skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused why Brennen spent so much time to say so little.

Of course we don't know the exact reasoning behind the decision nor whether they have metrics to back it up. That is obvious and is the always present caveat whenever there is a discussion about a decision that people weren't directly involved in making. So we are always left to make judgements from outside the box.

So unless Brennen knows something specific he isn't sharing I am going to continue believing that either (a) this is a dumb decision which shows a lack of understanding about how software development works or (b) this is a smart way to reduce headcount without reducing morale.
> even if most men aren't rapists

Obviously most, if not all men are rapists. Or potential rapists. Luckily, they are also obsolete!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-interview-...
So, the military teaches troops to almost never use full-auto on their rifles.

Why is having full-auto mode so much more dangerous? Seems that in a mass-shooting situation, the person's more likely to blow the whole clip and be out of ammo.
Full auto is frankly a stupid feature. It wastes ammunition, it's inaccurate. There is a reason soldiers rarely use fully-auto except in specific circumstances. Bump firing, which is what the Slide Fire does, is even worse because it throws your accuracy to utter hell--look up the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_fire)

Oh, and most rifles with removable magazines can accept 30 round magazines, it's not a magical AR-15 capability.
You and the poster below mention Japanese as an example. I counter by saying that Japanese use of Kanji is very different than the Chinese use. I am a native Chinese speaker and have taken Japanese classes, and their vocalization in the language are very different. Japanese places a heavy emphasis on how the characters are pronounced because their language is not purely ideographic; rather they use a hybrid phonetic and ideographic system which forces the reader to vocalize sentences including the Kanji characters.

I posit that if you were a native Chinese speaker, you could skim (or speed read as claimed in the article) without any subvocalization and still understand the given passage.
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I would be fascinated to hear if subvocalization (either motor signals or internal monologue) has ever been studied in the context of reading code or mathematics, if anyone happens to know.

I know I basically need to translate mathematical statements to English in my head to comprehend them -- at least the first time I see them. But I'm also not a mathematician. As a programmer, I know I sometimes do it with code -- but I'm not sure how often -- I don't know if I've ever really thought about it. I suspect I'll become a little bit more self-conscious about it now, until I find out.
Getting Thru Hell as a Confidence Builder
Since this portion of the comments went political, I will post this comprehensive list of Gun Myths I saw posted on reddit.com/r/progun: http://imgur.com/a/WiikM
Yes, I meant a structure like a bunker/culvert/etc., not a house. i.e. something they would hit with a mk19/at4/grenade/etc. first.

Most use was with people who didn't have SAW or heavier, from vehicles, though, which was the only time I saw it actually used myself.
I've been using CircleCI and have found it great. Plus the team is super-responsive and deeply committed to this product. Nice work guys!
>> Users don't necessarily need a username/password combo.

This is where I really love the Token Authenticatable module in Devise (for Rails).

Your rails app can start by just collecting emails. As your app grows, you can then turn that table into a Devise User model. Turn on token auth. and your emails can now include links that auto-login users.
Be the quickest to Bing or DuckDuckGo; They are less spammy
Free as in falling.
Love CircleCI. Great service, literally 2 clicks to get your tests running. Considering how many hours I've wasted setting up hudson servers its a huge step forward.
Assailants, murders, bad guys, and general criminals can take your life away from you outside your home, through a wall, via a car, and from a further distance than a shotgun could defend you from.

Aside from that, and as I've stated, in that moment of panic and terror when your life is about to end, operating a weapon that requires a pump or a bolt action is not ideal. You'll jam it up, forget to pump it back, etc.

I also don't quite understand how other people can dictate to me that I shouldn't own a one trigger pull / one shot weapon because it looks scary - while being somewhat functionaly identical to a non-scary looking simi rifle or handgun.
Reading the entirety of Spolsky's post was especially interesting for me to to read:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html

Interesting to see Joel's comments on web stacks built with Python and Ruby back in 2006, and even taking a snipe at Lisp. I really can't decide whether web development has fundamentally advanced in every way in the past 5-8 years, or whether it's essentially the same.
Would they actually lower your salary if you moved?
What are possible reasons per-password permissions hasn't been a feature implemented by major websites yet?

Is it simply that the way they do it now is easier to create/manage?

