skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have so much a problem with the intent of the statement, but that it is misleading. Ordered execution is basically function composition, which is one of the most fundamental parts of math you'll learn. That function composition isn't commutative is nothing new, and it's something that mathematicians have to deal with every day (automorphism groups, linear algebra, functional analysis, the Collatz conjecture, whatever). Nor is it dangerous, and you aren't going to avoid function composition in a functional programming language, either.

The reason why it can become problematic is that the simple way of having mutable state is to model it as having a huge global ball of state that just gets threaded through every function as an argument. But you don't have to do it this way, and methods have been developed to do it better. See, e.g., schemas in Z (the specification language) and its refinement calculus. That very few languages (other than Eiffel and Ada/SPARK) have tried to actively go down that path is a different issue.

You can also have non-functional programming that only ever modifies a function's local state, which makes reasoning about mutability much easier. Object capability languages do this (for pretty much the obvious reasons) and ParaSail is an example of a language trying to exploit this property for concurrency. And, of course, you can do it voluntarily in any decent imperative programming language, too.

You can also relax functional programming's requirement for referential transparency a bit and get other interesting trade-offs. For example, if you have write once semantics rather than full immutability, you get a different concurrency model (what several concurrent logic programming languages have tried to exploit), which is in many ways more interesting than one based on immutability. And, of course, logic programming is also an attempt of "describing what is".
There is an on-line example from the book (about feedback control of on-line advertising) here: http://toyproblem.github.io/ad-feedback-control/
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I wrote most of the Wikipedia article on the USA Patriot Act many years ago when I was deeply involved in Wikipedia. I read the entire Act and chased down every regulation, part of the U.S. Code that was modified and tried to write a balanced explanation of the controversies surrounding it.

I wrote so much material that I wrote seperate articles on each of the sections of the Act. I recommend reading the bit on section 215 to understand what it entails:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_summary_of_the_Patriot_...
Water is one of the by-products of the combustion reaction, regardless of what fuel is used.
Car payments will eat you alive. Get a car you can pay cash for. My daily driver is worth about $500. Everything is cheaper for an older car - repairs, insurance, taxes, and no payments. The savings are enormous.
To me ISIS is right up there with the Nazis. So let's go all out and get this done with!

You know, it was only when really forced to deal with things that we intervened with the Nazis. They were decent business partners otherwise.
>But blaming the property owners for high rents is sort of blaming the messenger, no?

In the Bay Area, property owners directly influence the community rules and laws that restrict the construction of high density developments. This is the case in both SV and SF.

I don't blame the land owners -- they are acting in their self interest, as they have the right to be doing.
There's something to this... Good BBQ tends to be very time- and labor-intensive. Once a place gets popular enough, something has to give - city joints can't so easily just build another pit and drop a few more picnic tables out in the parking lot. So whether the price goes up or standards slide, some of the fans will go looking for a new source.

Do this a few times and you maybe start to get wise to the idea that raving about your new hangout isn't very smart if you want to continue going there on a regular basis.
So your contention is that all these people's families are perfectly fine with them going to the Levant for a little sun and frolic? If they have such a support base for all these terrible things then why do they have to hide where they are going? I'm no friend to organized religion, but I remember enough about the so-called rules of jihad to remember that you need your father's permission. When you start going on about "the Muslims" you're the mirror image of all these assholes like Qaradawi that go on about "one Ummah" and the "rope of Allah"
It may well be a pipe dream, but I am simply waiting for the day when open sourced 3d printable goods are being designed and improved by more and more "consumers". It may not ever happen on the scale I would like to see it happen, but that model of pull (rather than the current pushing of new goods on people followed by a sales cycle) is much more appealing to me. Maybe people don't really know what they want and are more slaves to advertising that I would like to believe.
Serious question.

What kind of skills of knowledge or experience do you have to have so that you take more than quarter million of dollars??? Incredible!!
btw, Expose is now called Mission Control
What the Shiite militias did in Tikrit[1] is an isolated incident? 100 people minimum missing is an isolated incident? I guess snowflakes don't make up snowballs after all...

