skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm not completely sure that I trust your judgement, as you left out the single biggest hipster area of Lawrenceville and also spelled "East Liberty" as "West Liberty," which is an entirely different area.

That said...
the extreme whiteness and slight red-necky feel of non-East End neighborhoods.

...is definitely still an issue. It's getting better though, and for the most part anywhere within the city limits is relatively diverse. Pittsburgh's biggest problem is that the segregation is by neighborhood. It's comparable to Chicago, in many ways.
I'm sorry you got downvoted. You sparked a conversation with very interesting information I didn't know myself.
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That's a very strong statement. You really believe there can't possibly exist any instance where program logic in an exception handler ends up being easier to read? That assumes you know enough about every possible permutation of logic flow to know that exceptions could not benefit it.
That you know of.

It's been the topic of much discussion that it can probably be listened to at-will by some 3-letter agencies.

It probably isn't, though, and there's almost certainly not a preserved history unless it's on.
How much influence does the "golf course" of Burning Man still have on the Bay Area?
>The articles are written in accessible, non-technical language and offer a window into the NSA’s culture and operations. They originate from within the Signals Intelligence Directorate, or SID, the NSA’s core spying division, and were provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Sorry, but since when is "offering a window into... culture and operations" whistleblowing? These articles are going to be crazy interesting, but I have a hard time believing they are things that deserve to be exposed. This is my problem with Snowden. If he stuck to the unconstitutional domestic spying stories, I would be his biggest fan. Instead he seems to have a problem with the idea of spying in general and is willing to release anything that puts it in a bad light.

EDIT: After clicking through a few pages I came to this [1] which admits that this release is a big departure from the previous Snowden releases. It still doesn't really explain why this is being done, how this is in the public interests, or why this should qualify as whistleblowing.

[1] - https://theintercept.com/2016/05/16/the-intercept-is-broaden...
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wow. venturebeat has found yet another creative way to show annoying ads. well done....
The work done on Python, on Perl, on JavaScript especially shows that there's huge gains that can be made if you prioritize it.

What's the work done on Python?
(Not disagreeing with you in any way, just want to add onto your points)

> IRBs have intentionally broad mandates and cover quite a lot of things that most people would not immediately recognize as 'research' or 'experiments'.

And yet, professors routinely assign their students to conduct informal "studies" for class credit (perhaps a final project) or learning experience. These sort of "studies" are rarely, if ever, sent to any kind of IRB, and yet plenty of undergraduates are capable of creating a python scraper to download data from OkCupid.

> "There's a difference, based on the barrier to accessing that information"

What is "that information" in the case of this OkCupid study, and what is the "barrier," before and after the research was published? If the "information" is, for example, the fact that your spouse is cheating on you, does this research really remove any "barrier" to make it easier to discover than it was before publishing? If I wanted to know if my spouse was cheating on me, I could simply create an OkCupid profile and check the listings in my local town around my spouse's age range. Releasing the data of 60,000 OkCupid accounts, all of which is accessible from simply logging into the website, does not make it any easier for me to find that profile.

Also note that this is different from, say, the Ashley Madison hack, where email addresses were released from an internal, private database. The emails were not "public" information before the data dump, and therefore the data dump lowered the "barrier" to searching for a target individual amongst the thousands of members. In this case, it seems the "data dump" did not introduce any new paths of accessing information. Instead it simply mirrored information that already exists and is readily accessible by effectively anyone with a computer.
It is based on your search, so technically is. It's just sponsored result.
> Ruby really needs to put performance on the roadmap as a serious project.

http://engineering.appfolio.com/appfolio-engineering/2015/11...

> At RubyConf 2015 in San Antonio, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto announced Ruby 3x3. The goal of Ruby 3x3 is to make Ruby 3 be 3 times faster than Ruby 2.
As a mathematician, I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on "exponentially" and "infinitely" there.
Great visuals. I got the gist in 10s of skimming, allowing me to dig into each specific section on a 2nd pass. Very well presented.
Buffett actually confirmed[0] that he, personally, did not make this trade, and that it was either Ted or Todd (interesting that he didn't specify which).

[0]: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/05/16/berkshire-bought-a...
You're not thinking logically or rationally. Money does not grow on trees. Economies only work when people do. Taxes come from people working and spending (except property tax, which comes from simply existing). Without enough people working, there would not be sufficient taxes to support the people who are not working.

For example, look at Social Security: as the population ages, fewer people are working while more people are receiving. Of course, the Fed can literally create money with the press of a key on a keyboard, but eventually that bubble bursts and takes the economy with it.

And all of this is subordinate to human nature, because that rules over everything we do. And basic human nature shows that people fare better and are happier and healthier when they are able to provide for themselves. People are also lazy and will mostly take the path of least resistance. Put those two issues together with a world in which people don't have to work, and you have a recipe for disaster.

