skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would I need that? It's not like I'm running Wordpress or something. haaaaaaaaaa (I'm so sorry)
Thanks, I will take a look, it seems quite interesting...
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> Having multiple return statements in a method actually renders the method LESS readable.

I 100% disagree. Introducing a variable instead of using multiple returns means I now have to keep track of yet another variable throughout the entire rest of the method. Is it modified before it's returned? Gotta read the whole thing to find out.

Early returns reduce the complexity of a method by reducing the number of possible states as you move through the method.
WOW! Very insightful - I never knew I had an Advertising ID
Imagine how much a hassle car repairs would be if cars were a staggeringly complex biological system where parts could not be replaced figuring out what was wrong was difficult and all work had to be done in while it was driving down the road and it was really easy for you to die if a mistake was made and other people had to pay for it.
I really don't think people at the gym care that much about being nude in the locker room. This reads a lot like a paid-for ad for design services.
I agree. My first thought reading the article was "can this generation become any more precious?"

Feelings are great, but when you put them in the driver's seat you don't get the chance to see how they can change and how you can grow in the process. It's the difference between being scared of flying all your life and getting past that fear. There's pride in overcoming your fears. You feel less like a victim.
Ha. Back when our son was having regular lab exams, we were in the States. When we asked Bloomington Hospital for a price for one lab exam, the receptionist asked us, "Why? Don't you want the best for your child?"

Yeah, lady, that includes not giving you all our money without asking how much you'll be taking.
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When I read William Gibbson's "Pattern recognition" I googled a few items described in the book to better visualize the scene (e.g. the mine manual, Stetson, Rickson's jacket).

It did not occur to me to look Curta calculator up- they sure do look to be worth obsessing about :)
I had that happen... except that I had been running my HE.net tunnel for years. Did some diagnostics... found that the endpoint I had selected (in Fremont, CA) was being geolocated by Google as somewhere in an ex-Soviet Bloc country. Changed the endpoint, and YouTube was back up to full speed.

I've had more trouble with Comcast deliberately throttling YouTube downloads [0] than I ever had with that HE.net tunnel.

[0] I'm in a position where I can verify that it's Comcast's problem... grab the URL for the actual video file (which dictates the CDN location) and wget it at a high-bandwidth site run by a large, independent third party that's not in the business of doing hosting. Notice that the download at the site saturates a 100mbit connection, whereas at home it hardly hits 500kbit/s. Frown.
This is similar to how the Dutch system works. You normally go to your GP which will refer you to a specialist if required. The problem is that they always want to try a simple treatment first, without investigating thoroughly the causes of the illness. That means that you get sent home with paracetamol and only if you go the 2nd or 3rd time to the GP will you get sent to the specialist. My friend developed a type of auto-immune disease and because of the delays made by his GP his condition worsened a lot.

Since a lot of people have hypochondriac tendencies, this system has the advantage of reducing the amount of people that go to hospitals, which in turn reduces both infections in hospitals and the overall costs of the system. But for individuals, the chances of getting screwed are higher.

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>...just some simple emitter followers with half-rail bias to maximize dynamic range of the buffer, and cap isolation to stop any nasty clicking or popping from circuit switching.

Yeah, I don't think that's what the caps are for...
One thing I've never understood about the US system is why do the doctors charge more for paying cash e.g. $200 for a visit, whereas insurance reimburses them less than half e.g. $80. In everything else e.g. car repairs, the cash price is always lower than insurance covered price. Any ideas why this is so?
> You can. Routine, profitable procedures are not hard to arrange in the US. I have personally worked in a clinic where the exact experience described in this post happens every day.

For the majority, this is simply not the case. I'm sure there are exceptions as our country is very large, but most people's experience would be very similar to the OPs. I'd suggest reading Healing of America by T.R. Reed if you're interested in the working of US compared to other systems.
Can we get over the generations concept soon? Younger people are less mature... because they are younger.

At some point the millennials will be the old generation complaining about how we used to have to actually "text" rather than just think our ideas and have them transcribed.

There will be something about how the process of having to conceive of grammar and spelling made your thoughts more coherent.

But society will move on anyway, and yes, the younger generation will be less mature, at least, until it gets older.

I never really understood why it bothers people so much that things progress. But maybe I am just grumpy because it is Monday :)
We are working on this same problem providing unlimited, disposable, email for all.

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> What if you have to introduce a modification to your logic that applies a transformation to the result? Should you modify it in 5 places, or 1?

In 1 place, clearly. The multiple-return version would require a bit more refactoring at this point, either extracting another method or introducing the "return value" state var at that point.

