skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stellaris is magnificent! It's incredibly deep and complex, but it has a great user interface, and they've been totally thorough about putting helpful color coded pop-up tooltips everywhere there's something interesting to point at, giving you information about every icon and button, revealing keyboard shortcuts, and telling you one or more tasks that you need to do to first to enable disabled buttons.

I really hate the cargo-cult tradition of disabled menu items that don't tell you anything about why they're disabled, or what you can do to enable them. That's so frustrating, it's like the computer knows something you want to know to do what you want to do, but it won't tell you, because you have to guess.

Even better: Clicking on a disabled item should start a dialog to help you satisfy the prerequisites before performing disabled the action, instead of just ignoring you or telling you to go somewhere else.

I was able to trade alien pets to a highly advanced xenophilic civilization who wouldn't otherwise talk to me, in exchange for civilian access to their space! I felt like Harry Mudd sneaking through Klingon space with a space shuttle full of tribbles!
That's nice and all but the article itself lists all of those, and this would be a reaction to the article itself, instead of repeating it.

(I'm assuming everyone read the article?)
You think people would put their livelihood and reputation on the line for something that they think is a sham?

Pets.com. South Sea Bubble. Tulip mania. et omnium cetera.

It may work, but that's not the way to bet, right now. (Unless you've done a lot more math on it than I have, or, like the VCs and angels backing it, you're getting really good odds).
I agree with the student who says it's an act of civil disobedience. Many of these companies should not exist after fucking up our economy, yet it's the students who have to pay them back? That bailout money could have gone to education, yet it went to prop up these criminal entities. And the federal government? Like they give a fuck about anything but money. Please. If they cared about the actual people living in this country, education would be free. Nothing is owed. Not to mention the absurd amount of taxes everyone pays for war and other bullshit that's unnecessary. The people want education, not war, and the government and our society has failed them. I understand there's a lot of stupid people in this country, but there's also a lot of people who want to actually make something of themselves and they shouldn't be held back by the idiots.
I was wondering what the Mac versions did, since there's no Backspace. "Press Delete to go back"?
There is sort of a queer feeling about watching somebody blog their final days. I can't quite describe it--not quite macabre, not quite humorous, not quite amazement.

It's sort of one of those synthetic colors, the ones that you never see in reality but recognize instantly if exposed to them.
Yep, all the three major issues have been mostly addressed: https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
Exactly right. It's hard to arbitrarily pick the "gentle" braking point, and unexpected braking is not great.
The very first comment says:

"How is someone who grew up in terminal times expected to navigate back when using a two-button mouse?"

I grew up in terminal times. I was lucky that, while growing up, I had access to my father's Unix account through the university. Not only that, I do all of my development work on the terminal (via tmux, vim, and spacemacs). I like the terminal. I love keyboard shortcuts. Keeping my hands in the home row -- awesome!

The backspace in the browser has always struck me as misfeature. I've lost data when typing in forms.

In contrast, when I browse a page, I rarely hit the back button. I'm more likely to open a link in a new page when I am doing serious research.

Times move on. Some things are lost, and our civilization is not for the better. This is not one of those cases.
How to start a free code-camp
I have an idea that i'm interested is looking into to try to help unemployed and underemployed people in my community learn basic/advanced coding skills so they can get ahead in their professional life. I'm thinking in terms of high school graduates and people "retooling" who just don't have the $ to invest in college or code camps. Space shouldn't be a problem and a cheap chromebook with cloud9 should be enough to get started. Total cost would be less than most college text books. I've been doing this for 20 years and have the knowledge to help unconventional learners, but really don't know the best way to get started. (I'm in the ABE area of PA).

