skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started learning to program approx 10 months ago and I have only recently completed my first app.Learn Ruby the Hard way is a good book. But imo 'Pickaxe' and The well grounded rubyist are required reading as they are more comprehensive. TWGR because it teaches programming as well as the language. Because the author adopts a conversational style, I did not realize how much information I had absorbed until near the end. I used the pickaxe as a reference for the most part.

TWGR is not an easy first book but is well worth the effort.
Can you help me understand, if charging differing rates to the insurers is verboten, why a "cash only" patient can often (and easily) receive a substantial discount off their medical bills just by asking for it? I'm not being adversarial, I honestly don't understand it, and would like to.

It seems to me that the "cash" rate is what the "market will bear", which makes the hospital administration complicit in defrauding taxpayers and the general insured by overcharging for procedures and consumables when an insurer is the one receiving the bill. I suspect there's more to it, though, and I've never been able to figure out what it is.
Well, it worked to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada... [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter
I remember Stephyen Jay Gould wrote an essay caleed the "cosmic dance of Shiva" where he talked about how the fossil record suggests that mass extinction events at regular intervals of 20 something million years. He wrote that since it would be difficult to find a terrestrial explanation for an extinction event at regular intervals, so it made sense to look at factors from outer space. This could be the sort of missling link in Gould's theory.

I can't find a non-paywalled version of Goud's article but here is another one talking about mass extinctions at regular intervals

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/the-next-...
More on the PCI-E slot overdraw: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Power-Consumptio...

It's concerning at stock settings but gets far worse when the card is overclocked, with the card overloading the 12V pins by about 50%. AMD say they are working on a driver fix at least.
I agree with everything you've written except, I think, this last sentence:

>Death is not the enemy of moral virtue but cruel and unusual life surely is.

Are you saying that it's ok to kill animals for food as long as they are not made to suffer in the process?

If so, I'd argue that depriving them of subjective experience - which is what death entails - is also morally wrong.
The legacy of the North American X-15
I usually return via SFO, and I don't think I've ever heard "Welcome Home". Last time (after a short vacation from the region) I was quizzed "Do you reside in New Zealand or Australia?" followed by "Move along."
"Is this small town the next big startup hub?" ;D
What about this case: http://www.drjudithorloff.com/Free-Articles/Is-Your-Brain-Ne...

>He cites the case of a student at Sheffield University, who has an IQ of 126 and won first-class honors in mathematics. Yet, this boy has virtually no brain; his cortex measures only a millimeter or so thick compared to the normal 4.5 centimeters.

EDIT: Here's the paper itself, Is Your Brain Really Necessary?: http://www.rifters.com/real/articles/Science_No-Brain.pdf

>Lorber divides the subjects into four categories: those with minimally enlarged ventricles; those whose ventricles fill 50 to 70 percent of the cranium; those in which the ventricles fill between 70 and 90 percent of the intracranial space; and the most severe group, in which ventricle expansion fills 95 percent of the cranium. Many of the individuals in this last group, which forms just less than 10 percent of the total sample, are severely disabled, but half of them have IQ's greater than 100. This group provides some of the most dramatic examples of apparently normal function against all odds.
For that sort of thing you'd be fine with the previous generation of graphics cards, I've got a Radeon R7 series, it's quite happy running most things with the settings turned up and costs a fraction of a high end card.
Sounds interresting, I'd be glad to see a blog post with the actual use cases and a few graphs with different numbers of cores, and maybe the sources so people can go further.
I am not arguing authoritarianism or democracy, just pointing out that anybody can believe or say anything they want in a society with free speech.

What is the forcing function that moves voter toward making informed choices, whatever informed may be?
Eh, that use of a bitfield is asking for it. What could you possibly gain from using a single bitfield in the entire struct?

