skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like huon said, this is already the case, so I don't see how it could be confusing. The compiler would infer all of that and complain if the constraints are not satisfied. A literal fn syntax would be pretty cool, but I have doubts it'd ever be accepted, which is why I figured closure syntax could be adapted to allow this use case.
Stack VMs aren't used just because they're easier to understand:

* In interpreted environments, registers are stored in memory anyways, so the advantage of simulating them isn't as great

* It is easier to generate code for stack machines, because you don't need to run register allocation

* There's a tradeoff in instruction complexity versus number of instructions between stack and register machines
This also partly aligns with it being very easy to fire people in the US. The government therefore views the employer as having a perfectly reasonable option in the case where they are truly short of money: fire the employees you can't afford to pay before they work the hours you don't have money for (or something halfway, like giving people a non-optional offer to go down to half-time). In most cases that can even be done with no notice, though that isn't very nice. But it is at least seen as more honest than stringing people along ostensibly working for a salary they aren't going to get.

In practice one way to handle this is keep one payroll cycle's worth of liquid cash "locked up" in an account that is reserved for payroll and which you don't dip into for other expenses. So even in the worst case the last paychecks can be sent out before shutting down, if you avoid the temptation to dip into that account "just this once". That does require having a little bit of a cash cushion, but a VC-funded company should be in a relatively good position in that regard.
The author's indignation at registration systems that aren't easy to automate is confusing. I view that as a feature, not a bug.

Why the fuck would any service provider want to make it easy for spammers to automate mass registrations as the author seems to want?

It's literally the reason CAPTCHA was invented.
> And they still can. Farmers can still use them also - no one is forcing them buy Monsanto.

> If you don't want to pay for them, don't use them. Problem solved.

Problem not solved. Seeds from a neighbouring farm are naturally dispersed through wind or animals into a farmers ground. Now he is breaking the law and will be sued. This has happened.
Would the proposed system use shared accounts, or automated new account registration for the user?

If the former, I think the opt-in is a dead end. If the websites thought that was good for them, they'd enable anonymous use, and it even might be illegal for them to cooperate (e.g. they would be breaking COPPA by offering a way for under-13 to use the site without following the proper steps).
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As I understand, it's not immediate. It's just our conscious mind suddenly being alerted to it, which leads to the illusion of immediacy. Probably very little of our thoughts are conscious.
I don't know all of systemd but :

- journal
- networkd
- console

Are already far from generic system config/init parts. These components are very nice and cleaner than older alternatives but it feels like unnecessary coupling. Also every release added magic variables to handle corner cases. They're proficient but complexity is increasing.
The 50% return is just an input to the model, an assumption.
Not sure what you mean. I understand that the compiler figures out what to do. My point was that it might be useful to remove certain restrictions from empty-environment closures to allow them to be used in more contexts, such as wherever a regular `fn` could be used (like for FFI callbacks).
I use <C-s> for my local machine, and I make the servers I login to use <C-a>. I bind the caps-lock key to ctrl, so it works out pretty well, and lets me work with both local and remote contexts at the same time fairly nicely.
I find a small part of me wondering if this wouldn't actually be kind of a win for humanity.
Because the government absolutely will not educate the people in the use of public key cryptography. This is because they cannot break it themselves.
"You don't have to take anything from anyone to provide for everyone's basic needs once we've bootstrapped to a certain point,"

Pretty much every resource is limited, so until we have some way of generating unlimited resources, this will not be possible.
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Not paying your employees is the first thing you do when you have a hint of cashflow problems?
You mostly have it.

The $5MM is a cap, not a price. If the Series A is raised at $5MM or more valuation, then the angel gets his money ($1MM) converted at $4MM ($5MM * 0.8).

If the Series A goes at $4MM, the angel's money is converted at a $3.2MM valuation (4*0.8)
Fair warning: Not only does Canonical use this for one of their product names, they have a registered trademark on it. This is a clear clash. I'd suggest changing name sooner than later to avoid pain.

https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/23/WE00001119596

Edit: there's already a bug filled for this: https://github.com/fsquillace/juju/issues/63
Probably because when you editorialize in your comment, you may get an adverse reaction.
I totally agree. When looking at the Kickstarter campaign and reading through the content my thoughts were "neat" but I wasn't particularly excited. When I got to PocketCHIP part however, I thought "oh that's kinda cool I guess", and then my hoarder side starting thinking "oooo think of the possibilities of a packaged, portable computer like this!".

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on how the PocketCHIP turns out.
The problem is that really small numbers are rounded down to zero, and then when summed together the result is really inaccurate

Use log values instead?
Take an improv class.

