skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really interesting article; the videos + audio made it especially fun to read / watch. Impressive that all this came together in about a year and a half!
Thanks, I think Real World Haskell was the resource I was looking for. I'll try to get through it in the next month and see how it goes.
Sounds like a pretty steep price, eternal damnation for $240 :P
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dont be a shy to email an investor or vc they all are helpful :)
That is exactly it! Thank you so much for finding that for me.
Security zombie apocalypse
The Walmart in my town seems to be irregularly staffed. On some days the store looks like a dump, nothing is clean, nothing is fronted and faced, I don't like to be there because it feels like the kind of place where you'd be the victim of a crime. On other days the store is in pretty good condition.

The Target, on the other hand, seems crowded with workers around 9 in the morning. It's a much more consistently pleasant to go there.
> Do you think human nature might consistently include an interest in power, and a not-entirely-unrelated interest in sex?

No, I do not think so. There are vast, vast numbers of people who opt to teach and nurse instead of gunning for leadership, who opt to do salaried engineering instead of management, and I don't see why the latter in each case have a better claim on our "nature" as a species.

What do you mean by "interest in sex"? Human nature seems to also have an "interest in food", that in places like america is exacerbated into an obesity epidemic, but doesn't seem to say anything super meaningful about our relationship to eating. Isaac Newton died a virgin, I guess he wasn't human? Gay men have no interest in reproduction... is their humanity in question?

You should read stuff like UBC's "WEIRD" study, or how women were believed to have bigger sexual appetite than men at various places in time, before going off about observations "across all political systems and historical periods".

You seem to be obliquely pushing some notion that we are more dominant than cooperative, which is pretty ignorant in a thread about Foucault and Chomsky.
Do you care to cite those conflicts? Are 18th century reformers beyond a mote of cynicism? That sentence isn't claiming to describe the entire world view of the reformers, but to specifically note that they would have been aware of the number of examples where the masses were not deterred by the spectacle of executions. (You seem to take offense with specificity in a claim?)

It is possible to declare the system of executions a travesty, while also observing that the lower classes are willing to phsyically intervene in them. Perhaps it is even possible that the reformers were made aware of the injustices by the lack of respect the lower classes demonstrated for them.

Perhaps a reformer with the goal of abolishing executions would pen a treatise that was justified in the moral terms of the ruling class, rather than based on the emotional state of the working class. One would look to address your audience after all. I'm not familiar with the cited reformers you claim are conflicting but it sounds more like aristocracy convincing aristocracy, rather than an aristocrat attempting to sway the masses with pamphlets.

I question whether you read this text in good faith, or are simply searching for bits you can pick out to summarize on a message board and construe as contradictions.
I think those stickers every store has are distributed by the Visa and Mastercard (or some vendor who has a direct association with them). In any case, it seems like a different situation if the source of the material is ultimately the business itself. In the case of this post, it's a third party with no formal association making use of the logo.
so men want sex more than women because of some statistic that you didn't even bother to fully pull out of your ass?
nice
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
A new simplified model predicts patterns that form from honey-like fluids
Thanks for the link. I dabbled with private servers a bit, but that was when BC came out and still retained some Vanilla feel. Might pop back on one now that Vanilla WoW is so long ago.
Now is as good a time as any to link to this interesting essay by PG: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Almost two months ago, an unofficial (completely reverse engineered) Vanilla WoW server called Nostalrius launched. I had a blast reliving the time I spent on the original game as a teenager, but had to wrest myself away after sinking a few too many days into it...

Last I checked, the server was averaging between 4000-6000 players concurrently, so I had quite the opposite experience from what the author was describing: for the first day or two after launch, it was very difficult to find mobs to kill at all, when you're sharing starting zones with literally hundreds of players! It got better over time, as people grinded at different rates, distributing their numbers more evenly, but even when I quit, it was pretty rare to find a zone without a decent number of players.

I recommend anyone with fond memories of Vanilla turned off by newer versions of WoW check it out. Or, maybe I shouldn't, having experienced first hand just how great of a time sink this 10 year old game can still be...

https://en.nostalrius.org/
Enterprise Wearables: Wearing Our Parts on Our Sleeves
This is a very cool tool. I wouldn't trust it with any sensitive info though. The lack of terms, https, and the fact that it's closed source means I have no idea of what could happen to the data I put in there.
I hear ya.

Can you provide points on where everyoneapi excels over Fullcontact or Whitepages (vendor we use, vendor we're evaluating)?
I actually did a brief stint in management and would never do it again... I much prefer being in a developer or architect role. I like to mentor, and don't mind doing some PM type stuff... but never again do I want to be saddled with management or hr type tasks ever again.
Do you have any numbers re "little to no sense in practice"?

