skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. While it's important for law enforcement to step up to new and technically challenging cases, the public would have been much better served had the DA focused on the Dewey & LeBoeuf case (as the NY Times suggests). This case had small marginal negative impact on society (and the leaking of HFT technology might even result in a positive for investors). Dewey & LeBoeuf are outright accounting fraudsters. Great story: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/14/the-collapse-2
to PirateBroadcast: Thanks for your comment. I just re-read my own Linked In profile, and I'm scratching my head. Where does it suggest ParentVillage is a for-profit business? All I can tell you is, no one on my 3 person team, including me, has received any money or promise of it. If you can quote the text you're referring to, I'll address it. Best, David
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At worst firefox will use some of the libraries that come out of servo. Firefox is supposed to use the url parser from servo by 2016.
Would you be interested in an app that tells you, before it even begins, if you're experiencing a heart attack...or a panic attack?

lolz
Thanks, that first post is really interesting. Two things stand out to me:

* Run regular code at run time - does this just error if you try to use const on something that depends on a runtime value?

* Add your own optimizations to the compiler - isn't this very dangerous, especially if optimizations from various sources of code get combined? Even if your optimizations are valid (which there seems to be no guarantee of), computer math is notorious for being different from real math. People unaware of the nuances of integers rolling over or floating point seem like they could easily shoot themselves in the foot here.
being compiled to C doesn't imply fast :)
The self-landing was not performed, it seems: no video coverage, no mention.

They plan the first stage to self-land, though.
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Yeah. I guess "return" is still an improvement on the previous name, η. :)
Absolutely (still amazed study skills aren't a continuing topic throughout education). Maybe it's just my memory, but really don't remember receiving much of any life skills after pre-school/kindergarten. I know we learn much of it practically, but that leaves a lot of room for uncorrected errors that become bad habits.
Backed it also. This should make a lot of my job a little faster.
Best of luck, but is there any danger for you to get in legal trouble with Namecheap, eBay, SitePoint, etc?
Venture capital does a great job when it comes to the VCs' real objective function, which is to maximize for their own careers and those of their buddies. It's a mediocre investment vehicle, but it's a great gig for a 21st-century job seller. Instead of selling off prestigious civil and foreign service jobs, they're selling executive positions in fast-growing companies.

Chasing "unicorns" doesn't actually work out well because the failure rate is so high, but if you're optimizing for your own career, it makes sense because it creates an aura of social access to "have been in on" a brand-name company, and because people will cling to you in the hope of getting thrown an executive appointment.
This seems intuitive. Scott Adams expresses a similar idea as focussing on 'systems' rather than 'goals.' Failing to meet a goal leaves you with nothing if the goal is all you focus on, but what you learn from the system is more reusable.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/102964992706/goals-vs-systems
I expect I'm too late to the party for this comment to be noticed, but I thought I'd add something.

Some three years ago when a Wired article about this was submitted[0] I wrote an extended comment[1] expressing some concerns about this. The Wired article has since gone missing, but the HN discussion remains.

Let me say from the get-go that anything that helps get over the barrier for playing with, experimenting with, and generally messing about with algebra type stuff is a Good Thing(tm). I'm really pleased to see this here and doing well.

There is a comment here[2] that gives an instance of exactly the sort of thing I'm worried about. Kids could play the game for a bit, decide they've had enough, and then move on. The question is: will the things they've done in playing the game have a positive effect?

I can envisaged the possibility that kids that have played DragonBox and then moved on with get introduced to "proper" algebra later and not even bother trying too hard, because they'll think "I've done this, I don't care any more."

So let me say that I think it's important that these things exist, and I think it's great that they are being developed, and I really want them to succeed in their own right. But having said that, I'd be reluctant to herald games like this as the future of teaching math.

I'll finish here by quoting the last paragraph of my previous lengthy reply[1]:

... I think this is a wonderful tool, and it has the
potential to be a fantastic aid to learning. I am
deeply uneasy about the further divorcing of algebraic
manipulation from any sense of meaning, but I look
forward with interest to see if it can be used in a
meaningful way.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105397

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106567

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9472466
I guess this is really the point: space elevators and commercial fusion are many, many orders of magnitude more likely to pan out than this is. Both of those are engineering challenges, and materials science challenges. They may be insurmountable ones, or they may not. But neither one would unconditionally require changes to the bedrock principles of physics.

