skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had always thought the intro music of both Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle were supreme. And then I discovered it was written by a guy called Bach. My (musical) life was changed forever.

PS: I was 9 at that time :)
Do you realize that your reasoning can be extended ad nauseam to everything, all the time?

I really wouldn't defend intellectual honesty with a slippery-slope argument.
>I just don't see the need to say it goes beyond physical reality - there's just no proof of that.

What physical reality are you talking about? To the best we can ascertain, we only have subjective experiences of perceptions of electromagnetic phenomena. We don't get to perceive physical reality, only our own interpretation of what is postulated as an image of the physical reality.

It appears that there can be no proof either way whether a physical reality actually exists or not. All we can know is that we have a subjective experience. We can hypothesize that it arises from some other "thing", but there is no way we can know.

Also, I'm not sure anyone in this thread chain has claimed that consciousness goes beyond physical reality. I think you are the only who has assumed a physical reality (also, with no "proof").
Why do People do YouTube?
At Stanford, undergrads are admitted generally to the school, then they get to pick whichever major they like. Most students don't pick a major until sophomore or junior year.

Stanford accepts 50% women and more of those women are picking to become CS majors after they get in, when they didn't just a few years ago. This is actually progress.
Since I worked on this SW I have to clarify a bit.

Lab testing of course does emulate real-world driving conditions. Otherwise your tests will not be worth much. Either you play back a recorded existing course (RPS - road profile sequences) or you simulate it, simple steady state and transient cycles. We are automating reproducible test conditions.

But we are here only talking about the different emission tests, where we have 2 major philosophies. The european emission test tracks (NECD), which is also used in India and Asia, which is an highly abstract test with the engine alone driven by a similator simulating multiple real-world driving conditions (a few urban cycles) and the american test on a dyno with a real driver (with varying cycles), so that the american car manifacturers, who traditionally were not so good in designing emission-free engines could traditionally cheat by hiring the best drivers to pass the test.

So Americans have cheated historically the most, but apparently engine manifacturers which couldn't catch up with modern diesel engine development had to cheat also. First it is trivial to cheat, since the test has to be done only once. This is entirely a political game to get the NOx and COx values down, but don't harm their own industries. And esp. Americans seldom use scientifically based values.

And then you have cold starts in reality, which is mostly not tested in the emission cycles tests. Emissions will always be higher in the field than with a properly warmed up engine under lab conditions. So it's no surprise that different measurement methods will lead to different results.
"Action video games" is the fascinating academic-grant-ready rebranding of violent video games, in case anyone is confused what this is talking about.

Is there a stigma associated with violent video games? Of course. No academic institutions are funding developmental psychology research into violent video games the way they fund the study of educational games. This is despite violent video games being way more appealing to children.

Beyond psych? More people have inhabited the Office level in Counter-Strike for more combined time than any office building ever built in Manhattan. But you'll never read about video game architecture in an architecture journal, design blog, etc. It's a universal aversion to serious conversations about games just because they involve shooting aliens.

Can development psychologists get out of the ghetto of investigating games' impact on violence or attention deficit? Maybe. Studies like the one done in this article are a good step forward. But this study still indicts video games for something, just different video games. The improvement-in-vision studies are on the right track, but they are at this point half a decade old. Surely someone has some fresh ideas.

Those game developers haven't read a single page of psychology literature. Yet they have succeeded in massive, non-chemical cognitive behavioral modifications. You'd think someone could make an academic career out of this.
Direct link: https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/blob/master/platform/...
According to free-range child advocate Lenore Skenazy, there are a little over 100 stranger abductions per year in the US. [1]. Therefore, abductions are a not a big deal.

According to Wikipedia, 100 years ago, there were about 100 lynchings per year in the US. [2] Therefore, lynching is a big deal.

I love this meme about the media. Quick question: for you, personally, when was the last time you saw a media story about an abducted child? When was the last time you saw a media story about paranoid helicopter parents, etc, repeating the ideas you see above? In my experience, the ratio is 1:10 if not 1:20.

There's a very straightforward reason why parents keep their kids indoors: the same parents, while outdoors, regularly encounter human beings that they wouldn't trust their kids around. Deinstitutionalization anyone? Free-range mental patients or free-range children: pick one. [3]

[1] http://www.freerangekids.com/over-700-children-are-abducted-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_psychiatric_institu...
And chimeras are also created (sort of) by bone marrow transplants[1].

[1] http://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask208
How BIG Is Big Data?
do you think Samsung can enter this market? they have Exynos for mobiles already.
Golden Gate Suicide barrier project to go to bid Tuesday
Was Google cargo culting by turning down efforts by its early investors to have them show banner ads like Yahoo?

