skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that may be obvious to an adult or someone with a fully developed mind but let's not pretend that when you were this age everything felt 100x more important than it was looking back. This is always going to be the case but it get's better as you get older. At that age being ostracised by classmates and/or parents can feel like the end of the world.
Which numbers might those be?
You're going to split hydrogen atoms? Into what exactly?
China’s Censorship Agency Sings Anthem About the Joys of Censoring the Internet
"You spend the highest percentage of your budget on the military." This is true. The US spends more on its military than any other country, and the greatest percentage of GDP on its military.

I think your interpretation was that I meant that the biggest percentage of the budget is spent on the military as compared to other government departments or military, which is not what I was trying to say.
Wow, that's a smart watch I could actually use. 8 month battery life, doesn't look awful, not priced terribly (for the version with silicone band). The only thing holding me back is that it seems to require a phone app. Right now my phones are Windows and Blackberry; it'd be nice if I could just use a web app in the browsers on those.
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I am strongly in favor of boosting NASA's budget, but the US still spends more on space than every other nation combined so I think saying it has a dark future is a bit hyperbolic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/25/t...
Fast animations are good. I have a jailbroken iPhone and the first thing I do is turn off a lot of the animations and the phone is super-snappy compared to stock. Whenever I use someone else's iPhone, it's just so painful to switch apps and navigate around.

So I understand not wanting to watch some stupid animation over and over instead of just getting to the point. But some animations are helpful for seeing when things change.
I think the reason why is that PHP users always get picked on. (I up voted his comment)
Wow, this drives me insane. I've always meant to file a bug report about this but I'm not sure if its supposed to be a feature instead. It appears to let you cycle through valid properties but I really wish it was assigned to another key.
I live and work in Albany. I drive 5 minutes to work.

My family gets to hop on the Amtrak and enjoy the cultural advantages of NYC about once a month. We drive to places like the Bronx Zoo and Boston for various things.

When I was a kid in Queens, getting to Manhattan via transit easily took 2 hours. My son gets all of the benefits of not living in NYC, and many of the advantages.
The point is that the claim does match and is not extraordinary in any way.
It might be worth mentioning that I'm working on a similar type system for perl5 for quite some time, which is efficient like perl6. In contrast to Moose, which is inefficient and more about the MOP. Types there are only used to slow things down, not to speed it up. All these things were developed around 2002, just forgotten and then partially destroyed with 5.10 and ongoing.

Perl5 hates it, but they haven't seen it and they have generally no idea. It is entirely doable in perl5 only. I got 2-6x speedups in prototypes.
But then, perl6 has so much more features worth switching over.
Eastside Showroom will be happy to serve you a $16 cocktail, and drink prices have climbed everywhere I frequent. It used to be easy to find $2-$3 decent beers in Austin... $4.50 is what Shiner costs these days.

By any metric I can think of, Austin costs more than it did even three years ago. All of my favorite restaurants are $2-$3 more for an entree than they were when I lived here in the past. And some have been priced out of downtown. Thai Passion (my favorite Thai restaurant anywhere which used the have a $5.75 lunch special) closed recently, and they aren't alone.

Again, it isn't California expensive but it's no longer Texas cheap either.
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100lb of helium is a LOT more helium, no?
$4,970,378 and climbing
> What's the closest a distributed team has come to that?

Stack Exchange.
Books provide a great tactile experience. Books are immediate. But the real difference? Books make you slow down.

This is a great example of "The Medium is the Message". The words are the same, the information is the same, but the experience is completely different.

There's just something about screens. I think we're already seeing a trend among people who spend a lot of time around screens: we're starting to try to find ways to spend less time around screens.

It's not just the distractions -- the alerts, the temptations to switch over to a web browser. Though, certainly that's part of it. No, I think it's more about the medium itself. Just something about screens that's an entirely different experience.

Not saying screens are bad -- I love screens :) But, I think we're seeing a desire to find balance via slower mediums. For me it's cooking, reading, bicycling, etc.
I was just about to mention the whole filter bubble deal. Reddit on the other hand will subject your posts to criticisms and possible trolls. Radicals tend not to like people disagreeing with them.
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> Requires Android

> 4.0 and up

:(
Everyone here is talking about Timsort, but you should also check out the materials they've published about the KeY project, which they used to carry out this verification. http://www.key-project.org/~key/eclipse/SED/index.html describes their "symbolic execution debugger", which lets you debug any Java code even if you don't know all the inputs (by simply taking the input as a symbolic value). The screencast is very accessible.
Suicide contagion is a known phenomenon, and mentioned in the article. Is it rational? No, but neither are suicidal people. Teens are at particular risk because of unfamiliar hormonal loading.

