skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this sentence confusing or misleading,

> In 1961, the earliest year the World Bank provides data for, the world was within 0.09 percentage points of a perfectly equal distribution. Ever since, the gap has widened; now men outnumber women on the planet by almost 60 million.

It jumps from a percentage to an absolute number. What was the absolute number before? What is the percentage after?
That forum pre-dates the acquisition.
The selling point of JavaScript to me, 12 years ago, was "You don't need to know JavaScript to use JavaScript" and most of the people I saw using it were uncertain of how to actually use it (most of those people also being 13-17 in the crowd of web-design forums I hung around with).

I feel that hasn't changed over the years outside of more and more people not knowing how to use JavaScript (and more and more people who actually know their script).
Practising some Common Lisp/functional programming with a text-based MUD (https://github.com/veddox/atlantis). Don't expect the next nethack, but it's fun :-)
> Maybe Go is successful because it was made with Google's technical workflow in mind

Sure, but Dart has a fully featured package manager, are you saying Dart was designed at Google without Google's technical workflow in mind? It's silly.

> There are thousands of programming languages out there,

More like hundreds of viable programming languages, not thousands. Anybody can code a lisp in his bedroom,doesn't mean it's production ready.

> They haven't forced anyone to use it

It's a childish and arrogant statement. Just like the "You don't need that in Go"TM. Opening source something was a political decision, but if you're saying Go doesn't need a community then by all means, state it clearly.
>> That is a misrepresentation of what I said. I said that _RETAINING_ basic and higher order CS fundamental knowledge is much more useful, in a way that simply looking up an algorithm on wikipedia would not be.

Sorry it was not my intention to misrepresent you. I was assuming that we all agree that simply looking something up without having any fundamental basis for understanding would not be of much use, and that we further assume the person doing the searching is in need of a refresh, and not basic education in the craft. In that context it is the idea that you might be called on to go up to a whiteboard and trot out something you haven't done in three years, and then be judged competent or not based on how successful the trotting is, that gets people worked up.
Worker shortages lead to higher wages. OK, I buy that. I also see that here's no raised productivity. But how is productivity lowered?

Unless by "lowered" you mean "lowered compared to the hypothetical situation where we had more workers". But the way you said "worker shortages that lead to higher wages and thus lower productivity", you sound like you mean that the higher wages cause lower productivity, and I can't see how that cause-and-effect is supposed to work.
American reality, so with a healthy dose of classism, racism, and general political failure.

"Residents cite a lack of maintenance almost from the very beginning, including the regular breakdown of elevators, as being a primary cause of the deterioration of the project. Local authorities cited a lack of funding to pay for the workforce necessary for proper upkeep of the buildings. ... The project's parking and recreation facilities were inadequate; playgrounds were added only after tenants petitioned for their installation. ... Housing projects of similar architectural design were successful in New York, but St. Louis's fragmented political culture and declining urban core contributed to the project's failure."
ReactOS has been selected as second government OS in Russia
Oh yeah, I couldn't agree more. 'course, I carry on because I don't want them to lose or damage my stuff (I get a free check bag with status but never take advantage of it), but I think most casual travelers are reacting to the fees.
Leap Motion has been a pretty big let down, though I have not yet tried the latest tools they have released.
I've used a couple phone controllers, and the problem always comes back to no game really supports them because not everyone has one. The best games for a controller are the Modern Conflict games, and even then they have quicktime events that require me to drop the controller and touch the screen.
I don't think I would consider the arrangement of paper to be a program because it doesn't change the way the machine itself operates (though perhaps one could argue it does at the level of photons and toner molecules--or that a computer just blindly "goes through the motions" with its inputs as much as a copier does with its paper input). But inputting the number of copies, darkness, collation, etc. surely counts as programming in the familiar sense.
I think I like your approach better... and no Clippy.
open mouths w/ the rift already appears to be a meme:

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/20bqyw/mouths_close_...
At least they blacked-out the inside of his nose. Ew.
I quite liked the score sheet and playback plugin
The Xbox One controller is certainly good, but the mini-trackpad-button-hybrid on the PS4 controller is a real touch of genius in interacting with menus, when support is properly implemented.
Client and server operating systems
A beautiful CMS for Rails developers
Working on a past due invoice management platform in between consulting work. Basically it takes past due invoices and automates contact attempts. Emails, Letters, Voice Messages, Text Messages and Faxes on a predefined schedule. It also can be used for outbound calling campaigns and will soon have a built in call scripting engine. Long term is going to be more of a full debt collection platform.

If anyone is interested in more information feel free to email me at david at pastduereceivables.org
what was it before?
Assuming Nvidia's VR SLI pans out, dual 970 TIs should get you 80% of the perf of dual 980 TIs for a cost comparable to a single 980TI. But, wait until VR SLI is demonstrated and tested in the wild. Until then, the added latency of AFR SLI is counter-productive to VR.
Loosely, kimchi [1] consumption and exercise frequency are both (and independently) negatively correlated with social anxiety.

[1] As a stand-in for all fermented foods that contain or are likely to contain probiotics.
It's got to be the majority, since most non-tech companies (i.e., the vast majority of companies in the world) only use tech as a tool - it's not the focus of their business. The executives of banks, retail businesses, airlines, etc. are not likely to have been promoted from the IT Department.
Good point - easy to miss a few days and think you are in the clear.
Thanks Twisha :)
Link to the actual article: http://data.qz.com/2014/qz-sexmap/
Launching javOSize the next generation of java profiler
I like that idea of taking a break every so often. Makes sense. I'm going to try to implement that.
Container load balancing meets service discovery
IKR, they call me immigrant or by my nationality like it's a bad thing.

Nikola Tesla, Linus Torvalds and other great scientist/engineers were/are also immigrant and they changed the world.

I'm proud of who I am.
Google's plan to fix big cities starts with Sidewalk Labs
At the very least 8-bit era emulators will be able to capitalize on them well since those games just require 2 buttons and a D-pad, which a single hand of this controller supplies.
Even in an interpreter, they're expanded at "Load Time" as opposed to runtime.
Use Chrome Canary
We just keep all our go code in one repo.
The reason I chose to mix the two was that comparing absolute numbers wouldn't be accurate since it would be distorted by overall population growth. That leaves you with comparing the percentages. In 2013, women accounted for 49.59% of all people, so that's .41 off a perfectly equal distribution. Yet .41 percentage points doesn't really give a good impression of what that actually means, while 60 million is a number readers can relate to more easily.
The team is based in London, but when you get here it should be easy to connect with them.
The posture and expression is a part of training often referred to as "Command Presence". I sympathize with the need to protect oneself on the job, but applying "Command Presence" to every situation also escalates problems which would have otherwise been non-issues.
That is yet another section of the article, the thousand years clearly reference the edit distance, which is quadratic.
This is another Kickstarter scam by Andy Muldowney. Still not shipped even after more than 3 years https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1953425088/mprinter-an-...
The Very Near Future of Robotics
The tech industry has been investing and buying AR companies left and right. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davealtavilla/2015/05/30/apple-f...

There is a lot of money in the AR space right now, and the different technologies for AR right now take several different approaches.

1) CastAR (Eye Glasses that reflect back light to the viewer) looks really promissing: http://castar.com/
I seriously could see this taking over monitors for some people for computing especially if there is security or privacy issues.

2) Magic Leap (Sounds like Science Fiction, have little faith in their promis right now) Beams light into your eye in a way that won't make you sick or give you a head ache. Serious technology problem with silicon photonics production that has stumped Intel right now http://www.technologyreview.com/news/538146/magic-leap-needs...

3) Microsoft Future Vision 2011 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0 Uses glasses to overlay a translation on signs (Traditional idea of glasses with transparent display) I find this to be a decade away easily.