Their willingness to hold off for many many years without revenue was now brilliant in hindsight, given they found a much better way to make money on advertising than how Yahoo ever imagined it. But they wouldn't have got there if they caved into short-term thinking obsessed investors who think you need to post immediate revenue.

Twitter's issues are more to do with a lack of product innovation or evolution, not that it has gotten too large. Its problem is that it has gotten too large without expanding its product base to support or justify that growth.
The reason IMO is game developers just don't care since it's a huge work to micro-optimize a game.

Last years when silicon reached it's limits, all kind of developers start to worry about the performance. The question "how to make a more advanced game?"'s answer is not git gud on hardware anymore. It's up to the software today (again).
You doubt university administrators sincerity ;)

I've noticed very few of these articles look at the recent past ('80s) when women were a significant percentage of programmers. I'm too young but I have the feeling working conditions were much better back then.
First of all I've built this app because of fun. I like to build apps for me but the problem with this app is, it's useless for me alone as user. So I search for other users who like this app too. And if I don't find anybody than I've learned at least a few new things in app and server development.

The app is a location based messaging service. You can place a message on a specific location and other people will see it in their news feed. The messages are sorted by distance. The nearer peoples are the higher the message will be in the feed.
What would a use case for this be?
I thought it was standard to open up an incognito window with everything disabled when debugging.
A note: at the time of the Giant Pool of Money, TAL was distributed by PRI. It has never been a part of NPR.
I do not mean by looking at the source code. I mean by looking at the production database that you are about to remove an index from. This is a financial institution, and I am really struggling with this post mortem to understand how they do not have more ceremony around production changes. Checks and balances are important.
I have never gotten into Mechanical Turk, but I do freelance work online. My "hourly wage" depends in part on how together I am. I am medically handicapped. Some days, I am fairly together and can make around $12/hour -- not dissimilar form what I was making at a corporate job after a few pay raises. On a so-so day, it can take me forever to complete tasks, lowering my "hourly wage." However, I still need the money, even if the hourly wage is not great. (Edit: On a bad day, I typically do not work. And I don't get fired for missing a lot of days. This was a constant worry at my corporate job.)

Do I wish I earned more per hour? Sure. But I worry about people who want to "improve" conditions for people choosing to do this kind of work. I cannot take a normal job and have any hope of getting well and staying well. I walked away from a corporate job because it was helping to keep me sick.

For me, this kind of low wage work buys me precious freedom and control over my life. If you take it from me, I am left with what? Panhandling? Prostitution? ...??? I don't know what I would be left with. But people making $100/hour should butt the hell out with their excessively privileged ideas about "good working conditions" and let people like me have some freedom to choose. It isn't like most people actually give a damn how hard life is for me or others like me.
You mean like http://i.imgur.com/OLIVc53.jpg ?
Oooh, I did not know that. Always interested in good info on genetics.
>One friend asked me why we don't hang out any more, and I never told him the truth.

Maybe this is the problem? He probably didn't view the things he said as weird or hurtful. If you never told him you viewed them that way, how would he know?

What was so weird about thing things he said?
How can that be legal?
A 5 year old child is old enough to go to a grocery store, buy stuff, and walk back home. I’ve done it, all my neighbors did it, and everyone I know has done it.

Kids being at home for an hour or 2 at that age is no issue either.

It’s not something special – everyone does it.
Inside an FBI Hostage Crisis
I guess its very common, but this is a financial institution.

What you describe as a solution strikes me as an amazing way to destroy production data. Upgrading every user can basically lead to one hell of an amazing outside attack. I now only have to get one user / password to compromise your database.

A certain amount of red tape is a needed thing to make sure you don't affect your customer's business.
When a solution requires this kind of hacks for a simple task as rate limiting, maybe the solution is a bad one to begin with.

With REST it is fairly easy to do rate limiting on endpoints.

With GraphQL, it is fairly easy to DDOS with a complex query that will ask the server to fetch an insanely complex data structure. And there are no endpoints anymore.
Source: http://www.cio.com/article/2391563/outsourcing/gm-bets-on-in...
25 and giving life lessons eh? That's hilarious.
>Even your list is missing the US and suggests that kids don't walk to school alone in the US.

Not 100% familiar with schools in the US, but in old movies you could see kids walking to school in all suburban settings -- up until the mid-nineties or so. That or school buses.

After that, in most movies there's a parent taking his kid(s) to school now (typically in a SUV), or the school bus.
Yep. A lot of databases have some form of system tables that can tell you a lot about a running system with just some queries. I know Sybase and MS SQL server have the tables to find all the current queries and what they are doing. Ingress had a neat graph (seeing FSM should illicit a panic in most DBAs) and a log monitor. Read up on what is part of the database and write some tools.
Is it possible to know when in time its pixel values would form certain images?
Profit is not a problem as long as you have growth. Twitter doesn't have that, and neither does Square.
If you're interested in the concept of personal airplanes replacing commercial flight, I highly recommend "Free Flight" by James Fallows.

