skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sorry to hear. But surely you have to agree that your introversion has handicapped you significantly in life?

Not significantly. Yes, but which is the cause ? My personality or the standard people deems normal ? Not saying I'm normal, but maybe it's a chicken egg problem. There are tolerances and expectations at play.

Oh and by handicapped I meant like introversion is overlooked as a mental illness, like lonely people are somehow retarded.

> you can't really blame a school or employer for rejecting you if you refuse to learn to overcome your aversion to working with groups.

I'm not blaming anybody, but at some point people have to learn about it and not just run with it like it's a standard.

Also, higher education programs should not be meant to teach people how to work with groups. How do you really expect people to learn something technical by forcing them to socialize ?
Sift – grep on steroids
A very fast and feature filled grep like tool written in Go.

http://sift-tool.org

Some features:

RegEx: perl compatible regular expression syntax (no more escape hell)

usable defaults: basic options known from grep but with usable defaults

multiline support: find matches spanning over multiple lines

replace: replace output to reformat it to your needs without relying on awk/sed

gzip files: search through normal and gzip'ed files in one program call

multiple patterns: search for multiple patterns in one run

target selection: select or exclude search targets based on file name, directory name, path and type
handling big data: sift handles big files without problems: files >50GB, >5,000,000,000 lines and >5,000,000,000 matches successfully tested

customizable: optional global and local configuration file to specify your own preferences
Gov.UK is a terrible website.

https://medium.com/@prenticemathew/ux-specialists-are-killin...
Could it be that your worst quality is that you worry too much about not being perfect?

Then you won't take the necessary risks to make mistakes and learn.

I have gotten somewhat older and realized that some of the happiest people are the ones who don't worry too much but instead seek healthy relationships and indulge in their passions.
Dutch: http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/09/29/inval-bij-uber-om-verden...

Possibly 'organized crime'.
https://currentlydown.com/stackoverflow.com
There's no need to apologise for using the word bullshit. It's bullshit that we have to be PC about words we use.
It's pretty commonly held to be acceptable to lie when rectruiters ask you an illegal or unethical question and not answering would work against your interests. It's kind of tit-for-tat.

(Whether you think the pay thing qualifies is another thing. But it's close enough that I wouldn't ask that question)
This rule assumes that the most popular behavior is not being a jerk. What if you're the only black in a city full of racists whites? Are you a jerk because other people treat you badly? A less extreme example - what if you're the only person who doesn't easily understand the complex social structures that exist in workplaces? People will treat you badly because you were too nice to the low-ranking guy and not sucking-up enough to the high-ranking guy. That doesn't mean you're a jerk either.
XPRA supports various encodings like this:
http://xpra.org/

But video codecs does not give the same experience as running apps that are actually written to take some care about what/how it updates. Not least because the artefacts when they can't keep up are less consistent with what I at least expect from a desktop environment.
This seems similar to the Monty Hall problem, which is also quite unintuitive. Perhaps what makes it work is that the person doing the predicting sees the sequence as a whole, and hence, future events are dependent upon historical ones -- and are no longer purely random.

Consider this question, "You're somewhere in the middle of a 4 coin toss, and the last toss came up heads, what's the probability of the next one coming up heads?" I think the paper is saying it's a 40% chance -- you know you're in an finite series, and, you have partial information about that series.
Walking to School [video]
Plastic-free lunch boxes keep you healthy
Arguably unifying of back-ends are more important than the visual design for consistency and ease of use though.

