skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The price of the privilege and prestige of being a member of the oppressive majority

I disagree with this assertion that I belong to an oppressive majority, or that the majority is oppressive.

>Sure it's inconvenient, but politeness doesn't cost much effort. Eggshells is a good way of putting it.

Tolerance goes both ways. Why should 100 people modify their behaviour so that 1 person doesn't get offended, when 1 person could modify simply raise their threshold for offence, and save a 100 people a lot of hassle.

>If you or anyone you see steps over the line

There is no way to know what or where the line is. The line is totally subjective and unique to each individual. So it would simply be easier and less risky (remaining employed wise) to avoid interacting with the person than spend the time to learn how to avoid triggering their offence reaction. I guarantee the path of least resistance is the one that will be followed.
What is the "success rate" (growth or just survival after the program) of these products/companies/ideas after incubation?
Of course it is. This is probably expressed most clearly in Bayes' Theorem.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem)
While there might be some signal noise ratio, I highly doubt we have any junk dna.
I imagine a good modern analogy here would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvable_hardware.
http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

in the two articles I mentioned,I think the way the "offspring" circuit worked in an extremely baffling(complex) way relying in physics in way beyond human design (aka the way the disconnected logic gates were still necessary for functionality) have insight into some of possible complex interactions of dna.
They look like unnecessary garbage until you try to remove them and break a ton of stuff.
"They're rewarded... for showing up (like an MMO). That's not how you get good at things in real life."

It really is though. If you show up every day and put in the work, you WILL get better at whatever you're doing. That's also something your colleagues and the people who surround you appreciate, see Cal Ripken, Jr. for example. He wasn't an outstanding player, but he didn't miss a single game for 16 years, he showed up every day, no matter what.

Not sure what sports you played and at what level, I played basketball growing up at national level but also competed at LANs across the country on COD4 and learned lots of lessons from both.
I thought the introns were not well preserved between generations and that this is strong evidence that they really are junk.
In a way you're right, the executable is definitely within bounds and if that is your definition of the program, it's small enough. If you count resources that are necessary to make the program run, however, you'd use a different metric.
That seems like a pretty wild guess.
The idea of nations and borders is one the time for has passed.

I personally don't care what invisible, made-up lines you were born within or without. Do you?
I assume you mean business or start-up ideas.

In order for that to be of real use, you would need to develop the architecture of ideas better. I have a little sandbox blog for doing that, but, like so many things I do, it is kind of on the back burner.

By architecture of ideas, I mean that there is a big difference between, say, some off the cuff random idea written out in a paragraph and the same idea backed by the same number of words but filled with years of experience, research, and refining the idea. So there is a big difference between a glib one-liner thrown out by an "armchair politician" and a succinct one line mission statement that has a density of information and ideas in it.

If you want this to be more than just shooting the shit -- if you want it to be meaty feedback on which ideas might actually fly as businesses -- you will need to put in place that architecture, as well as a development process. At that point, it is more than just a forum. It is a vehicle for development.
On behalf of the Minister of Mobile Gaming, Canada thanks all your freemium gamers.

Now we can have our new hospital.
It doesn't seem to do anything to monitors (I just re-tested). I'm guessing because a monitor only really shows me three colors, there's no problem.

The glasses don't seem to help with distinguishing colors on monitors.

I can discern color on monitors just fine, I'm only partly deficient, not completely color-blind.
Fortran is not used at most businesses. I doubt Fortran is used much anywhere outside of possibly engineering. Even then Engineers probably use some type of AutoCad like software that does modelling, and therefore nobody needs to know FOrtran anyway.
> In fact, they cannot possibly exist

I don't understand how you can be so confident of this. How are you defining consciousness? How are you measuring it? What makes you believe with such emphatic certainty that I am a conscious being and not a p-zombie? (or, if you prefer, a bot that easily passes the Turing test)

> They are not unrelated ideas, and in fact, the ability of an organism to survive is closely tied to this kind of behavior.

That's what I'm saying, consciousness is not a "kind of behavior". There is nothing behavioral about your inner experience as a conscious entity.
I'm reminded of the Woody Allen quote that 80% of success is showing up. Patient practice leads to getting good at things.

(Was an MMO player, love the genre, don't have time lately)
1. you find the fixed part of the regexps, do boyer-moore to fast filter the haystack, then do deeper NFA matching if the fixed bits are present. One example from later in that email thread: ^foo is the same as a fixed string search for \nfoo

I presume there are ways you can bound your fixed searches, and have your NFA work "backwards" through the string after a boyer-moore hits. (or both backwards and forwards from fixed points, depending on where in the string the fixed bit is).

