skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like "find" is yet another command with the Examples section at the very bottom. I suppose that's the convention or something, but sometimes I do run into a man page with the examples at the top, and it takes a lot of effort not to jump up and shout "Thank you!" loud enough for the author to hear me.

The brain is a powerful inference engine. A few well-chosen examples can teach 95% of normal people 95% of what they need to know (numbers pulled out of my butt, 2016). Put good examples at the top and marvel at how many more people actually seem like they RTFM.
Some engineers got paid by oracle to work on open source software. But there are still contributions from others who weren't paid by oracle, and yet oracle is extracting a lot of profit from said software (more than what they paid, because of the 'free' contributions from the unpaid engineers).
This is old news for geneticists. Since Mendel and Punnet we've known that a.) traits don't average or "mix" from parent to child and b.) individual traits don't assort randomly.

In a more modern context, the Human HapMap project (http://hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) is working on mapping out just how many different assorting groups exist among human genes.
55Kg for the spherical capture rig? Google needs to get GoPro to re-engineer that thing.
That would generally imply criminal negligence or mens rea. At the moment I have no reason to suspect either if it was de rigour of the times.
Uber: a route out of the French banlieues
> ... why don't they support worthwhile OSS efforts ...

They do:

"Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) is an awards program specifically focused on supporting the Open Source and Free Software movement, with an initial allocation of USD $1 million."

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS
> buy a newer (but not necessarily new) computer?

Are you paying for it? I know quite a few people that would like to have a replacement. Hardware costs money, and it's hard to justify that expense when you 1) already have a working (if slow) computer, and 2) are living near the poverty line.

(why that little money? Try living on SSDI (disability) or the realities of living with racism/sexism/ageism/etc. A computer can be a worthwhile expense, but that doesn't mean it's something that can be replaced easily)
It's not a new metal! This title is very misleading. They're just balancing a spring against something that contributes negatively to the spring constant that can be added and removed.
I don't want to debate theology; I meant only that the Bible says homosexuals should be put to death, and it's easy to see how repeating and emphasizing that verse encourages violence.

It's not much harder to see how defining homosexuals as "immoral" or simply as a lesser class of people not entitled to all the same rights as heterosexuals also encourages violence.
Actually for high quality scientific research, that doesn't seem to bad when you consider people will drop 10-20 dollars to go see a movie. Too bad the authors don't see any of it.
Source or link to browser market share? 8% seems too low for FireFox.
Can't see anyone getting away with this in the world of British cryptic crosswords somehow. Any repetition within living memory would surely be met by an en masse raised eyebrow.
You are right. It's not a feature per se, and I removed it from the bullet points. Thanks for the feedback.
It maybe cheaper for us to buy your mother a new computer than to support two endian standards.
I'm pretty new to the metabolic theory of cancer, but I summarise below what I think the main point of the article is:

There is debate between two schools of thought. On one side, Vander Heiden suggests that tumours must be attacked not only in the mitochondrial level (where the ketogenic diet has been suggested as part of a metabolic-based treatment) but also in the cell replication that we traditionally associate cancer with - where chemotherapy helps. He also blames genetic factors, i.e. we can still "inherit" a high cancer risk.

On the other side, Thomas Seyfried argues it's all ultimately mitochondrial and can be controlled via diet. The keto diet, and others, lowers the glucose intake of the body and helps to shut off the fuel supply for tumours. Since he argues cancer is ultimately a metabolic problem, shutting off the glucose supply is a possible cure.

Very interesting stuff.
We have prosecutors actively saying on record that we should not retry obviously innocent men because of the pain this would cause the families. There's your mens rea.
That's why software needs to become public domain if it's abandoned. We already do this for everything else - if you abandon land, you can lose it through "adverse possession". If you abandon your car, someone else can claim title.

When you abandon your stuff, society will eventually let someone else clean up the mess you left.
> Society at large is mandating the lives of everyone in ways that are much more serious and inhibiting than the inability to get married

That's a pretty bad comparison. Limits are in place to protect people's own rights and life. Someone getting married has no influence on someone else's life. Therefore it's an overreach and yes, it is bigotry.

The fight for same-sex marriages is not about religious ceremonies and you should know that. It's about having the same rights as other non-same-sex couples in regards to property rights, inheritance, hospital visit, etc. No one said otherwise.
Having watched -- from the inside, for a while -- another major corporation increasingly leach off of open source (taking much, giving little -- practically nothing), I'm just adding my voice to this perspective.

I'm not inside nor advanced enough to have a... really well-informed, well-grounded opinion, perhaps. But, I've seen enough of corporate behavior, across multiple substantial corporations over extended periods of time, to speak to that.

