skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"a lot of properties of number systems behave as if they are random"

Choosing a weird base (and yes, base ten is weird) certainly contributes to this effect.
What are the 'obvious reasons'? How is what Facebook is doing 'very bad'?

You seem to have skipped a lot of specifics.
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I imagine it's not quite as simple as that. I imagine NPR member stations that broadcast those programs kick back some portion of their donations/underwriting to help fund them, and that gets passed along to WNYC/Radiolab/Freakonomics. I know there are some programs that bill themselves as joint ventures of the local station and NPR, PRI, or APB.
Yes. The more the type-system encodes the more the type-checker (in the compiler) proves for you. No matter how much testing you have, nothing will ever come close to proving properties.
I don't know. On the one hand, I don't like pre-paying for electricity considering the potentially huge fluctuations in use. On the other hand, I don't use gas and then pay for it. I eat at a restaurant first, then pay, but I buy groceries before I eat.

So I don't know. I can see phone as being a purchase of a block of X to use. The same with rent. Almost all internet comes with an uptime guarantee - say it's 99.9%, if it's down for more than 45 minutes, even Comcast will provide a credit.

I suppose it comes down to how you agree to consume it. I don't mind the 24 hour model on video rentals, when I can start that 24 hours any time within 30 days. I'm purchasing the right to watch the movie as many times as I want in a 24 hour window sometime in the next month. That said, I also believe that if I purchase unlimited video in the form of a DVD or download, I have the right to device-shift it wherever the heck I want.

This is a hairy issue.
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That's a completely fair question since large parts of this blog post are focused on major Ember 2.0 features, many of which were strongly inspired by React.

As you know, React describes itself as the V in MVC; in contrast, Ember is a complete front-end stack, including not only a model and service layer, but also a built-in router, integrated command-line tools, and an add-on ecosystem that takes advantage of that common set of assumptions.

It's also safe to say that the React community is still exploring the space of the application layer: multiple flavors of the original Flux architecture, Facebook's recent announcement of a successor (Relay), and different routing libraries that work well with React.

We believe that there are productivity benefits to having the community coalesce around a single stack, but we also believe that it's important to avoid stagnation. That's why Ember 2.0 is both focused on bringing in some of the great ideas that React has pioneered in the view layer, but maintains many other aspects of the 1.0 stack.

We make the changes compatibly on the 1.x branch with a clear transition plan so that we can bring along as many existing users as possible.
Ok, as someone who's battled with this... feature... of WP I am super curious as to the very good reason for storing the domain in the DB. Why couldn't links be relative (no need to know the domain), or set only as a sitewide variable in wp-config.php?

edit: and just discovered the 'guid' column on the posts table is hardcoded as the URL of the post -- the domain you're on at the time you create the content + the post ID. Seems like a nightmare for content staging on a non-prod environment.
Not if that person is toxic and awful to work with. I don't care if he's 10X, 20X or 100X (Not that I even believe in the myth of the "10X developer").
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If more PHP "frameworks" had come with a standard registration/login/password reset system, and a semblance of an administration system that could be customized, Wordpress likely would not have achieved such dominance in the period it did. The PHPNuke family almost had it, but focused too much on copying slashdot vs being a bit more open-ended or content-focused.

The alternatives have been "build-your-own" frameworks with hundreds of libraries but nothing out of the box. When I bring this up, I typically get "but everyone's security needs are different". With WP powering 20%+ of the web right now, that's clearly not true. The dominance of a few oauth systems tied to walled-gardens proves that false even moreso; you, mr senior-enterprise-developer might have extremely-specific use cases (CAS tied to legacy Novell supporting IE5, maybe), but the majority of starter apps need self-registration, email, password, maybe cell token or Facebook registration to get started.

Instead, every single person trying to use almost any major PHP framework has to roll their own security from scratch, which is precisely what we also tell people not to do. I can't tell you how many bizarre hand-rolled security systems I've seen over the years in various PHP frameworks. But hey, they all came bundled with top-of-the-line URL routers and templating libraries...
While a business may seek to hire a 99 percentile or even a 90 percentile, keeping them under your thumb and doing what you want, and keeping them on your side is a whole other kettle of fish.

90+ percentiles have a lot of opportunity and mobility. Why would they want to work on your VC funded cat comparison platform?
There is nothing more stupid than doing a will or getting life insurance. The other advice is worth thinking about.

There is no imaginary place in the sky where you can look down after your death and see people happy because you left them money or less stress.

Live life for the present and future. Not for the nothing.

Sure, game theory might throw a spanner in the works for the now and future-

- Your partner having a will / life insurance might be important, so you have to get one for quid quo pro.

- You might be stuck being stupid and it'll help you relax. Humans are weird.

