skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American and Black. It is a bad part of american black 'culture'. It is illogical, and it is ignorant. Its not really anything more than that. Rap has done a disservice in that regards... on the other hand the only word that is probably more common than nr in rap is bitch and hoe... its bitch and hoe this, bitch and hoe that...

and yet i have never heard anyone ever ask how come they shouldn't be saying bitch or hoe to women.

Whats so complex about that?
>>most of them shared the same code for the assignments (in front of the professor). [...] cheating is a terrible part of the subculture

Which is terrible - your particular university's subculture of cheating-condoning professors, or a Chinese student subculture of cheating?
Would it really affect homeowners outside major cities that much? Nobody is going to rush out to the middle of nowhere to build apartment buildings.
hey spion !

I read your post and sent you some messages on gitter, it seems you do not use gitter a lot :(
Even if this bill passes and substantially more multi-family housing starts getting built, do not be surprised if house prices remain extremely high.

Vancouver doesn't have the same anti-development issues that SF has, and has been building multi-unit condos and apartments all over the region for decades. Multi-unit housing starts are about at its highest level ever. The average price of a detached house however is C$1.3 million (~US$998k thanks to the weak Canadian dollar) and rising. Low interest rates, "fear of missing out," incredible amounts of real estate speculation and a dash of foreign investment can go a long way.

It's likely that the strongest benefits to increased supply in SF will manifest itself in lower rents and/or lower rate of rent increases.
I've been using nbolt.io even though I own neillbolton.com. Is the .com worth it?
The census hasn't been representative of American views on race for a long time, if ever.
I hope it will happen eventually, especially with projects like this:
https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano
so, you're screwed either way? or you should try to look middle class and neither rich nor poor?
I think he is casting aspersions on the average programmer. I'm on a significant chunk of PRs across projects at my employer and I have seen crazy crazy shit from Java devs with years of experience. In some cases these same devs hold Java certifications from Sun/Oracle. I shudder to think of what would happen if they decided to have these guys write C or C++.
I think they have just as much experience and technical know-how as their contractors, but have neither the funds or the go-ahead to implement this stuff themselves.

For example, Obama signed an executive order requiring the DoD to use electronic records management systems to store all of their classified data.

The tricky part is that the way it is written, they have to buy this, they're not allowed to write the system that holds their own data.

(See JITC 5015.2.)
Oh my god, I never would have found that. Thanks for the walkthrough.
If someone does something bad involving a nuclear mainframe, I don't think it'll be on a lark.
Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819625
> I speculate that the human metabolism works in a similar way, and that ongoing, low levels of exercise is more beneficial to the metabolism than daily spurts of high intensity exercise.

Research has shown that properly structured, high intensity exercise (10 minutes) is just as beneficial as low levels over a longer duration.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
What stands out in my mind is some educational film (early 90s?) where Columbus sees a butterfly land on an orange, and it reminds him of a ship on a round Earth.

It's a baffling myth that has been lazily propagated for a very long time. Would be interesting to figure out where it came from.
What is Jane Street's yearly profit?
How does the group work exactly? Is everyone working on their own thing? Is the group focused on a specific goal?
Not only. As a kid I don't recall discussing earth shape prior the Colombus chapter. With lots, lots of cute stories on how he believed what no one else did. Only very recently I read that many people; including religious figures did talk and think that the earth was round, with a hint that it wasn't just put to 'good use' before columbus.

European here.
If your mom calls you "honey", it's fine, if some guy you don't know calls you "honey", perhaps it's not fine. So, there are other examples of names that have different meanings depending on who is speaking to you.
I reached out to the owner of my name.com and we agreed on $100. He wanted $4000 but when he realized that I just wanted to host a personal site he was happy taking $100.
I never even considered a prenup, but we were young, of similar wealth (or lack there of). If heaven forbid anything happened and I was remarrying, I would probably be considering a prenup, or at least a carefully thought out will because there are now children involved.

My sister-in-law had a prenup - her husband brought significantly more assets and earning potential to the relationship - however I seem to remember the ratios changed over time such that it evened out the longer they were married, which seemed a reasonable approach to me.
Arguing with genuinely stupid people just makes me frustrated and depressed. It's far far easier to just ignore them.
I lack the cultural insight but from far across the seas here it seems that using the n-word is borderline illegal unlike bitch/hoe. Didn't kramer get crucified for using that word? Do you think he would have gotten the same reaction if he had used the words you mentioned? (His entire career went kaput after all).
> I'll introduce tariffs on goods produced using your robots.

My robot submarines will run your coast guard surveillance and deliver goods tariff free.
Yeah, it's always going to be a function of income in the area. People value housing enough to pay up to 50% of their income towards it in desirable cities. If more inventory is available more people will elect to live in SF and rents will find equilibrium at around the 50% of incomes
It's best to disregard early downvotes.

