skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Later this year we plan to change how Chromium hints to websites about the presence of Flash Player, by changing the default response of Navigator.plugins and Navigator.mimeTypes. If a site offers an HTML5 experience, this change will make that the primary experience. We will continue to ship Flash Player with Chrome, and if a site truly requires Flash, a prompt will appear at the top of the page when the user first visits that site, giving them the option of allowing it to run for that site (see the proposal[2] for the mock-ups). [1]

1. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/ch...

2. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/106_KLNJfwb9L-1hVVa4i...
How can we be certain that consciousness does or does not have an effect on this car? Assuming it is appropriate to stretch Tarski's undefinability theorem and Gödel's incompleteness theorem to problems of consciousness, it would be impossible to prove which is true (without breaking your mind).
So we are back at the subprime lending model. Correct me if I am wrong but from my understanding this is what ultimately caused (or one of the biggest factors along with adjustable rate mortgages) the housing collapse and economic downturn circa 2007/2008. So how is this subprime lending any different via the credit cards?

We could hypothesize that credit card debt won't be as massive as mortgage debt and thus may not cause catastrophic events. However, on the flip side there is little to no collateral in credit card debt that a creditor would get in return of defaulting on your credit loan.

The more I look at credit debt, student loan debt, and fairly recently CDO's (Collateralized Debt Obligation) that banks are doing again we are setting ourselves up for failure again.

Anyone have any thoughts on all this?
I kind of feel the exact opposite: free will could only be meaningful if it was completely deterministic.

I mean, think about it for a second. You have a choice between A and B, and you freely choose A. From your definition it seems that if I rewound time to that moment, you might choose B instead. But it's the same situation! If I freely choose to take a walk this morning because it's nice out, I goddamn mean to go out. No matter how many times you rewound time, I would want to go out every single time. It isn't random: there's a reason why I'm doing this, and reasons are never random.

If free will is nondeterministic or random, then I don't want to have free will.
It's tough to know but I keep an eye on this stuff. You can count on a solid ~10% marketshare for Python3. Going too far beyond that without updated numbers would be overly generous.

Roughly 12% of PyPi has been ported to Python3[0] and about 10% of pip downloads are Python3[1].

[0]https://youtu.be/G-uKNd5TSBw?t=1m14s

[1]https://twitter.com/dstufft/status/687663858408919042
And yet a Pareto distribution still has a mean, and the sampling distribution of that mean is approximately normally distributed.

Of course I'm not claiming that you can just pretend that a Pareto distribution is a normal distribution, but statistical tests are generally concerned with differences in means (group A does on average 25% better than group B) so it's the sampling distribution we're interested in, not the parent distribution.

You make a good point about autocorrelation and dependent data, but that's a very different issue. To riff on your example about social networks, you'd have dependent data if you're trying to see what kind of news articles people like to read, if those preferences turn out to be mostly guided by what friends are reading.
Cuteness, I guess. ;)
Indiegogo will help bring tech products to market with Arrow Electronics alliance
It seems a false dichotomy in the article that either we have "free will" or we are driven completely deterministically. No chaos? No probabilistic? No subtlety....
Thank you for your valuable input.
Why not just write the name of a season on a corner for each of the 4 configurations and call it a day? The incorrect season on the same side would be written upside down. If the season is wrong, flip/rotate accordingly.

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ɹǝɯɯnS---- ƃuıɹdS----

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----Winter ------Fall

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While not flip or rotate, it is a single operation: "Align the current season to the bottom"
Did you actually make a fake account just to try to validate your initial arguments?
Why haven’t we already canceled all journal subscriptions?
As a ThinkPad external keyboard user it's my primary navigation to go Back. TrackPoint, no mouse. Primary scrolling navigation is the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn group. Backspace for Back fits amazingly in this workflow.
The problem is it might be good enough for Kernighan and Ritchie, but it's not good enough for Chávez and Çelik (or, well, most of the world). The A in ASCII stands for "American" -- and it gives a good indication of where you can look to find a whole lot of folks who ASCII isn't good enough for.
Maybe they don't have one. 'Cause you know there's people out there who would pick every line of code apart looking for a bug just to prove a point and be rather nasty about it.
Another good short story in the genre of rationalist fiction:

http://www.yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/the-sword-of-good

(And of course there's also Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.)
See?

