skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clearly stated that Go is lacking on the generics front. The cliff is forced, rigid OOP and complicated tool-chains.

> Personally I couldn't live without generics, and would never choose a language that doesn't have them

I'm kind of confused here. Yes, Go needs generics, but are generics even that key a feature? I mean how often do you have to define a generic type, and how much copying does it really take? Is it a hassle? Of course. But at the end of the matter, Go much, much better when it comes to combining expressibility, efficiency, and simplicity then many of the other options available today.
I believe snipers try to do this also when making difficult shots.
> Every promised April order is set to ship in April. Some people thought it meant April 5th, which was incorrect. Comparing that to a multi-month delay from the Oculus people is asinine.

> Physician, heal thyself. The disigenious damage control you're doing for Oculus is a perfect example of that very thing you're criticizing.

I think it's silly to proclaim either platform as the "winner" when 1. the Oculus hasn't even been out for a full month yet and 2. the Vive isn't even done shipping it's first promised batch.

I'd probably buy a Vive now if I were to choose today, but I also think one month out, there's zero need to defend (or criticize the viability of) either platform. It's simply too new.
Slightly off topic -- is there a solid openwrt router you can recommend that supports 802.11AC?
Lovely! But quite the opposite of a sorrow, I felt it was a somewhat beautiful realization.

I'm sure if I was having a low day it could take it as a sort of "we're insignificant specks on a floating rock" but I was having a great day so tra-la-la :)
An music educational space that incorporates modern tools and foundational theory
Consider using the D language instead if generics is a problem. Go is what it is and shouldn't change. It has it's advantages that make it optimal for particular contexts. Otherwise you'll turn it into another c++. There is a strong benefit in keeping Go simple as it is.
It's unclear how far along I am on the spectrum, but emotional intelligence is something I acquired late and with much effort.
"if I could experiment with inducing autism in myself I totally would"

You can. You distance yourself from people, suggesting yourself over and over that you don't really need much social interaction, communicate with people only outside perceptions and feelings and the entire world around you starts to change. Each time you'll catch yourself analyzing emotions you'll stop due to its error-prone nature and switch to analyzing facts and social mechanics. There are of course many other things but this should do for a start.

My belief is that emotions were a capability developed in social creatures to cope with social intricacies given the limited rational capabilities. Emotional behavior is a kind of mechanisms to produce simplified response out of vast amounts of information that had to be processed fast (and not necessarily in great detail). Things changed a lot since then and nowadays the game-of-life competition includes a lot of gimmickry which relies heavily on exploiting emotions¹! The said autistic nature may be as well the direction in which the entire humanity is heading to.

¹ This started long ago before Edward Bernays and it will get more and more intense with time.
Research says children of older mothers are smarter, taller, and stronger
An Interactive Node-Link Visualization of Convolutional Neural Networks
Any idea how to specify a location, I tried the site on a few different browsers and some are correct and others are not. I suppose some browsers are blocking its means for determining the location.

edit
Looks like the issue is caused by some browsers/settings that hide the public ip prevent it from finding location.. would be nice to specify, i like the page.
Serious culture-calibration question(assuming you're not trolling): where are you from?

At least in America, "Kobe Bryant is a famous basketball player" is one of those facts that everyone (for relatively large values of everyone) knows.
I just got a 5X but of course I'm going to get the last update at the same time as anyone who bought the 5X back when it came out.
> The problem with this from the SV point of view is that if you sabotage Feinstein, you don't get another Democrat. You get a Republican.

Well, not necessarily. California abolished partisan primaries a few years ago. The way it works now is that all candidates for a position run in the same primary, and the top two advance to the general election, regardless of affiliation.

I'm not sure if there have been any races so far that involved two Democrats (it's only been two or so election cycles since the change) but the 2016 Senate race seems likely to be between two Democrats.

Of course there's still the problem of finding a Democrat with enough clout and balls to challenge Feinstein in 2018.
But why are you in a rural town? That, itself, is a choice based on the assumption you'll be driving.

Edit: not sure why the downvote. That's a genuine question.

Living in a rural area is a lifestyle choice that typically necessitates a car.

If not owning a car is a priority, you'd make a different lifestyle choice.

Which is really my point. For most people, owning a car isn't seen as a lifestyle choice. It's seen as a default. Automatic. Not even part of the equation. And that's cultural.
I also am assuming most of the no-car commenters in the US have no spouse or small children. There's a lot more to life than commuting back and forth to the office.
In the sense that it is not charging monopoly rents on taxi medallions.
The drawing tool is mentioned. Video at Brahami's site: http://www.engare.design/drawing-tool/#contactPage
Bayesian Umpires
>founders of successful reform movements that arguably changed history

I have no idea what he's on about here, but just by making this kind of grandiose claim he makes me skeptical.