It's not the sort of problem where you can easily engineer away the underlying causes so it makes sense to deal with the social manifestations. some social causes can be engineered away, but in many respects suicide is a radical political act that's at odds with deeply ingrained societal ideology (eg the extremely attenuated legal rights of juveniles in the US) which are a) not amenable to short-term change, and b) not so simply causal that change will automatically lower suicide rates.
Not on the Flynn team, but having a single repository instead of many makes it easier to make changes that cross packages without having to worry if you broke some remote thing.

Here's an article that discusses this idea: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/taming-your-go-dep...
libc++ doesn't use randomized quicksort so that bug is irrelevant. It is an attack on a clever pivot selection method, but the exploit derives from the fact that the pivot isn't actually random, but deterministically pseudorandom. A truly random quicksort isn't vulnerable (since the pivots will be chosen in a different order every time).

The real problem with random quicksort is that randomness is really, really hard, and good RNGs are slow. Also, timsort is adaptive, while quicksort is not.
I've been waiting for this for ages. Previously it was a matter of closing UE C++ repo, installing emscripten, and following a convoluted process.

Now the web is just another output target.

Full details: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Support/Builds/Rele...
True. it's nice that they don't have to say, "manually add $10 to your pledge if you are outside the US." I bet the compliance with that is terrible.
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Totally agree with you. But that makes grand-grand-grand parent comment "it's not real money" meaningless.
This is a great point.

However, what do you do about the gross inefficiencies of a government organization? I worked for 13 years in the public sector and saw first-hand the layers-upon-layers of management and entire management entities, while undergrads, grads, and a few unsung full-timers actually accomplished the little work that got done.

A massive public organization like NASA simply cannot get anything done for a reasonable budget. Unfortunately, sub-contracting work like we do with Boeing & friends seems to result in just-as-wasteful spending. Outside of the discovery of a commercial incentive, it seems that NASA is still our best hope for getting useful science done, inefficiencies and all.
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The blog platform is part of society and it is very much a part of their sub-society. Suicide contagion is a real phenomenon and Tumblr societies seem to be glorifying it.

This might just be my privilege leaking, but I also wonder if spending so much time documenting and discussing injustice depresses people and makes them feel hopeless. There is a very strong contingent on Tumblr that exists to find something to be outraged about every single day.

I don't mean we should whitewash discrimination and injustice, but I seriously doubt wallowing in it helps.
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I can't imagine there are many sites using this that aren't already using Google Analytics, which is already deeply integrated with their ad platform and knows exactly who you are using cookies.
Seeing others advocating additional expenses for chip makers and hassles for end-users (write protect, etc.), I'll throw in my request for a factory reset to ensure recovery. Maybe it would be possible to build a means of merging all these physical switches into one 'enable brain surgery on my computer starting within the next 30 seconds' button that is only semi-hidden externally on the computer, similar to various router easy-setup buttons.
Pseudonymity cuts both ways in this context. You couldn't have something like Reddit's /r/suicidewatch without it.
llgo is already a thing: https://github.com/go-llvm/llgo
I am so happy. I have just started to get really into Medium and have started to write on it. This update is awesome! Write away everybody.
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The law has always been (since like 2001 or whatever, when VOES was put into place) that cpanies outside the EU were required to pay VAT to the location of each customer.
The other life hack people do is to move to SF or NYC out of college, try to "make it", live like a grad student, bank a large savings cushion, and then retire to a cheaper place with a high quality of life when they want to have a family.

I have a few friends at Google who, after working there for close to 10 years, now are thinking about retiring to Portland, or Vermont, or North Carolina. The idea has certainly crossed my mind, that if I wanted to live in a rural area I could buy a house free & clear and be set for the rest of my life. I met an innkeeper in Alaska once that had worked in tech for 20 years, lived like a grad student, and when his kid was a teenager, bought a sailboat, sailed around the world, and came to settle in Seward, Alaska because they'd fallen in love with the town. I've heard it's pretty common in investment banking to have "your number", work for ~10 years until you hit it, and then retire to Fiji.
> I reviewed one paper which said the algorithm was faster and more memory efficient than the previous version of itself. But with no numbers.

The aforementioned colleague says he usually editorially rejects those.

Actually another amusing thing about this title is that actually this is not the first time that "ultra-fast" has been used to describe an aligner in a title. The STAR aligner did too.

No sane reviewer or editor would allow "fastest" unless in the context of "provably fastest" which is probably not within the skillset of most bioinformaticians. If it is just "fastest among the currently available tools" then that claim will be out of date within a year.
I can't imagine why any hiring person would look at schoolwork. But, the value of a college diploma is not to have schoolwork to show potential employers.

