skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has nothing to do with Fox News. Television news across the board is a vehicle to sell advertising. While there's still some component that tries to be informative, it's mostly about attracting and holding an audience being entertaining or dramatic, like any other television programming. This is why previously unremarkable occurrences such as hot weather in August are now reported like airplane crashes.

Given that audiences have an ever-increasing SMS-, Twitter-, and Facebook-molded attention span, you are expecting the impossible to expect that television news will ever provide more than a cursory overview of anything.

The on-air presenters in most if not all cases are NOT experts at what they are reporting. They are selected based on their looks, personality, and ability to read a teleprompter without. sounding. like. they. are. reading.

But you also have to remember that news networks like Fox and CNN have to fill 24 hours a day, under intense pressure to be the first on-air with reports of "breaking news." So they can't spend a lot of time fact-checking and polishing every story. This is quite unlike the previous generation network "evening news" shows which were 30 minutes once a day and they could spend all day honing and checking the content of that 30 minutes.

Bottom line, if you want to be informed about anything, don't watch television news. Seek out longer form reporting by subject matter experts (easier than ever to find online) or go straight to the source (in this case, help.github.com would be good).

Getting upset or indignant about this is a waste of energy.
Read the Gervais Principle. You don't get to the top by leaving a trail of document-able shady decisions.
> It is notable that both these are transgendered women I don't know of any transgendered men.

Might be because trans men in tech are men and thus "the norm"? Further, maybe most of them weren't in tech or high-profile before transition? Both Tang and Wilson were high-profile before transitioning.

(no evidence or anything, just providing possible working hypothesis).
Definitely fun. A few of the random's seemed familiar enough that I wanted to search through old business cards and Linkin contacts to see if someone I know was actually using them ;-)
First Class Internet Explorer Bitch! I need this title.
And how do we know that is really the case? It could be partially persistent and you'd never know it.
> It is notable that both these are transgendered women I don't know of any transgendered men.

Tim Chevalier, of Rust - http://catamorphism.org
I'm in London, albeit not in a bank or hedge-fund. Perhaps I should be asking for a raise :)
Kind of on topic: I was surprised to find out that Nicotine is thought to be more addictive that Heroine...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Dependence_and_withdra...
What do you mean by "hiding the truth"? If I think Facebook stock is going to go to shit, should I tell you that before I sell you my shares? If I'm the CEO of Apple or Wal-Mart or Amazon, should I be held criminally liable for contracting to aggressively shift risk from myself to suppliers?

The line between aggressive business decisions and criminal ones can be a thin one. Financial crimes are in fact a relatively new invention. Did you know that at common law, embezzlement wasn't a crime? It took a long time for the law to come to terms with the idea that there should be anything illegal about doing something with money someone voluntarily gave to you.
Twitter files for initial public offering of stock
The Serious Fraud Office has said it's individual prosecutions will be announced in the next few months.
What's true of rats is true of people in this case. Economically deprived people are far more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs.
Yay! I don't have to build this anymore.
Libor is just structurally insane, and basically designed for abuse. This isn't to say that they should be absolved of responsibilities, but Libor (and equivalents elsewhere) should be redesigned to reduce the opportunities for collusion.
Is this Googles failure or are goverments the issue?

You cannot prevent that some entity will have private data about you, once you start using mainstream online services whose focus is on mainstream issues like ease of use, portability of data and seamless access from multiple devices.

Ensuring that the legal frameworks we live within have strong privacy laws makes more sense to me, because what are the realistic options for any of the mayor tech players right now, when they face a data request from the US goverment other than fighting it in the courts? (which they do)

Moving all Google employees to Iceland or some asian country and closing all offices in the US/Western Europe? Closing down any service that collects private data?
Quote: "They were cognitive neuroscientists, who tried to explain thought and emotion in terms of physical mechanisms of the nervous system. They were evolutionary psychologists, who speculated on life in a state of nature and on animal instincts that are “infused into our bosoms.” And they were social psychologists, who wrote of the moral sentiments that draw us together, the selfish passions that inflame us, and the foibles of shortsightedness that frustrate our best-laid plans."

Yes, except the fact that the article is about science and these aren't sciences. Science requires evidence and falsifiability. Because of that uncontroversial definition of science, psychology isn't science, it's philosophy. Oh, by the way, "Cognitive Neuroscientist" is the new code word for psychologist, now that "psychologist" has become a dirty word, and now that psychologists are desperate to appear to be scientists.

With respect to psychiatry and psychology, society is moving away from any reliance on their imitation of science. Thomas Insel, director of the NIMH, has recently decided to abandon the DSM, psychiatry and psychology's "Bible" and central authority, on the ground that it's not scientific enough to guide research efforts. Announcing this decision, Insel said, "While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."

Source: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

As to social psychology, the field is a joke. ScienceInsider reports: "In their exhaustive final report about the fraud affair that rocked social psychology last year, three investigative panels today collectively find fault with the field itself. They paint an image of a "sloppy" research culture in which some scientists don't understand the essentials of statistics, journal-selected article reviewers encourage researchers to leave unwelcome data out of their papers, and even the most prestigious journals print results that are obviously too good to be true."

Source: http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2012/11/final-repor...

Science is certainly not anyone's enemy, but there are many who want the status of science without the substance. One way is to simply use the word "science" without actually meeting science's requirements. Examples include Christian Science, Scientology, and now Cognitive Neuroscientist.
you can easily (and visibly) decide whether you want the data pins connected or not

You could just get two cables, and only patch one.

this works for any USB device

So would the cable option if you used a male / female cable instead of a male / male one.
I disagree. Currently there is no standards body that defines what is PHP, and thus the "official" PHP runtime is "simply" another runtime like HHVM (and others) that implements what it considers to be PHP. It's taken as the "defacto" standard simply as it was the first, and still largest supported, PHP implementation.

There is currently talk on PHP Internals (as there has been for some time, to be fair), of creating a PHP standards body to dictate the language. The "official" PHP runtime will (probably) then be written to that standard, and any other runtimes can conform to the standard (and be a "PHP runtime" as you define it) or not as they wish.
With that reasoning there is no need to pay these people excessive payments of millions. Since they are not culpable for bad choices (they were not keeping watch), how can they take credit for the good things?

These people in my view were negligent at their jobs. They chose a career which contained an inherent level of responsibility to society which they didn't live up to. The justice people are seeking is social justice, not perhaps prison time but more repayment of their ill gotten bonuses.
He went into the Alaskan wilderness without a map. That demonstrates a complete lack of respect for nature AND his own life.
Ooo... I guess you got me good!

Excellent rhetorical technique - I give you 5 out of 5. Very weak on actual argument substance though. I give you 1 out of 5, with half a point to encourage you to try better next time.
I once worked in a declining startup where the boss came up with increasingly unlikely product names for the increasingly desperate things we developers were tasked to create. The more insignificant a piece of software was, the fancier a name it ended up with. We coped with this in our way, by writing a bullshit name generator using word components from previous product names. It did end up having a few "hits" where some of the generated names would turn into actual products (despite the boss being blissfully unaware of our little name generator pisstake).
You should all read "the silicon jungle". It's by an ex-googler, and it's amazing.
I'm looking forward to the car I buy next year being the very last car I have to drive. For me, driving is stressful micromanagement which I don't want or enjoy doing.
For what its worth, HHMV does support eval. Other previous compilers in the HipHop range didn't.
"When Alexander’s rats were given something better to do than sit in a bare cage they turned their noses up at morphine because they preferred playing with their friends and exploring their surroundings to getting high."

Well, AFAIK, this doesn't happen with most humans struggling with addiction to hard drugs. Addicts will neglect everything, namely social activities, in order to get what they need.
That's a side effect of the industries goal. It isn't the industry!
I've got "Ultra HackerNews Admin".
There has been some _actual_ fraud involved, most notably the "robo-signing" (steal a million homes at the stroke of a pen): http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/25/robosigning-senten...
That should be called as a biological gear, like we don't say first mechanical camera found on human head.
Doesn't display here on the portugese site (India)
That was one of the cool things about working on campus at Cranfield CIT - having an airfield attached and a lot of cool aviation tech on site - they used to have a tsr2 in one of the hangers!!

Some of the engineers had air band radios to listen into the tower traffic and if any thing interesting was coming in some of us went out to have a look.

I saw a spitfire (MKIX) refueled from about 50 yards away when they where showing it off to a potential buyer.

My best memory was walking between buildings one foggy day carrying backup tapes when a mosquito came out of the mist at 100 ft and made low pass over our office.
In fact, it's on the dev branch already.
So we should come to you when a title needs to be changed from now on?
Finland to Implement the Estonian X-Road Infrastructure
I hope they keep the prospectus to 140 characters or less.
Does anyone really think "one try ... is enough to get us hooked"? They can't know any overt functional drug users if that's the case. Cocaine in particular isn't instantly addictive. If anything on the few occasions I've used it, it actively put me off.
but aren't Hyper-V instances way more heavyweight?
Engineers can be held liable if something they designed catastrophically malfunctions. Maybe people responsible for the economic well-being of, well, the whole damned world should too?

