skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, it's never too early to start helicopter parenting.
I really like the idea, but please include Node.JS or Ruby.
It's less funny that we always transform this kind of information as an apple vs android fact.

I was reading the article thinking:
"Uh oh, now let's see the comments on HN..."
Whenever something like that happens, this is my reference: http://developerexcuses.com
> 1. Writing rm / somedir instead of rm /somedir ... The minor mistake of adding a space in the rm command can actually delete the entire content of the root (/) directory.

Only if your're logged in as root. The author omits what should be obvious advice -- avoid root shell sessions whenever possible. Always operate at the lowest level of authority consistent with the desired objective.
I've had many real-life situations where I successfully chain-deleted thousands of lines of legacy code and replaced it with some sub-100-line method that simply worked.

This just about never happens outside of start-up world. You can't go around deleting thousands of lines that you don't understand and just pray that your new implementation won't silently (or catastrophically) break subtle side-effects (errors or otherwise) that the organization has adapted its business around. That's just madness and would probably get you fired in most places.
These methods fall under the general categories known as Feature Selection, Feature Extraction and Dimension Reduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionality_reduction
This could be another resources. It is a video series by Charles Hoskinson.
https://www.udemy.com/bitcoin-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worry...
My son (9) has a Minecraft account, a Steam account, and an email address which he doesn't know the password to (because he wouldn't remember it).

His main interaction thusfar has been chatting with people in Minecraft and on Steam, which concerns me only over the language.
This is cool, but I'd be worried that it wouldn't line me up with enough of the right jobs. For that reason, I still prefer mightyspring for anonymous job searching. A big part of the problem is matching the right people with the right opportunities, and their algorithms are a lot more robust.
I'm a new parent and my wife and I are not taking any measures to minimize our kid's Facebook exposure.

As a general rule, it's pretty safe to "do what everybody else is doing." If Facebook albums parents made for kids when they were little come back to haunt this coming generation as a group, the ills will be remedied either by making or using certain sorts of analysis illegal (the college application hypothetical) or society will adapt by adjusting perceptions of certain information (the prom date hypothetical).

It is illustrative to note how the national reaction to youth drug use in presidential candidates changed from Clinton ("I didn't inhale") to G.W.B. to Obama ("maybe a little blow"). Similar adaptation will happen when it comes to information on Facebook and the like.
Someone things in life can be relied on. If you could find a way to generate power from fandroid whining the energy crisis would be over.
Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ...
and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html
1. Why do you think it was a fake?

2. If you knew a deadline was approaching why would you waste your time debugging a USB drive? There are plenty of other ways (including a new USB drive) to transfer the data.
pipy, you ignored my answer and jumped in much later. Please use one account. :-)

Some general notes:

A. You are [also] not going to acknowledge how straight out evil the mass murderers, rapists, torturers and thieves are in the junta?

B. You ignore that French and Israeli intelligence corroborates the chemical attack from Assad. France is seldom in lockstep with the USA...

>>As I have written in a number of previous posts, there is a great chance that the bombings will result in many more deaths than we can possibly attribute to actions of Assad regime.

Some trivial points:

1. How much atrocities will the Assad regime do, Mr Neville Chamberlain, if they win the civil war and then "clean up"? It is a small minority that oppress a large majority; they must be f-cking brutal.

2. To let use of chemical weapons against civilians pass will lower the threshold for using WMD. A very, very bad precedent.

3. No reaction because of civilian damage makes the Assad method work of moving artillery etc into civilian areas... Another bad precedent.

4. Your argument about the risk of a spreading conflict implies the world should let the Assad mass murdering torturers keep the whole Middle East as hostage with WMD. A ridiculously bad precedent.

I don't believe you are intellectually honest here. These obvious points slaughter your argument that it is better to let mass murdering torturers get away with it.

And about USA...

The foreign policy of democracies are about as much realpolitik as the foreign policy of dictators (and they also lie about it), except for two things:

1. When the home opinion cares. This is getting larger with time, especially after the Cold War.

2. When it doesn't cost money or influences badly on important interests.

But... the USA has argued/pressured for the democratization of the Middle East a long time. (See TFA, which has an old example.) It is just stupid to argue as if they are pure evil. ("Pure incompetent/stupid"? Maybe.)

(A note: If you think Pinochet was one of the worst dictators you're confused. A few thousand dead, a few tens of thousands tortured. Go check the really bad dictators... like the Assad clan. Supported only by non-democracies. And people like you. How does that feel?)
> I've especially been missing the ability to make directions with multiple stops (I used to use that feature about 50% of the time)

Ah, so it's not because I've gotten dumber and my eyes have gone worse, they really removed it.

