skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out who won the pulitzers in news this year:
http://www.poynter.org/2016/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2016...

Best investigative journalism: Tampa Bay Times & Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Ever heard of them?

This is availability bias.

Good journalism is all over the place. If you're looking at CNN and MSNBC and Fox News and lamenting the state of journalism vs. fluff in the modern era, you're looking in the wrong places! You're literally singling out the shitty news and assuming that represents everything.

I guarantee if you go to your local paper or local news station and check out their investigative journalists, you'll find some incredibly talented, passionate people who report on real stories.

Yes, the economics are such that for every in-depth investigative piece, you have a ton of press release reports, and fluff. But that's true on blogs as well.
There are plenty of commercial grade filters available for just about any space. Perhaps your HOA/apartment complex could form regulations around ventilation, filtration, waste disposal, etc..
Note that new comments are weighted much higher (e.g. I've had top level comments on a thread with several comments immediately show up first) and so the fact that a comment is near the top at a point in time does not mean that it's popular.
Until Intel isn't producing chips with way more profit margin than an ARM at 100% capacity, it's not a mistake.

ARM has volume, but x86 has profit.
I think anybody with even a rudimentary exposure to statistics, or survey methodology will tell you that what you said is, quite frankly, not even remotely true.

Even a grad student could present statistics to show whatever they wanted (trust me I've done it...), and you can orient survey questions, or even ask them in a certain order that you will guarantee a certain response.

It's like asking "What are your thoughts on the freedom of press that you enjoy?", versus "How do you feel about your government's attempts to curb press freedom?"

As Ronald Coase said, "If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase
I joined the army and got trained to be an Arabic linguist. That was getting old and frustrating, so I taught myself javascript/ksh/Tcl and made some dumb applications at work, which was enough to get noticed by some neighboring IT shops (I was out of the army, working as a contractor by this time).

I ended up doing Groovy, then Java, and now I'm in the government version of "Enterprisy Java" and I feel stuck myself. 150k isn't that much if it leaves you empty inside.
One thing that I am disappointed in is that I wish the Liberal government first decriminalized marijuana.

For one thing, decriminalization is easy to do. Simply revoke the current criminal laws. The bill would be passed quite quickly. Which would then buy time to figure out a bill for legalization.

Why is this important? Despite popular belief, simple possession laws ARE upheld in Canada, but the people charged are disproportionately minorities and poor/homeless people. IIRC, there were 40 000+ criminal charges for simple possession last year in Canada. That means thousands of citizens who are now burdened with a criminal record, making job searches difficult and border crossings into the US.

So while laws for legalizing pot are getting figured out in Parliament, more people keep getting locked up for simple possession.
Reminds me of the "japanese intestines are longer" theory.

https://medium.com/words-escape-us/are-japanese-intestines-l...
I often do this to find out what files were installed where.

$ touch now
$ install.sh
$ find / -newer now

That is supposing you trust install.sh of course.

You can redirect the output of find to a file for later removal. You will have to filter out false positives from the 'find' output, usually dev nodes.
And how do you propose we fix that, and more importantly, does your solution scale?
> forget X, hire Y

Why not forget hiring based on age and hire someone who fits well with your team and has either the skills you need or the aptitude and attitude to learn them
"Failures to replicate and publication bias" as a subheading on that page.
A prion that infected people rapidly, through saliva-to-blood contact, and had similar symptoms to rabies without the rapid death would be very similar to traditional zombie lore.

The protein would probably also have to effect the olfactory glands, creating an attraction to uninfected humans.
My 2 cents is I ruled out moving there because there is no easy access to ocean. Boston won over SF because 1 hour drive gets me to warm water.
How university students sleep
To take this issue off the table, we've changed the title to something that's factually supported by the article.
Yikes, that's pretty low for local development work. If you were mostly doing remote access to a more powerful development server that might work but for doing anything more serious you'll want to consider at least 8GB. Chrome uses a gig by itself so you're already down quite a bit. Most of my dev machines have been 16GB minimum.
Atom is doing 'great'. Intel spend over $7 billion(1) subsidizing Atom in hopes chinese vendors would use it, they rarely did. Finally in 2015, partially driven by fear of prosecution for price dumping against native Chinese silicon manufacturers, they entered into a 'cooperation'(2) with gov run semiconductor giants, and by cooperation I mean Intel gave them 1.5B, free Atom license and committed to spend $5.5B on flash fabs in the mainland. Intel also also promised to shareholders they would stop subsidizing Atoms ... which didnt last that long (3).

1 http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/07/after-intel-spent-...

2 http://www.cnet.com/news/intel-doubles-down-on-mobile-with-1...

3 http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-to-chinese-elec...

