skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if the issue is that when some people refer to their "info addiction," it actually isn't an addiction (eg. "OMG! I am SOOO ADD sometimes!" says some person without ADD who needs a loving dose of perspective or strangulation) or if there are other things specific to me that mix with the info addiction such that having a positive goal I'm focusing on isn't enough.

Sorry for the previous curt response. This is essentially the only thing I'm trying to deal with right now because it leads to failure in all the things. And progress is slow because getting people to invest time in someone who has no money is seemingly impossible.
I wonder if this implementation idea is general enough that it could be added to clojure anr script.
If you are alleging that the content on the Revaluate blog is created so that people want to read it, then guilty as charged. However, neither of the posts that you mention are particularly controversial.

If you do not think this is sincere discussion, I suggest you read some of these articles.

http://observer.com/2014/11/pied-a-terre-owners-use-city-ser...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/realestate/pieds-terre-own...
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/grateful-nyc-pied-a-terre...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/realestate/new-york-citys-...

The libertarian in me says that taxing these ultra high end units is crazy. But there are tens of thousands of people homeless now in NYC (more than ever before), meanwhile all of the city's resources are going to build towers for billionaires that will end up being vacant for most of the year.
If you were one of those families losing their home, I think you might feel very differently
A possible reason is that it's convenient for a lot of people, not only users. For instance, tbt make it easy to learn english, spreading english culture and keeping it dominant.
If you are still looking for a place to invest. I have a good business model and good references from a previous investor.
I'll check out MirageOS, I've also heard some interesting things around CoreOS, which I'm hoping to get some lab time for soon. Finding time to review everything properly is difficult, this article was the summary of 6 months work and 18 hours writing.
You can checkout my vim configuration here: https://github.com/ryanss/vim

It's just a single, well-commented .vimrc file a little over 100 lines long. The main plugins that add to the visual appearance are the jellybean colorscheme and the fancy status line comes from vim-airline.
A number of people have suggested this and I've now looked into the question a bit.

Curiously, the comparisons I've seen between RK4 and symplectic integrators all use fixed step sizes. I used RK4 with adaptive step size because I had the code around, having written it for a different project about ten years ago that involved mostly smooth motion with a few tight turns that required a very small time step. By making the step size adaptive I could get decent run-time performance while retaining good accuracy.

I'm tempted now to write a symplectic integrator and see how it performs against adaptive RK4.
I don't work in the software industry. But I'm often frustrated by nitpicking over who is or isn't A Real Engineer.

Implicit in these discussions is the concept that engineers are superior to mere technicians or operators. As an engineer I have worked with technicians who want to go back to school to become an engineer, because of the perceived prestige and earning power that would come along with it. Often, they don't even realize that they make more money than I do [1].

In my industry the chief divide between engineers and technicians is that engineers design systems whereas technicians construct and operate them. These are fundamentally different jobs, each with its own challenges and benefits, although they often overlap. Pay is roughly the same, though engineers tend to have more generalized knowledge that can help them shift into a different sector more easily during a downturn. Both roles are essential, and I like to joke that if all the engineers disappeared, the technicians could keep things running for at least a decade, but if all the technicians disappeared, the lights would be out within 24 hours.

Good engineers can't function without good technicians. Both have a good deal of specific knowledge that the other does not. And somebody who is good at one role is rarely good at the other.

Be an engineer because that's what you want to do, because you genuinely feel that designing systems using the application of engineering theory is better situated to your skills and personality, not because you think it might be more prestigious or respectable that what you're currently doing.

[1] I work in the power industry where a skilled technician commands a similar or higher hourly rate to an engineer, more overtime and usually does a hell of a lot more work, like fixing overhead power lines at 2am during a winter storm.
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I use hn.premii.com all the time. One of the best mobile web apps I have used. Any chance of open sourcing it? Would love to see how you solved some of these problems in detail.
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Isn't it cultural imperialism or something to insist that other cultures honor the standards of your own?

Seriously, this whole "my culture says you need this certification X to be an engineer so you can't be one if you don't have it" is just a stupid definitional debate. It doesn't even matter if you win... nothing changes! Not a single person will lose their job Monday or even so much as change their title even if you somehow "win". So who really cares?
I have attempted to portray similar ideas, in regards to a universal wage, to friends and family. Each time I'm met with "What stops some people from not working" and they refuse to move past that. They see people who work less, or don't work as a detriment to society.

What sort of changes can be made to change people's viewpoint on hard work as a virtue?
With your skills, you should be able to get well-paying remote work. But you have to get out of this mindset of being stuck in your local market.

