skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is said often that the police in many cities in the US are mainly focused on revenue generation. Whether this is true or not I don't know. But if it is, it is no more honest than when a police officer earning $250/m asks $4 for an on the spot fine instead of the $20 and half a day lost trying to pay it officially.
Even that doesn’t solve all issues – it still shows results that are irrelevant to my query and do not even match the query.

It should not be hard to convert a query into a regex for content, title and URL and apply it on the index.
I am first to hope for the autonomous cars and ending car ownership, because IMO the current road situation is absolutely ridiculous (In the meantime, someone would please train drivers like they do train airline pilots? I.e. beat the stupidity out of them with enough training.). A PRT network made out of autonomous electric cars would be something absolutely wonderful... in a city.

But between the cities, you still have tons of cars going together, in a line, all the time. There is no flexibility here, almost everyone is going the same direction for most of the way. I don't see how even autonomous electric cars could beat trains on that. I think that the best way for the future is bullet trains/hyperloop connecting the large cities, and PRT within the city. I'm open to math that shows otherwise though.
A Brief History of Time is the book by Stephen Hawking. It's really approachable and easy to read. I also liked The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. That was the first book I read where the author was able to explain both the standard model of physics and special and general relativity in ways that made sense to me.
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Racism against asians is delicate. It's not like overt and violent racisms black people face, where it's easy to recognize and be dealt with.

Take one example.

If you denounce your own color, you are quickly accepted and praised for being funny and unbiased; if you speak up about the injustices, you get labeled as too sensitive, confrontational and quickly cast off.

It's funny to see so many Asian Americans hating their own kin, they just unconsciously internalized those behaviours because doing so gives them social credit.
The metadata in papers is the responsibility of publishers not authors.
> people might unconsciously make choices for their daughters that will lead them to a very different life.

Do you think that life will be worse than if their upbringing was optimized to turn them into engineers? Playing devil's advocate... traditional gender roles must hold some value otherwise people wouldn't adhere to them. There are also many women who enjoy what would be considered a traditional role. I think this push to get women into tech at all costs is stealing quite a bit of agency from people who are exerting their free will (both in career choice and child raising technique).
>3. Adaptive content

The only reason I don't order morning paper these days is that it's physically so big. I only read about 5% of it. If I forget about it, it's going to explode my mailbox. And I would have to take the papers to garbage twice a week to fend off chaos.

Could I please subscribe only to politics, science, actual news and opinions. Curated by local major news outlet. It would be the best possible way to kill the time needed to drink two cups of coffee.

I think people are overthinking this. By "what would average person want?". Maybe they want what you want?
your average good-looking, muscular, broke-as-a-joke bartender is getting laid way, way, way more often than a rich guy who thinks women will like him for his money and who doesn't take care of his body.

you should ruminate on that.
You're going to have to plan ahead. If you can't plan ahead how are you going to finish a hike successfully?
> If we take a random, representative sample of people, we're going to see women make up approximately 50.8% of that sample.

Sure. If we take a random, representative sample of people. But you weren't talking about people in general. You were talking about a meritocracy. Which is very, very, different.

You also ignored my point about men obsessing about science and tech, and women not. Which says to me you don't have an argument against it.

People complain that men obsess about their work. That they're work-aholics. And who is more likely to be CEO? Someone who works 16 hours a day, or someone who goes home to spend time with the kids?

Your statement insinuates that the distribution of people in the general population should be the same as the distribution of people in any sub-set of that population. That is naive at best.

The top weightlifters? All men. Child-bearers? All women.

These differences aren't trivial. It is a fundamental denial of reality to wave them away.
Every business wants publicity especially for good things. Why be torn over it. The employees at the corporate level were already enjoying the day off. So should the retail staffs. They can make it up other ways. I used to work at a company who depended on black Friday and cyber Monday, because their products just weren't that attractive on their own. rei customers aren't really the the type who are overhyped about sales anyway. They are more of the relaxed functional types.
the analogy you use is perfect. the person who complains about the job market is in a hole only he can dig himself out of. like most kinds of success, it's all about a mindset and a work ethic. the person who just complaints about shit is shrouded in such a mental fog it's literally impossible for them to be helped.

to further elaborate - "most" asian guys do much better in the work force than they do in the dating game - why? simple, they've spent their entire lives training to work, and NONE of their lives training how to be successful with women.

explaining this shit to people makes me feel like i'm describing breathing air to a fish. it's all very simple, yet people just get stuck in such a mental hall of mirrors.

it's like the sexual equivalent of being caught in poverty. it truly is a mindset, yet those stuck in it are absolutely convinced otherwise.
Jabat al Nusra tells followers to avoid TrueCrypt bugs found by Project Zero
Html is tree structures right? Every element is default positioned relative to the previous element.
REI successfully fulfilled that policy for decades. It wasn't BS, and it's sad to see it go.
Take a hypothetical example:
Four guys (white, brown, Asian, black) born and brought up in the same neighborhood, they have the same physical attributes (height, weight, relative looks).

