skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. This whole thread is full of cringe. TFA was about how silicon valley & Washington are The Elites -- out of touch with the working class and what are everyday problems for a huge swath of America. And the top 3 comments from the elite are:

- Poor people are stupid

- Poor people are bad at personal finance

- More/better education (government) will help

Did everyone suddenly forget all the un/underemployed college graduates we've got? Are they stupid, too?

Just a shocking lack of empathy here.
This empty criticism is extremely old and tired by now.

Maybe you could inform yourself a little better. There are various public sources of serious predictions (usually done with supercomputers) made more than a decade ago, some of which you can find in the IPCC report. You can compare that to the actual outcome and see if it falls within the set bounds of uncertainty. I bet pretty much every professional climate scientist has run this kind of analysis once.
Do they?

I feel like I can afford whatever I want, and I don’t think I make more money than most people on HN.
Yes! The "better" site had crappy contrast.
When you upload photos to Facebook as part of an album, my experience is it doesn't even ask: it just goes ahead and tags people it recognizes, and it even sends them a push notification that you did that even before you click "save" on the album (it even attempts to live synchronize the text you are typing as the album description, which is insane).
She's been reported missing since Thursday, that's one heck of a nap, the likely explanation that she is dead.
Something like a computer with a hard drive or an USB memory stick?
Leave them up, but remove ads?
I was actually disappointed that there was not enough mathematical discourse in the course. He would mostly present you a formula without going much into details on how it was derived. It does make sense though that he dumbed down mathematical bits to fit a more applied purpose of the course.
> Historically, the biggest social changes happened by force. Like the civil rights movement. The threat of civil disobedience forced the government to enact laws.

That's one point of view. Another might argue that MLK sent a letter from a certain jail in Birmingham rather than oppose the arrest, say. Yet another might invoke Gandhi or Mandela.

Is civil disobedience a form of force? Yes, I suppose it is one of the possible meanings of 'force'.

However, if that is what you mean, then how is this opposed to being polite and understanding?

Compare your statement of "dragging people kicking and screaming" to MLK's attitude[1]:

> The decision prompted King to write, in a statement, that though he believed the Supreme Court decision set a dangerous precedent, he would accept the consequences willingly. "Our purpose when practicing civil disobedience is to call attention to the injustice or to an unjust law which we seek to change," he wrote—and going to jail, and eloquently explaining why, would do just that.

Or even to Lincoln's[2] (who wrote this at a time when victory in the war was pretty certain):

> With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Your error is in assuming that being polite and understanding means you are to apply exactly no pressure of any kind in furthering your goals. It is not so. Non-violent protest and even self-defense can be done either politely just as well as adversarially. If you ask me, Lincoln waged war yet was more understanding of his enemies than many civil protesters are today.

[1] http://time.com/3773914/mlk-birmingham-jail/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln%27s_second_ina...
They used to be much cheaper, but then they rebranded as a "luxury service."
The origin of all the Terminator's source code [video]
> around £50 each way booking a few weeks in advance

Man, how many of those £50 tickets are actually available? A train from Manchester to London, which is less than half the distance, costs twice as much on a lucky day (and 3x on the same day, if not more).
Yes, that makes sense when you're talking about why a person would choose to transact with Bitcoin. It's not "invalid" to choose Litecoin, it's just more familiar and easier to use Bitcoin. Schelling point is about social familiarity.

The reason people avoid invalid blocks is because they would have to convince every other node out there to accept it. It's a coordination issue.
S.B. 727 Would Unfairly Restrict California Students’ Use of Course Materials
If someone tried to use Buffet as an example of market beating but did zero statistical analysis to determine how likely it is to be actual skill they would also deserve to be dismissed.
You can still keep trying to convince them, gently and reasonably. There is no other option.
>Ships aren't build with built-in scuttle capabilities,

Submarines are. Ballast tanks plus leaving a hatch open.

Also, the sub didn't sink until 11am the day after. She did not plan on an overnight trip in the sub. That's why I think there's more to this story than an accidental sinking.
I'm having trouble figuring out why the outrage is being characterized as "Alt-Right". Seems like someone is trying to push a narrative.

I'm liberal, and I'm fairly angry with how badly this memo has been mischaracterized, and how silly my fellow liberals have been about it.
which is good,so there are more people to sell to.
Ok I'm confused. Yes the journey is normally 6 hours, but the bus takes an 8 hour longer route. I've tried sleeper buses and one of the problems can be the odd pothole nudging you awake.

