skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not saying that Dylan was just 'crap and garbage', but as a cultural icon, people like him replaced people like Nat King Cole, which simultaneously dumbed down and further 'whitened' our music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Coal

Popular among a subset of diesel pickup truck owners.
I thought this had been discussed on HN earlier this year, but searching for it has failed me. I did find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9061964, though, which looks interesting and related and got no attention.

Edit: I found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180728. Interesting and related and got lots of attention. But not a duplicate.
"I wouldn’t say any of my close friends are alcoholic"
tut-tut, a single alcohol palimpsest (loss of consciousness / memory without falling asleep) indicates "warning" phase of alcoholism. Yes, it does not necesarily mean You will become a chronic alcoholic, but it means "controll was lost" and You are on your way there.
Oh merci!
What to Expect from a Designer – Guide for Your Clients and PM's
It is one thing to provide short-term support for carriage drivers and ship cargo loaders when mechanization renders their jobs useless. It is a different matter when existing big businesses stand in the way of progress.

Would you support laws that would slow down the growth of digital cameras in the late nineties and early noughties so Kodak could continue to sell celluloid? I bet a lot of people were affected by that change. Where is the smooth transition for them?
I actually disagree that this data is irrelevant, in fact if you study the data it tells a story about your search habits that may not be all that obvious even if it's your own. When do you typically search the most, what topics do you search the most/least, where do you search from etc etc.
Most older cars and plenty of current SUVs/trucks still put off worse emissions. Should they be banned from use as well?
Oh please, get off this idea we don't put enough money into education. We put too much, so much so that they ended up hiring people other than teachers and the carry forward costs are too high.

You want to fix education in the US, the money must follow the student. Until the school systems themselves are forced to improve by having students want to attend they won't.

The recent issue with testing which they said was putting too much pressure on students and teachers is also a misdirect. The old school method before testing was required was just to pass the student. As in, Johnny got a D where in no way he knew anything but he is now in eight grade.

We have no teacher shortage, we have less student per teacher than anytime before. The amounts spent per student are many times higher than in the seventies yet what about the value of that education.

It isn't a money issue.

With regards to for profit college educations, well the same with all new high costs course at my local state university - they are created to soak up the money because the fed loans it.
And yes sometime some startup deal with this very irresponsibly
That's the problem with this technique. The false positive rate is likely pretty high, and without knowing the prior probability that the person is lying, the technique could be worse than useless.
NYT and Guardian have also put out great scrolling graphics over the last few days:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenlan...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/1...

https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/how-we-made-homan...
What if the lie is just a minor detail embedded in an otherwise true story, though?
"...therefore I concluded everyone should be using Facebook - What's that? If everyone should have access to Google, too? No, I don't think they need Google."
True, but people do have bills to pay. So this can't be a full time thing.
Slack-driven blogposts
ah - so it's possible that the reasoning behind this is the low weight mixed with its huge strength/durability gains?
> ... if you want to fund anything, you have to describe it as a weapon.

In 1955, the NY Times led with "United States has Secret Sonic Weapon-Jazz"

http://thereisjazzbeforetrane.blogspot.com/2009/08/us-has-sonic-secret-weapon-jazz-nytimes.html

Why did they fund jazz like they funded abstract expressionism? Jazz was the ultimate display of democracy and integration, improvisation and the exchange of ideas.
agreed, but "people don't know what they want, until you show it to them"- Steve Jobs
Isn't it possible that if you do staged deliverable and fixed payments that this will mitigate the risk?

If you are able to specify the deliverables needed in enough detail, then you can make payment contingent of milestones. That way the outsourcing company gets a steady stream of guaranteed income, but it's continent in them completing the work. It also allows you to cross check the work frequently.

This, of course, means that you have specified what you need clearly and in sufficient detail that you can actually go this. That means though that you need a very technical lead who has the ability to do project management. I can't see how else it could work!
How do you measure it it has been effective when the successful liar passes the test and is not defined as such?
It some states it is your responsibility. Inspections (for emissions or safety) are not required everywhere. This is part of the reason that generally, the owner of the car is liable for damage it causes, whatever the reason or whoever is driving.
Why You Shouldn’t Style React Components with JavaScript
GDB has had it for many years too. I think Mozilla made rr to handle large apps better.
Generally speaking I haven't seen a whole lot of stress about the situation from the VW owner clubs I'm part of. The common mentality is that VW had to cheat the rules by a 3rd party in order to deliver the quality of vehicles they've grown to love and they don't necessarily blame VW for that, they blame the regulations.

Personally I'm a bit skeptical that my next vehicle will be VW. I'm sure I'll give them a test but they won't be as favored to me as they could be simply because there's doubt of honesty in my mind now. Have they pulled some scam on my car that's yet to be caught? Is everything I've been promised on the brochure guaranteed or did they skirt some other regulation or standard?
hey man, good work on agate. I like it.