I also thought it was well known that using bitfields you are just pushing the burden of generating the bit shifting code on the compiler, and that implies accessing other fields. I don't think there is a processor out there that has single bit writes for general purpose memory (some do for config registers).
I got my greencard this winter. It took me less than two weeks to be approved and a couple of months to get it through all the bureaucracy. My wife and oldest son also got one. It helped that I was on an O1 before.

I feel truly blessed and I have always felt home in the US. Now next step is dual citizenship (Denmark and the US have an agreement)
I think you're ignoring the difference in scale between corruption we see and hear about in most of the developed world, and the rampant corruption we see in China. And China is currently exceptional, in that it is neither truly developed, nor developing (as in most "third world" countries where you could see that amount of immense corruption), but its own mix of hyper-developed and third world.
To add to this, you may even be able to say that India is more democratic than the US in some aspects. The US electoral system often means that some people have a much more powerful vote than others depending on where they live. Gerrymandering is another aspect of this.

In India politicians often do not represent the views of their voters because they are often elected based on identity, not policies. The key thing to note here is that this is not due to the structure of the system (which is democratic); rather; it is due to how the game is played -- no amount of improvements to the system (short of a direct democracy?) or laws can change this since this is a matter of how the people are voting.
[ based on a single incident comes across as rather shallow and naive.]

Not True.
There is a trend happening. An actress who never went to college (and tried to fake her certificates) was made 'Higher Education Minister'.
The actress who knows drama very well is turning every university into a theater. Why are there so many disturbing incidents in Indian universities in last 2 years?
Yea, Apple memory is often overpriced. Today, you can buy 128GB based on quad rank 32GB DDR3 RDIMMs from for example OWC for a similar price for example. And the Mac Pro is now outdated too (Xeon E5 v2) which is why it is using DDR3.
I also got this message on a Nexus 5 running mobile Chrome, which as far as I understand it has nearly the same featureset as desktop chrome. Perhaps it's not actually doing feature checking, it's just guessing based off the user agent string. Or perhaps it would present horribly on mobile anyway.
What is and isn't uninformed bullshitting speech is something a voter should be able to figure out by comparing it with all the different forms of speech they have access to.

If you only have one form of speech because others are not allowed, how is any voter to tell if it's bullshit?
A democracy is just a system of government where the population make choices, it does not automatically stand for freedom and justice, and why should it be?

It's best not to confuse the liberalism tradition of the west with democracy.
LoRa vs. LTE-M vs. Sigfox
BOOKstore by Tanja
I've gotten a "welcome back" returning from the UK to Boston.
Congratulations!! Oh, another note: Looks like you know very little about India.

Disclaimer: Indian, IT consultant.
> Equivocating physical and emotional and social 'suffering'? Nope!

I was, but people also inflict physical suffering on themselves, from fasting to literal self-flagellation and mutilation. There have been people who offered themselves up for literal torture and sacrifice gladly.

> and your self-described thresholds for othering members of your social circle.

I was describing how people in general work, not 'othering members of my social circle.' People do not respond positively to being told something they do or like is evil. I don't think that is a controversial statement.
Because that won't hurt your pancreas at all. /s
A death on Usenet: Sharon Lopatka and the strange case of “consensual murder”
Tupples and pattern matching are meant to come in C# 7.
Because HNers are susceptible to pseudoscience and half truths as much as the next person.
> Is it not a fact that people were killed or instigated to be killed by the state then?

That is not the claim I contested. Nor is it the statement you made, which was:

> [Modi] is well known to have massacred colleagues based on their beliefs/position

though it seems that you have now moved the goalposts to:

> We can never be certain about Modi's role in the massacre [because of a lack of free speech and democracy]
Yes, that was me.
> A study shows a genetic basis for a difference - on average across the whole population - where blue people are 10% less intelligent and 10% more violent.

> Are you justified in preferring to hire green people? No.

Why the heck wouldn't you be justified in preferring to hire people who are, on average, more intelligent and less violent?

> Are you justified in having greens-only policies? Of course not, that's not how averages work.

