skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"Race is problematic in a number of levels. Yes it is a social construct with no real genetic basis, at least as we have constructed it."

Sorry, what? Are you talking about how things are on Earth or some other planet? Perhaps a cursory look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics might help.
He talks about his job in day 2:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl...
I had already assumed this was the case.
There's Hubski: hubski.com

The content there is MUCH less tech focused, it's more about longform writing, and the comments are superb.
The question is not if its worth, i'm a programmer, and i do believe that construction workers and lady cleaners should earn more then me, since they are forced to do their job, and generally don't like it.
I in the other hand, i like my job. yet i earn more for doing more easy stuff (for me ), seams unfair, this has struck me some time ago. But what we have to accept is that, our income, or the income of a general profession, is based purely on supply and demand, and little more.
The example given of Big Data use is that Netflix allegedly checking its user data to decide whether to buy House of Cards.

It's not evident that such Big Data was useful in the way described. Anyway, the data described could easily be collected - likely at the same cost and accuracy - in an old-fashioned focus group type of way.

Deciding to buy House of Cards required insight - outside of the data and statistics - to ask the right questions and come to a conclution.

Has using 'Big Data' here led to a more accurate or better value results? Is this even really what 'Big Data' is? Absolutely not clear.

'Data phobia' might be an issue but is not the major issue. The issue is using phrases like 'Big Data' which don't actually mean anything: this phrase alone doesn't create value for business.
Some would see a liberal use of language and the ability to hold a sense of humor to be civilized traits.
/r/webdev just rehashes the stuff posted on HN.
I've got a few very small projects on github. On several occasions, people have forked a project, made a change to it and sent a pull request, which I then merged. That seems to me to be precisely how github should work as a social coding site.
I wasn't making a point on either side of the issue, just giving an example of a socially regressive policy
What do investors talk about after you leave the room?
Actually it was even earlier than that; adverse inferences could be drawn from silence after the passing of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.
I would also like one. email in profile :)
I'm sorry, but a law school student cannot "become an engineer" in only eight months. That's an insult for people that either have studied an engineering degree (like I have) or have earned enough experience through the years to call themselves an engineer, experience that can't be earned in eight months. That's ridiculous.
6 x 6 = 36. If you have only 1 significant figure then it equals 40. 6.0 x 6.0 would equal 36.
Playing video isn't the thing that causes Flash Player to be a CPU suck. The video playing is the responsibility of the video codec, which itself is probably using the GPU. You can play HD video on a Pentium 4, and if you notice in the tests the CPU consumption for Flash Player playing video wasn't preposterously higher than it was for HTML5, which is obviously uncharacteristic of Flash Player's normal behavior.

The problem with Flash Player is that people create busy loops in ActionScript, especially in ads. You open a dozen tabs, one of them has one of these ads, your CPU is pegged. If you're worried about "browser power consumption" and your first step is not to shoot Flash Player in the head, you're doing it wrong.
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Are You Wasting Time & Money to Improve Churn When You Shouldn’t?
I'm going to think of it whenever I see something like "You can't do anything serious with JavaScript"
Can I please have an invite? My email is joydeepdg {at} lavabit {dot} com. Thanks!
I guess it's similar to people saying 'Like us on Facebook'
It's a direct call to action instead of 'please come & take a look'

It's also a metric that's instantly visible, contributes towards popularity, where as page views are not shared nor are they an indication of quality.
I don't know. I do think that without virtue there can be no value, if these are properly defined. (Virtue corresponding to filling human needs, value being economic value.)

Is entertaining people virtuous at least potentially? if so, then there is nothing wrong with selling video games, movies, music, or whatever. If not, however then you have a problem because while the world make seem nice on paper (no money to Hollywood since that would take away from cancer research), it isn't a world any of us would like to live in.

The problem is from where I sit that the expected value (what investors will put in things) is wildly out of proportion to the actual delivered value to customers. I think this is even true of giants like Facebook, so what we get are speculative bubbles because investors are assuming there is more value than there is.
I do find it funny how abortion even rises to the level of audibleness in the conversation. We have a government that is consuming massively more of the GDP than ever, is grabbing more and more power at every turn, is subsidizing every kind of bad behavior from international banks to a horribly corrupt food stamp program of epic proportions.

Even if you hate the idea of illegal abortions, aligning yourself with "big government" in any way would seem to be a foolish move. Every day, you're building a government that's powerful enough to do whatever it wants. That means that when the right christian republican is in the White House with Congressional support who decides to make illegalizing abortion his issue... he/she does it. Just like Progressives have wanted government healthcare for the last century and then when they had a slim majority in Congress for 2 years with the presidency, they rammed through Obamacare and now we're all stuck with it.
Aw ok :( . I'll just contact you once I have some useful qtz stuff ready :)
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I look forward to writing to Virgin and demanding my porn back.
Interesting that localbitcoin are offering a 'blue market rate' on their site, but this is short on analysis. Try Jon Matonis' article here (but bear in mind Mr. Matonis is a major BTC supporter): http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/04/27/bitcoins-p...