>New York Times bestselling authors also nominated for a Campbell Award

I can't find any evidence he has a New York Times Bestseller and would be rather surprised to see that TCATB was one.

>world-championship-level players of strategy game

This is more the level of half truth. From what I can find, he says once he placed top 5 in Power Grid at a convention with 2000 participants and 100 games in Lancaster PA. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6125

All you have left after that is his genius programming ability (which to my understanding isn't widely agreed upon).

>I don't necessarily think accurately presenting one's accomplishments for the purpose of explaining the life basis for one's views constitutes arrogance

I would agree with you if that kind of self congratulation wasn't endemic to his writing (in this post and others). And anyway I did consider his viewpoint and don't find it convincing.
Actually, the compiler is getting faster in 1.7, and binaries are getting smaller: http://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/02/go-1-7-toolchain-improveme...
It's my understanding that credentials were used to access a system from "outside" some time after the employment of the user associated with those credentials ceased. That is weak, relative to other firms that take the steps necessary to retire the credentials of former employees. I've worked at such firms; I know they exist. You probably have a better sense of the "average" state, however.

It isn't at all clear to me that the eggshell rule is relevant to this situation. This was not an act of violence. Packets were exchanged among computers, which resulted in other packets being exchanged among computers. The "legal reasoning by tortured analogy" one sees so often on HN has really crippled our collective intelligence.
No issues. Had one when they pushed an update for nvidia but other than that it's smooth
> Programmers are far too egalitarian for our own good

The guild that is infamous for exalting the "leet", nurturing cliques, and projecting disdain towards n00bs, laypeople and "idiots" is too egalitarian?

> our increasing marginalization and stagnant wages are the inevitable consequences.

IMO, our increasing marginalization and stagnant wages are the consequences of programming being not that hard (as far as the general demands of the industry). Programming is not exceptional or arcane, it's just new and with tooling and pl advancements making it easier and easier to meet industry demands, it's only natural that wages will stagnate.
Agile will stay, MongoDB will go.
> Or you could just count the number of times their names are mentioned

"Hodor"
One thing I rarely see mentioned is that, with increasing uncertainty around employment, and the likelyhood that I might be forced to move increasing, the real interest rate on home purchases is much higher than the headline rate.

I have read that the average american moves every five years. Assuming they are on a 30 year loan of $100,000 at, say, 3%, they have paid $14,202.61 interest on $11,093.64 of principal, for an effective interest rate of 120%. 120%, and that's at 3%!

This is due to the fact that mortgages are structured as constant payments, which means early on they are mostly interest and only later is the principal being paid down. If someone moves and rolls right into another 30 year loan, they start the process all over again.

Our financial system appears to be an elaborate mechanism for moving people into debt slavery. If you read "n The Law of Civilization and Decay" you can see the same dynamics at work in the late Roman empire.
But the retraction is super terrible. Imagine someone writes an article which makes a lot of sense, now that person writes a retraction which simply says "oh I was in great mental and psychological trouble when I wrote that".

No, if you want to retract it, then make a case why this is not true. We don't believe that article because we trust the author.
How do we detect anomalous metrics (outliers) via 3-sigma rule
The idea behind keeping secrets and whispering in someone's ear is not esoterica.

The fundamental issue here is that mutual trust between US government and the American people has been significantly eroded. Until this issue is addressed and trust is restored, all other discussions (however informed) are ultimately idle chatter.
The rule isn't about violence. It's about the fact that someone who commits a wrong can't rely on the victim's prior diminished circumstances to mitigate the impact of their own wrong.

The person who smacks the eggshell-skulled victim upside the head with a magazine couldn't imagine that doing so would have fractured their skull. People don't normally have skulls as thin as eggshells. "Tough shit", says the law. "If you don't want to expose yourself to the risk of fracturing someone's skull, don't hit people upside their heads with magazines."

By the same token, whatever frailties existed in Trib Corp's internal security, necessitating expensive post-breach cleanup, are justifiably imputed to Keys, not to Trib Corp.
IIRC, part of the issue was that the two pilots issued contradictory joystick commands, which the plane averaged to zero. Which is a bit terrifying.
My daughter is will be 4 years old in July and she's been diagnosed with autism last October. Me and my wife have been wondering if TMS is being done now more broadly and have it tried on her?
Yes, this issue alone was a complete blocker in my opinion, thank goodness it's been resolved. 100+ page documents could be destroyed in one simple action of pasting a styled text into a box with a pre-existing style assigned. (It was irreversible via an undo).
There appear to be a lot of shots taken behind the basket - even as far back at the 3 pt line. Is this a mistake in measurement?
I am not responsible for explaining to you what "people" are saying, whether they are right or wrong.

Please cite this "clear evidence" you speak of.
Err, it's Feinstein, who represents California, that's introducing this legislation.

Republican representatives have been pushing back against these bills. Representatives Amash, Issa, Labrador. Senator Paul.