People tend to think it's wrong that a corporation can play fast-and-loose with their money, and then fuck up royally get government bailouts and generally speaking keep on like nothing happened.

I honestly don't know enough about these institutions and relevant financial laws to know what, if anything, could be done as punishment/retribution/revenge but then again I don't feel like anything was done. Therein lies the problem, a group of people can sink the economy through risky/reckless practices and skip out of it while the common folk lose their jobs/homes/savings and that just feels wrong. At the very least, it feels like a lack of rule of law.
Why Aren't Schools Grouping Kids By Intelligence Level?
As we look at ways to improve and update educational systems, does it still make sense to have kids grouped by age rather than by their level of intelligence? Should less intelligent kids have to be overshadowed by geniuses? Should Geniuses have to wait for dullards who may never catch up? I can't remember all the times I would see the really smart kids in my class play card games while the rest of the class was learning stuff these kids had already mastered. In professional life the better workers get to advance past go, why shouldn't the really smart kids be in the same class that goes as fast as their minds can?
The US economy is built on the principle that people get to enjoy the gains of productive ventures, but suffer none of the losses of failures. Imagine that these executives had been working instead as executive consultants, each with their own company contracted to the firm they managed. In failure, those one-man consultancies would get your huge and "just" debts piled onto them--and then simply file for bankruptcy. This would not take back any of the salary or bonuses that those consultancies had already paid out.
In your case, I would focus on learning how to do math with percentages first, THEN climb Everest.
Although his death was a sad fact, the truth is it was his choice. In a free world, every adult is responsible for his/her actions. If he did not feel nice working such long hours, he should have quit.

The real issue is if he was paid for overtime and what was his contract details about overtime. Nowadays, a lot of employees demand overtime from their workers without properly compensating them.
Firefox OS ZTE Open available again [only for US]
Technically you are correct, however he's still on £342,500 a year pension and £2.7million lump sum for his troubles.
Rereading this thread, apologies for my tone on that post. I do hold my assertion that recipes have both concurrency and parallelism, but there was no reason for me to be so glib about it.
good stuff. Time to update my Linkedin profile
Apple's Sapphire/Glass Laminate Could Made an Unbreakable Phone
> No matter what components your computer consists of, a basic Windows install should have a suitable driver for your network card, at least to get online to get better and more up-to-date drivers.

Including drivers for cards that were created after Windows was released? Good luck with that!

> As for downloading drivers from a different computer, I think that's mostly done by IT departments to manage numerous computers.

Clearly you've never had to wipe/restore a family member's computer because of their crippling malware, er, porn, habit.
Send Your Stories Instead of Resumes to Your Client
Why Europe out innovated the Ottoman Empire
that makes absolutely no sense at all, you should invite the speaker by experience and knowledge and not anything else, the criteria should be technical and not political.

If there was a selection criteria of newbie then you could select women over men more aggressively.

I know a few great female developers but then you have to hope that they have the skills for public speaking.

This needs to be done at the grass roots, not at the top level.

But saying that, any top level female developer should be automatically included. There are some no doubt but they need to turn up.
Firstly, but this led to a conviction. Justice at work.

Secondly, would the crisis could have been prevented if this practice were not in place? Absolutely not. This behavior was a symptom rather than a disease.
How will my app look if I build on iOS 6 and run on iOS 7, or vice versa?
Is China's justice system really what we want to aspire to?
Are you a sucker?
That's what Labor Day is for. It is a day to celebrate the contributions of all workers to the country.
Disney exec: Standalone 'Star Wars' films will be 'origin' stories
Banking is more overtly sexist but banks have policies to hire women so you have more women in "front-line" roles. 14% of partners at Goldman Sachs are women. In which tech company are 14% of executives in technical roles (not HR or marketing) women?
My project FlockOfBirds has been funded by HackFwd. I would not have missed it for the world – if I could turn back time and make the decision again, I would do it again. Lars, thanks for everything!
We Found Where The Hipsters Are Coming From
You should share the generator with us! :D
We all do things like this everyday... And these probably do more to help make the world a better/more interesting place than another person climbing Everest.
>none of whom provably did anything wrong

The idea that executives were unaware of the vast amount of fraud that was endemic in the mortgage industry is laughable. We even have documentary evidence from people inside who repeatedly raised these issues but were ignored or fired.
Some of the combinations are so stupid that they could be real :D
New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services
Before posting again, maybe it is better to reply to people who applied for your previous posting?

