skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banks aren't scary, they're a-hole dinosaurs. Banks epitomize centralized authority and regulation. Banks borrow money for less than they lend it effectively guaranteeing a profit if properly and concervatively managed, and yet they have recently and repeatedly failed. In the process they have inflicted enormous harm to our economy and lives, but they have not shared a proportionate share of the costs. The costs they impose hardly justify the veritable monopolies banks are afforded by the laws and regulations which are very effective at preventing competitors from entering the market.

Now consider where the tyical HN reader comes down on these issues. So yeah. Not a lot of love for banks.
And that’s why Germany has it so easy: DHL makes shipping out of Germany or to Germany insanely cheap, DB Schenker ships per rail even from Norway whole containers cheaply, etc.

Germany has here the advantage of a low valued currency, extremely well done infrastructure, good interconnection, and easy access to other markets. Same with BeNeLux, France and Italy. In some regards, even Spain.
Yeah, I would categorize this role pretty firmly as an Engineering Manager.
Kind of feel weird posting this but a recent show, Mr. Robot feels like the next attempt at something kind of like "Hackers".

One of the early on episodes actually has a character musing aloud if some screen writer is making the next Hackers to incorrectly portray this generations technologist. As they watch Hackers on TV in a hotel. A bit tongue in check, because the show itself is doing exactly that.

It's actually quite good and surprisingly "accurate" on the technology bits and even some of the personalities.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_(TV_series)
I agree. And even if green does signify "good", I don't think that's a bad thing here. I'd rather be drawn towards fresh sources first. Those items are likely to require more oversight, and voting (and potentially flagging) as well.
How does Wine, Mono, and Microsoft open source .Net play out?
It would be interesting if active neurons were suppressing memories but I don't know of any evidence in support of that idea.

Most of the articles cited by the author don't deal with neurons that are directly involved in memory. The articles described the activity of neurons in primary sensory areas: the neurons in cortex that receive direct input from the periphery, or at least are the closest to neurons in the periphery in terms of number of connections between them. One exception is the article she cites about the hippocampus, but this area is required only for forming memories--once the memories have formed, they live somewhere else, but probably not in the primary sensory areas. Okay, maybe memories are a distributed network that includes neurons in primary sensory areas...but it would be weird to also have the main sensory area also be the place where memories live.
...Delaware takes the biggest hit, per capita

Does this have anything to do with the fact that many many companies are incorporated in Delaware but don't do much business there? It seems possible that the federal taxes paid by such companies are counted as being "from Delaware" even though they mostly aren't, really.
do you think this is because ad blocking is eating their lunch? i don't know enough about "MacStories" to come to a conclusion.
Are you a court? Then you don't always know what's illegal. Why not let the legal system decide?

It's not splitting hairs. A medicine dealer is a far cry from an arms dealer, even if they are selling to "both sides".

I totally approve of protecting people from attacks, even bad people. I don't want burglars to have their houses broken into. I don't want kidnappers to get kidnapped.

I'm sorry you can't imagine me.
I suppose you could argue that, and a workplace with that mindset could certainly work for some people. As someone who values my family, though, that's not somewhere that I would choose to work. I think you'd also find that most people will not be flexible for their employers when the employers don't expend the same courtesy. In the end, we're all humans, most of us don't operate in a social vacuum, and I wouldn't want to work for someone who fails to understand or respect that.
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Why has this been downvoted? It's an important argument.

Which open source projects have deterministic builds, with a verifiable source of signature information - be that concensus or a source of truth that is verfied by concensus, so that I can be sure that either a) the binary I download has a very high certainty of being correct, or b) the source code I downloaded and compiled from has a very high certainty of being un-modified.

With a vendor, they don't need deterministic builds so badly, as they push a single file, and an authoritative source of signatures.
Mr.Robot is mostly accurate when it comes to computer security details.
That's fair. I tend to browse /newest so I'm probably seeing them before they get cleaned up from on high.
Possibly you could split submission into multiple steps? The user first submits just the URL. This returns the results of the dupe detector (if any). They then confirm submission (or resubmission) in the next step.

The first submission could also test the URL, and pre-fill the title field with the actual title of the page. The user then edits the title (if desired), and confirms to submit the page. Or bails out when they realize the submission already exists under a duplicate URL.

This could be done within a page with AJAX, or kept as it is with multiple pages. In either case, you'd leave the final choice of title and URL with the user, and are only offering them more information (and an easy option to cancel) during the process.
Lets just take this one line

"Why is that? Because African Americans have an average IQ of 85 and only 11-16% have an IQ > 100 (the national average)."