What I've heard suggests that the tradeoffs behind high performance ARM lead to significantly worse power efficiency to the benefit of peak performance; which means that a core like the A53 ends being a very attractive proposition for power saving.

Certainly I don't know why ARM would recommend their big.LITTLE architecture (or at least why people would use it) unless it did.

Furthermore, Amdahl's law means that even in theory it should be advantageous for performance to include a few extra low power cores to boost peak performance (above adding a larger high power core).
> > sometimes completely at odds with the way other languages use them: e.g. C++ also has functors, and they're completely unrelated to Haskell functors.

> Really, this should be considered as C++ perverting the existing terminology from category-theory for Functors.

Only if you assume that category theory is the correct source of meaning of such terminology. But Wikipedia, for example, lists functor as being ambiguous - there's the category theory version, and there's the programming version, which is a function object. It lists a bunch of languages (C++, C#, D, Eiffel, Java, JavaScript, Scheme, Lisp, ObjectiveC, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, Python, and Ruby) that support some variant on this theme. It seems rather arrogant to say that the category theory definition is the one that should be the one we mean when discussing a programming language, rather than the one used by a large number of programming languages.
Another reason that tetras are handy (for anyone who has looked at FEA) is that you can easily interpolate across them. Maybe not useful now, but if they ever want to add heat transfer or charge or something...
complex.h seems very incomplete.
HSBC has this: single-letters from your "secret word", in addition to an actual full passphrase.
This would make a lot more sense if she were talking about mediocre female engineers. No one needs any kind of terrible engineer.
How is it pronounced, Doggielang?
Someone could have man in the middled an online purchase and then used your card details that way. Buying online while using wifi or mobile can be hijacked with a fake router or base station.
A few thoughts on React development
> the submitter seemed to think that everybody knew him

I get it. Sometimes, I forget not everybody knows my heroes. Personally speaking, I think Paul Hudak is worthy of broader recognition given his contributions to the functional programming community.

As a web developer, I'm sure you've read or worked with something based on Reactive Programming. Paul Hudak and Conal Elliott and played a critical role in defining the ideas behind reactive programming based on denotational design and a continuous time model. Their first attempt to create a pure, compositional, correct and performant FRP system in a purely functional language has had a lasting impact in how people attempt to approach reactive programming.

Nearly 20 years later, you can see this idea really begin to ripple through the industry.

I think its important for developers to share stories about the giants of our industry, both past and present. Our field has such an incredible history and an even more incredible recent history unfolding right in front of us.

People like to tell the story that we're a field obsessed with fads, but I'm not sure I entirely agree. When you begin to really look into the history of various ideas and their communities, you'll be surprised at how long some ideas have been incubating and how timeless their qualities really are.

I'm constantly amazed at all the great people people who work in our field. If there was one way I'd like to see it grow, I'd love people to take the time to tell the stories of these amazing people and explain their ideas.
All the modern "People Operations" research by Google, Facebook, and others, has concluded that the garment industry a hundred years ago had it exactly right:

http://ursulinemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/jfco_...
"it's hardly likely that physicians can recommend that human patients reduce their brain activity to keep their gliomas from growing,"

I have to admit my imagination flashed to an image of somebody wearing a portable biofeedback rig that buzzed (or perhaps zapped) them every time they used the target portion of their brain, in an attempt to starve the tumor.

It would make a really fascinating experiment to hook someone up to such a device, then see whether the brain considers that enough of an aversive stimulus to move the targeted functionality to another part of the brain, as if that part of the brain was damaged. No way to get that past the ethics committees, I'm sure, but interesting.

There's probably an interesting sci-fi story in the crazy home DIY tinker diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer who just puts together such a rig anyways with no medical approval... if we don't already have the off-the-shelf tech to do that today we're pretty darned close. (But I've never really worked out how to move from "high concept" to "actual plot", despite a few attempts.)
I don't know about that. Haskell can be rather sink-or-swim...

;-)
I've always thought it's just for code documentation, but I see know it could be used more broadly! Thank you!
Direct link to the service: https://www.crystalknows.com/home
How the Japanese solve 4 multiplication problems using a single diagram
Imagine how much it cost to develop Servo. Now imagine rewriting every mobile app from scratch using the lessons learned from Servo. The cost would be astronomical, and for what? Incrementally better battery life?
Thanks, you are my deep revelation for today.
My code definitely needs more NotScaryFluffyThings in it.
What a gift that youtube link is, thank you!
Software cannot execute without hardware. It literally needs the electrons to exist. Executing software is used to achieve practically useful results. It is not abstract in the legal sense of the word. You're thinking, like most people here do, of "abstraction", which is a key aspect of software engineering. But in patent terms "abstract" has a meaning more along the lines of "not a practical application".
Stanford's release on this goes into more scientific detail, and has a nice interview with the senior author in which she discusses the background behind the work.