2. No not for some people's small file usage - But grep is used in many many cases on huge log files (and mail files/queues and so on) - there is a valid case for optimizing those uses. Production sysadmins deal with multiple GBs of logfiles regularly, and grep them a lot.
No, that's Angular that has the perf issues.
When I mentioned intent, I was mostly referring to the use of an "if" statement vs. short circuiting in the referenced example. But I mean it in general. Every code base is different, of course.

> If you use a no-semicolon style, though, you must name all your expressions.

Thanks, I guess I missed that point.
"Edward Snowden is a criminal"

The Espionage Act of 1917 is a horrid piece of legislation, and the outsourcing of US government operations to private business means that contractors like Snowden can't use the same whistleblower protections that nominally would cover a government employee doing exactly the same act.

"We can’t have a deluge of people with privileged access thinking they can become the next super-patriot by leaking classified data."

Ha-ha-ha! Did you hear about how David Petraeus gave classified secrets to his mistress? Then lied to the FBI and others about it? But because he was a four star general, with the right contacts and money, he gets a misdemeanor charge.

So why not offer Snowden exactly the same deal as Petraeus - misdemeanor and two-year term of probation?
Little growth in CMDB, but still a vendor shakeup
Smartphones should have optional extra user accounts, with no indication of whether they exist. Same phone number, but the account you use is the one that records the history. Keep one mostly clean and that's the one you unlock.
I agree completely. The whole system of states is based on violence, past and present. Sadly I don't see it going away any time soon.
This sounds more like a platitude than a thought I can actually agree or disagree with. What does it even mean? You want to abolish rule of law? You want everybody to be ruled by the Communist Party of China (now the Community Party of The World)? You just want everybody to behave the way you imagine people ought to behave in a utopia?
As a VMware customer, why would you do any of that until you know the results of the litigation? Suppose VMware is found not to have violated the GPL.
My understanding is that TypeScript will be used in place of AtScript—the language the Angular folks created to be able to cross-compile a single codebase to both JS and Dart. JS and Dart will still be first-class supported target languages.
It's currently being abused and an excuse for search and seizure. And I agree, I care about everyone equally and want everyone to be treated kindly and fairly. Most government is corrupted by capitalism functioning at its extremities.
Down for me too. I'm guessing due to load. It's also reported as being down based on an https checker [1], but I don't know if it would correctly handle http2 so this may always give a false positive.

1 = http://https.downforeveryone.com/check.php?url=http2.golang....
I should have clarified that there's a difference between showing up and mindfully playing / practicing and simply showing up. You and Cal Ripken Jr showed up to practice with the intention of getting better. If you're to actually get better at your job, you show up and try and get better at your job. But if you show up and just go through the motions (the real-life equivalent of clicking a bunch of buildings to mine resources) you will be squandering your potential. I think we agree--I just wasn't clear enough in my first comment.
Are drones a fad or here for good?
No, they did not know it existed. I'm sure they suspected something (no idea why), but they just pulled over her entire family's car, and did a blanket search. She was on H1B, so she lost her job and had to fly back to Asia with nothing except the clothes she packed for a weekend road trip to Canada.
Idealist :^)

Have you considered making it open source, then?
Where's the line? If you give them your lock screen PIN can they then request your bank app password? The credentials for your work VPN?
> Patients that switched from Bootstrap to Min reported up to a ninefold decrease in markup

hehe.

Actually though, as someone who learned CSS with the rule "Use Divs! No Tables!" What does a page with less divs even look like? What are the workhorses for page layout?
Temboo is pretty slick - I've used it with Arduino Yún to make a little weather status appliance that lights up different symbols (and moves a servo-controlled arm) for various weather conditions. Temboo is kinda like Zapier for Arduino, for me.
Why? I've been stopped entering the US for similar reasons, and they searched everything. Read every piece of paper, they even switched on my camera and flicked through the pictures asking me questions about what they found, they didn't search my phone but only because they didn't run across it during the search (my backpack has very many pockets, and they missed a few).

I have no doubt at all that they routinely search through people's phones, laptops, tablets, and similar. And if you watch those Passport Patrol style shows where they film in immigration/customs, you can see it is common on there too.
pcwalton: thanks to Alex Crichton, the implementation has been cleaned up and updated to Rust 1.0.0 nightly. Yay! The feedback you noted has been applied to the code base. The performance has definitely improved some. Alex did some performance profiling and it looks like that hashmap performance may be the main bottleneck. The micro-benchmarks (and yes I admit they aren't good tests) don't really test strings, so it's probably the newer Rust version and the other cleanup that Alex did.