- Stupid people might judge you or smart people might sham you (Since wills probably benefit society)

But this crutch we can get, that in death my kids and wife will be happy, a false safety valve, can be more destructive to your life than the reasons above.
Browsing the internet on a small device makes it harder to use the touch screens. To compensate, phones are becoming more tablet-sized. Many smartphones are also used to play games or use apps that have the same issue as the above.

More screen space = more accurate touch screen interaction = better user experience. [0]

If you want a phone to only make calls or send SMS with, get an older style flip/shell/slide phone. Or shop around for a smaller model smartphone.

[0] And most people I know (myself included) dislike using a stylus, which does help alleviate this issue
Beware of the halo effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Companies keep getting fined for playing fake emergency alert tones
But it must have been great at something else first, because that wasn't the case years ago - it was obviously better at something else some years ago.
As long as those friends don't misuse the information (spreading it to blackhats), what's the difference? If it's "hell" for everyone else on day N, it would be "hell" for everyone on day 0.
eh, i think the stigma associated with swearing has started to wane over the last decade or two. Admittedly if you swear every other word, you're not a very good communicator, but the occasional, impassioned (and well selected) swear word can be endearing, even in a professional environment.
but information is one of the only things that is free to transport over planets and almost without delay.

Just FYI, RTT to Mars to between 6 minutes and 44 minutes.
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out yet that the headline is mistaken - no code was stolen in this incident. It was hardware designs that were stolen, as the first line of the article states:

>> "The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Chinese professor and the indictment of five other Chinese citizens in what it contended was a decade-long scheme to steal microelectronics designs from Silicon Valley companies."
Define Definition
Vaguely related: I've always liked that 0x69 = 105 and 0105 = 69.
Really?

Making sure that the financial needs of your loved ones are met if you do depart in a sudden manner, is the most selfless thing you can do. It has nothing to do about making you feel happy, it has everything to do with being pragmatic so that they have one less thing to worry about.
> Smart and stupid are not opposites. In fact, they happily co-exist in the same brain.

Definitely. I've worked with people I refer to as "blithering geniuses". Like the guy who could write memory managers for OSes and so forth, but who would not only miss his own exit on the freeway, but suggest that we do crazy shit like switch C++ compilers two weeks before shipping (there was some feature he wanted out of another vendor's toolchain . . . hoo boy).

It's worthwhile knowing what your blind spots are, and where you are stupid.
Yes. A difference of 4 orders of magnitude.
Looks great, I can't wait for 2.0...

In case anyone from the core team is looking through these comments, why did you guys change up Ember's initializer API? I mean even new addon projects freshly generated by ember-cli are now hit with a deprecation warning regarding initializers. Considering all the things affected by the initializer change, it makes it extremely challenging to ride canary when literally even canon boilerplate code by the tomster (to say nothing of the 1k addons out there) is deprecated.
there is an interesting analysis of the changes in their microbiota: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848073/

"it can be concluded that the powerful stressful condition of prolonged containment in an isolated module had no “dramatic” effect on the state of the intestinal microbiota and did not lead to significant negative consequences for the health of the participants of the experiment. "
AOL Client Software, along with game demos, browser installations, advertising, music, utilities, and varieties of promotional material... depending on which CD, and when it was made.
When I said source doesn't matter, I meant whether your customers are public or private sector. The salient aspect of a technology company, for me, is that it develops and sells new technological artifacts and derives most of its revenue from that activity. Google would be a technology company if it developed a search engine and then sold it to others, which for a brief and economically irrelevant time, it did. That's not its business model.

What's objectionable about today's Silicon Valley isn't that it's not about silicon (or even software or any kind of new technology at all) but that it continues, collectively and individually, to market itself as though it were. There's nothing wrong with making phone books. Phone books are useful. Google makes a pretty nice one, and sometimes the Yellow Pages (the ads) are exactly what you want anyway. But you're not selling technology, you're selling ads in phone books that you then give away. Just say so.

While we're here, don't deceive yourself into thinking that assembling the contents of the phone book in a complete, concise, useful way (what "users" want) isn't revenue-generating. The more useful the phone book is, the more advertisers will pay to appear in it. If you end up creating some whiz-bang technology for internal use that makes that easier/better/whatever, that's great. But if you're not bringing that to market for others to use, you shouldn't be calling yourself a technology company.
my hack for boss fights (which I also hated): hoard frag and emp grenades and mines through the whole game just for that purpose
That definitely was a good thing. Sometimes, an obvious thing doesn't become obvious unless it is pointed out. Yup, it makes total sense. Every company claims to hire and be filled with rockstars. That's statistically impossible. I guess, 90% of the companies are stating what they wish for, but know that ain't true.
I agree, the phones should still be phones and not tablets. If a customer want a tablet - buy a tablet. If they want a phone - buy a phone.

