skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How is free and unrestricted access to information an American value?

I think the OP meant that American laws (based on American values) govern the content that's legal on Wikipedia. For example, there is no content on the site showing child pornography based on the US legal definition. Note that US legal definition doesn't fit with the definitions from other countries.
Vim on a Mechanical Typewriter
I wonder if there would be an interest in a virtual credit card (NFC smartphone) showing you how much money you can spend for, say, the rest of the week. You would be able to configure your desired spending limit. The virtual credit card app would automatically be able to update the amount of money spent whenever recurrent charges are processed automatically. The idea is that whenever you pull your smartphone to pay, you always see exactly how much you have spent so far. As opposed to the situation today where nobody logs in multiple times daily on their bank/credit card website to check how much they have spent.
>That's quite unwarranted.

@guard-of-terra is a troll which is obvious if you read the rest of his posts on this thread. don't feed the troll please.
You are right, I will change it to just 'url'. Thanks for the feedback.
I do not understand why China is unable to divert its resources at this point to things like better education. Strong independent domestic institutions.

The biggest problem was assuming that the market players are rational in the absence of information.

Markets only works with information. Its seems pointless to talk about the one without the other.

If someone had 100 dollars. The difference in yield between 2% and 7% is not as big of a deal as transparency.

Since loosing your entire 100 dollars is much more worse.

As someone who is close to india. I find it amusing whenever people tell me how much better China is compared to india and that maybe india should be more like China. Multinationals constantly complain about Indian red-tape not realizing that its not so simple to displace farmers to build a highways in a democracy. I also see the same thing happening in america with people like Donald trump openly saying that China is beating the US.

It seems capitalists really like china - which says a lot more about capitalism then it does about china.
John McAfee: The Ashley Madison hack is the death knell of secrets
Rocketry and Aviation Lessons for Software [video]
I thought I remember reading that lifting can hurt young, growing bones but I would also imagine this kid's couches and parents are educated on it.
Thanks! The vetting was a process of of evaluation really. From initially being responsive, to shipping us demo units promptly, providing assistance when we had problems etc. When it came down to actually placing the order, we felt they'd already put in enough effort that it was genuine business relationship.

Wrt getting ripped off, we were advised very early on: "If you make anything in China, it will be copied". It's for that reason our software on the box is a very thin layer. The smarts are in the cloud and on the smartphone apps.
If adults wear t-shirts, then isn't wearing a t-shirt dressing like an adult?

I'm afraid you're making the mistake of confusing fashion trends with intrinsically appropriate clothing.

To illustrate the point, I'll use neck ties. Because suits and ties have been fashionable for many decades, they seem intrinsically fitting for the professional, but think of how silly it is, from a purely practical sense, to wear around your neck a ribbon made out of woven silk that is very difficult to tear.
“MultiFab” 3D-prints ten materials at once
Snoop!
Well, that makes sense. But then, the cost of the bag should roughly reflect the cost of all these external harms from using them. What if it turns out that the cost is something like 10c a bag? That seems like a plausible number to me. It's certainly nowhere near $5 a bag, taxes and fees for street cleaning and parks aren't anywhere in that ballpark. In which case, we've already discovered that's not enough to eliminate the use of the bags (it does reduce it).
Also, as I stated in my post, I don't think CodeCademy actually works that well at all, so your suggestion that I'm envious of new people because they have access to CC when starting out while I didn't is groundless. I tried one of their courses two years ago and found it extremely shallow. If someone asked me today how to learn JavaScript, I would probably direct them to Mozilla's tutorial or to the Rhino book and wouldn't even mention CC.

The glut of free programming books and tutorials on the internet along with open source operating systems and development tools and the Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange websites have collectively done much more programming and CS education than CC has done and likely ever will do.
Agree zrgiu - we were able to avoid the hardware design aspect, but the projects you mentioned certainly couldn't - that is their whole point of existing.
No, I believe nothing of the sort and now I'm curious what part of my post conveyed that, so I can write in a less sloppy manner in the future. Sorry!

Judging solely from the point of view of the bank, and conditioned on the assumption that fees are to dissuade customers from behavior that hurts the bank, it's in the bank's interest:

1. To find a way for that behavior not to hurt it in the first place.

2. To actually, successfully dissuade behavior, so that the bank is hurt less.

3. To warn people right when they're about to hurt the bank, so they don't.

That matches the three questions I had.

