skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait: if tobacco use were actually the cause of psychosis, wouldn't we expect to see a dramatic reduction in the prevalence of psychosis in the United States, given that the smoking rate in the US has declined by over fifty percent in recent decades?

As far as I know, there has been no such decline.

What we have seen is a large increase in the incidence of depression, and tobacco has been persuasively shown to have antidepressant effects. Nicotine is, of course, a powerful stimulant, and tobacco also contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors (which also have antidepressant effects).
I agree. The wider social consequence is ultimately more damaging. But even more difficult to deal with, or to hold them accountable for in a "laissez faire" free market context??
Neither of those explain why it would rank above the average of other female faces, in general.

Discussion about this with the author reveals that I was misinterpreting how they were collecting averages. I was assuming the "like" count was coming from each photo collected, but instead they collected the photos and average likes in individual steps, where the average likes were across recent posts by that user, rather then the selfies by that user.
After I first read this book years ago, I wanted a one pass assembler.
I like the idea of bookmarking services, but I've never used one due to the fact that I always have enough to do at any given moment. I've never had a moment where I thought "OK, now I have time to get to those articles I bookmarked". If I used such a service I would quickly build up an impossibly large backlog of learning and reading material.

That being said, I can definitely see the value of knowing what people intend to do if they only had the time, money, etc.

Maybe I'll wish I had used a bookmarking service if I live long enough to have my brain uploaded into a computer!
No! Things like package managers and git, however pervasive, are agents and not the testable, serialized representation of data.

Why wouldn't you make the same file set available as a single download via plain, old HTTP(S)?

What's so hard about that? Why place something on a shelf, behind an agent that demands a learning curve, when it could also be available to a browser?

You CAN'T hash a tree of files quickly by hand. You need a program to help test the integrity of a tree with some recursive problem solving. Take tarballs away from people, and you're putting things on a shelf, out of reach, taking away a level of safety and reliability from a certain cross-section of your audience.

Not only that, but EVERY platform has a web browser, even if it's curl or wget. With a single file, available by HTTP, any platform can get to it, so if your machine dies, and you have to call a friend for help, and they don't use the same OS, they won't have to install a special tool, or hope an intervening third-party web service provides coverage.

If we're simply talking file formats, and possibly exchanging the tarball for zips, ISOs or what-have-you, as alternative serial representations of the same data, that's not even a discussion.

If you're worried about practical utility, load, bandwidth and/or availability (or even, perhaps, culling the dull, dumb, toxic and obnoxious from the herd, terrible as that sounds) then changing the agent permitted to access the resource might be one solution, but not necessarily the right solution.
You can cut and paste from the command prompt if you go to properties and check the "Quick Edit Mode" option. It lets you highlight with the left mouse button and copy by simply clicking the right. w/o quick edit you first have to select 'Mark' from the context menu then you can highlight text to copy paste. It has worked this way as long as I can remember.
I'm more inclined to say that cats have domesticated humans than the other way around, though...
Unrelated, but this reminds me of 10 years ago and the horrors of running

configure && make;

And watching it implode most of the time.
Running a configure script to generate a makefile to build software makes me glad for binary distributions.
So, a crook beat the other crooks at their own game. Where's the crime in that.
Application for Fortune, Adventure, Success, Beauty and Millionaire
AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other [video]
An example of pseudo-spoken tone from the article: "The fact that this seems worthy of comment shows how rarely people manage to write in spoken language."

That's a simple phrase to read, but I'm pretty sure it would fly right over my head if somebody dropped it in casual conversation.
> someone told me

The problem, ultimately, is that every place is made up of people. People are fallible, limited, and not gods. They're just people. They have to eat and sleep. They like having interpersonal relationships. Sometimes they're jerks.

When I joined Microsoft as an intern in the Mac Business Unit back in 2002, my biggest surprise was that the people I worked with—the first real software engineering organization I'd ever been exposed to—were just people. They weren't perfect, and sometimes they got grumpy when a certain over-enthusiastic 19 year old wouldn't shut up.

