skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also instructive is the history of the French Revolution itself (including the "Reign of Terror"), where you can see the idea of "the government is the people" writ large, but with only the political side beginning to be fleshed out, not the economic side.
In natural languages, words have multiple meanings. You may want to actually choose one that fits the case, not one that represents it in most perverted and unfavorable light. Just sayin'.
HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6222726
The EU is a set of treaties between sovereign states. The Parliament in each state supercedes the EU bodies (commission and parliament namely). So, yes they can repeal the law. It violates the treaty, and they'll be fined, but that's about it.
Because the product is advertised as working with Netflix and YouTube. And it does.
Shutting Down Moai Cloud
Physicist disentangles 'Schrodinger's cat' debate
The idea is that it will ultimately be supported by recruiting budgets. A current model that already exists is the contingency recruitment model which is between 15-30% the first year's compensation. In that model, if one student gets placed, it pays for the entire class.

Future models might be sponsorship, like a mini-conference. Some of our favorite classes in school had companies bring projects to the class and groups got to choose which project to work on.
> The feeling of looking at a page of php code just wouldn't be as pleasing.

Speak for yourself. I love looking at PHP code... Ruby? Well when I look at Ruby code, I think of all the condescending assholes in the Ruby world who think they're language is somehow superior because it LOOKS pretty... Then I base all my opinions on another language SOLELY on how it's syntax looks and nothing more. Because my endusers and customers only care how the syntax of the language I built their site in looks.
Follow your discomfort
A $30k Tesla doesn't have to differ drastically in range, size, and driving characteristics over the Leaf. As long as they make something that doesn't look ghastly, it's already got an advantage over the Nissan.

They don't need to profit directly on the low end cars, they're looking at increasing the number of Tesla owners, which will help to push pro-Tesla agenda and sell charging stations or other Tesla technologies.
Will accurate 3-D reproductions disrupt art markets?
How an App is Made, Part 2
It is worthwhile to note that as data from ACT/SAT board of the last 2 decades indicates, the pool of candidates who are qualified enough to get into Ivy leagues are considerably richer than ones who are not[1].

I graduated from an inner city school in the midwest, no-one in my class was admitted to a top tier school (or even a second tier school, now that I think about it). But there were actually quite a few many who actually applied to Harvard or Princeton and such. I wasn't able to appreciate until recently that activities like band afterschool, cross country, and 4's on AP tests aren't good enough to land a spot in any big-name university. Presumably the number of dead-in-the-bucket applicants like this have gone up, so I'm less inclined to interpret the drop of acceptance rate as some indication that it's suddenly much more difficult for rich kids to get accepted than it used to be a decade ago.

[1]: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-...
Generators mostly are just a convenient syntax for iterators (i.e. if you wanted, you could have generators years ago, just required to do some awkward boilerplate code).
http://reactphp.org/ ( more specifically http://socketo.me/ ) work very well for actually implementing websockets. It's fast and incredibly easy. Igor (https://github.com/igorw) is a really talented guy.
> 1. Is life more important than liberty or vice versa? (ooh this reverses vs. the abortion issue regarding political lines)

The trouble here is that, especially compared to loss of life, liberty is an abstraction, and the effects of removing it are difficult to quantify.

For example, how much violence is prevented by armed citizens, which studies indicate are a major deterrent? (Keep in mind, police are rarely able to do anything more than identify bodies after-the-fact). [0][1]

Or, to put it to the express purpose of the 2nd Amendment, what impact would total gun control have on the probability of the US eventually becoming a tyrannical state?

Reasoning from first principles is definitely a good start. For example, no pro-choice advocate likes the idea of dead fetuses/babies (whichever term makes you feel more comfortable), just as no conservative likes the idea of sick grandmothers dying in their homes or poor people starving.

There's still plenty of disagreement about how to get there, and a lot of it depends on how you define your terms, and how deeply you consider the indirect consequences of each side's proposed solution.

[0] http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/nov/16/burglars-fear-resid...

