skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given a pride of lions in Africa having severe domestic turmoil over leadership selection issues, what are the odds anyone in, for example, Wisconsin, either knows, cares, and is capable of sending an effective peacekeeping force?

You can even abstract out distance. I'm pretty sure there's some hierarchical struggle going on with the squirrels in my front yard, but I'm also pretty sure I don't care. And we're fellow mammals competing for the same nut trees and fruit bushes. If there are Star Trek Hortas tunneling under my backyard, I really don't care as long as they stay out of my basement.

Even within our own species there's a pretty strong taboo against colonialism that seems to automagically form right after (inevitable?) failed early experiments with colonialism. The odds of white people running Africa again are pretty low, even though we obviously did a better job than they are doing. Despite being incredibly easy to reach and staggering power imbalance, the colonies in Africa didn't last long and even a fairly irrational space alien would see the futility in trying to take over Earth.

There are many reasons to invade Canada. Stealing their resources of spar and mast grade timber for 1800s era sailing ships would be a pretty stupid idea in the current year. Its possible there's a natural magic filter such that being able to travel interstellar and having enough power to turn earth into a colony naturally means there are no material resources on earth worth the taking... What would a galaxy wide empire do with titanium, silicon based semiconductor electronics, or rocket engines, only miserable savages a million levels beneath them use stuff like that. It would be like handing a modern american a flint spear tip, what good is that other than in a museum?
Don't forget integrated git support too! And yeah the type definition files are awesome since you get intellisense with documentation in it! I wonder if the author of the article has given Code a good look because it would seem to meet most of his needs.

My only pain point with VS Code right now is the lack of any kind of core REPL support. I'd love to be able to sling stuff back and forth between source code and a REPL like you can in emacs. And yeah I know about Command-C - I just want to do everything in the IDE.
New Mexico brings Volkswagen to a lawsuit
Ireland is regularly called a tax haven and comes under heavy scrutiny. It seems politically convenient for many of the bigger countries to point the finger rather than introduce their own reforms. Oddly often by places like the UK who happily operates the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Jersey in the same manner. Irelands advertised rate is actually quite close to its effective rate which most other countries don't do. Belgium, where the official rate stands at 34% but this report said companies were handing over 6.5% on their profits. The truth is though if everywhere is partially a tax haven then no where is.

http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/paying-taxes/pdf/pwc-paying-taxes-2...
AI Benchmark Will Ask Computers to Make Sense of the World
The user dang is the moderator. A charitable reading of his comment would be that dang was relieved that someone else was responding to the subthread in a way consistent with his sense of how people should act on Hacker News.

Meta-discussion of the black bar is intellectually uninteresting at best. Off topic in the middle. And disrespectful of people's grief at worst. The least of these is reason enough to downvote.
Obama’s Tortured Love Affair with Gadgets
I love these insights, they have strong echoes of "A Mathematicians Lament" by Paul Lockhart, another excellent essay on the topic.

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.... [PDF]
'go get' is a highly useful bag of cats. The fact that code.google.com needed to be hard coded rubs me in such the wrong way for what should be a generalized tool. I wish instead of magic self resolving paths, it just took git repo ssh/http paths.
Whereas men don't need to survive, they are carried along by a wave of applause and cheering? That must be the reason almost every man ends up being CEO eventually, and women are stuck doing all the work.
Author here, I haven't tried Visual Studio Code but i'll be sure to check it out.

As a side note, WebStorm also supports TypeScript definitions. It has an menu to download and add them to your project from definitely typed under "Preferences->Languages & Frameworks->JavaScript>Libraries"
Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator, a New Open Source Tool
The One Thing Programmers and Musicians Have in Common
@wanda do you know about HN Cards on iOS? (shameless plug, but it's free so...)
The article covers the challenges of selecting the optimal number of images for your responsive website and introduces the free Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator web tool.
The future of SSRI is the garbage! They are shooting blind!

Talk therapy FTW!
I considered doing the same thing myself, as a way to start random conversations with local coders & startup folks.

I often work from cafes or public places, and I figured it's a way of inviting coders who walk past to say "Hey, I saw your sticker... do you read Hacker News? I'm working on a startup too. What are you working on?"
> I think interactive theorem provers would go a long way towards making children understand symbolic reasoning.

I can agree with that, but symbolic reasoning isn't everything. As shown by Gödel, you can't have symbolic system capable of proving every true fact about natural arithmetic without also proving some false "facts" about natural arithmetic.

The ultimate game doesn't have rules. On some level, math is just few pieces of meat speculating about abstract notions originating from and tied to their physical experience. Or something like that :)
So Far, Amazon and Netflix Are Sundance’s Top Buyers
To the contrary, don't most interview problems overemphasize inventiveness?
Why shouldn't women quit at age 50 because of children? If they sacrificed family time for their career before, they might realize that suddenly there is not a lot of time left with their children before they will leave the house. Maybe at 50 they have secured enough money as well to be comfortable working less. Older men seem to be taking time off for family, too.