But if you want to take another pass through the code now that it's not based on an ancient Rust version, I'm always happy to take any advice from the master. :-)
I can come up with at least four reasons why people want to be lawyers in 2005 more than in 1965, without caring what is between their legs. These may or may not be their actual reasons, those are known only to the individual.

Honestly you don't deserve any reply though, after the way you treated OP. It is always the person who makes a claim who has to provide evidence for it - it is NOT the person who disagrees with the claim.

>Partly because so many of these people seem to think it's somebody else's job to argue them into an understanding. (Rather than, say, their responsibility to do a Google search and read for a whole hour.)

That is exactly what the rules for civilized debate proscribe. You have to argue your case, I don't have to.

1)Lawyers were (assumed) to be a safe career in 2005, in a world that did have that many safe jobs left. In 1965 there were a lot of other jobs that seemed safe, but didn't require you to work as hard to obtain them.

2)Lawyers have high earning potential - unlike most other jobs you can get with a college degree today. In 1965, this would have mattered less, because most jobs were relatively high paying (boom time does that).

3)In a world that changes rapidly, lawyering seems relatively safe, again the world changed less rapidly in 1965, with fewer obsolete jobs.

4)A safe, high paying job gives a high prestige. With fewer such types of jobs, more people will want to join those that exists.

So those would explain a higher amount of applicants to law schools, but not necessarily a higher amount of women, right? The thing is that law schools are limited in how many can be accepted and in how many new law schools can be created. You can't learn the law on your own in your bedroom and then get a job as a lawyer.

Is this what happened? Hell I don't know. I do know that it is at least possible it went this way and the explanation is as good as there were a large amount of sexism in law. After all if there were that much sexism in law in 1965, but not in 2005 why would there be so much sexism in computers today?
What happened to that page? Did Bloomberg hire Maddox to design it?
Whether its right or wrong, I imagine it's a way to catch low hanging fruit.
The idea of nations and borders is one the time for has passed.

Agreed, but the tail of that particular dinosaur is going to do some horrific damage as it thrashes around in the tarpit. Nation-states are becoming more powerful at the same time they're becoming less useful and less necessary.
To be fair, we invested our own money in the winner.

The composition of the algo portfolio for the fund != the winners only. Our challenge is to choose the optimal set of algorithms from a huge pool. Optimal means maximizing returns while also minimizing correlation between the strategies.

The holy grail of investing is 10 or so uncorrelated return streams. We're building a community and platform to consistently turn out algorithms with uncorrelated return streams.
Customs officials forcing you to unlock your phone is not just an invasion of privacy - it's a pointless invasion of privacy. Customs agents don't even know where to start in finding data that a user wants hidden.

Even if allowed access to personal devices, data is slippery enough that it could be stored in almost anything. Here's yet another example of taking away rights in a way that does nothing to deter actual crime. Hopefully the court understands technology enough to make the right call, but I'm not counting on it.
In that case, tormeh is right. Stallman is an example of a successful person (founder of an international movement, winner of the MacArthur genius award, etc.) who uses computers and has not signed an EULA without reading it first.
Bikanta, Ginko Bioworks, Helion, 20n, Farmlogs, uPower...
Reasonable question (and I don't think you should be downvoted for it), but no, LWN editors (including Jonathan Corbet) have explicitly said that they're very happy to see LWN subscriber links posted to social networking sites and discussion sites. The main thing they don't want to see is someone systematically posting links for every single subscriber-only article.
Yeah, this definitely falls into the absurd category of interviewing whiteboard questions. Ridiculously absurd. I have a book with this algorithm detailed in it, and I think I would still have trouble implementing it well.

That or I am just dumb. Very likely.
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Harari seems to be worried that sometime in the future there will be tons of superfluous people that economy will no longer need. Suppose technology brings about abundance never before seen on the planet Earth. Suppose that means the vast majority of everyone goes unemployed. Are we to worry that most of those people will necessarily be poor now because the few powerful up top will hoard all the riches? Is that the most likely scenario?
The Sendy codebase is horrifying. It's not good. Buyer beware.

EDIT
I realized I made a blanket claim and didn't provide any details. So I'll try to explain.

No framework, little shared code between files. Warnings and deprecations ignored, poor variable names, db queries mixed right in with html output, user id's imploded from array and stored into a single database field, etc.