Who do you think most girls are going to go for, assuming they do not know that they grew up in the same environment?

Exactly...
Visualizing Docker Containers and Images
Miller 2.3.2: Iterative stats, exclude-filter, implicit-CSV-header
They're grossly underpaid and they clean up your shit. Leave them cash.
Hydrogen sulfide is in farts. About one percent, if I recall correctly? "Silent but deadly" indeed.
I think you need to meet more/different women. Yes, some are only interested in their partner's bank account (just like some guys are only interested in their partner's looks), but that is by far the exception, not the rule.
Those strike me as understandable sentiments, but I do think they are racist. Are they bigoted? No. Racist? Yes.

Such sentiments try to extrapolate information on a group of people based off of a non-random sampling. There's bias introduced by the geography of one's life, if nothing else.
Maybe Black Friday is developing the GroupOn problem.

It's a great way to lose money on the worst customers that will never come back anyway.
WordPress.com's support ticket system used to have business hours. Very baffling.
Works for taxis too. An acquaintance of mine has regularly (once or twice a week) had to travel from his home to the airport, about a $100 fare each way. He's used the same taxi driver for about 10 years - knowing that either this driver (or someone the driver vouches for) will be on time every time.

(taxi expenses are covered by his work but personal car travel is not, so he doesn't drive, go figure)
For Americans, "Asian" usually means the people we fought with or against in the Pacific in WW2, Korea, or Vietnam.

For a significant fraction of Americans "Indian" evokes visions of cowboy antagonists or casinos, rather than the Taj Mahal. That's not politically correct, but that is what it is...
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Sure!

I mean, I guess it depends heavily on where you live. But I've lived in Sacramento, So Cal, and Utah.

For the first two November is actually quite a bit nicer than the hotter months July-September.

And while November isn't the prettiest month along the Wasatch Front in Utah, if the snow has started falling it's great for snow sports (including snowshoeing, if you're not a slide-down-it kindof person). And if the snow hasn't fallen (and/or if you want to drive a few hours south), there's plenty of hiking to be done.
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Their headquarters is in the south side of the Seattle sprawl. All the natives are gonna be raring to get out on a grey fall day.

Me, I'll be huddling around my sunlamp wondering why I ever moved anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon line, but that's Seattle for you.
Gaijin is just "foreigner" (though it is a slur, as it's an abbreviated form of Gaikokujin). What you're looking for is "Hakujin", meaning "white person". I'm not sure if it's really a slur, though it does feel a bit odd to me if people use it to refer to me.
That's a great choice and I applaud going in that direction. It makes HN headlines more trustworthy and, in a way, more interesting than vague ones are (myself I was all like "holy hell!" when I saw the -70 figure).
Came here to recommend Hemingway. Even if you keep these values in mind, with a linter it's much easier to do.

I haven't yet found a Chrome extension which does Hemingway-esque linting on all text input fields, like Gmail or (god forbid) comment sections. Somebody (maybe me) should make this.
Radiation doesn't increase cancer linearly. Otherwise eating bananas would be very bad idea. If you stay under certain threshold, it's unlikely that small dose can do anything that your immune system could not handle.
The lists probably have no value to the analysts anyway. As you note, names/ID info are put on the list by numbskulls, not for any good reason.

The reason the lists exist is to cover FBI and DHS bureaucratic ass if some long shot "terrorism" event happens - "Hey, they were on the watchlist - we connected those dots!"
The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research

> ... An analysis of past studies indicates that the cumulative (total) prevalence of irreproducible preclinical research exceeds 50% ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002165
Just because everyone does it doesn't make it okay. Also, for those seemingly few citizens who care about ethics, this information matters, even if it does hurt the US economy. There are more things in life than money. Saying that the bad secrets should be kept secret is like saying the holocaust should have been kept a secret. People grow from coming to terms with what's wrong, not from incessant denial. Often there is a short-term harm when coming out about the truth, but it has to be better in the long run. The reputation and dignity of future generations depends on it. Caring only about the short-term is selfish and short-sighted.

PS: When I say short-term here, I'm talking 10 to 20 years. A moral being thinks beyond his or her own lifespan.
About the startup economy in 2015
Nothing makes you more attractive to a woman than the double which represents your bank account balance.

