skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We seem to have incompatible worldviews. I understand and agree with your points about what science is and can do. But I do not share what appears to be an absolute devotion to science. I'm really quite confused, I cannot even fathom existing for a second in this world with what I understand to be your mindset.

Are you basically saying there is no point to any understanding of our lives that does not count as science? Or are you saying that it is impossible to have such an understanding? Is each and every artform a subdiscipline of science? Is making art fundamentally the same thing as performing scientific experiments?

Where do you believe that you got your opinions about the supreme utility of science? Were they derived using the scientific method?

I'm not asking these questions to attack you, I'm just curious. Maybe there's something I'm missing.
One of my old employers has legacy systems built with WebObjects. In theory, WebObjects is Java and should run on anything, but typically it is on OS X Server. I left just as one of my colleagues was trying to figure out what to do about the death of the XServe.
It would be much less interesting as well... How many "registered" users are actually active? I know tons of people who don't use Facebook anymore, and some of them had multiple accounts. How many "registered" users use Facebook enough to see this? Most of the people I know log in occasionally to "check up on things", and never post. How many people considered it worthwhile to vote at all? How many people speak enough English to understand the entire issue? How many people like expressing opinions at all?

The incredibly low turnout is simply to be expected and is downright boring; but that half a million people bothered to vote no is interesting and newsworthy.
Great idea, I have been actually thinking about something like this for a long time.

Great product, but weak marketing. It is targeted for non-technical small businesses, but homepage and everything looks complicated, and makes less sense for these people. There should be a one sentence which clearly explains what the product is meant to do. Customers are more interested in the end result, show them some examples of what they can do with this product. Unfortunately , this looks like a product for developers by developers.
There's no real point of not naming the other guy. It only takes a few seconds and a single search to find the original: http://www.nealke.mp/

Your email (where you say "Neal") confirms it too...
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*If [a scientist] is speaking nonsense, his being [a scientist] is not going to save him.

== Fixed that for ya.

. . . Carry On.
Somewhat interesting not to see Apple on there. Then again, Apple's IP portfolio is probably larger than all the cosigners combined, and they may not want to encourage legislation leading to that all being invalidated.
Bet you want to click that blue button, right? Impressive example that illustrates the point. :)
yea, I know. Either way if someone wanted to find out, they would. But since he didn't say I could link to his site and provide his full name, I won't.
Unrelated to the content of the post, but humorous that they get the capitalisation of "iOS" correct, but consistently spell iPhone "i-phone".
I don't think the presence of political parties would be a significant cause.

Australia has a strong two-party system and we're ranked seventh. New Zealand has an essentially two party system and they're ranked first.
Around the World is great! It just needs a flashier UI and introduction. It's seriously addictive. Please don't give up on it.

If you want to explore it further next year hit me up for some graphic design advice/help.
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Yes, changing the title would help clarify the content of the article. At first I thought the police had an issue with the concept of the iOS 6 mapping feature (e.g. privacy issues). Despite the terseness of the article, the issue engenders mixed feelings of sympathy and bemusement.
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Right. I can understand wanting to get away from poker. What I meant was, I'm surprised your whole focus is on getting a job - as opposed to remaining self-employed. Surely you enjoyed setting your own schedule and not having a boss. It's certainly possible to keep those perks as a developer.

I suppose wife+baby+parents changes things. Anyway, good luck!
I was talking about administrators and the rest of the bureaucracy. The political side is different, with a different set of factors in play.

That being said, yes, US Congressmen are much more intelligent than state and municipal legislators as a whole. Congresspeople aren't dumb (in the sense of g factor). When you hear a Congressperson say "stupid" things, he's usually being disingenuous, or is falling pray to the common human tendency to ignore facts in favor of ideology.

Todd Akin, for example, has an engineering degree from a reasonably well-known school and served in the Army Corps of Engineers. He's not stupid, he just believes crazy things. I've met lots of engineers that believe crazy things. Indeed, I've met more engineers that believe crazy things than non-engineers. I think it takes above average IQ, as a general rule, to believe something that goes against conventional thinking. But believing crazy things makes for great political appeal.
With a site experiencing even the smallest exponential growth, this definition of "interesting" will cause most I the material posted to recur on a fixed schedule as the number of people who haven't seen it yet drifts above some threshold. This condition is only excaserbated by existing users leaving (which will of course happen on some other predictable curve). On Hacker News, many of us feel this schedule I currently "three months".
Oh give it a rest.

He didn't 'leave' the internet. He's just taking time away from all the fooflah. You know, not everyone needs to be hooked up to the machine 24x7.
GPS navigation systems have already killed: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-mi...

Rangers are frustrated by having defunct roads or paths in GPS navigation systems as roads and having no way to get them removed.

