skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per comments above, pypy.js is not presented as an trivial but interesting thing, but as something useful.
Having inline images be easy was the first thing that sold me on Confluence.

I mean you're already doing documentation, adding tedious tasks to it just makes it worse. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, done.

Your "old fogeys" thing is a managerial/personnel problem, it has nothing to do with the software.

And this is the first time that I've heard "too much whitespace" be a complaint. You want to be distracted from the content?
10/10, but I had to listen closely. Sennheiser 650s & external DAC/amp, quiet room, hearing is still good to ~16khz.

The primary place I picked out to hear this not the quiet parts, but rather a hiss above 10khz, which was audible even at the beginning - and particularly at the beginning. It's almost mistakable for brighter cymbals, if you're not listening closely. It also changes in perceptibility over the duration of the sample.
I'm confused, what do you mean by "here"?
> What if the rapist already confessed?

Revealing innocents pressured into plea deals would have social value. Were you under the impression that innocent people never confess?
Arguments about what people "want" aren't very interesting, since they mostly involve us trying to read other people's minds and then debating the meaningless results we get from doing that. Does some rando wants blacklists for everyone who likes Mulan? I'm sure. I don't care.

To repeat: If you think even an incident like this Yale thing are reminiscent of McCarthyism, you should read more about the actual history of McCarthyism.
I disagree that these things are, in the real world, "solved problems" and I'd rather have an unmastered raw track at 88/24 than a poorly mastered track at 44/16.

I don't disagree that CD quality basically maxes out the ear's natural capabilities, I don't think it's that easy to do.

For a remix I'd rather get a 24-bit stream than a 16-bit stream (that's really 15 bits) and has to be padded up to 24 anyway.
I wonder if this is a toy/technology demo, or a really solid Python execution environment.

Tech demos/toys are an interesting distraction for a minute. Deep efforts to build a full execution environment warrant deeper attention.
What makes you think it is rare? Maybe most of the time the rapists confess without the need to use the kit (maybe the existence of the kit is enough to make them confess, so no need to actually process it). And maybe collecting the information from the kits is just standard procedure, like photographing crime scenes, taking finger prints, and so on (all the stuff we see on TV).
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The distributed part of the system probably depends on other components of Google's proprietary infrastructure, e.g., for cluster job scheduling. So it's a bit of work to tear that out and replace with something that's externally usable. I can't tell whether they've committed to doing that, but I hope they do.
Er, to get you a 457 your employer has to prove private medical coverage, so...

The best schools in Sydney are the public schools... Went to one of the best public high schools in Sydney. My parents paid $400. At least you're not paying $20k USD/year in SF.

Your comments re tax can be applied to any country in the world (citizens vs residents/temporary residents). The US even has an exit tax on Green Card holders.

You can apply for a withholding exemption.
One of the largest websites on the Internet has 25 engineers. Reddit is hiring
I love this comment and idea put forth.
Beyond the unpleasant experience of using it, what is actually wrong with it?
You have not established causation. That is, you and others you know do it; you have a health outcome you are comfortable with; yet you have not established causation between the two.
Is Dublin Airport tracking passenger phones without their permission?
For those who have read the letter and are wondering what the big deal is:

"There was so much coded language in that e-mail that is just disrespectful," said Ewurama Okai, a junior.

I, too, read the letter, which was my impetus for doing further research of my own. It seems pretty benign and progressive when read with no surrounding context (as the author presents it), so I found it hard to believe that some of the smartest students in the country would have such a poor reaction towards it. Clearly there is a larger theme that many here are failing to discuss, which is the wide perception of a pervasive and ingrained culture of racism at Yale.

It's unfortunate but understandable that some students got so worked up that they behaved poorly and acted on emotion, rather than rationally, which they later did with the petition and various letters/articles addressing the issue.

We should be focusing on the overall themes of the argument rather than the specific anecdotes of what one student said or did which may not be representative of the entire body.

See my (downvoted) comments below for a more thorough discussion between myself and tptacek.
> "There was so much coded language in that e-mail that is just disrespectful," said Ewurama Okai, a junior.

What's a code? It's a way for a sender to send a message to a recipient without anybody else being able to understand it. For a racist, say, coded language can be a very useful way of hiding their racism and still communicating.

But if you get hyper politically correct, and compile every possible word that you could possibly perceive to be a code word for any possible oppressor in any possible context, well, you get so many words that even a reasonable, thoughtful communication trips your detectors.

