skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting. I was just thinking a little while ago about the tendency for smart people to equate being smart with being right. A while ago I was mentoring a young colleague of mine and I warned him that it is often the case that when we experience one failed project after another, we tend to think, "People should listen to me. I've seen every way to make a project fail and so I know how to make a project succeed." In reality, unless you have experienced success you are unlikely to know how to create that success.

He replied with one of the most interesting things I've heard in a while: "But I have lots of good ideas. Not all of them can be wrong". I had to step away and think about that for a long time, but eventually I realized that, yes, he could be wrong every single time. The search space is huge. And the tricky thing is that it doesn't really matter how smart he is. He can still be wrong every single time because there are a lot more wrong answers than right ones. A lot of the wrong answers really look like they should be right too. Even to otherwise brilliant (though wrong) people.

In a similar vein, I think you will find that despite your great intellect and professional success, there are many, many areas where you are wrong. In fact, there are likely to be a lot more areas where you are wrong than areas where you are right. There's just a huge search space out there.

I have no idea if you are right or wrong about marijauna use. I'm am absolutely convinced that you would beat me in a debate on the subject (I can't even spell the damn word correctly). Beating me (or anyone) in a debate makes absolutely no difference to whether or not you are correct.

It's not like I am immune to the occasional (umm... possibly a lot more than occasional... :-P) egocentric outburst, but I have found that admitting that I am likely wrong actually improves my credibility. I mean a brilliant, internationally famous blogger with a CS degree might very well be right about the effects of marijuana on the brain. Researchers on the effects of marijuana on the brain may just have the edge though, despite a possible lack of comparative brain power. It's something to consider.
This was my thoughts as well. It seems like laying low for a couple of weeks (if you can afford it) would be the easiest way to avoid possible threats. Rent a car and go to another state or something.

If we have to go all "Jason Bourne" on it, renting a car would probably make it harder for people to track where you are going, should they have access to flight-transfer systems etc.
Does the reaction not require oxygen? I was wondering what happened to concrete underwater.
Yeah, this is what I don't get about libertarianism & anarcho-capitalism. All it takes is one bad actor to ruin it for everyone else. Just a single one. And in a country with 300 million people, how can there not be one person who will take advantage and become that bad actor? If the past 5 thousand years of human history has shown us anything, it's that corruption is inherent to human nature. Therefor, libertarianism runs contrary to human nature.
Yes, three words. But combined with their proprietary database...

Postal addresses (agreed, not well organized in many countries) and gps coordinates are at least open. And gps coordinates can be shortened by using letters.

We would actually only need a universal algorithm that can translate any gps coordination into something readable and back. No database needed. No dependence on any company.
You never saw a games company from the inside did you? Major game studios are just as much entrenched in their software development processes as any other company that size. Also, there is no single 'typical' game company. You have EA or Ubisoft which put 600 people on a single project, and on the extreme other end you have the one-man-army indie developer, and everything inbetween.
Good question.

There's been a significant change (at least from my perspective) in the awareness of inequitable treatment of women in tech in the last few years, and I'd like to think that's one of the contributing factors to this change.

If true, that means that the previous levels of entry into other subjects were (in part) due to students rejection of CS. If CS loses its repulsion factor then that brings everyone's metrics back to neutral and will make other problems clearer.

Much as I hate to wheel out the trite "everything is a market" trope, the more subjects like physics will have to work to improve the treatment of women in science (although my perception is that it's not as bad as tech)... and maybe (one day) the way science is run to make it a more appealing career.

I was a physics undergrad and chose to ditch science as a career at my first opportunity. A majority of the people who stayed on to do an MSc or PhD did so only because it would buy them a well payed role at a bank, or PWC, or Anderson (sorry, "Accenture"). It's a shitty career, fighting for funding or tenure, full of victorian-era bullshit.

The sooner physics (for one) cleans house the better.
Net neutrality is more important than whatever financial or profit motives the worlds billionaires may have. Facebook could easily connect India completely if it felt like it.
I have a TI-nspire cx, it has support for Lua scripting instead! It even has a physics engine inside so you can write quite complicated games even.
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Dont be silly, the main reason you have legions of people is to manage other legions of people, and to be local brains for you, which you then automate out.

Really, why would a business need more than one person/idea nexus in a world where robotics and true AI exist? So you can have a financial strategy?

To help advise you on something like a complicated financial instrument, which a computer intelligence would find as simple as a toy?

