skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major earthquake overdue in California's Eastern Sierra, study finds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_minority should go and live in separate country
Self policing doesn't help if other people are making decisions in Slack when you're not online.
Slack plans on introducing threads this year, according to their marketing folks.
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Does the bed have a seatbelt?

Then no, thank you, I'd rather not increase the risk even further.
So it's language agnostic.

Can anyone tell me the rocket science behind this?

How would a library know if a code and its libraries are
performing software development/engineering best practices?

What types of algorithms do you use and are there other libraries that already does this that is language agnostic?
For almost any medical plan, "mail order pharmacy" specifically refers to a company that provides a 90-day supply of a prescription for a chronic condition at a special reduced co-pay.

Most health plans let you go to the pharmacy of your choice for regular 30-day scripts, but require you to use a single provider (typically either Express Scripts or CVS) to get the 90-day discount.

Insurance companies love these services for the same reason we love Amazon -- high volume drives price efficiency, as does eliminating the need for a retail storefront with lights and chairs and Muzak and the like.

The retail pharmacy business is a race to the bottom these days. Most small players have been pushed out by declining reimbursement rates, and the big guys barely disguise how little they care about customer service. It's clear that the benefits companies don't want to see another name brand come onto the scene and demand to take some of their profits,especially one with the possibility to gain a loyal national customer base by providing an innovative service.
Poor people are among the most overweight because food is so cheap in the US. I don't see why implementing Basic Income would magically make food expensive or make people have to "eat ramen or possibly Soylent."

Anyway, the world you are so worried about is already here. A small number of people do continue to do important work that can't be automated. Most other work is unecessary busy work. Artists and musicians already live off of government largesse, either by taking "McJobs" that are artificially highly paid because of government minimum wage, or by actually being on welfare.

Since people can't wrap their heads around the concept of Basic Income, we end up with hordes of people paid to do stupid shit that doesn't matter. The endgame is that we're all government employees in a Dilbertesque hell. Moving papers from one pile to another and back again. Digging holes and then filling them again, since letting people decide what to do during the workday would be too disruptive.
Like IRC vs email. #shocker
> If you want to write a Qt application in JavaScript without writing a single bit of C++ you can do that with QML

Not really. You cannot write full blown business logic in javascript, you almost always end up in C++.Even simple things like accessing the file system or networking or process management are not available in QML. One has to write bindings for it from scratch. This is what I was referring to in my original comment. If we have proper bindings (like the PySide integration), then we will get all these APIs.
And, really, this is not a discussion about race? Are you kidding me? The first sentence in the article is:

> Many universities are redoubling their efforts to diversify their faculties in response to last fall’s wave of protests from student groups representing women and minorities.
Not a chance. It's a short, easy, and cheap flight. The airport is a pain, but not enough to extend the trip by that much just to avoid it.
It's overnight. Since you sleep then, you waste close to zero waking hours.

With flying, which takes an hour itself, you have to add airport transfers, security, and expected delays, all during waking hours.

That said, maybe this is not the best city pair to start (?)
The Cretan Method – Pieter Hintjens on Learning, Truh, and Lies
Funny comment from a Facebook friend: "The meta-turing test: A human trying to convince another human that it is chatting with a computer program. Thankfully a human dumbing itself to chatbot level is far more doable than the opposite." https://www.facebook.com/groups/cyberpunkculture/permalink/5...
You'll find a large number of these packages are actually Elixir, as hex is the native Elixir package manager :)

Lovely to see this becoming more mainstream, and good marketing choice by Eric by making it the "Erlang ecosystem package manager".

If you're interested, the package manager[0] and website/API[1] are open source.

[0] https://github.com/hexpm/hex
[1] https://github.com/hexpm/hex_web
The Peculiar History of Life Insurance
> The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires that the hiring of a foreign worker will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers comparably employed. To comply with the statute, the Department's regulations require that the wages offered to a foreign worker must be the prevailing wage rate for the occupational classification in the area of employment.

The prevailing wage rate is defined as the average wage paid to similarly employed workers in a specific occupation in the area of intended employment.

https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/wages.cfm
BMW Loses Core Development Team of Its I3 and I8 Electric Vehicle Line
What was wrong was that your comment dismissed everything intellectually interesting about the story, singled out naked pictures as its only worthwhile property, and added a formulaic "TLDR" to seem even less thoughtful. That's a pretty convincing simulation of the bottom of the Reddit barrel.