But for it to be code, the sender has to intend to send the code. For example, if I'm tapping my foot at random, and the Morse Code translation of those taps offends the person in the next cube, well, sorry, but I don't actually know Morse Code, so I wasn't sending a coded message.

So: Was the language in that letter "coded language"? Or are the students so hyper-sensitive that everything is "coded language"? My guess is that they're hyper-sensitive.
If that's the case, it's much more subtle: No HUAC, no blacklisting, no "are you or have you ever been a member of...?"
Are you sure about that?

Both resources below say something opposite.

http://bit.ly/1SEnJQe
- see optional<T>::optional()

and
http://bit.ly/1lh7eyv
- see default constructor

(I'm just curious)

Edit: I've tested it, you are wrong. Default constructor of optional doesn't call Student constructor (VS2015).
Very interesting article! The sound is blown out a bit on the video so it's hard to hear the subtleties of the beat but it's clear there are what would amount to quite a lot of time signature changes in our notation. Maybe Marco Minnemann could play it sight unseen ;)

I will have to keep an eye out for Alexander's book, it seems that it will be fascinating.
It's easy to see how this could be useful for somebody though.

Imagine you're a scientist, and you have a large, pure python codebase - let's say for intelligently predicting the number of foos in a bar - and you want to make that available via the browser, in order to visualize the progress of your foo-hunter.

This makes it a trivial task - and means you can use cool web-based visualization tools (D3, etc), and combine with other useful APIs.
24 bits has more information. It's useful for mixing and in cases where things haven't been properly gain-staged, an engineer had an off day, a track hasn't been mastered, etc. Seems pretty basic to me.
You say adults as if that means they instantly know all.
seems like the browser is becoming another virtual machine.
Thank you. This is the first comment I've seen on the Yale controversy that actually points out the larger context at Yale and New Haven. The school mentioned that students should think twice about wearing blackface for Halloween because there are people here who might actually do such a thing.

There is a stark division of class which is invisible from most people's computer screens, but is very uncomfortable living here. Most of the people who attend Yale are highly privileged. But, if you're not part of the university, you are probably living in poverty here. Seeing this video being recontextualized by the Internet as part of this "Us vs SJWs" debate is infuriating.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think you are understanding the issue. These adult eels spend their lives in the rivers of Atlantic Canada. They come down the river once in their lives to breed thousands of miles away in the North Atlantic. The young eels somehow then make their way back to the rivers.

The high prices are for the "glass eels", the juvenile stage. They are caught with nets in the river as they return. This article is about the path taken by the adult eels from the river, to the ocean. Knowing the rough path they take in the ocean is unlikely to help anyone catch more eels.

If you want to catch the eels, you do it in the small river, rather than in the open ocean. Knowing more about their reproduction helps us understand and protect eels. Do you have reason to believe this is not the case?

Here's a parallel story about the European Eels: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8273000/827...
It's now part of "ancHNt history" (nickb hasn't posted for 6+ years). I did recall some discussion about nickb = pg, but don't think I had seen the 'smoking gun'. Noting how Reddit was started, I'm neither surprised nor concerned if there was such an account in the early days (either by pg or by the yc partners).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb

[2] Smoking gun? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151461
I used to be a dev who brought in JIRA because I like it out-of-the-box and it can grow with a team. But I always tell my manager to NOT TOUCH THE WORKFLOWS and to just let things grow organically as the needs of the team grow (or don't). And every time the moment they click around and see the workflow editor we ended up with some big, bloated, convoluted mess. I've been burned too many times, I no longer recommend JIRA to anyone.
Yes announcing, when it's at the top of their profile for whatever website profile/tech talk/whatever they have.
Easy to implement once designed. Who knows how much effort went towards designing it.
Yes this is exactly what i was getting at. If you take the stance that every law is backed by violence essentially.. AND you now say you are going to use the law to get someone to stop doing something that is perfectly legal and OK such as posting a helpful blog on the internet...

Then to me these people are no different from the types of people that threaten to harm you to get you to do what they want.
> Source: Wife was a hygienist before she burned out from contortionist body pain and having to make commission.