I agree — in the scenario, any individual blue might be preferable to the great mass of greens.

> Is there any basis for any kind of segregation? Any basis for any color-based policies? No … It's precisely because there's almost no practical use for studies like these

There's no practical use that you care to put into practice. What you're arguing for is categories of 'forbidden knowledge': stuff that everyone agrees to ignore, because its truth is too discomforting. That seems a bit childish to me: one of the hallmarks of maturity is coming to terms with uncomfortable knowledge.

Besides, here's one practical use for such a study: in your example, if blues were a much higher proportion of the prison population than they are of society at large, knowing that they are less intelligent and more violent on average is information which can help one determine if that is fair or not.
The exposure of features like "upvar" is the programming language designer saying, "This shit is implemented in exactly one way, which is interpreted, and it will stay that way forever. Thus, here are the run-time keys to the interpreter environment, so you can implement for yourself that which I won't. Good luck!"
I've been around there on a tour of the South Island (from Sydney)

There sure are a lot of sandflies with little red eyes that bite during the day.

I know that sounds like a mega moan, just something to beware of.

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/sandflies-and-mosquitoes/page-1
No. And frankly the desperate "Big Climatology" conspiracies are about as pathetic and credible as "Big Abortion" conspiracies. How desperately sad that you've tried to 'follow the money', and it led you to climatologists rather than say, petrochemicals.
Read up on Shibboleth [1]. Using language or phrasing, it's a way to suss out members of a certain group. One can argue that the internet memes are a type of shibboleth for internet groups. One example is The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight [2]. I'm sure YC alumni have some type of shibboleth to identify themselves in situations.

Shibboleth entered mainstream culture (and when I learned it) via a West Wing episode called "Shibboleth" [3]. The clip is worth a watch.

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

[2] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-narwhal-bacons-at-midnight

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqkaBEWPH18
"tmux was supposed to provide [of] additional value"

Are you sure?

Could it be the author just wanted a BSD licensed screen alternative or some other reason(s)?

"The keybindings are different" argument seems quite silly since you can easily change them to whatever you want. It's like when people say they will not use Lua because indices start at 1 instead of 0.

tmux may be thought of as an alternative, not a replacement.

Whether that's correct is an open question.

Example: If I start a build world in a screen window, then detach and later I want to get a "screen shot" or "screen grab" of the output without re-attaching, how do I do that?

Also, tmux's "clipboard buffer(s)", e.g., tmux loadb, tmux lsb, etc., seems a little more versatile than screen, but I'm open to suggestions from screen users how to do these things in screen.

Here's what I use in tmux for the Example:

cat tt
case $1 in
""|-b|-E|-S|-t)
tmux capturep $@
exec tmux showb $@
;;
*)exit
esac
It's in the comments here (lines 168-193): https://github.com/impress/impress.js/blob/master/js/impress...

> Browser should support CSS 3D transtorms

> Browser should support `classList` and `dataset` APIs

> But some mobile devices need to be blacklisted, because their CSS 3D support or hardware is not good enough to run impress.js properly, sorry...
Closure Compiler: High-level overview of a compilation job
>it amazes me that people still put them onto their sites.

Why?

It's way more secure than any binary blob -- and people download and install billions of these every day... (And even a hash means nothing -- a hacker could easily change both the blob and the hash).

At least with "bash installations" you can check the code yourself before running it...
The most infamous issue is nicknamed "black screen" google it and you will find tons of people complaining.

And I had problems with every single software, thus why I don't considered mentioning specifics.

Still, some examples:

CAD software stutters heavily because the card refuset to get out of idle state unless I am gaming, regardlesst of all power saving related settings.

Gtav was unplayable on most Crimson drivers, it works in the 16.6.1 but still has the occasional stutter due to power throttling.

Default fan profile is terrible, launching any AAA game without third party fan software makes the card overheat, release pcb varnish smell and make coil noise.

