skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dang, five dollar bet this gets to 100 points. :)

This in response to an earlier exchange about how race and gender related posts get many votes in the beginning and are then flagged to death, but ones about class always make it to the top. Is there a way to see how many times an article has been flagged? I would like to gather data for my assertions.
Interesting. But then my question is how big is the user base that WANTS to use Mathematica but cannot AFFORD it? Because for a first time user just hunting for a symbolic math, the buy in might not be there.
It's deliberately part of the New Yorker's writing style. http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/ensure-vs-insure
Voting machines have less scrutiny
What about http://rsymbolic.org and obviously symPy ?
Gnome 3.20 released
I was reminded of RMS's autoreply:

I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a long time delay. I am
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The European borders prevent everyone from enetering. Whether humane or not is irrelevant.

There are few placec in which you are allowed to cross. You can be in need and cross there.
Propaganda is not known for or particularly concerned with consistency ('we've always been at war with Eastasia'). I don't know who did this and don't have an opinion personally, but your conclusion (though logical) isn't particularly meaningful for attribution.

From what I've observed, the Russian political class is not particularly concerned with hiding financial corruption.
Apply HN Aggregator (repost)
I would never want to build a product or service just to collect people's money with false claims. This idea would have to be highly valuable and affordable for many people in order to be successful.
Postgres doesn't alott (as far as I know) the planner a maximum amount of time. Rather, it picks the algorithm to use based on the number of joins.

The computational complexity of the default algorithm used by the query optimizer depends on the number of joins, and will explode if the number of joins gets high. Thus, if the number of joins exceeds a certain value (the default is 12), it will switch to use the genetic query optimizer (GEQO) [1], which uses genetic algorithms to randomly search towards an optimal plan. GEQO isn't constrained by time, either, but programmed with a maximum number of generations.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/geqo.html
I don't feel good about this.

My guess is that his secretary still uses emails even if he's not. So basically he has just transfered his communication tasks to another person and somehow it is ok for him to enslave a person for jobs he doesn't want to do since he's a much more "important" human being. This is pure arrogance.

I think I will start to question what I learned from this guy. Maybe I give up on latex, not that there is a better alternative.
If you don't use email, then you don't get to have an opinion on how it's spelled.
Separate Latex libraries already exist, why not simply extend one of those?
Hey guys made this quick hack to view the "Apply HN" posts by ranking, date or random. It got to the front page of Product Hunt and I am glad people are finding it useful. Trying to let the right audience know of it in case someone missed it ( credit to someone who posted in Apply section with a daily aggregator a while back ). Sorry for reposting. Cheers :)
moon and mars basically the same thing? O_O
the radiation earth||mars and earth||moon are quite different in both duration and intensity. I believe its something they really haven't figured out.

speaking of duration, that's a big deal in both fuel and effect on human passengers.

but lets get to the important stuff, mars is actually a planet, with an atmosphere. saying the two are equivalent is more or less saying kicking a field goal outside on a windy day is the same as kicking one in a dome. except when you miss everyone dies.

you also need 5x escape velocity from mars (we want them to come back too), which means more fuel and landing with lots of fuel. or at the very least sending fuel prior and hope nothing happens to it.
FuckingClangWarnings: Which Clang Warning Is Generating This Message?
> Also, there are very few reasons to buy your own hardware anymore -- cloud services are better at almost everything unless it's a low-latency operation

Cost. I've yet to see a cloud service that get anywhere near as cheap as owning your own hardware (fully loaded with financing costs, full staff costs etc.) for anything that runs more than ~8 hours a day.

Cloud services have plenty of uses, especially for brief capacity spikes. Need to run an experiment for a few days that requires 20 extra servers? Go nuts. But even with reserved instances, if most of your servers run 24/7, you're throwing money out the window.

(And you don't need to own hardware - you can go for rented dedicated managed servers and still get ~80% of the savings)
One way would be to refer the customer to a specialist for removal of whatever agent is found.
It's not so much the logos or the branding, it's the build quality. I used to run Ubuntu on old ThinkPads, ditched it like an ugly girlfriend once I could afford a Macbook Pro. Old ThinkPads were a step up from commodity PC laptops, which were a step up from desktops. In a brief fit of FOSS zeal I bought a System76 Galago Pro, but the build quality was so inferior to a Macbook Pro that I relegated it to desktop duty. If I felt the need to move off of Apple hardware for whatever reason for my primary ride, it'd be back to a ThinkPad.

