skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
President Obama has said the same.

http://elitedaily.com/money/science-simplicity-successful-pe...

‘You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits’ [Obama] said.

‘I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.’ He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions.
I am creating a test app that record and replay user's actions on web apps, so I have to deal with many low level html/js behaviors, boy was I surprised when I found out those quirkiness she talked about and many others during development.

For example, if you have a <form> with a text field (input[type=text]) and a submit button, if you hit 'Enter' in the text field, you get a submit event, nothing surprising. But did you know you also get an artificial click event on the submit button, before the submit event?

Now what if you don't have the submit button? Then hitting the 'Enter' key would still generate a submit event, but without any artificial click event now.

OK, what if you want to have two textfields now (and still no submit button)? Then hitting 'Enter' would...you guessed it, NOT generate any submit events. No submit event, no artificial click, not even moving the focus from one text field to the other.

But what if you have a non text base input (color, date, range, etc) and hit 'Enter' on it? Yes, you get a submit event, but ONLY if you have a submit button. Otherwise no, even if you have just a single non-text based input.

And all these are just for Chrome. Other browsers behave somewhat differently.
Car companies persuade people to persuade people to replace cars often.

I'm not a car owner, but I've always felt that many people don't actually want a nice car, but instead the recognition of having one.
You see fairness and equality arrive at different conclusions, so my point is fairness can seem unfair, depending how we slice fair. Still, one can argue pay based on need is quite fair, if not fairer than simple equality.
Parental intelligence is strongly causally coupled with their children's future intelligence simply through their working vocabulary and talkativeness

Your statement is correct, but your assumed cause is not. It's 60-80% genes: https://jaymans.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/iq-heritability-...
How Friendships Change in Adulthood
That's a good point, I had not thought of that. Personally I think two years of studying and projects is good enough, maybe one if it's a bit intense like a bootcamp. The problem is people's prejudice against anything that is not a four year degree.
Maybe we should compensate workers based on responsibilities (ie dependents

I was following you up until this notion. Compensation has nothing to do with a worker's responsibilities. Compensation is based on how much the job is worth to the person or company paying. That's why a brain-surgeon with no dependents is paid more than a ditch-digger with a house full of kids.
Fandango “bug” boosts movie rankings
yes and no. When a person buys perfume, they don't care about the actual chemical makeup of whatever liquid is in the bottle, they care about the scent (and possibly brand associations). I would call that paying for the smell. The smell happens to come with an implied license for distributing it in small quantities in public :)
>Are you totally not able to comprehend that material gains in human living come at the cost of the extraction of resources from the ecosystem, and that said extraction is literally unsustainable?

You don't seem to be able to understand that reliance on the ecosystem is not a good thing - it's inherently unstable anyway - just because we were fortunate enough up to this point doesn't mean that a big event like a volcano, weather or biological catastrophe can't destroy the ecosystem and us with it.

Sea level only matters if we can't develop underwater construction in 100 years - As I've said it's unlikely that even in 20 years we will be using traditional farming as a food source - let alone in 100 years - just like we advanced from hunter gatherer -> farming - we adopted the environment to us - the next step is already happening.

You seem to be stuck in the mindset that just because we can't deal with something now it will be a problem in 100 years. If we had to deal with this issue in 10-20 years I would be worried (it would still be possible but it would require large scale dedicated effort) in 50-100 years it's practically guaranteed to be solved by standard progress.

People have been screaming about overpopulation exponential growth, etc. since forever[1], and it's yet to show any signs of being reality.

The solution isn't running back to the caves and wishing everything stays as it was if we stop burning stuff and stop having children so we can enjoy the views - it's to take control of environment and reduce dependency on inherently unstable factors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe
I was hoping this would be a piece on why current washing machine designs would be less effective in low gravity. Disappointing.
No, but I'm interested in the motivation in relation to their point of view.

But in general, it's beyond me at this stage why people single out Microsoft for being anti-competitive. It's completely unbalanced.
> I work at a school that has that right now, and we do have lots of people who don't make it very far.

When it comes to those "who don't make it very far"; how do you handle tuition and possible refunds?

I'm not really advocating that they deserve or should get a full refund; I'm just skeptical that an open enrollment type thing where anyone can join (like I've experienced with a MOOC)-- you'll have a lot of students starting out, and end up with very few. The one's who couldn't make it should have been screened out, as they're both spending a lot of their own money on this, spending a lot of their own time on this, and potentially taking time away from others with remediation or tutoring-- at the very least, there could be various levels of classes for them to work things out before being introduced into the subjects where they might tend to fail.

