skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regulation and legislation is – and should be– a choice of last resort for solving problems in the digital age. However, externalities are sometimes best managed via regulatory intervention. (Consider global climate change as one example.) Just as the federal government sets a minimum standard for motor vehicles on public highways (functional brakes, turn signals etc.), perhaps it is time to start discussing a standard of hygiene for the computing devices traveling our digital highways.

And this is, coincidentally, being proposed by Symmantec, who is a totally disinterested observer who wouldn't benefit at all from this restrictive legislation.
There are other systems which don't limit you to mad reduce patterns. For example HPCC.
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Brian May has since finished his PhD[1]. He actually seems pretty serious about astrophysics.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics
As individuals, yeah, but I know plenty of what goes on behind the scenes, and what goes on in the mailing lists is only a fraction of the story. A savvy registrar can have plenty of soft power if they know what they're doing.

BTW, you should get involved in the IETF provreg and eppext WGs: we need a stronger registrar voice there, and the more registrars involved, the better.
While both of those are completely unacceptable neither of them are people imprisoned and children taken away.
Yes, that must have been it. I don't remember anything about the look of the page, but his tone seems very familiar.
Same shit, pedantism sucks.
Not him but I also choose not to drink, so I'm in the same boat.

I'm vocal with my coworkers that I don't drink and that's why I do not attend many of the social outings. We have a lot of outings that don't center around or involve alcohol (ie. Gokarting) and I attend those. I make it a point that I'd rather they go have fun at a bar and I'll "sit this one out" rather than turning all events into "sober-friendly" events.

E:

Since it might be brought up... I politely decline offers to attend the bar gatherings and "just don't drink". I dislike being around drunk people - I find them annoying and having to repeat myself 20 times in conversation to be frustrating. Instead of ruining their fun experience with my irritated and increasingly unfriendly attitude - I stay at home and let them enjoy their time.
That's the one for Standard ML, yes. There are others for SML, some using proof assistants [1]. Other (S)ML extensions have formal semantics as well, and OCaml itself is partially specified [2].

[1] https://github.com/CakeML/cakeml

[2] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~so294/ocaml
Upvote for "Birds don't fly like bees", I like the freshness of not merely pointing out that "humans can do better", but that in effect there are several paths that avoid different constraints to get to the same point!
Since individual Bitcoin transactions can be as large as you like, you could conceivably double-spend tens of thousands of BTC in a single block. It's possible or even likely that there's nobody who would actually give you cash equivalents for tens of thousands of BTC without more precautions, but I don't see a clear limitation in the Bitcoin technology itself to limit how lucrative an isolated double spending attack could be.
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I was confused, what does the term "publish unlimited private modules" mean?
Eventually, some of your code will make a call to IO: reading from or writing to disk, responding to a web query, updating a DB, drawing something on the screen, etc, etc.

For example, you could put up a web server written entirely in Scheme or some other dialect. This would process and respond to queries entirely in Scheme, including some sort of engine for generating and serving html. Hacker News itself is an example of this: it's written in a lisp dialect called Arc.

Incidentally, Haskell is functional, but it isn't a lisp.
And it will be called .. wait for it.. the Internet of SLOW Things !
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Yeah, it is ridiculous. We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library that covers everyone's use cases.
Not important. While I know some exceptions, most developers don't want to raise their own poultry.
One of the core differences between Lodash - iirc - is that Underscore will just use a browser's built-in version of functions like .map and such, while Lodash often implements them themselves - circumventing JS spec compliance, often with significantly better performance than native implementations.
I'm not affiliated with either horse in this race, but it would be good for you to explain exactly what about those repo statistics favors Akka. Seems like the numbers are larger, of course, but I'm aware of no relationship between any of those numbers and project quality. Or anything else, for that matter.
At first, WeWork really did sound like little more than a large, consolidated chain of coworking spaces. The way the article is laid out, you first read that description and then read the founder's breathless claims of how they're not just another real estate firm. But with a crazy valuation!

So you take all that with a grain of salt. Founders are always talking about how they're doing something completely novel and groundbreaking, even if they're not.

And then you hit some little details: "…valuable benefits like access to a group health insurance plan…". In the US that is a big thing. If they're offering group health insurance, they really aren't just another real estate company!

In fact, I'm pretty enthusiastic about the idea now. I've always thought that many of the benefits offered by large corporations did not have to be tied to a single monolithic entity. Nothing about well-managed office space, group health insurance and shared infrastructure is inexorably tied to having a top down autocratic organization, but historically it has been.

