skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really wish that major legitimate institutions of journalism (i.e., the ones that require multiple independent sources, publish corrections and retractions, &c.) would just stop pussyfooting around with nice simple accurate words like "lies" when they're reporting on somebody who's blatantly lying.

I'd prefer false statements be characterized as such rather than lies (which involves not just false statement but also a particular mental state by the one making the statement) by the media, unless there is overwhelming evidence that the statement is a knowing falsehood.

Obviously, information that suggests that the originator knew, or reasonably should have known, the statement to be false should be presented as well, where available.
They aren't. There's firmware in there but it's usually not very big. Look up softmac vs. fullmac
Good point! I thought of solving the callback getting called twice problem and didn't think of the bigger picture that mocha needs to catch the assertion error. I like the setTimeout/nextTick trick (well, ideally use Promises and async/await instead).
I just got an Oculus Rift and am dying to try my hand at making something of my own to experience with it.

Is A-Frame a tool I could use for this purpose?
My utilization didn't factor in TouchID, since it's technically not part of the touch bar OLED and is separate.

I do like TouchID and use it for log in.
As long as there are references which one can independently verify, I don't see a problem with that.
And there's a lot of room in some of these mid-west cities and rural areas. It allows for cheaper COL and better space to build. The density will come if the business is there to support it.
Most print/copy shops have wide format printers.
Wealth distribution is a hard problem, but it is a MASSIVE problem that most productivity gains flow to a subset of society.
UO was the bet game ever made, invented the MMO - but the original 1997-ish release was so much fun and also (I think) invented the idea of PVP (aside from quake, that that was FPS rather than ISO, etc.. so a philosophical argument I guess)

The entire reason I am in computers and tech is because of Ultima 2 which I found on a floppy in the Apple lab at my school.... I then ran a BBS, setup a network and converted the drafting lab from actual pencil drawing to CAD.

Bards tale was a good franchise as well - where we competed to complete them and me and my best friend got into fisticuffs over the fucking cheat book he bought.

He is now a Senior Producer at EA.
The difference is that the sea level rise happens over decades, and the city will gradually move inland and upward as its (newly) beachfront property recedes. China's river delta cities can't.
Smart pointers are a form of garbage collection. (I'm assuming you mean reference counting).
i said nothing about feelings, you havent made me feel anything, i'm just pointing out that you communicate like a child throwing a tantrum.

>Suggesting I use the downvote in a situation where it isn't an option is the definition of a useless comment.

yeah youre right, any reasonable person wouldve surely lashed out at the people who responded to them and acted like an insolent brat. you've definitely got the moral highground here - i bow to you
My i7 Surface 4 Pro is the best laptop I have ever owned. (And I was using a Lenovo X1 before that, which is already pretty awesome; never used a MacBook, though).

It boots up ervy quickly, maintains WiFi and blutooth connections through sleep and is decently powerful. For me personally, the kickstand doesn't present an issue in terms of "lapability". It is, however, a problem on Economy class flights, where Z-axis desk space is limited.

I'd argue that you should think of the Surface as a "laptop, that you can also use as a tablet". As other have mentioned, it is rather heavy for extended tablet use.

I don't see a reason to upgrade from a Surface Pro 4 to a Surface Pro 5. I am nonetheless very happy to see that the Surface Pro line is being maintained and I am looking forward to a 6th or 7th iteration.
That's like saying why doesn't Bloomberg have a hedge fund . There is a difference between selling financial information and operating a hedge fund .
I'm reminded of Tyler Cowen's (and many other people's) advice about reading difficult books

plow through it fast the first time, with the expectation that you'll come back and read it again later

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/01/que...

I wonder if a similar strategy wouldn't work best for watching youtube lectures

just go straight through the first time, with the expectation that you'll need to watch it a few times to truly grasp it

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also the second strategy seems useful too

"2. After finishing the classic, read a good deal of the secondary literature, keeping in mind that you now are looking for answers to some particular questions. That will structure and improve your investigation"

ie - after you've watched a lecture, see if you can find a different source exploring the same topic

sometimes seeing something described in different ways really helps something click
RNA Seq will still work, but you'd probably notice more variation over time within a specific individual if you did multiple sequencings.
I'm guessing the majority of both Christians and Muslims would admit, when not under threat of being kill for saying so, that they don't follow these books by the letter, not even half of it. What I don't get is, if you don't, why lump yourself in with the insane bunch that do? Call yourself something else (that doesn't include the original name) or, better yet, don't give yourself any label and build an modifiable set of principles based on personal experience and advice from people you respect, not commandments from people who say they know better than you.
If you plan to learn a systems language for systems reasons (embedded development, compilers, low-level interfaces, etc) then Rust is the pick. No GC and the option to have no runtime (or a very small one, by default).

In other words, if you're looking to replace/supplement your C use: go Rust. If you're looking to replace/supplement your C++ use: probably go D, with some caveats towards actual use.

Note: I like both languages, but do prefer Rust for my personal use cases.
I'm not really disagreeing with the point that I suspect you're making, I'm just saying that it's a lot more cynical than "hero worship".
I'm not confusing two sales concepts - you are. I don't know much about 'first to talk', but my limited understanding is that it means just that (the person who engages first in a negotiation comes out worse). Anchoring is about setting the parameters of the negotiation - you don't need to speak first.

>>In negotiations, anchoring refers to the concept of setting a boundary that outlines the basic constraints for a negotiation; subsequently, the anchoring effect is the phenomenon in which we set our estimation for the true value of the item at hand.[5] In addition to the initial research conducted by Tversky and Kahneman, multiple other studies have shown that anchoring can greatly influence the estimated value of an object. [0]

Do you or your Roman generals (who probably wouldn't be fighting each other anyway, but that's besides the point) have any hard data/sources you can show that demonstrate a link between anchoring and coming off worse in a negotiation?

You can hurt yourself by giving a number, but you're more likely to help yourself if you choose a realistic but slightly high number and indicate that you are willing to negotiate based on non-monetary factors.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring#In_negotiations
That isn't banned by this law, though.
FWIW, I like Jared Diamond's thesis better, which is that the geography of China (a big habitable landmass with no sizable peninsulas or isolated areas) made a single political entity inevitable. It probably explains why the Chinese culture has more emphasis on tradition (if that is true, I mean): you can more easily identify yourself with your ancestors from 500 BC, because they are all Chinese. A Spaniard would have a harder time identifying with Celts, Romans, or Moors.
Cheap Flights from New York to Rome
I like how 'these tech oligarchs' seem to know everything about everything and flap their gums giving advice left and right. What made them experts on everything? Because they seem to have some money? Is it the same thing when we laugh at people for listening to actors and musicians talk about politics?
Remove spam and warn people that are behaving exceptionally poorly. I only moderate very small subreddits, but that's all I do, aside from playing with the design for fun.
This is not a rose garden of a thread, but we have to ask you to please not call names or comment unsubstantively. We're hasty to ban accounts that continue on like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually, buying Bunnie's "The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen" [1] was what motivated me to make the trip. I was motivated enough to spent 7+ months learning basic Mandarin before making the trip. Not to mention the WIRED videos on Shenzhen featuring Bunnie [2].

Learning the Mandarin number system made negotiating prices a breeze.

I just got the Hardware Hacker a month or so ago. Great read.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/the-essential-gui...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp6F_ApUq-c
Uber responds to Google lawsuit over self-driving cars
PVP existed in MUDs long before UO was a thing.
The top game of my teenage life.
It's not the "listening to audio" bit that's worrying, it's the "task is one you can perform automatically (e.g. highway driving)" which is scary.
Lol! Undoubtedly down-voted by the libertarians. :)
> So people on HN are pro employers posting their employee salaries publicly but against previous companies asking what their salaries are. WTF.

You are treating a heterogeneous group as though it were a homogeneous individual. I hope Individuals strive to avoid hypocrisy, while groups almost mandate its existence. Consider how easy it is to attack any political party because of their superficially contradictory beliefs.
Which is supremely confusing as a student of history of that region of the world. Trying to figure out whether a book or article used Pinyin or Wade-Giles, one of the other competing systems, a mishmash of several, or (especially in older sources) made up their own method, made it very interesting trying to keep track of where things were happening and who was doing them.
> What you described is basically true for any job

I agree, but there are a lot of jobs where it's actually effectively impossible to distinguish between good vs. bad practitioners of said jobs.

I just have this feeling that it should be possible in programming. (Because it's quantifiable... or at least quantizable into "works" or "doesn't work" along any number of axes.)

> I've seen a lot of people in academia writing C++, mostly horrible code. I've seen electrical engineers writing awful assembly code. Because the incentive is mostly to get one task done today. None of these languages have a lower entry bar.

Same here, only with FORTRAN and C.

(This hints that this may be a meta-problem.)

> JavaScript is pretty much bound to a singular use case (web development) where there is a lot of incentive to get quick money, which attracts all kinds of people. I don't see the status quo you're referring would be much different if the browser scripting language was Haskell or brainfuck.

Well, there is node.js, but really, the problem with JS is... JS. It's just a horrific language semantics-wise (syntax: meh). It was invented and implemented in ~7 days(?) and it really shows. (No blame towards Brendan Eich, he did the best that he could within the deadline and even got a little bit of higher-order programming in there.) It's been improving, but just imagine the burden of improving a language that's already been deployed to 1B+ computers. Not an enviable task.