Human beings are not good at distinguishing between levels of "very low probability". Getting excited about space elevators is awesome, even though we're awfully unlikely to see them in our lifetimes and they might never pan out. But these drive theories are pretty literally too good to be true.
> while being fast since it's compiled to C.

Which is fast compared to what? Being compiled to JS?

It's not like being compiled to a "fast language" automatically makes that compiled program fast. You also have to consider how complex the runtime is, and other variables which are probably a direct result of the semantics of the language.
I believe the Chinese innovator BYD has a portfolio of similar products already. BYD got some press play in the West when Warren Buffet invested in them. They are making a slow patient push in the U.S with electric buses after flopping with electric cars.
I find the easiest way to think of Nim is "A Python-style language that compiles to C". Of course, the truth isn't as simple as that. But I like it, especially how pragmatic the language is. It doesn't try to "prove" a philosophy like Rust, but I think it gains other advantages in return.
This is one of the many reasons why I consider all "fururist" media as just sci-fi wish fulfillment for kiddies. Its just incredible how unreadable /r/futurology is, for example. Its just a lot of pats on the back about some amazing life-changing technology, that is eternally 10 years away.

I don't have access to the Mondo 2000 stuff today, but if any of that was to believed we'd have AI masterminded rockets to moon condos and eternal life by now. The big advances were actually missed as things like interchangable and standardized protocols, power saving SoCs, incremental battery improvements, touchscreens, and fast networks are "boring" compared to spacetravel and robots and such.

I feel I'm also seeing the same hype train today with VR, which has unsolved major issues like motion sickness and questionable applications in gaming, let alone anywhere else. To a lesser extent I see the same thing with electric cars that are always somehow 2-3 years from affordability and economic and range parity with ICE cars. These 2-3 years keep blowing past us, but there's no 200 mile range $20,000 car yet, if there will ever be.

Its a shame that practical and real advances are often "boring" to the typical sci-fi obsessed INTJ males who dominate science on the internet. I see so much spilled ink about SpaceX and very little about the upcoming SLS and its planned pioneering manned missions or NASA's robotic and science missions, which are all mindblowingly amazing to me. Sadly, this has all become politicized in the most asinine way possible with a dedicated libertarian group on the web voicing this private vs public rivalry to attack NASA, which is ironic as SpaceX is more or less a welfare program of NASA and the US taxpayers.

I hope this fad doesn't last long and good science, real breakthroughs, and the largely unpredictable and usually unsexy, in terms of whiz bang space operas, future continues to unfold before us in a wonderful way. The SLS will have us on an asteroid with just boring old chemical rockets, while the futurists continue to sell snake oil to the low information true believers and diminish the amazing and real accomplishments of the day.

"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." - Louis CK.
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It exists, it's just not always called "select": http://blog.drewolson.org/clojure-go-comparison/#selectandal...
One fun thing about reimplementing the Web Platform is that you run across all of the spec holes (particularly in much older features, like tables, borders, etc.). Where possible, we're trying to at least determine what current browsers do with the intent of codifying those behaviors in the specifications and W3C cross-browser test suite.

That said, if Trident/Edge, Webkit/Blink, and Gecko don't all agree on the implementation of an older feature, we know that it will be a challenge to find middle ground and get things changed and the spec updated to anything more than softer statements using, "MAY."
How is her spinning thread a 'provocative' theory?
Crazy and awesome. From what I've seen it should be possible to create a fully-featured WinPhone app now with Objective-C code. Microsoft claims that they've ported a lot of the API's including the most important API's for gaming (OpenGL, OpenAL, etc...) but also (and this surprised me) CoreGraphics, CoreAnimation and (a large part of) UIKit and Foundation (must have been a crazy amount of work).

Microsoft looked at the API's that are most used by developers and implemented those first, but they will add more API's in the future.

