skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fratty douchebros. Hard to miss in clubs and bars.

EDIT: I just realized that's not very descriptive, but all I can say is that the author is not alone in noticing them.
Bitfinex exchange customers to get 36 percent haircut, debt token
You're conflating two issues: tribalism, and genuine consumer grievances.

I don't despise Apple or Google, and my general approach is "Use it if it works reliably and is useful." I'm not particularly tribal, in that sense.

However, I do despise MS, because in my experience the software is absolute crapware and full of avoidable bugs. It has literally wasted days of my life. And I know I'm hardly unique.

In the general case, people despise corporations for the same reasons they despise people: if someone lies to you, rips you off, wastes your time, or makes promises and then doesn't deliver, you'd be a fool to respect them.

Tribalism is only half the story. The rest is that corporations make an implicit - non-legal, but still heavily implied - contract when they create consumer relationships.

Apple used to be very good at this. There was an implied value proposition: "Expensive, but beautiful, original, inventive, and outstanding" and Apple did a competent job of delivering on it.

Recently Apple has become noticeably less good at it.

You can dismiss Android fanboys for tribalism, and that's a fair point.

But it's a very bad idea for a corporation to ignore customer satisfaction, and to assume that its deliverables will never change the perceived value of the social contract it makes with consumers.
Along the same lines, I'd recommend 'The Rickover Effect'.
This Saturday as a birthday present for a 14 year old friend of mine, who haven't been reading so much lately:

* Persepolis, first version

* Dark Angel, by David Klass

I've just started reading "Flowers for Algernon", I guess this can also be a good birthday present. I think gifting books is something very difficult, in my experience I never wanted to get books for present.
Umm, send this to peer review. Here's the link to Góes actual paper(http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp16160.pdf) published as an IMF working report which doesn't even have the backing of the IMF/managers/etc. I doubt it'd get published if reviewed. Really, out of the centuries of data they could have pulled in, they chose to use 1980 through 2012? Return on the capital is not ~1%....flawed assumptions, flawed model IMHO. Amazing that WSJ parades it as if it were peer reviewed fact. Then again, I'm not an expert. I only did mathematical modeling for HPC systems, not economies.
When I had a desktop, I spent 99% of my time working from my desk.

I switched to a notebook in 2006, and now spend less than 20% of my time working at a desk.
> Not if the word is "Verstorbenen", right? The extra -en makes it plural.

If we are in the nominative case this is correct. But

"des Verstorbenen": singular, male, genitive

"dem Verstorbenen": singular, male, dative

"den Verstorbenen": either (singular, male, accusative) or (plural, dative)

"die Verstorbenen" ("die" is always used in nominative plural): either (nominative, plural) or (accusative, plural)

In other words: the extra "-n" can be a plural ending or a case ending. Know your declination table inside out and you can find out.
In part 1/3, the author writes that there are 2 branches of data science:

> Data science for people (Type A), i.e. analytics to support evidence-based decision making

> Data science for software (Type B), for example: recommender systems as we see in Netflix and Spotify

Isn't "type A" business intelligence, and isn't "type B" machine learning? Why doesn't he use those more widely known terms? Or maybe he is referring to something else?
Among my non tech friends? 80% don't have a computer anymore and solely uses their phone or maybe have an iPad.
RFC 3252: Binary Lexical Octet Ad-Hoc Transport (2002)
Strangely, Pickering's Wikipedia photo instantly reminded me of Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Here is the latter drinking a bottle of pepper sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfAk-guplA.
There are two different versions of Sublime Text, 3114 is part of version 3, which is still considered beta.

The default download would be version 2.
There's plenty of things IDA does that we don't do, but the list of things we do they don't is growing.

To start with, we have undo, which is a simple feature but it underlies some design decisions that are going to show up in other features in the near future as well.

Because we have the ability to separate user interactions from our internal analysis we can not only undo, but also better support collaborative editing and upgrading of older saved databases.

In terms of features we already have, we have a static data flow implementation that allows you to query register values at addresses which greatly simplifies a lot of analysis plugins. Here's an example:

http://arm.ninja/2016/03/08/intro-to-binary-ninja-api/

(The domain name is a coincidence, Q was just a beta tester, not officially affiliated with us)

Notice how much more robust and simpler the final implementation of that plugin using our data flow is:

https://github.com/Vector35/binaryninja-api/blob/dev/python/...
Please save April Fool's jokes for April 1st.
Oh, sure, effect segregation is a truly great idea, and I want to see more of it, no less.
You didn't click into the Weekly Editions? That's where the real good stuff is. And it is separated into categories so you can skip the kernel news page if you like.
Mid-2007 white MacBook here, 2GB RAM, SSD, on it's third or fourth battery. Running Lion. DVD drive died long ago, plastic on the front split after a couple of years but has been stable ever since. Been used every day of it's life by me and my kids (who were 3 and 1 YO when I bought it). Although now I am the only one who uses it. The main problem now is finding a browser that's supported and updateable - Chrome gave up ages ago, and FF48 is the last version to support Lion. Hates Flash though so I've long uninstalled that.
I'm surprised there aren't more philosophy-oriented books mentioned here. I think they make great gifts.

