skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am assuming you are in the EU and you know more about the laws there.

Did you read this bit from the site?

Driving modes -
Most EU countries consider two-wheeled electric vehicles as motorcycles if they can reach a speed in excess of 25 km/h and have more than 250 W of power. The G-12 has a special mode to comply with the regulations for road vehicles – which limits the speed and power. Still, the top-speed is just a tap on the touch-screen away when you need it.

Doesn't that place it under the "bicycle" category? Or are they skirting the issue and the authorities will not likely deem it that way regardless what "mode" you put it?
Can you clarify? I do this. I have one cord at home and one in my backpack. This way I always have a cord with me if I go out. If you have to lug your power cord with you anyway, isn't that the same as you always carrying the same amount of weight? I don't really understand (unless you bring out your bag without taking your laptop with you in certain circumstances).
You seriously had CPS called on you? By neighbors?
> It shows a severe lack of critical thinking if nothing else.

No it doesn't, it shows a presence of severe cognitive bias.

I would be skeptical of any other opinions they hold regarding biology, geology, and morality but they probably don't have any preconceived notions about math, or physics.
I would say that a minor change in font is a pretty big deal. The symbolism of the new logo is much more important than the change it self.

It screams of rebirth and new beginnings without completely tearing out the foundation.
At $work we had an IOS application developed. Test Flight wasn't too bad to setup, but it was a bit of a pain having to click the link in the email from within the IOS device (an old ipod touch in my case). Once Test Flight was setup, it was pretty smooth from my end to update, but certainly wasn't as simple as an auto-update in the Play store.
Right, but I think that most people can see right through the "look guys, we're cool! we care!" crap when it's this tacky and confusing. Quite frankly I thought they would be way more outlandish and unusable in the context of being a logo simply because of the name and the whimsicality of the current iteration. Downloading a bunch of type from Dafont does not a good logo or even fake contest make.

And here's the final they posted - http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/60332693287/introducing-our-new... - along with a now laughable quote about it from the post 30 days ago:

> The new logo will be a modern redesign that’s more reflective of our reimagined design and new experiences.
The Client You Can't Say No To
All they had were my vehicles. They also think I'm a 72 year old African American. Nothing on my home, shopping, etc.
"Greyp, where guys can rough it up in the woods and girls don't have to pedal home from work."

Edit: In all seriousness, that video was a complete disgrace.
Reading a few pages in, if you're not seeing it on the market, it's because the technology is patented (and it's the obvious approach of using an array of LED backlights with DSP correction for the optical scattering of the backlight filter).
Hay. Have you tried Genymotion (http://www.genymotion.com/). It's really really fast. Currently, they only support for Android 4.+ emulators but they will support the lower api soon.
I remember reading that it ran on some kind of bigiron mainframe hardware of the time, so an old Samsung Galaxy phone could most likely handle it.
Here's some more short and sweet sleep info, straight from the man who founded the world's first sleep research laboratory: http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/sleepless.html
The project leader of VMS, Dave Cutler went to MicroSoft and led the development of Windows NT. That is what I think the VMS reference is.
Stanford University Is Going To Invest In Student Startups Like A VC Firm
When was this? I thought I read earlier this year that they found it didn't correlate, and so they no longer used it as a hard cutoff?
What Will Computers Look Like By 2029?
> wait till she goes to work or talks to her friends who expect to see it

You can always game the system. My wife purchased a lab-made champagne diamond (colouring is from nitrogen IIRC). It was a pretty damn big rock, had only VVS inclusions and was cheap. Slap that thing in a gold band and your wife-to-be has a real diamond - your average jeweler won't have the tools to spot that it's artificial unless it's tagged. Thing was, my wife was a chem student at the time and thought it was cool. I was a young bloke with something to prove so I purchased the real-deal and spent the next three years paying it off.

Moral: marry nerds. And perhaps swallow your pride.
I did that and I'm born in the mid 80s (not the US). Today I don't ever see kids going anywhere by themselves.
Can pheromones enhance sexual attraction in adult humans?
That's one of the most engaging presentations I've seen for years. I laughed out loud at slide 38.

Thanks for the link.
1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (No pun intended).

This book really turned my head around and made me realize how there are people (especially ones in the Sales & Marketing realm) out there waiting to sneak one past you. Don't be surprised (not if you can help it), if while reading the book you go "Oh my, someone actually used that trick on me!".

2. The Mindbody Prescription

I understand that some people are skeptical about the theory (TMS) that Dr John Sarno proposes (I was too at first). I'm no neuro-scientist to attest anything in the book, but empirical evidence (experiences of mine and a few others even on HN) seems to suggest the possibility of Dr Sarno getting it right. Anyway, it seemed to help me overcome a problem I had with my wrists and I'm thankful.
For git repositories that are not touched very often, you can move the .git directory to something that isn't picket up automatically. Use it like this:

mv .git dot_git
git --git-dir="dot_git" add ...

Thats also a nice trick if you need a git repos in a git repos, e.g. for integration test for libraries interacting with git.
This lawsuit was based on events from a year before the Google acquisition.

I'm not saying Google is good or bad, but this isn't evidence of either.
Home schooling is only a fall-back position. As a parent, I don't mind hiring teachers for particular purposes. But let it be clear that I am the "school". I am the employer. It is my money and these are my kids.
An educated and intelligent parent taking personal interest in a child's education vs. an overworked or underperforming (cannot be fired, unions) teacher lecturing to the lowest common denominator of 30 students at a time. I know which one I'd bet on.
Spoken by someone who truly has never ridden a motorcycle before.
rcs doesn't have .gitignore files and accidentally running commands on your top-level repo, so I could see why one would consider it. You don't really need atomic commits for this use case, so rcs is barely worse than the alternatives.
Show HN: Mining through millions of tweets and Facebook posts.
>the government argued that the gag order was needed in order to protect Brown from prejudicing his right to a fair trial by making comments to reporters.

You know. For your safety.

Meanwhile, it appears Project PM is limping along. The domain project-pm.org seems to be the new site, though it is down at the moment. It's a shame that the account creation page is disabled right now. There's plenty of work to be done cross referencing the NSA files with other releases. I think the most frustrating aspect of this whole debacle is how one-sided the entire scenario is. If you or I decided to develop some zero days for popular software and sell it to interested entities for millions of dollars per year in subscription fees, we'd be thrown in prison for years for violating numerous computer crime and copyright laws. Stick an LLC on the end of the organization and voila! Now you can break laws with impunity and even blessings from the military industrial complex. No trials for DMCA or CFAA violations. No prison time. Just lots and lots of money.

It sounds like the hackers of the world are doing it wrong.
Wow, this is yet another major step forward for redis adoption! Congrats to antirez and the whole redis team!
> You're thinking of the CoolerMaster ripoffs

As in CoolerMaster knockoffs or the CM Storm QuickFire line? I've got a couple of the CM Storm QuickFire TK's (1 at work, 1 at home), and they have easily just as good, if not better, of a build quality and feel as the filco's or ducky's I've tried around the office, and definitely better than any of the blackwidows I've tried (old or new model).
Manufacture consent of decision makers... get articles into CFR and the like to show the house of cards is crumbling down. Respect by fear does not endure and there is nowhere to hide with Twitter in every pocket.
I can't believe they bought off Forbes to market this scam. This is not about data disclosure, this is about collecting even more data in the name of "educating" you. You will be giving away most important pieces of your information to them in trying to know whatever half ass information they might supposedly have. If they really wanted to disclose fairly then they can just ask for email and do verification by sending link in email. They shouldn't need birth date and precious last digits of your SSN.
Ha! Fair enough. No, I didn't intend to troll. I've found RCS useful for ad hoc versioning of configuration files on systems without git or other version control systems. Wondering whether anyone still finds it useful. I reckon not!
The Master-Slave Analogy in Technical Literature
Was this as an intern or full-time employee? If two classes pulled you down from 3.4 to 3.0, I have to wonder about the total number of credits.

Also, what was the exact wording of Google "straight up" declining to interview you?
Ignoring (1), the difference (2) makes is that some people believe public-schooling to be a lesser evil than the probability of home-schooling being indoctrination instead of education, and those people tend to be in favor of policies making it more difficult for parents to have complete control over the home-schooling of their children, which home-schooling proponents like tokenadult are typically (understandably!) opposed to.
yazmeya: your account appears as [dead] (aka hellbanned).
Just an app I coded on LSD
http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#formatting
Not really. I've yet to see a distro in the past 10 years without it.
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Yes I am sure in their community no children would ever fight in front of their parents, and they only meet up with their friends during homeschool hours. "Times up, junior, let's return to our cloister and shutter the windows for the night."
Still with the ! eh. Surprising.
From zero to two. I try to do as much as possible in school, on breaks and even go to school earlier in the morning so I do not lose a valuable amount of time by context switching back and forth.

Hobbies... I just don't want to do them. Time feels scarce and I fear no matter what project I start, there might be a better idea in my mind (and I have a few) that would be better worth doing.
> What marshray suggested would look like this:
create table bucket.users (name text, field text, value text, primary key ((name, field))); - with a composite partition key. Then you'd have two separate single-cell partitions "jbellis:email" : "jbellis@example.com" and "jbellis:phone" : "555-5555". You don't want to do that in either Riak or Cassandra.

Ah I see what you mean. I thought the intent was to group by some unique ID for the user.
This is a brilliant move by Marissa Mayer. She knows from experience that having the best of the best (not only in engineering- but also in design, marketing, etc.) is necessary for your success in tech. Large tech companies depend on their employee's pet ideas and projects, the fact that they might be well known in some niche for some open source project or blog, and so on. In a way, if you're a large company that needs to constantly be on top of the latest trends and technologies (because if you're not, the same thing happens to you as happened to Myspace), you're no different than YCombinator - except that instead of wanting your recruits to start their startup, you want them to run a project for you internally (all of the famous Google projects that originated from 20% projects could have easily been startups of their own).

Through these actions and posts, shes's showing how cool and fun Yahoo! is. Look, the CEO works on weekends with a small skunkworks team on designing logos, and nerds out on the subtle details like any cool designer would do.

This is all about making Yahoo! a desirable place to work at again. I'm receiving way more emails from Yahoo! recruiters these days than Google or Apple recruiters, and they all have a common tone: "check us out, we're fun!".

Similarly, all the small startup acquisitions have 2 goals: poach for talent, and get Techcrunch, HN, Engadget, etc. to talk about Yahoo. (the big acquisition we all talked about was about receiving a mature project internally as a way to make up for lost time)

Of course it's not just this that will bring Yahoo! to victory, but those little things show how much strategy there is in Mayer's execution.

EDIT: finally was in a situation where I could watch the video, and I only feel stronger about my point. Listen to the music (some dubstep/ibiza dance/feel good summer hit hybrid) - this is clearly destined to appeal to the 21 year old Stanford student looking for a new job, not the guy on HN who will criticize anything that makes it to the front page.
“World’s most secure smartphone” looks like snake oil
Blue light observations indicate water-rich atmosphere of a super-earth
This isn't really true, you can use whatever language you want for the programming sections. If you say you only know PHP, they'll find you four interviewers that know PHP.

