skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come to think of it, one could probably go with the blame back to Adam and Eve. So maybe instead of asking which particular subsets of previous generations screwed things up, we should ask ourselves why do we allow the effects of that to continue?

One of my wild dreams is that one day nations and societies suddenly look back at the history of harm they did to one another and say, "So what? Fuck it, it's in the past, we have no obligation to perpetuate it."
And then when stuff is rewritten s.t. once you get there there's always a user logged in and non-null data? Presumably you do away with the temporary variables and just write:

has_role(ROLE_ADMIN) && validate(data)

If validate(data) needed to be called regardless of has_role, you now have a problem.
Except Google, which is down 1%... :)
Very nice budget phones, large screens, quad core, and high capacity memory card slots. Apparently Best Buy will be bundling a $50 gift card with them.

Unfortunately, Motorola forgot to put in NFC[1], so no Android Pay. I need NFC for my work, so after my initial excitement at the price/feature ratio, I will not be getting one after all. What were they thinking.

[1] http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/mot...
But did you run the numbers? I can't go through the link.
In the Hamptons, Staying in Is the New Going Out
If you do go to University then most 'analytical' subjects (maths / computer science / engineering) will prepare you well for future work.

The most important thing to do is keep asking questions like you are now. Contact architects, engineers, city planners, entrepreneurs etc and ask them what problems keep them up at night.
The allies had far less incidents of rape. And defently not systematic like Japan. If you really beliefe that its clear that you have never actually studied the issue.
I would personally love try to design some fancy asynchronous stuff, but I got the impression the impression that current FPGAs would make this difficult.
I wonder where's the connection between rational thinking and nationalism? The latter seems like utter manifestation of stupidity, or at least absolute lack of empathy. Ingroup/outgroup thinking is not rationality, it's a heuristic in the mind that doesn't work for us anymore.
I dunno, wouldn't the better question be if I am at all comfortable using a third party app for financial transactions? Because I'm not. But I'm not super concerned about me, I'm curious how the thinking goes when someone decides to collect information about the loans that other people are taking out.

Maybe they are pretty sure that users understand it, the app could have a strong disclosure for all I know.
Facebook used location data to make friend suggestions
> time and space are also important dimensions

Unfortunately they are harder to control. My apartment is surrounded by other apartments also transmitting on a polluted spectrum and I can't control when or where they transmit. I also can't control the age or transmitting speed of their devices. Simply opening up more spectrum is a net benefit to both me and them.
I'd guess there's a difference in kind that people get excited about.

The fighter jet AI technique is hard-coded to a very specific problem domain, and could only be reproduced in a different problem domain by doing it from scratch.

The technique used by AlphaGo is at least closer to the idea that we can eventually build generically trainable machines that can learn to do a variety of tasks, without having to code them from scratch every time.
There is nothing in the data that says that participation is exclusive, "other" bucket is larger than "performing arts". So the whole thing is invalid. But most importantly participation doesn't mean ability. There are plenty of people in both camps who clearly are not able.
I suspect that at least some of those outliers are just the usual 'small county --> high variance' issue.
Starting from the top, I think you're the first person to mention user experience.

Man, this topic has done nothing but remind me how far I am outside the "software development mainstream". Vim? Git? Are there seriously that many developers who enjoy using such unusable software?
University. Find a professor doing similar work and gain experience alongside them. Academic research has given me opportunities to gain the necessary skills and has allowed me to identify my own research questions while being armed with the tools to investigate thr answers.

Reading sites like Hacker News and other relevant forums also gave me a second opinion on problems and helped prevent me from becoming a thought clone of my academic mentors.
> First, you can't choose Venezuela because is convenient for you.

I chose Venezuela because you said that accelerating inflation was a legend. Clearly, it's not. It's concrete, and it's happening today. (Want another example? Zimbabwe, though that was more five or ten years ago.)

Now you raise a different point: Why doesn't it always happen? Well, I think it comes down to spare capacity, as I said. If you inflate less than you have spare capacity, and you continue to do so forever, you're safe.

> If you accept that inflation can be managed balancing spending and capacity, you are accepting that inflation can be managed.

I never said it couldn't be.

> Why are you not willing to accept the risk of inflation but you are willing to risk unused excess capacity, what means slow grow and poor living conditions for a lot of people, and unemployment?

Because the situation in Venezuela is objectively worse for people than the situation even in Greece. Runaway inflation is much worse than unused capacity - much worse not in the abstract, but in terms of actual damage that it does to actual people.