Rdl specified Dell or Lenovo also for the reason that the supply chain for those two ecosystems are well-developed enough that providing customer support won't be a huge hassle.
> "The most encouraging is that we can now produce full-strength TFMs with a pulse strength 1.0 times that of the TFM," he added.

I have to assume that's a typo, right?
You can just buy the laptop and disassemble and cut the wires to the webcam and microphone.
The devices that I buy generally don't ask me to do work for them. If they do, for example by spying on my behavior, then I'm not so happy. On the other hand, I may accept some spying/doing work for companies if I get something in return - which happens for some Google products, like search.

When doing a captcha, I don't really get anything. It's something I have to do because the website I'm using has the problem that they can't find a better way to identify bots. So I do a captcha, fine. But, if there's benefits for whatever company offers them, i.e. I'm doing work for them without getting anything in return, or without everybody getting anything in return (the GPL option), then I'm again not so happy.
As someone who has been on the other side of the table hearing the news that a great candidate has just taken another offer, I share your mentality. I'm not going to try to get a candidate who has made up their mind to break their newly-signed contract. And a candidate who would accept an offer only then to instantly break it because someone threw a few more dollars at them isn't the type of person I want to work with.

It's one thing if someone says they are debating between a couple offers (as you did); at that point I'll fight hard for the candidate that I want. But the instant someone commits to an offer somewhere else they're entirely off limits and I wouldn't ever counter-offer at that point even if they would take it.
Totally agree, I'm somewhat in sympathy with Shalizi's argument that g is just the result of iterated factor analysis. That being said, done well, these kinds of tests can provide useful data, especially if you're willing to randomly hire to calibrate performance (which no one ever is, sadly).
Bitcoin is probably less private (in common use) than credit cards. Instead of having to ask the credit card companies what you're up to, anyone can just check.
RT is propaganda/psyops on a level that doesn't quite have a Western equivalent. This is not a statement in support of Western journalistic independence and objectivity, so much as it is how carefully packaged/constructed RT is.

edit: Hah! Downvotes. I read RT. I read WSJ (even OpEds sometimes, but I don't enjoy it). I read AJ. I read NYT. I read from many sources and high degree of skepticism of all of them. But if you read RT regularly, I doubt you're the one downvoting.
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Ask HN: Is it worth paying for a Coursera course?
There are lots of free courses online but some offer the option of paying and receiving a certificate on completion.

Does anyone here have one of those certs? Do they hold any value? Is it worth paying for the cert when you can still do the full course for free?
When I check my Facebook feed, as I do once every 3 months or so, I find literally nothing from my friends and a whole lot of sponsored posts or posts from groups I follow. I've shared this with friends and basically confirmed that Facebook has become this place you don't really have much use for anymore but you can't really leave because of years of shit you've dumped into it and connections you've made. So now you just sort of quietly linger, read some spam and close the tab for a while.
How do you feel about people who transfer their "cooking tasks" to the people they pay to cook for them?
So he's self-centered enough that he expects everybody to read through all of this essay. Interesting.
No, why would it be? Previously, pulse strengths 2-3.2 times as strong as the TFM were required, and they're trying to bring it down, so this is a good result. It's a weird way of phrasing it, but I assume that's for emphasis.
I pointed out in my first post that the countries in questions have their own borders.

The "EU" isn't an entity you reciprocate visa free travel from and to. Some member states of the EU, don't share the same visa rules as other member states. Such as in this case here. Why am I expected to talk in circles with you.
A large NRO spy sat of some sort.
The fees are small and perhaps the form itself is simple, but something that bureaucrats never seem to consider is how much documentation you have to read and understand before you can pay the fee and fill the form.

The FAQ from the US site runs to 6023 words of dense language. If you're not completely fluent in English, you're not going to understand every nuance. And this is just the FAQ.

The Canadian site is similarly lacking empathy for human beings. For example, it says, "Canadian citizens, including dual citizens, and Canadian permanent residents are not eligible to apply for an eTA." While this is technically correct, why couldn't they have phrased it as, Canadian citizens, including dual citizens, and Canadian permanent residents do not an eTA and should not apply for one. That would have been much easier to understand.
There's been discussion of such a feature but AFAIK it's not implemented.

