skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets think about their incentives.

Uber, Ola and others are desperately in need of more good drivers. They are growing rapidly, and literally will pay their competitors in order to attempt to recruit their drivers.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2014/05/30/how-uber-an...

http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-play...

"Uber has been aggressively poaching Lyft drivers for months, offering them huge bonuses just to do a few rides on Uber. This week, Lyft started fighting back with similar bonuses..."

There are two ways to have an extra driver next week. One is expensive recruiting methods. The other is not kicking them off the service. Remember, growth = new acquisitions - churn.

Lets think now about the costs. Handling the base rate of bad ratings would cost a data scientist a month or two of time - approx $20-60k. Assuming those huge bonuses are $500/driver, you'd need to retain 120 drivers for that python script to be worthwhile.

So if Uber has no incentive to solve this problem, it's only because it's a tiny problem (affecting < 0.1% of their workforce).

Are you really claiming that Uber hires hundreds of data scientists, but doesn't actually have them answer questions like "which drivers should be fired"? What do you think they do with them?
Yeah, it did suck when a course you wanted wasn't available any time soon, but I have to say their model did make sense. I took part in a timed/dated course (however you want to call it) and it did actually give one something approaching a "classroom feeling", as compared to doing a course completely on your own.
No, MTAs don't look at the To or Cc headers at all. The addresses to deliver to are listed in the SMTP rcpt to command. The MUA can provide a completely different list to what's in the headers.
I have to wonder what the heck a "self-sustaining" Mars colony would export to Earth to pay for all the stuff they need to import.
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>> QWERTY was supposedly designed for typewriters to solve a very specific problem–to keep the types from jamming against each other. The most frequently used keys were placed apart from each other to prevent them from jamming.

Isn't this a huge myth and if so, can we all agree to stop with it?

I find it funny that people keep saying this while ER and ERT, very common letter combinations in English, are part of QWERTY.
You are postulating the existence of only a single universe, ours. But there could be any number of universes, and so far we have no scientific way of testing that. The anthropic principle and the possibility of multiple universes puts all probabilistic arguments to dust: anything with non-zero probability happens in an infinite number of universes.

> A million monkeys typing on keyboards will eventually write shakespeare. But it will be longer than the universe before they even type a single sentence of it correctly.

All it takes is _one_ tiny selection force to blow this argument out of the water. For example, if only _a single_ correct letter is retained from each attempt, the problem gets exponentially easier with every iteration, making the expected time to generate any work linear in its length.
Don't forget Xenix - first OS by Microsoft.
If you look at how many signed up for Mars One that shouldn't be a problem.
It's remarkable how a company with so many resources can make something so poorly designed.
I agree that it's not relevant who the wasted money goes to to the systemic effects, but it certainly implies a very different motive to say the government is taking that fee.
Is there a Chrome development project that is planning to address the tablet battery life?
On the GitHub page it lists these modes:

Fault: Throw exceptions from methods that declare those exceptions
Latency: Introduce latency on method-calls
Nullify: Replace the first non-primitive argument to the method with null

The first two seem useful. The last maybe less useful depending on how you design your project. For example, I commonly disallow null to be passed as a method parameter for internal methods. External APIs will null-check, but all internal logic expects to never be passed null. Still might be useful since you can restrict the scope of it's instrumentation on a package level.
Dragon doesn't have enough delta-V to land on the moon. The plan for a Mars landing is to use it as a lifting body to keep it above the ground for long enough to shed most of its velocity.
Just letting you know, learning two layouts is not doable. The muscle memory of one will always be more powerful. I cannot type querty anymore after I have switched to dvorak programmer [1].

[1]: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
> UPDATE: Workman-P is now available. Workman-P is Workman for Programmers. In Workman-P, the top-row numbers and symbols have been switched as well as the brace and brackets. It is great for programmers as well as system administrators.
As someone else pointed out, that is not allowed by the TOS.

But quite frankly... now that such content is not freely available anymore, I expect that to begin circulating on the p2p networks anyway.
Not sure that i have a use for this, but its so very cool!
I tried the download link and got a "Server not found".
I want to keep my C=128D NTSC for testing that my code works on both PAL and NTSC correctly, but I'm running on 50Hz, 220-240V. What in the power supply do I have to replace?
Just look at people living in the Arctic: everything is imported, basic necessities are expensive, and getting replacements could take weeks.

Now imagine that you're on a different planet, and there are only a few firms that CAN resupply, and they'll only do it if you can compensate them sufficiently.