There's a lot of things working against the concept. Weather constraints and sport pilot restrictions are logistical issues, but by far the #1 issue is cost. The Transition, Terrefugia, and A5 aren't doing much to solve this by selling for $190-300k, so they definitely won't be changing how the general public travels.

Regardless, I couldn't be happier with my Sport License. For now I can only afford to rent, and not much at that. Were it not for the LSA category though, flying would still just be a wish.
> one of the most import pieces of research that needs to be done on them is their capability to induce a false sense of the profound, and make people believe psychedelics will fix everything about the world.

Not only should that be studied, but it should be more generally studied in regard to anything. How often does a politician, company, or product make similar claims? How many people then believe those claims to be true, even if they can be demonstrably shown to be false?

There's a reason the majority of civilizations failed.
Reminds me of this: http://www.directory.io/
Spend some time on mechanical turk.. the average transcription task takes a surprising amount of time to complete. I type 70-90 words per minute and a 30 second transcription might take me 5-6 minutes, due to having to replay parts over and over, and deal with formatting it according to the requirements
Ah, getting mugged for your candy on Halloween - an annual tradition in my neighborhood.
works fine without for me?
Oh my. I've worked in those car test and simulation SW environments (and a cross compiler for a weird engine),
and now I'm working on compilers and compiler optimizations in a different industry.

You cannot compare that at all.

With engine simulation and control you have real-time loops, with the biggest problem being the latency. You reduce latency by getting better HW, better sensors, shorter distances, a better SW driver architecture.
You don't optimize by finding patterns or counting occurrences at all, esp. not at run-time. You always have to be prepared for the worst case.
Plus you always have HW + SW combined. Any major important SW feature is always doubled in HW for security. It's a different world.

With compilers there's no real-time trouble (GC's, ha!), mostly no loops, no worry about HW, cables, sensors or drivers. It's pure abstraction.
With JIT compilers it's a bit different, mostly a tradeoff memory + optimization overhead vs speed. More measurements and dynamic decisions.
But jit optimization in engine control? Nah.
And there's never a HW cross check. Signals, interrupts may arrive or get lost. The machine will not hard reset and reboot if a signal gets lost.
It does so in a car or in space or other industrial control environments.
I'm as cautious about GraphQL as one can get but I believe the greatest failure of REST is that it is unable to set clear rules and boundaries as to what is REST and what is NOT REST. I want to see a canonical implementation of what an ideal REST architecture is. Never saw one. GraphQL has clear spec which makes implementation easy. REST is at best a set of vague ideas and I understand why a lot of developers do not like that. because I don't.
I’ll tell you a story that happened in a... well, not very good district of a German 300k people city. A district with 44% migrants, and 42% unemployed, and some of the highest crime rates of Germany.

I was 18, it was the day after I finished my final high school exams, I had partied with a few girls, most went home, 2 of us – me and a friend – were trying to find a place to drink something. We ended up at some gas station, as all other stores were closed, and tried to buy alcohol.

Some people were standing there, too, waiting in a queue, some of them migrants, some obviously homeless, some kinda nice dressed.

A friend of mine tried to pay with her EC card, and was too drunk to use it or enter her PIN – so she asked if someone of the other crowd would be able to help her (I, myself, was also quite drunk). So she gave this guy her wallet, told him to "take out the yellow EC card, PIN is 2814"[1], and indeed, he did this.

They – also wanting to buy alcohol – asked us if we wanted to follow them to a nearby party. We did, and ended up having a fun night playing singstar with them.

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In Conclusion:

It’s not ethnicity, or social class, or homogenity that leads or prevents crime.

We’ve done similar things not once, but several times. And you know what? Never was anything stolen.

Once I forgot a jacket, and couldn’t remember where anymore – next morning someone had posted the jacket onto a facebook group of the city with 60k users and I was able to get it back.

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[1]: PIN changed for obvious reasons
Works fine for me also..
Kaspersky Internet Security: Network Attack Blocker Design Flaw
Go over to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10365463 and see how many people are calling walking with cash dangerous and foolish. It is mostly imagined given the CDC stats. I was a kid in the 70's and both of us were in much more danger than a kid today.

Media has 24 hours to cover things today as opposed to an hour or two back in the day. We hear about everything today and ratings are made by scaring the crap out of us. Welcome to the shutin world for children.
Of these, only += on tuple elements and indexing with floats strike me as WTFs, and many others are evidence of the author really going out of their way to look for behaviors to nitpick on. The absolute majority of these are things that Python programmers either will never encounter, or can easily explain from Python "first principles" (e.g. most of the nitpicks on string and sequence behaviors).