Anyway, back to your question: Blizzard is probably an interesting place to work. They maintain the biggest(?) MMORPG, they have a huge amount of history, and I expect having a role at Blizzard on your résumé looks great. But, since it is the games industry, you should probably expect endless death marches, crappy pay, and incredible amounts of churn in between projects.

tl;dr: check Glassdoor and see what employees have to say. If you have unreasonable expectations about a workplace, you will be disappointed.
Well, some projects have been around for a while. "All the history" can be a LOT of history.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10438240
There is also the HORIZONS tool which has a web interface: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons
I don't quite understand biology, but the similarities exist in objects of different scales may be another proof to show that the universe is programmed by programmer who reuses many functions.
Thanks for the link.

I agree, the article is missing important information.
The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock, the Radical Who Organized Visa (2012)
Details of what's changed in the win 10 console
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/10/07/console-im...
A “Coding note” for your program
This is a no-brainer.

At first, I thought it's not worthy of an essay because it's so obvious.

But then I read the comments.
I liked that you've used CSS properties instead of creating endless <div>'s to get the desired effect, nice work.
If you go a bit further, you can build surprisingly interesting curves from this math. Try calculating Mars' apparent motion, as observed on earth (i.e., projecting the difference of their positions onto a unit sphere). Its path is a loopy [0] curve, and looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/I43kG

Note that you don't need to implement elliptical orbits to see this effect -- circular inclined orbits can exhibit it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_retrograde_motion
It's a little rough, and I wouldn't have been so harsh (my vitriol has faded quite a bit with age). But, having been an open source software developer and running companies based on open source for many years, I am kinda tone deaf to what constitutes "vicious" for folks that aren't accustomed to nerds getting ornery. I'm not defending it...I think the article would have been more eff with less vitriol and more examples of why this behavior is dangerous and past examples of when seemingly non-evil companies have done evil things, whether intentionally or not.

But I didn't write the article. I was just kinda jumping on the "hey Github could potentially do shitty things if we aren't careful" bandwagon. I'm definitely not anti-Github. I think they've built a great product. I'm a paying customer with private repos.
I still have the classic environment variables window and single line text boxes. Must be a setting somewhere...
However, regarding the command prompt, I unchecked 'use legacy console' and now I can do much more. Transparency is something I am used to in Blender3D and Linux. Now with Ctrl-Shift-+ or -, I can vary the transparency!
Not to mention - which legal challenges would he have been allowed to pursue, when those getting surveilled can't pose those challenges?
> You have created a straw man

Not intentionally, I assure you. I have repeatedly tried to understand your position and respond exactly to that position. I'm going to give it one more attempt, if this attempt also fails in your eyes then we'll have to agree to disagree, okay?

> (1) The claim of mine, that you are disputing, is that philosophy is not nearly as relevant to science now as it was in science's beginnings.

That's an odd sentence construction. It could mean either that this is the claim from my point of view I _think_ I am disputing (and it's not) or that this is the claim I _ought to_ be disputing (and I'm not).

Witness. A previous stating of the claim by you.

> (2) Quite the contrary - I am giving an example that is supportive of the view that, while philosophy was instrumental in the development of the scientific method, it is no longer playing that role, and has not for some time.

(By the way. You make claims about philosophy yet use examples from philosophy _of science_ (Popper and Kuhn). If you mean to say `philosophy of science' please say philosophy of science and do not use philosophy as a shorthand. Also, you seem to be using science and `the scientific method' interchangeably. Please don't.)

You'll see your claims don't square. I have addressed (2) and am not going to repeat myself.

> In your last paragraph, you need to be able to replace all the 'coulds' and 'woulds' with 'dids' and 'does'. As it stands, you have now made three successive posts without putting up an actual argument in support of your position.