If you consider a data warehousing situation where queries may run for multiple minutes (or longer!) adding a second of additional processing to come up with a better plan can be well worth it. The reverse situation is an OLTP plan where the query itself will execute in 1ms; additional planning time is pointless.

A more complicated (though if you ask me wayyy cooler) approach is to spend X time units finding a decent plan, start executing the query, and then keep planning in the background. If you come across a much better plan and you're not done yet, switch to that plan instead. The MVCC semantics of Postgres would allow for this as the new plan would see the same data "as of" when the query started. Again this isn't implemented yet but has been tossed around.
Postgres offers a variety of session-based tunings for their genetic query optimizer. See items such as geqo_effort. Note that postgres caches query plans, so the query planning cost for a well-constructed query will only be paid once(ish).

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/runtime-config-que...
> enslave

employ

> important

uniquely skilled

> pure arrogance

division of labor
#!/bin/bash

#This prints random words.

echo "$(shuf -n 32 /usr/share/dict/words --random-source=/dev/urandom | tr '\n' ' ')"

======================

The critical thing is that you do an offering of love, first. Be witty and charming. Tip: God's favorite thing on TV is soap operas.

You get back equal value like a fair barter.

God says...
Dalmatians whittler farmland brokenhearted creature's outpatients paleontology duel nosedove Suzanne's adornments annihilation's crayons hippy pomade's whales testicles Hegel Georges vignetted gigolo ladybugs females stalagmite's settle Horus unwelcome sandmen Clara grandstands Neptune's sticks
I didn't continue with education after my degree mainly because I wasn't sure of what I actually wanted. I'm interested to hear what others did for their Masters/PhDs and what ideas people have.
Qualcomm server chips now available to ARM developers through cloud service
Most recent simple comparisons I've tried or seen others try between the code/compilers of Perls 5 and 6 show the latter starting and executing about one or two orders of magnitude slower.

Regardless, Perl 6 is fast enough for some use cases, has been steadily improving for years (around 3x to 5x per year over the last 5 years), and looks set to do so for years to come.
> Why do media outlets persist in tiptoeing around these issues?

Because we all know who runs the place, right? It's not like you can bite the hand that feeds you.

It never used to be that way, but government overreach and control is, well, out of control.
Yeah, Test of Metal is a mountain bike race, where the numbers are typically zip-tied to the handlebars. I can't think of a situation where the number would fall off with no trace. A bad enough crash could tear the number, but would be unlikely to tear it off completely. And a crash that bad would cost time, and possibly cause injury or damage to the bike.
"Bad smells" are the symptoms that a refactoring is required.

Code sniffers and linters and style checkers are tools that detect that a bad smell is present.

An architectural bad smell is violation of the architecture. IE the view modifies data, the controller is too fat, etc.

Hence it is required to have a Code sniffer for architectural bad smells.

However considering that there are so many architectural patterns, so many frameworks that implement them it is herculean task.

So could it be possible to use Machine Learning to detect them hence the thesis:

"Automatic detection of architectural bad smells with Neural Networks"
Heh, yeah, Ben Affleck as a kid on an adventure.
So I'm guessing he's not on Slack?
Awesome site, thanks for posting! I'm in the the same boat as the OP and just happened to see this thread pop up while investigating, so this at least serves as a good source for comparisons to relatively more expensive options.
Nice lineup! Can't wait to nerd out for a week. Had a great time last year rubbing shoulders with a lot of smart people and the hack nights were great too.
> My secretary also prints out all nonspam email messages addressed to taocp@cs.stanford.edu or knuth-bug@cs.stanford.edu,

She definitely does use email. I don't see what is so wrong with paying someone else to do the necessary time consuming tasks with low priority when you have other high priority things to do. Should there also be no janitors?
And plasma tweeters!
I can see the correlation to student performance, comparing typing on a full laptop with a big bright screen and distractions VS a blank sheet...

However, at least for some subjects, I think note taking with technology can be perfectly accurate and enable review better than handwriting. (At least for me.)

This was my note taking system for a more recent history class, (usually a poor subject for me) where most everything in the lectures had to be remembered:

Record audio, while basically typing a transcript... (I used audionote and a Bluetooth keyboard on an iphone (small screen) with no notifications.) This helped me stay focused on every word. I also sat near the front.

In an audio editor, (audacity) I removed background noise, changed the rate 2x, detected and removed pauses between words, then edited out where he repeated himself...

That compressed a two hour lecture to about 25 minutes.