I have applied to remote jobs but most don't want someone that is not from the US.

That must be the case if you only apply to remote jobs at companies based in the US. Apply for jobs outside the US.

Make a good professional profile online.

Post your profile and apply for jobs on the monthly hiring threads on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
That's quite nice. Simple to implement but very nicely done.
Great, but not sure what this has to do with the article though. It's like you read the title and replied without reading the actual article.

Then again, so are most of the other comments too.
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I'm responding to the numerous comment threads below on this topic, rather than the article.
That's the only explanation, but why you need more? If CPUC doesn't give your permission to operate, the only choice for you is either go the Uber way and just ignore CPUC or shut down. The founders of Night School couldn't do the former, so they did the latter.

As for why CPUC withheld the license, I'm not sure the founders even know. I'm pretty sure they were presented with the very diverse array of paragraphs and checkboxes, without which it is impossible for them to operate, and these achieved their goal - the disruptors despaired and went away, letting the bureaucracy get back to its comfortable slumber. The founders could, of course, try to fight, hire a fixer[1], start a press campaign - but sometimes it's just not worth it. People tried to do good, but the bureaucrats said - no thanks, not on our turf. I think the picture is pretty clear.

[1] somebody like this: http://gideonstrumpet.info/?p=7201
UKIP is not an anti austerity party, you should not mix them in, and the National Front in France should not be lumped in with Syriza and Podemos. Syriza is not really anti-EU, either.

Nor is debt forgiveness a pro/anti EU issue, other than in the construction of the ECB.
Not so much. Early in my career I worked with plenty of electrical engineers who started out as technicians with two-year degrees who were promoted to engineer after 10+ years of experience working closely with engineers. That used to be a common path for engineers, before all this elitist credentialism started.

I also worked with several systems engineers who did not have engineering degrees. I don't know of any universities who have systems engineering bachelors programs, but masters programs are semi-common.
And the rich paid no tax, which was worth more.
That'd be awesome. Opening up a scratch buffer and then using that for the contents of the comment in the POST would work pretty well. I dig it.
There's more unpleasant stuff in all your food than you realize, and always has been. It's impossible to eliminate grubs from blackberries, no matter how many times you wash them. All you can do is rinse them in salt water so they stop climbing out from the crevices. There are insect parts in every jar of jam, trace amounts of rat droppings in every jar of peanut butter (or entire rats), and if you eat enough fresh fish, you'll quickly discover how often it has worms (fortunately, most fish for sale was frozen at some point, rendering the worms dead and nearly undetectable). Processed or organic, plant or animal, all food is contaminated. Even salt -- ever think about what's in sea salt besides NaCl? Hint: nothing you'd want to eat. And table salt has it too, only less of it.

Fortunately, if you follow proper food-handling practices, none of this is unsafe. But if you think you don't eat a few hundred parts-per-million each day of hidden disgusting things, you're deceiving yourself.
You cant have a trade surplus just by having great goods. People need money to buy them. The Germans lent them the money, with no means for it to be paid back.
I did read your "I have ADHD" in the casual way that most people say it. I certainly don't have ADHD (not that I'm aware of, anyway). The only thing I can think to suggest is to seek professional help, if you haven't already.
It is actually a specific degree that is a minimum four years at specific Universities and then at least one year under another acknowledged Professional Engineer. You are then honoured with an Iron Ring that is well known in Canada that you can only obtain through the proper certification (as some colleges try to offer lesser degrees that aren't acknowledged). It's no different than a doctor or dentist, you can't legally professionally practice without it. The courses are geared towards theory, business, management and ethics rather than just proper or efficient coding and documentation.
While it might be true, there's a potential for bias in that it's based on reports by inspectors, most of whom would expect to lose their jobs if this program is expanded.
Maybe there are a portion of people who are allergic to productivity. Not just work, but doing anything of import or use. No matter what social pressures there might be, they will always shirk responsibility, do the bare minimum or even less, and never have greater ambitions. The type of people who will always wait to take the garbage out until someone stands over them and doesn't leave until they've done it.

I don't agree that these people are very many. I think they're extraordinarily rare, but it makes us feel better about ourselves if we think that they are common, and we have managed to rise above the common.

But regardless, if they don't want to be doing anything worthwhile, and they're willing to accept the many social and economic consequences of that (no fun vacations, very hard time finding a partner, no gadgets or new cool stuff, no fancy dinners out), then I'd rather not force them to work side by side with people who want to be there. Give them a universal income, so they can rent a roof over their head, buy somes clothes and food, and then leave them be.
Please see the papers here: http://www.exp-platform.com/Pages/default.aspx

These are from the team that built amazon's weblab. The foundation of large scale web experimentation.

