skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what is meant by bullshit. Yes, if it meant that the study was absolutely wrong. No, if it meant that the study failed to provide any evidence whatsoever that there exists a correlation.

In science guess who has the burden?

In a legal context the burden of proof is broken down into the burden of production and the burden of persuasion. If you fail to meet the burden of production it's fair to say a claim is bullsh*t. It necessarily follows that if you haven't met the burden of production you cannot have met the burden of persuasion as a logical matter.

Remember, any claim must stand on its own terms. It doesn't matter what is the reality or truth of the matter. We can never know the absolute truth of something. We can only attain a slightly firmer grip on reality when people propose persuasive arguments. Maybe you can mine a failed argument for useful bits, but a good rule of thumb is that it's not worth the time if the argument cannot even meet a minimal burden. If it wasn't worth the claimant's time why would it be worth yours? That's strong circumstantial evidence to move on.
A few months ago I made this project

https://github.com/juanpabloaj/markdowntorrent

the content is fetched from torrents, currently the pages are down because their torrents seed are down.

when I made the project, I can't resolve to the question, how you can get the url of the content of your interest?
Nope. Xcode 8 is supported on El Cap and Sierra. not sure about Yosemite.
If you'll coordinate an effort to get florinated products into the hands of everyone in the US who can't afford them, I'll agree with you.
A close relative is vegan for ethical reasons. I looooooove sending articles like this to her :-)
Well said, thanks!
The biggest "easier to develop" thing for me is the ability to have the SPA separate from the server. Being able to deploy beta builds, one-off builds, etc makes it MUCH easier to diagnose production problems.

So, I guess I'm saying that it allows for much shorter iteration times, ability to experiment with solutions in the production environment without requiring complicated server solutions.

Granted, that also lets me build experiences that weren't possible, because I can experiment more and have a faster feedback loop, but for me, it's because I can DEV better.
It's not curated. People used to be asked to repost their content if the admins thought it was interesting, but this no longer occurs. (This turned into a system that could automatically repost content considered interesting; I've stopped posting stories as often, so I'm not sure if it still happens.)

Furthermore, there are protections against vote rings. If, for example, someone votes directly on the URL for a story, or if the referrer is often the same, those votes are discarded.

However, you're right that the algorithm has evolved over time. Visit https://news.ycombinator.com/classic to see the previous algorithm in action.
People who are being sexist usually don't think they're being sexist - they don't usually have "ill intent." See the first comment in that thread for someone's thought process in realizing this.
100%? No. More than USB? Yes.
Wasn't even that long ago. In 2006, the CSU I was at still used your SSN for everything - including logging into the computers. This particular school has since changed this, but I wouldn't be surprised if the practice is still used elsewhere.
I would probably be a NEET (or barely E-human) if it wasn't for SSRIs, despite being a (I think) competent programmer who wrote code since being 13 years old. Medication lets me manage my disdain for what a typical human like me has to do to earn their bread - mostly pointless, mostly useless (or even socially harmful, hello ad world) stuff. I'm in tech, but I know some people who are close to being NEET and are on the more "artsy" side. I suspect some of that comes from lack of mental strength to handle the reality that you need to suck it up and waste 1/2 of your day, every day, doing stuff of dubious value, in order to stay a respectable (and fed) human being.

(In case you think this is just laziness, it's not - look at the hobby craft world. People can do a lot of hard, difficult work, as long as they have any say in what they do. It seems that a lot of people crave more autonomy now.)

That's why I'm hopeful about basic income idea - it seems like a way to give more autonomy to people who do not have the grit to fight for it on the job market. A way to channel this untapped productivity.
Porting Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine from PC to N64 (2001)
The article quotes CB Insights. CB Insights covers all dealflow (that they know of), not just AngelList.
While not all cases go to trial, it is important to know what your chances would be at trial with that particular firm. This is the same metric that the other side will primarily look at when considering the terms of any settlement.

Therefore, I disagree that this post "becomes bullshit" merely because it relies on trial outcomes.
> Or else what happens?

In the extreme case (the empty program), there is no more code left to remove. It suffices that any proper subset of the code is insufficient to provide the needed functionality, though.

> It should be considered finished.

And yet you obtain a cleaner version of the finished program by adding superfluous code to it. In fact, every unfinished version (a version where you can still remove code) of the program is cleaner than a finished version (where there is no code left to remove) of it.

> Not true in my experience. Unfortunately.

Removing the code is reverting back to the previous version. How is that not easy to do?

> Sometimes it's necessary to add some code, e.g., a new driver for a new item of hardware. I have nothing against adding, per se.

But that changes the requirements, and thus changes which code can be removed.

However, the point was that you could obtain an arbitrarily clean version of a program by adding redundant code to it—since it's easy to remove that code, it is cleaner than the irredundant version of the program.
As another Coloradoan there are extracts that can be inhaled in a vapor that could be useful if the smoke is an issue might be worth talking to your doctor.

When my mother was passing from cancer she didn't like the edible formats since they take a long time to kick in and it can be hard to determine an hour out how much pain or nausea she would be experiencing.

Vapor and smoking seemed to be a great way to get a fast dose to decrease suffering.
This is definitely one of the main takeaways that I wanted to get across.
Hey, I want in on this action! I live in Hillcrest and work in Poway!
Certainly, not everything is a nail.
Depends, how much energy is used in making cables that break, get lost ? Even though building the wireless adapter endpoints will also be costly ... hmm
Teenager uncovers route to free Web surfing on T-Mobile network
The difference is that the autoworkers were organized and used collective bargaining to capture more value.
Yeah I was being a little flippant.
How does telling someone to smile cheer them up? Besides, you can be cheerful but not smile.
"map", "select", "reduce", "flat_map" and the like make your intention visible upfront. "each" just tells me you're doing "something" with each item.

Not sure how giving less information is preferred over being explicit, but hey, whatever works for you.
Weird article. AngelList is raising money to make new investments and reports an unrealized 46% IRR, and that somehow makes for a gloomy story.
I had to check the date of the article.
Mentioning Eclipse and the speed of the emulator ?
When has this guy worked on Android for the last time ? 3 years ago ?

This sounds like a joke article tbh.
I worked on applying machine learning algorithms to data mined from court judgments during my PhD. You want to know what we learned? That it's better to be white and rich than black and poor. Point. Everything else was bullshit.
Any conference will make sure that at least VGA is available

I can't remember the last time I was presenting at a conference and they didn't have a Mini DisplayPort cable available. Macs are popular enough for presenting that it's a non-issue everywhere I've been.
Classic speed vs. throughput.

Also a bit of an outdated mental model. Had the privilege of touring the tesla factory recently... one neat tidbit that stuck with me is the host described "the line" more like a river with many tributaries joining in all along the watershed.

So if you wanted to have a non-softball engineering discussion about "the line", you would ask questions like which tributaries are the bottlenecks, how much parallelism is there, are improvements marginal or do you wholesale upgrade entire sublines at once, what's the caching strategy, etc.
If it is the right time right now I am not sure about, but inevitably, Swift will be a massive, widespread programming language community. Actually, it already is, but right now 90% of the people using it are iOS developers. However, if you are interested in Swift for Linux and backend development, check out Vapor, Kitura, Perfect, or any of the other web frameworks. In light of the recent 3.0 release, I think it is a great time to get involved and learn Swift.
But philosophers do spend a lot of time on such formal, sober, lab coat style analysis of rational arguments and language and so on.

Just like how computer scientists spend a lot of time working on stuff like type theory (which of course has strong ties to 20th century philosophy, even to the positivists in some ways) which could be seen as anemic or formalistic or whatever.

I have sympathy for people who have burning life-and-death questions but to me it seems somewhat foolish to look for their answers in philosophy. Wearing my philosophy dabbler's hat, questions like that mostly seem like they have a feeling of urgency because they are confused and emotionally charged, and I (somewhat condescendingly, if you'll let it slide) suggest careful analysis of the premises and definitions involved, to maybe attain a less urgent and stressful state of mind.

Someone might find it extremely important to find the answer to the question of whether God is real. There are certainly philosophers who have written fervently about it, say Kierkegaard. But I think of the quiet kind of passion of someone like Spinoza, who in a way sidestepped that whole urgent question, and did it very carefully, analytically, and productively.

Mostly I think people will find their own allegiances and ways. Philosophy is very broad and diverse. If one school operates in a way you dislike, what's there to do but find another one? Or start one...
Also, being a Lawyer, if someone comes to me, it's because of me, not because of the firm I am working in. And trying to rank lawyers? Why not. But what's the point. I wouldn't accept being ranked anyway.
> Since Apple clearly intends for users to leave their buds in throughout all of their daily activities, from work to commuting to travel to exercise

I thought they don't last more than 5 hours. Wasn't that an issue?
There are rational, non-envy-based reasons to object to all the hero-worship. For example, all the things "he" did above were actually done by big teams of people working together, but Elon gets all the credit. He deserves credit, but not all of it.

