skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state takes actions under reasoned and measured approaches (barring obvious bad actors), whereas the private citizen/vigilante approach historically does not practice reason or restraint in their application of justice.

It's far too easy for activists and anti-activists alike to get caught up in the crusade, and it's not hard to imagine that someone names an "activist in need of a taste of their own medicine" that gets piled on before anyone realizes a mistake was made and an innocent was punished, perhaps even irreparably.
There are a few people that seem to be working with integer-based deep learning and FPGAs, and even though they're at the beginning of research, things are looking pretty promising. Here's a paper that was released earlier this year that seems to show that at least some algorithms can see a big benefit from FPGAs http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.02551v1.pdf .
A very smart friend of mine on Facebook with lots of ties in the tech industry described Balsillie as "Canada's Donald Trump."

He says "I’m not a partisan actor, but I actually think this is the worst thing that the Harper government has done for Canada." The worst?

He says "It’s a treaty that structures everything forever – and we can’t get out of it." Forever?

Later in the article we find out,

"The deal must be ratified by all 12 countries, and then it would come into force six months later. It would require a parliamentary vote in Canada. Alternatively, the treaty can also take effect if it’s ratified by half the countries representing 85 per cent of the zone’s economy. A country can withdraw any time, on six months’ notice."

So not only can we get out, but it's not forever if you can get out. So Balsillie is full of $hit, alarmist, and possibly still butthurt over losing out to a patent troll that RIM never took seriously enough.
I agree, but hadn't realised B&B were regulated.
I'm surprised this wasn't announced officially by dang. I spent some time the other day searching for the official announcement of HN's new responsive design, and just figured I must've missed it.
Yep - it would also be great if HN provided an indicator of which way you voted. As it stands, I'd say I probably get it right about 75% of the time, but who knows? It's impossible to tell if you've upvoted or downvoted a comment still; and especially on mobile, I bet I get it wrong pretty often.
Show HN: Effective Communication Workshop
> I don't participate in the robbing of convenience stores. Is that my problem to solve?

Well, sure, in general, our society has decided that is a problem that everyone is obligated to participate in solving (and the same is true of everything else that is deemed criminal, or to a lesser extent unlawful even if not criminal), hence the obligation to pay taxes to support police and courts, and the obligation to participate in the court system by way of jury service.
No, placing such restrictions makes it neither free nor open source. It'd be "shared source", perhaps.
That might be a strong advantage in its favor, though. Building a better version of a proven concept with similar usage/API's often gets more market uptake. Might get more use.
No it doesn't. The first study is relative to people in the past, the other study is relative to people in the present.
credit card trap site
> The cheapest method of recharge

Is not to use more water from underground than flows back.

The cheapest method of recharge in California is to start buying up farms and shutting them down.

California subsidized putting farms in the Central Valley; it can subsidize taking them back out.
"Evans plans to create an online recruiting process that will help him select applicants who fit into the community."

Gotta be careful of those discrimination laws.
Loading Animations #2: Twitter’s Heart Animation
From dictionary.com:

> 1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.

> 2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.

> 3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism, especially the freedom of the individual and governmental guarantees of individual rights and liberties.

> 4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, especially as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.

> 5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, especially with respect to matters of personal belief or expression:
a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.

> 6. of or relating to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies.

> 7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.

So I'm not sure that I see a valid basis for your complaint.
Unfortunately, it seems that the it broke the iOS client, Akepa . I'm sure other clients are also affected.
Parking spaces are not free. In city's they generally cost 3+ $ a day in upkeep and opportunity costs.

Also, collages accept students younger than 18 which are not adults and legally can't be treated as adults.
There was an official thread a week ago, asking for feedback (which was mostly positive): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10489499
Am 39, have same intuition. In 2nd grade we got Appl IIs. Was BBSing at 13, etc... Certainly not social-network version of the digitalrati though.

WTF is snapchat for? Get off my lawn.
These stories are becoming tiresome. "Millenials" did not invent living in a house with roommates, or coops, or boarding houses, or SROs, or any of the living arrangements that have existed for centuries that pre-date scumbags in San Francisco trying to charge foolish engineers $1,000 for a bunk.
FamousJS AppleTV Demo
Nope, nothing in the license prohibiting it. Seems more a case that they just haven't released the glue for it to run on multiple machines, but hope to have it added one way or another.
Blockchain Investment Company Coinsilium to Crowdfund IPO with Seedrs – BC News
InVenture | Data Analyst | Santa Monica, CA

Tackling the demand for instant and easy access to financial services around the globe is no easy task, but InVenture plans to solve the problem through a smart, data-driven platform. To achieve that goal, we need more like-minded individuals passionate about wrestling a large social challenge through analytics and experimentation. The Data Analyst will contribute directly to InVenture’s mission by verifying hypotheses and deep diving into business questions. These include:

RESPONSIBILITIES

Be constantly curious about data and offer evidence-based improvements to our platform
Ensure we capture and track new product changes to validate outcomes in performance
Communicate these findings in a clear and concise manner to our multi-country teams

REQUIREMENTS

Data Driven - you are an expert at creating hypotheses, using a methodological approach, quantifying the results, and obtaining actionable insights
Data Wizard - you are comfortable extracting and transforming data using a combination of SQL and R, Python, or an equivalent data analysis tool
BONUS POINTS

Knowledge of financial inclusion or leveraging mobile technology for social impact
Experience or familiarity with emerging markets such as Eastern Africa and Southeast Asia

WHY IT’S AWESOME TO WORK HERE!

A welcome, open, and collaborative environment close to the beach
Game nights, Lunch & Learn presentations, and company-sponsored events (ex. paddleboard yoga)
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
Competitive salary and equity
Our company works with you so you can continue to learn, grow and excel in your career

Please reach out to me to apply or learn more,
vinit@inventure.com
They have a lot of power over the medium of broadcast. They don't have much power at all over the rules of the game. Fans tend to revolt over such things.
Why Instagram’s ‘More Ways to Advertise’ Should Make It Even More Appealing
On uBeam's relative efficiency, from the article:

When the university’s engineers heard about uBeam’s approach to wireless charging a month ago, the concept sparked a discussion about a textbook exercise they teach their students, he added.

“There’s a problem in an acoustics textbook: How long would you have to yell at a cup of coffee to make it boil?” said Bailey. “It’s something like 10 years.”

Geesh!
Here you go:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thwarted/whatsthepassword/...
Ditto.

My pool skills are remarkably improved from my youth though.
If you think of the phrase "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" (ironic in this context, isn't it?) making someone lose their job is closer to the sticks and stones side.
New Material Makes It Easier to Store Lots of Natural Gas
> They seem to be okay with freedom of speech for themselves, but not for the freedom of speech that goes with a reaction.

The concept of freedom of speech exists to preserve people's ability to communicate and express ideas. The "reaction" you refer to is merely an attempt to control the behavior of others. They are not equivalent.
Thanks for the comment. Haven't thought it that way before. I'll update it a little bit to make it more obvious.
At which stage of the process?

If it's about getting initial interest at all, you want to do things that builds your brand or you can put on your resume. Write a blog, maintain a personal website, do side projects, etc.

If it's about getting past one of the screening stages, you'll want to focus more on soft skills. Voice coaches and voice therapists are a thing, and speaking in a likable way is extraordinarily under-emphasized. Similar things with body posture, confidence, and communication style in on-site interviews.

If you're getting a lot of "we like you, but not sure you're a good enough coder" then it's time to binge-solve problems in "Cracking the Coding Interview". The problems will help some with the last paragraph of issues to some extent as well.
The joke is right in the title folks. We all got it, no need to fill the comments with the same joke.
Ah, thanks! That makes more sense.
Actually, that looks like it's not run by github at all (github allows it's users to host static pages). Someone else made that and is hosting via github.io and then a 3rd person found this page and linked it using the JavaScript page.
I've often been thinking how an ideal living situation for me would be a commune-like collaboration between good friends - each (or each couple) having their own space, but in the same building so it's easy to meet, share chores, etc. Something like in the series Friends.

Definitely beats commuting for 30mins to another side of the city just to meet for a 2hour dinner.
> I pay tuition to go to the school, why do I have to pay to park there?

Because "parking a car on campus" and "receiving an education" are different and only tangentially related things; maintaining parking spaces for people who want to do the former is an expense that is not born in accommodating the people who do the latter without the former, so those who wish to do both should pay more than those who wish to only do the latter.
Some deeply nested conversations get the formatting hammer after a certain depth. A gentle slide to the right suddenly becomes 2" or more, with text jammed into half an inch of screen width.
Ah OK, fair enough.

Not sure what definition you're using for the category of tables, but I don't think the distinction between table and query is really that significant, at least from a theory point of view. You can declare views and materialized views. In some SQL dialects you can even define triggers which allow you to 'update' them, not that I would have thought mutability would be particularly nice to reason about in a category-theoretic framework.

If you really want to do theory on this stuff, just use the relational algebra, or better yet just plain first-order logic. Much nicer, you have all the products and coproducts you want, and the results can probably be re-applied to SQL with a bit of cludge-work :)
Creating a European Culture of Innovation
Seems kind of obvious. When you can set so many products equal to each other, what could each of the terms equal but one?