I was traveling in Death Valley recently, and the span of "unpaved road" ran from "better than my driveway" to "I could try, but there is a 50-50 chance this rented jeep[1] isn't coming back."

EOM

[1] If you pass through, spend a day, rent a jeep. Don't do that to your own tires. The rental guy will tell you where to go to see the things you want to see.
Try Gerrit. It's tightly coupled to git, it's quite easy to host, similar to Rietveld/Mondrian in style, and has good documentation.
The previous iteration of this project was discussed here as well:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4830437
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The other possibility is that their Steam Box fits with their "games as a service" model. Imagine if they charged a monthly/yearly fee and occasionally shipped out hardware upgrades to all Steam Box owners.
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Can you explain simply and concisely what your elevator pitch/product is? I don't know what Style Influence is and I can't tell at all from your landing page.
FWIW, I gather that contemporary Go docs have stopped using the phrase "duck typing" because it has too much of a dynamic connotation to convey what Go in fact does ("structural typing").
I'm not going to bike for an hour through the dark and snow to get access to more than the dozen portals that my home town has.
Not really. Approach != landing. Those are visual conditions, most airplanes we landing on CAT I (or visual) precision system. By the time the airplanes were so low no auto pilot was on, actually.

Looks normal (I used to fly for a living)
The entire thing is solved by bothering to look at the caption on top of the info-graphic. Even if you don't read the associated article, it's reasonable to expect that a viewer is going to atleast look at the caption that describes what they are actually looking at
Actually I technically still am self employed. I'm doing contract work as a freelancer. Thankfully I haven't had any problem finding enough work to keep me busy. In any case, I do love the freedom of setting my own hours but the priority is providing stability for my family.
Implementation is hard in the context of, I can scribble down an idea in 5 mins but to actually build it will take me 4 weeks. So, compared to the idea, the implementation is hard in terms of being time consuming and taking a lot of resources and effort. Then after that to get people to use it seems nearly impossible.
Police concerned with Apple iOS 6 mapping system

-- You should never blindly follow consumer-level GPS. Full stop.

Especially in remote areas/national parks/widerness areas. Hate to say this is "common sense", but really it should be. It really has nothing to do with Apple, the iPhone, or iOS. Its quite the opposite, there are errors on all sorts of digitized maps. Most people are not aware or the vintage of the underlying mapping data (pre-digitization) and the variances of map-set data even amonst variant databases of "real maps".
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US politicians at all levels spend an amazing amount of money on pet projects that are ultimately little more than kickbacks to the donors who helped them get elected. These projects are commonly called "Pork Barrel" projects and widely known about by US citizens and the media. In the meantime the US government runs huge deficits to fund such projects, and the end result is that we now have entire states looking for ways to avoid bankruptcy. Incidentally, several large cities in California have already filed for bankruptcy protection including Stockton and San Bernardino. The hall of government waste, fraud and abuse in the US goes on and on; I was surprised it didn't tend further toward the corrupt side of the map.

In some cases we might wonder if we are viewing sheer incompetence or wanton political corruption, but just as the end results are the same in either case, so are the perceptions.
Perhaps it's harder to slack off on doing the right thing when God is watching.
I disagree. I think there shouldn't be a default presumption linking one to the other.
I'm curious how this differs from an outdated paper map.
"The entire thing is solved by bothering to look at the caption on top of the info-graphic."

Which I am sure he did, as did I. At the top of the infographic it reads "Corruption Perceptions Index 2012", suggesting this is an index of corruption perceptions as of 2012. Higher numbers clearly mean more corruption is perceived, and lower numbers clearly mean less corruption is perceived. Assuming that one is going by the caption at the top of the infographic.
Change title from 'Police' to 'State Police in Victoria, Australia' please. Title is misleading/linkbaity.
Facebook acquired them. It's all about money now.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/GNI_PPP_P...

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"Corruption" is a structural aspect of our system. It is inherent in the relationship between government, money, and people (in their current forms).
As a former Victorian now living in the US, I think it's apt to point out that 46 degrees Celsius is 114.8 degrees Fahrenheit and 70 kilometers is 43.495 miles.
The Crunchbase numbers of only 21 startups started since 2008 are grossly misstated, even based on Crunchbase data.

I think I personally know 21 companies started AND funded since then in Atlanta. When I search for individual companies, they show up as "Atlanta, GA" and "Founded 8/2010" (for example), but they don't show up in a search.

