skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I'm sure he did the best he could. The responsibility lies with the guy who appointed him into that role.
Simulating Monty Hall problem with F#
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Sounds interesting.

I'm curious about your experiment. What worked, what didn't, and what changes you notice (including potential placebo effects).
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For Go 2.0 – what would you take out?
What does "America" have anything to do with this? You could complain all day long about how bad of a situation you are in, or you could do something about it, and that's a fact.
Do you know what "moving the goalposts" is?

I assume you do seeing how you like to casually quote Shakespeare in your HN comments.

You said (quite cynically):

> The only purpose of ads is to forcefully track, distract, and exploit people's privacy for financial gain.

Then when someone pointed out that in general that's not the point of ads, but rather to support businesses that wish to keep their fees nominal or nonexistent, as has been done for a very long time, you said:

> What businesses were ad supported centries ago?

To which I replied with proof from a newspaper some 300 years ago.

And then you, as a last-ditch effort (I like this one the best):

> you're trying to be technically correct instead of actually correct.

Hilarious!
"In the last 20 years, only two new drugs have been approved that were specifically developed to treat children with cancer." You showed oncology which has ZERO impact on children since they are not approved for children and hence illegal for doctors to use for children. I lived this life man.

SORRY BUT WHAT A JERK! Misrepresenting facts does nobody any good but makes you a jerk. 100% true statement 3 drugs in 20 years have been approved by the FDA for Pediatric Cancer!

Here is the legislation that the community is trying to help get passed : http://www.stbaldricks.org/blog/post/fda-reform-act-signed-i...

This isn't some made up make believe this is the truth kids get the RAW end of the stick in cancer research. My son died on a bone cancer that quite possibly has more research money spent on curing the disease for dogs than finding a cure for children.

Those 22 ontological drugs are not PEDIATRIC. They don't help PEDIATRIC cancer patients. You misrepresented the truth so fast and hard to your notion that what I said was untrue. The sad fact is it would take less time to find a drug for children and than use on adults. If it comes from adults the research actually has to start from scratch due to the fast growing bodies of children and very few if any have any possible benifit for children.
Understanding the Historic Divergence Between Productivity and a Worker’s Pay [pdf]
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I still think that Object.assign and Object.create are enough for JavaScript. If the language is not class-based, it is not class-based. End of discussion.

But, well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Another factor is that successful preparedness for past events produces a false sense of complacency for future events. The more disaster planners succeed, the less people think their work is necessary.
No I mean people in semi-sleeping states in the street, ie. narcolepsy.
I have no idea how to solve it other than to educate people so they understand "Okay, I paid $X in taxes this year, now that we switched to land taxes, I pay that $X in rent and my landlord pays the government."

The problem is, in practice, this hasn't really worked.
Except that prison doesn't rehabilitate at all: it does the opposite and makes people worse. The rehabilitative theory of justice is essentially nonexistent in the US, nobody even pretends. Instead it's about punishment/retribution and "keeping them off the streets" during the period of their sentence. The coma solves the second concern, but isn't cruel enough to solve the first so I don't think you'll ever see it accepted in the US.
Brain explosions are a definite possible side effect.
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It's interesting to me how many scientific breakthroughs we've seen in the past few years. I wonder if hard science hasn't been slowing down; but rather waiting on technological advances that would give them the data they needed to make the leaps. With technological catching up these leaps are now happening.
Thanks. I've been manually copying the directories into my gh-pages repo. lol.
More info here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/12/05/how-are-laptops...
Looks like Android support is on the coming soon list, you can vote it up https://www.scaleway.com/imagehub/
A loss of a loved one hurts and changes us forever. So sorry to hear of yours.

The one big thing that helps me is to know is they taught me to savor life and to live it like it is a precious gift and to the fullest. So I try to do things they could do but know they would have enjoyed and remember them.
He also coined the Waffle House Index [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
I agree with you, I think the deflationary effects of technology are vastly underestimated. Have a look around at what technology is doing day-to-day to consumption and costs and it should be obvious, and yet talking heads still expect CPI inflation.

We just got a nice patch because of China's malinvestment stimulus but now they are forced to rebalance regardless of Xi. The commodity supercycle is over and that's bad news for many countries (not really the US).
I assume there is none - Miami and other coastal cities will exist forever and ever (in the minds of those who own its land and properties) :-)

I doubt the people of those Greek cities that sunk thought it would ever happen... or they just turned their heads, plugged their ears and said "everything is fine".
What's with the section on volunteer work? Is that a thing now?
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Stuff like swiftkey automatically recommends next words, it might not be that difficult to have a similar system for a shell. Sounds like a fun idea actually.