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/04/brain-tumor-gr...
Leadership, not management. You have to inspire people to work hard, long and sometimes grueling hours to deliver. Which means you must also work those same hours and do what you say too. I have always lived by this rule, I will never ask a team member (employee) to do something I am not willing to do myself. Doesn't mean I would be the best person to do it on the team, but I'll jump in and do my best.

And understand that delivery is all that will matter in the end. Rough edges are expected, perfection is unattainable and shipping is most important. It is ok to demand a lot but pick everyone up along the way, dust them off and push them back into the game and get rid of bad hires quickly (you will have them). This will go a long way towards holding a team together.

You also should be highly competent and technical with ideally a reasonably broad background. People should respect your capabilities, not because you demand it but because you do the job. Remember you are never to good for anything that needs to be done, cause it all has to get done.
I asked a question; I never made any claim that could even be a strawman.

(If we are going to go by exactly what we said and not the implications of the words we used, though hopefully we can agree that would actually be dishonest.)
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. How do we go from a female Prime minister to this shit?
Regulating the Rise of Post-Snowden Spyware
Interesting. Can rust-bindgen support object oriented c?
Dohj-lang
They'll think I'm the smartest person in the room because I say "I wish I was dead."

Wow.
It is only a floor to the extent that employers pay attention and/or care about this link. For every farsighted employer who does this calculation, there are plenty of others who:

* don't track turnover

* are too small for turnover statistics to be valid

* don't bother to do the math

* know the link but are culturally and/or structurally disinclined to change their pay structure

Edit: formatting
This is for people who can't remember who they're talking to?
CA means you're not choosing P, which means your system does not have partition tolerance, and that's exactly what ALL does in Cassandra. If any replica is unavailable, the operation fails, and your application suffers.
Drone Strikes on Al Qaeda Are Said to Take Toll on Leadership
They are consenting adults, no? That they optimize for short term gain ignoring long term costs should be their own responsibility.
Requirements Uncertainty: Fast iteration has many benefits - especially when you (or your client) don't actually know what's required ("agile"); and when what is required changes quickly, because of changes in competitors, customers, technology, regulation etc.

But you're right, as projects get larger, a priori design and static types quickly become essential. And at that point, requirements are usually known and frozen.

I predicted that the natural resolution would be languages with both (i.e. optional static types, especially at important interfaces) - but while this feature exists, it hasn't taken off.

Instead it seems that performance is the main attraction of static types in the mainstream (java, c#, objective-c, c, c++); and ML-family and Haskell are popular where provable correctness is wanted.
Fast iteration has many benefits - especially when you (or your client) don't actually know what's required ("agile"); and when what is required changes quickly, because of changes in competitors, customers, technology, regulation etc.

But you're right, as projects get larger, a priori design and static types quickly become essential.

I predicted that the natural resolution would be languages with both (optional static types, especially at important interfaces) - but while this feature exists, it hasm
t taken off.

such languages
I played wow from beta. I quit in Cata, came back in Panda and have quit again in WoD. In vanilla I saw that there was much money in the game and lo, I did say, arriveth the $$ arriveth the MBAs.

And so it was, much sadly for all when Tigole went off.

But here are the sums.

They've lasted for (on average) 5 years. 30 * $10 * 200 = $60000pcm * 60 = $3,600,000.

That is a NPV of 3.

Can i haz MBA?
You should read "utter defeat" to mean "subject to the decisions of others." Nothing more, really. You can charge anybody with anything. I'm talking about enforcement.
As a guy with little kids, I genuinely enjoy going back through old photos. We have about 60gb of photos and videos over the last ten years. I don't spend my time viewing life through a viewfinder. With modern technology, snapping a photo, or a series of photos, is very low friction. You might also be surprised by how little you actually remember, and how much you enjoy being reminded of life's little events perusing pictures later. And postcards are no replacement for pictures of my wife and kids in Hawaii.

Also, I find your tone spectacularly offensive.
"Desktop"'s a red herring in this context, really.
What's missing is a GDrive daemon that does automatic syncing.
The closest there is is https://github.com/odeke-em/drive , which requires manual push/pull.
Readings in Graph Mining
I'm going to say I've never heard of any of these (except for Bola who I quite like), I did a quick check:

Likes right off the bat: Faun Fables, John Zorn, Floex, Alif Tree, Mr. Projectile

I think I might like right now, but have to listen more: Moon Wiring Club,

I think could grow on me: most of the rest

Thanks for the list!

