skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On September 21, 1985, Hiroo Tominaga, a Japan Air Lines maintenance supervisor, committed suicide following the crash of JAL Flight 123. The plane had crashed due to maintenance errors, killing 520 people. He left a note, ''I am atoning with my death.'' The CEO of Japan Air lines, Yasumoto Takagi, resigned, after personally delivering apologies to the families of each victim.

That is a proper apology.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/22/world/jal-official-dies-ap...
Burglary is absolutely a violent crime. Busting into someone's home is a violation and crosses a serious line.
There will be harmony among the engineers as soon as we all agree on the best text editor.
https://xkcd.com/1608/wizard-hat.png
Challengers vow to publish Anne Frank diaries
Kevin Epps' "Straight Outta Hunter's Point"[1] is a great watch on this topic.

1.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369993/
That was added in Windows 8.

I disagree that it isn't an inherently bad idea.
might want to checkout lombok. https://projectlombok.org/
Which is a reasonable approach--although it may or may not be the best one from a PR perspective.
Artificial Intelligence versus Mission Command
The Center for Open Science (COS) has developed tools to help this, the Open Science framework (OSF) [1]. COS hopes that the OSF will be useful and gently nudge users towards sharing data/preregistering/"open science" and gently nudge users to "open science".

Right now, the OSF provides version control, file management and some integration with other services.

[1]:https://osf.io
I'm glad you posted this. Even the 10ms rule of thumb is...well, not always true either!

FWIW, if you are playing virtual drums, drummers need something like under 2ms response time; even 10ms can be easily felt by a drummer and cause their timing to get way off!

On top of that, if you are doing, say, a real-time effect on a vocal track, even a tiny sub 1ms delay causes a weird reverb effect in her monitor vs. the singer hearing herself, which will cause your singer's singing to get out of sync!
It doesn't sound like you're actually sorry that they were offended in these circumstances, either, so "I'm sorry if you were offended" is still apologising for something you're not really sorry about, and poorly at that. Leaving aside the question of whether you should be sorry since that's too situational to discuss in generalities, if you're going to pretend you might as well pretend well, I'd say.
Using Emoji Skin-Tone Modifiers in Swift
Very interesting. Also not the first of its kind. BlueSpec[0] is a RTL hardware design language in Haskell.

I am confused because this, on the other hand, doesn't appear to be sponsored by a company or university. It strikes me as pretty odd that an individual could do this on his/her own.

[0] http://www.bluespec.com/
Another very interesting async design is GreenArrays GA144:
"This very powerful and versatile chip consists of an 18x8 array of architecturally identical, independent, complete F18A computers, or nodes, each of which operates asynchronously. Each computer is capable of performing a basic ALU instruction in ~1.5 nanoseconds for an energy cost on the order of 7 picojoules".
Programmed in Forth.
http://www.greenarraychips.com/index.html
Personally I'm most excited about Swift for general purpose development, including desktop, embedded and scientific programming.

It's one of very few languages that can challenge C++ as a systems language, due to efficiency and lack of garbage collection.
I'm judging by the number of downvotes my post had. Don't get too excite. Welcome and enjoy your stay. ;)
I was hoping this was more like gofmt, but this looks neat, too.
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The discrete, uniform nature is obvious in the rule of computation:

Σ P(E)

Each "unit" of the computation is weighted equally (though, the value of the units may differ).
The quantum part simply allows perfect distribution of keys. So person A can tell person B what key to use, and person B can know with certainty that nobody else saw it. Then they just use regular encryption.
I, personally, think people realize that tech companies are more than just the technology (obviously that is important, but it's not like the tech just appears one day). They are about the people who built it, the struggles and the triumphs and everything in between. It's really an interesting world to be part of and there is something for everyone to learn. I really love reading (and hearing) stuff like this! Having made a similar career shift as JL, I really admire her :)I read the essay that PG wrote about her earlier this month almost daily because it reminds me what I'm doing here, too :)
> Nowhere do sponsors actively set the agenda for an academic conference.

Agenda is one thing but that's not what either article is claiming?

It's extremely common (the rule, not the exception) for sponsors to suggest and directly invite people to conferences (and at least in those published emails there doesn't appear to be any suggestions for speakers, just attendees).
Modern system-on-chip designs don't really use a global clock anyway. It's more just local synchronous islands which communicate over asynchronous interfaces - i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_asynchronous_locally_...
absolutely. i would not be willing to pay, but i would be happy to donate in the interests of keeping the news both high-quality and free for anyone to read sans ads.
You have it backwards. The farmed has been found to have higher mercury content.
I don't know if anyone ever reads those e-mail addresses or if they just go to a big database, but this time it was enough and instead of an e-mail, I wrote a very short opinion piece on this practice of modern beggary.
Float-based grids like Bootstrap have a lot of problems. If you can restrict yourself to IE10+, which is pretty reasonable for a lot of sites these days, you can use flexbox and save yourself a lot of suffering.

