skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harassing someone is generally illegal, which can include following them around, usually to intimidate them.

If you are following someone in the matter the police would they won't know they are being followed, which is part of what private investigators do.

Just don't harass them. If they catch you and tell you to stop and you don't - then you are veering into harassment territory.
There's a funny story about when cofounder Dustin Moskovitz first wanted to help on the site. Choice of language was obviously not such a big deal to them.

From http://www.businessinsider.com/how-moskovitz-became-facebook...

>Dustin was like, 'Hey, I want to help out. I want to help you do the expansion.'

>Zuckerberg told Moskovitz, "That's pretty cool. But you don't know any PHP."

>"That weekend he went home, bought the book 'PERL for Dummies,' came back, and was like, 'OK, I'm ready to go,'" Zuck said, and told him, "The site's written in PHP, not PERL, dude."
How do we sign up to be volunteers :)?
> someone's right to smoke is greater than my right not to be subject to smoke

From where do you derive that "right"?
Everybody who learns to play guitar already starts with the same songs. :)
Yes, but if you control for the variables that make the most difference then you do the hypothetical a disservice.

It's like saying that, all response times being equal, it is a fast application server.

What does that really tell you?
i used to work at an institutional investment firm. a huge one. (say it like trump) huuuuuge. we had lots of economists. i chilled with them. i partied with them. and when we partied, when the booze flowed and we all shared sordid stories about how our jobs really went down, they basically said the work they did was, meh, adding very little, and at times no, marginal value and that most of the time the traders did their own thing regardless.

also, lets not forget what happened to south america when the chicago school of economics prescribed its bitter medicine. they're still recovering/reeling both economically and culturally.

so, i shudder when i read that some of the most influential and active corporations, those determining the way of our society/culture and economy, are adding all these PhDs from a discipline whose track record is absolutely crap from both a social/cultural and an economic angle. (full disclosure i have a b.s. in economics, so, yes, i understand some of what an economist does)

the suits are taking over.
That sounds like accounting, not economics.
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Exactly.

I don't understand this popular craving of immortality. If you look at the current society and add immortality, you just get horrific dystopian future, where by the way majority of the world is still mortal just enslaved by power-hungry immortal overlords.

Right now however sadistic regimes are, we still know that Stalins/Kim Jong Uns of the day will die and there is at least hope.

In currently(!) non-sadistic regimes we have inequality issue where richer just get richer and poor get poorer, but at least money can't be taken to the grave, how is it good to eliminate the grave?

And the reasons people usually give for immortality are either outright egotistical "I don't want to die" or a bit veiled "my grandpa/mother/Steve Jobs was a golden person, I wish they still were around".

Well, kudos to him/her, but I take your dead grandpa over suffering of the millions, thanks.

The same for your fear of death, deal with it.

There are some nuances though:

1. We definitely should work on non-suffering in old ages.

2. This grim outlook applies only if there is no other relevant technological revolution happening at the same time. For instance, if we have free nano-machines making everything out of thin air, hierarchy of the society will already alter enough as to allow immortality being thrown into the mix.
With a very few exceptions, the US has been pretty adept at keeping foreign influence out of its hemisphere since the 1800s.

It also begs the question of why the US would care.
Payday loans are better than paying for your electricity to be turned on again and to replace all the groceries that spoiled in your fridge, because you were fifty dollars short on your utility bill.
The NYTimes was not "privileged" enough to have been a part of this new leak. To me this is them displaying their sour grapes. I also don't believe it was any accident they were not a part of the leaks. This is not the same paper that published the Watergate burglary.
In theory, they could be one in the same.
106 dead in Kerala temple mishap; 5 detained
Yeah, a judge is not going to find "prior art" generated by an algorithm sufficient to invalidate a patent. As a political statement, this is fine (though hand-wavy), but silly as a practical solution.

Edit: That said, we do need to fix the patent system. The problem, right now, is human: there needs to be political will, effected by people, to persuade Congress to change the laws. An algorithm does not do that.

Although it's possible this thing is a joke, in which case, well played.
You will find no meaningful statistical evidence because it can't be done -- programming languages don't write software. Programmers do -- and programmers are made of meat.

A bad programmer using Lisp will be less successful than a good programmer using PHP.

And startups almost universally (regardless of the back-justifications they come up with) choose programming languages based on fashion: Résumé driven development.

The successful programming language for a startup is one that the product can be built in -- and that investors will not be alarmed by. PHP would not be alarming at all to many investors -- so PHP is a decent choice if you intend to sell your company off anyway.
> you execute untrusted code in the browser, and giving that untrusted code effectively direct access to the USB peripherals is frightening.