I'd expect there are probably at least 100 Atlanta companies in Crunchbase founded since January 2008, and probably over 300 companies founded in that time. A possibly unexpected trait of Atlanta is that our companies aren't super-focused on Crunchbase, Angel List, etc, so we probably under-report on most research like this. (Our own fault - Atlanta companies - spend 10 minutes to add your startup to Crunchbase and Angel List).
IMO, while this is old news, the outcome is something I think we can showcase as why science is awesome. A mistake was found, and even though there was some huge investment in the idea, it was corrected. It took time, sure, but it was still corrected.

Had this been a religious idea, I'm afraid the new evidence would have been buried and we'd still have the old, wrong idea.
~70 kilometres is quite a "variance".
Theory and practice often look different. Even in Denmark, including when it comes to tech conferences:

http://boingboing.net/2012/05/14/moderator-at-dell-event-in-...
> A test failure will probably bring up an engineer that will track down the issue, and a re-test will inevitably occur. The faulty machine will eventually (hopefully) get labeled flaky and will get repaired.

Depending on how valuable the engineers' time is. I have seen this played out like this: hardware gets blamed last after hours and days of testing have been wasted. So tests are run and re-run, blame goes all around until finally after hours and hours of testing it is determined that maybe it is hardware after all.

In the end an engineers' time is worth a lot more than savings obtained by running flaky but cheaper hardware.
#1 result for "nylon fumes"

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Dioxins
HCN gas
HCl gas
Yes and no. A non trivial project will need multiple interdependent gems. But installing them simply is a matter of running 'bundle'.
Sorry mate, but Victoria is not a 'small Australian city'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)
The location was shown ~70 km from where it actually is. Even an outdated map would get it closer than that.
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I love the idea. the interactive guide is horrible. far from simple. Sorry for being blunt.
Yap. I really depends on the type of loading. In other words I didn't mean "servers" as in necessarily web servers just machines that handle server loads. In this case it just means constants high CPU and disk churn. So if this is a high contention test rack, running tests non-stop its hardware will experience a server type level of stress.
You're underestimating how influenced people can be by status. The fact that science does work, and the resulting status, can lead people to give credibility to ideas about ideas that they otherwise wouldn't, ideas that aren't really about science at all, because they're presented with a scientific gloss. If you don't like the Hawking example, try Social Darwinism.
Here's one from a.b.cheerleaders...

"291112_08_29" (60 rars)

There are lots of these and they are interesting because the first part suggests a date, 29/11/12, and the second part suggests a sequential number. The size is almost 6 gig.
Yap definitely true.
If this is done with commodity hardware, now, what were the NSA's capabilities even 5 years ago?
Stargate is better than both.
Did you ask his permission before posting his emails?
Display: none; naughties
Every standard Windows password less than 8 chars only?
> app.net jumps in telling the Valley "TOLD YALL!"

Haha, ever since this story broke, I've been waiting with bated breath for a post by Dalton about how this is another sign that Twitter is "pivoting" or how users are going to get tired of not being the customers.
I'm sure they were able to crack the encryption method before Microsoft started using it.
Why do we care about the perception of corruption?
God, this is awful
Twitter Purchasing AdWords for "Buy Twitter Followers"
I've really enjoyed Dana Goodyear's writing. Another New Yorker article I read recently is also by her, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_...
Here is a screenshot if the AdWords don't show up for you: http://cl.ly/image/161L363u0h0B
That does not fulfill the original requirement set forth by the author:

> Here's a simple task: print a list of all the files with a txt extension in the current directory except for ignore_me.txt.

Your solution, and one of the the sibling comment solutions, will select all of those files, not print a list of them. Pedantic, perhaps, but the solution outlined by the OP is not mirrored by your solution.

This isn't automation, this isn't anything but simple file manipulation, that most graphical operating systems are incapable of; it's also a simple display of how graphical UIs fall short of the shell.
Hi, did you run into some problems in the tutorial? Or because the steps of the tutorial is too complex?
Well, you're right: It is 2012, and there are (at the time of writing) all of 6 supercharger stations, which can fill a battery at up to 120 kW. The current incarnation (heh) of the Tesla S battery limits the rate to about 80 kW for the first 50%, or so.

However, there are probably more places to plug in than you'd expect. For example, there are tons of RV parks all around the country, many of which have NEMA 14-50 sockets for grandma and grandpa to plug their big camper into. Those sockets can deliver about 10 kW. Then there are electric clothes dryers, found in many homes: They typically use a 240V, 30A circuit, which can deliver about 5 kW continuously.

That last option isn't really practical on the freeway, but how far do you plan to drive to hang out with friends for half an hour? Let's say you drive a couple hours and stay for the afternoon: Their dryer socket will refill almost half of a Tesla's battery for the grand sum of $5--that'll be enough to get you home (there are practical problems with the approach, but it's not a bad 0th-order approximation). Are your friends so worried about electricity that they wouldn't accept a 6-pack of their favorite brew in exchange for a power outlet?

