skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens to people who aren't in the social class of Ivy League professors? Do they get off as easily? Do their stories get told? (Is this event any more offensive or ridiculous because the victim is an Ivy League economist?)

What would a U.S. President with fascistic tendencies do with this kind of power over people's liberty?
>Anyone can Google "Richard Stallman" to retrieve more than enough training data to train an image classifier.

Yes but I think it has more to do with tracking him (i.e. on x day he was at y place/event) than merely identifying him.
> It's clear from the story that neither the stewardess, the pilot, nor the law enforcement agent thought he was an actual threat.

I don't see that. Could you point out what makes you say that?
"will probably be more performant"..? How much more performant?

"sucks for other use cases"? Which use cases have you use TurboLinks where it wasn't a good fit?

Basecamp isn't a trivial one page app; it has over 200+ screens.

For page changes, CSS is generally scoped by controller action classes. Quick look up by the browser, penalty negligible.

All of the JS is loaded, but again, you can invoke the needed js for the page by looking at the body/action selector. Again, a few if checks on the "page:change" callback.

Weighed against the traditional: a full request to the server which includes a download of relevant CSS for the page, a download of relevant javascript for the page, parsing of that css, parsing of js, and then execution of that js.
No, that's the Beeb.
Chasing Habits of Rich People Won’t Teach You About Success
FwdForce faces an uphill battle in trying to make crowdfunding more accountable
These are presumably undergraduate programs. Medicine and law would be professional degrees.

Pre-med is typically science (biology). Pre-law is typically political science or psychology. Those strike me as more likely arts here, though you'd need to look at the source study's classifications.
> All 3 cases are women reporting men, which is interesting.

It's meaningless; the sample is far too small and also not representative of the population of such reports.
Viksit - those are all great. Thank you.
Any good books with a more modern take on this? I.e., discussing discrete differential forms, multigrid, etcetera?
> Not some ~20GB of Microsoft crap driving the system to crash every couple days.

I agree the system should be running as few services and as little other third-party software as possible, but let's be fair. Since at least Windows 7 / 2008R2, particularly for an offline system, the OS is not going to crash unless there is a hardware problem. It's not clear the OS crashed even in the article - "the screen went black" (the application went black?) and they "had to reboot" doesn't give us enough information.

A modern Windows system, like a modern Linux or a modern FreeBSD, is stable and will stay up for as long as you need it to, unless as I said before, there is a hardware problem. (Or in the case of consumer Windows, you do an update.)

EDIT: According to the actual report, the OS was not rebooted, the application was. There was no Windows crash.

> On (b)(6) 2016, a customer reported to merge healthcare that, in the middle of a heart catheterization procedure, the hemo monitor pc lost communication with the hemo client and the hemo monitor went black. Information obtained from the customer indicated that there was a delay of about 5 minutes while the patient was sedated so that the application could be rebooted. It was found that anti-malware software was performing hourly scans. With merge hemo not presenting physiological data during treatment, there is a potential for a delay in care that results in harm to the patient. However, it was reported that the procedure was completed successfully once the application was rebooted.
10 bit is not the same as HDR and vice versa - http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3822463
No one is saying you can't use managed services. The problem is pretending (via a misleading name) that this is something it isn't.

No one is claiming that email works without servers and clients.
‘Captain America: Civil War’ mostly ignores the real world
Do you have any support for your claim that "[t]he potential for addiction has nearly unlimited risk."? Given that the majority of the population has been prescribed an opioid at some point (wisdom teeth removal, broken bone, etc.) and yet hasn't developed an "addiction", it seems as though the opposite of your claim would be true.
Your post amounts to "I'm glad these idiots found a voice, now that they finally affect us all, we can do something about it". But your assumption that they affect us all equally is not supported by this story, otherwise all passengers on that plane would have been taken off and screened by police.

I think you fail to realize that these idiots affect mainly minorities, as that is how uneducated minds work: they can't see past their own identity (and by the power of numbers, most idiots are white). So what you're effectively saying is "I'm okay with idiots harrassing minorities".

(edit to add an unwarranted disclaimer: by "idiot", I'm not referring to the lady in the original story, but to the OP's description of the "tragically ignorant, in need of raising their bar")
My Tough Love for C++
Does that include the episode on Top Gear that was scripted into breaking their Tesla down in the middle of a test run?

According to your logic, 3 percent of scientists deny global warming, so that is a statistic we should take seriously as well. I don't care what denialists say because I can appreciate the fundamental science behind global warming.

You seem to lack the vision to see that simplicity in design always wins out. It does so in nature, and it will do so in our automobile engines long-term.

You are suffering from an extreme case of cognitive dissonance my friend.