Hopefully WebAssembly will (in time) address these problems and give us a real way to program the front end in $WHATEVER_LANGUAGE_YOU_WANT
Not all smart pointers are reference counted.
This is a really amazing use of Web Components.
Building Target Personas with SQL, Salesforce, and Clearbit
I agree with a lot of what you said, but :

>> 15% of US households cannot consistently afford food, .. 5% hunger

What food are we talking about ? because basic grains, etc - the kind of meals indians eat, for ex.(and are very healthy and pretty tasty) - are extremely cheap. So is 15% possible ?
any trailer?
> "The Sun convert light elements to heavier ones via fusion." Fact.

Do we have proof of that? Honest layman question.
Thanks for your interest! Our current focus is analytical workloads. We are working in publishing a paper describing the benchmark results. Stay tuned! Quick answer is that we are often 10X faster than PostgreSQL, Spark, and other systems.

If you are interested in knowing more about the storage formats, I would encourage you to read a new blog post about it - http://quickstep.incubator.apache.org/guides/2017/03/30/stor...
Security is not a boolean: secure/insecure. It is the price to own you. It is higher with free drivers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_%28computing%...
Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents [pdf]
Tip for the project lead: A quick way to lose half of the early adopters is to release a library without Python 3 support. Luckily, fixing this is easy and shouldn't take more than a day or two. And the ROI is high if your goal is wider adoption.
Prior comments on HN:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dropbox%20yc%20application&sor...

Which includes PG's notes on the app:

>> "File syncing. Superset of backups, which people will pay for. Good. Single founder. Bad. But at least he's looking for more people. Went to MIT, 1600 SAT. Probably fairly smart. Wrote a poker bot. Now I'm starting to get interested; has the right attitude. Description of the software sounds plausible but generic. Maybe it's good, but who can tell. But little sister uses it; that's impressive. Scroll down to what he understands that competitors don't get. Wow: very concise and unequivocal. I'm now basically sold. Scroll through the rest. No red flags. Did not make the usual joke single founders make when asked how long the founders have known one another. Good answer to what might go wrong. A-. (Would be an A with a cofounder.)"
My early impression with Rust is that it's more ambitious than it is capable of delivering. Lifetime annotations in particular are incredibly ugly. It's the kind of thing that makes me think: "...ok, so this is why other languages don't simply do static lifetime checks" and I guess I expected Rust to be the solution for that problem; it is instead not a solution, but the deliberate decision: "let's do static borrow checking" and that was at odds with what I expected from it.

In short, I thought Rust was "we solved the pain of this difficult thing." However, it is not really a novel solution to the difficult thing, but simply a decision to undertake it.

I've now moved to evaluating Nim and D, and while I've barely dabbled in them (mostly going through the docs and writing some simple example-like code), I can at least say that Rust is likely to be much more controversial and polarizing than these languages. I recommend giving it a try - go through the official "book" which serves as the main documentation. If you survive lifetime annotations without finding them too obnoxious, then you'll probably like Rust.

Personally, I find Rust's extreme rigorousness (and the laboriousness that follows from that) makes it very niche, and I find myself rather unexcited about using it for anything.
This is a very big deal. Amazon has been looking for this technology for years. They've held competitions for it. That video is one of the best unstructured bin-picking demos ever seen. The combination of a four-fingered semi-rigid gripper and a suction cup seems to work well. It's fast; many vision-guided systems are still painfully slow. Amazon should be able to pick everything in their inventory that weighs less than a kilogram, is reasonably rigid, and has a surface that can be grabbed with vacuum. Everything lightweight which comes in a box, can, or jar qualifies. That's probably at least 75% of the inventory.

This should destroy about 50,000 to 100,000 jobs a year for the next few years. That's more than the entire coal mining industry.
What if I told you (cue the Morpheus meme), that people consuming the "fake news" don't care that it's fake? It's called confirmation bias and winning. Education isn't going to solve this issue, you can't forcibly educate people nor can you change their core "values" and their determination to be "right".

The only "education" that I can envision working is quantifying the real-world-impact of their votes on the personal level. Ex: Your health insurance was cancelled? The representative you voted for caused that. This unfortunately is normally executed with a partisan goal, however should be applied as a public service to all Americans.
Android Easter Eggs
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I read a good half 3/4 of that article and didn't see Snopes coming out shady. It's one thing to check facts on external events, it's another to essentially testify on events on your own life. The article sets up a bunch of ridiculous expectations and then goes on about how they don't fit them.

