skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment displays a misunderstanding of common logic that so commonly leads people to racist views.

There's a logical difference between saying "a lot of chinese students are cheaters" and "chinese student is most likely a cheater". While statistically speaking these propositions seem to be equal, notice that we are not 100% sure here — we're talking in probabilities.

But talking in probabilities has two important implications. First, human brains are not wired up to work with probabilities probably: so, when you hear a statement "chinese student is likely to be a cheater", next time you see a chinese student, you will see a cheater. Not a 80% probability cheater, just a cheater.

And second thing is that modern morality is based on assumption of best in people — presumption of innocence in law is just one example of that. And this norm have worked really well, in general. When we know that someone is 'bad' only with 80% certainty, we prefer to act as if he's good — for a variety of reasons too complicated to discuss here. Let's just say that in general, it's good for everyone.

So, in the end, answering your point: it's not "unfair to call it out". It's just bad to make all chinese students look bad and create pre-conceptions about them.
InTech’s biggest contradiction: the case for FemTech
"A Dark Pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills." [1]

Presenting an authentic looking UI dialogue which appears to come from the operating system, and using vibration to further impose the authenticity of a dialogue as having come from the operating system seems very much to be covered under any definition of dark pattern I can find. The aim is to make you click the ad, and they use dark patterns to do that. Simply because the ad content is "malvertising" doesn't mean it's not utilizing dark patterns.

[1] http://darkpatterns.org/
If machines act according to the law, and the law defines what is ethical, then there should be no problem.
But is it likely that they are? I would imagine no.
Because a lot of the time it does make sense and the borrow checker just isn't clever enough to know. For example: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/811
I suppose as long as you already have your product built before sharing it's probably a good idea. I can't imagine just sharing an idea, having it get traction, and then not immediately having that idea stolen.
Rust – Are we (I)DE yet?
A regular participant in the sci.lang newsgroup on Usenet compiled a partial list of irregularities in Esperanto a long time ago.[1] Basically, the whole project of building Esperanto as a constructed international auxiliary language was full of internal inconsistencies, especially in word derivation,[2] and full of bizarre arbitrary differences from any natural human language that just make it hard to learn to speak fluently.[3] I have lived in more than one country, and have studied Esperanto quite a while during the 1990s, but it's never had any day-by-day usefulness for any practical purpose for me that any other language has had.

[1] http://www.zompist.com/kitespo.html

[2] http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/hh.html

[3] http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/#d
Good instinct. The housing prices, while still pretty good, are going up fast, and unless you work for MS or Amamzon, I'm not sure the salaries are really that amazing.
I really liked my Jolla phone except for the crappy camera. If it had had a better camera I would still be using it.

The interface was nice, the open system was nice (it was easy to code desktop notifications: just connect to dbus on the phone and call the notifier on my desktop machine) and the Android subsystem worked well enough.
Not sure how you define "independent", but media will always be somewhat beholden to their benefactors (which today is advertisers). Gawker is not above this, see this story which impacted ad money (but was also extremely slimy). Interesting they have principles on a story topic if it hurts the $...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gawker-turmoil-2-ed...
There's very little VHDL in industry.

VHDL == IBM and Europe.
[Obligatory Monty Python reference] Pen and paper? Luxury! We had to walk 40 miles to the bookstore, in the desert, at night, memorize the solutions, walk back, and be on time for school I tell you!
The Fusioneers, who build nuclear reactors in their back yards
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'is it down for everybody or just me?' is a neutrally-framed status reporter. The 'vibes' I speak of are the way in which 'Dead Yet?' is, fundamentally by its name, presumptuous (in my opinion). Therefore I don't think you have a great analogy there but I do see your point that my 'feedback' point was perhaps a bit too general — it would just be nice to be able to review a startup (a small disqus comment thread on the page, for example) rather than just pointing the finger at its deadness.

I don't personally have generic advice off-the-bat for company-wide failure avoidance I'm afraid.
I disagree. I think when you're talking about someone you don't personally know that's in the public eye, you should use their surname if you're trying to make a clear point. I noticed it when I saw my own nation's male politicians always mentioned in the media by their surname, and the female politicians referred to by first name if the media outlet didn't like them. It was a way of robbing them of respect.

As a tech parallel, Gates and Jobs aren't generally referred to in articles by their first name, even when their identity has been established.

