skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. This will be extremely useful for printing companies, and graphic designers. They go through tons of back and worth with clients who wants "letter A to be moved 1 centimeter to the left."
This reminds me of a scheme that happened at a job I worked at years ago. A guy had two full time jobs in buildings downtown that were adjacent to each other. He would show up, look busy, walk over to the other building, do the same. He managed to pull this off for six months before getting found out.
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true, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT2YYLkIFZ4
That's an interesting reflection. Time will tell.
I think the point is to demand an internal investigation, and to ensure that destroying peoples lives in order to gain a metric for advancement will not be tolerated.
Thanks for writing this, we're a bit beyond this stage but it certainly reiterates a lot of our learnings. Good to validate that i'm not insane or the only one feeling some of those pain points.
I suspect a neurochemical basis for this - when one is rich and in the higher echelons of society, it goes to reason that their brains will have more serotonin swimming around due to a) better food and b) more socialising.

Having higher levels of serotonin makes us more blind to unfairness:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5884/1739.abstract

> We observed the effects of manipulating 5-HT function on behavior in the ultimatum game, where players must decide whether to accept or reject fair or unfair monetary offers from another player. Participants with depleted 5-HT levels rejected a greater proportion of unfair offers, but not fair offers, without showing changes in mood, fairness judgment, basic reward processing, or response inhibition.
Also see: https://github.com/SquareSquash/web

Interesting FAQ full of the developer preemptively defending design decisions.
I'd get so bored just watching Youtube etc all day!
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This is probably the top comment because the zeitgeist is that the system is broken and making nice with it is a failing strategy.
Finally somebody I can get behind; we need to get this guy into office.

Does anyone know of any other examples of if-by-whiskey being used today?

Is it useful for politicians or would it completely backfire, where any opposition would try to say "You are quoted as being pro-alcohol: calling it the philosophic wine" or "anti-alcohol, calling it the devil's brew" and pick the paragraph that suits their needs?
Seems to be related to the straw man:

The question is "Should whiskey be prohibited or not?" but he takes it to be "Is there anything good or bad about whiskey?" or "Do I think whiskey is good or bad?".
These used to be binary and so they'd not play well with version control. Is this fixed?
> They should try to determine what their whole electorate wants

I'd argue that they should determine what they whole electorate wants... but they should be striving for what their whole electorate needs. It may not get them re-elected, but getting re-elected isn't "supposed" to be their job, doing what's best for the people they represent is.

Sadly, none of that seems even close to common practice.
Criminal? This is the kind of warped thinking that lead to Aaron Swartz's death. Please chill out.
Well I think thats cause on the one hand a supporter might consider " the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together..." as true while another might consider "the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence" as true. Depending on ones opinion something is true for one but not true for another. A person might only be able to see their own side of things without allowing other opinions. So I guess fallacy is a somewhat appropriate term here:)
I was half expecting an alcoholic connotation of Paul Revere, e.g. two if-by-whiskey, one if-by-beer.
I guess it could be considered very similar to the "no true scotsman" fallacy.

"If by scotsman you mean..."

Not sure what it has to do on the frontpage though.
The data don't really support that theory.

Some countries that are often held up as positive alternatives to "North American business culture" (like France) have higher suicide rates than the US.

Whatever our business culture's failing are, causing more suicide is not high on the list, especially when you compare with the cultures of Asia and Eastern Europe.
Its a type of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativist_fallacy
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Peacefully petitioning one's government to remove an appointed official is kinda odd behavior for a mob, isn't it?
Things must have changed then - I find security is very lax at Imperial, especially in the EEE department.
> It must be hacked, but I don't really see how.

figure out a way to efficiently get energy (nuclear? solar? vacuum energy?), so you don't need to rely on any incumbent authority.

Using that energy, design drones to mine resources from the earths' crust, or extract minerals/resources from the sea. THis process must be automated. These drones, using the extracted resources, would reproduce themselves, so that the whole process can be exponential in speed.
When a critical number of drones is reached, arm the drones (or create new drones that are armed). Use those drones to take over the world - send an ultimatum. Then, once the whole world has bowed down to you, you become the most benevolent dictator, giving all equality and a good life.
I've been running Android since 2.3, I've not installed a malicious app yet (to my knowledge of course).

If you want, you can install security tools which scan apps prior to being installed, like Lookout, which will alert you to various issues.