Women tend to find high social status attractive, which is correlated with wealth and income but not the same thing. The broke musician who packs the club with hundreds of fans is going to do way better than the introverted software engineer with half a million in the bank.

I don't buy the whole (no pun intended) "get a hobby, start improving yourself" mantra either

Hobbies can help if it's something that the general public will respect you for. Woodworking good, Magic bad.
I think that's pretty dismissive of people with experience. Learning the latest stacks isn't particularly hard, and it's really not that valuable (especially if it's in webdev)

It depends on what you are doing, tech is hard to learn when its in a difficult discipline that takes time to do well. It also depends if you need a lead, or not. If you need someone to sling javascript, maybe you get away with someone younger.

If you need a lead to help you build a database kernel, or build a globally distributed system that needs strict SLAs and extreme performance, you are probably going to need someone with experience. Putting someone with 2 years of experience into that role is asking for a disaster.

Most startups aren't doing anything super difficult from a technical point of view, and don't necessarily need their systems to last, so hiring younger people, paying them less, giving them equity that isn't worth anything and burning them out is a winning strategy.
I started Beacon which funds journalism online (http://beaconreader.com) — definitely don't fit into the old business model, but that's the game they are playing.
What if black actors only played athletes?
With foresight, adventurers have ample time to prepare for their journey on this REI shutdown.

This is about being a good company who cares about their employees.

Also, you've set up a 'false dilemma' where you're assuming because the company wants to give their employees the busiest shopping day of the year off as a holiday, that they must also give them every Sunday off or else they're being disingenuous.. interpret it however you wish, but granted what I know of REI as a company this seems all in good faith and any marketing side effect however intentional does not discredit the action at all.
“assume” oh goodness you have no idea.

I live in the Brooklyn Hasidic neighborhood. A couple weeks ago, one of the gentlemen flagged me down on a Friday night. He needed me, a complete stranger, to come into his home at 11pm, go down to the basement, and push the "open" button on his dryer so his wife could retrieve clean towels for their (many) children.

Operating a machine of any kind, to the extent of pushing a button, constitutes work in their culture. There’s a whole wikipedia page about the ongoing controversy over whether it’s okay to use light switches during Shabbat or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat

(they thanked me with a slice of cake, which was nice)
I think the deep combinator is already deprecated in Chrome and unlikely to make it into the spec.
Up to 10,000 guns seized from South Carolina home, sheriff says
ooh, you’re right
Could this be done using Twitter? Each reporter/citizen who has an update on a news item would post a tweet with the info, and create a link back to the original news item(s) or the one(s) that needed updating. Hashtags would be used to categorize the news item. You get an annotated DAG.

User can then filter based on the reporter they want to follow on that news item, the hashtag that is interesting to them, or on the timeline of the news item they're following.
It's so broken that you can only use text-overflow: ellipsis if you've also set white-space to nowrap.
I remember seeing your Citevault tool. It was dope! We talked about it a lot at my work.
Vue.js 1.0.0
Of course. When you're dressed properly you can go out and enjoy yourself every day of the year.

I live in Canada and I like the rainy days of autumn and the cold days of winter. I feel like I have the trails almost to myself... and sometimes I do :)
this information matters, even if it does hurt the US economy - so there's a practical argument against the NSA's "collect everything" stratigery.

I like your argument by the way, and I disklike the parent's argument. The parent argues solely on "My Guys" vs "Their Guys" - there's nothing to distinguish good from bad, and "real politik" is just an excuse to behave immorally.
That's how React's JSXTransformer worked. You can also do the same for WebGL shaders:

<script type = "x-shader/x-fragment"> … </script>
Indeed, and in fact there's an additional interesting twist: Stellar fusion can only produce elements up to the atomic weight of iron. Production of heavier elements requires a supernova. So we know that our solar system is at least one stellar life cycle removed from the earliest stars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_peak
They don't lose money on Black Friday. In fact, they make a tremendous amount of money. That's why it's "black" -- going from red (negative earnings) to black. This is because they sell the products at a low price, but they're still profiting.

Also, retailers gain loyalty from low prices, rather than lose it.
Do his factual claims get any better after the opening sentence where he mentions "mounting inventory?"
Northwestern University archivists aim to resurrect outdated technology
> Maybe I am just overly skeptical ....

Or, maybe they were not. Confirmation bias runs rampant.
There's other examples like Ken Jeong, Kal Penn, John Cho, and more.

Also the weird history of Asian actors playing Native Americans in Westerns...
> The only people who tell women not to enter tech are feminists.

