skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And more than that, I'd say. People who are truly brilliant in one area can often get away with being absolutely, irredeemably stupid in another because nothing in their environment ever forces them to deal with their stupidity.

A brilliant engineer can have an amazing, world-changing technical career without ever realizing that he'd be 10x more effective with better social and leadership skills. Whether one sees that truth about themselves has much more to do with their personality and temperament than it does with their intelligence or expertise (IMO).
Someone described this as "high WTF factor".

http://larseidnes.com/2015/01/05/the-wtf-factor-quantifying-...
Cool post! After a fair bit of trial and error, we've got a pretty robust JSON Schema for the PerformanceTiming API here:

https://github.com/snowplow/iglu-central/blob/master/schemas...

We send that in as a custom context in the Snowplow JavaScript Tracker:

https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker/blob...
If you liked this, you might also enjoy: http://flowingdata.com/

(Great. It seems I've turned into a recommendation bot :)
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It is a lot of work being an executor. Even more stressful if someone challenges the will. I was recently involved (as a beneficiary) in an estate where someone challenged the will, and I'm glad the solicitor was the executor and not me!

I know someone who is a beneficiary and an executor of an estate currently nearly £10,000 in debt countering a challenge of a will (as the beneficiary, not the executor, however).
This bugged me a bit too, but to be fair, it was "two weeks setting up my dev environment ... and learning MySQL and PHP." Plus I'm sure she spent plenty of time just talking to people.
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Thank you for clarifying my post. I am not a pilot. I am a software engineer (retired). I worked briefly on the C-130J mission computer operating system, then on the maintenance software the ground crews used to maintain the aircraft.

I did not know that there was a situation when a flight crew would continue a take off after an engine failure but before rotation.
If you start mapping, shuffle again! ^_^
> If nobody knows what purity means, then what are all those tortured discussions on whether Haskell is pure or not about? ...

They're about what purity means!
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Yes, because that experiment would be about as helpful, if not more, as studying the logistics of sending a group of people to Mars.
Because they allow some DRY. Compare

x->y[z] = 42 + x->y[z];

with

x->y[z] += 42;

And, historically, because it is a huge improvement on the erparlier

x->y[z] =+ 42;
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Even if the FTC wins, this case will not establish a general precedent that consumer data is not transferable.

The issue here is whether RadioShack may sell the consumer data when its privacy policy said it would never do so.

Whatever the result of this case, it won't apply where the privacy policy permits transfer in bankruptcy (as most now do).
There already is a term: freestanding. A program that can be executed without a runtime or an operating system present. Bare metal refers to software that runs natively on the "bare metal", as opposed to with an interpreter.
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I can answer that ;)

ES6 is groovy. Many features are in the runtime and not the syntax, and just work as-is. As other syntaxful features start to come into existence and then universal implementation in most active browsers, CoffeeScript should begin offering them -- at least the ones that align with the mission statement.

Some will be troublesome because of intentional syntax conflicts, like "for of" and perhaps classes. It'll just take a bit of design work to make things copacetic.

That said, in the long run, the future is going to be JavaScript (if it continues to evolve) and languages that are much more radical than CoffeeScript. For more thoughts on that, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DspYurD75Ns&t=36m57s
that was a fun way to waste a few minutes! thanks!
Very true, like with most things in life, balance is key. Full stack developer who's emphases is X is a grate candidate, assuming X is what you are looking for. Full stack developer who is "great" at everything is probably not so much. My personal attitude in life is to know as much as I care about subjects which are my core competency and are most interesting to me, and know enough about other fields to be able to competently hire an expert in those fields, and be able to spot instances when that expert is bullshitting me.
I, for one, welcome our new digital overlords!
Well that blog certainly lives up to its' name! Fascinating!

Has anybody ever worked out what he did?
Firstly, I agree with your firstly - too much nicey nicey is a bit boring.

Secondly, I agree with the OP. In fact I am fairly sure most of HN does because we look at something like Apple where the clear winner is the one who took the time to build the best technology and product together. And yet when we look at poor technology still achieving market dominance we realise something is off kilter - the market signals are not working correctly.

It does matter that the underside of the stone is painted too.
Dropping in a gem doesnt explain how I embed it into my views. Maybe I'm confused about the use cases.
This is really interesting, particularly because there's no mention of problems. Many isolation experiments haven't ended with everyone happy with each other, so I'm curious if this team had any of the same issues. Does anyone know?

If they didn't have issues, I wonder how much could be chalked up to the teamwork they experienced while playing counter strike...
A friend and I had been saying for years that we wanted to visit the NRAO and see the radio telescope. A friend of ours had done graduate work on the predecessor of the current telescope. We finally picked a weekend in the Fall of 2006 and I went online to get directions and stuff, only to discover that we had, by shear coincidence, picked the 50th anniversary open house day!