Latest Atoms are almost usable, and you can get passable quad core 4GB ram/64GB flash tablet for $160 (Chuwi Hi10).
The angel is not allowed to jump onto a block; it could not decide to jump where you placed the block.
Weirdly enough, these foreign female engineers never complain about "culture problems" even though they make up the majority of female engineers.
> There has never been a myth that women can't code.

I've seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears perfectly competent female programmers being patronised by male programmers of a similar skill (who in turn do not patronise other males that way). You're basically setting up an unusual situation, where someone has to literally say "women can't code" to qualify, when in reality, women are frequently treated as if they're not as capable as men in our industry.

It's great that your wife is making her mark, but that doesn't mean there aren't problems that affect others. Similarly, there's been articles here on HN about how there were more female students in CS of your wife's uni era, but that these numbers dropped off precipitously in the 80s and 90s.
It's worth an investigation because it can be done cheaply and there might be something there.
We've also investigated ESP and quite a few other weird things.

Unruh radiation is weird under some interpretations it can be used to reduce the inertial mass of objects, the thing I take from this is that I hope the EM drive could prove it rather than the other way around because then we might say we've discovered the "Mass Effect" ;)
That core M will be $1xx compared to $1x-2x for ARM chips.
I disagree. This is an interesting article explaining what is happening to Intel and why. But you're not the target audience if you know this already; every piece of information in this article would be novel and interesting to someone outside of tech.
Although I agree with most of the comments you said, I have to strongly disagree with "First class C++ support of Windows Mobile" when compared to iOS (or even Android). I have an entire non trial stack of C/C++ libraries that I use which I easily bring to Android and iOS using a cross-compiling build system we wrote (https://github.com/amigocloud/amigomake). The C/C++ dependencies include :

Freetype v. 2.4.10,
OpenSSL v. 1.0.1m,
Bzip v. 1.0.6,
libidn v. 1.24,
GEOS v. 3.4.2,
CURL v. 7.39.0,
Proj4 v. 4.8.0,
SQLite v. 3080700,
Jpeg v. 8d,
PNG v. 1.2.50,
Minizip v. 11.
uuid,
libwebsockets,
rapidjson,
Spatialite,
Coffeecatch,
tinydir,
Freetype-GL,
libtess2,
RTree,
Spline,
SHA,
lodePNG.

and are used by this cross-platform mobile app: https://github.com/amigocloud/amigoclient

Getting this libraries to work on *nix platforms (e.g. Android or iOS) is easy. Getting them to work on Windows Mobile is a nightmare - starting with the fact that they don't even support things like OpenGL...
Agreed that nobody wins in a trade war, though, the threat of limiting the oil flowing south isn't very credible. Canada is already hemorrhaging money due to the downturn in oil pricing and the subsequent devaluing of the Loonie. Also, Canada doesn't really have any other options of where to send the oil, as thanks to a variety of political actors, Canada hasn't been able to build a pipeline to the west coast to move the oil overseas to places like China. Lastly, I don't even think that the Canadian federal government could reduce the flow of oil, as the sector is in private hands. I suppose something might be able to be done with cross-border rail movement, but I'm not sure. Regardless, it would be cutting the nose to spite the face, so the point is pretty well moot.

As for the ability of Canadians to create their own policies of self-government solely on internal politics without regard for geopolitical implications, I'm not going to pout over it. Geopolitics and international relations effect the internal politics of every country, and American concerns are not without merit.

If a Democrat wins the WH, I'd be surprised if that threat were levied, as it would anger much of the Democratic base. However, who knows what the future will hold. Law enforcement agencies certainly hold a great deal of policy sway in the US (as in most countries), and my take is that they're more anti-legalization than the average American voter and politician.
Arduino has become a generic term referring to anything that can be programmed by the arduino ide.

It happens to be the largest development community in the world for 8 bit microcontrollers.

It only makes sense that people who want to give their projects maximum visibility would use arduino, and not genuino. The top comments in threads about genuino would just be people talking about the name dispute, not the actual project.
There have only been 3 major releases with known backwards-incompatible changes. The reason you would want to test your code in so many versions of Node would be to check that you aren't depending on newer features that aren't in older versions that you want to still support.

Testing across 32 versions is probably very overkill for most people though.
sigh... this again. He's being downvoted because statements like

> "A free press and whistleblowers are essential to democracy. Without a free press & whistleblowers democracy cannot function."

are applause lights that contribute nothing of substance to this conversation.

Pick a bunch of random people-- hell, even random politicians-- and ask them if a free press is essential to democracy. I guarantee you 100% of them will say yes, and probably 100% of them actually believe it and aren't just cynical liars. This suggests that the causes of this muzzling are deeper than people simply not realizing how important a free press is, and that the solutions are more complex than repeating two-sentence mantras that everyone already agrees with.
Because AMD64 is actually distinct from Intel's implementation, which has some subtle differences - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Differences_between_AMD...

