skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People hate to have their heroes torn down, even if their hero is just the creator of a fifth-rate programming language that nobody would willingly use if it weren't the only available zero-compile option on Berners-Lee's juggernaut of an application platform.

Turing's suicide is merely a distant memory.
The issue is that criminals for the most part don't think "ah, I can commit this crime, I will 'only' get 5-10 years" and "oh, this crime would be 50 years - in that case I won't do it".

With all respect, I don't see how this sentence is relevant to what I wrote. I get that your trying to use it to support the next sentence, but I don't see how it does that either.

Extremely long sentences just don't add much to the mix.

They do actually. You can look at the length of a sentence as corresponding roughly to a cost benefit analysis pertaining to the given crime. The cost being the cost to incarcerate the person, and the benefit being the person's inability to commit a similar crime for X number of years. So for really bad crimes that carry a really long sentence, the benefit to society of there not being a potential recurrence of the criminal's acts outweighs the cost of the incarceration.
don't we already kinda do that? I mean. most of us are switching our news sources to "trusted" peer review like Slashdot, ycombinator and various forums. often supported by donations or paid for by groups of friends.

I mean. i can comment on this article here. but not on the site of the article linked.

they mention the Huffington post. they have done well because they are actually reporting news.

IMHO. the biggest problem with news sites is people are fed up of being lied to, and now have the opportunity via numerous means to point out when stories are lies. (presumably why the BBC killed it's comments sections).

traditional media isn't crashing because people aren't willing to pay or donate for quality content. traditional media is crashing because it's all lies and propaganda, and everybody is waking up to it.

and no one wants to pay (or donate) to be fed propaganda.
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Ask HN: Is Mark Cuban really a Donald Trump financial and political supporter?
A nice refreshing dose of optimism. Thanks
Definitely. A student doesn't apologise for losing some marks in an exam either. It's part of the process to get better at dancing. You're not advanced dancer, and the other partner can accept that, or she wouldn't dance with you in the first place. Apologise when there's no need to smells of supplication. I think the only situation where it's suitable to apologise was if you were dancing and you accidentally made a movement that appeared like you were sexually harassing her. (e.g. I don't know how it would happen, but if you accidentally cupped your hand around her breast and squeezed it in a really pervy way, and that action isn't her expectation, then it's time to apologise profusely), or if you kicked her in the leg and broke her ankle. Depending on how she reacts, I'd apologise in either a humorous or serious way.
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> We have all heard those particularly haunting tales about witches remaining ever youthful by imbibing a young woman’s blood, but until a few years ago these tales were only told to frighten children before bed.

Erszebet Báthory really did that shit. It's doubtful she remained youthful but she thought she would.
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> Lore defended the company’s aggressive advertising spending, saying the market opportunity is too huge to ignore. The e-commerce market is about $300 billion in the U.S., but it still only accounts for somewhere around 10 percent of all retail transactions, depending upon how you measure it.

Isn't this the exact phrase from the Livingsocial article from a few days ago?

Sure, if you are rushing to a new market (Uber, Airbnb, Ebay) you might get network externalities from being first.. but this?
Hopefully this means they can achieve market share parity now. I'm seriously considering switching from Chrome to Firefox due to how badly it behaves on my Ivy Bridge era MBPr.
Apologising for mistakes that aren't your own can also be a sign of supplicating - saying anything to get on the other person's good graces. If the other person's in a confident and strong position often there's no need to apologise for things that are not your fault. If you're dancing with a very good dancer and you're a poor dancer, and she knew that to begin with, there's no need to apologise. Instead, own your poor dancing ability. Exaggerate a little your poor movements. Laugh. Often a person of high skill level don't want to play with a person of low skill level might not even be the skill difference but because they don't want to deal with the low skill level person's insecurities. But if the other person is, for example, was the victim for a crime, then you might apologise even though you weren't the person who broke into their house.
American slang term meaning "get rid of" or "remove"
The important question people too often forget to ask instead is "why blame anyone in the first place?" and "ok, how are we going to make it better now?".
Ask HN: How come there are 13 submissions of “The day I became a millionaire”
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20day%20I%20became%20a%20millionaire%20(medium.com)&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story

I thought multiple submission were caught.
Why SF!? That's a shlep for us Silicon Valley folks.
Yeah I didnt know the CE was a thing; assumed it was the CSE
Do you have any tips for how I should hold my phone?
Is his name Wei?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Perfect_Day
This is a really, really nice reinvention of tables.

