skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand, your wish prevents IT from advancing: Many companies are still stuck with... IE6. Chrome triggered leaps in the evolution of IT by using automatic upgrades.

On the other hand, auto-upgrading software gives the US diplomacy a lot of leverage over the rest of the world. A country in negotiation with US could have all GPS, mobiles and computers shut down at the flick of a switch.
Today's computers are very slow. Try modeling something complex, let's say 1 billion water molecules interacting. Then realize that 1 billion molecules is orders of orders of magnitude far from modeling a cup of water.
Streaming video on 10 Gigabit Ethernet and beyond
I dunno. Whilst I don't endorse the idea of helicopter parenting I think it is hard to judge how it affects kids.
Helicopter parenting could have been fatal for some one like Richard Branson. But most people are not Richard Branson. That kid who is going to be a middle manager will have a hard time competing with his fellow students when there is no parent helping him to the same extend as other parents do help their kids That is, s/he has to work harder as everyone else. Up to a degree that might be considered character building but at one point we might have syllabi that are involuntarily designed for students with helicopter parents so that grades are more normally distributed again. The student who is on his/her own will note make it.
>We are entitled to content we paid for, but are not entitled to content just because it exists.

Sorry, what? We absolutely do, if we're willing to pay. The point of copyright is to provide a monetary incentive for authors/makers of works to go make their works, via a temporary state-sanctioned monopoly. If they then take their state-sanctioned monopoly and refuse to sell to certain locations...

Well, that's not what the state granted their monopoly for. They have no right to do that.

Again: The purpose of copyright is generating more artistic works, and if they aren't interested in extracting profits via selling their works in a specific country, then what's the point of restricting the right to copy the work in that country in the first place?

It violates the point of copyright, not to mention anti-trust laws.
Dean complains about helicopter parents at Stanford and yet admissions essentially requires incoming students have helicopter parents. To get into a school like this you need to be exclusively focused on exactly the arbitrary criteria that will get you accepted into a school like this -- grades in the "right" classes, enough sports to talk about it in an essay but not too much, extracurricular and volunteer work at the "right" organizations, tutoring for the standardized exams. No teenager has a passion for SAT prep. If you stop pushing them and let them be human beings there are plenty of other children of helicopter parents who will be happy to take their place in the incoming Stanford class.
53% agree that he should stand trial. That's not the same as being convicted. He did break the law, so it stands to reason that he should stand trial. Snowden himself said something similar if I recall, that if he was sure he would stand a _fair_ trial he would return to the US.
The only real way to learn Erlang is to spend 3 months reading the documentation from start to finish multiple times (not each API doc, just the guides), failing to figure out why your program won't compile, fixing that missing comma or extra semicolon, screaming, then finally, one day, it will all click. Along the way, you'll also learn by experience why to never implement your own "process" but always use gen_servers (hint: multiple code reloads blow processes away).

There is no easy path to Erlang. When you learn a new programming language, what you are doing is creating an implementation of that programming language in your brain (including a tokenizer, parser, and interpreter).

The reason people go EWWW at Erlang is they don't want to struggle to implement a new tokenizer and parser in their brains. They just want to learn one tokenizer and syntax forever then pretend that's all they ever need, all while basking in the superiority of their ignorance.
The control group, with double blinds, provides evidence that the change in treatment causes the change in outcome. If you test without a control, the change in outcome could be a result of any other changes between the test protocol and previous control groups.

You might be able to do a small study without a control to test feasibility of the hypothesis, but I don't know if that would pass ethics review; would probably depend on the side effects of the anti-fungal. Another less invasive way would be to test for fungal presence in groups with and without the disease, likely through autopsies, since sampling a live brain seems intrusive.
You are disturbed by peace and prosperity?
Women,+Please+Vote
Most users will (rightly so) view this as an OS upgrade, not as an update. You already gave MS permission to provide you with security updates. You did not give MS permission to upgrade your OS. I feel the difference is of importance as updates are often necessary, while upgrades are not.

This update installs the Get Windows 10 app, which
helps users understand their Windows 10 upgrade options
and device readiness.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583
Url changed from http://fusion.net/story/214144/the-sad-truth-about-airfares/, which points to this.
A great game to increase math ability and train the brain
Dear Hacker News community,
my name is Gabriele Picco, I am twenty years and I currently study computer science at the University of Turin. I am computer enthusiast, I love to develop games and applications for smartphones. I just finished my latest work: "Number 777", a logic game that aims to train the brain while having fun. The trick is to make a sequence of successive sums that they meet the criteria, you win coming at 777. If you want to get an idea of the game here can see how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_evylWBsQo

It is available for all major operating systems:

IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/number-777/id1041325952
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thundershotgames.number777
Windows Phone: https://www.microsoft.com/it-it/store/apps/number-777/9nblggh5xlvn

I would be most grateful if you could try and comment my game.
Help me to spread a bit of my passion.

