skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HN traditionally had a "Don't downvote people solely because you disagree with them" policy.

You are confusing HN with Reddit. HN never had such a policy, nor any, for that matter.

pg specifically said before handing over the site that he didn't mind downvoting to disagree. I have seen no movement from new leadership on this; in fact, new leadership have doubled down on some of pg's worse calls. With the graying out of comments added in to the downvote encouragement, effectively that situation encourages you to only offer uncontroversial opinion lest your thoughts become invisible and silenced. It's not a heavy thought exercise to see where allegations of groupthink come from.

That, along with the fact that my account was marked as an instantly-penalized troublemaker at some point and I only found out by emailing many months later even though my email was in my profile all along, is one of the reasons I no longer contribute here. That was a startling discovery, that individuals get marked as troublemakers based upon the opinion of a moderator and, in my case, a single comment. Think about that for a second, and think about all the comments you've ever made, and the fact that HN usernames are part of the YC application process. A lot clicked for me once I stepped back and thought about it.

As I said, don't confuse HN with Reddit. The leadership of Hacker News has a large amount of zeal and actively steers conversation toward arbitrary positivity and civility, including moderation decisions you would find questionable anywhere else. Before appealing to decency and policy when a comment gets downvotes as you have, just remember that. The irony is that HN loves to mock Reddit, but in many ways it is three times the community HN is.

And please don't complain about downvotes. That is specifically discussed here.
Very thoroughly agreed. It sounds like we need more rules about arbitration; there are rights that you shouldn't be at liberty to sign away.
I honestly don't get the hate toward header files. They're not great, but are they really that bad?
Solar panels + batteries will have an enormous impact in a lot of countries. Once ppl buy a stove it is 'free' to use vs having to buy fuel every time (like pellets or ethanol).
Will take 10-15 years but it is coming. Combine this with satellite internet and the living standard will radically increase.
This assumes your shares are worth more than your exercise price. :)

In order to get long-term capital gain treatment you will need to hold the shares for 1 year + 1 day. And more than 2 years from the grant date (this part usually isn't an issue).

By exercising every month after the 1 year cliff you essentially dollar-cost averaging your purchases. You might also want to use a similar strategy when it comes time to sell.

Also keep in mind that the long term capital gain rate is currently 20% plus 3.8% net investment income tax. (Again this if federal only).
I can't wait to see the number of pull requests to their repositories for all the bugs/features people are demanding!
This comment made me think of the Japanese kamado or the traditional Russian stove, but see this discussion of the Lorena adobe stove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_stove#Lorena_adobe_stove

One problem is that ceramic stoves with a large thermal mass may take a lot more fuel to fire. In colder northern regions with plentiful fuel, the high thermal mass is an advantage because it can help keep the house warm. But in a tropical setting, open indoor fires may be more efficient at quickly heating food, especially when deforestation is a problem.
Unfortunately when I used Redphone previously the call quality is pretty bad. The volume of the call would get screwed up and I know it's not to do with the signals (lol) because I would hang up and call the person back without redphone and it would work perfectly.
So basically, you're screwed because the fox is guarding the henhouse.

This is one place where ubiquitous surveillance can be a good thing - police cameras (body cams, dash cams, and police station cams) should be unalterable (with footage signed by a neutral 3rd party with civilian oversight) and non-disablable, if a police camera is turned off or is blocked, it should send out an "officer assistance" signal by radio, and courts should view police actions skeptically when they happen outside of camera view.

Release of footage can still be governed by the courts to protect suspect privacy, but there's no reason that a police officer's official actions should be kept from the public.
3 Reasons for Bitcoin's Current Price Rally
Natural laser discovered in space (1995)
Looks very similar to https://waffle.io/
Netflix CEO - then order up more than the measly 10 shows per season of Trailer Park Boys. Episodes...let's go.
Unfortunately, it is in many developer job interviews.
So, if you're looking at .gov as a service provider, why give it a monopoly on providing those services if that makes its users dependent on it? Roads may be a little tricky, of course, but some services like US Mail could surely do with a few competitors to bring prices down and service up.
Translation: Our business is failing and we're completely clueless about what to do but we want to look like we're trying so uh here's a new icon.
I agree, the battery life is shockingly poor. I blame touchwiz as much as anything else. I would take a slightly thicker phone for a battery that consistently lasts all day.
Being moody may help us adapt to change
I like Armadillo. As a child between the ages of 5-8 my family would drive through the woods and if we saw an armadillo we would try to catch it. If you managed to catch it you got a dollar. Brightplay, on the other hand, means nothing to me.
I expected to see a picture of Al Gore.
Sure you can do that, but strcspn only found the newline, it didn't delete it. After all, you can also do

foo[strlen(foo)-1] = 0;