To give you legal interpretations?
Prosecutors within in the US technically only have a responsibility to administer justice rather than convict. [1] Thats why they have to bring forward evidence which supports that the defendant is not guilty.

- The way this is practiced is may however differ depending on the particular prosecutor.

This is an individual problem rather than there being an inherently adversarial system.

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_se...
Are duplicate library names a problem? It should be clear from context (Python vs Rust) which one people mean, and it seems unreasonable to expect people to continue creating unique names indefinitely.
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> since I thought it was wrongly flagged

You don't think the incoherence of the following posts proves the flaggers correct?

(Edit: are you saying happy thanks giving to me (not a mod) or dang (a mod)? Either way: Happy Thanksgiving!)
You're looking at this from a selfish, individualistic point of view.

I'm looking at society in general - I'm looking at the bigger picture. Japan completely eliminated shooting deaths via guns thanks to their ban on guns (source:http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-l...). They also have the lowest crime rate in the world. Orders of magnitude less than America's. In a way, it really is a utopia compared to what we're living in.

Would I trade some free time and a little freedom at work (both of which, are being addressed by Japanese companies and are "fixable" so they may only be a temporary problem) in order to save thousands of lives every single year, reduce the crime rate an order of magnitude, and make our country objectively safer and nicer? And also raise our quality of life (Japan is ranked higher on the "where-to-be-born" index) Why yes, yes I most certainly would.
I think its sad how closed this data is.
Design Your Own Database (2004) [pdf]
Yet for me a few months of pot gave me a stutter for two years, and I'm pretty sure killed my motivation in my final school year. I eventually got my act together and got an engineering degree, but I'd definitely recommend against pot use.
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Here's the source: https://github.com/stimulus-software/screen.farm
I dont like that Islamic radicals are referred to as a 'state'. Usually it takes long time for area to be recognized as 'state', and its first step towards official recognition by other governments.
You are falling victim to the moral illusion described by the article. Every case was an improvement upon the status quo, yet you criticize PETA and Uber as if they made things worse.

Helping a little (even if you benefit) is better than not helping at all.
BBC has lost a lot of credibility lately with the British public. All because of stunts like this: inaccurate, opportunistic reporting. They chose to downplay Corbyn's rise to prominence (he's our equivalent to Bernie Sanders), over represented right-wing figures and have chosen not to cover key issues the masses are talking about -- not too dissimilar to how the mainstream US press hasnt been covering the millionmanmarch this weekend.
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So what if the PETA case offers a deal that is accepted under the circumstances those families are actually in? All offers and trades are contingent on the circumstances someone's in - you wouldn't take a job with a $20/hour salary if you have the education and skills for something higher-paying than that, but that doesn't mean it should be illegal to offer wages of $20/hour.

The "more fair" solutions to the problem of surge pricing involve either Uber themselves paying out of pocket, drivers not receiving fair compensation, or neglecting to tackle the problem at all.
A: Telegram has no intentional back doors. Any malice on the part of Obama has absolutely no relevance here whatsoever. If you want to disprove me feel free to audit the source[1]. Nobody would have ever been able to ask for keys in the first place, hence, the reason it was purportedly chosen by IS.

B: That's pure conjecture and is a conspiracy theory.

[1]: https://telegram.org/source
That does not at all support your claim "that the US Census Bureau's reporting of poverty statistics based on income has changed to NOT include the income of many benefits including food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit".

In fact, it specifically says that the definition has not changed.

It does claim as you do that the rate should be near zero, but it does not address the Supplemental Poverty Measure, that does provide a number of scenarios accounting for benefits in kind, and does not end up with numbers near zero when that is taken into account.
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Early phase startups are not known for emphasizing work-life balance. Clef offers 50hrs weeks, 3 weeks vacation, which seems pretty standard to me for this kind of job.

I, like you, think that working so much will take too big a toll on your life, if you do it long term. But it could make sense short term, depending on you personal situation.

I think it's good that they're upfront about it, and gives me a general sense of confidence in the document. An employee applying for a job at Clef will be able to make an informed choice, which is great, because information scarcity makes taking a job a huge leap of faith...
Interesting that the % of desktop users blocking ads is so high, while the penetration on mobile is very low still.
How would it translate in crude numbers though?
If mobile visitors are 80% of the total, like for some news sites, that 6% is much more relevant than shown here...
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Processing the Viking Lander camera data [pdf]
Is it mobile friendly?
http://i.imgur.com/9KMDCE5.png to compare ozbargin with and without adblock
Oh god, the whole thing could have been a single litte ~500 SLOC SCSS file. But there are about 20 files in the project. It uses DVCS, CI, build automation and package managers. For what's supposed to be a single little SCSS file. Why not just put it into one file and that into RCS and publish a link? And I can tuck the file into my project if I like to...

edit: DVCS, not DVSC...
Can it build a playlist of songs if many match (say I search for an artist name)
How could either of those instances have got approval from an ethics committee? :/
Your hyperbolic snark misses the fact that children are in fact helpless to defend themselves against abusive and neglectful parents, and thus the state needs to fill that role.