EDIT: I read the rest, and I hold the same opinion.
I would have a thousand children if I could. If I can pay for them all and don't draw benefits, who cares? People might think I'm eccentric, but it's not like I'm taking more than my fair share. Once the government is paying every one of my kids, suddenly people wants to have a say in the number of children I can have.

I also want my insurance to spend a million dollars if it means I can live for an extra week. Even if I'm absolutely miserable. Even if I'm unconscious. I don't care about your "not necessarily absolutely unlimited" healthcare plans that dictate how long I get to live. That's not your call, if I paid for insurance that says they'll spend a million dollars on end of life care they'd better spend a million dollars.

Just to preempt Poe's law here, I'm absolutely serious in both of my above statements. I'm not creating a straw man or using hyperbole. I think basic income and "free" healthcare would have strings attached that I quite frankly find disgusting.
This is quite interesting! (Former book editor here.) I will totally use this to discover and buy books.

I might suggest your "buzzfeed for books" comparison doesn't do it justice. Perhaps "Pinterest for books" or "Reddit for books"?

As feedback, a few thoughts off the cuff:
- I'm hesitant to auth Twitter, because you ask for permission to post but don't do the thing where you promise never to post on my behalf without advance warning.
- I think the "shelves" model is interesting. I'm definitely interested in what David Bowie found interesting. Maybe not so much Art Garfunkel (though IIRC he is an obsessive reader so who knows)
- It would be interesting if there was some cut where, for a given book on a given shelf, you could see other popular/relevant shelves it was on. Sort of the way Twitter surfaces tweets in your timeline that were liked by a friend.
- Maybe a view of just books, not shelves.
- I want to see what others had to say about these books, not just whose shelves they're on. Maybe that comes later, when you have more activity?
- Looks like you can add a book to your reading list, "heart" it, or "heart" a whole shelf. This is a slightly confusing information architecture, vs. something like on Airbnb which has a clear architecture of saving properties you like to a list. Might want to refine that a bit.
Just to pile on: Kudos for this!
ex. Goldman Sachs predicts Apple will have $25m sales Q2 2017 at the beginning and some variance of the stock price is based on that public prediction.

If you have finer granularity like Apple is likely already at 10m only a quarter through Q2 then you can invest and expect the Q2 prediction to be exceeded. Slice thinner and thinner until you get to hourly as the market adjusts to finer granularity predictions from companies buying Foursquare data.
Link broken, use http://blog.kobigurk.com/phising-preview/
They are asking for past salaries not the salary an employee wants for this particular job. You aren't demanding a full list of past work and its price from a contractor either.
#WikiLeaks leaked files on the #Grasshopper framework
UO was great back in the day as was Shadowbane. The whole safe places that MMO's became - and with good reason as more people liked that - disappointed me about the genre.

The player motivated politics and maneuvering and real threat to lose what you've worked hard for and the general scarcity of things in these types of games was unbelievable. Stealing, fighting for meaningful resources and guilds that existed to actually protect resources and players is just not possible in a game like WoW (was very good for different reasons though such as dungeon raiding) and derivatives where getting attacked and killed is meaningless.
Haha, I don't think the previous poster was referring to the error bars. That's not "XKCD-style", it's just standard practice in statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_bar

I think what he was referring to was the fact that the graphs appear to be hand drawn.
>so why should i listen to this guys advice

Andreesen is a bit of a blowhard at times, but he's incredibly sharp and has a great track record. Trust, but verify.
It's a marathon not a sprint.

That is a good one. Very true.
Please resist the temptation to make such generalizations about the community—those aren't part of a civil, thoughtful discussion.
Why is there a "Google Docs & Spreadsheets -- Web word processing and spreadsheets." link all the way in the footer of the page?
He's not talking about the process of fact checking, like you are. OP was using the analogy to say fact checking is not enough.

Here it is slightly different: just because you spell check a sentence doesn't mean it is grammatically correct. Just like: just because you fact check a document doesn't mean it is without bias.

Both are necessary but not sufficient conditions.
Probably the founders took millions off the table at each funding round while denying this opportunity to the rank and file
> Let's say politifact or snopes or both happen to be biased. Let's say they both lean left or both lean right.

They outline how to get your fact checking into their system. Presumably if your fact checking is relevant and correct, you can be included in the results. At the point where an organization is trying to be included, but is being excluded or marginalized because of opinion or politics and not because of the validity of their assessments, then we can have a discussion about abuse. Until then, let's use what we have.

> Also, I have to wonder whether this will flag things as false until one of those other sites confirms it, or does it default to neutral?

It's extra information added to things that are fact checked from the knowledge graph. I don't think they'll be tagging everything, since the vast majority of searches will have no associated info. Stub fact check data marked as "pending" could possibly be spidered though, and I suspect items associated with that might come up with an "Unknown" or "Pending" value in the fact check expansion area.