If fees are themselves for the bank's profit, then yes, sure. But then we can just admit that the bank is charging fees to people who maintain low balances (= "poor people", to first order) for profit purposes, right? That seems clearly within the margin of rhetoric that "tax on poor people" is a fine description.
Definitely feel free to add that!
I really wish people would take corruption seriously enough to study it as a professional discipline. It is one of the most important and difficult problems in human history, and there's a lot of room for innovation in dealing with it.

>and most will have a higher perceived amount of corruption than the reality suggests (because discovered exhibits of corruption will be interesting news and thereby over-observed).

You could argue that most corruption is not reported because it is effectively legal. Like nepotism, for instance.
What are you saying, that a Linux port was a click away?
A former coworker had a story from when he used to service those things. He was doing a cleaning and was tossing the solvent-soaked rags into a garbage can on the other side of the printer door. Someone came by and tossed a cigarette into the can - managed to blow out quite a few ceiling tiles. He was always a bit hard of hearing but I never determined if it was connected to this incident or not.
I have used your app on HTC One. Liked it but unlocking the phone to use a remote app was more cumbersome than just grabbing the remote.

I like the approach Peel is taking. Show what's currently on TV and click on what you want to watch and it automatically switches the channel to that show. That's a real good use of the smartphone app, since flicking through channels on TV is really inefficient
Why Some Dead OSes Still Matter (2007) [pdf]
You'll find plenty of other losers if you apply the same criterion: Belgium was constantly invaded by friends from all sides. Germany never had the dominant worldwide position it deserved. Poland is, well you know this story... China was three, four times defeated and ruled for centuries by small tribes of illiterate horsemen. All Africa is a mess, and South America too. Even the allmighty American Dream magic powder do not sell that well anymore. I would stop complaining about Russia's past and move forward, if I can share my thoughts. (Just think 2 mn about what it means to be a German nowadays, you'll see how the mud is much uglier on the other side)
This is not helping.
Oh, they're different. They cost more, take five or ten times as much plastic to make, take more fuel to transport, and take up more space in landfills.

Think about just how little material the thin bags use, and think about how many of them you'd have to stack to equal the thickness of the thick bag.
the comparisons don't hold sway. Comparing agriculture to programming is not a valid comparison. To farm you need sufficient space, and usually a wholelot of arable land.

To program all you need is a cheap computer and some knowledge. Both are quite obtainable by an interested party.

if you want to farm, well you may run into trouble trying to do that. the capital investment is huge.

So regardless of you opinion of centralisation of power, programming will always be accessible, and in this day and age it also has great leverage. You can access a large market with little capital expenditure. it is attractive for those reasons alone and will remain so for time to come.

i would be more interested in a comparison to building infrastructure. Not every construction project is a greenfield site, often you have to deal with legacy infrastructure. How has the job market progressed in infrastructure building over the last century? Has it decreased like teh agricultural sector, or has it been more resilient. (I suspect it has peaks and troughs much like software employment is at)
I thought bitcoin went up on hype, down on fear. Opening up China markets, for example pushed the price up to over $1000. Then that hype died, along with MtGox and here we are.
I see this a lot in my lab (days/weeks to run computations and analysis that could take minutes/hours), and I used to offer to help the postdocs/phd students port their code from matlab to C/C++, but I've mostly given up on offering unless they ask for help, or if it seems like fun. I also think it's because they mostly think they won't work on these things again (which is kind of weird to think about since they spent most of their life working to get to this point, but that's another conversation).

Aside, I think armadillo is pretty great, especially going back and forth with other matrix libraries, also nice wrapper around OpenBLAS which made not running something on a cluster more bearable.
dude... was totally going to plug your book here :)
Yeah, this is exactly what I meant. It's definitely straddling both the North and the South. So much of the state and its culture are very un-South. You won't find its deep blue politics on a large scale anywhere else below the Mason-Dixon Line. The fact that it was founded explicitly as a Catholic colony puts it at odds with most of the rest of the South. This resonates even today.
Degree matters. As biased toward certain groups as the US justice system is, it still resembles the rule of law.
The link to Google.ru 404s [1]. Does anyone know if this is a real 404 and this site is gone, or if this is Google's dumb idea at localizing content (they send 404s depending on how they think your IP represents your geo location ... for some reason).

1: http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html
MASM 1.0 was hardly spry, it had a linear symbol table, meaning that it took exponential time as the size of the program increased. Plus, it crashed a lot, and I mean a lot. Every crash meant a tedious reboot, making development very slow.

I'd write a cross-assembler that ran on the PDP-10. That's probably what Microsoft did, as I find it hard to believe that MASM 1.0 could have been used to compile DOS.