But I don't think anyone would say strlen modifies the string.
Good question. I'm going to continue to use sunrise until bit rot renders the app unusable. Really going to miss the "find a time that works for both of us" keyboard.
And TurboTax spends a lot of money on lobbying [1] and advertising [2] to ensure that, first, it doesn't get any easier to file directly with the government, and second, that consumers think "TurboTax" when they think about tax software. The last sentence of your comment is exactly what Intuit wants to engineer.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-these-taxpr...

[2] http://adage.com/article/special-report-super-bowl/turbotax-...
The ads themselves aren't important so much as the fact that they air during the Super Bowl, one of the most effective and expensive ways to make sure millions of people see your message.
Senior research scientist? So, a forgetful research scientist?
I was skeptical going in for "Orange is the new Black", but damn...I haven't binged watched like that in a long time...
Maybe it would be a good idea to try building a working electrical grid that can deliver power to rural areas before trying your hand at a nuclear power plant?
> One day, there may be graduate degrees and definite career paths to product management, but not today.

What he has described is a multi disciplinary generalist with knowledge of each business sector and training in how to manage organizational goals and people. There is actually a current post graduate degree for that exact task - the MBA.
Read: it's not ifdefs, it's shiny UI wrapped around them! All well and good (I appreciate a good UI), but certainly not "new."
It seems like the easiest way to not lie is to not talk. YMMV.
> I will never forget the day I mentioned to another mother my concern about lack of empathy and kindness among the students, and she told me: “That’s not the school’s job.”

Is there nothing left that parents are meant to teach? Or is it all now the school's job? If so, why don't we go full Spartan and take the kids away from the parents right after they're born and have schools teach everything.
Ah, that makes sense. I think the step where you end up reviewing the reply it composed would prevent most of that.
What did mods say when you email them?
Macros: Defining Your Own (2005)
While we're on the subject, can somebody explain the behavioral difference between a star (or heart, whatever) and a retweet? They seem to have nearly the exact same effect
The golden rule of Christianity (and the primary tenet of the New Testament) is "love your neighbor as you love thyself". Perhaps you can explain why the above is not a good moral compass.
That's all fine and good if you're in the US. But this article is not about that. From the article:

> They [FBI] denied his requests for access to a phone so that he could contact a lawyer and, he says, frequently threatened him with torture and told him that he would “disappear” if he didn’t cooperate.

When faced with a threat of torture, the "do not talk to the FBI without a lawyer" idea quickly disappears.
I recently signed up for a new credit card and was really disappointed to find out that if I wanted to use the card, I'd have to submit to arbitration and forgo my rights to a proper American trial.

I'm not against arbitration; speaking to this article specifically, the apostle Paul directs Christians to resolve their differences without going to non-Christian courts. There's nothing inherently wrong with the concept.

But in either case, it'd be nice to have some sort of a provision that allows for escalation to a court if you can't get things resolved in arbitration. That's my concern with the credit card I just signed up for; I feel like the company is setting the rules in a way that stacks the deck against me, and if I get slighted I'd have no recourse.

I would find it difficult to imagine Paul, the Roman citizen who appealed to Caesar himself, wanting to shut people out of certain aspects of the legal system entirely.
I tried following good people on Twitter. Even some of the popular users on here, or other highly intelligent and respected people. I cannot think of anyone better to follow.

I can't do it. There's so, so much shit. It's a constant storm of random "news" plus attempts at being clever. Retweets amplify this significantly.

And then Twitter's web UI make the entire thing unusable. Click an image? Lose your place in a stream. It's an embarrassingly bad UI that seems designed to toss me to locations that are anything but where I was reading.
I am back to the standard iOS Calendar. Don't really love it. I hear Outlook is actually pretty good.
I don't think that everything of RoboVM could be closed source, since you are doing the same things just for another platform, that google did and got sued by oracle.
I understand why it might seem creepy, at least until you get used to it. But surely you knew that Google's computers were already reading all mail sent to your gmail account. They filter and check for malware and spam based partly on content, and even serve related advertising in the gmail interface (do they still do this?).
> You can't know if your itemized deductions will exceed the standard deduction

Yes I could, because I had a rough reckon of what my deductions would have been and knew I didn't have to bother.
Was looking at a new diesel but will maybe go for the GTE hybrid instead. The Passat GTE the only full size hybrid wagon that I know of(?) and it's very reasonably priced at around $5-10k over the non-hybrid.
No you cannot, it is not part of the email protocol.