I mean this in the nicest possible way. It recalls the simplicity of writing a table-based layout without all the horrible hacks people had to do when they started using tables full of gifs as a way to create a prettier page.
How do you reconcile that with a very high recidivism rate?[0]

If anything, you're disproving your own argument.

[0] http://www.bjs.gov/content/reentry/recidivism.cfm
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Perseverance, gumption traps, and maintaining a growth mindset
You should use a task runner there are libraries for gulp and grunt.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/gulp-ava
https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-ava
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Manchester University did develop an asynchronous ARM compatible chip: http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/processors/amulet/
I agree with you, it does look like insecurity.

But just for clarification: sometimes it was my fault. And when it wasn't and the partner was a beginner, I pretended it was my fault so that the beginner wouldn't feel bad.
Something like that. Just behind the rim is in the basket. If you overshoot it still goes in. If you undershoot, it's pretty likely to bounce and go in.
When your processor does computations, it consumes power and radiates electromagnetic waves depending on many parameters, such as the kind of computation, the parameters, the amount of ones vs zeros in the registers and many other "silly" details.

When you do crypto on such systems, part of the information that should be hidden is leaked in the form of EM waves, longer or shorter response times, and current consumption (among others). These leaks of information are called "side channels", and have been successfully used to hack some systems.

Some of the current tricks of proper cryptography include things such as "always do the same amount of computation", "always take the same time", "always consume the same current" in order to try to hide this leak of information. It is tricky with standard "clocked" processors. So it will be even trickier with asynchronous processors.
An oldie but a goodie.

As a creator who is about halfway to building her thousand true fans, I gotta say that Kickstarter and Patreon have both made it a hell of a lot easier to survive on the way to pumping out enough product to get $100 every year from each True Fan. Patreon especially.
I love that reader view modes is becoming standard in browsers now. It's a shame that some sites aren't rendered though...
Except that the taxpayers would then be forced to pay reparations for the criminal behaviour of another. A.k.a. moral hazard.

Why not do both? Put him under house arrest, and compel him to buy me a new phone.
Yes, I was referencing that post; the phrasing of "cancer getting cancer" stuck with me. I admit that I might have sprinkled a little bit of hidden insult, because it's hard to filter out the feeling of anger at uncivil behaviour so that it doesn't show up in writing.

But I mean cancer mostly in the same way Scott Alexander used it - uncontrolled growth by "all means necessary", not an insult. Cancer happens when some cells eschew cooperation and start promoting their interests at the cost to everyone else. As it grows in size it grows in complexity, and given that it's made of components who tend to disregard cooperation, Scott argues that instead of self-organizing it tends to develop a cancer of its own, which slows the overall growth. Similarly, if the group gains voice by using every dirty trick in the book and then some because it's most effective, they should not be surprised that - as their movement grows in size - they end up fighting each other at some point.
The problem with Internet Explorer at the time I worked with it is that it had a version of JavaScript called JScript that ran in the background that had differences with the JavaScript used in Netscape and other web browsers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript

In my experience I had to write JavaScript code that detected the OS the web browser type and even the processor so that I could use if statements to run the correct JavaScript code for each platform that worked.

I've been out of it for a decade due to a disability, but I see that Microsoft has updated JScript and has used some form of JavaScript in Windows 8 Apps as well. I never really liked Metro/Modern UI and Windows 10 kind of changed it to Universal Apps.