I'd also write the DOS clone in C, running it on the 10 with an emulator. Then I'd hand-translate it to assembler.

Remember, DOS 1.0 fit on a 160K floppy, including the numerous utilities thrown in. That isn't much code, even assembler code.
There's a thing that's concerning to me about AI and robotics articles in mainstream media; nearly every such article has some sort of "but there's no need to worry just yet" qualifying statement before the end.

It's almost as if there is this obvious future we're all subconsciously aware of, that we fear greatly, but that we're somehow afraid to confront in meaningful way.
Yes, it was.
It supports both platforms, iOS and Mac OS X!
That's maybe a discussion for another medium, but we're actually updating the app right now with a customizable notification - so you have access to your commands from anywhere (including lockscreen) without any kind of intrusion.
Also, we already have a floating remote (facebook chathead-style) that shows on top of the lockscreen. Best of all - you can configure it to show only while you're on the home wifi.

Since they make money only with advertising, Peel is only focused on TV-watching. While we're going to have the same feature soon (tv guide with auto-switching), AnyMote is meant to do let you do much more than just control a TV and Set Top Box. It has all kinds of wifi lights support, receivers, media centers, etc.
Congratulations, the final product looks sleek.

I have a comment about the blog post itself though. Your page took 90 seconds to load on my gigabit internet connection. The two culprits are your high resolution images of the product DSC_0031.jpg and DSC_0014.jpg. Each image is around 3MB. I would strongly recommend recompressing these down to something like 200KB or less.
Cartography of Developers (Mind Map)
Definitely a myth.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/phys-ed-the-benefit...
Study Review:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/126/5/e1199.ab...
Very true. Usain Bolt is known to have laughable form, so bad that coaches who have filmed him just throw up their hands when playing it back.

Also, you can get incredibly strong just on 3 squares and water and sleep. Either you have the genes and do the work, or you don't.
Oly lifts are terrifying to look at, but assuming you have proper training most of these lifts are pretty safe as there are usually plenty of ways to "fail safely". I don't do oly lifts, but on occasion do power cleans to get into position to do overhead presses without a rack. That tends to terrify people around me too

Power clean is similar to the first part of the clean and jerk (where he pulls the bar explosively upwards and catches it), but in power clean you drive the bar further up into a near jump, and catch the bar much higher up (in a clean you drop down pretty much in squat position when catching).

In clean type movements you can generally fail by pushing yourself and the bar apart so the bar crashes to the floor. Similarly when putting a bar overhead - your main priority is to ensure the bar clears your head, and frankly that's not all that hard as no matter what grip you use, making the bar clear your hands is likely to get it mostly clear of your head.

My scariest experience - once in 10 years of doing power cleans into press position to do my overhead presses - was on a 1RM attempt where I started feeling dizzy halfway into my press, and felt I had to ditch the bar. Even then, worrying I'd faint, it took just a little nudge to get the bar far enough out from me to crash to the ground without touching me. Only caveat was that my fingers didn't clear totally, so I was pulled down after it and ended up dazed and confused on floor, hands still on the bar, but unhurt other than some slight bruises.

I've failed to complete part of the movement (usually the press at the end - you can usually power clean much more than you'll be able to overhead press) many times, but usually you'll know when it's not going to work and can maintain enough rigidity to put the bar down in a controlled way.
This guy has me blocked on GitHub and I have no idea why. I've never interacted with him before. I tried to make a simple pull request to fix something and GitHub won't even let me fork his code.

I've emailed him and asked if he perhaps blocked me by accident or something and got no response.
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Red Flags in Developer Postings or Interviews
How to beat OCD in the funniest way
Solo programmer reporting in. I've been working on libsoundio[1], an alternative to PortAudio. This is in the context of Genesis[2], a digital audio workstation. Collaboration is great but sometimes if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.

[1]: http://libsound.io/

[2]: http://genesisdaw.org/
Old manuals go a long way towards understanding the computers they describe though. I've been nothing short of impressed with any manual I've found that was made before 1990.

Maybe because computers were not so complex yet so you could actually fit their basic operation/commands in a few hundred pages.
Thanks, we assumed our blog engine compressed them for us.
The problem is, we can't move forward. We're stuck.

As a society we're so deep in blame shifting and ressentiment that no progress is possible. Visible in Putin's and parliament members' rhetoric who instead of trying to find solutions choose to blame circumstances and everybody else in the world and vocally return to traditions banana coocooland where every problem is inexistent. Oh, and also blame your fellow co-citizens for being agents of the enemy, defeatists, saboteurs and sources of the problems being discussed. They get away with this because the seed finds fertile soil.