The introduction to the article shows several different styles of registration or login button used across different US govt departments, but the key point here is that they're all separate user identities requiring separate logins. Making visually identical login flows that actually require different credentials to log into separate services actually makes things worse for periodic users of multiple government sites. What's needed as an even higher priority than changing the buttons is a uniform OpenGovernmentID everywhere it makes sense to do so

Priority number two for ease of use in government websites would probably be fixing link rot, since government websites have a horrible tendency to deep link to other departments just before that department's site gets reorganised or renames (and departments whose sites were replaced by the gov.uk platform unfortunately are no exception)
I really used to love Bourbon and Neat, but they're unnecessary today. The vendor prefix mixins are mostly obviated by modern tools like Autoprefixer, and Neat itself can be mostly reduced to a Sass mixin.
A few links about the WIPP marker design project:

Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Sandia National Laboratories report SAND92-1382 / UC-721.
http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/1992/92138...

Ten Thousand Years of Solitude? On Inadvertent Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Project Repository. Los Almos National Laboratory.
http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Publ...

Designing for Deep Time: How Art History is Used to Mark Nuclear Waste. Kelli Anderson (MS Thesis), 2005.
http://www.kellianderson.com/MSthesis.pdf
I know servo and project around it are all experimental, but I can't help but feel excited about it.
Apple Blows Up the Concept of a Privacy Policy
Wow, put soldiers in a situation where they become wounded and traumatised and then go in and say "but yeah we've got this which might help you" Learn a load about how brain neural interfaces might work. Not much of a leap to then ask "Let's weaponize it."
Do you intend to suggest that Ahmed should have gone to jail, and that the teachers, administrators, cops, and prosecutors who tried to send him there were somehow wronged by the "Internet mob"?

'Cause that would be silly...
"A server is a sort of bulked-up desktop computer, minus a screen and keyboard, that contains chips to process data."

Yes that is exactly what it is a bulked up desktop PC. Completely ignore these highly specialised coprocessors sitting in the same box. They do nothing but cost a fortune.

Besides the stupid article I can say there are some very old, inefficient servers in the datacenter on my last visit. In our aisle I've walked past dozens of yellowing beige boxes, Netburst era Compaqs, and old Cisco routers. All putting out an incredible amount of heat.

Also this author knows very little about how a modern data centre runs. Just because no one is using it doesn't mean the servers aren't working. I've timed our backup and integrity checks to run during the few hours of the week when usage is light.

Disneyland doesn't shutdown when the last guest leaves. Neither do datacenters.
As a programmer with very limited design experience, I always find such analyses of fonts fascinating. The level of detail these typographers deal with is just amazing. For example, the subtle curve in the `o`s in SF versus SF compact -- I wouldn't have figured that out myself. I hope to find some time/resources to learn some of this magic myself :)
Going to try to apply the £1/$1/€1 trial subscription to my startup - at 80% conversion, it sounds worth a shot, even if it's nowhere near there. The idea of forcing a small commitment seems solid, and is far from new.
Where did you see this / Have you got a link? I would be very interested in having a look as a current front end developer.
Is sugar really that bad for you?
Elite Tribe Protocol
The examples don't make it clear if this redacts names linked within comments. Could you clarify?
I'm more interested what are the chances of soldier going "insane" just before giving testimony to court/senate about "some things that people in the control of that chip would like to bury"? Or even having a stroke or epilepsy attack...
Saving 5 minutes of BS a day can increase passion which might be worth far more than a 5%.
It's worth noting that Trump has also in the past supported an extra tax for the rich, and he currently seems to support universal health care. Not all of his policies are quite as insane as the image he clearly wants to project.

I'm not saying he'd be a good president (his paranoid racism should disqualify him in the eyes of any sane voter), but there is some room for nuance here.
Did a Rogue NSA Operation Cause the Death of a Greek Telecom Employee?
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E. Yourdon was right after all! I knew it!
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> and if the soldiers with this implant are willing to take the risks.

Would they have a choice?
Is that the sum of ( -1 )^n / ( n! ) or ( ( -1 )^n / n )! and maybe the tranformation is trivial, but why does this equal e^(-1)?

