skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it amusing that the correlation vs causation point has morphed into arguing correlation is anti-causal (which is worse). I think if someone goes from being a doctor to being a bartender their divorce rate might be affected. I saw another data source that said the number one cause of divorce was financial so the correlation may actually be somewhat causal. Financial stress is brutal because it leads to conversations like cutting down on recreation and leisure and reducing spend on hobbies and downtime. This creates a kind of feedback loop where life adds stress and the resources to remove it are taken away because you no longer get to spend $X/month on your recreation because you needed to pay $Z on something else.
Security tool to trace URL's jumps across the rel links to obtain the last URL
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Why AI is now on the menu at dinner, even with my non tech friends
Choices = Headaches (2006)
you'd first need to convert your Francs into x-coin.

Francs -> USD -> x-coin
For some definition of innocent.
Why would anybody stick with such a investment? Either sunken cost fallacy- or they just have the potential to be this good. In that case, some sunken millions are actually quite peanuts - to have the foot in the door on the next layer of devices, who is going to wrap around our daily lives, making the older layers obsolete or dependent upon you for access to the the customers.

This is the long breath it takes, to sail through the enthusiasm and failure of a near-similar tech (VR!) and reach a goal. It is not portable yet?
Who cares.
The first cellphones where bricks. We shrunk them down two a chocolate-bar.

One leap for mankind.
> If someone who is already a physician, quits and takes a job as a bartender or telemarketer, it doesn’t mean their chances of divorce changes.

Uh, I'd say it almost certainly does significantly change their chance of divorce. If you go from having a steady, high income to variable work with high uncertainty around your next paycheck of course it will put more stress on the marriage and substantially increase the risk of divorce.
(We've updated the submission title from “Engineering couples have one of the lowest divorce rates” to that of the article.)
Category 5 Irma the 5th Strongest Atlantic Hurricane on Record
How hard is it to run it modeless? Also I love projects like this, so thanks!

GNU Zile (https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/) is another one I really enjoy with a more emacs focus (i.e. modeless) (but again, changeable in any direction you want with Lua).
Been watching this for a few days with /r/tropicalweather. Amazing to watch.

This site[1] has some really good info and daily videos with the rundown of the latest forecast

[1] https://www.tropicaltidbits.com
> You know why Reddit and Twitter became some toxic environments?

When were they toxic environments? Reddit and Twitter are what you make of it.

Are you saying it's toxic because people are able to express opinion that you disagree with?
If I may, blockchain is perfect solution for what exactly?
This is an issue, but there are also many schools that have computers. Schools should make them available to students for learning and fun outside of class hours.

Although I had a computer at home I did a lot of my learning at school because there was a faster internet connection there, and I could often use multiple computers and multiple screens. At my middle school I regularly stayed at school from the end of class around 2:30pm until 5:30pm or so. It was in those hours that I learned a lot of coding (I built a distributed search engine), web programming (I built a website for the school), network administration (the school needed help administering student e-mail accounts and I wrote various scripts to speed up the process) and so on. I also assembled a computer from scrap parts from other non-working school computers at one point. I wasn't the only one doing these things at that school, either.

When it comes to technology it should be the goal of the school to have students teach the teacher.
Of course, it's still a matter of initiative. You have to make those connections, not expect being on auto-pilot to result in a pot of gold.
Still smaller than https://imgur.com/gallery/snxk3

ps: warning, rabbit hole of amazement
Gmail asks you for your current email address, but it isn't actually required. I just tried it and made a new account in two clicks.

I assume the same applies to at least some of the others.
My point is that judging a person - a sophisticated individual with complex life history and embedded in equally complex environment - by just few bits of information, is a very stupid thing to do in general. There are situations in which you have no other choice, when few bits is all you have to go on and you need to make some decision. But those situations are very rare. In a typical case, such evaluation is just irrational - few bits are not enough to describe a person in any useful way.
>specifically the Industrial Revolution during the 18th and 19th centuries – did not lead to major social upheaval or widespread suffering.

Industrial Revolution during the 18th and 19th centuries led to massive social upheaval. Average height of Englishman decreased before started to increase (based on military records). Workers started to organize, skulls were cracked. People were shot in the streets. Armies were ordered to kill workers. There were bloody civil wars and revolutions.

Industrial revolution was not possible without massive social change that created, land reforms, working class, middle class and increased private consumption and accumulation of capital. It was at times bloody, but in the Western Europe and North America continuity of government was maintained. Not so in Soviet Union or China.

Anti-Union violence, Union violence (union busting) communist violence, anticommunist violence was pretty intense at time even when the society as whole worked.