I like that they have made improvements to JavaScript like Node etc and even run JavaScript in the OS and the backend as well as the frontend.
Yes, this only compares energy consumption to help show the difference between synchronous(with the explicit goal energy efficiency) and async designs. I don't think peripherals has anything to do with this comparison. There are obviously a ton of reasons why a MSP430 might make more sense for a given application.

The GA144 is so radically different that any comparison to a conventional computer is difficult.
That's not necessarily true, especially when interfacing with mechanical components.
I liked the way the factorization was announced[0].

Fun Number Theory Facts

Gentlemen,

A mathematical morsel for your entertainment and edification.

The number
6,857,599,914,349,403,977,654,744,967,
172,758,179,904,114,264,612,947,326,
127,169,976,133,296,980,951,450,542,
789,808,884,504,301,075,550,786,464,
802,304,019,795,402,754,670,660,318,
614,966,266,413,770,127

is the product of
5,174,413,344,875,007,990,519,123,187,
618,500,139,954,995,264,909,695,897,
020,209,972,309,881,454,541

and
1,325,290,319,363,741,258,636,842,042,
448,323,483,211,759,628,292,406,959,
481,461,131,759,210,884,908,747.

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20090805011013/http://www.united...
Easy enough to tax electricity used for charging cars. Simply require a separate electric meter for that use, and tax the power used.

It will happen anyway with or without self-driving cars, assuming electric vehicles replace gasoline-fueled ones. A big part of the retail price of gasoline is tax and some way will be found to make up for that. It hasn't happened yet because EVs are still a negligible fraction of vehicles on the road.
I don't know if your meaning to say we should do away with criminal sentencing? - sorry, I should have clarified that disposing of excessive sentences does not mean disposing of sentences altogether.

> They do actually.

The US has extremely long sentences. It has an incredibly high incarceration rate - higher than South Africa in it's apartheid prime, higher than China or Russia ever had, and yet crime there is no better than in it's contemporary developed-nation allies. In fact, for the one crime that is most directly and easily comparable - murder - the US is atrociously higher than it's contemporaries (a rate of ~4.8 vs ~1.0-1.5). The ridiculously long sentences in the US are not making the US any safer than it's contemporaries.
Ubuntu Drops Python 2.7 from the Default Install in 16.04
It's only 28k lines of ML (wc count). Seems well within the reach of an individual.
I just open the article in one of the "read it later" services (via bookmarklet) without saving it to your account. Most services offer this.
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a) the algorithm was changed to allow multiple submissions if none has attracted discussion (I don't know if it limits the rate of submissions or not)

b) medium appends these random characters at the end, making the URLs different
I guess there is a similar problem with the lightning connector for iPhones. I had to change my iPhone cable multiple times in the past 4 years. Be it the 30 pin connector or the new lightning connector, its so fragile. Always been an ardent fan of Apple and its products, but disappointed with this strategy of making money through intentionally designed fragile cables that won't last more than a year leading to accessory sales.
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Cool, thanks javcasas for that intro to Karnaugh maps. I haven't looked at them closely enough to fully understand how they capture "race conditions", but I'll do so on the weekend. I wonder if any specialists in combinatorial design theory have studied these objects.

There could be some neat mathematics that has yet to be applied to circuit design!
Firebase has server-enforced permissions and validation. But for complex backend logic you would need to write a bot that watches data being entered and reacts to it.
The biggest cost in a vehicle is the depreciation that comes from both time and wear. Cars that serve as taxis wear out 10x faster than commute cars. Why would I want my car to wear out faster? (And electric cars wear on the battery, whereas gas has direct fuel cost.)

Also, when the car goes home to serve the family, that means the family owns only one car -- clearing out at least one parking space compared to two active cars.

Finally, if I go shopping today, I have to circle a number of times just to find parking. Driverless cars that know where spots are, and don't care about walking distance, can get of the road faster than that.

