skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the definition of what? "Bias", "own bias", or "human"?

I don't know about "human", but being "biased" is something like "consistently straying from the truth in spite of available information", but there's nothing right there that says that everyone must be biased. In so far as someone is biased, they cannot be free from their "own biases" only in the same sense that I cannot think anyone's thoughts but my own. Still, nothing stops them from trying to improve.

Now, if you mean that we cannot avoid living in some particular information bubble, that's not a bias (at least in the psychological sense). That's an issue of incomplete information.
Those are all goals that with a little work should be surmountable.

When CS majors or programmers estimate how fast/efficient code is they generally are intuitively applying big 'O' notation or some similar concept. This can be gained from an intro level algorithms class. Or you could look up and read about the topic.

The classical coding interview questions mostly stem from an intro algorithms and data structures class. Or you could get a book on interview prep and work through a couple a day.

Finally, the coding style issue usually is ancillary knowledge and not found (or at least not done well) in typical CS curricular. I would suggest the book "Clean Code" by Robert Martin. It goes through code smells, commenting, general style, and is well written.

So overall, you could look at Algorithms and Data Structures MOOC's. Also read a book on CS interview prep and writing maintainable code. Hope this helps a little. Good Luck!
Note for every Indian: never accept Rs 500/1000 even from known people anymore (there will be too much fake notes circulating these days).
I have a RetroPi setup with a ton of games that plays great... I'll still be picking one of these up on the 11th.
Great point! I love NPR podcasts. In particular (and relevant to the HN community), I like From Scratch and How I Built This.
I've found that adding a simple configuration makes tmux a) nicer to look at b) somewhat more intuitive (the default colors made the screen confusing to me.)

This is my current configuration: https://gist.github.com/dguaraglia/f15f39f339545041845612a5b...

With that and using tmuxp to manage a context for each of my projects, I can quickly "launch" a project and have a window with an editing pane, a pane to run tests and a pane to run deployment commands/anything else, all of the panes are already using the correct Python virtualenv, etc.

This is a pretty comprehensive cheatsheet: https://gist.github.com/MohamedAlaa/2961058
Real estate? No. What builder/seller would want to stock up 500/1000 notes?

Same for gold. How much can one goldsmith/jeweller's revenue increase in a year? Same for agricultural income. Can you suddenly declare 500% increase? (Oh well, agriculture income could have been declared earlier too anyway).
The Nokia N95 was VERY similar to first iPhones. Heck, Steve Jobs is even quoted (quoting Picasso) as saying "Good artists copy; great artists steal"[1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/au/news/what-steve-jobs-really-meant-wh...
There's a present fad to seek out and support female contenders, and this makes those with good intentions meaty targets for those inclined to exploit good intentions.

It's not that women are less capable, it's that there's an angle where well meaning individuals may be exploited by predators.

In a way, it's flattery to claim that there may exist women who are aware of this opportunity and are exploiting it.
There seems to be considerable disagreement in the field. Why is it news (I really would like to know!)?

+ Kobakhidze explaining neutron experiments: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4161

+ http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4289/is-gravity-a...

+ Lubos Motl: http://motls.blogspot.nl/2010/01/erik-verlinde-why-gravity-c... and http://motls.blogspot.nl/2010/01/erik-verlinde-comments-abou...

It's nice to see that also experts in these highly specified fields quarrel about what it means to be "entropic" and "irreversible", etc.
SKY have recently rolled out IPv6 suuport to nearly all customers: https://corporate.sky.com/media-centre/news-page/2016/sky-co...

I use AAISP as my ISP and they have been providing IPv6 for a very long time: http://aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-ipv6.html
How Bitcoin protects against geopolitical risk
I've never seen someone screw up a Chromebook and it takes less than 120 seconds to reset it to scratch and reload your profile.
I'm not sure why people are not focusing as much on the other major issue this step was taken for - Terrorism funding and economic destabilization attempts from across the border.

