skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something that I'm missing here. Can anyone who is involved with this project clarify this example:

function getFullName( id ){
return ajax( "/user/" + id + "/name" ) + " " + ajax( "/user/" + id + "/lastname" )
}

I've read through the source and it mentions blocking etc. but I didn't see quite what I was looking for.

So here's the deal: at one point I was working on laziness library to treat promises as lazy values, and the problem that I ran into was that JS doesn't let you overload the operators `+`, `-`, etc. so that the API needs to export things like `Lazy.plus(p1, p2, p3)`. By itself that's not so bad -- it even makes everything look lispy in a strangely C syntax -- but it was sufficiently heavy that I kind of abandoned the project.

So from my understanding, the `+` can only work if the `ajax()` calls now block the global browser JS thread. Is that true? Does the above function even work synchronously, if I call it?

Of course, to actually use this function we have to use `Syncify.revert` which converts it back into a callback-based function. Does Syncify.revert have to somehow parse the function? How does it "stick its own context" into the function that it's calling without something complicated like dynamic variable scope? Or did you find a way to hack dynamic scope into JS?
why not bluetooth then and make a real app instead of a webpage?
Actually, some parts of TPP won't be public until 4 years after being signed.

http://economyincrisis.org/content/public-wont-be-allowed-to...
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Good choice by MS. If something's not available by default for consumers, then it isn't mainstream tech. What happens in a special edition is only relevant for that submarket.
Nathan Myhrvold in Modernist Cusine writes about a similar technique. Sous vide first, followed by a brief time in the oven, and finished on a smoker. This seems to be the reverse of the crutch. (The oven is used to prime the meat for smoking and is apparently based on a German technique for making sausages.)

Of course if you cringe at wrapping your smoked food in foil you'll hate this way too. I'm also not sure if this is the technique he used to win his bbq medals, perhaps that's a secret.
> The human body is flawed in any number of ways.

Yes; “This project is doomed.”:

http://threepanelsoul.com/2010/07/05/on-design-by-committee/
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The Snowden docs.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments...
>There are of course moral questions surrounding the use of humiliation and “execution” as a form of public punishment within virtual environments. Despite this – or perhaps because of it – the video of DarkSide’s demise has already been viewed by over 300,000 people, hungry for a peculiar display of gaming justice.

Really? I think if I were to ask anybody I know this question they would straight up laugh in my face.
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2010/course/TDA341/Paper...

Also look at CYK parsing algorithm, it is highly parallelizable (it is based on matrix multiplication).
Now lets prevent this dark in history from repeating itself. Let keep the web free of proprietary "single-browser" tech.
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They win, I hate that page.
They have been available in the Philippines for a while now. As others have mentioned, they are at the low end here. Low end smart phones are almost not even smart phones. You get Android and not much else because you don't get the resources to run much. Storage is a major constraint, but so is RAM.

Without being able to install much for apps, that largely constrains you to the browser. I don't know much about FirefoxOS, but I imagine that's largely what drives the "application" of the phone.

I don't have much desire to own a FirefoxOS phone. Many of the people here who are limited to entry level phones don't have the money for data or an internet connection at home. Phones here are largely just shiny toys which shows off what you can afford. A FirefoxOS is better than a feature phone in that regard, but you are still treating it like a feature phone.
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"If you aren't willing to work as hard as an indentured servant working under threat of deportation for 70% of your current salary, then you don't deserve the job"
it's funny to see the same defense over and over. no one said any other framework is perfect, but JEE is design-by-committee crap mainly designed to sell consulting hours. that lack of external perfection does not make JEE usable or worthwhile.
Great to see this one out there!

You should consider changing your name, as did the former poche (same kind of project), switching to Wallabag.
https://www.wallabag.org/
> What it is is a call for transparent discussion. We can do one better than those discussing the TPP behind closed doors. We can speak openly about what it gets the US and its allies.

That's the thing, we're not meant to discuss it transparently. We are not supposed to know anything about it, because everything in the TPP is against our interests. Why else would they keep everything secret?

How many thousands of laws do politicians have to negotiate behind closed doors and sneakily pass in a session on Sunday at 06:12 in the morning when no one's looking, before people start waking up?

There is no transparent discussion about anything they decide for us, because rulers don't discuss things with their subjects. "How would you like to be coerced this year?"
Didn't want to work on Firefox on Linux (37.0.2) but was fine on chrome.