Even granting that you intended the comment to be more meaningful than it seemed, I'm not seeing any real information in your expanded version. If you don't like reading long-form articles, it would be best neither to read them nor comment on them.
Agreed. I even think that we'll get closer and closer to general AI the more we use the technology that's ready now to help humans.
In a lot of ways, but thats the thing with legal analogies, they fail for reasons you didn't even consider. Its not "the lock-out technology" we are even debating.
I...I...still feel like this is a joke, even after reading the "why" section.
That's interesting, but 'The Definitive Guide' seems can not be customized.
This is my beef with chatbots in general -- it is the rare conversational interface that has any advantage over a GUI beyond its novelty.
As a tourist in CA in 2009, I had to catch a train from LA to SF. I was stunned to find that a train service for these two heavily-populated metropolises only ran every second day. Had to catch a bus to Bakersfield to get a connecting train. Different story on the right coast, where inter-city trains are much more part of life (though yes, the distances are generally smaller).

> Why would you sleep on a bus for six-and-a-half hours when you could sleep on a plane for one hour? Well, um, hmmmmm. I’m not actually sure.

Because the time from take-off to landing is only one hour, but the time to "catch a plane from X to Y" is considerably more - getting to the airport (usually not in a convenient location), going through check-in/luggage and security, boarding, alighting, luggage collection, getting from the airport to your destination... whereas buses tend to start and finish in the centre of town, where there's usually easy transport everywhere else.
I think you're expecting it to be something more exciting than it is (I was too at first.) It's just a front end for static analysis tools. Coala doesn't do any analysis on its own. Everything is delegated to other tools. It just provides a way to pass configuration in and to parse the output so you know what lines in the source file have problems.

Code Climate does something similar with their Engines[0] specification. Personally I like how they make use of Docker containers to perform the analysis. It is perhaps a bit heavyweight for simple analyses but it makes it really easy to install different language runtimes and tools.

[0] https://github.com/codeclimate/spec
Has the ISS captured footage of a UFO? Nasa live feed films
This is a false equivalency because no intelligent adult believes that any color is inherently superior, whereas many intelligent adults do believe that certain political beliefs are inherently superior.
This is very common throughout Southeast Asia. I did it multiple times recently but a few of us would always end up discussing how we would fare if we were in an accident
Wrong article.
As an academic, my first thought was, "bullshit. There are tons of conservatives in business schools."

Huh? That's it?

The only place for conservatives at a University is in its business school?

That clearly illustrates the point the article was making!
I'm sad you have been voted down, because although it's more nuanced than that, election and free will is indeed a big part of Calvinism.

(You'll have to pardon my style, as I try to use He and Him when I speak of God, instead of he and him)

My own take on is that the things you raise are indeed a big part of Calvinism, and really wrapped up in the notion of predestination. A lot of people have problems with it, I understand why. They object to the fact that the elect are known by God before hand and He writes the names of those who will be with Him through Eternity into the Book Of Life and the rest He casts into eternal damnation.

But I've also been considering that God exists outside of space and time. In Psalm 90 it reads that "For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night." And in 2 Peter 3:8 he says "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."

So I've been wondering: if God sees the future perfectly, then He knows who loves him and who rejects Him. He knows who will ask for forgiveness for the terrible way we have lived, which He cannot stand.

I believe that God loves us, and gives us free will. He gave Adam and Eve the freedom to disobey and eat from the tree of good and evil, and they chose to commit evil. He wanted them to love Him as their creator, but they didn't. That love couldn't be given to an automaton, it could only be given to those who chose to give it freely.

So what I wonder is if in fact God doesn't intervene directly but looks at the free choices given in someone's life. I wonder if He chooses to offer his love and gives opportunities for all men and women to accept Him. But He knows who will accept His offer as He does exist out of linear space and time!

This wouldn't preclude God from carrying out His plan. He can still work though events, in fact He puts people into places and situations that satisfy His plans. Perhaps that plan is so perfect that He takes the rejection of mankind, the evil that we do and uses it for His good purposes. And that also means that He also stops evil acts, and takes down dictators like Sadaam Hussein, Adolf Hitler and others.

So then it makes logical sense that there is no conflict between predestination and free will! In other words, free will is still given, and offered, and humans gain agency, dignity and freedom - in other words, we are truly made in His image! But as God knows all our days, and all our actions because of His immense and powerful ability to manipulate time to His own ends, then that is how we are predestined to accept or reject Jesus, and through this action, God.

Of course, if you don't believe in the Christian God, then this is all nonsense, but I thought that as you treated my comment with honesty and at least respected my replies enough to respond I'd give a fuller response and try to explain my own perspective on the matter.
This looks much different. The Nutfile also hosts tasks similar to a Rakefile. Looks like a cool project!
Why don't you quit? Serious question. Your boss says the stock is doing well and that's a reason to screw you on pay? Does anyone believe this shit? Compensation target is beyond stupid. At best it is a deferred compensation plan Amazon has manufactured to use in screwing employees while also boosting their income statement. RSU forfeitures at Amazon are in the billions. Hundreds of millions of their EBITDA can be explained by RSU forfeitures which Amazon controls the timing of.
> I think the question is bit biased. I think we should ask first if the idea of the fund itself is a good idea.

