jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Gradients and drop-shadows require space to be effective.

Pages also need white space to help organize content and avoid crowding.

So, if you go with gradients or drop-shadows (or effects in that realm) know that you're doing so at the expensive of a resource that adds readability and overall usability.

That's not an argument against using these things, just an argument against gratuitous application. (Consider that Amazon, for example, manages to get a good deal of content on their pages while still being fairly easy to grok.)
Since the professor stated on the first day of class that he would be creating his own tests, there was no reason for the students to even consider the possibility that a test created by the textbook publisher would be used as the official test.
You tell me. What would you like to see in it?
...the logo does?

(But that's a fair point; that's one of 3 images I used on the site)

Edit: Logo is now text. Only the import/bookmarklet and twitter buttons are images now. :)
We're working on EC2 instance to catch up! We've been flooded. Yes, a delicious-compatible api endpoint is a brilliant idea. Already in our etherpad. Thanks.
Looks good. I might even like the appearance of it more than delicious. Easily my favorite part about delicious, though, is the Chrome plugin. Make one. :)
You should note that there exist paid internships in addition to free internships, and that there are strict federal legal criteria of both. See page 8 of the following PDF: http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL12-09acc.pd...

Statistics have shown that many employers may illegally be using interns as free labor. A while back, the New York Times published an article on the topic: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html

My point is that I don't understand why you assumed that the internship I talk of should be free. You didn't hear enough of the details to make a proper legal stance on the issue, and more often than not employers are not paying interns when they should be.

I see your point, but please reconsider what you wrote.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018130

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2017303
You could nitpick the old delicious too. This is great. Good work. What's next?
Replace the logo with text. It renders strangely on my mac.
There are only three countries listed there - Pakistan, Canada and the UK. That is a bit of an indication that it is a major fringe excepetions.
The UK's libel laws are so infamous that many nations specifically refuse to enforce them - not a point in favor. Canada has largely scoured out the bits they inherited by thr courts and what is left is dubiously constitutional.

The income accounting in the UK and Pakistan are the closest thing to legitimate and even then self evidently regarded as extreme by their limited adoption.
More likely is that it's far easier to prove that they didn't pay any taxes on the money than it is to prove they never should have received it.
"Instead of making her roughly $1,300 monthly mortgage payment, she pays her lawyer $500 a month to represent her in court."

I see the winner in this situation.
Assange is a media darling now because he gave them a constant feed of semi-interesting stories in a slow time of the year. They love that.

So I suspect you'll never see any proper coverage of the rape allegations against him.
I don't think so, English incorporates words from other languages all the time. I think there are Americans that are against things being written in foreign languages, but not against incorporating foreign words as part of the English vocabulary.
Counterpoint; anyone not in uniform and carrying a gun = criminal.

Deal with accordingly.

(This is definitely one of the debates to avoid here because it is very polarizing, however, for the record we have a pretty good firearms record in the UK)
Not actually coding, but I did read that Apple have just released all their iOS / Objective-C books for free on iBooks.
Suggest you optimise your images. There's over a megabyte of images on http://reccr.com/games/latest atm.
Foot pounds are a commonly used unit of energy when discussing small projectiles such as bullets, pellets, arrows and bolts. I believe the author's use of "foot pounds per square inch" was an error.

WolframAlpha calculates the energy of a 40 grain bullet at 1550 feet per second to be 213.3 foot pounds, not 324. Winchester claims that a 40 grain .22 magnum bullet from a rifle-length barrel exits the muzzle at 1910 feet per second and has 324 foot pounds of kinetic energy. WolframAlpha agrees.
Not quite; friction has it's say first :)
thats why we have bad doctors?
Which is why s/he is using Nginx to simulate that in the dev environment if I’m not misunderstanding?
When I was working on recommenders at Amazon. I didn't really perceive this as modeling the mind of some sort of Oracle.

Instead I saw it as a change of basis from the space of previous purchases to the space of recent purchases.
That approach led to an entire AI framework and it still makes Amazon quite a bit of money annually apparently if Jeff Wilke's 2019 Re:MARS speech is to be believed.

I'd love to work on something more ambitious like AlphaGo or AlphaFold but those require tremendous resources and I'm really focused on bang for buck. But even then I'd see it as the marriage of classical search with modeling the probability of victory.

If someone says that the AGI is almost upon us I pretty much bozo bit them no matter how prestigious or fancy they may be otherwise.
More details on Mastercard and Visa’s policy: https://midigator.com/blog/free-trial-rules-how-does-masterc...
I think we all know that good will come of that.
the /r/pfSense subreddit also has a bunch of Netgate staff as moderators
By your reasoning..

No.

