skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because many of the initially removable components are no longer removable

It's not that "many" of the components aren't available, it's all the components anyone cared about. It seems like you won't be able to swap out the CPU, GPU, RAM, battery or screen. So if you want a phone with a faster CPU, you need to buy an entirely new phone, which goes against all the hype for these modular phone plans.

From the venturebeat article linked below: "The idea of Ara is to ensure that your devices are future-proofed, meaning that the whole “upgrade every two years” mentality is no longer a thing. ". This certainly isn't true. Though I guess it could be slightly cheaper, since you would be just buying a frame, and could pop in your old camera module.

There also aren't any modules being shown that can clue you into what the potential is. The only thing recognizable is a camera module, and what I'm guessing is a small e-ink display., every other module is just an unlabeled colored/textured rectangle. In every article about it the only example ever used is a camera.

The module idea actually seems really cool, a standard way for anyone to create hardware for your phone. But I think the "modular phone. Upgrade one bit a time. Never obsolete." marketing angle is a blatant lie.

Edit: I agree with one of the jokes in that Reddit thread about this

Here's what I want for my six modules:
1. Camera
2. Battery
3. Battery
4. Battery
5. Battery
6. Battery

Because really, what else is there?
> unless you build reactors on earthquake hotspots or tsunami zones, I mean c'mon Japan

Prior to the Fukushima disaster, how many proponents of nuclear power considered it to be an example of a nuclear plant that was too dangerous to operate, and how many treated it as an example of modern, safe nuclear power and dismissed criticism as anti-nuclear fearmongering?
It's gotten harder to be both poor and self-sufficient. There was rampant poverty in the olden days, but you could be a lot more resourceful when you were a poor farmer in the Piedmont 60 years ago, than when you're a poor service worker in suburban Atlanta today.
Yes, I agree with you with most of what you said, however, there are dozens of programming languages in English that don't get enough attention, why can't a non-English language be popular in its part of the world?
Does anyone have the statistics on how many of those kids are from single-parent households?
Where do you imagine the free market is operating?
This is what Taleb is saying. MAD is more intuitive to humans, and we can see this in particular because experienced statisticians, when asked to describe what standard deviation "means", actually describe MAD.
Really impressive numbers
Blink and you'll miss the peak.

I'm backing ethereum because wall street is backing them so I expect them to hype it in the mainstream press enough to provide a steady intake of new users.

I also (not so) secretly believe in the project itself.
Some people clearly pay a great deal more attention to commit history than I ever do. The only difference this makes to me is that adding more hoops I have to jump through before you'll accept my patch makes it less likely that I will bother to submit one in the first place.
This looks great. I'm not sure if the optional type system is particularly novel, TypeScript[0] introduced optional typing a few years ago, although it compiles down to JavaScript.

I'm still excited to see it being a feature of a brand new language, and everything else about this language seems very exciting to me!

[0] http://www.typescriptlang.org/
You can still style them differently! I was focusing on functionality.

Your users are going to primarily be using a single browser (per device) and expect each device to be, at least, consistent with itself. This is an area I feel devs make the largest mistake: they want browsers to conform to one another. That means they'll break default functionality to get there! I'm of the opinion the browser should change. That allows users of the browser to adapt to the new default (because every site will then be consistent for the user!)

Functionality can differ between browsers [0] and your IE users will expect the numeric input field to function like it does in IE. Not like it does in Chrome/FF/Safari. Meanwhile, your Chrome/FF/Safari people will expect it to function how it does by default in their browsers. You shouldn't override or change this functionality because it breaks user expectations. Overriding IE because it is the "odd one out" will break expectations for users using IE!

It doesn't matter so much if the experience is different for each user so much as the experience is consistent for each user within their environment.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/numeric-inputs-a-comparison-of-browse...
Lol. Says an account's first message, created only to post this. Putinbots - you need to get better at your jobs. This is unprofessional.
This is a fantastic use case, we (Docker) would love to help in any way we can to make this usable by all Docker users.

Let us know if there's anything more we can to help.
Sam Fransisco median rent predicted using three variables
You think Austin's bad check out the Hamptons cops. Seinfeld and his kids went to the hoosegow.

http://www.27east.com/mobile/article.cfm//Amagansett/119742/...
...and it's happening. Quick googling can't track down a source, but I heard somewhere reliable that housing starts are at a 9-year high in California.

Higher prices = more incentive to build. It's that simple.
I hate the word "coding" you shouldn't use it. Excel rules and procedures are not "codes" or anything remotely like them. They are high-level constructs. Codes are enigmas like SHA-256.
Glenn Beck: What Really Disturbed Me About the Facebook Meeting
This is getting off-topic, but those with higher GDP per capita are generally special cases: Tiny, lots of oil wealth, and Switzerland is a magnet for the wealthy (if I understand their situation correctly).

