skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and she asked her own! It would be nice to parody this article, which starts as an interview with a sex researcher, who starts asking questions back, and by the end she's picking him up. :) The last line could be their dating plans. I should write that...
That reminds me of the rock-paper-scissors robot from a while ago that always "wins" by watching the human hand to see what sign they are throwing, then throwing the countersign faster. It is so fast that unless you are watching it on high-speed film, you can't tell that it is cheating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nxjjztQKtY
AFAIK the contract simply expired (I think it was 5-year old) and Twitter refused to renew it.
In my view, Vim is no longer just a program that people use, but a way to do things. In this view, I am hopeful for the NeoVim project to bring Vim-the-way to other editors, including your favorite IDE.

One of my pains was that Vim-the-program was not ready to go, and that configuring or adding plugins to Vim was a real nuisance, and I think due to terminal limitations, Vim-the-program could never have some of the features other programs had.
The big change since the original days of the dotcom boom is that most people no longer find websites for the first time by typing "http://www.$FOO.com" in the address bar of their browser. It is an increasingly marginal means by which valuable new traffic is driven to domains. It goes beyond just web search; a large percentage of people "find" sites by clicking on links they see in their social media or their browsers automagically remembering the actual domain for them based on a few letters of the associated brand name. The app-ification of the Internet is also devaluing domain names as a branding vehicle.

This is analogous to why no one remembers phone numbers (or email addresses) anymore. Our phones and computers abstract that away for us so that we only need to know who we want to call. This has a lot of economy in every day usage.
So, if sterilizers are common, why don't we see them?

A Matrioshka Brain has a perfectly recognizable emission spectrum, we'd have recognized a few already if they were common. If they use plain style Von Neumann probes, why aren't they here, and why don't we see their reproduction remains?
I think you're right, but you're talking about a different case than 'dopeboy is. With no offense to him, it's a school setting, which means making kids code on your own terms and schedule, whether they like it or not. It's a different case than intrinsically motivated kid, who will have more than enough persistence to master even C.
But one of them has 15 years more time to get experience in a number of fields (or in depth in one or two fields). I think 15 years is enough to still make a difference in this regard.
I use "So..." on client calls an awful lot, usually to mean something like "I think we've talked enough about this now and I'm starting to find it boring", often followed by "just to recap..." and a précis of what we've decided, and finally an introduction to the next topic.

I haven't noticed anyone being irritated by it yet!
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Surely the implementation effort can't be the reason. For an editor so focused on efficiency..
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There's serious and then there's serious.

Fiji exports water to the US. I've heard of a bagel company in London which imports its water from New York City. People buy ice that comes from Alaskan glaciers. (Minor note: If you use under 20 tons/year of tidewater glacier ice then you don't need a permit.) So people are willing to pay a lot of money for provenance.

Fiji Water is a good comparison. According to its Wikipedia page, it was exporting over 15 million liters/month. According to others, it was a least 3.5 million liters per month. According to http://www.alternet.org/story/101207/the_true_price_of_fiji_... it was 130 million liters in a year. I'll say it was 5 million L/month or 60 million L/year.

According to the Wikipedia page for "Water export", the Great Lakes -> Asia deal was for 600 million liters, or about 10x of what a single well in Fiji can provide.

Oil shipping costs something like $1.20/barrel from Qatar to Rotterdam, says https://books.google.com/books?id=cUHAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA232&lpg=... . A barrel is 120 liters, or 1 cent per liter shipping costs.

That's about $12 thousand per acre-foot. The price of desal water is under $3,000 an acre-foot.

If the goal was to market provenance - the Fiji Water of Asia - then it might be profitable. It otherwise doesn't seem like a serious proposal.

If there were a were serious need, then I would expect to see water exports from Alaska, which allows bulk water exports (again, according to the "Water export" page at Wikipedia) and is a lot closer to Asia.

Since there isn't, I have difficulties understanding how there's a serious proposal.
Ah, US pronunciation.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sew
The problem with this whole argument is that the person purchasing the domain isn't the consumer.

The end user is the consumer, and the .COM TLD isn't failing them in any perceptible way whatsoever. The higher prices actually serve their needs, because they lend greater credibility to the .COMs. The consumer can trust them more, the consumer can expect greater investment in the product they serve, and the consumer can easily recognize and remember the domain name.
That makes somewhat sense, though it does feel like coding takes up 95% of vim usage demonstrated in blog posts.
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I will get downvoted for this, but have to do it anyway:

NPM either disproves your thesis or has an exceptionally high amount of masters in its community for a language at that level of abstraction.
Greece is almost broke. They don't have the money to pay all their welfare... Tax income is shrinking...
> I am a fan of simplified syntax as a way to facilitate learning basic computing concepts. Maybe we could use '(' to start a block and ')' to end the block and skip the dragging and dropping?

