skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That book makes sense, to a degree. Language does not tell us how to think, but it can constrain what we say. I find that our words reflect what we think, particularly when it comes to our prejudices.

Common indicators are language that is inclusive or exclusive (we/us/I Cs them/they), notions of gender (eg. Feminism indicates a prejudice toward one gender).
I have found that when someone has a biased mindset (particularly an exclusive one) and you point out their mindset through their use of language, most moderate people start to think differently and as such, their language changes.

However, I find that emotive people and political correctness break this pattern. This parallels the "faith" gambit - logic never enters the equation.
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By default I set 10000 rows as it was good amount for compare at PC's, but mobile users complained to crashing pages so I was forced to decrease to 5000 rows.

You may test it at playground. By default there are 1000 rows, you could even increase it by hitting "Append" button, then click destroy method "Insert all rows to the table" button. After that you will be able to init plugin again. It'll allow you to compare the difference.

http://nexts.github.io/Clusterize.js/#playground
I might be wrong but aren't you missing the giant radio telescope they used to send the commands?

Still awesome. I love how NASA helped with advisors and gave their okay.
Glad that things are going ok now, but this kinda popped out at me:

> Yeah, pancreatic cancer patient here. Mine presented as acid reflux, which my GP treated with Prilosec.

The fact that you walked in with pancreatic cancer and got told you have heartburn doesn't exactly argue for regular checkups.
>> There are no tenses in Mandarin for example

Yes and No. You can explicitly state the time if that is what you need.

>> Most Chinese have different levels of analphabetism because it has so many words

I am sure not every people can remember all the words from the dictionary, which in the age of internet, is constantly evolving every day.
In fact, this is one advantage of Chinese, you don't need to remember words one by one. Instead, you learn characters, the basic building blocks of word, many of which have its own semantic meanings.Then you can infer the meaning of a 'word'---a combination of characters on the fly. The core character set is about 3,000, and with that you could read newspaper without too much hassle.

>>"I've always wondered how the Chinese language writes loan words"

Depends. Some words are imported as it is, e.g. 'NBA'/'DNA'/'MapReduce'. Some are being translated, like

'Frontend' -> Front(前)+end(端) -> 前端

'Memory' -> Internal(内) storage(存) -> 内存

'Compiler' -> Put-together(编) translation(译) machine(器) -> 编译器

I would say the direct-import kind of loan words is more popular right now, ever since the era of internet, because there is simply no abundant time to come up with a good translation, and more people are familiar and comfortable with English nowadays.
We could argue about what comprehensive means, but if you see my post below, the test I recommended has blood work for internal organs health check, chest xray, abdomen ultrasound and (pap smear/mamogram etc depending on gender/age). This requires one single blood draw, and no significant levels of radiation.

Most tests do have some degree of false positives, but there a number of defensive diagnostic tests which are nearly error free and clinically significant

To name some:
* BUN + Serum creatinine - Kidney health
* LFT - Liver health
* Sugar levels - Early detection of diabetes

I am not recommending a MRI, but everyone should get an annual health check, for some values of comprehensive.
New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters
What Metrics really matter at each stage
IIRC, the VisualWorks VM had such a bug that would mysteriously crash an automated airport people-mover after some interval, like 45 or 90 days. (Software crash, not train-hardware crash! Train would simply stop.) Also, as I recall, the train software project did not use automated tests at all! (By that time, VisualWorks VM was implementing them.)

(Learn from history. Don't cling so hard to the notion that your language will make you into super-programmers. Certainly, some tools are better in certain contexts than others. However, group culture and the quality of working relationships often have an effect even greater than choice of language. Besides, people often dislike someone who projects an air of superiority.)
>Snowden has never seen a successful decrypted RSA-1024 intercept. But he also believes that the good stuff is kept under wraps...

Here's a piece I wrote for CNET about RSA-1024: http://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-outmoded-web-crypto-opens...

Quoting Eran Tromer, a Tel Aviv University CS prof who wrote his dissertation on custom code-breaking hardware: "Realistically, right now, breaking 1,024-bit RSA should be considered well within reach by leading nations, and marginally safe against other players."

And that was two years ago.
Eh. To say that something that used to be mechanical should be possible with a mere few million lines of code seems pretty obvious to me.

Or compare to the Apollo missions and the space shuttle being well under a million.