Interview feedback is not really "filling out a form", either. I take about 6 hours to write feedback for a 45 minute interview. It's very detailed and really covers a chronology of what happened during the interview. Interviewers also submit a hire/no hire score for the candidate, so it's not only the hiring committee that makes the hiring decision. If an interviewer is willing to say "this is the best person I've ever interviewed in my life", that's a big deal.
Microsoft offers ValueAct president seat on board
I've taken a different approach and store all my dotfiles on Dropbox and then symlinked them the local system. I get synchronisation between machine almost instantaneously and can move between around half a dozen boxes Including Linux, OSX and cygwin with little problem. Dropbox provide some version control which is useful If I really break something and I have a single script which can bootstrap a new machine. A few things don't liked to be symlinked (namely ssh keys) but other than that this had worked great for several years.
It's also worth pointing out that Google wants to hire people that will last for more than one project. It's great if you're hired for a specific project, but what about when that project's done?
School is not the only place one finds romantic partners. As for fights, fisticuffs are not generally an accepted method of conflict resolution in the adult world anyway.
Reminds me of the Twitter logo video [1], but at least that one made sense with respect to how the logo was created from three sets of overlapping circles [2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh20pdCrCAU
[2] https://blog.twitter.com/2012/taking-flight-twitterbird
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At least it actually reflects what most users think: that they are stuck in the early 2000's era of bad 3d bevels. It seems so out of place without IE6's UI adjacent to it.

This is really sad. Yahoo has produced some wonderful looking stuff lately. Their Android weather app that pulls flickr pictures looks amazing.

Someone blew an opportunity to actually signal that the company had changed and blew it badly
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>>Can't win if you don't play :)

Actually, considering the horror stories we have heard about Google's hiring process, it might be more appropriate to say: "the only winning move is not to play."
We're not a software shop, but we did make an iOS apps to interface with our hardware. Everyone in the development and testing was asked to jailbreak their phone. We probably had over 20 testers. By the time we reached beta and were ready for wider test market, we used Apple's signing process.

We probably broke some rules and while it's not for everyone, it worked for us. Jailbraking my phone was amazing simple and fast with tools like limera1n.
Is a 4 digit SSN number suffix really enough to be helpful to them in that regard? I guess they could find all "jcater"s with those 4 digits and make assumptions, but that is far from unique.
OK, let's read. Your first paper quotes an optimistic black IQ deficit of 0.33 sigma. Assume strong STEM students are at the 2 sigma level, which is a percentile rank of 97.72% of whites. If whites are 75% of the population, then 1.71% of the population could be a white strong STEM student.

For blacks at 2.33 sigmas, the percentile rank is 99.01% applying to 15% of the population, meaning 0.1485% of the population could be a black strong STEM student.

Those percentages are in an 11.5 ratio, but the actual population ratio is 5. So blacks are about half as likely to be bright as whites. But in US public schools, they must get good grades at about the same rate to avoid "racism" and "disparate impact". The only way to do this is by severely watering down the curriculum.

This is exactly what I was saying about a one-size-fits-all school being unworkable.

The normal distribution is a harsh mistress. The area under the tail drops off very fast, so a small difference in a subgroup translates into overwhelming victory or overwhelming defeat.

Now let's revisit your -0.33 sigma black deficit. For the strong potential STEM students calculated above, the black:white ratio is about 10%. That means we would expect 2 blacks in every university STEM class, and 1 in a typical all-team engineering meeting. In reality the number is far lower. (I've only had two reasonably bright black colleagues ever.) You find equally few blacks in hands-on intellectual jobs like owning a chain of gas stations. So the -0.33 sigma number does not pass the everyday experience test.

Speaking of recommended reading, you could profitably spend a few minutes studying a normal distribution Z table. The normal distribution is a harsh mistress.
Quantitative Economics [Economics + Python]
I accidentally entered the last four of my social wrong and they said they didn't have a profile. Correcting it fixed the issue.
Before anyone types away their information, you should read this paragraph. This is a huge scam, a clever one:

In the privacy policy for the new site, Acxiom says it will allow users to edit and suppress information about themselves. However, to see their file, users must give up personal data and pass an authentication exam. That means giving your address, email, last four digits of your Social Security number and date of birth. Can they use that information? “The information you provide may be shared within the Acxiom Corporation family of businesses,” the company says.
I disagree with your categorization of "how many golf balls fit in a bus" as a trick question. That's a normal estimation problem that's highly relevant to a software engineer's daily work. (Rephrase the question as "how many users can you serve with one CPU core". Capacity planning is an entire department's worth of work.)
do what i do, whereever I am. Be paranoid and look around and say "what have I left here, because I dont want to come back to get it."
I wanted to read more, but it was basically a walkthrough of the game... I will have to save this one for later.
1) Rockets, Missiles and Men in Space - Willy Ley ( side note: I rescued this book from a friend who was using it for target practice with an airgun!)

2) Chaos - James Gleick

(I have to mention this one too) The Armchair Universe : An exploration of Computer Worlds - A. K. Dewdney
Yeah, fuck that noise.
What exactly do you consider the purpose of a logo to be?
I expect Google to write-down Motorola eventually. The patents seem pretty worthless thus far.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4271432/does-anyone-know-w...
Obviously. [1] Any recommendations?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6305232
How to get fresh water out of thin air.
when it comes to hiring graduates I believe the GPA averages are put in places as a first cull.

these companies get so many graduate applicants each year they place an arbitrary requirement on GPA just so they can slightly reduce the number they take to the next stage of the interview process.
I like it. It would look a wee better if you made the HOO a half a point bigger.
How to be a programmer
There is tons of open hardware you run Android on. It's just not phones.
https://www.google.com/search?q=android+arm+computer
I guess they didn't teach you about hyperbole from whatever prison you were in.
Distributed Lambda Statuses
What do you do if you are a brown skinned person, living in just about any US city? The quality of the education that your child is getting is, to put it bluntly, shit.

Your options for remediation all require resources that parents in lousy school districts don't have. Moving to the burbs requires money (apartments in the burbs don't take housing subsidies), a reliable car, a dealing with a lot of hassle as a non-white person (getting pulled over by the cops, etc). Your solution of suing the school district into submission requires that you as a parent have lots of time and resource to manage a litigation. That requires lots of external support -- that 3 hour detour to sit in some court hearing is 3 hours of lost wages.

If the state is failing to provide the education that I feel is appropriate to my child, I have the right to intervene, period. If I'm doing something extreme or harmful to my child, the state has the ability to intervene, to the point of seizing custody if I'm not acting in my child's best interest.

I received a Catholic education at one point in my life. The teachings of the Catholic Church are offensive to many people. Does my exposure to catholic docterine disqualify my education? In my mind, one of the core components of a "real education" would be to respect others beliefs and avoid meddling in the affairs of others. Sounds like our perspectives vary.
I've been trying to evaluate this logo under the assumption that the people who are working at Yahoo are smarter than me and have more information than me.

My personal reaction is that I hate the bevel. Hate. I was rooting for #10, which is a simplified and modernized version of their old logo.

But. I'm not a Yahoo user. Period.

The bevel immediately made me think of some brands you'd find on sale at Macy's, which mainstream America associates with quality, but which my artisanal-y brainwashed brain thinks of as mass produced junk.

Imagine for a second that Yahoo has research showing normal people reacting to this logo with words like luxury and high-class.

If that's the case, then Yahoo just pulled an epic branding end run. Google, Apple, and Microsoft are fighting to be the flattest, plainest, more boring brands. Then Yahoo stepped up and said, "Yo. Let's be fabulous together!"

In the old days, Yahoo's skunkworks Brickhouse division had posters in their break room titled "Know your competition" with pictures of Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin. Trying to copy the other tech giants was (one of) Yahoo's problems because the Yahoo teams couldn't celebrate what they were actually doing well.

The contrarian in me salutes Yahoo for this crazy, out of left field, gaudy, off-trend logo. Genius.
I'm not sure Yahoo's brand was ready to be logo-ified. They're currently in such a radical state of change that it feels like an impossible task.