> It seems to me because an emotional aversion to everything that sounds as government expending.

I could ask, why do you want the government to create money to spend? It seems to me that it's because you have an emotional attraction to being given free money. That is, the game of guessing and assigning motives is uninteresting. We can each yell at each other based on assumed, guessed, or made-up motives, but that does nothing to advance the conversation about the quality of our respective ideas.

I think your ideas can do much more damage to people. In the real world, inflation can get out of control. You seem to think that can be managed. But currently it's managed by the Federal Reserve, and what you're proposing is going to have it managed by Congress. That does not encourage me to suppose that there will not be a catastrophe.
I wouldn't be surprised if it this is powered by Clearbit. A lot of companies seem to be reselling the data bought from Clearbit.

Intercom uses another company for their data too: https://docs.intercom.io/help-and-faqs/your-users-data-in-in...
It should be, but apparently it isn't in all states.
In New York State, the company has to demonstrate damage to it in order to win a lawsuit, and non competes are usually tied to some sort of previous granting of something, like stock options which can be lost. In practice judges rarely enforce them more than a year although the contracts stipulate longer periods.

Now, the above is just my understanding, I'm not a lawyer and new to this awful world of non competes.

Just the threat of a lawsuit can steer behavior since defense against one can be costly.
Should the Brexit Vote Have Happened at All?
Stanford Library's new conceptual search tool
Now that I think of it I would almost find it scary if they didn't.

All fine with me as long as they are aggregated statistics for a reasonable sized population of users.
These Guys Went Fishing and Ended Up Hooking 5lb's of Brick Weed Instead
>It's also been proven that HIIT is much more beneficial for your system than LISS.

Source? What is your definition of 'better?' The context is in longevity, and my link offers some evidence against your statement, so I think you should provide some source for your claim that HIIT is consistent with living longer than LISS because that's not what I've seen published in the last 10 years.
Suicide Bomb Attacks Kill at Least 28 at Istanbul Airport
Maybe I'm skimming too fast, but what tasks are possible? If anything is possible, how do I determine the level of detail required in my request?
The problem with immediate and direct democratic representation is that humans have many mental foibles due to our evolution which can combine into feedback loops which have disastrous consequences (lynch mobs are inherently democratic in nature). Non-representation or representation that is delayed too long is problematic because it disenfranchises people and they eventually resort to violence to reassert their representation. These are the extremes we need to walk between, Democracy and the Dictator. If you think just allowing people to vote directly will somehow circumvent the natural tendency of people for herd mentality, confirmation bias, and valuing anecdotes and personal experience over statistics, then I think you're vastly underestimating those problems.

The role of technology is to help is increase the positive aspects of whatever point along that spectrum we've settled, and decrease the negative aspects. For example, making it very easy for representatives to quickly and accurately poll their constituents (and making these polls and their results public) rather than relying on lobbying and the varying abilities of special interest groups to activate advocates would probably yield much better representation for the average person. A very vocal 2% should not drown out the other 98%, but they should not necessarily be ingored either. Good polls would likely have a question and a scale of how much you strongly agree, somewhat agree, abstain, somewhat disagree, strongly disagree, and have the question asked at least 2-3 different ways, from different perspectives.
That doesn't mean that the price can't skyrocket until it's nearly as bad as if it had literally run out, though. I don't know what the actual forecasts are at the moment, but it's certainly possible to imagine a world where an MRI costs so much that affordable insurance won't cover it, or where oil costs so much that most people can't afford cars, and the price of goods shipped by combustion engine rises ruinously.
>Maybe one day war will be less about killing people, and more of a battle between countries' best engineers.

When two robots fight each other, it's not because the other robot is the target, it's because it's an obstacle between them and the human targets that will actually affect the war.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11995904
They have already sold 230 out of 1020 stars within an hour of opening up the sale. Unexpectedly high demand.
0-249 probably means 249.
I'm using Vapor on a new project and I really like it. The biggest stumbling block at the moment is that the Swift Package Manager can't resolve packages having dependencies on different versions of other packages. I'm using Vapor with Zewo's PostgreSQL ORM, and upgrading either one is an exercise in frustration.
The thing about btrfs is, it's got lots and lots of optional features, of widely varying maturity.

Hence it's not very surprising that the supported btrfs in SuSE is a sub-set of all the available features: the ones that are most mature.

This is an illustrative patch from a couple years ago, not sure if still current:

http://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/plain/patches....
Using the spatial dimension means directing a WiFi signal in a particular direction, or nulling interference in a particular direction. This can be done adaptively using multiple antennas on a single device.