There was a mythical past when Hacker News was much smaller, when (early) downvotes meant something. But that's gone.
> They censor outside influence and ideas that are influenced from the outside.

Well, no, they censor all ideas that run contrary to the party line, period, regardless of origin. I suppose you could try to claim that no Chinese person could ever independently conceive of an idea that contravenes the will of the Party, so if such ideas occur then they must have been crowbarred into their innocent minds by foreign propagandists, but that would be stupid.

> Obviously ideas that infect people within China would be in practice censoring "Chinese" people.

Huh?
My father worked for a very long time on traffic signal systems, and a lot of their old technology was a simple EEPROM chip which they wrote a program for the signals, burned to a chip that costed a pittance, and that was it. I remember him telling me when they changed to a new system based on (i think) PCMCIA interfaces and the complexity of deployment and cost were magnitudes greater for no real benefit.

If its an embedded system and the cost and work of supporting it is less than the cost and deployment of a new system, whats the point in updating it?
I really like OpenAI's mission and respect the people who work there, but last time I read their blog, reddit AMA and other posts here it seems that they don't have any concrete goals
The student may have come from a place where cheating is OK, but he came to a place where it's not OK.

(I don't fault the humanities professor, he may have grown up in a culture where it's acceptable to be full of shit.)
That's true for the 21" wheels. The tires on the 19" wheels last much longer.
Funny you should mention that. Our US office receptionist (who is in her 60s) uses this word all the time to strangers. "Oh let me help you with that honey". Initially I found it condescending (for no reason), but now I am used to it.
I have friends working for government contractors. They basically just need a warm body in a seat. Get that piece of paper and you're golden.
I made an app that uses your GPS location to show you who your elected representatives are, lets you call, tweet, email them.

TryVoices.com (iOS + Android)
The man pages are useful, especially once you know the basics. For example, start at [man selinux](http://linux.die.net/man/8/selinux) in See Also see the reference to [man httpd_selinux](http://linux.die.net/man/8/httpd_selinux) and in there you find every type and boolean including `httpd_enable_homedirs`. See also, [man procmail_selinux](http://linux.die.net/man/8/procmail_selinux).
If someone has a subtle point they want to make, they should make it explicit and as obvious as possible. The principle of charity doesn't require me to invent arguments for them.

If someone doesn't say what they think the difference is [1], and they ask me to apply all the implications about one to the other, it's not a strawman to say they are equating the two.

[1] between "doing Y would help improve your score" vs "the answer is X"
Just drop it. It only hurts the bank and you did your best to warn them. At this point the only reason to peruse it is to get recognition/reward or attention for being clever.
Why delegating is so difficult
I suppose that's a matter of definition. I read "allocating computing resources" as "building/buying more hardware". That should indeed be unfeasible. But using social means to gather support from other people who have already allocated computing resources should be a lot more feasible.
Thank you! I had assumed !i was ddg images for some reason.
The article (and the comments here) encouraged me install SELinux on one of my (Debian) VMs to see how it goes, and I'm now wondering why I didn't try it earlier.
I can't say for sure if this is what Foobarqux was referring to but this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11708873 came up a couple weeks ago which states

> Tim Redmond of 48 Hills has argued that building more housing would make the problem [high housing costs] worse because the people who would move into it are likely to be wealthy newcomers whose demand for services will increase low-income employment, putting further pressure on older, lower-cost housing.
The bank isn't going to pay you money. You gain nothing from reporting this, and risk getting fucked over for mere pennies. Just forget about it and move on with your life.
> and then use their frat connections to land exceedingly awesome jobs

That happens everywhere though. It's not endemic to "frat bros"—a lot of people find jobs through connections rather than only grades. Most of the time it's through a family friend or family member, or in CS through open source or meet ups. It sucks when you don't have any connections but it's not unfair; it's just how it is. Should I not tell an undergrad friend that my company is hiring interns and recommend her?

Of course an international student will have less connections which is why they sometimes struggle getting internships.

But yeah, the cheating stuff is messed up!
I valued my degree's paper more than the content. The content was largely bullshit. Who needs to learn astronomy for a business degree? Employers don't give a shit if I know about astronomy, why should I care? It's required, however, so I took it. I did the minimum to get a 4.0 and nothing more. I think space is interesting and I read about it in my free time, but memorizing facts and figures about random things isn't really interesting.

Even the relevant classes are largely bullshit. I took a marketing class where the textbook was seemingly written by a group of people who sit in a room all day making up labels for common sense concepts. As a student, I have to memorize those labels. I have to memorize the meaningless systems and charts and diagrams those people came up with. I have to memorize the names of people who did things in the field of marketing.

