skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know who you have been confirming your biases with, but you have arrived at a position in contradiction of fact. To the degree to which gender is not a social construct, it does not seem to be perfectly aligned with sex.

I don't really have the stomach to dissect your Napoleon analogy, but instead I will simply note that you have made a false equivalence and suggest that laughing at or trivializing peoples' mental illnesses is not particularly helpful. I think that a comparison to phantom limb syndrome or alien hand syndrome would be more accurate. Most people can rely on their brain telling them accurate information about their bodies. Some of us are not so lucky. I can't begin to describe how difficult it is to have your brain constantly at war with itself. I can promise that therapy isn't going to fix that sort of brain malfunction, any more than "pray away the gay". With rare (and controversial exceptions), the majority of studies agree that HRT/GRS + therapy produces better quality of life than therapy alone. The suicide rate is pretty high for both groups though.

Manufacturing jobs and my body may both make Republicans feel uncomfortable, but are not otherwise linked. You are displaying emotional reasoning, not logic. There is no reason to compare these two things, and the worrying implication of your reasoning is that any injury to a minority can be absolved if the majority can be shown to have suffered some other harm.

There are a number of issues where conservatives have taken a stance against empirical reality (with its well-known liberal bias). It's tough to build a coherent worldview if it's not founded on empiricism. Trump epitomizes this problem. One hopes that the same may not be said of you.
Every line of code you write or modify is potential technical debt that someone will have to own.

With the turnover rate in this industry, I'm not sure anyone plans to be around when the monstrosity that they wrote starts to become a maintenance nightmare.
I wonder what sort of onus is on the operators to determine the citizenship of its users. How do I know that Andrey Zhukov is a citizen of the Russian Federation? Does a Russian name and a home address of Saint Petersburg suffice?
But if they are not equivalent, it logically follows that equality is not the goal, is that what you intended to say?
Definitely check out PlayCanvas at https://playcanvas.com for many gorgeous applications of WebGL.
I fail to see the point of the article. What's the proposed alternative? To become an admin?

I also doubt most people write software from scratch. We use a well proven language, ide, compiler and deployment tool. We use existing libraries, frameworks, databases, caches and services.

Why doesn't that count as Taco bell programming? When's the last time you wrote code for all these things instead of just assembling all of it together?

This article is forgetting the lesson learned, highly configurable generic software that doesn't need a code change to adapt has actually failed us, and is the source of failure. That's why Domain Driven Design was born. Write simple software that target a single domain only. Write one of those for every domain. Do not try to use the same software with multiple tweaks and config hacks for all your domains.
I think reputable organizations risk their integrity each time they quote an unnamed source - this is the basis of the public's acceptance of unnamed sourced.

I imagine NBC has a process for using unnamed sources; I know the NYT has one and has written about it in the past.

Thus, I recognize your frustration but do not see the link between 4Chan and a well-known news organization. You might raise the issue of the Vanity Fair reporter's lawsuit, to which I would suggest not reading VF if you no longer believe in their integrity.
Why the Sea Freight Industry Is So Broken
If I remember correctly, there is a scene in the book Daemon by Daniel Suarez where autonomous cars are used similarly.
From the comments on the site: "One of the facts that bothers me most -- other than the officers behavior -- is that this comes from the APPEALS court. The District court apparently found no problem with the violation of his constitutional rights."
The wrong lesson.

Jobs. Jobs jobs.

You'll/us/we lost the election because the candidate didn't motivate people.

For the past 8years republicans stalled all your legislative attempts.

Before that they created wars and before that they created Fox News.

Along the way people created global warming deniers, creationism and vaccine denial.

America is at the forefront of figuring out ways to packages and deliver emotions to leverage policy and votes.

Communication had already failed for the past decades.

Memes/Facebook/fake news are red herrings - symptoms, not the diseases.

The American legislature has become more contentious and partisan - iirc voting across party lines is seen as a sign of disloyalty.

The issue is that the strategies applied and improved here are studied and applied elsewhere.

A massive wall of propaganda and emotions.

How can communication happen when even straight up Adoption of GOP programs (iirc mitt Romney launched the predecessor to Medicare.)is cause to Reject it.

Basically how can you talk when people are rarely going to hear you?

?? I suppose the question is how can signal be sent over lossy/noisy(hostile?) channel without degradation or subversion
It isn't pre programmed to what I understand. All it does is guess what your drawing looks likes based on other peoples drawing, and continues to guess until it is correct. So when you drew a car with no siren, it's guesses could have been truck, car, police car. Since it guessed police car, it got the answer correct. The program wasn't told you had to draw a police car. That would be silly. Why would they create this and lie about how it works? What would be gained?
Indeed. But people who own supercars and other kit cars capable of such feats were rare and expensive.