Let's use US as an example of well managed industrialization and social upheaval with small number of casualties. We can still list numerous conflicts with 10-100 deaths: The Molly Maguire trials (20 workers executed), Battle of Virden, 1898 Colorado labor war,Italian Hall disaster, Ludlow massacre, Thibodaux Massacre, Pullman Strike, West Virginia Coal Wars, Rock Springs massacre, 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike, Steel Strike of 1919, The Herrin Massacre, 1922, Battle of Blair Mountain, Hanapēpē massacre, Harlan County War, Memorial Day massacre of 1937.

Future of Automation will create wealth and prosperity beyond all our dreams, but it requires massive political struggle that settles issues like privacy, rent seeking, ownership of personal information.

Violence in the street may be positive sign that automation is finally changing our society.
How is this FUD when it is actual news?
Pleasure and pain equally enable a self-satisfaction one might term 'happiness', like the pleasure of consistently demeaning oneself when one finds oneself frustrated by life because demeaning _others_ is pleasurable.

We are comfortable perceiving other species' limitations, even directly perceiving how their behavior or evolution will be their downfall, but we're not particularly good at analyzing ourselves in this way, and its owing to, rather than in spite of, moral constraints, themselves varying from demographic to demographic, so that ultimately the question becomes "_Which kind_ of human should propagate?" For Aristole, only slave-owners could practice virtue, materially and cognitively (though today, epigenitics would tell us there isn't as much of a distinction here as one would wish, or the recent literature indicating IQ drops the _longer_ one is poor as well; Aristotle ultimately had an idea of this as well, but treated of it separately in On the Soul).
A bit off-topic but will Android P/9.0 be the last version before you have to switch to Fuchsia?
Yeah, Im trying to be more conscious of this, I love that cheap high. It's a formula for being an asshole, unfortunately.
Ah, what? I don't know what you've been reading, but the Statute of Anne is commonly held to be the first "copyright" law, and it covers the monopoly rights of printing press operators. Copyright in the US today still does not cover performances, only fixed works.
Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/109962/windows-bloated-than...

Also previously discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192353

It turns out that the overall Windows bloat due to XMP tags amounts to something like 5MB.
I once had a Windows 7 machine refuse to shut down because it was "Playing Logoff Sound"!
I suspect that licensing fees are to blame. Having two children, there's rarely (if ever) a time I go to the Lego section of a store and not see at least one kit for every property my children (or I) enjoy.
I get it; a lot of people are dealt a shit hand and it's a given that nobody on this Earth has perfect foresight. The zinger here is that the writer is throwing stones in a glass room, and does nothing but prove the (misguided) point she's trying to refute.

In case you didn't read it, the article is written by somebody who payed her own way through an appreciably expensive college for an English literature degree and student debt, and seriously considered pouring coffee in Seattle for a living a viable option. Unfortunately, the follow-your-dreams approach generally doesn't pan out well when you took on debt for an education of arguably limited use and end up living in a city with an exorbitant cost of living. In many respects, the author had it made in a way that most impoverished people never will; she had reliable access to higher education at a college that feeds most of its graduates into Boeing, Microsoft, and Amazon. At that point, you just have to put two and two together, even if you don't like that the result is four.
That's what I was wondering. Could someone measure some kind of 'pickiness' measure to determine if bartenders just tend to get married fast where engineers tend to have a long courtship (or some other factor)?

While lack of money making problems worse is certainly an issue I wonder what (if anything) this says about how people choose partners in addition to how things work out.
Marrying someone you aren't particularly attracted to or in love with sounds like a recipe for divorce to me.
Yep, sick of the "correlation is anti-causal". I assume correlation is causal (which is usually the case) until shown otherwise, which this article did not show.
>In the US, we have become so accepting of the fact that poverty is not a symptom of a grossly unequal economy, or the result of numerous systemic failures, or the product of years of trickle-down economics, but instead, that the only thing standing between a poor person and the life of their dreams is their own decisions, their own choices, and their own failures.

We accept that because, for the most part, it's true.
Programming is to Computer Science what telescopes are to astronomers
Cannot confirm--what toolset did you use to determine this?
Do you have a citation for this? Purely to sate curiosity.
It's all good and dandy until they start fighting about spaces vs tabs, or OOP vs FP ;)
I made a point to not assess her efforts. I was only addressing the statement that the current administration didn't care about the current state of education. They obviously do, by hiring her, but whether the changes will work remains to be seen.
Whoever solves the focal distance part of tricking the human brain will rapidly develop AR/VR that is indistinguishable from reality.

Probably not. Yes it is a big part of it, but Avegant put out a system which allows accommodation (the term for what you describe for multiple depth fields) and it hasn't really made much of a difference [1].