Thanks in advance for yours time.

Yours sincerely,

Gabriele Picco.
I wonder how all of the Microsoft haters who think this is "not a mistake" feel about other conspiracy theories?

What do you know about lizard people?
All Android devices vulnerable to new LTE security flaw
The Internet of Things Will Make Manufacturing Smarter
Teeth from China reveal early human trek out of Africa
Not my field - but it was talked about recently here. I'll do my best, but help me out here guys...

Essentially, the money VC invests can be invested with a 'first-out' kind of option. So that were the company to fail, or sell for less than expected, that the very first people paid out of whatever pot of money is left would be the VCs. So imagine they say the company is worth $1B and a VC put in $200M. Company sells for a 'dismal' $210M. VC exits with their $200M back, and founders, team, other investors etc. all fight over the $10M that on paper seemed like $800M. As I recall, sometimes the investments are not just 'preferred' but are '2x preferred' or such things.

In the end it distorts the incentives of the VC. The want the company to be worth a billion dollars, but if they say it, it's not true, the company crashes, and loses nearly everything, they in reality only lost the time-value of their investment, not actually any cash.
Thanks for the insight. Are there any particular social media sources you like to use? I find that Twitter and reddit are the most real-time, but reddit can often carry its own biases as well. Twitter seems like it could be the best social media news source if field reporters released news directly through their streams (ie not tweeting as a representative of FOX or NBC). Essentially the IRC chat you mentioned above, but public-facing.
Ancient teeth found in China challenge modern human migration theory
It seems you revolve around the idea of law being a divine ordinance. That's fine, but also a fringe view. Laws have relevance insofar as the ones subject to it have a consensus, and if there is sufficient interest in the law being enforced. In addition, laws often are dismissed or punitive actions significantly diminished depending on intent, circumstances (political, social or on a case-by-case basis) and perceived justice, the ultimate expression of the latter being nullification which in the U.S. has a notable history. As such, the trite legalism that suggests "the law is the law" as if commanded by a deity and that it must unequivocally be applied to its maximal extent, is the irresponsible and simplistic view.
Let's use the right terms: Domestics are brewed here, meaning must craft beers available in your country of origin are domestic. Technically Anheuser is a Belgian company... So I'd say bud is an import...
Interesting read that goes along the OP theme:

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/09/447202433/-great-pause-among-f...
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Sure, I just wanted to clarify that "mildly impressive" in this context referred to "the relative prestige of that job within the spectrum of potential positions available to high performers and the sons and daughters of the ruling class at a small handful of the most elite universities worldwide." This is quite a bit different than what one would normally associate that phrase with.
Not exactly related to Go/PyPy, but I'm curious whether you can say something about how you handle memory and bandwidth constraints?

E.g. what do you do if you want to send notifications to lots of clients but for some the connection is very slow (you would probably need to buffer the data)? Do you have hard limits of maximum buffered data until you close the connection? End to end backpressure (for which channels are quite good) doesn't seem like the best option for 1:N broadcasts, because then the slowest receiver slows down all others.

And what do you do with connections which are sending you lots of (probably unexcepted) data? Stop reading from that socket?
It is simplistic. People break laws all the time and aren't held accountable. Cases in point, the many people involved in illegal spying, torture, banking fraud, etc. Your post simply does not reconcile with reality.
This. It is like that old adage, "Behind every great man, there is a great woman." For the modern era, it should perhaps now be, "behind every top-tier university student, there is a helicopter parent".

It takes so much to get into one of these schools now that it seems impossible for any child without extensive support.
5 points you didn't know were planned to crush ...
> ivy league tier educations are normal--and so is depression

Similar background and I have always suspected they are correlated.
I want to like this article, but it seems pretty short on supporting evidence, besides Theranos in particular. Is there a reason to believe that Theranos is typical of the unicorns?
Don't Outsource Your Thinking
Researchers build a cheap camera that sees what we can't
I don't know if this is more about helicopter parenting, as some of the comments might suggest, but coddling kids, and keeping them away from anything which might make them feel bad, uncomfortable, etc. I feel like universities are removing discourse and uncomfortable topics to the detriment of students. College should not be daycare, where everything is padded, safe, and you're protected from anything which might make you uncomfortable. It should be the place where you face those uncomfortable topics, ideas, and people, so you can learn to deal with it in the real world...
And that's a big part of what makes me continue to support Lessig over Sanders. Remembering how great Obama sounded in 2008, and seeing how that turned out, I give it a very high chance Sanders would be exactly the same.