On the other hand what Apple made with the 6/6+ is a decent solution even though personally I believe the iPhone 6 to be slightly too big as well. Had to purchase a silicon case just to get a firm grip when holding it.
Try this at home (and only at home), on a signal generator:

EAS combined tone (TV) 853 Hz sine-wave + 960 Hz sine-wave ("+" means simply combine both waves together, neither modulation nor any other fancy convolutions)

EAS single tone (AM radio) 1050 hz sine-wave

For iOS, http://sgenerator.scorpionzzz.com/en/index.html is a full-featured signal generator.
Ask HN: What happened to 'effusive' in 1866?
If you do a Google search for 'effusive', and then click on 'Translations, word origin, and more definitions' you see the start of a hockey stick graph while 'effusive' gets users.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=effusive

What happened in 1866 that made this word popular? And why did growth hit a plateau around 1900?

Is there something we could learn about virality just by studying word popularity?
We talk about this a bunch in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwIyenCaSXk

The TLDR is:

* We like templates, and were able to implement a more efficient algorithm using them (even more than the recent improvements in Babel).

* Compatibility is important to us, so HTMLBars was going to be a much better transition story for Ember 1.x than JSX.

* We prefer an HTML-centric templating story (copy/paste valid HTML and it works) over an XML strategy that requires camelCasing, className/htmlFor, etc.

* We optimized Glimmer for a hybrid (rerender + subscriptions to the model or service layer) model that can opportunistically avoid work based on knowledge we have from the whole stack.
WTF? I can't believe this is the top comment.

I don't believe in life after death, but I do believe that the world will continue to exist after I die. And in that world, chances are good that my wife and kid will still be alive, but I will not be earning money to support them. Planning for that scenario is not stupid at all. It has nothing to do with how I or anyone else will feel, unless you count "hungry" as a feeling.
Clickable link: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=effusive

Serendipitously, someone submitted a similar story just 3 minutes before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9573862
You want $1,000,000 to get the report of life span experiments?
Here [1] is a page with lots of neat proofs of the solution of the Basel problem.

[1]: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/8337/different-metho...
>> There is nothing more stupid than doing a will or getting life insurance.

This is extraordinarily variable based on where you are in your life. If you have a lot of assets or a family that depends on your income, a will and life insurance can make sense. If you are like me, a single, 26 year old who has a decent job, some assets, but that's it, it's a waste of time and money.
The industrialization of the US happened similar to many other industrializing nations before and since and it has a lot to do with IP theft, not just a little. It is a recurring story throughout history: create, succeed and get bypassed. It's not a mistake. It's how the game of empires is played. It's part of how 3rd world countries become 1st world countries. China is no exception.

The US is always demanding 3rd world countries to stay 3rd world because it suits us. If necessary the US will bomb you if you don't play by "the rules". How moral is that?
I have high hopes for this. It feels like Google already has best-in-class features (stuff like Auto-Awesome), but the Google+ integration was holding it back.

Speaking personally, I certainly didn't want to upload my private photos to a social network service where they could inadvertently become public.
> But on controversial issues they tend to appear neutral (offering no opinion) while at the same time couching the questions and loading their questions.

I disagree with this as a general characterization. I do think it's true that NPR presents a neutral facade while most of the hosts and commentators harbor leftist views under the surface (or in their public life), but I think in general they make a pretty good effort to present both sides of an issue without demonizing one side, and I think this is especially noticeable during the discussion of controversial ideas. A big difference between NPR (i.e. radio on the left) and the rest (i.e. conservative talk radio) is that the standard for debate on NPR is "a veneer of respect"; this doesn't mean that debates don't get heated or at times end up lopsided, but you won't find NPR hosts openly lambasting conservatism as a mental disease, or referring to right-leaning callers as morons or unpatriotic or terrorist supporters or really anything along those lines. NPR is very far from perfect, but IMO they at least shoot for an ideal that keeps the dialog open for discussion.

> but they try to hide it, which, to me, is more perverse than the blatant left and blatant right, who at least aren't pretending to be objective.

I don't think they're trying to hide it, it's more that their journalistic ethos ostensibly respects the idea of neutral reporting, thus keeping partisanship at least within the range of plausible deniability, similar to how agents of the government give constant lip-service to the ideals of the constitution but regularly run around it in practice or in spirit when it suits their needs. It's true that many of the politically elite don't respect the constitution, but some really do and the rest have to at least pretend like they do whenever possible because that's the ideal that the people want to be true. Journalism is similar; pretending to be unbiased does produce reporting with less bias.
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The changes were the only change we needed to make in 1.x to be compatible with FastBoot.

