skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Accusing me of trolling [...] implies I'm acting in bad faith.

Not necessarily. I troll people all the time by saying things that are true but sound wrong to the average person, and never in bad faith. PG and Zed Shaw frequently do the same thing, albeit in different ways, and I wouldn't say that they're acting in bad faith either.

To the extent the book Made To Stick is correct that people are much more likely to become engaged with and ultimately remember things that seem wrong or counterintuitive at first, trolling at it's best is just a highly effective didactic technique.
There's an interesting ecosystem around weeding. Many libraries send weeded books to Better World Books, which is a major used bookseller. If BWB don't want the books, then they pass them along to organizations like the Internet Archive, which scans them & then loans 1 electronic copy for each physical copy.

Better World Books averages 1 container of incoming books per day.
Library methods are preferable to added language complexity.
>accepting that pain now is better than letting the US become a failed state.

If you look throughout history, there has never been any nation or empire that has ever done this. The US will fail just as Rome and others before it.
Huh. It appears I have been lawyered.
Long ago after taking a class on computer security that included more than its fair share of stories of espionage and intrigue, a paranoid part of my brain started to think that maybe they were indeed watching everything happening online, all the time. But another part of my brain, let's call that paranoia-self-restraint, pushed that back for years. After Snowden, that paranoia-self-restraint voice doesn't get much airtime.
I'm a big fan of the economy/value of used cars, but I don't think that we'll be seeing 15 year old used lithium-batteried EVs being viable. The capacity losses from time on the Li batteries are just too severe over that timeframe, and dumping oil into a 15-year old IC engine is worthwhile. Renewing the battery pack on a 10-15 year old EV isn't worthwhile (or is worthwhile, but puts a floor on the used car price).

My household has a 190K mile, 2005 Honda CR-V and a 6K mile 2015 LEAF. That Honda is likely to be viable beyond when the LEAF is viable. (Assuming no accidents, rust will eventually get the Honda and battery capacity will get the LEAF.)
Whoops, yeah, I shouldn't post while zoning out on a teleconf.
The Freelance Economy in Numbers
I have a distinct feeling these bootcamps are "teaching to the test".

I would really like to know what it is like to work with this guy.
Ugh, this kind of "research" keeps coming up. Yes, if you take totally untrained people and subject them to your favorite exercising regime.. they will improve massively.

This is pretty much true regardless of exercise regime. It tells you nothing about the effectiveness of your regime after that initial exponential bit of learning curve.
If Comcast wants to give up limited liability, then fine, they can do whatever they want. An implicit part of my argument is that the government is already involved, there are plenty of regulations that Comcast benefits from.
Reminds me of the scientist who drank bacteria to prove that it caused stomache ulsers (and was treatable). Too bad it's just not that easily testable.

Unfortunately, we are still within measurement error and it's possible that telomere length has nothing to do with lifespan and might be a cancer problem. We may know if she makes it to 100, but this kind of work needs a control group and large sample size and is probably unethical in humans. Those who choose this might die sooner of risky behavior or already have other problems that reduce their lifespan that they would want to offset.
Indeed, enumerating all

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positions in Go is impossible.
Ah, HN. Where BuzzFeed is considered an innovative company due to loose ties to the MIT Media Lab, but a nearly four billion dollar purchase of a company that averaged $400+ million dollars per release -- while being consistently ranked the top company to work for in a legendarily cutthroat town and industry -- gets this as top comment.

Sold at >50% premium to Tuesday's close of its publicly-traded stock price. This is not "wholesale." And the human assets remain very much a key part of the company's value and values.
How Twitter and Facebook are like junk food
Imagine two neutral networks trained on different data. Their internal data is likely completely different yet, for the most part, they can still agree on the classification of new observations when they both observe a common external reality regardless of how they model that reality internally.

This completely destroys the evolution argument in the article that concludes that reality is subjective. An organism may learn to perceive more or less water as a color rather than a quantity because the internal representation does not matter a bit.