Just refer to everyone in the same way and you level the playing field, I find. If you have a personal connection, sure, bend the rule. But using a first name without having a personal connection usually robs the public figure of a bit of power.
Why doesn't everyone encrypt mail
Empowerment carries a fairly high risk and if you are already in a poor economic situation, you a very likely to not be able to tolerate it. Plenty of people in good economic standing aren't willing to tolerate it. As such, most people are going to end up choosing the far less risky path of being "robots" anyway.
"Bokmål and Nynorsk are mutually intelligible"

Maybe I'm just an idiot, but I contest this :) I have an easier time understanding spoken Swedish (and written Danish) than Nynorsk. I think unless you grew up in an area with a dialect very similar to it, or had it drilled into your head in school, it's basically a foreign language.

Context: I speak Bøkmål and Trøndersk (for you non-Norwegians, that's the regional dialect in the greater Trondheim area), and was raised primarily abroad, though we primarily spoke Norwegian at home.
I'd like to do this. Unfortunately tech sells itself as remote-friendly when very little of it is.
Part 1 previously submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11160346
Put your website to sleep
Yeah I think it was a service for closing up your startup, emailing your customers and displaying a nice "we're gone now" message.
There are a billion Chinese, so I wouldn't blame them for not learning English while living in China. It's just not worth the effort.

Also the fact that Chinese is almost as far as you can get from any western European language makes it really hard to learn English (or for us to learn Chinese for that matter.)

I can't imagine the Chinese government encouraging its citizens to lean English for political reasons either.
廢話。How many native speakers of various Chinese languages do you know how converse with you regularly in Esperanto? The phonological system of Esperanto is noticeably worse than that of English for native speakers of Chinese to acquire.
Imgur was successfully bootstrapped and profitable enough to afford employees in a San Francisco office for 5 years. The bloat issues didn't really start popping up until after they took in $40MM of VC capital in mid 2014.

Their transition has VC written all over it.

It should also be noted that reddit has an ownership stake in imgur, so they must have really been concerned about the degrade in imgur experience to have done something like this.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/after-five-years-of-bootstr...
Reminds me of a small project I hacked on through the night once:

https://www.producthaunt.com
On one level yes. On the other hand it should hopefully reduce the FUD around alternatives with better type systems (Scala), if the type system is turing-complete in any case.
At its core, this is a slippery-slope argument. The world will go on without Gawker. Even they, like nearly every other media entity, were already really deferential to billionaires. Gawker just had this particular idiosyncratic and nasty exception to that overall deference, and now they're seeing the results of that exception. Real criticism of the billionaires was never going to come from this quarter.
From the article:

The fact is that in the midst of today’s 24-7 news cycle, most journalists can devote only a small amount of time to their next article, and so they often find themselves choosing topics that are convenient to write about. Imagine you’re a journalist in front of a blank screen, thinking about your next story, and faced with intense pressure to pump out content. There may be no clear breaking news on Clinton, Sanders, Cruz, or Kasich — so writing about these candidates may require you to conduct research or reach out to voters.

/endquote

I really think this is what it comes down to; this and the "access" issue, where reporters are scared of losing direct access to spokespeople and candidates who provide easy and ready-made stories and quotes. Without that, reporters are forced to, you know, report which they apparently don't have time for anymore.
this is (if i take "man hours" to mean resources spent on case preparation) an emergent property of for-profit mercenary lawyering.

that being said, sometimes the thumb is doing good work - or at least, doing necessary work in pursuing positive outcomes.
Minecraft really demonstrated this concept well within the span of a few years.

When it first came out, it was hard to figure out how to do anything. You either just played and fiddled, or you had to dig through the Minecraft wiki to figure things out. I found this incredibly fun.

Fast forward a few years and now Minecraft is like a modern IDE. Things keep flashing up, built-in help, a guided structured tutorial.. fine, but it's nowhere near as rewarding for quizzical minds.
And I imagine energy efficiency isn't as much a critical factor in HFT as it is in bitcoin mining.
[U.S.] Government agencies keep sacrificing cash to zombie IT systems, GAO finds
The way I understand it, it is a developer phone, something for people who do not have a Sailfish device yet and want to work on apps or the OS itself while the Intex device is in the works.
If both parties has complete faith, then the existence of the pre-nup is irrelevant. it would be like signing a paper in the event that the sun burns out and the earth explodes.

The argument, to him, would sound like "I don't think you expect this marriage to last. Refuse to sign this pre-nup and prove that you intend to issue divorce in a few years".
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> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see the reason.

You are correct, you do not see the reason.
This time is different!
> On 12 March 2015, two journalists from MVS, Daniel Lizárraga and Irving Huerta, were fired after they used the station's brand name without permission in a newly-created website known as MexicoLeaks, which leaked reports on government corruption

They were fired. What does that have to do with legal cases?
Does anyone see a problem w/:
'legislation that would allow a lot more housing to be built'?