That's literally the first issue the article discusses in detail. It's in bright red lettering in bold font.
Sure, but how does Basecamp fix the problem? Wait for part 2, I guess.
Supposing that to be true, the uncharitable statement does not follow and the personal attack is not justified.
Yes, it seems reasonable to compare me to a dictator who was responsible for millions of deaths.
When it comes to committing a crime against humanity such as the mass murder of civilians, you're expected to refuse the order even if it means being killed for doing so. Self-preservation is not a reasonable excuse for committing a war crime, and it never has been.
Kind of. Imagine more like Google Groups or HN but with notifications when someone replied.

I guess if you use mailing lists for topics you can subscribe to, and cc'ing people for @mentions inviting them to reply, then yeah! Email can do it all. So why is email considered such a time sink? Because people don't filter conversations coming from the outside. But if they just set up a filter, then literally email is a Slack killer, no?
That's funny, since starting to use Slack I struggle to remember to check my email. Not much important happens there any more for me.
You're dealing with a known actor with a known track record against a known target. It's completely different. At this point it's being willfully ignorant[0] and you're being intentionally obtuse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willful_blindness
Perhaps the best comparison is LEAP [0], although given the fact that most prominent members got their pension before joining I'd understand if someone were a bit suspicious. Actually I'm suspicious of non-profits in general. Non-profits have much more often created rather than ended awful laws. I appreciate those who advocate in principled fashion without hiring lawyers, accountants, and marketers.

[0] http://www.leap.cc/
Two or three years ago it seemed that there was a lot of hacking happening on the AR.Drone: We had the Drone Games (née Drone Olympics), the ar-drone node module was under active development, and there was even an effort to write a replacement firmware.

Now, http://dronegames.co/ is still touting the 2013 Games.

Parrot has released many new drones since the AR.Drone, but from what I can tell it's not that the hackers are now working on the Bebop or Rolling Spider; I'm not sure where they went.

I'm a committer on the ar-drone node library, but lately I've mostly been working on turboshrimp, a clojure library for AR.Drone control: https://github.com/wiseman/turboshrimp (API docs at http://wiseman.github.io/turboshrimp/com.lemondronor.turbosh...). I've also got an Android app (written in Clojure)[1] and a desktop app that uses the CamShift tracking algorithm with OpenCV, which lets you select a target of interest and then will continue to track that target[3].

The AR.Drone is still a really nice, relatively hackable robotics platform. Running Linux and having USB lets you do things like connect an RTL-SDR dongle[4] and display an overlay of nearby aircraft on the drone video stream[5].

[1] https://github.com/wiseman/shrimpdroid

[2] https://github.com/wiseman/turboshrimp-tracker/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In6KFGakGGw

[4] http://lemondronor.com/blog/indexphp/2013/4/cheap-ads-b-on-a...

[5] http://lemondronor.com/blog/indexphp/2013/5/augmented-realit...
The NSA would rather collect data ;)

But there is some blocking. It's mostly been DNS poisoning, against "piracy" and such. I don't recall specifics, but at times there have been sites that were reachable with IP addresses, but not using public DNS servers. There have been, for example, Firefox plug-ins with hard-coded lookups.
Completely disagree. There's a tons and tons of ways to use them.

Sure it can be gimmick or it can be an extremely valuable tool and usually they are somewhere in-between.

In my own experience I've found they are a great replacement for many different types of email notifications such are exceptions from an application. Things you want to glance at and maybe take action on. When these are an email I have to "manage" them, choose where to put them or to delete them or whatever. And I eventually end up just filtering them into an inbox I rarely look at.

As a channel though it's just the right amount of attention and time to them. Took some time adjusting settings to get the right level of exceptions to show up and we still have them all in the exception tracker itself.

The other thing is I only check my email a couple times a day. because most of what goes into my inbox is not time sensitive. Whereas Slack is always on if I'm working so I will instantly see if there's a major issue on the site.

Of course every company is different and has different needs. But writing off all integrations as a gimmick is narrow minded.
This looks like nearly the tool I need: what I'm really looking for is a program that allows me to keep track of deductions and their reasoning. Also, some kind of facilitated back-and-forth with a CPA will be amazing?
The difference is that with Slack you usually have some sort of common bond with the other people there, in terms of being either members of the same organization or else mutual alumni of some organization.