To be working in this field and not be familiar with this work, eg. the concept of A/A testing, is like deciding to build jet engines without having heard the idea of a bypass ratio.
I'm not Seiji, but I think he wants to make illegal for both investment companies and private individual to own more than a certain number of apartments, in order to prevent real estate price to go up and up, to which I wholeheartedly agree.
The perfect JS framework won't exist until 2079.
Shortcut to a video of this phenomenon: http://youtu.be/wyptwlzRqaI?t=1m29s
It's awesome that you guys are willing to take the risk of trying something that's extremely unconventional. I hope it pays off and catches on!

Also, can you hire me? :)
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It might well be that meditators react to situations less stressfully, so that it's actually stress that's the negative agent rather than meditation the positive one; and so any stress-reducing activities will have similar benefits. To show causation, it seems (I'm not a statistician) would require eliminating a lot of factors: diet, lifestyle, etc.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8967918
> Such a stupid nonsense!!!!

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Italian here, but translation of what?
If you refer to the "Il fatto quotidiano" article linked here, the story so far is:

- (if the story is true) Majorana was alive and lived in Valencia, Venezuela, between 1955 and 1959

- Italian police is investigating

- An Italian TV Show "Chi l'ha visto?" (it's a very dramatic show where they try to find missing people...) found a guy who lived in Valencia those years and claims he was friend with Majorana, but he didn't know his real identity

- The supposed Majorana called himself Mr."Bini", but one day they convinced Bini to take a photo, the photo traveled back to Italy to the witnes' family

- Police examined this photo and they say Bini's face is compatible with Majorana's one and Bini looks very similar to Majorana's father

- If the story is true, this means Majorana didn't suicide and was not forced by anyone to leave Italy, he just left.

- Police is trying to confirm, finding out the driving license/identity of this Mr. Bini, but they also say that Venezuelan police is kind of lazy..

Didn't want to translate it all, I'm also lazy.
There are many stories on Majorana, and a lot of people claimed and still claim to have seen him. There are many many stories, really, another recent one is that he ended up as an homeless guy.

Hope this was helpful.
You're right, they shouldn't be mixed and SYRIZA is not really anti-EU. But UKIP and LePen are anti-EU while Podemos and SYRIZA will probably not comply with Brussels.

All of them may be oppose to the EU (or EU's austerity policy) for different reason, however the fact that all these new parties are a product of the EU's choice of policy remains IMHO.
It is a shame to conclude two way data-binding should be a casualty in the maturation of frameworks. Like one way data-binding, it can be misused.

Two-way data binding to properties is generally not good. It increases likelihood of problems as updates to one value have to be observed to adjust other values. It is easy for bugs to slip in and hard to reason about the code.

Two-way data binding to methods is better. Methods that aren't focused on setting one value. In effect not direct data binding. It creates easy to reason about explicit code paths for changing of values. Observation of the change of properties is no longer required.

It is a useful tool and should continue to be seen as such.
With all due respect, just because you got good feedback from one company doesn't mean it's actually good. Employers will always try to be polite and it's unlikely they would ever say anything bad.

In my opinion the only real test is how often you are getting interviews vs not getting one.
Perhaps someday such problems will be solvable with software. What if there was a simulation that could help you better understand how your body works? Do you think that might help?
FYI: Some people find that magnesium helps with this. It may not resolve it, but it may make it more bearable.
In the USA they don't have the same "protected" status or definition of "engineer" that exists in parts of Canada. In Quebec, only graduates with a degree in engineering can legally call themselves an engineer. In the USA, anybody can call themselves an engineer... there isn't the same distinction between Computer Science and Software Engineering.
"Why not?" is fine, but my question is:

What are you going to use it for?
Well, it's a library, not a framework: you can use it for as much or as little of your app as you like with as little as a single attribute declaration doing something useful for you.

On "use strict", my understanding was that it applies per script:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Strict mode applies to entire scripts or to individual functions.

Am I misunderstanding?
I'm from the US so I can only comment on the situation here, but the reality is that despite public education being free till college, it is for the most part terrible.