I'm not saying that it would be easy to redo the entire system from scratch now, I'm just saying that if it was a design goal from the start it wouldn't have been very onerous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9477667
Yes, exactly. Paths are defined as continuous maps from the closed real interval [0,1] to a space.
What’s up with FizzBuzz post commenters?
I wish there was a way to see what it does and what everything looks like without signing up/adding a username and everything.
> If someone simply writes crap, telling them that they wrote crap isn't helpful ... because they're clearly incompetent and are only capable of writing crap.

I think you can't reach such a conclusion without knowing the circumstances. What if he's a fresh college grad or a junior developer? I think you're coming from a start-up environment where everyone around you is supposed to be an expert in their field. Most Big Cos hire fresh college grads and mentor them. So mistakes like this are common.

Now considering he's a junior, Remus's advice is spot on. I helped a dev on our team in a similar way who went on to write some really complicated distributed systems code that you use today. Also Remus comes from MSFT where this advice would apply.
I you find a place where comments are generally positive, then you've found a place where people avoid challenges rather than face them.
My favorite and severely underrated code review trick is positive reinforcement:

"Oh nice, a cleanly separated MakeSnafucated function! I'm working on document level snafucation, and just being able to call this will save me a lot of time! Thanks!"

If the coder has any potential, not only will they write more modular code like that in the future, but they'll do so happily rather than complain to management about your so-called perfectionist nitpicking.
Some of these aren't even up to date. Lets stop acting like we're health experts here. If your doctor is still making you do "turn and cough", then your doctor is using out of date practices (source: my GF is a doctor). Similar to another person's post above, she cringes at posts like this. You SHOULD go to the doctor to get check up each year, but you should not just go get every test under the sun just in case. There's a reason when you go in for your yearly check up, the doctor does what they do. Perhaps it's more important in this discussion to say that there's a reason your doctor doesn't do every test under the sun on these checkups.
I agree that the paper isn't very convincing. One conclusion you might draw is that learning to write performant code in C is harder than learning to write performant code in Rust. That could just be a side-effect of Rust's much stronger standard library, though.
Ask HN: What would our world's tech be like without our flawed financial system?
A recent Economist article explored "What's wrong with finance" -http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2015/05/finance-and-economics
In the article a finance professor is quoted saying “at the current state of knowledge there is no theoretical reason to support the notion that all the growth of the financial sector in the last 40 years has been beneficial to society.”

As an example, todays VC environment would look quite different if interest rates were not near 0% and as a result, the products of this environment would also look quite different. Less resources in tech development = less tech development. Now, this is the result of central bank policy printing cash in an attempt to save a recession and spur growth and investors search for yield.

But lets think pre 2008 when the majority of the growth of the financial sector was from financial innovation/engineering - IRS, MBS, ABS, the whole option market!, to name a few - the type of growth that the professor is saying is not beneficial to society. Surely this growth also had an impact on our investment in technology through easier credit and better tools for risk mitigation.

So this poses two questions:

1. Without the fortunate/unfortunate (you decide) growth of our financial system, how would our world's tech stack be different? Would it?

2. Assuming that a smaller financial system would have less technology, is this better for society?

Edit:
2. Assuming that a world with a smaller financial system would have less technology, is this better for society?
> One generally admirable thing about American culture is that it's not acceptable to just inherit wealth and try to rule society.

How did you come to believe that? Most of the recent presidents and presidential candidates would tell against that theory.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/11/george-p-bush-u...
Another good practice is to initialize the time counters to something close to the overflow point, rather than zero. This encourages overflow bugs to show up at timescales where they will be noticed during testing, rather than after 248 days of service.

This is a scary-ass bug in a codebase that was supposed to be authored to strict professional standards.
>"Dave defined the word 'mensch'"

FWIW, mech4bg is probably referring to Yiddish for "human being" and not a reference to the terrible ex MP (UK) Louise Mensch.
I don't know but I think so. I just wanted to give him an oversimplified example (you could also use any complicated computation).
I'm not sure, though, if every compiler/interpreter makes use of them (what about VMs)?
The way the C++ code looks makes me think that the language wasn't designed with this in mind. Modern programming concepts are really stretching the syntax of older languages to the point that there is just too much noise that is distracting from what is actually being done which makes simple things look confusing and complicated. I guess there is a reason Haskell code was used to demonstrate the concept.
When my dad was 9 years old he had whooping cough. Then it went it away for 55 years. Then, slowly, it began to creep back, as he got older and his immune system became less aggressive. And I think this is a common story for almost any virus: once you get it, you have it for life, but for most of your life, while your immune system is strong, the virus will remain repressed. But once you get older, those viruses start coming back.