If your desire for a UBI is driven by compassion, then it is misguided, because it would not be good for people who are healthy and able to support themselves. For people who are disabled, that's a different story, but that wouldn't be a UBI.
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Actually, it was a vote on whether on not to repeal some rules passed by city council on their own, and I think also add some rules favorable to uber/lyft. The vote result was "change nothing".
By all means most people would do well to pick up Innovator's Dilemna! Wikipedia also has pretty good coverage of Clayton's Disruptive Innovation theory (what most of the book discusses) directly as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation#Theory

'Letting your company get chased upmarket,' is a pretty good synopsis: yielding ground rather than trying to get competitive.

Clayton talks about the steel industry as a common example, with big "integrated steel" companies not adopting mini-mill tech that allowed for lower capital investment costs, and a big price reduction, first at some quality limitations to protect high margin integrated business, but with the low end market ongoingly overtaking more market up until they "won".

I am curious though- Intel is still charging ~$281 for your run of the mill, very boring grade laptop chip. In some ways, it seems like their obstinacy is finally proving it's payoff, even as they abandon market segments. Which is both how disruptive innovation continues to happen- with the low-level market getting eatten out from under them with Rockchip and MediaTek chromebooks, and perhaps gaining more ground- but it also seems to have proven to some degrees how effective their protectionism has been, that they have not had to get competitive on laptop pricing.

Making chips Apple would've wanted would have put Intel at a remarkably different price:performance scale than what they've stood on.
Right, that's exactly what I'm saying with the second point I made.

EDIT: Although, I just realized I forgot to take out an unfinished sentence that was seemingly contradictory.
It's funny how in these predictions of the technology future everybody seems to be familiar with the technical details: mom is programming CPU, dad is going to "buy that much-needed additional 2K memory he and the wife have been meaning to get".
Oh, but despite all the biologistic determinism, it really is that easy: there is violence – and it needs to stop.

It doesn't matter why is exists, and even if we believe the stuck-at-13-years simpleton you're quoting, an explanation is not an excuse.
Taxis are not an option worth considering - too unreliable.
Posted on the other submission:

If nothing else, I think reminding people that what they're "looking to do" (whatever that is) most likely is something they can do in whichever language they choose, and to somehow shoehorn themselves into a language or a set of languages, not because they have a concrete need to, but because they think they might need to... (Once they start... If they ever get going on it...) is foolish and really does not contribute to execution.

Sometimes it's better to get going in the most productive language you can find for the problem space and make a slow/inefficient implementation with few lines of code, minimizing the risk of bugs, (call it "MVP" or whatever) if only to find out whatever it is you're trying to do. Most languages without suffocating boilerplate will do just fine for this, regardless of their performance.
If no changes have been made since the last save you could replace the save button with a message that states something to that effect.
> Everyone knows they suck but everyone needs data and coverage, no viable competition in sight

How is "lack of competition" the problem? Pretty much everywhere you can get cellular coverage from four different major carriers, plus several MVNOs. If it was so easy to offer better service than AT&T/Verizon for less money, then Sprint or T-Mobile would do it and take over the market. Nothing is stopping them.

And it's not a Pepsi/Coke situation where a small number of oligopolists have an incentive to maintain the status quo because they're all benefiting from it. Sprint and T-Mobile have every incentive to compete--Sprint is hemorrhaging money and while T-Mobile is profitable, its profits don't justify its CAPEX.

Look at T-Mobile. Last year, they made $733 million in net income on $32 billion in revenue. Google, in comparison, made 20x the profit on just 2x the revenue. So with T-Mobile, there's not a lot of fat to cut. So why isn't everyone a T-Mobile customer?
> Philly has rampant corruption and I'd be nervous about investing in the city (compared to NYC or Boston)

Chicago is corrupt as they come and there's a pretty robust startup scene.
That would certainly be part of it. Rejecting being the signalling mechanism that the second party uses to communicate their lack of interest to the first party.
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Yes. Rubinius, in particular, should be given more love. I mean, it is one thing to say that Ruby is fast enough for your startup's application supported by lots of memcached instances with a CloudFlare front. It's another thing entirely to have a compiler written in your language, and claiming that that it is fast enough.
Don't think of it as a bounty. Think of it as payment for services rendered.
BAC exists because a test exists to easily measure it. Breathalyzers aren't perfect, but they're good enough for government work.

I think an actual blood test is the only thing we got for MJ. That's invasive, and not likely something officers will be able to do at a traffic stop.
I absolutely understand that the transpile is kind of weird and requires tooling... the regenerator output isn't too hard to follow, but probably the farthest from the input.

