founders with.
> On another note - it would be pretty cool if someone did the equivalent of an index fund but for employee options. Get together with 5-6 of your friends at different startups and exchange options with each other to hedge the risk.

This is a pretty cool idea, but you'll have to find a lot of friends for it to work. Chances are, your 5-6 friends' options will also end up worthless. Then again, if we're talking about a pool of maybe 1,000 start-ups, then you need to believe that a diverse bundle of start-ups will outperform the S&P500 on average, otherwise it's pointless.
Zed[1] is probably the best editor on Windows, OSX, and Linux too. I hate to go back to editors where I have to save, manage what tabs are open, and clutter the workspace with toolbars and buttons.

[1] http://zedapp.org/
I can't wait to integrate this into IPython Notebook...
I had my debit card # stolen from am e-commerce shop in 1998, my credit union made me whole but the security officer told me there was just one digit that could be changed so I'd better not let it happen too many times.

I think these days it would be a little harder because of the cvv code, which you almost always need to have for a card not present transaction. To test out numbers in a card present situation you'd have to make a lot of fake cards and try them out, and I think you'd get caught pretty soon.

Payment security practically depends on defense in depth; since financial transactions are fairly traceable you need to DL some kind of money laundering such as sending mules out to buy luxury goods and then selling them on e-bay; as the other commenter puts it, the fees are enough to eat some losses now and then.
Nice, I had a crack at doing this a while back using emscripten, but couldn't get around that Vim's input handling is blocking.

Looks like coolwanglu has found a way around this by hacking some kind of async transformation into emscripten. I haven't looked at his code, but I suspect he specially handles known blocking libc calls. My guess is some how storing the set of stack frames when a blocking function is called so that the stack can be unwound to let the js engine continue.

Good stuff.
How about living an atypically varied life with lots of travel and experimentation?
I was curious about who Kildall was so I read the Wikipedia entry. Seems tl;dr when IBM wanted an OS Kildall was to busy to meet up and then charged $240 each for his CP/M-86 while Gates shipped a compatible PC-DOS for $40. Unsurprisingly Gates won the market. Kildall still ended up a multimillionaire who flew his own Learjet. However he became an alcoholic and died from a fall in a bar.

Dunno if it's accurate to say Gates destroyed his life. His main problems seems self inflicted.
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This is a common mistake people make in hot shot driving also. (People who use 1 ton trucks to haul cars/equipment around). They think great, I'm getting $1.50/mi and fuel is only costing me $0.75/mi, I'm making money.
Then you factor in truck/trailer payment, insurance, business related fees(you need that DOT sticker), wear and tear, and cash to buy a new truck every 3-4 years and suddenly you're in the hole big time and all you're doing it racking up milage on your new Dodge.
In general I'm not sure, but certain substances give you the impression that time is going by very slowly.
Where did you learn functional style programming? What resources do you recommend?
The NPS market is very interesting. There are a small proportion of users who are genuinely into NPS or RCs. These are people who want to try new things, who are fascinated by what happens if you tweak the molecule this way or that way, or you stick this extra bit on here and wow... Not all are chemistry geeks but some are, other just find it interesting, may have spiritual reasons for investigating all avenues etc. For this group legality is often a secondary concern compared to novelty.

Then there are the majority of the users, who are looking for a legal alternative to <insert popular drug here>, who effectively fund the production and marketing of the scene, and without whom the first group would not have such an easy time of it. The main concerns with this group are legality and ease of access.

The first group are likely to have their use under control, to be very clued in about allergy tests, measured doses, side effects mitigation etc. They may have lapses into unhealthy use patterns but generally are in control. They are served well by the current system and find services like WEDINOS invaluable.

The second group tend to be far less interested in what they're doing, may not be educated about any of it, probably aren't part of an online community to ask for help, they may even buy into the fallacy that legal == safe. They are effectively playing russian roulette. One of the cases mentioned in the article was one of these - that kid from Southampton died from taking over a gram of aMT. The dose range for that substance is usually around 30-50mg, the kid took 20 times that and died.

This group would be best served by legalisation of things that are known to be mostly safe. MDMA (or some of its safer derivatives like MBDB), cannabis etc.

All this said, if any of the many bans were effective at stopping the proliferation of NPS, it's not actually going to help anyone, because you'll just end up back at square one - kids buying unknown substances of unknown purity from unknown sources.
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Yeah same here. Clicked to a puzzle curious to play with it, saw the notice saying I need to log in to facebook, closed the tab.
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> Apple does prohibit other browsers on their (iOS) platform.