To me it was already obvious that your red is not the same as mine. If your internal model which represents red is more like my internal model for quantity of water it does not matter at all as long as we can still make the same distinctions of little water vs a lot of water that allow is to survive. The article's conclusion that this means reality is observer dependent does not follow.
I wrote this up last night but decided not to post it, but why not, since it's topical now. He might've learned from the criticism last time.

sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' rama.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | egrep "^(mine|his|me|i|him|he)$"| sort | uniq -c | sort -n
11 me
15 him
82 i
107 his
148 he

sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' minsk.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | egrep "^(mine|his|me|i|him|he)$"| sort | uniq -c | sort -n
4 him
11 me
22 his
45 he
51 i
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I don't think he was implying Cleveland was bad; just that very few people will make such a big move to keep their job.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSgUnixCZnQ
I Want Your Email Address
Yeah, that sound like a nightmare. I was wondering why it would be that high and then I saw there were a bunch of failed attempts being billed for as well in that instance.

I personally just push anything that would be highly improbable for me to ever need.
Until you mentioned it I was not even conscious of the fact that double quotes required pressing shift, yet I type hundreds of them every day.
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Yes, there is an option to sign up with only an email address.
Isn't this the idea behind Crossfit? I was always surprised the workouts were actually quite short maybe 10-15 minutes total of movement. Yet strangely I was losing weight and toning up fast. From one week to the next.

Even in a real gym -- if we subtract out all the time we spend changing our clothes, looking at our phones, talking to our friends, resting between sets, drinking water -- it only adds up to about 5-10 minutes of real exercise.
10 Seconds of Math
MUST-WATCH in this context: South Park S18 E6, it's about Freemium, Mobile, Addiction, Dopamine in very educative AND funny way

Here full episode in HD (you can switch to English): http://www.southpark.de/alle-episoden/s18e06-freemium-gibts-...
I'm struggling to understand why it's a 'service' at all, as opposed an app that can be purchased, like say http://panic.com/statusboard/
> So what if you can't watch Two Broke Girls if you don't have Comcast? Two Broke Girls is not critical for a happy, fulfilling life.

Nor should Comcast be able to produce Two Broke Girls (actually I think that's CBS but whatever) in an environment where they are protected from competition. But they are. That's what the OP is getting at - Comcast makes money from the privileged position. Nothing to do with the programming on that channel.
In addition to Threes, which you absolutely have to play, SPL-T is another great stylish puzzler, with a harder to grasp ruleset however.

Orbital, Spelltower and 80 Days are other favorites of mine.
Why? Because you didn't put in the time to learn how to properly negotiate? Negotiation is a skill that can be learned, just like engineering.
True, the ME is volatile, but its been unstable for decades. The biggest change in the balance of power was when the West removed Iraq as a buffer between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Now that's gone, and with the recent rebalancing of the West towards Iran, SA is getting antsy. The question is whether the US can act as a moderating influence on both.

However, Russia, and even more so, SE Asia are powder kegs. China is on the move, Japan and SK are starting to make counter moves. An arms race is on, and I really really hope it doesn't end badly. Past history however doesnt give much hope...
I've used it for a prototype project for the news industry, though not in production.

IBM Watson: Building a Cognitive App with Concept Insights

http://www.primaryobjects.com/2016/02/01/ibm-watson-building...
why? He makes $130k with a $30k signing bonus?

The RSUs are illiquid assets for private companies like this. Maybe he can get cash on a secondary market or keep them for bank in an IPO. This shouldn't make you sick..., 130k is a pretty average software engineer salary in SF Bay area.

The information about referrals for better compensation packages was really useful.
Hey, it worked for try!()/?
Didn't the US drop more bombs on Laos in a secret war than all the bombs dropped in WW2?