Hard to finish.
>This is quite unfair to the public shareholders.

Admittedly they may not be the same shareholders, but let's not forget that Fannie/Freddie shareholders have benefited untold billions pre-crisis by being able to fund for years with an implicit government guarantee that was never paid for.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2005/200505/200505pa...
> And to all the fan-boys/girls down-voting me. Have the decency to leave a comment as to why you are downvoting.

Going on about getting downvoted breaks the HN guidelines, as does name-calling. Please (re-)read them and don't do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Nearly every cocky programmer I have ever worked with were average at best. And you could never teach them anything they didn't "already" know.

So true, and this is applicable in almost every discipline, really:

"Nearly every cocky x I have ever worked with were average at best. And you could never teach them anything they didn't "already" know."
No, I do not think that you are understanding him correctly. What makes you think that?
It is not in fact normal in Western nations to be detained at the border and threatened with a month's additional detention for writing that the nation's people have the voices of dogs or ugly faces. Be careful about false equivalence. Every Western nation does, or has recently done, many bad things. Perhaps the US has done more bad things than most. But none of them are comparable to North Korea.

This rhetorical point-scoring is so old it has several names; "tu quoque" is a formal one, but the more evocative of them is "And you are lynching Negroes".
Median is $2,300 which brings this into perspective a bit more.

http://www.valuepenguin.com/average-credit-card-debt
The upside of this is that if you want to very quickly destroy your data, all you need to erase is the master key securely.

This is true for LUKS on Linux as well. Destroy the LUKS header, you data is now forever gone.
Submitter: An inquiry into why academic institutions haven't abandoned or cancelled all academic journal subscriptions, which offer very little value, and a great deal of disvalue, in return.

Title modified: I've added "journal" to clarify what subscriptions are being discussed.
I agree it's worth knowing, I just don't like it. My prefferred avenue will be porting all .Net stuff to Linux servers and just getting rid of all Windows servers as it becomes possible. .Net is great, C# is great, Windows isn't and I'm glad to see Microsoft's new CEO isn't blind to that reality.
The grids are way nicer in cute. You just have to specify a grid container and the flex takes care of the rest.
Why? We got into this mess because the banks couldn't manage the risk and we had to bail them out.
21FX – An SNES Primary Bootloader
> So why break everyone's code

Dunno about you, but the amount of encoding/decoding errors in Py2 broke my little code multiple times in the past. "oh yeah I'll just fetch this html page"... all good, until that page contains non-ASCII and then BOOM.

With Py3 you're forced to think about this sort of issues right away and with minimal fuss you're sorted for life.
Summary: the dihedral group D2 (isomorphic to the Klein 4 group) needs 2 generators, so you can’t keep performing a single flip/operation on your mattress and get all viable positions out of it.

For folks trying to learn group theory, I recommend Nathan Carter’s book Visual Group Theory, an approachable introduction written in conversational style, full of great pictures (unlike most group theory textbooks, which are abstract and symbol-heavy).
http://web.bentley.edu/empl/c/ncarter/vgt/ http://amzn.com/088385757X
(soft spoiler:)

I think I'm culturally incompatible with this story. Reading the end, I felt the whole thing was a poor joke or some kind of elaborate troll. Maybe it doesn't help that I've only ever heard of "ouija boards" in the context of people laughing at the thing. So the story suddenly becomes comical when the characters (so far rational) appear to take it so seriously without explanation. I'm saying this is cultural, since I should probably have put myself in a mindset where ouija boards are going to be serious business before reading anything on livejournal.