So... I'm sure we'll find new problems, but that seems unlikely to be one.
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There are exceptions like if an article was voted up enough it is possible to post another link to it later on.

I'm really learning this as I go as I caught an article that was what I thought was a dupe, but it was allowed to be reposted. I was voted down for saying it was a dupe.

I posted a link that someone else already submitted, and I didn't know it was submitted already and then when I went to post a few days later about a bug fix in ReactOS I got the "Whoa slow down you're submitting too fast!" message. So I must have done something wrong with a dupe link and lost submitting link privileges. I apologize for that. I searched for the link before submitting it and didn't see it. Then when I did submit it, it was already submitted by someone else.

It is a part of Hacker News that I am struggling with understanding as well.
I really wish this included examples of how to test your code, either in the form of "recipes" or in the examples.

If I'm building something that I plan on maintaining for a medium to long amount of time, I'll want tests to give me some peace of mind. Especially when I go work on other stuff, and I come back a few months later to find myself stressed out because I don't know if things will break.
Teardown and exploration of Apple's Magsafe connector
Eh, for things like diapers where I am getting the same thing from them amazon, or elsewhere Jet does it cheaper and so they have been getting my $ the last few months. And the other day I ended up putting together a larger shopping cart of misc items and every single one was cheaper on jet than on amazon. I have noticed that in the last year I could find things just slightly cheaper elsewhere than Amazon, but when I factored in the convenience and shipping cost amazon usually won. So this cart full of stuff that was all cheaper than amazon was a bit surprising. For the pile of random stuff I seem to order every month or two I might just be looking to use Jet first in the future. They don't yet have the breadth of Amazon, but I was surprised at what they have which is what feels like a ton more than when I checked them out six months ago. For random disposable staples like diapers, batteries, super glue, pens, etc I don't have any real loyalty to any one retailer over another, but once I there I will probably keep re-ordering these for a while so as long as they are near the cheapest I'll stick around.

Oh and Jet's search works. I started writing up a comparison and grabbed quaker popped as my random selection choice and how amazon would have more, but honestly I couldn't get amazon's search to work to prove it so I was forced to conclude that maybe Jet's limited selection is just as good as Amazons. :| And if anyone from Jet is listening, can you add pepper flavor?
This sort of "perk" (if you could call it that) sounds like a good indicator to stay far, far away.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/800d5eb1d5b829b2943d3ee237ec1fc3/...
This is very unsettling. Sounds like company changed its strategy in middle of funding rounds. I also see a lot of neutral to negative opinions about it.

Well, we will see, but I cannot say I am optimistic about "startup" rising so much money offering very little uniqueness. $20 mil funding and completely unique product - sure, but is this really that unique? Cant Amazon just adjust their offering within few weeks to kill anything that is unique about Jet?
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thank you,kulakowka.
i find that there are so many projects on the GitHub.but i can not find out which one fits me well.
Still, people are not that insane yet to make expressing opinions about frameworks a danger to your employability. I've frequently been a part of flamew^H^H^H^H^H^Hcivilized discussions about obvious superiority of Emacs over IDEs, or Lisp over everything, and never for a second felt I'll get fired for it, or that I'll lose my career, my home, or that I'll get into national news over it.
There's a brilliant bit in the wikipedia entry:

The Caltech Asynchronous Microprocessor (1988) was the first asynchronous microprocessor (1988). Caltech designed and manufactured the world's first fully Quasi Delay Insensitive processor. During demonstrations, the researchers amazed viewers by loading a simple program which ran in a tight loop, pulsing one of the output lines after each instruction. This output line was connected to an oscilloscope. When a cup of hot coffee was placed on the chip, the pulse rate (the effective "clock rate") naturally slowed down to adapt to the worsening performance of the heated transistors. When liquid nitrogen was poured on the chip, the instruction rate shot up with no additional intervention. Additionally, at lower temperatures, the voltage supplied to the chip could be safely increased, which also improved the instruction rate—again, with no additional configuration.