Bloody hell...
The feeling of going to bed early and waking up with the sunrise is an amazing feeling. To be honest I don't know why we were created with a sleep function, we would get so much done without it. Imagine what mankind would achieve with an extra 12hours!
Accents is not big problem in Russian - even with wrong accent other people will understand you in most cases, but it will sound a bit odd. In some cases in different regions (or even social groups) accent for same word will be different (and a few native speakers know which variant is officially proper).
(I'm not really suggesting that it appear that the player drove their own car home to outside observers; just that it would be weird and creepy to let some stranger park your car in your garage. It's mostly about not leaving a car parked in front of a bar the next morning.)
iOS will actually disable these features if the battery is getting low. It will also group them together so that the wireless chips are on as briefly as possible.
How is this surprising? Which part of "walled garden" did Apple fanboys not fully grasp?

The good news is that, with Apple products, you don't need to know anything, because Apple is in charge. That's also the bad news.
There may or may not have been an API method in iOS 6 developer previews that allowed the app to provide the system with a new screenshot for resuming from background. That API method may or may not have been removed by the time iOS 6 shipped, and may or may not be back in iOS 7.

<whistles>

As for slow app startups, Apple hates that too. It's fine to show a loading screen, if there is loading to be done. Showing marketing videos and other bullshit? No. Not fine.
This seems like a purely PR move. Not only is there nothing wrong with that, it's probably worth figuring out how other people can get national press with flimsy stories.

I see what Uber gets out of this, but what reason would the NFL Players' Union have for participating in the marketing of this? I don't remember hearing a lot about drunk-driving players in the press, so essentially the Players' Union is making it a topic of conversation.

Why?
<x> is wrong until Apple does it correctly.
Dead right. Someone who plans in advance will avoid driving drunk. I typically take the bus downtown and a cab home after the buses have stopped. Somehow I don't see many NFL players doing that.
It's not - given an accurate geometry model and reflective window material, it'd be really easy to use a raytracer to test this:

* Renderers like Maxwell handle caustics nicely, and you could get away with rough photon-mapping (instead of time-consuming but very accurate MLT)

* Most renderers have very accurate physical sky light models which accurately model the intensity and position of the sun in the sky based on time of day and long/lat coords.

It'd be easy to python script a run of renders for each minute in the day (10 seconds for a render) over the next 5 years and then run an analysis of the rendered image for intensity on the ground. Just set the ground material to not be lit by any diffuse GI rays or direct lighting, and it would literally just render out the reflected sun on the ground (or off other buildings if you wanted to do it REALLY accurately).

It'd be time consuming and CPU intensive to do the rendering for all that: 2,630,880 renders for each minutes for 5 years, but you could probably work out an envelope you could skip (definitely the night time) after doing the first year.

7308 hours render time for the full 24-hour period for 5 years. But do-able, and very parallel over multiple machines.
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The biggest upgrade is seeing where the car is. Calling a cab is basically playing the lottery in places like San Francisco, whereas with Lyft/Uber/Sidecar you get to see how far it is. It's much easier to convince yourself not to drive (if that's something drinking causes you to do) if you can see how long you will be waiting.
The existing programs were also under the players association, which gets rid of the issues others have mentioned about things like anonymity. It also makes questionable the various claims that this is a PR move by the NFL: These are legitimate actions by the players association to try to improve the safety, security, and careers of players.

Making the process easier (or even just "hipper") is a good thing, and pointing out that comparatively they already have a slightly harder process doesn't mean much: Such is the case with almost everything we do, making tasks slightly easier.
You forgot Libya:

From Medialens.org:
"As we have discussed, many of the alleged horrors said to justify Nato's assault - Gaddafi's use of vicious foreign mercenaries and Viagra-fuelled mass rape, his planned massacre in Benghazi - were sheer invention. The violent chaos that has befallen Libya since Nato's war, however, is very real."
Most sites close accounts if they're for someone under the age of X. (18, 13?) So, these accounts are really the parents accounts, just in the name of the daughter, right?

> The process started in earnest as we were selecting her name. We’d narrowed the list down to a few alternatives and ran each (and their variants) through domain and keyword searches to see what was available. Next, we crawled through Google to see what content had been posted with those name combinations, and we also looked to see if a Gmail address was open.

Wait, what? Surely calling your daughter "Jane Doe" would be best, because then you could claim "Oh no, that's not me!" when presented with articles about drunken rampages or whatever. It'd be hard to find out if you were Jane_Doe_9297376 or Jane_Doe_91919229191.