It is known that massive amounts of fake currency is circulating in the economy that have been brought in from Pakistan (kind of like a silent proxy war). Even though the current currency had measures to be distinguished from the fake ones, it was difficult to do so by the common person on the street. The RBI chief has mentioned that the new notes would make it much more difficult to replicate and should be easier to distinguish by a layman.

The above, along with the other massive benefits of addressing the black money issue, this move is definitely a winner. The introduction of UPI (Unified Payments Interface) [1] earlier this year and the heavier black money scrutiny will definitely help India move to a relatively more cashless economy.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-will-the-UPI-interface-of-NPCI-cha...
The German car manufacturers have a GDP share of 400 billion, out of a German GDP of 3 trillion Euros.
I'm curious to hear from anyone with a Groovy background that has worked with Kotlin as well.
I still do use RSS and it works well for me.
Just curious, for such a big system, how the quality of such a large service system is assured? Even just for a single state.
It's questionable however for those who own the games they have ROMs for. If you bought and paid for them, but prefer to play them on the PC are you really harming them by playing it on a different media?

I'm not taking a side, just saying it's debatable for sure.
Really sleek view of the results. Thought this loaded unusually fast and looking at the code, all scripts are defer asynced at the bottom.

The data seems to be polled every 10 seconds from https://intf.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/11-08-election-foreca...
The Prediction Market for Politics
5:30 PM in Seattle on a weekday is peak traffic, 1 in 5 daily use vehicles are on the road.

So in a hypothetical wherein Robotaxis have acheived full penetration, maybe we'll need 1/3 of the vehicles we use today.

There would likely be a lot less steel in those vehicles as well, since they'd largely be optimized for single commuters, and would need less of the redundancies built into current cars for safety.
It's less about this election specifically, more about the political insanity that has been our government for the last 4-8 years.

Personally, I've lost a few hours of productivity over this election cycle, but that's a tiny cost compared to the kinds of damage that a long list of governmental fiascos has created. I blame insanely, irrationally tribal politics and demagoguery for much of it.
1A current in a standard 10 gauge wire has a drift velocity of 23m/s, the wave propagation is dependant on quite a few other factors.
The SNES controller is on a 20mA loop, with short to ground IIRC and the wire is likely to be 18 or 20 gauge, the velocity is still not nearly as high as you think, since the loop is interrupted you also have a delay on the sense line.
Overall a 30ft cable adds about 2-3ms of latency to the controller...
You're a fucking tough guy.
Gamers' lack of understanding of the speed of data along a copper wire has made a lot of money for accessory manufacturers
Can somebody please objectively fill me in on what caused the failure of Theranos? Is it a scam from the get go? I had high hopes after reading the profile of their CEO.
Having played around with diaspora* (awful name), I don't think it can replace Facebook, unfortunately. Like Twitter it doesn't rely on people's real names nor are there good options for chat or making private or public groups or events. However, it could potentially be a good replacement for twitter. We need a good decentralized social network that has good design all around, code, gui, ux etc. which is hard to find atm. Ello is also quite nice, but not free, open and decentralized as diaspora which is a deal breaker for me when discussing new social media services.

Btw, could anyone enlighten me on why jabber (xmmp?) never took off in any major way? It seems nice?
Assuming you and your ship weights 1kg, it would take 9.8 gigawatts just to get it to hover in Earths gravity.

This is roughly half the solar output of Germany at noon or about the same energy as the Space Shuttles boosters. Basically, if these engines prove out, they will only be used in space.
No. I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not at this point, but "Er" is a horrible way to open a comment. Assigning a strawman position to someone you disagree with is equally horrible.

I've gladly purchased Jetbrains products in the past (and other dev tools as well). Noticing that a company is intent on capturing all consumer surplus they possibly can and disliking them for it is not the same as deciding they're "evil" for charging anything to begin with. Before moving to their subscription / hostageware "pay up or be forcibly downgraded model", I happily broke out the credit card and paid for Jetbrains offerings. I don't begrudge them that they sell software.

They just got too greedy and consumer backlash like this is the inevitable result.
ARMv6? v7? v8? AArch32? Aarch64? x86? x86_64?

:}

I'm working right now on a system that mixes Aarch32 and Aarch64 cores. Communication between these cores has to be rock-solid.

Previously, I worked on a DSP architecture that could switch at runtime between a 16-bit more and a 24-bit mode. I still sometimes have nightmares. A particular bug that took months to resolve involved app code that expected one mode and interrupts that went into another. The compiler did the right thing most of the time. Most of the time.
/r/Politics 2016 Election Highlights Thread
I've had the fortunate opportunity to have a couple 30-minute 1:1 conversations with Ben. His humility is always what I find the most striking. I think that's why he's been so successful at pivoting from 1000 users to over 100 million users. He is always trying to learn and improve as a CEO-founder. Maybe someday the company will outgrow him, but he will always be an inspiration to me..

*Caveat, I work for Pinterest.
I just switched my mom from Skype to talky.io and I'm never going back. Try it out (or any of the million other free webrtc sites)!
The paper in question: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kgKijo-p0ibm94VUY0TVktQlU...
Would you please calculate the drift velocity and the propagation velocity of the wave and the interrupt delay on the loop sense?
One opinion: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/05/theranos-cul...
Indeed. Feedly does a nice job of presenting rss items. I actually feel lucky that websites are still using rss.
Email Chatbot – TT Easily Manages Your Network Relationships
UCSF Tech Workers Train Their Foreign Replacements
Good point. Rob, the creator of Aurelia, left the Angular team after he decided that Angular 2 was not following standards to his liking. He has pointed out repeatedly on the blog and in interviews that Google is not committed to Angular in the sense that many companies commit to their products, whereas Blue Spire's business model is 100% dedicated to supporting Aurelia and nothing else. Google does not make money from Angular, a lot of internal stuff (most internal stuff?) at Google is not built with Angular, and Google could drop support for Angular at any time.
Even if Twitter itself is not saved, whatever springs up in it's place is likely going to have similar problems with harassment.
GoPro is recalling its Karma drone
Hmm. I learned about E&M theory from Halliday and Resnick, and the practical stuff from Horowitz and Winfield (The Art of Electronics) and they were pretty precise about distinctions between electrons, holes, charge, flow of charge, and so forth. Sounds like I dodged a bullet by not being drawn too much to electronics as a youth, waiting instead to learn about it as a college physics major.
The papers [1] says on page 33 that the measured performance is more than two orders of magnitude better than light sails. Given that light sails are more or less considered a viable technology, it seems quite reasonable that you could get this working if you could manufacture huge and light enough solar cells.

But I personally would not hold my breath - if I had to decide between quite radical new physics and measurement errors, I would certainly pick measurement errors. It seems way more likely that this is a case of faster than light neutrinos than the key to interplanetary or even interstellar travel.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kgKijo-p0ibm94VUY0TVktQlU...
Good argument. A counter example is wikileaks this election cycle. They would not have had a platform if it were not for Twitter. Lots of great discussion was enabled because of the Twitter platform. I don't think people would have organically gone to their website.
I understand, I really do, but consider that in the sadness and duty of clearing things out, she held memories in her hands. Some would have been treasured. She would have smiled more than once.

That she spent so long doing this also suggests it may have been cathartic for her.

That said, I keep very, very little myself, but for different reasons (I simply don't need anywhere near the stuff I have and tend to clean ruthlessly every now and again).

I will also suggest that gifts given years ago have far less value now.
> I'm not sure Facebook really solved any problem

- I want to stay in touch with my social circle but just dont have time and/or physical presence to do this

- I like to see what my social peers are doing in life but lose contact.

- I like to tell the world what I am up to.

Maybe not saving the world, but absolutely problem solving. 100% agree with you on doing something cool (with in reason of some business potential) as any new business is a roll of the dice. You may as well roll on something you enjoy regardless of outcome.
Theranos might have had the opportunity to quietly go away if the CEO were not apparently dead set on being dragged out of the picture kicking and screaming. Short of that, Holmes seems hell bent on proving she really completely deserves to be worth $10B and don't let the facts confuse you, her mind is made up.

Much of the sympathy I initially had for her has dissipated.
Theranos has got to be my favorite tech story of the year, possibly of the decade. There's nothing quite as satisfying as the schadenfreude of watching an "elite" who got by for years on charm, connections, hot air and wealth finally get called on their BS and go down in flames so publicly!

There are plenty of hard working, talented tech people out there with grit and integrity and even actual products, held back by their lack of deep-pocketed Ivy-league connections. Yet borderline fraud gets funded and gushed over by the press. If there's justice in the world, the Theranos drama is a sliver of it.
My coworker and I worked super hard for 6 months to develop a feature that was new and innovative to the consulting company I was working for. They made us do tech sales to sell our POC to win projects, and we did win many.

One day, a coworker we had never heard of approached us and asked to answer an exhaustive set of questions about our POC. I did.

Subsequently, he asked for a detailed cookbook to reproduce the whole thing. I gave it to him. He was dumb enough to not be able to understand/use it even with everything in hand.

After a week, he freaked out and said there were a team of 8 in a foreign country at client location (been for 6 months) getting paid to implement the prototype. They got nothing!

My CTO steps in and says, "The project delivery is in danger, so you work on the whole thing and finish it, and those 8 guys will pretend to the paying customers that it was their work and will forward any further questions to you again."
I claimed it was unethical, (to claim credit for someone else's work), and that I'd be happy to work on that project, as long as my name was on it. The customers knew me because everything started with my presentation of the POC earlier.

CTO said No, and I walked out.

Probably the best decision I made myself. I switched jobs, saved some money, went to Grad school, and at a better job now.
Hypothetical: if you deploy a webpage for a time-limited event (e.g. vote results) with an async update cycle, what options for throttling do you have if your load exceeds expectations? Is there a best practices for having a server-controlled "Plan B" throttling mechanism?

I'm making the assumption that the majority of users will load the page and leave it running unmodified.
The nicest part of GNU Social is its federation. It means unlike all the nonstop complaints about 140 character limits or Twitter not using / using too much Bootstrap design sense, anyone can have their own federated server with easily resolvable names like email.

So rather than having to raise alarmist blog posts about "saving twitter", any one GNU Social service can go down and the rest will keep on working fine without them. You can finally have a competitive market of social networks - in the same way all cars have the same gas nozzles and take the same oil, its time for all the social media message transports to standardize on an open protocol, the same way instant messaging needs to standardize on Matrix.
I think you're confusing deduction with speculation. I'm fully aware of the difference between language openness and "freedom of choice for consumption". I just don't agree with the wisdom in tying my workflow to a company like Jetbrains.
This is why apostrophies are important - "Simpson's paradox" is the paradox belonging to Simpson. "The Simpsons Paradox" is a paradox named after "The Simpsons"

And don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Pleasant side-effects include forcing a clear cogent point by eschewing excess verbiage. I personally find the 140 limit a useful antidote to the waffling academia trained me to employ in my writing.
That's really cool. I'm a linux user who lusts after all the cool stuff in iTerm2, so I appreciate what you are trying to do.
Well that's gonna make it tough to raise another round.
They're gonna have to have a solution for harassment out of the gate, otherwise they'll suffer the same fate.
Agree with the ivy league bullshit
Who wrote "the originals"? Google only seems to know about a Vampire series of that name.
It might not take that long given the right tech. You'd need a legit fusion reactor, and enough material to build an long mass ejector and start shooting 0.01c ice pellets into the outer solar system, driving the rest of Ceres toward Mars.
The same mass ejectors could be tuned to bombard Mars with ice at a much lower speed later, if needed for terraforming.
You and my late father would have gotten along. His theory was that the death penalty should involve hanging people and re-using the same rope to keep it cheap. When it finally breaks, commute that individual's sentence and get a new rope to continue on with the next person.
I don't understand how a company based in the US and one that requires a phone number can make any kind of claims about security or privacy, without being looked on as a honeypot untill it redeems itself with evidence to the contrary.