The drive from the Washington, DC, area took us over several mountains, which, this being fall, were beautiful with fall foliage. The Quiet Zone really is in the middle of nowhere, and coming across this Mad Science facility there made us feel like we'd stumbled across a James Bond villain lair.

It was a great day to visit, they had more of the facility open to visitors than usual. We were given, for free, disposable film cameras to take down to the antenna, since our digital cameras would have been too noisy! The antenna is amazing, they had it moving and it was nearly silent and smooth as a precision watch.

The 60th anniversary will be next year, it may be time for a return visit.
I'm a generalist myself. I've become decent at a wide-ranging set of skills - cooking, feminist lit-crit, Arabic drumming, odd things like that. I've become a good but not awesome expert at a few things - configuration management, guitar, and others.

An important exception to this entertaining aphorism is observed in the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition. Becoming an Expert (in the five level Dreyfus model) in something makes it much easier to become Competent or Proficient in other things. This has certainly been my experience, as things I learn in one area apply to learning others.

The result is that people who never commit to expertise in anything struggle to achieve proficiency, or even competence in anything. They're neither generalists nor specialists... they're just trapped.
Don't helicopters behave similar to rockets as regards CG properties? I would think the Pendulum Rocket Fallacy would apply here too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket_fallacy

In fact a large fuselage hanging down from below the rotor can cause a helicopter to become unstable. If the helicopter rolls, the rotor will slip sideways, gaining horizontal speed. The drag on the fuselage below the rotor will cause the helicopter to roll further, causing increased slip and increased horizontal speed, hences increased roll. To avoid this the rotors will have dihedral (they're angled upwards slightly). This is what gives stability.

Somewhat counterintuitively, a helicopter is actually more stable in roll if the fuselage is above the rotor, but that usually makes it hard to land safely:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Q27ho2szWCoC&pg=PA346#v=...
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Oh really? I'm not sure how I missed that all this time. Is it a newer feature? I don't recall it in the H Store paper or in any of the docs I read. In fact I recall sync vs async logging to be a decision/tradeoff. And there used to be a rather large emphasis on choosing s good k factor, and it certainly seemed to be about durability. Otherwise, it's just another normal HA thing, no big deal? As in k 0 is a perfectly fine setup, if logging is enabled?
I'm kind of surprised that they had books and videogames, but then it's not supposed to be a prison. I guess it's feasible to play Counter Strike on Mars after all.
He was too focused on finding loopholes in rules of the world he lived in and did not realise there are robbers who didn't adhere to rules at all, robbers who made their own hole in his house.
Articles about the charges filed so far:

Austria: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A...

Luxembourg: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...
Context: the conference at which the talk is presented:

"The Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information (Ei/PSI) organizes a 1-day event on Security in Times of Surveillance on Friday, 08 May 2015. The event will take place at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the Blauwe Zaal. It features eight invited talks covering technical as well as legal and political aspects of security and surveillance. The program closes with a viewing of the CITIZENFOUR film."

Then read the disclaimer of the presentation which you certainly skipped.
If you have a big estate see a lawyer.

If you don't, or cash strapped now, you can get by with Nolo press. If you can understand ROR, and programming, after reading their two books on wills and trusts, I think you can
set up a trust and will, and skip the lawyer.

On the will get two signatures from people not in the will, and it does not need to be notarized in California. If you want to exclude a child out of a estate you must explicitly state that in the will.(Some kids got a lot of cash early on. Explain to them you love them. Make sure they are doing well, if you exclude them.) I recently did a will for a friend. Her daughter took all the family money when her father died--leaving her mother with nothing. The ironic part is her daughter is a multimillionaire in LA, with a successful business. She took advantatage of a bad situation, and a angry dying man. So yes, I didn't feel it was immoral to exclude her from the will of that friend.
> I think PBI does de-duplication at the package manager level by manipulating hard-links to common files, rather than installing multiple copies.

Which is, itself, a bad reinvention of Plan 9's Venti filesystem. Having one, or two, or a million files on disk containing the same data should take up as much space as having just one. "Hard links" are a policy-level way to express shared mutability; deduplication of backing storage, meanwhile, should be a mechanism-level implementation detail.
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Because swearing in an interview is unprofessional.
These arguments are so stupid to me. Joe Consumer has X amount of dollars to spend on entertainment.

Joe Consumer can find various ways of maximizing his dollars. $15 of that goes to Spotify so that he and his wife can listen to whatever music they please whenever, wherever they want (except Taylor Swift because she has a mansion in Rhode Island to pay for).