Last weekend I was at the Colorado GOP state convention and I spoke in-person to Colorado's leading GOP senate nominee and he spoke at length of our need to block this sort of legislation. In addition, I spoke with State Sen. Tim Neville, who was the party favorite for the Senate nomination, and he spoke very highly of the efforts of Amash and Paul.

Of course, they're joined by Democrats like Lofgren and Wyden and Independents like Sen. King.

The GOP is not a homogenous group.
Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code
Sustainability requires rearchitecturing your city and your leisure time, and it's gonna be so costly and long that you'll never be able to afford it. From Europe, it looks like the US cities belong to the past, to the era where you could innocuously pick petrol from your colonies and damage the globe. It's not meant to be insulting (because Europe has its own responsibilities) but to put words on what we're doing to the Earth. Your right to have week-end trips is the right to massively murder people to obtain/keep using petrol.
Home office desk of a freelance creative director
>it's something different from both, with its own unique properties.

No, it's a username that is physically tied to the user. If I can get that data (fingerprint) then I don't need to go through the usual rigmarole of password hacking.

Fingerprints are literally "one factor auth".
But you can always have more guns! In case the thug-booted jacks of the government come knocking at your door. Also maybe stricter gun-buying laws get passed, so better buy them now while you still can: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/10/us/gun-sales-t...
Can't see your link because I don't have flash, but I made a similar thing with HTML5 https://franciscouzo.github.io/voronoi/
>But what you are saying would imply that property prices in lower demand areas went down.

No only that they didn't go up as much. As wages and population increases, it is quite normal that house prices generally go up at least a little.
Yes, and that is really great, but it would be even greater if they adequately supported their newer & "consumer-level" (for a lack of better expression) hardware as well.
An appeals court upheld the convictions in 2009, and said that the use of encryption, among other things, was “circumstantial evidence of their agreement to participate in illegal activity.”
Bikes are cheap compared to cars. No one is going to risk a prison sentence for it if they can avoid it. Besides, if it's stolen I claim it against the insurance and get another one. I'm referring to the cheap city bikes, if you have a carbon fiber competition bike keep it at home and save it for race day.

Some cities bikes are so ubiquitous you have to really want to steal it to steal it. Last time I was in Ghent bikes were everywhere. If you didn't have one just grab the nearest unlocked bike off the rack. Most likely its 50 years old and the owner has abandoned it. Now that is a bikable city!
Another absolutely fantastic article on this same guy:

https://mastermind.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side
Happened to me on Friday, actually. Had the offer, in writing, was told the job wasn't mine. Ruined my whole weekend. Felt a serious lack of self-worth.

Monday I got an equitable offer from a company I'm more interested in working for and I've been riding high all week.

YMMV.
The colors are bad for this visualization, but were chosen because the Los Angeles Lakers wear those colors, and Bryant spent his entire career with the team.
If someone broke into the tribune's printing office (which perhaps didn't collect the key or change the lock when they fired someone) and that person changed the headline and a byline for an article in the paper that went out to thousands of people, I still have a hard time believing a court would put that person in prison for 2 years because of it.

At some point we have to acknowledge these tough cyber laws do nothing but pass down intentionally harsh sentences to the unlucky few Americans that get the book thrown at them.

I predict we'll look back at them with the same embarrassment and shame we do mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws now.
Questions to Ask a Potential Tech Employer
The siren song of just-one-more-layer.
> it's taken for granted that not everyone can be a doctor, dentist, or lawyer.

I am pretty sure everyone could be a lawyer if they wanted to be. The couple of lawyers I have talked to about it say that it is all about hard work not smarts or any special skill.
If I had to guess, what we're seeing in the post above is almost certainly someone who grew up in wealthier suburban enclaves and whose comfort level is forever pegged to those enclaves. How else might one mistake downtown Chicago for a community representative of city living? No friends in neighborhoods, no familiarity with neighborhoods.
append ?u=metric to the URL
I agree that it's better, but it's still a bad idea and shouldn't be presented as any sort of solution.
So if I ever traveled to Philippines and scanned fingerprints at the border, anyone in the world can unlock my TouchID?
Lindsey Graham changed his mind [1]. It isn't a massive conspiracy. I wouldn't say Feinstein is well-informed. Watch some of the hearings where she interacts with other members. It's awkward and clear they don't enjoy working with her.

[1] https://youtu.be/uk4hYAwCdhU?t=6m53s
Ah, that makes much more sense, thanks
> countQuery.execute("SELECT COUNT(cartodb_id) AS feature_count FROM kobe_all_shots_geocoded_final_merge"...