I could certainly enjoy a good fiction based on the premise that ouija boards work, but the art of good SF/fantasy is also about introducing unreal elements in a way that doesn't break the storytelling flow. A safe was of doing that is by introducing such elements right in the first paragraph (not in the conclusion...)
Yep, ultimately it boils down to "have automatic backups."

FDE further complicates things, though, as if the volume master key is corrupted everything is lost. If my hard drive dies, there's a decent chance that a data recovery shop can recover at least some of the data.
Not just from a deployment standpoint, but from a development standpoint! Lambda enforces boundaries and clarity, and strongly encourages simplicity. So, so much better than monolithic app servers.
In 2007/08 shareholders of Freddie & Fannie lost over 99% of their investment. How is that not a privatized loss?
Interestingly, Django is one of the big projects that has already announced they're dropping Python 2 support before 2020. Django 1.11, to be released in April 2017, is scheduled to be the last version to support Python 2. [1]

They've prudently made their last Py2 release a long-term support release, but if you want new Django features after December 2017, you're going to be using Python 3.

Django works great on Python 3, BTW, and if you've got plugins that haven't updated, I would recommend being a bit suspicious of their code quality.

[1] https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun/25/roadmap/
But it can be done, even in systems implemented in Python 2. Try the following in http://sagecell.sagemath.org/

x = 1/3
3 * x == 1
Why would originality be a concern, if the question is good and cannot be "prepared in advance"? I believe that the question is not meant to be asked without follow-ups, or deep dives in specific areas (maybe asking the candidate where they want to focus next). I agree that if the question is asked without entering a two-way discussion, then it's useless.

In the interest of a constructive discussion, why do you believe that a URL shortener is a bad interview question?
PureCSS has been my go-to for small websites/web applications for a while. I only use Bootstrap for clients that:

1) Want to use it

2) Are already using it

3) Found a template they love they want to base the site off of
The view that life is better is meaningless if you mean its better than mass death and torture.

Portraying life as better now, is propaganda. Its a view that affirms the current government policies (even if you don't personally believe it).

Propaganda is very unique in China and communism. Mainly because it is unified, enforced, systematic and backed up with violence. The communist party have been in rule so long that they are experts in it and social engineering.

Taking any view on what the public think of its goverment, ain't easy or factual. It fraught in one of the most organised regimes of properganda in existence today.

You can't compare that to America, where you can openly disagree with the government.
Without fear of imprisonment in a work camp without trial.

Basically when you say things like life is better because peoples positive views support it - I hear nothing but the torture and oppression which supports that state. And that ain't improvement. Its propaganda and control.
They never existed to begin with in a lot of cases!

Programming was a very niche job until the last 20-30 years. So obviously we would see less old people working in programming compared to a job that has been more stable over time (say Lawyers or Doctors).
Callstats.io Integrates with Twilio Client SDK – Callstats.io
The FDA just made the most significant changes to the nutrition label in years
Selfie-takers tend to overestimate their attractiveness, study finds
Lenders just want debt service, not principal paid back. Loans are an asset on a bank's balance sheet.
Word.

I learned this when I dabbled in real time systems. Those dudes can crank out some hella reliable code. At first I thought it was despite the cumbersome dev processes that old school RT software uses. Now I realize it is because the process imposes a high cost on each line of code. So, there's less code. Less code = fewer bugs.
> It's more that in the west we just see it as this horrible evil thing and it seems completely bizarre that anyone would be okay with it

It is definitely a horrible evil thing.

> I guess we just assume they must put up with it when in fact they have their own rational for supporting it

Yeah, if they don't support it, they go to prison.

> One thing I heard is them wanting to have a Hong Kong type of deal with Taiwan ...

Taiwan is 100% self-governed. Today is the first day of term for their fourth directly elected president.
For me, forms look microsoftish (maybe can be easily customized though) and BEM is hungarian notation of CSS.
> deterministic/proabilistic...