Electric vehicles are going to take something, once rare, and make it common. Once it becomes common, the accident incidents will be more than just statistical noise, and legislative action may follow.

The NHTSA and FMCSA are currently working on a proposal for large commercial vehicles that would artificially limit their maximum speed to 68 mph. So it isn't unheard of for legislation to be created to target new vehicles which aims to improve public safety.
Your drivetrain is designed to withstand the stress of acceleration, normal engine braking isn't going to register.
Firefox Focus: a privacy-focused browser that sends anonymous usage data by default.
Don't most traction control equipped cars have a button to turn it off? Mine (Lexus LS600h L) does.

> Try to do that in an automatic.

I did that in my car with TC disabled with no problems.
Whoa... is this a real thing?
Ask HN: Light schemes for the terminal
There are butt loads of dark schemes out there that folks prefer, rarely hear about light scheme that looks insanely good. Any recommendations?
Science has a lot going wrong with it.

Here are some I can list: P-values, the h-index (article discusses), the funding crunches and (US specific) the cyclic nature of NIH funding, the massively skewed incentives of publish or perish, the entire idea of trying to assign value to discoveries (article discusses), the 2-body problem of family life and science (at least the Germans expect you to have no life and are clear on that), the work-life non-balance, the relatively very poor pay, the hyper-competition and sabotage (in some fields, labs, or universities), the total ignorance of doctors/politicians that take your work and apply it in appalling ways, the entire racket of scientific publishing, etc.

As always, we should point out to newcomers to this discussion of one of the most read scientific paper EVER by John P. Ioannidis "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" [0]. If you don't have access and don't want to use Sci-Hub or ICanHazPDF, here is a youtube of John discussing his work [1]. You can use the google to really jump into a rabbit hole here. Essentially, flip a coin, heads the paper is right, tails the paper is wrong, it really is that bad these days.

Ok, so lets just scrap the whole thing then, right?

Here is why not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Px5sZyxFYc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcPuRaSEq1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EL_bLOK8_A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXWYSdijCGU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBh2LxTW0s0 (a good showing of why science is right and helps folks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs0JQRT6TpY

So, yeah, science is a mess right now. But if we scientists don't step up and make it not a mess, those scummy money-grubbing scammer dirtbags and their ilk are more than happy to take up the slack. These fucking asshats are going to kill people like you poor uninformed cousins and their kids and take all their money because they think homeopathy is right and the moon landing was faked.

So, you young scientist that looks at this pile of garbage that is modern academia, do not despair! Fight the good fight! Yes, you may end up shirtless and ridiculed by the older scientists. But you have to do what you think is right because the rest of this world is depending upon you! Even for that tiny little bullcrap paper you are getting out just to graduate, that matters too. Be in the mud, be in the arena, fight for truth!

[0]http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZAV9AvIQE
So how do you ensure that sciencists stay careful and try to be objective, how do you have any objectivity in allocation of funds etc. without some metric? I hate the publish or perish system, but that is due to wrong metrics. If (purely pulling this out of my as, probably a horrible idea) a flimsy study counted negatively to your index and a faulty one outright wrecked it (with complete ruin if you do not redo/retract), that would probably skew the metric optimisation to more carefully thought out, substantial research
That sounds great but I remember installing Linux on a Mac and even then it wasn't consistent exactly which drivers should have been used as there were variations depending on the date of purchase. Macs are probably a lot more consistent than the majority of laptops.
Paypal does the same thing. I added a bank account, and Paypal requested my username and password to automatically verify the two test deposits they made.
I like Zcash. I think it's a good solution to a problem that Bitcoin did not solve, and creates a cryptocurrency more in line with the vision spelled out in A Cyperpunk's Manifesto than the previous attempts.

(Yes, I've looked at the other attempts to build a private alternative to Bitcoin, including Monero: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/1271)
Sure, the way the law works is different for black communities.

For example, http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/06/news/ferguson-arrest-warrant... shows that people in Ferguson are being arrested for things that wouldn't even be considered a
crime where I live.

Compare that with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Couch or http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/27/us/oregon-standoff-ammon-bundy... and you will begin to see how crimes committed by white people are often punished by a slap on the wrist when the same crime committed by a person of color would land them in jail.
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> statscheck

You mean this? https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/statcheck/index.html
This makes particular sense for a pickup. When unloaded the truck's weight balance significantly skewed toward the front, allowing for less traction in the back, and so you need to rely on the front wheels more for braking. When you're loaded, that's sitting more-or-less over the rear axle, increasing traction there. So you can afford to rely more on the rear (driven) wheels with engine braking in addition to the conventional brake balance that's biased to the front.
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technically speaking, no I m not paid to write code, if ask that question during an interview, company would tell you that they dont pay you to write code as well.