We know of many viruses that can resurface, decades later. Shingles is perhaps the most common, something like 25% to 33% of people eventually get shingles (according to the CDC, 96% percent of the USA population has the herpes zoster virus).

And of course, we now know that many things that used to be thought of as a natural part of the aging process are in fact caused by bacteria:

gum disease

stomach ulcers

heart disease

There is also evidence that most back pain is caused by bacteria (according to the CDC, 30% of the USA population shows signs of exposure to spinal meningitis).

There is also the theory that certain forms of dementia are driven by bacteria. (Dementia onset following a bout of pneumonia is a common story.)

I think this man's story fits into the ordinary story of a man getting older and his immune system getting less aggressive.

In terms of cost/benefit analysis, it is worth noting, if we could find a general way to boost the immune system, the benefits would apply to thousands of illnesses, including all of the most common ones. Research on any one disease is less likely to yield the sort of wide benefits that boosting the immune system would offer. Such research (to boost the immune system in a general way) might seem a bit far fetched, but I think it justified by the large benefits it could yield.
What about fantasy in your native language ? How does it feel ?

I am of the opinion that translated works are (unintended) betrayals of the original text. And that a `native` author will produce better wording (sigh, sorry about that) than a translator.
There are 11 other companies in that list, so no, disagreeing with regard to one company should not affect your reception of the argument.
You don't need to sign up (just names of users + home name), but I could put up a demo home too.
Than Samsung Electronics. Again, an important distinction. We're comparing revenue of all of Apple against a division of Samsung.
Well, we know that momentum - and energy - are only conserved across a long enough timeframe. I'm working from 30 year memories year (special relativity class during my undergrad) so bear with me....

Consider a charged object moving at high speed (nearing c) toward an object with the same charge, but on a path to pass "beside it" (it doesn't really matter by how much, so long as the one will not hit the other); treat the second object as a stationary reference frame, to make this conceptually easier.

At any given time, there is force of repulsion between the two objects. Normally (relative speed much, much less than c), this force can be approximated as an r-squared force acting along the line separating the two objects.

So far so good. No problems with conservation of anything here, all the vectors in the various force diagrams add up just fine.

But the objects are moving relative to each other at speed nearing the speed of light, and the repulsive force is transmitted at the speed of light...

...which means that at any given instant, the force exerted on one particle by the other is parallel not to the line drawn from one to the other at the moment the force is exerted (at the moment it arrives) but parallel to that line from a few moments ago.

At any given time, when the objects are close enough to one another, the forces acting on each object are an angle to the line drawn from one the other.

In order to have conservation of anything, one has to make a vector integration over a sufficiently long time frame ("long enough" before and "long enough" after the collision, that is, the moment the incoming object passes by or begins moving away from the other).

Otherwise, things just don't add up.

Like I said, I am casting my mind back to a brain-popping moment from 30 years ago in which we sat there slack jawed, eyes agape, and a little aghast, starting at the blackboard while the prof stood there with a Cheshire Cat grin tossing his chalk up and down, waiting for us to accept - or at least merely acknowledge - that we weren't in Kansas anymore, that the universe was rabbit holes all the way down, and that we'd been lied to since junior high.

Fun times.
Tromer and Shamir's paper on this (considerably older):

http://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/cbtwirl.pdf

(Tromer is credible, for people who don't know crypto research personalities).
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: possible

Willing to relocate: unlikely

Technologies: Python

Resume/CV/email: please pm

Back-end mid level engineer interested in transportation/scheduling.

Strengths: data analysis, big picture awareness, algorithmic design, maintainable code, bug fixing.

Weaknesses: front end / devops

Other: looking to work in a 10-100 person company with a tangible product, a 40 hour workweek, and a long term perspective.
Ignoring Nix is a blatant sign of failure. systemd could learn a thing or two, or even a few dozen things from the language design itself.

About UNIX concepts, they're hidden temporarily because systemd, IMHO, is surfing a deep wave of change in the way OSes are understood. It's very declarative, open to instrumentation (virtualization). Turning the machine into an object. In a few years ideas will have settled and maybe tiny unix-like core components will emerge.
Exactly - a demo home is what I'm looking for. :)
Speaking as a white American from a very conservative/religious family and social group, I think your view is just as generalized as you imagine conservative/religious groups to be.
I have multiple aunts and uncles who are Korean, my first serious girlfriend was black, my best friend growing up was Mexican (as well as having many Mexican relatives), so I would say that our conservative and religious views didn't preclude us from not only being open to other ethnicities, but to embracing them as our own.
Granted, I don't think my upbringing was typical of conservative/religious upbringings, but I know it wasn't typical of many liberal/non-religious points of view.
I don't think it's something you can shoehorn quite like that. (I would say our religion brought us all together more than anything else).

