skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted, but Complicated != Impossible.

People really complain about paying taxes while living outside the country. IMO it's a really complex situation, but the tradeoffs are surprisingly reasonable if you consider it in the long term from both the individual and state level in light of various free rider problems.
I know a lot of brilliant people from other countries. My mother is an immigrant. You are the racist here.

EDIT: Xenophobe.
That's what I do. I don't care what the button says, it's a positive acknowledgment of the post and that's how I use it.

It's trickier with Facebook, and it might be the same with Twitter if I used it for personal interactions, because on Facebook I see a lot of "my family member died" and 'like' is not entirely appropriate for that.
Well, the fact is social structures are getting flattened due to easy access to education/information. I guess the process will just continue. Smart phones are getting ridiculously cheap and internet will be affordable a large portion of Indian public.
Why! This is awful.
In both cases there was no rulership going on, and in both cases the robbery being done was in areas not under the robbers baron's de-jure authority.
Given that I think everyone here wants banks to give us better data access and privacy, why is the more-competition ideal world better than the government-regulation ideal world in this specific regard?
That sounds like an awful process prone to "lost in conversion" errors.
Asking as a Perl ignoramus, what does this give you over the defaultdict(int) example from the article?

Does autovivification mean that the default value to use depends on the operation? eg 0 for addition and "" for concatenation?
Generator that outputs Countries data in various formats (written in React.js)
I think it's useful to keep in mind that the ideal number of platforms for a product to support is 1. Every additional platform makes it more difficult to ship new features and more expensive to maintain/support. Applications like Chrome ultimately make decisions about which platform they will support through the lens of:

1. number of users
2. PR (i.e. Linux support)
I meant the former, but the later is also true. Though even great the MBA programs only take students with good work experience. However, it's not impossible to change industries--e.x. bankers going into consulting. It's hard to tell how much value the MBA actually adds. It's hard to tell if they are just selecting the best and brightest, or if they actually teach something worthwhile. I suspect it's a mixture of both.

I took a couple MBA courses at Kellogg when I was at Northwestern in another grad program. The ones I took weren't real project work loads, but the courses delved into case studies of what companies did wrong and right during critical points in their history. Students would use real world experiences from their past to explain things. I took an IP asset management class with one of guys who sued Zuckerberg for allegedly ripping off HarvardConnect to make Facebook. Unfortunately he never talked about it. I was very curious.

Another large value of an elite MBA is the networking. How many billions of VC bucks have been dolled out to MBA grads at Stanford by people they met there?

In fact, the whole idea of an MBA program is somewhat similar to what YCombinator does.
A question, how long does it take for "rest of the world" engineers with H1B visa to get Green card from the day they apply? Assume it is EB2.
Well, that's interesting.

I'm not from Detroit -- in fact, I've never been there, and I don't have any family there either, but I've always pronounced it /ˈdiˌtɹɔɪt/, which according to the article is an uncommon pronunciation only used by locals.
I actually submitted this yesterday but it got resubmitted automatically? Is this a new HN feature?
I feel like hitting a paywall on an article that shows the irrelevancy of the old media is somehow very fitting.
If I really want or need it and the pricing seems fair in terms of value I will put in the credit card number. If I am going to spend an hour of my time to evaluate your product I can spend for the equivalent of an hour of time to do the trial, more or less.
In aggregate, I'd say the predictions in this article were only half wrong. For as much as we use the Web today, the fundamental interactions discussed here have not changed much.
That's one individual's personal opinion.

The official US government question was already answered the 1860's. Many people had the mistaken idea that government allowed them the right to rebel against it. About 600,000 people found out the hard way that it was never their right.

People need to get their egos in check, because government always wins.
> "if you fail to replicate, you publish that and show the world that the result shouldn't be believed."

A lone report of some observation should never be believed. It should be verified by others who retrace the steps.

>"If you successfully replicate, then it has survived the challenge. The more challenges it survives, the more confidence we can have that the result is valid."

If the observation can be independently replicated, it shows that the methods required are understood well enough to communicate and that it is stable in the face of unknown influences. This increases our confidence that we understand what is going on and that the phenomenon is worth theorizing about.

It has nothing to do with an observation being true or valid. The observation was made, it happened. It is true. It is valid. (Excepting outright fraud, which is treated equivalently to some severely unstable phenomenon)

>"The point of the prediction market here is not to replace independent replication with opinion."

They explicitly say that is the goal in the paper. I like this method of eliciting priors, not that the goal is to substitute it for actual replications.

>"It is to ensure that the energy that gets spent on replication is more likely to be spent effectively."

If a study isn't worth replicating, then it wasn't worth doing and reporting in the first place.
I guess it depends on the requirements a lot. Are you guys set on using ECC RAM and microATX mobo? It would be much cheaper to use some sort of gaming cpu + DDR4 non-ecc RAM.