You've never spoken to conservative parents, then.
Well, I mean, a lot of the complaints about OAuth2 revolve around how the system was designed for high scalability over security; OAuth tokens never expire.

Beyond that, I'd have to think a bit. I haven't studied OAuth2 in sufficient detail really.
“The owner, the employees, and the buying public are all one and the same, and unless an industry can so manage itself as to keep wages high and prices low it destroys itself, for otherwise it limits the number of its customers. One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers.”

-- Henry Ford
Also, Stanislav Petrov prevented nuclear war because he didn't trust the Soviet satellite missile detection system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
The type of people who are into enjoying the outdoors and working at REI probably aren't the kind of people who mind the cold too much.
You're right, that's a relatively minor concern.

How about the concern that the existence of a single government doesn't stop people shooting at each other, as indicated by, oh, say, the Syrian Civil War? Even in the optimal case where you somehow did achieve a one-world government that was democratic and benign (rather than resembling the average government) you would inevitably have groups of people thinking that this is a non-ideal government whose authority should be challenged. In the end you'd just wind up replacing all ordinary wars with civil wars. And the civil wars, instead of being confined to one country at a time, would rage simultaneously in all countries, always.
My first thought was to figure out the strategy to improve earnings here. It wasn't until a few minutes later that it hit me, there isn't one (gasp).

And then it occurred to me that, isn't it weird that we live in a world where this is almost unthinkable? Running a business like it's just something you want to do? Just...weird.
I am Indian. Honestly I don't really care about some white American calling me cow worshiping heathen. (which I am).

What I find remarkable is the law and policies which are racist in nature. Asian Americans are never considered a minority in the popular discourse where as Blacks and Hispanics are considered as minority.

But given all that, I do think it is in America's interest to control who comes to USA and who does not and there is nothing wrong in passing laws that might prohibit any kind of migration to the country. What matters however is that when a personal lawfully gets naturalized he/she must be treated as just any other American.
As the author I thought I'd comment:

I wrote this article, because when I was a very new developer, I was learning a lot more Rails than I was Ruby. It had never occurred to me to use Ruby for scripting until I paired with a well rounded Rubyist. With the influx of people learning Rails, I've talked to many people who know much less about Ruby than I did when I was starting out. This isn't mentioned in the article at all, but it was definitely something I thought about when I decided to write it. Honestly, if this helps push one new dev to go out and decided to actually learn some extra Ruby outside of Rails, I'll be happy.

I agree 100% about the shell comments. I know enough shell to do my job, but for me it's quicker to write a Ruby script. Not saying it's the most efficient way, but it is a way, and it's more efficient than doing it by hand. As much as I'd love to be a unix shell wizard, I'd rather be improving my Javascript, or learning more Elixir.

As for the namespace vs scope: The example was just a way to end up with a scenario where we needed to change some text. Plus, for clarity, if I don't want my controllers or URL namespaced, my routes and files should reflect that, not work around it with a scope unless necessary for some reason(in my opinion). I actually later thought that I should've used the script on a JS project, just to help highlight the fact that this is totally independent of Rails.
I think you should make the appropriate edit to your above comment.
Holy Crap, Comey really did do what the title says. Police operate better when nobody knows exactly what they're doing? I don't think so. That's unamerican, Mr Comey. I call upon you to resign, as you are clearly unwilling to uphold the constitution.
More good reading about the spice trade and how it shaped geopolitics:

www.goodreads.com/book/show/29386.Nathaniel_s_Nutmeg
I agree, and that's what I tell myself and others who feel they are disadvantaged in the dating world (due to their skin color or not).

However I feel this is also a short-term and selfish way to go. There has to be a way to make the world a more equal place, even if you and I don't live to see it.
He who controls the spice controls the universe - Dune
All of these features exist in other cars on the road today, or even for the past few years. My car is a 2013 model, and has several of these features. My mother-in-law's 2014 had even more. Not exactly beta.

Nothing new here, other than the ability to enable and coordinate over the air.
So just hack this one government system and get everyone's vulnerabilities. Thanks for making it easy. Maybe someone will work as a contractor and post them all somewhere.
With the the exception of autopilot steering towards an oncoming car, this is a terribly subjective argument. People need to understand that driving a car is a highly responsible activity. When the car systems explicitly tell you to be attentive even if the car is driving, there is a reason for it. I believe a crash with autopilot enabled puts the responsibility on the driver, as it should.

Tesla are not saying their car will now take you from A to B with no intervention. Like GPS navigation, they are right now attempting to take some effort out of driving to make it less stressful.
One of the benefits of not being a publicly traded company.
get the person an H1B visa and you legally own him. Indentured servitude at its best.
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