skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant my country as a group of people, not our government. I don't care about my government, it has failed me, but my country is full of everyday people just trying to get by. Because we are of a same or similar culture, and because we live in closer proximity, it's only natural that I care about them more than people of other countries.
Sounds to me like those people miss Jim Crow and the advantages of a society built on the persecution and hate of others. Retrograde with all its negative connotations doesn't even begin to be negative enough for the situation you're describing. Yes, you could have chosen a better word but you're looking in the wrong direction.
Sorry, I assumed that a thread being detached for being off-topic meant that the off-topic discussion could continue. I'll stop if that's not the case and will take note accordingly. I'd appreciate a lift of the posting time limit too. I'll just play safe and avoid any sort of contentious posting going forward. Argument isn't the main reason I come to HN, after all.
Why do you hear "Please consider" as "I demand/expect"?
>"The workplace should be focused on work, not another place where a woman has to be on guard."

I don't think there is consensus on that view. Work wouldn't be my first choice for finding a suitable partner. But that doesn't mean that individuals that spend a lot of time together in a non-social context are magically excluded from behaving in a certain way for the sole benefit of female comfort. There is a clear difference between consensual actions here, and we mustn't infantilize women by making such blanket statements that essentially amount to us saying that women need an incredibly sterile and "safe" (from proposition) environment to work in.
Wow! One of the professors whom they interviewed and are quoting throughout the article is Richard O'Keefe: The author of "The Craft of Prolog" and very famous Prolog, Erlang and Smalltalk programmer in the respective communities who even has his own Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Keefe

His personal web page is also full of interesting texts about very diverse topics, and well worth a look:

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/
As much as I hate to say this - I must say it: this was one of the few good things (maybe the only one?) about communism - public beaches for all seas, lakes and rivers. Nobody could own first 4 meters from the water. And many tourist from non-communist countries came and enjoyed and marvelled this freedom they didn't have in their own countries. Western countries could copy this...
So European intelligence is confused by kangaroos, artificial and otherwise.
"problems that ensue when files move..." from NTFS to FAT32 never mind "...from the PC on to the networked world of today".

But as always with Microsoft: Beware geeks bearing gifts.
How possible it is to reverse the app looking for syscalls to the microphone api or something?

You should probably discard user initiated audio recording if available but looks doable for someone with the knowledge.

Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about reversing
I think this is the Acela corridor he was talking about. He probably misspoke when saying "a couple" - some people interpret that strictly as "two", while others interpret it loosely as "a handful" - but "most of these" implies that he meant the second meaning.
Ask HN: How do developer salaries differ across European countries?
I am a mobile dev with about 3 years of experience exploring potential opportunities abroad in Europe.

It would be helpful to know, how salaries differ across the various countries.

How much do developers typically make in the different countries?

How does that differ for Junior vs Senior developers?

What countries are known for having larger tech scenes?

What countries are in need of more developers from abroad?

How does the standard of living effect salaries?

How does the quality of life compare to a developer in the US?

I would love to hear about your personal experiences working abroad.

Anecdotes welcome, data too
Dov Charney's American Dream: The rise, fall and comeback of an apparel empire
Such amazing ideas for paths to fame! I am sure I would never have come up with this. Wait! Shoot, I don't have a gun handy. Shoot, I don't have a Youtube account. Y mierda, no girlfriend either!

My first thoughts, in order: (1) they should have tested this with another book! (2) no, wait, wait, they should not have done this at all!
The sad irony of all of this is that I regularly view the NYT without JavaScript because the experience is so much better without.
They've been hosting the Formula 1 race for a few years now. An expensive, but probably effective way to show the world that you exist. I'd never heard of the country before F1.
Again, biology has predictive power in the realm of IQ distribution by gender. The bell curve for male IQs is wider but flatter than female IQs, which could explain why there are more men than women in physics, a profession with the largest demands for exceptional intelligence. It also explains why there are more homeless men than there are homeless women.
That's probably pretty much exactly what Tegmark claims: somewhere in this structure there really is a universe simulated in rust.
There is another question here. How the hell did the French build 300km of high speed track, going through central Paris, for only 10 billion dollars? If Australia could do that, the cost benefit analysis on Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane would look very different.

Melbourne to Sydney is worth doing now, though it's a close thing. But the benefits come as time savings for rich businessmen, and Australia told them that if they really wanted it they could pay for it themselves.
Results of this kind, which attract "aren't people on their phones a lot these days, and also millennials should stop buying avocado toast"-level Huffington Post columnists, have consistently failed to replicate: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3048418
Curl ipinfo.io gives you a lot more information!
That interpretation doesn't make sense to me though. The Acela corridor is used for longer distance transportation -- anywhere else you'd simply fly. Neither has much to do with owning or not owning a car. I live in NYC, don't have a car, and I take any of bus/train/plane depending on where I'm going and if it's on the Northeast Corridor. If I lived in, say, Austin, I'd simply just always take a plane to any of those places, but my car ownership situation wouldn't necessarily change.
That's nothing compared to the impedance mismatch from using a SQL database for everything, regardless of if it's the right tool.
It also explains why there are more homeless men than there are homeless women.

IQ distributions don't explain that at all. It is vastly more complicated than that.
Why Are Some Shadows Soft and Other Shadows Hard?
Not in English you don't.
Yeah Google does, and we take the first public IP from x forwarded for, so we'll show your actual details in that case.
I don't know where they expect tourists to actually consume the stuff, it's not legal in public and I can't imagine casinos are too thrilled about people lighting up in their hotel rooms, even in rooms that are already designated as smoking rooms.
Every time I've ever taken MTA Metro-North there's been more than enough seats available. It's one of the systems I was going to mention as having seats for passengers. There isn't even enough room in those trains for twice as many people to stand as have seats; it's basically an all-seating arrangement with an aisle for reaching the seats down the middle. Are you sure about your examples?

Edit: And it's the exact same for the Long Island Railroad, which is the other major commuter rail system run by the MTA. They have a third system, the Staten Island Railway, but I've never taken it and thus can't comment.
I am a big fan of named arguments. But Swift has both argument labels and argument names, and I don't see the point, other than for ObjC compatibility. I find Kotlin's approach conceptually nicer, where parameter names and labels are the same thing.

To give an example (possibly a particularly bad one), UIView.bringSubview(toFront view: UIView) - I feel that the argument label has made it harder, not easier, to give this method a good name.
You can have effective or ineffective teaching of ethics, but you can teach it. We aren't born ethical creatures, it is a learned behavior.
So the court ruled he must restore the access and he just ignores the ruling. Can someone explain again why?

And, of course, as a surfer and computer scientist I find Mr. Khosla disgusting because of this.
See also Mount Tam Biotechnologies, a spin-off from the Buck Institute focusing on mTOR modulators, shown to extend lifespan in mice. Their initial application addresses Lupus, an autoimmune disease.

http://www.mounttambiotech.com
Clean Architecture in Golang
Occam's Razor does not apply here.
The dilemma is no different from "should I buy Product X now, or wait a year for version 2 of Product X", only on a national scale. Needless to say, if you play to this psychology successfully, you can delay a project indefinitely.
Your suggestion to just minimize the residual correlations would unfortunately boil down to "analyze the data in the way that best hides any problems in the data" which isn't what anyone wants.

There are specific signal shapes/characteristics that would be producable by a gravitational wave. Anything that doesn't match that shape/doesn't have those characteristics by definition isn't from a gravity wave. Ignoring those characteristics and just saying "if it's correlated it's from a gravity wave" would be a highly incorrect way to analyze the data, which is why none of the scientists in the debate would advocate doing that.
Volvo self-driving cars have multiple LIDARs and radars, in addition to vision.
>It is funny to see cases in history where well researched,cost effective and progressive social programs have been stopped due to plain prejudice from those in power.

That's how I view free market economics. The benefits of having strong market institutions (e.g. low taxes, private property rights, contract freedom) in fostering economic development and reducing poverty [1] is one of the most empirically validated theories in economics, and yet we have a bevy of social scientists continually advocating for policies, like forced income redistribution in the form of ever expanding welfare programs [2], that undermine it.

>I keep hearing Ayn Rand mentioned these days.

I keep hearing Ayn Rand mentioned in personal attacks against me these days.

>I associate Rand with white supremacists and debunked myths

That's not a constructive comment. Yes you disagree with advocates of the free market. Expressing how vehemently you disagree with them isn't going to help anyone understand each other better.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-pol...

[2] http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
Reminds me of bell ringing.
That's a fair and charitable interpretation. If we relax the "no money" assumption a little, one might then question if it's the wisest capital allocation (why not spend, say, $200 on marketing and see if that helps?).
Btw, if you care, contact your elected official. Surfrider foundation has a link to do so http://www.surfrider.org
Takes me to a LinkedIn sign-in page.

"I guess I'll never know."
At my university they touched upon ethics (30 min. lecture). I also received an ethics course at a business school. It helped me to form a vocabulary which I appreciate, but unfortunately nothing else. My best ethics education is having discussions with liberal arts students who care about societal minorities and societal challenges.

I'd argue that subjects like: racism, feminism, discrimination, poverty and similar topics confront a person to form an opinion and to empathise. I miss that in the traditional ethics education that I have received.