I do not have the figures but in these 'little wars' there has been a lot of silver spent on munitions. The whole process is just a lot more efficient so we are not at total war on the domestic front, just paying our taxes so the military can buy vastly more effective killing machines. Things may have gone away from the unguided bombs of times gone past, war zones may be in different places, but otherwise, there is a lot to compare today's wars with WW1/WW2 when it comes to $$$ spend and devastation caused.
> I love disruptive games which bring in new tech

Agreed! This is why I love the GearVR, pushing mobile gaming to new bounds.
What's wrong with using the already expressed intentions of the community, as expressed by the upvotes on each submission, as the 'final say'?

You should give the money to Pinboard.
Blizzard Pretends IP Made It Kill Fan Server
Sorry for the slow reply, thought I was so far down the list people wouldn't be seeing it.

First - thanks for the feedback and discussion. Really useful insights.

You are correct in that the interface is the 'new' - and also that single codes are a poor way of input. The original reason for SMS was to interupt the user to actually get them to make a measurement. I've since changed that the interupt still comes as a message, but the input/logging is done through a full application. It also means that the application is more accessable for reviewing data, making changes, processing, etc - as you mention is an advantage for simple spreadsheets.

The advantage over a spreadsheet is trading some 'freedom' for easier analytics. I'm wanting to make quantified self more accessible for people without the skills (or maybe interest) to do data processing themselves.

Agreed that having a smartphone is probably a good assumption for the market.
>I run a small company and I absolutely refuse to have an HR department.

You are my hero. If you ever end up having an HR department you can put in mediocre software developers to do the menial tasks. Most mediocre software developers will out do your average HR drone. For hiring and interviewing use the very best people that you have.
I've looked into it for some past hackathon projects and a side project. Watson can take care of some of the heavy lifting of NLP, categorization, or parsing large volumes of text, et, in different ways, but it's not some jeopardy-winning AI you can just plug into something you already have (at least not yet). It can abstract away some tricky challenges if your needs fit what it can do.
Show HN: Shanhu.io, a programming playground powered by e8vm
Yep. I use encrypted drives for my financial information and other sensitive information I store on behalf of family (e.g. legal docs), etc.

I wouldn't have a desire to reveal that either.
shanhu.io is a programming playground powered by e8vm:

https://github.com/e8vm/e8vm

e8vm is an open-source self-contained simulated virtual machine that has its own simple mips-like instruction set, and its own system programming language (G language). G is a language that has a golang-like syntax but with a c-like runtime -- no runtime.

shanhu.io provides an online playground where you can develop G language programs and run it in a simulated e8vm virtual machine right in your browser. The website requires a github account to login to save the workspaces.

The entire project is written in Go language, with no circular dependencies among files and packages, with each file no more than 300 lines (maximum 80 chars each). As a result, the project can be visualized in a hierarchy of DAG's:

https://e8vm.io/e8vm

The G language compiler enforces the same dependency rules, so a small operating system in G (still in development) can also be visualized:

https://shanhu.io/~os8

It is a hobby project of mine. Questions and feedbacks are welcomed. :)
I totally agreed with your point. Lack of precise control and having no physical feedback and limitations on touchscreen controls led game developers to compromise the quality of games to make them ready for touch controls. In addition, fingers are hiding a big chunk of the screen for them to use on-screen controls which again compromises both quality of control and game design. Although there are controllers in the market you can attach the phone to top of the controller but all are bulky and not good for a mobile user. We made http://www.flitch.io , a mobile and smart-toy controller in the form of a phone case. It has two intuitive Josyticks and two trigger buttons and all works with no battery! Buttons are pressure sensitive which means if you press harder you punch harder! check it out and share your thoughts. Thanks
If the forensic examiner is allowed to "guess" what's on the drive, why can't the owner of the drive "forget" the passphrase?

I have an encrypted filesystem from years ago that I've forgotten the password to, it has some vacation pictures on it that I'd like to retrieve, and every once in a while I try to guess the passphrase but so far I've been unable to.
By "most" I'm thinking of things like the body, interior, wheels, bumpers, steering, etc. Since I'm ignorant of the cost breakdown of these components, I can't say for sure if it's over or under the 50% mark, but my gut says over.
Too bad you didn't grow up now, you could have just started a Go Fund Me instead of dipping into your savings.
I assume it's that you have to separate the three parts of the for loop arguments with semicolons
The reality is there has to be some kind of weeding process. Libraries can't forever hold an ever-increasing number of books, especially how woefully funded public libraries are in some areas. I think as long as the process - and list of weeded books - are transparent there's nothing wrong with it.
I had one company that used Watson flat out tell me that it was purely for marketing - they could have built their own solution just as easily, but used Watson because it had more marketability.

