skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because it's a on a map doesn't mean it's actually a maintained road.

I think you'd very quickly wind up going down an unmaintained dirt road and getting stuck.
http://nerves-project.org/
This isn't entirely accurate- SICP is still taught as a 4-week intensive during MIT's IAP (January) term. It doesn't fulfill any requirements, but the student evaluations are excellent (averaged a 6.7/7 over the last two years).

http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/

http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=6.037
If you set your internal P value at say .01 that seems great. Except your conducting lot's of experiments constantly. https://xkcd.com/882/ And when you do that you regularly show correlation when none exists.

Considering how many things used to be deadly, I can see people living with fairly low P values because false positives only need to be less deadly than false negatives for things to work out.

IMO, this also explains why people are risk averse. Generally, survival is more about avoid a few low probability bad events than having a long string of extra special awesome days.
It would take just one mention for that blip. The y value looks to be 0.02%.
This isn't the right way. An in-car steering wheel will always require a licensed driver. Several better ways:

1. For minor uncertainty, the car could ask what to do. For example, the user might confirm that an object blocking the road is harmless and can be run over or bumped out of the way. This is not real-time; the car only asks after it comes to a stop.

2. The above can be done by remote humans.

3. When the car is really confused, you should get power assistance while you stand outside and push. It should be possible to push the car up any San Francisco hill with just one person. Put your hands on the bumper, press hard, and the car responds to the pressure. Unlike traditional car pushing, the steering should respond. You should be able to parallel park, park on grass, force the car up onto the sidewalk a bit, go the wrong direction, and so on.
Thanks - yeah, I agree, we need better palliative care, better social support in general. I understand your perspective, but I do have trouble following it through - I need to be able to say "at this point, a life loses that value, and it becomes permissible to kill". I don't see that happening with consent, because dueling to the death is rightly illegal. I also don't see how we can get somewhere by counting up something (like suffering, failure to contribute back to society, whatever) that then makes it permissible to kill a person. And if I try to combine both, I end up with rules that are still problematic, but make it easier to kill the elderly, the dying, and other vulnerable people, which is a bad sign.
Let me Google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=npm+fiasco
Have you tried emacs?

Also, how would the same app:

- Help me design 3D models

- Help me write a poem

- Help me fight space aliens

- Help me balance my budget.

Those interfaces are all vastly different. The idea that they should be unified is misguided.
> Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers between 88 and 100 billion dollars

It seems to me they're the ones doing a lot of the manual labor in this country. Does that account for the rental income they pay to landlords that in turn pay property taxes? How about sales taxes? Or taxes paid using fake or shared social security numbers?

I know some people that may have been illegal or visa overstays at some point who eventually became citizens. Their economic activity didn't change much and their children are heading to UC colleges. That doesn't seem like a burden to me. Interesting too that the states with the most illegal immigrants are the largest in terms of GDP.

And by the way, the majority of immigrants from south of the border are Christians just looking for work and a better life; if that's worth anything to you. It's a shame that there are people that think building a wall is going to solve their problems. It won't.
You may be interested in learning about some of the approaches taken by the Midori project:http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

A research OS with the theme of treating the OS as if it were a distributed system.
A very good point! I would say that it depends on what the distribution looks like, I wrote:

> [I]f all of the "passive" half have a different random subset, then about half will by definition do "above average", and the other will do "below average". While in the "active group", less than half will do "above average" because they pay part of their gain to fund managers.

So, if all the passive investors have pick a random "large enough" subset of stocks, one would expect the distribution to approach the normal distribution, with roughly half to either side of the arithmetic mean.

Similarly, as you point out, on the "active" side, one might see more outliers - and perhaps the selection isn't really uniformly random.

So, it would probably be a stretch to claim that half will be above average "by definition", even if one includes the expected distribution, while note perhaps entirely wrong.
Whether they were funded or bootstrapped, they did a lot of speculative work or fundraising that someone earning a paycheck from day 1 didn't. It's not about working hard, it's a willingness to take risks. The person asking the question wasn't willing to take risks. They've got the $6500/mo mortgage and the comfortable life with almost zero risk. They were compensated as a wage earner rather than an investor.

Yes, working that way will come with equity, but it's table scraps rather than a full meal. If you want the full meal, you need to work on something before the company is anything. If you wait until they can pay you, that's your compensation.
Agreed, this change seems like a step backwards. Docs aren't about page views.
Nice, I remember seeing this on ProductHunt. I'm working on electoralhq.com which provides Twitter Lists search and management tools. Shifting into building scoutzen.com now though in order to be more independent of Twitter Lists since they get such little attention from Twitter.
You linked to a 234 page report that does not contain the phrases "copy protection" or "DRM" or "digital rights management." You did an amazing job making my point for me.