From the perspective of someone who has been taught and who has taught, in both cases I prefer small group sizes of people I have some confidence in being relatively adept at what's going on-- the need to reiterate and reintroduce certain core concepts on things goes down a bit as well.
GNU Autotools documentation, libtool, `man gcc`, You're going to need to know C, this ain't Windows land where we have VB, and other high level beginner lanagues.
I'm guessing that the millions of tech people who make their living off of Microsoft's back would probably disagree that building on a Microsoft platform is a bad idea.
As the designer of MQL (Metaweb/Freebase's query language) which is a GraphQL like language on top of a graph database, I'm always surprised by other graph query languages. Since JSON represents a tree easily, it a natural model for non-cyclic queries.

Using JSON for the template also leads to a clear correspondence between the query and the result which is a very nice property few query languages have.

http://mql.freebaseapps.com/ch03.html

to take trip back to 2007.
Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic
Ask HN: Is Y Combinator doing enough for its alumni?
YC get's 5-7% of a company and increasingly many companies are later and later stage rather than back of the napkin ideas. Maybe that stock should vest so that YC is maximally incentivised to add value to their companies.
> Even if we attempted equality, time would introduce inequality due to the risks people take. One invests wisely, the other gambles away. Do we compensate the gambler to reestablish equilibrium?

You just assumed the gambler ended up worse off. What if he won? Do we compensate the investor for his sub-risky-gambling return?
Sorry for my lack of culture, what is a Swiss-Style Color Picker? noise + 3 random colors shaped as a building?

Closest thing I found is http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/lessons-from-swiss-s... which includes a link to https://www.flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/3053656134/ and looks similar to this.
Yeah, there's a -reasonable- interpretation of the charter, and your hypothetical broad interpretation. "in so far as possible" is an important phrase - there is no justification in the charges being set for prison communications other than "because we can", as shown by the utterly huge profits shown by these companies.
I work with graphs at daily basis and I can tell you that I was really suprised anyone hasn't come up with a solution to this.
> Why not just use text input? Because on iOS, `type="number"` is the only way to show the number keyboard

Actually, this isn't true. It will also show the number keyboard on a normal type=text input if you add a pattern="[0-9]*" property.

EDIT: Sorry, misread your comment; you wanted the decimal separator too. I believe that might be impossible to get without type=number.
Well, trapped carbon is what actually matters. But yes, there are hydrocarbons of various forms in just about everything that is or was once alive.
The roots of the concept are probably older:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus
I can relate, I just dropped from medschool to pursue an MSc in CS without thesis. The reason? Everyone convinced me that I'll have a better life as an engineer. I gave up my dreams for personal comfort and I'm probably not the only one.
It's not a bug in Firefox, it's a bug in HN, it's double-escaping the <title>.
Well, to be conservative, assume she was told or guessed that 7 out of the 12 samples were from patients with Parkinson's, which more than accounts for the "predisposed to thinking at least some" factor - actually it would make more sense to guess six, but that can only make the correct response less likely. Twelve choose seven is 792, so out of the 792 possible responses, she chose the single exactly correct one. No fancy statistics needed - the p-value (defined, according to Wikipedia, as the probability of obtaining an equal or more extreme result, the latter of which doesn't apply as the result is already the most extreme possible for the experiment) is simply 1/792 or about 0.001 (0.1%).
I agree they are a symptom, not a root cause. That does not mean their use should not be attacked and fought against.
Not a thing where I grew up in the US
> Is it really beneficial for there to be a surplus of programmers who only learned how to use libraries?

Of course, then you can pay them less.
I hesitated to respond, because I haven't lived in New Orleans per se, but I did grow up in the Deep South (in Georgia) and will suggest that if you are from a very different climate, the heat plus humidity can be a real challenge for some people to cope with.
>"I get that it's easy to say it's always a mistake or oversimplification to call a group of people evil, but what if they actually are?"

How do I know you are not evil? You say that the conservatives are trying to persecute the disadvantaged, but you could be accused of pursuing authoritarianist populism.

Emotional screeds like this convince no one; perhaps this is a self-satisfying venture, or it may be an attempt to signal your loyalty to a cause, but either way, it is entirely useless to anyone except you.

