skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More about the topic of drinking in Antarctica, this guy wrote the book about it

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Dead-Place-Menacing-Antarctica/dp/...

and years later killed himself after being rejected for another term there:

http://www.alternet.org/media/world-forgets-antarcticas-firs...

More recent experience, written by another past worker:

http://www.thefix.com/content/antarctica-alcohol-problem0043...
Yes, but how many people are well educated? The USSR made many similar devices, for powering lighthouses etc, and most of them are rusting away. A number of people have died after trying to steal the casing for scrap.
You're the top post of this HN thread but you're making sweeping statements of fact about Haskell and other topics you clearly don't have a working understanding of. You should edit your comment so as not to mislead people about the truth. The statement about monads being tied to state is particularly wrong and confusing to the uninitiated.
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Here's a thought experiment: Imagine someone invented "smart" sunglasses that detected billboard ads and filtered them out so the wearer saw only a blank billboard instead of an ad. By driving down the road while wearing them and not seeing the billboards ads, would I therefore be "stealing" from ClearChannel?

My anger comes from the fact that businesses are constantly trying to sell me things by harassing me. I have no problem with paying for things that I actually want, and I gladly pay for content if it will make the ads go away, but it normally doesn't. If you buy a subscription to a news site you still see ads. I pay plenty for content when I buy books, though. If people are not willing to pay for the content on a site like BuzzFeed, it just shows how little that content is worth.

And advertising is really not a growing industry, at least not as a share of GDP. It's basically a zero-sum game. Online advertising spending is only growing to the extent that it is replacing spending on radio, TV and billboard advertising. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-03/advertisings...
How we learned about electronics pre-Arduino days
I completely agree; you can learn an awful lot very quickly by working in a corporate for a few years. You may decide that its the right environment for you; you may not, but the skills you learnt along the way are invaluable.
> It always returns nil (for inputs that it doesn't fail on).

> Doesn't that mean it's pure?

Unfortunately not because it also modifies global state (the state of the console). A pure function implies that it is referentially transparent, meaning that:

a = foo()
b = a + a

Is the exact same as:

b = foo() + foo()

But if foo() modifies global state, then this statement is not true. In this case the difference is printing something twice vs. once. If a function is pure, a compiler can optimize the second example into the first example.

For a function to be pure, it must always return the same value given the same input and not modify any state that is observable outside of its definition.
Compiler optimization are allowed to change how often a pure function is called, and you can freely change it in your code. If it had a printf inside it, you'd need a way to say you don't care about the side effect of printing a specific line one time, and not zero or two times.

Of course there is lots of code that has side effects in implementation but not in their interface. Like malloc, or a read only data structure that has an internal cache it updates.
Ideally, it would bias strongly towards blocking destructive activities, and hinting but not executing inferred commands.

Perhaps with something like "really" (where usage is similar to sudo) that would both override and train the fuzzy guessing. Training times might be a problem, even with a good algorithm, but perhaps if you got enough people to donate bash histories.
You are an elitist. You are snobby. Own it.
> Brendel’s fear is that meditation might make executives too mellow and compassionate

Won't someone please think of the shareholders!
Codename Thumper. I really, really wanted to like it, but it ran like a dog for our workloads, which flew on Netapp.
Sound analyses don't assume revenue and expenses remain constant. They assign a probability to that happening and discount discounted future cash flows accordingly. Sound analyses also look at the liquidity of the asset, market trends and potential market changes, and trends and changes in the underlying industry.

They also scrutinize the books via an accountant and the underlying infrastructure. It's also worth figuring out why the Owner is selling the business in the current market.

But in the end, assuming your relative is a reasonable buyer, then the selling price is reasonable if your relative buys.

Good luck.
The author wanted to "generalize everything" and "wrap everything." And I can't imagine that he will ever use all the functionality that he tried to "cover."

Compare that to pragmatism of not spending time trying to do what's not going to be needed.
Vape Bans and State Laws: Paving the Way For
No, Microsoft isn't taking Android's future out of Google's hands – here's why
The Man Who Made Star Wars (1979)
Everyone manages their own lists, having a single person manage the lists would probably be a micromanagement nightmare for both the manager and the employees.

We all have visibility over all the lists so if we feel anyone has prioritisation wrong we just discuss it and the person will re-prioritise if it's deemed necessary.

Note that we still use other task systems to manage overall priorities, for development we use Jira and that's the single source of truth for development prioritisation. The Trello lists are for short term personal prioritisation and are very malleable, and encompass personal tasks that one would work through.
Some conservatives suspect themselves booted by new Twitter ‘quality filter'
You're talking about different things.

1) Impressions do work, that's what my example was about.
2) Ads are the trade for free access to content. If the ads paid for the road you're driving on, then yes you'd be "stealing" access to the road by ignoring the ads.

