skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seem to have a habit of only starting to read authors right around their deaths, but for somebody who has not read him, which novel would be the best to start with?
Good intention. I would work on your copy. Perhaps "request for solutions".
I've written multiple parsers/interpreters in both JS and Python -- Python being my favorite language. From that experience, I've come around to the fact that they're both the wrong language for writing languages -- lexers, parsers, interpreter loops, compilers.

I have a good analogy to explain this. Take this OCaml program.

let sum_file filename =
let file = In_channel.create filename in
let numbers = List.map ~f:Int.of_string (In_channel.input_lines file) in
let sum = List.fold ~init:0 ~f:(+) numbers in
In_channel.close file;
sum
;;

This is roughly equivalent to:

def sum_file(filename):
with open(filename) as f:
return sum([int(x) for x in f])

Now think of the degree to which OCaml is awkward here. That's exactly how awkward Python and JS are for writing languages :)

OCaml is based around ML-style typed records, which are exactly what you need for manipulating languages.

I am not a type safety guy, but when you write languages, there are tons of nested conditionals. In Python in JS or C, you end up with bugs in those corners. It is quite easy to crash any non-trivial parser, like the CPython parser, or Clang's parsers, etc. The type safety that ML offers helps a lot with this.

The code for writing parsers and interpreters is just SHORTER in OCaml than in Python. I used to think Python was the most concise language. But no, it depends on the problem domain. Try it and you'll see.

Someone saying the same thing here:

http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html
If the bugs don't change the bottom line, then the company is not dysfunctional. There's simply a mismatch between the expectations of an employee and the employer.

That is normal for someone working below a Senior Developer, a manager, and some unknown portfolio of VP's, Executive VP's, and C-level staff. A person that far down the food chain doesn't have a medium size picture, let alone the large one...i.e. the perception that the company is dysfunctional is not based on business metrics but "how I've always done stuff before."
Do you also want a ridiculously simple interface for darker skinned people? Or for women? Gmail is probably too hard for them too.
</sarcasm>

Ageism is not cool.
But how come it is less similar to itself than other words?
>Your site has been assigned special crawl rate settings. You will not be able to change the crawl rate.

That's the messed up part. I guess the question is, does robots.txt override that or not? If it does, fine. If not, all you need to do is make a few "google ignores robots.txt" posts and the problem solves itself.
I agree. Politics is how people negotiate power without violence. So it is everywhere. It always helps to understand politics even if you don't want to engage in it as it can help make seemingly irrational behaviors appear concretely rational once the motivation for it is understood.
I've never read any of his books, although I've been meaning to for some time.

Can anyone who's read through them comment? According to the Discworld wikipedia article, publication order may not be the best way to go through the series. This[1] page recommends reading a plot/chronological order. Personally I prefer reading books in publication order, since I get to follow the mind of the author. Given that, there are a lot of books here so I'm open to suggestions.

[1] http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/index...

Edit: Thanks for the responses, I had already reserved The Colour of Magic (you have no idea how nice it is to type that as a Canadian ex-pat) at my local library, I'm going to hunt down Guards! Guards! now. :)

Edit 2: And... there's a waitlist. Thanks, everybody!
> My understanding is that they received $1M in donations, etc, per year.

They were only getting about $2,000 a year and had one active developer.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-g...
> What does binary size have to do with quality?

Do OS/2, 16 bit Windows, and Data General Unix support indicate quality to you?

http://opensslrampage.org/
That's a bit of a stretch. China doesn't have a 1st Amendment
If by "the idea still came across", you mean I was able to guess approximately what the OP meant, you're right. I was curious about exactly what he or she meant and that's why I asked.

And I wasn't playing dumb. For one thing, even if I assumed the word cliché was used incorrectly, I still couldn't easily guess exactly what the OP really meant. Second, I don't like assuming people are using words incorrectly, it is safer to ask what is meant.
Successes aren't acknowledged often because we are often dissatisfied with them and they can be bikeshedded. But I'm pretty sure the importance of naming is widely acknowledged.
Explain please
So I've seen this idea in different incarnations. My favourite was probably the one that scraped Twitter for people complaining about various things and had people rank those.

This seem like a decent attempt to actually make it viable though. Good luck!
Still better than being at the age where everybody around you start dying.
IMO the first book, The Color of Magic, is a good place to start in introducing the Discworld universe.
I must disagree.
In my experience Linear Algebra has been so much easier than Calculus because even though at times it can be very abstract it is still more familiar as most of the time you're just solving equations. My math professors have done quite a good job in connecting the two subjects. For example, differentiation and integration of polynomials can be expressed as a linear algebra problem, etc. etc.