[1] http://people.duke.edu/~gnsmith/articles/myths.htm
Right, PHP is used by lots of developers and some of them make bad decisions or have limited experience..

Nothing at all like the first group of geniuses who decided Rails should store session DATA in a COOKIE BY DEFAULT, or the second, larger group of geniuses that routinely upload the secret token used to encrypt/decrypt said cookie, to public repos on Github/etc.
Well, given the F-150's reliability and the harsh weather up this way, it is a normal person staple. Renting a truck is not really an option when its needed. Vehicles lasting more than a decade tend to be bought.
Can Spain even afford such a fine?
I think what you're saying is unnecessarily pessimistic. Lots of things evolve quickly in a period of 5 years in technology. If Tesla claims it will develop a $30k consumer car, I'd say they probably know what they're talking about, and they'll probably build it with quality. I mean, what's the point of going this far, if Musk just wants to piss away all of his credibility by making a crappy $30k electric car? If you want to guesstimate costs and hack them together, we can do this all day, but I'd say the only way to tell is to wait and see.

TL;DR - it's hard to make claims to the quality the next Tesla car without having any idea of what they're going to do.
Well when I took WWII history in the U.S. it had no such inaccuracies, though it did tend to gloss over the Eastern Front in general.

Of course the schools I've been to have also stayed away from trying to teach creationism as biology so maybe it's different elsewhere in the U.S.
Tools should be designed to fit with humans; the goal is to minimize how much humans have to contort themselves to fit their tools.

There'll always be some degree of learning and adjusting. But a mallet is still an improvement over a rock, because it's designed to fit in a human hand. I doubt anyone scoffed at the mallet and blogged that rocks have 80% market share so why can't we just get over it already.
Fantastic job Johnathon. To HN readers, I just want to point out that this awesome library was created by a high school student (who is extremely motivated and builds a bunch of stuff)!

This is Hacker News at it's best. Highlighting creation.

Interesting to note that this was submitted a few days ago and received only 3 points - I mention this because this is the sort of thing that should have made the front page the first time it was posted!

I'm thinking of writing a weekly post that highlights the things people created and posted to hacker news to deaf ears (thankfully this is not the case with this post!).

In fact I'm going to go and write it now (and create!).

Edit 1: If anyone is on Medium, here's my draft.

https://medium.com/p/e394f6d917d3?kme=collabEmail.clicked&km...

Edit 2: And while I have the chance for something to not to fall to dead ears, here's something I just wrote that would be interesting to anyone who's annoyed with recruiters and would rather work at SpaceX than Snapchat.

https://medium.com/p/de5c73174a4e?kme=collabEmail.clicked&km...
For Perl library see MediaWiki::API - https://metacpan.org/module/MediaWiki::API
Ford sucks because with the improvements and better safety requirements to the car industry people are still driving older cars!
> Tor guarantees anonymity. It succeeds at that.

Doesn't it fail at anonymity if the entire internet is being monitored?
I got an ear infection since I used them often (3-4 times a week st nights). The ears also dry out. My doc said I should use them rarely, but YMMV.
Bayesian A/B Tests with Log-Normal Models (w/ Python code)
Would you be willing to follow-up for us? Positive/Negative ramifications, lessons learned?
This is a shambles.
I talked about this on another thread, but by strong accent I mean so strong that people have a hard time understanding you. It's not a problem if founders have accents as strong as, say, the Collison brothers'.
Large Scale ETL
Learn Python The Hard Way 5 Day Workshop
I can confirm this. The search term alluded to, as well as all hashtags stemming from it, have been auto-tagged as nsfw in HashPix as well.

OT: We have just managed to carry out a conversation about a word that was not even mentioned once within the conversation itself. And yet, each one of us knows exactly which word we are alluding to. Voldemort, anyone? :)
I'm only observing that the article comes across weirdly as a result, especially when the author makes judgments like "simple". Not defending the condescension. (Though the same tone might well be taken if he were a Ruby novice writing articles titled "A Look at Ruby's Continuing Evolution".)
Like https://github.com/kenpratt/wikipedia-client ?
Deprecating unsafe/"bad" features is not "in PHP's blood" ?