By his reasoning it would be okay to go into the store, copy the bag and leave with the copy.
I absolutely love that Linus speaks his mind. Candor and telling it honestly is getting rarer...
For me it’s about a single source of truth. Paycheck comes in, it’s in my Safe-to-spend (i.e., not in a goal). I have a separate goal (virtual envelope) for each monthly bill. As I move the bill amount into that goal, it is removed from my safe-to-spend. I can quickly fill up my goals for all monthly expenses (water, electric, cell, etc) and once done, I know how much is left. I don’t have to worry about importing transactions or ensuring an external system is up-to-date and reconciled.
Discord has integrated:
-communities (as servers)
-forums (as text channels)
-direct messages
-voice chat
-video chat
-private group calls

This can all be used from their web-app. Their centralized server model allows people to join/leave calls at will, saves conversation history, and just so happens to give the company a great deal of data. It's all extremely convenient.

I agree with you that Discord is abusive of its power, and I would much prefer to utilize a free-software solution. Unfortunately, I do not believe any communication software in the world, free or unfree, comes close to the value proposition of discord.
I may be mistaken, what I've heard is rumour and telling it violated someone's NDA, but I think the burden of proof is on your side.

Consider Signal, since that's in the subject. Despite having my phone number on several web sites, I don't get spam on Signal, which I take to mean that the Signal maintainers are successful at fighting spam (and it doesn't matter whether they do so mostly as server operators or protocol designers). If you wanted to persuade them to interoperate/federate, then you have to provide arguments, ie. the burden of proof is on you.

Saying "none of the well established networks have yet solved the problem" isn't enough, because you'll be trying to persuade someone who has solved the problem. You could try to argue that spam is a worthwhile price to pay, or that it could be fought as well using your protocol as via Signal's own servers, or other things.

What you can not do is lean back. An interop mechanism is a server-to-server bulk message delivery mechanism, and so far I've not heard about any way to do bulk message delivery that doesn't atttract the interest of spammers. That spammers would try to spam Signal users via the interop mechanism is plausible by default, just as it's plausible that spammers would try to spam Gmail/gtalk users.
I have never had a trial before losing my job.

And I have never heard of a dismissed coworker having a trial either.

So what other decisions do you think legal due process needs to apply to in a private business?
Apple has allowed content blockers in safari on iOS for several years.
Note that lung cancer screening is covered my Medicare and thus already free for anyone over 65 who smoked a pack a day for 30 years (or equivalent aka more in less time).

My understanding is that there are many reasons that screening is not deployed more widely but the fact that it requires a 40 minute discussion with a physician, and those physicians in communities in need have very limited time.

Then there is the issue of getting people to show up and take part in preventative care which is itself tricky.

In any case, it was not something we were in a position to do much about as a small AI research team. Where I work now there is also a focus on trying to address this issue by reaching out to more hospitals to gather more diverse data, but there are still a lot of roadblocks to sharing data we have to work through and it’s a very slow process.
Do you mean to say there is a market for used bunny suits? I think 'jpttsn might have a point specifically with respect to useless nonsense products.
my mirror is here: https://mirrors.deadops.de/ti/

zip file (8gb) here: https://mirrors.deadops.de/ti.zip
Didn't I read somewhere that all of Uber's complexity is in making it work correctly in every jurisdiction that it works in?
No they won't. The people doing the treatment and the billing department don't talk to each other.

She might not be able to be transferred to another hospital if there are outstanding bills, but once inside the hospital they can't refuse to treat.

Plus this is exactly why medicaid exists. She would qualify easily.
There's no need to raise taxes, just provide universal healthcare. US is already spending as much per capita on public healthcare to European countries![1] This means that instead of tax hikes you would need to use the existing budget for public healthcare to provide free public healthcare to everyone, just like all other countries who provide a "free" public healthcare paid with taxes.

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-countries-that-spend-the...
Yep, you're right. Here's the link for anyone who wants it:
http://rdcu.be/b1sE
The singularity is a linear projection of computing power, in this projection anything that is questioning the singularity is pro-actively ignored.
What puzzles me most, is why it is ignored. For me it does not make sense to hope that just the amount of simulated neuronal complexity will be enough, that suddenly out of the complexity something intelligent emerges.
The whole approach is flawed. Something very essential is missing, that is a proven model how brains work and why they work, down to the last quantum state.
Its quite embarrassing how badly Atom performs, how many subprocesses it opens and how much memory it will happily leak during the X hours its in use. I really wouldn't consider using anything NW/node-webkit or the like for all but the most trivial of applications.