If you want to argue against someone, please pick a logical framework, and go with it. From what you've written, it seems you have utilitarian leanings; there are points for and against this vote in that paradigm, and it would be interesting to read an exposition of them.
> We engineers are nothing but servants to these people.

Which is funny you say that because apparently the "SV elite" think quite the opposite: https://twitter.com/sama/status/641281287660007424
>I don't understand why the Republicans voted against.

It's very simple, they support businesses making a ton of money. They don't care about competition, they don't care about regulation, they don't care about fair.

They care about businesses making a boat load of money. End of story.
It says that internet bullying is harder to ignore, but I'm not sure that is always the case. With classroom bullying, there is no way to avoid it. If the bullies are in school, they will bully you, and it is difficult for children to learn the skills to deal with it.

In contrast, it is easier to learn to avoid the chatrooms where the trolls hang out. (The article mentions bullying on your facebook page, but that is very easy to fix with facebook's privacy settings).

The other thing about internet bullying is that it's much easier to get evidence against the bullies. A few years ago someone is our small rural town was charged -- and convicted -- of libel when they defamed someone on a facebook post.
> Sooner or later sun will burn out

Yes, in about 5 billion years.

> we won't reach those limits within our lifetime

Between "our lifetime" and 5 billion years there is still a very broad range of possibilities. Maybe you don't care what happens to the next N generations, but I do.
I remember playing with these as a (culturally ignorant) kid. To me i was just a baller.
I use this method for everything. If I see a restaurant with pages and pages of options, I know that it's extremely rare for a kitchen to be able to properly manage all those dishes and make them well. Unfortunately, it leaves little room for an amazing dish because the kitchen is so busy with all the other random dishes. And it usually means they are freezing things or otherwise not using very fresh ingredients.

If you have a single page menu, it usually means some very careful thought went into what went on that menu. And like others have said, those places are turning people away due to lack of choice, so if they continue to be in business with a small menu, it's usually a sign of good food. Or really great marketing/atmosphere ;)
Daily habits that can make you smarter
My daughter took on Dash and Dot, kid-friendly robots that teach programming
> Well, if diet or deodorant causes Parkinson's, that's absolutely meaningful. ;)

You jest, but there is actually a suggestion that aluminum in sweat blocking deodorant causes neurological problems like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

(The evidence for this is not strong however.)
> The only way to keep non-numbers out of your number input is to cancel keydown events selectively

There's a much simpler way: monitor the "input" event, and whenever fired, do this.value = this.value.replace(/\D/g,'');

The user will never see anything they type other than numbers.
Yes, you're being paid severely under market even taking that into consideration. I would probably flat out them them, "I'm going to take an extended break so I can look for a job that doesn't pay 50% less than the market. Hope you understand."
When I came across Gell-Mann Amnesia I thought, "Wow I needed that concept."

>Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...
I agree on the point that programs that are selling a dream are a disservice.

I do know of many CS grads that were woefully unprepared to write production code until they had a few weeks of real learning.

Myself, I have no CS degree, and have been a professional developer since 1999, in multiple languages, and have had the opportunity to run user groups, speak at conferences, serve as technical editors in many big name programming books, and more. I'm FAR from exceptional; I'd say I'm only mildly above average in terms of intellect and skill. My point is that a great career can come by many paths.
How do you know there is no cure for early diagnosis? Until today it wasn't possible to diagnose early.
I think a lot of it has to do with an academic identity crisis. My degree was a strange mish-mash of purely theoretical stuff and purely engineering stuff that felt more like a set of topics ABET wanted covered rather than a path towards either deeper Computer Science or Software Engineering.

What I'd love to see is schools begin to take on various career-track options for students. Like theory and want to go to grad school? Take the theoretical track. Interested in front-end and mobile dev? Take some in-depth classes that cover fundamentals in that area. Distributed Systems? That could have oodles of classes, too. This is the way many other engineering degrees are structured. Somehow we're in this weird position where we're making students take electives which are relevant to industry so they can go get a good job, but they still have to learn how to write turing machines on paper.
An interesting gathering with some commentary that rings true to my own experience: in the late 1990s I was a star Latin student in high school in Australia, though it took me ten years to get to Europe by which time I had forgotten all of it (despite or perhaps due to acquiring literacy in two language families in the mean time, including Chinese). Today - after perhaps a combined total of one year spent traveling on the European mainland - I still haven't been to Italy (the closest I've been is perhaps Tunisia or Nimes), and interest is at an all-time low.