The AMD64 usage implies non-compatibility with EM64T..
Curiously the D-1587 doesn't show up if you look at

http://ark.intel.com/products/family/87041/Intel-Xeon-Proces...

but I see a very appealing core count/core frequency compromise:

http://ark.intel.com/products/93356/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1...
To clarify, they are ~400 miles apart so I can see not traveling the distance. But, reading it seems they are reporting what they saw on the news instead of any kind of first hand account. Sure, they called the local police, but in terms of actual reporting it's a bit thin.
David Forney: The Man Who Launched a Million Modems
Not 'tinker', but 'tinkerer'.

A 'tinker' is an historical term for a tinsmith, and now it's an offensive term in certain parts of the English speaking world.
Thanks for the feedback!

We're at the mercy of some pretty bad APIs.

- The autocomplete API is powered by Google Books, which returns some pretty iffy results at times. It's also rate limited, but not as bad as the others

- Goodreads API doesn't support auto complete and has no plans to. I guess it's too chatty.

- Ebay ISBN search only works for some books. There's no clear indication as to what will and what won't return a result list. Here's an example bug raised in 2012 with no action. https://forums.developer.ebay.com/questions/1079/finditemsby...

EDIT: Re: Amazon, I turned it off for AU given they don't really ship here. If it's desired, I can turn it back on.
Yeah I only run the unit tests against my current locally installed packages.

Via travis I then run a full matrix.
Yah, but if you decriminalize possession it's a boon for the (still) illegal dealers and distributors. Is there any credible data to discredit my take on this?
When using sterile mosquitoes, the idea isn't that they pass on their genes, but that they dominate mating and therefore disrupt the breeding cycle. I.e. you release LOTS of sterile males and the normal females spend time mating with them instead of normal males and the population therefore decreases (until you run out of sterile males).

I think the better option (also in the article) is to release engineered males that result on male only offspring. Eventually you run out of females and the species dies off.
CLR also supports proper tail calls, where the JVM does not (yet).
Is it largely the industry's fault though, or some mix of the dominant culture and the education system that sets a trajectory at a much earlier age which is very hard to reverse? Women are only about 18% of the computer science majors.

EDIT. NPR had an interesting perspective on this, thought I'd share: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
Thanks!

Since you will probably have a lot of people learning from this video who have never done this before (like myself), it would be nice if you could explain why you were doing some of the steps (not all of them, some were self-explanatory).

Anyways. Thanks.
This. Around 2.8Ghz core and 16GB ram are standard for us. Occasionally we have to settle for 8GB if that is what all that is available in Apple refurbs.
Coming from an ex-communist country to the US as a 25 year old I was shocked that the whole "Wife stays at home to take care of kids" is actually seen as a real thing to do in 2016. I was certain this was something that only happens in old sitcoms.
San Francisco will require new buildings to install solar panels
Google's chief futurist thinks we could start living forever by 2029
That's economy of scale I don't see a reason for it to be more expensive the Apple A8x had a higher transistor count than an 8 core Core i7 Haswell-E CPU.
Also I'm pretty sure that high end SOC's that end up in iPhones, Galaxy S's and the like cost more like the Core-M than the 20$ or so you would pay for a MediaTek SOC.
That's not the case. Tajmar did one in vacuum.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/emdrive-dr-martin-tajmar-generates-...

They did it last year and alo found some thrust signals, altough they were very careful to leave the door open to measurement errors, like Lorentz forces.

Eagleworls lab will also attemp one vacuum test in a more equipped NASA lab.

I tend to think it's all vapourware since it goes against so many well founded rules that it's more likely that it's just pathological science. The theory in the OP is also likely to be rubbish. The author of the paper was challenged many times and failed to provide sound answers. Furthermore he supports a telepathy "researcher" which is also a red flag.
Here in British Columbia my friends who smoke prefer going to the dispensaries that have opened over their old local drug dealer. It is more convenient to go to a store with regular hours than to arrange a meeting. They also get to choose exactly which strains they are buying instead of having to take what is available. I think it is going to be very difficult to earn a decent income only selling weed.

Edit; there was a house worth 1.5 million for sale nearby, a beautiful custom home on a big lot, for sale for 400,000 because it had a grow op which is the same as a meth lab in the eyes of the law. No bank will lend on the property, the occupancy permit for the house is revoked, and the soil is considered contaminated until proven otherwise. All for a bunch of plants! Many laws and regulations will have to catch up for people to be able to legally grow at home with no repercussions.
How to Leverage Custom Shaders in Computer Game Development
Increased Fines for Uber Drivers in Queensland (Aus)
California Preschools Are in the Path of Pollution
Esh – Statistical Similarity of Binaries
Intel? What about Nokia making miserable 'smartphones' running 24MHz i386???
I am actually a descriptivist myself, but the prescriptive approach usually works best when trying to convince people how to write. Apparently not so in this case.