Joe Consumer would rather not pay $70 to buy Frozen on three devices, one on Blu-Ray to watch on his television, the Apple Store to watch it on an iPad on the way to Disneyland and Google Play on the Nexus Tablet after taking the kids to the theatre to watch said movie for $50 all the while hosting a Frozen themed birthday party... He would rather tell the studios to go fuck themselves and download it.

so yea, I don't want to pay for it because I feel a bit cheated that I must pay three times for the same thing.and apparently I'm an asshole because Disney isn't getting every god damn cent of entertainment dollar they are entitled to according to piracy police like you. The Rent is too damn high.

As for the musicians not getting paid, please... anybody can pick up a guitar and become a musician and post it on the internet. That does not entitle anyone to be paid for it. Nobody is shedding tears for Taylor Swift's inability to make money.
Over and out with Grooveshark – good riddance
Agreed. Using the tools is a very different thing from knowing why they work.

Additionally, I wonder how easily this can be adapted to other planes besides the 747. How much does it rely on cabin width/length?
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There's actually a whole section[1] of the bankruptcy code that requires precisely that. The court can even appoint a special consumer privacy ombudsman as it determines what data may be transferred.

[1]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/11/332
Probably to lower overhead associated with C language features, similar to the reason why many people write things in C instead of a higher level language.
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The situation with chickenpox is actually quite complicated. The vaccine is not routinely offered in the UK.

They say something interesting, which is that adults get a boost to their immunity whenever they are exposed to the virus (as most parents are).

If children were vaccinated, then adults who had had chickenpox would not receive this boosting effect and it could cause a higher incidence of shingles in the adult population.

Because chickenpox is mostly harmless in childhood, they reason that it's better to just hope that as many children as possible catch it, and vaccinate the adolescents that don't.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/chickenpox-v...
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Seems a sad waste of a life. A shame - I wonder what turns a boy into that man?
Author here, pun totally intended. Sorry. :)
I have handed the CMS keys for Ghost to non-technical people with good results. There's no doubt that it's more limited (especially in terms of plugin ecosystem) than WP, but that lack feels liberating. No need to agonize over which contact form plugin is the right one to go with, etc. And Ghost is certainly snappy [0].

[0]: http://blog.appdynamics.com/nodejs/an-example-of-how-node-js...
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I suppose if CoffeeScript were reimplemented from scratch today, it would make sense to compile to an ES6 AST that could be passed on to Babel for further processing and code generation.
Exactly. Coming from a different background (not CS), Meteor is a great place to start. The barriers to entry are really low and specially the risk is also very low: it's javascript ,"late bloomers" can't afford to learn something that might not be directly useful if their bet turn out a loss.

I am all in.
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That sounds super complicated compared to good old FM radio.
I have a few devices with 4 to 16mb of flash - an 8kb web server would be very useful*

*Granted, it's the wrong arch for those, MIPS would help me.
Interesting. I'd thought that "The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a message-passing system was first described by Lamport in 1990 in a tech report that was widely considered to be a joke [1]" was pretty much the standard interpretation.

Perhaps i'd read the Turing award writeup to literally. "Unfortunately the setting as a Greek parable made the paper difficult for most readers to comprehend, and it took nine years from submission to publication in 1998. But the 1989 DEC technical report did get noticed. Lamport's colleague Butler Lampson evangelized the idea to the distributed computing community [19]. Shortly after the publication of Paxos, Google's Chubby system and Apache's open-source ZooKeeper offered State Machine Replication as an external, widely-deployed service."

It's a little odd, nobody seems to have actually used it before oh, say 2000 or so, but maybe it was in secret proprietary kinds of stuff.

[1] http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/pinewiki/Paxos.html

[2] http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm
With the greatest respect, pseudoscience often congregates near other pseudoscience.

Further, you haven't provided any scientific information – merely an abstract from an unpublished presentation. Since ARTAC appears to be essentially a one-man organisation around Belpomme, and indeed bears many of the usual hallmarks of pseudoscientific sources, claims made should bear great scrutiny. Published, peer-reviewed studies would be required, at the very least.

Given that large-scale, peer-reviewed, double-blind studies have consistently failed to find any evidence that electromagnetic sensitivity exists, compelling evidence to the contrary would have to be presented. In the absence thereof, skepticism is more than justified!
One person may not, but a group certainly can. You might have several candidates, each of whom at least someone doesn't like, and end up choosing one that everyone can "settle on".

You could also be so desperate for growth that you hire someone with high hopes knowing full well it's a bigger risk that you'd want to take if you had more time to choose properly.
Once you have started a business, built a product, found a way to market to profitable customers and now need to hire an employee, I say 80% of the "I need 10x people" part is over.