There are definitely ways to incorporate Javascript into "native" programming. In Yosemite you can write Javascript that directly loads and calls native frameworks (like you can with Python/ Ruby). If you wanted you could write an entire application in Javascript, but taking shortcuts and trying to use HTML and the DOM for your interface only leads to these sorts of severe issues when doing anything nontrivial.
You specify the nameserver for akamai to pull the zone from on the config site. Their "CDN" is quite a bit smarter than what L3 & co. run.
Now if the vending machine were to deliver an electric charge sufficient to be classed as a shock, or injure the buyer sufficiently so that they didn't die outright, but instead went into shock, then I think it could be classed as art which shocks.

However, it would obviously also be classed as either dangerous or illegal (depending on which one you got).
> The scientific community is sufficiently diverse that it would be difficult to establish one discussion forum.

Have a look at stack-exchange. It is a discussion forum for a diverse group of people.

> Plus the people whose comments are most valuable would likely be hesitant to comment publicly in writing on their competitors’ papers.

Well, a forum at least could help people to actually understand the papers.

Also, but this is for the more distant future, the scientific rating system could be extended with a score for the most insightful comments (besides just a score for the number of citations).
A comment in the recent "Apple has lost the functional high ground" thread started as follows, "Thing is nobody complains about Android updates breaking everything [...]".

I thought that was hilarious, since at this point my baseline expectation for an Android update is for absolutely core functionality to be broken, and not be fixed for a few months if ever. Now, technically only 3 out of 6 Android devices I've ever owned ended up in that state. But it appears that it would have been just a matter of time for the Nexus 4, and it doesn't appear in those stats just due to being stolen before it was broken.
Seems you're looking for SliceTricks from the Go wiki: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/SliceTricks

Actually there are multiple options for delete from a slice. If you need to preserve order then it's going to be an O(n) operation, and if you're deleting often maybe it shouldn't be a slice but some other structure. There are two options for delete mentioned in that document:

Delete

copy(a[i:], a[i+1:])
a[len(a)-1] = nil // or the zero value of T
a = a[:len(a)-1]

Delete without preserving order

a[i], a[len(a)-1], a = a[len(a)-1], nil, a[:len(a)-1]
Any such lawsuit would immediately run into the problem that your employer gives you a computer to work for them, not to conduct your personal online banking and you'd need to be willing to lose your job banking on that lawsuit succeeding and generating a large enough settlement to be worth it.

The far more likely grounds for a ruling against a sloppy proxy operator will come from something like a HIPAA violation or perhaps one of the financial trading companies.
>... but people who aren't can't be convinced to my side just by insulting them

Well reasoning with them doesn't seem to be working either.
From the page you link to:
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I don't know where you get the idea that formations such as EducationFirst or NoMoreTaxes would appear in this system. I think it's more likely that we will see basically the same formations as today; liberals, conservatives, democrats, green and so on.

That said, it's an important feature of the proposed system that it encourages, or even demands, a higher level of engagement with the issues than under today's system. Voters should vote directly in issues that concern them deeply. What the system fixes is rather a problem with direct democracy, where people vote the "wrong" way, or don't vote at all, in issues they don't understand or that don't concern them.

This is done by letting people delegate their voting power to someone they trust - it might be their neighbor, their mother, a colleague or a professional politician. But to mitigate the problem with concentrating power to few, that delegated vote is not to be counted on; someone can change or even retract the vote at any time.

Calling it race condition was probably wrong, what I mean is situations like this:

· Bob delegates his vote to Alice

· Alice votes No

· Bob sees that his vote is currently on No, and he likes that to he doesn't feel the need to change his vote

· In the last minute before the voting closes, Alice changes her vote to Yes

· Alice has gamed Bob, because if Bob had known Alice would vote Yes, he would not have delegated his vote to Alice in this motion.

Of course, the above scenario might not play out simply because it hurts Alice - Bob would surely never delegate his vote to her again. But I think it's a real problem nonetheless.
As 83457 put it - HR should never be tasked to hire a programmer. Same with recruiters. You can give them a set of criteria to weed out people by (they shouldn't be sending you .net resumes if you are a PHP shop) but the end task of choosing a developer should be vetted by someone who can determine if the candidate is good. Either a technical director (with actual knowledge) or by peer review from your current programmers.

If you don't have any programmers and are making a first hire, ask for code samples and have someone you know that is a developer review them. If you don't have any programmer friends then you need to spend some more time on HN or at local meetups :)
But there's another effect: using a language as malleable as Lisp forces you to consider how you want to mold your program. After a few mistakes, this will teach you good program design, thus actually making you a better programmer.

(Yes, of course there are exceptions. But I think in general that having this freedom will make you consider how to use it, which will make you consider alternate ways to code the same thing, which is ultimately how you learn.)
People can be wrong about things, and comment scores are useful information that helps us know if they are.