And let's not forget the millions of people who worked to generate wealth that could be transferred via, and taxed by, PayPal, accruing the fortune with which to start all these projects in the first place. If I didn't "know better" I'd be tempted to conclude that the luck of being in the right place at the right time with a good idea, is the main difference between Elon and the rest, or at least that any intrinsic differences are not as great as you might think. Heck I'm a "visionary" too, just add one billion dollars and tons of free time and see what I come up with! (Campaign coming soon to Kickstarter, LOL)

Man is at once animal and rational, and sometimes the rational side reacts against our own animalistic urge to designate an alpha ape and worship only that one ape. Many of us got into technology as a way of breaking down this same kind of bullshit hierarchy that you can find in so many other places & domains of human life. Technology was supposed to be the great equalizer. In some cases it has worked that way but in others it has only amplified the disequilibrium. It seems we can't escape our inner ape.

Therefore is it "technologists" to whom you should be appealing here for greater reverence? Maybe it's not your technological side, but your ape side, that wants to be more reverent.
No, mosh doesn't work like that. You can turn off the network connection in one of the nodes (both the server and the client) for hours and when they come back you still have your session like it was before the connection dropped.

I do this everyday on the client side (taking my laptop to work, opening the lid and having my session going on), and sometime on the server side as well.
Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note7 Smartphones Due to Serious Fire and Burn Hazards
Part of the content problem is that the market/platform is very much immature. It's like being a web developer in 1993. The total market is small, I think there are slightly more than 100k vives. That's tiny. The tools aren't terrible, but they're not great... they're mostly designed for traditional game development, and VR is tacked on top. Libraries are sparse... It's just really early.
I remember some people complaining about it some time ago, thanks for pointing that out then. :D
My Motherland: Finding–and writing–the worlds where only I had been
I'm more interested in what was going on before the visit, because the myth is that Jobs was like Prometheus. To counter that myth, we must look into what people knew earlier. Quoting from the Standford link I mentioned before, at http://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html :

> Both the Macintosh and Lisa projects were underway before the 1979 visit. Documents in The Book of Macintosh (a collection of essays, technical specs, and brainstorms written by Jef Raskin on and others) dating from the fall of 1979-- months before the PARC visit-- show that the Macintosh was going to feature user-friendly interfaces; a screen that could handle multiple fonts (that is, bitmapped screens); graphics capabilities; and a graphical input device

It also comments that the myth "assumes that Xerox PARC's ideas weren't well-known before Apple engineers saw them, or had even been actively kept hidden from public view." I see echos of that in your own comment that Smalltalk was a secret. As that Stanford link points out "Bill Atkinson had read about Smalltalk as an undergraduate. Some had worked at PARC: Jef Raskin spent time there during a sabbatical year at Stanford, and had a number of friends who were researchers there."

I think you have misremembered the part about Smalltalk and overlapping windows being a secret? Ingalls wrote "The Smalltalk-76 programming system design and implementation" for POPL '78, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages (doi:10.1145/512760.512762). It shows overlapping windows for figures 1-3, where figure 1 is "A typical Smalltalk display." It also has "if the stylus is depressed within the window, the content is
redisplayed, thus showing it “in front of” the other windows", which is a description of how overlapping windows works.

As some additional background, you mentioned "forced by management to show Steve Jobs all the secret stuff". This is because, and quoting again from that Stanford link, "Xerox's venture capital arm had recently made an investment in Apple, and had agreed to show Apple what was going on in its lab."

A lab, by the way, which received thousands of visitors each year.
Show HN: Enhance python interpreter to automatically save your work as a script
Consumer Product Safety Commission Issues Official Recall for the Galaxy Note 7
I'm having a tough time figuring out whether this is a joke. Who's the target audience? What need are you filling? How are people meeting this need now?
How to build reliable stuff on time?

But the answer might be shorter.
The real story is 46% unrealized returns on 2013 syndicate investments. Which is in the upper top quartile of VC.

And A-List, a premium recruiting product for busy companies. That complements our free recruiting product with 180K active candidates.

Down markets are a good time to invest, but we're not anticipating one.

http://angel.co/returns http://alist.co
You can have the new thing without destroying the old thing.

OK. So every computer needs to have, at minimum, multiple USB ports, probably at least one type C USB port, a PS/2 port (really at least two PS/2 ports), a serial port, an ethernet jack, a CD-ROM drive, a floppy drive, a VGA port, a DVI port, probably an optical audio port, an HDMI port, a pair of audio ports for stereo out, an SD slot and a 3.5mm headphone/microphone jack.

After all, it's wrong to destroy the old things just because there are new things. So I'm sure you'll get busy right now starting up a company to make computers that come with all of these and they'll sell like hotcakes, right?
Instead of microservices, I split my projects in tons of libraries and think of them as products, enforcing a well thought of and consistent api (usage api, not http one). I call that an atomized monolith.