Many of my friends are straight out of university, and it's a period where most people seem to start asking existential questions. The two books which have affected me greatly (and which I regularly give as gifts) are:

* Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
* Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
BMW also recently launched ReachNow[1] in Seattle, which lets users rent BMWs and Minis.

[1]: http://reachnow.com/
> There are technologies that are genuinely useful, like space exploration

vs

> And there are "comfort gimmicks" like ... toasters

???

One of these things is more important and useful to the ordinary person's life than the other, and it's not throwing computers at the stars.
Qualcomm Chipset Vulnerability Said to Affect 900M Google Android Devices
It's rendering part of the virtual DOM in one cycle, rather than the full thing. This goes hand-in-hand with the ability to prioritize the rendering of different components.

For instance, when you're scrolling through a large table, you may want to prioritize the rendering of a custom scroll bar over the rows themselves. With the Fiber architecture, you can do that so the scroll bar can hit a responsive 60fps and the rows can fill in when there are spare cycles.
Just wondering what size companies you guys work at. I don't think even the Hiring manager can hire at our company without multiple interviews
Autosaveify: Automatic AJAX form submission with feedback and styling
And Chrono Resurrection... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Resurrection
Retractions aren't an counterpoint against the article inasmuch as a result of the scientific process. Science is bound to get things wrong, and in a larger, grander scheme of scientific processes judging science by its retractions is akin to judging someone for their childhood actions. Science develops, learns, and moves forwards, and while that doesn't render it impervious to criticism, it should be impervious to those who aren't involved in it to a significant degree. Framed in that manner, I don't think the end of the article is disturbing.
Show HN: Publish blog post with a simple Git push
Who said anything about homebuilt? You have just introduced that concept. It makes no difference who makes them. Few countries make subs, but plenty of countries field them.

Italy has, for example, an armed and an unarmed squadron of Predators. They have even used armed Predators against ISIS in Iraq.
Could be -- I know some so-called "post-modern" philosophers to be meaningful, but I know very little about Derrida.

Still, where professor Dutch starts sounding like a crackpot is when he strawmans Latour and Derrida into a crusade against the purity of Scientific Objectivity. No deconstructionist I know of has ever picketed a chemical lab; "green activists" have done that -- and to throw christian young-earth creationism and Velikovsky on the lap of mr. Derrida, well, that just sounds like asking someone whether they have stopped beating their wife already.

I do wonder if the rise of this scientistic reactionaryism (not the self-satisfied belief in science, but the need to go out and write lengthy rants on subjects they know nothing about) has to do with the stagnation of fundamental physics since the 1970s. I mean -- professor Dutch sounds like he was promises a priesthood and then denied access to God.
I don't know the age range, but everyone over 40 I know has a computer, so does everyone in and a couple years out of college I know (my age group).

The only people I know who dont have computers are my friends working heavily blue collar jobs. Even most of them have laptop's, only a few don't have anything.
US employee 'outsourced job to China' (2013)
Agree with this. I live in Australia and work in the building industry. Most of the apprentices and tradesmen I work with, and their tradie friends, don't own computers at home. They'll have a TV, a smartphone, and a maybe games console.
From Wikipedia on the Science Wars:

>> "dangerous extremists are using the very same argument of social construction to destroy hard-won evidence that could save our lives."
It really isn't irrelevant if a computer is fast enough for the user. Energy savings is great, and gpu performance is great too. But a lot of people just need a computer that is fast enough for what they use it for. And if the programs they use and the websites they frequent perform well on the hardware they have, then it's okay if the computer they have uses old hardware.
I believe that Mother Jones is to the left of the traditional Democrat party platform. I also believe that Fox News is to the right of the traditional Republican party platform. In that way, I think the two publications are similar.

Basically, I don't consider either publication a useful source of news. In general, both of them leave out the context that would be needed to understand what is going on in the world. For example, that Mother Jones article about "Why is [the world bank] Bankrolling Oligarchs" leaves out the context of what has been going on in Myanmar in the last few years. Myanmar has gone from being a completely military-run state, to allowing a limited democratic opposition to exist. The World Bank is making investments there partly as a kind of reward for that. If the World Bank left, other countries like China would step in and try to buy influence there with their own equivalent of the IMF (China Development Bank). It invests in bigger companies because it has to, because the managerial overhead of investing in tiny ones would be way too high.