But if you read the linked specification you're not doing that. You're giving them access to an abstraction that is quite limited in what it can do. If you had direct access you could reflash firmware.

> If I have a jetty server with a remotely exploitable hole in it, someone who exploits that hole is depending on me running a local client, but I would still consider it a "remote" exploit.

Yes of course that's "remote". It requires network connections to access.

> In the same vein, someone running a browser that I can compromise with purely code on external websites is still being "remotely exploited." The attack vector requires the client to visit a specific page or click a specific link, but I didn't have to walk up to their computer and insert a USB stick. That's what makes the attack a "remote" attack for me.

That's not remote at all. That's entirely client based. The client just happens to load some sort of exploit on its own. If it was really remote you could push a script to the client using its network address.

The client functions the same with or without internet connectivity. The jetty server example does not.
This was more or less my take. When Viaweb was built in the mid 1990's, Python was not a mainstream language, Java was new, and building web sites in C++ was approximately as efficient as it is today. The scale of the web was different in that Viaweb had a server in their office. It was also the server.

By the first batch of YC, Graham had written about Python as an example of a leading edge language that was a good way to filter for "better programmers". Not long after the first batch started, Reddit had ditched Common Lisp for it.

Anecdote is not the singular of data, but Whatsapp choosing Erlang is a more recent example of using the right tool for the right job.
"There was [an instance] where a child was going to die
of an awful childhood condition before the book came
out," he said. "So we did the only thing we could do and
referred it to the author to decide how to handle it
because it's her story, not ours.

"History doesn't tell the outcome of that sad story, but
I'm sure it was a happy one."

Poor turn of phrase when talking about "a child about to die of an awful childhood condition". O.o
This is how I made it through all of college. This man is a god.
We ran into this when working at ZenPayroll. Not her specifically but a similar circumstance where a security check triggered based on an unexpected non-alpha character in a signature. Turned out the person really did have a number as a name.
Tesla Said to Update Model S, and Raise the Price
This is still largely at commodity prices / performance points. It's been quite some time since any of their hardware has looked consumer-oriented, but comparing this to what enterprises buy, it's apples and oranges.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041528.do

[2] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35290.html
You're better off looking for evidence that functional languages allow more productivity, of which there is some evidence
This is a tangential issue (consumer vs corporate tax), but the US tax system is beyond ridiculous. In the socialist democracy where I live, doing my taxes is literally a no-op. It just fixes itself (with a possibility for me to submit correct numbers if the govt. calculated ones are wrong.)
a hugely immoral transfer of wealth

That phrase pretty much describes the primary function of the US federal government these days, doesn't it? No, not kidding, not sarcastic.

fiscal responsibility

When does fiscal responsibility come to the US federal government? We can solve the problems of places like Puerto Rico with the equivalent of loose change lost under the sofa cushions, compared to what the feds have promised everyone!
Next step: each library gets its own package manager ... and we're back to square one.
have fun regressing out everything else...
Sentences and Objects
Ethics is not binary. It is ethical to provide shelter. It is more ethical to provide shelter without profiting. The landlord has expenses, including perhaps a vacation, but they should be minimized.

I dont have much beef with the trailer park owner in question, but you are simplifying the variables at play. The net win for everyone would be providing shelter at absolute minimum cost, including for the people maintaining the trailers for others. A landlord's profits may stand in the way of this.
End of useable crypto in browsers?
Yes, those are the kind of regulation you can revisit, the good kind. If you can solve the issues another way you change them.

Regulations that exist for no good reason are there for the whim of someone.
Postgres actually has a lot of that kind of documentation in the form of README files in source directories.
Choosing between months of dying painfully and years of dying perhaps marginally less painfully is not a choice anyone should have to make.
So this compiler is targeting the SIMD units of CPUs rather than GPUs. Can anyone contrast what the performance of this would be relative to Cuda or OpenCl for various applications, for example neural nets?
Hmmmm, do I really want to put myself through the painful experience of reading HN comments about "the problem of poverty"?

Pass.
AI and Gender Equality
As usual, few companies will be invited for the face to face interview. Some will be rejected without any explanation.