I'd be happier for a bus to take the more direct route and then let me disembark as I choose when I wake up or park up somewhere quiet for a couple of hours.
I don't know what's inspiring all these worldbuilding posts to make the HN front page, but I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
The best one so far (I am the Guard):
https://pastebin.com/Acc4Sqp5
I upvoted the parent post ONLY so people could read this comment. I wish there were a way to tag parent posts as "wrong."

As an antidote, take a look at this short McKinsey piece analyzing the performance of sell-side analysts, concluding that "earnings forecasts exceed realized earnings per share:" http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corp...

Obviously, predicting company earnings is not the same as predicting stock prices, but if sell-side analysts have such a terrible track record at the former , one would expect them to have a terrible track record at the latter too.
Add to which, I've successfully left my East-Edinburgh house at 0630, taken the 0735 flight to LCY and made it to the office for the 0945 stand-up. Although I'd probably leave at 0615 since the new security area was set up -- I don't do it often and the last time I cut it a bit tight.

If you need to get to central London and don't fly to City Airport if it's an option, I'd suggest your routing may be sub-optimal. EDI--LCY is definitely workable as a day trip.
Found the old guy :). Back then it was quasi-normal to just write your own HTTP server. A TCP socket that just slapped some headers on whatever it was reading from disk. Now everything is so complex...

I remember using server push, and the CGI interface was a hell of a lot simpler than the 8000 levels of abstraction my Typescript Angular apps going through before they hit the wire.

The worst part is that the majority of the added complexity is useless. Instead of replacing the bad parts of HTTP, HTML, JS, and CSS we just build more shit on top of it. This requires more hacks and just up the complexity level even more.
Unifying OS installation and configuration management
Thank you for your courage
http://stories.rpeden.com

It was never intended to make me any money - it's just a story aggregator I made to help me keep track of HN and my favourite subReddits all in one place. :)
Certainly, before I had a tech job none of my service level jobs left me with any money in the bank, if I got fired I had no money period. Now if I lose my job I have a few months.
ML/AI:

* https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-artificial-intellige...

* https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning--ud262

Deep Learning:

* Jeremy Howard's incredibly practical DL course http://course.fast.ai/

* Andrew Ng's new deep learning specialization (5 courses in total) on Coursera https://www.deeplearning.ai/

* Free online "book" http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

* The first official deep learning book by Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville is also available online for free http://www.deeplearningbook.org/
Why has this story been pushed so hard? I've seen it in local stories all the way to WaPost
The idea that she went down with the sub is speculation as well.
I think you totally mis the point. It's not about education, it's about a system where you can't opt out of in US.

What is your credit score?
If you are from US, you probably know. If you are from somewhere else, you are probably staring at your screen saying "what???".

Shops giving out their own credit cards... crazy.
I don't know where those downvotes are coming from: you're very much on the money, here.

There is a major set of blinders techies in the big centers have with respect to how good the market is...anywhere else. It might be easy to walk across the street and land another $120k/year (low for SF, but still respectable enough especially for a single person) job in one of these markets and be doing something a bit more interesting than simple CRUD, but not elsewhere.

The fact is most technology jobs outside these hotspots pay poorly (usually not more than a small premium over other professions in the area) and are just not common anyway. They also are much closer to "grunt worker on the line" than "build your resume by being able to work with lots of technologies". A typical software developer job isn't at a software company in these places. It's in the IT Department as a low-class cost-center line item, working on basic CRUD with little or no say in the infrastructure or even product development, or else a fixed specification project in which you're more or less tinkering around the edges of a pre-existing system.
The treatment also makes them palatable.
Because it was a response to a statement that the result matters more than the implementation details that consisted of achieving the same effect by cleverly modifying the implementation..
On this topic:

These people do not decide. They have seen the effects first-hand.

Perhaps seeing it from the other point of view, what point is there arguing with someone whose inherent philosophy is a denial of the rights of others?

An example of this is the one that you used. The "alt-right": people who follow the words of leaders who have clearly and openly called for the extermination and sterilization of PoCs (Richard Spencer, for example), people who openly use Nazi imagery, and who are backed by the American Nazi Party. [Evidence for these claims are in the bottom section].

In such a case, with the sides, quite literally, being:

I wish to live and have a productive and happy life

I wish for people like you, including you, to no longer exist

What kind of meaningful debate do you expect between such groups? The core principles are, by their very nature, severely opposed to each other.