Not sure where you're located, so I just yelped SF improv class for an example: http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=improv+classes&find_loc...

Improv classes will help you develop self-confidence, and be ready to react dynamically in uncertain situations, like social settings. Self-confidence is really important, because if you want other people to like you you have to like yourself first.

If you want to have specific actionable advice and a "playbook" of sorts for initiating conversations, then some of the other suggestions about books are probably worthwhile. And there's no shame in starting there! But I do hope you progress beyond a formulaic approach to being social, and become genuinely comfortable interacting with people. Improv can really help you do that.

Also really agree with Tomte - make small goals and try not to make big expectations for any particular interaction. Satisfaction = Reality - Expectations, so the lower your expectations the happier you'll be.

As a side note: not totally sure but it seems like English may not be your first language. Socializing in a second language is harder, but it's very possible! I know it can feel like you lose a lot of your personality and ability to be quick-witted when you're struggling to understand someone or find the right words. But, on the other hand, if you're not a native of the country that makes you automatically interesting - you did different things growing up and have different perspectives and things to offer. So get out there and talk to people, and don't worry if it's hard or awkward at first because they're strangers so who cares what they think of you. Just do it - the more you do talk to people the better your English and social skills will become.

Good luck!
This is something I have thought about, but I've observed a great many websites that don't use a captcha because of whatever reason. All that's needed here is to bulk-solve captchas as they are needed. Not necessarily in a nefarious manner, but simply to isolate/silo the captcha solving process away to another system. There could a separate H.I.T (Human Intelligence Task) system similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk program where the 'hard problem' of captchas scales down to a more manageable problem.

Depending on the size and scope of the skeleton key system, there could even be (very willing) people ready to solve them in exchange for a small fee. There's a startup if I saw one. Users of the skeleton key system could go premium if they want to bypass captcha systems and a portion of the money goes to the captcha-solver. Probably not a new idea, as I've seen many such nefarious systems in place for spam, except this would be legitimized!
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Really? I'm getting serial number 0X043f60 (instead of 0x1599c5), validity starting on May 7 2015. Might that have to do with using Firefox or anything client-related? Or he switched it?
>"You don't have to take anything from anyone to provide for everyone's basic needs once we've bootstrapped to a certain point"

We've been "boostrapping" for generations and decades. We are constantly sold the idea that if we "give just a little more" money to government, then all problems will be solved. And here we are countless periods later, lots of problems solved, and whole lot of new ones created (marketed) to take their place.

I know you feel good, and you enjoy "the look" on peoples faces when you tell them that you think stealing is "OK" because someday in the future "we can provide for everyone's basic needs". Yeah, right.

How about I tell you how much I enjoy the look on statists' faces when I question them as to why we need guns and police to enforce tax-compliance if we live in a wonderfully free (democratic?) society where everyone wants to help the poor/needy/helpless. Or countless other questions that make them admit the fundamental immorality of the state, and how it does not fit within their ideas about what they think is actually "right" and "wrong".

>"You don't have to take anything from anyone to provide for everyone's basic needs once we've bootstrapped to a certain point"

This can be done today, right now. With the the level of spending that most all governments spend. They can feed, clothe, shelter and medically care for every single human being on this planet, or that lives within their respective borders. Every single one. From poor starving orphans in the middle of abandoned nowhere, to cushy apartment-dwellers in big-cities.

Ask yourself why it has not happened yet? Either you are not in the majority you declare to be in and the majority does not buy your ideas. Or the majority does agree with you, and has not been able to accomplish it.
Why isn't the Mithril library more popular?
Please refer to my comment on Dysprosium's post for my answer on this. Also I may add that it is not a system for spammers, but a system like bugmenot where we can bypass the often arduous process of registration. I happen to have RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) on my wrist and registration forms are the final boss of the internet so although a system would be nice for myself, I can also see a huge need for others to use it.
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And since they're doing multiple tests, 0.05 isn't even a stringent enough threshold: https://xkcd.com/882/
It does scale down - remember, it's not just the initial capital, but also 10 years of work. There are many similar situations where you can get similar returns. My parents spent ~$1000 on programming/CS textbooks for me when I was a teenager, and it made me a whole lot more than $30,500 in additional wages. Pick the right technology platform today and you can spend a couple hundred bucks and end up with a few billion.
New concepts are introduced at a satisfying pace. Each bit of code is explained thoroughly. Nice writeup.
This is similar to how the cortex routes information through the 6 cortical layers - a cortical column. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_column)
Systems like that already exists, there are plugins for download-software that sends captchas to humans to solve.
I don't think education is a great indicator of intelligence in the first place. Some people are really smart and an education can bring them to a next level but there are also people who are just good at remembering stuff. These people pass all the educational tests designed to test their "intelligence" but they're actually just tested on their memory capabilities. To me, intelligence is creative problem solving, not memorizing information. However, if you have both, that would be a great advantage.