Oh, relevant XKCD. https://xkcd.com/1068/
> On two occasions, I observed pups falling out of the female while being pelted on deck. The two pups I observed were alive and were thrown over the side. I seen these pups crawl up on the ice after we threw them over aboard.

Grim.
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I agree. The last one I attended, a group won that had shortcuts up their sleeves. A member of the winning group had interned with the company that was judging for the winner. I also consider myself a professional, although I am still a student. I have more experience working in software development than most students. The food was terrible. Extremely high in sugar foods, with absolutely no water given out, but things like Coke, Monster, etc. There was also no where to sleep, so people were sleeping on the hard floor. I'll be attending one again, but as a volunteer tech mentor. There's no way I'll be judged against amateurs like I was at that last hackathon. The winner of that group used the most Buzzwords.
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Why do you sign your comment with your first name?
This isn't people in the south who believe this, it's most people across the US who are involved in the non-defense side of the CJ system. And they believe it doesn't rehabilitate because it's a fact that it doesn't, the only fault we can find with them is that they believe it shouldn't.
It is justification for being a workaholic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978410

Lots of discussion from a year ago.
Introducing the phone-directory certificate
Why did I laughed?
"We have detected you are using Google Chrome and might be unable to use the Java plugin from this browser. Starting with Version 42 (released April 2015), Chrome has disabled the standard way in which browsers support plugins. More info" From Java.com
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The space station is full of Thinkpads :)
Some people dislike it, but I LOVE it. I like being able to run a command, open a new terminal, and be able to control-r to find that command again. It ensures that I don't have race conditions over which terminal writes its history to disk first, as well, so I lost far fewer (zero?) history elements.
Space-proof laptop ? :)
If you're going to store a lot of history, you might want something nicer than the standard ctrl-r to search it with.

[fzf] is ctrl-r on steroids.

[fzf]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

It's a fuzzy pattern matcher for your shell history (and lots more).
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I've been in a car that's bribed police before. In the Philippines. Officer leaned in, said "I've got a ticket for you". The driver handed him a wad of cash, and the officer let us go. Its how it works over there.

I have never, in my life, encountered bribery on the scale of what goes on in other countries, in the USA.
I've coded some systems which use tons of force to move pieces of metal through the same space that moments earlier were occupied by humans or human limbs.

This was Scary.

I turned to state machines.

In ten years, neither of these two systems I coded has had a single software bug - not even in testing.

Imagine you have a emergency stop button (or two) on a machine. What needs to happen when that button is pressed? The machine needs to stop of course - but "stop" means radically different things depending on what the machine is doing at the time. If, say, a part is clamped in the machine, and a couple tons of cutting force is being applied to that part, an emergency stop had better keep that part held in place, or chunks metal will be exploding everywhere. On the other hand, if the clamping process has just started, the machine needs to stop applying pressure on the clamp.

When you figure that even a simple machine might have 30 outputs that need to be controlled, and 30 inputs coming in, trying to solve this kind of problem with if statements guarantees that you will miss something. And you will be unable to reason about it later.

With state machines however, you can make provably correct software. For every state in the system, I can see exactly what the machine should be doing in that state, and every possible transition out of that state. Alternately, I can take a given input or output, and see every possible effect it will have on the system.

For example, I can review every state to see what happens when the emergency stop is pressed, and make sure that it does the right thing.

Or I can work through the flow of states. In the "Clamping" state an emergency stop will cause a transition to the "Estop Clamp Open State" which release pressure to the clamp and turns off lots of spinning bits on the machine. Afterwords, when emergency stop is released, the machine transitions to the "Reset, Clamp Open" state which starts the process of moving things around to get back to normal. Once every sensor reports that everything has been reset, the machine transitions back to "Ready", and we are ready for the next transition.

For web applications, I use state machines for business process logic. Usually this can be a lot less formal - just a state field in table, with methods that check that field to decide how to act, what is allowed, or to transition states.
Excellent question.
1.89% faster than Math.Floor, 100% more hard to read.
It seems like there should be a no fault period where you can remove the image at no cost if it's as wide spread as this and the true origin is difficult to discern.

Also gag orders in general should be unenforceable.
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“We've moved from a world of things to a world of computers that do things”
Why you should use SVG
They can use your searches any way they want to. If you don't like it, don't use google - or if it's bad enough, you can try an antitrust lawsuit, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
Also have a look at fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Suburban, white, Ivy League-educated, American young adult, who knows his rights and how to act respectful (read "deferential" or "submissive") around police, with a well-off family stuffed with lawyers and law enforcement here.