Electric car owners who frequent online forums report that hotels are very reasonable about charging, and some even install free-to-use chargers as a value-add to attract customers. In the long term, if electric car adoption increases, hotels will obviously either need to add a surcharge or raise room rates. But, even if a hotel did sell electricity at a 100% markup, the customer's energy cost for driving a mile on electricity would still be less than half the cost on gasoline.

Certainly, electric cars won't work for all trips, and the infrastructure needed to move electrons from the grid to the car is missing in many places. On the other hand, equipment for 10 kW charging (that's a charge rate of about 30 miles per hour) can be installed almost anywhere in the continental United States for between a few hundred and couple thousand dollars (and in many places it already exists). For new construction, before landscaping is installed and where a right-size breaker panel can be installed in the first place, the cost of installing 240V, 50A service in the garage is almost inconsequential.
Yea, I like Archlinux a lot; it's been my favourite linux distro for a while now.
During the second interview in the back room it was fully explained why my friend was there. The woman in charge then told her "It doesn't really matter what you tell me now anyway, I'm going to base it off what you said the first time around." Even after I got to explain the thing again on the phone to the woman later she said if that's the case she made a mistake but there was nothing she could do about it at that point as she "just stamped the paperwork so no reversing it now."
Victoria isn't a city at all, it's a state. But it's the Mildura police that issued this warning. Mildura is certainly a small town.
You don’t need to live in the “ghetto parts” to be seduced by a long-term loan that has easy terms up front.

The subprime mortgage crisis was built on respectable hard-working middle-class families that were persuaded to take on debt like this for their own homes.
Because perception is reality and if people believe the system is corrupt, they will act accordingly. Also, those types of questions are sometimes very predictive[1].

[1] "we probe the value of questions probing
voters’ expectations, which typically ask: “Regardless of who you plan to vote for, who do you think will
win the upcoming election?” We demonstrate that polls of voter expectations consistently yield more
accurate forecasts than polls of voter intentions."

http://users.nber.org/~jwolfers/Papers/VoterExpectations.pdf
> I'm not sure the credit card will perform a chargeback in this case: it's not that Google is misrepresenting their product or the product isn't being delivered, it's that he's changed his mind.

It is a valid charge, and I'm sure Google won't be too happy when you cancel it on them.
The Red Planet has some blue now
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Except that the main "mistake" had to do with naming conventions, as opposed to actual science.

We've refined our view of other dinos over the years, but we don't say that T-Rex never existed just because we know he stood differently than we first imagined.
Well... yes. I mean don't you really know that Chavez has been stealing businesses and companies and giving them to accomplices? The Chavez "nomenklatura" has taken hold of the country and been pillaging it for quite some time. The crime rate is exploding, there have been shortages of food and energy. It is a collapsing country.
Facebook kept spamming me with 'people you might know' emails, which used to go straight to my spam folder, but for some reason started appearing in my inbox.

I clicked through and unsubscribed from those emails the other day. Despite this, the very next day I got the governance email.

I suspect you have the email in a spam folder somewhere.
What definitions of "self" and "sense of self" are we using? We will have to draw that line before I can begin to erase it.
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I have to admit that occasionally during whiteout snowstorms I glance at my GPS more as moral support that I am indeed on a road.

Telephone poles are also a good guide if I can see them.
I'm surprised at how well the UAE does (very close to the USA), especially when things like this happen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8450722.stm
(Disclosure: I work for Google, but not in anything to do with maps. These opinions are my own.)

I've been to this national park before. It's a beautiful place, but not one you want to get stuck in unprepared. The temperature estimates given by the police are accurate. It gets damn hot out there. The roads are gravel at best, and often just packed dirt or sand. You can very easily get bogged, if you don't know what you are doing. I got to a point where the road became unsuitable for my car, and I had to drive backwards for nearly 100 metres to get out as there was nowhere to turn. I would be concerned for inexperienced drivers with two-wheel-drive vehicles.

Map data is serious business, and this particular case is an egregious error.
From a hardware perspective, the Nexus 4 uses the same SoC as the LG Optimus G, it just lacks amplifiers and antennas designed for LTE frequencies (one LTE frequency is in the UTMS band, so it can function in most phones unofficially). So you could be right, although I'm not sure if LG puts together the final SoC.
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Ok, but do you think that google et al haven't done a similar analysis? They presumably have a reason for doing this.
I agree, CSS selectors in BeautifulSoup and pyquery make it less messy.
Brazil is getting better: http://world.time.com/2012/12/06/tale-of-two-corruptos-brazi...

The trick here is a judiciary that is beginning to work and an aggressive press.