Why not code it with single return up front? Simple: most likely, You Aren't Going To Need It. The YAGNI principle says to make the code more complicated when you need to, not before.
This.

Email is pluggable, on client and on server side. The basic idea of email is done and finished; everything that extends it should be a plugin.
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Google Search Console (previously Webmaster Tools) will send an alert with details when unwanted software is detected by Google. Of course, this requires the webmaster to sign up with Search Console, but that is quite useful for other features as well.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/163634?hl=en
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I don't know, I've never used Piwik. W3Counter predates it by a couple years.

Back in the '90s and early '00s, you either had a daily barebones report from a basic log analyzer, or you paid hundreds to thousands of dollars for a license to good analytics software, most of which was just a fancier log analyzer. I never had that kind of money to spend on analytics back then, so I built my own.

My first free "hit counter" with reports service was part of Website Goodies, a site I started around 1996, but didn't have its own domain until 1999. W3Counter was a spin-off of that tool into its own site in 2004.

Google Analytics didn't come about (by acquiring Urchin and making their newest product free) until the end of 2005. Piwik's from late 2007 according to Wikipedia.
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Many game developers say that modding it's great way to check if game development for you or not and I agree with them. Not everyone can try to become full-time developer for many reasons, but almost anyone can make some item for game they like, write story or make map.

I spend some time on modding in long time ago and now spending my free time on open source engine for game I play since 1999. Reason I doing that is to make it feature-complete so I can eventually implement my own additions to game mechanics and see how they going to work.

Also I always wish to work in game development, but life don't always work as we want to. I'd helped to test and support other commercial game as volunteer and now my own attempt to check how it's looks like to make games.

I feel like other people have similar motivation.
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These tips are neat but are not going to make you a pro. What will make you a pro is understanding the box model, colors / gradients, and selector preference/scope.
Disagree with the avoid certs part, some are pretty useful like the OSCP, very hands on
It's https://testsafebrowsing.appspot.com/
We also accidentally dropped two nukes in Japan, and accidentally made Napalm and Agent Orange rain into the Vietnamese, with enormously high and vastly-civilian casualties in both cases. And these are just easy cases where direct responsibility can be tracked all way up to the commander-in-chief, so please no BS about no official strategy.

And then of course, the military chain of command is exceedingly good at diluting responsibility -- generals will demand results implying but not writing down how far commanders can go; soldiers and commanders will cross many lines which no colleagues will report() and no immediate superiors will punish; the press will be strictly managed to not see anything that "national security" doesn't need us to see so our own civilian population will be morally appeased that we're being righteous, everyone is happy.

() A few will do, and then they're jailed for life as traitors.
To make the argument the conclusion can't be neutral. It has to be definitively and obviously wrong. That's why I chose Trump and Islam - it's such a ridiculously wrong conclusion that I doubted anyone here could support it.

I agree that the particular X/etc sometimes matters. And a valid argument against mine would be to give a clear limiting principle (something unstated in the original post, but perhaps implicit?) that applies to the critique of less wrong but fails for Islam.

Pron kind of tried to do this - he said Johann30's argument can only apply to small groups and Islam is large (though where this large vs small distinction comes from is unstated).

To take a mathematical (and hopefully completely uncontroversial) example of this:

Fool: "The sum of IID random variables is gaussian. Therefore $Z"

Smartass: "Oh yeah? What about C/(1+x^2)? Your argument is invalid."

Fool: "Oops I meant IID random variables with finite variance, just thought that was implicit and obvious."

Of course, if Fool can't come up with that added clause then the Smartass has disproven him.
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It is also a manufactured narrative to argue US foreign policy has not evolved considerably. We no longer firebomb entire cities. We have not dropped an A-Bomb since 1945. In fact the US has lead the way in nuclear disarmament. In drone strikes, we take great care to identify targets with armed combatants as opposed to civilians in them. In the last 8 years we have de-escalated military operations in the Middle East. You don't see US soldiers wandering into a random concert hall and machine gunning hundreds of unarmed innocents and then blowing themselves up - especially not on orders from the high command.
UK viewable only due to BBC rights distribution. Much of it available on YouTube.
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Yes the major Swedish ISPs also say the same thing, except for the "foresight" part. One of our ISPs is even giving out "unlimited" public IPv4 addresses on their consumer subscriptions (previously they had a limit on 5 addresses, but now they have apparently removed the limit).