To the question, Math is an exact science. Building software is a creative architectural and design process. My guess is that Math can be very helpful on a algorithmic level but not so much on an software application level.
Emacs Lisp is closely related to Common Lisp. Both are coming from Maclisp. Emacs Lisp also contains lots of Common Lisp functionality.

Emacs Lisp also has extensive communication facilities with Common Lisp. See SLIME/Swank.

> but I do find it interesting that the Lisp designed to be the widely-applicable industry standard hasn't seen something on the same level.

There are also Clozure CL IDE, the LispWorks IDE or the Allegro CL IDE.
All three are written in Common Lisp.
For people looking for less "toy" implementations, I've written two emulators, an 8086 one and a Z80 one.

There's libz80 (https://github.com/ggambetta/libz80) which is (AFAIK) quite complete and correct but just a library, and the 8086 one (https://github.com/ggambetta/emulator-backed-remakes) which is incomplete and buggy but serves a much more interesting purpose :)
I flagged this one too, and hope others will as well: it's especially clear to me that stories flagged off the site shouldn't dogfight that decision with new submissions under different URLs.

I flagged for two reasons:

* First, it's off-topic for the site (see: guidelines), a story of the kind usually flagged off.

* Second, it's just a bad story, that doesn't overcome the site's presumption against stories like this by dint of superior quality.
How many cycles did the divide op take?
Did they also have double precision routines? How slow these have been?
Include quality requirements in the targets.
After reading the original post it's still not clear to me why you would want this tool - Would you mind explaining the motivation behind it ?

As an end-user of sites I don't find registration a particularly onerous or annoying problem - signup, login, move along.

As an operator of a few different sites the concept of users spamming the crap out of my registration system using automation is an annoyance I could do without.
Interesting german book on the subject:
"Nazis on Speed - Drogen im 3. Reich" by Werner Pieper (2002/2003)
There are cases of it, even though it's rare.

Color Labs raised a $13 million series A, at a time in which it really did not have a product.
That's a little ungenerous of you. The toy VM has presented an aha! moment to all of us at one time - or more than once, when you learn about Turing equivalence and the rabbit hole that leads from that.

Skip the articles beneath your skill level and move along.
Building an easily-automated registration system that's "not for spammers" is like building a back door into an encryption scheme that's "not for foreign state-sponsored hackers".
Have you considered looking into Lastpass? There's a really great feature called "Form Fills" which allows you to save your personal information to a profile, and then filling out registration forms is as simple as right clicking on the first field -> clicking "Form Fill".
Agreed. On the other hand, is it really 100 times more work to manage an investment of 10 M than one of 100k? 1000 times more work to manage 1 bn than 1 m?
for agriculture product US has high tariff and/or agricultural subsidies (to compensate some low tariff) and even quotas for selected products (mostly not manufactured).
The original posting ended with a second-order polynomial, a few bitwise operations, and an if statement.

All of the ones you just posted are more computationally difficult. The non-trig ones, for example, include a division, and the best fit is a higher-order polynomial. There's no reason to believe it will be as fast to evaluate, so the question would be, is it more accurate and is the accuracy worth the additional time? It would be ill-advised to use one of those if it ended up being both less accurate than log() and slower.

Concerning lookup tables, as tgbrter answered in this thread, they are likely slower. It still needs the scaling, and also needs two value lookups followed by an interpolation. The cost of doing the interpolation will be about the same as evaluating the second order polynomial, but the pipeline will be waiting on the two memory lookups.

Assuming everything in is L2 cache, that might not be a problem. But depending on the problem, it may be in L3 or (shudder) main memory, which is eons away. So as tgbrter also pointed out, you may end up with variable calculation time depending on the cache.
Not an article, but this is a register-based VM that should be simple and straight-forward to understand. Also comes with an assembler, disassembler and debugger.

https://github.com/endeav0r/hsvm
As someone who has held hiring responsibility: there's a difference between asking a prospective employer for the information needed to make an informed career decision and challenging your prospective employer to convince you of its prospects to make you wealthy.

There are a number of perfectly reasonable questions prospective startup employees can and should ask that will give them the information needed to run their own exit scenarios. For instance, "What percentage of the fully-diluted outstanding shares does my option grant represent?" is always a good question to ask.

A prospective employee who demands that the company guesstimate how much he or she might make under random acquisition scenarios occurring at some unknown date in the future will stand out as being inexperienced at best and unreasonable at worst. Furthermore, no hiring manager can ethically meet such a demand.