Eric Budd
eric.h.budd@gmail.com
To the Googlers on here -- any idea when it'll come to Chrome browser on other platforms. I really hope Google doesn't artificially delay that to boost Chrome OS penetration.
I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy (2007)
Nope, you're just being a snob. Plenty of "outsider pop stars" (and their songwriters and producers) know music theory just fine and many even went to Berklee/Juilliard/whatever conservatory you're thinking of.
Even better, they have you click the "Forgot your password" link, as if it was your fault.
I am pretty sad about this, because this is gone due to people getting butthurt about other's contribution numbers or some sort of comparison, rather than what it was good for: A self-motivating tool.

The notion of "cheating" the contribution graph is senseless, because it's not a competition. However, what it was great for was motivation to yourself to write code (however minor) every day.

I used the streak count to help push myself to keep working on a project I would've otherwise quickly set aside. My last streak was 27 days. I found when I broke a streak, my motivation to commit was much lower, and I would let my project lie for several days at a time.
Developers, who fix problems for a living, find a fix to the lines at Google I/O
So what if we apply that rule to poor and middle income people? Are you suddenly interested in taxing those people to get them out so that someone with more cash can do something better with their land? What about people with just enough land to have an unsustainable tax rate but not enough land for it to be immediately useful for development? People with older homes in cities fall into this category frequently. How much revenue is this worth for the government after land is sold and properties destroyed to make way for new versus if they had just raised tax on income? This assumes there is even a willing buyer.
I have the failure occasionally when I'm just shoving a JSON object into a PUT request, and the on the server side (hapijs, postgres) taking part of that JSON object and shoving it into a jsonb column type. In certain circumstances, the value in the database row was "10" rather than 10, which caused issues in queries against it (like WHERE documents.extended->>agenda_id = 10).

I don't know where the issue really originated which part of transport or serialization, and I honestly don't know how common it really is - I just slapped some type coercions on the object I was putting into the jsonb field (which was necessary anyway, to protect against malicious user input) and called it a day.

So it's probably not JSON.parse at fault here.

EDIT to add: just looked over my notes, and it seems like the problem was likely originating in how I was treating option elements underneath a select in an html form. Somehow the value was getting set to a "10" instead of 10 on the form's model object, and that was getting pushed over the wire (serialized and deserialized) as a string.
This one will also adds instant C++ history to make you a "Rock Star" C++ programmer.

https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar
Certainly in the short term, perhaps in the long term, but even automated cars come with externalities we might want to reduce such as costs/inputs of manufacturing, pollution, addition time compares to a fast point-to-point link, etc.

For some popular long distance routes, I could see the Hyperloop being useful. Between all reasonably large cities? Probably not.
Great advice - also applies to college graduates. It applies to everyone, really :)
oops, thx, fixed.
I liked both and learned significant things from both. Haven't yet read anti-fragile.

In particular, the idea that the financial models (think Black Scholes and Long Term Capital Management) are based on seriously bad (e.g., non-fractal) ways of thinking about the way that the world works. The incident where Mandelbrot detected the prices of cotton to have an element involving some unexpected exponent (one sixth? memory isn't bringing that up). The standard way of thinking about these facts admit that they can't handle that. Thus, much of the way risk is modeled is like the guy looking for his lost ring under the street lamp even though he lost it half a block down. "At least there is light here."

Who else is telling us that bell curves and current risk models don't work? Not CNBC, Yahoo, Fox.

Another thing that I took away was how uncomfortable financially successful people are with the idea that luck is a significant component, perhaps even more than their talent and business skill.

Insofar as the issue of his tone or arrogance is concerned, I don't get that. Is it possible that when we complain about an adversary or messenger with bad "tone" or "arrogance" that there is something in the message that we don't like? Certainly he is direct and blunt in his approach. Doesn't put me off.

I feel like it is similar to the reaction that many classically trained engineers when confronted with chaos theory. The world can't possibly be that "random". Except that there is some deep beauty in this oddly-named "Chaos" theory that lends exceptional stability to many phenomenon.