There are mainly two techniques. The first, beamforming, involves adjusting the signal phase over each antenna such that it all adds up constructively in some direction. The second spatial technique, called spatial multiplexing, involves transmitting a different signal across each antenna, and hoping that each signal travels along a sufficiently different path (reflecting off walls, etc.) that all the signals can all be sorted out at the receiver.
"A star is not anyone's personal address. It's a block of network infrastructure. A personal address in Urbit is a
32-bit planet. Your star's main value is its power to create 65,535 planets."

so it's a block of addresses
She still touts a "Manhattan-like project" [1] to break encryption, calling it "cybersecurity" does not change that. This alone is enough to lose my support.

Maybe this really can be the year of the 3rd party.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/hillary-clinton-w...
There is a rich ecosystem of LC apps and services because of LC's open API. The only thing the API's allow you to do is invest in loans and transfer money in and out of your account. I would be quite shocked if any service (such as lending robot) is able to operate without recording any transactions occurring. I hope users wouldn't be offended by the (very general) information revealed above, but I suppose some could.
I once lived in a town that told WalMart to go pound sand. There was an existing WalMart that closed. There was WalMart 10 miles down the road, however.

20+ years later, there is a WalMart roughly in the town.
I think I'll have to back 'yummyfajitas on this one. The article does make some points, but a big part of it is just random insults at technologists and ridiculing their ideas. Some of it may be warranted, and I'm the first to take potshots at adtech, but there are limits. For me, this talk (and the few last ones of his too) reads a bit like "hahaha, look at those stupid, arrogant techies, they want to cure death, what a nonsense hahahaha".
an ML on the erlang vm seems very interesting. static typing woot!

(does one pronounce MLFE as "milfy"?)
a mere threat of a threat (counsel at new company saying yes his noncompete covers us) lost me a job offer in nyc
"Please don't tweet [the sale] or post publicly until 9am PDT on the 29th. But feel free to share privately with friends." Perhaps dang et al. are helping the founders maintain this?
Urbit address space crowdsale
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Actually there is some evidence to suggest that the runners high is due to endocannabinoids rather than endorphin release. Interestingly the endocannabinoid system is also activated when consuming cannabis and experiencing the resulting cannabis/runners high.

http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/web/2015/10/Exploring-Molecul...
How does it work with pricing being $0.50/request but requests can take wildly different amounts of time? e.g. making a phone call
Let's say you are using a one-time pad, and the encrypted text is a string of a million A characters. While unlikely to the point that it is barely worth mentioning, it is possible. And could trivially be compressed.

I think your main point is correct, just presented too strongly. In many cases compression after encryption will yield poor results. But I wouldn't go so far as to say that it can't be done.
It's utter bullshit, though it did make some circles in the Polish media for a while. Basically, a lot of people hate the political party that won the recent elections, and so journalists invent all kind of nonsense because it sells papers.

A standard rule of thumb applies - if you read something on the news that sounds too ridiculous to be true, it's most likely because it's not true.
Michael Herr on Kubrick: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2010/04/kubrick-199908
They switch back to me once I start talking. It's usually "Huh?" and I have to repeat the first 5 to 10 words.

Ever noticed how a lot of young people say a long "Sooooo" before they start speaking? This is why. It's the handshake algorithm.

It's also annoying.
Okay, 'myth' = 'only 10% of the people died.'

Revisionism FTW.
A secret sauce to make your company awesome
> Is it just me, or have the mainstream media lowered their journalistic standards to compete with sensationalist blogs

Sensationalist blogs got a bit ahead, on the same trajectory, of where mainstream media was already heading, and that gap has significantly closed, yes.
There is no doubting that in just my 3 months of study so far that my balance, focus, strength and endurance have improved significantly. All of these factors in themselves will probably make me better prepared to stand up to an attacker in a dark alley than I was before I started the study.

However, the finer techniques of grip and striking style - while beneficial for honing and improving all of the above, have little relevance in a street fight situation.

But even if my Kendo study gives me the balance and a millisecond better reaction time to be able to pivot out of harms way and dodge a blow, and if it gives me the endurance to run the heck away from a danger scenario, then it is all worthwhile.
Foxes Like Beacons – Open positioning system/the politics of infrastructures
Moldbug.
The only real "goal" here was media getting more ad revenue. Maciej is just repeating the most recent wave of bullshit stories that circled the Polish press few weeks ago.