Have you even read a PHP changelog recently?
Just got this: http://www.builttosell.com/ by John Warrillow.

How did I hear of him? My copreneur and I were discussing the idea of giving shares to our sole employee as performance incentive. She didn't like the idea from the beginning and googled for "real" reasons. :-) She found John Warrillow. This podcast sobered me up a bit:

http://www.startupnation.com/podcasts/episodes/9565/equity-f...
Thank you, rriepe. It would be great if 1pxdeep let me pick color1, color2 and color3 with sensible defaults.
Why is Bootstrap still using LESS?
Apple to let customers trade in old iPhones for credit toward new iPhones
>In short, you're implicitly mooching off society, and apparently proud of it. You managed to get away without actually triggering it, so far, but you were pushing a lot of financial risk onto other people. (Ignore this if you are, in fact, a millionaire.)

Smooching off society is a good thing. In fact, everyone should do it. It's called universal health care.
Am I going mad, or am I surpose to be able to click on things on that color selector? .... I think something is overlayed on top of the controls getting in the way [latest FF - Linux]

EDIT: fixes if I make the browser window wider than 1024ish
> If you just want a bash script to look things up on wikipedia

or for basic description:

wp() { dig +short txt "$*".wp.dg.cx; }
... as opposed to SASS?

What's wrong with LESS?
GIF video has "privileged" support in browsers, because it used to be the only native video format, and that level of integration has been impossible with '90s QuickTime/RealMedia/WMW plug-ins.

And decade of this situation has conditioned us to think that only shitty video formats (like GIF, APNG, WebP with animation) can be allowed to have first-class support in browsers, and any video format that is technically competent must be kept isolated in special tags, must not work well with rest of the browser and must cargo-cult limitations of plugins of the '90s.

But browsers can and do support H.264/WebM natively now. Technically (patents aside) we could have <img src="video.mp4-or-webm"> work just as well as GIF (and maybe even faster given 10th of bandwidth needed and possibility of HW acceleration).
Err, neither am I white nor a stranger to black people. Spending the night with one, or marrying one, doesn't make you less racist. What you were writing is very patronizing and sounds uninformed. You can spend your whole life around people and still have no clue what their lives are really about.

I mean, to trot out the "seven times" figure with no context and expect us to treat it like it provides justification for anything is a gross misapplication of statistics.

I also was not raised in the suburbs, but a place that is rural, white and very hostile to anyone who isn't.

EDIT: Moreover, the mere fact that you would trot out the existence of your Asian wife as proof of your non-racism against blacks is proof enough. It's demonstrative of your us-them mindset: see, you can't be racist, you're married to one of them. Nevermind that Asians are not blacks -- it's just that they're not white, and you can't be racist if you like a non-white, right?

(Hint: not right)
I ordered two of these and think I will cancel the order. I want something that allows me to play my own, legally owned content.
If you think OSTree needs filesystem snapshot support, you aren't understanding how it works. Or perhaps we don't have a shared definition of "robust" - for me, assuming correct behaviour at the filesystem and block layer, I believe deployment changes to be atomic.

How do you determine reboot-needed=true? Is that something assigned by the package developer statically (i.e. kernel is reboot-needed=true)? Determined dynamically at update time (like in the package metadata for a specific revision?)

Do you attempt to control for local configuration?

Is the X server package reboot-needed=true?
I actually didn't mean to implicate stress, although it is of course also a factor for some people. But even in non-stressful situations, frequent breaks from cognitive load are simply a necessity for me. I think it's because my brain is more like a sprinter than a long distance runner, and the latter is probably better suited to typical tests. I can start getting real sloppy after even 15 minutes of intense mental focus, even if I know the material well. But of course sprinting has its benefits in other situations, so it all balances out.
When you use "[sic]" like that it means the exact opposite of what you think it means. It means that you're quoting something with any errors or nonstandard presentation preserved.

