skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean that no other species has the ability to do the same.

Dolphins likely can. They're capable of inventing novel tricks, and then communicating the behavior with a different dolphin, proven by them doing the same new trick in synchrony without either having seen it before. They are also capable of communicating abstract concepts to dolphins in a separate partition of the tank who they can "hear" but not see. We don't know if their language has an equivalent of "sentences", I guess, so you may be technically correct, but I find it hard to imagine a method in which the complex and abstract concepts Dolphins have been shown to communicate only have a single or small finite number of representations.

Captive Dolphins can also understand syntax in human sentences. They understand the difference between "get the hoop and then the ball", and "get the ball and then the hoop". And they can generalize this to different concepts and numbers of clauses, and tend to act confused if the sentence is egregiously ungrammatical. They also understand future and past tense, and the difference between a statement and a question. Is it likely that they would understand our language so well if they didn't have something fairly similar of their own, if they hadn't developed language capabilities at a young age? They seemingly have a better ability to understand human language than feral children.

Finally, there is evidence that the Shannon entropy of dolphin language is at least 3-4. Human languages are around 8-9, but not enough data has been collected to know that the Dolphin language isn't more complex, and captive Dolphins may have less sophisticated communication than wild ones. In any case, I think even if their language is effectively determined by only 3-4 letter sequences (their "alphabet" is about the same size as English - ~27 whistles) rather than 8-9, that's still complex enough for me to doubt your claim that language capabilities are unique to humans.
Drunk driving causes 10,000 deaths/year according to the article. How many are caused by the factors you mention? Doubtless some, but it's clearly not our top priority, especially given that it's much easier to give someone a breathalyzer test than to check for "stupidity" or "tiredness".
Just like this...
http://www.occupy.com/article/jpay-scam-prison-bankers-cash-...
GMRT Pune (World's Largest Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope)
System.Collections.Generic.List<T> is an array.
I expect quite a few are caused by tiredness specifically. I would not be surprised if it exceeded the drunk driving numbers (although I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it failed to either).
I switch between Product Hunt, Medium, Designer News, Design Milk, Swiss Miss, Dribbble, Wired, Techcrunch, NYT, The Verge and Kickstarter to name a few.
Clearly, the fact that listening to an exchange helped them proves that the security is fundamentally flawed.
New app saves you money on your purchases
It strikes me as VW's fault that amplifier attacks work.
Bash should have been the greatest scripting language of all
The "doesn't define things well enough" thing bothers me a little bit. I actually care in my real job what happens after compilation and why. Not being able to guesstimate what happens in machine by looking at source is no deal breaker for what I want to use it for but I'd imagine this to be an issue for stuff like OS/driver/firmware development.

But I don't think this is the most important thing I want to know. What I want Rust to be is the opinionated low cost, higher level language. "Do things this way, dummy!" is what I need the most (at this point of my familiarity with the language at least).
Put your keys in a Faraday cage at night.
Generally when you know someone who has died because of the choices of someone else it impacts how you view those choices.

I was in physical therapy next to someone who wasn't going to walk again because of a chronic drunk driver.

Distracted driving / texting while driving should be punished on the same level as drunk driving IMHO. It's really dangerous and until it's actively enforced people are going to get hurt often.

I ride my bike to work and it is so dangerous because of people texting. I've seen several accidents happen because one driver is texting and the one in front of them has to stop.
Memory Efficient Hard Real-Time Garbage Collection (2003) [pdf]
Amusingly, my usage of PgUp/PgDown was unaffected.

I will live to scroll another day!
Ideally, people don't use random USB drives in air-gapped computers ;)
Remediating slashed tires is a lot more difficult than waiting for your attacker to get bored and move on.
If the metric implies that assembly language is a bad first language for kids, it seems quite accurate to me.
Oh and on an a semi related note - I get sad every time I find an interesting looking link just to end up with 404 on the other side. This - for whatever reason - happens far too often with Rust related resources. Trying to get to "The Advanced Rust Programming Language Book Draft" - no dice. Page 404s, so does repo. Lifetime of links does matter, guys. ;(
bloomberg terminal.
Unethical Human Experimentation in the United States
Why is it hard to understand?

By lifting of the sanctions Iran will have significant more resources and at the same time maintain their ability to get to a bomb. They are not giving up any of their capabilities so why do you think this is the path keeping Iran from the bomb?