Edit: I guess the factorial of a fraction doesn't make much sense.
I'm guessing the author is poking fun at the idea of having more than one 'monorepo' by giving it a deliberately silly plural.
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Stock Joe uses an algorithm to determine support and resistance indicators, along with other essentials, for your portfolio and then sends alerts to your inbox each morning. Launched on PH today.

http://www.producthunt.com/tech/stock-joe
Andrew Johnson pardoned everyone who fought for the Confederacy, other than Jeff Davis and a few other bigwigs. Sure, armed insurrection is a less serious crime than getting high, but I think the precedent stands.
> I believe computing has 1 concept needed to be understood by programmers: Input & Ouput. That's all programming is.

No, programming is making output from input. Input is just a set of bytes, and output is also a set of bytes.
UPDATE:

This is part of a response from Airbnb customer service, which has no apologies for the situation and sounds like they're leaning towards defending the host.

"We got the news from [host] that the place is clean and ready to welcome you.

In order to claim a refund we will need to receive documentation regarding the cleanliness issues. At this point there is no confirmed hosting standards violation therefore we will not be able to penalise our host and refund you."
Pricing of oil is directly managed by an oligopoly of players (govs, large corporations etc) on the supply side, and a diverse group of buyers with few main clusters on the demand side.

Stats, inflation, intensity can be misleading to deduce "what oil should become".

A game theoretic approach seems to be better, where main players are observed based on their moves and the outcomes with probabilities.
New mongodb client for Node.js
didn't click, what's the title of the film?
Комментарии+по+поводу+похорон
I think you're mistaking how easy it is to write a program from scratch when you have nothing in your way (once you have some experience, before that writing a program from scratch is really hard).

Maintenance becomes ever more complicated and hard as time goes on because the complexity of the bugs goes up by orders of magnitude as does the complexity of the code.

I've spent more time adding a very minor bit of functionality to a system I wrote 5 years ago than I did writing the whole thing in the first place. Because it grows and adding new code or modifying existing code becomes more and more expensive.

How many man-hours have gone in to git now? And it's not as if git is that great anyway, we all know how bad the UX is for example and all the man hours that have gone in to masking that problem, it's just better than SVN.
Doctors to Get 70,000 New Medical Codes
The best 10xers are the ones that make the surrounding 5 people into 2xers.
The iOS on screen keyboard. The lowercase version.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happiness_Cage
it was a movie first ;)
Condescension on HN??!? I guess it's the way those boards all end up. People give their two cents on things they often doesn't research about, armchairs critics on work done by proven researchers. Kinda depressing though because lot's of brilliant people work these things out and we end up with BS comments like these ones instead of some deserved "Wow".
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Ubuntu Theme Flatabulous
I was partly responsible for that work. We did it for the same reason as Heroku: Ubuntu 10.04 passed out of LTS.

CF buildpacks explicitly state which binaries should be used with which stack in the manifest.yml file. If you had a breakage, feel free to report it on the relevant github repo.
That's cool if the Scala bits are mostly static bit, not so much if they see active development.

When (say) 5% of your codebase is Scala and the rest is Java, and your engineering team prefers working in Java, those 5% become stumbling blocks. The context switching slows you down and increases the risk of introducing errors.

Also, a tool chain that will support two languages in parallel, while obviously not impossible, is necessarily more complex than only supporting one.
Also UIs which don't have to support an actual data manipulation tend to underestimate dealing with the edge cases of that manipulation - which I tend to think is why you never get too far from the shell in Unix-likes.
Been there, literally. Can confirm the experience, although I didn't get any sedatives at all as some of them cause my blood pressure to drop rapidly. Actually I was just uncomfortable for the 10 minutes it took but it wasn't bad at all.

The worst part of it is getting home afterwards with the laxative side effects in recent memory. Also staring right at me was the sign in the taxi: "£20 soiling charge".

If you ever put this off a health check for fear of endoscopy, don't. It's really not that bad.
Absolutely not. Sending a kid to jail because he brought a clock to school is silly.
However, a kid who bought a clock from the 80s, than repackaged it in a pencil box claiming it his 'invention', and put a timer on it making it beep in class, who was then evasive when answering questions, on the day after 9/11 anniversary, definitely deserves some suspicion.