It sucks that new Ember CLI apps trigger the deprecation. We should get that fixed :)
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Creator of Sidebar here. You're right, it's not the best showcase of Meteor. The reason it's this way is because it's running on a very old fork of Telescope (http://telescopeapp.org), and I haven't had time to update it.

But you make some good points. Meteor is not for everything, and if I had known from the start that Sidebar would end up being just a list of links I might have used a different stack (like Rails, or even a static site generator).
@ lazaroclapp
I never mentioned state sanctioned theft of IP. You brought it up first.
He didn't want to live an ok life and fix his problems.

This is a man who wanted to find a way to the very top.
HN voting rings are fairly tough to actually get working. I doubt this site used one. Also, a small number of upvotes from varying accounts (in terms of age, location, reputation, etc) can cause a post to hit the front page.
It would be interesting to see something like this with but tweaked to produce sounds like, say, the background bleep bloop perchweeep noises in Star Trek.
You assume they can get to 'monopoly'(how do you define monopoly? 80% 90% 100%?). In an actual free market that will rarely, if ever happens. When has that actually occurred? (government backed cartels don't count)
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I actually do. I'm arguing a lot in this thread, but I stopped watching game of thrones around season three. I maybe pirate a movie every 8 or 10 weeks or something? I have young kids and a startup job. :) And I have Netflix (Canadian version, no vpn, so like 1/4 the content as in the US) for when I have some free time. But frankly I do prefer books (again, audible.com is the best)

That said, content distribution is completely broken outside the US, so I'm going to shed exactly one tiny crocodile tear for HBO when I do decide to get back into game of thrones. And I sure as hell won't be paying for it, unless they give me some sane options.
I think so, because just the fact that mathematicians are using Coq and other tools means that it has already begun. But the big important changes aren't what happens at the Phd level. It's what happens down at the ordinary level of arithmetic and the sorts of notation that are useful for doing ordinary computations. Public schools need to be using J [1] as a way of both expanding notation and a practical way of leveraging the computer as a mathematical instrument.

Infix operation and order of precedence make sense when we're working with pencils...well ok order of precedence beyond nesting with parenthesis doesn't make sense then either...but why make a computer notation constrained by rules that happen to have grown up around manual process?

[1] http://jsoftware.com
Here are some other locations worth looking at:

http://www.jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=687&t=Software%20...
It's absolutely essential. Every new programmer's going to start off as "stupid" in the context of a company's unique selling proposition.
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this is really really fast.
But does life end at 38?
I disagree about needless losses. Hitting a bridge with dumb bombs is extremely hard, let alone actually destroying it. With unguided bombs, they just had to drop enough of them and hope law of chances work in their favor. Stomping on a 150,000 army doesn't require much accuracy on the other hand, especially compared to dropping a bridge.

It was always that way with bombing from planes, until guided bombs/missiles came out.
Just because they've raised $20M doesn't mean every single positive comment about Meteor is part of their "PR machine". How do you know people are not genuinely happy with it?

Disclaimer: I'm one of these "wide-eyed open-source evangelists", I guess.
With my handle (@go), I get a store in Poland.
This strikes me as naive and wishful, bordering on ignorant. Perhaps /he/ knows how to act ethically and idealistically despite relying advertising money, but he must see how the entire remainder of the news/media industry is not able to do so. This suggestion comes at precisely the wrong time, when the ideal that media should be for a common good is utterly gone beyond lip service now and then.
You only need to keep the master password at bank; you can freely update/distribute the encrypted file.

Some sort of secret sharing scheme [1] seems like it would work well here. You can distribute parts of a key so that any 3 of 5 people (or whatever) can work together to recover the key. Unfortunately I don't know of any practical way to do this without kludging together your own system.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing
Then you're not actually talking about UTF-16 but rather UCS-2
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Not to mention Drupal is its own little disaster.
Suppose one company buys another company outright. Should that company keep its customer list (effectively transferring it to the new owner), or throw it away, ditch all its customers, and start from square 1? Would you be happy as a customer if you were told that because your cellphone company had been bought, your contract is cancelled and they can't offer you another one, you have to go to the store and start over? Would you be happy as an employee of this company being bought?

Now, suppose the purchasing company isn't buying the entire business, but (say) half of it? What's changed? (This is roughly what is being proposed here)
No shit. That's what I meant. You got pedantic about unrelated details about the past.
Not dying and living life is both selfish and (one hopes) better for your loved ones.

But that's hard. It means you have to be healthy. Reduce stress. Spend quality time with people.

Filling out a will is an easy escape.

Doing the best for yourself and loved ones is hard. The second half of the article touches on this.
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