A few exceptions doesn't change my point. Also, here is total annual income (GDP):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no...

And by accumulated wealth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth

However you measure it, the U.S. can't cry poverty when it comes to providing essentials to its citizens.
In California, at least, this is undercut by judicial decisions that limited how much local funding can affect local schools (Serrano v. Priest)[0]. And in general, this is only a problem insofar as exclusionary zoning is a problem. (Which is a problem, but which is solved through different means.)

I'm in particular concerned about the viability of public schools in urban areas-- exclusionary zoning ceases to be a mechanism that the affluent use to keep their schools to their use, so other than opting-out (either by moving away from the city or using private schools), what other choices to they have?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serrano_v._Priest
Not been able to get a debit card from SVB sounds like a problem.

But once the business is registered - how hard is it to open a 2nd bank account, with another bank, so you can get a Visa Debit card through them?
You can live a very comfortable life in much of the US for $44,000 a year. We spent 30K last year for a family of six, not including taxes, giving, and health insurance. And that includes materials for homeschooling, and upgrading to a minivan.
Yes, this. As a "good" client, please help me get a sense of the spend that I will need to budget for, and the time it will take. That is what I am asking for by a "ballpark". This idea maybe totally simple, or able to do with some effort, or very difficult with concerted effort. Please give me a 'rough' estimate. From there we can formulate a more concrete action plan. Maybe that is some consultancy time, or maybe I have to drop this idea. I get that a $1000 or £1000 will help focus the clients mind on whether this is a worth while venture, but please just keep it simple.
Very cool. I'm wondering how you guys apply Glicko to this domain when all questions test different subjects.
Interesting. He has a website now http://www.somender-singh.com/
In this case what Taleb is concerned with is decision making. The right amount of weight is what allows human beings to make good decisions. He believes that MAD is much more intuitive to humans and therefore leads to better decisions.
I saw that story retold in a fundamental Christian news paper back in the day... fine trolling.
Isn't Apple working on a new UI framework, UXKit? One could idly speculate that it might be written in Swift...
Ask HN: Downvote brigade comes through at 3pm Pacific
I've noticed that during the work day (Pacific time zone ) I'll see comments get more and more points up until about 3pm, at which point they start going down very quickly. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? Is it an automated process? Or a large group of cranky users?
>More accurate how?

By better predicting (being closer to) any unseen (e.g. future) sample values. What else did you expect "accurate" to mean?

>Less volatile, not overweighing tail events: what inference would I make incorrectly by using the standard deviation?

You would over-estimate the importance of tail events (e.g. rare big values).

I mean, what you ask is trivially answered by the statements in the article. Perhaps it's the terminology you find confusing?
Completed hacker guide on the Political Memory project
Is there a crowd-sourced list with anti-adblocker websites? One could combine this with a Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey userscript for HN to add some warning icons right next to the submission link.
Much of this content is associated with the field of Behavior Economics. For instance, in Hack #1, the author is speaking of what academia has called "Choice Architecture". For more about that, you can freely access multiple studies published by Thaler and Sunstein.
Lisp has it right.

* (/ 1 2)

1/2
>He's boorish when it comes to women and sexuality.

It's funny that people say this, when Bill Clinton repeatedly raped and took advantage of women and Hillary helped cover it up.
Exactly. Sorry if I wasn't explicit enough.
That sounds like an interesting approach. Have you tried it with a real-world project? I'm curious if the approach has been proven.
I genuinely can't decide whether or not this is sarcasm.
As an individual, you would create a profile on the site, so you can find opportunities. If you own a car, you might want to see how you can get paid for putting a wrap on your car, or driving around with a box.

Gotta think of a good name for this. It's like when you pay a data center to host your box, except this time, your car is the data center.
Whatever you do, don't try to start a lemonade-sharing service...
Not by default, but I have it enabled and it does block the Wired one. Just wait until we need anti-anti-anti-anti-adblock!
We've solved this problem by breaking our architecture up to be more distributed and introducing Python 3 one small service at a time.
It might be useful to have an option to turn all the "non-obvious" Unicode characters into the form of <U+XXXX> in programming editors. One concern is that some legitimate text will break, but it would be worth it considering most code is written in English anyways.
Doesn't help much. Ubuntu-14.04 LTS had a similar problem last week where network manager crashes and you can't get to the network to fix it.
I've let at least one PR go stale after having made the maintainer's requested changes, only to find a secondary list of demands such as squashing and 'comments too long'. Way to suck all the enthusiasm out of contributing.
I guess by average they meant median, not mean.
It's not really appeal to authority. He's not claiming that Taleb is right because of who he is, rather that we shouldn't dismiss him out of hand because he's very accomplished and credible.
Let's say you went as far as designing a rack, for hot swappable modules. The rack just holds them in your trunk or wherever and provides 12v power, maybe with a ups.
Isn't this the good old chess-ranking algorithm used to find the right opponent in halo as well?
I think you need to be standing in a bank branch to do that.
This whole argument is silly. Apparently the burden of proof is on whomever you want it to be on. The burden of proof is on you? Simply rephrase the argument and suddenly it's on the other person.