I get the cool things about microservices: properly isolated functionalities, ability to assign a team on it, simplicity of code and considering each feature as important, not just "that thing in the codebase".

But it also have all the good parts of monolith: easy deployment and local setup, aggregation made easy, and ability to run integration tests.

For my rails projects, geminabox was of great use for me to achieve this, as it allowed me to host private gems. Lately, I've done a lot of golang, and was surprised to see how it's a natural pattern with go packages.

Only hurting part for ruby projects: keeping dependencies up to date in all those libs (since they all have their test suite, it means that I at least have to update them for test dependencies). To solve this, I've built some tooling that will update all my project automatically and create merge requests for them, running from a cron task.
Having spent the last 12 years of my life wrapped up in a civil trial related to estate law and learned a ton along the way about how lawyers have failed me, I would much rather have known how often a firm's cases go to trial and if not, which way the case went.

It will take _years_ before your case actually goes to trial and you will meet plenty of lawyers along the way if you aren't careful who will happily fuck off with your money. And you'll have to sue them separately to deal with that, if you even have the energy to spare.

Good luck having a full-time job through that mess.
Samsung Recalls About 1M Galaxy Note7 Smartphones
I dunno. There are more Teslas than Fords around here. Perhaps the revolution is not evenly distributed.
This entire subthread is just stereotype bingo. Small communities are numerous and diverse.
"china" and "bubble" makes for more clickable headlines?
> The pattern I have noticed is of above average intelligence, many even brilliant, who would have thrived if the world had only given them a push, but left to their own devices commit slow, masturbatory suicides.

I don't know the same people you do, but for the people I know, I think they could be thriving if the world would stop pulling. They don't need a push. They need to have a way of doing things on their own without ending up in extreme poverty. We were not designed for the increasingly complicated and demanding market economy. Some of us can't handle it.
I presume these assets were bought so they would have a competitor to Google's Project Tango if it takes off.

The first Tango phone from LG is far too big and underpowered but future Android phones could have this stuff built in unobtrusively. Couple that with better AR games (a new version of Pokemon GO, for instance) and Apple will badly need something similar to compete.
They didn't quite do their homework, see update below article:

"The SEC filing statement from 2014 blankets any future anticipated testing and is not indicative of specific partners."
I wonder why the transcript is linked from scribd. It makes me download their app and doesn't even open the document.

Why can't this just be good old HTML than a scribd walled garden? A horrible interface with ads shoved on your face.
> Its just not something we're familiar with, and that's really the only problem. Its hard to force language on people, when everyone learns language effortlessly as they grow up, nobody is used to putting effort in how they talk.

I don't think that's the only problem here. Consider this story: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/08/03/student-facing-50-...

These sorts of situations are a direct result of the battle "to force language on people", and they are having a big effect on our society. Sethi paid a high cost for a single tweet that wasn't intended to be malicious in any way. And people who read such stories note this, and as a result feel like they must tread on eggshells, because, even though they aren't racist or sexist or any other ist, one small slip up may result in their entire education or career being put at risk.

A populous that is scared to say anything is much easier to control. And I think the powerful are going to get what they want with this. In a couple of decades, I think free speech will be a distant memory, and people like yourself will be questioning the future you helped bring about.
That, and the keyspace is sparsely populated, since the prefix is geographically assigned.
Don't look at the puck's position, look at the first derivative.
My favorite is still the cradle with contact pins that were on the original nexus one phones, no need to plug anything in, no need to align with magnetic grippers, just drop it in the cradle and it worked. Why did that ever go away?
SpaceX could also end up having a huge effect on the availability and affordability of high speed internet access.
Sure, tuition was cheaper. Doesn't mean it was cheap. And when future you is talking to a 20-year-old, they'll be lambasting you about how easy your life was when a 4-year degree from a public instituion only cost you $80,000.

If you're truly ignorant of the subprime mortgage crisis a few years back, you can check out The Big Short (book or movie, but I'm told the book is much better) for good insight into history and mechanics.

Point is that the economy has changed a LOT in the last 15 years, and lots and lots of people suffered. Generation X is not the Baby Boom generation. I think you sound a bit foolish/ignorant appropriating the "Baby Boomers ruined the economy!" rhetoric and applying it to the generation-and-a-half that followed them.
Chrome and Firefox Block Pirate Bay Over “Harmful Programs”
I'm from Chicago, which isn't a small town and isn't in the south, and the federal courts have had plenty to say. What have the federal courts had to say about every small town in the south again?