How could this loss of interest have been prevented? It seems to me that there should be some easier way for far-flung peoples with an interest in Latin to get some support. Perhaps Italy could start an Alliance française or Goethe-Institut style network of supporting institutions?
Hm, very interesting idea. The extension seems to be a buggy. Or, maybe I'm not supposed to use the Firefox addon they have since the founder writes here that this is a Chrome extension.

Anyways, I'm logged into two Google accounts, one work and one personal. I want to use Hibou with my personal account, so in the extension I selected my personal one. But when I use the webapp, it tries to log me into my work one, since it's the first one I logged in with on Google in general. So I switch the account in the top right but then the application dies, reloads and doesn't allow me to login again.

And, I can't really figure out how to save the text I've selected, it just stays yellow forever
The economist Luigi Zingales likes to say he's "pro-market, not necessarily pro-business." Most Republicans seem to defend the opposite.
The title of the article a bit overzealous but the system the researchers designed is actually really cool. Direct link to their paper: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/memorize-random-60.pd...
Anyone who has ever thought about protesting has been effected by free speech zones -- they have effectively killed protesting. Anyone who has made a public (or not so public) statement critical of the government has been effected by no fly lists -- the threat of a secret list that government officials place you on without justification that seriously damages your life that it is impossible to be removed from is enough to have a chilling effect on every citizen.

And for certain middle-eastern racial groups the no-fly list is actually a pretty widespread concern that effects a lot of people.

10 is not a large number when you are discussing people. It is a huge number when you are discussing serious issues that are independent, each of which requires a response. It is so many most people cannot keep track of them all at once without pen and paper.

And if you are concerned with non-americans (as you should be) every statement in that list is much, much worse from your perspective.

I think the sky is falling, but it's falling slowly. A better analogy is a lobster in a pot of hot but not yet boiling water. If your lobster friend turns to you and says "this water we are in is boiling" do you respond "I took a temperature measurement and technically it's not boiling yet compared to these previous measurements, stop being hysterical" or do you say "you're right, we really need to get worried about this water temperature situation RIGHT NOW" and try to stop it?
I'm pretty sure this is the only way that Serde works?

If you tell it do deserialize to a `Point { x: u32, y: u32 }`, it will ignore any additional fields.
> I have no CS qualifications

You do now :-)

Links please?
No, the existing set of developers, with a specific set of skills, that are willing to work for junior level pay, is not enough for Google.
Thanks! I need to get back into writing on it.

I just pushed up a rust pull parser version here: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/pull/54. Is that what you were thinking of?
> To be remotely plausible, you'd have to use a very restrictive whitelist approach, something like "you are allowed to send email (through the prison's forwarding server) to the following addresses".

TRULINCS appears to work like this. [0]

I think a lot of the hesitation surrounding a system for giving inmates additional access to the Internet focuses on the premise that all inmates would get access at once, or all the time. But that's not necessary. It could used as a reward for good behavior. Basic monitoring technology already exists, and humans could be employed if absolutely necessary. Additionally, it's easy to know who committed what crime and disqualify them if they're likely get up to no good.

[0] http://wysk.lamp.uscourts.gov/ex-offender-suggestions/trulin...
You're right... you are too lazy.

Traditional null hypothesis would be something like "she guesses right 50% of the time", which gives a likelihood of 1/16384 that she would get the correct answer. Let's be cynical, and suppose that she knew or guessed that there were 5-7 patients with Parkinson's, the likelihood is now 1/2538, still pretty low. Even if she knew there were exactly 7 patients with Parkinson's (quite a cynical null hypothesis!) the likelihood is only 1/792. Hey, that's a p-value of 0.0012!

Yes, p-values suck. But, the significance is absolutely there, but we would want to follow this research up with a larger sample size and control more of the variables.
'Nazar' literally means 'look' (as in 'look away') or 'glance' in Urdu.
I believe there are some treatments out there aimed at slowing down the progress of the disease. Diagnosing early might mean slowing down the nasty stuff earlier, thus improving the life of the patient.
Also, this sounds like something that is not at all part of the known symptoms of disease. Imagine if the change of smell is linked to something that is a cause for parkinson (I'm not suggesting the article even considers that option, but it's not impossible), and imagine that that something is actually "easy" to treat for. That would change a lot of things ! Yes, it's very unlikely, but even a small increase in the knowledge of a disease is always progress.
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