All the same issues exist in our government's aid programs to poor countries. The money does indeed often get siphoned off to the rich and well-connected. But of course Mother Jones doesn't comment on this, becuase the narrative is government = good, World Bank = bad. If facts or context have to be left out to fit the narrative, they always will.

I could go on, but you get the idea. By leaving out facts and, most especially, context, biased news sources like these leave you less informed after you read them than before.
It's really interesting to see how Joe outperforms (by speed, not memory) every editor consistently by such a large margin.

Are there any editors built with pure speed in mind that beat joe?
Are you actually denying that change doesn't happen faster and faster? That's what technology is. It's compounding advancement.

It might not disappear overnight but it sure as hell isn't going to take 150 years!
The US has a really high number of working poor that continue to have children at higher rates. Lack of determination and motivation to stay away from lifestyles that increase your chance of early pregnancies certainly factors at the individual level. Low achievement environments tend to socially entrench the values or conditions that keep people from achieving economic success (demonizing education, emphasis upon group responsibility over individual achievement, sports or religion celebrated as a center of social functions instead of something like academic or economic symbols, familial responsibility guilt trips, ad infinitum). This happens both in rural and urban areas in the US as well. I'm not sure how relevant this would be in the rest of the world, but children leaving home for economic opportunity via education is something most of Asia has shown some cultural validity in my experience.
Sounds like you should take ownership of a poor decision when spec'ing out your iMac. SSDs have been around for plenty of time to know their value.
> I only did mathematical modeling for HPC systems, not economies.

No worries. Economics content in Piketty's arguments is zero.
A Missouri man might owe his life to his Tesla Model X's Autopilot
Another idea is that you order your meal and one option is to have 3/5ths on the plate and 2/5ths packaged to takeaway. No awkward "can I have a doggy bag?" for a container of the scraps you favoured least.

Even though many desserts are made ahead of time, in Australia they're often very expensive ($15-18) and so something I almost never order.
Indeed, that's covered:

> There are indirect bets—you could, for instance, buy shares of Medallion Financial Corp., which finances licenses for New York City taxis.
I chuckled at your parting "y'all can light me up," but if Gnome on an Intel NUC meets your needs, you are indeed a happy man. (NUCs are on Newegg for around $386 right now.)

Here's what is most commonly mentioned that Linux "can't do". Maybe some things on this list haven't bitten you yet, but it's worth reviewing:

• Fewer games. It's not as bad as comparing Linux to Windows, but even Mac has games that don't have a Linux port. Wine is pretty impressive these days -- if you are willing to mess with the command line and config files and searching random internet posts for how to get the game to work.

• "Professional" software. Microsoft, Adobe, nVidia and Autodesk all openly refuse to support Linux. Whatever their reasons, it means that Linux users must do the format conversion to something that does run on Linux. Arguably that's a good thing because proprietary data formats mean archived data can't be opened in a decade, but day to day it's super painful.

• Driver issues #1: plugging random things in via USB. Linux has impressive driver support for things that are well understood. But the lesser well-standardized hardware (printers, scanners, wifi dongles, ...) may not work. Know before you buy. Windows again has it best, but knowing if it runs on Mac is usually printed on the packaging. (And Linux is not.)

• Driver issues #2: Actually Linux wins out if you're willing to wait a few years because Linux will gain driver support for quirky fringe hardware over time. macOS actually DROPS support for things over time.

• Driver issues #3: Very new hardware like VR headsets are going to be an adventure in cobbling together new kernels, the latest software versions built from source or downloaded from an unstable branch, ... [1]. Or, sometimes the answer is: nope, never going to get Linux support.

[1] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/first-steps-with-open...
There's a new trilogy by Richard J. Evans about the same subject. I have them sitting on my bookshelf but have yet to read them.

Apparently Shirer's book has drawn some criticism because he was a journalist and not a historian whereas Evans is a historian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Reich_Trilogy
Kinda already happening, see: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-used-to-write-apocalypse-...
"the practice of article spinning, in which the same human-written article is quickly reorganized and reworded to create one or more additional “new” articles. (This is often done by software that has a built-in spintax that replaces keywords in the text with synonyms.)"
Ichiro’s 3,000th hit: an achievement befitting a unique player
a hard disk jockey, maybe.
Thanks for the examples!

I was taking "deceased" as singular rather than plural (although it could have been either) so I parsed "den Verstorbenen" as the accusative singular rather than dative plural.
My unprovable assumption is that only beings who value knowledge and cooperation highly enough will get to the point of crossing the difficult technological threshold of achieving singularity or space travel. I think the more likely Achilles heel for my scenario is sexual selection - the trap that perpetuates selfish behavior in both sexes even when there is no resource scarcity. Even in this, humans at least are sometimes able to escape the trap by being meta enough to see kindness as strength and beauty. I think the fastest, and most likely first, route to our singularity will start with reverse engineering one human mind, and I will hold onto hope that that mind will hear the call of light, and the truth and beauty feedback loop will be unstoppable. It helps that I also believe that as information increases, morality converges on a process for maximizing the long term preservation of information (where on this planet, human minds are the most information dense and therefore the most valuable things we can preserve). /end sci fi sermon
Just read The Source. What an epic whirlwind of historical fiction. Good call.
Get your point, but actually "literally" did actually used to have a different meaning. Only recently have dictionaries accepted the nonliteral use as a form of emphasis. In fact Cambridge still disallows it for formal speech.
HN tends to be ludicrously out of touch when it comes to wages/salaries.
No kids books have been listed, but I have found them all too often enlightening. Sometimes even more than an adult book.