The report somewhat misleadingly names anything they cannot digitize as "orphan works." These millions of items are largely books and photographs for which they lack a formal license -- it's a discussion relating to the Google book scanning lawsuit and Fair Use not DRM.
If people telling you to watch your language triggers you to the point of making violent threats then you are over privileged. Dismissing others as hysterics and wanting to backslap them demonstrate a lack of empathy.
I wish the original course is offered in an alternate platform like edX.
Bet you dollars to donuts that the author's name does, in fact, at least partially explain their interest. Remember that law enforcement was particularly interested in Aleynikov because he used subversion for VCS.
Interestingly, if you have the URL to one it works, but there is no interface to get to them.
>1. There is not a preponderance of public evidence supporting your claim.

There is unquestionably a preponderance of public evidence regarding satoshis email compromise.

>2. I am not assuming you're lying, I'm simply pointing out what you've said is useless.

If you assume that I am lying, it is.

>3. You can fact check yourself, in fact many people do it to themselves every day.

I think you should read that part of my comment again.

>4. Probing the source of information for verification is precisely what I am doing right now.

That's fair, but I think you're taking the wrong approach. There's just not much I could realistically do to prove this.

However, I'd suggest contacting Roger Ver. They may be able to shed some light on the topic, and probably (unlike me) wouldn't have a problem with incriminating others.

> If you don't care about people believing what you wrote, then you didn't write it to convey information

I do care about people believing what I wrote, but if you assume that I am being intentionally deceitful there's not much I can do to convince you. What proof could I possibly post that couldn't be forged? My entire life isn't recorded in a blockchain.

I honestly don't believe your reaction here is particularly reasonable, it would be if my comment had contained something that was difficult to believe for one reason or the other, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

>Maybe you wrote it to feel good about yourself?

I wrote it to confirm what TazeTSchnitzel seemed to be implying.
Right, feels like Lists may come up on the chopping block soon.
If you don't have time to read the open stuff, you probably don't have time to pick apart the closed.
That was an odd oversight and would put drones at #3.
Facebook is the same.

On reading these "trends", it's like they want us to feel like we just walked into a bar full of people that we loathe.

Earlier on Facebook I decided to see if there was anything at all interesting on the 'trending' tabs:

- Top Trends : 10 stories
- Politics : 8 stories
- Sports : 8 stories
- Entertainments: 10 stories
- Science & Technology : 1 story..

really?? pfft. Kids today.
> Why assume that you won't be able to?

Because the attractive argument for driverless cars that makes sense (to me) is that they're safer than human drivers. Presumably at some point humans will not be allowed to drive anymore.
I agree with you in principle. In practice, I've decided that as long as they don't escalate and make the current solutions more difficult I'll tolerate the current situation but buy elsewhere whenever I have alternatives (e.g. I have spent more on books at O'Reilly than Amazon over the last few years lately explicitly because of O'Reilly's DRM policy).

Meanwhile, DRM is the reason I've only ever bought one Audible audio book, and buy DVDs rather than "buy" downloadable video, for example. DVDs have the same consideration for me: As long as the protection is mostly ineffective and everyone knows it is mostly ineffective, they can continue to pretend to protect them all they way.
Somehow I interact with other people that they always have the feeling they owe me something. Sometimes this goes so far, that people even feel bad to ask me when I owe them something. Also, my GF told me, I always seem kinda bugged out when working.

Both is kinda funny, because I'm mostly a chill guy. But it kept many people from bothering me at work...
I used Triplebyte when looking for a job recently. The advantage in it for me is that Triplebyte thought about what I said I was interested in and matched me up to a half dozen interesting small companies that I would never have found any other way.

That service is easily worth thousands of dollars to me (and I also used Hired.com for the same thing, where thousands of dollars would have been paid in lieu of my salary if I had been matched up.) Instead all I had to do was spend two or three hours writing some code and talking on the phone.

If there are other recruiters that competently provide this service then nobody told me about them.
But it's not more than doubling if the confidence interval ranges from 0.5 to 2.5. It's somewhere between "halves the risk" and "quintuples the risk", which translates to "we don't really know what's going on here."
Data suggests Uber is trailing far behind rival Ola in India
Define "everything"
I don't think any of the doctors I've met would consider medicine their life's purpose.

