skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this is good for feature development, or maintenance, but, what about contracts that deal with wholly new development of a complex system? It seems like you would want to operate in parallel at least for the initial push through the architecture and boilerplate structure. Perhaps I am being disingenuous.

I do love the idea of being able to not let the numerous tedious meetings interrupt progress.

[edit] Thanks everyone for adjusting my perspective. I am sure junior engineers (and seasoned stubborn ones) would learn a lot with cradle to grave development in such a fashion [/edit]
I was inspired heavily by some chapters in the book "Intellectuals and Race" by Libertarian theorist Thomas Sowell.

You can hear him talk about it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ImP-gJvas
> Oftentimes if you assist someone the police will assume you're helping that person out of guilt.

That doesn't make the bystanders apathy any more tolerable. I'd like to think I would help someone in need even if I went to jail for it (you never know what you'd actually do unless you're in the situation, but still...)
Well, if the person doesn't have money who is going to pay for the bills? Medicine costs money.
Red flag traffic laws
With all due respect, I agree with 'guitarbill in relation to your second paragraph: please consider not spreading rumours based on your own speculation. To quote one 'tptacek, "if there's an important story here, someone will eventually write it."
Ok. Then would you still do that if the consequences were jail, separation from family, which also means putting family in a desperate situation of worry and runaround? Plus the rebuke that you would get from family too for putting them through so much trouble? Plus if you are the partial or whole breadwinner, which is often the case, putting family in financial calamity?

I support what you feel, and I too would put up an aggressive stance of helping the individual, but the cost is a lot higher than just my personal efforts. I put a lot more people through the misery.
Similarly, Steam streaming can be used with things that aren't games by using "add non-steam game to library". If the thing you add has a minimise button this can be used to get to the desktop of the streaming PC.

Edit: Question I've suddenly realised. What happens in either case (Microsoft recording or Steam) when you're playing a copyrighted video?
By your narrow definition, China and Thailand have complete freedom of speech. It's just that upon entering, you enter into a contract whereby you exchange money or time in jail to say things someone does not like.
Government/charities need not award us any lottery. All the Government needs to do is bring a law that protects the good-samaritans (remove all the unnecessary legal hassles and allow us to be anonymous). Heck I would even be willing to pay the hospital's initial deposit only if I don't have to be entangled in all sorts of legal issues.

Currently if you report an accident or get the injured person to a hospital you'll be treated as a witness and have to attend all court proceedings. The law should differentiate between a samaritan and a witness (unless the samaritan also wishes to be treated as a witness).
My thoughts everytime I hear about criticism about features of various big software products.
I tried using Google's search tools to set a date - "until 01/01/2016" - but that just returns a bunch of old articles that have this new story as a menu item.

Here's one: https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/302261054497509376
No it's not. The first amendment is not free speech, and America isn't the world. Chilling effects can flow from anyone with power, regardless of whether they are "officially" recognised as a "government". If people are afraid to speak their mind due to murderous vigilantes, that has exactly the same consequences as the same due to an oppressive "government".

ETA: Here is article 19 of the UDHR, which correctly does not mention governments:

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
The English language consists of over 1,000,000 words. Let's suppose only 200,000 in common use, 1/7 are verbs, 1/2 are nouns. Even if you consider only simple sentences consisting of 3 words with subject-verb-object, the number of permutations of subject-verb-object sentences that an English-speaking human can utter are 28,000 * 100,000 * 28,000 = ~78.5 trillion = ~10^13. This doesn't include adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions or anything more complicated we see in real grammars.

Now consider that this sentence you're reading is 33 words long, so the number of permutations of such sentences is hundreds of orders of magnitude larger, on the order of 10^10000.

The visible universe is estimated to contain 10^80 particles, so even if you could encode a logic gate that could recognize a word in a single particle, it seems you're still just a tad short if you're looking to hard-code intelligent responses.

True understanding consists of building a model to generate new facts as needed, amounting to an impressive compression of facts you've already seen.
The link to the Excel Excercises is currently 403, but they are on archive.org:

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20150309105904/http://web.mit...
Neighbors Clash in Silicon Valley; Job growth far outstrips housing
Mill says you're wrong:

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

I wish more people would read On Liberty
>I'd like to think I would help someone in need even if I went to jail for it

You have no idea how bad indian courts and jails are. You would not want to go to jail in India. It would be miracle if you get to see a judge in India between absentee judges, strikes, power cuts ect. Absolutely noone will give a shit about you being incarcerated unfairly.
I think it's really interesting how Tesla instrumented their devices to provide them with effectively audit-level diagnostics that can help them disprove driver claims (note: humans often misattribute their own errors to mechanisms), and purchasers of the car have effectively agreed to be audited in this way.