As someone with an interest in this (both as an African and someone who measures freakishly high on IQ tests way beyond my actual abilities, joined MENSA on a lark), I’ve had this argument over and over again. Most of this goes back to the IQ statistics cited in “The Bell Curve” as applies to Africans. The “Bell Curve” was a Storefront tract dressed in respectable clothing (sadly, every 20 years it has a successor, the most recent is Nicholas Wade’s “A troublesome Inheritance". The statistic in question was quoted as an average IQ of 75 for Black Africans. If you read the citations, it comes from a study quoted by Richard Lynn (infamous racist, google ‘Mankind Quaterly’). It is based on a study done in South Africa in 1927 by the Boer Govt (it actually concluded that Bantu Africans has an IQ of 70 and was one of the intellectual foundations for Apartheid). I leave it as an exercise for people to figure out why that study might have been slightly biased.

Keep in mind that an IQ of 80 is borderline retarded. So to believe this you have to believe that almost every black person you run into is either borderline retarded or just above that.

Now, you’ve been down voted into the grey, which I think is good, but just in case people think you’re being down voted for being ‘politically incorrect’ rather than for being a racist, here are some recommended readings

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do - Claude M Steele

The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America - Steven Fraser (Editor)

The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen Jay Gould

The “people are where they are because of some innate fault” is a very attractive argument that has been used time and time again (I know I used it growing up upper middle class in a country with a lot of poor people. If only those people were hard workers like me and pulled themselves by their bootstraps). It is used time and time again against African Americans, and it is ironic to see it argued here in an article that is one of 2 (with the linked ’The Case for Reparations’) that clearly lays out the case as to why African Americans are disadvantaged in the U.S.

There are None so Blind as those who refuse to see.
You're deluded. It's ok, we all are. Our brains are hard wired to seek out data just like our brains are hard wired to seek out sugar. Both were rare in the olden days and could extend your life. These days, we have too much of both.

That said, if you were to see something that matched your venn diagram of Affects your life, not Aware Of and not yet Interested In, would you even know it? Most people wouldn't, because new information in that category often threatens their world view.

I seek out information in a similar venn, but mine looks more like Affects Your Life, not Aware Of, but very Interested In. I'm not interested specifically in any particular topic, but I'm very interested in anything that challenges my current perception of the world, no matter where it comes from. As a result, I read a lot of blogs and twitter feeds written by people most would consider mentally deranged. Except they're not mentally deranged; they're often more rigorously logical than their detractors.

As for how to automate the task of finding this information, I have high hopes for machine learning and neural networking, but my own exploration of that area is in its infancy.
This seems to me to be an egregious misallocation of funds. The costs of computers in lower income schools and training teachers alone is massive, not to mention the necessary research that has to be done to design and test curricula for younger children.
I was referring to the new "past" functionality running automatically on the submit form, on focus change for example.
Unfortunately there exists a messy side of company culture in which perception (by peers and management) impacts morale and performance. In a utopian company, all employees are judged purely on their productivity and have unilateral say in their working conditions. Unfortunately our world is filled with people and their pesky emotions. People get upset when they perceive unfair treatment, and things like "good reason" and "productivity" can be so subjective.

This is a matter of nurturing a good team culture. Culture is hard.
The former is also a leadership problem at the company. Let's have a vigorous and open debate while we're leading up to a decision. That's healthy.

Once a decision is made, it becomes everyone involved in the implementation's job to make it successful. If someone is openly running counter to that and isn't corrected or removed (at least from the project, and possibly from the company), you have a basic and straightforward leadership problem, IMO.

(In the second case of inter-company alliances, that's more normal and less amenable to a simple solution. It's also far less cancerous if left unchecked.)
A few notes:

Being the people or group who can afford "the most" computing resources is not enough, at least as that expression is commonly used. To make an analogy, Bill Gates is the US citizen with the most wealth, but you'd need to join hundreds or thousands of people to gather 50+%, which is what you need to launch the attach you're mentioning.

Also, it's not true that only they would get the power to verify it; everyone can verify the transactions on the blockchain. What they would gain is the ability to double-spend their Bitcoins, and not without getting noticed by the rest of the network.
India has 7, 1 less than Europe, that is very interesting from many accounts. GDP of Europe ~20 Trillion $. GDP of India is 2 Trillion $ - I wish there were more studies like this, but not just at the billion $ evaluation, but say 100 million $ evaluation, I think reaching the mark of 1 B$ also requires significant amount of luck(in addition to great execution), a smaller number like 100 M$ may be a more consistent measure
While I can't speak for the OP, I had been on the site for well over a year before I realized that you could search through past HN submissions at all (even though the search box is at the bottom of basically every page).