I actually used to live right near the NPR offices in Crystal City.

You might know a pythonista I know who used to work there and is now doing a machine learning start-up. (his name is Greg)
7 Years of Google Chrome
Qt Creator / KDevelop and so on are basically frontends to gdb though, and suffer the same limitations on reverse debugging. (Perhaps supports lldb as well, never tried)
The interesting thing about the particular examples in this thread--local taxi companies, hotel franchises, dealer franchises--is that none of them are in fact "big businesses". If Uber and AirBnB and Tesla succeed, they will all be considerably larger than any other player in those spaces. They will be the big businesses.

Personally, I have no interest in protecting businesses. I have an interest in protecting competition. I like the disruption and I like the creating of new value that they bring. I just also feel for the individuals who often are so vigorously disrupted.
I find it both amusing and disturbing that I was sure which RFC this was just by context.
That is touched on in the final paragraph
Why Single-Tasking Is Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
As a long time proponent of multitasking, and also an area I constantly struggle to become better at, this article gave me pause. Maybe the answer isn't about doing more at the same time but doing more better.
For sure. I assume the detection technique works pretty well, even against "better" liars. That said, I've encountered folks that are so good at being slippery that you almost have to admire their skill.
Glad you like it.
You're correct, Tabli is only intended to help you manage windows and tabs within the current browser session on your current machine.
Saved Windows (http://antonycourtney.github.io/tabli/tabli-usage.html#save-...) are stored as bookmark folders so will sync as normal bookmarks and show up when you start Chrome on a different machine. (Currently saved windows are only loaded when Tabli initializes, but that's fixable.)
I don't use Chrome on multiple machines simultaneously so hadn't really considered this use case. Thanks for bringing to my attention, will give it some thought.
Using the built-in FTP client of the OS, you can download the latest copy of Firefox.[0]

[0] http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla.org/firefox/r...
6px: Announcing Free Image Processing
And you can do all that stuff in gdb too. rr is really quite innovative.
Libtree – Python tree library on top of PostgreSQL
"short-term" means being unemployed or unemployable for a while.

If you add the caveat that "for a while" might in practice equal "several generations" for comparable employment, this is true. See for ex. industrial revolution.

The hard truth is that to the degree that these things do work as a simplistic free market model might predict (and that is clearly arguable) they may operate on time scales that will do nothing to alleviate to problems the changes cause.
Hmm... My guess is that in a few years, we'll see the word frequency analysis being used by police as an investigative technique.

However just like with drug dogs, they'll ignore the high false positives and low prior probabilities.
Kill the laws that unfairly protects X business.
U.S. Looks at Proposals to Escalate Fight Against IS with Apache Gunships
Ford did the same thing in 1997. Companies seem to recover.
And they got bailed out by the US taxpayers.

I am just astonished at the outrage over some skirting of an arbitrary number in an emissions standard, in contrast to the comparative yawn over the things other automakers have done that they knew would actually kill people.
The Mazda RX-Vision Rotary Concept
Could also be training. Your dentist has years of highly specialized training, and if he faked his accreditation he'd expect to end up in prison. Your random programmer can set themselves up with no training or accredited knowledge whatsoever.
This statement from the article strikes me as a bit of a stretch:

Would Abstract Expressionism have been the dominant art movement of the post-war years without this patronage? The answer is probably yes. Equally, it would be wrong to suggest that when you look at an Abstract Expressionist painting you are being duped by the CIA.

Perhaps not duped. But, how many other types of art were stifled by having a secret fund devoted to creating, promoting and praising one type of art.

Which raises the question of why the CIA chose abstract expressionism as the vehicle of choice for its propaganda. Perhaps because it is hard to be subversive with a work of art that every observer will interpret differently. Or perhaps because unlike other art that has some common ground for discourse between two observers, abstract art is like watching clouds pass by. "I see a baby!" one watcher will say. "I see a puppy!" another watcher will say. And that's where the conversation ends. It's the ultimate expression of individualism, but also the ultimate killer of dialogue.
America's racial classifications follow a very practical application rather than some grand racial theory. this is a good thing, because as we know race is more a phenotype than genotype. thus arabs are grouped with whites because, according to traditional racial classification, they are caucasoids. there has been no adjustment to this because immigration from the middle east has not been a huge number since those days. indians (south asians), also considered caucasoids in the 19th century system, are however lump-summed with asians (mostly mongoloids), for practical reasons. the practical reason has to do with socio-politics. for now, indians have similar immigration and social characteristics in common with east asians. thus categorizing them together has a practical purpose with respect to social services, immigration policy, etc.

as you can see, classification is a tricky problem. america's classification is constantly evolving. every 10 years america takes a census and every time there is a change in the boxes for race categories. this is an attempt to keep pace with changing views. it's not a perfect system but it's not bad. it certainly beats france's system (which literally ignores all racial categories according to principle--leading to all manner of unintended negative consequences including inequality towards recent immigrants or citizens of color).
> Why deal with a temporary worker when you can afford to hire them full-time and have them sit in your office?