The implications of this are profound and I'm curious how it will play out- will people reject cars that produce evidence that show they caused crashes? Embrace them?
I've coded it, ask me anything.

We have used several machine learning models trained on different kind of food. We have used Caffe (a machine learning framework) to train on images. First identify the food, then we try to evaluate the features of the food. Like greasiness.

The challenges were that iPhones have limited amount of RAM available and we have to modify the way Caffe works to make everything fit in the memory.
There are a surprising number of blind corners and vision blocking hills in the world (especially around here). Further, increased speed results in increased distance to stop and increased energy in any interaction. There are very few accidents that cannot be avoided or mitigated by reducing the initial velocities.
I'm assuming this will only let you share a specific application, not the desktop itself. So this may not work as a complete replacement for screencasting software.
> objections to democracy

I'm afraid that doesn't say much. Are they striving for more centralized power (a dictator holding the power over everybody) or less centralized power (no one having the right to decide over other people)?
Thanks, but that makes my main problem with slowly opening windows even worse.
Useful library if you write a lot of JavaScript: ImportJS
In California the supreme court has ruled that you can be sued by an accident victim for being a Good Samaritan:

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1871331,0...
DHH – “Rewrite your software from scratch.“
My 2 cents. He needs to pick a language and learn it. It honestly doesn't matter which one, everyone has their passion language or preferences. But in reality, learn Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, C/C++ almost anything. I'd personally, probably push him towards Python, C# or maybe even Ruby. Partially it would depend what he thinks he wants to do though too, e.g. create websites, or graphics programming, simulation programming or games etc. I'd also give him any good SQL beginners book, it never hurts to understand how to query and work with SQL data.

As for getting a job soon. He needs to get some time to become reasonably proficient in at least one language, which means likely 6+ months of practice and some serious dedication. I can't imagine someone not having at least that before trying to apply for JR dev jobs. Everything depends on his ability and aptitude for development work though. But when he does try to apply, he needs to be realistic and apply for JR positions likely on larger teams so he can be mentored. Startups and small teams just don't usually have the capacity to train and keep up their work.

There are no magical books in my opinion, some are better then others, but frankly pick any book up and work through it. The reality is when you are learning it is best to have 2-3-4 different books that approach things differently so you can learn. It helps to do things wrong and figure them out. Have him join StackOverflow for questions and research, find forums that focus on the language he chooses and get active there.

Don't try to learn to many different languages at once, stick to 1 + SQL. I suggest SQL because it has the most widespread appeal on enterprise and large teams that he'd likely have some possibility to get on. Then expand from there, but remind him to be realistic just because you work with a language for 6-8 months that does not mean you are an expert. It takes years to truly master a language and even then "experts" still learn or find new ways to use the language and push it that no one saw before.
And of course, it was overturned in Brandenburg v. Ohio in order to protect the Ku Klux Klan and their ability to burn crosses, a symbol they used to threaten blacks who stepped out of line with lynching. Anyone who claims that freedom of speech somehow protected the powerless in the US is full of shit.
India's Caste System is very rigid, apparently. I asked an Indian friend in college to explain it to me before the interwebz. After the rage she showered upon me for asking I never followed up. Perhaps I will now...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India
seriously good job with the demo page.
JUST USE B-

oh he already is using bitcoin
If you're given the right to control what Facebook has the right to censor, then you're actually removing Facebook's freedom of expression. After all, their code and their website is a form of expression of their own, despite being composed in part by users' content.

The problem that exists with Facebook is actually just a symptom of another, largely unspoken problem; Facebook has a monopoly, and this monopoly gives them unprecedented influence over the population.

Getting to the bottom of things is important, because the bandage that addresses the symptom you're describing is the tyranny you fear.
I agree with the first and third paragraphs but not the second. I don't believe campus administrators are the weak link. The truism among elementary teachers is: forty years ago, when the student comes home with an F, the parents yelled at the student; today they yell at the teacher. The US has a shortage of skilled trades workers, I think because everyone "deserves" to be a white collar professional now. I am not saying university admins are commendable, but rather that they have no room to do a good job. It's becoming less and less clear what a good job would be, as the liberal arts education becomes more and more of an obvious anachronism.