As far as I can tell, neither /submit nor the guidelines mention that you should do a search first before submitting.

Then, once you assume you should do a search before you submit, the idea is that such a search could happen on the same page as submit, as soon as you finish pasting a URL, and before you hit submit.

It's like when you go to a support site and type in a question, and it tries to give you answers by searching for other instances of that question (or by searching a knowledge base), before letting you make a new support ticket.
She totally does say they're cortical neurons. But it seems the point of the article is that most of the brain is dormant. I'm not sure that most of the brain is dormant.
Just started a Coursera course on game development[0]

I've been building Space Invaders in C++ for almost a year now. It's been an excuse to learn things like building an entity-component system, messing with fonts, creating spritesheets, etc, and currently i've taken a week-long tangent into vectors and collision detection. It's more of a journey vs. destination kind of thing, otherwise it could have been "done" a long time ago.

I decided to wrap most of my Github projects into a small, threaded PHP forum, which is currently a HN clone because I can't be arsed to care about style right now. I've got lots of little things like related links generation and thread folding and sorting working. It will probably never actually see the light of day.

Since I just graduated from technical school, I have to find actual work so that's taking up a lot of time too.

[0]https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-development
> And there's a lot of weird hate towards bank on HN.

Four million wrongful foreclosures in 2009-2010 alone: http://crooksandliars.com/heather/review-finds-4-million-peo...

That means four million families' homes illegally stolen from them.

Don't pretend this is some goofy hippie fuck-the-man thing. When someone commits that much theft, a rational person doesn't leave them alone with the silverware.
HP cuts 30,000 jobs as it splits into two companies
Is the sample from wikipedia indicative of the typical kerning for Tratex? If so, that'd be unfortunate...
> First of all, a nuclear reactor that produces 1 Gw of electricity doesn't have any more "immense power" than a coal, oil, or natural gas plant that produces the same electrical power output.

Stop putting those control rods in there and see how much energy it will generate.....
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They're not dumb in the sense that you have a distraction that you (or your SO) simply must deal with. It's not like it's optional to go pickup your kid from daycare or school if they're sending him home.

If you're doing repetitive assembly-line type work, maybe you worry about an excessive smoke break pattern. If you're doing creative and novel work (as most programming is), don't sweat the smoke breaks. Sweat the overall output and contribution maybe, but I don't find time-at-keyboard to be nearly linear with output.

(Context: I'm a non-smoking father of two, aged 4 and 6.)
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-peop...

I think IQ tests can sometimes measure the limits of someone's ability to learn. But in the case of a population of people with lower than average access to quality education, an IQ test probably only measures how little they have been taught.

Reminds me of the idea that people with Uner Tan Syndrome were "devolved humans." Turns out that the main reason they couldn't walk normally was that they lacked access to proper physical therapy.

http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/walking-fours-hum...

Here's some clips from an old Nova episode on the subject:

"If they were born anywhere else they would walk normally."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svFg15ftGaQ&t=47m50s

"Astonishingly, no one had thought to provide them with a $30 walking frame."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svFg15ftGaQ&t=49m40s

"frustration with the situation often spills into anger."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svFg15ftGaQ&t=52m24s

At the end, they erected some parallel bars for the family and everyone learned to walk just fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svFg15ftGaQ&t=56m35s

Anyway, if you watch the whole doc you can catch several scientists breathlessly describe how devolved these people are. And then at the end, $30 of equipment fixed the situation and "re-evolved" them.
There's appropriate and inappropriate types of this: worked till midnight, absolutely flag it and come in late; left early yesterday, rocked in after WIP today without notification, probably not okay.
Not the first or only project to do this. Spigot, a fork of the CraftBukkit minecraft server, uses a similar approach [0]. It allows to easily collaborate with the upstream project (Just apply the feature's patch on current master).

[0] : https://hub.spigotmc.org/stash/projects/SPIGOT/repos/spigot/...
Nice, is that a LOGO programming language?
Any chance we can have collapsible comments without a greasemonkey script, or bookmarklet?
LIBOR doesn't demonstrate that banks rely on trust. None of the involved banks or brokers trusted that anyone else was actually being honest about LIBOR submissions or predictions.

