skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is surprising that they don't try to get world class cyclists.

I'd like to point out the distinction from professionally paid road racers and olympic-level track (velodrome) riders. Road riders are always travelling, generally pretty busy and would probably be hard to get for a project like this, but more to the point, don't train for this kind of maximal wattage output.

But in fact, the world record for the 1km time trial is right below 1 minute right now (58.875).... I read somewhere on the internet that world class kilo riders are doing <900 avg. watts to do a kilo. Not to mention the fact that these guys aren't really bothered by much outside an olympic year.

otoh, canada doesn't have any of these caliber of riders, afaik.
That's one of the best, and yet one of the worst feature of DuckDuckGo.

When I tried using it a while ago, I ended up always searching for "!g <query>", since I knew I would always get equal or better results.

I'm glad it's this easy to search on Google from DuckDuckGo, but it also makes the switch harder. Or, at least, it did for me.
It was explained to me (at a world leading RnD organization)

And engineer is a scientist with thumbs - though some times they have to ask the technicians to remind them how ohms law goes :-)

When I worked at a top 5 Civil engineering consultancy I corrected one of the engineers math one particular bridge in Saudi
"I also had the capability..."

I would have revised this sentence to say: "I, acting under the authority of the Executive branch of my government, had the capability..."

The Constitution exists for the protection of citizens against the overreaching of their government, not for the protection of citizens against their fellow citizens.

The question is whether it has any teeth left with regard to unreasonble search and seizure performed by the government (or its agents, like Mr. Snowden).
In the submitted article the difference was much larger; she got 9 call-backs with the white name versus 0 with her ethnic name.
Wrong. People who have a jailbroken phone CAN use the app store. Also, jailbreaking (phones currently) is a DMCA exception.
This is meant to be a series, so the second article (which talks about the Image Store) is found here: http://blog.scalr.com/post/55282745486/cloud-native-the-imag... (Didn't want to spam post!)
What is the explanation for JS the 'Wat' talk?
I think what's misleading is not the guidance of this article: but rather the idea that calories are calories.

We've been told calories are calories are calories so many times.

BUT

Calories are clearly not treated the same way by different people: two people can eat the same thing, and live the same lifestyle, and one will be overweight. Should we really assume that the same notion can't apply to an individual who treats themselves differently?

What's the elephant in the room? Metabolism!! And whether your body wants to store weight.

What you eat affects both metabolism and whether your body wants to store weight. Sure, everyone's going to be require their own unique mix.

BUT the important point is that what you eat has reflexive impact on how your body uses what you eat and thus on whether you'll be overweight.

So calories are not the only thing. And thus it's entirely possible that a calorie-free substance, which has impacts on metabolism and how your body decides what to store, can impact weight gain.
I found the article interesting, but upon reading apsec112's comment, it's probably true that this doesn't really belong on HN. That you say "It's here to enrage you and get you to do something about it." furthers my view that this is an article more appropriate for Reddit than HN. Of course as reddit becomes more exclusively memes and funny pictures, it's not surprising that many people are using HN for the type of content that would have been found on reddit 5 years ago.

I guess my point is, I read apsec112's comment as purely about whether the article belongs on HN, not whether the article was good or interesting (which it was).
In Development, We Should Stop Guessing & Start Designing
> Common Lisp has plenty of well-defined macros with simple patterns any tool could learn

If the tool has to learn (i.e. be written to know about, yes?) these patterns, then it will not know about those you wrote.

However, as someone else has pointed out, the compile-time execution of macros actually does make them accessible to a sufficiently sophisticated "grep", the kind of tool shurcooL asked for.
I am always surprised by the way car versus plane safety come up. I know how to drive a car, and have control over the situation when I do. This doesn't mean its completely safe, but I can help control the risks. In a plane (or train, or taxi or any mode of transport where I am a passenger) I have almost no control and I expect the transport provider to provide me with transport that is safe. Very safe.
Reminds me of http://craig.is/killing/mice
That Gut Feeling (2012)
I think it was Randy Bias that introduced the idea of pets vs cattle. See his presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/randybias/architectures-for-open-a...
"If you don’t believe that racism in the job market is real, then please read this article"

Stopped reading.

Yes, I believe racism, sexism, ageism, and a number of other isms in the job market are real. It's not a job market issue. It's a human being issue. As long as your resume has to get past a human then you're going to have all of those biases to contend with.
Nobody said it's "not news." They just said it doesn't suit this particular special-interest news site's standards. Similarly, if Apple were to buy out Facebook tomorrow, that would definitely be news, but it would probably be inappropriate for a My Little Pony news site.
"but we're not sorry that we did it."
I've been playing and running text-based MMOS (MUDs) that do this same thing since the early 1990s. Probably a naive question but isn't there anything that can be done to void these by proving that this was being done on the internet for long before they came around?
Man, I used to love both Minions of Mirth and A Tale in the Desert. The management at Prairie Games had kinda gone to hell, but the original founders were really pretty awesome people.