Even their "charitable giving." Even if is starts with or has components of genuine good will, by the time the suits, PR folks, and bureaucrats get done with it, it's pretty damned self-serving.
The thing that strikes me here is how much we repeat the mistake of Norma (taking the mythical average body and assuming that differences mean problems) today in talking about people's minds.

I started using computers before it was fashionable, before my fellow nerds started being worth billions and ending up on magazine covers. It's hard to describe now how much our difference was seen as wrong, as the sign of a problem.

I have to wonder how much other natural differences gets medicalized. I know I have friends who take drugs for "insomnia" even though the only problem they experience is that they don't always get the "average" night of eight hours uninterrupted sleep. (Which anyhow is a modern invention. [1]) When I was in mourning after my mom died, a few buttinskys suggested I talk to my doctor about antidepressants, even though actual experts thought I was doing fine. And I worry about the number of schoolkids who have their differences medicalized because, in effect, they are inconvenient for overburdened teachers using industrial-age models of education.

I have no solution here, but I definitely find it troubling.

[1] For more, see this podcast, especially the "Til Morning is Nigh" segment: http://backstoryradio.org/shows/on-the-clock-4/
Yes, I flagged this for bad advertising.
It certainly is possible because every banking site has a fixed set of downloads for a particular year. There's no problem at all putting them in a zip file and making that available for download.

For example, for a checking account there are:

1. The monthly statements
2. The transaction data in CSV, QIF, QXF formats
3. The tax filings (1099)
4. Overdraft notices, safe box bills
So, if for example I prevented black people from voting, but then volunteered at a homeless shelter, I could be considered a good person? I can offset my discrimination by doing volunteer work?
Trust me even though it's not updated everything he mentions in the book is still valid. If you want to really know more about specifically modern C++ there is always Modern Effective C++
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230668

Notice also that this topic was quickly flagged off the front page, just like the linked one.
The same Leviticus who claims eating shellfish and birds is an abomination?

"and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest. 12'Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you. 13'These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,…"
Their choice: they could do either, neither, or both.

Presumably Tim Sweeney wants to do UWP or he wouldn't be making such a fuss about it....

Maybe some developers will think it's a good thing if Steam has some competition?
It's like when they take a book away -- only, your security!
Adults generally prefer richer interactions.

Any in-depth references that support this? (Strikes me as curious, as I watch my 6-year-old playing a fairly elaborate Minecraft map…)
I can't speak for Comcast, but when I worked at a medium sized ISP back in the day when ISP meant dealing with dial-up modems, all of this was caused by politics, and not by design.

The customer support department was only really concerned with call times. If the number one call type was customers asking to delete a 'stuck' email, then all that mattered was that the reps could handle that call quickly. The devs were only concerned with shiny new features.

There was a feedback channel so the reps could say "a lot of email seems to be 'stuck', can you make it easier for the customer to delete it?". But that'd be a bug like any other, and not prioritized above others just because the reps said it was their number one type of call. And reps wouldn't fight too much for it, since reducing calls wasn't really a concern, just keeping call times short.

I'd think a big org like Comcast could fix some of these stupid issues with cross-department politics, but then again, from what I've seen, fixing that sort of thing in big orgs is even harder.
Yeah I'd assume the simplest recommendation engines work on correlation. A recommendation engine working on average would be complete garbage, you'd be better off picking recommendation at random.
You might like this article:

http://blog.watsi.org/netflix-and-global-health/
Sigh. That thread was my thread.

* It was for a senior security engineer, not a junior dev

* I looked at 63 candidates (as in applicants / resumes)

* IIRC I screen interviewed around 10

* IIRC we advanced around 4 to the full interview process

I deleted my comments for 3 reasons:

* Someone else took the initiative to link my comments to the Mozilla Vancouver office, and implied that we tried to fill that position locally

* Despite identifying in my initial comment that it was an exceptional circumstance people were acting like it was the norm

* In my initial comment I said interviewing 63 candidates, not reviewing 63 candidates; after the thread blew up I revised it to reviewed, but it's the internet :/

Mea culpa, but hiring qualified security people is really hard these days, and has been for years.

One other very important note - when we were filling that role the guidance was the the position should be filled in one of our offices, not remotely. Once that restriction was removed, the position was filled almost immediately.
Does anyone have a link where one of the Snapchat founder admits they created the app to send photos of their penises to college girls?
This is about the Lion King Storybook CD game, not the beloved, official, "The Lion King" game.
It could be either way

NounVerb - Boost your charts (increase your metrics)
VerbNoun - Chart your boosts (monitor your improvements)
My email is maxerickson@, so about the same as yours. My favorite example was a nice woman who started sending pictures of her newly born baby to the address (thinking the kid could then log in to the account in the future).

It turned out okay, I sent a polite note and she figured it out. One of the main reasons I do anything about it is that I simply don't want to ever see so many of the messages.