"The fundamental theorem of calculus is a legitimately earth-shattering breakthrough: none of the theorems in linear algebra come anywhere near it in cultural importance."

Linear Algebra has the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (i.e. every polynomial has a solution in the complex numbers) and also the Isomorphism Theorems that say all vector spaces of n-dimensions are the same. For example polynomials of the form c+bx are equivalent to the complex numbers (over the reals) which are equivalent to two-vectors (x,y). Quantum physics is basically linear algebra, with quantum states defined as vectors in a quantum vector-space.

Don't dismiss the impact of Linear Algebra.
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Small Gods is what I'd start with.
I knew about ConEmu (though I'm not 100% happy with it either). I'll take a look at PSReadLine, thanks.
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> Obviously sites like thepiratebay.se will be censored

What? No they won't. Comcast/Verizon/No one is going to block sites for their customers on the Internet. They don't today, and they won't tomorrow.

Except child porn. That shit gets blocked and will continue to get blocked, regularly. But that's about it.
How to build a sports stats streaming app
The referenced book was fantastic.
So, the basics for taking any ol' Three.JS scene and getting it to run on a WebVR enabled browser comes down to querying for HMDs and Orientation sensors; passing an HMD object to the requestFullScreen function; handling resize events to set the render dimensions of the canvas by the HMD dimensions, but its CSS dimensions by the window dimensions; creating a THREE.VRControls object to wrap the camera object; and creating a THREE.VREffect object to wrap around the renderer.

What sort of difficulties were you running into with this particular demo that made it more difficult than that?
'He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.' - Terry Pratchett
There's no elbow, the curve looks the same all the way down. And it's a square-root relationship. That is, you need to increase number of drivers by a factor of four in order to reduce the expected distance between a driver and a passenger by a factor of two.
Can't say I am familiar with any of his work but I have been reading about his battle with Alzheimer's and his stance on assisted suicide.
This makes me think of own mortality and I hope I dont have to deal with having such a disease where my body or mind slowly deteriorates(well ageing does this so I will have to deal with it anyway).

I nearly wish for a swift death that I don't see coming.
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What makes Android 5.1 fast
I think it's worth making the distinction among the people killed in addition to the target. These guys aren't just sitting alone in some hut, nor are they exclusively surrounded by innocent families. They're on top of a hierarchy of militants.

I say this worth knowing because even if we assume these were all 100% innocent civilians, this rate of collateral damage is far better than has ever been achieved in an armed conflict. That is not to justify this behavior or say it isn't shocking or disturbing, but it's statistical truth and it shouldn't be ignored.
"Appears"?? I don't appreciate having fleshlight ads displayed on something I read at school.
Why Apple developing a car makes no sense
Good omens co written with gaiman , i've never laughed so hard before reading this book :)
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Did you read the article? It's about how there isn't a Lua VM anymore on the new hardware
But statistics and probability is really just integration. It's either that or stamp collection.

And optimization is really just differentiation (+ some geometry).

I'd say the problem is too little calculus and not too much.
There is a handy Discworld Reading Order Diagram available at the following link :)

http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/
It takes so much effort to design ANYTHING inside a BigCorp©

Design by Comitee = Death
I'd say it is probably more like a Stack Exchange for problems than a Product Hunt for problems.

Browsing Product Hunt is too distracting for me because there are so many solutions to problems I'm not having, which inevitably get me off track of what I am trying to do.
Can't speak for other MOSs, but at least for infantry, infantry are exposed to videos where people die during training - one video I remember seeing was from the point of view from an insurgent, and it showed his comrades & him launching an assault on some Marines, only to promptly run away from a hail of gunfire. The person whose perspective is seen dies quickly.

I suspect that most training in the US military show such content, in order to avoid sudden shock from experiencing the situation for the first time. The US military trains as close to real scenarios as it can, so that the same decision making happens during actual combat situations.

Contrary to what you might believe, the training often stresses to use sound judgment - there are many accidental casualties in war, sometimes due to miscommunication. One story that a Marine told me was that in Afghanistan, while he was on watch at a vehicle checkpoint, a truck was speeding towards his post - his battle buddy and him were signaling to the driver to slow down/stop. The driver did not stop - they were forced to try to incapacitate the vehicle, which ended up killing the driver. There were no explosives, but you cannot know which vehicle has any - this is part of the fog of war. Contrast that with two recent Navy Cross awards for two Marines who died in the same situation in Iraq, except the vehicle was a suicide machine meant to do significant damage to the base.