And on the topic of Chaos, it is interesting to go back to James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science and read the part about how "there is no climate". Essentially, there isn't anything that guarantees us that the whole system won't just float off arbitrarily into a new Ice Age. Contemplate that in today's debate about climate change. That is, if you postulate that there is "global warming" (renamed to the more apparently less controversial "climate change") and get everybody to agree, what do you do? Is it not possible, in a chaotic system that is moving to a new attractor, that actions we take, like cutting in half carbon emissions, might have a totally unexpected effect? That would be my bet. Kind of a complicated decision to make in a heated political arena, populated by tribes of one sort or another, don't you think?

So the lesson from Swan and Fooled, in the large, to me, are "your models for how stuff works is likely busted, particularly if your income depends on you believing in them."

But then I am just a simple country boy.
How does one get a name like "Brogan BamBrogan"?
Probably the most succinct illustration of the difference between human capital, capital (traditionally known as wealth), and income that the vast majority of the American public confuse all the time and like to use interchangeably.
If Microsoft chose to take them down, hopefully they wont. These projects are needed for historical reasons, WineHQ could end up being the only way in the future of emulating software Microsoft Windows may one day not even run.
I optimistic. I'm hoping its the new thing garners excitement and political good will and someone builds one. It works and spreads.

In the US the shifting of the populace to the left after the long period of "we need smaller government, get government out of the way" (see Bernie Sanders).

As someone in a small Northeast City that can't seem to extend a trolley based subway line 3 miles, and commuting time here is stupid... I'm a little worried, plus I"m not sure I'd like to ride it..
Missing advice: Learn to read specs.
Results from the source study abstract[1]:

" A total of 1.44 million participants (median [range] age, 59 [19-98] years; 57% female) and 186 932 cancers were included. High vs low levels of leisure-time physical activity were associated with lower risks of 13 cancers: esophageal adenocarcinoma (HR 0.58, 95% CI 0.37-0.89), liver (HR 0.73, 95% CI 0.55-0.98), lung (HR 0.74, 95% CI 0.71-0.77), kidney (HR 0.77, 95% CI 0.70-0.85), gastric cardia (HR 0.78, 95% CI 0.64-0.95), endometrial (HR 0.79, 95% CI 0.68-0.92), myeloid leukemia (HR 0.80, 95% CI 0.70-0.92), myeloma (HR 0.83, 95% CI 0.72-0.95), colon (HR 0.84, 95% CI 0.77-0.91), head and neck (HR 0.85, 95% CI 0.78-0.93), rectal (HR 0.87, 95% CI 0.80-0.95), bladder (HR 0.87, 95% CI 0.82-0.92), and breast (HR 0.90, 95% CI 0.87-0.93). Body mass index adjustment modestly attenuated associations for several cancers, but 10 of 13 inverse associations remained statistically significant after this adjustment. Leisure-time physical activity was associated with higher risks of malignant melanoma (HR 1.27, 95% CI 1.16-1.40) and prostate cancer (HR 1.05, 95% CI 1.03-1.08). Associations were generally similar between overweight/obese and normal-weight individuals. Smoking status modified the association for lung cancer but not other smoking-related cancers."

[1]: http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=25218...
They should have never been doing that. And they regardless of what team they have, they have a terrible perception.
Yes. The most general problem cannot be solved. So only generalize where you need to.
I would.

Do you think highly of Mandebrot? Clearly a deep thinker. Most of his writings are filled with his self references.
Optimising the Ethereum Virtual Machine
perhaps hitting F5 instead of ctrl-F5 (run w/o debugging)?
I was really hoping for built-in hand sanitizer. Maybe next time.
Google commemorates a very controversial civil-rights figure, Yuri Kochiyama
Hip hip hooray!!!
> It seems to me the big chunk of the problem is that my local hospital doesn't really have to compete with anyone and has rather free reign in setting prices.