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/04/07/398004441/a...
I have no interest in selling in the near future, but I'm curious whether anyone in this thread has a sense of what kind of multiple an ad- and affiliate-supported site like www.autotempest.com would bring. It's not recurring revenue in terms of recurring billing like a SaaS, but revenue and user base are very highly correlated.
> Also, in the USA, there are rules limiting what you can say about a former employee.

You can't defame former employees but you can say true things about them. State laws, generally speaking, do not prohibit you from saying (true) stuff about former employees, in fact some have clauses protecting you from defamation lawsuits. At the most basic level it's a 1st amendment right, the Constitution doesn't have a secret section on employment law.
Alibaba's UC Browser found leaking users' data
Why not Cygwin?
Wall Street's New Financial Product: Your Rent Check
Patrick McKenzie touches on it a bit in his blog: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/. Search for the part where it says "Don't have a wife?"
Ha, I'll try to pass it on. Patagonia has a lot of roots in Bozeman. I remember visiting once, and they had a warehouse and office of about 10 people for a period in the 90's. Good folks.

They tend to value the places that matter.
> Well, now that I think about it I also undervalued myself and almost didn't apply to university thinking that I would not get accepted.

Between that sentence and the rest of your comment, I think you're still seriously undervaluing yourself.

> I think that you are right in that I should work on a visible Open Source project, even if only contributing in small bugs and documentation. Eventually, and with at least some projects under my belt I hope I can land a small position somewhere.

Small bugs and documentation are a good start. You should also consider working on a more substantial feature, the kind of thing that will take you weeks or more to complete. Something of the size that you can point to that project and that feature and say "I did that".

Pick a project you regularly use, that has a friendly and welcoming community around it. Learn how to build it from source, try a couple of very small patches at first (much easier for a project that has a very new-developer-friendly community), and then seek out a substantial project to work on. Most projects have a wishlist of items that they'd work on if they had more time.

> Yet, I don't feel exploited at all because the money issue was discussed with me in an upfront manner and I have not done any amount of work yet. And besides, it is a position that offers experience that I can put later on my CV and potentially eventually it will lead to a paying job.

They're not being underhanded in the sense of bait-and-switch; they've certainly told you up front. However, what they're not telling you is how the rest of the market would value your skills. Internships in CS, as a general rule, are paid, and reasonably well at that; certainly far above minimum wage. Go look up intern salaries at major companies. Ask around and find out what other students have done. (And I don't just mean at your own university, or even in your own country.)

(Depending on the nature of the arrangement, I'd also be surprised that they're not in some way violating labor laws by having you work for free, but that's not an avenue you want to pursue.)

> So in a sense, isn't it riskier to not accept this offer?

> I dunno, I still have some doubts...

You have a year left in school, and you have your whole life ahead of you. Don't set the precedent of being willing to work for free. And after you do graduate, do some reading about negotiation before you accept your first job offer. If you go into either an internship or your first job with the stance you're taking now, you're going to spend your whole career being underpaid.
This is not a ridiculous statement. You should inform on the theory -- there are many basis for morality modeled by theories as diverse game theory, social dynamics, utility theory and evolutionary dynamics.

Of course, I wouldn't dare say a single definition is unequivocally better or something, but there are models.

I think a large part of the world lacks even baseline education and stability that would be required to make a principled choice on morality. And then (specially in that region) there are complicated matters such as religious fanaticism and ethical rivalry -- things which hopelessly lack even self-consistency in the scientific sense.
You seem to be saying "[T]he law that is supposed to be the written, clear representation of the moral behind it. If you want to challenge [a given law], first you have to [change that law to recognize as valid the point that you wish to talk about].". Am I wrong?

Then, your statement can be better phrased as "Illegal things are always illegal for a good and proper reason. It's improper and non-productive to discuss whether or not the things that they make illegal should be illegal.".

This is an indefensible statement.

Here are a few relatively harmless, or -in some cases- everyday things that are or were illegal in parts or all of the US:

* Oral and anal sex between unmarried persons (known in the state as "Deviate sexual intercourse") is currently (at the time of this writing) illegal in the State of Alabama. [0] What is "Deviate sexual intercourse"? "Any act of sexual gratification between persons not married to each other involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another." [1]

* Polygamy and polygyny are illegal in the US. [2]

* Until recently, gay marriage was illegal across the entire US. Now, it's just illegal in significant parts of it. [3]

* Less than a hundred years ago, it was illegal for women to vote in the US. [4]

* Marijuana consumption and production is still very illegal in much of the US, and is considered by the Federal government to be just as bad as heroin, crack, and cocaine consumption and production.