[1]https://www.avegant.com/blog/company-news/introducing-avegan...
Thanks ofek, seemingly small things like this make a huge difference.
Nobody wants to be the first ICO "advisor" to be made an example of...

https://www.bitsonline.com/china-death-penalty-ico-traders/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-for-chinese-ant-f...

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-11/09/content_140611...
This has to be some sort of fallacy. After all, I don't expect my cardiologist to have a heart attack before he can tell me how to recover.
Not at the moment, but what an interesting idea! I'll look into doing that.
Haven't built a set in over 10 years... Thinking I'm going to get back into it slowly with this set perhaps.
I’ll get one for me and another one to sell in 10 years.
You can always accidentally forget to change your web server login from default admin:admin and get hacked.
Christianity is an "exclusive" religion:

"Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:16).

It is a core doctrine of Christianity that there is exactly one path to righteousness, which is through acknowledgement of personal sin and personal inability to pay the penalty for said sin, acceptance of the payment offered by Jesus Christ as the only way to pay that penalty, and submission to the Christian God as the only divine sovereign God.

Bhuddism is, from what I understand, a pluralistic religion, where there are many paths to enlightenment, and where many of those paths involve seeking something from within ones' self.

These are at odds as much as two signs saying "there is exactly one door to this room" and "there are many doors to this room".
Hurricanes rotate counter clockwise, so the highest wind speeds and storm surge tend to occur to the "right" or on the east/southeast side of the eye path. Currently Miami looks to be right in the center of this danger zone, so just get out now while you still can.

Yes it's a few days out and they can and usually do veer off, but this one is not worth riding out.
I am certainly aware of that, thank you. Here's another Wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historikerstreit

And I obviously don't google every nickname on HN, but he told us that people were calling him a Nazi without providing evidence. I wanted to look into that.
"Even the most hard-line free speech absolutist can't defend Anglin without being made radioactive by mere association"

If only our education system would manage to teach logic. Instead we have generations of people who can't understand how anyone can argue in defense of one part without being part of the whole thing.

It's as if "evil people drink water and you drink water, so you're evil" is an actual argument these days and no one sees why that is fallacious and stupid.
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance
Most folks seem enthralled by the vive but the fixed focal length makes it feel very off to me. I feel more like I'm being surrounded by tv screens than actually immersed in an environment.
That doesn't contradict the previous statement, if copyright is understood to apply to the script rather than the performance.
Do you think you'd be at least as well off as you are now if you grew up in a significantly poorer household, to significantly less emotionally stable parents?
When It’s OK to Be a Workaholic
> Am I right in guessing that using a VM would be the easiest path to success?

I've been able to successfully build Android on Arch Linux. Depending on which particular ROM you're building, much of the required build environment is packaged with the source. I just needed repo's dependencies and to rebuild the prebuilt Bison with the included source.

> I've been a bit frustrated with android's sparse docs and unreliable build tool.

The guide at https://source.android.com/source/ should result in a working AOSP build. I've followed it before without problems. My guess is you're trying to do something weird that makes sense to you that isn't really supported.

> Is xda-developers still the main place to go when looking for help, or have any other communities started to overthrow them?

XDA is still the primary place ROM development is carried out, yes. Finding a ROM's IRC channel can be helpful too.

> Is anyone here running their own ROM, or Copperhead in particular?

I built Copperhead for my Pixel but unfortunately it resulted in a bootloop so I gave up on it. I'm running PureNexus right now and might try Copperhead later.

> My only big remaining concern would be with Project Fi; I'm uncertain if the service will work if Google Apps aren't installed.

I don't think it'll work totally bereft of Google services but you might be able to manage it with MicroG: https://microg.org/
I'm a little surprised the military divorce rate is so low. With the long periods of separation, I'd expect it to be higher.
I started at MS during Vista and I've been involved (sometimes tangentially) with Windows ever since. This is all my opinion, but It's been very interesting seeing the decision making process change over time.

If I had to summarize the change, I'd say that it's evolved from an expertise-based system to a data based system. The reason why eight people were present at every planning meeting is because their expert opinion was the primary tool used in decision making. In addition to poor decisions, this had two very negative outcomes:

1) reputation was fiercely fought for. Individuals feared that if they were ever incorrect, the damage to their reputation would limit their ability to impact future decisions and eventually lead to career death. Whether this actually happened or not is irrelevant; the fear itself caused overt caution and consensus seeking.

2) In the absence of data, an eloquent negotiator is often able to obtain their desired outcome, no matter how sub-optimal that outcome might be.