You do realize those aren't the same thing, right? In fact, they're basically opposites. Deterministic is "if/then", while probabilistic is "maybe". Something is either deterministic or probabilistic, and it matters which it is.

In your metaphor, consciousness is the learning system which is used to generate the model which drives the car. Our brains are semi-supervised learning, and our models get retrained when they drift far enough.
The problem is not merely ontology, but the definition of free will itself. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a reasonably long page on compatibilism. "Reasons-Responsive Compatibilism" is an interesting take on the subject which is worth familiarizing yourself with, if you are interested in the subject.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/#ReaResCom
We can tell that he was not handcuffed because the article lacks a paragraph or two describing how a brutish guard (also named Kim) forced cold shackles tightly around his wrists.
Reproduce the bug. Reproduction steps/environments are usually provided by support engineers or QA. Look through log files for any specific error messages, and use grep to find where in the code the error is coming from if it's not specified in the exception stack trace or something like that. Look at the code and form a hypothesis about where the bug might be located (use a "binary chop algorithm" discussed in books such as Code Complete and Debug It). Create breakpoints and step through the code with a debugger and record your observations. If you still haven't found the bug, use the data you just collected to form a stronger hypothesis and repeat the process until you've identified the source of the bug. Then apply the fix, and run some unit (or integration?) tests to verify you didn't introduce a regression or that you actually treated the symptom instead of fixing the root of the problem.

This might not be the best approach, but it generally works for me. I highly suggest reading the following books: Debugging, Debug It! and parts of Code Complete.
Yeah, I know a lot of programmers who subscribe to this theory. Frequently programmers I prefer not to work with, I'm afraid.

I prefer working with the programmers who write a lot of code (often with bugs) and then refactor into something minimal. The advantage is that they produce something early that we can get feedback on and we can spiral into the right solution, both architecture / feature wise.
Stop the Spread of Superbugs (2014)
I wonder what a "monkey with the charts" diet of lamb, carrots, avocados, rye bread, lard, and ice cream would be like. For the diet to be palatable at all, you'd have to go very easy on the lard, but the rest of it actually sounds pretty appetizing.
It's like they say: Good programmers look both ways before crossing a one-way street.
The biggest objection to switching to 3 has been that library support hasn't been there. It's pretty clear that despite reservations about 3, the support is there now. Getting major libraries in the scientific community to focus attention at three can only be good for improvements in support, performance, and adoption.
What is "microsoftish"?
I hate it when I see people talking about Flash as if it's the Web's cancer. Remember Flash pushed the web heavily forward back when we had to install all sorts of desktop applications and codecs just to watch a video or play a simple game. It is an optional plugin that you can always disable. Not having it at all would lead to a poorer UX in my opinion. Can't Chrome just have a toggle Flash on/off in the toolbar and get over it? And let Flash die naturally, when HTML5 catches up?

Edit

Also the propaganda [1] against it makes me laugh. The reason Google wants it out is probably because it can't track the ads inside Flash apps.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3160644/Googl...

"Leaked documents have revealed the program has a serious vulnerability that lets hackers take over anyone's computer."
We changed the title to the subtitle for obvious reasons.
The ones you write by hand? i.e. "written" equations
> It would be nice if it wasn't.

Since you're being pedantic, you might want to go back and change that to "weren't" instead of "wasn't," as it is a hypothetical supposition. (And yet, I agree with you.)

(please no one comment on the comma inside the quotes. I think we're at this awkward point in grammar history where we're seeing a transition from "all punctuation must be inside the quotes" to "sometimes it really really doesn't make sense for the punctuation to be inside the quote, especially if you're not quoting a person saying a full phrase.")
A single large purchase is usually planned for and budgeted. E.g. buy computer for $2k and pay it off over the next couple of months $300/mo at a time. Though IMO, $100 of chardonnay at a club is pretty frivolous.