Arrested on a false charge in an upscale neighborhood while well-dressed and not intoxicated. It took two and a half years of my life, a suspension from school, and over $50,000 before the charge was dismissed with prejudice and the suspension overturned.

The system works, eventually, for some people. But man can a rogue police officer and DA do some damage to you in the mean time. The psychic scars will probably never completely fade.
I'm glad as a society we're starting to look at how we deter crime and how we manage convicted criminals. I hope we learn to not only take people who are danger to society out of circulation, but once incarcerated work to have them become useful when they reenter the general population.

For too long it has resembled third world punishment models. The objective should be mainly to improve safety and to that end reeducate, reform, inculcate, etc. in order to make reentry viable.

That said, if it's useful to monitor electronically to ensure compliance, I'm okay since breaking social norms come with consequences like incarceration, and reform, etc then electronic monitoring during the probatory period. But we should put great effort into making those people useful, rather than the traditional outcasts we've made them to be post release.
I totally agree. I love JavaScript but I also love the idea of WebAssembly. Bring on the future!
I find that facination, care to expand on your reasons?

I assume you have the in-memory history enabled, but still
Society should pay. Society has a responsibility to treat everyone - even the lowest of the low - with basic dignity. Society has a responsibility to reintegrate and readjust those it has failed.
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Genghis Khan did pretty well in his invasion of Afghanistan also.
I had the exact same experience happen to me in a phone interview. I told the interviewer he had already asked me those questions. He told me to just go ahead and answer them again. Needless to say, I aced the phone screen since we went over all of the answers together the first time round.
I mostly do (MacOS), but:

$ which ls
/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin/ls

I'd say $392 seems like less than I should contribute.
There are numerous examples of users engaging in far less civil behavior than a minor and easily ignored insult, from accounts old enough to know better, only to receive, at best, multiple warnings before being banned (if they even get banned at all.) The rationale behind hellbanning is extreme because it is arbitrary. Transgressions like @shitsandwich's are what downvoting is meant for, not banning altogether.
I've only lucid dreamed once - that was one interesting experience. Usually, I don't remember my dreams at all, and when I do it's some weird stuff :-D.

I also have dreams when taking a 20-30 minutes nap during the day, and I can remember them more often. But I still can't go more than a few days sleeping a total of 6 or less hours, I'm just too tired. I need 7 hours at least.

What a waste of time... :-)
If prison is for punishment, then this makes sense: solitary confinement is a punishment worse than death.
You can start too: https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy :)
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>Our judicial system is for chewing up poor people

Hyperbolic statement with absolutely no details about this situation? Seems legit.
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> But for the tight limits on construction in California’s Bay Area, they reckon, employment there would be about five times larger than it is.

This is farcical. One reason people flock to the Bay Area is precisely because of the tight limits on construction. People like sprawled-out, low-density development. They like to have yards. They like spacious homes. They like to see the sky and the mountain vistas and the water.

You could lift the limits on land use and densify the area like Manhattan. But there are only so many workers who will flock to a Manhattan-like locale...and those workers are already flocking to Manhattan itself. Many American workers simply do not want to live in dense environments like Manhattan.

Like an earlier Economist article I think this one misses the possibility that tight controls on land use can make those places more desirable while driving some jobs elsewhere. Maybe some jobs simply do not exist due to tight Silicon Valley land controls. But other jobs simply move elsewhere, just as all finance jobs are not in NYC and London.
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A lot of Java's verbosity has been addressed in Java 8. I would still call it terribly verbose if your codebase involved lots of OO-style structures (inheritance chains, factories, etc); but for more functional Java code it's got a feel to it that's very similar to C#.
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Very cool!

Wow, I never realized how cluttered the ISS was. Stuff all over! Lots of Thinkpads as already mentioned, but lots of lots of things: cameras, lens, etc. I surprised at the amount of duplication. (I do realize that redundancy is key when you can't just run to the store to replace something, but still...)
You can't read a license plate from a satellite image. Those high-res Google Maps images are from planes. The best satellite imagery is about 1 meter per pixel, and those probably don't cover all the forests in the world.
I wrote the piece. Thanks for the feedback. I see it differently though.

If you look at the studies most people are sleeping between seven and nine hours, which is what the little research we have done on sleep says we need. The "myth" is that, as opposed to what the CDC says, the number of people sleeping less than the recommended hours hasn't increased. Thus the myth that most of us are not sleeping enough.
It is nauseating because it's a 1000 word humblebrag.