Still, the traditional ethics education was much better than receiving nothing. Especially people who go into fields like security should receive it.
I kind of wish that Sun had never come up with applets. Java in the browser was a bad idea from so many different perspectives.
Come to Seattle! The fine is only $27!
Lots of human drivers are confused by kangaroos and kangaroos are confused by cars especially at night. You see an awful lot dead kangaroos on the side of the road in rural Australia.

As an aside, kangaroos in motion are one of the most efficient and elegant mammals. I love watching them bounding away at speed effortlessly dodging scrub and trees - more like flight than running.
> Even with the best available rail technology, trips between them would take over 12 hours by rail.

New York-San Francisco (for example) in 12 hours by train could be great: leave at 7pm, eat dinner, get a full night's sleep, wake up the next morning and you're there.

The night on the train shouldn't cost more than an extra night in a hotel room would've cost, and you've gone city center to city center and avoided the nightmare of air travel.

Sign me up.
Coming from an ex-communist country I was amazed to see that privately owned beaches with an entrance fee are even a thing.

Unfortunately from what I witnessed there's way too much money to be made in this business, so if somebody is going to adopt someone else's approach, then it's going to be the ex-communist countries.
...and a slavemaster is in charge of slaves and a dog's master is in charge of the dog.
> "Although it hasn’t been tested in a kangaroo-specific environment, there was an instance where black swans were interfering"

I think I know how to interpret that sentence...
"Ethics" when taught as part of a professional education usually relates to professional ethics as encoded by codes of practice. While certainly related to morality, legality, religious ethos, humanism, etc. professional ethics shouldn't be conflated with them. As a case in point, I doubt that many would argue that American lawyers and businesspeople are, as a group, noticeably more moral actors than computer programmers, despite the benefit of that additional training.

Moral behaviour is the concern of a society, not merely of a profession. If we are concerned that actors in important sectors of our economy are behaving immorally, our first thought shouldn't be to blame the CS curriculum, as though three credits of pondering "Eve knows they're faking the test results for QA, but her shares vest in 30 days" would fix the problem.

Rather, I think what might be needed is the development of a stronger sense that IT development should be a professional pursuit, in the sense of a community of practice that holds itself to a high standard, and has governing bodies that will enforce that standard. That is, it may be time to treat developers the way we treat doctors, lawyers and engineers. (Of course, many already are engineers, and thus already have a code of practice and the requisite three credits of "dilemma of the week" studies.)
The principal advantage of a train before airplane for me is that boarding a plane is a hour or so, while boarding a train is 5–10 minutes. Also, you can have a train much closer to the city (or right in the middle of it) than an airport. If hyperloop loses these advantages, I'd bet on airplanes.
I wouldn't be so quick to make that translation.

I think a more useful way to think about it is "Know your users, and your channel." There are some user populations - and developers are usually one of them - that are virulently anti-advertising. Any paid channel usually earns instant distrust from them. Putting money into marketing spending can have a negative ROI for them, because it has a signaling effect on the brand that says "Our product quality isn't good enough for us to get users without paying for them."

Then there are other user populations - most e-commerce is like this - where there is no such signaling effect, and they are happy to check out new products, regardless of how they hear about the product. For these markets, it's silly to ignore paid channels; you're just leaving money on the table.
I took a computer ethics philosophy course in college because I am into computers/programming as a hobby and I am also very much into philosophy.

I was the only English major/Philosophy minor in the class. Every other student was a computer science or IT systems major.

I was pretty shocked how lenient of an innate moral compass most possessed, I don't expect folks to be Kantian justicars by default, but C'mon. The vast majority seemed to align with the sort of base, selfish utilitarianism pervasive in America that eventually leads to "if it isn't breaking some law or as long as there's a loophole its good if it makes me money/benefits me or if it benefits a sheer greater quantity of people regardless of how horrendous the consequences are for those it doesn't benefit"

Nonetheless it was a fun class as we primarily looked at real life cases. As with other industries, some of the shit people pull is baffling--guess that's the result of years of delegating any ethics education whatsoever to the home/parental responsibility or to religion. Another reason I think a foundational education in philosophy should be mandatory in high schools across the US, if not junior high, just as some foundational education in computer science should also be mandatory these days.
First class is much more comfortable than coach class, though, which was my point
Told my alma mater the same thing for a 5 years post graduation survey.

Mind you, I was on the free software club, for example, and ethic was always there for some of us.

But I encourage everyone to write to the director of their Comp. sci. / Eng. departement to ask them why is this field not deserving of ethical questioning and/or what do they plan on doing to fix this.