This is a far more interesting aspect of Bitcoin than those of anonymity, Silk Road and ending dollar hegemony: offering citizens a way around their government fscking with their currency. This is a huge benefit that those of us living in stable Western democracies might have a hard time appreciating, and I'm hard-pressed to see a downside.

Furthermore, the more acceptance bitcoin has for this purpose, the more jurisdictionally-distinct exchanges it gains, and the harder it becomes to shut down.
> “Users with smartphones and tablets are consuming news in bits and bites throughout the course of the day — replacing the old standard behaviors of news consumption over breakfast along with a leisurely read at the end of the day.”

This is precisely why Google Reader is a valuable tool. I subscribe to the belief that if an article is not worth reading 2 weeks later, it's not worth reading at all.

Facebook, Twitter, HN and Reddit require checking multiple times per day to make sure you don't miss good posts. Google Reader lets me review blog posts once a week, and prioritise reading by the source, not freshness of the content.
I'm the author. I've been doing several demo web sites during the last month and one of the things I did a lot is turn paragraphs or something else into lists. I have not found anything to do that with some kind of flexible customization (adding classes and incremental ids, nested elements, etc.)

I know that it's only a few lines of JavaScript but some of my colleagues found it useful, so I have decided to publish here.

All feedback about the code or the grammar (English is not my first language) would be greatly appreciated.
> democracies paralysed by idiots with votes

Or, as we call them, "democracies"
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I'm really impressed by the quality of Google's translation.
All of the posts on one page:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl...
I would like an invite as well. Thanks.

samweinberg [at] me.com
The problem with OpenPGP is that it only encrypts the contents of the communication. The identities of the sender and receiver, as well as the time and other info are still vulnerable. This communication "metadata" is exactly what the article is referring to.
The future is wearable
I thought the article would be about ads not showing up on the RSS reader, that's a better reason to shut it down IMO.
In New York, most judges are elected to 14 year terms. There are a few exceptions, but mostly for traffic courts or administrative judges.

They do run in partisan elections, but they are limited with regard to claims they can make about opponents, and a non-partisan commission evaluates the overall qualifications of each judge.

Are there issues with politicalization? Absolutely. But don't make the assumption that election == politics, and appointment != politics. An elected judge at least nominally is accountable to the people. The examples where this system doesn't work well is usually when machine politics corrupt the process of electing judges. If the judge was appointed, chances are they would be accountable to nobody at all.
At what age does someone gain the right to discover Porn?
> I would put forth that you'll learn more by this experience about how people deal with failure and what happens afterwards than you would if you left. Will there be shouting & tears? Probably. Will people get fired? Almost certainly. Will you get fired? Chances are low, but not zero. Worst case scenario - you get some severance money.

No one is getting fired. This project is in steady-state.
Just to clarify, I'm not the author, I'm doing fine. This blog is having quite a buzz in France/Belgium right now.

Many wonder if fake. Not much evidence pointing one way or the other.
Sorry - I'm in Dallas.
Cubierta de piscina
IQ tests are pretty sophisticated and, as the theory of intelligence or more correctly intelligences has evolved, the tests have evolved alongside.

Each test is really a suite of dozens of subtests, each of which tries to tease out some aspect of mental function. Some of it is pattern matching. Some of it is memorise-and-recall. Some of it is tests of "general knowledge". And on and on. Think of what you consider to be a distinct kind of mental performance and somebody, somewhere, has built a test for it.

I think it's important to distinguish between three things in discussions of IQ:

1. Are some people "more" intelligent than others?

Taking the fuzziest, least precise view of what "more intelligent" or "less intelligent" means, I think yes. It would be very strange that the architecture of the brain and environmental factors would lead to perfectly equal outcomes in all subjects. And it doesn't seem to fit what we can casually observe around us.

2. What is intelligence, and what are the components of intelligence?

A very large body of research discusses, explores, argues and delves into these simple questions. In general a single "IQ" figure is merely a statistical index of the subtests. The sub-category indices are much more revealing.

3. Can the tests actually accurately sample these components?

Also hotly contested. The closest we can come is to compare the test scores statistically to other outcomes, or to other tests. IQ tests which correlate highly with life achievement (factoring out stuff like socioeconomic background, sex, race and mental health) are preferred over those that don't. You can argue that it's circular, and you'd be right.