Looks like the next version of Bootstrap will have an opt-in flexbox grid too.
I think the grandparent was going overboard in his description. I was just trying to say they aren't far from it!
Hahahaha, one of my co workers belched next to me in the office. I told him that was gross. He angrily scowled, "I'm sorry you were offended."

I love defensive people. /s
> "one weird trick"

Reading this, I couldn't help but think "Maintain correct time in orbit by using this one weird trick discovered by a patent clerk. Click to find out how!"... :)
Plus their team is awesome ^_^ It's always a pleasure working with them and their community!
they do the fluffy content to support the reputable content. having that as an explicit business model has actually helped them structure and retain the dividing line very nicely, as opposed to newspapers who have tried to make their content more and more clickbaity in order to vie for readers' attention, but have not formulated an explicit two-bin policy for themselves.
Tango chat app unicorn lays off 9% of staff
It's very difficult to get to the cutting edge of a field without learning from (or with) other people in that field.
Where once logical criteria between science and non-science (or pseudo-science) were sought and taken seriously—Karl Popper’s criterion of “falsifiability” was perhaps the most famous, insisting that a sound theory could, in principle, be proved wrong by one test or another—many historians and philosophers of science have come to think that this is a naïve view of how the scientific enterprise actually works. They see a muddle of coercion, old magical ideas, occasional experiment, hushed-up failures—all coming together in a social practice that gets results but rarely follows a definable logic.

Ugh, that "many historians or philosophers of science" comes off as the "informed sources" that conspiracy theorists claim have evidence of chemtrails or the reptilian brotherhood. Who exactly are these people and what is precisely their argument? In my opinion, this is the single greatest thing that distinguishes science from other fields, it is inductive reasoning[0] taken to an extreme. Therefore, if anyone has reason to doubt Popper's criterion, then that should be of heavy focus in the article. The author is almost guilty of "argument by inaccessible literature"[1] for what I would think is the most important part of his argument.

However, he does make an important point. Science is a human endeavour, and given that, it has issues that human institutions have. However, assuming uniformity of cognitive biases across both scientists and magicians[2], this just puts them on equal footing, while scientists have their experimental criterion, which then puts them ahead of magicians anyway.

With regards to the entanglement saga, I think the reason no one heard about it is much more mundane...there simply was no way to test it until Bell's inequality, so scientists didn't think about it. So yes, "just ignore it" was the solution because without a testable hypothesis, and may be some interesting math, scientists just don't pursue it. In that way, science might suffer due it being performed by human scientists who do have moods, but once experiment entered the picture, boy did the field blow up! I don't think it had much to do with changing attitudes as much as it came with the ability to test Bell's inequality. The same could be said about GR, with the current advances in numeric GR in the last decade spurring interest in it. It is because our moods change, but I think it has a lot more to do with the feasibility of advancement in a field that it does with external influences like the internet or cultural changes.

There are many other interesting problems with established physics, like Godel's metric[3], but, as you guessed it, you don't hear about it because there is no experimental evidence of it, so physicists look elsewhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning

[1] http://staffhome.ecm.uwa.edu.au/~00043886/humour/invalid.pro...

[2] (which is a scientifically testable hypothesis! but I am unqualified to give evidence for it either way

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel_metric
I believe IQ is actually logrythmically distributed.
What about reparations for the victim of the theft?
Software is far from 100% trustworthy. With the current state of art we cannot be certain that any software is secure, hack-proof and provable correct under all operating conditions.

A self-driving car is a canonical example of lots of software, sensors and actuators working seamlessly and robustly at all times.

The recent issues with VW, Jeep, Toyota clearly demonstrates that car manufacturers can't even get human controlled cars to be 100% trustworthy. What chance is there that they'll be any better with a self-driving car?
> No mention of executive salaries

From the article you linked: "Overhead costs, including executive salaries along with security and compliance expenses, also account for about 20% of the costs."

I'm not saying that the marginal cost of maintaining an additional account is zero. I'm just saying it's closer to zero than it is to $349/year.
The media is basically to blame for the pervasive myth that there exists some magic science box you just crank long enough to pop out "correct universal truths."