They can get to a bomb either by violating the agreement (secretly or otherwise) or simply waiting for enough time to elapse. The additional resources will help the regime maintain its power and increase its involvement in various conflicts in the region, in Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

The deal is effectively a result of the US having no leverage. There is no real military option. The sanctions are eroding anyways. It's really a choice between the lesser of two evils and it's a difficult one.
The result here isn't what you said:

> taken individually, immediate minor punishments are as effective as major punishments

The result here is that frequent minor punishments are 72% more effective than infrequent major punishments (see the article on Hawaii's 5 year study of this approach linked to by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064425).
Every public-facing process a business has is part of the marketing process. If people are left with a story of how dealing with the business was a bad experience, that will affect the business's reputation. When stories like yours are common the pool of potential talent is reduced as people are put off applying in the first place. The recruiting process at the USDS is exacerbating the problem because it means that fewer candidates will apply for jobs there.
It's not obvious to me that I wouldn't be seeing a comment just like yours on a study finding the opposite. "We already know people just do what they want if the consequences are minor"

Consider:

> Hindsight will lead us to systematically undervalue the surprisingness of scientific findings, especially the discoveries we understand—the ones that seem real to us, the ones we can retrofit into our models of the world.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/
I'm a moderator. Sorry that wasn't clear.

Your comments are problematic not because of any ideological views, but because they stopped being civil and substantive.
The founders of Batteriser would know the truth that device manufacturers are not "stupid". The message is targeting the consumers. It's a nice marketing trick. It definitely makes the consumers feel smart because they beat the "stupid" incumbents by buying a Batteriser.
More manufacturing is done in China, and the factories are used to the different international markets because they're often parts suppliers for foreign companies that have their designing done in various countries. So they're well equipped to make things in either inches or mm.
If you've known someone who's gotten hurt or killed by drunk driving you stop seeing it as a victimless crime.

There is no right to access public streets while intoxicated with two tons of steel.
I took Nando's ML courses at UBC 2 years ago. He's great at explaining complex concepts in digestible chunks. He's able to show how ML theories are modeled after natural processes well too (such as how speech recognition and image processing work using deep learning and neural nets).
Unless you're my 65-year-old uncle or something, playing with Siri at a party is a great way to be "that boring guy that won't shut up about his phone".
I suppose it could be done on the web by sending the fixed JPEG header in a JS file that would be cached, then crafting data: URLs on the fly.
I agree. Also, I think the amount of input you have into an activity is also somewhat inversely proportional to the shock when the accident happens.

People actively drive the car, so they may think "I have a chance to affect the outcome", whereas being a plane passenger is basically vegetating for X hours in a very uncomfortable seat, and there is no way you can actively influence the outcome in a positive way.
Given what yeast and sugar can be turned into already, don't be surprised if uniforms come knocking if you buy in bulk (and do not own a bakery).
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062978 and marked it off topic.
I'd really like to argue that it's probably because it takes more than a glance to realize how intelligent the animals are.

We see all the time that even with humans, as intelligent as we are, we judge people for how they are constant. I'm sure we ask have encountered people in our lives that as the more we talked to them we realized that our assumptions of them the first we times you meet were wrong. Some people you think are really smart and then it turns out the opposite and vice versa.

I would even argue that the opposite is true. Those who do not spend time with these animals and those that do not have pets, often tend to assume the animals aren't very smart because they don't have languages and technology.

When there is no shared common language, you must gather knowledge of how smart these animals are by studying their mannerisms, and that is something that can only be done by spending time with these animals. Maybe that's why "the abilities of apes like Koko and Kanzi are overstated by their loving caregivers". The abilities aren't overstated, but understood. Everyone else undrained the abilities because they are not present enough.
This is the latest recorded Guiness record, but most definitely not the longest recorded awakeness period: see [0] and [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_%28record_holder...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Wright_%28sleep_deprivati...
paper: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/sec15_supplement....

"The transponder uses a 96-bit secret key and a proprietary cipher in order to authenticate to the vehicle."

not sure there's anything more you need to know than "rolled their own crypto"
Previous discussion of the Batteriser here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9644931

The first debunking:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677900
Yes indeed! For some kind of evidence towards this, try walking on the streets of a city where running red lights, speeding, and driving on the wrong side of the road are reasonably common. (I'm not joking - where I live, this /is/ common.)

It's a victimless crime, all right - but only until the next victim.
Prof. Yann Lecun's Course on Deep Learning
Nah...

- why does "return" eject the card?

- You would more likely get a card as a return. Because that's basically what the computer did back then - sort cards.
I highly recommend subscribing to EEVblog he's like the EE version of the Applied Science YouTube channel.
Too much sugar in brains, you say...

> How should I know? I'm a dentist. But here's what I do know: If a tooth is bad, you PULL IT. Yep, mad brain's got to come out, boy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JHaeJyLw2o
Interesting, thanks for the info.
Noam Chomsky and Richard Stallman – Meeting One
Dining manners in countries
There are times i wonder if people are incapable of learning from history...
http://www.gizmag.com/thync-review/38662/
Very nice app! Thanks for putting decent HealthKit toggles in the app itself. I'm quite choosy about which apps can read HK data and which can write, and many of them are not good at making it obvious if they can cope with that!
> One particular (very large, very important) dependency currently requires CentOS 6.5.