Even if there were any system safeguarding LIBOR whatsoever, a blockchain wouldn't have helped. The reason it was so easy to falsify your bank's LIBOR submission was because they were essentially made up. Submitters produced the number by talking to brokers and then making a decision. A blockchain wouldn't have made any difference. You'd put your submission on the blockchain, and you wouldn't be able to change it later if things didn't turn out how you liked, but you had made up the submission anyway. Nobody would ever be able to point to some number on the blockchain and say definitively that your reported LIBOR figure for today should have been X but in fact it was Y and therefore you're a crook, because the figures were never verified. They'd only be able to say "There's no record, so you could easily have just made up the number," and you'd say "I did make it up, that's how you do it, everyone else made theirs up too," and that would pretty much be it. The only way to catch someone being dishonest was to find records of employees talking about it; the Hayes case and others like it are based on the fact that bankers incriminated themselves by discussing the manipulation with each other.

By contrast, when banks transfer specific quantities of money, they absolutely are not relying on a trust-based system. I owed you X, I sent you X, and I swear to God if you come to me later and say I only sent Y and I owe you more dosh there will be a fight. If you produce internal records kept by your accountants that say I totally only sent Y, no bank would take your word for it under any circumstances. Similarly, if there was a mixup and some of my assets ended up with you by accident, my chances of convincing you that I should get them back are nonexistent if I don't have some outside system demonstrating that I'm not lying. In real life, financial institutions rely on third-party businesses to be that "outside system." A blockchain would help solve our problem without those businesses. I wouldn't need to trust you, the transaction would be recorded on our blockchain, and if either of us thought the other could falsify the blockchain we wouldn't have agreed to use it. If the blockchain says I really didn't send enough money, I'll probably say something about a technical glitch and give you the cash while I grumble about how much I hate technology. Neither of us have to trust each other any more than we already don't, and we don't have to involve some kind of trust or clearing business.
Not necessarily. You could just have the members vote on whether to add or remove keys from a valid-key list. This basically amounts to putting the list of valid keys on the blockchain itself.

There's a chicken-egg problem there that requires a central arbiter to bootstrap, but the central arbiter then immediately becomes powerless.
I would be curious as to how the rates compare to a rental.

When we goto LV for vacation, we rent a car - a month ago when we went, it was roughly $130 for 6 days via Enterprise rental - got a very nice Toyota Camry.

Tip valet $2 when I pick it up and the lines are never very long to get in or out of valet at any of the hotels. Spent maybe $30 on valet tips across all 6 days? If they were super busy, I'd tip on the drop off as well (gatta feel bad for these guys and gals working in the heat under an awning)

Curious also what priority Uber drivers will be given at hotels compared to taxi's - theres usually a special line for taxi's and they get called up when someone needs one. Otherwise, you pull into the hotel guest entrance and either your staying there or parking in valet - it's not really a place a driver can loiter and wait for a fare.

(Obviously, there is much more to LV then the strip, but I could imagine pickup and drop off from hotels is gonna be a huge chunk of any drivers profits)
I didnt say anything about LISP's effect on numerical computation. I'm saying it and its decendents had a similar effect on symbolic computation and functional programming. It axiomitized computation, created extremely flexible programming system, dominated in AI, and continued widespread in Comp Sci via scheme. In terms of its prior uptake & results, I think it compares favorably to Fortran. It's even making a comeback via Clojure while Fortran is still legacy stuff.
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PNG is one of my favourite file formats. It also has a chunking system which lets you store extra data, which isn't really covered here. Definitely worth looking into if you're interested in binary format design.

The other image format that's worth knowing is TIFF, because it's an insanely simple and flexible format to write out if you don't have access to a library. It lets you re-order the image data by tiles or scan lines, and lets you put various tables almost anywhere in the file, which makes it great for outputting large images from a parallel renderer: you can chop it up however is suitable for the algorithm, write out the parts to disk as you get them, and then write out a table at the end describing the order at the end of the file, without having to seek.
I was at a company where a vigorous debate was held on a technology decision. People failed to understand the difference between a democracy and anarchy. Or even between a team and anarchy.

Sometimes everyone has to pull on the same side of the rope.
Somewhat pertinent on Camera/Art/Tech/Internet projects:

A camera that prints out a description of the scene captured.

http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
Nice to see some new features! I hope it's not rude to ask if there's a special reason the URLs in Ask HN submission text aren't hyperlinks?