In a world of 7 Billion people, every anecdote has become a statistic. Figure it out or get left behind.
So basically you are saying that poor kids have no "potential to succeed" and should be kept segregated?
It's been years and there is no credible competitor to the Model S. Maybe it will be different with the Model 3, but until an equivalent car is on the road I'm not sure I agree with your statement. The Bolt - a nice car, and I've test driven it - is just so clearly sub-par compared to what Tesla is aiming for with the Model 3 that I would not consider it a true alternative.
Which reminds me of the researcher at Berlin's Humboldt University who ended up in jail because he was the only one at the time who used the word 'gentrification'.

Him, and this left-wing group setting cars on fire.
Is there a YouTube mirror?
I think I'm not stating my point very well. Apologies for that.

The problem with saying that n=80 is that it presumes each 'test' (student evaluated) was chosen for their treatment independently of each other. This is clearly not true, as entire classes were chosen together. So any variable like 'actually this happens to be the gifted class' can throw the whole study up or down because that variable was not independent between the students tested.

For example, let's say we did this same test in America, but two classes happened to be from the wealthiest part of Boston, and two classes were from the poorest part of Detroit. If, as we randomly selected which class was assigned each treatment, we happened to hit the 1 in 4 chance that both wealthy classes were given the 'this is a game' treatment, would we be ready to say 'the game was the cause of the better test results'? I don't believe so.

That is why I find this study flawed, and why I disagree with the idea that n=80. They may be onto something, but they do not have strong statistical evidence supporting their hypothesis.
PressOn
Let me just guess ... probably the people who uploaded that data are liable for it.
I'll share a secret. I'm aware of the fact that my tirades here are getting me (HN nick) name recognition, something that may assist me in getting more penetration with my messages and my products.

however, that is a byproduct of how my soul acts in this given situation. I have a firm foundation on who I am, which is why I am able to get attention whereas some aren't.

therefore, if Pinboard founder didn't have some solidity (this implies neither "good" nor "bad" - qualifiers that fall short of capturing non-absolutism in life) to himself, none of this would've happened. he has reaped the reward for molding himself (which takes work) in a way so that he was able to win a battle like this. that is to his credit.
It does make us more equal, largely by inhibiting the success of our brightest and hardest-working students. Is this what you want?

A. The brightest folks are not always the hardest-working. "Hard-working" in a student means blowing time on stupid worksheets and memorization instead of devoting resources to playful exploration of knowledge.

B. There is more aggregate value in having everyone do a bit better than having an occasional student who's amazing and pampered. Especially if they then proceed to go leave and never interact with the local economy again.

C. If your society is predicated on the notion of the occasional brilliant genius popping up to care for the slavering morons, maybe your society should fail.
OCTAFX+GBPUSD+consolidates+weekly+losses
I don't think so because the government created a regulatory environment that requires drug companies to find people like this that know how to get their drugs approved.
Why It's Not Academia's Job to Produce Code That Ships
> The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit.

The moral of the story: If you include any kind of port in something, people WILL plug things into it sooner or later.
RSpec is not a "backfire" of Rails.

It's a generalized Ruby TDD tool which has very little to do with Rails per se.

The suggestion that RSpec was created to cover some failure of Rails strikes me as exceedingly strange.
Knuth's Art of Computer Programming. Seriously. On the one hand, it will teach a lot and require stretching. On the other hand, there will be much of the mathematics that is simply beyond ability so there are a lifetime's of challenges.

Placing it all in the context of computer science may make it more fun if that's your interest. Volumes I and IVa in particular.
Feynman wrote one: "Lectures on Computation." It's excellent.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/52657907/Feynman-Lectures-on-Comp...
Cost Cutting at Dropbox and Silicon Valley Startups
Is there a higher rate of opioid addiction amongst opioid users than marijuana addiction amongst marijuana users?
Armchair Policy Wonk:

* Make FDA approval double blind. Can't bribe who you can't see.

* Before starting a study, if you want to include it with a future application you need to register it. All registered studies need to be included with an application. Can't cherry pick studies.

* You may only use approved claims stated in the application in marketing or product descriptions. (which I thought was already the case)
Flow tips
Or how about a feature that, given a photo, will predict where the depicted person will be tomorrow evening?

Given a sufficiently large number of photos and their timestamps, this kind of "functionality" is possible.
On the Value of Being Smart
Chinese fossils shed light on 'bizarre' reptile
I live in a city in California where within the same school district, there is one school in the 99% percentile ranking while the others are in the mid range.
US Baby Name Trends 1880-2015 in SQLite / NPM
If games truly don't need access to the last .5GB (and they seem to not in most cases if there's patches there) and all the parent does is game (which is what I do on my 970) then why would it even matter if the last .5GB is slow, or that the card wasn't being "pushed hard enough"? It's a gaming card, and using it for gaming seems to be working just fine, in my anecdotal experience at least. Gaming benchmarks have also been great for the card.