OP's original claim was "Consciousness is not supernatural." Here, I'll define supernatural as "beyond our understanding of the laws of nature". Thus, OP's claim rephrased is:

"Consciousness is within our current understanding of the laws of nature."

Now we have a positive claim, and the burden of proof is back on OP.
What's the reason? Were the method names needed to be aligned somehow?
File size is a moot point with regards to long selectors - they are just a bad idea. [1][2] I am a fan of BEM to keep things sane. [3]

[1] http://csswizardry.com/2012/05/keep-your-css-selectors-short...
[2] https://benfrain.com/css-performance-revisited-selectors-blo...
[3] http://getbem.com/
No, not really. You're trying to make this about political correctness and libertarianism. It's just not.

It's about NIMBYism and NIMBYism has been used to hurt the poor/women/minorities. It's also been used to hurt wealthy developers. NIMBYism is a problem all around, but has little to do with libertarianism or political correctness.

These lines of argument by ideologically driven libertarians are getting boring. I don't think the anti-PC rhetoric even pisses anybody off any more, we all just roll our eyes like we do when the unpopular creepy kid shows up at the party.
Just because you're not doing it like everyone else, doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.
Forever. I'm happily using an original HP11 with no issues at all.

I bought it because I was spending most of my time in ssh/emacs and I wouldn't be too worried about losing a Chromebook. Three years later the joke's on me.

As others have noted, crouton is super and updates are seamless. I use it locally way more than I'd anticipated. IMO the standout feature is the keyboard.
I was thinking not about search but about a Google Now appliance running at home. My bet is that the general mindset at Google is about centralization. I can be wrong. But knowing everything everybody does is easy to convert into money.
I don't agree that it applies to "most of the U.S." or even very widely. Also, you are talking after taxes; the document says income is measured before taxes.

Also, recall that most poor are in cities.
They should not allow people to say the word "code" in public places. There is nothing remotely code-like about writing software that most of you people do.
> What percentage of students are now attending non-public charter schools? It isn't just the rich kids. 'Charter' /= 'private school'.

Non-public charter schools are a subset of private schools.

Public charter schools are a subset of public schools.
I think this post has some very good concepts and points that were not touched on much. I feel like I could do business with you lol
By remaining anonymous and leaving out important details, it's hard to give you pointed advice. Here's are some general options:

- get a MSCS at the best school you can get into, choose the thesis option for something you're excited about, and become a good networker

- take remedial CS courses (they're free, online, everywhere), start running through Cracking the Coding Interview, find a tech interview study group, practice daily

- contribute to a popular open source project; if you have to, start with improving the docs, answering questions on S.O, etc.
> The free market also doesn't lead to more getting build in locations where no space is left.

There's plenty of space left in places like New York or San Francisco, especially vertical space. Whether that's legally available to use (or impacts local infrastructure) is another matter, naturally.
> country

The zoning laws are local to Palo Alto.
Exactly. I have wondered for a while why I find predictive AI services frightening and even disgusting.

I realized that it is through apparent unpredictability of my actions that I perceive my own free will (or at least the illusion of it, depending on one's philosophy). If a computer can acurately predict my actions, it feels like my free will is taken away from me. And free will is one of the few things that truly sets us apart from mere automatons. (At least IMHO.)
The shell is a mess of symbols making any sane programming language impossible. Instead of perhaps rethinking the "mess of symbols" issue they ruined the language instead.
it's too bad you can't see how many upvotes my actual response has.
"Hey, I don't think it's healthy for us to charge each-other for every little transaction. What do you think about not venmoing for anything less than $7?"

Venmo is not ruining your friendships, your inability to face issues head-on is
Make a list of the things that work vs. the things that don't. Works: input, output, copying, formatting, numeric conversion. Doesn't: slicing, character counting. Probably doesn't: regular expressions, case conversion. Remember that all this is premised on all I/O being done in UTF-8.
broad smile

This is border-line Poe's law; I really had to deal with web-3.11-for-workgroups folks who argued that this style is the way to go.

Never felt this good to realize to have been tricked 8)
Clarifai iOS NSFW Detection
> In most major cities, affluent parents opt-out of the public schooling system and we end up with underfunded and failing schools.