Most people seem to have much more mundane goals.
Yup. That looks like the first derivative of bounded growth. The integral of that graph would look like a logistic function [1]. It's often used to model population growth.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
counting the instruments/sponges is not the kind of checklist they are referring to. They mean "I'm going to do an appendectomy: sterile instruments [X], wash hands[X], open instrument pack [X], apply iodine solution [X], make 4cm abdominal incision [X]....
Officers are trained in force escalation, wherein their presence is a use of force, so unless they change their policy on force escalation - hinting at a street encounter is hinting at a use of force. Whether a hint is a threat is another matter, but law enforcement can't have it both ways - were they are both given special consideration in their interactions and treated as benign actors.
Tutorial: My First App with Go
Her canary is from 22 Feb 2016.

What conclusion should I draw from this??
Try running uglified script through this.

It does a pretty good job : http://unminify.com/
Suffocating while "semi-vegetative" is assumed to be painless, much like we assume euthanasia to be painless.

In any case, I'm sorry about your mother. There's not much I can say about your stepfather, except that you probably shouldn't hate him for trying to hold on to someone he loved.
I mean nothing more than that if you were to put the S&P 500 graph over the last 15 years and extremely naively look at it, you'd conclude it was very high at the moment.

High based on what metric? When I look at this graph, it looks like it's been relatively flat for the last half decade: http://i.imgur.com/3gIwjbh.png
Show HN: ProofMe.com launched today. Share ideas. Get feedback. Do amazing work.
I thought that Zynga leased it's office space -not bought it.
It was such a shock to move to England for me and see parks that closed at night (actually closed, with gates, and padlocks, as opposed to mostly symbolic "closing" of main gates you can just walk around which is the most I'm used to), and fences all over the place. How anyone can feel free in places where your ability to move about are so limited is beyond me...

I still get this deep instinctual feeling that it's wrong when I e.g. walk along the Thames path and encounter gates that gets locked at certain times, or when I come across park squares with fences all around.

I don't think people who have only ever lived in places where they encounter this regularly even understands how liberating it feels not to be locked in like that...
I think the ipad pro could could shape this up a lot. A good ipad app (even if just for slide-over) could become a must for most utility or communication apps.
nsa_backdoor.bin.js
I used to have an office below their Folsom Street place a few years ago

They had far, far, far, too many people working for them doing nonsense-led minutiae even back then.
I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of people choose a platform based on these very criteria.

What makes you choose a platform over an other?
Caution flag: There might be a statistical significance issue on a good chunk of these graphs.

(1) Particularly when the scale isn't fixed (.001 increments to 2% increments - a 200x difference!)
(2) When making conclusions on relative trends given small small percentage movements year over year.
They attempt to give greater meaning to something than the direct observations support.

This is the disease of our time, and all times. Humans are narcissistic. We like to think that whatever we experience is extra-special.

Before he died, the evangelist Jerry Falwell used to say he believed the Antichrist was alive and walking the earth. He believed the second coming was imminent, as did many of his followers.

Think about that for a second. It's been ~2000 years since the supposed resurrection, but now is the time God will pick? Why not any one of the other 100 generations?
1. There are hundreds of hypotheses about our brains. Neuroscientists barely understand our brain, so conjecture about what our brains do is just that - conjecture.

2. Quantum computers basically only offer a runtime speedup for optimization. It'll probably help train neural nets faster, but that's not going to help you in any other area.
I use Twitter on Firefox mobile and didn't know until this article that it's for some reason forcing an old ugly version. What UA string are you using? I tried the Android (Phone) one, and the Chrome one that the Phony extension provides but it still shows the ugly FF version of mobile twitter.
It's also a "feature" that Oberon removed.
> Now it's code for "I'm making magic AI, please fund me".

Isn't that just AI? The term has never meant anything but "the future".
There is a ton of potential application -- want to walk around Prague but can't afford the vacation time or expenses? Here's virtual Prague for 13.99. Have a blast. Educational experiences. Movies.

Unfortunately, I'm pessimistic and think people want to use it to do things that they shouldn't irl.
TAOCP is also great because the implementations are in assembly language, which encourages you to think about efficiency in terms of the operations your machine performs, not statements in some high-level language. Not only is the writing excellent, but it is clearly written by a programmer with much practical experience, unlike some other algorithm texts. I deeply wish there were more modern books in the same style, with the same spanning focus of high and low level concerns.
Apple Kills Steve Jobs Pet Project
I'd love to see a contrast between apps received, apps invited to interview, and apps accepted (but I imagine that they're keeping that close to their chest).
..ratio of "founders", who ran-with-money :)
Most of the behavior of quantum circuits can be explained with just linear algebra. It's not that bad.