Usually it is a death by a thousand cuts when it comes to racking up credit card debt. $20 for lunch, $50 for gas, $65 for some clothes, $100 for the electric bill. The problem is that pseudo-necessities like food, gas, entertainment don't have an end and reoccur indefinitely. It becomes really easy to fall into the trap of purchasing 2x $10 meals a day, and it easily becomes $600/mo, while the $200-300/month in groceries that were also purchased with the plan to stop eating out makes for a $800-900+/mo food bill.
If you're lucky they'll just wipe the drive and use it for themselves.
You probably already know this, but just in case not: If you had Find My Mac enabled on those MacBooks, you can lock or wipe them [1]. I've read somewhere that if you select "lock" first, you can't then do a wipe. Not sure about that, tho. Good Luck.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204756
If anyone's curious, I wrote a blog post a while ago on how to write programs that obtain their own source code: http://malisper.me/2016/04/20/writing-self-referential-progr...
Please stop with this heart-breaking narrative about the unequal in income, starving americans. It's about iphones and clothes, not groceries.
I have a feeling that $2000 recovery service would have basically said the same thing had they encountered a corrupt GPT record or HFS+ superblock in a fully unencrypted disk as well.
Global antibiotics 'revolution' needed
That seems surprisingly high to me. I bet there are a lot of areas where people never use taxis or Uber. I think the first time I was in a taxi was in my twenties.
"Just try to think of all the possibilities" is excellent advice. I got told that when I was a younger programmer. Now I live by it. I agree that it's not an easily actionable kind of advice, but probably in any field some of the best advice is not easy to understand or put into practice.
I'm almost 99% certain that there are no engineers staffed on Google Finance. It's funny how many zombie Google products are out there.
New Google messaging app to offer optional end-to-end encryption
French festivals ditch Eagles of Death Metal over singer's comments
Not so much the "Who knows" bit at the end because I think your numbers are exactly right on the Billboard/RIAA counting process. It was recently revised. Having worked in a big box US media retailer I can still recall putting 27 DVDs on the shelf of the Johnny Knoxville flop "The Ringer" and taking the same 27 DVDs off the rack later to ship...somewhere else. A lot of 'eat these and we will cut you a better deal on the ones you REALLY want' type deals were made, I'm pretty sure - no hard evidence, but fits the industry profile.
> There are many working class people who have unconscionable commutes into Manhattan partly because of NIMBY zoning laws.

Why are these people so eager to work in Manhattan if working there sucks so much?

If employees refused to work in places with unacceptable commutes, employers will create other places to work.

If enough people want to "live the dream" or have some reason they Absolutely Must Work in Manhattan, all the dressage in the world won't stop it from becoming intolerable.
Metaheuristics – the metaphor exposed
Yes.. There are forests of the bristlecones. Most are hundreds and thousands of years old. The one that guy felled just happened to be the oldest of the group.
> Some of people are calling themselves "Data Scientists" who don't know the difference between σ and MAD?

Uh, that's just terminology. Data science is quite diverse and people have different backgrounds and work in different domains. Many mathematically/CS/EE-trained data scientists probably just look at the whole thing in terms of norms without explicitly using the term, MAD.
Google’s ‘wacky’ idea that will leave pedestrians glued to cars after crashes
You do realize the hysterically funny contradiction in your comment, correct?
Was wondering the same thing. Lamb is by far my favourite, commonly available, meat. Roast leg of lamb and mint sauce, unbeatable!

By contrast from 2014 statistics the UK eats roughly 1/3 the amount of lamb as beef. Chicken is the most popular here too. I suspect if lamb weren't noticeably more expensive than beef, pork or chicken the rates would be higher.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/family-f...
Considering it is 2016, many Landlords have some form of payment processor they can use to accept credit card payments.

Love it, as it's how I get a ton of miles / points for money I'm already spending anyway.
Elixir _is_ the correct answer. Not sure what you mean by "narrow focus" - it is as general purpose as anything. Only thing holding me back from fully moving from Python to Elixir is that the ecosystem isn't mature enough yet.