That is not true, otherwise, what do you have to say regarding Chrome for iOS [0]?

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrome-web-browser-by-google...
Wow, it's a full vim. I was expecting to find things it couldn't do, but I ran out of things to try. Great work.

It did take a little longer than vim to load, but I guess that's expected.
This problem is addressed by numexpr, which also handle multithreading.
On further thought that might not be such a good idea because of the nature of emscripten.
That's not necessarily the case. Another possibility is that when it seems like time is passing more rapidly, it's because the events occurring have a lot of similarity to previously experienced events—so the brain compresses them. It fits the data in the same way: more things are novel when you're younger, less can be compressed. And, it fits exceptions to this rule that occur later in life (in my own experience anyway).

To get around it, I think having less abstract experiences would be a good approach. If you're thinking in a highly abstract manner, maybe all your mornings might be identical and can be compressed into the unit 'morning.' In particular, I mean mindfulness, through meditation. Or you could just throw yourself into something new.
And just like engineering standards, the nice thing about stock indexes is that there are so many to choose from.
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They might use Foursquare API for geolocating points of interest? Citymapper uses that and I assume it's for a reason (cheaper than Google?)
Can someone please explain how this is different from CodeMirror vim mode? I am an emacs user and know only the basic vim commands and so, I cannot tell if there is something fundamentally different between the two implementations.
Woah, now i feel bad. Sorry about that Smiliken : (
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I tired them in Bali last year (they have been made illegal since then) and I thought my mood was slightly changed for a few days. I did not get some large effect, but there was some minor effect. Mostly I felt happily drunk.

I have battled depression for years, and while I would agree that there was some minor uplift, it was not a major change in my case.
I gave up on Uber in Dubai. It seems like the maps aren't accurate enough there - or the roads are under too much constant construction. Because it would take drivers 20 minutes to find me.

After presenting my complaints, Uber gave me a nice credit for my troubles and confirmed it was a difficult operating environment due to local conditions.
"Can a biologist fix a radio?"

http://www.protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v69/pdf/bc...

Funny and inspirational, and shows how primitive a lot of biological research really is: Almost randomly try a bunch of things and take note of anything that has any effect. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I am currently taking EdX's Intro to Functional Programming mooc, taught by Erik Meijer (with his crazy shirts), which uses Haskell to teach functional programming concepts.

I am wondering if there are any other good resources for teaching the functional programming paradigms. Anybody care to recommend me some resources?

Also, I mainly work with Ruby and Javascript in my full time job. Currently, in school, I use Java (in the context of Android, which is on Java 6) and Objective-C (iOS programming). If anybody has any resources regarding functional programming and the previously mentioned languages, it would be most appreciated.

Thanks people!
There are a lot of really nice Lua frameworks recently. Lapis is really cool too:

http://leafo.net/lapis/
There is no single social contract, but if there is, it very well has to be reviewed before we "fix" mortality. And who says that the further exploration of the universe (which is happening since a few thousand years anyway) is tempting to a critical mass with an unlimited lifespan where distractions are manifold and any simulation more convenient and less dangerous than the exploration of the universe in person.
I think there is a host of factors to keep in mind about the nations in question.

These nations (good health care, slow population growth) [1] tend to be highly developed countries [2], with relatively high average education of its citizens [3] and high life expectancy [4]. Many of them also have high social equality and high cost of living because of higher taxation (e.g. the cost of social programs and universal healthcare) [5].

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

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Deve...

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality...
I frequently write documentation with sphinx, over 30 pages long.
rST is a blessing for me. Markdown doesn't even get near.

It's fine for some 20 line README on github but that's about it.
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I've never met him, so I can't say he's been mean to _me_. But I feel like if I were family of Elliot Rodger or his victims or a loss prevention officer at Whole Foods, I'd consider "mean" as a possible descriptor.