Because of that it's not immediately obvious that Slack should be no different than just asking a Linux question in some random FreeNode channel or whatever. That's actually a pretty big issue that doesn't bode well for the longterm viability of Slack, if (for example) it turns out that it leads to significantly worse organizational decision-making than email due to lower participation rates.
Wherever it comes from, I'm guessing the "smooth-scroller" class on <body> applies it.
The Robot Vacuum Ate My Pancreas
Except sometimes you're blocked on something and need to know the answer now to finish a task. If you switch to something else while waiting for a 2 minute answer, you end up wasting a lot of your time.
A lot of scientific studies (some funded by grants) are never tested through replication, even though that's a core part of the process.

Replication is the unsexy grunt work that makes science reliable, but it usually doesn't make anyone famous (or necessarily even get them tenure), because it's not bleeding edge work creating or advancing new theories.

Maybe the government should treat this like a market failure and generously fund replication studies.

Planet Money on the replication issue:
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/15/463237871/episo...

Replication crisis (wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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If you have not seen these it's quite a weird idea. If you are in the channel your speakers are always-on.

Like every voice-chat enabled computer game since the 90s; IRC style open channels, but audio.

Mumble is one free, encrypted (I think), cross platform one.
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This is pretty depressing.
Absolutely. There's nothing like a chance to sit back and just code while the world passes by. I highly recommend a laptop/book/sketchpad and a trip on the amtrak over the course of a couple days to relieve a lot of stresses. This is just a tiny burst of the same idea, depending on the hours. I'm doing the trip to NYC pretty soon on it, actually. :)

Not really sure why the author thinks this is somewhat of an outlandish idea, honestly.
chris_wot -- the HN algorithms keep from from responding to your post again, but I hope you don't think I was being sarcastic (I wasn't, I was just stating the bare minimum of how I understood your views). I don't believe in a Christian god (though I did for a long while) nor do I believe in heaven or hell (though I'm still probably less rational and more mystical than 95% of HN - but thanks for the nuanced response. I do admit that it is completely logical to take the view that we all have free will yet God exists outside time and space so knows everything that will happen so therefore of course predestination and free will are not at odds with each other. I'd urge you to reflect on how an all-loving being could condemn anyone to torture for all eternity based on the decisions they made in one tiny lifetime, but that's neither here nor there. We're getting far afield of the main topic here, but I hope you would admit that prosperity HAS been a tenant of mainstream Calvinism in so far as god showering his elect on earth with blessings, etc.
In general I understand the principle of the argument, that the government is not as driven as private sector because there is strong incentive structures in private companies. But with some good management decent incentive structures in govt, it can also work. Case in point, the some of the Indian banks which were nationalized, the Indian railways(the largest rail network in the world), and in many Indian States govt. diary companies have worked decently well as well.
It bothers me that "you can freely interrupt employees" is actually an implicit part of how Slack is marketed towards management. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11197449)
I've played with the Echo, it is really nice, but ... much like Siri, Cortana and Google Now, using it fully gives up any shred of remaining privacy you had within your own home. I would gladly pay twice as much for an Echo-device that doesn't route all my instructions through $BEHEMOTH servers.
Woops. I thought I was on the DigitalOcean / GitLab one. Sorry.
It's amusing to see this as something of a novelty. In India, buses like these ply regularly[1] (for example between Bangalore and Chennai, or Bangalore and Hyderabad) and are pretty popular. But then, the reason for the popularity might be the fact that flight tickets (arriving at approx. the same time in the morning) cost about 3x that of a sleeper bus service[2]. WiFi isn't included though.

1. http://www.ksrtc.in/AWATAROnline/jqreq.do?hiddenAction=Handl...
2. https://www.cleartrip.com/flights/itinerary/6830699ffb-d1f9-...
The next step is using Truffle to bypass bytecode generation and interact directly with Graal -- HotSpot's next-gen (JIT/AOT) compiler -- and its amazing optimizations:

Writing a Language in Truffle: http://cesquivias.github.io/tags/truffle.html
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To be fair, scientists by and large understand the need of replication, and evaluation in general. It's just in certain fields (e.g. psychology) or circumstances with human subjects, it's very expensive or even infeasible to have well controlled repeated experiments.
Why did you have no male examples?
Glad to hear it's getting better. I've heard not-so-nice things in the past
What's the OSS LSTM+CTC package that's coming along?
> China, Japan, Vietnam, and Taiwan

You forgot Thailand. With the cult of the president and full cooperation of the army, it's pretty much a dictatorship as well.
Hex is (or, up to now, has been) Elixir's package manager.
A range of 2149-2300 doesn't quite strike me as diverse.
Agreed with rpgmaker. My experience with the law (IANAL) is that it's sometimes just easier to pull up the books, read the relevant portions yourself, then confirm it with your lawyer for some quick answers. This is what I was doing before having a lawyer and it worked just fine, but having a validation source saved me many, many hours. Simply a hiring a lawyer and somewhat blindly trusting them sounds like poor advice in itself. That said, in an attempt at CYA, please please please just use a damn lawyer.