Amazing. I want this right now!
> That's ludicrous. Other companies don't have this problem?

Anecdotally, neither the 7-or-8-year-old charger for my Toughbook nor the four-ish-year-old charger for the treats-all-her-cabling-like-it's-meant-to-be-load-bearing roommate's Toshiba Satellite have failed.

Apple definitely seems to be an outlier in this arena and is well known for their not-infrequent decision to sacrifice function, user comfort, and/or safety for aesthetic appeal.
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Do your orders who up in Amazon boxes? Mine didn't but after reading about that, I started to wonder how much of this is Value America 2.0.
Just visited Jet for the first time. Not sure what the distinguishing factor is. I guess they hope they can execute well enough to get bought by Amazon, or if not them, Walmart or someone?
Your cost benefit analysis there is some mighty cold calculus. While I agree there's utility in protecting society from violent offenders, your equation doesn't consider the ethical costs of locking people away for long periods of time.

If you believe the criminal justice system to be about reform rather than punishment, then the first question to ask is "Is this person reformed, or should they remain in prison?".

If the answer is the former, and they're still behind bars, then something's very broken with the system. There are innumerable accounts of genuinely reformed prisoners—completely changed people—that pose no danger to society, being left to rot in prison on the account of their unduly harsh sentencing.
It's not just the charger wire. I have a clear example of Apple prioritizing form over function in the charger itself:

In 2011, my wife and I bought new laptops (a MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad) around the same time - based on the same Intel chipset and with similar CPUs (might have been one speed tier apart). The setup was power-hungry, so my ThinkPad came with a proverbial charging brick - big and bulky, but it kept the laptop fed no matter what. Her MacBook came with a standard Mac charger (much smaller and lighter). But if she used her laptop when plugged in, it didn't charge much (if at all). And if she did something particularly demanding, the battery could even drain (fortunately, she didn't do that too frequently).

This seemed odd and I remember coming across an explanation online (while researching something else): It was just physics. My ThinkPad charger was something like twice as powerful as her MacBook charger, but they were both feeding roughly similar internals. Given that Lenovo concluded my ThinkPad needed the more powerful charger, it's not at all surprising her weaker MacBook charger couldn't keep up with her laptop.

On any list of functional requirements for a charger, I'd say "not letting the battery drain while plugged in" has to be pretty high on the list, so...
(Full disclosure: I'm an engineer and co-founder of Pantelligent, a Y Combinator-funded company.)

For a wider view of this space:

Temperature-controlled cooking "version 1" = thermostat on an oven. (A real innovation in it's own time!)

Temperature-controlled cooking "version 2" = sous-vide. (Steady-state thermal equilibrium -- that is, waiting until temperature has equalized throughout the entire mass.)

Temperature-controlled cooking "version 3" is about going beyond steady-state thermal equilibrium to controlling transient heat transfer.

That gives you the delicious repeatability of sous-vide, with the fast cooking times of non-steady-state cooking, and the controlled, desirable temperature gradients at the exterior of your food. (Note how any sous-vide recipe ends with cooking the exterior in a pan for extra deliciousness!)

We built "v3" and called it Pantelligent. Macworld just produced a video review and said, "Most importantly, the results are fantastic. I’ve made eggs, salmon, risotto, seared tuna, and steak using Pantelligent’s recipes, and everything turned out delicious. The salmon was my favorite, since the pan’s sensor made it nearly impossible for me to overcook it" [1]. TIME Magazine just called it one of the "Best Inventions of 2015" [2]. And there are plenty more press and customer reviews on our website [3].

[1] http://www.macworld.com/article/3006950/holiday/6-chef-calib...

[2] http://time.com/4115398/best-inventions-2015/item/the-pan-th...

[3] https://www.pantelligent.com/
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