For some reason I feel sorry for the child named with a pleasing combination of name and TLD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
I was almost warming up to the mess that is Wayland (though I still think "fixing X {server,extensions,whatever}" is a better idea). A decent case had been made that some areas (pixmap handling? already-client-side font stuff?), were in need of replacement.

Wayland is actually much, much simpler than X11. Most desktop users actually don't care about network transparency -- they want a fast, smooth local display. Network transparency is not needed. Better to take it out, and provide an extension module for those who want it -- based on something like RDP which is much more efficient than X11.

Remember that the object for comparison here is a Mac, which presents a perfect tear-free composited display running at 60fps. Compared to that, the old clunky X desktop is difficult to go back to.

Can't we all just accept the idea that Mac OS X curbstomping every other desktop Unix in terms of market- and mind-share might mean Apple got right what everyone else got wrong? Command-X, Command-C, Command-V. They're always there, they always do the right thing. Oh, and the presence of a dedicated "Command" key is another Apple-ism we should have adopted; modern Linux, following the lead of Windows, uses Ctrl. Which is just wrong and silly because you frequently do want to send Ctrl-C to a console program -- so terminal emulators remap the clipboard commands to Ctrl-Shift-X, etc.... Whatever.

Desktop Unix, except for Mac OS X, is a mess. Doing anything but throwing it all out and starting from scratch, emulating the cleaner, superior model of Mac OS X is falling prey to the sunk-cost fallacy.
So, http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/index.phtml already exists and is written in perl. It seems like your major contribution is a statistical slant, which might be compatible with the existing code base.

edit: it's perl, not python. brainfart on my part.
> Seems totally reasonable to have a version in step with the emerging generation, rather than future experiments.

The current MBP retina display, if used on a 27 inch monitor, is more than 4K.

Conveniently, however, it's less than 8K - as is a 32 inch retina monitor.
Just put a four way Cartesian join in a subselect that gets discarded. All unit tests pass! Ship it!
Admirable, but naive. Facial recognition of baby pics is useless for the most part. By the time their daughter is 18 she will have plenty of tagged pictures of herself. Cameras are already everywhere and their use is accelerating. Google Glasses like devices are coming. And your picture ID is already used for facial recognition.
iOS still doesn't allow apps to run in background as they wish. OS decides when to wake up an app and how long based on usage patterns. Also OS gives user capability to disable specific apps from ever using this system and also turn it off system wide.

I don't think they changed their mind, they made it less restrictive probably because newer processors can complete tasks faster and go to sleep faster which preserves battery life.
I've read multiple accounts of people who have done it for several months[1][2][3][4]. I have seen only one account of someone quitting after the initial adaptation for any reason other than convenience.

I have also read some accounts[5] of people who quit polyphasic, but go back to it in various forms when they have time constraints (and apparently adapting back is not very difficult once you've done it once; my guess is that the ability to nap efficiently is not lost, and is the main stumbling block to getting started).

So if by "not sustainable", you mean "very hard to fit into a monophasic sleeping world", then yes, that's true. If you mean "after a week or two, you'll feel exhausted", then yes, that's also true. It takes longer than that to adapt.

If you mean "it's not enough sleep even after you adapt", then where are the posts you're talking about?

[1] http://ohgodthechicken.com/sleep-discipline-experiment/

[2] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polyphasic-sleep-on...

[3] http://forum.polyphasicsociety.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1095

[4] http://forum.polyphasicsociety.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1060

[5] http://www.xeeban.com/xeeban/archives/000003.html
Apple did not make a 7 inch tablet.
> My two 24inch 1920x1200 Dell from 2006 are still better than most of the TN panel Full-HD crap you can buy today

Agreed, I use 3 of the new ones. 16x10 is a MUCH better aspect ratio in my opinion. I really don't understand manufacturers' obsession with 16x9 given that most of what people do on computers involves scrolling vertically, not horizontally.

Thankfully Dell are still selling them. And at $260 for 24" 16x10 IPS, I'm sure they're now much cheaper than in 2006.

EDIT: Indeed, looks like prices have falled about 70% [1], although I'm sure that was RRP

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/02/dell-2407wfp-goes-on-sale...
Along with what everyone else has said about size limitations, before iOS7, every push notification resulted in a notification on the top screen, and your app would not run until the user clicked the notification.
I'm pretty sure most of the players don't worry about that until the cash stops rolling in...
If you are doing linear regression with correlated variables. PLS is the correct choice. Decision trees are for categorical variables and are non linear. PCA is basically PLS without regression. The other methods throw data away. PLS is fast and can be done online eg LWPR
World DRAM prices are set to rocket after chemical explosion
> The developers said the phenomenon was caused by "the current elevation of the sun in the sky".