No I do not. I stated it as a conditional (If Kuhn is right [...] could [...] would [...]) to allow for the position that someone may disagree with Kuhn specifically but it does not invalidate my point in general _if Kuhn is right_. If you keep claiming that I am not addressing the substance of your argument then I am going to have to conclude that you are arguing in bad faith. Hence, one more attempt, okay?

> Furthermore, you would have to show a significance comparable to the achievements of science as a whole - if your claim is that the current contributions of philosophy to science are comparable in significance to an individual hypothesis or theory, then I rest my case.

I do not have to show any such thing. And I am making no such claim. I am countering your claim, not attempting to make a novel claim of my own.
Considering how many people now say the work "like" at least twice per sentence (especially young people), I don't think this is good advice without some caveats.
I wonder if there is any correlation with the obesity epidemic as well, since nicotine's appetite suppression is also well documented.
Cats aren't really apex predators though. Dogs kill them, foxes kill them, coyotes kill them, I've watched a hawk kill a cat in my neighborhood when I was a child...

I don't know of many predators that seem to kill just to kill like cats seem to? I'm certainly not claiming to be an expert in this regard but all my dogs that have killed animals appeared to do it as an instinct to "provide" for the social group while I've known cats that appeared to kill not due to hunger or any inherent interest in bringing a "present" to anyone like they sometimes do.

I guess I wonder what your response would be to these thoughts, as you might provide clarity to someone with my imperfect understanding. This is sincere as well: I know that what I've written could be construed as sarcastic but I'm not interested in anything other than sincerity.
Memorpy – Python library using ctypes to search/edit windows programs memory
And next year when ASP.NET 5 ships, we'll finally be able to use environment variables for appSettings [1] instead of the hacked up mess that web.config is right now.

[1] http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/fundamentals/configuration.htm...
At big companies, your team & manager matters a lot more than the company itself. One engineering team can be a bunch of 9-5ers, and another team 2 floors down can be a bunch of 9-9ers. The engineers can work decent hours, but the recruiters are treated as disposable.
And there is nothing more awkward than trying to manipulate file ACL's in those tiny dialogues that you can't resize. I would think that it would be easy to fix the resize problem, but its almost as if they had some compelling reason keep them at a fixed size.
> Remember, git came before github.

That's exactly my point. Using a "request-pull" instead of a "pull-request" will probably mean you can do this git-lfs thing with it. My understanding was that it was not working with "forked" repositories, which you need to have to make a "pull request". To make a "request pull" (or to just send a patch file), you don't need to "fork". ;)
I laid out the schematic to see how the wiring works: https://upverter.com/mwismer/4427f6f29aa4300d/ESP-Garage-Doo...

Then I realized that there were already links to similar schematics in the article: http://www.esp8266.com/wiki/doku.php?id=getting-started-with... https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/esp8266/hardware/esp...
An 'Anarchist's' Plan to Reinvent the Historic House Museum
I think you're assuming the poster is naive or stupid based on a few very evocative verbs. That doesn't seem fair and gives your post a harsh tone.

I imagine their distress is not that their cat is an evil murderer, but that their "murder" of small animals is destructive to the ecosystem.
How to take a good selfie: don't be black or dark-skinned, unless you're a celebrity.

How do we prevent our AIs from learning racism?

EDIT> Informative article, BTW. A good read.
Thanks! I'm actually still in high school. Shoot me an email or find me on IRC if you'd like to talk—I'd be happy to say hi.

I'm hesitant to tie my writing to a "real-life" identity because you get a lot of freedom when you dissociate yourself from what you publish. If I knew my friends/parents/potential-employers could find my blog, I would be much more hesitant to publish, which would have been very unhealthy in the long run.
DARPA's Mining and Understanding Software Enclaves (MUSE)
Yeah, you can do that. It even does the sane thing with regard to lines.
All of the comments here are useful. Thanks!
Well according to my 6 year old information from WoW, they used C++ for their servers and have a bit of a NIH streak.