Just lots and lots of rough PHP.
Every day I enjoy being "free" by not getting stolen from, since thievery is restricted by my government. I also enjoy that every driver is restricted by rules on the road, as I can walk "freely" without being crushed. I can do so many things in my life, and most of them would not be possible without the massive number of restrictions that is put on people around me.

I only wish more people could be this free.
I think this was a jab at Angular, not TS.
Actually, yes I do. I care that I was not born inside the invisible lines of an oppressive regime. I'm also sure there are many women who are glad they weren't born in the invisible lines comprising India. There are many other examples.

Considering the amount of rights you posses correlate directly to what invisible lines you're currently in, I think just about everybody cares, actually. Until nation states actually go away, they are very much important.
> Only the owners of a copyright have standing to sue

That's not true, at least in some countries. For example, see this case in France from 2009:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/09/big-gp...

> "We've long said the GNU GPL is enforceable, and of course we're pleased to see another court reaffirm that fact," said FSF France president Loic Dachary in a statement. "It's a commonly held belief that only the copyright holder of a work can enforce the license's terms—but that's not true in France. People who received software under the GNU GPL can also request compliance, since the license grants them rights from the authors."
Does our world have even one country that is not awful but at least passable?

(Preferrably one you can actually live in?)

The shrinking life space makes me contemplate suicide.
Flowering plants have huge amounts of DNA, 1-2 orders of magnitude more than mammals. It's like they haven't evolved subroutines or macros or something comparable.
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The greatness of a run mile is measured by how fast it is run.

The greatness of a movie is not measured by its budget, nor is the greatness of a program measured by its number of lines or memory footprint.

Do you see now why your analogy is not as good?
P.S. Carolynn Levy was in the interview and she is a 44-year-old woman. I'm not sure how she was mistaken for a young boy.
You could, but if you watch some episodes of "border security" you'll see that they catch people doing illegal stuff all the time by searching their phones. Usually it's illegally working (which obviously wouldn't apply in this case). However they also are looking for child porn, which may be been why they wanted to search this guy's phone.
The worst that happens is that you have a bunch of go-nowhere time-wasting interviews with people who can't properly evaluate you anyway.

That time is certainly valuable to me.
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I heard about this "98% of DNA is junk" claim a while ago. http://www.livescience.com/31939-junk-dna-mystery-solved.htm...

Right, because a single cell transforms into a whole animal (horse, giraffe, whatever) and that takes zero information. Really? Somehow I doubt it.

A multicellular organism is a really big, complicated state machine and the "junk" DNA is what's needed in order to go from a single cell to many billions of cells organized in the particular fashion that they are.

To suppose that everything that doesn't directly code for a protein is "junk" is incredibly arrogant; just because you don't currently understand something doesn't mean that it cannot be.

As an engineer I'm guilty of this all the time; something I don't know how to do is impossible but once someone explains to me how to do it, it's trivial. I've had this happen enough times that I can now recognize that my "impossible" isn't necessarily actually impossible, just that it might be impossible to me right now.
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Global startup influencers?
Hi all,

We are working on a project that is a directory of the global Starutp ecosystem- Startupblink. Other than the startups themselves, coworking places and accelerators, we are also trying to map "Startup Influencers" , who are both successful, passionate about startups and most importantly help the global/their local startup communities (with a blog, podcast, organizing events, leading startup associations).

Out of 89 influencers, 50 are in the USA, I would love to have more balance on the map.

I wonder if you can help me out and suggest names of local leaders of startup ecosystem.

The influencer tab is in my vision something that entrepreneurs can use as they search for mentors and people to follow in their local startup community.

I am more interested of people outside of the US, but if I missed someone in the states, I would also love to know.

Thanks!
> GITenberg needs to empower users who want to make their favorite book "nice"

Absolutely. There have been a number of times when I wanted to read a book on PG that ended up with me being really unhappy with the formatting, etc. The value of the book is so much greater when it is readable without special effort.
Does no one here play arcade games?

Okay granted In-App purchases are generally more than 25-50 cents or the 1-2$ it costs these days at your local AMC, but I don't think it's disappointing in the slightest (and pretty predictable if you look at gaming history) that many people prefer to throw a few bucks a week at a casual game vs. spending $60 on something that might sit on the shelf.

Though, I'm more a Clash of Clans guy...
If you're actually contemplating suicide (and just making an insensitive joke), you should talk to someone bro.
You can put "C developer" on your resume, good luck shopping around "Typescript developer" experience.
I like how it looks! Odd name though, maybe..?
True, but if I just search for 'saison', all the results are for the beer style.