Look at this guy's bio:

> Max has a degree in mathematics from Yale University where he received multiple awards from the math department including the Barge Prize and the Runk Prize. He previously worked at The Boston Consulting Group where he worked on projects in computer hardware and biopharmaceuticals. His interests include data analysis, hiking, pad thai, and skiing.

This essay reads like he is just discovering the magic of the internet for the first time, and is swept away by the user experience that Google has provided just for him!

No, somehow I suspect that he would have gotten a job wherever he decided to apply.

But apropos of the first comment, I wonder how much Google already knew about him before the challenge was displayed. In other words, is it just triggered by keywords? Or does the algorithm also take into account what else is known about the user doing the searching?
I love all of these new Go tools for managing your *nix systems.

I started using Homemaker recently https://github.com/FooSoft/homemaker which is a very clean/lightweight replacement for GNU Stow, Homesick, and other dotfile managers. The Go versions of these utilities are always simple and single-purpose.

Modern developers are returning to building Unix style systems programs. Time is being spent on that instead of the usual bulky python scripts that have been popular recently or the million personal-productivity web apps people were creating.
I think I saw an iPad.
The many reasons for irreproducibility in science and efforts to tackle it
Its also interesting the mindset of some of the documents. We have a distinctly European view of Genghis Khan which might be more 'look at the devil' than reality or what was said in the home grown documents.
I think the site suffered from the HN Hug of Death, and I can't find a cached version. Anyone want to summarize?
> Since REM is the part of the cycle where your body rests the most, I feel that if I fall into the cycle sooner rather than later, I can safely shave a few hours off my sleeping time.

That's a pretty big leap to make. If the natural sleep cycle has several stages, it's likely that the other stages are also important.
There is no substantial difference in performance on mine (within 2%), although the OR was always a little bit faster.

Chrome 45 on Linux

It's odd that a bitwise operator should have the effect of truncating the float (since X|0 == X)? I'm guessing there's an implicit type conversion to int in the middle?
Crap, too late to edit now. Lol. Sorry about that.
> I have a serious question : If google uses a person's search results internally to determine that they are a person of interest for hiring, whose to say they aren't using a similar process to strip Intellectual property from searches as it relates to projects they are working on?

Question for you to consider: if google uses a person's search results internally to determine if they should show an ad or a knowledge card, whose to say they aren't using a similar process to strip Intellectual property from searches as it relates to projects they are working on?

It looks like it's a keyword match. You should be just as worried as when you saw the "do a barrel roll" thing.
Let's discuss. Why do you think this is bad?
They have made a couple of customizations to the regular Linux bootup that have severe security implications (i.e. download kernel modules from them among other things).
Contrary to a "classic" dedicated server, with this configuration you are very much trusting them unless you make changes.

Read https://www.scaleway.com/docs/create-an-image-from-scratch/ and ideally set up a server and look at what exactly is going on.

Unfortunately the script on that page has some errors (it references missing files and it's missing some files that are required), they should really go over it and fix them.
I just turned 40 and whoa I've never felt such a drastic change previously, as ...

- Im starting to lose my hair

- I gained ten pounds a week or two after my birthday (lost it now after getting back to the gym); 5'10 178 now.

- I suddenly succumb to a foot disease older men have to deal with... it came and went, but could come back. WTH?

- Slight depression from all the above.

I want my 30s back!
They only accept people who aren't security- and privacy-conscious... Because it relies on you being logged-in and letting them build a profile of your search activities and trends.
Made me think of Seveneves as well. I bet Stephenson would have found this thing really useful for writing the book.
You can do this in PHP, but you shouldn't.

Use (int), like C.
I'd be inclined to agree, most of America is safe but there are some rough areas.

Atlanta has some places that are more like war zones than anything else. It's just as bad as some places I've seen in Central America. The state patrols around my area have the you better "respect my authority" vibe. I was screamed at because my vehicle smelled like alcohol (due to passengers) when I was being the sober driver for the night.

It's also unfortunate what happened to your friend. I dont fault the police for their methods, I think its a reaction to the realities they have faced. The big problem is they shouldn't be using those methods in every situation.
307,000 veterans may have died awaiting Veterans Affairs health care
Thanks for your $0.02. I'm the author of the piece, and I know what you are talking about. I tried to cheat sleep for a year by sleeping approx 4.5 hours per day. More here: http://qz.com/430415 (slept 3.5 hours at night and took 3-4 naps of 20 mins in the day)

My experience was the same. I used to fall in REM very quickly, many times in the 20 min naps. Here I say REM but really I mean dreams and I'm taking dreams to be a proxy for REM.