Because after paying his taxes and his cost of living, this full-time person makes way less than the guy doing the same job from the Ukraine. Therefore, everybody with just even half a brain will do the math and will not be available for sitting in his office. They'll put up their own office on some sunny beach in Guatemala and log in from there. Don't tell me it is not true, because that is what I have been doing for the last 10 years.
Discussed in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2946430
Me too, I can't do it!
Qt Creator is great for Qt. KDevelop and Emacs gud-gdb also provide nice vanilla frontends.
> Want me as CEO of GroupOn or Yahoo? Damned straight you're giving me a severance package whether I screw up or not, otherwise I'm taking a less risky job.

Why? Tons of employees take on this risk when joining a startup, and they don't get a huge severance package. Risk should be aligned with reward - if you succeed you should be very well compensated for a risky gig, but if you fail you shouldn't also be very well compensated. The only reason these large CEO severance packages exist is because other CEOs sign these deals, and who doesn't want to be on the "heads I win tails you lose" side of a deal.
Already done. It's funny how the press is only talking about VW but meanwhile there are first tests showing that many other manufacturers do/did the same.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/09/mercedes-...
Thanks for the reply. I was thinking more along the lines of high-resolution images of what is on the sidewalk at precisely those coordinates, or in the vicinity of those coordinates. Or if anyone on HN reading this thread has actually been there to see first-hand what's at those coordinates.
You can; custom ordering is always an option. Most people don't like to wait, or fear they lose price leverage. Which is to say there's often a chance to save by taking a car off the lot at the end of the month.
I really hate outsourcing of any kind. I am a person that likes software development and I hate seeing it treated as something you want to spend as little money as possible for.

One of my last companies that I worked for got bought out. We only had around 8 software devs and the parent company had a 300 man team in India! Needless to say, any new problem that popped up had a strong push from the new management to send it off to the offshore team. And there was also a dumbing down of our solution stack since all the offshore team knew was Windows, Java, and Oracle (none of which we used). After two years, I left and so did half the team.
Harnessing the Power of the Crowd to Fight Climate Change
You would never convict someone of deceit based on any liar-detection methodology. They're simply tools used to warrant further investigation.

There will be truth-tellers who fail this test, but you find nothing conviction worthy. They'll be fine.

There will be liars who pass this test. Hopefully you catch them later by other means, just as you would have otherwise.

And of course, there will be those who pass who are never caught. This tool does not make that any worse.
Anybody just a little bit "smart" and lying knows that one has to be subtle and non linear. Trying to convince is already failing.
Assassain's Creed and Far Cry might have had some work done by the French Ubisoft HQ, but most of the work was "offshored" to the friendly same-language-speaking Montreal offices.
Problems with Go's design
Life Changing Programming Lessons (your PR Is Wanted)
Why Are More Young Adults Still Living at Home? By the St. Louis Fed
I like pandas but I find it confusing to use. I wouldn't mind sacrificing some speed for ease of use. In particular it would be great to find a library with something similar to pandas' MultiIndex, but a more intuitive behavior. However, from skimming over Agate's docs, it doesn't seem to have something similar. Anyway, it's great that alternatives are attempted.
Very true and very scary. The sad thing is that regulatory protection often makes matters worse by insulating people from changing realities. That causes the inevitable collapse of that protection to create an even greater shock to those who had been protected.
Here in the US, we just bought a car and because they didn't have the model on lot anywhere, we just ordered through Toyota the exact model we wanted with all the features we wanted in preferred colors/finish. The dealership still got a cut but they helped us select the car are made the process very easy.
This is a collection of lessons that have really impacted the way I program. It would be great to have some additions here!
I think this is it here:

http://smallbasic.com/program/?DNP796

or here:

http://smallbasic.com/smallbasic.com/program/?RHB445-0

The blog entry links to this forum discussion:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1e8c53bb-7974...

From what I can see each program has a code (DNP796 or RHB445-0 - which is mentioned in the above blog article) which you can look up on:

http://smallbasic.com/smallbasic.com/program/
I wasn't advocating, just mentioning what I've seen. your message is right, management needs to trust their people more is what it comes down to. Incidentally, it's paid.
> What's the difference between my dentist and WeCodeLikeNoOneElse, Inc?

Lack of reputation might be a factor in why software outsourcing sucks, but the dentist analogy doesn't work.