Congratulations, you've just created Lisp :). Really, one can't get any simpler than that, syntax-wise. I don't understand the assumption that kids will be too scared to type and have to do everything with a mouse.
Yup, I mainly just want to learn/experience things that I wouldn't be able to in a classroom. Thanks for your suggestions! Travel will definitely happen, and I'll definitely document everything I do.
Sort of. It's also a didactic method to talk about it and it often is quickly followed with people talking about stack pointers or environment frames. You can blur the lines if you like, but I find it tends to pay to be precise here.
There certainly isn't a serious existing proposal, there is a series of agreements making sure it isn't done.

I was just saying that someone had thought about doing it, enough so that they went ahead and got a permit.

I wonder what the prices for shipping and desal were in 1997...
I think it is hard to say how this will play out.
Maybe the author is right and people will care less about their domain name, or it could be become one of several presence items that companies use to reach customers.

For instance, the US toll-free numbers continue to increase (now 6 exchanges) despite the decline of metered toll service and payphones.
In a way yes I do think countries get what they deserve if they repeatedly vote for politicians which promise the impossible and enact self-destructive policies. For example not collecting taxes and borrowing 10% of GDP every year to over-pay under-worked state employees and fund grandiose vanity projects like the Olympics. It's all great until arithmetic catches up with you.

I'm from one of the other PIIGS, lost my job and had to emigrate. I lived through bank and property implosion and unemployment increasing more than 3-fold. I saw friends lose effectively ruined.

However, the other PIIGS have all faced the unfortunate reality of their position, recognized their OWN mistakes and tried to correct things by cutting back on public and private wages and government spending. After a few years of pain, they are all seeing improvement - particularly falling unemployment.

Only Greece seems to think the party can keep and what's even more irritating is that they are angry and bitter towards the very people - the voters other EU countries - who have made huge sacrifices to provide them with almost a quarter of a trillion euro to ease them over the required adjustments. Put yourselves in the shoes of a politician in a poorer (than Greece) EU country sending money to Greece instead of spending it on hospital, schools, etc. in their own country.

It's time for a reality check, my sick-in-the-stomach friend. It's time for Greeks to consider the plausible possibility that they bear some of the responsibility for its own unfortunate state. But I guess it's easier to blame German trade imbalances, international capitalism, the IMF, the EU, the US, bankers, anyone besides Greeks themselves for the problems of Greece.
For people new to NetHack:

You can play NetHack just by running

telnet nethack.alt.org

And you can save games and resume them from another computer, as well as watch other people play!
I like this argument. We only had the ability to communicate at range slowly in the visible light spectrum until a few hundred years ago. Would we consider that a worthwhile contact today? An alien race might not consider it worth communicating with someone who can't control gravitational waves.

In theory an alien race would probably have gone through similar stages, though. If they really wanted to communicate with other races at any stage, they would hopefully understand that your best bet is to use repeating bursts in a multitude of frequencies, likely using fundamental constants as a starting point -- Carl-Sagan style.
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Right. I was neither being "frank" nor intentionally laughing at her plan. She was smiling, and I thought she was kidding. I was smiling, and she apparently thought I was approving. Suddenly, we both realized we were wrong. Oops.

At that point, the damage was done. I tried to explain why her approach of changing N things simultaneously wasn't more efficient than changing N things sequentially because of the combinatorial explosion of interactions, but she wasn't technical enough to understand what I meant by that, which made her angrier, and when I suggested an approach that would give us a temporary "Plan B" just in case we "ended up a couple of weeks late", she declared me "unsupportive" and ended the meeting.
As others have exemplified: it gets really hard to talk about this stuff outside of formal models. Especially if your goal is to talk about equivalency.

At this point I start trying to turn toward System F, but that's my hammer for this particular nail and I don't know an equivalent one in the object side of things. I'm certain you can express higher-level things in System F which are equivalent to interfaces. I know there's a translation of typeclasses to System F—it's called Haskell, har har—although you have to recognize that the "search" component of typeclasses will be lost.
I think the biggest mistake people make is not "building their brand." Create a presence online, create one in meatspace and get known as someone worth knowing.