Just because not everyone writes CUDA applications that need access to all 4GB does not mean that people are using it wrong, or that they should mind that the last .5GB is slow. If it works for others' use then that's great for them.
The men who bombed Hiroshima were white dudes. Ergo: I shouldn't get on the plane with any white dudes, because they could be plotting to blow up a whole city with nuclear weapons.
I see a bunch of folks talking about whether PCs are connected to the Internet and "why was it running antivirus in the first place?" It's called Defense in Depth.

It Does Not Matter if the device is connected to/able to reach the Internet.

First, it probably can reach the Internet in some way simply by being networked. I don't think I've ever seen a medical office (can't speak about hospitals) where medical diagnostic equipment was on a fully-separate network able only to talk to other network equipment and specified data destinations (PACS servers).

Second, I'm not concerned about unpatched, unprotected machines being infected from the Internet. Odds are they're running a restricted version of Windows, with a custom shell and a lot of stuff stripped out. I'm concerned that they're going to be infected by another machine on the network that's gotten infected. With all the past SQL Server security issues a decade or more ago, how many people think those SQL Server boxes could be directly reached from outside the local network?

The conjunction of those two is that even if you firewall all that stuff off, the PACS servers are still on both networks, and are probably running much more interesting and vulnerable stuff than the device controllers.

Sure you can fully wall everything off - it's really easy, just do your X-rays onto film, burn your MRIs and ultrasounds onto CDs, and print your EKGs for later scanning. Oh, and listen to people complain about how out-of-date your systems and procedures are.

There are other factors that come in as well - sure, every device manufacturer could provide fully bespoke diagnostic displays developed from the ground up in artisanal software shops providing full employment for assembly programmers working on embedded systems, along with cohorts of graphic designers creating glorious steampunk-styled interfaces. That's a beautiful dream, keep having it.

For the rest of the world, creating a UI on that custom embedded system running on something from RIM/Blackberry (yeah, they own QNX) is just going to get them crap from people because of A) how clunky it probably looks and B) How could they even consider allowing direct user interaction with the RTOS that was chosen to ensure that the dangerous bits in contact with patients/radiation/irradiated patients were safe?

There's a beautiful world out there somewhere where everything is safe and secure and seamless and updated. The rest of us live in worlds where Joe in Marketing's PC gets infected with something that allows an attacker to start scanning the network for unpatched vulnerabilities on any system, which leads to an out-of-date install of IIS on a legacy server that hasn't been updated because there's no longer a contract with the vendor (or no vendor) but it's around because there's a statutory requirement to keep the data on that system for 7-10 years.

There's a lot of ugliness out there. Antivirus is a way to try to ensure that when (not if) some of it hits you the repercussions are minimized.
You have misunderstood the wiktionary entry:

> Du latin lībra (« poids d’une livre »)

tells you just that the meaning of the latin word is a measure of weight (a pound).

There is no way that can be interpreted as "the weight of a book" (that would be « poids d’un livre »).
The middle class is not spending money on education to keep others 'down'. They're doing it to keep from getting trampled themselves.

EDIT: I'm also going to disagree with you on this as well: "spend 'beyond their means' on lavish cuisine in the hope that it will ensure a health advantage, because it obviously won't"

Regardless as to whether or not organic and non-GMO food actually has better health benefits, people do not shop at Whole Foods just so they can show off the green bag to everyone else. Unlike say fashion, automobiles, or even gadgets, groceries are not ideal for 'signaling'

Believe it or not, most people don't have the luxury (or even the inclination) of sitting in a nice chair with their mean looking cat dreaming up ways of hurting others. Most people are just trying to get by... though obviously this greatly varies from person to person.
You might be interested in Voat.co. That is the basic mindset of its comparitively small user base. Downvoting is typically reserved for the truly shit posts. There is a lot of crude content, but the site makes it easy to filter that out if you so choose.
What he meant was that dependency can be maintained.

Forever.

I disagree that opiates are not a good choice for short-term pain relief, and I also disagree that they are not a good choice for long-term pain relief.

If anything, pain is currently being under treated on a massive scale thanks to the new-wave crusaders against opiates, flying a flag of the same type of study they decry as flashy science only meant to gun for the headlines as proof undeniable.

There will always be opiate abuse. A moral backlash against abuse should not deny people in pain the quality-of-life increase they can get in return from opiates. Dependency be damned.

>Long term pain control is a complicated and multi facaded beast. We need to invest in it.

I do agree with this.

>"Just take a pill" is clearly not the solution that works.

It's the solution we have right now, though.

My grandparents, bless them, couldn't function without narcotic painkillers. without narcotics, there is no quality-of-life to speak of for them, and for a lot of people like them. Dependency be damned.