A lot of stuff, like local notifications is directly mapped to WinPhone toasts. But at the same time you can directly use WinPhone API's from Objective-C, if you choose to.

And you can develop all using Visual Studio. This will be really interesting and fun.
Astronauts will get dumber on their way to Mars
The Nim binary dynamically links against glibc and SDL2. If you really want to statically link against a C standard library, musl works just fine:

@if musl:
passL = "-static"
gcc.exe = "/usr/local/musl/bin/musl-gcc"
gcc.linkerexe = "/usr/local/musl/bin/musl-gcc"
@end

Now it compiles like this (SDL2 is still dynamically loaded, +1 MB for that):

$ nim -d:release -d:musl c src/nimes
$ ls -lha src/nimes
-rwxr-xr-x 1 def users 219K Mai 1 22:00 src/nimes*
Pleasuring Jupiter.
No questions, but just wanted to say thanks a ton for making an awesome tool that's made my life better!
If you don't know how that constant is arrived at, how do you know whether it still applies to the current market? Don't you want to know whether your assumptions still hold? And aren't you stealing the wrong thing, then?

If you do know, why do you care what the number actually is?

And why would hard coding improve performance? Compiler optimization?
I like the Spinal Tap answer. She was shooting up. Intravenous de Milo.
You either say "the Venus of Milo" (English), or you say "Venere di Milo" (Italian). "De" is Spanish and has nothing to do with its name.
Sounds too good to be true!
Neither contacting you at "jaredf at scribd.com" or applying directly gets me any response , even refusal , i think you should at least respond back to people applying .
Dude! You are welcome!
It's somewhat difficult to "ask for it" in a way that's accessible for a large number of people. Either way, you're presuming something that may or may not be true.

It's safest to handle the main use case, that is, people using the most prevalent language of the region, and implement a language chooser for everyone else.
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As a recent graduate about to go into his first ever salary negotiation, I'm really grateful for the perspective this provides. My dad was a taxi driver (now drives for Uber) and my mother a stay-at-home mom. I was raised with the notion of earning enough to support myself. Anything beyond that is something I'm expected to figure out myself. Posts such as these are very helpful.

A question though:

1. If I've had conversations in quarterly reviews that involved numbers but nothing was ever formalized, are those numbers open to renegotiation in a formal conversation?

2. How do I ask for equity and how much should I ask for as the first hire (technical employee of a non-technical founder)?

Edit: I'm aware the user who posted this is not the author, but I'm hoping patio11 or someone else comfortable offering negotiation advice will stop by the comments section.
Shrug. Direct confrontation between the fascists and the public is inevitable if any real change is going to happen.

If the government goes in on people who are striking for better conditions, the world will be on their side.
Usual posts by rayiner tend to be rather conservative, and oftentimes, rather pro-government.

Seeing him arguing for something rather out of character is the joke. If you go back and look at his post history, you'll see some things going either way--but I don't think that makes the joke any less funny.

I use different things when poking fun at you. :)
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I agree completely. I´ll try to explain this with a simpler example.

A long time ago, people thought that the faster than sound planes were impossible, perhaps some wrote that formally. The materials didn't have enough strength, it would become too hot, the pressure at some point would be too high, ... To model a faster than sound plane you need to model a lot of complicated interactions between a lot of atoms, and then you need some simplifications, and with the simplifications used at that time it was impossible.

The conservation of momentum is a very low level result, so you don't need to put a lot of simplifications to prove it or measure it. For example you can measure the conservation of momentum when a photon hits an electron almost directly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_scattering
Orionblastar, thanks for your thoughtful advice. Yes, we've debated using background checks, but I worry they provide a false sense of security. Truth is, it's not very hard for a bad guy to fake his way through a background check.
Instead, we're experimenting with what we call "Mommy Dating." A mom (our users are all moms so far, except for me) can browse selfie videos of other moms in her neighborhood. We believe that "a video is worth ten-thousand words." If she sees a mom with whom she feels chemistry, she can set up a coffee date at a public place, then perhaps a playdate, before deciding whether to share childcare.
I have great faith in a parent's intuition about other parents, and I see our primary job as making the introductions and letting parents create their own village as they see fit.
Hope this clarifies, David
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I grew up with a softer rule... gaming limited to an hour, unless it was something I created.