It's a shame that they have to discredit their paper by ending it with pure speculation ("could include...").
The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain
RewardJi
Implementation of Conductive Concrete for Deicing (2008) [pdf]
Per the story he was alive and well in 2014, which is remarkable in itself.
Crimes with a victim often have a witness, and thus are easy to sanction. Only victimless crime needs financial privacy eliminated in order to sanction, since all parties to such crimes are mutually consenting and thus not likely to come forward.

The destruction of individual rights for the sake of preventing individual crime either ends in extreme centralisation of power, with the party given the exclusive privilege of surveiling the population gaining power over the masses through its informational superiority, which makes institutional abuse by the political elite and the organs of the state more likely, or a morass of gridlock where no one can act without the permission of everyone else in society.
The debugger is huge to be sure. But a bigger thing for me personally is the TDD workflow. Being able to have it sit there and autorun a subset of relevant mocha tests as I am working is huge for me.
In terms of things like the Amazon Echo, it is not Zero UI, but more like Zero Visual UI. There is still a user interface, you just can't see it.
10 fresh examples of diffuse shadow UIs
If I as a US Citizen were to work overseas, I would owe US tax on the wages I make outside the country. Why doesn't the same logic apply for a company that makes profits overseas? This is a rhetorical question, obviously, we all know why the system is stacked in favor of corporations.
> Many students, however, "rediscover" math when they get to their first class that involves theorems and proofs (often in high-school geometry)

High school geometry (at least in the US, and in my experience) is the worst of them all! Two-column proofs should be banned.
What happens to a victim of any crime is never fair and you will never restore that fairness with any punishment.

You can accept that, adjust your goals and move forward or deal with the inevitable frustration and anger of being unable to get vengeance for the rest of your life.
I've lost count of how often I've heard friends and family say things like "well there's nothing important in my computer/email/Facebook anyway". I try to explain about how hackers can use credentials to eventually get into their bank accounts, steal their identity, use their computer in botnet and spam schemes etc. but it usually comes across as farfetched for some reason. I'm sure it sinks in when they or someone they know is directly impacted by a hacker but I think the problem is this doesn't happen often enough.
> That relies on the fundamental assumption that all criminals will reform their way after a few years in jail and therefore deserve a second chance.

First of all, most countries with a life sentence does not have an upper bound (would be silly to call it life inprisonment), but rather a practice with an average sentence of such a length. There is nothing that prevents someone who is consideered dangerous to be kept in prison longer.

Second: Those who are kept the longest behind bars are those who are sentenced to psychiatric treatment (It's actually odd that you can be sentenced to psychicatric treatment, but you can in many european countries). That is essentially "you'll get out when you are no longer dangerous to yourself or others", which in many cases can be much longer than even the longest prison sentences. Many mass murderes and similar will be in this category.

Third: the idea behind short sentences is diminishing returns, the responsibility of the system to reform the convicted (if they fail it's their fault) and perhaps most of all - econonomic reasons. Unless I see concrete evidence that longer sentences are actually cost effective for keeping me safer, I'm not going to allow politicians to make such laws.

Cost effectiveness is key. One can't just argue that longer sentences automatically makes the streets safer, since it costs a lot. You have got to compare, dollar for dollar, with the effect spending the same money on (for example) Police, Drug treatment, Education, Job creation, ...

So the fundamental assumption is not that all criminals will reform, but that most will, others will at least reform enough to not be dangerous enough that the cost of keeping them in prison is worth it to society - the money can be better spent elsewhere.
Your gut has been optimized over billions of years of evolution to work. A much more likely difference is how jittery some people are.

Sure, if A and B sit still for 8 hours there is no difference. But, many people are constantly in motion.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2163173/Toddlers-d...
Exactly this. I have the muscle memory built so I can just bang out the macro really fast, and evil lets it contain a mix of vim or emacs commands.
I'm not sure how other emacs users do this, but I use `projectile-grep` to grep for symbols in a project all the time. In the spacemacs this is bound to `SPC g s p`.
Brilliance was even better, but never really got the same mindshare. (Possibly because it was quite a bit more expensive.)

Still haven't found anything as fun to use.
I also switched to VS Code after using WebStorm forever. Try it out.
This sort of stuff really aggravates me. In a similar anecdote, half of my town is unable to get Virgin media, purely because when it came to laying cables under a major A road, the council kicked up a fuss, so Virgin just walked away.
This is ridiculous.

Mass deployment of broadband happened two decades after Thatcher left power and it's not even clear that the technologies of the 80s would have been of much help for modern broadband.