For example, microatx mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157...

some non-ecc DDR4 ram:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231...

and a cpu:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117...
I haven't heard it put that way, but now having heard it, I like it a lot. Thanks for giving me a new way to talk about this sort of thing.
Few years ago, I have written and published an open source generator that exports Countries data in various formats (MySQL, CSV, YAML, FireBird, XML, JSON).

Today, I have finally finished the process of rewriting that app into React.

Feel free to use it and contribute to it.
Spending the last few years learning French has been very illuminating from that point of view.
Rather than link to your own comment why this Time article saying the same thing (India is graduating zillions of cheaters)?

http://time.com/3752128/india-bihar-exam-cheating-climbing-w...

People will be more inclined to believe Time I think :)
PDF mirror: http://blogs.sfu.ca/departments/continuingstudies/wiredrepor...
Works out pretty well if you focus on the evil in hateful people. Everybody's fine, only the hateful deserve hate! Let's hate the hateful!

I mean, this is exactly the mechanism through which we've been able to build villages, cities, countries, and even (quite longstanding) multilateral pacts. Civilisation stands on the shoulders of atrophied fear of the other.
I didn't necessarily think you were being unfair to "rich people", I just don't buy the idea that only the wealthy have access to non-virtual instruments. It might make the difference between a new(er) and a used car for someone on a budget, but that's old hat. Musicians have been saving up to buy gear for generations.

Choice of instrument is a very personal decision, and of course there are practical considerations (I'm not going to be lugging an acoustic piano on stage any time soon). If you like virtual instruments and usb controllers best, more power to you.

For many modular synth enthusiasts the interface is actually primary, over other considerations such as the mechanism of synthesis and sound. A growing number of modules are digital, with only the control voltage I/O in the analog domain. For these the appeal is still the same; something you touch with your hands, immediacy, freedom from the tyrrany of endless options, something you can't check Facebook on, etc. Speaking for myself, I feel like I'm using a different part of my brain when I plug a cable into a physical jack as opposed to dragging a virtual cable across a plate of glass. That's not even to get into the question of how it sounds, which is still relevant. I disagree with your characterization of acoustic piano vs digital sampling, although it's not really worth getting into the nuances here.
All you're doing is getting pissy at someone who has pointed out legitimate safety concerns. You think sailing around the world didn't involve planning and safety considerations, or that going to the moon did have a safety talk or two? Yeah, there are always people lining up to do things. And sure, plenty of risks were taken. But there's absolutely nothing wrong with thinking about safety. They didn't say they wouldn't do it, they said they would maintain a safer distance.
So people do stupid things with Audi autopilot on YouTube but nobody blinks an eye.

One guy sits in the backseat of his Tesla, and everyone loses their minds!

Of course I can't find the video now, but last year an Audi driver posted video of his car on autopilot, and he tried to move to the passenger seat but bumped the steering wheel while doing so, cancelling autopilot, leaving him not quite in the driver's seat with a car that was expecting manual control.

But hey, this time it's a Tesla so it gets the attention.
One of the counterintuitive things I learned fastest after entering the workforce is that there is often an inverse relationship between amount of money being paid for a product and the level of support demanded from the users. Almost without fail, our least difficult clients pay the most money, and our lowest value customers make the most demands.
While I agree, it should be noted that there has been serious controversy about the question whether language and language use can and should be characterized by rules, or whether it is based on some kind of emergent phenomenon or dynamical system (connectionism). The controversy is still not really over. Personally I don't think it's an either/or question, but about levels of description.
SigOpt Fundamentals: Approximation of Data
But also not even close to a typical Cortex-M3 or M4 part that's been in production for half a decade now.
"After lunch"

This was true when I worked the nightshift and began working at 3pm and ate something around 5pm and was true when I moved to dayshift and started work around 8:30 or 9am and is true now when I typically start working between 9am and 10am. In all three cases, the first two hours of my day are/were spent doing relatively easy things and then more serious work happens/happened after eating lunch.
It isn't even that. Each machine has it's own user interface quirks that arguably change the outcome of the piece you're working on. The classic example of this is the 303 which was originally designed as a 'robot' bass-guitar companion for a guitarist, but because of its user-interface and the way it could be pushed to extremes, you get acid-house and techno.

There's also the latency issue of controlling anything via MIDI, a tweak of a filter will have a slight delay, and that can be enough to throw you out of the creative space you'd otherwise be in.
They say "Galaxy Note 5 require a software update from your carrier."

I wish I knew if Verizon wil be offering this update. I just bought a Google cardboard type device (cheap!) for my Note 5 but the lenses are small so the experience ends up not being very immersive.
> "Shame, that."