You get my point. It was a waste of time. There was definitely useful stuff in my degree, stuff that was helpful in my actual jobs, but it was maybe 1-2% of my total undergraduate career, and I could have learned that information on my own with a few books and about a month of studying.
Data Mining the Water Table – R Tutorial
law of unintended consequences. I can even imagine a net increase in accidents until the technology is mature enough to actually take over full responsibility. So far all of the assistive technologies were straightforward to understand and control - by that I mean ABS, ESP, velocity keeping, and autobraking. You were never tempted to think that the car will drive for you with these. But the moment you add lane keeping and take over the steering wheel, there's no immediate obligation to pay attention anymore. It's deep in the uncanny valley and I'll have none of it until we have fully autonomous cars.
I own a house in Silicon Valley. And I'm all for building more.
Chinese international subculture of cheating, I assume.
This guy has never worked a day in his life.
Anyone else like Bob Dylan... If people cheat, I believe there is a slow train comming.

Example: I had a friend who had an interview for company XYZ, "Write a program that clicks the first link in a wikipedia entry and exits when you reach the philosophy page (implement in the language of your choice). You have 15 mins"...

My friend was a really hard working, intelligent, and honest guy and he could not do it... i doubt cheaters could do it cold.
An interesting (to me at least) variation on this is a Jewish prenuptial agreement[1] that basically said the husband would provide a get[2] if they were divorced under the law of the land.

Apparently it is reasonably common now, but when one of my best friends go married it was a new thing, at least in our part of the world. It was something their Rabbi insisted on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_prenuptial_agreement

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_%28divorce_document%29
Hundredfold optical fiber capacity sends thousands of HDTV videos per second
I'm referring to Graal, which would be available in Java 9 as an alternative JIT to HotSpot's C2 compiler: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Publications+and...
Nobody's expecting housing prices to drop by half overnight. It's just the best thing we can do to limit future growth and make it SOMEWHAT affordable.

(and, frankly, as a homeowner, I don't WANT my housing prices to drop in half overnight, but I DO what the region to be affordable to more people, and hence I support this even though it's against my own personal interest).
Preparing for infrastructures of the future
> Caveat: if that argument is correct, I would think a bulb with triple glazing would help, too. Has that been tried?

The triple glazing is supposed to keep the infrared in (radiation losses), or supposed to keep losses from convection and conduction down?
I went to a public university with a large international population and this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. A lot of the international students were extremely poor at english. One of the guys on my software project team was an international student who confirmed that it was very easy to pay someone to take the english proficiency exam.

Us Americans aren't so innocent though. The amount of adderall/vyvanse/ritalin... that goes through college campuses is ridiculous.

Honestly, I feel that it's just a symptom of extreme competition. With colleges and first time jobs taking such extreme care to filter on GPA and the likes, every little bit usually pays off.
>If you're not part of a fraterntiy/sorority that archives coursework/tests of previous students or part of an international student in-group then you can easily fall through the cracks from this grade deflation effect.

That is a huge problem for a lot of us more introverted types, especially if you're a transfer student from another school. I remember taking a bunch of classes where I didn't know anyone and had no one to discuss problems and solutions with. Organic chemistry, diff eq, among others, but pretty much all classes were like that. Having social anxiety issues made it very hard to work my way into the community. Meanwhile the other students had all been stuck together in the same program for years, the same dorms, the same fraternities, etc.

I'd come in and the entire rest of the class would be sitting around sharing their homework answers, copying each other on the ones they couldn't figure out, getting help from each other... Never had any access to it and I know I worked harder for lower grades (in some cases) just because I wasn't part of the in-group.
I tend to agree with you, but you've got it all wrong. People already want to live there like crazy.

The demand keeps piling on and supply has not risen to meet it. I agree that land value tax is a big part of the problem, but new, high-density development is the only solution.

And even then, housing won't be cheap. You just might be able to get a reasonable mortgage on a place built in the last 50 years.
I'm a lowly wage slave homeowner, but I support this.
defraud is the verb form. To defraud is to illegally obtain money from (someone) by deception.

fraud is the noun form. 1) wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain or 2) a person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities.

The English language is changing. Modern usage has promoted some nouns to verbs in informal use, but for many of us, the change is a bit like scratching your fingernails on a blackboard. In a situation like this, where credibility is important, careful attention to usage and spelling is critical.
I use bangs very frequently and quite like them.

Probably the ones I use most are !gh to search github or !npm to search npm (although npmsearch.com is often more useful).