Honestly, I expected more from him.
It can be "taught" to do things. If you want to open something with 1-2 letters you can just repeat yourself a few times (2-4?) and it will learn and remember. Spotlight just does not do this.
I've seen a few people hit lamp posts while staring at their phone already. Sometimes somebody that died by getting in front of a car while looking at the phone makes news here too.

And yep, I know people that would ask a person something, and resort to the phone before the other person starts to answer.

But most people I see are not staring at a phone. This may be regional variance.
Taxis are abundant and cheap in Shanghai... unless it's raining (very common). Then they won't pick you up at all. They're still driving around, but you can't actually get one.
Not at all. I'm used to my "awful" clicky scroll. I know subconciously that a scroll click is equal to a certain distance down the page.

When I then scroll 3 clicks and I've almost cleared the entire page because of smooth scrolling, that's no fun.

I'd much much rather janky jerky scrolling consistently across all sites than the odd one or two smooth scrollers

Don't even get me started on smooth scrolling when it comes to using a bit of a dated computer. Scroll... wait for the js to catch up and the page actually scrolls.

Edit: may have misinterpreted where the awful was directed. I deal with a lot of Mac users. Apologies if I did misread it, leaving comment intact for posterity
1. That’s a difficult question. There is an efficiency that comes from working with people you already know--maintaining a smaller set of relationships--rather than trying to manage a lot of small contributions from many. Jason Davies made huge contributions to D3 3.0 (in particular d3-geo), but alas I haven’t heard from him lately.

Most external contributions to D3 tend to be either bug fixes or new features. Bug fixes are often merged quickly, but new features require careful assessment. Each addition to the API has a complexity cost: it makes the library bigger; it has to be documented; it may instigate support questions and issues; it may have ripple effects on the development of other features. I’ve long taken Josh Bloch’s advice to heart and try to maximize the “power-to-weight” ratio of my APIs, and to try to keep them as small as possible while still expressive. Part of the goal of 4.0’s modularity is to make it easier for others to release their new features as standalone libraries that they can use with D3, rather than it needing to be part of “core”. There isn’t a “core” D3 anymore; there’s just a default bundle. (And if we ship a web-based tool for rolling your own bundle, the barrier will be even lower for plugins.)

2. Yes, I’ve been working on D3 full-time for the last year, since leaving The New York Times. Partly I am playing catchup. D3 has been more popular than I could have imagined, and I want to make sure that it’s as good as I can make it. I loved working for the NYT (and I miss my colleagues dearly), but it was hard to think deeply about the design of D3 when you’re on deadline. I am interested in finding a way to make D3 development self-sustaining financially, as I cannot do this for free indefinitely. Prior to launch today, I have been focused on shipping 4.0; now that’s it’s released, I am thinking more about what’s next.

3. Yes, it’s not a huge departure despite the many changes and the new implementation. I hope that’s a testament to the strength of the original design… or perhaps it’s just my confidence in it. (There is more different between Protovis and D3 than between D3 3.x and 4.0.) There is not only one right tool for visualization; the right tool depends on the application, such as whether you’re designing bespoke custom news graphics, exploring a dataset of the first time, or doing realtime monitoring of your network. D3 is intended to be the lowest layer of visualization tools: the visualization “kernel”, or “standard library”. You can build higher-level abstractions on top of D3 that is more tailored to your application. One of the areas I am considering exploring is higher-level abstraction, perhaps more along the lines of Grammar of Graphics.
Not heard of it before (I'll go and get it) but have you compared it with Search Everything? https://www.voidtools.com/

Maybe the names should be the other way round because Search Everything just finds filenames while FileSearchEX searches file contents too.
I activate Alfred with my caps-lock key. That way spotlight is still in the usual place. It take a key-mapping app called Seil to make it work, but it's really great.

Sometimes I think Chromebooks stole my idea. :p
> build systems where basically the build system is turing complete scripting language

Not only that, but virtually no-one uses this Turing-Complete facility. In Gradle at least, I never see if- and for-statements. By using dynamically-typed Groovy in Gradle, you not only lose the ability for massive rewrites, but often also don't get any of the TC benefits. Perhaps it's different using statically-typed Scala in SBT, or Kotlin in Gradle 3.
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and MS Report Viewer 2015 Are Supported in SQL Reports
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For now we support categorization, transcription, and phone calls (which are each pretty broad categories and can be used for a wide variety of tasks). You can see our docs here: http://docs.scaleapi.com/

We're intentionally releasing endpoint by endpoint in a way that we can ensure our members can perform the tasks efficiently while also providing a ton of flexibility to the developer. Our end goal, of course, is to allow developers to do basically anything.