Then I could listen and follow along and correct my notes, reviewing the entire semester fairly quickly.

Students that took handwritten notes near me asked for a copy of my compressed audio and transcript/outline, which I put in a Dropbox.

I personally would not have aced or (perhaps) survived that class by just handwriting notes. I'm too slow/messy and prone to doodling...

With malleable text and audio it's easier for me to accurately trim, condense, and focus on what is needed.

Another route would be to improve at hand note taking, but I'd worry that I missed something important.
I'm still hoping for some open technology to replace FB.

Messaging is a solved problem.

Perhaps we can build something on top of IPFS to share statuses (timeline) and photos with proper access control.

Groups with restricted access could be an interesting challenge.
"Although her employers paid her in cash, Emma, like many of her friends, paid taxes, so that she would be in better standing if immigration laws were ever relaxed."

How does this work? Do they apply for SSNs and then file? How does this process not cause undocumented workers (possibly overstaying visitor visas) to be deported immediately?
I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere: Why did the Stage 1 not land on the midpoint on the drone ship (which has seemed to be the goal of all the other landings)? Did SpaceX take a page from Blue Origin and not aim for a perfectly mid-point landing to increase the chance of it surviving?
Steve Case: fewer tiny startups in the third wave
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>The Moon landing was a big deal, but it was a one-off big deal. It didn't have world-changing impacts on the future, only on the moment.

I very much agree with this sentiment and your other points. I think the comment you are replying to is thinking about this achievement in a 20th century frame-of-reference[1], and not considering the tremendous amount of potential cheaper space travel has.

[1] By this I mean that he is thinking of space exploration nothing more than an inspirational endeavour.
Why is this even on the first page? This is a Dockerfile. How is this supposed to be of general interest and generate good conversation?

Hope this is not a signal of the future of HackerNews.
Oh definitely, just like a crack house.

They've got their friends and "friends" in a walled off room, socially connected by leisure activities with questionable value to the residents. It's more of a slum filled with degenerates and graffiti... but hey, people come for the high not the scenery. The heavy users are there for life but even the occasional users keep coming back.

Then of course there's the dealer managing the place... they're the only one to actually benefit from the operation.

I'm being a little facetious, but in short: no. There are a multitude options for chat that provide a better experience, keeping in contact was not a problem in the first place, and all that's left are games or wanting to show off/snoop on lives. I would argue it provides a largely negative value if you consider filter bubbles and their impact on society. Shareholders are the only ones that derive value from FB.
You can get into arguments about specifics by saying they still have light so they still have say EM radiation. But, what is and is not magnetism get's a little wonky when you get into the specifics. Strong, weak, electromagnetic force, and gravity. That's it. Without magnetism you don't get atoms.

However, if you hand wave that the induction coil is a transformer used to step up voltage and transformers work fairly directly though magnetism.
Everyone needs an ETA/Visa to visit Australia...

It is a bromance considering what you need to visit Australia as a non anglophone country.

China is Australia's largest trading partner (both imports and exports) but they have it nothing like the anglophone countries. Even on the tourism front there are more Chinese tourists than Americans, but its still not easy..

In fairness the only reason a 'Visa' is required is because its reciprocal.

The EU has near no requirements for Australians (you can just get in) so they have the free eVisitor whereas the US needs an ETA (not really a Visa) but its pretty much reciprocal to the Visa Waiver Program in terms of the online application and fee.

That being said there's something even more special to anglophone countries having the Queen as the head of state in terms of the visas (including the working holiday kind)
It's very likely that methane engines will be used. Methane will be easy to make in mars and it's much more dense than hydrogen.

Also terraforming mars will probably involve dumping methane into the atmosphere.
Not op, but no. It's an absolute time-sink with no value to anyone but advertisers, and anyone involved in an actual "group" that performs work or collaboration.

Outside of that it's a meme sharing, conspiracy fueling, agenda line toeing shithole.
Statistics and chances. Some poor kids are bound to thrive eventually -- and chances make sure those kids have some things that other poor kids don't (a mentor in their life, a parent who isn't working 2 jobs or drinking but can spend some time with them, live in a good school district, their curiousness wasn't beaten out of them by bad early experiences, looks enabling them to be taken for better than other poor kids are, a chance higher IQ, etc.).

The same way millions can finish a game in Easy mode, but there are still some people that can finish it in Hard and Ultra Hard mode.

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate