skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just want to comment that according to the documentary about the Kids for Cash scandal the media made it seem worse then it was.

Their side of the story was that Pennsylvanian's children correction facilities were crap and he did not feel comfortable sending kids there. He organized a group of investors to pay for a new facility. The real estate developer who got the contract to build it paid the judge a "finders fee" for the referral. The Judges didn't report the money. As far as the harsh sentences the judge was doing that for years as an over reaction to the Columbine thing. It's an interesting doc suggest checking it out.
Olympics officials does not equal "international". But please do show me that international condemnation of Brazilian fans. Or is 2% of the world considered international and only right and righteous today? I already know the answer but do go ahead.

I find it quite disturbing accusing Brazilians of "booing" at sports event when you could and can see this in events such as US Open, Wimbledon and other "clean and gentlemany" sports when the opponent is from some other country than US or UK. Let's not get into more "dirtier" sports now where booing is de facto standard.
Recursion today is easy to compile, but it's something that is hard to support on some older architectures. For instance, you would have a hard time (if not outright impossible) supporting recursion on a PDP-8, which stored return addresses at a fixed location (so subroutines are inherently non-reentrant).

For a fun time, try implementing a C compiler for 6502. 256 byte stack, 8 bit index registers, single accumulator, 64K RAM max (which only became affordable in the mid 80s). Those are the types of constraints compiler writers were facing at the time.

"Features" weren't hard to compile because they were difficult to reason about, they were hard to compile due to physical constraints of the hardware.
Takes me back to the time of Netscape 2.0 where webpages were not complete without a fire.gif background :)

BTW did a pure CSS3 fire a while ago too:
http://pag.es/fire/test.html
I suppose I was thinking of the set of languages commonly used back then for programming smaller computers. Smalltalk definitely wasn't aimed at small machines. I guess I just woudln't include Forth and Lisp in that set. Not sure exactly why to be honest. Forth certainly ran on very small machines. Both were considered "weird" where I came from, but I acknowledge that isn't a universally held view ;)
tmux works quite well. I'm less sure about the surface pro :p
Neglecting nuclear security in the 2016 election
Interesting!

I think that those who work for the government are not participating in captialism, but I have met many who like to complain about those who participate in socialism, and criticize those engaged in capitalism.

It must be nice to be able to say these things while looking forward to a taxpayer funded annuity retirement and planning to enroll in Medicare, even hiring a consultant to maximize the benefits.
You can also use things like Get-Command (with options for -Verb, -Noun, -Module filtering) or Get-Member to inspect types/methods/properties. Very helpful when learning a new area.
Yes, obviously, since the injection of wealth into a lawsuit produces unfairness. You're playing dumb, and it just makes you look dumb. Those who forget the lessons of history, etc...
Open source, DAQ-enabled hacking platform feels its inner Arduino
Not that people's bets mean much, but you can look at how financial markets expect rates to move using the interest rate futures market. These contracts allow you to infer what the market really expects rates to do (as people are putting their money where their mouth is - to the tune of billions of dollars rather than an off the cuff comment on a financial news show). Free data for the 30 day future contract/bet is available from Quandl - which is a great site for checking out free financial data: https://www.quandl.com/collections/futures/cme-30-day-fed-fu...
When I used F#, maybe three years ago, it was a good exercise in functional thinking. It was an interesting experience, siniliar to the experience of using C-Lisp. The worst part was the lack of documentation and community.
That's the World Wide Web (html and browsers). The Internet was a DARPA project, entirely American.
"it would be another two centuries before Galileo proved that the earth revolved around the sun, a revelation so antithetical to prevailing thought that he was burned at the stake for suggesting it."

Seriously?
The focus needs to be both for the public to see it as fair. We want people who do bad things to be punished.

However I find that the US system is pushing some insane punishment in a lot of cases.
> Getting the retribution you think is just and deserved means giving the state the power to inflict that retribution on anyone it wants.

Not giving that authority to the State means that it is retained by the People. The whole point of a justice system is to give the State a monopoly on violence: in return for giving up their right to vendetta, the People expect that the State will be scrupulous and fair in its prosecution of criminals.

Indeed, this is the foundation of the legitimacy of the State, and it is why a State which refuses to execute justice will eventually lose legitimacy in the eyes of its People.
Ask HN: Do you accept LinkedIn connection requests from recruiters?
Let's assume you're open to new opportunities.

Does it look odd to have a bunch of connections to recruiters? Is it worthwhile?
> [...] the flaw makes a part of the
PRNG output completely predictable. This bug exists since
1998 in all GnuPG and Libgcrypt versions [...]

> Please note that this document makes no claims about the
effect of the flaw on the security of generated keys or other artifacts.
What source is that? The ones that don't say inflation is 1.7%?

I'd like to point out as the other poster did that you shouldn't look at housing in development constrained areas (though that's a very interesting sidebar to the whole thing - how much of development constraint exists to prop up housing prices)?

Incidentally "official" inflation in the SF Area is 2.7%, still not 3-7%.
(http://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/consumerpricein...)
Except it does work.
He actually meant "Kotlin instead of Apache Groovy". Groovy joined the Apache Software Foundation last November (2015), and its name should be qualified with the "Apache" brand on first use in a new context such as a webpage. Groovy joined the ASF after the 6 developers working on it and Grails were retrenched by VMware in March last year, and they couldn't find any other business to support their work on Groovy.
I've seen people die in the ED because they treated driving as a passive activity. I find your hyperbole about outlawing conversations unhelpful. I very much look forward to computers having better driving skills than I had when I used to work in the ambulance service.
It should not be their presence on the stock market that is insane, but the fact they can be for-profit businesses.
Lots of good ideas here. Trust in social information, and which social information you trust are super interesting questions that I would love to do more work on.

It's possible that it's something along the lines you say. Another possibility is people just don't have good estimates of popularity among people they don't know, so they overestimate the popularity of opinions represented in their immediate networks.
Some things to consider:

Trucks pay fuel tax on diesel fuel (can be higher rate than gasoline), surcharges on fuel tax in some states, weight-distance tax in some states, and heavy vehicle use tax.

The federal weight limit for a truck--including the weight of the truck and trailer--is 80,000 pounds (without special permits), but they rarely haul that much.

8-10 MPG for a truck under real-world conditions is extremely uncommon. Typical efficiency falls in the 5-8 range, depending on the type of cargo + weight, geographic area, etc.
If she literally scans it with a scanner, why would it need dewarping? This is for when you use a digital camera on pages not lying flat.

If you have the option go for scanning.

Scans still benefit from cleanup, such as rotation and adjusting the levels (making everything near white perfectly white) and possibly manual cleanup (removal of specks of dust or the odd hair that was on the scanner).
nice definition of 'soon' you pulled out of your ass.
TemplOS is in HolyC. Plan9 uses a C-like language. Haiku is written in C++. Those are all minor OSes, but I've at least heard of them.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6398305/operating-system-... lists some OSes written in Ada.
Pushing people out of their houses because the city needs more revenue is not cool. Most people understand that, which is why prop 13 stays.
I had to go look it up.. found this -- https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

> Appeals to authority are not valid arguments, but nor is it reasonable to disregard the claims of experts who have a demonstrated depth of knowledge unless one has a similar level of understanding and/or access to empirical evidence. However it is, entirely possible that the opinion of a person or institution of authority is wrong; therefore the authority that such a person or institution holds does not have any intrinsic bearing upon whether their claims are true or not.

So, you're both correct!
Granted, Fortuna didn't exist in 1998 (it dates to 2003) — but why oh why don't gcrypt & the kernel use it now?
The main fallacy is to think someone can 'understand' any big corp.
Especially Microsoft - http://www.bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts/
Fuck. Such a shame that Uber didn't snatch up Waze before Google did. This is such a fucking great idea!
Ok, me and all others that prefer to block ads on Facebook are leaving... Do Fecebook prefer this way? I already left, now I'm convincing others to leave too, and introduce them to ad block has been a good start.
As my introduction to Algol-like languages was through Pascal, the joke completely passed me by.
Also the name of the robot in the Automator icon on your Mac.
Are you kidding? I have a single smartphone under Verizon for 2 lousy gigs a month, and I'm paying $80/mth. That's after my employer discount.
PowerShell pull request – initialsession: remove curl and wget aliases
> But they aren't controlling what you say. They just aren't broadcasting it.

"I'm not hitting my brother, I'm just flailing my arms and walking forward."

Their voluntarily-created situation is that they are broadcasting what you say. By setting up an ultimatum that if you say something they do not like they will no longer transmit what you say, they are forming a control. This obviously isn't absolute control [0], it is limited by how much you rely on Twitter.

I personally am not reliant on Twitter, but many people are and that is what we are discussing. Your argument is deliberately eschewing this concept of reliance, essentially attempting to justify all emergent behavior as implicitly moral so long as the primitives have been followed.

As I said, this is a dead end. Otherwise we would not even need a legal system because the laws of physics would suffice.

> You can say hate all you want (within the law). Set up your own web site. Buy a plane and fly a banner over the beach. Go set up in a public place and start talking out loud.

Other avenues of speech do not justify controls on a particular one. If this were true, the government controlling what you could say on the Internet wouldn't be an infringement, because you still had other outlets.

In another comment, you allude to your ISP restricting what you can publish online as wrong. How exactly does this differ from Twitter, besides being a different OSI layer?

[0] Although there is actually no such thing. Even government is limited to post-facto punishment, and only if they can catch you.
Thanks for the advice; I do believe I have a 25mm tire in front (I'll have to check, but it's not super-thin). But a CF front fork sounds like way more money than I want to spend on fixing up a 20+ year old bike; if I'm going to spend any money, I might as well get a new bike, which is why I'm seriously looking at getting a Catrike: I can get away from the uncomfortable road bike posture altogether that way, get better aerodynamics, avoid crotch pains, etc.
For me, the marker point is arrays. Arrays in shell are terrible - if I'm going to need an array, drop shell for something else.
Thank you for the summary too.
It's sort of like Facebook's face-plant with their Facebook phone and Android launcher.

Facebook could have been the built-in contact list that updated itself (a huge feature for even a basic phone), and combined with FB messenger and photos, could have done 90% of what many of it's users (e.g. my wife) would want.

They completely failed then walked it all back.

Remember when Zuck declared that Android was their main OS [1]? How's that working out?

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5937344/facebook-for-android-is-so-crappy...
> "People’s appraisal of their listening ability is much like their assessment of their driving skills, in that the great bulk of adults think they’re above average."

My take on this is that most people DO have above average driving skills. However, that is using each persons INDIVIDUAL driving skills assessment criteria.

So a cautious person would say that they are above average because they are cautious while driving. Similarly an impatient person would say that they are above average because they make turning decisions fast and don't waste other's time. So the corollary is that individual people see that nearly everyone else is a worse driver than them, because they have different value systems.
The regular crew doesn't sit back at all. They are busier than ever, it's just that they take orders from the pilot instead of a regular ship's officer for a few hours.
Fuck. Such a shame that Uber didn't snatch up Waze before Goog. So much extra info gained for so many uses
> But please do show me that international condemnation of Brazilian fans.

What exactly do you want to see from me that you can't find yourself?
http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
The “Rope Mother” Margaret Hamilton
The whole point is that you, as user, can not use your (legally guaranteed right in the EU) to debug software, reverse it, modify it, etc.

That is a big fucking disadvantage.

If I buy software (buying a license also counts, if you’re in the EU, or renting a license), I want to be able to use it like I’d use a table I buy: I can saw one leg off, repaint it, turn it into a chair. I want to be able to mod the game, skin it, theme it, do a total conversion.

This is preventing me from using my rights.
I guess what I mean is, this is not a finished product that's a regular car with a "hands-free" mode; it's a prototype for a fully-autonomous driver-less car that's still under active development.

I.e. the reason that this exists is not to have some mostly-autonomous driver-assistance in place right now; that's useless to Uber. Rather it's part of the process of testing and improving the completely driver-less cars that they're working on.
Yeah not really sure what that was supposed to mean in relation to Rust. To me that statement would only make sense for languages that require some sort of runtime/interpreter installed rather than natively compiled.

eg Python and Perl get shipped by default in most Linux distros base image, whereas Java or Ruby don't tend to be.

Whereas C doesn't have a compiler shipped in some/most base images - despite C being about as first class as languages get on Unix.
If you run it inside of tmux, that issue seems to go away for some reason.
In general the interview process for hiring develops is terrible. The usual flow looks like this:

1. Non technical recruiter screens resumes for keywords or similar job titles for previous jobs.

2. Basic CS questions that can be memorized (see cracking the coding interview book) are asked as a screener question.

3. Some more involved question, or short take home project is assigned that more often than not does not reflect what a developer would actually most often do in the real world.

4. Developers decide whether the candidate is a good "cultural fit"

What ends up happening is that developers need to maintain two skill sets: the actual day-to-day development skills, and the interview process skills.

I'm not sure what the fix is for the hiring process. How do other successful, mature industries handle this process?
If you are interested in taking this idea further, all life is game, I'd recommend the philosophy book 'finite and infinite games'. Can be applied to all kinds of aspects of human life, eg a startup is a game played by founders who win with a successful exit.

With this philosophy text, Carse demonstrates a way of looking at actions in life as being a part of at least two types of what he describes as "games", finite and infinite. Both games are played within rules, as agreed upon by the participants; however, the meaning of the rules is different for the two types of games. The book stresses a non-serious (or "playful") view of life on the part of "players", referring to their choices as "moves", and societal constructs and mores as "rules" and "boundaries".

In short, a finite game is played with the purpose of winning (thus ending the game), while an infinite game is played with the purpose of continuing the play.
There handful of proprietary software I actually pay for because I personally think they are by far the best tools of the trade. For creative writing I think I have found the best solution in form of Scrinver.

It has been simply the best tool I have used to write my novels.
"Seattle, where she came after college in Utah to study musical theater"

Newsflash, Millenials: there has never been a time to my knowledge when you tell someone you're working on a degree in "musical theater" and their response would not be, "oh, studying to be a waiter, eh?"

"Tech, they say, means military drones, loss of privacy and cyberbullying."

Don't worry, you won't be working at any of the companies involved after your javascript bootcamp. Chin up, tech also means accounting systems at insurance companies. It won't be exciting work, but it'll pay better than musical theater. (Tech also means that phone you can't quit staring at, so if you'd like help off that high horse...)
>You probably don't want to give away specific numbers, but in generally, how is the profitability of selling on Kindle versus paperback?

Not OP, but I've sold thousands of ebooks, but only a few dozen paperbacks.

Paperbacks are for people with distribution networks and warehouses. As a self-publisher, we are relying on electronic distribution to cut the overhead costs. Profit per unit is about the same between the two, but we can sell more ebooks because the cost to the customer is only a bout a 1/3 compared to print.

Mostly print copies are for promotion. Handing them out as free prizes/gifts are a great way to build readers.
Some must recall the drama that was the launch of Steam.

If I recall, it was optional for CounterStrike1.4, but then required for CS1.6.

The PC bunch were crying that they'd never use this DRM'd buggy POS.

That must have been 16+ years ago. Steam has come a long way since then, and has been credited [0] with helping reduce PC game piracy over the years. Likely because steam just works for the most part, and is as easy if not easier than the alternative.

I just don't see how Facebook can really disrupt this given Steams head start and positive mind share (not to mention the libraries of games that users have likely accrued over the years)

0: http://www.digital-digest.com/news-62904-PC-Gaming-Piracy-On...
Aren't car warranties for time and mileage, whatever is reached first? That already takes care of commercial use, I'd think.
The typical such user has a long history of breaking the rules here, getting banned, and creating new accounts.

I'm hoping that you base your moderating decisions on the actions of the user in question ("human behind the keyboard" user regardless of account name) and not the "typical such user"? Do you have evidence that you are chosing not to release that 'james-watson' is such a user?

Most HN readers would be surprised to learn how small the number of users generating all this drama really is.

Perhaps there would be some way to publicly enlighten us about the serial offenders? For example, maybe you could explain the full backstory of why this post was killed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12313089.

In and of itself, it doesn't appear to be too egregious, and thus it would appear to bolster the poster's argument. But presumably there is more to the story?

this crappy, horribly run echo chamber again

The most interesting thing to me is that there are often multiple conflicting "echo chamber" claims in flight, with each side feeling like the lone outcast. There's an excellent example even in this subthread right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12308842 (I'm referring to the back-and-forth in the thread, rather than the individual comment I linked).

To some, HN is a hotbed of socialism, and to others the epitome of evil capitalism. My recent conclusion is that (counterintuitively) HN is frequently accused of being an "echo chamber" because it has greater diversity of opinion than most other spaces online. The truly anechoic chambers aren't called out as such because the filtering is so effective, whereas "leaky" spaces like HN are assigned the label.

[Edit: I just noticed that "anechoic" doesn't quite fit the narrative here, but don't know how to reword it. The point was supposed to be that full echo chambers and anechoic chambers may have more in common with each other than each does with the points in the middle.]

Perversely, this might mean that accusations of being an echo chamber is a good metric for diversity of opinion. If the norm is that one lives in a world where one normally hears no fundamental disagreement, it can be disconcerting to be in a place where there is no clear "right way of thinking". Only when people stop proclaiming it to be an echo chamber is the canary dead.
I don't use LinkedIn.
I think that IT has become a code word for being a tech worker in a company, rather than a worker in a tech company.
Lisp first ran on a vacuum tube computer, it was definitely "small", and it can certainly run fairly nicely on current "small" machines, although not "very small" like I recall of Forth.

Smalltalk's machines weren't all that large by today's standards, memory was 128kB, expandable to 512kB per Wikipedia, but expansions were addressable only by bank switching. 128kB is the same memory budget as the Unix PDP-11/45's for a single process.
Reported by Meredith Frost of ABC, Margret Hamilton celebrates her 80th birthday this week ~ https://twitter.com/MeredithFrost/status/766029299858173953
>>Did you mean to say that none of the 2000 systems you have under management is an Apple System?

Yes

>>That would be very unusual for a technology company, where being able to use Apple gear to get work done is a pre-requisite for a lot of engineers considering applying for a job.

Where did I say I work for a technology company? We do have alot of Engineers however, Mechanical and Electrical. None of them use Apple.

Further I assume by "engineer" you mean software developers, I know a TON of devs that will not touch apple with a 10 foot pole. They us Linux or nothing.

Of course I also avoid silicon valley like the black death so....

>Downside, is there isn't the same type of "Onsite, 4 hour repair service" that companies like Dell offer.

This is what we have. We use Dell and Lenovo Mainly
He's trolling.

Edit: After reading their comment history, maybe not..
>My life in the Minneapolis strongly resembles my former life in Seattle. I have walkable/bikeable neighborhoods

You do? Even when it's -40? I find this very, very hard to believe.

I can bike in the drizzling rain with little trouble. Biking when it's -40 is a no-go, it's a good way to get frostbite and hypothermia.