I think the effect you're seeing (where many Asians, such as Chinese, Korean, or Indian) are more isolated has far less to do with idealogical beliefs, than it does with multiple factors, such as being immigrants in a country that has typically has had a harder time identifying with their culture as well as a large trend of pushing towards higher education, especially in demanding fields such as medicine and engineering.

But I digress :)
I love that the list includes GS grades for DoD civilians.

There's some really interesting books in these lists. I already had Washington's Crossing queued up.

Seeing PowerPoint in the title of a GS-14/15 recommendation gave me a chuckle.
Once again: his own lawyer stipulated these facts in his criminal summation. It's not in dispute; it is undisputed. He did not simply taken open-source software. You can add this to the list of things Lewis got wrong; it's a large and growing one.

As Aleynikov concedes in his motion papers, the code he took from Goldman Sachs included a "purposefully designed" portion of the Goldman Sachs "proprietary, custom-built trading system." Indeed, the evidence showed that Aleynikov took a significant percentage of the proprietary source code for that system. While Aleynikov attempted to show that there was open source code embedded within the proprietary code and to identify the files in which that might be true, his expert witness was only able to identify one file among those taken by Aleynikov that both bore a Goldman Sachs copyright banner and appeared to contain open source code.
Maybe at least one book about what to do after you dropped tons of bombs and killed thousand of civilians would help to prevent the usual collapse of civilizations and rising of warlords. But of course I do understand that there is more money to make with a collapsed nation.
The same question here.
There are still a lot of places where Rust isn't useable, especially when you're talking about things like embedded processors. Rust on the AVR, for example, requires very specific versions of llvm and clang to work, and even then, you have to write all of your IO code in a separate library, most likely in C. And it just rolls downhill from there. Wanna support the V850 that's found in a lot of automotive control systems? Nope. Rust doesn't quite have the ability to get down and dirty to do the kind of register tweaking you tend to do when you're using a processor with lots of IO you need to manage.
> This is another symptom. Perhaps it's excusable if there were preexisting libraries/codebase.

Uh, what would you use? As far as I know, the choices are: Assembler, Ada, and C. We're talking about avionics code, here.

C++ is not going to help you in this case. Java will be too slow/unpredictable. Real-Time Java is kind of sketch in my opinion (I could be wrong there). Most everything else is totally out.

Actually I'd probably choose Ada... but there are reasons the industry switched away from Ada.
I don't disagree with your endpoint, but I also wasn't suggesting we do nothing. I am actually part of a small group of more "libertarian" Americans who believe in the absolute rights of the individual person over whatever dominant government, religion, etc, currently hold the monopoly on any given idea (LGBT persons should not marry, for example). At risk of betraying my own beliefs, I'll defend a person's personal rights up to the point they threaten to harm (definition of that always in flux) other people and/or society. However, when I see a police officer, I want to believe they are the "good guy" while still maintaining healthy caution. That means I would hope that those around me do, too, rather than attacking the officer, or running from the officer, as both put me and other innocent people in danger.

We should never allow any criminal activity that is performed toward needlessly harming others or that infringes upon their rights maliciously. I'm trying to be careful about how I word that because there are many things in America that are currently considered criminal that I support and feel are necessary because they fight corruption and inequalities that seemingly can not be legally overcome...
I mean no matter what you do, you're defaulting to a language that the user of your site may not speak.
I'm super excited about all this, and if anybody can deliver a game, it's these people, but I can't think of a single Kickstarter that's listed an endless number of stretch goals (including cross-platform support, especially on Linux) and then delivered on them, let alone doing it on time.
Reminds me of Enyo's list implementation[0], that's how they got it to work rather well on webOS devices.

[0]: http://enyojs.com/sampler/latest/ (Layout -> List -> Basic List)
> In any case, I think you're being overly glib about the problems of C:

In short form, here, without a doubt.

> it's so so easy to have a program that exhibits undefined behaviour, and so is theoretically operating with no restrictions.

I've run into this. A lot! It was almost always my fault. One notable exception was back when I used to do a fair amount of with GP (Genetic Programming -- evolving large populations of small programs). The system was shockingly adept at finding/exploiting edge-cases and exploiting them for advantage.