What I object to is the praise he's gotten, from Obama to Zuckerberg. Without even one look at the facts of the situation.
They implemented shareware.
I love this. It's brilliant how enormous the cultural dependecies are in what we think of as completely uncontroversial geographic facts - like how "Upper" and "Lower" Egypt are the 'wrong way round' from a modern frame of reference - i.e. Upper Egypt was the south, because it was where the Nile flowed from.
Oh, they /have/ their fork!

cough systemd cough
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Most people love it. IMHO this is the best government website.
See also Rogue Trooper from 2000AD -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Trooper

in which the 'biochips' where backups for the minds of disposable, genetically engineered soldier's bodies.
That article is bullshit. You can't judge gov.uk by its homepage, because that's almost never where you land.

Now that we have gov.uk, whenever I google something about doing my tax, or registering to vote at a new address, or any other arduous governmental admin shit, I usually end up on a beautifully simple and focused gov.uk page, and I'm in and out in 2 minutes. That's what a government website is about.

I agree the homepage looks like a parked domain but whatever. Take a random page like this: https://www.gov.uk/alter-a-will-after-a-death

Look at how brief and clear the writing is. Look at how straightforward its URL is. Have a look at some more pages, look how consistent the design language is. This is exactly what a government website should be like.
Putin’s new world order
Not sure I get your point. I would both prefer a language which either had 20% of the futures and 20% of the cost, or 100% of the futures and 100% of the cost.

In Kotlin you get stuff like extension methods, which bear almost all the costs of implicit values, but don't support most use-cases you would use implicit classes for.
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Gottfrid Svartholm, aka Anakata, Released from Prison
They have way too many "oh, people could maybe need this" features, which are completely redundant, just to save a line of code somewhere.
Code samples or GTFO. No seriously: an article that brings up messy real-world OO code and then handwaves it away with "just use FUNCTIONS, yo!" and some box-and-arrow diagrams is useless and borderline unhelpful. Something like:

http://prog21.dadgum.com/37.html

is, IMO, more valuable in the discussion. It points out the tradeoffs explicitly: pure functions mean (in this case) immutable data, which means more-complex data structures - which means the OPPOSITE of the micro-optimization stuff this article closes with.

It's also worth noting that if you're fussing about the cache efficiency of code you haven't written yet, STOP. JUST STOP. Write the code and MEASURE IT.
A lot of AAA games are built that way.
Git is an area where I'm surprised a DHT system for open source hasn't yet materialized. I'm writing dockerfiles lately where I realize what I really want to do is just go 'connect to the global DHT and clobe the tree with hash (sha1 here)'
Building a careers page that converts [infographic]
San Francisco. System Font.
The growing datacenter trend is to build dedicated co-generation facilities (typically, with the power company footing half the bill because you're doing them a favor and taking load off of the local grid).

In the US, generator power is considered dirty, and only meant to be run on during emergencies. Running generators during not-emergency times will typically get you a nice call/visit from the state's environmental agency courtesy of your complaining neighbors. Said agency will ask you to curtail your usage to no more than X hours per month.

In the UK, DSR consists of you entering into a contract with National Grid, one or four years in advance, to produce energy during peak times (not just "reduce usage") at an auctioned rate, but pay a stiff penalty if you fail to deliver. Plus, you're not allowed to participate in back to back years.
Build DOOM 3 for yourself
You can definitely extend the definition of factorial to the complex numbers using Euler's Gamma function, but the notation is different (indeed ! is reserved for integers).

As far as the second question goes, that's taken to be the definition e^x := \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (x^n)/(n!)
Use tools which translate from Java 8 to Java 6 bytecode and be careful to use only Java 8/7 classes? (IDEs help with that).
> If there was a sane option, I would use it but Firefox

I use it daily on all my units (Windows, Linux, Android) and I have zero issues.