Scientists very rarely use the end-all-be-all language of the news reports. I still hear people saying that the accelerating universe (a nobel prize discovery) is 'quite probable' not 'didn't you know, we solved that, stop thinking about it.'

There are whole branches devoted to disproving big bang cosmology. Are they right? Probably not, but their presence and arguments are extremely valuable. Disagreement is the founding, basic principle of science! It's what separates scientific faith from religious faith. Seeing scientists argue and debate each other in a public forum is the best possible evidence that the process is in fact working properly.
Are there not managers looking for cover that don’t care about prestige? I can understand the need for cover when making controversial decisions, but not why it needs to be expensive.
As the article addresses, if the boundary between science and non-science is fuzzy, then in a way it ironically mirrors the uncertainty so intrinsic to development of quantum theory itself and echoed across the broader landscape of disciplines.

Hardly a surprise that human activity, even one as exalted as real science, reflects human nature which is a subset of all nature. What science has taught and made us so much more aware of, is how much uncertainty is a central, inescapable feature of the human condition, yet it is the fact of life we resist most strongly.

So it's unsurprising scientists (and the progress of science) have often stumbled on the merely human side of things, we are social creatures, and such attributes are not removed just because we are "doing science", much less when individuals become celebrities on account of it.

Seems to me the essence of the scientific approach is the willingness to say "I don't know" when we don't know, and to own up to mistakes or wrong conclusions when conclusions turn out to be incomplete or misguided. Well maybe it would be better not to be so firm about conclusions anyway, as the article points out, history has shown that whatever we regard as "facts" at a particular time are at best temporary rest stops on the path of increasing knowledge.
With the recent problems with VW, Jeep, Toyota, Fiat, et al. I'd say the level of public trust is at rock bottom.
If I understand it properly, asynchronous circuits also work at the slowest speed required, thus minimizing power usage. They are really fast when there is something to do, and they stop completely when there is nothing to do. Thus the "sleep mode" should be ludicrously low power, just the leakage current of the transistors: some nA for each gate.
I can explain that color and wavelength are the same thing, which makes me suspicious of the rest of it.
I just love to hear Jessica's excitement for each of the Y Combinator startups. It's more than that. These founders are her people.

I did find myself giggling hearing her pronounce some of the fun company names like "WuFoo".
This would be an argument against apologizing for mistakes that aren't your own, which IME comes across as a sign of insecurity and low self-esteem.
I hope you're not suggesting committing suicide is a proper way to apologise.
But how to say in a polite and effective way, "you're behaving irrationally, the offence is something you created for yourself; I feel bad that you're feeling bad now, but I did nothing I should be apologizing for"?

I sometimes find myself tempted to use a non-apology like "I'm sorry if I offended you" in order to short-circuit the irrational anger in the other person quickly, so that we can get to the point of actually figuring out what I've said that triggered the problem and how their reaction was wrong, and what's the deeper issue underneath.
The Air France crash over the Atlantic demonstrates exactly why auto-pilots are far from ideal. The plane got into a situation which was outside of the auto-pilot's envelope of operations. It gave control back to the pilots who were jarred by the sudden reversion to manual control, panicked and did one wrong after another.

Trains and elevators are different - they run on tracks/guides and do not have any unforeseeable obstacles, operating conditions thrown at them. Furthermore, there are several mechanical safety interlocks that will stop any out of control situations. Planes and cars have to operate under conditions with far more uncontrollable variables.
Does asymmetric key exchange handle this problem, or am I missing some attack vector?
This sounds more like an argument to discredit all academics.

Someone is funding them all...right?
Any cable you have to wrap it the way it wants to go, any forcing of flexible wire will always cause damage. That is the nature of wire until we create an improved technology. This is not just computer cords, it is ALL cable, from power supply for concerts to the home depot cords (even the most expensive). You can manufacture to allow prolonged life, but expect a heavy/hard user who wants to not take care of the cable, and expects it just to just last will be the first to fail. If you believe otherwise, the cable business needs your help in creating the technology.
I read this with an eye out for what electronic surveillance they did but it doesn't seem like there is anything documented here that is too outrageous.
They want you to use the app ... for both publishing and consumption.
I think the societies that are culturally willing to embrace self-driving cars are the ones that already have better solutions. I'm talking about the downtowns of major cities, Silicon Valley, university districts, etc. In most cases bicycles, light rail, or buses are already being used and are more efficient than a million people riding alone in self-driving cars. If anything, these are the places that might ban private car ownership as population density increases.

On the other hand, no self-respecting country boy is going to want to give up the freedom and independence that he gets from driving his own vehicle. Separating yourself from the herd is a value proposition, and self-driving cars can't compete with it.