Try: Zyzzybalooba
Why enforce development dependencies? Use Nginx+lua to serve LESS/SASS and ES6
some inspiration : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ZI1yWUdNc
To prevent any confusion: If you're in the UK, it's not mothers day.
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Sounds like something a politician would say when they're trying to trick you into believing something other than what they are saying.
God I hope not. Revolution has always been a shitshow and I don't even want to think how it would look given technological advancement since the last time around.

There's reason to hope. As a nation we have faced bigger issues than this and come out on top. Besides, there are still a handful of decent ways out. Social policy like reducing the workweek to restore supply/demand balance in the labor market could work. So could basic/minimum income, although I suspect that it's politically untenable even though it would be cheaper in the big picture. The least efficient but most probable (IMO) approach would be to grow the size of our creaking, bloated menagerie of inefficient social programs.

So far, capitalist societies have generally been far better than Marx assumed at figuring out how to implement the minimum possible social policy to stave off rebellion. I don't know whether to call it optimistic or pessimistic, but I suspect the trend will continue. Hopefully we won't go full Orwell in the process, but I wouldn't put money on it. We're already turnkey-Orwell and I think most of us can tell which way the wind is blowing.

More optimistically, I think there's also a chance that market dynamics will shift for the better due to technological change. Sure, 3D printing has been overhyped to the moon and back, but if rents are increasing while the inefficiency of distributed production is decreasing, then eventually there's going to be a crossing point. Once everyone has self-replicating farms, power shifts back to the people and free market dynamics start working for the masses instead of against them. It'll require a ton of effort and investment to make it happen, but that makes it just the sort of thing to provide opportunity to the HN crowd :)

/crazy speculation
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// TODO: sort out the bug with multiple subatomics sharing state under some conditions
I never understood why you need an agreement for free trade. Free trade should be the default. What is being negotiated is a perversion of free trade used to mask corporate subsidies and crony capitalism.
Neither in France ;)
Yeah, instead you had to get up off your ass and do some leg work. So you had to determine whether it was worth your time and the professor's time to do so, instead of a quick and easy "how do I do this work even though I've put in no effort to figure it out for myself".

Seemingly there is significant more hand holding of students and they all expect an A because simply showing up in high school meant they'd get an A. The entitlement is different now as well.

It's amazing how far my school in particular has fallen in reality while in perception (god awful rankings) have them higher than ever. It's the typical perception is more important than reality. However, this is good for students, because this is exactly my experience in the "real world" as well.

I wouldn't trade my 90s undergrad for the crap kids are getting today. And I thought it was bad then. Hindsight makes me sad for the meager amount of actual learning going on today.
I have put out this idea before: in the far future, there will probably be a lot of ancient software in use that has been used and tested so much that it has very close to zero bugs or defects. The value of very old bug free software will be so great that people and organizations will not push for new features. In my future world this will largely be open source code.

A counter to my future world with very high quality but slowly changing software would be the advent of strong AI. I can't imagine strong AI that would not quickly, robustly, and continuously rewrite itself in a safe sandbox then rapid redeployment scenario.
To prevent further confusion, in the UK it's known as Mothering Sunday, and this year it's 15 March, 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday
We're all free to have our opinions ;)

About the reason for the consulting shop to pick EE because of the installed base, that was indeed my point regarding the first facet.

The first facet (huge base) is what appeals to enterprises. The second facet (modernisation & aimed at small users) is what appeals to startups.

That EE had a huge installed base is pretty well known I think. But that EE now also aims at small shops? Perhaps not so much ;)
I prefer this one, by 2pac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1ZvUDvLDY
It's not merely used in policy making: GDP as a metric basically emerged for policy making in the contexts of resource allocation during the Great Depression and war planning during WWII. (And arguably during prior wars before that: http://www.google.com/search?q=invention+of+gdp .)
All indexes or rankings are "biased" in the sense that they are a weighted sum of different parameters that often have little to do with each other (adding apples and oranges). As such no index could be perfect for all since we have different values.

For example if you value freedom of speech a lot, the US would be way up compared to say, Germany (illegal to deny the Holocaust), if you value human rights, the death penalty is an aberration and the US would be at the bottom part of the index. If you value safety over rights, Singapore would have a high index, otherwise low etc.
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Sure, countercultures have their own social norms that their members conform to, and can behave just as sheeply. The thing is, the regular guy from the suburbs who doesn't do anything 'different' can be the awesome, interesting person you think only your 'freak' friends were/are. The clothes and labels are all just junk. You got it right on the big city counterculture, but still getting it wrong when looking at the suburbs you grew up on.
A comic to go with the explanation http://satwcomic.com/mother-s-day
wow! it is a similar project!!! your project is pretty cool!!
To prevent any confusion: here is a complete list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Dates_around_the...
…in about 51% of the world’s countries (including the US)¹

① https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Dates_around_th...
It's OK to call your mother more than once a year, you know...