I stopped reading after that, as I was satisfied as to what the problem and solution is.
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As far as I am aware, no state or federal authorities are involved here, so freedom of the press is still intact. Freedom of the press doesn't mean you get to say whatever you want.

Additionally, at what point does "very scummy" become a civil offense? Why not ask a judge (and/or jury) and let them decide.
Who said anything about "only"? The article says:

> No one who considers themselves interested in the inner lives of animals, the wonders and mysteries of the natural world, can eat cephalopods in good conscience.

The article never says other animals are less deserving of care. The author is just particularly interested in octopus, and is appealing to the trait of intelligence.
Our universal responsibility as tech creators
The author was not fired for being incorrect. He was fired for arguing on twitter in a manner that caused negative emotions about his publisher. Implying that this somehow invalidates his argument is a fallacious ad-hominem attack.

Do you have any concrete arguments against his conclusions?
We have a mixture of dev-managed, and ops-managed servers here. However, we are exclusively moving to a model where dev create chef scripts for servers, but ops manage them.
The CDDL's restriction is only in the files containing the code. The GPL's restriction is on all files within a derived work, whether they contain GPL code or not.
I'm intrigued. Any way to see an actual presentation?
The primary concern being that laws are by no means ethical. The easiest example is slavery in the US Constitution.
Trust in Erlang
An Assassins market for startups with a cryptocurrency backend would be a cool way to semi-automate this.
US government agencies are still using archaic tech
My call to my assembly rep's office lasted 22 seconds; my call to my state senator took just 17.
I agree the surface logical structure is similar. On the other hand there is a lot of evidence that geologically recent hominids build structures, manipulate fire, and can live in caves. One of the advantages of this theory is that it could more readily be verified by the discovery of artifacts nearby in the deep underground than a theory about a phenomenon light years distant.
> generally speaking is there a tech career scene in GR?

Not really.

There's plenty of tech work in GR, if your just looking for a job you probably won't have any problems. And there's plenty of social / networking events. GR definitely punches above it's weight for the region -- but not enough to compare to a real market.

Grand Rapids is closer to a small town than a major city, so despite our best efforts, there isn't really a scene that's comparable to anything like what I've seen in Minneapolis or Portland or Austin or even Milwaukee.

Of course, those places are larger and cost more. Low cost of living is great, (cheap housing even with good schools, lots of space, easy commutes, no crime, silly amounts of lawn and garden) but it has its own drawbacks (very low wages, worthless public transit, everything's suburban, greatly reduced career opportunities, etc)

I would personally prefer an urban lifestyle, and that's impossible to have in Michigan, which is frustrating to me. But if you want a suburban lifestyle in a ranch house with a huge yard, Grand Rapids is perfect for that. There's tons of those properties around for about $200k.
Ubuntu Server no longer has Python 2 installed by default (though it's available if you want it). This is the case on 16.04.
Imgur's users are pseudo-anonymous, just like reddit and HN. Advertisers aren't really willing to pay much for that when they can target accurate user profiles like Facebook or anything that connects with Facebook.
The latest Ubuntu LTS 16.04 only has Python3 installed by default.
For Ansible modules to run at all, you need to install Python 2 first (possibly using "pre_tasks" + a "raw:" command in your Ansible playbook)
Yes, and furthermore it is up to Gawker to decide how to structure themselves. If they break the law under the same entity they do legitimate journalism, they are taking the risk.
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The first-party stuff in the pipeline is basically: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery

Off the top of my head, Time and SIMD are the only two first-party efforts that are missing from there.

Things which will, at this rate, probably never be added -- either because there isn't a "standard" solution to these problems or because it doesn't seem worth it:

* async io

* web framework/http

* numerical hierarchies and bignums

* linear algebra / stats

* GUIs

* "human" time / calendars
> Once you understand how this marriage anti-poverty story works, two things should immediately occur to you. First, it's not marriage that's cutting poverty here. It's the recombination of income. If you marry someone who does not add extra income to your family, that will do nothing to reduce your chance of poverty and, because your family is now bigger, it could even drag your family into poverty. Adding someone to a resource pod only reduces that pod's chance of poverty where, as a result of the addition, the increase in the pod's income is greater than the increase in the pod's poverty line. Sometimes marriages accomplish this, sometimes they do not.