Founding a company is hard - so hard I fucked it up. You need to be 10x. Then you can hire who you like.
Depends on what you're doing. I'm needing it for my thesis -> app and will probably use ShareJS for now.
It's incredible they need thousands of employees to do what these guys do with a few:

http://www.menuetos.net/
Is it really that bad though, for an internship? I've never done a development/tech internship but my assumption is that interns aren't expected to do "real" work right away, and part of what they get from being an intern is learning how things are set up in a professional environment...

And in this case, it's not just learning, but contributing something to a live production, one that could potentially be seen by millions of people (case in point, NYT's most viewed feature of 2013 was a project built by an intern)...2 weeks sounds about appropriate for not just learning the parts of the stack and environment, but that there even is such a thing as environment and dependencies.

Also, to be fair to the OP, she says (emphasis added): "I spent the first two weeks setting up my environment — apparently a necessary evil in the real world — and learning MySQL and PHP."

[1] http://knightlab.northwestern.edu/2014/01/20/behind-the-dial...
For some of the websites I have had to maintain in Joomla, it would be much more efficient for the company if I converted to Wordpress and the writers use that.

Wordpress is easy to use. With plugins, such as advanced custom fields, you can do even more. I've impressed many clients with how easy to use the "website's CMS" in turn around times they have never experienced before.

The code is shocking. The plugin architecture is, well, not really designed at all. Theme design the same. It's just impossible to match it with the number of extensions, the ease of use and my development speed as a result.
I have absolutely no idea what Brave actually is, even after watching the video. But nice to hear that Meteor can handle this. I would not want to see the Modulus bill... But still shows that performance in Meteor is very much following the 80/20 rule. Don't mess up the basics and Moore's Law will help you out.
I'm certainly no expert on ancient Athenian history, but this:

The Republic in Athens was based on the lottery and it lasted literally for centuries.

Does not appear to be correct. It does appear that a lottery was part of the Assembly/Ekklesia process[0]. Specifically, the Assembly elected the Boule by lottery[1]. The original Boule (established by the statesman Salon[2]) was established in 594 BC. However, the lottery for these positions was not introduced until 508 BC, and initially only allowed for the top 3 "property classes" and only to those over 30. It wasn't until the mid-5th century that all 4 property classes were allowed to attend. Additionally, they were chosen by lot, but only from those who chose (or were able) to attend. This left the poorer citizens out of luck until pay was instituted for these positions[4]. Also, unlike a true lottery, it was still left to "people who want to be in charge" since the lottery was only for those who attended. Then in 322 A.D, Macedony put the kabosh on democracy in Athens. So the lottery was only in place for about 180 years, didn't enitirely replace the existing Areopagus and made up a part of the Ekklesia, and was limited to 400.

I don't really see that as a good basis for the conslusion of "The Republic in Athens was based on the lottery and it lasted literally for centuries.". It was certainly a nice research exercise as I know little about ancient Greek forms of democracy.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy "The officials of the democracy were in part elected by the Assembly and in large part chosen by lottery."

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesia_(ancient_Athens) "The ecclesia elected by lot annually the Boule or council."

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy "In 594 BC Solon is said to have created a boule of 400 to guide the work of the assembly."

[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boule_(ancient_Greece)#The_Athe... "Under the reforms of Cleisthenes enacted in 508/507 BC, the boule ... were chosen by lot at the deme level,"

[4] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boule_(ancient_Greece)#The_Athe... " At some point in the late 5th century, pay was instituted for those serving in the boule; this may have been a way to encourage poorer citizens to volunteer, who would otherwise be reluctant to serve."
The requirements are often 1-100 microsecond response time and absolutely no memory allocation. But I guess those could be met?
This reminds me of many good principals of writing code.
Not sure if you meant founding or funding. I'm assuming funding.

I was one of the many that thought "meh, rsync" about dropbox. I still do. About the technology.

To be honest, I don't think I gave the business side much thought at the time (I hadn't given much thought to the idea of a sustainable business, other than "make more than you spend"). That said, I think it was obvious to me even before the success how this could be a product people would pay to use. It's crap (for my use cases) -- but it is useful.

Funding mediocrity isn't bad. Funding is about returns -- not beauty.

And talking about founding: I think founding mediocrity is genius. You just have to find un-serviced mediocrity. Like dropbox. Awful idea - but also great idea. Crappy tech (see: security holes).

But it works. People leverage dropbox to increase their productivity. That is great stuff. I'm not sure if it makes me a worse or better developer to think that I'm happy I didn't make dropbox. But I'm certain it makes me a worse business person. I'm fine with that -- but I can still recognize success in that arena.