For reference, I took some time off and wrote a book on a technical subject, created two big meetups and got hooked in with the local startup community. Now I go to local events and people are starting to actively seek me out.
Given the cost of TLB shootdowns, the API's should really be asynchronous. You don't always need all cores to see the same view of the page tables at the same time: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/vee05/full_papers/p46-c....
- Go on a long term international trip to find out how things work in the rest of the world. Particularly Europe, Asia.

- Blog several times a week about your new experiences.

- Volunteer for stuff to meet people, concerts, events, conferences, sporting events.

- Start a side project so that you will be ready to kick butt when you do start CS.
But in a DI framework, every object has its own name for its dependencies. With ServiceLocator, every object needs to use the ServiceLocator's names, so they are not encapsulated.
Look, I agree with your suggestions. But each of the things you suggest (improve yourself, become full stack, maintain mental elasticity) falls in the category "try harder". That only works with things you can control.

There are also things you cannot control - changes to your brain as you get older, the kinds of jobs that are available, what other computer programmers specialize in. These are your odds.

Your success is a function of your efforts and your odds. Success = f(try harder, your odds). Since you are human, you can choose your path, and it doesn't make sense to choose a path where the odds decline so dramatically as you get to 46 ... 58 ... 63 ...
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Okay but seriously then, why can we not doubt the fact that we are doubting?
I am guessing that Facebook and Google can strong arm advertisers due to their strong position in the market. Maybe very large accounts have something to say when they negotiate one on one.
I don't think either the UK or US version of sew sound like sue. Audio clips and IPA available at these links:

sew:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/sew

UK /səʊ/
US /soʊ/

so:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/so

UK /səʊ/
US /soʊ/

sue:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/sue

/suː/

"So" and "sew" are homophones in both UK and US English.
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> Your choice of editor isn't a religion

I'd argue with that.
In what way is .com expensive compared to the new tlds? It isn't verisign, it's the squatters who are demanding outrageous prices... Unless the new TLDs have specific content requirements, (like .sucks has... though their pricing is the topic for a separate thread)

The squatters have already moved on to the new tlds. I recently looked up my first name, and while every tld I could find is registered, there isn't content up on any of them, it's all "this domain is for sale". I contacted one to see what price they're asking... negotiated them down to $3000. They're playing the long game.

And this is the 'innovation'?
One of the most interesting things I've ever read was about this guy who was homeless and living in the forest for a really long time. [1] He talked about how for certain periods of time, he completely forgot that he existed. Without having anybody to perform his identity to, he had no consistent self or identity.

> "I did examine myself," he said. "Solitude did increase my perception. But here's the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn't even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free."

For me personally, this makes me think that the phenomenology of selfhood is very much dependent on perception and others. To be is to be perceived. In the absence of perception, the "I" dissolves.

Perhaps "I think, therefore I am" sorta still makes sense as long as you're aware of the fact that you're thinking. But as the Hermit describes– when you're alone for a long enough period, and you're not thinking about other people, or what other people will think of you when you return, or what letters you want to write for other people, "I" stops showing up. And therefore "I" does not exist. The entity that is the person is still hanging out in the forest, but he/it has no need for a name or any consistent identity.

_____

[1] http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/the-last-t...
Germans use "Also, ..." (which confusingly means the same as "so" in English whereas English "also" is "auch" in German and German "so" most of the time means "like this" -- false friends all around).

My impression to this point had been that it wasn't specific to geeks but rather to speakers who are a bit uncomfortable. For example, I recall hearing a lot of students use it all the time while nervously giving presentations, desperately trying not to de-rail their trains of thought.

As geeks tend to be more socially awkward, I'm fairly certain it actually has less to do with geekiness and more with lack of confidence -- I've seen decidedly non-geeks do it when they're nervous.

As for the "So, ..." with a pause for dramatic effect:

I find that the implications tend to depend on context. I can confirm the use with the meaning of "I will try to explain concepts unfamiliar to you using analogues hopefully more familiar to you and this is going to take me some mental effort" but I disagree that this is specific to geeks, unless you define "geek" as "someone more familiar with a given topic than you".

I can also confirm its use followed by a summary of what the other person said ("So, ... you're saying this is a bad idea?").

I don't think the use to re-boot a conversation after an awkward pause or to change the topic is as common in German, though other fillers like "Okay, ..." tend to be used the same way.