My theory is that the Ubisoft guy is also the guy giving the address to employers. Hurray for that.
Collecting the data can be automated. Classifying it, not so. I.e. what is a business expense, what is not, etc., all require knowledge that is not reasonably available to the computer until a human classifies it.

For example, I fill up at a gas station. Is that for a business purpose, or not? The computer cannot know. An awful lot of such decisions need to be made.
> The under-25 generation seems to be actually terrified to have to ... gasp ... TALK to somebody.

No I don't like talking to customer service, their english is normally subpar but that's not even the worst part, they ask you to verify identity with every transfer (and after you verified it through their phone system). Phone lines often drop for no good reason throwing you back to square one. I'm not terrified to talk to someone, I'm terrified I'll spend an hour on the phone and NEVER talk to anyone (Hello IRS).

> Many of them will sit and wait for 2 days after ordering something online when something is available 5 minutes away at a brick and mortar store.

5 minutes? Hahaha. I have to go down 16 floors (elevator but still), find my car in the parking garage, then drive through traffic where the closest grocery store is 10 min away and tech/superstore is 20 min away then I have to go in the store, find what I want, stand in line, and buy it. OR I can order it on the couch in my pajamas and have it cheaper and delivered to my door.

> I don't get it. I guess I'm just old.

You might be old but that's not the issue. You must live next door to every store you ever need to buy things from and call companies that answer with a real understandable human on the first ring.
Critical Role is a fun show, I agree.

My only niggle: "larping and d&d is the cool again" - again? Oh, it very much was not cool the first time around!
Free Speech Ends Where Sedition Begins
Orgo
Wise advice, someone also needs to write an article on why you may not even want to take venture cash at all.
The phrase "open source" predates its use in software.
US invades Iraq to find mass destruction weapons that does not exist. The real attackers from September 11, 15 of the 19 were citizens of Saudi Arabia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...

ISIS is formed from a US IRAQ military prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Bucca
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/-sp-isis-the-in...

We have created a stronger enemy than we started with.

Europe deals with above.
Quicken attempts automatic categorizing, but botches it so badly I have to fix 90% of them manually.
Ios?
Regression to the mean
Can he sue for compensation? Or, better yet, for putting prosecutors into jail for that?
Popular WordPress plugin comes with a backdoor, steals site admin credentials
Yep, there's a link with regularization and also with informative priors – James-Stein works so well because across an incredibly wide range of scenarios, a parameter estimate of infinity is not nearly as likely as a parameter estimate of 0, yet that's what ordinary least squares linear regression assumes.
One such feature is the use of seccomp, which removes all but 4 system calls:

read, write, sigreturn and exit

This is used by many browsers and apps to reduce the impact of security flaws and untrusted code (such as js from a website).
MonitoringScape
Verbio and Nounr are a bit old fashioned now.

And it's all ultimately the fault of the limited .com namespace.
It is easy to blame Fireofx OS now for the waste, but 4 years ago it was not that easy to see that it would be a total disaster. It was just things that Mozilla was betting on did not come through.

The real problem for me is why Firefox OS was not stopped 2 years ago when trends became clear. That is inexcusable given the amount of efforts Mozilla continued to spend on it.
This is actually how it is implemented in OSX. If a sandboxed app shows a 'file open' panel then it automatically obtains the rights to read and write to any file selected (the open panel, or 'powerbox' as it is called, is implemented in a separate process so cannot be manipulated by the app). An app can also request a secure 'bookmark' to this file so it can persist file references.
Well right, especially since it looks like there's, what, 2^4 possibilities here? 1 person in this thread getting a correct guess seems about right.
That's especially aggravating because the IRS can audit your return going back 3 years. And you're right, it's a trivial amount of data to store.

I had a lot of trouble with Paypal because it kept insisting that the transaction data I requested was "too large" for it to handle. It was about 40k of data, less than the web page it served telling me that.
In cancer is all theories are sometimes right and always wrong in the general.
But marriage is a non-religious concept, plenty of atheist/non-spiritual people get married.

Noone is forcing religious organizations to perform gay marriage ceremonies in their places of worship.
>One of these historical warts is that the creation of raw sockets, which is how ping sends ICMP packets, requires root.

It's a good thing raw sockets require root. Raw sockets are incredibly powerful tools that can be used for all sorts of mischief (including source address spoofing in case of udp, so perfect for various dos attacks)

It's a feature if some clueless user that just downloaded some Trojan flash player update can't fire off a DNS reflection attack against a third party
So all of those knots in my back and side rib muscle - where oxygen is constricted - will become cancerous?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11228907 and marked it off-topic.
According to the wikipedia article it is in fact about the actual genuine Lion King game, the in-article picture is incorrect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_King_(video_game)

> The Windows 3.1 version relied on the WinG graphics API, but a series of Compaq Presarios were not tested with WinG, which caused the game to crash while loading.