I and my kids have enjoyed all of Graeme Base's books, but The Eleventh Hour is particularly good and have given it to many kids and adults:
http://graemebase.com/book/the-eleventh-hour/

I am also thinking about giving Yertle the Turtle By Dr. Seuss out to anyone I meet before the election:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yertle_the_Turtle_and_Other_St...
I have given many Dr. Seuss books away as well.
This is pretty astute.

Theoretically, the owner could probably get away with charging quite a lot more. If he were a cynical man/short-termist he could double/triple his prices (possibly even 10x his prices) and still be turning away business in the next couple of weeks while the hype train is running. The spectrum of prices for food in Singapore is pretty wide, you can easily have a meal for anywhere from 4SGD to 200+SGD so there would still be people up for trying Michelin-quality chicken rice if he suddenly started charging 20SGD for a meal.

That will definitely rub the community up the wrong way, given that hawker food is very much deeply entwined with the local community and relies heavily on regulars. The owners are often from the community too so such behaviour would incite feelings of "casting aside your roots".

Would seriously love to give this a try though, when I think of michelin food I tend to think of Heston-style experimental cuisine, which pushes the boundaries of food and employs novel cooking techniques. This type of food is labour intensive though and doesn't really work when one guy in a stall is serving 180 chickens a day. Hawker food done right is like the pinnacle of home-cooking so would be good to taste first-hand how good this is!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12242812
Isn't that effectively "putting all your eggs in one basket"? If Amazon changes business models at some point in the future, or is breached somehow, they'd have a goldmine of information about you. If you split up your shopping at least each individual shop has less incentive to reveal your information to competitions shops.
I am just on the final few pages of The Cuckoo's Egg, and was planning on finishing it tonight. I too would say that it is a fantastically written page-turner, and it has taught me a lot about the old-school networking scene.

How do the other two books you mentioned compare?
I've never met a person who didn't believe vaccines work, yet i've always heard anti-vax people be characterized that way.

In reality, many good parents just understand that vaccinations for non-life threatening diseases like chickenpox, measels and diptheria are simply unnecessary.

People in first world countries just don't die of these diseases any more. Meanwhile the shear number of shots they want to give children now is rediculous and can't be safe for all children, that's not just logic, it's science too.
One of the struggles I had with German, as an English-speaker, was that I had to learn two things at once - German, and the structural and nomenclatural rules of grammar.

German vocabulary isn't necessarily the most complicated, since there are so many common root-words with English, and most of the rest is more-or-less logically constructed as compounds of simpler words. This was probably the easier of the two subjects.

However, much more difficult was learning the concept of different cases, genders, conjugations, subject-verb ordering rules, dependent and independent clauses, etc. In English, we just... don't really do that. I think I had done some super-basic sentence diagramming in English classes, but it was really not emphasised much, beyond the basics of "here's the subject, here's the verb, here's the object." Education about English grammar was woefully inadequate, bordering on non-existent, and without any background in Latin, the concepts of different cases, moods or tenses were, pardon the expression, Greek to me. So I was trying to both learn a foreign language, and the entire categorical system of language and grammar at the same time...
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/armv7/...
It's already happened. Those AIs are called compilers. Compilers get more powerful every year. If you took them away, there aren't enough people on the planet to do the same job with assemblers.
When you share Your Content with other people, you understand that they may be able to, on a worldwide basis, use, save, record, reproduce, transmit, display (and on HealthVault delete) Your Content without compensating you. If you do not want others to have that ability, do not use the Services to share Your Content.

The wording is ambiguous, but it seems as if Microsoft is saying that they aren't responsible for other people stealing your copyrighted works or deleting(!) your health information. While that is technically true (i.e. you can't hold Facebook or Pinterest or Instagram liable if someone scrapes your public posts and resells the images/videos), the wording makes it sound like they are trying to discourage you from even using their services in the first place. It's a really odd way to get the point across; they could have done a much better job of it.

The HealthVault thing is particularly worrying; why call the service a "vault" if it can't prevent a third party from destroying the data?
My favourite is "The New Way Things Work" by David Macaulay. Loved this book as a kid, it really got me into trying to figure out how the world worked (the title really nailed it).