On default power limit the card throttles a lot and cause game stutter (all of them)

The CCCSlim panel on Crimson didn't let me use it because according to it I had multiple monitors with genlock enabled. I was using a single monitor, and genlock is a FirePro feature.

Driver crash a lot. A easy one to reproduce is entering the ingame herb encyclopedia on Shadow of Mordor.

Lastest drivers Mantle is buggy (known issues list), vulkan is also crappily implemented despite being AMD invention.

Browsers flicker on some driver versions for no obvious reason.
My dream is to get a Green Card.

I don't have a degree.

Is my only option to marry an American citizen?
While true, an aliasing 'miss' in C just causes a pointer reload, while the same miss in Python causes a hash table lookup.
Wow. Whodathunkit? Humans have been walking around dehydrated for tens of thousands of years.

Definitely sarcasm.
You mean the game that AMD is giving away for free with it's cards right now, to showcase it's cards, which has been optimized completely for AMD cards is outperforming nVidia cards? I'm shocked.
Or maybe those disturbing incidents are because of the imploding corrupt university system? If you actually studied in an Indian university (especially those aided/funded by the government) you'll know how corrupt the entire system is.

Corruption in India begins at the school level. The recent topper scam in Bihar (which led to the fraudulent topper being jailed) exposed how deeply-rooted corruption in education system is: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/biha...
Ah, thanks. Would be nice if the terminology were more consistent. Does 'dead' encompass more than flagged?

Did you downmod my question before responding? How do legit questions get -1 karma?

Where can I watch the downmod feed?
The people who would vet the code before execution are experienced enough to change it from curl | bash to curl > install.sh and then read it before executing. The only thing you can, and should, criticise here is the delivery over HTTP instead HTTPS. Delivering any kind of code over HTTP is completely inexcusable since the introduction of Let's Encrypt.
> How can you identify empathy if you don't even feel it?

I can detect wind (including its strength and direction) outside my house even if I can't feel it.
What if the state could make the choice of excluding incorrect views from spreading across the population? Would that improve outcome in elections?

Of course, we cross into the treasonous water of the state possibly banning views that it didn't like, rather than simply uninformed views.
Wasn't Modi what in the West is considered as far right? Expansionist, supremacist with strong authoritarian tendencies - the whole 9 yards. And I think his skeletons were literal. That is what the press in Western Europe wrote about.
Having spent 25 years of life in India, I'd say the "subjugation" is largely political and isolated occurrences in uneducated parts of the country. And that too, what usually starts as a brawl regarding everyday matters quickly turns communal after some politician eyes the chance to milk some mileage out of it.

The Indian identity, luckily till now, isn't based on religious lines. Though I have to agree, Pakistan-hate is strong in India and any remote Pakistan-love (even cheering for the Pakistan cricket team) can be seen as anti-nationalism and could lead to a sedition charge. This is, of course, due to the 3 wars fought since independence.
> It's easily preferable to Perl and Bash to me by an order of magnitude.

Given what else you can put into this category, it's not very meaningful.
Remix (YC W15) is hiring a back end engineer to plan better public transit
What is the forcing function that moves voter toward making informed choices, whatever informed may be?

Education.
There's certainly work in NZ, but you'll have to live in Auckland, Wellington, Christhurch or Dunedin. Auckland is too expensive to really be worth it, even on high dev salaries.
Gimp also uses Guile, I believe.
US citizen here, originally from Boston.

Logan immigration has been very friendly to me in the past.

These days I'm not in Boston and usually come in through Newark Liberty. Half the time I get a nice friendly/chitchatty immigration officer who welcomes me back.

Nowadays most airports do that electronic thing, so they don't even need to ask you questions since its all on that slip of paper. So a couple of times I've had them glance at the slip, and then just welcome me back with a smile.
Would flag this if I could.

My 'inability'? You have not even asked.