From what I understand, it's really just a wrapper around IBM, or a collection of things IBM has built or offers.

I have not yet seen anything particularly interesting - but i'm glad you asked this question! Hopefully someone will chime in with something worthwhile.
>Really? I'd like to see sublime handle text manipulations with the same efficiency and precision that Vim provides.

Can you give an example of an efficient/precise text manipulation that vim can do that sublime can't?
This should be especially confusing to HN readers because it wasn't just a few weeks ago that a similar article was posted on HN which reported that only prolonged exercise would have any positive effects on improving cognition, with HIIT purportedly having very minor effects on cognition.

I assume that though many of us exercise for the health effects, many do so specifically for the benefits that exercise can have on our brains. Now after reading this study--well, it seems our entire understanding of the subject is inconclusive.
Sci-hub.io domain is down
The sci-hub.io domain is down

Sci-Hub is the site for downloading copyrighted research papers, which provides the access to the cutting edge human knowledge for the people who don't have money to pay highly expensive fees of Springer, Thomson-Reuters, etc. (even Harvard can't allow to have subscriptions to all the journal titles, not to mention independent scientists).

Unlike “The Pirate Bay” we don't have the common opinion on whether the scientific knowledge should be behind the paywall. Even the big publishers don't have satisfying explanations on why scientists should pay ~$40 for one paper: scientists do the writing and checking jobs for free. Average paper contains 10–20 references, that is almost $1000 for one publication, and scientists often need to skim through the hundreds of papers in order to make contribution to the human knowledge, which makes the science inaccessible for independent researchers.

And also unlike “The Pirate Bay”, the sci-hub.io web site was silently shut down, without media shouting aloud about every step in the process, every lawsuit and every opinion on the topic.

* * *
sci-hub.bz, sci-hub.cc and scihub22266oqcxt.onion are still working, btw.
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I think we at least agree on suicide. Suicide is a desperate act: we must feel deep sympathy for its victims and contempt for its promotion. But what you plan to undertake - euthanasia - is not suicide, but just something that reduces pain, stress, and financial loss.

Those are the goals, but to attain them you plan to ask someone to sedate you and then kill you by stopping your heart. The evil of suicide isn't that it's a violent or unexpected death, but that it is a planned death, the victim trading her life for benefits like reduced suffering (or in even sadder cases, life insurance payoffs, a ufo trip, honor for the emperor, whatever). The person's remaining life seems worthless, so they plan, make their decision, feel at peace and begin to put their affairs in order - I read this in a "suicide prevention" pamphlet. Please tell me what the difference is to you, since I no longer have the opportunity to ask someone in that position. I see the following answers:

* It is not suicide because I really am better off dead.

* It is not suicide because numerous doctors judge that I really am better off dead.

* It is not suicide because cancer is worse than depression and an injection is better than a rope.

* It is not suicide because my loved ones also feel at peace with my decision.

Can you tell me plainly how what you plan is different from suicide?

And sure, I agree that humans are rational animals, not suffering animals. But the world is not perfect, so there are still some times where we must endure even intense suffering to maintain our human dignity. You are fortunate enough to have access to sedation until natural death, why not take advantage of that instead?
Tidy Spring – Configuration Properties
Maybe some suggestive file names in the player's history?
The link between the Bushnell-founded Kadabrascope, sold to Lucas in 1984 in a fire sale to save Chuck E. Cheese, and the founding of Pixar in 1986 as a spin-off of Lucasfilm's Computer Division (which was founded in 1979) is hazy.