Brilliant developer! Blame the sun. But one wonders: if they would have designed this building just like billion other buildings around the world, you know, straight vertical walls, then maybe, maybe the problem wouldn't exist at the first place.

Not sure if I am the only one but buildings designed to show off don't excite me at all.
The author is wrong because she assumes social customs are immutable. They aren't.

In 2028 there will be nothing embarrassing about appearing in thousands of online photos dating back to your birth. Because almost everyone will be in the same boat.

In fact, it may be considered weird and suspicious if there's not much online content about you.
Uber is more high-end than cabs. Hopefully this appeals to NFL players more than cabs - they get to show up in a town car.
Proposal: Full Stack Javascript Study Group
I’m a recent CS graduate and just decided to really learn modern web development and build my own idea.

Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428248 and Coursera Startup Engineering, I’d like to create a study group to learn collaboratively and keep ourselves motivated.

The targeted technology is MEAN stack ( MongoDB , Express , Angular and Node.js ) but subject to change
[ MEAN: http://blog.mongodb.org/post/49262866911/the-mean-stack-mongodb-expressjs-angularjs-and ]

The structure would be like: the first 3 or 4 weeks learn the basics of MEAN and build a mini-project, the next month or two build the MVP of your own idea while learning more advanced materials.

Any one interested?
My 3 year old daughter has been actively using an iPad in some form or another since around a year old. I don't plan on censoring or controlling her access but would review this based on changing circumstances.

Her use is (casually) monitored in case any issues do pop up, though I consider this unlikely for a few years as she's only into Disney-style apps and a handful of toy unboxing subscriptions on YouTube. I've not noticed any opportunities for offensive or inappropriate content coming up so far, although this could change when she can spell and type! :-)
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The banding you see is from image and video compression, not a lack of bpp. Human beings can almost never differentiate 6 bpp from 8 bpp grayscale, and with colors 7 bpp/c is almost always sufficient.
You could use NFC, sure; QR codes just seemed more accessible since every phone has a camera nowadays. But it's just 70-80 bytes you need to exchange, any method of moving those bytes would work.
The Internet was originally funded by DARPA. Must be a trap!

Tor is not controlled by the US government. Moreover, Tor was originally created to protect US government spies in foreign countries; a deliberate compromise would have done far more harm to government interests than good.
I don't know about other IDEs, but in Visual Studio I'm able to just right-click on a method and hit "Find All References" to see a list of everywhere something is called.
As a general rule, it's pretty safe to do "what everybody else is doing."

I noticed this rule after the housing crash. If one person was underwater on their mortgage, no one would blink. But, when hundreds of thousands of people become underwater, Congress started to get involved to (attempt to) provide relief.

It seems impossible to limit someone's exposure on Facebook, especially when any 3rd party will happily post a photo of your family member online. I also suspect that untagging a person on FB is analogous to FB's soft-deleting of statuses. The damage is already done.
You are absolutely right in pointing out Mightyspring. They help especially when you focus on what you want to do. In Jobrupt's case, the focus is on 'with whom you want to work'. It may be your ex-boss or ex-employee, your ex-colleague, your classmate, your competitor, your customer, your service provider etc. Mightyspring definitely deserve their place, Jobrupt is just a different and additional type of job search tool. You don't need to choose one or another, you may use both.
I don't know you, I don't trust you, and I won't be giving you my social login.

Should've just had it let us enter our names with a simple captcha.
I get the impression that Amazon are deathly afraid of causing an Osborne effect.
http://www.steelersdepot.com/2011/07/2011-2014-nfl-minimum-b...

League minimum this year is $405,000. I think they can afford a cab on that wage.

What isn't considered is the thousands of players on farm teams that make 80k. However, they're generally not the ones ending up in the news (nor the ones that this benefit covers).
I thought you were joking, but I actually prefer the way this page looks with JavaScript disabled.
Java 8 will have static type inference, and some other goodies too.
well, it could've looked like this, I don't see why not. I was speking more about poly count, rather than textures and their quality. I think they just didn't cared/had time (or artists) to do pretty textures.
In which case, it is much simpler.

To work out where an object will fall, you have to model the path of various objects of all shapes, masses and densities with wind of all strengths and directions (including shifting and gusting winds), and considering the original orientation of the object, and any spin placed on it at point of release (in three axes).

Just working out the angles at which light from a distant ball of fire will hit a surface should be a piece of cake. You could probably do it pretty easily for every point (assuming a certain size of point) at that distance at which it isn't completely hidden, just in case the planet suddenly changes its orientation.
You'll be able to configure it both globally or by individual app. The settings are in Settings->General->Background App Refresh on iOS 7.
It's not you; it's a case of objectionably-oriented programming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#Related_terms