Search my history if you want to find it. Otherwise I'll bring it to you at my leisure.
Do you have a source for those percentages? I'm genuinely curious.
Forget the King
It certainly challenges theories of consciousness that point
to specific parts of the brain as responsible for the phenomenon. Same for theories of consciousness that point outside the brain or ones that look at consciousness as something pre-existing.

It leads weight to those theories that claim consciousness and the self are emergent phenomena (meta abstractions) and do not really "exist" below a certain level of complexity/abstraction which doesn't have to be physiological (e.g. neurons) but also something emergent,
software rather than hardware.

Interestingly, this messes extremely well with buddhism and non-duality in hinduism and the various annihilatory experiences that one can produce via these practices (but also meditation and certain psychedelic drugs).

It is also interesting for those who follow AGI/deep-learning and especially those who treat these two fields as an orthogonal dichotomy claiming that one can't lead to the other, no matter the computational resources we have at our disposal. If consciousness and self-awareness are emergent phenomena, there is nothing that, in theory, mechanistically forbids AGI.
Nice. Perhaps an introduction to lambda calculus [0] would supplement it.

[0] http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf
The Unikernel Compilation and Deployment Platform
Having done a hackintosh myself, I'll chime in and say the cost of upkeep wasn't worth it in the long run. Not being able to do patch updates was fine, but XCode and a number of software always needed the latest OS. This meant doing several days of research / debugging, getting all the right software to update versus clicking one button and knowing it'll work. The second and probably most frustrating them about the hackintosh was when it spontaneously stopped working. I would reboot the computer and it would get stuck on the bootloader. After fiddling around for 5 minutes (if I'm lucky) to an average of 30 minutes, by trying to boot into recovery mode / different configurations, I'd be able to get back into the OS. It was definitely fun as a pet project, but I've learned my lesson. The time to tinker around with it just wasn't worth it for me.

As the author stated, a lot of functionality doesn't work out of the box. iMessage being the largest one. Onboard wifi / bluetooth might not work either, you'll probably need a third party adapter. Audio is a bit finicky, it'll go in and out. Even with video drivers, it might glitch up every once in a while.
It probably depends on where you went, how much you went on foot, and to be fair in '93 there were still occasional pogroms of the indigenous population; a rough time.
Let's not glorify "nature's pressure." I kind of prefer having 3 kids that I expect to live to adulthood instead of having 8 as nature intended and playing the odds.
> These studies have known drawbacks in that they serve as a rallying point for all sorts of discrimination masquerading as high-minded discourse, and we're yet to see a benefit so far, so the burden of proof here is on you.

You're arguing for deliberate ignorance because reality is uncomfortable.

> At least part of the problem here is given two children / job-applicants / defendants / whatever, who are absolutely identical in every way except for a specific cosmetic phenotype, what possible justification is there for treating them differently based on correlation between that phenotype and some other characteristic over a large population?

If two people are identical in every observable way, and that single observable way indicates a strong difference between them, why wouldn't one differentiate based on that single observation? They are, after all, indifferentiable in every other way.

Indeed, mathematically speaking if one ignores the single useful datum you posit, then one will make worse decisions: if you have no other data and just flip a coin between greens and blues in your thought experiment a few posts back, then you will choose worse than if you bias your coin towards greens. That's just a fact; whether you choose to ignore it based on the discomfort it causes you is up to you.
Got my green card a few months ago. Also from a mixed Indian, Pakistani, Middle Eastern and British background. Was a minority in all of those nations. Really feels good to call America a home.

Aatish's father was a true light for Punjab. It's a shame what happened to him.
I'm not an idiot; I know where meat comes from. I just don't care at all. You can have a holier than thou attitude about being a vegetarian than me all you want, but the reality is that I'm not a carnivore out of ignorance. I eat meat because I like it. A hundred thousand cows could die for a single hamburger and I'd still eat it. If you want me to not eat meat, give me something cheaper, tastier, and easier to prepare. Until then, I'll lick clean the blood on my hands.