Bad law gets made all the time. What's more, the values of a population tend to change more rapidly than the laws that govern their behavior. Bad, or no-longer-useful laws continue to be enforced for ages before they get struck down (if they ever get struck down).

One critical part of the process that prunes useless law is earnest public discussion of the applicability of the law. Silencing earnest honest discussion of the form "If this illegal behavior actually causes no harm, should it be illegal?" is troubling and harmful, as this sort of discussion is a huge part of how improper laws are removed.

[0] http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/codeofalabama...

[1] http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/codeofalabama...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_polygamy#North_...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...
Google search did't help, so I have to ask: What is a "FNAC app"? Thank you.
Why do all typing programs force you to type in line with the text you are copying? Either one mistake propagates and you can ruin an entire line by double typing some letter or the thing blocks until you hit the correct one.

Why is there not just a sample text and a simple text box that you type the entire sample into? Then your product can be diffed against the source and an accuracy rating calculated? This actually matches the normal typing experience.
The stock market will, on average, do better than 10%/year. There will be some -50% years along the way, though.

To get 10% with zero volatility, you have to invest with Bernard Madoff.
Not to rain on this parade, but I think we're a long way off from having a generic method to 3D print a wide variety of things that are of useful and respectable quality.

It's kind of like generic programming frameworks: the more generic a framework is, the more generic its output, and the less tailored to the needs and human nuances of the end user. The highest quality experiences are often layers of abstraction gradually growing more human and more unique as they get closer to the user.

3D printing can achieve a level of quality in many ways and for many purposes, but it remains to be seen if it can reproduce the important levels above the logical.
Customers/users abandoning a product when they learn it is for sale.
Show HN: ImageS3 supports animated GIF resizing now
Oh, FFS, I write a free terminal emulator with a fraction of the users of PuTTY, I pay $100/year to sign it, and O($100)/year in hosting + CA fees. Donations cover it easily.
A few tips for people using PIDs:

The best way (tm :-) to tune PIDs is by looking at the open loop response of the system. This isn't terribly hard to measure in a live system but unfortunately very few PID implementations actually support this. You can do this with some commercial controllers. Once you do that (and assuming a close to linear system) you can see your stability margin and actually see the impact of changing the loop parameters on those. ( http://www.mathworks.com/help/slcontrol/ug/open-loop-respons... ) Without this it is very difficult to figure out the limiting factor.

A lot of systems need additional filters over the PID. Expensive commercial motion controllers implement those in their control loops. Without those additional filters the performance you can get using PID in those systems will be very limited.

Lastly feed-forward can really help closed loop systems. The closer you can get the system to follow your command using feed-forward the less your closed loop controller needs to deal with. The simplest example is acceleration feed-forward in motion control.
Am I correct in assuming that if I have generated a 2048 bit dhparam.pem file which I pass to my web server, I am not using one of those "same few primes"?
Many employers have a policy of only giving job title and dates of employment, to prevent any possible lawsuit. However, if you say it with sufficient disgust in your voice, it'll be obvious that you're giving a negative reference.

Even if what you are saying is true, that still doesn't mean it can't lead to a lawsuit.
> The FBI employs a “classified directive” to define the term “U.S. Person” and that the agency cannot definitively say what information counts as “metadata.”

If you agree this is bullshit, tell your representatives. And vote.

These people work for us.
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"we should be able to treat this situation as urgently as things were handled in WWII."

The US went into WW II because of Pearl Harbor. We didn't go in after Hitler had invaded most of Europe. We did send war supplies but didn't send troops. The urgency was when Japan committed a formal and very humiliating act of war. So that's probably not a great example of the US treating things with urgency.

ISIS is odious, but given that we create the conditions for their existence due to previous rash military action, it would be wise to get a proper multilateral response with a full commitment and some actual hope to actually manage the aftermath with some chance of not having another horrifying group fill the power vacuum once we've stopped bombing. Realistically it's a hideous situation where if we grind ISIS into the dirt, we'll be elevating Iran's power in the region even more when we already got rid of Saddam's regime and replaced him with an Iranian puppet.
I don't like the word reform. I think the correct word is Repeal.