So I am guessing it's probably still a C++ heavy shop like many gamedev places.
I don't think being a "special ops" company is actually necessary, at all. For a high growth startup, you do not need everyone to work 12 hour days and fight each other to move up. It causes burnout, unethical decisions, and corporate resentment.

Hire smart people, treat them like human beings. If you're constantly working 12 hour days in a tech company, either you or your manager are doing something wrong.
WeChat Life Report – Oct 2015
Uber's Elaborate Tax Scheme Explained
> let's be honest, we could unplug from HN, twitter & co. for weeks and not miss out on anything vital

Interestingly, for the last few years I've been using HN as my primary news source. It works as a great filter - anything that does not show up on HN is probably irrelevant, and everything of actual consequence - a big earthquake, a war breaking out, etc. - will show up here quickly.
A slightly more expensive (~$50) version I made that can also open and close the door:

http://rcoh.svbtle.com/how-i-automated-my-garage-door

Since it uses an electric imp, the electronics are significantly simpler (just a transistor / resistor to trigger the switch), since the imp has integrated wifi, GPIO, power.
It's really funny when somebody claims that "you cannot build multi story building in Bay Area due to earthquakes".

One only needs to look at SF downtown -- high rises as far as the eye can see.
Now Mac OS X is the only major operating system without an easy way to modify environmental variables. Sure, you can edit your `.profile` or `.bashrc` or `.zhsrc`, but those settings do not carry over to your GUI applications, like the IDEs I am used to.
The best Unicorns started out as Underdogs
> Let's boil down all this egghead complexity and get to what matters.

You actually be may be right - this Gladwell style of writing is usually quite dangerous, because it does give the reader the sense that they really know what they are talking about, because they are "getting to what matters" (which is obviously very subjective).

The one thing I will argue though is that simple writing communicates the author's point more effectively than using flowerly language. The writer may be wrong, but at least I have much clearer sense of what they mean. By getting to "what matters", I find it easier to determine that they have "what matters" wrong. It is easier to refute the central thesis if the argument is presented without cruft, rather than an argument where flowery prose clouds the thesis.

I find that a mix of a conversational tone followed by technical details is usually the most effective for me. It's one of the reasons I appreciate mathematics within writing - it tends to be much more clear.

Although I do think you are right about Gladwell & Co, I am refering more to MBA-speak - which tends to use large empty words to convey ideas which pretend to have more depth than they really do.
I generally refer folks to Steve Yegge's writing about this: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/you-should-write-b...
I understood the abstract...

I am not only not one of the 'specialists', but am not one of the 'wider mathematical audience', it appears.
I keep a personal Wiki as a set of plain-text (org-mode) files in Dropbox. I paste snippets into those files. I sometimes even copy contents of entire articles if I find something interesting that if the original URL died in the next couple of years, I'd consider it a great loss.
To further the military analogy, it depends.

3rd Bn. 75th Ranger Rgt. was where "winners go to feel bad about themselves". Jesus talk about eat your own toxic. You had to hate yourself to succeed there.

However the 10th SF Group guys I worked with, and all the guys I knew who subsequently joined talked about about how great the culture was. Obviously there were exceptions to the rule but overall the feedback I got was positive, which added to my anecdotal evidence.

It is possible to do hard things and maintain camaraderie. Frankly camaraderie is the different between toxic and non-toxic when trying to do "hard things". Either you have unit cohesion and strong leadership that understands how to truly "take care of soldiers and their families" or those that simply pay lip service and grind you down until you wash out. We're either all "in this together", or it's "don't get caught on the edge of the herd when the hyenas come".

This culture most certainly comes from leadership. It takes a special skill to put the troops first and still drive them beyond what they even thought they were capable of. Boy, when it happens, it's beautiful and it builds strong friendships that last a lifetime.