Such a bummer to see great games get bullied.
I would find this position more credible if people were downvoting and admonishing all the tech, business, privacy, and government rage.

I didn't notice anybody saying, "Hey, let's not get ragey about [the NSA|Apple|patent trolls|Facebook|Google|Congress], we're here to learn, not get upset."

You may personally be sincere, and if you have been equally assiduous on all upsetting topics, I commend you. But more generally, I think the sudden tone-policing that appears on race and gender discrimination topics has much more to do with the topic than the tone.
What's crazy about it? I resent that headline. Doing big things should be applauded. Good on them.

You want crazy? America binding itself hand and foot with its bullshit Chicago School economic idealogy, that's crazy. It is absolute frigging nonsense and will be the ruin of the country. Now watch everyone else eat its breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Note: This tunnel would "cost" china less than one month of the USA's "quantitative easing". For whatever "cost" means to a government that can print its own money. The hilarious thing is, the USA can't pump that money into infrastructure projects because of their stupid, stupid political aversion to a misunderstood fear of SOCIALISM! So they have to funnel everything through the banks. China doesn't give a shit, pumps money straight into infrastructure. At the end of the day, China has the infrastructure, the USA has what? Some banker's bonuses and another thousand foreclosed houses. So what were you saying about "crazy"?
Versal Launches
I'm not sure which they you mean, but I assure you nobody is under the impression that only some people do it. Core routers and core cellular gear is quickly becoming an industry that every nation state that can is looking to jumpstart their own homegrown industrial suppliers.

The number of global intelligence agencies that believe cisco (or Huawei or Alcatel etc) core routers are free of
side channel attacks or dodgy opaque asics can be safely assumed to be 0.
Yahoo “Objected Strenuously” to the NSA’s PRISM Program
Landing a real airplane is a little more complicated than landing the one in the video game.
No, by combining and creating value greater than the sum of parts!
As far as I know, the US is the only country where sugar-free soda is referred to as "diet".

The notion that it would help lose weight is totally new to me, I'm presuming that is because most countries outside the US would never allow it to be marketed that way.
Thanks a lot. My partner Shawn worked very hard on that one, and we put a lot of time/effort into it. Glad you found it useful.
> but do think it's important we have a lot of people trying to work in this space, if only to have sufficient choice to prevent the field narrowing

Yes, I agree with that. As long as we aren't encouraging people to actually use experimental learning projects for critical stuff, or thinking that a diversity of half-baked crypto apps is anything but a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese for the NSA.
FWIW When I was a student at the Art Institute of Atlanta, one of my instructors was Aarron Walter (UX Lead at MailChimp). He mentioned they paid John Hicks a flat fee of $50,000 for the logo and the monkey illustration.

For them, building on the emotion and branding of Freddy was not a joke and they wanted something that could be playful while still performing an essential business function.

Agree with the cost or not, it did start an era for them where they've done very well.

I imagine Jessica's fee was not as much as Hicks but not far away either I'm sure.
>Not that this is a stellar patent, but from most of the comments on this thread, it is amply clear most here don't know how patents work.

Which comments are you referring to, what do they not understand about patents, and what makes that fact so "amply clear"?

At time of your writing, there are 18 comments in this thread (including your own), four of which comment on the patent directly. All except the grandparent are quite terse. One links to the patent, two express outrage but do not analyze the patent's content directly, and only one (by nknighthb) seems to make a claim about the validity of the patent with a direct reason.

You have a good point: That people have developed a knee-jerk outrage against patents without necessarily considering a number of related issues (e.g. claims and the system by which a patent is deemed to have been infringed). I ask for clarification because your own comment seems to have been a reactionary assumption to a type of comment which, as of yet, hasn't really entered the thread.
If we didn't study the obvious, we wouldn't figure out that the earth is not the center of the universe.
Iterating With Python Lambdas
The problem is that acceptance/rejection by an app marketplace -- and this is notoriously the case with Apple's App Store -- is not something that is either consistently based on quality or based solely on criteria which are known with certainty by anyone outside of the firm operating the marketplace prior to the decision to accept or reject (and, potentially, not even after that decision is made.)

You're essentially asking the developer to bear the risk of uncertainty from all of the app stores, and making the entire project payment potentially forfeit based on any one marketplace's arbitrary action. There may be developers that are willing to take that risk, but I suspect its going to narrow the pool that are willing to even consider your project at any given price point.