Once it is sent, it is gone.

I always have fun with those "Please delete messages" from Outlook sent to my email client.
Well, he had the grace to accept responsibility and resign, even though it seems to have been purely his wife's initiative, so in the end the affair only increased the Israeli public's faith in his integrity.
Reminds me of http://thenewstack.io
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Since I started freelancing about a year ago, this HN hiring thread is where most of my projects come from. It's been great working with you all, and I'm looking forward to hearing from new projects as well. :)
There is an actual physics reason for this.

Chimney's work because a column of hot air rises which sucks in more air. When building a fire they take a while to work because there filled with cold air and they remove the smoke's heat. Which is why it's easy to fill a room with smoke when starting a fire. In cold areas where you generally keep a stove running most of the day and produce significant heat this works really well. In hot places where your trying to use the smallest fire possible they don't work very well.

Further, they generally work better the taller they are which gets expensive. Ideally you want several vertical feet between the entrance and exit. Though there are ways to shortcut this, such as the blower over many stoves in the US.

PS: A solar powered exhaust fan could help, but IMO building an actual electric grid is probably better than a long list of solar powered devices. And at high density's your just exchanging smoky air with all your neighbors which has limited value.
The institutionalized perversion of all kinds of things is not something new. This hardly only applies to religion.

Your point is a tautology (people can corrupt institutions). Or were you trying to say something we don't already know?
Reminds me of RFK's 1968 trip to Appalachia while the Apollo program was underway.
The Christian version of this is new. Previously, using US law to make decisions of religious courts binding has mostly been a Jewish and, to a small extent, Islamic thing. There are Jewish courts (Beth Din) in many US states.[1] They do both commercial and family law arbitrations. The commercial side is generally well thought of, but the family law side is iffy, because Jewish family law explicitly favors the husband and keeping children in the Jewish community.

There have been attempts to set up Sharia courts in the US, but there's much opposition.[2] Sharia family law also explicitly favors the husband.

[1] http://www.nylslawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/201...
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/sharia-law-usa-stat...
Doing it with a low false positive rate (so that you can enable it for everyone without being annoying) is much harder.

Also, Gmail has lots of users who speak languages other than English... has anyone tested whether the forgotten attachment detector works for them too?
His article on chlorine trifluoride was an absolute classic as well, and some of his articles make me very glad I don't live anywhere near Dr. Klapötke's lab.

The FOOF article pointed out one other nasty problem, namely, how easy it is to game search systems:

"But I do note that if you run the structure through SciFinder, it comes out with a most unexpected icon that indicates a commercial supplier. That would be the Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don’t think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this – ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves ’em right. Morons."

Given how often I come across spammy search results in Google, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.
Thunderbird does this as well.
LuaJIT interpreter beats V8's JIT compiler
Link to all content on one page: http://www.anandtech.com/print/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-...
There was some concern that the rate of radioactive decay was altered based on the Earth-Sun distance, but that's been disproven: http://phys.org/news/2014-10-textbook-knowledge-reconfirmed-...

I wonder if this variation in G is similar.
At last full NSA support, I've been waiting for this for ages. Really getting tired of having to open my firewall and give them an SSH login.
Meanwhile, Twitter change their favourites from stars to hearts.
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You could also do something like googlebombing. Have lots of people send each other the same question, and all of them reply with the same/similar response.
Couldn't cut it, dropped out, parents wrote sour-grapes article, the system works.
The problem I've always had when "job guarantees" come up is what about those that can't work? Be it from disability, age, or something else. Would we also need a separate welfare system in place for these people? If so why not just have one system like basic income that provides for everyone.

The other problem I have is that these are most likely to be busy work jobs. With something like basic income you could spend your time doing whatever you want. Anything from nothing, to art, to working for a company.

I don't know if basic income has any major downsides (I'm not an economist by any means), but to me guaranteed jobs seem like a worse alternative.
> "Gmail telling you when it thinks you wanted to attach a file but forgot".

Sure, if you use the word thinks. If you instead say "if msg.Contains "attach" then warn" it's not that impressive.