Yes, there is definitely lack of competition at the provider level which has gotten worse post-ACA. But in this context I'm talking about lack of competition among technology manufacturers. Really easy to set high prices for things when competitors can't enter your market without going through several hoops. That's how you get guys like Martin Shkreli.
Agreed. But we've discovered from users of the board that in hilly or hot areas, having exercised on their way to work and arriving sweaty is a non-starter.
You don't want to be speaking orders or audibly asking questions about securities in many, if not most, situations
I think having a touch screen is important.
No, probably not coming from a web development bootcamp, but with an associate's degree and a software engineering background, I could totally see someone working at any of these named places (for engineering work).
I don't think people's unhealthy behaviors are my problem. As someone who doesn't code for my job, having this helped keep me motivated for hobby programming. And I don't think it's inherently "unhealthy" to write code on a weekend. Coding can be fun, and done for enjoyment.
Knowing they targeted gamers, I wonder if they got tired of the death threats and/or got swatted.
Does anyone know what unit is being used for the x axis on these charts?

Edit: Figured it out (total bugs / repo). Seems like controlling for overall project size is an important missing component of this analysis.
They were targeting savegames specifically.
Half an hour in a tube is better than 4 hours of flying with wifi (including the security and delays in an airport)...not to mention the cost.
I'd definitely consider one if it was available. My current board is an Original Apex 34 [0] which though not as flexy as the Loaded is a great size for zooming around the city, hopping on/off trains buses etc

[0] http://original-longboardshop.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/im...
I took a pretty significant pay cut switching from an equities trader to a junior developer. I'm more than happy with the lifestyle change. I still find it funny, given my life quite literally revolved around ROI.
Nowhere says there is not support for the original Pixel. It just does not get it at this point just like other chromebooks.

>Google Play will start rolling out in the developer channel with M53 on the ASUS Chromebook Flip, the Acer Chromebook R 11 and the latest Chromebook Pixel. Over time, this will roll out to other Chromebooks in the market too
And the "PC" doesn't have to be your PC. You can also log in via the website and run the software from OS X, Linux, or an iPad.
Have you had a chance to compare that to the performance of their non-x86 app? I'm curious because I've found SnapChat to perform exceptionally poorly on every Android device I've tried.
SF to LA in 30 minutes for $20? Seems advantageous to me.
> the discipline of Economics exists primarily to justify pre existing power structures by using assumptions which are convenient but empirically unfounded.

If you think that's what Economics does, you either have not studied it, or somehow studied it under a unique professor in a unique environment, isolated from reality.

Not to mention that your statement makes no sense at all, since if the power structures are already existing, then by definition, they are empirically founded.
Unify stock charts and trading volume into a mathematical framework
So, you mean like the concept of a "loss leader" like when Best Buy sells new release under cost (ex. $9.99) then wants to sell the same customer a brand new $3,000 4K HDTV?
Hey Brett- it seems like Heroku would still be great... for exactly one personal project. If I do a weekend hack every few weekends, I have to either turn each on off or pay for them. I used to be able to have as many tiny projects as I wanted, and now I can't. I don't see any way around that besides hosting myself.
If you look at Cory Scott's linked-in profile, you can see that there was NO security team before he was hired. None. The breach happened before he arrived, and he is now having to deal with a four year old breach. He has built a substantial team from nothing and from what I can tell is doing all the right things.
Mozilla's replacement to the Gecko engine that run's Firefox, written in rust. Often covered here[1], the benchmarks look really promising. Small portions of the codebase are already trickling back to FF where applicable.

The complexity and size of a modern web browser and the need to better engineering tools to combat this are often touted as some of the reasoning the Rust project started.