Those affluent parents still pay taxes. If schools have lower enrollment, then they get less money (which makes sense: there's fewer kids). The problem is bureaucratic school administrations that will not reduce spending/staffing when there's fewer kids. That's not the affluent parent's fault.
That doesn't sound like a fundamental flaw of Tor. That sounds like a fundamental flaw of broadband companies in Canada.
I'm not sure I'd call 6% "small," but it is encouraging that it's shrinking.

I'd like to see more of this broken down between urban and suburban areas. For instance, in most major cities, the percentages are far higher[0] and the percentage of students left behind are far more likely to be poor: in Chicago, for example, 87% of students are low-income families[1].

[0] http://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/chicag...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/opinion/kristof-students-o...
In my experience MAD refers to either Median Absolute Deviation or the Mean Absolute Deviation. I was using the median version which is a pretty common "robust" statistic. Although I have occasionally seen the mean version it seems to be less common in practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_absolute_deviation

Take a look at the Wikipedia you linked. No version of Average Absolute Deviation is consistent with Taleb's definition. No squaring, no square root. Sounds more like a geometric mean.

This is exactly what is so frustrating about Taleb. His ideas only partly makes sense. He often seems to see the problem but his solutions are poorly thought out. Of course, he thinks his solutions are perfect and everyone else is an idiot.
Charge extra up front to write tests. The client gets higher quality code, and generally with less fixes needed.

That being said, there will always be issues until we have AI that writes AI that writes code (with the humans out of the loop).
You can make more transport capacity (more passenger trips per unit time) without necessarily devoting more land to it. A common problem lies where transit modes and routes are chosen for political, not economic, reasons.
This, from a site with Facebook and Twitter buttons?

If you care about privacy, you should not visit Vice.com.
I should also snarkily add that every mac I've owned failed spectacularly within 60 days of AppleCare expiring. Humbug.

Also, AppleCare costs more than a Chromebook.
Franz Inc. open-sources their CLIM implementation
You're right, but I would argue that the insane amount of over-integration was one of the main reasons that Plus failed. For once, here's to hoping that history will repeat itself.
Right, but there's no reason why a 51th percentile salary should make it possible for you to live in a 99th percentile part of town.
On the other hand, a couple years down the road, a generic pull-request-level comment (added feature foo) can be more useful than a bunch of noisy commits like

- WIP: feature foo
- fixed typo
- whoops!
- working
- reformatted

As is often the case with new contributors to open source projects.

In theory --no-ff merges give you the best of both worlds, but in practice, I traverse git history with 'git blame' or 'git log -p <filename>' neither of which do a good job of surfacing "this commit was merged as part of feature/foo".

Of course, all the info is there... But I haven't yet found a good UI for it.
We should give them breakfast and dinner too.
There's an analogy to dogfooding here-- when parents take an interest in the management of their children's schools, they're more likely to improve.

Simply funding them is likely to be less meaningful than funding and also engaging with them.
How about a tax rebate for previous year when you have a child?
It's not really a "free-market" issue. It's more about good regulation versus bad regulation.

Sure, we could just complain about how NIMBYism hurts us all, but as long as there isn't a more powerful government unit intervening to control local regulations then we are always going to have overly restrictive zoning.

This is an example where the libertarian arguments come up short. Paradoxically, what's needed is more regulation, specifically, regulations restricting excessive zoning regulations. Yep, that seems bureaucratic and confusing, but is there another serious alternative? Local governments love to meddle and will do so unless a more powerful authority prevents them.

It's weird, but really the only way out of this mess is more regulations at the state or federal level.
due to the proliferation of nodeJS and how horrible malvertising has become, our children will only know Javascript as a backend programming language.
that quote is just about oil running out.
Obviously organs can't be sold. Not sure I'm entirely wrong though, as it seems money can still get you one faster: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wealth-may-give-advantag...
Google voice? How do you think they tuned their voice recognition and their translations? Listening to all those free phone calls.
The short answer is we simulate a game for each subject area skill tested by the question. There is a more technical explanation we added to the last part of the blog post.
Waiting times for rent controlled properties are getting longer. There are waiting times for medical procedures, those are also getting longer.

http://www.thelocal.se/20150127/swedens-health-care-is-a-sha...

https://expathealth.org/healthcare-news/global-patient-wait-...

And please leave personal comments, you have no idea about my situation. I had job offers from Sweden, but with children its simply not affordable.
Nonsense. Do you think if instead she had happened to test positive for strep throat, the results would have been the same? It is absolutely about the war on drugs mentality.
Well, lets think of it this way - the Tesla maximizes electric range.

There is no other production car that has as large an electric range. Combine it with the superchargers and other chargers, and you can go quite far without gasoline.

For some people, getting rid of petroleum as fuel is the goal.