Note to self: find out what dentists make their hygienists work on commission and don't go there.
Logjam works like rainbow tables, but for prime fields. Supposing that a way to reverse the function (a hash in rainbow table case, discrete logarithm in prime fields) in time X for a single case, you can instead pre-compute something in time P, which allows computing a specific instance in time Y. P + Y is longer or equal to X, and Y is significantly less than X. To compute n inversions takes nX for the first case, and P + nY for the second. However, the single instance case X still needs to be solvable. For a large enough prime field, X is still incredibly difficult, so P + Y is going to be incredibly difficult as well.

It's much more significant that Logjam changes the field to something weak, than all of the servers use the same prime field.
I'd like to see 'Erlang' on the WordTrends graph, though the plateau of story volumes may mean we can void that eternal September failsafe.
If your hearing's good north of ~12khz, and you have a system that can reproduce highs well, there's a hiss on the cymbals in this sample which can be used to identify the low bitrate version - despite the high loudness overall.
I disagree.

Expel them, escort them off campus, get restraining orders to keep them away both physically and virtually. Shut down all of their student accounts and access. When they resist toss 'em in jail and sue them.

Responding weakly to this kind of madness (and it _is_ madness) will only lead to anarchy.
Walt Whitman the 'good gray poet'
No. That is simply a fiction made up by people who claim to be "harassed" when told to stop being an asshole.
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Don't disagree with anything said here, except...

I'm an Aussie. The Liberal party, despite its often illiberal stance recently, actually has a pretty broad church of opinion within the party.

The party is definitely conservative and largely push against changing the status quo, but actually there are a lot of different views within the party.

It was only recently that Tony Abbott prevented this free contest of ideas within the party room with his "Captain's picks" (a cricketing term where the captain of the team gets to pick team mates) and allowed his chief of staff to be a "gate keeper" between him and the party, which led to policy disagreements that festered within the Coalition (National Party - largely country people - and the Liberal Party) or otherwise known as the LNP. It was an utter disaster and eventually the party elected to boot him from the leadership position. This was despite the fact this happened in the Labor party twice already and they largely won an election because they campaigned on stability!

If you accept the dictionary definition of "liberal" as the acceptance of another person's viewpoint, then I'd consider the Liberal Party to be just that -"liberal". The Abbott years were an anomaly.

Ironically there are many times I've seen people from the U.S. argue the LNP are a libertarian party. They are most definitely NOT libertarians!

I don't like the Liberal Party because of their stance on climate change and asylum seekers. With Malcolm Turnbull in charge, their stance on climate change has changed but it will take some time to unravel the stupidity of the Abbott Government's policy decisions.

I'm hoping Turnbull will change or come up with a better asylum seeker policy. Right now, there is very little difference between the ALP and the LNP.
Ironically, you're talking about the very thing this article leads with: that Linus Pauling touted vitamin C as a miracle cure with over-dosing, despite no evidence, and none has been found.

(I also think that article lead is irresponsible, because if it turns out this study holds up, and vitamin C is a viable treatment for this kind of cancer, we have soundly shown it does not work in the many areas we have tested it.)
> All pointer types are nullable, and no non-pointer types are nullable.

It's also error numbers. Yeah, they're just an int as far as types go, but they also have nullable semantics, with 0 being "no error". So it's not just pointers (quite).

> You're right that an optional type is actually two types. But it's designed such that you can't get at the underlying runtime type without first checking to see what it is. That's a huge difference.

Agreed.
Good luck with that. My alma mater did exactly this to those who refused to pay up.

Perhaps laws are different there.
What I find baffling is the lack of adult conversations about such issues.

Perhaps because the conversation is being dominated by teenagers? The 'catastrophism' that the article cites is actually a normal psychological trait shared by teenagers. What's really at fault here I think is our binary definition of adulthood - none of the students excoriating their dorm 'master' here should really be considered psychological adults.
What I find hilarious is that besides this being like the 4th or 5th time Facebook got caught with this sort of tracking [1], and each time claiming it's "only a bug" - which it also did when it got caught in Belgium this spring [2] - it now comes and says "Wait a minute! We've been using this umm...bug...for 5 years! We will appeal the ruling! We want to keep using that...umm, bug." [3]

> The company is “working to minimize any disruption to people’s access to Facebook in Belgium,” she said.

Is that a threat? Why would there be a disruption? The ruling only affects their tracking of non-users. Disruption to the non-users?!

Also, you know how they've also been saying for years that they would never (ever!) use Like button tracking (which is just a - pretty damn persistent - bug when tracking non-users, anyway) for advertising? Yeah, another lie [4].