Business as usual.
This is a highly unusual situation (not to mention dangerous in the winter) to turn off your heat. Certainly not something you would worry about when trying to make a babysitter cozy.
It was memory used for a low latency system, didn't have locks even spinlocks. In that case it was manipulating data directly in shm and compiler was optimizating away access to data. What is the current/modern mechanism to ensure a stucture or flag won't be optimized away from shared memory mapped between two processes? Are access functions available in userspace libraries?
Existential issues are hard. You know what? I'd like a little extra time to work on them.
> So anything that's part of a system that isn't perfectly ideal is unethical now?

I suspect that the commenter means that any sociopolitical system other than his or her preferred one is unethical, which is what anyone who makes moral arguments for sociopolitical systems (i.e. nearly everyone I have ever met) is implicitly claiming.
I would try this out.
They say that that happens, but it is rare:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/fbi-surveilla...
It isn't written by the Qt guys.
Problems at Hubspot
Most start-ups are deemed by the market to be not useful. I'm not sure it's informative to draw lessons of the value of emphasizing quality ahead of short-term, less substantive "results" from the population of start-ups.
sigh do we really need to have this discussion and dou you actually think communism would ever work?

The problem is that pesky human nature gets in the way.
Send me an email at joe@compellingsciencefiction.com with a little info about yourself! I'm sure we'll get along great. I'm very respectful of volunteers' time.
Me too. But, again, not the point the commenter was making. Just, noise.
The question should be about how targeted the FBI's operations should be. Collecting as much data as possible does not seem targeted to me. I also think the value to society is dubious.
Neat plane, 182. I must have ~1500 hours in that model. Simple, normally aspirated, non retractable gear, constant speed prop, really good IFR training plane. Good trip plane, loading and fuel wise. Never a concern getting it into and out of small tenor gravel strip airports.

Police surveillance, makes sense, relatively inexpensive to operate, but good loading for whatever gear they're carrying.
https://medium.com/@sdboyer/so-you-want-to-write-a-package-m... would be a good start
You're poisoning the well here. There's no evidence that the government is gathering surveillance for any nefarious purpose, or that they're doing it just for the fun of spending your (the taxpayer's) money.

In fact, your argument is somewhat ironic, as it is the same logic used by the police to prevent photographers from photographing in public, as descibed by the OP.
Writing a 3D scene with HTML
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For years German and French banks gave massive amounts of cheap credit to Greeks and the Greek government. The so called bailout is nothing more than the German government giving money to Greece with strings attached so that Greece can then give the money to German banks. The banks don't pay for their bad loans. The Germans benefitted from the euro and the imbalances that monetary union has created. Greeks suffer for their dumb loans but not the German bankers.
this is interesting. colors are an important addition. i made a demo of the same concept a few months ago. i wrote up a few notes.

http://galaxybuster.net/notes/thoughts-on-timeleft
Note that he says the most powerful language for the job. Which language is the "most powerful" varies greatly by application, and would include mainstream languages in a variety of contexts. For example, C++11 is the power language of choice for databases engines, and a reasonable argument could be made that languages like Python and PHP are as well in certain contexts. On the other hand, some application domains are arguably better served with esoteric languages.

In other words, use the best tool for the job. LLVM IR also deserves mention for its role as a kind of ur-language that can express all others in many modern applications. The ability to easily design and dynamically compile purpose-built languages is proving to be useful in many contexts.
I've used ruby to make a responsive web app and feedback on the product signifies that users like and trust the seemingly clunky design elements.

I believe the founder of Facebook previously said that the company's early over-reliance on HTML5 was his biggest regret. The tradeoff paid off in terms of speed and agility. The use of the color blue was also quite smart.

Note: My hidden agenda with this post is to increase my karma points.
The kinds of economists hired by these places are basically just applied statisticians with more practical training in causal inference. Microsoft/Google/Amazon aren't hiring macroeconomists to forecast interest rates or whatever; they're (mostly) hiring microeconomists who can estimate causal effects and design experiments.

Also, any applied economist at a top tech firm knows undergrad level applied ML.
Finding hard scifi is so hard. Most of science fiction is purely the realm of science fantasy.
It is not the voltage it is the high number of amps that DC systems have.

While you could get fried from a single rack server's failing power supply, it is likely that it will die of some other cause before zapping you if you take simple precautions.

DC on the other hand, puts "the forces of nature" up close and personal to the back of the rack.

A wrong move will vaporize the thickest of metal screwdrivers and can easily do irreparable damage to a human.

Something as simple as not removing your wedding ring can result in an inadvertent bridge between + and - ; after which, bad things happen.
Too late. They had since 5.0 to make it properly.

Now Xamarin is free to indies and they use native controls, not themes that look somehow like native.
Sorry assumed it was you. It was the only comment and a downvote.