I know lots of 20 yo might consider this a boring waste of time or not understand the importance of this kind of education, but sadly that reaction makes this an even more pressing issue to think about and would alone justify the teaching of ethics in the context of this field's short history...

We're on the verge of big fights to preserve and improve the Internet's openness & neutrality along accessible general purpose computing for all and other basic foundations some are taking for granted while lobbies are fighting against them.

But the future of free speech depends on this education and foreshadowing by an educated population...

Not enough people are fighting back and older politicians need to be shown a few things we might see coming before the rest of the population is able to catch up.

(N.B. Same goes for many fields, but computing is now such an important and direct part of the social tissue, got there so fast, that it's getting even more important everyday.)
Why can't they go to the gate with the court order and a sheriff and cut the lock?
Because marketing invariable reaches people who are uninterested and just leads to wasted bandwidth.

Also, it leads to added risk to building something people don't want and only engaged because of the marketing drowned out finding what they really wanted.
>I'm not sure why people are proud to do things without spending money on marketing.

being successful without marketing probably means you were successful due to word of mouth. Its hard to be successful due to word of mouth when your product sucks.
It was me who approved the merge request replacing our 418 with a boring 400 a few months ago; I'm sorry.

(On the other hand, there's still a server out there returning a redirect 303 Sea Otter, so I guess it balances out)
When other countries play a bigger role in securing the global economy with military might, maybe we can start building a high speed rail infrastructure. Otherwise, I don't see an actual need for it. It would be an improvement, for sure, but all I see is people looking at much smaller countries and assuming that America is stupid for not doing everything they do.
I'm a student currently majoring in business and in computer science and the difference between classes at the two schools is stark. To maintain one of its' business accreditations the school has to teach ethics in every single business class. By comparison not once have I ever heard a thing about ethics from any of my CS classes.

While I suppose you could argue that business students will be in positions of power, it feels out of place when every other student is.
> communism

socialism. Socialism is when the state provides something for the people. Fire, police, roads, buses/public transport, parks, the post office .. all that is socialism.

Communism is buying a round of beers and the next person in your group buying a round of beers. It's the understood unspoken agreement between your flatmates to keep the place clean. It's the communal aspect of humanity and we all practice it every day.
> There's no fundamental reason that road vehicles couldn't exceed 200kph

There sorta is. Air resistance and tyre/pavement rolling resistance get mighty expensive at that sort of speed, and the need to carry along energy storage makes this even more problematic.

High-speed rail vehicles amortise, over the whole train, the part of the drag that comes from the frontal area. Automobiles cannot do this.

Once you've created a curve-free, very flat, grade-separated controlled access freeway for your 250kph cars, you've...got most of what you need for high-speed rail anyway. At that point you might as well just build some rails and overhead line and buy some TGV rolling stock.
I'm not sure if you're asking why he ignores the ruling or why he's allowed to get away with it.

Regarding why he ignores the ruling, the article says he does it on "principle". Presumably, he feels it's his land and he can do whatever he wants with it. But it would be interesting to hear him defend his position himself rather than having to put words in his mouth.

As to why he gets away with it, presumably the penalties for ignoring the courts are not severe enough. Maybe he's just rich enough to pay whatever fine has been levied on him and keep access closed.

It reminds me of when Microsoft was fined by the courts something like a million dollars a day for violating antitrust regulations, and they just paid and kept violating (if I'm remembering this right). Some companies prefer to just get the law changed in their favor instead, or maybe get people elected who will defund regulating bodies or put their cronies in control, etc. When you're rich enough you have many options for evading the law.
Okay, I'll concede you're talking about a different kind of area than I thought.

> And even if we were - those more monied types who do live near transit mostly won't use it except maybe for sporting events

I don't know if you count tech workers as "monied types," but we are a huge component of the urbanization and gentrification of the Bay Area, and this absolutely isn't true for us. If anyone in my office drives to work, they hide it well. Walking is a little higher status than transit, but almost everyone uses transit.

I live in one of those new 5-story mixed-use mid-rises that everyone loves to hate, with rents that do seem to signal "monied types." In fact my neighbors are mostly young families, students, and few single yuppies like me. People with ordinary incomes absolutely live here, just with more adults per household than they'd probably like. Most of us have cars, but the garage is completely packed at noon on a weekday. They come out almost exclusively on the weekends, particularly when it's nice outside.

The actual tophat-and-monocole owner-of-land-and-means-of-production capitalists are content in their $2m single family homes, but those are authentic neighborhood character and not problematic symbols of wealth at all. The public discourse has no problem with them, but it would be political suicide to come out in favor of housing for mere high wage workers. Only the destitute (who qualify for BMR) and the oligarchy (who can afford neighborhood-character-respecting single family houses) are welcome here.