> That's just stated that way so that I don't get a dev who makes a low quality app that can't get approved to the app store & so I don't get stranded paying for an app I can't sell.

Sure, its reasonable you'd want to avoid that, but on the other side, developers are going to want to avoid writing an app that they can't get paid for due to forces beyond their control.
Japanese Gov't Accidentally Shares Internal Email Over Google Groups
c.gg
Study: Sunblock doesn't help reverse skin cancer.
I agree that calories can have different impacts on people. We all require a certain intake of calories to achieve a certain weight or build. There are a lot of different variables that make this happen, such as exercise, lifestyle, genetics, and so on.

But where is the evidence that a calorie-free beverage can have an impact on your metabolism? You're eliminating the idea of calories entirely with diet soda, so I don't see how your argument stands any ground.
You're about 30 years behind the times in your knowledge of Latin America. The "paper democracies" (what a shit term -- the author clearly heard the term "paper tiger" and tried an alteration that makes no sense) term might have been accurate at the time of the Iran Contra Affair, but that was 1986.
Everything must be encrypted on the client before sending to any cloud service. Then it doesn't matter if the encrypted backup is obtained.
This is the funniest thing I've read all month.
I'm with ethereal, that's arguing a point without a distinction
It's called diet here in Canada as well. In any case, diet does not and has never meant "lose weight". If you pay any attention to what you consume, you are "on a diet".
I agree, but prepare for massive down votes from the CICO believers.
The problem with this mantra is that it is technically true, but, as a negative, leaves out the rest of the world. For example, Correlation also does not imply non-correlation. This is vacuous, of course, but it illustrates the problem with using this kind of shorthand to quickly dismiss something rather than investigate it.

In truth, correlation does suggest causation, but not necessarily in the way one might expect. The WP article you linked goes into this.

All too often, this canard is trotted out to avoid thinking about where the causation might actually lay, rather than taking something seriously. It is precisely this that the shorthand is meant to prevent! Correlation does not imply causation, therefore you have to think carefully about the causation chain when considering two correlated events -- you can't just assume the causation isn't elsewhere, and you most definitely cannot assume it does not exist at all!
... and not only pictures. it is standard to include your birthday and nationality in your CV in Germany.

And sometimes, the early career applicants adds the employers of their PARENTS in their CVs !!!
Indeed. Paper calendars might have worked for WWI and WWII, but that took a lot of effort and was not instantaneous. I would also like to get up in the morning and not have to actively check the calendar to see what are my daily tasks -- rather, I would passively glance at my phone (or computer) and have it tell me what are my daily tasks. It's just less overhead to worry about, and freeing some brain cycles for whatever tasks you may have ahead. It's either lazy or efficient, whatever you prefer :)
Whoops, came to reddit by accident.
The fire is probably not related to the battery as the main battery is located near the cockpit, with another in the middle of the plane. This fire seemed to have occurred near the tail.

PDF showing battery locations:

http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/commercial/airports/arff/ar...
The !Bang syntax is excellent for searching language/framework/library specific answers. Just append it to the end of a search if you need to.

[DuckDuckGo !Bang](https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html)

If you still need a Google result, try appending !sp which will give you a Startpage result (Google result with privacy)
On my system -- and I've tried everything I could think of, including blowing away my profile -- it's slow, crashy, and hangs a lot. It's a newish Macbook Pro with plenty of disk and RAM.

FF, on the other hand, is faster (!) and doesn't crash often.
"She had no prior work experience and had applied for a clerical position, but was offered a higher post as an executive manager making close to six figures"

Does this anecdote not sound crazy to anyone else? Racial discrimination by name is well documented in other studies, but her classmate's experience seems implausible.
It's really really sad that once again denial is the top comment on HN with the truth starting us in the face.

How on earth is this kind of discrimination not conscious, when the only difference in a written resume is the assumption that the person is female?
You can still use the Googlesharing addon to proxy your searches through a concentrator.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/googlesharing...

As long as you trust the proxy to not be an adversary.

Sometimes[often times] the default proxy will go down. I've had luck using the following alternate:

googlesharing.riseup.net
I recommend this submission:

If Correlation does not imply causation, then what does?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6030627
I'm a very proud person, and I'm proud of what I've accomplished. That being said, you're right about coming off as negative or ashamed. I don't actually feel that way about myself or my efforts, but I realize that it may not look that way over the internet.

In fact, I had intended the "downright embarrassment" bit as a joke. Still, thanks for pointing it out!
> allow women (and men) to get through it without having to constantly bite their tongues or else be seen as the problem

Right. Bite my tongue and put on the kid gloves. Wouldn't want to discuss last nights episode of Game of Thrones in the break room, less be seen as a sexist jerk. People do have friends at work, and normal human interactions do take place there.
Isn't the point of diet soda to reduce the amount of sugar you consume while not having to actually give up soda? Who died and said Diet Coke would make you lose weight?
Protecting Your Online Privacy
Alice in Warningland: A Study of Browser Security Warning Effectiveness[pdf]
> they expect the environment to change to suit them.