The businesses aren't harassing you, they're just spending on ads and those ads show up on publishers who have opted to use the advertising model instead of subscriptions/paid access. There are lots of issues with paid access like not enough demand, price sensitivity, hard to gain new traffic/shares, etc. Advertising is just more reliable and easier to implement and allows for quicker growth.

If sites are using subscriptions and still show you ads (and you're actually logged in as a paying member) then they're trying to extract more money or the price is not covering all of their costs or something in between. That's an issue with the publisher, not the ad companies.

Everything is zero-sum when measured to GDP because there's only 100% of the GDP to go around. GDP is a VERY big number and it's growing, and thus the absolute dollar amount of advertising is also growing and outpacing supply of inventory. That being said, advertising won't become a larger part of GDP because there are only so many buyers that also have to grow as businesses first to increase their total budgets. It makes sense that it tracks in line with the economy and it's not really feasible to make big changes because businesses are not going to stop spending on something like manufacturing their product to instead divert it to advertising.
That too. Nice try, but ehh no.
Thanks. Url changed to that from http://www.futurism.co/links/view/ibm-creates-a-research-gro....
IMO, Brunner has written four outstanding classics: "Stand on Zanzibar", " The Shockwave Rider", "The Sheep Look Up" and "The Jagged Orbit", and one that was not quite in that league, but was great niche sf, " The Squares of the City". the rest is all what I term "minor sf" for want of a better term - I hesitate to call them potboilers, because some of them are very well written and entertaining, but they are the sort of book that sinks into the general background sea of science fiction, or are interesting experiments that did not quite click ("The traveller in Black", e.g.).
Please elaborate. Having some difficulty understanding what your second sentence even means: Are you talking about derivatives markets? or about impacts that derive from...? And why do you think this is so?
I also ran into this problem a couple of times..

It's not the only issue. I put it down to how new the language is and how many non-critical issues they can fix.

Swift 1.2 has been a massive improvement with incremental compiling and the SourceKit HUD not flickering in my face every few minutes. But still Xcode crashes frequently.

With all the known problems considered, I still find that the advantage of using Swift far outweighs the small number of issues with it in its current version.
The argument does not state that Bertie really sees a green object in the sense that light with green wave lengths enters the eye and triggers biochemical reactions.

The argument talks about the experience of "greenness" as the after-image of a red object:

Suppose Bertie is experiencing a green after-image
as a result of seeing a red flash bulb go off;
the greenness of the after-image is the quale.

Indeed, there is no green object outside or inside of Bertie. The light bulb was red, the memories or patterns in the brain are not green.

Sensory qualities pose a serious problem for materialist
theories of the mind. For where, ontologically speaking,
are they located?

The argument is about materialist theories of the mind.
After the argument, which seems to me a valid argument against oldschool hardcore materialism (a material location for the greenness is needed), the following paragraph mentions a more modern development, namely the modern representational theory of sensory qualities, sometimes as an attempt to resolve the foregoing dilemma compatibly with materialism.
Service Level Driven Architecture
This strikes a chord with a pet peeve of mine.

For nearly 20 years I've said that organised religion is just another way of asserting power over people. Quoting from you:

> [...] two sides simply cannot coexist in peace.

That is divide and conquer played out to near perfection. The two sides are supposedly the same, but due to their own religious dogmas, they hold an existential grudge against one another. Those who wish to maintain and exploit the situation can pick any number of small clashes and turn them into straightorward propaganda.

And while the strategy is from the Roman emperors, the tactics are (as stated in the article) definitely from Stasi: surveillance, suspicion, paranoia, disappearing people and assassinated leader candidates. Even potential ones.

I wouldn't be surprised if the IS forces allowed a small number of individuals to escape from each of their massacres. What better propaganda than the rumours spread by few lucky survivors?

As to their units' training and composure... Again: isolation and suspicion, coupled with unwavering loyalty. There's a dirty word for that, and it starts with B.

Which, incidentally, would complete the circuit and bring us back to religion.
Show HN: The Masters in Translation
I'll stop blocking ads when you stop serving bloatware and malware; deal?
I like niven's known space series for that - not post-scarcity, but there is the feeling that life is a playground filled with fun toys and adventures.
that was my first thought too.
I think the goal is not to find a mentor. As soon as you feel you're dependent on another person for knowledge you've already lost a certain edge.

Instead simply be curious, ask questions (to yourself) and find the answers to them (by yourself). And most of all "do stuff". Apply the knowledge you're accumulating. This is the only way you're going to grow as a developer and start to separate the good advice from the bad advice, and start formulating an opinion of your own.