Now we have a Nobel peace price winning president who regularly orders extrajudicial assassinations and prosecutes anyone blowing the whistle on the runaway national security/military-industrial complexes. So much for "the most transparent administration in history," the guy who was going to close Gitmo and stop the serial wars all across the Middle East.
No offense but ...

First thing, it's just a suggestion. Don't use duplicate account to reply to the comments. Do it from your original account.

I think what the user "chdir" means by wrong is that you're not honoring "robots.txt" and how do you account for ethical scraping ( eg. running 50 concurrent connection on a single website and overloading the website, technically its DoS attack)
I have an Asus laptop and I had to perform black magic in order to get the mini jack audio out to work.
You're partway right. A real world example I had back in college - heartburn. Doc's solution is take a pill when needed (the part thats left over - for the rest of your life). The solution I found online is - change your diet. After a few years of experimenting, I fixed the root cause of my issue, and don't have to be reliant on pills as much as I was before. Obviously this is not applicable to all cases, but the point to take from this is that you need to manage your own health.
Much of this can be accounted for by the simple fact that the companies have gotten bigger. Top CEOs are in charge of more people than ever before. Walmart has 1.4 million employees; if their CEO makes $35 million that's $25 per employee per year - a penny or so per hour per employee.

If a good CEO's decisions can make the average employee more productive (or less unproductive) by even few cents per hour of employment, he's worth that magnitude of salary when working for a company that big.

If we highlight the CEO-to-employee multiple, companies could game the metric by splitting into smaller companies that are slightly less efficient. For instance, there could be separate regional chains called "Walmart West" and "Walmart East", each with their own CEO who gets paid half as much for doing half as much work. They could even both hire the same guy and have him work both jobs at once, thereby reducing to a previously-solved problem! Or they could actually hire two distinct CEOS, which benefits the employees not at all - in fact, the employee situation might be made worse in various ways by the change - but at least the multiple would officially look smaller so: yay?
Sorry, it was not intended to be personal attack.

Yes, the point, that someone may be minority in his opinion can be conveyed in a different way.

(http://www.gallup.com/poll/186209/europeans-negative-toward-...)
Exactly. A guy working in the US intelligence service who fled with stolen information to China then Russia is not someone that should automatically be granted clemency. He should be investigated and tried. He might be the hero everyone here and on reddit imagines he is, or he might just be another shady character in geopolitics. It's frustrating to see people so blindly picking sides or misinterpreting opinions.
Yes. It is infuriating to hear the phrase "PC or linux"
> Even if campaigns were publicly financed, you couldn't stop independent organizations from blasting the airwaves with advertising supporting their preferred candidate.

In theory there could be a large tax on broadcasting/advertising with the proceeds going equally to every declared candidate who can meet some threshold number of constituent signatures. Then the more money people spend on political advertising, the more each politician gets to respond to it, but the entire scheme is content-neutral.
Please change it back, I personally prefer to read a summary on a website instead of reading a 2-column PDF.
why anyone would say that one should learn the foundation instead of the abstraction?

Again just one data point (not trying to generalize!), but since I started programming (circa 1985), this has always been a common confrontation point in the various (diverse) communities I've been part of.

In the demo-making world for instance, some people considered that Assembler was the only way to implement something "properly" ("real programmers use asm"), vs people picking C, C++ or even TurboPascal which could still optimize a given loop with Assembler when needed only.

It happens that some (but not all!) programmers with a long experience (15y+) end up considering that without knowing exactly how things work underneath in detail, you won't be able to ship anything.

I think it's a mixture of "fear to be obsolete" and other psychological factors. Despite this I've personally seen a couple of people with 1 to 2y of programming experience ship viable products.

Not everybody needs to know Ralf Brown's interrupt list by heart today :-)
33 comments from 1 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10237902
I think he just means that the vast majority of his time is spent in the actual "business" js code rather than "glue" js code.

And i kind of feel similar. I spend most of my time coding the actual app, making tests, etc... Less than 10% of it is just taking data from the dom, and putting it back in.

(this is all for web-app style things instead of your average website)
Unfortunately, his position as a Dean prevents him from getting "too real" in this article, because what he should be telling these over-stressed and over-worked parents (and kids) is that you don't need to go to Harvard, or Stanford, or any Ivy League school really, to get a good education.
Since there's no easy way to always reliably identify the requester, this gets complicated.