Here's some more I like (going through my list): Abakus (great coding music), AKOV, Alpha Conspiracy, Amon Tobin, Autechre, Bibio, La Bottine Souriante, BT's more experimental stuff (this Binary Universe is amazing), Crystal Method - Vegas, The Cure right around Disintigration and All Mixed Up, Deli Spice, Emiliana Torrini, Cinnamon Chasers, Empire of the Sun, Friendly Fires, Imogen Heap puts out the occasional amazing song, International Observer, Iris, Johnny Clegg and all his various bands (Gijem' Beke is one of my all-time favorite songs), mid-90s Juno Reactor, the recent M83 post-rock stuff is great, the original Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells, Mree (her covers are great stuff), The Naked and the Famous, Psy-S (an amazing 80s Japanese Band), Sasha, Smashing Pumpkins (Gish, Mellon Collie, Siamese Dream, all the recent Solar Fields music (especially Movements, OMG it's absolutely amazing especially "Discovering"), Steve Reich's later music, Tangerine Dream has some great music, Toro y Moi, Cocteau Twins.
Investors Swing for the Fences with $1B in Sports Tech Deals
WoW handles questing/grouping terribly, imo. GW2 (and maybe GW1? Never played it) does auto groups where if you jump in and help someone kill those 20 bandits, you get credit toward your quest for that. Whereas in WoW, if someone hits the bandit first, and you help, they get all of the credit. So there's zero reason why anyone should help anyone at all. And there's also the issue of loot. I can't count how many times I've been in active WoW zones (I'm thinking Westfall, here)and a group of 5 or 6 people are trying to snipe kills off eachother to get that last bore snout or whatever. In GW2, if you helped kill it, you get the exact same loot as anyone else. And to help prevent lazy assholes who do one shot, then sit back and wait, you get varying levels of loot and exp depending on how much you helped.

And because of all that, there's just zero incentive to quest in WoW with other people. Maybe you'll have a guildie or friend quest with you, but you're just not interacting with strangers at all.

That being said, we have seen Blizz go in that direction in the last two expansion. The daily island was largely dependent on team work (albeit through the archaic manual group forming functionality) and there are a lot of rare mobs in Warlords that share kills/loot with anyone who inflicts damage. So hopefully that'll become the norm going forward.
Isn't the "will arm get fast before Intel gets efficient?" question at least five years old? And don't we have some answers? http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/4/3447984/motorola-razr-i-re...
Really great. Manipulating lists is the hardest thing in the world for common people, while for any programmer it is really easy. This should even the things a little.
>> Someone could have man in the middled an online purchase and then used your card details that way.

Not if they were using my PIN as that's never used online. Had to be a physical purchase to get that. As a workmate was subject to similar fraud at a similar time we figure it was probably a bar or restaurant we'd been to together, where our cards were skimmed and someone either watched or recorded us entering PIN details.
> she didn't start to become a big name until the late 1990s

That would explain it. I was in grad school at that time. Taking time to do the laundry was a luxury, to say nothing about listening to music.
rsync.net uses ECC memory and always has (since 2001).

We do not do backups, however, unless you are paying for geo-redundant storage. If you use single site storage, the idea is that we are the backup.

Since the conversation has drifted this way, let me also point out that we have s3cmd and gsutil in our platform, so if you're paranoid about trusting data to google or amazon (and to some degree, you should be) you can easily import/export to an independent cloud platform (rsync.net).
Voice Calls and the Apple Watch
That is going to make lastpass hard to use for the site.
What is the monetization strategy? I'm curious.
Well, he has 3 restaurants so I think it's safe to assume he isn't struggling to turn a profit.
I really appreciate the effort the .NET Core team has been putting in, along with the ASP.NET team. We are a heavy .NET shop, but I would love to not be tied to a specific OS platform because of our application framework choices (managing a fleet of Linux boxes is much easier with tools like Puppet/Chef, Powershell DSC is getting the Windows world closer but there's not a lot of support behind it yet - at least on my *nix boxes my configuration is just a bunch of text files).
8-issue means you can issue 8 things all together, all at once, all in a single cycle.

The front end feeds the back end.

3-issue FE means you can give the BE 3 things per cycle.

5-issue BE means you can crunch 5 things from the FE per cycle.

FE = branch prediction, decode, instruction cache

BE = schedule, execute, load/store, data cache
http://nancyfx.org is inspired by Sinatra (Nancy being the daughter of Frank)
Personally, I like pyramid as a middle-ground between the two. More to get you started quickly a la Django; less to get in your way as you grow like flask. It tends to hit my needs right on the spot.