This is not a generic dumb job board, if you get emails from HN people, please, take a time and reply to all of them.
> Same user experience without exposing private data.

Google also knows your Google account password. If you can decrypt the data using any deterministic function of your Google password, then so can Google, so there's no additional security gained. They probably already store your wifi password encrypted -- it's just when the device asks for it, Google decrypts it and sends it back to you. So in all likelihood, they're already doing what you want.

They could have done it by asking the user to provide a new unique password that would have to be entered on each new device. That would provide additional security as only the device could decrypt the password. However, (a) because such a password would only be used once or twice a year at most, no one would remember it and the whole feature would be useless, and (b) you still have to trust Google to not send the password after the device decrypts it, and if you trust the OS vendor to not backdoor the OS, you might as well trust them to not backdoor their own servers to access the same data.
This fails if the user forgets their password.
Acknowledged. I still argue that Google's getting more than its fair share of abuse, though.
As for FlockOfBirds, we had to pull our app from the App Store due to the rate limit changes in the Twitter API v1.1. However the company still exists, and we are planning a come back for next year.
Sorry, when I said I fail to see how a monad helps here, I meant more in the "keeping the algorithm clear" sense. Simply put, there is a reason cookbooks do not resort to the idea of monads to convey directions.

Thinking more on this, I am beginning to think a multiple phase "type checking" would make the most sense. Essentially, have the declarative ingredients list, the imperative commands, and optionally any declarative constraints. I strongly feel that the use of nominative subtyping is a very bad idea for the "constraints" of what goes into an algorithm leads to hardly readable stuff.

I grant, though, that it may be more fruitful to train one's self to read these "hardly readable" things than it is to opine the lack of a better alternative.
There is an interesting article on w3.org about names and websites assumptions: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
No teacher is willing to tell a parent that their child is a dullard unless the kid is completely off the bottom of the scale. Parents will try to bully teachers into bumping their child into a higher class. Unfortunately, as with so many things, school placement is more about people management than execution toward quantitative metrics.

The other, more complicated issues are around resource allocation. In an ideal world, the children that are not in the high-achieving group are given extra support. Realistically, these groups would probably be neglected as failures. This creates a cycle of poor performance which could impact a child for the rest of his or her life. A good corrollary to this is the idea of high- and low-performing schools. The idea of bussing kids from a low performing school to a high performing one to mix up the classes might not make sense at the outset. If only someone would give better resources to the low-performing school, maybe they could turn it around. Those schools become neglected and mired in teaching techniques designed for high-performing schools, and nothing gets solved.

It is a truly complex set of issues.
Chris Bangle had the idea that future cars will be fleet based, but people will own customizable interiors. These would deploy into the vehicle. You could also have self-assembling cars - individual electric autonomous units of drivetrain. Two wheels and an axle - you call up as many as you'd like.

While very future looking, I think these address both the ownership desire and the efficiency benefits.
It means it can bypass any automatic "javascript filters" which try and filter out malicious js code while allowing legitimate code.
You repeatedly claim that vi is lame because it has to work with keyboards with no control keys. You also say that you used vi on terminals that lacked a control key. Your claims are simply false.

The original docs for vi, written by Bill Joy and Mark Horton, are online. You can see quite a few places where the docs explicitly refer to control key combinations. For example:

http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/12.vi/paper-8.html#section...

vi was developed in 1976 on the ADM-3A dumb video terminal, and that terminal had a ctrl key. I remember because I had one. You can see the ADM-3A keyboard here:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys...

The author of that page also explains why Bill Joy chose hjkl as movement keys. Note that those keys have arrows printed on them to indicate that they move the cursor when used with the ctrl key.

Although vi was never intended to work on paper terminals as you claim (having the line-oriented ed embedded as a mode does not make vi equivalent to or derived from ed), the most common paper-oriented terminal in use back then was the Teletype Model 33, and it had a control key. You can clearly see it here:

http://www.baudot.net/gil/tty-machines/pics/M33-ASR-Gil-Keyb...

The ADM-3A gave way to video terminals from DEC, HP, Wyse, Hazeltine, etc., and they all had control keys. I've worked on a lot of terminals in my time, and I have to go back to keypunch machines to find something that didn't have (or need) a control key.

So what machine did you use vi on that didn't have any control keys?

If such a terminal indeed existed and you were forced to use it at NASA, I'm sorry. The experience obviously left you bitter and scarred. But please stop making claims about vi and early terminals that are simply and obviously false.
"Ultra Marketing CTO". Is that returned by oxymoron_generate() ?