Rather I believe your first paragraph is the larger answer. We have tossed aside the notion for sacrifice for the greater good.
My favorite part: http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/WIPP%20Exhibit%...
I am in San Francisco and there is rain on the ground from last night, and I see a very light drizzle out the window currently.
Huh? What rubbish! It has nothing to do with race. In India we do have a caste system but even with that you won't be able to look at an injured person and get to know his/her caste.
Building a Company –  Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur
TL; DR: Pantone has a monopoly on print color standards. If you want printed colors to match screen colors, you have little choice but to use Pantone.
True.

If you look at notepad, emacs, atom, vscode, sublime, vs, webstorm and such, they're all somewhere distributed on a continuum between IDE and editor.

VSCode has a superb Git integration, but what has this to do with an editor?
A mushroom cloud just connotes a large explosion near the ground. Atomic structure may be the best to go with, since pictorial descriptions of alpha, beta and gamma radiation are found in every high-school science textbook. One issue with an advanced culture is that they may be rebuilding to the same technological state as we were around 1950, so when they find the site they go: "Cool, radioactive stuff! Might be Uranium! Just what we need to fuel our fission reactors..." Then, they discover it's merely low-level waste after building an enormous open-cast mine on the site, and polluting the countryside for miles around. I believe this was a scenario they considered, with some kind of warning marker seeded in the backfill above the underground chambers. It would show up in the tailings of any exploratory drill-holes, as chips of plastic (?) with a radiation hazard symbol.
The man with two watches knows that one of them is wrong, but only the man with three watches knows what time it really is.

Similarly, it's possible to say "these printed things and signs are different colours", but only with a reference can you say which one is the wrong colour, authoritively enough to complain to whoever forgot to colour-correct their part of the process.

And of course a brand has to pick a Pantone colour in the first place, for which they will want a reference book.
I've also seen http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/how-do-i-use-pro... referenced as a way to do similar things.
The original writings on free speech very much included non government censorship. Where did everyone get that? It wasn't by reading On Liberty.
Free speech is hateful and intolerant to a peace loving people.

And we all know Islam is a race, not a religion, so it deserves the same protections from discrimination.

When will these lovely jokes get old?
My father does that, and worse, here in the States. I worry about his welfare and will no longer ride in a car if he's driving.
Willing was definitely the mother of all use cases, with your custom actions already coded it was a matter of only a few lines to extend the Forest connector and it was done. Haha, I see the data viz still do the trick, here is a screenshot:
http://www.forestadmin.com/public/img/screenshots/screenshot...
Sigh. You're right. There's also a matter of how you use the language. One can make C a lot stronger by using structs as ADTs. Just have the struct include only one field (example, a minutes struct that's only one int). That gives you a lot of compile time guarantees (you can't add minutes and seconds without using a function designed to do so).
Caste system is not the same as Racism. However, it has nothing to do with accidents. When you see a person involved in an accident in India you won't be able to make out his/her caste by looking at them (unlike race where the racial features are apparent).
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I stopped using Chrome a couple of years ago because of multiple crashes per day. The browser itself didn't crash, but individual tabs did. Or else Chrome tabs failed to load (giving just a pale blue background) presumably because it had run out of RAM.

I used OneTab for a while, to reduce memory use, but still found Firefox more efficient and more stable with hundreds of tabs, mainly because the vast majority weren't actually loaded until I needed them.

It's not hard to crash Firefox -- just keep loading an infinite page of gifs etc. But once you know that, you don't do it.

Under normal working conditions, I agree: none of the main browsers crashes often enough for it to be a problem.
>He's since deleted his Tumblr

After some searching, it appears all his posts are archived here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzdZTHqha9tQWFZdkw3QkRUbkU...
uBeam claims to be using ultrasound to transmit power, while the other companies (inluding the one you mentioned) in this field are using radio waves. Electricity over radio waves is well understood and basically works. The problems there are ones of engineering a system that is sufficiently energy efficient and reliable in a reasonably compact package rather than any fundamental scientific problems.
India is a diverse country, and people in different cities behave differently. I've had my experiences. I have found bystanders in Bangalore, Mumbai, Ahmedabad to be helping. But bystanders in Pune get a brain-freeze, and in Delhi they just don't care
It makes sense because it's de facto standard, and intuition is experience, and intuitive is what we're used to. I'm not sure how it can be explained more basically.
The story reported here (blog by ex-exec) had two major discussions at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672270

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11693184
This used to happen to me every time I had to go to the airport in the night, and would book some local taxi to do that. The drivers just never cared about the traffic signals in the night.