"that is not how mysql works" with 2 Points
And
"that is not how mysql works" with 102 points
Are not the same piece of info.

I don't see any benefit to hiding this from people. It also helps newbies understand the customs here (they can get feedback on other people's comments)

edit now that I'm not on my phone:

When you google things, you probably skip over results like daniweb, about.com, or expertsexchange.com, and hope for a stackexchange page.

The little URL at the bottom of the description tells you "hey, this is from $foo source" and you're a smart human being that can put this information to good use.

Of course, you could make a case that this is bad, because you should read each one of the results and judge it based on its merits. Maybe we should even strip all of the identifying information away from the page, and just let it stand on its own (this would be a neat experiment, actually [and that's the experiment that I think we're performing here]).

The point counts on the comments act just like the URL does on google results. It's not saying "this is definitely 100% accurate", but it is useful piece of information that we can put to good use. Depriving us of this information doesn't break the comments, but I have certainly found myself reading comments a bit less lately as a result of it (instead of actually reading comments, I'm usually just skimming them now). With comment scores, things seem to have a bit of order to them, without, it just feels like a lot of people shouting at one another.

(Maybe this was the point?)

Naturally, I'm never going to stop reading HN; it is by far my favorite website on the internet. Complaining about the lack of comment points here is like complaining that my favorite bar switched to a new, very slightly different glass. I can see the difference, but it's not really going to change my habits.
The real reason programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity:

They don't demand it.

I had the privilege of working with some extremely talented and productive people. Sadly, many of them were making market salary (or less).
Contrary to popular belief, many companies are quite capable of noticing and trying to keep productive people. But rarely by throwing money at them.

Related anecdote:
I have meet a few startups lately that started the conversation with:

"We are looking for extremely talented and productive people".

And finished with:

"Compensation ? Well, we checked online, the average pay for your experience is.."
> most productive programmers are orders of magnitude more productive than average programmers.

This seems to be so generally accepted that it's stated in the article as fact, without anything to back it up. As raganwald mentioned, we really have no metric for productivity. So, while your gut may tell you that you (or someone you know) is multiples more productive that you are, all you really have is your gut.
There is a big difference between knowing something is true and understanding why it's true. A criteria one of the top preparatory schools in Dallas looks for when evaluating candidates for admittance is, does the student ask "Why?".

When you understand why something is true -- the reasons behind it -- you are relating it/connecting it to what you already know and understand. You're creating a Web of associations -- a mental framework you can build on -- you're not learning it in isolation. The most important question anyone can ask is "Why?".
> Every single sentence in this article is offensive, and the overall article is also offensive.

While I can't say "this article is not offensive", since "offensive" is subjective, I can say that if articles like this one violate your delicate sensibilities, you are not a person who can particulate in a free exchange of ideas. If everyone were like you, we would make no intellectual society at all.
Try using this command on the files:

tar xf foo.tar.gz
My problem with Go is the seeming masses of boilerplate in all the Go code I've seen. With ES2015 (and beyond) I can write clean code with little syntactical boilerplate in a highly functional style that can run anywhere. The only thing really missing at this point is well integrated static type checking. I feel the code should be typed, but invisible, through type inference and propagation.
There are a lot of bloggers (John Sonmez is the most notable), who I have stopped following because they have shifted to video. I really don't have the time to watch a video, when I can read the same content in text form 2-3x faster, and do a Ctrl-F to find any terms of interest later when I want to review the content. It's a singularly inappropriate form of communication for technical subjects.

I imagine it has to hurt their Google rankings as well, especially when they don't include a transcript.
uc3dp
Well said. Where's the video version of Wikipedia? Hacker news/reddit?

As a teaching tool, video doesn't lend itself to iterative refinement or discussion. It's an excellent audiovisual experience, but also a bet that the content is best delivered in a read-only format. (Practically, you can't update a video, only redo it -- presumably at full cost.)

I see video as a supplement to lesson formats that can be improved over time (text, or whatever medium comes next).
The best videos are both highly edited and extremely well scripted. Some time back there was a bit posted by a university lecturer (I want to say Harvard or Yale or similar) who described his process for preparing a lecture. It's about 10:1 prep time vs. lecture time, including multiple rehersals.

Once you've got a given lecture prepared, it's easier to edit and modify it. But getting there is the hard part.
A good reason to use and support Common Crawl - a good resource, that is updated (I think) every few months).
How very Rube Goldbergian.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_1_urb-rube-goldberg.html
Probably Sybase ASE with Tcl as the scripting language. I've heard good things about Sybase replication capabilities.
You could turn this into a book business. List books for sale that you don't own and this other publisher does own. Reduce the price over time until it is super cheap. Buy while it is low and resell it without the competition.