This is missing the point. The argument is not that being married increases your average income, it's that pooling risks (like that of losing one or other of your jobs) reduces them, that it increases the ability to provide childcare (which is better measured in hours than dollars, so income isn't really the point), and perhaps that it allows certain efficiencies in housing, transport etc. And I guess if you want to look at the dark side then the final argument is that it ensures parents are in a fixed, stable relationship, reducing the likelihood of endangering their children through their dating behaviour.
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They're all available:

$ pkgin se python3
python35-3.5.1nb2 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
python34-3.4.4 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
python33-3.3.6nb3 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

along with a bunch of pre-packaged modules:

$ pkgin avail | grep ^py3 | wc -l
1412

Let me know if anything you need is missing and I'll add it.
a little bit off topic so i apologize in advance, but i think this is the right audience so i'd like to pose my question, but i'm thinking about what the smallest device is that can run say a golang app with net/http reasonably fast. i'm thinking about the use case where i can run a fairly low powered micro device, say smaller than a raspberry pi (say usd quarter sized), but enough to run say a rest api or serve some static pages. typically i'd have to buy some desktop, server, or laptop to host such a thing which seems like overkill, perhaps power hungry, i think it maybe good if you need to run a myriad of processes or containers (load balanced over nginx), but if i just need a simple rest api, single process. and i'm thinking of embedding these into everything (dishwashers, tv's, stereo receiver, led lightbulb) perhaps what i'm saying is sort of like an fpga, but higher level, something that can run an elf binary, i dont want to have to write vhdl, i mean the converters from 3gl to vhdl/verilog sounds cool, but what are the costs for fpgas? i also wouldnt need the device to have like bash access, something dumbed down to copy a binary and run/stop it (like docker). i guess what i'm seeking is something like an fpga for embedding in devices that can run higher level code with wifi.
"the law" isn't all written down, in one place, in unambiguous language. It's often an amalgamation of cases and precedents built up over time, open to interpretation, constantly changing and applied in some mixture of "to the letter" and "to the spirit".

In which case, we might define "act according to the law" as something like "act in a way which, if it were described in a court of law, would not lead to any prosecution". Predicting the outcome of such a hypothetical court hearing requires anticipating, thinking through and weighing up the possible arguments on both sides. That's basically a description of ethics, so we're back where we started :(
I doubt one would ever be able to account for all the variables when comparing disparate cultures to try to determine causality on one issue.
> So there's an accident, and I swerve to avoid. I think I'm going to make it but the car isn't certain so it brakes, and it brakes really fucking hard. At this point who is responsible for what happens?

I'm having problems understanding your scenario. How exactly does the car breaking prevent you from swerving? The brakes should only stop your car mid-swerve, and you wouldn't collide. The only scenario when speed is an advantage when swerving is when you're trying to needle into an opening in the next lane and you need to match the speed of a 3rd car
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Linked in got me my current job via a recruiter blind emailing me with a job spec. My entire job hunting process was "connect with a bunch of people, upload my CV to be autoformatted, add a cool picture". From then on I added any recruiter who spoke to me, and got ~1 job spec a week.

I'm a lazy man and linkedin provided me a service.

PS. They've emailed me to say they'd reset my password, but aren't forcing me to do it as my cookie login or whatever still seems to be valid. "Heh".
I take it "cool" means "higher temperature" and "warm" means "lower temperature"? :)
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> I bet a fair number of those tried and tested libraries expose a C interface.

Some of them do, or have C equivalents, but many of them don't. Once you get into "there's only one library that does it and it's one guy's graduate thesis" territory, often the only option is on the JVM.
The company that owns Conde Nast, Advance Publications, still has a stake in reddit. There's a variety of other investors involved:

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/wired-conde-nast-reddit/
Eh, turing complete is a really low bar to clear. In practice it just means the compiler can't be proved to halt on valid code.

Avoiding turing completeness requires either very very careful design OR (trivially) a hard limit on size/iterations the compiler is allowed to make (a sufficiently small limit, obviously we call many things turing complete colloquially that have very low limits anyway like 8-bit cpus with ~kb of memory)
Well, the quote is from Lovecraft, who was himself American.
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The lack of good, independant media outlets is a problem, but this is not a good solution. I do not agree that the value of Gawker outweighs the value in punishing its behaviour - it's not the fault of Gawkers victims that there are so few independant media, and it should have been Gawker that took more care in preserving itself.
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The first Unicorn startup coming out of Eastern Europe
7+Sins,+7+Virtues:+Relevant+Or+Not?
So You Want to Be a Compiler Wizard
sorry this is like an olympic sports reporter tracking down whoever came last in each event to ask, "what happened?"

Meh. I'll stick to reading what the winners have to say - or those still actively competing with them.