In this case, the OP is already employed by the company he's negotiating with and it sounds like he's the one asking for equity. To request equity that hasn't been offered and then demand that the company prove it has value is a particularly awkward negotiating stance. Ostensibly he's asking for equity in the first place because he thinks it might have some value.
Spotify as a simple case study in making something people want
Check out the local poetry scene. If you're in/near a big city it will almost certainly exist and you'll definitely be exposed to a whole host of new ideas from all sorts of socioeconomic strata. The events are generally free or you can donate. Often the poets will have self-published (or small-time-published) chapbooks for a few dollars.
how many hours a week do you spend outdoors and interacting with people face to face?
The title says 1945, but the article was written in 1949 and published in 1950.
How can fund returns be highly guarded secrets? At least the IRS must have some statistics? I suppose the firms themselves aren't traded, and so don't have to disclose information to anyone other than their customers.
It would use both shared accounts, and auto registration, which depend on how complex the registration system is and what requirements it has. For example, on sites which have lots of traffic it is preferable to have a swarm of newly registered accounts arriving all the time because of unreliable users of the account deleting it, changing the password etc. On less traffic'd sites it would be preferable to have a few small accounts. I've observed this on bugmenot...
The key word in the open house issue is "open" to allow for transparency currently lost in the limited disclosure game that is the modern interview process. That benefits everyone. Not to mention we offer evening events to respect those with full time jobs.
How can a trade deal be negotiated transparently when our media circus will be out in force muddying the waters? If he (Obama) keeps the terms of the deal secret until its brought up for a vote, he's not being transparent. If he makes the current terms of negotiation transparent, how is any president supposed to negotiate terms with multiple foreign governments when the noise generated by the media circus, members of the house and senate, and various other talking-heads would constantly muddy the waters? Until the terms of the deal are known, I prefer to withhold judgement because even ordering from a drive-thru with a half-dozen children in the back of your car is difficult. I can't imagine the impossibility of negotiating a trade deal with Republicans and Rupert Murdock giving their play-by-play analysis every step of the way.
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My point was that "A therefore B" isn't useful if the noise level is so high that it can't be used to make a meaningful decision.

Otherwise the advice reduces to "don't trust long explanations". But if 1% of long explanations are valid and 2% of short ones are valid, then the statement is both true, and worthless as a way to detect validity.
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Travel, and do it without excessively researching your destination online.
What the fuck, why would you post this.
Go to the library. (Yes, the place with all the books. ;-) ) Wander through the nonfiction section and scan the titles. If anything catches your eye, pick it up and read the first couple pages. If it seems at all interesting, check it out and read it.

This technique is responsible for my reading in depth about the history of shipping containers, learning just a little bit about how to do interior design, and reading a large number of gardening books. (And doing some gardening!) Among other things.

You could probably come up with something similar online. (For example, clicking "Random article" on Wikipedia and actually reading it.) But I find that if I'm at a computer, I'm more prone to revert to narrow interests. Going to the real, physical library seems to make me less distractable -- or more so, depending on how you look at it. :)
1. I've seen things more off topic than this, especially things which relate to currently popular events.

2. "bad story" is subjective and many disagree. I didn't know that disagreeing with opinion was reason to flag.

but anyway, you're a power user. do what you like.
The defueling process is pretty slick. On a 688-class submarine, they remove a semi-cylindrical section of the hull around the reactor compartment (RC) before landing a temporary building on the RC.

One tricky bit is the fact that the spent fuel is so radioactive that it still makes a significant amount of heat. The thermal power is low enough that sinking it away from the fuel isn't difficult, but if such measures were not in place, the fuel would heat up until (redacted) Something Bad Happens. So every step along the way has either timing and/or heat sinking requirements involved.
I know a VC who makes $400k in base salary. FYI on that side
I wanted to include more examples of short and fairly valid sayings for politics and economics. It was the only one I came up with.
The problem with your analysis, eg of Instagram, is that history contradicts you across the board.

Photos Inc. has been a serious business, and generally extremely valuable for a century. There's a reason every smart phone has a camera built into it, and in the near future 2/3 of all humanity will own a digital camera.

Facebook generated $12.4 billion in sales and $3 billion in profit last year. Facebook regards photos as a linchpin to their success. Why? Because photos (sharing, saving, viewing) are one of the most important social activities people do.

The value of photos has remained true through countless technology shifts, and will remain true for the next century, because it's based on a simple principle: people want to save visual memories, and share them with others.

It's not the interest in Instagram that's wrong, it's your incorrect appraisal of what other people value.