That caused me to do a double take when I read that wondering whether it was actually $1000/hr or whether you were reproducing some misquotation of that number.

Usually people resolve the matter by writing something like this instead: "[...] charges up to $1000/hour (yes, one thousand dollars per hour!) [...]".
I'd love it if I could preview what everything looks like right on that page after I change the individual colors at the bottom.
The case that can be made for banning such a practice is that gender doesn't determine higher/lower risk, it's just associated with it. There's nothing about gender in an of itself that makes you drive badly, even if 80% of women get together at a secret meeting and agree to drive badly. In that case, the 20% would be suffering discrimination purely because of their gender.

>It makes even less sense if the the insurance company is allowed to consider other factors that are correlated with gender (e.g., age, profession).

Agreed.
Production fix
But what happens when you production system hits and issue? What, wait 3 days for a patch from the vendor or add an optimizer hint and have the issue resolved now?
> Ruby? Well when I look at Ruby code, I think of all the condescending assholes in the Ruby world who think they're language is somehow superior because it LOOKS pretty

This illustrates my point perfectly: Feelings about programming languages are rarely rooted objective analysis. They're rooted in emotional hot points. For some people, those hot points are the aesthetics of syntax. For others, like yourself, they are about social politics.
Microsoft's Massively Misplaced Incentives
That's fine. People have different needs and preferences. Some drive Honda Accord, some drive BMW convertible and some drive GMC truck. It's just looks a little silly when Accord driver comes out and starts pronouncing that trucks are absolutely useless and he has deep visceral hate with anything that ugly stupid space at the back that nobody ever needs and millions of people that buy trucks are actually idiots just incapable of driving a clearly superior Accord.
"they must just be clueless if they haven't gotten rid of their strong accent"

Specifically "clueless". I agree with that but I also think it's an attitude as well in some people. I think even if it was explained to them they might not think that it would benefit them. In that case they are not clueless they are simply rigid in their thinking, right?

As the saying goes "when in rome do as the romans do"

Along those lines I am surprised at the number of people who are foreign born who don't change their names to something more Americanized.

Back when people came to this country at the turn of the century I believe the immigration people would give people americanized versions of their names so they wouldn't experience as much rejection or racisim. Maybe it was for other reasons as well.

Now you can look at it as wrong that people jump to conclusions or you can simply do what is practical and attempt to lessen the disadvantage that you are in if someone perceives you in the wrong way. If I am a member of a religious group and I know that people that I am selling to are biased against that religious group I see it as practical not to wear any symbol of that religious group. It's a business decision.

I'm not saying that someone needs to totally hide the fact that they are Indian, Chinese, or whatever. I'm simply saying you can make the name a little easier for people in America (where you live) to remember it. That's in a sense basic marketing.

Lastly, I've been approached by people trying to sell me with really difficult names to remember. I am less likely to connect them with others simply because their name is so hard to remember.
For the same reasons that anybody should (or should not) care about what you think, I would imagine.
PHP has deprecated obviously insecure behaviors that are largely Web-related, yes. I'm coming from a Perl perspective, where deprecating bad language features means things like "radically overhauling how variables work" or "putting major community effort into eliminating an entire kind of variable". I'm not aware of many similarly-radical changes in PHP, except perhaps whatever happened with PHP 4's short-lived classes.
It was a siege of a well-fortified town, and the Spanish had non-negligible support from non-Incan people unsatisfied with the Incan rule. That said, a Spaniard on a thousand pound horse, wrapped in steel, on an open, unobstructed field, against people wearing mostly cloth armor, with stone or copper weapons, was effectively unstoppable. Again that said, many of the non-Spanish troops supporting Pizarro and Co. died.