In what ways is it not sane?
They could be doing peak-shaving. Sometimes when your electricity usage heads into a new price tier it becomes cheaper to generate power yourself by burning diesel.

Another possibility is demand-response. Some utilities also offer incentives to customers who can voluntarily take some of their load off the grid during times of high demand.
Nice work Mollie and team!
Git is decentralized and it works perfectly well for what it needs to do. But git isn't a system to share open source projects and get social validations from other people. Github is though, and it's excellent at that - and the network effect is there too.
Generator take anywhere from 7-15 minutes to spool up and produce power.

So every (serious) datacenter has rows and rows of batteries to cover the lag time between power loss and generator start-of-service.
Disclosing the vulnerability - what law could they prosecute you under?
Here's the paper's first paragraph, matching what the article said:

"Jack takes a coin from his pocket and decides that he will flip it 4 times in a row, writing down the outcome of each flip on a scrap of paper. After he is done flipping, he will look at the flips that immediately followed an outcome of heads, and compute the relative frequency of heads on those flips. Because the coin is fair, Jack of course expects this empirical probability of heads to be equal to the true probability of flipping a heads: 0.5. Shockingly, Jack is wrong."

But actually Jack is right. Here are all the possibilities. A "streak" means a head was followed by a head, and a "break" means it was followed by a tail.

Streaks Breaks
TTHT 0 1
TTHH 1 0
THTT 0 1
THTH 0 1
THHT 1 1
THHH 2 0
HTTT 0 1
HTTH 0 1
HTHT 0 2
HTHH 1 1
HHTT 1 1
HHTH 1 1
HHHT 2 1
HHHH 3 0
total 12 12

The paper's argument later is more complex than the first paragraph implies, putting the sequences in groups with fixed numbers of heads. I don't see the point of that but it doesn't seem to help.

They get into some math, but just counting the cases doesn't seem to support their argument at all. If anyone can explain their argument in a simple way, I'm interested.

If they're really confident in this, they should go to Vegas, find a high-rolling gambler, and start betting on coin flips. After each heads, offer 55/45 odds that the next coin flip will be heads. I'm sure it won't be hard to find takers.
As a Chinese, I think it's wonderful but there are some mistake with part-of-speech.
I had to read that twice. Nicely done!
Been thinking about this subject for a long time, for very personal reasons.

Capital punishment exists so that people don't go get guns and kill lunatics that have done them harm. For some crimes, only being told "We're going to kill him" holds the social fabric together.

It's not justice, it's not fair, and it's a terrible way to run things. One could make the pragmatic argument that if you're going to have a death penalty, then hanging them outside the courthouse the day after the trial is the way to do it. Otherwise you're just making a mockery of trying to be fair -- which this was never about in the first place.

When you see somebody kill his family and then say "I deserve the death penalty", when you see families torn apart by evil who demand that the criminal must die, when you see people who are never going to be anything but killers being set free to kill again? Even though you might be against the death penalty, it's pretty obvious why it exists.

So I've given up fighting against the death penalty. These things move in cycles. Another 50 years we won't have one and people will be clamoring for one again. Instead, I'm extremely pissed about what pg mentions in closing: prosecutors playing hardball with plea bargains.

Whatever you want the laws to be, I've seen enough prosecutorial misconduct over the last decade to last several lifetimes. The vast majority of the time they're doing a great job. But 1-10% of the time the public is getting screwed. The incentives are all wrong and oversight in nonexistent. I've seen them cover for bad cop decisions, screw over aaronsw, refuse to take DNA evidence that would release innocent people from jail -- the list goes on an on. Something is really rotten and needs to be fixed.

Even if you believe in the death penalty, you have to admit that the criminal justice system is so broken that it's way beyond a reasonable doubt that we're executing people we shouldn't. The system needs fixing. Not only will this save lives, it will result in many people either not going to prison or serving much less time than they currently are.