What dependency is that? And can you run it in a single-purpose virtual machine, rather than directly on real hardware, to make it easier to manage?

> As much as possible, I want to treat infrastructure as a commodity, so catering to specific versions (even LTR versions) breaks that goal. As another reply notes, if we lock in at Ubuntu 12.04 and it's predictable, that's excellent.

You definitely don't want to cater to specific versions any more than you have to; ideally you want as few versions across your entire fleet as you can. If you could get it down to just CentOS and the latest version of some up-to-date distribution, that would help; if you could make CentOS a virtual machine under that same up-to-date distribution, that's even better, insofar as you can then manage all the physical machines identically.

> As another mentions, Upstart was easy to get a handle of quickly. As an aside, it bugs me that the (otherwise excellent and detailed) Upstart docs don't seem to mention that all of Upstart is now deprecated. Hence the original confusion!

The Upstart docs aren't going to say that Upstart is deprecated. It's more a view of the Linux distribution ecosystem as a whole: the one distribution that primarily drove upstart usage and adoption is switching to systemd, so there won't be further momentum or resources behind upstart in the future. That doesn't make it instantly obsolete, but it does mean that starting a new project today around upstart is a bad idea.

(In fairness, there's one other notable distribution using upstart as well, namely Chrome OS; however, that's a bit of a special case in several ways, and in any case I hope to change that in the future.)
To be fair, tiredness is likely attributable to a great deal of road related injuries, but it isn't tracked because being tired isn't a criminal act.

I'm not saying you're wrong, per se, but suggesting that you're right due to the absence of evidence is premature.

That said, while I don't know how official these numbers are, the NHTSA attributes 100,000 accidents to driver fatigue per year, and while the victim count is currently lower than your assertion for drunk driving, I think that driving while fatigued is underreported for the reasons I mentioned above.
I agree that the question needs improvement, it admits too much confusion unless there's a context. List is an ADT in Java and OCaml and some of the literature, an implementation in Python, C++ etc. Linked-list would have avoided that, although possibly suggests an answer.

Having said that, I'd be minded to look dimly on a candidate who tried to sidestep that question with 'but I use Python and they're the same there, so it's just a question of semantics' and did not try to clarify the question with me.
I'm sorry, were you one of those silly students I was in college with who thought he would?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyWFa5xbHKg
Now thats a true wonder-brick.

Frankly i have begun wondering if getting a buzz is something instinctual.

Especially considering certain news items.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/08/sweden.drunke...
> Surely that's better than having your car stolen, right?

Stranded in hostile environment (middle of nowhere in the arctic or a desert) could be a death sentence.
Well, the appropriate response is to politely ask for clarification. Sometimes asking a dumb question is a useful way to see how someone treats someone less experienced. I find treating interviewers with deep respect no matter how dumb they sound generally puts me in the drivers seat going forward.
If you're juggling a bunch of different types of strings and want to keep them straight, Go does support defining separate types for them. An example is the HTML type from the template library [1].

The question is which sanitized string types are worth defining in the standard library. Presumably UTF-8 sanitized strings didn't make the cut.

Not sure about UTF-8B. Suppose the input is already UTF-8B? Do you double-escape it somehow?

It looks like DecodeRuneInString returns RuneError if it can't decode something and RuneError is defined as U+FFFD. The example uses a hard-coded string where it can't happen, so technically it's not a bug that it doesn't check for the error. But a linter might want to flag it.

[1] http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/#HTML
My personality is such that if I am working on something with someone else, and they aren’t putting as much effort in as me, I scale back my effort to match theirs.

Is the opposite true? If they're putting in more effort do you scale your input up? What happens if you're already at capacity? I take it you'd say to your cofounder "Hang on, this isn't fair on you. You need to put in a bit less effort trying to make this business a success." Or perhaps you wouldn't considering that would be utterly stupid.

Most importantly, an entrepreneur needs a vision that they can ferociously believe in. If your vision is half yours, half someone else’s it is pretty tough to put in 12 hours a day for years on end.

The point of having a cofounder is that your vision and their vision are the same, but with two people driving the business forward you can get there twice as quickly (or at all if the vision is bigger than something one person can do on their own).