Why is that a shame? Firefox is a great browser.
Interview with Charlie Savage on Obama's War on Terror Legacy
Hello, I am Mike, the author of this post, and I will be checking in for the rest of the day to answer questions.
The competition referenced may be the Martin Jetpack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Jetpack

It is listed on the ASX stock exchange, although hasn't released a product to market yet. However, I think they may be further down the line towards commercialisation.

The JB-9 looks more lightweight and fun, but the Martin has a parachute...
Query DSL's have always been the problem with these NOSQL / Document-oriented backends.
It's true and this is a long time coming. I think they are in Philly too, but they need to roll out more, especially with winter coming.
That's the ideal for the provider, not the consumer. Nobody said that doing business is easy.
Most people considered Cliff Stoll to be a hilariously wrong luddite in 1995.
When you try and open a USAA Checking account, they ask you for your military affiliation, if you say none they say:

> Sorry, we can't open this account for you.

> USAA Bank products are only available to military members, veterans who have honorably served and their eligible family members.

People keep saying USAA opened up the door to everyone, but their website says nothing like that.
Top Steps to a Smooth Postgres Deployment
Serious question: Why instead of dispersant (another chemical contaminant) did we not disperse large quantities of lab-grown oil digesting bacteria?
> Not that much is implemented in macros.

And this is exactly what is wrong with Clojure and its community. An unexplainable lack of ability to embrace macros and all the power they can bring.

I could never understand a single anti-macro argument, they are all too detached from the reality.
This is truly amazing. Indie-tourism could power a new wave of jobs. Not to mention it's uniqueness make's it incredibly more desirable than traditional tourism. Can't wait!
The solution is to stop using institutions like BoA and Chase that actively fight against your interests. Let your money talk.
If I have a service level agreement with you, paid for up front, then wilfully violating that agreement strikes me as the sort of thing I could take you to court over and stand a decent chance of winning. You got the money earlier, allowing you to do some things that you otherwise couldn't, and in return for that took on certain liabilities.

That you may eventually have to pay for those liabilities with a few hours of your time here and there does not absolve you of the agreement that you wilfully entered into in order to obtain those benefits. That risk was in large part what you were paid for.

If you're going to gamble, yeah. Sometimes you lose.

Mind you, this whole thought experiment is a bit silly. If you're going to form this sort of agreement, then you should define equitable exit conditions to manage risk in the event that you're dramatically wrong. At the very least, I'd want a significant portion of my money back if I paid for 'forever' (not decidable, so that might not even be a legal contract depending on your jurisdiction) and got a couple of years.
The crazy thing is that this problem has been solved a long time ago. MS Money had the ability to download from different banks and then you had all the data on your hard disk. Worked like a charm ,but as it seems to be the trend these days with things that worked well, MS abandoned it.

Mint is so primitive in comparison.
Preauthorization for use of dispersants had already been withdrawn for Prince William Sound (the only zone in Alaska where they had been preauthorized) by the Department of the Interior in 2008 following this consensus report: http://dels.nas.edu/Report/Spill-Dispersants-Efficacy-Effect...

This is also an interesting and well-known report discussing the non-mechanical response to the Valdez spill from 2006: http://www.pwsrcac.org/wp-content/uploads/filebase/programs/...

I can't be clear enough on this -- the impact of dispersants on the environment and their lack of efficacy at actually decomposing oil (see: resurfacing) was well-known at the time of the Deepwater Horizon spill. There's ample discussion from the actual professionals in this field at the time of the incident regarding the obviously inadequate cleanup process. The responses from both BP and the EPA were meant to reduce metrics like visible sheen while ignoring the environment (it's even worse in the gulf since current variation at depth results in a much broader resurfacing pattern than simply leaving the oil on the surface would have done).
Typical hollywood self-delusion.

> after Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale passed on the title role, it lacked a major star, limiting its commercial prospects

> Having a DiCaprio or a Robert Downey Jr. in the title role may have broadened “Steve Jobs'” appeal.

Fassbender came out looking like Ed Harris. Audiences want to see Jobs in his prime, as Ashton Kutcher played it. Nothing to do with a "big name actor" and everything about sex appeal. Apple has always been about image and the movie is no different. The fact that the sexy version of Jobs was already done is why it failed and the hand wringing in this article looks idiotic. Everyone considers a 20$ ticket to the new Jobs a wasteful risk, despite hearing how existing mediocre fall films are doing. Quit putting out schlock and your art-film remakes might do better. They certainly won't be hits, either way.
Could also be that it's easier to bot Instagram.
In the real world of actual humans with every day problems, control is often more valuable than trust and trust without control can lead to situations where there is no value at all :/.
10 Typical Mistakes in Specs
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/understate
New derivation of pi links quantum physics and pure math
I'm particularly eager to see offline hi-res satellite imagery become available on a mobile device. I lead extended off-road desert driving trips [1] as a hobby and navigation is the biggest challenge. I strive to avoid commonly used roads and trails and seek out old, disused mining roads and cattle paths whenever possible. I currently use offline USGS topo maps [2] which is a big help but satellite imagery is far better for evaluating the potential driveability of a route.