So, if you want your kids to get a proper education you'll either have to pay for a good school or get a house in a nice neighborhood; both things which require one to constantly be paying a substantial amount of money, whether it be for the mortgage, taxes, or tuition.
Vagrant certainly has it's own problems and frustrating bugs, in fact I outright refused to use it in the early days. There is differing opinion on "the right way", depending on what your priorities are. Mine are based on precision, perfection and beauty.
I don't think it's "because people don't like it", but rather because it's only true in a few countries that most HNers neither live nor work in, and you spoke as if it was applicable everywhere. That, on top of the fact that the article had nothing to do with the term "Software Engineer."
What a load of crap. You also can't call a Ferrari a Lamborghini because they're trademarks. When someone says "your race car isn't a Ferrari so you shouldn't call it a race car", we look at them funny, scold their irrelevant and shallow opinion, and redirect our attention to someone more mature.
M5S comes as a far second in Italian polls.
ive played with this similar before capturing incoming. as well you can write events for messsages in javascript just now with yosemite the same as you would applescript. you can use osacompile and osascript command tools to run and compile javascript/applescript. the same things applescript can do. i find easier to write. doesnt have to be complicated to run for personal use inside ssh.
I doubt that their potential for bias outweighs the food producers' incentive to hire people who are content to just approve everything that whizzes past them on the line, without any sort of whistleblowing protections against employer retaliation. The inspection program should of course be subject to double-blind testing to determine its effectiveness compared to a control...but that sort of testing takes money, which has to be approved by Congress. I would imagine that the meat producers are a stronger lobby on Capital Hill than food safety advocates.
No, you're not behind, it doesn't seem that anyone on this thread has heard of a thunder lizard. I wouldn't trust the Washington Post to have this kind of tidbit right either.
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Thank you for the feedback, that's actually quite an interesting use case of the Docker ecosystem. I've already updated the article to reflect this, as you raise the same point that many others made.

(copy) "However it's important to note that this article focuses on the daily, long term usage of Docker, both locally and in production"
What I mean is, JS in general is not a Lisp, nor is it a functional language.

But it does have a number of key basics in place. It has anonymous, first-class functions and objects. It has a very handy function composition syntax (chaining dot-notation feels almost like Haskell sometimes, if uglier). It has map(), filter(), and reduce(). You can, somewhat torturously, wrangle a Y-combinator in it even.

But in practice, it's still missing some basic toys. The lack of TCO means that while yes you have handy function composition and a basic smattering of first-class functions, recursive solutions aren't really viable, which makes many classic functional approaches impossible when it comes to implementing the stuff that isn't there yet. You have to kludge around it with mutation and for loops and such. As well, you also run into issues with the object-oriented focus at times: first-class functions are all well and good, but not that useful when so many things aren't functions but methods or operators, requiring even more heavy use of lambdas than I would in a Lisp.

ES6 goes further in the direction of supporting the functional style and making it more pleasant to write. Arrows offer neater lambda syntax, let and const offer better control of scope and enforced immutable variables, and of course offering proper TCO opens up a lot easier implementation of classic recursive functions. I'm even a little curious about the possibilities of iterators and generators; my experience implementing an RNG in Heresy using Racket's generators suggested that they can prove a powerful tool in the functional programmer's toolbox for solving certain kinds of problems traditionally thought to be quite non-trivial to write from a functional approach.

ES6 does come a little closer to actually living up to Crockford's hype with these changes. It's something I'm very excited to keep learning and playing with, and it was something of a relief to find a niche for the happy little Schemer in me in an otherwise very mainstream, mostly-imperative language.
Hm, if Greece defaults, probably Italy and Spain will follow soon after. At that point the EU will be dissolved and Germany (probably along with the Dutch and few others) might create a new "Union" with a very strong currency.

At that point the countries of the South (and North? Ireland..?) will keep devaluing daily, while the markets will push Germany's new currency through the roof, turning exports virtually impossible. Unemployment will struck Germany and all hell will broke loose. Repercussions for the South will be devastating of course.

That's not my preview. That's the scenario Varoufakis foresees and probably the author too. Makes a lot of sense to me, but Varoufakis might be wrong. Time will tell I guess.

Just keep in mind that Greece, Italy and Spain are in dire straits anyway so the prospect of defaulting doesn't seem all that scary.
Have you read "Head First Java" by Kathy Sierra? Data Structure & Algorithms book written in "Head First" format maybe pretty cool.

I wonder if you could re-format your book in that manner?
Facts of Canada, not the entire world. The counterpoint is equally valid in other countries. I can call myself an engineer all I want, nobody will bat an eyelid[1].

[1] Well, not me personally, I do hold an electronics engineering degree.
Do you have any evidence for this claim?

Because the first thing I think of when I see your claim is this 2011 (i.e., pre-Occupy) article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-f...