Most of the defeats the Spanish suffered were when some of the more clever Incan generals used the brutal terrain against them: triggering landslides, creating obstructions to disrupt a cavalry charge, etc. While that works in mountain passes, places like Lima (established by Pizarro mid-1500s), were on flat terrain known by the Spanish, so those sorts of tactics did not help during those sieges. The siege of Cuzco (or Cusco, whichever) was in a similar situation to that of Lima.

Something that I felt was missing from the Last Days of the Inca was an emphasis on the number of Spaniards, and ignoring the number of shock troops that Pizarro & Co. had recruited by that time. Remember, by the time Manco Inca had decided to "rebel", the Spaniards had been in Cuzco and some neighboring cities for several years.
Lots of people did, back when their ISP didn't offer newsgroup access. Plus it had a great search interface and some other features I don't remember.
Would the down-voters care to explain? I've pointed out how another platform deals with allocating raw memory buffers as it's relevant to the discussion.

I've made no claims of it being superior, and in fact, am largely using Go myself these days.
> you can easily just systemd-nspawn /ostree/deploy/debian/90cd266 and boot the same OS as a container

Perhaps we should be looking at integrating ostree and docker then? :)

> I'd like to push hard to integrate with package systems.

How would that integration work exactly?
>-- he/she also has to go to work full-time so your kids don't starve.

And why is that so bad? The other parent already worked full-time before accident.
https://gist.github.com/chriseppstein/674726
I picked one up just to tinker with, and am impressed so far. It's no Nexus 4, but it's not meant to be.
Nice. I can see lots of room for improvement. Great start, especially using Requests will streamline things.

I'll work in some changes tonight. Let's start with PEP8, shall we? :)
The True Story About Who Destroyed a Genetically Modified Rice Crop
It came up again halfway between then and now in comments here; I do not know of any resolution.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486786
Can you expound upon that? What exactly happens?
> Microeconomics is a counter-example. There's also game theory and personal psychology. I guess it depends on what you consider useful.

I won't get bothered over the term "useful". I mean "non-trivial", basically. It's true that microeconomics, game theory, and personal psychology discuss individual-level actions quite a bit. What they don't do, because they generally know better, is discuss group-level actions.

And that's my point.

Unless you have an actual example of a discussion of a group entity, such as a government, in any of these fields? Surely personal psychology doesn't discuss how a high school clique acts in response to another high school clique?

> I guess I concern myself with the the largest of these groups, the human species. While cultures and economic landscapes change, the basic tenants of Praxeology and value-theory do not. Preference and desire is present in all acting humans, and I think these realities can be best used to explain why actions are taken.

But this is not real.

We have families. We have congregations. We have teams. We have armies. We have governments. We have mafias. We have corporations. We have meetups. We have discussion groups. We have social networks.

Pretending that these do not exist is not empiricism. It's confirmation bias. It's walking along a river and throwing frogs over to the other side because your hypothesis said they wouldn't be on this side.

> I'm not claiming individuals don't act differently based on their setting and peers, just that these phenomenas can be observed at the individual level in an empirical fashion. If it isn't, then your group knowledge is limited.

Show me. You're claiming to have a lot of empirical evidence. Show me.

> That I didn't make an incorrect statement?

You claimed that I made a false dichotomy when I said you could either evaluate only at the individual level OR have the capacity to talk about group-level effects.

To prove that this is a false dichotomy, you have to present a third alternative. That's what makes a false dichotomy false. You haven't done this.

> I would argue that libertarians believe in the antithesis of authoritarianism, and that they have economic and philosophical principles for believing so.

So what is it? Is libertarianism about some vague antithesis of authoritarianism, or is libertarianism a framework for analyzing human action? Those aren't the same thing.

You're the one who came in here with guns blazing saying that I didn't have a sufficient grasp on libertarian philosophy. Now every time I bring up another dimension of libertarianism, you change what you claim it is. How about starting from some of your axioms and principles and just flat-out explaining it like I'm five?
I must agree, Bootstrap is the only project I've encountered using LESS in the last year or so. There was a time when they both seemed to have the same amount of use, but it has been obvious to me that SASS won a while ago.