The bad things about these kinds of rules, around this age, is that it provides strong incentive for kids to learn to lie and hide things from you.
We should be a little more careful about assuming we can project entire ideologies onto people from their comments. I think it's probably pretty apparent why I'm sore about that point. Sorry to make a thing out of it though.
I'm not sure - I hope not.
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>There's one solution that the author didn't cover: Start treating self-signed certs as unencrypted.

Firefox recently supports this in a way through opportunistic encryption! HTTP connections can include a header to tell the browser to contact the server over HTTPS and ignore certificate errors. The connection is shown as HTTP to the user, but you get the benefit of a self-signed certificate that blocks passive eavesdroppers.
Modeling mediums
> * Run regular code at run time - does this just error if you try to use const on something that depends on a runtime value?

Yep. For example `const foo = stdin.readLine()` would result in "Error: cannot evaluate at compile time: stdin".

As for your second point. I haven't used this feature personally but I have heard that the compiler will tell you exactly where these optimisations are applied. You can also disable these optimisations very easily during compilation.
Yeah, that is my problem with it. It isn't a criminal case, just a civil one.
Sorry lolz, I don't understand what you mean. Can you please clarify?
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One of the things I've been working on are open source designs that transform sunlight into heat. I used cardboard, black aluminum foil and tacks for much of the heat for my home this past winter.

I'm also working on a simple open source design for an outdoor solar thermal panel that heats air to 130F. It can be built using diy vacuum forming and foam insulation.

I have a vision of open source diy solar thermal fixing the market failure you are talking about.
There seems to be two factors at play here that are creating almost nonsensical results.

1. The results, when filtered through the replicability guidelines rendered a clear verdict - 61 to 39 against.

2. The question of "how closely did the findings resemble the original study?" flips the findings. Moderately similar findings are the majority - 58 to 42 in the other direction.

How can you have a study that has "virtually identical" findings that doesn't replicate the original?
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When someone is condemning others for being filled with hate while labeling their object of condemnation as "vile" and labeling them with a term virtually always used as a pejorative, they are looking very guilty of the crime they accuse others of. Even if the term SJW might in some rare cases not be a pejorative, when mixed with "vile" and "hate-filled" it's hard to see it as anything else. I don't know or care what "tactics" means, I was just pointing out hypocrisy and suggesting self-reflection. I don't mind if others think I'm preachy for doing so.
If consulting is making $30k/week/job then why keep running the personal businesses? Why not take the consulting and branch it out, and drop everything else as a distraction?
For 2, if a reasonable salary is $X, and the company offers you $X-$Y, you're essentially investing $Y per year into the company (at worse terms than actual investors). How much equity do/did investors want for $Y?
You have credit because you're selling power back to the electric company (PGE?), is that not right? The ideal candidate for one of these systems doesn't have the option of selling power back into the grid, either because their utility company doesn't want to buy electricity from consumers, or because they're off the grid completely.
bcg1, where did I write April 1? I don't get it. Or perhaps you meant my post was an April Fool's joke? Thanks, David
Agreed, but I usually search for "intern " and "internship ", with a space after.
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

So what do you call a second, replicated experimental setup conducted in vacuum, if not extraordinary?
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This appears to be good. Worth a try.
yes i do.

clicked on the update notification. it took me to a sign up page (after i logeed in with my MS account) in the browser. i signed up. it said i had to have a special account and that i could register. the second page on the registration force me to choose either individual for $19 or enterprise for some other value.

there is absolutely no way on that flow to download it. i always get to that page.
...So hipster Minecraft?

Still, nice job.
Heads up, you posted in "Who is Hiring" thread, not "Who wants to be hired".
Remember that Sartre was an existentialist. He therefore defines cinema to be an existentialist thing, and then criticizes Kane for not fitting into Sartre's definition.

But to paraphrase Shakespeare: "There are more things in cinema, O Sartre, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
I love reading /r/futurology comments for comedy purposes, but I have a weird sense of humor
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