We agree that the state sometimes oversteps the role (one or two cases of children who walked to school being aggressively pursued by child protection social workers per year) but it's frustrating that you ignore the hundreds of deaths (4 per day) caused by abusive or neglectful parents, and the many thousands of deaths caused by carelessness.

In 2008 about 1,700 children died as a result of abuse or neglect.

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/statistics/ca...
More than that, DNA evidence isn't that difficult to fabricate (Source: http://zidbits.com/2012/06/can-dna-be-faked/). If someone wanted to create fake DNA and leave it at the scene of a crime to frame someone, it wouldn't be all that difficult or expensive (relatively speaking, of course).

It takes some technology that most people don't have (like a centrifuge) but the actual process is simple and can be achieved by anyone with familiarity with the equipment itself.
True, I didn't stop to consider the financial aspect.

Was more just pointing out that there's often this separation between the people making the changes and the people making sure it's safe to release. But really, the safe to release step is often not going to catch things – in many cases because it's barely checked.

To be fair, I only upgraded my user to give full access to my db and I revoked the permissions once the install script had finished running. I'm not a complete monster :-)
Historically, 'areas' have declared themselves states and killed anybody who disagreed, until people stopped disagreeing.
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One of the last times this popped up, I printed it out and annotated it. I wanted to see if it was possible to take something so different to my working world (risk management) and apply it. Annotating it for my situation made it clear that this document should be seen as more far-reaching than just differentiating product managers. It really is pointing out the difference between good workers and bad workers in any organisation.

Every single point made has an element that can be applied to any organisation and career; Productive workers understand the context of business ("Good PMs take all important factors..."); successful workers solve the issue, not the symptom ("Good [PMs]...proper deeper into the [problem]"). Sometimes I look back at my annotated pages and score myself about whether I fall to "Bad" or to "Good". I'm still working at it.

I urge everybody to read, and apply this to their own careers. Don't pigeonhole this document just because it is defined as important to product managers. I see this as just as influential as Ray Dalio's Principles (http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgew...)
I think the article left one important reason out: you always only hear about game launches that go bad, never about the ones that go smoothly.

Also: a game launch is like an explosion going off, lots of pressure on the first day. Marketing usually wants to concentrate everything on that one single launch event. Demand on launch day and the 2..3 days after can easily be 100x to 1000x higher than in the second week. You now have the decision to somehow spin up many times the backend infrastructure that you normally need, with the associated cost (theoretically achievable with a cloud service, but see below), even if it is technically possible to smoothly scale up against millions of players wanting to login simultaneously somebody needs to take the cost hit, this is usually when the finger-pointing between management and tech begins. Sometimes it's easier to 'wait it out', since the storm will be over after a few hours.

As for cloud services: Most game-servers have soft-realtime requirements which many cloud providers can't provide (at least with the cheap cost plans). For a web server running at a cloud provider it isn't much of a problem if you have 250ms load spikes or delays from time to time, for an action game it is catastrophic.

And finally: players that can't login will spend the time raging on the internet. If you can't get your iOS update on day 1: well, shrug, I'll try again tomorrow :)
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It's more complicated than that. If you look at the "local" outcome of the situation, both participants benefit.

However, if this spreads and becomes the "new normal" (eg, zero-hour contracts), this can result in a net diminution of social good compared to alternative outcomes where employers would have offered better terms to their employees. I think that's the issue people have with this kind of "improvement".
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I do basically all my work as a remote consultant, so I applaud your commitment to remote work, but I want to play devil's advocate.

Could it be that hiring remote forces you to be more conservative in choosing developers, favoring ones with ultra strong resumes (in the general sense, not strictly thing written in a PDF), therefore making you pay more for talent and passing on people which could have strong skills but less experience?

It seems reasonable that having people come into the office every day lets you judge them better and quicker, especially if they're not expected to be 100% autonomous. This would lower the risk of hiring someone you think has potential but hasn't proved it yet, which could turn out well for both the employee and the company (as he will be - fairly - paid less).
> You can go to the other extreme by making everything explicitly statically typed which will make your code much more verbose (e.g. see Java).