One thing I wish I could do was combine the first-result bang (!) with other bangs (like !gh). That would translate into "take me to the first result on github for these search terms..."
I prefer Google's built into Chrome where you start typing (e.g.) amaz then let it autocomplete then press <tab> then search away. Easier than remembering bangs and gets me a headstart on somewhere I know I'm already going (youtube is another good one)
I don't care about a degree. But the Department of Immigration does.
How would this be done? What kind of language, etc. would enable this?
You've described why it's almost impossible to do anything about housing policy at the local level. That's why state-level action such as this bill is so important. The state legislature represents a much broader constituency, including lots of people who would like to live in SF but can't currently afford to.
Yup, in hindsight it's interesting because the key innovation was realizing that real-time 3D was possible.

The algorithms themselves (like 3D texture-mapping) are college third year problem set level difficulty to actually implement, but having the curiosity, courage, and ambition to be the first to do it real-time is huge!

The algorithms used in today's 3-d game engines are definitely more complex than something I'd expect a college student to do, but the state of the art has also progressed substantially since the 90's.
> Yeah, manufacturing is expensive, but tolerances are just so much more controllable in a lab.

Not least because, in a lab you are happy if one out of ten prototypes work for your experiment. You don't want 90% spoil in manufacturing.
To be fair, there is a difference between adderall and actual cheating. One of these is a thing that helps you do your own work better, and the other is hiring someone else to do your work for you.

One of these things is fraudulent, and the other is simply performance enhancement. Taking Adderall to study doesn't make you less competent at the subject in question, whereas cheating your way through tests does.
If you don't ask, then you don't learn. If you don't learn, then you don't have the data and knowledge necessary to make decisions that affect this. And you're making those decisions every time you walk to the ballot box, at the very least.
In large part because many people own/mortgage multiple homes because it's a one-way bet under the current system where all productivity gains flow to land.
typo: "legislative aides," not "legislative aids"
Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker
As soon as they got back to me, I sent them a link to the obituary and since this conversation was on Twitter, I also had to verify who _I_ was. My assumption was that they were going to ask for it anyway, so I just got them the info as soon as the conversation got started, but no, they hadn't asked for it at that point.
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Even worse is when people with connections get interviews or jobs based solely on knowing people who can recommend them.

At least in programming we have GitHub/Twitter/meetups to help with that (worked great for me).
I have also read that Galileo was a rather aggressive fellow who made a hobby of antagonizing authority figures, and his persecution was less a matter of rigorous doctrine than of finding an excuse to make him shut up.

I don't have a source handy for that, so take it with a grain of salt, but it's an interesting take on the story.
CEO fired after ‘fake CEO’ email scam cost firm $47m
The curious case of test-driven development
The professor should be held responsible for letting the cheaters get away with it. Not that hard to find cheaters in a programming class if he/she cared.
Related to repurposing an old smartphone, specifically a firefox OS phone, is JanOS: http://janos.io/

Not really under active development, it seems, especially with FirefoxOS going bye bye, but it basically boots you right into the browser, no cruft or chrome, and puts you in "god mode" with access to everything possible through Mozilla's special "web api" stuff. It's pretty neat, and fun, and really got me jazzed about the idea of repurposing $30 phones to do cool stuff. You can't even get a GSM radio for dev boards for $30, much less the screen, battery, charging circuitry, accelerometer, etc.

Does anybody know of a stripped down android install that is similar? Maybe scriptable with javascript or lua, basic browser-based display available?
{apologies for slow reply, just saw this}

I think the answer is more complicated than "Jony does what Steve used to do". I think the answer Apple wants to be true is that "what Steve did" was always way more than "just Steve doing stuff" and a lot of it was and is baked into the culture and institution (of Apple) itself. How accurate that is I can't say but there are a lot of companies I would bet against before Apple.
Is this a common thing for apps to do, yet? I was under the impression that there are some corporate networks which treat MitMing ssl connections as a business necessity. Would Facebook et. al. allow their apps to stop functioning on networks like that?
Yes. 10/10 had it. Small sample size though, but, memory loss and dementia are late-stage symptoms of Lyme and associated coinfections. It makes a lot of sense. It seems like a simple study, to me, would be to take a bunch of early-stage Alzheimer's patients, give them Doxycycline/Tetracycline and observe them to see if they have a Jersch-Herxheimer reaction--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarisch%E2%80%93Herxheimer_rea...
We've seen what happens when you meet supply in a speculative bubble. The USA, Ireland, Portugal and Spain all had big supply and banks kept on lending into it because it costs them zero to create fiat money to rent out against land.

Then you get a massive crash again.

How would demand be if you force a big wedge of people who own/mortgaged more than one home to sell up? I think it would ease considerably. How many SF tech "entrepreneurs" are leveraged on housing? Flush 'em out with land value tax.