Most scrapers - including this one - advertise how they use multiple servers/locations/ips/etc to get around this.
Here you go http://www.docdroid.net/PBdotNO/contentserver.pdf.html
Well, the political climate of the Russia at the time meant they were full defectors and not merely asylum seekers as in Snowden's case. Snowden hasn't actually renounced his citizenship, from what I know.
I'm skeptical. If it's true then Microsoft's legal department dropped the ball: lawsuits of the class-action and anti-trust variety would promptly follow such a move.
For #1, it depends on the audience a lot, I think. I don't think they're even going for the quasi-craft segment in the case of the specific beers you list, but for the summer-on-the-beach crowd (and they're pretty successful in that setting). The intended competitors of Blue Moon aren't craft beers; it's squarely aimed at InBev's Hoegaarden brand, introduced because MillerCoors needed something to compete with InBev in that category.
This must be false, or a mistake on MS' part. For example, what about the users who have perfectly valid full Win 7 licenses (that you can move from a PC to another) would be forced to upgrade to a partial Win 10 license that invalidates as soon as they do major hardware upgrades?
You seriously believe that? You're willing to buy that explanation but not the far more reasonably alternatives?

I mean ffs, he was claiming to be going from China to South America. Via a connection that just happened to go through Moscow of all places. Even Russia initially claimed that they had no evidence of his final destination. I cannot believe how so many people are so gullible as to imagine that ending up in Russia wasn't intentional.
This is criminal. I think a case could be made here for unauthorized access under the CFAA for users who don't want to switch but are switched anyway. Microsoft is clearly overstepping its bounds and accessing files that it has no permission to. In fact, there's no way to know what it's accessing and W10 can actually be seen as malware that intentionally sends data to MS (which it does).

The only reason we're not looking at criminal charges here is because this is MS. There is absolutely no difference between this W10 behavior and malware except that most malware is nowhere near this harmful. And in this case, we know that MS has both a motive and actual intent to do harm and access a system it was not given authorization to access.
The+Bible
Your entire comment is founded upon the assumption that the law is the arbiter of right and wrong, and that because it exists, it should be followed - it is not, and we shouldn't. Here's what Jefferson had to say about the law: "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

For over 100 years there were laws in the South that made it illegal to racially integrate businesses and public places. It was the government that kept this horrible practice alive; a free market would never have tolerated such inorganic demand suppression (as evidenced by the state of the North).

Most people are so trusting of statism and its hamster wheel that they never take the time to actually contemplate what most "laws" really are: subjective shit a group of people decided to write on dead trees and direct squads of soldiers to force on you under the threat of violence.
I Like the game concept, good work !
Yes, they must have won one constituency.

In theory, the Prime Minister can be in the House of Lords, though since 1902 this hasn't occurred—in principle, the Prime Minister merely has to be capable of commanding confidence of the House of Commons (i.e., must be able to win any motion of confidence, and to be able to ensure supply). It seems highly unlikely for this to occur in future, however.
The paper has a glassdoor.com url as a reference?
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The Cocktail Computer
Senator Chuck Schumer’s plan to nuke bots that scalp concert tickets
"Nobody wants to be the parent of the most mentally stable Starbucks Barista." - I believe you speak correctly for much of the population. But not for me. I would much rather have my three children work at Starbucks (or in construction, or as plumbers, or whatever) and be good human beings - full of love, justice and mercy, faithful to their families and loyal to their friends - than get into any Ivy League and fail in any of those much more important areas. It's not even close.
Is this story true? If so, can anyone find a more substantive source for it?

In the meantime, we added a question mark to the title.
Her. It's literally the first line of the article. And also she's the former dean.
Well, I've read that it takes ten years to build great software. So golang has a while to go. Python, while not perfect has the infrastructure already built.
I used http://r-fiddle.org to verify what was the intended function, then used built-in Artist Mode (M-x artist-mode) to draw an ellipse for function and square for axes, and finally cut it down in fundamental-mode and added labels. It's basically vanilla Emacs, but I admit to using multiple-cursors.el for some cleanup. It's an excellent addon mode offering a more interactive way to do some things you'd otherwise do via keyboard macros. Check out [0] and [1].

[0] - https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el

[1] - http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html
I'm the person above and I endorse your comments generally.

That said I am Canadian, so American laws concern me less. Snowden did the world a favour, not just the US public, by exposing what many of us already suspected was happening.

Sanders has exposed himself in this as far less radical than he likes to market himself as.

As a person running in an election to be a _lawmaker_ he has every right, actually responsibility, to criticize the laws that would imprison Snowden, and to agitate to recognize the problems Snowden pointed out.
> go to Stanford, make the right connections, become a billionaire in 8 years

In my scenario I was implicitly alluding to the real planet Earth.
…it's probably worthwhile to add to this the fact that (cabinet) ministers can be from either the democratically elected House of Commons, or the House of Lords. There's typically a small number of ministers from the House of Lords.