Yes there's a lot of spammy apps, but if you're even halfway aware of what you're doing, you'll have to be very unlucky to be caught out by one.
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They are XML now but they are so volatile that merging is still a pain in the ass.
Because the answers to "if -by whiskey" you mean this, or you mean that, render the argument that alcohol should be banned as unsound. One can argue equally each side of the argument depending on the definition of alcohol they choose.
I would guess the guy feels bad enough

Nothing that I have seen suggests that he feels badly at all.

Swartz’s attorney Elliot Peters accused Heymann of aggressively pursuing Swartz because the case “"was going to receive press and he was going to be a tough guy and read his name in the newspaper."

There are attorneys, some of them prosecutors, that get a kick out of pulling wings off of flies.
Perhaps it's a fallacy that you can be both in favor of a particular thing and also against that same thing?

I have the feeling that if I heard that speech I would actually believe that Soggy is both for and against whiskey. I don't think I'd vote for him, but I would believe him.
I guess the article title is true. But so what? In software, many, many things can be modelled. OO can be very useful. I don't know what takeaway this article has, maybe Simpleminded approaches suck?
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Some great ideas Spants, so thank you for sharing. One month in, we're certainly focused on the initial offering (daily entertaining email) more than some of the other features you suggest. There's plenty of competition in the sector, so we don't want to try and be all things to all people.

As a user, I'm really happy with the forums at TripAdvisor and ThornTree - any thoughts on how they could be advanced or improved upon would be welcome.
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Did you mispell 'HTML'?
They did fine for years without it, so that can't be it.
On your Google, with your results, with your search history and thus in your
specific filter bubble.

Fuck, people, don't you get this already? There is no n-th result on Google.
Don't act like there is.
The general population suicide rate is about 1 in 10,000, which is what the GP quoted. What's your source for saying it's 1 in 1000?
Outsourcing your job: it might be amoral, but the work gets done.

Giving your VPN login to random people in another country: instant sacking.
They need to add this to http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/. And if you haven't been there, you should check it out!
the amount of effort you expend to sign a petition is next to nil. Why would anyone expect, then, that signing a petition can affect any sort of change?

Activism comes from expending effort to direct the course of the system (aka, society). Some people, like the rich and powerful, are also "activists" - in the sense that they use their wealth and power to direct the system in such ways as to benefit themselves, while the more altruistic activists direct towards a more ethical/equal world as deemed by their moral systems. In my eyes, they are of the same sort. Problem is that the altruistic activists tend to lack in resources, and thus, they often "lose" to the powerful wealthy ones that act more out of self interest.
Should be called "How the 4 hour work week can backfire"
I can't watch the video right now, and as a result I have no idea what this actually is (despite being able to read about all the features).

Fewer e-mails sounds good, but it doesn't mean much to me if I don't know what the product is.
There needs to be a precedent set that this is unacceptable.

Unfortunately I have a feeling that the Obama administration will respond with something to the effect of "no comment."
I'm 100% with you. I used nibs a lot when I started out but now I've slowly drifted away from them. The only thing I use them for is setting the frame so I can get a general idea of the layout of the view. Sometimes I'll set a few properties like text color and font size but I'll then move those lines into viewDidLoad: so I know exactly what my view will be like when it is loaded.

I've dealt with far too many bugs involving Interface Builder and it's random changes and "upgrading" the second I touch a nib that it's more of a liability now.

People who say it's less "code" are just delusional. Setting the font in IB versus a single line in viewDidLoad: doesn't save you anything. At some point in time that line of code is getting executed and you will at some point have to maintain it.
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> not portable.

How not? It's strictly and clearly defined in the standard.
My first reaction to the announcement was negative:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064624

But now, I am not so sure. Raising the threshold seems like a sound response to the program gaining traction if the Whitehouse wants it to succeed - closing it down would be the simple response if their goal was not to be bothered. Raising the threshold (a second time) invites people to take the low effort act of signing a petition more seriously - even if this seems a bit counter intuitive at first blush.

Imagine if a response from the Whitehouse required just one signature. It would sure gain traction. But it would encourage triviality. "It's 1am, Barry. Make my neighbor's dog shut up."

Increasing the threshold requires more political organization. At the original 5000 signatures, the barrier to entry posed from organizing was low enough to reward minimal success at political organization. Moving it to 25,000 required better organization.