War is not black and white - in war, the only thing people care about is helping get their buddies home safely. When it comes down to it, almost every person made the choice to be ready to sacrifice if necessary to achieve this. It is at least an honest choice when contrasted with those who have no experience with such a world commenting without the proper perspective.
"I learned more than enough welding when apprenticing as a metalsmith but now as a chef use none of it."
Cuban doctors get internet/email suspended for accessing Craigslist-like site
"People opposed to drone use need to show how untargeted they actually are and how international law is probably being broken."

Are you kidding us? People opposed to drones do not need to show anything - except to state that flying drones over sovereign countries without being officialy at war with that country is not the way to do it. Targetet killings are not the way to do it either.
ARM and the BBC collaborate on a new initiative
I’d go with publication order; while the person who introduced me to the series insisted, nearly to the point of violence, on starting with Guards, Guards!, I don’t see where it helped, as the earlier books are quite good if somewhat different from his later style.
I admit it was a bit melodramatic.

In this season of Survivor, there is this deaf woman who wears a Cochlear implant. She can hear okay and it doesn't seem to handicap her much, but she's been bringing it up all the time to her teammates to the point that she's under the constant impression that she's being discriminated against because she's deaf, while the reality is just that she's a subpar competitor and her team is getting tired of her bringing up her deafness all the time while the simple truth is that they really don't care.

Basically, the only person on the show who's making a big deal of her deafness is herself.

Seems to me OP is doing the same thing here.
As a long time user of Momentum, I like how this looks better. I've never seriously used the "main focus for today" feature.
Swatch CEO says doesn’t want to produce mobile phone for wrist
Sometimes a linux VM won't cut it, like on corporate networks heavily invested in Windows infrastructure (activedirectory domains and many layers of authentication that are either difficult or impossible to interop with linux).
We should do a head-to-head competition between two Grandmothers, one armed with an iPad2 using iOs6 and another one using iOs8 and let them do the same tasks, and measure the time it takes to do those tasks.

Count me in!
I've never experienced significant (higher than 1.5x) surge pricing on Lyft but have frequently with Uber. The last time I was in New York the surge was 6x on Uber. This lasted for hours. The entire weekend I was there it never dropped below 2.1x. This was not during a holiday or bad weather. It was just the weekend.
Small Gods is a nice standalone (despite being in the Discworld storyline, it is not really connected to the previous stories) about religion. Mort is another, talking about Death.
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the optimizations are for nexus 6 only right? otherwise we could see performance improvements for more devices on 5.1 (oneplus one would be perfect)?﻿
CodePlex will be next is my guess.
Touring the world's first 'Google Shop'
The Great Analytics Ranking
I am pretty sure the song is first mentioned in 'Wyrd Sisters' when Nanny Ogg is shouting at the night sky.
Moshe makes a good suggestion. Small Gods is a favorite of mine and it stands alone well enough.

I looked and generally agree with that suggested reading order and I started with the Watch series. I'd pick one of those series, give the first book a shot, but if you hate it maybe give one of the other continuities a shot before you throw in the towel. I hated the Rincewind novels and it took me a while to come around to the Witches (now I love them) but I thought the Watch books (starting with Guards! Guards!) to be absolutely fantastic.

He's written a lot of books of varying quality over a lot of time so I always warn people to be prepared to give him a second chance.

I met him once when I was a teenager. He was really kind as well as insightful and funny.
Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works
A VM is the last place I would want to hold an NTPD of any reference standard.
and that is still better than being dead :)
Well, I wasn't planing on crying this morning, but today I can make an exception. ;_;7

Au revoir, Sir Pratchett, you magnificent human.
I have been using Soylent as my primary source of nutrition since November. I will generally have around 3 non-Soylent meals a week. Part of the reason I started Soylent was for financial considerations, as I am a graduate student on a relatively low-paying stipend.

In terms of how I view food, I am less willing to go off Soylent for foods that I do not enjoy considerably. Whereas before I would eat at Subway or McDonalds on a weekly basis, since starting Soylent I haven't eaten fast food in months. On the other hand, I order a nice greasy pizza from a local pizzeria every couple of weeks, which is more frequent than before. I never really cooked before, and Soylent is considerably cheaper than eating out for every meal, so I have more food money to spend on things I genuinely enjoy.

As Rob says in this article, I find myself able to separate the feeling of hunger from the desire to enjoy food. When I have specific cravings or when a meal is part of social interactions, I have no qualms about eating "real" food. But when I'm alone and hungry for nothing in particular, why would I eat something that's more expensive and less healthy than the Soylent I already have sitting in my fridge?
His publisher has stated that despite his public support for assisted suicide he didn't take his own life.
This thought generalizes (terror-inducingly) to the whole media. "A pity they're totally nincompoops when it comes to tech but at least they've got politics, crime, and the economy sor... oh dear."