Nowadays, I see data used a lot more, hence the telemetry. A while ago, in response to criticism of Windows telemetry habits, I wrote:

"Telemetry is, by now, a fundamental part of the engineering process. Products that don't incorporate it are going to be clobbered by products that do. Microsoft didn't start this paradigm, but I think they had to incorporate it in order to stay competitive."

I understand that telemetry is still a delicate issue, but the expertise based decision making of yester-year truly sucked for many, and I don't see a viable alternative.
Isn't wired highly pro-censorship when it comes to offensive speech?

Why should people "deal with" porn on the internet and yet the internet should be scrubbed of "offensive" speech?

Maybe I'm mistaken about wired being pro-censorship. But people seem to cherrypick what they find offensive and what should be censored.
Thanks!

Eventually, yes.
I think assuming correlation is causal is bad as well. But it's a good sniff test. Usually something interesting is going on: sometimes it's A causes B, sometimes its B causes A, sometimes A and B have a common related cause. Sometimes C is non-causal but correlates with A and B and wasn't controlled for. Lots of possibilities.
Check out http://jarhq.com. It is request management software built specifically for this problem. Clients can email in requests and it automatically tracks them, plus clients can see their status in a client dashboard and you can keep track of files, emails, etc. It's super simple and low-profile.
This is a major point "Outliers" (by Malcom Gladwell). I recently finished listening to the book. He makes a strong case that culture heavily contributes to the success of people. He highlights Asian culture for their hard work ethic (positive) as well as the higher power distance index [1] (negative for things like airplane crashes, specifically because it impedes communication proper communication between pilot, copilots and the tower [2]).

Other notable aspects of culture (well, in this case language) is that perfect pitch occurs more often in speakers of tonal languages (think chinese), and speakers of languages with shorter words for numbers can remember lists of numbers easier [3]

Now does this mean we don't try to fix other things? No. "Culture" is not a panacea for everything I would think. What do you do with those born into a unfavorable circumstances? But I do agree that more often than not we're trying to fix the wrong thing when fixating on outcomes, instead of tools and opportunities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimensio...
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/malcolm...
[3]
Yeah, I struggle with this squaring this disruption with a generally libertarian economic stance. If we truly are at the edge of a disruption that will make the vast portion of workers under or unemployed, what does that mean in terms of social stability and survival for those people?
Not a solution. You're just moving things around - and it looks even worse because now you're structuring or laundering.
Haha, I wouldn't even be mad. That's adorable.
And by "beyond its ability" I think you mean "beyond its willingness".
I don't understand why this is even remotely controversial. I am as jealous a guard of my personal privacy as anyone, but I would expect my employer to be able to monitor my work-related email. The resolution is simple: conduct your personal correspondence through a separate email account that is not owned by your employer.

In fact, I keep strictly segregated work and personal email, and I run my own company!
You might also like my article https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/seven/dragon-taming-wit... -- it's one chapter instead of a whole book, but it does follow your points 2 and 4. (Not 1 because it just uses Python's built-in parser to ASTs, and not 3 because it's just one compiler.)

I'm looking forward to Crafting Interpreters too.
Using Fedora 25 building Android 7 for Nexus 5X is relatively simple. The only caveat is that to really take advantage of the hardware you need vendor blobs which you can get by running the scripts at https://github.com/anestisb/android-prepare-vendor
We also invest incredibly heavily into making such a nuclear exchange more likely. We've sunk trillions of dollars into building a collective suicide switch.

We don't need more then a hundred nuclear weapons for MAD to work. Meanwhile, Russia and the US are pointing thousands of them at each-other. (And in the US, at least, the minimum number of people required to authorize a launch is tragically small. In a time of escalated tensions, a president can bring about the end of the world, without the consent of anyone else. There is no law or military process that can prevent it.)

Even if the odds of nuclear war were 1% in my lifetime, it would be an unacceptable level of risk. I wouldn't be surprised if it is, in reality, much higher.
Yeah - the author said "no other game is offering this!", and my first thought was "but Elite: Dangerous offers large swaths of this stuff and has for some time."

Granted, it doesn't do everything No Man's Sky does, and it has its own gameplay issues (mainly a lack of depth to the universe resulting in boredom). But No Man's Sky doesn't exist in a vaccuum. There are lots of other games at least trying to do what it does, and in some cases, succeeding.

Star Citizen, if it is not vaporware, may become another good example.
I'm sorry to bring bad news, but you are probably wrong. Kids tend to be like their biological parents.
http://quillette.com/2015/12/01/why-parenting-may-not-matter...
I haven't tried building my own ROM, but XDA is my first (and usually only) stop when I want to flash a new one. Don't most developers make the code open source? Perhaps poking through others' code would clarify some things. I'd be willing to bet people hang out in some IRC rooms, too.