1: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=servo&sort=byPopularity&prefix...
What other platforms do you have in mind?
That is all true. Still, try pointing that out to truck drivers (for example) when they start getting laid off because the company can't handle the automated competition. Economy-wide, there will always be jobs for people to do, it is the large number of individual workers who will be scared for their particular jobs.
Dude, also not too enamored with the guy, but this is not bad stuff; so worthy of a read. He came away from the meeting saying + things about FB. Am left of center, do not use or like FB (pun intended), but do appreciate the viewpoints of different people both politically and professionally.
Mostly tuition. Some take a placement fee, but most companies don't pay a fee on Junior talent.
Please don't do this. Personal attacks are not ok on HN, regardless of how wrong or annoying someone is.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11728339 and marked it off-topic.
Cortana does file/folder/command searches only if connected to the internet
So I just did an experiment with simple assortative mating, where the population is drawn into an ordered list, with the probability of selection being proportional to wealth, and then paired off according to their order in the resulting list (so the wealthy are more likely to mate with each other). The results surprised me somewhat, though as with most things are somewhat obvious in retrospect.

If you take a (model) world with unbiased inheritance (a 1:1 split between the two children), then no "mating strategy" is able to increase wealth inequality - at worst it can keep it the same as it was. This can be seen by noting that neither of the children of the two wealthiest members of the population can have more than the wealthiest of their two parents. Over many generations, unless the mating selection is extremely carefully chosen, the wealth distribution will collapse to perfect equality, for any mating strategy.

Assortative mating therefore can at worst exert a drag on the (natural) restoration to equality. In a (model) world with biased inheritance this leads to greater amounts of wealth inequality, because the expansion of inequality through the unequal inheritance is "resisted" less by the reduction in inequality caused by mating.

In conclusion: try and treat your kids the same if you want a more equal world!
Installing Elixir on the Raspberry Pi
I'm not invested in changing your opinion of LinkedIn. I'm not a fan either. I'm just clarifying that the team there now didn't have anything to do with what happened in (apparently) 2012, and I would not count on your assumptions of what they're doing with passwords as being valid anymore.
Let our students build your next big thing
A Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch
As does uBlock Origin.
as well as recorded replays
You have to logout to see how others see your profile.

Toggling the 'contributions settings' to 'public only' on my profile still shows me all my private contributions.
I'm with you. I liked the steak count as a source of personal motivation, but we still have that don't we? Now you need to look at the squares, but an unbroken sequence of colored squares is just as motivating as a number, isn't it?
I guess google's first move was to start identifying mail sent in cleartext with the unlocked red padlock symbol. That was in February 2016. This is stage 2.
Maglev hasn't failed miserably. China is starting to adopt low-speed for intracity travel:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-05/06/c_135339867.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_S1,_BCR

San Francisco/LA is only 400 miles. We need a 700 mph train because there's no affordable direct route.
Yeah, in my experience we have had interns come in and be amazing right away. New grads can sometimes contribute pretty soon as well.
The cost estimates are coming from the same person/group that has built cars and rockets.

Skepticism is fine but doesn't warrant calling off the project at this point.
First of all, thank you Shift Labs for putting up their information and helping make confusing regulatory processes clearer.

Secondly, I want to let people know my company[1] works with many start-ups in the medical device space that are developing regulated products, both 510(k) and CE mark. We are engineers that understand the regulatory process not just regulatory consultants.

If anyone is interested feel free to contact me akehrer@in2being.com.

[1] http://www.in2being.com/
You do push the pen. Otherwise how would you write an O? like ()? Similarly there are upward strokes in h, b, d, k, m, n, r...

I would say that cursive ("joined up handwriting" as I know it) prefers downward strokes, and I don't think it ever begins a letter with an upward stroke.
Plus Uno (hard puzzle)
A First Look at Uber's Self Driving Car
Will apps run natively on Chromebooks or will my fart app slow down because it's being emulated?
The Netherlands. Directly affected Anne Frank's family, among others.
You can also open a private browsing window.
>People with older homes in cities fall into this category frequently.

Would this not be a good example of just the sort of thing that would be fixed by this tax?

There are many people in places like San Francisco and Manhattan that are holding on to single family homes. This reduces the amount of housing that is available and increases rents. It seems fairly reasonable that these people should pay for the enormous resource usage.
Refueling of long haul trucks is already automated.