Until something as affordable and available as opiates come around, that can give them equipotent pain relief, traditional poppy derivatives can and should be used to treat pain in those who live each day in pain. Tolerance be damned.
Sadly, he's right.

Most people have never experienced a desire to do a bunch of math. They don't get it. They don't understand the need to concentrate or why one might voluntarily subject oneself to math. It's strange behavior. For some people it is also intellectually threatening; people don't react well to things that could make them feel stupid.

She may also be used to having men nearly always willing to chat with her. The fact that he is unwilling is strange and possibly insulting.

She is likely an extrovert, and expects it of others. Social interaction is expected. She expects others to enjoy what she herself enjoys; why would you not? Of course people want to chat!
I'm talking about the OS here. But the App Store is also incompatible with GPLv3 and GPLv2 for other reasons.
Many people who like Macs will continue to buy Macs even if OS X was freely available on other PCs, and OS X would continue to indirectly generate revenue for Apple even after it were open-sourced:

For one, many more people will have access to the Mac App Store and the iBook Store, leading to increased sales for apps like Final Cut and Logic. There'll be many more potential customers for their iCloud Drive storage plans. Last but not least, it will drastically lower barriers for iOS/tvOS/watchOS development as people will be able to develop on any PC they want, not to mention it would increase the pool of people making native Mac apps as well.

Apple can still differentiate Macs through their hardware, things like their pressure-sensitive trackpads, form factor and by keeping bundled apps (like Photos and stuff) closed-source and exclusive to Macs.
You're making a distinction about their intent but not their effect.
Gene Weingarten won a Pulitzer for that article and his Pearls Before Breakfast one - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gene-weingarten
Life and society aren't always like chess.
Years ago, I read about a hat that some Hollywood stars had found useful for fighting paparazzi. Mind you, I don't recall the source, and it my have been tabloid nonsense.

The hat had a circle of IR LEDs (or something of the sort) emitting 360 degrees of invisible-to-the-naked-eye light. Photos of anyone wearing the hat had a similar effect to using a flash in a mirror, the subject was completely washed out by light.

Again, I'm not sure if this was bogus or not, but it seems the demand for such a product is only going to become greater. Hell, I'd buy one.

Does anyone with expertise in this area know if this type of device is technically possible? I'm voting no, otherwise we'd be seeing these devices everywhere, and there would be laws against wearing them.
Hmm, that's actually the first suggestion I've heard that's at least technically workable, though it's pretty darn impractical to do at any kind of scale.
I saw mention of the 2009 rewrite, but couldn't figure out what happened after that. I appreciate your perspective, and the context regarding OpenAMQ to ZeroMQ.

You have really contributed an incredible amount to the world. I am not really a hacker, but I am a technophile. I am humbled to be a beneficiary of your open source code, have access to your thoughts via your blog, and overall to try to be a better person by following your example.

Thank you.
The distinction between middle class and lower class is such a strange one to me. The majority of the middle class still rely on employment to survive. Yes, they make more and therefore have more stuff, but their relationship to the economy as a whole is not fundamentally less precarious than the lower class. They're all working class.
I did ask my former bosses first, and asked them to give the right speech calibrated for the job posting. I think it's the last time I go through this process, because the job is not worth the effort, neither in personal fulfillment nor in salary, at least I tried the "startup by the corporate guy" route.
So does that mean I'm part of the 1%?

Because I'm an unemployed man on welfare.
Ivy League economist interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight
Interesting link, thanks. But I don't think it totally covers the machinery that people use nowadays for numerically solving complicated physics problems. E.g., the topics that I mentioned, multigrid and discrete differential forms, seem to be missing here.
A platform that is insecure-by-default and relies on users being knowledgeable and motivated enough to learn how to lock down their own devices is still an insecure platform.
I think it can be bad if you're not a specific type of person. I loved interning at Palantir and absolutely hated interning at Facebook.

There are people who legitimately enjoy super high intensity environments. There are people who legitimately loathe low intensity environments. If you're not one of those people, you're not going to have a good time at Palantir — this is not a secret. This is stated over and over by everyone. Shyam (head of BD) has a public blog post shaming the very notion of work-life balance. No one is tricking anyone, except candidates fooling themselves into believing everyone is lying and it's actually a chill place.

Ultimately, the sweatshop analogy is pathetic on this basis alone: you have a choice to work there or not. Working conditions aren't really the problem with abusive employment. There are people who take on far more life-threatening and limb-damaging jobs than a sweatshop.

The key distinction from those people and those who are abused is that they are free to leave and thus free to demand proper compensation.

No Silicon Valley company is a sweatshop. What a delusionally entitled way to see the world.
Combine this with the other HN submission on that it 's not so much where you study but what, it's a bad call for parents to try to get their kids on an expensive school. They would be better off getting their kids to choose a STEM major even at a cheaper school.
That happens approximately every 8 years.