Shared memory and processes is a different beast than just threads in same process. Memory was mmap-ed between the two OS procs. Didn't use locks in that part of code for a list of reasons..., and memory write order didn't matter as much (so didn't see an immediate need for memory fences, but someone below suggested those might work to fix compiler optimizing out accesses when nor in debug mode).

Not sure what hinted at frequent use of volatile, it was the only use in 10 years. That is what made it memorable.
I mean, sometimes people just come home emotional. I don't really want to dissect my marriage on here or anything--my point is that there is nothing illogical or non-logical about dealing with other people's feelings.
What are you even talking about? Apartments in USSR were infamously hard to get, and even now, significant part of tge population lives in dorms, communal apartments or in buildings too dangerous to live in. Plus, USSR has a long tradition of several generations of the same family living in the same apartment together, a room per family.
This is why defined benefit pensions are a bad deal for everyone: employees, employers, and taxpayers. Pension plans encourage employers to defer expenses by over promising and under funding (moral hazard), only to stick taxpayers with the obligation later and force pensioners to take a haircut. Governments should terminate their pension plans and switch employees to defined contribution plans like 401(k) with contribution matching. That way the employee retirement funds will be safe even if the employer goes bankrupt.
Forced to rent below cost, no, but if they can't make a profit out running a business that works within the law they shouldn't be engaging in the business.
This is totally subjective, but I think we're at a point where the language ecosystem is much more important than the actual language. This was probably not the case when pg was writing software for Viaweb and there wasn't nearly as much FOSS that you could just use. At that point in time the LANGUAGE was probably much more important because there was not a lot of differentiation beyond that. Now, we're at a point where the language isn't as important and the ECOSYSTEM around it is much more powerful that then language itself.
Why the North Pole is moving towards London
Another good online math resource.

http://faculty.atu.edu/mfinan/nnotes.html
Publication Bias in the Social Sciences: Unlocking the File Drawer [pdf]
After three years so far of undergraduate engineering, very few days go by where I don't have this site open in at least one tab!
Smart Wine Dispenser Catching Fire on Kickstarter
There is also the libertarian solution to government pensions: don't have them (this does not mean don't have the retirement savings, it means give the money to the employee, possibly in the form of a retirement account or higher wage).

It is incidentally this solution that it seems they are taking with new hires.
The tablet market is 100M units smaller than expected. What happened?
Something like this is happening in Surrey, BC. They are in the process of installing 400 traffic cameras purely to stop crime, and the police will have 24 hour access to all cameras. Pretty much everyone is in favour of this, as they are fed up with the almost daily shootings.

The people in Surrey had to make a decision as to whether they prefer living in a crime-ridden shithole, or if they prefer 24-hour surveillance. They chose the surveillance.
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It is worse than that. Up until 5.3, the common dialogs would render like on desktop OSes, just tinier, instead of being adapted to the mobile OSes concepts.

As far as I know it is still the case. One needs to reimplement the common dialogs in QML when doing mobile development with Qt.
Hi Haoyi,

Great write-up regarding good software engineering practices in general, and ones applicable to Scala development specifically.

Two things I submit to be clarified/added to Strategic Scala Style are:

1 - Explicitly declare the return type of all public methods.

Doing so ensures that type inference does not propagate implementation types to the caller (often eliminating compilation errors) and, in my experience, greatly assists in reduction of errors when working with higher-kinded types. IMHO, it also assists in understanding a system due to an explicit contract being expressed.

2 - As "Joe Clueless" wrote in the comments, why isn't Either presented as a viable alternative to Option?

Again, IMHO, while Option is an exceptionally useful type, when indicating errors at the "public API level" it proves to be insufficient. The distjoint union type Either allows a collaboration to be both explicit that a failure may occur as well as indicate what the failure was (if any).

Hopefully these comments help and, again, kudos to a great write-up.
The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters
What exactly are you saying they are doing? Is there any evidence (or even suspicion) that they are doing this? They say that these flights are used for "specific, ongoing investigations".

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/fbi-surveilla...
I wonder if a $12 TV Tuner RTL-SDRs can listen in to secondary radar triggered TCAS responses? (I wonder how much trouble you'd get in for setting up a USDR or HackRFOne to transmit your own "secondary radar" signals to make the TCAS respond?)
Google reportedly considering possibility of Swift for Android
Not all the way off, but there is a wide margin between comfortable and safe where it is generally cost-effective to let the temperature rest when you are not home.