All of that said, I think it's definitely worth it, and the extra size is less of a difference for larger projects. For server-side code, the size is less of a difference since it isn't downloaded, and the performance impact has been negligible in terms of noticeable, real-world performance.

Of coure by the end of 2017 I expect most browsers to have implemented async/await natively... so by 2019 won't be an issue... that said, it's still 2016, so I'll keep using Babel.
You are probably right. Sorry for the confusion.
Consciousness isn't a mystery
Interesting. The challenge is that tech companies can become obsolete very quickly. I don't think IBM is as sticky as he gives them credit for.
Wow that's evil. The war on opiates is unethical. The fear of people enjoying a vice overrules compassion, which is just sick.
I have this using the "Findbar Tweak" [1] add-on, it works with searching and pressing enter. You can also press / for quick search.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak/
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the extreme whiteness and slight red-necky feel

Bigotry based on racial, subcultural, and socioeconomic markers? I was born in Pittsburgh and I grew up in that part of the country. All manner of people fit those racial, subcultural, and socioeconomic markers -- good and bad.

As a non-white myself, let me just say this: Most of the time, most people are basically good. However, if you stand out from the crowd, even for reasons you can't help, that small single-percentage of jerks and sociopaths is going to spot you and pay some unwanted attention to you.

The above is contingent on group-think or mob psychology not having taken sway, of course. Those factors change the situation completely.
The reason this is happening more and more is because teams are bumping up against the limits of synchronous communication. Especially when teams get large, and everyone has an expectation of immediate response the whole thing falls apart.

What's really needed is a communication platform that is geared towards asynchronous communication but integrated deeply with chat apps like Slack, Hipchat etc.
It's a fine assumption. We could also assume that marijuana use discourages use while under the influence due to increased paranoia. Neither have been demonstrated yet.

All we know from this is that there was a increased detection of thc for people involved in fatal accidents. The reason for this seems obvious to me and I assume it correlates with general increased use among the population. I still conject that "fatal" accidents are used here to push a particular narrative. I don't see any significance in "fatal" versus cumulative accidents or DUI arrests.

If the intent is to prove that there is an increased hazard on the road due to marijuana use, then they need to prove that it's use significantly increases this hazard AND that the rate of drivers under influence has increased. Those are two separate and independent studies.

I'm still waiting to see those studies.
I agree that moving to AS+Gradle was a net improvement (even though Gradle is not always so quick) because it let us exactly reproduce the individual developer's build on the CI server, as you say.

OTOH, I wonder how many devs really grok the Android gradle plugin and feel comfortable just writing tasks themselves without carefully copying/pasting/modifying some magical incantation from somewhere.

I feel like the verdict on Instant Run is still out though. We need to get used to the complexity of IR's choices to restart the Activity or stop the entire app and reinstall the apk etc and gain solid confidence that we can just trust IR to truly reproduce our code changes in its special, optimized way.
G+ and Wave didn't stick. They're giving up on those already.

Federated/decentralized is not in Google's own interest, they make their money off of collecting data and controlling both the servers/clients makes that much easier. Moxie's latest blog on Open Whisper Systems goes just as much for Google and carries even more weight there.

So they just keep throwing darts at the (centralized) social network space and hope that something will stick eventually. It wasn't a website yesterday, it might be an app today, maybe it'll be a VR/AR environment tomorrow.
This is the emotional Dan Gilbert who enjoys Comic Sans

http://deadspin.com/the-cavaliers-finally-took-down-dan-gilb...
"Mysteriousness" is even more nebulous than consciousness-- to one person something will feel mysterious, and another it won't.

Personally I do not think we know what consciousness is because we can't replicate it or test for it. How "mysterious" is it vs. other mysterious things like the frontiers of physics? Hard to say.
Mine is but one perspective, as most comments everywhere are. One can also add Bloomfield to the list of neighborhoods with hipster-gentrification.
The new, open source React.js Linode Manager
From my understanding, Spaces doesn't require any kind of membership anywhere. No accounts.

This could become a big deal if true and possibly rival Twitter for when you suddenly have an interest in something for a few hours/days but want to drop out later.
Google Has Released Waze Carpool in San Francisco
What's the Detroit connection with Warren and Yahoo? I must have missed that in all the articles.
If your 14 year old is going to another state for a month then your 14 year old isn't going to be doing chores and you won't be needing to tip them for said chores.

I agree with theinternetman that this idea was ill-conceived and easily replicable.
The accompanying tutorial: https://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/tutorial.html...
RIP Pittsburgh
Now, with swift 3 around the corner, I will ask some most experience fellow developers the following question.
There is golang, swift, rust, dlang. If you will put some energy, what language will be, and why? :)
"Neighbor beats his wife less often than other neighbor, new federal data shows"
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Yahoo and Comic Sans. Together, in relevance, stuck in the 20th century.
I live in Austin and I couldn't vote because I am just a permanent resident.