Why would a privacy centric protocol choose to use a phone number which directly connects a user to their identity. How can this make sense?

There is enough evidence most US based companies are in bed with the nsa, compromised or can be easily compromised.

Companies or open source projects can be bullied and threatened by government officals, legally forced to give up their users, gagged and forced to betray users, co-opted, infiltrated or compromised. Lavabit has already happened.

Why do we need encryption, security or privacy? If it is exclusively against state actors then we know its a serious challenge against extremely powerful, well resourced, and legally empowered actors and illusions of privacy, hand flailing 'something is better than nothing' and half baked measures won't do.

It's reasonable then to expect any solution claiming security or privacy in this context to explicitly spell out how they address or plan to address these threat models. The alternative is acting in bad faith and making users vulnerable.
What I did was buy a for $80 bucks the original console. $20 for a new pin so games played right away, and got a 150 in 1 cartridge.

30 games? Pfff.
The leaked report:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kgKijo-p0ibm94VUY0TVktQlU...
Why do I care about them? They still most likely made more money than I'll see in my lifetime for not doing anything other than having money.
The existing industry has rigorous standards that have been established over decades of tragedies.

Theranos announced that it had a technological breakthrough that took less time/money/blood for the same results.

Walgreens, seeing a potential competitive advantage, partnered with Theranos to start administering the tests with a promise from Theranos that everything was good & on the up-and-up.

When the FDA started looking at the quality of the tests Theranos was administering they felt that they were not good & not on the up-and-up. The tests failed the criteria that made them valid.

In the mean time Walgreens customers potentially received treatments for illnesses they didn't have (or worse, missed illnesses they did) because Theranos misrepresented, implicitly or explicitly, the quality of their tests.

The part that makes it hard to disentangle the internet hates from the actual problems with the company is it's founder: Elizabeth Holmes. Questions have been raised around whether Elizabeth Holmes did anything meaningful or if she simply curried some personal connections into a company that then became a shell game of smoke and mirrors. She spent a lot of time currying press attention, bilking herself as the next Steve Jobs while her company was being ran by ???
> you should check your compiler's behavior

There is one thing I have noticed in gcc and clang which is done against the standards: The sign of bit sized int in a struct.

eg: In a struct with member 'int a:8', The standard says that 'a' can be signed or unsigned (based on the machines default of the sign of char). But In gcc and clang, this is signed always regardless of the machine.
Both Python and R can be used in Excel via several addons.

Python:

http://www.python-excel.org/

https://www.xlwings.org/

https://datanitro.com/

R:

http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html

https://bert-toolkit.com/

However, officially MS have chosen to move ahead with Javascript for add-ins and VBA-like automation:

https://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/develop/understanding-th...

http://rockthecode.io/blog/javascript-and-excel/

As for SQL, you can use Data Connections from the GUI or ADO with JET/ACE in VBA to query Excel sheets, CSVs, etc as you please.

Regex can be used with the VBScript.Regexp object, but it's a slightly funky (perl-like) syntax and not a great implementation.
N64 games, apart from a few select titles, are rough. That entire console generation does not hold up well.
Your not being dumb, but....

Locking down the machines is fine if you don't get any privilege exploits that take over the machine. Plus, this puts the machine in a known, good state every time we reboot or have a new user.

Cannot use Linux (I would use PC-BSD given our BSD infrastructure).
Personally would add Puyo Puyo and Kriby's Dream Course
http://home.basu.ac.ir/~psu/Books/%5BRamamurti_Shankar%5D_Pr...
Finally I can use my schemaless document oriented database online!

That's ADABAS you hipsters, MongoDB was 30yrs late to the party
Use an asteroid?