Seems like a no-brainer.
All I can figure is it makes it easier to revoke one password without changing all the others.
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Touchy-Feely Bionic Hand Closer to Reality
"Notice however, that on these devices, it's the general-purpose CPU dominating, leaving the FPGA as a configurable peripheral, subordinate to the dense, pre-designed silicon."

Ah yes exactly. I would not translate machine language or C into raw asynchronous VHDL I'd stick a real or virtual core in the FPGA and create the worlds most amazing accelerator peripheral to make the CPU little more than a UI and a DMA controller to keep the accelerator fed.

You don't implement your video game's title page in discrete (emulated) FPGA logic. You put your 3-d graphics engine in the FPGA and leave the author credits in plain old CPU memory.

"For example, one student implemented a large number of PWM oscillators on an FPGA where it would have been much simpler to use the debugged, verified, PWM peripherals on microcontrollers"

Totally missing the point. You want 768 PWMs to run 768 servos you instantiate 768 VHDL and an onboard proc to set them up and/or UI, all done. Not all that much harder than running 1. You are not going to find 768 PWM outputs on any single chip microcontroller that I'm aware of. Actually you aren't going to find a 768+ pin microcontroller out there anywhere, although thats kinda fat its not unheard of for a FPGA. You want one PWM output, yeah you use an off the shelf PIC, but that doesn't scale. Also don't make a plain old generic PWM when you need a servo controller. Make the worlds best hardware dedicated servo controller (which is, at its core, basically a PWM, but add extensive offset and calibration registers, and maybe limit registers, and sensible hardware default on boot positions and all that, and maybe integrated hardware backlash correction, thats how you make a servo controller, not just "make a PWM" that later gets turned into a servo controller)

"often a separate clock crystal. They are high-maintenance"

This is a bit WTF the guy isn't too far off until he gets to this kind of stuff.
Yes with a CNAME and some metadata on your S3 buckets. See here http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-...
Wait till the current internet generation hits their 30's and gets real jobs they're afraid to lose. All the opinionated Facebook chattering my friends did in college has all but dried up now, and has been replaced with fake names and low profiles during recruiting season.

In this job market, and with idiotic new features like graph search, having a Facebook presence is a liability for all but the most whitewashed profiles.
Then call it what it is, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
> The Jehovah's Witnesses are at higher risk, and more of them will die because of this decision, but we're getting quite useful data in the meantime.

The article mentions that there's some evidence that transfusions carry their own risk. How closely has this been studied, and what are the risks? Without accurate knowledge of that, how can we make definitive statements as to the negative repercussions to people that opt out of transfusions?

Additionally, I fail to see how more Jehovah's Witnesses die because of this decision, which allows the operation to continue, when the alternative is that they don't get the procedure at all, which I believe results in death?
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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. Muhammad Ali

This quote was more related to Ali's joining the Nation of Islam, but in the Movie Ali this quote was referenced while Ali was talking to reporters about his conscientious objection. Especially because the US government wanted to make an Anti-American example out of Ali's refusal of the draft, but in reality people rallied behind Ali's decision which sparked the entire Anti-Vietnam movement.
Let use an analogy in education:

A professor in college might allow the class have an open book exam, however you still see a number of people who might not pass that exam. Why? Well, there were two kinds of people in that class:

1. The smart ones who actually know the material.
2. The others who know nothing about what had been taught so far in the class.

The students in the first category will pass the exam but the second crowd perform poorly, because even though the book is in front of them, they don't know what to look for, especially in a timed test.

So the way I see this is that googling will help those who already have knowledge of the programming concepts, not those who have no idea of what they are trying to implement at all. In reality those who can use google to get what they want can also figure it out without google, even though it might take longer of course.
Yes, who cares about the safety of the victim, let's prioritize the feelings of the attacker.
By way of background -- at the time that we created Wasabi's predecessor, Thistle, we had a large code base in VBScript that only ran on Windows, and almost no developers. Thistle was done by a summer intern in eight weeks and got us PHP FogBugz running on Unix for 8 weeks work, which almost doubled our potential market.

At the time, Fog Creek consisted of three people and one summer intern. We couldn't afford to rewrite all of FogBugz in some other language... even if there was a language (in 2003) that was reasonably portable between Windows and Unix, which there wasn't. (Yes, we considered PHP. That would still have been a full rewrite, and PHP on Windows was crappy and increased the system requirements in a way that our customers wouldn't have liked).

Yeah, a Lexus is better than a Camry, but not everyone can afford Lexuses. So saying "you idiot, why are you driving that crappy car, it's obviously crappy" is not particularly insightful... the question is, if you can get 90% of the bang for 10% of the bucks, that's a pretty good decision as a startup, even if it seems strange.

What's more interesting about the reaction is that so many average programmers seem to think that writing a compiler is intrinsically "hard," or, as Jeff wrote in 2006, "Writing your own language is absolutely beyond the pale." To me this sounds like the typical cook at Olive Garden who cannot possibly believe that any chef in a restaurant could ever do something other than opening a bag from the freezer and dumping the contents into the deep fryer. Cooking? With ingredients? From scratch! Absolutely beyond the pale! Compilers aren't some strange magic black art that only godlike programmers are allowed to practice. They're something you learn how to create in one semester in college and you can knock out a simple one in a few weeks. Whatever you think about whether it's the right thing or not, if you think that a compiler is too hard to do as a part of your day job, you may want to invest some time in professional development and learning more about your craft.
Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs
i think this comes down to how different people perceive the world in very different ways... ways much more different than we realize.

for example, here[1] Feynman talks about being able to count verbally in his mind while reading, but being unable to speak (since he is using his 'speaking' to count). and his acquaintance is able to count visually in his mind while speaking, but isn't able to read (since he is using his 'eyes' to count).

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y
Case study: At my last employer, we had a guy who worked on-site and still had the gall to ask us how to access source control very late in a project. Being a moron who isn't held accountable doesn't get solved because you're not remote.
What does the 'void()' in 'auto f(params) - decltype(…, void())' do?
In a firefight between two militaries, it is not more dangerous. The danger is that the regular police that only carry sidearms would be seriously outgunned.
First they charge for it.

Then they make it free.

Then they die.
It's not PC nonsense. My point is quite straightforward. You were saying that you don't understand women because of the functionality provided by Lulu's app. The connection between the two is tenuous at best.
I think the "still" was meant to refer to "after the addition of the 2nd factor to the auth process" rather than "after the fix to the vulnerability described here".

It's making the case that this does represent a "real" vulnerability, even if certain aspects of the behavior were understood and expected by the system designers.
Redshift is based on ParAccel, not on Postgres. ParAccel uses APIs similar to Postgres due to historical reasons, but not the technology.

For a basic overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraccel

As for the rest of the article, it feels like a basic Data Warehousing 101 re-discovered. It should have been titled "Analytics: Back To The Future" :-)
You should read my epilogue on why hospitals are going bankrupt: http://truecostofhealthcare.org/epilogue
Or watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LieVr0QvkME
No one is admitted to the hospital these days who doesn't qualify by a rather strict set of criteria. If you qualify and have nothing then, in most States, Medicaid picks up the tab. If you have anything, the hospital gets it.Hospitals give free care the way Heidi Fleiss gave free love.
> I don't quite understand the need that some people had to pick on someone so harshly. I never really followed Spolsky's blog but as far as I can tell it was pretty tame and respectful. Am I missing something?

Fierce discussion isn't harsh, it's just that the underlying topic is so interesting that people feel inclined to pick apart the pros/cons extensively until they arrive a brick wall of pure disagreement.
I think it was about 15 years ago that I first heard of small farmers using GPS-based analytics to track the output of every last bit of their farm, but I didn't realize that the software was difficult. I wish these guys the best of luck, and hope they succeed quickly, I'm glad to see usability being a key feature.
The bar for you is much lower. It may not even occur at the interview stage -- many studies have been done that demonstrate a lower rate of interviews granted to identical applications with a "foreign-sounding" name.