"Reforming" by bandaging over is not sufficient.

These "reform" bills can also be very long and end up containing things that make things works.

A repeal bill could be extremely short and succinct, sufficient for everyone to read it.

The PATRIOT ACT should never have been passed, and that it has persisted for so long, as far as I'm concerned, is proof positive that our government is a criminal enterprise. (IT's not following the constitution.)

Many liberals and conservatives over the years have told me that government works, that democracy works.

Well, the PATRIOT act is my refutation of that claim. IF you believe that democracy works, then it's time for you to work to really change things.

Excuse me for the "get off of my lawn" bit here- but when I was a kid the country really was different, it really was a lot more free. It's hard for people in their 20s to see it now because of the perspective of age, but if things continue in 20 years you'll be able to see it.
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>This article makes color sound very confusing by not setting a clear scope at the beginning. The resulting ambiguity is the source of "philosophical discussion".

The scope of the article is quite clear, and is the second thing: "perception in the mind of a creature with light receptors".

The article mentions that this second thing doesn't coincide with a direct mapping from the first thing ("light in varying wavelengths and intensities"), because that (as measured mechanically) can produce different perceptions of color for the same measures of wavelength and intensity (depending on surrounding colors, overall lighting and several other factors).

The philosophical discussion (without quotes) is not settled by saying we only want to investigate color as the second thing ("the perception in the mind of a creature with light receptors").

There are far too many philosophical issues in this alone.
As far as I can tell, they only deal with trademark assertion, not defense.
History is littered with accounts of people consummating marriages at ages far below 16. In many jurisdictions, this would be considered pedophilia.

Keeping in mind that -other than overall improvements in health- a man from Ancient Greece is physiologically no different from a man from Today's Greece, Is it your position that the husband or wife in these socially acceptable ancient marriages was a pedophile?

Either a "yes" or a "no" is a totally acceptable answer here. I'm interested in an earnest discussion; I'm not trying to lead you down a garden path or anything.
Your math does not add up. If your rental profits are $700/month (total for all 4 units), then your annual rental profits should be $8,400. For a property purchased for a total of $215,000, the depreciation should only be approximately $7800/year (straight line, 27.5 year recovery period), meaning that you should have annual taxable rental income of roughly $600.

Moreover, the amount of depreciation you can take (in total) does not increase with a change in the value of the asset; it's based on your "cost basis" in the asset. It only goes up if your costs in the asset increase, such as for property taxes paid, improvements, etc.

Finally, and this is a big one--the value of the land is excluded from the depreciation calculation--only the building and improvements to the property can be depreciated. So $215,000 is an upper bound on the recoverable amount--the properly depreciable amount is less than that, meaning that your annual depreciation should actually be less than $7800/year and that you should actually have more than $600/year in net rental income.

You need to talk to an accountant soon, because if you get audited you almost certainly will be paying back taxes and penalties.
FYI, HPG is the armed wing of the PKK, not a Yezidi militia.
Fair enough. I do very quickly skip stories that seem like a sitcom with fantasy elements thrown in. Then again, there are a lot of non-YA fantasy novels about broken people (teenage or adult) with highly non-fantastic problems; that seems to be a defining element of bad fiction for all ages, that it can't manage to escape the mundane. I have zero interest in reading about the everyday problems and situations of twentysomethings or thirtysomethings either.

Another good example of YA fantasy I've enjoyed that manages to dodge the trope: Diane Duane's Wizards series ("So you want to be a Wizard", "Deep Wizardry", "High Wizardry"), which seems to mostly stay away from typical teenager problems. The premise is not that novel, but in this case I found the execution quite satisfying, particularly in the second and third books. Without providing spoilers, I would note that the second book manages to avert one of the single most common tropes of YA fantasy novels (and of other series that avert it, most do so far later in a series). I'm also a big fan of "sufficiently descriptive language as magic" and "sufficiently analyzed magic", both of which these have quite a lot of.

(Note that I have not read the "updated" editions of these books that attempt to make some of the technology references less dated.)
If it's a totally dark forest (no lightsource, no photons at all), does the tree still make (or "have") a color?