Perhaps what is meant by "find a mentor" is: become involved in a project with people who you respect and want to learn from. Then spend the time soaking in all the knowledge they have to offer. It's not that they've consciously decided to take on a role to "mentor" you. Instead indirectly (whether they know it or not) they're mentoring you with every ounce of advice they offer.
That's an excellent point, and yet another reason why agencies are the spawn of the devil. Yes, they need to protect their own interests, and yes, they can't be populated by specialists who can both understand the job specifications and evaluate potential applicants, but even so, they are, in general, astonishingly poor at what they do.

Question is, is there enough value in disrupting that particular market?
From the appear.in website:

What People Say:
"It's so easy it almost hurts" - Kate Russell, BBC Click
MakerBot has just not been very innovative. I see their contribution more like that of a cheerleader of 3d printing (who layer got involved with too much sugar-dadiness).
But you could expect from your high school education that it teaches you scientific facts established over 100 years ago.

At least that's how I interpret Vinhboy's comment.
I found it quite fluffy and sensationalist. Basic geopolitics and the recent history of Iraq meets basic unconventional warfare. Outstanding journalism for me would be more like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleea...
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/04/gaza200804
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/state-of-decept...

Edit: Since I'm traveling I don't have my bookmarks available, but there are much better articles on the subject. This article takes a single event and extrapolates from it instead of, as you should, placing the event in a bigger context. It's dangerous because it makes the reader believe things that are just concluded by the reporter and not necessarily supported by facts.
New “.trademark” gTLD is Here
Rational actors do not need to resolve border disputes quickly.

For example, there has been a border dispute between Germany and the Netherlands for centuries about what part of the Ems-Dollart waterways belongs to whom. Even when, after World War Two, there was significant discussion about the border, resulting in small shifts of the border (http://archive.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/limitsinseas/i...), this didn't get resolved.

Result is that, in 2011, Google maps didn't really know where to put the border (http://www.thelocal.de/20110221/33241)

This conflict was finally 'resolved' in 2014 by deciding that the border will remain ambiguous (http://www.dw.de/germany-and-the-netherlands-end-centuries-o...)
What does that say about the idea of doing open hardware in general? You do all the work, some other manufacturer in China greatly undercuts you. How is that a good idea?
I wonder what the prospects for RN for Android are looking like.
Roommates Stab Each Other Over Debate Between iPhone and Android
In the early days of the web I remember seeing an ASCII art pheonix made of (if I remember correctly) AGCT dna-like sequences. It rendered really slowly in netscape. I'd love to know how today's browsers handle it but alas it is lost in time...
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it is clearly a language related problem where the author shows that the language design is not consistent.

You can always work around these issues after all the language is turing complete.

However, this is not about if there is a program that functionally equivalent, this is about writing code that is minimal and can be read well and can be supported easily over a longer period of time.
Demystifying Docker – PyCon 2015 [video]
Anemia TRATAMENTE NATURISTE
Sorry - the U.S. Does not?!
Laptop fixed
I just talked to my Principle and he said he can arrange for a portion of the costs or getting it fixed to be payed off by the school. Thank you.
> The two sides are supposedly the same, but due to their own religious dogmas, they hold an existential grudge against one another.

Reminded me of this Emo Philips bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D88DQIJmxRI
Kansas Police shutdown cannabis oil activist’s Facebook
I had an office next to this guy. His Tourette's syndrome did not seem mild to me; it drove me nuts trying to concentrate with the bizarre noises he was making all day. When I heard about this, I figured someone murdered him because of that.
Fuck you you libertarian bastard.
We need something abstract that will support any beverage.

https://xkcd.com/974/
Deepak Chopra. First sentence. Next!
Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.D. Drugs
Cockney rhyming slang
Not Google, but Snapchat runs on AppEngine.
He's taking the piss, it's an Australian thing.[1]

[1] I know he's actually from New Zealand, but since he might end up being famous, I'm going to start the process of pretending he's Australian.
I believe there is a smarter way to reform education with technology. The iPads are not supposed to replace the teacher, but to maximize goals given the real economic reality - information delivery is the commodity while personal attention is scarce.

This is my humble proposal: http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=158

I intend to realize it in practice and will be happy to work with people who feel the same. If you feel there's truth in what I wrote, contact me by going to http://qbix.com/about - I am Greg there.
The Look of Love Is in the Dog’s Eyes
What I don't get is, why did they dismiss the plans out of hand 200 years ago when the guy that wrote them was literally famous for producing a revolutionary clock? I mean, with that kind of track record, you'd have thought someone would give it a go.
A better way to reform education with technology
If the goal is "is minimal " and "can be supported easily over a longer period of time" he should stick to the API and not try to wrap everything. He can make his own functions which are more minimal for his use cases. I argue that he will never in his code use most of the things he tries to cover. If he just writes just what he really needs in his real use cases he'll have much less problems for supporting it.