Welcome to psychometrics, where there is no outside world available for objective instrumentation.
>but does anyone have nice offices?

Ours certainly isn't a beautiful masterpeice of architecture and modern art, but it definitely qualifies as nice.

A little bland and "airport-lounge-y" despite logos on the walls and brightly coloured chairs/sofa in the casual meeting areas (imagine an off-white and less saturated take on the pallet used for Mirror's Edge), but we have perfectly reasonable desks and chairs, plenty of space (I've seen more than twice as many people crammed into similar spaces), a good amount of natural light (though in the middle of the office the artificial lights still need to be on all day), and a useful kitchen area with plenty of space should lots of use want lunch in at the same time.
I agree with you.

However, i wish to register the fact that i chuckled on seeing that the response to a comment arguing that shooting down someone's argument is not the HN way was a comment shooting it down!
So where would deep learning come into play in this flow diagram? (Or did I miss it?)
Not entirely sure of the feature overlap, but this seems to reinvent grcat and its frontend, grc [1], a little bit.

Grcat lets you configure commands with colour regexps. Then you just prefix the command with "grc", and it will colorize the output according the rules. It's useful to alias commands this way:

$ alias make="grc make"

colout seems most useful when you are want to highlight arbitrary patterns independent of the command, eg. "tail some.log | colout ...".

[1] http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/grc/README...
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Works fine for me with Ghostery. For some reason, it looks like videojs is falling back to EMBED tag for some people. Will investigate.
What do you experts think if a good use of genetic programming? Where would you put that into this diagram?
The `Advanced REST Client` attempts to solve the same problem - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-clie...

Like the others have mentioned here, there are a couple of tools in chrome that try to solve the same problem. Not that it is a bad thing. Has anyone used them all to summarize pros / cons ?
Heavy stuff. I'm reading it in french at http://uncondamne.tumblr.com . I've subscribed to the RSS.
Can the US government really go bankrupt, though? I thought that was a central point that Reagan, Cheney, and Obama have made. It doesn't matter how much we spend because federal debt means nothing. The creditors can't really call it in without mutually assured destruction. Our debt is a WMD and no one in their right mind would pull that trigger.
Jeez, isn't that poor Benghazi scapegoat who made that anti-Muslim video still rotting in jail for some bogus parole violation that normally no one would have done anything about?

And these are just the high profile type cases that make some news.

Think of all the sad saps with a watery ditch on their property whom the EPA jackbooted into oblivion. Or gods help folks who did something so societally horrible as to sell raw milk and then had the FDA come in with their own SWAT folks.
I can say that this is not correct with my friend's AT&T iPhone 5. We are in Dallas (in McKinney, a suburb) and just last week we turned off his wifi, ran a speed test, and it reported 22mb d/l and 10mb u/l. There is nothing special about his phone - not unlocked, nor has he done anything to it to remove the limits. I was testing out the 4G LTE speed on his to see if it was worth it to upgrade from my iPhone 4S. My 4S' speed was only 5.5mb d/l and 1.5mb u/l.
That really puts life in perspective. Enlightenment, I suppose, is living every day as if it's your last. I wonder how to reach that mindset.
What a fitting year!
I'd love to see a cheatsheet like this for computer vision. I don't suppose anyone knows of one, or can make one?
"TV Glitch" is the Page Curl of the 2010's
What's so good about that? Isn't it more convenient to be able to store different types together in the same collection?
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(I don't know much about this but) I kind of believe it is a good thing that the traditional investment vehicles are not that good anymore. That was like betting on the outcome of the players of the roulette, right? Money against money against something that may make money. This last bit, investing in something that might make money, brings the world new ideas. It's probably a completely incorrect picture I'm drawing here though.
Me too. I didn't notice the "translate" in the URL, and just thought it was written by a non-native English speaker. I did a double take at the end when I realized it was translated. Does Google do a particularly good job on French to English? (Bigger training corpus?) I more often used it on Chinese or Japanese, and it didn't seem as good.
" find the number of clusters"

Plot k against prediction accuracy (averaged over a number of runs). Look for a step, that is the correct setting of k. I don't believe there exists an algorithm for detecting that step as good as I can.
That's really bleak. I wonder what kind of disease can kill you in 30 days but otherwise leave you well enough to write and travel? It doesn't sound like he has a history of anything. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing and could hazard a guess?
What Pusher plan are you subscribed to and how's that working out considering the spike in traffic/simultaneous users?
While it is likely to be because I come from a country/culture where porn isn't considered to be an issue, I would appreciate an explanation as to why "cut[ting] down exposure to this type of material" is desirable at all. When kids decide that they are mature enough to consume such content, I don't think it should be turned into a controversy.