[Citations for the equivalence of the Nazis and the Alt-right]:

Firstly, Richard Spencer, the person who started the alt-right:

""Instead of asking how we can make reparations for slavery, colonialism, and Apartheid or how we can equalize academic scores and incomes, we should instead be asking questions like, "Does human civilization actually need the Black race?" "Is Black genocide right?" and, if it is, "What would be the best and easiest way to dispose of them?" With starting points like this, wisdom is sure to flourish, enlightenment to dawn. ""

https://web.archive.org/web/20120216183528/http:/www.alterna...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Spencer

https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/890979293009895424

See also:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-dona...

https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-ri...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/07/26/neo-nazi-misf...

There are more, but I'm pretty sure that you can source the rest for yourself.
Indie Hackers! https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast
Exactly. gdb is just like gcc. I can see the point of having a command line version of a compiler for toying and for automation/build scripts etc, but I rarely see the need to type out compiler commands. Same with a debugger.
I re-read eerie silence every couple of years. Paul Davies is a phenomenal writer. I never even knew about chirality playing a role in looking for life on Mars (basically all Earth DNA from anything has always shown the helix to twist in one direction, but there is no reason why it can't go the other way, so if we find DNA on another planet that twists the other way, it is extremely unlikely to be a contaminant brought on the probe from earth).
As in the "great filter"
Looks like you need to talk to nocman https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14999140 or jcelerier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14999140?

Assuming http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-debugging.html (which someone else noted) didn't help.
One way to counter gender stereotypes is to show that they aren't welcome in an organization. I hope you would agree that this is a non-violent act. And yet, we see Google being equated with the Gulag. My use of the word 'force' is in that context.
Mu4e communicates with the mu backend through an s-expression based protocol [1], so in principle any other backend that implemented the protocol could work with mu4e. Not aware of anyone having written an alternate backend though.

[1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/mu-server.1...
a) "I'm not disagreeing with you, but a careful examination of the facts seems to say that you're wrong". Can that statement be described as disagreeing with you or not?

b) Damore wrote the memo that caused the backlash, not the media.
>If the violence inherent in the state is undesirable - and I agree that it is - then we need to build a society in which the free market selects for societal good.

That's not a free market though.

The unfortunate truth is, if you want "societal good" to be guaranteed, (given some definition of that) you have to force it to be so - which is what the violence of the state is intended for. Otherwise markets take the path of least resistance to greatest profit, and that may not be a path which benefits society as a whole.
Awesome! Does it support gdb startup scripts? I.e. the gdb -x option which instructs gdb to read and execute commands from a file and then drops you off in the normal prompt. I regularly use that, because it lets me keep and organise startup options for the programs I work on. I really don't want to have to type all the "set environment" &c stuff that's necessary for the programs I want to debug.

Does it (can it) work with the gdb pretty-print API? On the console I can define pretty printers for my data types using python, so I can examine them easily. I almost never want to explore a struct by expanding its fields, I just have a bunch of python scripts that extract a summary of what's important. E.g. for a 3-component vector type I don't need or want something like

{
x = ...
y = ...
z = ...
}

I just have a pretty-printer that spits out "MY::Vector(x, y, z)". Similarly for a whole bunch of other classes. I especially don't want to look at STL objects by field, that's just insane.

Honestly, after a couple of years of using GDB, the console interface isn't really a problem for me, and I've become quite attached to the many customisation and automation features it offers. While the commands and syntax are all kinds of gnarly, I don't think I can ever go back to a debugger where I have to do everything manually via direct control. Better, faster, more intuitive direct control is always a good thing, but I don't want it if it's at the expense of the programmability of the debugger.
> premultiplied alpha

They should really teach this up in some computer graphics 101 -- it is crazy how many fringing artifacts you see in the wild. Also, is this the same Duff of Duff's device fame?
The bigger problem now is that some of the platforms themselves have chosen to take sides on contentious debates and engage in unfair treatment of the other side. This has the effect of emboldening the most radical players on both sides and drowning out moderate voices and any chance of dialog.

On the side they choose to support the radical voices adopt a zero tolerance policy for the other side and seek to eliminate any decent. The opposing side has proof that the platforms has a bias against them and will try to subvert the debate so thoughtful opinions do not bother under those circumstances.

You can not change anyone's opinion by refusing them a platform to express themselves. Or allowing engagement but employing a double standard where one side gets to be abusive but the other gets punished for the same behaviour.

If we look at the recent case of James Damore he was fired for his views. How many people at Google who support him are going to change there minds on the issue just because The management decided to take a side and silence any opposing views?
But how much does facebook know abiut you?

* photos amd comtact info uploaded by friends
* tracking scripts all over the web
* any datasets they may purchase to make correlations

I'llbet they have a lot more on you than you think.
Women in tech.
Clojure Spec: Expressing Data Constraints Without Types
Nobody's saying the runaway effects are going to boil the oceans, for fuck's sake.