To me it sounds like a cofounder would have sunk your business, but only because you've not met anyone who you consider to be an equal who you could work with to build something great. That's a shame.
I hope in case he were captured and faced a trial, it would give a sentiment of urgency for pro-Snowden people to demomstrate together in a sufficiently massive way. It probably wouldn't lessen the judgement, just show that there's controversy.
Unlikely. The metric units have a long history of never having been redefined in a way that breaks previous usage. As far as I'm aware, all redefinitions have just improved the precision, so they don't hurt previous users. Your proposal would make all the old feet wrong and anybody seeing "foot" would have to think about which type of foot it might me.
def file an issue, that's an unacceptable lack of jank
LA throws 96M 'shade balls' at its water shortage
Onboarding is Everything
You could also take a look at trendweight.com if you are using Fitbit Aria or Withings scales and want the Hacker Diet trends.
If I'm understanding right, grandparent isn't saying "effectiveness(minor, frequent) == effectiveness(major, infrequent)"; they're saying "effectiveness(minor) == effectiveness(major) && effectiveness(frequent) > effectiveness(infrequent)".
are you going to let that keep you up at night???
The petition was for a pardon. The law allows for pardon. Issuing a pardon would in no way undermine "the rule of law".
Not meaningful in Java.

java.util.List is an interface; java.util.ArrayList is the most commonly used implementation.
This doesn't even mention there was an entire newspaper filled with misdirection (Themela, Enigma machines, Mad Hatter, They Live, chromosomes...) or the Shavian text on the badges (all quotes from Buckaroo Banzai I believe). 1o57 even wore a Buckaroo Banzai shirt...gah.

Edit: Also, "Howdaddyisdoing" is an anagram for "Why did I add goons" which seemed very suggestive.
Prior to an extinction event you may be in some kind of equilibrium state where no agents are expressing phenotype a of sufficient novelty to provide a major selective advantage. Once you remove species this creates a vacuum for new phenotypes.

This also makes me think about how new technologies may disrupt the status quo leading to rapid technological evolution as we are seeing now, and in the dot-com

An interesting idea here is that government regulations have the ability to shift the selective landscape away from it's current equilibrium state and drive more technological evolution.
"Political agenda, the set of goals of an ideological group. In this context it is often used in a negative sense..."
> why it is standard in scientific papers to be written in 2-col layout

For much the same reason as in newspapers: Because it maintains a readable text column width (in terms of words/characters per line) while increasing information density on the page. The other (less common) alternative uses one column with large text and large margins, with only slightly more words/characters per line as each column of the two-column format.
The longest I've been awake is 40h I think. I started hearing and seeing things at the 39th hour and that's when I decided to go to sleep.

I've got no clue how people stay awake for more than 48h; just last week I fell asleep in front of the computer after being awake for 24h. For me, it requires mental gymnastics to be able to go beyond that.
I think you may have some misconceptions regarding the physics of motorcycles. You do not have to lean at all to turn, if you don't want to. Obviously the combination of you and your bike must lean, but you yourself can maintain a perfect upright posture if you'd like (and let the bike "do all the leaning"). You won't be able to turn as sharply, of course, but it's NOT the rider leaning their body that causes the bike/rider system to lean, it's purely a reaction to the countersteer you apply to the bars.

My favorite link to paste on the subject: http://www.superbikeschool.com/machinery/no-bs-machine.php
Assuming you work alone maybe yes. However most of us work in teams.

C and C++ have long proven that with average skills teams, the end result is lurking buffer exploits, dangling pointers, corrupted memory somewhere in the code base, that usually take days to sort out.
JSON.is
TaiG+2.3.4+Download+to+iOS+8.4+Jailbreak
I really think that the purpose is of the secrecy is more a technique to keep focus among engineers than anything else. Knowing more than one needs to know leads to internal politics and discord. In a weird way Apple can really boast of having "startup-like" teams inside it, because everyone knows exactly what they need to do their job (engineers atleast).
Why I started PiMothers?
On the mobile it is already kind of happening:

iOS slowly going Swift (Very few WWDC 2015 presentations were Objective-C)

WP 7 used only .NET. WP 8/10 use .NET and C++/CX.

Android uses essentially Java and Google only allows a very constrained use of C and C++ in their NDK.

So even though C and C++ are on the kernel and lower platform layers, at least the user space use is lower than on desktop platforms.
Mothers in STEM
As I posted in the HN thread about the petition, it's worth noting that Snowden has already been in effective exile for longer than Martin Luther King, Jr spent in jail over his entire life. What are the odds that Snowden is facing the same order of magnitude of punishment, were he to return home?

This is not to diminish the work of Dr. King but to say that the tactics he employed and decisions he made were made in a dramatically different context, where the way he could stay most involved and get the most done was to spend some time in jail. Snowden has stayed more involved from abroad than he would have been able to from where they'd have thrown him.
Because paying public employees more is politically unpopular and contracting out is politically popular, both with certain ideological groups and with the firms that actually get the contracting money (and turn around and work to support candidates that support contracting out), and paying government technical workers market salaries would mean the government was better at competing with contracting firms for talent.