Anyway, I don't think I see why I couldn't pay anyone I want to drive me from point A to point B.
That is not true[0]. I have no idea why you think that's the case, I've never seen that anywhere.

[0] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=finn.io
PyPy: http://pypy.org/
I agree for the most part.
But this kind of effort needs to be criticized. They made huge mistakes and they need to be pointed out so that others can learn and do it better on their attempts.

Their execution, (and the idea), frankly, were awful.

Execute by all means but execute smartly.
It's not obvious what the acquiring group mentioned in this article would do with Yahoo after they've bought it, to make it worth the price. They'd have the 5th most visited domain name on the Internet, but as Yahoo has demonstrated, visits don't automatically turn into money. (Twitter has a similar problem, and sits at #8, but they have a social aspect that Yahoo doesn't.)

Unless Alibaba comes with the purchase at a discount, or someone wants to acqui-hire whatever talent hasn't already fled, an acquisition doesn't seem even remotely sensible.

A few quick checks suggest that Yahoo's searches-per-day traffic is still decent, at 12.4% of the market (2.2 billion searches/month); perhaps redirecting that to some competing search engine might be worth it for a cheap enough price.
If a city/state wants to be a startup it better demolish any semblance of noncompete agreements against employees.

This is an often overlooked feature of California. Skills and talent flowing freely between companies is a benefit to the entire ecosystem and something California did right very early on.
At my church I play in a music group with mostly high school students. Virtually all of them have iPhones. So it's not a good indicator.
"You" this particular function might not know how to handle it, but it's possible that some other part of the program does.

To run with your example, I could imagine handling a missing storage device in lots of different ways, including a) Retry the operation b) Alert the user and block until a device (re)appears c) Switch to an alternative storage location d) Replace the to-be-read-in values with some sensible defaults.

It seems to me that it would be easier to write this logic once and place it in an exception handler than it would be to wrap every I/O operation in a thicket of if/else clauses.
The answer is obvious: Swift if you target iOS. Otherwise, use what is best for you.
Gilbert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gilbert_%28businessman%29#...
> But height at age 16 makes all the difference in the world.

I was done growing at age 16. So if you accept that current height can affect wages, then this statement seems trivial (at least to me, with my growth pattern...)
The iPhone didn't represent any sort of technical advance. The only thing truly innovative about it was the (almost) all-screen form factor.
Sugar is a pretty broad term (fructose, galactose, lactose, sucrose, glucose are all different types of sugar). In a really over simplified way almost everything you eat gets converted to glucose at some point. That glucose is then used to create ATP via cellular respiration (the Krebs cycle) to power your cells. There is "sugar" in everything you eat. There are stores of glycogen, a stored version of glucose, in the muscles of the animals you eat. So yes, there is "sugar" in steak, chicken, pork etc.

So cutting down on sugar likely wouldn't have an effect. Once again in an over simplified way all your cells are powered by sugar, cancerous cells aren't unique in this way. I'm not a biologist though so I could be wrong.
In defence of davidcollantes I think it used to be the case a year ago.
Actually it sounds as if he would be buying convertible bonds according to the article. This means he will have the opportunity to convert his bonds into equity at some point in the future (at some share price in the future) if he chooses to exercise this right.
Otherwise he will indeed just be collecting interest.
Walking meditation is a thing. I found it highly effective in my life and a big part of why I'm an avid hiker/backpacker enthusiast.
It's with Dan Gilbert and Detroit. He basically owns the city. My friends and I like to refer to the new downtown as Dantroit.
I find it quite impressive how MCS and ticket locks are still very relevant techniques; and not actually that widely used...
> While The DAO is a group of people authorized to act as a single economic entity, no governmental body recognizes it as such.

They're really not legally incorporated anywhere?

Foregoing the limitation of liability that goes along with a corporation seems awfully legally risky -- any of the individual members can be sued, likely succesfully, for something done by the aggregate, with possible damages exceeding their 'investment'.

I'd think you could legally incorporate the thing how they wanted it with few problems, have bylaws saying decisions will be made with blockchain votes or whatever.

I guess the automated "splitting" the corp would be a problem.

Still, I don't think I'd want to be involved in such a thing without legal corporate limited liability protections.
> Spaces doesn't require any kind of membership anywhere. No accounts.

Since they say its "rolling out...for all Gmail accounts", that certainly makes it sound like its tied to an account (specifically a Gmail account).
I spent middle school and junior high in a pittsburgh suburb. it was the first place in the country I had ever heard friends of mine expressing overt racism.
What the HELL? I don't even know where to start on this.
Google is banning Flash from its Chrome browser
Public intoxication is a crime.