Yes, Bushnell created what probably became a part of Pixar, but calling him a founder is pushing it.
To be fair, the scenario is less common due to the fact that it happens just when the drained connections are terminated in a certain pattern (as shown in the charts). Still definitely common enough that can be easily replicated and cause real troubles :)
If you have any interest in PC games you can't get past Rock Paper Shotgun in my opinion. If you were expecting a site focused on Android gaming however, then I'm not of much help unfortunately.
I was robbed at gunpoint on my birthday a few years ago in front of the SF Chronicle for my cellphone!

The thief was finally caught, he wore a leather holster and was called the cowboy bandit by the police and robbed 40 other people. At trial, one particular gentleman had been beaten and facially disfigured after handing over his phone because the thief noticed he was gay.

My old boss had his car smashed and valuables removed.

And a popular travel blogger who reviews national parks in her RV which she lives in and is herself rather poor, stopped in SF overnight and had all of her possessions stolen from her trailer.
My friends and I play Clash Royal, Clash of Clans and Boom Beach. Out of the three it's Clash Royal that has made us come this close to smashing our tablets in rage.

But it's not the IAP that's the cause. It's the skewed matchmaking and the mysterious loosing streaks that occur very frequently. You'd be playing and winning some and loosing some and then all of a sudden you hit a losing streak of 6-12 losses or more.

One thing for sure is my friends and I are not spending a penny on this game because of that regular frustration. We've spent a little on the other two games to get past a point of tedium but that gave us something concrete.

In Clash Royal spending money just gives you a chance to get the cards you need. No thank you. If the game mechanic wasn't so addictive we'd have stopped playing it long ago.
Yes, I preordered the PS4 VR, that's going to be awesome.
My hobby: investigate the subjectAltName of SSL certificates. Didn't know Conde Nast ran Vogue, New Yorker and sold wedding dresses.

DNS Name: wired.com
DNS Name: *.condenast.io
DNS Name: *.wired.com
DNS Name: ads.thestudio.condenast.com
DNS Name: allure.com
DNS Name: *.allure.com
DNS Name: architecturaldigest.com
DNS Name: *.architecturaldigest.com
DNS Name: bonappetit.com
DNS Name: *.bonappetit.com
DNS Name: brides.com
DNS Name: *.brides.com
DNS Name: builtwhileflying.com
DNS Name: *.builtwhileflying.com
DNS Name: cntraveler.com
DNS Name: *.cntraveler.com
DNS Name: cntraveller.com
DNS Name: *.cntraveller.com
DNS Name: condenast.com
DNS Name: *.condenast.com
DNS Name: condenast.io
DNS Name: condenastdigital.com
DNS Name: *.condenastdigital.com
DNS Name: condenaststudio.com
DNS Name: *.condenaststudio.com
DNS Name: condenet.com
DNS Name: *.condenet.com
DNS Name: details.com
DNS Name: *.details.com
DNS Name: epicurious.com
DNS Name: *.epicurious.com
DNS Name: glamour.com
DNS Name: *.glamour.com
DNS Name: golfdigest.com
DNS Name: *.golfdigest.com
DNS Name: gq.com
DNS Name: *.gq.com
DNS Name: newyorker.com
DNS Name: *.newyorker.com
DNS Name: self.com
DNS Name: *.self.com
DNS Name: style.com
DNS Name: *.style.com
DNS Name: teenvogue.com
DNS Name: *.teenvogue.com
DNS Name: vanityfair.com
DNS Name: *.vanityfair.com
DNS Name: vogue.com
DNS Name: *.vogue.com
DNS Name: webmonkey.com
DNS Name: *.webmonkey.com
DNS Name: wmagazine.com
DNS Name: *.wmagazine.com
Defusing a binary bomb with gdb – Part 5
Which is based on your reality and your assumption that a tiger WILL eat you and has nothing better to do.
Visualizing Machine Learning with Plotly and Domino
Child porn is pretty messed up, but also one of those scary things because it's so easy to move data into any computer without consent. Then it's an easy claim to make against anyone whether or not it's true.
trgn is talking about "just-so stories"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story