I think three things are blocking the deployment of optic fiber in the UK:

1. Monopolies. Even with DSL, the UK was years behind France, which broke the monopoly of France Telecom before the UK, and let competition offer 1Mbit plus broadband (I think the early FT and BT packages were limited to 500kbit or 1mbit for commercial reasons).

2. Planning restrictions. As much of a problem for housing than for wiring homes with optic fibre.

3. Brits love tiny houses over apartment blocks which makes it very expensive to deploy even in urban area.

Happy to hear of better reasons from someone closer to the matter.

[edit] corrected shameful spelling mistakes
Interesting. IS it wrong that my first thought was that they look benign and unobtrusive enough that they could be easily socially engineered into somewhere to start scanning for vulnerabilities... ?

When flashed with the appropriate firmware of course.
VAT is one of the worst possible solutions. The ones who carry most of the tax burden are usually the consumers, through higher prices (though it depends on the nature of the good). VAT is one of the most discriminating taxes out there, where the poor pay relatively speaking much more tax than the rich - because consumption doesn't increase linearly with wealth.
And Blitz Basic was a blast. It supported embedded assembler, which was hugely fun and educational to mess around with.
Barring an extremely small number of cases, this is not true by any means. The cognitive skills required to learn math are the same as the cognitive skills required to learn language. If you're interested in learning more about this, check out Keith Devlin's "The Math Gene" [1]

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Math-Gene-Mathematical-Thinking/dp...
Meditate. It won't fix everything but it helps.
I really love what plaintextoffenders is trying to do, but i've lost all confidence in it.

Most of the sites on there are because of things like they will email you a temporary password forcing you to change it on first login. Digital ocean has a big red banner because if you don't provide a private key, they send you a randomly generated root password for new servers you make.

FFS apple.com is on their list because someone SENT IN an email with their username and password for their phone on it, and they replied with a "work authorisation" letter that included the message they sent it...

That's not what it's meant to stop...
Yes. No. Maybe. Depends on the use cases, risks, threats etc. What are you trying to reach? What are you trying to avoid?

TL;DR: There is no Silver Bullet.
> Ideally web app and its data is instantly accessible anywhere, not just on your desktop.

Where the data resides is not a distinction between web apps and native apps. See Apple's bundled apps, like Notes, Contacts, etc.: you can access the same data via a website or through native iOS/OS X apps.

However, one advantage that native apps have when it comes to accessing cloud data, is that you can still access and update that data even when you have no connection to the internet.

> which is why Apple is deliberately keeping Safari in 2010

What do you mean with this?

> The only consistent look & feel is with ms office apps like excel, word and powerpoint.

This sounds like you are primarily a Windows user, where indeed, MS Office apps seem to be the only ones that share a consistent look-&-feel among them. Even Windows' own applets vary wildly in how they present basic UI elements (like toolbars and Control Panels.)

The overall situation, while with its own unique flaws, is much more coherent on OS X, across all vendors.

> Performance is also a lot about how and who wrote the app rather than if the app is native.

True, but web apps will always be removed from the underlying OS's "metal" by at least one degree, no?
Yeah, a few days ago we noticed that our wiki pages fell off Google and Bing search results. No idea why, and Google Webmaster Tools aren't helpful, either. :(
I always felt I was a member there until they changed the return policy. I always felt I could buy something, even paying more, knowing that I could return it if there was an issue. Not anymore. Now I go there after checking other stores first, it's a last resort for me now, not a first.
Love it, i played so many of these games :) Also once made a ball bounce around the screen using amiga basic. Guess that was my first attempt at programming :D Thanks for sharing!
Don’t Outsource Your Brain to Consultants
Anybody know of any schools/programs that introduce math to children in some of the ways that Minsky suggests? (In case it isn't obvious, I'm not a programmer (nor do I work with math)...but I am a parent.)
At 50 years old, most people's children would be having children of their own, let alone be out of the house. Retiring to spend more time with your adult children wouldn't make much sense when those children are likely just ramping up their own careers.
I can't think of any stores in the US that don't take checks.

Most major retailers (e.g. WalMart) have electronic check acceptance, where they scan the check, print all the details on it, then hand it back to you. It's faster than a debit card, if a bit awkward at first.
Faraday Future is a fascinating company. I have some friends that work there, and I hope to one day get a peek around the offices :)

But! As I've told them, charging infrastructure is critical to EV adoption, and Tesla is absolutely killing it there with there Supercharger network. CHAdeMO and CCS aren't even remotely close in reliability, availability or price.