The functions definitely aren't unique to English and there is a lot of overlap in the words being used. The author comes off as a bit too much of an armchair linguist for my taste.
Considering how we build HTML from templates anyway, this form might be more useful, especially in something like React components. I.e. you build the full class string in code rather than defining separate CSS classes for each component. Your components are obviously named semantically and all relevant CSS styles / transitions / animations are defined inside the component code.
perhaps Scratch could also show the (python?) equivalent.
That seems like a fairly trivial feature.
Export scratch to your favorite language.
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As I mentioned unless you have some compelling reason to be bought (people or patents) you don't stand a chance.
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That's also really a U.S. thing. In other countries, national TLDs are king. Ex: Germany w/ .DE or UK with .co.uk.
Your comparison is a bit apples-and-oranges. I'm talking about a situation in which a corporation can decide to either a) do something, make more profit, but harm other people in the process; or b) not do that something, make less profit, and leave others unharmed.

In such a situation, the choice should be made without metrics and comparisons--it's a matter of right vs. wrong. That is what is missing from the decision-making process: morality.
> All of the schemes that purport to do so involve a systemic risk that the master key is lost

Look up 'secret sharing schemes' and 'threshold cryptosystems'. The idea that any scheme allowing law enforcement to decrypt a cell phone must inevitably involve a single master key is a strawman argument.

> and they inherently prohibit forward secrecy.

This is a non-issue for encrypted disks, which is what law enforcement has an issue with.
What are the chances that these appear in a future Unicode?
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Hey guys, we're working on a weekend hack called Briks (brikapp.co). The goal is to help you to group social content from the individuals that you follow, no matter where they post the content. For example, if you are interested in Kanye West, instead of going to various different websites to follow his activity, Briks groups all of it for you so you can see new posts, images, and videos as soon as they're posted. What do you think?
Large companies don't hate you, they are simply (like "nature" or the universe) indifferent towards your well-being or continued existence... which is perfectly understandable, really. And, yes, this fact should really give pause to people who are thinking about basing an entire company around an API, portal or other service that is 100% controlled by a large company. Any such dependency should be seen as the huge risk factor that it is.

And while innocent bystanders do get whacked from time-to-time, I find that more often than not when big companies change their TOS in ways that impact other companies, there's actually a pretty decent reason behind the changes.

Facebook feeds got extremely spammy around the Zynga days, they are much better now (tolerable, at least, though still far from perfect). Not sure what your google story is, but I've heard lots of startup folks complain about changes google has made to their algorithms or TOS policies that hurt them only to visit their sites or look at their apps and see that they were actually pretty spammy and really deserved the deranking.
The way I like to put it is that instances and closures are duals: a closure can do exactly one thing, while an instance can, in general, do several things. That's why, when invoking an instance, you have to supply a method name that says which of the several things you want it to do, while when invoking a closure no method name is necessary.

Of course it's not a hard-and-fast distinction: you can have a closure that dispatches on one of its parameters to do one of several different things, and you can have an instance with only one method. But it's usually valid.
Has anyone found that the registrars for the new TLDs seem very shady? I was trying to register a domain with a new TLD and I could not find a single registrar for this particular TLD that I trusted with my credit card. Some of them had barely working websites with broken links and bad info.
I kept radius of blackhole very small ( ~3px) because many demos do so[1][2]. If you look into the code you will see it's a faux effect. It's canvas so you can imagine performance when comparing with WebGL :) It just replaces positions of pixels according to an effective radius and some simple mirror algorithm. Also to smooth effect I used smoothstep function.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCoxYlpJq9s&t=1m13s
[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/BlackHole...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothstep
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This is fucking nuts!

All of the game code is Nethack's original C: https://github.com/coolwanglu/BrowserHack/tree/master/src

Porting is mainly accomplished by defining a windowing system for 'web' (mostly in C), right next to the definitions for 'X11', 'Qt', etc: https://github.com/coolwanglu/BrowserHack/tree/master/win

And compiling through LLVM via Emscripten, resulting in a browser-runnable JS target: https://github.com/coolwanglu/BrowserHack/tree/gh-pages.

Absolutely incredible work all around.

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That said, fuck tilesets. ASCII graphics master race.
One very simple anti-great-filter theory is that we're simply the first. Someone has to be by definition, it's a small chance but it definitely is a possibility.
I didn't mean to insinuate the two things were related in that way.I was just making a comment loosely related to the topic of the thread.
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Oh sure, no problem at all, of course it is legitimate and interesting!

(the polemic part of my answer was related with the other message "The answer is awfully: ..." )