Anyway, that's kind of what I wanted to ask: is there a sufficient dichotomy there, such that someone without a well-developed sense of empathy or fairness can be successful by avoiding being outright mean? (And is that a good thing?)
TY for the reference. I know that apps annie also provide some really cool analytics. Regarding the itunes data, i also wrote a crawler for that, which is on github aswell
For some reason, when I got to slide 16 I immediately thought "Scala."
I believe it's based on what the brain considers valuable information (or necessary to determine the situation). When you drive a longer distance the first time it seems like a year. After driving the same distance plenty of times the brain filters out the information as it's considered "safe" or of no value. The opposite happens if you are in an accident, the brain needs all the information it can get, time seem to slow down as a lot of information is taken in. Just my theory anyways; condensed: time perception is relative to information stream the brain takes in.
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Awesome, thanks. Anything we can do to help, just let us know. #docker-dev on Freenode. Many thanks for the contribution.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy is apparently being made into a TV series now. This guy must work on the visuals for that. He gets it; he really, really gets it.
Some guy almost 20 years ago argued, that if you end up with a bunch of "design patterns" then your language is not good enough.)

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf
It's a reskinned Safari, as I said.
While rat park is fascinating, it's not the only part of the picture by a long way, and his views aren't exactly mainstream even amongst controversial and outspoken drug scientists like Prof Nutt.

I would be very hesitant to call addiction a myth when we can measure it, and measure the relative addictivity of various substances.

Bruce K Alexander has some interesting views and some unteresting data but AFAICT has failed to really prove his case or overthrow the current models.
This is the vim C code compiled into Javascript. Not simply an implementation of vim behavour, but the actual vim source code compiled and running in the browser.
Of course - the war on drugs itself is a failure and the morals and reasoning behind it is suspect at best, if not downright wrong.

And you only have to look at Russia to see what happens when supply completely dwindles to addicts of hard drugs, the krokodil epidemic is truly horrifying.

My point is just that a free for all on all drugs no matter what harm they cause could be disastrous for society as a whole, as you mention there are plenty of people that currently use alcohol to escape their problems that are in difficult places, especially in poorer demographics. Imagine if they could get hold of heroine or methamphetamines on a whim.

It's a fine balance and I personally cannot see a good way to strike one that will keep everybody safe and happy.

There are plenty of drugs which if used responsibly I could see being legal though, marijuana, ecstasy and some hallucinogens to name a few. If taxed the government could stand to make a lot of money from them as well.
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It's not possible to define something by it's ability to do something else. A smoker is not smoking cigarettes, nor inhaling smoke. Whatever is responsible for consciousness (and there's plenty evidence, more than to the contrary, that is not the brain), it can not be defined by what it does. Consciousness is not my reading the words I'm writing here, not me thinking the words before writing them in a foreign language.

It's trivial to say that consciousness gives us the ability to do many things, still it escapes a definition mainly for the very fact that it does something, as opposed to everything else that falls under the umbrella of science(s), where description by attributes (e.g. the charge of the electron) sort of says what an objects says. It still escapes an ontological knowledge (we don't have the eye of God, as Putnam put it), but the electron doesn't really do anything, so we're not forced to explain something else than its properties, intrinsic or extrinsic.
Psychological addiction could form to anything pleasant, from peanut butter to MMORPG sessions. A real physiological addiction takes growing doses and a withdrawal syndrome. As far as I understand, LSD lacks both.
I'm not saying I completely disagree, but we've been doing lots of things for long periods of time that we stopped doing for good reasons. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if drinking large amounts of alcohol becomes 'abnormal' in the not-too-distant future.

Don't get me wrong: in my current social circles drinking often and rather heavily is still the de facto social activity, and I enjoy it, albeit less, uh, vigorously than the past. Hangovers have become a bigger issue as I'm getting older. Anyways, some of these same groups also smoke heavily and I've noticed that particular behavior disappearing almost completely in some other groups I interact with. So perhaps alcohol will eventually 'phase out' in a similar way, at least in significant parts of society.

Getting 'hammered', even semi-regularly, is very unhealthy and it might not even foster stronger social ties as efficiently as other methods. It's just the easy default, for now, just like other things have been the easy default in the past.
Beautiful short film, excellent effects and voice-over. Like.
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I am not sure I understand this graph. When is there in an edge between two chapters? What is the "weight" of an edge?
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> TL;DR: Live on 35% of your after tax income and you're retired in 10 years. Get it down to 25% and you retire in 7.

You might as well say:

TL:DR; Move out into the forest and live off the land and you retire today!