To be a German is to be enjoying good beers on top of the best industrial complex in the world, having long admitted mistakes of the past and moved on. Russians infinitely return to mistakes of the past trying to revise history, find somebody else to blame or try to repeat those.

Five years ago I thought that we are moving, but then whole country just hit the brakes.
The importance of developing an entrepreneurial mindset
Right now, interferes a lot, but as far as control goes, nobody is controlling anything.

Since middle of last year, they started meddling with how supermarkets sells to customers, for example, you can go to a supermarket only two days a week to buy "price regulated products" which are every simple thing like pasta, milk, flour, meat, cleansing products, soap, shampoo etc. Also they are trying to implement a biometric system so you can buy only certain number of such products once you are validated with your fingerprints. But of course they have botcheted that as well, so now you are fingerprinted but on the 2 days a week your are allowed to go, is a nightmare.

Probably the most of Venezuelan expats in Miami are antichavistas, but I tell you one thing, nothing like this happened while Chavez was alive. OTOH, it seems obvious that the problems of today are rooted in some of Chavez's policies.
The legal standards for suppression of information and the categories of information that can potentially trigger those standards are stricter and narrower in most respects in the U.S. than in most other jurisdictions. Also, many segments of society often express pride in the breadth and depth of U.S. legal protections for free expression, and argue that it's something that makes the U.S. or the U.S. legal system great.

Foreign law students sometimes find it hard to believe that some of the rules are so protective of speech (source: three different U.S. law professors have told me this).

A few examples:

* All fictional depictions of violence are protected.

* There are no restrictions on blasphemy or insults to religious doctrines, religious beliefs, religious believers or communities, or religious believers' feelings.

* Advocacy and glorification of any kind of illegal action (including war crimes and genocide) are fully protected if they aren't reasonably likely to lead to a specific imminent lawless action.

* Advocacy against the state or its powers is mostly completely protected for citizens, as is teaching that the prevailing political or economic system is inherently wrong. Urging resistance to or evasion of military conscription is mostly understood as protected now (unlike during World War I). Same thing with taxation, if you're not teaching people how to do it with the intention that they act on your advice.

* Detailed information about how to commit crimes is usually protected if the person publishing it didn't have a sufficiently specific intention to help people actually commit them in practice and didn't have some other responsibility to keep the published information secret.

* Insulting present or past state leaders or the virtue or legitimacy of the state or any political party is fully protected.

* It's protected to advocate regional or ethnic secession or territorial separatism (though not to conspire to effectuate it by force). It's protected to display flags or emblems of militant groups, even those that the U.S. is trying to oppose or suppress or is engaged in armed conflict with. It's protected to show disrespect to national symbols or emblems of the United States.

* Contrary to increasingly common popular belief, there are no restrictions on "hate speech" or group libel (for example saying that a particular group in society is bad, using slurs against a group, saying that some negative stereotype is true or that members of some group commonly or always have a negative characteristic, or wishing for or justifying ill treatment of a group).

* Most sexualized depictions of adults (and most sexualized depictions of fictional children) are now legally protected in practice, although there can theoretically be restrictions in various circumstances that seem to be becoming increasingly rare and exceptional.

* It's hard to punish people for downstream republication of leaked or misappropriated information.

* It's hard to punish people for repeating truthful negative information about other people, especially if they weren't originally involved in obtaining that information.

I'm sure there are other examples!
Yes many of them do.
The fact that students, most of whom have no assets and have never worked, and cannot prove their future earning potential, can get over $100k in loans that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy just by signing their name, has clearly caused massive distortions in the education market.

During the past few decades, the number of administrators in American universities has grown significantly, tuition has risen dramatically, and even public universities are investing in luxury amenities to attract student money, and raising tuition to pay for them.

The past few decades have also seen a proliferation of for-profit universities which are being investigated by the government for exploiting students by encouraging them to take out huge loans to pay tuition for programs without any value. They are taking advantage of flawed student aid policy by using the students to take money from the government.

None of these things have happened in any other wealthy country, even though those countries have also seen the same shift in the job market that the United States has. This is not a consequence of the changing job market, because if it was, it would have happened elsewhere. It is a consequence of policy choices.

The incentives for bad behavior are abundantly clear. In other developed countries, it is harder to get student loans, and easier to pay them back, and college is more accessible to poor students than it is in the United States. That's because public universities in other developed countries have caps on tuition, and students have caps on how much they can borrow, so universities can't use students as a vehicle for diverting government money to themselves.