Wouldn't it be cool if somebody supplied the same infrastructure not to business teams in a rigid hierarchy but to a loosely federated network of startups and freelancers?

Looks like exactly what WeWork is offering.
Are any of these charting solutions being actively used in a cacti-like application? I feel like with how old the RRD technology is, something would have replaced it by now.
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Sounds more like a competitor for the same place making sure to keep you away. Maybe your name were dropped as possible candidate and he wants you out of the game having another candidate in mind. Maybe somebody was trying to call you in those 10 minutes.... who knows.
Totally agree. Also, if someone asked me "What street did you grow up on?" or "What was your first pet's name?" I would probably just answer it. Neither of those are terribly threatening on the face of it.
Most of the time, you can ignore all those concerns when you're starting out. Just run a single-threaded webserver and make one HTTP request = one transaction. You can keep your registered users in memory and store pointers to them in a list as your ACL, and log audit trails as a linked list. Snapshot data to a file periodically for crash resistance, and load it back in at system start.

Sure, you won't be able to run on more than one core, and this won't work if your data exceeds RAM. And I wouldn't do this for anything mission-critical; it's better for the types of free or cheap services where users will tolerate occasional downtime or data loss. But if you never hit the disk and never need to make external connections to databases or the network, you can easily do upwards of 10K req/sec on a single core these days, even in a scripting language like Python. Assume that you've got 10,000 simultaneous actives (this is more than eg. r/thebutton and most websites, and usually translates to around ~1M registered users), this is one req/user/sec, which is pretty generous engagement.

Hacker News is built with an architecture like this. There've been a couple massive fails related to it (like when PG caused a crash-loop by live editing the site's code and corrupting the saved data in the process), but by and large it seems to work pretty well.
So, when you read these parts of my post:

> Edit your query to add an ORDER BY clause?

> Check the primary key and write an UPDATE query? Hope not to make a typo when writing the key.

> write a SELECT query?

did you think that I was saying: "I think this is how I would do it in SQL, if only I knew SQL. Won't you please point me to somewhere I can learn SQL so that all my problems will be solved"?

Because what I was going for was: "here is how I would do it in the CLI, but I much prefer how I would do it in PMA. Please tell me if there's a better way to do it in the CLI". I know SQL, I thought it was obvious that I knew SQL, and pointing me towards SQL tutorials is super unhelpful.
Dutch auctions have been tried before, with mixed results, most notably by Google.

The article below reviews the GOOG IPO. It's not entirely accurate in all the details (e.g., that GOOG would have paid a 7% fee (pg 429) - in reality, it would have been much lower - GOOG was a large and hot IPO). Nevertheless, it's a good summary of the process.

http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

There's no longer a bank valuation "guarantee" for IPOs though, and hasn't been for many years. If an equity raise (IPO or otherwise) isn't going well, the offering price will be reduced until there's sufficient demand, or the issuer will pull the deal.
I know employees & officers in the company are, but are the investors, as well (honest question)?
I guess both money and an interesting project. For me both are requirements.
I don't know that there is a clear distinction.

"If you do X, then I'll do Y."

"I absolutely refuse to do Y, unless you do X exactly the way I want it done."

The above two are making essentially the same statement. The difference is one of attitude. And the attitude behind a short online text message, is something very easy to misinterpret -- or so recent history suggests, IMHO.
In my experience (I've built a gadget for our internal use, to create tickets on our software from emails), the gadgets are fairly limited, both in terms of the content they can access (only the first 1000 characters, and no attachments) and in terms of UI (you get a small bar below the email - no integration with the rest of the interface).

Even for our simple use case, which is essentially a button that makes an HTTP request to a web service with the email fields, it felt limited.

It also suffers from poor debugging tools. They made some changes that broke our gadget (I think it was the deactivation of OAuth 1.0) and there's no way of knowing why it isn't loading, it just doesn't.
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Can you add a `None` filter in the Dependancies section? After a quick look it seems like there a few that would fall into this option.
This would depend on the location
> If they directly participated in the seizure?

The exclusion language in the agreement does not specify direct participation, merely participation.

But even the most direct participation is going to involve a large number of employees performing job functions as directed, and include firms (and employees at those firms) participating under a direct, non-discretionary legal mandate.
The criticism section of that page is about as damning as any I've ever seen on wikipedia.
Despite being (at the time of writing) 2 hours old with 26 points, this story has crashed from the front page to position 103? An intriguingly fast fall..
The modest 18% increase is likely due to the fact that demand for Google's shares increased since they held the dutch auction. Compare this to Netscape which jumped well over 200% on its first day.
I'm assuming it's because whoever's sitting there only does so for relatively short amounts of time - an hour, tops.

Then again, maybe the younger generation evolved to be able to sit uncomfortably for a long work day, ;p
That's interesting, because I have the opposite reaction: I'm really tired of USA's general puritanical anti-alcohol culture. It's tiresome and moralistic.

I'd love to have a glass of beer with lunch and not have an arbitrary taboo about alcohol at work. I'd love not to worry about drinking in public. It's treated like an ugly bodily function! I'd love not to be hassled for ID everywhere I can drink. I'd love (or, more accurately, would have loved) a more reasonable drinking age.

But no, US culture makes casually drinking alcohol—something that should be entirely reasonable—awkward and difficult. In practice, all it means is that I can't responsibly enjoy a nice glass of wine at the park and college students still end up binging on cheap beer and liquor.
>neither of them are people imprisoned and children taken away

>Mother Jailed for Letting Her 9 y.o. Play at Park Unsupervised (And Daughter In State Custody)

[x] Imprisoned
[x] Child taken away and placed into State Custody

You also may not hear about these stories all the time - because instead of being "Free Range" parents the media report label it Child Neglect. I only know of a single site dedicated to "free range parent related news/issues" and a few sites here or there that essentially reprint the same story from said site if it gathered enough media attention on its own. So it's hard to find a lot of sources.
Did anyone else find the article illegible? I struggled to read the white-on-black text for several minutes. After closing the article I struggled to be able to read HN.
You could just let try to offer up comp packages to developers that already live there. But a lot of developers that are already interested in relocating outside the typical tech centers (myself included) look primarily for remote work because you're unlikely to find a gig worth a damn in Bristol, VA or whatnot and you could advertise as remote jobs for the "right" candidates when you really just want them onsite. That should open you up to a lot more folks.
> I don't like it, since it can essentially screw the company out of cash,

I'm not saying you're one of these people, but there's a general meme of non-financial people who don't understand that justifications for raising capital can indeed be to liquidate investors (or founders) positions in companies. This is very normal. Investors should know (I believe they're legally obligated) what their capital is being used for. If they don't believe their capital will increase the value of the business, then they simply wouldn't invest.

The market should correct itself in this case (if not leaving enough cash in the company is a problem).
Wouldn't this be paying anon services?

Honestly, this would work without the social aspect. Just wiring together a registered agent service (though used...improperly) and a registrar.
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I think confirmation count does a good job of this, allowing processors to choose the balance between risk and convenience. No one's going to convert large fiat to btc without increasing confirmation count, and splitting smaller transactions will require setting up traceable account. Unless of course the attacker launders thru alt-coins, but then you might run into liquidity issues.
I think he's referring to the in-editor debug values in IntelliJ v14.
It may be the case, though, that companies that relinquish control to neural nets will have better results than companies that don't. In fact, there's a winner-take-all effect in many markets, so in those even a slight improvement over humans would lead to massive benefits, rapidly pushing human analysts out of the market.

That's the (morally neutral) wonder of the market--it'll beat ideological or emotional objections into the ground, for better or for worse.

And sooner or later, someone might start a company where all decision making is performed by a neural net...
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Yeah - that makes sense. Any city in the USA would be helpful, as long as it is specified.

I have friends that are both comparing salaries for Ruby on Rails vs Java. There seems to be quite easy to find salary ranges for Ruby on Rails, but Java averages-- maybe because there are soo many jobs -- has been harder to locate.

Thanks for the feedback, upvoted.
Well, Yah if you didn't use it.. But AFAIU the point is that it won't happen if you have to call a dispose method (the dispose operations would block the finalizer)...

AKA, if you have an object that needs to be disposed, and the finalizer is running concurrently with the constructor then that is because you forgot to call the Dispose() method and any complaining it does is valid.

EDIT: Although, thinking about it more, the bigger problem is the partial construction case, where you need to be really careful how you set/unset the flag used to determine if the dispose method is called. But if something is bad enough to result in the construction phase failing in some really bad way, then there should be noise about that too. I would hope!
Do you honestly think it's feasible to maintain a database of contacts for every country and quasi-political entity in the world?

Secondly, I'm not even sure how you'd reasonably do this in a country like the United States where there's a functioning government if only because there's 50 states plus other territories to deal with. How would you go about verifying that "Walter P. Fluffington" exists and lives at some arbitrary address in Puerto Rico? It seems extremely time-consuming unless you are going to exclude people who have driver's licenses or some kind of government ID issued to them, or are foreign citizens living and working there under a visa of some sort.

This also doesn't even come close to addressing what happens when you register a domain with someone else's name.

The whole thing is completely pointless. If South Korea can't do it, nobody can.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7805944
Someone posted the link, and noticed the part where he saw behind him. TL;DR: When driving downhill into a valley, you can see for miles behind you out the rear window.

Also, I didn't say that smoothing the waves increased road capacity, though improving merging may help a bit. Rather, the reduction of stop/go is to everyone's benefit.

In the city things are largely the same, people here tend to speed to the next red light, but it doesn't help.
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There are social pressures, too. The payoff needs to be worth the risks associated with being "that person who attempted to double-spend". It's hard to rent half a network the size of bitcoin without someone from the mining community speaking up about it. It's in the miners' collective best interest to preserve the immutability of Bitcoin.
Feed it all of github, and I'm sure you could come up with some interesting auto complete code generation tools. Of course, coming from github , it'll be poorly documented and filled with buffer overflows :D
Fewer lawyers means less law suits.

The manipulation of the legal system comes from the law being made so complex that only lawyers can understand it. If we had fewer lawyers we would have a simpler legal system.
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Singapore is centralized, has comparatively large population, especially for its size, and no history of democracy. That's where you become halfway there.
Pretty much, assuming you're making an analogy to the "no true Scotsman" fallacy.
Really this wraps around to the notion that "feminine" things are bad, and that feminine things detract from otherwise masculine pursuits. Kind of like the idea that girls aren't real engineers unless they look, dress, and smell like teenage-boy nerds.
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Why aren't the people who fail to secure their computers liable for the damage they cause if their computer is used in an attack? This should be covered by common law, why does this need regulation?
But some engineer out there understands how your phone works.

With neural nets NOBODY really understands how they work.
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>Other languages that have a GIL (and the same restriction) are Javascript (including Node.js)

Not quite true; JS just doesn't support threads at all. It's asynchronous and single-threaded. In node.js's case, an event loop uses a system call like epoll or kqueue to wait for many events at a time, and dispatches those events to the correct callbacks.

You can do parallelism in JS with Web Workers, and they do use native OS threads, but they lack shared memory, and can only communicate using message passing. So from the perspective of the JS code, they behave more like processes than threads. No GIL, in any case.
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That sounds rather absurdly computationally expensive.

Thanks for the link, I'll take a look.
Yeah, everything would be "okay for everyone", but worse than the best we can get right now. I don't want "NHS" in America--I don't want the government having a say in my medical care and treatment options. Have some rare kind of cancer, and the newest, best Chemo drugs haven't gone through all the right governmental approval processes yet to be added to the standard treatment plans? I'd be screwed. I fully support everyone having access to healthcare COVERAGE, including subsidizing it or otherwise making it free for people who can't afford it. However, I don't want out dysfunctional bureaucratic government running hospitals and hiring doctors. That's where I firmly draw the line. I don't want to see the same kind of people that run Medicare and spent a billion dollars on HealthCare.gov making my medical decisions. There are other things that can be done to lower healthcare costs as well--allowing medical insurance companies to sell across state lines, limiting Malpractice liabilities, preventing margins over X for medical supplies, etc.

Education, as well... There should definitely be free options for higher education in America--it's an investment in America's future, not to be cliche. That said, public schools in America are a fucking nightmare. I don't want higher education to be government-owned. What if I want to learn something that isn't a part of the government's program? I guess with both Education and Healthcare, everyone should have access to them, but access to "better healthcare" or "better education" shouldn't be further restricted for those that can afford it, in the process.
I get the sarcasm, but do you really need 37 friggin libraries to cover everyone's use cases in the relatively small field of JS graphing libraries?
I've seen Nim going back to when it was Nimrod, but my impression (correct it here if needed please) of their development cycle isn't especially high. I do like the syntax and the inherent 'threadiness' of it, for lack of a better word.
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> I love it when it's sunny Sonny girl you could be my Cher

That's beautiful. Wow. Was that copied from something or did the algorithm come up with it on its own?