;-)
I could believe the universe was a 3d growth or projection from a 2d origination like a pancaked black hole but hologram in this definition does not mean what people initially think it means and "simulation" running on what? Another universe?
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Congress has access, but it is quite limited. Unlike industry representatives, they are only allowed to read the document in a special sealed room, but may not make copies, may not take notes and may not bring along any staffer, even those would be in a better position to interpret the opaque and complex legal terms used.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120622/23220319444/ustr-...

[edit for clarity}
My question is if the candidate did a degree at a good school doesn't that prove anything? If they did a similar job for a competitor that doesn't count or has a giant set of github repos does that not count? My feeling is that pressured puzzles are a cop out unless you are trying to filter out low level employees.

Also your comparison with share price is not necessarily accurate - #1 company in the past 100 years is Exxon (profit per 100 years). I would argue that they manage their existing employees better than their competitors and fire the weak ones. In 50 years I'll bet no one knows facebook or google - just like no one knows DEC or any other tech company from the 70s except IBM and Oracle. Currently they just have the Zeitgeist going for them.
To be fair, an interview process that's novel and successful is certainly a competitive advantage, at least in companies where they understand their engineers are key to their success and not simply cogs in a machine.
Swedes, Mother's Day is in three weeks. That said, it's never a bad time to call your mother!
Some people for whatever reason may not like their mother and may not want to thank them for anything. That's fine as well.
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We're all in a subculture of some kind.

And in pretty much every subcultures, there's clothes, labels, things, and activities that 'define' you as a member of.
Then there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjuHm_UMofo
>It's an amazing epitome of evolutionary success...

And so is every other species. We've all been evolving together on this planet for the same amount of time.

This is why driving species to extinction is so spectacularly stupid — it squanders our collective legacy of genetic information, hard-won over billions of years of struggle. How many discoveries like this will never be made because we destroyed the species? Worse, how many useful functional species are we depriving ourselves of (including functions we don't even know we need yet)?
I think Freaks and Geeks made this argument pretty conclusively. It'd be interesting to see what happened to Lindsey after she joined the Dead Tour.
> I feel for Mrs. Chen, I really do. The U.S Government should not have moved forward without solid evidence.

Reasonable, but it's followed by a caveat which misses the key point:

> However, after reading the article, several of her actions did and should have throw up some red flags. Flags which should have been (and were) investigated.

No one, including her, is claiming to be hurt by an investigation. Government workers are investigate all of the time. People with secret clearance have to have their lives investigated before the clearance is granted.

The bone of contention here is the prosecution. A competent investigation would result in a report of "No evidence of any malfeasance. Much evidence of her following proper channels". At that point, she might not even know that the investigation had taken place.

Someone who truly felt for her would feel for her real pain. The pain of being falsely prosecuted. And not spend most of the comment talking about "An investigation is reasonable".

I find this attitude deeply disturbing. This woman was abused by an incompetent, uncaring, or malicious prosecution. Your response to that is similar to the prosecutors, TBH.
so you think all non-US countries should detain and investigate every US citizen on their territory who had a contact with mid-level US officials?
I'd say it's more commonly referred to as "Mothers Day" in the UK than "Mothering Sunday". Maybe it depends on whereabouts you're from.
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PNaCL? Dart VM?
At least in the US, SMS can be up to 1600 characters on most carriers/handsets now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS
I agree. I bought a Vivoactive to replace my Fenix 2. I love the battery life and the fact that it's small and tough enough to wear all day, every day. The smart features were secondary but they've become more useful over time. I take for granted that the transreflective display is always on.

If Apple puts GPS and full waterproofing into Watch v2, Garmin is pretty much done with the category because they don't have a comparable developer community. I considered it, but the SDK is really limiting right now.
And Norway's was in February.
To be fair, a lot of these corporate interests, if applicable broadly and without prejudice (unlikely), would just reinforce property right.

For instance, articles such as these always sensationalize some of the issues. This article claims that the agreement would allow corporations to sue governments for instituting policies that hurt their bottom line. This is probably true but this would cover expropriation, which many people feel is unjust. I know many in US cringe at reports of Venezuela's government expropriating business through force. Many would agree that if you have a law abiding business it would be wrong for the government to come in and take all your capital as their own. What I imagine corporations believe is that this should be interpreted more broadly.

