skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grandfather used to say to me "all those books and all you do is eat the pages." He would usually say it after I would overthink something ridiculously simple, like righty tighty lefty loosey. He thought it was good that I went to college, but he would always emphasize that knowing and doing are two different things.
Unit testing React components
Perhaps I'm misreading it, but the announcement seemed to imply that the source code, however open, is for AMD hardware. So by open-sourcing it, they attempt to generate lock-in to the hardware, which is still just as proprietary as can be. In other words, I don't think that these tools will work on your NVidia GPU. Or not well, at any rate.
I thought it might be -- in pact I posted the link a bit on purpose, because it could also be a bit of a social experiment -- not entirely sure what the /goal/ might be, but if its a bit more widespread than this, given the rather trivial matter, it could be a plant with a purpose...

Paranoid? nahhhh, just pass me a pancake ;-)
> Michael Schroeder, described as a manager of the company.

It seems that management (and presumably that extends to senior/chief editors) are aware; and those are usually the ones who dictate what is covered and how.
Is this for real?

I guess it is. This is the kind of outcome that, if you read about it in a science-fiction story, it'd break your immersion. Absolutely ridiculous, though the company seems to have struck gold of some sort.
> The symbol for "man" is the outline of an adult human.

To me, it shows the outline of an adult, physically fit male human. Observe the narrow hips and wide, square shoulders. Compare with the shoulders on the "woman" symbol.

> The symbol for "toilets" is the symbol for "woman" (an adult human with a dress) next to the symbol for "man" (an human), with a dividing line between them. We heavily associate toilets with sex segregation, apparently.

It shows a pair of adjacent doors, one labeled "men", the other labeled "women". It doesn't mean sex segregation - quite the opposite, it means that in this building, toilets for both sexes are located right next to each other! (As opposed to on different ends of the floor or on different floors altogether, which was common in older architecture.)
That's often true for me too. There's just certain shows for which that's not the case, and I really remember fighting against the interface.
Disillusioned Siberians want cat to be mayor
Do you not consider bernie sanders left wing?
Using neural nets to deal with emergencies runs you into the Anna Karenina problem - "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

It's fairly easy to train, and verify a system for driving in well-behaved traffic. Unfortunately, the problem space of not-well-behaved traffic is far wider - and is very hard to gather enough data to train a system well.

What you're going to get is self-driving cars which handle 99% of driving just fine - and when they end up in emergencies, find the human 'driver' to have dozed off at the wheel. (All-in-all, their safety record might end up better then the status quo - but that's not a certainty.)
A long time ago I saw someone post that support was able to turn off this feature on the account. No idea if that is true.
Hospital Price Study Reveals ‘Mind-Boggling’ Variation Across USA
>Yes, this. I turned off the auto-play-next feature but there is no way to avoid the shrink-credits thing. :-/

If in Chrome, try the 'hide postplay' feature of the Flix Plus by Lifehacker extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flix-plus-by-lifeh...
Amazing show. Incidentally, Netflix ordered a third season a few months back. I can't wait.
Why is it superior? That looks a lot like making the government subsidize worker exploitation.
> For anyone who wants to experience it, walk into any Reddit discussion and tell everyone you're a devout Christian

Nothing says "proselytisation" like walking into a different conversation and announcing your passion for religion.
> If you have an external drive that you don't plug in every 30 days, Backblaze deletes your backup.

If you have any file that doesn't exist for 30 days, Backblaze deletes all backups of it.
As grad of Berkeley and MIT, I'm curious why you think Cal's is lacking to MIT?

This assertion contradicts both data and anecdotes.
You are not alone.

So I have the "fancy coastal intelligence" you talk about, or at least the degrees that signify that I do (although I got them in relatively remote places in Kentucky and Tennessee, so not exactly coastal). But I come from a family of school teachers, carpenters, and construction contractors. In other words, the kind of people who do not tolerate a lack of common sense in their children and try to teach it at every possible opportunity from birth on.

I've personally seen this exclusion at work many times. Political correctness police, social justice warriors, whatever you want to call them, don't care for inclusion of anything that doesn't fit their narrative. They will seek out your differing point of view, scream about it, try to isolate you from help, gang up on you, force you to apologize, make you give up, then appeal to higher authorities to marginalize you/exclude you/fire you, then have something like a show trial about you, and then finally declare victory and celebrate. But their celebration will usually contain notes of "well I never intended things to turn out like this!"

Obviously I've seen this whole process happen a time or three in various corporations. Those who were excluded/marginalized/fired often had no real idea what they did in the first place.

That's the end of my rant, which is only tangentially related to yours, but yours resonated with me because a lot of what you said reminds me of myself.
Perri-air? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U

Actually, a Chinese entrepreneur started doing this in 2012: http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/09/18/china-is-now-selling-c...
Not to mention that being in a moving truck will probably muck up the accelerometer readings...
Oxygen bars have been around for a long time.
Climate change is incredibly important. Net neutrality is incredibly important. Growing wealth inequality is incredibly important. This kind of data is a business model, nothing more.
I knew a 16 year old making USD 30k/day(YES, DAY!) with CPALead driving traffic from Youtube videos... That was 6 years ago.
Ask HN: A site that can simulate investments? If I'd bought x AAPL I'd have y
I'm looking for something that can tell me the history of stocks/investments and also simulate investments.

if I invested 350 euro a month into x then I would have y at various points since the start date.
All of that, and you lock onto something that's clearly a device of rhetoric and not of actual substance?
By not knowing who the owner is, nobody can verify the existence of a pipeline from friendly editors upwards, whether or not stories need approval from upwards, whether or not certain stories were commissioned by those upwards, etc.

Complete transparency or bust, especially in an organization like this.

The issue of individual reporters biasing individual articles is extremely small potatoes. Unfortunately, it is what most people think of when thinking 'media bias'.

The much more serious issue is larger systemic bias where reporting about {X1,...,Xn} potentially never even sees the light of day, or is systemically edited in particular ways, without anyone other than top people knowing why.
Your paragraph on Keynes is a very common misrepresentation of his policies. Keynes was very clear that he wanted the government to offset the private sector. So if the economy was strong he expected the government to reduce spending least they lead to overheating. If the private sector was weak he expected the government to step in and try and offset that weakness. So it's nigh impossible for government spending to be a drag on the economy because it's only there in force due to the absence of private investment.
Yikes, that's straight out of a Black Mirror episode.
What are the advantages of using these libraries over Playframework which IMO is more complete and batteries included?
What was the problem with the baby bottle?
> "increasing the minimum wage

Be careful what you wish for: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/how...
"

Let's look at what is being said:

"Unlike most public income support programs, increased earnings from the minimum wage are taxable. Over 25 percent of the increased earnings are collected back as income and payroll taxes"

Is that a problem? The minimum wage should be the minimum needed to live on, that includes taking taxes into consideration.

" Adopting this empirical scenario, the analysis demonstrates that an increase in the national minimum wage produces a value-added tax effect on consumer prices that is more regressive than a typical state sales tax and allocates benefits as higher earnings nearly evenly across the income distribution."

So the argument is that raising the minimum wage increases prices, thereby negating the potential benefits. Here's the thing, competition drives prices down, but if low wage earners have limited options to shop around (because they look towards the big chains to get low prices), then competition can't fulfil this function. This quote would seem to support this view:

"Even after taxes, 27.6 percent of increased earnings go to families in the top 40 percent of the income distribution."
And thus JS conceeds "write once, run anywhere".
I don't recognise the prejudice against practical skills in my neck of the woods (CS dept in a UK university) but religious colleagues are quietly looked down upon and sometimes mocked. (Not that there are many of them.) I try as hard as I can not to judge such people myself but will admit to finding it hard to take someone seriously who believes in such stuff. Being able or unable to change a tyre doesn't come close to the epistemological facepalm of trusting in the dove from above.
How Japan’s toilet obsession produced some of the world’s best bathrooms
Good intro Scott. I just start playing with Kerf and it seems to me a pretty well written piece of software with potential. I like the json style assignment. Will keep an eye on this.
I don't know, I think what he is saying are small steps toward the overall goal of fixing the company.

There isn't a magic bullet with Yahoo. They gradually lost their dominance and succumbed to irrelevance. The fix will also be gradual and with small steps
> But if it was a private university, then that's their right. Feel free to disagree with them,

Oh, of course! But disagreement does include saying, 'they have a right to do this, but they are wrong to do so.'
Not to mention having a mountain of great Erlang bits to build on. Its been great for everyone.
I care less about the Facebook policy (actually I care approximately zero) than I do about the comparison of drag personas to, for instance, gender pronouns. I acknowledge that some people might use an unorthodox name. Ironically I think that people treat how serious you are supposed to take these things as a binary (serious, not serious) rather than a continuum.
So this helps people with savings in certain types of investments, right?
What's sad about it? I find it really smart, leveraging every little success for higher returns.
Don't ask me why, but I sleep much better when I wear socks. It's worth a shot for anyone having trouble sleeping.
Ask HN: Are there any bookshops dedicated to computing / programming? Anywhere?
I love buying technical books and I was wondering if anyone knows of a physical bookshop that specializes in computing? Or does anyone know of a bookshop with a really intelligent / interesting selection and which avoids the usual learn X in Y minutes. I'm interested in a bookshop anywhere at all, since my interest is also in getting a sense of whether one could make a business out of it.

I am aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Literacy_Bookshops, but can't find evidence of anything more recent.

I know many programmers would consider buying a physical copy redundant. I know many of the good ones are available as free PDFs or in other formats. I know my love of the book itself is not necessarily widely shared. Nonetheless the idea keeps coming back to me (I'd be happy to be cured of it).

Interested in all views. I am involved in the publishing industry in another life. So I understand the basic dynamics of bookselling...but I've no idea how most programmers feel about browsing and buying physical books about computing.
How Habits and Uncertainty Revealed My Entrepreneurial Calling
Because taxing those people won't solve the real issue? I pay more in taxes every year on my income than many millionaires do because my income is primarily salary instead of stocks, etc.

120k may seem like a lot, but it isn't in several parts of the US now (e.g
SF Bay Area, New York).
The Siege of Miami
Six years ago $1.5 million in funding was front page news. The numbers have become orders of magnitude larger.
Your site shows cloudflare errors.
He should give talks at defcon teaching people how he did it?

You mean like this one, from Defcon in 2013?

http://hackaday.com/2013/07/26/defcon-presenters-preview-hac...

Or The Defcon 19 How To CanBus Hack Workshop, that taught classes about this in 2011?

http://www.canbushack.com/blog/index.php?title=learn-to-canb...

Unfortunately for him, defcon prefers original content, not someone claiming credit for what has been demonstrated repeatedly in previous years.
Why TV Apps Will Outnumber Mobile Apps
Don't forget war. $800 billion to $2.4 trillion spent on the Iraq War depending on who's counting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
ah the very early days then, nice. yeah I understand your take, George did get credited for things that were a team effort (including a lot of work by gray). but really a lot of that was the press who just based it off him being the one to publish the unlock demo video, he just probably got tired of correcting people.

as a counterpoint in which he was definitely a team player and not many knew about, he helped us get iOS 3 for S5L8900 devices pwned when we couldn't get the firmware files decrypted due to tricks that Apple put in iBoot (for only that version too - taken out after), which involved using a built in coprocessor and a payload in an assembly language that wasn't ARM and none of us could recognize. so to try to work it out he actually reverse engineered the structure of the assembly language to help figure out what it was doing, which was really cool. I don't think the whole payload got fully "reversed" as I believe one of us (it was either ius or myself) found a data sheet that pointed to it being some type of 16-bit RISC based thing, but was still pretty cool to see how he went about solving the problem. there was nothing directly incentivizing him to help other than a fun challenge.
He's the leftmost US politician to be noteworthy outside the US, and in good ol' Yurop he'd be at best centre-left.

He's more right than most parties in the European Left bloc, and there's still fringe groups left of those.
Based on my personal experience with being so, delusional people like to have as many conversations as possible about their delusion, because that's how they sustain it.
>I worry that trying to use it another way will probably just confuse people, not to say I don't think it isn't a valid concept.

I'll keep that in mind so I don't give wrong impressions in the future.

>In relation to side-channel attacks, wouldn't it be sufficient to just pad the difference between upper and lower bounds using no-ops?

It can be extremely difficult to design algorithms so that they spend the same amount of time no matter what the input number is. You can't just use no-op instructions because you don't know how many cycles things will take, no-ops aren't perfect at soaking up extra time, and they don't help at all against something like an attacker on the same EC2 host. Even worse is if you have the OS interrupt mid-computation and wreck the cycle-accurate counters that would tell you how many no-ops to use. You want to design it so that the same instruction sequence happens every time, without branching based on input, without having varied memory accesses based on input. And avoiding other variable length pitfalls like division.
Google's first Udacity class taught how to build a self-driving car. The basic algorithm is simple and produces a fairly safe vehicle. In no way should it (or other) have been tested on the freeway as described in the article, however.
I disagree that it isn't addressing the substance of the post.

I think it speaks to the heart of it. Please feel free to elaborate on why I'm wrong.
The way you described it sounded like you just randomly wake up in the middle of the night, which _can_ be related to sleep apnea. If you're waking up that easily it _could_ also mean that you're not going into deep and REM sleep because your brain needs to keep you at a certain level to wake you in case you can't breathe.

Edit: or you're just a light sleeper, but generally waking up several times a night is not common.
I'd love to see the study broken out by people who are listening for confidence vs. content.

I recall showing my mom Paul Buchheit's Startup School 08 talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxP0i9ah8E

I thought it was great, and I remember listening very intently to parse out exactly what he was saying and figure out what he was saying. I showed it to my mom, and her first reaction was "Why are you listening to him? He seems kinda nebbishy."

Notice how many pauses, umms, y'knows, and other filler words are in that speech. I ignored them because I already knew what he had accomplished; my assumption was that he knew what he was talking about, and so I should pay close attention. My mom, who knows nothing about tech and didn't start using GMail until 2012, came away with the impression that he was unconfident, rambling, and didn't really know what he was talking about.

The advice to eliminate filler words may be a consequence of a world where people make snap judgments about the credibility of a person in seconds, and usually are not qualified to judge the content of the speech at all. Notice how the article says that this advice first caught on in the 20th century, right as mass communication and soundbite messages caught on. The studies they cite, however, all featured listeners from the same field as the speaker who already cared about the content.
the "context with which they present it" is that it's not for personal use, so I'm not really sure what you have a problem with. Right on the landing page they say "B2 Cloud Storage is for Developers and IT. What will you build?"

If you want a consumer-facing backup service, that's what backblaze's primary product is for.
Thanks! An interesting one. It's unusual to see an SKI-based implementation of an eager language.
I've seen the Exit symbol. It was green as opposed to the red No Entry.
I'd be interested in hearing if anyone from the UK with a background like this has had a similar experience of prejudice (beyond what I would consider to be background level "you're different"-type feelings).

I am always quite shocked to hear of how strong the divide appears to be in the US between, loosely, "religious conservatives" and "non-religious liberals". I've spent approximately zero time in the US, so I can't really tell if it is partly an exaggeration, but the feelings certainly seem to run quite strong across the media spectrum.
They also assume that they can always draw from their source iterator if they are called on to produce a value, which means that anything you write for them will not be reusable in scenarios where this isn't true.

Transducers don't have this problem.
I grew up in a red state, too, and as an atheist, I got tired of being told I was going to hell by peers and forced to pray at school events.

As such, I have a lot of Christian friends but, it is understandable that some "intellectuals" are hostile to those with strong religious beliefs given that many with similar beliefs deny scientific concepts like evolution, advocate teaching creationism in schools, and deny the existence of global warming.
> Please, explain why this is an unreasonable standard?

Because you haven't described a standard, you've asked for "broad, systematic evidence." What exactly constitutes "broad, systematic evidence"? If we were to provide you with, say, 20 instances of left wing discrimination against the right, would you admit you're wrong? How these conversations usually go is you demand evidence, we provide evidence, you say our evidence is invalid and round and round we go.

This is called "bringing dialectic to a rhetorical debate". You're not arguing logic or facts, you're arguing emotions. If I'm wrong on that fact, please, describe an exact standard that would convince you the OP is, in fact, correct.
Parenting and refereeing soccer.
Can't you just check dependencies into your source control if you really need consistency at that level?
So am I, and I can. It helps, I think, that I earn an excellent living at it, and also that part of "doing computers" for me is solving friends' and family members' IT-support-level problems, even when it's not especially fun to do so.

On the other hand, I might just be lucky. Who knows?
I've been in the tech industry for a while and my experience is that people who stay longer, learn deeper, and do better over the longer term. Have I done a long term longitudinal study over everyone I've ever worked with/for? No.

Of course people will argue that "companies screw employees so I'm just looking out for #1, its just a job." and like all generalizations, including this one, its wrong.

It really comes down to what value you bring to the company, if it isn't sufficient you won't get the offer.
Python Is Not C: Take Two
This is clearly wrong unless you posthumously redefine all right-wing political violence as being leftist.

Though, really, "left" and "right" are useless terms without defining your usage of them beforehand. Rest assured, there are many right-wingers who are all too willing to make the personal political and to stifle dissent. In fact, that's more-or-less a signature distinction of the New Right that emerged around the era of Buckley and National Review.
I don't think GP is saying that the demand you add to the economy increases linearly with income. I think the point is that it's essential to have lots of people with a healthy amount of discretionary income, because non-discretionary income can't really be reallocated no matter how compelling your wares are.
I've already purchased several indulgences from the church.

Fuck what Marten Luther had to say on this.... I'm all set!
There's an irony in shipping practically-empty bottles in trucks farting out smog to a region buying them because of smog.
Octobass: The Largest String Instrument Ever Invented
Maybe they can burn the empty bottles?
Review on Formula Series DXRacer Chair by Drift0r
see also:

http://www.cmuse.org/octobass-largest-string-instrument/
They also licensed it to Spyglass, who did pay the fee and who ultimately licensed it to Microsoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.
I know Top Gear's (previously) Mr. Clarkson always had colorful things to say about what they call "midlanders" which sounds to me like the British version of Midwesterners. No facts there there though, I have no idea how widespread it is.
And it doesn't matter if you got the right answer 100 times faster than needed 99 times if you are late once.
It's great if they work together. But it's also rarely the case historically. Don't feel bad for the Fed. They actually have very real power to influence the economy _indirectly_ History will judge Ben Bernanke as preventing the country (globe?) from a depression via aggressive monetary policy.
Netscape didn't want to pay the fee, Spyglass did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.