Come on, man. 35% of AFTER TAX income? I make good money and I'd have to live like a homeeless man for 10 years in order to do that. While working as hard as I do. That's absurd.
Plus a film production is often trying to balance things like being able to make changes if the director requests a tweak. Much faster to do when the director is the VFX artist!
With their current gross revenue growth rates, some are speculating that in a couple of years their annual net profits will be more than $1 billion dollars.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ubers-revenue-2014-11
I've seen my iPhone GPS get "stuck" in one place (sometimes in the wrong country!) a couple times since iOS 8. Once it lasted for hours. It seems it's not smart enough to say "well this location is a day old and I've changed tower locations 10 times, maybe it's not valid anymore".
I think that we already have all the elements to make this leap. I am not being naive, only optimistic.
Or VLC or XBMC which do a vastly better job of buffering than online players.

Youtube-dl is my first choice though (and is how I viewed this video).
How does it compare against Snipe IT, http://snipeitapp.com/ ? amongst others paid solutions.

What is more wanted for a tool like this is integration with in house systems.

I like the effort, but is a really uphill in this niche.
I'll miss Ezra and his outgoing spirit. Goodbye, old friend.
Perhaps that means SF might not be a great place to work in spite of 6 figure salaries.
Why can't they just serve the client's location to the driver's device and then have the drivers device handle the estimate?
https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge is a good resource on (rather basic) functional programming in JavaScript.
> Is it typical for reporters to confuse profits with revenue?

The author isn't a reporter (or, at the very least, she's new to it). Claire Callahan Goodman is a Bay Area native from a large family, whose careers have included Classical Musician, Software Engineer and Mom.[1]

[1] http://www.salon.com/writer/claire_callahan_goodman/
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To be fair, you picked one of the world's highest cost of living locations to live in, let alone retire in.

I'm on track to retire in my thirties, or earlier, here in North Carolina. Not hard at all on a mechanical engineer salary.
Actually, for Aubrey de Grey, that will be 50 years[1], but I think this is only to get more funds.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...
That would lose scale-dependent ways to improve estimates like current traffic data from other cars, historical traffic and trip-time records, etc

Also won't help with stale GPS location on the phone (which anecdotally has been happening on my N5 more since upgrade to L as well)
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Huh, Obj-C got its stairway to heaven :)
If you're interested in getting a CS degree now might be the right time.

CF isn't the most popular language but you could gain skills setting up version control and a testing/deployment system.

A ticket system would be nice as well.

I would recommend giving startups for the rest of us a listen and see if creating your own products or apps is a good fit for you to start working toward now.

It's nice being close to family and picking up a discounted degree is a plus too. It might be a nice job to relax in, get a degree and start building your own products/SaaS app.

Good luck.
Want to back that up with some evidence?
> their annual net profits will be more than $1 billion dollars.

Where do you see that from the article you linked? It says So $10 billion of gross revenue would equate to $2 billion of net revenue. To have profits of over $1B on $2B of revenue would mean a profit margin of over 50%!
It would've been ok to post a text/blog post about it, but linking directly to a page that bans you is irresponsible and will likely just get flagged.
Crashed on me as well, but my current environment is tons of open tabs with 1GB free memory.
Yeah, $10/hour sounds strangely low. Perhaps she's getting a more-frequent dose of the GPS issues than most, or something else, but I think we can take it as given that the median UberX driver -- while not making the $30+/hour that Uber would like you to imagine -- is making comfortably north of $10/hour. If they weren't, they simply wouldn't still be driving for Uber.
By the way, I do think pattern matching could have been discussed more extensively. Pattern matching is one of the reasons I love functional programming so much, since combined with algebraic types they can be much more expressive than imperative control-flow statements (e.g. if-else). For programmers that are used to imperative programming, discovering the power of pattern matching can be quite a hurdle.
That actually seems to be a different presentation, although one seems to have taken one or two slides from the other near the beginning.
Indeed, "dumping raises into savings" was one of the smartest things I ever did, financially. When I moved from working from a university to working at a mid-sized corporation, I got roughly a 25% pay bump. Every single dollar of that went into savings (fully funding the 401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan, etc.).

This did a couple of things... it kept a lid on living expenses because there was no additional cash, but it also provided an easy way for me to raise my savings every year without having to make too many conscious choices, just by moving every pay raise into savings.
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I like how Oracle requires no explanation.
I was merely giving a counter-point to your statement that it's not possible to be a young-earth creationist and still believe in education and progress. Clearly, it's possible, and common enough that I have known personally a large number of very highly educated individuals that are YEC, or have similar beliefs (demons, exorcisms, etc.).

I do believe there's an inverse correlation between education level and intelligence on the one hand, and fundamentalist beliefs on the other. Whether they're outliers or not is another question, but I think you might be surprised how many of them there are.