The ISPs even refuse to offer IPv6 when it comes to "big" customers, like apartment cooperatives with hundreds of apartments... You have to turn to the small/local ISPs for (consumer) IPv6 here.
That sounds like a modern car to me. sans biological
"Oh... We call function foo. Let's go see what function foo returns. (Scroll to the end of the function)"

With a single return, I can at least follow that thread fairly easily and sometimes it's just a few lines back in a large function. With many returns, I'm forced to start at the beginning of the function.

There a dozen or so other culprits that make this difficult. Assignment in a block can be just as bad, for example, since I can't know which assignment occured without looking at all of them.
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This sort of "shortcut" exploits a well known flaw in the training any machine learning or regression model using any algorithm. It is the problem of overfitting. The problem is that given enough parameters you can tweak those parameters so that your model exactly fits a target data set (including the random noise). The reason for excluding and limiting access to the test set is so that parameters can't be modified such that the model is adjusted to the specific test data set. It is a well known problem and exploit that the rules are designed to guard against. Here is the wiki page on overfitting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting

Say the test data set, by chance, has 1% more dogs than the training set. By tweaking your algorithm to guess "dog" an extra 1% of the time you may be able to get .1% increase in your success rate. Also, that tweaking isn't a manual process it's part of the training process based on feedback from the results of your test set score. The improvement is enough to "win", but it's not because your algorithm is better.

That goes along with the argument that the data set is at its end of life. Maybe we're at the point that gaming the system is the only way to eek out the .1% needed to "win". In that case it's time to move on to a tougher test.

EDIT: I'd like to point out that the ImageNet competition is continually on top of the "time to make it more challenging" aspect. They introduced localization in 2011 (identifying not just what, but where items are). The 2015 competition includes, for the first time, recognition and localization tests in video clips.
The US politics and military had often redeclared civilian targets as the military targets and then caused enough "collateral damage." Even politicians alone do that (before military strikes) with the systems of sanctions. It was claimed in the media that some 500 thousand Iraqi children died as the effects of the sanctions to Iraq even before the last Iraq war. Then the politicians are surprised that their army isn't welcomed.
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Millennials? Gyms like Equinox in NYC start at over $600 per month. I see the described designs as adding luxury to wealthy clients, not adding privacy to pee-shy youngins.
The article didn't mention that this is also being done to short-circuit the overwhelming opposition (using nakedness as a wedge) to trans-people in locker rooms of their identified gender.
And yet, government sources and media routinely describe attacks on the U.S. and allied military as terrorist attacks.

First I found with a quick google: "France foils terror attack on Toulon naval base"

http://www.france24.com/en/20151110-france-foils-terrorism-a...
Why procmail, why not Sieve on the server side?
You might be surprised at how many Americans think Ireland is part of the UK. Source: I live in a hostel.

Edit: for extra fun, ask them what country Amsterdam is in.
But not for car repairs?
I definitely agree - in fact, the Spotify player itself was the main reason I switched to Google Play Music. I hated the interface.
I think we can all agree that WWII was a pretty terrible war for everybody, and every side saw the darkest corners of the human heart.

As to America being "so culturally bankrupt that they can't make a simple argument for an obvious good without manipulating the public," I would have to counter that without effective propaganda mechanisms, a simple argument for an obvious good may not be palatable or worth the time of the average citizen. In other words, if the choice is between a "simple argument" that may work, and a concerted propaganda effort that will work, propaganda will win every time.

This is what I get for reading Edward Bernays' "Crystallizing Public Opinion" between bug fixes.
If you already have all the songs you'd listen to, you won't be using Spotify. My use of Spotify has historically been about listening to music I love without having to purchase/download it myself. That's plenty incentive without any of the social/discovery aspects.
It's easy to be self righteous when you hold all the cards though....

I mean, can you imagine a small group of terrorists being able to effectively target the US military? Of course not. So these people do what they can in an attempt to achieve their objectives. If the rich nations of the world were truly pushed against the wall (rather than mildly annoyed) they would likely resume killing civilians in a heartbeat.

Never mind the effects of the military campaigns themselves kill plenty of civilians even if these are not directly targeted.
Nah, from what I remember of the source(the modding SDK exposed a lot of the engine internals) it was a mix of Q1 + Q2(I think the Q2 part was mostly networking code).