Please, Google--anybody--let us use or buy offline satellite imagery!

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/sets/72157654387670...

[2] http://topomapsapp.com/
The DEE-troit variant is what I've commonly heard from more rural southern dialects also (a/k/a "redneck" or country)
> Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

Link to "Get Newsweek on your iPad" directly below the article. I love it.
Government Glitches: What Happens When IT Projects Fail [podcast]
The JetMan device is not a jetpack in the proper sense of the word. It's actually a full-fledged airplane (just mini size) with turboprops. It requires forward velocity to generate lift. Also, it can fly quite a bit longer than a jetpack.

A true jetpack generates lift reactively, and can hover at zero forward velocity.
The USGC is already home to large quantities of oil digesting bacteria, and that is largely why the ecosystem has recovered to the extent it has.
Maybe I am just really, really old at this point, but sending emails in plain text solves all these problems. I don't think I've ever received an HTML email that couldn't have been adequately represented in plain text and maybe an attached image if necessary.
A while ago I had to look up something about a 4 year old transaction. The bank had the data but for whatever reason would fight tooth and nail not to give it to me.
HERE has that, too. Except that business hours aren’t offline available. That’s why even the small German states are about a Gigabyte.
There's a key difference between a broadband isp and a mobile service. Customers have a much wider choice of mobile carrier than they do a last-mile isp.

Of the mobile carriers, T-mobile was the one to at least attempt to shake up a pretty terrible mobile service landscape by providing some level of customer oriented value. So personally they get a bit of a pass from me, though I do worry about long term implications T-mobiles 'zero rating' of some services.
like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH7u1ZeRK34
Rather than bidding for visas or other points-based systems or even abolishing H1Bs why not this:

For every H1B worker an employer must have at least one American working the same exact job making the same exact salary as the H1B worker.

Pair programming is a thing you know :)

A 1-to-1 ratio would solve the "prevailing wage" scams as well as the "we can't find any qualified workers" nonsense because even if a company couldn't find a "qualified worker" they would have to hire a US citizen and train them in that job (or I guess they could just pay them to sit but that'd be very wasteful).

What quicker way to end the "skills gap" than to force these supposed, "uniquely high skilled" foreigners to train their local American counterparts?
I tried to go there to ask some questions while picking up the language, and what I got was RTFM, where manual includes the language specification, Effective Go book, and A Tour of Go. Apparently you're unfit to ask a question unless you know everything about the language already. Killed my excitement for learning the language.
It's the language that Israel's leaders use all the time, so it's not surprising that it slips into more intelligent conversation.
Fair point, it's somewhat hyperbolic phrasing. A perhaps somewhat retroactive defence:

Surface contamination is deadly, particularly to bird/shore life, but dispersed oil is deadly throughout the water column (until it resurfaces, at which point it becomes deadly to birds again). There's relatively little life at the surface compared to the pelagic zone, so the impact of dispersants doesn't merely multiply the effect of the oil by the depth of the water, but actually moves that oil into the regions where life is densest.
>> They need an intermediate goal, a minimum viable product,

My guess is that they are very careful in causing large jobs disruptions(or appearing as the cause) - without offering huge benefits to consumers, since they don't want to scare people from google.com - so they stay away from industrial/B2B robots. So this leaves them only consumer robots.
I've noticed this too, but the flip side of it is that there's often an inverse exponential relationship between the amount of money being paid for a product and the number of users.

I suspect that both observations can be explained by assuming that the amount of value generated by a product follows a power law. Charge a lot, and you will restrict your market to only the head of the distribution. A nice consequence of this is that the consumer surplus (the amount of value you generate in excess of your price) is highest in this part of the distribution, which means all your customers are very happy even if you're charging them an arm and a leg. When you drop your price and service the long tail, you get a lot of customers who derive only a tiny bit more value from your product than it costs them, which means they get mad at you really easily.
I can't read phonetic spellings, do you know of any audio samples for the pronunciations?

This video has the pronunciation I use, I don't know if that's the 'locals only' one or not:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UfsmfJ_fYMU
Don't get me wrong. I don't dislike Firefox but my experiences with Firefox on OS X has been less than stellar compared to Chrome. Also, being an educational model iMac with an old C2D, Chrome runs noticeably faster than Firefox.
Facebook's Tracking of Internet Users in Belgium Could Cost It $268,000 a Day
That's what he's saying. It's why number of users (something irrelevant to other users) is important.