The insistence on "hard data" and derision of anecdotes (when, unlike e.g. sending out resumes with different names on them, most of this is essentially impossible to study) when discussing the very real experiences of women and minorities is a mechanism to deny the reality of their experiences -- a way of saying that their perception of the world is incorrect and yours, as a privileged individual, is correct. It's not a rebuttal of racism or sexism, it's a symptom of it.
Here is some more perspective on high capacity magazines. Regular 9mm Glocks and Berettas such as Glock 17 and Beretta 92fs are designed to hold 17 or 15 round magazines, stock. The FN 5.7, the same gun used in the Fort Hood shooting and also reported to be in use by Secret Service, and legal for citizen ownership, has a 20 round stock magazine. The California legal version requires a 10 round magazine.
Keep in mind Ruby on Rails had been out for less than a year at the time I wrote that, and the only thing I said about it was that brand new frameworks are not the kind of thing that enterprises like to bet the farm on.
While you are there shoot a Glock, Sig, and a nice bolt action rifle.

I honestly have never known anyone who didn't tone down their anti-gun hate after having gone to the range with a knowledgeable, capable, and safe chaperone. I have taken several and everyone always had an enjoyable time, just stress the safety aspects consistently!
I think this is different in the sense that there is no physical item with a delivery expected.

Your false-starts bring up a good point. There should be a stated backup plan for failed studies--like giving the money to research project X, or returning it to donors. An honorable way to end the research, with a reputation system could be a great thing.
You should be skeptical, however language can be used for its gestalt. Coming to conclusions without evaluating the rest of the situation (in this case, evaluating the quality of Examine) is pretty meaningless.

In my personal opinion the content that has showed up on Examine has been pretty stellar. It has grown considerably in a short amount of time and is one of the few sites that hosts this sort of content and isn't riddled with ads.
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Ruby core classes aren't thread safe
Nice! I've already given my invites away though, sorry :(
Sergey Brin takes Google Glass binocular and adds laser beams
Besides sub-vocalization I tend to read loudly making full use of my oral musculature. It helps me stay active, improves comprehension and retention. I am not sure if it's a bad habit or just the way my brain works. Any of you guys have same experience.
Has anyone else noticed a change in Heroku's pricing structure?
I logged into one of my apps today (one that I created only a week ago) and noticed that I was now being offered a choice between "Legacy" and "Basic" pricing models. Unsurprisingly, there's no information to be found about this anywhere else on their site, including in the documents that they link to titled "Learn more about Heroku's pricing structure."

http://i.imgur.com/tlnpHC4.png
I think you'd get a more apt analogy if you were to back up a few years, to the late 1990s: At that time, was it legitimate to claim you support Windows if you only support Win9x and not WinNT?

Don't get confused by version numbers. Yes, Python 3's got a bigger major number, but for now that is nothing more than a reflection of Python's ambitions. The reality is that Python's currently in a period of transition, and during the course of that transition the Python name will have to be shared by two separate-but-related software products.
I had this vulnerability cast into sharp relief recently through my Apple ID compromising my contacts. I sync my Gmail and Gmail contacts via IMAP to my iPhone and iPad using application-specific passwords. Both devices are backed up on iCloud. When my Apple ID was compromised the crook restored my iCloud backup to a new device, complete, to my horror, with the application specific passwords, which were used to stream out my contacts.

New devices and novel data requests do not revoke application-specific passwords which, as the article notes, are anything but specific. Also, Apple's security support is a 24-hour round-trip via an email technician.
I was in the Army in the mid-80's, when most of the NCO's and officers were Vietnam vets. The critical importance of keeping your weapon clean was stressed because the M16 was prone to jam. The vets said the AK-47, on the other hand, could be dropped in the mud and still keep on firing.
The Samsung Note series of phones and tablets also use the Wacom, as does the Atom-based Thinkpad Tablet 2.

I was considering the Note 10.1 and ThinkPad Tablet 2 for their pens and stumbled on this comparison last week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncegf0Em7m4

It does appear that the more horsepower your tablet has, the better suited it is to doing pen-based art. It's pretty clear in the video that a full-powered desktop CPU is better than the Atom and the mobile CPU for sketching.
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"The advantage of FPGAs is that they allow nontrivial parallelism."

Want a system on a chip with 2 cores leaving plenty of space for an ethernet accelerator, or 3 cores without space for the ethernet accelerator? Its only an include and some minor configuration away.

"the problem is that we still don't have a smart compiler that can release us from the difficulty"

Still don't have smart programmer... its hard to spec. Erlang looking elegant, doesn't magically make it easy to map non-technical description of requirements to Erlang.