Keep in mind there was Hammer(the level editing tool) which grew into it's own thing as well.
That makes sense. I was thinking of the multiple test set approach, but rather than forcing people to re-submit on a new test set near the end (if that's what you meant), the organisers could just return the score based on a random fraction of the test set. 'Cheaters' would then overfit to just half of the actual test set and this would be apparent when the final scores (on the other half) are revealed. I suspect this is what Kaggle do, as they don't make you re-submit at the end (AFAIK).
Previous discussion on AMP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10507902

If nothing else, this seems to be making publishers rethink the cost of adding extra stuff on to content, which will hopefully be good for users.
The CSS negative margin you've applied to `.row` is causing your page to add vertical scrollbars. You should remove the padding from `.container-fluid` and apply margins to the inner elements to stop it. It looks naff.
> That's why they order soldiers not to and why it is officially against the law of the United States

That's what's so beautiful about language. We can simply redefine anyone in a war zone as an enemy combatant. Want to bomb a school or hospital? Say they were aiding insurgents. Ta da, moral high ground maintained.
I'm surprised at the comments here. I wonder how many of you experienced bullying in gym class over your body's appearance. The privacy of one's naked body is pretty important thing to a lot of people, but particularly to young teenagers, many of whom would opt out of gym class if they could, and who often enter puberty at very different ages. Even if you are or were comfortable walking around naked in front of others, it's cruel to force all people to face something that just isn't necessary.

Now, I agree that "comfy couch corners" and "sexy glass escape pods" seem silly and unrealistic (albeit typical of such NYT articles) but just basic privacy for showers and dressing ought to be a no-brainer for locker rooms for any age.
That is very odd and must have something to do with your setup or ISP. I worked at a company where all of us had Linux desktops and we all used IPv6. I never had any issues.

Also, remember with IPv6 has entirely different firewall rules. Remember to setup ip6tables. You might be totally protected on ipv4 and totally exposed on ipv6.
So the young Luke should ignore the actual situation on the ground, and take the Empire's publicly-stated policy as moral truth?

It is not part of the official US strategy to target civilians

Official or not, the US's actual conduct kills a LOT of civilians - by some reckonings, our drone war has killed more civilians than it has actual enemy combatants.

I think it's fair for our hypothetical middle eastern Skywalker to look at his actual experience, rather than accepting propaganda at face value.
Seems solid, are there any editors for this?
I agree, at Missive (https://missiveapp.com) it took way longer than we originally thought to get to MVP, ~around 1.75 year (and we only support Gmail/Google app for the moment)
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Are Indian humans made out of simpler parts, such that it's OK for them to have free market health care whereas it doesn't work for us?
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A lot of engineering is about meeting requirements while keeping costs down. As the joke goes... "Anyone can build a bridge that stands; it takes an engineer to build a bridge that just barely stands"
Well that's extremely self-selecting isn't it? There's an unknown number of potential gym customers who don't go because they're uncomfortable. And I bet a bunch of current gym-goers would pay more if they didn't have to put up with it. Sounds like a good business move to me.
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> they were acting against orders, at least the orders of the high command.

Do you have any evidence of this or are you just asserting to because it sounds nice? Intentional disregard for civilian casualties was rampant on all sides of WWII. There were about as many civilian fatalities (not including disease and famine) as there were military fatalities. The firebombing attacks during WWII were brutal.

> It is not part of the official US strategy to target civilians - in fact it is part of the official US strategy to not target civilians. On the other hand, it is part of the official, stated strategy of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Shebab, Boko Haram, and other terrorist organizations, to intentionally murder civilians in the most visible way possible.

Saying "we don't target civilians" doesn't get you any points. You have to actually not target civilians (or say, red cross hospitals).
Nope. You're conflating two _very_ unrelated trends to prove your pre-existing 'can this generation become any more precious' belief.

For example, people in India are generally opposite of what you might call 'precious'. Parents will very openly call out their kids on their body size, their appearance, there whatever. Young men and womanly will openly (and sometimes, far too much) discuss relative attractiveness of persons -- often admitting that while they themselves are not that attractive, so and so is even uglier, etcetera. They are, I would imagine, not in any sense of the word 'precious' or coddled. The South Asian cultures are also the epitome of what might be considered 'collective' culture, versus the more American individualistic, 'me-me-me' culture.

And yet. People never ever ever get naked. Ever. Not even when they shower. In their private bathrooms. With no one watching. There's joke about how South Asians don't get naked even when having sex (which, I'm told, appears to reflect reality). You would imagine, with people so comfortable with friends and families (note South Asian men have traditionally been verrry comfortable being physically close to other men, including holding hands, frequent hugs, etcetera), they would not be as shy about nudity. And yet they are.

Here's another datapoint: the Japanese, who are still culturally very family-community centered, will get naked at a drop of a feather.

Use your 'precious generation doesn't want to get naked' theory to explain these, and your theory will pass the basic test.
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