What's left?

1. In some cases suburbanites might use self-driving cars to get from the suburbs to the edge of the car-free downtown zone. It's possible the technology would work for them, but, do any of them perceive an unmet need? Is there anybody out there really frustrated by having to look at the road during their commute? I would think there's a lot more incentive to find ways to shorten the commute, than to simply make it hands free.

2. Interstate trucking is a possible use case, if people would tolerate it. You'd need a plurality of states to get on board with the idea of a very potentially deadly machine going on autopilot, and you'd need to sort out who's liable when people are killed by it. And you need to figure out the "last mile" -- who drives the truck after it takes the exit off the highway. There's a real shortage of truck drivers in the world, so this is probably the one market where there's a commercial incentive to develop the tech, though.
Right, but the conditions being ripe for a Naploean still requires Napolean. Saying that "the time was such that someone like so and so HAD to rise up" is meaningless. Nothing HAS to happen, in the realms of human behavior. People may be likely to do something, or the potential to do a great thing might be more potent at one point in time than another, but that potency still requires an efficient cause to become real. People with vision and talent and will can, and do, and have been changing the world.

If you're interested in a smarter man than me going on about this idea, I suggest you read the Foundation series by Issac Asimov.
I don't know how people interpret the word "sorry" here, but for me "I'm sorry" means I feel bad about something and I don't want to do it again. Therefore I can honestly say "I'm sorry you're offended", or "I'm sorry if I offended you", by which I mean "if you were offended by what I said then I feel bad about you experiencing negative emotions; I don't want to say things that make you feel bad; but that doesn't change the fact that your outrage is ridiculous and completely irrational and totally your fault, so calm the fuck down for five seconds and let us resolve it". I am sorry for how they feel. I am not sorry for what I said.
> I'm not going to apologize for something I'm really not
> sorry about.

In this circumstance, it may be better not to apologize at all. "I'm not sorry" is at least sincere, relative to the typical nose-thumbing pseudo-apologies.
Which make me to check and... a TI-89 is still over $100.
Definitely! I don't have the breadth of experience or data to really judge how it compares from CS to other fields.
Capturing 5xx Errors with a Debug Server
You may be interested in newslines I made of Paul Graham, Sam Altman and Jessica Livingston. http://newslines.org/paul-graham/ http://newslines.org/jessica-livingston/ http://newslines.org/sam-altman/
You're too cynical. People who are skilled enough don't have to prostitute themselves as brand sponsors.
"I'm sorry I offended you" is a perfectly reasonable way to express "I feel bad that you're feeling bad now."

I personally don't understand why you'd feel bad about how another person feels as a result of something you've said, but not feel that you should apologize. To me, the two go hand in hand. It's not about "should," it's not about right and wrong, it's simply about expressing the sentiment that you regret what happened as a result of your actions.

Even if you said something totally innocent like "I like apples" and somebody got offended at that because they're crazy, you can still sincerely apologize for that if you actually care that they feel bad.

And of course you don't have to care that they feel bad. In many cases not caring would be a perfectly reasonable response. In which case, don't lie by saying sorry.
It's normal. Actually the part mentioned that wraps around the power supply is not only a heatsink but also a shield for reducing radiated noise. PSU like this are very noisy and without (a.o.) this shield it may not be possible to get it approbated. The shield has transparent plastic foil beneath it to act as an insulator (barely visible on the first photo, but on the picture with the shield removed it's clearly visible). The usage of yellow tape is perfectly normal.
Agreed, but that's often the case with large legacy projects. I'm slowly pushing them to more modern approaches.
"pest tag", the most useful thing since the sliced bread. Justifying all our destroying ecosystems dreams since the dodo, moa and tasmanian tiger.

Buy now the "pest tag" argument and take to your home also the "but, there is still lots and lots of tuna" and "nobody thinks in the billions of cattle killed by wolves each saturday" tags for free.
Love idea, Goodluck Anh Duy
I also dislike the lack of admission of wrongdoing in most settlements too.
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It depends. The sentences can run consecutively (the case here) or concurrently. Typically, for unrelated crimes, they run concurrently. I believe this is true in most other countries too. You don't avoid serving your previous prison sentence because you subsequently committed an even greater crime.
They are quite easy to repair. The outside "shield" is actually one of the wires, so very easy to match the ends as the wires have a completely different make up. I have repaired mine in a few places (no cable can take on a bunny). The main problem is the rubber outside appears to be falling apart, much like the biodegradable plastic bags. No real strain on the areas, it simply split and started peeling away.
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The Kurzweil Reading Machine (1999)