Personally, I decided to wait until I was seventeen to explore that part of the web, as I matured fairly late. I never "stumbled upon" sexual content by accident, despite making heavy use of the Internet. If people, regardless of age, are looking for sexual content they will find it. If they want to avoid it on the other hand, "accidental exposure" shouldn't be an issue either. There is no need to police the Internet.
My take on Hacker News feedback is don't ask people for feedback full stop. This place used to be great for getting valuable feedback and you still get decent feedback from some, but this place has become so negative that people will nitpick and call you out on the smallest things.

Case in point was a submission from a few days ago called Unsplash (http://unsplash.com) a guy gives away ten free high quality images you can use for anything every ten days. The first ten images were geared towards startups of his Macbook, iPhone and iPad. There were some, "Thank you, nice work"'s and then there were people complaining about it breaching Apple style guidelines because the phone wasn't face on, etc.

Take any feedback from this place with a grain of salt.
So where do you think we'll see hands free private communication coming from? I can't really think of any technologies that might be able to do that.

Also replacing the keyboard is a worthwhile goal. A lot of people get RSI, and I think even at something fast like 100 wps our brain to computer "bandwidth" is pretty slow. (And typing fast takes a lot of practice)
"See you tomorrow..."
It is 'passive' from google's point of view. You are neither producing marketing signals, nor frequent marketing opportunities. It is all utility to the user and lost opportunity to G+.
I made a tool (http://complex-area-calculator.appspot.com) for calculating areas of polygons. Initially, it was really just cobbled together and there are a lot of problems with the code. I'm currently in the process of a re-write, but by blog (http://foodconstrued.com) also takes up a lot of my time.
Ask HN: What is the algorithm behind blocking a HN member?
Here I am interested in Do's and Don'ts on HN? Specifically things to avoid in this forum.

I have heard from our fellow HN members about not to do certain things otherwise HN will block you. e.g:

1) Some of the statement includes "Do not ask your friends to vote on your thread from the same IP, Truth or Myth?"

2) Do not share thread on facebook or any social networking site, Truth or Myth? (I don't think it is true.)

3) I have also heard that up votes don't count sometimes, Truth or Myth?

What are other truth or myths?
> "show me the man and I will find you the crime" (to quote a member of the Stalin regime)

The sentiment precedes Stalin. In the 1600s, Cardinal Richelieu is said to have warned, "Show me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men and I will find something to have him hanged."
It's very well written. Touching, to say the least.
Him or google reader...the race is on!
Show HN: Tool for event with friends scheduling (We Should Do It)
Hey guys, I'd like to ask you about your feedback on my new personal project. It's a small tool to help scheduling events with friends (how often you pretend to make plans with them and it ends up with one of you saying "yeah, we should do it!"). Application is made with Meteor, I wonder what do you think, I made all of the stuff there (music comes from "music stock library" :D) — do you think it would be a good idea to also include public events from all over the world?
HTML5 Raphael.js game donated to T160K Libraries in Exile (source in comments)
Brain tumors can be very quick, that would be my guess
The source material is written in a rather simple and direct way. Short sentences, very specific words. It may make things easier for Google to translate. Very well written anyway.
I'd love one as well! My email is in my profile should you want to send me one. Thanks!
Love the optimism in the farewell.
Hey guys, I'd like to ask you about your feedback on my new personal project. It's a small tool to help scheduling events with friends (how often you pretend to make plans with them and it ends up with one of you saying "yeah, we should do it!"). Application is made with Meteor, I wonder what do you think, I made all of the stuff there (music comes from "music stock library" :D) — do you think it would be a good idea to also include public events from all over the world?
Generics are used to defer type setting from compile time to run time, allowing for flexible, yet type-safe constructs.

The classic example is a list (in a strongly-typed language) - without generics you would create specialised strongly-typed list classes - you could have a StringList (only strings), an IntList (only ints), etc.

Using generics you can define a single list class of type <T>, where <T> is any type. Then at runtime you would create a List<String> or a List<Int>. Same outcome, less code, easier to maintain.

MSDN has a good intro to C# generics - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379564(v=vs.80).as...

They are less appropriate in dynamic languages, as type-safety isn't a compile time concern.
>The order was marked “TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN,” referring to communications-related intelligence information that may not be released to noncitizens. That would make it among the most closely held secrets in the federal government, and its disclosure comes amid a furor over the Obama administration’s aggressive tactics in its investigations of leaks.

The author not only wrote the article about this, but also put in the classification of the document source. Salt in the wound. I can't help but feel that such a detail may have been included as a response to recent events regarding members of the news media and their treatment at the hands of the government. It very much seems that the honey moon is over.