Barry believes in the power of grassroots political organization to the point of putting his money in the form of a Harvard JD where his mouth is. Two campaigns for president have shown him that much of its future will be implemented with digital tools.

The Whitehouse is seeking the sweet spot of participatory democracy at the scale of the Whitehouse. If, as I suspect, similar strategies are implemented at lower levels of government, Democrat party leadership now has data upon which to make informed decisions at those levels.

With any petition, signing is a trivial effort. Buy-in comes from watching progress not from demanding answers. The speed with which signatures were collected for petitions related to Aaron Swartz's death shows that the threshold was too low. Firing the prosecutor expresses anger, but it doesn't seek structural change. Lynch mobs don't.
I'm not sure it's really the number that matters - each network has a distinct focus - some non top-10 or top-5 schools (Carnegie Mellon for example) may have less highly-ranked MBA program/network but have a really strong engineering/undergraduate network. For an MBA who has an engineering background or is pursuing engineering management, getting an MBA at that sort of program may make a lot of sense. I think the real key here is that blindly following rankings makes little sense and that picking a program that's really right for you is what does make sense.
"take control and make 10 minutes of your day truly yours."

I read that and immediately signed up, but to echo Robin_message, I am not sure I want to be told about places I probably won't go. There has to be other ways you can make this 10 minutes work for me. I'll be waiting.
Part of that is an end-of-the-world scenario. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
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Most probably because someone didn't get the sarcasm contained in the speech.
The reasoning behind why I built this platform: http://bckmn.com/releasing-sthgnw/

And it's official home page: http://sthgnw.com
Maybe this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059806

and this

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5061140
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You're forgetting the context. The network is open and freely available to anyone. They're not trying to keep anyone out.

That's precisely what Swartz's defense team has pointed out -- there was precious little "hacking" involved because there was no defense to hack.
Do you know of any cultures that do understand mental illness?
"Be really clear about what your value proposition is for your customer" - This is the key learning I've had from the feedback so far.

And just to clarify - the monetisation plan doesn't involve connecting people with travel guides. Maybe it should?

Our pre-launch survey gave us some great feedback about 'we want local insight', and there was also some strong feeling about 'give us an experience, not a guided tour'. So monetisation will (in current plans) involve advertising, possibly embedded into the daily experience (cafes, destinations, maybe even guides) - although we have yet to determine how we do that openly and without including any awful places.
> x-ray kind of view of a vehicle or engine

BMW did a research project about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9KPJlA5yds

The problem with augmented reality is that you need incredibly low latency: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/latency-the-sine-qua-n...

Early systems will likely stick to simple HUD views that don't require tracking of real objects with low latency.
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I have been feeling pretty lonely for the last couple of weeks. My job is contract python work so I stay home all day. I don't really have close friends. The last time I went out with friends was weeks ago. I barely have any communication with others online. I always seem to never have anything to talk about and have trouble keeping a conversation flowing.

I am getting worse at being motivated to do any work, so simple tasks take hours to do. I used to love programming on personal projects but the last time I worked on a personal project was nearly a month ago.

I am 20 and still live with my parents but don't talk to them much, they are restrictive parents. I am a college student on a long holiday.

So, I am not in a super depressing position, but I am not having that much fun either. I would like to be more social to not feel lonely.
The only thing that instantly tells me what squash actually is is in the <title> tag. Which chrome truncates to ~30 characters.

Is it a pest control system that doesn't send me emails?
Actually, required size of the transformer drops with the frequency. Mains switching power supplies still use regular transformer for isolation which run on comparatively high frequency and thus can be very small.

50/60Hz mains is motivated by compromise between visible flicker from lightbulbs and required frequency for practical synchronous motors with useful rotational speeds (some electrified rail systems use lower AC frequencies because they are better match for motors). Also, significantly higher frequencies will cause even relatively short mains runs to behave like a (RF) transmission line and also cause more significant skin effect.
> On big topics and high profile news you would suspect the message is not the journalist's independent bias but is instead the management's or dare I say administration's, not just some slipped piece of news that hasn't gone through central editing and review.

All bare one of my points* was about the managements bias.

* re science reporters
they should have had a petition to decide if they want to raise this!
Agree on some levels - BUT - you've provided a 3rd party direct access to a critical system (telecommunications no less) in a foreign country.

You probably have limited means to do a thorough background check on the 3rd party and you submit the work as your own.

If he were able to setup a local dev environment and only provide access to that (and from there he'd move over code changes himself) then I'd be more sympathetic.
It really depends on the frameworks documentation.

It does not matter if you want to learn framework a language or how to use a products API.

What really matters is if there is a good a documentation and some tutorials to get you started.

I often settle for the sollution with less features but a better usabilty.
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The intriguing thing about proper AR, and the proposed "internet of things", is that in a sufficiently connected/smart environment a highly complex mechanical object could be overlaid with a schematic and data about where faults were, as long as the object was capable of reporting its detailed status over a network. That is effectively the X-ray specs the parent mentioned, and more.
Free is always nice, but sometimes free can mean not around very long, which is not so nice, especially if you have tons of data stored, talking of which, is there a way to export your content from the app ?
If by "if-by-whiskey" you mean the fallacious, flip-flopping, cowardly practice of pandering, then certainly I am against it. But, if when you say "if-by-whiskey" you mean the circumspect, open-minded, responsive practice of consideration, then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.
"Does anyone know of any other examples of if-by-whiskey being used today?"

The whole debt debate. If by spending you mean crippling debt being left to our children, interest paid to furreiners, etc etc, it's bad and everyone who supports it is bad. If by spending, you mean the concrete things that we are spending money on, of course this specific thing is so wonderful that it's worth it and anyone who says otherwise is bad, and in fact I may I just go out on a limb and say that we need more of this sort of spending.

(Lest you think I'm being partisan here, there's a very clear pattern in the last 20 years on which party in the US wants to spend, and which party wants to cut, and it's not D/R or liberal/conservative in either direction. The pattern is that the majority party wants to spend, and the minority party wants to cut. One can not help but cynically observe that what really bothers the minority party is majority's successful ladling out of the pork for patronage to the other guy's constituents, rather than any sort of real offense about spending. And thus, to be clear, the reason I chose this as my example is that you can find instances of the same individual giving both halves of this speech, playing both sides of the argument, separated by about a decade and one flip of the majority party.)
Heh, interesting angle.
This is one of the exact scenarios Apple is trying to prevent with Gatekeeper. Although I think Apple implemented it poorly and I strongly object to their code signing policies, I do hope more OS's include application-level permissions and methods for developers to sign their binaries as a standard thing.
Delivery to Mr Assange - follow a package to Julian Assange in real-time
Open University, too, http://www.open.ac.uk/, and it's got considerably better name recognition...
I came here with the same problem, hoping these comments might give me insight. Please add a summary of what this is please! :)
interesting you mention space research - the only real reason the US of A made it to the moon is because of the cold war.

Perhaps it does take an "enemy" to focus the efforts of a nation. And with the fairly peaceful times now (at least, for the major powerhouses), that doesn't seem at all likely.
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Symbolication is the ugliest word I've heard this year. It sounds like disembowel and embolism put together.

Also it looks like they found a font to abuse in exactly the same way that Comic Sans kills aesthetics, but with a different name and a slight update.
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Depression has a side effect of making normal thinking patterns unusable.

You could literally win a lottery, and feel that the world hates you.

Your thought process would go - I won a lottery, but I still feel dead inside. Why go on, there isn't anything for live for.

I hate to use an example to explain depression, because its always "explainable", but hopefully as a vignette into what every waking moment of life is like for someone with depression, it should serve its purpose.

Edit: grammar in last para.
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You can find some of these types of arguments when reading opinions on the death penalty, gun control, and abortion.

The arguments aren't always doublespeak I'd say. You can very well be for something, given a set of circumstances, but against the same thing, given a different set of circumstances.

The political problem I'd say, is figuring out how to separate, or even if you can separate, the "bad circumstances" from the "good circumstances"
Depends on what "sort of thing" you mean. Subcontracting your work out? Sure, that's acceptable, although I'm not sure it's OK to do it without telling them. Giving people access to the company's VPN without the company's permission? Definitely not OK.
"At least with glass you can keep your eyes facing the road while gathering information"

But can you keep attending to the road? Fighter pilots can, but they take a lot of training, lots of them don't make it through training, and their display doesn't show 'I am contacting you on behalf of my deceased Nigerian aunt" messages.

For mere mortals, I think it may be safer to have separate gaze directions for 'looking at the road' and 'looking at my cellphone's screen', if that screen shows data unrelated to the driving task.