Java is not an example of a good static typing implementation and is not exemplar of verbosity in modern statically typed languages.
My guess is that Ronald Reagan caused the collapse by spending billions on Star Wars program.
"Telegram itself suggests it will take down illegal material"

What does illegal material mean? I guess Germany has lesser free speech than the US, but still it's a messaging service after all.

I wonder were Twitter draw the line. They outright welcome many state actors that rival IS if not in scale at least in means. Maybe the line is drawn for them by some friends from the state department?
Mobile ad-blockers could wipe out billions in ad revenue
http://yegor256.github.io/tacit/tacit.min.css

This is a fine basic styling file, but I wonder how it is a "Framework". There are no options and no helpers like a grid (except the horizontal navigation which defaults to just that) or error states.

Why has it pixel values like 2.16px and 6.3px?

It might be a "framework" in the sense of being a good structure to start your work almost from scratch.
Like all (good) drugs, they get better when you age. When you're young and blasted there's no way to make sense of things and responsibilities become more difficult. When you're older its like a whole new wonderful world to explore.
A clause to the effect that "no expectation of privacy" is to assumed, would be null and void most places in Europe. That does not mean monitoring it not allowed, but there are substantial carve-outs.

E.g. in Norway (which does have some of the more extensive privacy protections), the general rule is that surveillance of employees personal e-mail etc. is outright illegal, there are substantial restrictions on monitoring web usage, and that employers right to access an employees address on the employers mail server is also limited, and can easily violate privacy laws.

Generally, for an employer to access employee e-mail addresses, there needs to be a compelling need (this could be as simple as needing access during an employees vacation, so it's not like it's safe to assume employer will never have reason to access it), or suspicion of serious violations of employment terms or laws (e.g. your child porn example would certainly qualify, as long as there'd be some evidence to support the suspicion; as would e.g. collecting evidence following claim of harassment of co-workers or similar).

In terms of web access, since most of these rules are based on privacy laws, you can typically do generic monitoring e.g. of sites being accessed, but run into problems if you tie them back to individuals. One place I worked they dealt with extensive access of porn sites in working hours by publicly posting a list, with a warning that it needed to stop on grounds of concerns over harassment etc., without collecting any data on who accessed what, and access dropped drastically, and that was that.
The irony is that in Conservative circles, the BBC is criticised for devoting too much airtime to Corbyn and his band of swampies, who are woefully unpopular outside the vegetarian dreadlocked middle-class Islington set. Seems like the BBC can't do anything right.
Well, I suppose even in France you set the oven to 200 degrees.
There's also the corresponding "Good Engineer, Bad Engineer" which I like

http://www.chrispliakas.com/2015/01/22/good-engineer-bad-eng...
A similar issue exists for StopIteration.
I had a look and it seems a very simple online editor for js, css and xml. The user really needs to know all the possible commands and keywords (like the UI element names with their options) by heart.

My conclusion: this is only for existing iOS developers. But then, those people probably are very comfortable using xcode already.

I think anybody having a Mac would probably use xcode to develop iOS apps ? So this would target devs without a Mac and (therefore) without iOS knowledge ? Then it needs to offer much more help and guidance, like auto-completion, info balloons and such.
Or pacifications that were undertaken, with U.S. government support, in Central and South America.

I am not defending Russian empire either. Putin actually seems to be bend to follow the U.S. model in Chechnya, Ukraine, Syria..
In Japan they have this phenomenom called hikikomori - young people shutting themselves off from the world, kinda like the person in the article did for a while, until his parents threatened to cut him off. I'm wondering why we don't have much of this hikikomori phenomenom in the West - is it simply because Western parents don't tolerate it?
You're right - I'm not sure what "cash bail" means. In New Hampshire it means:

> CASH BAIL - a person who is required to post cash bail must put up money, either cash or money order/bank check, to be released. If the funds are not posted with the court, the person may not leave and will be jailed. - http://www.courts.state.nh.us/district/criminal/

According to http://www.24jdc.us/bail-bonds/ :

> CASH BAIL: Cash for the total amount of bail in the form of cashier’s check or money order delivered to the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center. If the defendant shows up for all his scheduled court appearances, the bail is returned at the conclusion of the case. If the defendant fails to appear, the bond is forfeited to the court.

I now think it's more likely to have been cashier’s check or money order than actual physical cash.

Thanks for that out.