The value of a diploma is that it shows potential employers that that you can put your mind to something and see it through to completion.
>Having to restart after installing an extension is another

Because it's part of your everyday workflow to install extensions one after another, right?
I feel like adding Firebug adds unneeded weight to FF now that FF's dev tools have matured so much. There's still a lot of work to catch up to Chrome, as you stated, but for the most part it's very capable and Firebug just feels like bloat and adds memory consumption that's not necessary.
What's "backwards" or "forwards", and who are you to decide for the rest of us?

Look, I've tried many of these same things. Digitized all my CDs? Check. Start in on the movies? Check. Got a crap-ton of ebooks on my Kindle? Check.

But reading is simply not consuming bits displayed in e-ink on a hunk of plastic. Reading is removing yourself from distractions and committing to some kind of journey with your author. The devices that we consume e-books on are now all competing to get us to do all sorts of other bullshit that's got nothing to do with that. And that makes them a problem.

I'm keeping my V1 Kindle DX until it fails, and then unless I find another 1-function e-book device? I'm throwing the entire hunk of trash away. It doesn't matter if I have 5 or 5 thousand books on one device, if I don't get the same benefits from reading, it's not working for me.

For consumers, there is nothing wrong with one-function devices -- it's the manufacturers that all want a new walled garden where they can charge entry.
I found your comment, though intemperate, to be illuminating. You criticize the nature of the first search result you find, but I note the second (in my browser) points the searcher to the Tcl library packages for processing JSON, whose docs provide what you ask for: simple explanations and examples on how to do it.

Now on to the other languages you mention:

> Hey tclers, try this on for size. Google for "perl json"

OK. The first result I get is a man page for a module that claims to be a bridge for two other modules, one pure perl the other perl+C. There's paragraphs and paragraphs of warnings about version incompatibilities and advice about handling corner cases, which if you're not careful about lead to data loss, because in perl Everything Is Not A String.

First two results for "ruby json" are for gems tailored to two different ruby versions. Of course ruby is famous for breaking backward compatibility even for minor releases, so make a choice and it may work out for you. Keep in mind the reports of massive security vulnerabilities when using ruby to parse JSON.

First result for "java json" is a page full of pointers to class definitions, and a link to a package whose author claims to have no time to maintain it and hasn't used it in a decade. If that makes you uncomfortable, the home page of the first link helpfully provides references to 26 separate Java JSON libraries.

First two results for "python json", like ruby, are for the unpredictably compatible versions 2 and 3. Like perl and ruby, there are many paragraphs of warning about corner cases and data loss because Everything Is Not A String.

The top paragraphs of these results I admit make things look simple, but mask significant implementation issues that tend to trap the unwary newbie or explode outright, that aren't issues at all with Tcl.

It may be that the appeal of Tcl will always be limited to a minority who prefer to discuss a little first and consider issues of compatibility, stability, scalability, maintainability and security before implementing. Like the people who run your company? 20+ years in business, presumably it's profitable.
Some social media sites will restrict information that is directly harmful -- you can't create a subreddit to share methods of suicide for example -- so they may want to consider whether they've drawn the line in the right place.

If a site bans pro-anorexic content they've already said they're happy to restrict free speech if there's a strong enough protective need.
Yes, yes they do. I think it is because of the following sequence of events: a) bioinformaticians are usually shitty programmers, therefore b) a lot of the tools are bad, at least from a programming perspective, therefore (?) c) I'll write a new one that will be "better".
I didn't actually look at the site that's being complained about but SVG charts are actually the way to go in terms of accessibility, and they can certainly be rendered client side (but maybe shouldn't be, as you say, if the data is static). Charts made this way definitely beat out an image with a description

svg accessibility stuff (not my blog, just one I found after a quick search): http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/12/using-aria-enhance...
So...

1.5 hrs/day * 5 days/week * 50 weeks/year * $80/hr = $30,000/year. Obviously those numbers are fudged in a bunch of places, but maybe it's not so crazy to spend $300k extra to avoid the commute?
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No, your email regex is not “almost perfect”
And yet the people working remotely have no problem communicating with said tools and being more productive than the ones communicating and working in person. Interesting ...
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http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/95909/why-is-an-aver...
Santa Clara County StingRay Proposal
Some great points here especially the point of getting lured in by big names like facebook and google as a benchmark for great salespeople. You want to hire someone you know can build from nothing and not rely on reputation alone.

What i will add however is those companies can be a great educational ground point early on in ones career to develop good habits and processes.
It looks great. I noticed some issues mousing out of the get started button. It seems to be in conflict with expanding and shrinking at the same time. I am using Windows 7 with the latest Chrome browser it that helps.
Why is someone else's poor choice regarding privacy a justification for abandoning the fight for privacy?