The feature in the article is a bit more than a single if.
I had a chance to add the first few annotations. Happy to answer questions on the paper as best I can.
Create an Apple TV Poster Parallax Effect in CSS3 and JQuery
I had hoped AgileBits would step up their Windows offerings.

I've recently bought the "real Windows application", since the Universal App doesn't allow to enter new logins (really?), only view existing ones.

Unfortunately, KeePass was much more useful with its Alt-A shortcut. In 1Password I need to manually copy login data from the application, since I'm using Edge and there's obviously no plugin, yet (Edge's fault).

Oh, and syncing must be a bad joke. Lots and lots of sync options, but the only one working across all platforms (iOS, Windows Phone and Windows are the ones relevant to me) is Dropbox. No OneDrive, no WLAN sync.

And don't get me started on vault management. I was using a non-synced vault without realizing it for weeks, and then I was pulling my hair out trying to sync the correct one. I finally only managed to do that by completely removing the Windows Phone app and starting from scratch.

At least they are moving everything to opvault. It was fun trying to get everything to sync, only to find out that the default vault format "agilekeychain" cannot be synced to Windows phone (or was it Windows desktop? I'm not sure).
Hopefully I'm not the only person who spent a good 10 seconds staring at this heart/circle/play-icon hybrid thinking it was supposed to be the new icon being unveiled:

http://i.imgur.com/pKCfDmj.png
I have not read the entire series so I may be misnifored or speaking to other topics covered in the series, but I think many if not the majority of contracts are signed between parties with power asymmetry. One party write a standard contract in a way that mitigates their risk in order to provide a service and another party signs the contract to recieve the service with understanding that the benefits are worth the risk of dealing with an entity that has significantly more power then they do. I could argue the person was misniformed and mislead into signing an agreement with a relgious organization and should be free from the contract... but I could make the same argument for student loans, credit cards, mortgages, etc.

I can see value, and certainly abuse, in people agreeing to allow their religious organizations to arbitrate civil disputes... it would seem that people should be allowed to make the choice and suffer the consequences if the agreement is within the established law.
It seems like the optimal learning environment is one where you are

a) being taught at the speed and level that is at least in the ballpark of your potential. The reason this is needed is obvious: if you are being taught way beyond your capability you won't learn anything, and it's a disservice to be taught way below your capability as well.

b) in the top 50% of your local group of students, for self esteem reasons and also because you'll start to feel like studying and working hard pays off if you seem to be successful in school relative to your peers.

There's a real tradeoff between these two sometimes. Given two identical kids, if you send one to the school that is not up to his "gifted" potential but he is the smartest kid in his class he may well do better in the end than the one you send to a gifted school but he is obviously at the bottom of his class. The first will certainly be happier and perhaps learn the life lessons and habits that will make him super successful in high school, college and beyond.

We can at least start to address a) with these gifted programs and special education for the exceptionally challenged and so on. But addressing b) is also important and the laws of statistics sort of prevent us dividing kids into groups where everyone is above average for their group. In theoretical terms I can envision some sort of frequent rotation system where you're constantly shuffled from class to class so that one week you're top of your class and another you're bottom. Perhaps that would even help illustrate to kids the extremely hard to learn lesson that judging yourself against others is fruitless and destructive.
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Sounds like bunk! Religion has pre-historic origin, it is older than agriculture and hence older than aristocracy as a class. Pre-christian rulers did have interest in how commoners worshiped - for example the Romans (though otherwise tolerant of various religious beliefs) insisted that all citizens took part in the emperor cult, which lead to problems for the first Christians. The rule of law is certainly older than Gutenberg - for example the pre-christian Icelanders held public recitals of the laws, so literacy was not required for laws to be public knowledge.
Depends where the company is being naughty.
I didn't (nor have such rights nor intention).
Also, valid question imo.
Btw, tested it [old version] locally with a single change - set pool size to 256 (similar to other frameworks).
Result: ~10x performance boost
I really like this feature! Whats your vision?
That the literal translations of the word 'signal'. At least in Germany that is not used for talking about a phone signal. It's 'empfang' (reception) instead. I am sure other languages differ as well?
Dear fermatslibrary,

Every time I try to read an annotated paper on your site, I spent a full minute clicking the left margin and the paper, back and forth, trying to get a single view that shows all the annotations.

My monitor is huge and I like to read a whole document, top to bottom, by click-holding my scroll bar once and dragging (up and down) until I am done.