Of course Tesla should keep a close eye on direct competitors. But, until a manufacturer actually releases a real car, with a > 200 mile range, AND with a reasonable charging infrastructure commitment, I think they don't have to lose too much sleep.
Sugar Nanny -Tracks your sugar-level and provides insulin recommendations
Sorry guys, last link didn't let you view the submission. Posting again!
Research has demonstrated that there is about about a 15% base difference between people with "slow" metabolisms and "fast" metabolisms. In addition, the composition of your gut microbiota significantly impact how efficient you are at extracting energy from the food you eat. To top it all off, some people notice a larger/more immediate reduction in BMR when they reduce calories than others.

At the end of the day calories in/out is still correct. It is just more complicated than how much food you eat and how much activity you engage in.
Early-Stage Investing for Entrepreneurs/Individuals Just Got Way More Attractive
The World Economic Forum – hours worked to buy an iPhone as an economic metric
I like the idea and trying new things.
However, here are a few subjective points (I am not a designer!):

* Somehow pinterest pictures paint a richer front page, and that works for them. The frontpages from HN do not give the same pleasing aesthetic.

* What I like about the current front page is that nothing distracts me from the content (headlines). Loads quickly with minimal clutter.
Beautiful stuff, thanks for sharing.
Why Just-In-Time Planning Is Essential in Product Development
Rumsfeld's career is the stuff of Trotsky's wildest dreams, so yeah, I guess you're right.
It's simple. If you're not passionate for a topic you're not going to care for it.

I hated math when I wasn't passionate about it. In school a lot of math classes were about route memorization, not going through or writing beautiful proofs.

Why don't they teach more abstract math in school? I love studying number theory and category theory.
what's the procedure to update in debian? the offical repo will be updated immediatly or what?
Someone needs to let the Gophers know about this little concept known as 'indirection'.
The "website going out of business destroyed my content" problem is one that needs to be addressed. One promising idea is content-addressable storage, like IPFS-hosted repos -- anyone can self-host at a stable URL. (I don't know if IPFS has a good solution yet to the problem branches solve in git, namely having a named, auto-advancing pointer to the content address of the latest version.)
Lightning Talks from ArticJS 2016
Marvin Minsky: Negative Expertise
A few days ago Google changed thier ranking algorithm. My blog was wiped out from 400UU/day to 20UU/d.
The new Webstorm version coming up is several times faster, its amazing. On a Mac its so fast its literally like using Sublime.

This is due among other things due to their upgrade to Java 8.

This is the link to the early access program https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/WI/WebStorm+EAP
Ask HN: Which books would you suggest to a college student?
Hello,

I'm a sophomore undergraduate. I find myself reading mostly CS books. I like to read, but I haven't read much outside of non-fiction. I feel like I'm becoming too one-dimensional.

I want to be more open-minded, and am interested in Philosophy and History. I'd be grateful if someone could recommend me some books to read.
Why Dell Is Losing the PC Marketing Wars and Who Is Winning
Show HN: An online Mind Mapping tool built with Meteor (My friends built it)
Show HN: I made bakeit, a handy pastebin command for your shell
You mean my HN Karma points are not redeemable in gold bullion? SHocking :)
That old topic. Ironically, I find people who work with math (chosen to work with math, that is) to probably be quite unqualified to truly understand the problem. He opens by saying that learning avoiding mistakes before any bigger concepts is a major root of this but then again, people do make mistakes in math (even math professors) and it's a field where any mistake can completely invalidate the work. Also most people learn math for practical uses rather than as a science or field of research which also gives a different perspective (for most people, it's more important in life to not drop a zero when calculating a bill than it is to understand, say, a Homomorphism).

Math simply is hard. It goes against all our good-enough, subconscious brain functions we use every day to make basic "bigger or smaller" decisions. The problems mathematicians call "interesting" are counter-intuitive pretty much by definition and now imagine someone thinking like that writing a math book for children. The language used is vast and was built over literally millennia of mathematicians appending their own little modifiers above, below, and all around other mathematical symbols, resulting in monstrosities like the function for the Fourier Transformation which can actually be described quite intuitively geometrically.

Mathematicians want "simplicity" and "beauty" but their definition of either is absurdly different from any that would take into account basic human intuition. That's the problem. And there barely are any mathematicians that would admit that this could ever be a bad thing.
Did they communicate these issues via a backchannel to LibreSSL and BoringSSL yet?
Derek Sivers is super inspiring. He has a book called Anything You Want about his days running CD Baby, it's my favorite business book (and also my favorite audiobook). I think I've bought at least 10 copies now, I've given several copies to clients & friends.

He gave a talk at WDS 2015 that includes some of the highlights from his book & blog:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/134968996
Chinese villagers 'descended from Roman soldiers'
What - no Ulitma IV screenshots? After moving over from the C64 version, I loved the Amiga graphics - plus who doesn't love a "Please Insert Thy Play Disk" prompt.

https://youtu.be/wxxo-G-WnIU?t=250