I sure hope they have permissions set up on that database..
To illustrate how well known he is outside of the US (specifically in Japan), a rather humorous video[0] that I saw on reddit a couple weeks ago:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2JhvkzgVGc&feature=youtu.be...
I'm getting pretty deep into bets on Twitter AGAINST this bill having a chance of passing. My logic is simple: this bill outlaws all sorts of things huge corporations use to protect their networks. No big company I've ever done security work for has ever been OK with crypto keys being escrowed by vendors; in fact, we were often instructed to look for exactly those kinds of features as disqualifiers for products.

I do not believe this Congress will succeed in passing a bill that would require Bank of America to escrow keys with IBM and Symantec.
> The lesson Go seems to have learned is that, since C++ and Java burned their fingers, clearly fire is too dangerous for humans.

I think that's a little bit unfair, since Go introduces many powerful ideas not (traditionally) available in Java or C++: namely first class concurrency and functional primitives. Its handling of typing, the ability to define types not necessarily based on structs, the excellent design of interfaces are other examples. Go is an extremely powerful and expressive language that opens up the doors for programming in new paradigms, while making it easy to maintain readability and simplicity.

Fair point with the nil issue, I think that's one of Go's other weaknesses. But it does make up for that with its excellent error handling paradigm.
Interesting idea, but nothing seems to work here, both on Firefox and IE 11. All I can see is the left "control pane".
I don't know about her voting record to know if that's true or not, but again, I'm talking about her reputation, which is partially shaped by fact but also shaped by public perception. And she's not really perceived as anti-tech.
This is a conspiracy theory. The other part of the story is that if the streetcars were a better investment, General Motors would not have done this. Streetcars are slow, inefficient, and require rail lines to move about. So, if these companies realized the assets they were holding, then they have the opportunity to get rid of them.

If you were an investor, the up and coming item was streetcars, as the article mentions they were better than horse-drawn carriages, so taking a stake in these would have been a good idea. The article mentions that the transit systems are expensive to maintain; as publicly held companies, they need to make money. The current day transit systems with rail lines are heavily underwater and have a difficult time making any money, let alone addressing maintenance issues: BART, Metro, and Max. Knowing the return on investment from existing data, would you as a private investor purchase any of those lines.

So, the conspiracy can be developed in retrospect, but an over arching plot fails to account for some of the opportunities that fit more into an investor trying to make monies.
It's really the establishment within both the Democratic and Republican parties that is pushing for this. It's opposed by more left-leaning Democrats and more libertarian-leaning Republicans.
That seems really mean - the octopus didn't like the light on during the night, when it was sleeping.

So let's move the light further away, but keep it on, because it suits us to keep it on when he's sleeping =(.

Poor little guy. sigh
except for all of these demonstrable ways: http://www.amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding/dp/...
YES my lunch break is going to rule, reading this. i love this series so far!
I disagree with the date comment "it’s easier to expose a raw date than a properly formatted date for the user’s locale". I'm constantly fighting software that tries to localize dates. Paypal thinks I live in country A and uses that format. My web host is in country B and uses their own format. I actually live in country C which has yet another format. It's no fun reconciling this in a spreadsheet which I have to keep changing the date formats in. Just use YYYY-MM-DD everywhere. Everyone knows what it means.
The graph is interesting. But maybe Game of Thrones doesn't have a "main" character. One of the things fans love about the books is that they subvert genre expectations at every turn. Given how things are going, in fact, I won't be surprised if the next literary convention GRRM eschews is "conclusion".
He even deleted the backups.

>>the code had even deleted all of the backups that he had taken in case of catastrophe. Because the drives that were backing up the computers were mounted to it, the computer managed to wipe all of those, too.
Mathematicians take the fun out of everything and turn it into a graph
> this group of folks we're calling Government is trying to prevent us from being allowed to have secrets and whisper to each other.

Is that you, Bush Jnr?
If you have a font that supports proper monospaced unicode, it works:
http://cl.ly/2f410i1k270D
Does it make sense to normalize that graph against population or productivity growth (maybe a larger economy can support a larger debt)? Even still I doubt growth since 1950 has anywhere near the slope of that graph.
That doesn't mean that they're usernames. You can say this about passwords too: if you can get that data (password) then you don't need to go through password cracking, and they're literally "one factor auth."

Consider an example. Imagine if HN authenticated based only on the username. Could you get into my account? Now imagine if HN used fingerprint authentication. Would that make it harder?
they're all part of the same series of articles.
Careful now... your privilege is showing.
Sure, and I was just expressing that. Like I said, I didn't study her, I might have seen article here and there.
I genuinely don't understand what the bill would do. This section seems to place no restrictions on the design of devices:

(b) DESIGN LIMITATIONS.—Nothing in this Act may be construed to authorize any government officer to require or prohibit any specific design or operating system to be adopted by any covered entity.

If the bill says the government cannot place restrictions on the design of devices, but the bill says providers have to do things they can't do with existing designs (e.g. Whatsapp end to end crypto) what does this bill actually do?