4) Contact lens (Super cool idea not sure how many of us will drop a contact into our eyes) Not only AR but the ability to measure sugar levels for diabetics. http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/25/the-future-of-augmented-re...

5) AR looks to have a $120 Billion dollar projection and VR has a $30 Billion dollar projections http://fortune.com/2015/04/25/augmented-reality-virtual-real...
What an ambitious and beautiful piece!

A story like this is probably dangerous - it touches on so many ideas everyone will find something to gripe with, and it's hard to make a comprehensive and consistent story.

The last time I read something that so awesomely bridged high level abstractions and low-level implementations with a human touch was Godel, Escher, Bach (albeit with a very different feel). Well done.
With this scheme libraries can vendor their dependencies, if necessary.
Codacy Integrates with Atlassian Connect for Bitbucket
At least now we know why they went Windows-only for the time being
Some observations and concerns:

1. Oculus is a display, therefore it should work with almost anything (aka modern devices that put out HDMI, etc). A 4k monitor doesn't require me to buy a whole new computer to use it. I don't understand why Oculus (or any other VR display) needs to be proprietary to the point that I may end up owing one device (Oculus) for PC and another (Morpheus) for PS4 gaming. This makes as much sense as companies launching nearly identical video formats (BluRay vs HD-DVD most recently). And again, this is a display not unlike a 4K display and should work similarly universally, I would think/hope.

2. It seem too big to me to be truly immersive. To lose oneself you have to not notice you are wearing this, which at its current size seems unlikely.

3. It needs to be wireless, any cables will detract from the immersive experience. I'm sure they are working on this.

4. The controllers they created look pretty interesting but I don't see how they will be conducive to touching, picking up, grasping items which would seem to be a more important thing than re-inventing FPS controllers if VR is truly going to take off this time.

5. I worry that too much focus is being placed on adapting FPS to this (and other) VR tech. While it would seem a 'natural', and probably will prove to be the easiest style of game to adapt, it's also lazy. It will be far more challenging (and I think rewarding) to adapt VR for other purposes such as viewing live events (concerts, sports etc), driving games/sims, sports games/sims and action adventure games such as Witcher and Dark Souls, just to name a few off my head. Maybe the new controllers will work great with those types of games/activities but my gut is these are really optimized for FPS, which is a shame.

It's exciting times for VR but I sure hope it doesn't get overtaken by FPS games because there are so many more potentially awesome applications out there to also focus on.
> I would disagree that VR isn't going to be a big thing in the short to medium term.

I was speaking long term, hence my analogy to Nintendo Wii controllers
Will Child Labor Save Brand Innovation
Something like "Oculus Rift announces commercial availability Q1 2016"
And it isn't a coincidence, as you point out in the article, Fisher's math predicts this.
I think the point was that the large community that has formed around Go is made up of willing participants, not conscripts.
The second model is also a scruffy beardy man. Hmm.
PC gaming may be bigger than you realize - it's twice the size of the console gaming market and growing. PC might not reach everyone, but it's where the money is.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2014/07/14/the-c...
Try this if the original link doesn't work for you: http://data.qz.com/2014/qz-sexmap/
I guess so. I am only familiar with the following in this category:

https://code.google.com/p/hunpos/
The Spacesuit Fire That NASA Refuses to Forget
As a "scruffy looking guy", what does it tell you? I'm curious what you are able to glean about me and other "scruffies" by virtue of our facial hair
It's not 1997; wireless controllers aren't shit and Microsoft makes good hardware and has some great software.
All in, a headset plus a machine to drive it will probably run you ~ $1,500 at launch, though the cost of the PC will come down over time.

Interestingly, Oculus has noted that the target spec. for the PC "will not change for the lifetime of the product." In other words, they seem to realize that this is expensive now, but that it's better to deliver a really high quality experience that gets cheaper over time than to launch with a sub-optimal experience that eventually fires on all cylinders.
Can you reference the part of the proposal that states this? I'm reading the following points:

> $GOPATH/src/foo will be imported as foo by non-main package $GOPATH/src/mypkg/p.

> $GOPATH/src/mypkg/external/foo will be imported as foo by a non-main package p anywhere, when p is being built as a dependency of command $GOPATH/src/mypkg/c.

It seems to me this is saying that libraries will use external packages only when built as a dependency of a main package. Again, this means library authors are out of luck.
While we're at it, can we be allowed to carry bottles of water through security? At least in Europe, having to pay 3€ for a 50cl bottle of water after passing through the checks is clearly just a money-making scheme and has nothing to do with stopping terrorism.
VR definitely needs a reinvented wheel in this case. Being able to move your head in virtual space but not your hands is clearly suboptimal, and the motion sensors in that generation of controllers are not up to the task.

My take: this a bandaid, so they can get the headset out in Q1, ahead of the proper controllers in Q2. Not what they wanted to do, but Vive forced their hand on timing.
I think it is more than Facebook being MS "friendly". Like it or not, Windows is still the dominant platform for PC gaming period. As much as many would like this to change, it is not even close to happening.
The black market is already well established on Tor, so I'm not sure if OpenBazaar will result in growth in such markets, or just a shifting of some existing business from Tor to OpenBazaar.
I guess it's too fine a distinction for your tastes; in my book you might say there are are:

Good cops in a few rural places where they're too busy to be bad or thugs.

Bad cops who don't directly commit crimes but are part of the Blue Wall of Silence that covers up for:

Thug cops who assault citizens and their dogs (and see elsewhere in this discussion for a cat executed by a cop, but that seems to be rare).

(There's also dirty cops who e.g. get paid to do stuff like look the other way, but we're not talking about them and I don't think they're now hardly as bad a problem as thug cops, but they are another argument for ending the War On Drugs.)

I believe the majority of cops are "bad cops" per the above, which does not mean there aren't a lot of thug cops, neither of whom I make apologies for their crimes.
Crowdfunding Project Creator Settles FTC Charges of Deception
When you equip men for war, they start to think of themselves as soldiers.

At one time, we at least used to pretend that cops were public servants. We need to go back to that.
Or, like, any other public transportation option.

Busses and trains are not magically immune to explosives. Especially when they have literally zero security and you could easily bring an entire suitcase full of dynamite onto them. The fact is, there just aren't enough people interested in that who have the necessary skills to actually obtain explosives without alerting the FBI to their existence.
Whenever I see an article swap units mid-sentence it automatically makes me think they are doing it to bolster their argument because if they kept the same units, it wouldn't actually show what they wanted it to.
I'm sure that is the vision, but you don't get there on Day 1
I second that; Forth is extremely well suited to bootstrap from asm too.
To be honest, that's a huge fear of mine every time I'm waiting in a TSA line. What happens if they find a weapon and the person decides to use it right then and there? What happens if their equipment sets off a weapon? What happens if a domestic terrorist is trying to get back at the TSA directly?

Most of my flights are what Delta or United call "connector" flights, so there are only 40-50 people on the plane anyway. Not an attractive target, I would think. But standing in line at O'Hare, there could be 100+ people there. I'm not afraid of the TSA. I'm afraid of the massive crowd of people they create.
I really wonder why this hasn't happened yet. I can only assume that either terrorists are maniacally fixated on the airplanes, or there are approximately zero intelligent terrorists.
I don't think scams as so much as inexperienced people who say "I've been doing this for X years and I can totally do it" then after spending 90% of the money and 6-12 months late - they go "actually....I don't think I can do this". This is also due to the fact that most projects try to do things at cost rather than allocating some buffer.

There was one posted for a bluetooth controller - looked pretty nice and I believe they even had a prototype. When the due date came - excuses start flowing in such as some company in China wanted to charge more than the initial quote for the cases. The owner even claimed it would be too expensive to 3D print them (which I think is a lie - the printer itself is expensive but the amount of filament needed per case wouldn't have been that much). Granted, using a 3D printer probably would have taken another year.
I just want to point out something that might be relevant, namely that as a combat vet, I learned that adrenaline is a drug like no other, and it's also extremely addictive. A key point that many adventure seekers fail to take into account, and I think it can sometimes adversely affect their analysis of situations at the moment of truth. Always be prepared to call something like this off, up to the very last moment, don't let the excitement or pressure overcome the logical side of things.
Timeline of web frameworks
If I oversimplify I would say that due to pattern matching and functional nature of OCaml you can avoid
much of the boilerplate code needed for building tree nodes, or finding the node you want, allowing you to focus on the high-level task you want to actually achieve.

In fact one thing that you might notice in the beginning when reading OCaml is that the code seems more "dense".
In C I was used to reading code by skipping over large chunks of it (again I'm oversimplifying here) like the one below, and one of the things I had to get used to when learning OCaml was to slow down and avoid skipping large chunks of code:

if (some_complex_condition == failed) {
/* ... large block of code for error handling to ignore on first read .. */
}

result = malloc(...);
result->... = ...;
result->... = ....;

Here are some examples of what is possible with symbolic manipulation in OCaml, although I would recommend learning a bit of OCaml syntax and concepts from a book first
(such as Real World OCaml):

A short example of implementing regular expression matching using Antimirov's partial derivatives that illustrates symbolic manipulation:
http://semantic-domain.blogspot.ro/2013/11/antimirov-derivat...

A step-by-step explanation of a DSL optimizer that doesn't use too many advanced notions of OCaml:
http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/course/optimizations.html

A nice example of symbolic manipulation is this counter-example generator for regular expression equivalence:
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/damien.pous/symbolickat/
But they have the back of a lady's head at the end! You know, for balance and stuff.
Is it this project? http://matt.might.net/articles/implementing-a-programming-la...
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted and why you think I'm saying the controller is bad.

Oculus keeps spreading tons of hype and making very disappointing announcements.

A bundled xbox one controller is nothing to get excited over. Their supposed new input is, but they had virtually nothing to show for that.
Well there is a growing backlash against SJW so accusation in bigotry is not a big deal in growing segment of the population.
I'm not sure about Europe, but in the US we can carry an empty bottle through security.

I did once accidentally leave a large, full bottle of contact lens solution in my carry on, though, and it passed right through. Maybe that's the trick.
Dropping Linux support means dropping SteamBox support? Wow, I'm stunned.
Sample sizes have nothing to do with it. If you want to study the determinants of presidency in the US it's a 1:1 sample.

I keep repeating this on news.ycombinator: statistical analysis is predicated on the prior hypothesis that the stuff you're measuring is orthogonal to the stuff that you can't measure.

So: what are we measuring? What are we _not_ measuring? Is our theory that people exerting power have more testosterone and hence have more sons? That can be tested in wider populations, and including presidents might just be a huge confounding factors. Is it that presidents become powerful because they have the Mystery Factor, and that, too, is behind the excess sons?

If, by construction, only presidents have the Mystery Factor, we have to start from there. But then we need theories about the Mystery Factor to test. And controls, men who haven't become president by a matter of chance, and so on.

On the other hand: you can have huge datasets generated from website design tests and still end up doing "A/A testing" and such cargo cult statistics, complete with sacrifices to the gods of large sample sizes.
>When it's personal use Firefox.

If only online privacy were that simple.
Very nice self-explaining landing page! Although the bulleted list webfont renders rather poorly in Win7 Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/j0a0rAQ.png
Or option C, 9/11 was a one-off, special circumstance that was difficult to create in the first place and nearly impossible to replicate.
I'm curious to see how they intend to solve the glasses problem. Ideally, they'd partner with someone like Zenni Optical to provide $10 drop-in lenses for any prescription.