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/its-complicated-facebooks...

[2] http://www.itpro.co.uk/security/24324/facebook-okay-were-tra...

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/09/us-facebook-belgiu...

[4] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/541351/facebooks-like-b...
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One thing that has done a lot for me is I've been doing more brushing without toothpaste. I do use toothpaste, but when I do it I treat it more as a fluoride treatment than as a tool to get off plaque. When I'm trying to get off plaque I use a dry brush.
Cobblestone is really nice until you have to walk on it for hours. My inferior North American knees couldn't take it.
Written in 2014.
Cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic cancer-causing chemicals, say experts
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Individually, they are expressing freedom of speech. What is the basis for expulsion, jail, and civil suits?
> Acoustic guitar is good for allowing one to discern audio equipment flaws. It is commonly the source material people use when trying to rate good pieces of equipment.

My go-to track for testing, recommended if rock is your preference, is Muse's "Undisclosed Desires". The beginning of the second verse has a "hidden" bit you will only hear on good headphones. First time I heard that song on some Grado SR80s I literally jumped from being spooked.
The aggrieved always initially present their offense as being representative of the entire community of x. Saying "my friends are OK with it" is a way of saying "you don't speak for all X" and puts them in a position of replying "well maybe the people who know you best and live in your community aren't offended, but they should be according to this essay on critical race theory.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535310
I'm not an expert, but yes, when you disable Wi-Fi, your device will stop scanning for networks and broadcasting your MAC address, so you can no longer be tracked that way. More recently, phones have also started randomising MAC addresses while scanning (starting in iOS 8, I don't know about others), so you can only be tracked for a short time as long as your Wi-Fi is on but not connected.
> It searches UTF-8, EUC-JP and Shift_JIS files.

I guess that's the main difference between it and ag…?
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And the Emacs equivalent, file-local variables[0]. However, these are editor-specific, as far as I'm aware, although Python was able to extract the commonalities between them to support file encoding in PEP 0263[1].

[0] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Spe...

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/
Like Wozniak I too remember reading that Esquire article in my dorm room at Michigan State and realizing the significance of it. Unlike Woz though I didn't do anything with it.
Research on vitamin C does not agree with your conclusions.
Smartphones change how medical research is done
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Very easy to have all kinds of memory leaks right now for one. It is really a combination of Javascript and the DOM. Unpleasant to use is definitely a big thing too. If it was easy and pleasant, nobody would complain.
RSpec and Dynamic Scoping
As long as the change is a good one, it's for the best that it be done quickly. Look at how quickly public opinion shifted on gay marriage and marijuana legalization relative to similar issues in the pre-internet age. I expect that most people on hn approve of those changes and are therefore happy that they don't have to wait another 30 years for them to be enacted.
It's a reasonable hypothesis, yes. But it has been researched, and it turns out to not be the case.
>Facebook faces a fine of 250,000 euros ($269,000) a day

Facebook's net income in 2014 was US$2.94 billion, according to Wikipedia. I'm not so sure they will care about a fine that low. Especially if they expect to make more money by continuing to store non-users' personal data.
Thanks a lot for the feedback! We'll take it to note.
An arms race among venomous animals?
seems to me like a huge part of the problem here is treating the screeching of tantrumming children as if it were the reasoned speech of mature adults.

at some point the university administration needs to simply stop acknowledging this as an acceptable form of communication. it isn't. once those children leave the university they'll discover that for themselves all too soon.
I've been meaning to do a content analysis for most popular animal among HN users, based on subject in headlines. My guess is something along this order:

1. Cats

2. Honeybees

3. Dolphins
People Are More Impressed with Who You Are Than What You Do
Good. But, I expect something unfortunate to happen to a high profile Belgian company or official in the near future.

Of course, there's going to be no way for anyone to prove cause and effect either way. If I'm wrong about the reason, my confirmation bias will convince me otherwise.
I tested myself using that same trace: I got 10/10 with the sound of the cymbals, then confirming with the fadeout at the end.

This is with HD-598's with 16 feet of cheapo headphone extension cords, loud old refrigerator running in tiled studio apartment, and motherboard built-in sound output.
I think they're all playing musical chairs to see who's left with a seat when the employees can be realistically replaced with automated delivery. Whether that's van, scooter, drone, etc.
> a shimmeringly deep, richly textured audio experience

... not sure if trolling, or "audiophile".
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