Misleading title. Someone ought to flag this.
How to Hire When Your Startup Is in Stealth Mode
Didn't someone try to run stats on this recently? Maybe it was the post that announced the same HN dataset was on BigQuery? I recall that some people weren't convinced by the accuracy of the sentiment analysis of the top comments though. I'll see if I can find it.

Edit: I think this[1] is it: "Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the crowd theory". Not quite what you were asking, but you might find it interesting.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412465
Fair enough. My use of "monopoly" is a poor articulation of what I'm trying to express. In all your comments you seem to be acting as an arbiter of logical correctness, which is good, but where do you actually stand on the notion of land as private property, philosophically and morally? If you favor it, is it as human right, as some libertarians argue, or just a pragmatic social contract? What is your reply to the essay I link to[1], or to Henry George?

--

[1] I agree with its critique of Royal Libertarianism, but not entirely with its prescription.
Nice, lol, hope TensorFlow didn't scoop any of your ideas too. ;) Overall, it's exciting to see data-flow paradigms gain popularity.

What kind of dataflow approach are you most interested in? I've been shifting my approach to work within existing systems. One things I've been doing is abusing the intent of web-components and DOM events to create data visualization tools.

Recently my team and I decided to focus down a little more. Have you had success in bridging the gap between esoteric academic papers and industry?
I imagine a future where instead of the DOM, everything is driven by WebGL with logic being in Web Assembly. So, basically... a standardized game engine, running across all platforms.

Almost feels like a throwback to the days of entirely flash-based websites......
On Windows Phone (I know, fringe audience, but I love it), I need to slightly adjust the zoom level on the comments view pages. The viewport is slightly narrower than the page's content, by about 15%.

But otherwise, and even with that small matter, it's a change that makes mobile use easier. Reading has always been fairly easy on mobile in my opinion, but clicking the right thing (e.g., the comments links) required either zooming or very careful aim. It's nice to not have that challenge any more.

I will echo the request for a bit more indentation for child comments. But I also understand the hesitation to add too much indentation given the narrow viewport.
Look you can describe anything with rules as long as they are specific enough. In the pathological case each word is its own rule, but English clearly has way more regularity than that, which explains why there is a seminal academic work describing English phonology with a set of rules.
Same problem here. You can see the same effect on desktop FF by narrowing your window.
Next step is to automate that on build...
Serious question: How does fluoride in the tap water help mineralize tooth enamel? Does it enter the body through drinking and then carried to the teeth via the bloodstream? Or is it somehow helpful for teeth by simply being present in the mouth when you drink tap water?
It's very strange that even the authors of the study are taking this headline position. If you go and look at the actual paper:

http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/09/10/194855061560...

You will see that 18-29 year old self-reported happiness is flat when compared with the last thirty years, off the post-1975 lows of 2005, but below the 1985 and 1990 measurements:

http://i.imgur.com/VXpYCy7.png

Older adult happiness, however, is breaking decidedly to the downside.

One can only conjecture why this research is being spun as "happier young people" rather than "less happy old people".
>And now that all the money is gone it doesn't work anymore.

There is more global wealth than at any point in human history, and it's still growing. A financial crisis and a decade of "economic stagnation" are nothing in the grand scheme of things.
#thatsthejoke

To give away the joke the password is the text "not secure", the old password was "something more secure", before that it was "pretty secure".
been like this for a week maybe. I thought this was going to be them fixing it.

'pparently not
Being young used to involve lots of boredom - technology has changed all that.

Being older used to mean having a career - the economy being in the toilet has changed all that.
>There is no need to programmatically determine which case it is.

Thank you for saying the dumbest thing I've heard all week. This conversation is over.
Size (sample size, that is) matters in closing deals
> One reason for this shift may be a collective rise in how well Americans expect their lives to go. Happiness is sometimes defined as reality divided by expectations

Is it really expectations rising, or reality falling? I think it's a combination. I know my expectations used to be sky high, and yea my younger years were optimistic. But reality still hit like a ton of bricks.

When I was in my late teens, I was relatively certain I'd be retired as a dot-com multi-millionaire in 10 years or so. Throughout my 20s, I thought, well all I need to do is work my ass off in a tech company and, even if I'm not retiring early, at least I'll be rocking an upper class lifestyle with a few vacation homes! Then, I reached 30 and thought, jeez, I hope my standard of living at least ends up a little better than my parents' one day. Now that I'm closing in on 40, I'm wondering if I'll even be able to afford to raise a kid let alone have anything left to retire with.
They do hurt you but they don't use a drill at first. I had a root canal done recently and the dentist briefly touched a piece of dry ice to my tooth. He did to a an undamaged tooth first, I guess to see if I could feel pain?
I don't think the decision of which roles are tipped (vs paid a piecework/wage) ever had any actual incentive-aligning logic behind it.