Plus, developers probably won't need to interact directly with this stuff when the day comes. I'm sure there will be some set of common quantum tasks abstracted away behind the scenes.
I'm curious if next year we will have a third player in the graphic web vs app.
Just wanted to chime in with intermittent fasting experience. When you begin fasting the transition of 2-4 days can be really rough. I know you're not fasting per se but a considerable decrease in caloric intake may do similar things to your body. I would speak with a doctor but then find a weekend where you can just relax, maybe with an additional day off and focus on yourself. Do the diet, feel miserable for a bit in order to train your body and adapt to something new.
> But that's exactly the point... these days, even 4 whole years isn't enough to learn "all the fundamentals", at least not while balancing things so that you learn enough practical skills to also do something useful

A minor point to make here, college isn't about learning practical skills; that's what trade schools and on the job training do. College is about learning the fundamentals, however, computer science is not software engineering and you don't need learn computer science to be a good software engineer because software engineers don't do much in the way of computers science anyway.
33 y.o. Dad of 3, and a far better engineer since having kids. Since becoming a Dad, I learnt the value of time, I learnt how to get stuff finished when I have a chance to, I learnt empathy and tolerance, I learnt to look at the big picture. I forgot about many of the frustrations and angst that I felt before I had kids. I simply don't have time to worry about my own feelings much, but at the same time I learnt to look after myself much more efficiently, because I have to, because 3 kids and a wife depend on me. I've never been happier at work, because I have a family.

Definitely start a family, but also think about keeping your career too in what ever form suits you.
Most engineers are working under some quantifiable or standard set of requirements, rather than ad hoc "make it work good and look pretty" requirements. Most engineering disciplines also have processes to ensure that its adherents take the proper precautions to avoid poor and unsafe designs, delivered in standardized sets of guidelines and recommendations.

And many programmers aren't engineers, they're just interested tinkerers; people who play around in their free time enough to know how to make something work. Not unlike if you went to the store, bought some wires and batteries and tools, and then played with them until you got hired as an electrician.

Sharing culture is instinctive. People will do it. You might as well try to tell people they can't have sex without your permission unless they pay first. Oh wait, that's the porn industry. Everyone pays for porn, right?
Totally confirmed: The bailouts have saved the banksters not Greece
the times they are a-changin'
This sounds like the kind of problem which could've been resolved with 10 lines of Python (or your choice of scripting language)
https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad
> Tesla’s President of Global Sales and Service Jon McNeil noted that the automaker has been working through performance testing and that CEO Elon Musk has been personally testing Model X’s as they come off the assembly line.

Isn't this bad management practice? I guess as a symbolic gesture of dedication, this is nice, but it seems like a failure to delegate properly. Certainly he could hire someone good at testing cars for much less than his leadership abilities are worth per hour.

Though I guess if it results in generating flattering news stories about Musk's dedication, it is worth his time... "CEO hires employees to do work" is a much less evocative headline.
Already starting to happening. I know a kid in high school who's annoyed by his parents insisting that he learns to drive. Some of that is because he believe the tech is going to get good enough by the time he gets out of college, the rest is because I've set an example that it's possible to achieve a car-free lifestyle already if you make it a major priority.
Nissan app developer copied code from Stack Overflow
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What is wrong with targeting niche markets? Even if only "nerds" were targeted (the gaming market) that would be HUGE.
Fly – new generation build system for node
Significant caps or caps used by convention to separate syntactic elements was quite common for a while when syntax highlighting was still relatively rare. E.g. AmigaE [1] is another language which heavily used caps (correct case was a compulsory part of the syntax).

You get used to it quickly, but I can't say I miss it.

[1] http://strlen.com/amiga-e
I see the error in my thinking here. My suggestion of rebalancing loses the high end component of variance while avoiding the 0 value case.

I guess im just too cynical to believe a company can operate indefinitely with indefinite growth!
http://ansible.uk/sfx/sfx039.html

'She looked on him. Never before in her life had she seen such a male. He made even Gunther seem a lesser man. Her imagination had not even dreamed that such a man could exist. The men she had known earlier, even Gunther, had been no intimation that there might be males such as these. Such men, she thought, could not exist in her time. In her time there was no place; there could be no place, for such men as these.'

hahaha. This is why you google names before you pick them.
What? This looks flat to you?! :

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EGSPC+Interactive#{"ran...

It's up 53% over that 5 year period, for a CAGR of 8.9% (excluding dividends).
It's almost like they'd never heard of a Porter Stemmer.
The interesting thing about the didymo ("rock snot") paper isn't just that the government refused to allow the researcher to speak to the press, it's the massive amount of effort the government expended on what you -- quite rightly -- describe as a relatively trivial issue: "What [the interview request] did produce was 110 pages of emails to and from 16 different federal government communications operatives, according to documents obtained using access to information legislation."

When sixteen political minders exchange dozens or even hundreds of emails over a single media request, it tells me more about the political system than the scientific research.
Singup for ibm's quantum computer