For instance, if you agree that expropriation is bad, at what point does negatively harming a brand image effectively become expropriation? If a government makes you put a warning label? Plain packaging? Patent infringement?

Unfortunately, even if you agree with very strong property rights, this will almost certainly not be applied evenly and without special carve-outs.

edit: repatriation -> expropriation
You know, I grew up alienated in an awful suburb, so I think I feel qualified to say: that was fucking dumb.

Counterculture is indeed about rebelling against something, and it indeed dies on the vine when corporatized, mainstream culture has already absorbed it and there's no more cheap-and-easy rebellion to be had. But hey: suburbs are fucking alienating for everyone. If your only moral or political principle on which to take a stand is, "I feel alienated in suburbia", you're about as Homo Sapiens as it gets.

The real lesson is not, "counterculture should be preserved by having smart, rebellious, artistic kids grow up in the suburbs." The real lesson is, "This is why the overwhelming majority of people don't choose to live in suburbs when there's any kind of alternative available, but instead in either real cities or real countryside."

Also, for a bonus lesson: you can't spend your life rebelling against the suburbs, or in fact against anything whatsoever. At some point, you will either become just another hipster, or your "rebellion" has to be for something.
Not to defend potentially terrible policy (the lack of transparency makes cynicism the only reasonable reaction):

But the elephant in the room with the TPP is China.

Ultimately at a high level East Asia has about as many Chinese as Non-Chinese. This means that a strong economic block uniting non-China East Asia and granting it strong market access actually has a chance of fending off China's economic domination of the region.

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And, if you had an abusive mother please do remember to look after yourself.
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Except for the subcultures who are actually trying to take over the world, and who therefore dress and self-label exactly so as to fit into the mainstream.
They're are called "free trade agreements" because they do away with protectionism, thereby liberalizing those markets. There are no absolutes in the real world but markets do usually become freer as a result of these trade negotiations.

People don't have beef with FTAs because they aren't liberal enough. I know that liberals like to get in on board the hate train but it's a bit disingenuous to pretend that you're on the same page as most of the folk protesting FTAs when you stand at odds on the basic question of whether protectionism can be economically beneficial or not.
Doing something to resist war and promote self-sustainability - the original Mother's Day tradition - isn't a bad idea either.
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I suspect people jump to Celery when something much simpler would probably be enough. I've seen people use Celery with all the associated deployment and monitoring complexity when all they wanted to do was run a slow task without blocking a request.

You could simply use this: if all you need is to run a slow task and not block a request there's this: https://github.com/defrex/django-after-response

I've usually used the system crontab (sometimes via https://github.com/andybak/django-cron ).

If you really really need a proper task queue then Huey is much lighter than Celery: https://huey.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

If you do need something more than
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Watchmaker
Don't try to get money while you are 16. At least if you don't need it badly. Build stuff, you'll learn so much more. I am 27 and two kids, getting paid a lot but I regret the time where I could spend hours on my own project. Now if I have an hour per week I am happy.
This is something I had to learn through experience:

*"To be successful, a product needs customers that are easy to reach, cheap to convert, and undemanding to support."

When you're starting out, you're just looking for your first $1. But once you get customers, you really need a sales process that is reproducible.

One thing I found is that if you're doing a demo, and there are multiple decision makers on the call, that's a bad sign.
> celery is really when i started to feel the pain of using python rather than a more enterprise-ready

The hendrix project - and its crosstown_traffic API specifically, is designed to alleviate this pain and remind that python (well, Twisted) is absolutely an enterprise-ready asynchronous network solution.

http://hendrix.readthedocs.org/
What about layout versions for different screen-sizes, orientations, etc.?
You tried to bullshit the guy interviewing you, that's how.
This is all about ensuring China isn't the only game in East Asia: Giving the non-Chinese half of East Asia's population a chance of fending off Chinese economic domination by creating a market union. I don't want to defend it considering the lack of transparency which requires us to be cynical... BUT we need to keep this in mind. This isn't all about the US or business per se. Rather, East Asia, the US, and big business all are in political alignment here, and that's how you build policy that happens... We're not the center of this. East Asia is
You could also simply live the way you want, even if other people see it as some kind of rebellion, without it being for anything.
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I think your second use case is probably the intended one. E.g I have several computers at home and work that are all "trusted" and I want to conveniently plug in my home directory on whichever one I'm using.