Super Duper Burgers, for example, has zero table service, and you're expected to bus your tray. They still have tip jars and a tip field on the credit card slip.

Convenience stores now have tip jars too.

Don't try to reason with it, just follow established practice as best you can.
> And I guess WhatsApp probably also used the same
> practice to grow their network

... how would that work? I've never seen WhatsApp offer to let me message someone who didn't have an account.
Kids are exposed to more information than before to keep them stimulated, but they are also guided down predetermined paths more than before.

Child-rearing has become more data-centric than ever. Parents naturally want to do what is best for their children, which means eliminating all the uncertainties, and sticking with winning formulas.

So while we pay lip-service to celebrating diversity, in reality we're actually going in the opposite direction towards convergence, and risk-aversion.

Kids are happy because they are constantly stimulated, and the guided rearing has led them to believe in certainty of future.

Unfortunately, there is now less 'slack' in the society and economy to accommodate serendipity. And that's what the grown-ups face in the real world.
Posthaven[1] (by the founders of Posterous), Svbtle[2] and Ghost[3] come to my mind.

[1] https://posthaven.com/

[2] https://svbtle.com/

[3] https://ghost.org/
The x in NOx is a variable, it can be one, it can be two.
Time signature changes or just tuples? There's a thing about 0:40 where the whole top part sort of ... aliases/wagonwheels back around. Seems to be a mostly 4/4 foot throughout mainly kept by that cymbal sounding thing in a backbeat manner.

PAGING CHAD WACKERMAN. Seriously.
Freedom of speech and expression can exist as a concept outside the limited bounds of codified law.
Someone's been reading Jalopnik today.
I personally believe people do not deserve to go to space yet.

They haven't mastered the ability to house, clothe, and feed the human family yet, despite having the technical ability to do so. As a result of this, you see the derivatives that exist today. Walk among Miami at night and you see homeless crackheads muttering to themselves while sipping on beer. The conditions that cause a person to do this would be probabilistically lower with a society that cares about one another more [designed-in] instead of fighting amongst each-other for paper slips.

If we absolutely need to go to space, we require research to determine the amount of materials needed to build this track length, and the renewability of those materials in reference to the earth. If this request for the materials meets a certain threshold, it will be dispensed, otherwise, the remaining materials can be reserved for further research to create synthetic alternatives. It helps to have a global database of known resources and their reserves, in fact, it might be a crucial requirement.

Imagine culling redis for this information, it sends a request to the global cybernetic hub, and it permits or denies the request, along with the terminal node you requested it to be sent to...

example: I request 13 Ounces of Gold (AU) at terminal #324-214-495-2341 to perform an experiment. (Since gold is currently in enough abundance for my request it is sent to my terminal as soon as technically possible, and any of the resource I do not use or can scrap back to the global hub, is done so)
Go to bustbuy.com > TV section. Tell me 4K is irrelevant after you view the content of the front page. Yes, minimal content, but youtube has lots of free content. 2016 is less than two months out.
It amazes some people when I tell them I had my wisdom teeth removed with only the local anesthetic, and managed the pain for the next few days with over the counter painkillers. It actually wasn't that bad. I had more pain from the braces I wore half a decade before.

Of course, my case was totally routine. Your mileage may vary.
Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program
> An unconstrained `join` is indeed the product of two queries, and a `union all` can be used to get their sum as well. This is in the query language. But what I need is sums and products in the table language.

The "table" language of SQL (DDL) includes pretty much the the entirety of the "query" language (DQL) through view definitions.

Of course, to do what you would really want to do to use relations to implement product and sum types, you needed materialized views with appropriate unique indexes for the candidate keys (and, ideally, auto-deriving the keys for product/sum tables from those of the base tables -- for product tables you can just concatenate the keys of the base tables, for sum tables you need the keys from the base tables to be equivalent and then to have an additional column that uniquely maps to the source table.)
Why Superstitions Are Hard to Shake
Well, you're definitely right about that. But it's worth keeping in mind that vigilantism is much more likely when the state (or equivalent organization, such as the university in question) declines to enforce order.
'Are you now or have you ever been overheard joking about dongles?'
This seems related to "crash-only software" by the same authors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software

How do those ideas compare, or are they the same?
As someone who works in the web space, albeit on the back-end, can anyone explain why a project like this is desired over a better language / run-time?
Sure, but in that conceptual form they're not laws. The original comment seemed pretty confident about some law that was being violated, so I wanted to know which one it was.
With [the absolutely fantastic] Paywave / Paypass now just about completely ubiquitous here in Australia, and supported by a good few smart phones to boot, why on earth would we want Apple Pay? They've truly missed the boat here.