Better hope the colony is built on a platinum and rhodium mine!
I would like to point out that I am only downloading such content for my personal use, and I am just helping other people do the same.
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What are those valuable statements? I don't see any value in publishing the Mohammed cartoons themselves (except perhaps as retaliation against those who went beyond the law to try to suppress them).
I don't think C (or C++) should be used for autonomous vehicles at all, as it is known to be unsafe, but if it is, the MISRA C guidelines or something similar should be used to help prevent certain kinds of bugs.

Almost any other statically typed language, along with similarly strict guidelines, would be preferable to C, but there is no ideal language. Rust still allows dynamic heap memory allocation and recursive functions. It is also new. Ada has been used for decades.
> Since Ubuntu doesn’t come with a firewall enabled by default, your postfix server is listening on all interfaces for mail immediately.

But Ubuntu doesn't come with a postfix server enabled by default, so that's not really a concern, is it?
Yes, GP said that already but I'm after the numbers here. How much delta-v the Dragon has? And what are the approximate requirements for Moon vs. Mars landing?
Same. It's very tempting, but if you ever use keyboards other than your own it's not very doable imo.
As long as developers continuing agreeing to work for them without transferring the negative externality (degraded productivity, degraded mental health) back on them (by boycotting companies with open-plan seating for example), then we are facilitating the rationality of their actions.

It would be irrational if they really, actually wanted your productivity, but they don't. Mostly they want create in-paper head count with fancy credential and experience, who all look and act like cliche nerd stereotypes to impress shallow investors.

They are hiring you to effectively be an office decoration, not a productive worker. So open-plan eye candy is rational so long as the workers themselves refuse to stand up for being treated in a minimally healthy way and refuse such companies.
FWIW, there is a petition for Intel to Release an ME-less CPU design: https://puri.sm/posts/petition-for-intel-to-release-an-me-le...
It will be no problem as all filed are served via Amazon CloudFront CDN...

... But they're gonna get a hell of a bill this month, I guess.
Well, having a KVM that one can use to remotely connect to their machines is a good reason (if we leave the statement at this level and assume that everything is done in the best interests of the end-users, by their informed demand).

For example, having IPMI with serial console access or a full-fledged VNC on HP iLO on servers proved to be really useful on different occasions, where I was able to fix the boot-level problems remotely rather than having to drive for an hour to visit the server.

Remote access is of less importance with desktops - and even less with laptops - as in most cases user is physically present, but still I had a few cases where I regretted not having a way to remotely connect to my machine at home (it had failed after a power outage), while I was on the road.

I'd say, the very core idea isn't really bad. Intel's implementation is terrible.
Ok, good if pedantic response. I think the substance of my point stands: MTAs can take some time to work through the CC list (which, as you say, is passed to them with the "rcpt to" command by a well-behaved MUA)

In other words, delivering a message to copious CC: recipients is not an uninterruptable operation even after the MUA has finished its job. They might have had to/been able to stop the local MTA to interrupt the rogue emails.
No - this is not a myth.

QWERTY was designed to prevent jams. The myth is that it was intended to slow the typist down.
So the key phrase is "explicitly socially acceptable"?

I often see people napping in all of the above, both here in Russia, around Eastern Europe and in South America. And it's no big deal most of the times.

And things like sleeping on the bus/train or sitting on a bench seem to be normal all over the world.

The catch is, i never been to either Japan or USA, so i can't set the zero properly.
Are we sure the water's easy to access? From what I've seen, it evaporates really fast and the atmosphere is being stripped from the planet.
$500,000, or even four times that amount is nothing in our current economy.

Remember how crowdfunding raised over 100 million dollars for Star Citizen - a video game!

I am amazed Musk or even NASA itself has not tried crowdfunding the colonization of Mars..
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As the saying goes, I'm not sure I agree with that policework, Lou. A bunch of things stood out but this one in particular:

>>> The probability that you’ll have bad things in your Riot Games past is proportional to how much you play

and I'm not sure I buy that at all. "Not being a toxic asshole" is the easiest thing in the world.
Sorry, redirect is probably a bad term? It seemed like all links off the main page that I were interested directed me to a signup page.

For example, links under build your dream and sell your product both bring me to a Create Your Account page. I don't want to create an account. I want to know what the heck you do.

Also, your headline: "Welcome to Baqqer
A social community of makers building, selling, and crowdfunding together" doesn't tell me anything about what you do, or more importantly, the problem you are solving.

If it's "Let users give you money for your open source project" then just say it.
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High variance absolutely implies that VAM doesn't work. If you are firing good teachers at random then only morons would go into teaching.