(Think pg had an observation like this once.)
I'm hoping the server that stashes binary builds will be accessible to not just Tessel users but everyone who is running Node on a MIPS architecture (for example, wrtNodes).
Parse natural language into datetime string (rb, py, node, php, r, http)
how do you (google) get away with being such asses? i know a bunch of developers will come to your defense, and say things like it is a free service, but it's not really, because for google, users are the product, and you guys have developed a rep for constantly shutting those users down. switching costs are very real, and people just don't trust you anymore. i don't care about google code in particular, but i hate google by this point. just hate you.
I'm really surprised the EU lets this fly for Malta, Bulgaria and Cyprus. They're not just selling their own citizenship, they're selling citizenship in the rest of the EU.
Chemist here, who also programs. Inorganic chemists do calculus all the time. Organic chemists do arithmetic (stoichiometry) and some discrete analysis (instrumentation, the computers do the heavy lifting), orgo is primarily a linguistic discipline, i.e. we are expected to parse sentences like "benzophenone in THF was refluxed in the presence of Pd black for 2 hours" and to know, without being told, that there's a workup before the next step in the reaction.
Rather than it hitting quota error pages would it be feasible to give Googlebot a 503 header back after a certain amount of pages? Setting a Retry-After header to the next day should let it know when to come back for more

From https://plus.google.com/+PierreFar/posts/Gas8vjZ5fmB (Not sure how official this is but Pierre appears to work for Google)

Primarily the section

"2. Googlebot's crawling rate will drop when it sees a spike in 503 headers. This is unavoidable but as long as the blackout is only a transient event, it shouldn't cause any long-term problems and the crawl rate will recover fairly quickly to the pre-blackout rate. How fast depends on the site and it should be on the order of a few days."

Edit: Looks like the over quota page is a 503. Couldn't hurt to do it early yourself, Googlebot will see it the same way whatever provides it the 503
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> But the army know this, and attracts losers that can be brainwashed so that belonging to army becomes their only way of life.

This is only true of grunts. I think you would be surprised as to the level of intelligence present in the ranks of the military. Some of the most poignant writings on life, death, war and peace that I've ever read were written by either current or former members. Case in point(and I urge you to read the entirety with an open mind before making a judgement):

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/opinion/sunday/how-we-lear...
I'm sure some are going to immediately say "Yet another Google casualty", but I feel like this one probably needed to happen. It's been stagnant for years, and they have been on the mindshare decline since the first two years. I dread having to deal with open source software that is still on Google Code.

Admit failure, provide plenty of notice (like they're doing), and close up shop so resources can be spent on more impactful projects.
It doesn't indicate either way. If the code is in there, if it works for those platforms, and has no adverse effects on other portions of the codebase, then it doesn't matter (those code paths are never executed unless you run on those platforms).
They might very well have insight into how to deploy resources they did not have access to to fix their problems.
Chrony is just another ntp client, not an alternative to ntp itself.
Splunk. Slack. Zendesk.
Verhuisdekens en pakdekens voor beschutting van meubels bij elke migratie
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The pursuit of the "best" is the problem. How about "adequate"?
The Color of Magic arc may be a bit boring at first. It took me some time to actually finish it. It worth the reading, but it might repel people who are not yet into Pratchett's writing style.
This is one service that needed to be shut down.
Words to live by:

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!"
The Moment I Knew Twitter Had to Buy Periscope
The system call interface in linux is actually pretty stable. You can often run old binaries (at least ELF binaries) and binaries from different distributions as long as you have the shared libraries to go with them (including glibc). You can use a chroot or mess around with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Small Gods and Guards Guards are definitely among my most loved of his books.
A real British pi would never have a decimal point in it - they are newfangled foreign things.
In this program? Because that drone didn't fire a Hellfire, a human in a helicopter did. Hours were spent observing a suspicious target, far longer than would have happened in any previous conflict, and observed by people who are not "in country" and thus not under the same pressures.

Clearly the system isn't perfect, and there appears to be a major professionalism problem within the operators of the drone fleet. But removing drones from the equation in this scenario would have resulted in the AC130 spotting the convoy and making a determination based on less time and less imagery.
Couldn't a combination of consumption and inheritance taxes perform the same function? These seem harder to game than capital gains tax.
Did I read the article I quoted from? Yes. "Anymore" is the key word. I'm questioning the need to have JavaScript at all when they started out with a perfectly good language. Their problem wasn't that there was anything wrong with Lua; the problem was in transpiling JavaScript to it.
For all the hate Shane's getting in the article comments, he did a good job of illustrating exactly why Periscope is a cool service (and now I have to go look up Meerkat).