The kicker is, camaraderie is a force multiplier. Cohesive units absolutely out perform toxic ones.
Grab your white jumpsuit and fire up a heater.
Betteridge's law of headlines
Oh, I'm well aware of that. It's a fictitious narrative that's spun, for sure.

I'm honestly more interested that no one from Luxe came in here to defend them against my comment, given that the OP has precisely two submissions to their username - both of which are this exact same article.

Nothing that Luxe is doing is actually contributing to the cities in which they operate. Quite the contrary, they're facilitating the use of singular private transit where there generally isn't a compelling use case without their service. I'd be happy to see them vanish.
Production makes fools of us all
You can't believe how many of the legacy stuff Windows still has. The folder sharing dialog is still clunky like it's 1998.
Is it the effect of nicotine itself or, like it seems to be the case with addictive properties, a combination of nicotine and other agents present in the cigarette smoke?

I ask because I've been using pure nicotine as a cognitive stimulation agent for some time and I haven't noticed any effect on weight or appetite (INB4 I know, n=1, etc.).
Honestly I could see investment bankers laughing at this article. I definitely feel like technology is WAY more flexible, where you can do the "hardcore 12 hour days" 200k/yr track and also the "10-5 with lunch" lazy man's 60k/yr track.

If you want to spend a bunch of time with your family and work 35 hours a week, guess what man, you can't drive a nice car, own a big house in Los Altos, or send your kids to private school. Pick a lifestyle and accept the drawbacks that come with it.

There's seriously nothing wrong with moving to a second tier city and making 60k/yr. Let the people who love stress and success do their thing in the Bay Area
I'm all for a push for ethical treatment at top companies.

If I were able, I'd like to work at one of them. But, since I'm not at the top of my game, I won't end up working at one of them. Instead, I'll continue working at my B.S. company. Here's what happens there: many of the leaders completely suck. They make decisions like the smart, driven, type-A leaders at <top tech company here>. The difference is that those decisions are often idiotic and/or ill informed. Their IT will buy software and hardware that is just wrong. Their architecture will be completely scattered and unthought. They will hire college grads, because no one with experience will work for them. Some days, I'd almost rather cry coming out of a meeting if I were challenged, at least. At least my career wouldn't be in the toilet. The grass is always greener on the other side, I guess.
Weighted min-hash for fast log clustering
Logitech Performance MX

Reviews here: http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Performance-Mouse-Ma...

Mainly I don't like wires all over my desk so I bring a wireless KB and mouse to replace work supplied ones. Also a benefit as I have a stand-up/down desk. This has good tracking to so you can use on any surface. Also generally good hand feel once you get used to the tilt.

Personally given the amount of time spent on the KB and mouse I'm surprised more people don't invest in a quality set for themselves.

I just bought the Logitech MK710 to update and really don't like the keyboard. Feels cheap and 'clacky' to use. Great battery life though if your setting up for a meeting room type deal.
Anyone have info on what kind of licensing from the FCC (or other governmental agencies) a company would need to sell wifi/LTE IoT gadgets?
Apex predator doesn't mean nothing else kills them, especially when you're mixing domains. An animal that's unmatched in one domain might be distinctly disadvantaged in another (e.g. polar bears in a vanishing ice cap). But quibbling over that definition is willfully obfuscating the point.

> I don't know of many predators that seem to kill just to kill like cats seem to?

I've seen a dog kill another dog and walk away. I've seen crows kill a squirrel and only pick out it's eyes. Hell, I've seen a squirrel kill all the baby birds in a nest and only eat one, in case you didn't think squirrels ate meat. Does that mean dogs, crows and squirrels are murderers or do it for fun?

The problem with cats is they live in close proximity to us, so we see first hand what they're up to, and they have a set of routine behaviors that don't exactly match our human perception of how predators are "suppose" to behave. But instead of trying to understand them in context, some people anthropomorphise them and make the cat "evil", a "murderer" or whatever.