So only a moron would trade stocks, speculate on real estate, or take a job as a salesman?

Of course, we just agreed that even if this is true, it doesn't matter. Morons are nearly as good at teaching as anyone else, and the results of good teaching fades over time anyway. So what would be the harm?

It's a simple fact of statistics - the bigger the effect size, the easier it is to measure. It's simply innumeracy to claim large effects sizes and also impossibility to measure them. Why all the left wing mathematics denialism?

(Another example of left wing mathematics denialism applies to the pigeon hole principle. If you have N houses and K > N people, K - N people won't have a house.)
>Stephen Petranek: Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll survive
https://go.ted.com/Cy8v

Water is easy to get on mars, so there's chance man can live independently on mars.

I heard that NASA already found a way to make water from moon rock, but that sounds … magical
I'd like to point out that Amazon, as an employer, had a negative reputation in tech circles well before the NYT article. Read between the lines of Steve Yegge's accidentally published rant from 2011 about platforms and focus on how he describes Amazon.

http://lazytechguys.com/featured/google-engineer-steve-yegge...
> I don't know why we want so hard to bring these jobs back (the same way we always try to keep the metallurgic industry in Europe).

Because countries that cannot source their own weaponry become the pawns of those who can.
You misunderstood.

He couldn't see a comment on his own post because it wasn't written yet. He could only see the $4.7M which you quoted.
Shame! I've done courses on both Udacity and Coursera in the past. Not very many, but they did shape me and taught me stuff I either couldn't have learned any other way or could not have learnt as well.

I understand that they are both businesses that need to take care of their finances if they want to survive. Nonetheless, I am still disappointed - when they started out some years back they were all full of vigour and idealism about free education, and somewhere along the line they have been quietly dropping that idealism. They didn't even try to explain why they were doing what they were doing and why they were changing. In essence, they betrayed who they were at the beginning, and that's what makes me sad.

So thank you, Udacity and Coursera, for who you were and what you gave me, but I fear our roads shall part here...
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Who in the US can authoritatively certify Chinese labor?

And what about the majority of iPhones which are not for sale in the USA? Can they be made with "slaves" since their destination is not the USA?

And if not (because Apple is a USA company) what keeps Apple from leaving the USA to escape the "no-slave law"? If Apple can't leave the USA in order to hire "slaves" to build phones for the non-USA market, how can they compete against a foreign company which can use "slaves?"

And if said foreign company builds an iPhone competitor using "slaves" for a cheaper price than the USA-made phone, how do you combat the black market in the USA for these "slave phones?" You just invented a local law enforcement problem.
Which was 4227 people (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mars-one-admits-it-has-only-receive...).

I would hope that is because few believed Mars One was a viable venture. Musk's vision should be much more convincing.
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Correct, and top universities do that through investment in research and publication rather than populist fads.

Every once in a while people call into question the value of higher education and ask whether MOOCs mark the end of traditional universities. I find it ironic that when top universities flex their muscles and start asking those people to pay up for classes - the same classes that you otherwise would have had to go through admissions and tuition to get into - they're being called money grabbers.
I'm over her when she decided to endorse Hillary thereby implicitly endorsing Hillary's Wall Street connections.

So much for defending against big banks. :(
...No protective magnetosphere... brutal temperature shifts, and more radiation than you can reasonably survive on the way to Mars. Problems we have not solved yet...
The quantity of interest in any probability problem can always be re-cast as the conditional probability of the event given that the person asking the question exists, which is necessarily 1.
The 5% was for eligibility, because other treatment options had been exhausted for that group - but presumably it could be made available for a wider range as well. Due to the intensity of the treatment the other 95% may opt for a different path.

The treatment is definitely rough on the body as they appear to wipe out the entire immune system via chemo, but the person who died did not die from the treatment itself.

The number of patients experiencing some sort of reversal was 8 out of the 24, or 33%. There were also 7 (I believe) who had the progress of the disease halted. The last 8 did not see the progress reversed or halted, but I was unclear on whether it progressed at the same rate or not. Regardless, it would seem that at least 70% of the participants saw a benefit.

They did also mention that of the 8 that did not see a regression or halt they believed that the cause may have been the timing of the treatment and the prior progress of the disease in those patients. I wonder if the treatment could be started quickly enough if it would be possible to see a regression in a higher number of cases?