However, when most of the companies's idea of "agile" development cycle is to have smaller goals and very short deadlines, you end up being a code monkey. A project may run better if you have time to design a better object structure, instead because of a tight deadline, we have to slap on 10 if and else if statements then call it a day.

when making an enhancement? add 2 more if statements, fix a bug? put some if statements under the previous if statements.

bottom line, because of the tight deadline, better code and better design means nothing. we become if statements code writing monkeys.
The answer to your question is 'black' because of political correctness. This is a great example of why it's pernicious - as it robs us of ability to describe the world.

There is actually a more appropriate term - 'mulatto' which was specifically created to describe people born to black / white parents. Today it's considered 'dated and offensive', so we don't have a 'polite' and 'correct' way to describe the ethnicity of our (current) President.

Would you deny the existence of dog breeds because there exist labradoodles or any other mixes?
There's little evidence social "scientists" are really scientists
At the end of the day, creating many of these services is trivial. Creating a LinkedIn clone is trivial, and one will pop up in Russia giving some Russian owners profit and creating jobs for Russians. So how it's bad for the Russian economy, or the economy of any country to do this, is beyond me. On the other hand, dictatorships and capitalist democracies love to gather as much information as they can on their citizens, so it will allow Russians to get more information on their citizens. Which may be bad for some of them.
The police officers' behaviour in the situation was inexcusable, but the bias and anti-police rhetoric in the article is excessive.
Pork or Pig: We Use Language to Emotionally Distance Ourselves from Killing
That is basically how I read this article as well. It looks like a fake news author has trolled the Washington Post here.

Most of the fake news that I've seen Democrats post have been a lot like this. Interviews with fake news authors (that are trolling) and posts with fake quotes from Trump are fairly common.

The Republican fake news seemed to be obsessed with the idea that Hillary would be convicted of something.
No, that's pretty typical of my writing that isn't edited down.

Usually, even for HN comments, I'm a little better at editing before anyone else sees it, though.
The downside to being an engineer in the e-commerce space ;)

Engineers want to solve NP problems.

Customers want stuff to arrive on time and cheap.
It's definitely that.

My 2007 Civic doesn't account for incline when doing cruise control. It has some sort of lookup table that says, "When the owner sets me to 65 miles per hour, I go at this RPM." If I keep slowing down because I'm on a hill, it downshifts a gear and accelerates hard until the car goes back up to 65 miles per hour. Wash, rinse, repeat. I always disabled cruise control on hills because of it.

My fiancee's 2014 Nissan Rogue accounts for hills with cruise control, and it never has these intervals.
Now we just need to go through HN an incorporate comment-knowledge into this format :-)

Is there good search across questions?
I rented an automatic in Greece, and it was the most malfunctioning, poorly-maintained transmission I've ever used. If that's what Europeans think driving an automatic is supposed to be like, it's no wonder manuals are so popular there.
Sometimes, as a developer, I ask higher level questions about the business. Who is the customer? What problems do they have that we are trying to solve? How does this business make money? How are the executives measured?

These are questions that are relevant if you want me to add value in a non code monkey way. But, sometimes, when I ask these questions, I get looks that say "You're paid to write code, so stop asking non code questions." Or maybe I'm just projecting.
>Trump had a fucking train wreck of a campaign, you name it, he was found to have done/said it. He still won.

No, he got an Electoral College victory on the technicalities of the Electoral College, while Clinton won a larger popular-vote majority than Nixon or Johnson did.

>Congratulations America, he isn't the president you need, but he's the president you fucking deserve.

The world will never deserve another Hitler. The Trump administration must be resisted at every turn.
Not true at all, I am not sure what you are even talking about. Automatics are way more complicated and error prone, a stick is literally just gears, synchronizers and some torque shafts. Also manual transmissions having problems with "Gearbox"? What does that even mean?
> It seems that the fatalities per billion vehicle kilometres will be skewed simply by the average trip length being longer in the US.

Trip length figures into the denominator (deaths/billion kilometers), so everything else being the same, longer trip lengths won't skew the statistic.
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Well sure, but you're missing the point: If your managers are only measuring LOC produced they're playing on a lower "logical level" than if they were measuring something closer to the actual intended goal(s).

Dijkstra: 'My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.'
The Rimac Concept_One is a fully electric car that has two gears (DCT though). I'm not sure any one has tested as to whether the range is extended in one gear vs the other. I would assume it would.
The issue is that self driving cars are naturally _worse_ than human drivers, and the only way to ensure that only the _good_ self driving cars get on the road is regulation.