Do you seriously not realize that the people who've been doing climate research for decades are aware that there were previous eras with more CO2 in them?

If you weren't just out to validate your own political goals, you might stop for a moment and reflect on how poorly-suited current life on the planet is for those previous eras with drastically more carbon in the air.
They need to use that on Youtube lol
>Did everyone suddenly forget all the un/underemployed college graduates we've got? Are they stupid, too?

I think you'll find the HN consensus is that they're stupid (or were tragically misled) for going to college in a major other than computer science or engineering.
It's ridiculous easy to sensor the web for corporations and Governments (but for some reason, they keep saying that once something it's posted online, it's over and it will stay there forever)... which is why I use youtube-dl for the videos that I really want to keep...
1. Quillette got DDOS'd for covering the Google Memo.
2. That's censorship.
3. Censorship is wrong.

I don't know what you're trying to imply, but I don't see anything wrong with saying something is wrong when it was indeed wrong.
The coding of this page is absolutely broken beyond any reasonable expectation. Still fun tho.
It's not really pedantry, I'm not picking on the words, but the concept. Many here, especially a lot of people coming from places with a strong government, decry the fact that US government does very little and seemingly can't make progress. This is by design: US institutions are setup in a way so only absolutely non controversial initiatiaves would pass, while the rest would be handled by citizens themselves or smaller governments on a regional level. Such governing structure was the fundamental innovation made at the time the US was established compared to the old tyrannical governments of the past, and I find it appalling that many people here, many of whom call themselves progressives, completely miss that fact.
> - You can still use the up and down arrow keys for moving through your command history and don't have to resort to Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N. Scrolling the source code window also uses the up and down arrow keys but you have to switch the "focus" to the source code window first.

Minor correction, that's the same as gdb tui. Use ^X,O to select which window has focus and you can use up and down arrow to go through your command history. The rest is definitely better in cgdb.
It's not a question of ignoring outliers; the point he's making is that these investments were never a part of the Techstars portfolio to begin with but were independent investments by people affiliated with Techstars.
You are twisting my words. I never said poor people are stupid or the other way around.

I said the US credit card system puts people without insight into finances in a serious disadvantage. No sorry, it rips them off. And nobody is talking about it, because it seems everybody thinks it's normal.

Explain your credit score to a European for example, and you will be met with a blank stare or disbelief.
The radiation risk from fallout is goverened by the seven-ten rule: Each order of magnitude of seven increase in time (counting from one hour after detonation) reduces fallout by a factor of ten.

After 7 hours: 10%, after 49 hours (~2 days): 1%, after two weeks, 0.1%.

This is highly influenced by blast yield, type, elevation, and prevailing wind direction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout#The_Seven_Te...

The other problem with being in tunnels is the shock wave itself. That can collapse the tunnel, of course, but also kill directly through blast trauma. Blast is attenuated as the cube of distance, so an increased range from the blast itself will tremendously reduce those effects (and similarly the prompt radiation and thermal effects).
Normally we edit a title when people complain that it's misleading, but if I do that in this case, people will accuse us of censoring because of YC. Since the HN principle is to moderate less when YC's interests are involved (albeit indirectly in this case) I've simply put the title in quotes instead. That's an option we sometimes use when commenters are complaining about a title but we don't have a better one handy.
To be fair: the theory is that the boats were coastal, hugging the edge of beringia. It's still basically the same crossing, and made possible by the same root cause (lower sea levels made the connection a single coastline and not open ocean). The technology is different, and maybe the time frame, but the basic structure of the theory is still the same.
We went through Techstars NYC with getstream.io. Alex Iskold the managing directors was awesome. He has a strong tech background, started a few companies and actually had experience with building feed technology from his last startup. (Stream is an API for building feeds and activity streams) So for us the experience was super relevant. Raising funding after the program was easy. Now, 2 years later, Alex still helps us out with anything we ask for. We're very happy, but I think to some extend it also depends on the managing director that runs your program.

One thing they could improve is support for founders that are moving to the US. In the beginning all the tax, visa and legal issues drove me a little bit crazy at times. Having 1 person on their team dedicated to helping foreign startups navigate those challenges would be very helpful.
Same in Chile. The speed limit is 120km but the buzzer on the bus sounds at 100km.
Like, Nickelback is in the original footage or someone overalyed the track on top of the footage? I would imagine if this ever really happened it would be fine in the former, and muted in the latter.

You're forgetting that 'promote...' means give the creator control of that content for the purpose of limiting access and making money. Promote in the sense that it becomes possible to actually sell artistic works like commodities. And then once the value has ben extracted the public can do what they please with it.