Anyways, I wouldn't say it's really hype in any way. There's clear results, and they can likely be improved on to increase the efficacy and availability for those who suffer from MS.
The design of MIMEMultipart causes duplicate key: values to be printed, rather than comma-separated addresses as specified in RFC 2822. [1]

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So how can I start trying this out?
I caught the power bug.

FC > e30 BMW > AP1 S2000 > W204 C63 P31
I understand that they need to make money. However, something like this provides so much value to society that we as a society have a large interest in keeping it as available to everyone as possible. Therefore I think that we need to have a publicly funded platform like this or one run by a non-profit like Wikimedia Foundation. The lower the barrier for everyone to take classes the better.
Security is not just a product.
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Generally, do development boards have ME, too?
The keys are next to each other, but the typebars are not.

It's the typebars that get jammed, not the keys. Although when the typebars jam they keep the key depressed.
I think "self-sustaining" in the context means that if Earth dissapears, explodes, turns into grey goo, or otherwise becomes unavailable, the Mars colony stands a chance of surviving indefinitely.

Yes, it's a hugely ambitious goal.
> expect people to invest extra energy

Funny you use that phrase, because that's what Google expects me to invest to use their bloated excuse of a browser.

I mainly use Safari since it has such a performant UI that doesn't chew up battery-intensive CPU cycles all the time.
I don't have much of a need for this feature, but I see your point.
If you are interested in these issues a great book to read is called "Rare Earth:Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe" by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee. They make a convincing argument (to me anyway) that bacteria and simple life forms are probably common in the universe but animals and complex life with intelligence might be exceedingly rare. We, quite possibly, could be the only intelligent life in the universe.
Could we? 0G is pretty rough on the human body (if you're planning on going back to a gravitational environment). And the truth is that beyond 1.198 years, we can only extrapolate what the effects are, as we have no evidence beyond that amount of time. Yeah, chances are we could go longer, but we don't know what happens until we've actually tried and measured.
One icon instead of 1000 emails
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Does this suggest that the first person got sent 7,618 e-mails?
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That's a ... very small difference. And again, probably due to implementation differences. I'm not claiming C doesn't beat Rust, I'm just saying by very little -- Rust is practically just as fast, within the margin of error that microbenchmarks have. You have been belting out claims that Rust is 2x slower -- clearly false. Rust may be 5% slower -- which ... doesn't really matter.

Look at wycats' talk on fast_blank. That's a real world example that's faster than C. Rust used to be faster than c on the regex benchmark at one point, as burntsushi pointed out.
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Can you provide a reference for this?
In Emacs, this can be done using "C-\ TeX", which enables an input mode that turns ^1 (resp. _1) into a superscript (resp. subscript) 1, and similarly for other digits. (Hacker News' UI is simple enough to be usable in Emacs.) No idea about other environments.
And people are "entitled" to criticize them on the Internet.

Sheesh, people really over-dramatize Hacker News threads. We aren't a legislative chamber debating a bill. We're an assortment of techno-hipster liberals and wannabe-entrepreneur libertarians, commenting on (often trivial) current events over coffee on a Saturday morning. The moral outrage-over-the-outrage-over-the-outrage-over-the-outrage gets comical after the first couple recursions.
Well, easy compared to anywhere else we can go.

We aren't really looking for liquid water [0], as you say that evaporates pretty much instantaneously. Rather we are looking for ice, the pheonix lander confirmed the that this exists naturally on mars [1]. In the worst case water bound to the soil that can be baked out [2].

As for the atmosphere being stripped away, that's not really a concern on time scales humans care about. Though I've heard people talk about setting up a artificial magnet field to reduce the amount of radiation you receive, which should also prevent this.

[0] Well we are, but as a scientific curiosity not as a way to sustain a colony.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080...

[2] http://www.space.com/22949-mars-water-discovery-curiosity-ro...
The issue is not so much technical as it is about legality. Codesign is itself open source (Darwin), but Apple TOS forbids you from building OSX/IOS apps to be distributed on the App Store on non Apple Hardware. I guess you could do it anyway, but I don't think people would risk it for the price of a mac mini...
The new head of the IIA (Irish Internet Association) did a cc on the entire membership just a few days ago announcing her arrival. Felt pretty sorry for her. She actually did the bcc correctly the first time but forgot the attachment then correcting that she did a cc.

A comedy of errors....
Please don't be dismissive and shallow on hn. This is not Reddit.
White males were never 'exempt'

You can squeeze in 4 dead black males into primetime annually but this doesn't account for the other 1000 Americans killed by police under equally dubious circumstances

It has always been this way in the US

Think about it, count on your hand the people you remember being killed