How does the average person find a dentist? They ask their neighbor or co-worker, who says, "Well, I go to Joe on Maple Street, and he's OK." Seriously, how many dentists does your neighbor actually know? It's probably exactly 1. How many dentists has your neighbor gone to in his entire lifetime? Probably 2 or 3. He has no basis for making comparisons.

I trust neighbors and co-workers to give me movie and restaurant recommendations because the average person has experienced hundreds or thousands of those.

PS: Here's how I find a dentist or doctor when I move to a new city: I do a Google search for ones nearby, look up their credentials, then choose one who went to a recognized university and whose degree is not too recent (inexperienced) and not a terribly long time ago (outdated knowledge, retirement age). This can't be any worse than selecting the 1 guy that your neighbor knows.
Polluting the environment kills people too.
You combined two very important points in #3. For instance, how often do charter schools enroll special education students?
We maxed out on scrollytelling when we built http://hollowdocumentary.com/. I think we probably violated some of his rules here, but it was experimental for us.
Because gambling becomes problem gambling for some people, and that costs society money. Higher taxes offset that cost, the same way we have higher taxes on alcohol and cigarettes.
USING REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING TECHNOLOGY FOR MENTAL HEALTH
just an fyi:

tor didn't simply "get funds" from the navy. It was invented at the Naval Research Lab. As explained to me at the time, they were trying to generalize the principles of mixmaster remailers to internet routing.
VW fraud likely killed almost one hundred Americans but far more Europeans.

http://www.ibtimes.com/volkswagen-diesel-scandal-2015-emissi...
> "That seems to describe memory editing plus "edit and continue", which is distinct from record&replay and reverse execution."

Sounds more like IntelliTrace to me (if you're not familiar with it, it's worth mentioning it's only available in Visual Studio Ultimate).

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd572114.aspx
Either the management are programmers themselves (Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, ...) or else the company is a lost cause. They will simply get expelled out of the market by companies -- who take no prisoners -- of which the management are programmers. Only a programmer can create half a trillion dollars of value (Google Search). Nobody else can do that. Their output is too inferior for that.
I feel like you are presenting a fake contrast.

When I was in public schools, there was a lot of differentiation in education, and students definitely weren't taught all the same, including different levels (eg, AP vs. non AP history), different tracks (eg, extra courses for those interested in practical arts, or interested in programming, for a career), and special support for students with more specific needs, including in my case speech therapy.

Nor do I get the sense that my school system was special in that regard.

"getting a school to run properly is hard in todays environment"

When was it ever easy to run properly?
Create a script which runs in a loop and copies any files found on a usb stick to the hard drive.

Start the script, then remove the keyboard and plug in the USB stick.
Diesel emissions kill tens of thousands of people each year.

It's probably hundreds of thousands across Europe. VW's scam has added to those deaths. VW killed far more than 150 people.
Yes, https://google.com/search?q=github+awesome+-font
I have seen the same problems on in-sourced projects. You still need capable engineers. May be managers who outsource their projects tend to be more clueless. I give you that.
Most of these seem to just be general Vim suggestions that work in any language, but they aren't bad.

The real lubricant for Python and Vim for me has been control over virtual environments. I've hacked on a popular plugin that allows Virtualenv inheritance from the terminal and relative Virtualenv directory support among other things.[1] The original author didn't incorporate all my changes, so I've sort of kept the fork lingering around. But try out the original as well.[2]

[1]https://github.com/brianclements/vim-virtualenv

[2]https://github.com/jmcantrell/vim-virtualenv
39% of L.A. millennials 'chronically stressed' about money, survey finds
Someone high up is going to prison for this. The Germans are pretty fierce with regulatory failures.
Baby Boomers Hugely Underestimate What They Need for Retirement
Show HN: Why being Stupid or Silly is good as an engineer :)
Let's Encrypt Progress Report
Cash can "degrade", it's called inflation.
YC backed companies I have worked with
1. Senic - creator of a tangible interface that let's you control your household devices..

2. Kivo- a browser based collaborative tool with great version controlling mechanism for PowerPoint and word files

3. Buttersystems- a smart device based restaurant reservation app

4. Stacklead - allows user to to create schedule by pulling data from social media and web and matching those against users email address and google Calander.

I invested in all four of those and and Stacklead got acquired by linkedin late last year.

It's always awesome to see the value that the yc backed companies bring !
I'm guessing it wouldn't. A memory doesn't exist as a single entity, and a false memory is often corrupting a couple real parts of memories, either overwriting (or outright adding) a small detail or mixing together real parts into something that didn't happen.

If someone was given a false memory of a traumatic experience, they likely have still experienced something similar to the faked traumatic experience (maybe saw it in a movie) and will have an actual part of a memory to feed greater details as someone dug into the memory.

A false memory of seeing a litter of puppies will still have plenty of real occurrences of seeing puppies to subconsciously draw upon.
Security Month – Episode 1: Injection