The prevalent attitude seems to be that traffic rules are more like guidelines and can be broken if it seems "okay" to do so. Driving on the wrong side of the road is for example quite common, and most people do it to avoid making a long U-turn. Someone who I knew was driving a car and had a head on collision with a scooter travelling the wrong way on a highway, and the scooter had three passengers on board it (it's called "tripling" and is also pretty common). Sometimes you get to see cars reversing on highways with fast moving traffic, because they missed a turn and wanted to go back.

Things could probably get better in the future though. In New Delhi, for example - according to a new law, if you are caught in a traffic violation (such as ignoring a traffic signal), you lose your license along with the right to drive for three months. I saw somebody's status on Facebook that this happened to them, so it's not just an empty threat too.
In Mexico cities(Mazatlan & Pueto Penasco) a red light only means 'avoid collision with cross traffic' with no obligation to stop or slow if you don't have to.
Author here. Thanks for this comment, as I said in the post this is exactly the kind of feedback I want.

I had read the first half or so of SICP before I started this project, but can't say that I really "got" it. Certainly a lot of lightbulbs had gone off, but I still had the feeling I was missing something. This project (and the two attempts that preceded it) was started with the knowledge that I didn't really know what the hell I was doing, at all. Each iteration got a little bit better and filled in more and more gaps. This is the first one that I can say is "done" in any meaningful sense, though there is a lot still to do if I ever wanted to make it useful or even reasonably performant (GC, TCO, etc...) . I fully intend to explore the concepts involved whether by implementing them into this language or by starting from scratch again, which I am definitely not above!

I agree that a lot of the mucking in this program isn't directly related to building a good scheme/lisp, but it was definitely relevant to my other main goal of becoming more proficient in C. I can report that that was a real success; I learned more about C from this than almost anything else I had done prior.

I will read that paper with interest, thank you for the link!
"Either couciousness is the result of physical processes or it is the result of magic."

Why is it the result of magic? Because you can't understand it?
I'm kind of surprised at their list of investors. I mean Mark Cuban is generally a skeptical guy at investing from what I see on Shark Tank. Then there is some major investors (Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Shawn Fanning...) Can't these people afford a technologist/scientific consultant to bounce thughts on the feasibility of ideas before investing in them? I guess for them spending a $1M here or there is pocket change.
Ok, no definition then. That's fine.

The point I'm making is that once you've opened the door to banning speech on completely subjective topics that a subset of the group gets to decide, then things will go bad.

But murder is a hugely different subject than something so abstract as "hate speech". I can define murder, I ask one to define hate speech. There is definite evidence of harm when it comes to murder, a person has been deprived of life by another. I fail to see how "hate speech" itself deprives anyone of anything nor causes real harm. Of course, incitement to violence due to speech is a potential problem, but that's already covered by existing laws.
A great discussion of this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
Video capture really should be part of the OS, like screencapture is. I use Screenflow on OS X to do this - it's very handy for demoing bugs to others, or sending people instructions etc.

Well done Windows.
> To be fair uBeam might also cause cancer, we just don't know.

Why would it cause cancer? Are they using electromagnetic radiation at a frequency high enough to cause deionization or are you joking?
Having spent thousands of hours pair programming I would assume that this is were mob programming is especially valuable. The decisions you make early on are the decisions that everyone on the team will have to deal with. So if you do nothing else as a team this should be it. I actually recently had a client who was lukewarm about pair programming. But they mob programmed on new laying foundation work fit new services. We pair programmed on three new services together at the same time. So much syncing had to happen afterwards that mob programming the foundation would easily have been more efficient and effective.
Firefox got to be much better a couple of years ago. In my experience, it's generally equal to or better than Chrome.
> isn't there a pretty important difference between government suppression and social suppression?

Yes, and when government funded public universities suppress and openly support the suppression of free speech, it's very clearly a government problem.
Look here is a Racket (My Favorite Lisp) https://github.com/fraimondi/racket-asip

A Racket client for the Arduino Service Interface Protocol (ASIP)
That's what a society is for: mutual help.
true, true, for Atlanta I eventually got

"Gingers stay indoors"
The only irritating thing for me so far is not being able to set the default shell to something other than bash. I love zsh (with oh-my-zsh installed). That works but I have to open a command prompt, type 'bash', and then type 'zsh'. Even doing a 'chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh' doesn't work.
In the US, a hospital is required to give you emergency treatment first, and figure out how you're going to pay later. If you don't have insurance coverage, that can mean ruinous bills, but no, they don't check before treating you in an emergency situation. For non-emergency stuff, yes, you need to pay or present insurance info up front.
Tesla Model X crash was driver error not Manufacturer fault
I've heard that Elm is a little more like an ML that looks like Haskell than it is like Haskell itself.