There's always a subset of people who don't care. There was a time when women didn't have the right to vote, and although I wasn't around during that time, I'm sure there was a subset of women who didn't care. Their apathy is not a justification for withholding that right from the rest.
Of course, that's the point. When that teen is in their Tumblr bubble, and all the other teens in that bubble say, "yes you're right, this really is the end of the world", is it any surprise that some of them take radical self-harm actions?
There's a big ol' "Brought To You By" link at the bottom of the page that links to exactly the type of page you're describing, complete with a very well done explainer video.

It's almost as if this course isn't for you, and you've self-selected your way out of wanting it. Fancy that.
" I worked for 13 years in the public sector"-What does that mean in this context? You're implying that all public sector work is inefficient, shoddy, etc. For all we know, you worked at a DMV for 13 years programming COBOL mainframes.
That's an audit of the Fed's expenses etc, it's not an audit of it's policy/actions.
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I don't write much Tcl the last few years (mostly Python now, as it pays the bills), but looking from the Python perspective towards Tcl, i see a lot of good things i left behind:

* No GIL. Real threads with no silly global locks

* A very cool VFS layer, a bit like the stuff you can see in windows powershell with the Registry/Certstore/etc drives

* A beautiful implementation really worth a read (no silly 'XXX: don't know what to do, lets print to stderr' inside a library like you find in pythons source)

* An extremly consistent language far more than python which does all kinds of junk 'to make parsing easier' even if it makes the language harder

* Sandboxing interpreters (doesn't work with python, no chance)

* Stacked channels and a cool streams abstraction (Pythons io module is still some way behind its options)

* A built in event loop (Python just got one with 3.4...)

* A standard lib that mostly takes event driven as given (unlike pythons blocking stuff)

* very powerful metaprogramming support (e.g. have some logging code with 'ZERO' overhead when disable at runtime)

* good C-API and excellent support for embedding

* Stable ABI since more than 10 years (e.g. you can load a binary extension compiled against 8.1 into a current 8.6 interpreter and it just works, one of the reasons many Tcl projects didn't release new versions, no need. Unlike the python nonsense with -2.5,2.6,2.7 versions for every package, okay Python got a partial stable ABI now too, years later)

* mostly sane platform abstractions (the world isn't posix everywhere)

* packaging with starpacks (python's pyinstaller comes close, but lacks the VFS stuff, years later), a bit like cross-platform OS X app bundles

* Non mutable values by default, no pointers, so it is kind of functional

* A nice package system that doesn't mix up filesystem layout and namespaces and supports version

So if you look at it, it is kind of a weird crossover between ideas you now find in: Go, Node.js, Lisp, Powershell. Just a bit outdated and in need of some love.
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because (2+3+4)/3 != (2+3)/2 + 4/1
> Pebble has a proven track record of delivering a quality product in a reasonable time frame

Perhaps I'm remembering this incorrectly, but wasn't the Pebble a textbook example of significant production delays for a Kickstarter hardware project? I'm pretty sure I knew someone who hadn't received his watch from Kickstarter many months after the supposed delivery date, while at the same time he could have gone to Best Buy and bought one.
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I thought the value proposition was the ability to save voicemails that others have left for me?

What's the benefit of saving my own voicemail "Please leave a message" message?

Or am I supposed to use it to call someone else's voicemail, to capture their "please leave a message" recording?
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Newsflash, people are stupid.
Recently switched back to Firefox. Their search engine selection option is so easy and excellent.

On Chrome, non-technical people won't be able to change default search engine.

Thanks Mozilla.
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You do realize the screenshot is an image right?
I wonder if one could extract the helium produced by our otherwise unusable fission waste?
GitLab engineer here, let me know if you have any questions.

We're quite excited about GitLab Annex and curious to hear what people think about it.
Calling these cultures "radical subcultures" is dismissive. What you're seeing is a more complete expression of humanity. Past media have generally filtered out much of the diversity and angst inherent in human lives, and that tradition has been carried forward to varying degrees by many social media networks.

Suicide is everywhere. Trans people are everywhere. Minorities are everywhere. Tumblr just isn't sweeping it under the rug as much as some other sites.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9063705
We traded up from ad hoc IM so are more productive in some ways, but the main purpose was to increase cohesion so we post a lot of gifs and run funny bots.

However, we also use bots to track certain pushes and deployments, and we use it to make some news channels that also get compiled into newsletters (adding an article to the newsletter also pushes it into a Slack channel.)

We also use it for quick file-sharing.

We chose Slack because it is the only one remotely pleasant to use. Adoption was unlikely otherwise.
Set 1 (5,4,3) = 4 average

Set 2 (5,7) = 6 average

Average of average (4,6) = 5

Average of Set 1 + Set 2 (5,4,3,5,7) = 4.8