> The crashes caused game developers to be suspicious of Windows as a viable platform and instead many stuck with MS-DOS. To prevent further hardware/software compatibility issues, Direct X was created.
Yes. I recall one in particular that I got on the family's computer back in the day that got my sister and I a right proper screaming to by my mother. We had just gotten a brand new multimedia package, including a Voyetra audio tool -- the one that tried to look like a component stereo system. Well, we recorded a sample of some song, and proceeded to hit the double speed button, because things sped up sound funny. We waited, and waited as the 386 SX/25 worked on this task, creating a massive 30+ megabyte file, at which point the computer bluescreened, with windows gasping and flailing with all kinds of errors related to not being able to find files, corruption, etc.

Now, the hard drive itself was about 130 megs. Not huge, but not terribly tiny either for a computer bought the day the LA Riots started. However, the action to speed up the song created a new file which filled up that hard drive, and once at the end of the disk, Windows did the most logical thing it could do. It started writing from the beginning of the disk, paying no heed to what was already on it. Over the partition table, over system files, over c:\windows, everything. I'll spare you the details of the righteous fury we were subjected to after, but suffice to say, it was non-fun.
Maybe I should caveat with "richer social interactions". I also did not claim that users of snap chat were not intelligent or did not enjoy rich experiences. Simply that those who use snap chat enjoy the shallowness of it.

Here is an interesting article that was posted on HN -

http://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-te...
Show HN: I have just write a tab-like mode for Emacs, what do you think?
Debian's zigzagging between package management frontends (dselect, apt-*, aptitude, dpkg, now apt?, … all in use in parallel) is incredibly frustrating. Pacman e.g. is so much easier to use because everything's in one well-structured command.
I vaguely remember the days when people mined at home using their CPUs and people would write their own GPU miner and hoard them to get am edge. These days a long gone.

ASIC miners have been great but they cannot scale indefinitely. Currently even the larger pools have electricity costs somewhere between 30% to 50% percent of their average payout. Previous halfing are handled more gracefully because they occured when the value of BTC was going up, and it won't be the case in July. And it's not like we can somehow manage to make miners with 100% more performance per watt either.
>* denying vehemently for months that there is no financial arrangement with Pocket and then casually admitting it in a Wired interview on other topics

My favorite link on this:

https://np.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/3vijxi/psa_mozilla_...
The only reason I didn't use encryption on my Fire is because I didn't know it supported it, until the news came out that they removed it.
Yes. And even if I didn't, it would be easy enough to look up, and there's no danger to me for not knowing it. That's not where C++'s learning curve has its sharp edges.
Your comments have been breaking the HN guidelines by calling names and being unduly personal. Please don't do that on this site.
It's certainly not simple. This is a big UX problem, but one worth solving.
The New Yorker just had a great story about cheating in Bridge, with a similar theme of digital technology suddenly making it much easier to detect and expose shenanigans that would have otherwise gone unnoticed:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/07/the-cheating-pr...
Phone calls are synchronous. If I phone someone, I have to commit to (usually) an hour of my life to get the problem solved.

Email is asynchronous. I can send the message and then get on with something else while waiting for a reply.

I loathe phoning support.
Modern psychology does not care about average it cares about capable of functioning in society. If you can't avoid say screaming in public that's a problem not just a non issue. Arguably the tolerances might be low, but it's hard to argue with the basic premise.

Granted doctors assume if your talking to them you have a problem. But that's arguably a reasonable prior.

PS: The extremes of behavior get very far out there, notmenjoying talking to people is fine, not being able to so communicate is an issue.
Business Insider Is Losing Money but Growing Fast
How Detroit Public Schools continue to struggle from mismanagement
Yeah, tracking protection already works in non-private browsing mode. All that's needed is a one-line code change (and the will) to unhide the UI.
The "correct" way to understand this phenomenon is via regression, in which case it boils down to the simple fact that the regression lines E(θ|X) and E(X|θ) are different. (This "Galtonian perspective" is the subject of one of my favorite papers of all time, http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/euclid.ss/1177012274). This is also the only intuitive explanation I am aware of which explains why Stein's phenomenon only occurs in dimensions three and higher.
usually I'd agree, but I think academic publishing is different from purely artistic work. Research is funded up front by grants. The resulting product is a piblic good, and should be made available to the publoc with zero margin.

If the research has practical value, the authors can capture that through patents and similar systems.
Yes, and I totally trust the government wouldn't modify that version to have it work on everyone's iPhone. Because they'd never just remove that restriction by editing the program, that would be wrong!