The worst code to support is "I don't use that but I might need it once."
The Year of Mobile Payments
To be fair, that reads like "did you know twitter has journalists there too" -- it's not really a apples to apples comparison
People on Probiotics Focus Less on Bad Feelings, Study Finds
Some more information on this site:

http://www.frodsham.com/burgess-regulator/
200 years ago, how would you validate his claim? You would have to have a more accurate time reference, and I'm not sure exactly what that would be.
Ah, but Haskell is lazy so loop will never be evaluated and a

loop >> constantly_unit

will return unit no matter what.
Transfering the data or even the whole harddisk is possible. However if the scool has registered the serial numbers of the laptops, for example for warranty tracking, you're out of luck.
Yes they do have snap manager but backups mostly keep failing.
With exchange 2010 you have database, mailbox, and item level redundancy and protection so I don't actually see the value.
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ZFS is production ready. Use FreeBSD!
I did not understand from the article what "overstated" means.

Was it a partial match that they described as 100% accurate? did they hide the statistical probabilities? was the evidence faked?
How Hard Will Google Mobile Update Hit My Site? It's Best Not to Find Out
I don't mind tracking for about 99.9% of what I do (and the rest I use incognito) but that doesn't give better ads - I unblock Facebook just to laugh at how incredibly badly targeted their ads are. They know more about me than I do, yet they can understand that I am not interested in dating sites, cheap scams or various "brands" not to mention free-to-pay games.
At one point I even saw ads for the exact degree I hold from the exact university I already told Facebook I graduated from - is that a well targeted ad?

Sturgeons law applies to products too, but because the market is now international only the best products are worth buying so most ads are either for crap, trying to get you to buy products that aren't the best bargain or brand awareness ads which can't be made to be worth seeing.

If you want better targeting why is there no place where I can select the kind of things I am interested in? Why can't I take an ad and say I have no interest in that kind of product (In online dating the only thing that matters is traffic, so I would never go to a pay site)? It is valuable information to you, allows better targeting and a better chance I will buy the product.

Why is it that when I search for "apartment in <city>" I get 3 months of ads for the same apartment listing site, rather than for sites that will mail me curtains, which would be something I wanted?

Make ads worth watching and I will, but this is a 3-way road now - you are going to have to make the ads worth it for both the publisher, the client and the user because as a user I now have options if you don't.
Buzzfeed is experimenting with better journalism. I agree that I usually pass Buzzfeed because of their reputation, but there have been a couple of good articles recently.
Some thoughts:

- If you replace it with other laptop, people can find out. Serial numbers can be compared either manually, or by wherever software is pre-installed by school.

- Likely you cannot get the exact same laptop as was given to you. Even models with the same name can come with different configurations causing issues in the future.

- If you can buy a replacement laptop, (since you have somewhere to transfer the data to) why don't you just say this to school and remove parents from this exchange?

- Being secretive about it will likely cause more issues than just saying what happened.

- Schools may have insurance or deals covering all such cases, so it may not cost them anything. Consider how many laptops they have and how many may get accidentally broken every year.
Okay, thank you anyway.
The cost is expected to go down from $56M to just 5-$7M http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-04-15/how-huch-doe...
Harrison measured the accuracy of his clocks by observing eclipses of stars by chimneys. We know that for a given star such eclipses happen every 86164.09056 seconds.

For those who might be wondering why it's not every 24 hours, or 86400 seconds, look up "Sidereal Day"[0][1][2].

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sidereal+day

[1] http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_day

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time
As long as you're at a fixed location, how about a sundial?
That part is easy: you just compare it to local solar noon. Earth's rotation is considerably more accurate than this clock's target.

For more info about the number of seconds in a solar day, see this awesome Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
In my experience, the quality variance with teachers is much higher than with iPads. iPads have never had the attitude problems that some teachers have had (except some Siri edge cases perhaps).
disregard the law...this goes well beyond a disregard of the law. This stinks of a corrupt government fixing the justice system. Disregard the law...is a gross understatement. Why do we tolerate a corrupt government like this. I want them to catch bad guys but not frame everyone so they catch bad guys.

This is a CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT. There can be no denying it. We are a banana republic.
The most obvious way would probably be to build two of them and see how accurate they were against each-other.

Alternately, you could use astronomical angle measurements. You can get quite accurate measure if you don’t move around.

(The reason determining time was difficult on ships is that you need to know precisely where the ship is to figure out the time from the stars, or precisely what time it is to figure out position.)
Welcome from your slumber.
The article neither about him, nor is mindfullness a quack method unverified by science.

And even if it was, a report on how this method is embraced by Wall Street can still be worthy of your time.