It may not be your intention, but I get the sense that you feel this is unreasonable?

As a thought experiment, consider what you'd say if we were having this discussion around racism. Do you consider it unfair for black people (or any non-white racial group) to expect society to change due the discrimination they've experienced?

Imagine we have an office staffed exclusively by white people. Then imagine a black person joins. After a while, they hear a racist comment, not overtly racist, but insensitive and potentially hurtful. If the black person complains about this comment, would we feel it okay to say "oh come on, you're just overly sensitive"?
funny that talking about KGB you mentioned polonium. I rest my case.
Increasing Assurance of Authenticity in Online Interactions
Moonshot: Blink To Pay
So... we've come full circle. Extensions can still say "nope, you need to give me ALL permissions".
Foreign students fill graduate science programs at US universities
There absolutely is an easy, obvious way to fix it. It's just something that gives men the screaming meemies.

Quotas.

Don't give me guff about "the best person for the job". You've been picking the best man for the job.
Thanks for the link. I haven't heard this one yet in Internet forums. Now I can win arguments by throwing it around with abandon.
How nice is it that we can casually talk about an American citizen fearing being repeatedly tortured by his own government?
Can you point me to an example of being able to click on the contenteditable div and make some text bold without extra code? I've never seen something like that. Thanks!
Microsoft: U.S. Customs Secretly Met With Google to Allow Banned Phones Import
No, actually, dynamic languages cannot handle this even theoretically. See halting problem: No realistic amount of introspection is going to automatically tell you where negative_position is defined in the second example from TFA, because method_missing can do literally anything to decide what method names it does and does not handle. And Smalltalk's #doesNotUnderstand: works exactly like that.
Cancel Netflix if you value freedom
I agree with you...SO MUCH... you don't even know. Has anyone on HN checked out Google+?. Particularly, anytime the official Google account "LifeAtGoogle" posts anything about promoting/highlighting african-americans? It turns into a crazy 100+ comments thread of arguments..every..single..time. I don't see this kind of thing when someone posts about Chinese new-year, or just about any other event about any other group of people. I made the mistake of getting involved in one of those G+ threads and getting myself[1] all heated. Now I don't bother trying to debate. I'm just sad that anytime anything attempting to highlight positive things, or problems, for african-americans turns into a storm of comments almost completely drowning out the original
article/story.

1.myself=blackmale

EDIT: And now this story has disappeared from the front page superfast(less than 45mins), while the the one about a lady adding "Mr." to her resume remains on front page(For at least 3 hrs now)......
This is exactly the reason why I came up with Signy. The only secure 1 click login button that gives you total privacy. http://signy.launchrock.com/
Diet Coke is called Diet Coke in all English speaking countries.
I think a lot of outrage on this site and others is misplaced. Why are there more posts about boycotting than about affecting change in the federal government?

The efficacy of boycotting is pretty dubious given that prism is probably just one program of many being employed by the NSA and other governmental agencies.
It seems cat pictures correlate with longer conversations. They then suggest this means hooking up is more likely (perhaps OkC knows more about the signifiers of hookup than they are publishing here).

Couldn't the opposite also be suggested? Dog pictures mean less talking more meeting up in person, whereas cat lovers are conversationalists?

This entire article strikes me as very sharable though, cats = sex.

[edit]: I initially missed "Ravel is built with love by OkCupid Labs in San Francisco, CA" in the sidebar.
eh I don't know. I'm the OP, and the price of Boeing's stock (at least spot price) had nothing to do with my reason for submitting it. Fire on the 787 and potential future implications were why I thought it was interesting.
Well, we do have the world's longest bridge over water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Pontchartrain_Causeway

Not that world-record holding structures should be an indicator of economic stability, as China is notoriously bad about using them to artificially inflate their GDP at the cost of their citizenry.
> Counter argument: You can't legitimately buy from the App Store with a jailbroken phone

Citation? I just skimmed the iOS agreement and couldn't see any clauses that would imply that, but maybe I missed something or missed a separate App Store agreement somewhere.
I switched to DDG some time ago, and I totally live happy with it. Besides, lately they improved the quality a lot, both on the results and on speed performances.

The bang syntax is just awesome, and I rarely need to !g my results.
No single European country can risk starting a conflict with the US and the European Union as a whole is not yet homogeneous enough to take this kind of decisions. Delaying the trade agreement was pretty much the extent of what it can do right now.