How about this argument then: "virii" is f*ckin ugly? No? Darn. :-)
Genocea reports promising 12-month data for its genital herpes vaccine
Sometimes it's completely apparent that the things I don't know could fill the internet.
When they actually deploy this shit, they'll no longer be a on-practicing entity...
Ok, second most successful after 2015.
That people today can still make assertions like that and expect to be taken seriously shows you how little we have learned from earlier "lack of evidence".
The most expensive part for that was the serial-to-usb cord I had to buy. Great little tool and taught me a lot.
Or you could take the anarcho-syndicalist approach and split the money evenly to the entire pool, with a lower bound on grant size which makes the money inconsequential and if the lower limit is reached require all grantees to contribute a portion of their time to growing the money pool.
"Containers are great. It's a shame Linux doesn't have any."
News Sites Start Charging Readers to Comment on Articles
Competitive coding contests are in a way similar to chess or olympiads and it is a sport in itself.

For all the years I have spent and observed on topcoder, Google Code Jam and others I haven't seen a lot of women coders reaching the top, not even from Russia. So what these girls are achieving is a big deal and should inspire many. It is a little disappointing to see comments like they didn't crush because they didn't get the first prize. Consistent winning of multiple contests is definitely something and they are doing it pretty well.
In the end it seems like CLR is superior to the JVM based on these assertions.
The microcontroller on most arduinos is a normal atmel microcontroller. The build output of the arduino compiler is no different from traditional embedded compilers. It's still just machine instructions.

It's sort of similar to how Python runs on top of C. To the processor, it's all the same. It had no idea that you wrote your application in C or Python. They both end up as machine instructions.
Anything by Dell, Ilyama, NEC or Asus for that price.
Early on, Microsoft missed the internet revolution but were big enough and good enough to survive that early misstep. Intel is big enough and good enough to survive their mobile blunder (though, admittedly, they're taking more time than MS did to get back on the horse).
It's not procrastination - it's just lazy evaluation.
Go elsewhere, the majority of the US thinks working for a big company with a stable future is the dream. The thing that makes silicon valley special is the encouragement to take risks and 'disrupt' the status quo.
"Bro", "dude", "man". So I know I'm talking to some little kid at least.

But I have to say, anti-AMD! Yes, very perceptive as I type this on a machine with a Radeon in it. Consider the fact that other people can criticize products they have extensive knowledge with.

Judging from the rest of your response, my post went completely over your head. And quite the troll as you try to change the points I made in attempt to "win" the argument. But it is amusing hearing some kid saying Intel's 20% IPC boost from SB to SL as awful shows how much you don't know. I have friends that work at Intel. Go back to PC Gamer as you have no idea what you're talking about. Some dumb kid sees ONLY 20% with massive power reductions, doesn't realize that computers can do more than just play video games.

You also failed reading comprehension and the ability to hold a conversation. Congrats. But either way, there's no way around the fact that in 2 1/2 weeks I'll be benchmarking a R9 Fury to an i7-6770HQ with PCIE NVME SSD, some DDR4 and absolutely crushing any SandyBridge system you own.

Enjoy your old ES-2670 and SandyBridge with an Intel 750. What a total fruitcake. Better use of your time is to go read about logical fallacies as you just spent an hour typing about a strawman you created to beat on with points I never made.

What you want to hear because you just want to argue- you're right, I'm wrong. Hope you feel better now. I'm not giving you any more help. I get it, you like your poverty gaming rig. See ya kid.
How will this affect housing costs?
I wonder whether it would be possible to create a tablet/laptop with an e-ink display, where the processing switches between a low-powered ARM and something like an Arduino. When the Arduino is used, the ARM would be turned completely off.
That is pretty awesome.

I remember back in high school in the Soviet Union (then, what became one of the ex-Soviet Union republics, much like Georgia), there were quite a few girls in my class who were doing well above and beyond what boys would be in math, informatics (what we called computer science) and physics. Remember asking a girl for help to understand integrals.

So there is something to it in that part of the world. And yeah I think strong role models help. One of the girls' father was a programmer that helped probably.

And other aspect, I think they didn't have as many stupid and bad role models to look at -- no teen pop models, no Snapchat, our school didn't have cliques, not as much backstabbing. There was not any emphasis on sports as extra-curricular activities (How I know to compare, you might ask? Well I actually went to a year to a US High School as well so got a pretty good first hand view of both sides).

Heck for a while someone invited kids from our school to join a sports riffle club (or target shooting, whatever shooting .22 riffles sport is, always wondered if it was KGB or army looking for snipers to train...). And even there, half of those that joined were girls. And they hit the targets better and most consistently than us boys because they were more dedicated and we just goofed around more.

Maybe I am being nostalgic here, but I think there is something to the differences in culture. Although I wish I had a better idea exactly what it is.
LibreCAD is a good QCAD near-clone that is open source.