Like flying, if anyone could build an airplane and fly it, flying would be more dangerous then driving. It's the FAA which keeps these things in check.
As I said, high end automatics can outperform manuals in lab conditions. This is because obviously they can choose to perfectly and optimally shit up and down gears in a lab better than a human can.

That does not mean that they can do so in real life. A human knows what conditions they are driving in. A human knows if they need to stop in 50ft, a human has all kinds of intelligence about upcoming torque requirements that a gear box simply doesn't. So I am highly doubtful that "physics are favouring non-manuals" because an automatic is not a magical device that can somehow know these things.

I'm surprised that people are suddenly treating emission labs as sources of factual accuracy considering recent events.

So that's efficiency. You can dismiss the superiority of manual for driving on gravel, snow, ice or anywhere as "I like it better" but frankly it is consensus that driving on a manual gives more control.

Consider that if an automatic gave better control, then in situations where control is very important, such as, I don't know, rally driving, people would use automatics. But they don't. Because it doesn't. This isn't "I like it better" - if automatics were better there would be a huge competitive advantage to using them and manual drivers would be outcompeted and swiftly become history.
Sometimes hackers want to solve the hard problem, but not the most important problems.

Check out some of the comments.

This company might want redirect some focus on first principal issues like
[1] consistently shipping 2 boxes a month to customers,
[2] insuring the candy is of high quality, or
[3] making sure basic user / subscription management works on their webapp.

It takes discipline to direct resources at what will really move the needle the most.
Indeed I am outside the US, and I'm surprised the comment got that many downvotes.

EDIT: At the time, it was at -3
Your first point only works if we solve (1) by increasing the killings of whites.
The US government can contact one of the many consumer data brokers and obtain a list of every Muslim in America in about five minutes. They have no need to use the Census or anything else.

"Experian’s Ethnic InsightSM is a comprehensive predictive name analysis process that identifies the ethnic origin, probable religion and language preferences of individuals."
That's not what happened. What happened is, voters who said they were going to vote for a Republican largely did actually show up and vote for a Republican. Whereas a significant minority of voters who said they were going to vote for a Democrat stayed home instead.

As for "smug liberalism" where if only uneducated people were given the facts, they'd make the right conclusion and be liberal, is probably a real thing; i.e. there are educated people who are still ignorant and there isn't a lot you can about it. A major factor in getting along with each other is living among each other, and that really doesn't happen in rural areas of the country. There's no real effective way to impart city dormitory life, not just social tolerance but diversity appreciation, to people who don't live in cities.

The election is really not that big of a surprise. The country is this divided. It is very difficult for the same party to win three election cycles in a row. And, key Democratic party demographics didn't show up to vote in sufficient numbers that it affected the outcome of the election.

This is not "tore our heads off" territory, that's hyperbole.
Have you looked at the PHP landscape over the past few years? You may still not love the syntax, but PHP as a language, an ecosystem, and a developer community is extremely strong. It's a fantastic choice for a web app in 2016.
Current VW DSG automatics are okay, butter smooth. I drove one from Germany this year. Too bad it's a VW, since I don't like their cars that much. My normal car is a manual Suzuki Jimny DDIS which drives like a tractor.
Is this prevented by HSTS?
It's not hard if the car has plenty of low end torque (e.g. turbodiesel) but yeah, learning in a peaky naturally aspirated sports car can be a handful.
Wait, you're suggesting that manual transmissions have more points of failure than automatic transmissions?

Not only are automatic transmissions significantly more complicated, they also fail catastrophically.

Your clutch is a consumable part. Consider it a writeoff. You might replace it once in your time owning the car if you hold on to it forever, and you still haven't made up the $2k difference in MSRP/whatever the difference may be on the used market.
You don't "run" Leibniz code. Leibniz is not a programming language. A Leibniz context is more like a database of equations than like a program.

You can use the database of equations (and rules) to "reduce" a term, which is also what computer algebra systems do. The difference is that in Leibniz, the database of equations of rules is always known and can be inspected, whereas in a computer algebra system it is carefully hidden from the user. Since it's this database where scientific knowledge is stored, this difference is quite important.
Quick plug for one of the coolest non-helmet bike helmets ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikYFfxpu3I0
> Long break on your CV is a red flag for HR and Hiring Managers.

To the contrary-- I've known many people come back from a sabbatical/garden leave scenarios. Universally, the reaction is 'I wish I could take extended time-off like that'. It helps to have a great cover story like hiking the Inca Trail or spent time developing an extra cool project. *Providing care for an elderly loved one also gets understanding nods.
Doesn't look like. I filed a bug.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318377
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