I can tell you what I consider WTF worthy - things that I and others have undoubtedly been bitten by because they are ubiquitous. Those are mutable defaults, lack of loop scoping, and "global"/"nonlocal" scoping. Oh, and add the crazy "ascii" I/O encoding default on 2.7 (and the inability to cleanly reset it) to that list.
> in fact, I believe that implementing a system by decree is not possible in the long term;

Why not, given that the Islamic system was more or less "decreed" in a sense, but at the same time, lasted for over 1000 years? We are still struggling with all the other organic systems, since, well practically forever now.
This is scary.
Is this much of a surprise? 'Action video games' these days take place in basically real life 3d simulations - any problems you solve in them can basically map directly into the real world (travelling from A to B, resource/time management, awareness of what your enemies/competition are thinking/doing etc)
I'll typically make a fairly simple template by 'hand' in my editor, then port it to Jekyll or WordPress or something else like that.

As far as writing + deploying a simple HTML site, it's been 2-3 months since I've done that, if only because no one I contract with or work with wants to spend the time or money on me hand-writing and pushing a site-- templating it and then generating the rest of the site is at least a little quicker than that, and still doesn't come with the burden of using a backend language.
The laws vary by jurisdiction. Many parents that I know believe it is illegal to leave a child alone if they are under 12. Maybe it is in some locations, but not where I live. In my state and town, there is no statutory definition of when a child can be left alone. However, there are explicit warning that negligent decisions can result in other charges.

And I think that is completely fair - some towns are safer than others, some children are more self sufficient than others, and every parent needs to make their own decisions. Hopefully educated and wise decisions.
> Deinstitutionalization anyone? Free-range mental patients

Perinatal mental illness is a significant cause of death of women - in the UK suicide is the third leading cause of perinatal death.

Many women experience mental illness during or after pregnancy. Ignorant, stigmatising views like yours about mental illness make it harder for women to seek help for their mental health problems.

And your wider point is wrong. There's no evidence that people with a mental illness pose a risk of harm to other people or to children.

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/perinatal_web.pdf

Rates of perinatal mental health problems

post-partum psychosis is about 2 women per 1,000 maternities;

chronic serious MI is 2:1000;

severe depressive illness 30:1000;

mild-moderate depressive illness and anxiety state 100-150:1000;

PTSD 30:1000;

adjustment disorders and distress 150:1000
I'm always amazed when articles like this don't even mention the labor protections that other countries provide. It is hard to imagine a better way if you don't believe one exists, or haven't ever experienced it. It's not just that some people have union protection, entire nations have banned practices like these. Entire nations have guaranteed vacations that dwarf anything seen in America. Whole peoples have collectively said that the needs of life are more important than the needs of business and aligned their laws accordingly.
> Revenues - Expenses = Profit is not complicated otherwise.

LOL. Nope.
Similar situation in many German cities. Or, if you work in one suburb and live in another, you drive to work, but then whenever you go shopping or anything you walk/take bus/metro/etc.
A while back I was using Mechanical Turk as a source for programming problems. The major issue was that they were distributing a lot of the work to get around things like the limit of google searches one can do a day (100 I think), so once the problems were scripted, you could easily break those barriers.

Certain problems were quite interesting, involving OCR and fuzzy pattern matching on google rankings, and I'm sure certain ones would make good research problems. It was fun for a few days, but even when scripted the amounts you would make were minuscule.
So more than 50% of Stanford undergrads are CS? Shit. Does that not sound like aa glut?
MongoDB doesn't track this information, unfortunately.
Would you complain if, through legislation, nothing were different about your work structure, but you were in fact paid more? I.e. nothing changes but you're making $15/hour instead of $12/hour?
> There's no evidence that people with a mental illness pose a risk of harm to other people or to children.

Of course not. The cause of helicopter parenting is irrational parents who perceive, obviously due to media stereotypes, that people with a mental illness cause a risk of harm to other people or to children.

I love you, Weimerica. Don't ever change.
Survivor bias.
> A 5 year old child is old enough to go to a grocery store, buy stuff, and walk back home. I’ve done it, all my neighbors did it, and everyone I know has done it.

Where?
This is also true of MIT. http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/gender/index.html

According to the article "It was unclear if Stanford is the only major U.S. university where computer science is the top major for female students."

That link was the top hit for https://www.google.com/search?q=mit+women+enrollment

This is a pretty sad thing to see in something purporting to be journalism. I can't blame the really writer though. They probably only had 30 minutes to get something out the door to drive their view count...
> Ask many millenials/teens and they say they more meaningfully interact with Instagram than Facebook. That fact about social trends is worth its weight in gold in terms of its user base.

Ask how many millenials or teens have bought something or spent money because of an ad on Facebook or Instagram.