skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Many people mistrust banks.

I also mistrust banks. Most banks are confusing and make it difficult to tell exactly how much money you can spend, and then lie in wait to hit you with overdraft fees. For now, I'm trying out Simple Bank, but they're in closed beta. I don't personally know anybody who wants to use the invitations that came with my account.

I'm also suspicious of "know your customer" laws and all that tracking information. I reduce the amount that they can know by keeping a small amount in cash, to use when shopping locally.
My view would be that the children are not being deprived of candy. If you assume (as I naturally would) that the supply of candy is infinite from the perspective of the children in the other study, then you're simply being offered candy and should take as much as you want to eat now. (Taking the bowl home to use for Halloween give-always is out of bounds, but anywhere in the 0-5 pieces doesn't seem to be remotely a moral question to me.)

I think extrapolating that the rich are literally taking candy from babies is a stretch too far to me.
You're conflating facebook with social networking.

We've had social networking since before the internet was created, and one of the first things to have been done on the internet was social networking (message boards, email, instant messaging, etc).

Facebook is simply one implementation of social networking. There were others, and are still others. For example, email, instant messaging, forums, still exist, as well as new stuff like Pinterest, tumblr, twitter.

Facebook's size is due to network effects, not necessarily because a company like Google is incapable of technically matching facebook's product, or because facebook is dominating with its product. For example, Google was able to grab over 50% of the smartphone market share when it focused its efforts on Android. But, it basically has an insignificant share of the social networking market with Google Plus. Why? It's probably because social networking is more winner-take-all. But this doesn't mean Facebook has won, as the barriers to entry for creating the technical product of a social network is simple. This means facebook has limited control of its users. We grant facebook the monopoly, and it really has limited opportunity to screw us or extract money from us, for once they go over the line, we'll all spill over like water to something else like Google Plus.
Ignoring the word "SWAT" for the moment this was a raid on corporate offices for people smuggling honey.

I'm not sure why officers were armed. I guess I can understand why they wear protective clothing (but are shootings in that situation common?)

Are honey smugglers really going to shoot law enforcement?

You need lots of people in the raid to prevent employees shredding and deleting everything.
No they don't make perfect sense, in fact they should switch companies. Google monetizes on my privately shared data on email, meant only to be consumed among people that i contact privately. It tapping and constructing my future is as much an invasion of privacy as there can be. Now FB monetizes on my publicly shared data, on statuses and hobbies that I want to share with the world voluntarily. View nice little snippets of videos that I view on other timelines. FB Graph is a idea of such niche venture for them. FB does not have to imitate Google, Apple is there to provide competition on that behalf. FB has to just be an essential time pass for masses, just more than Google.
> I don’t believe that “top” graduates are entitled to jobs, or that going to a “top” university makes you “better” than anyone else, or that I “deserved” an easier job search.

Well... apparently you do.
House of Games (spoiler alert) isn't your standard trickster story with "cheating and winning". At least not for everybody involved :)
Have you looked into Calico? Link here:http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/19/4748594/understanding-cali...

an attempt to change medical field by Larry Page
Just because a journal had an article about it with a cartoon attached doesn't mean they've adopted as a "mascot" or make light of the condition.

Unfortunately, that part is real. There were two unofficial mascots, Pukey the Clown and Rhabdo the Clown. If you puked during class, you "met one of the clowns." The clowns were celebrated on t-shirts, murals, etc. That was dumb, but it was eventually recognized as dumb, and it was stopped. Of course it provided grist for the first round of "Crossfit exposé" coverage, which has consistently attempted to portray Crossfit as a cult in which people uncritically worship ideas that are obviously problematic to anyone who hasn't been brainwashed.

There's a little bit of truth to that, in that many of the coaches are enthusiastic, rah-rah cheerleader types who don't take a critical approach to much of anything. However -- and this is a BIG however -- that is true of every approach to physical fitness I've ever been exposed to. Like other types of training, Crossfit has its share of smart and critical people as well, and they do their best to improve the practice of Crossfit and identify and fix problems.
the idea is extremely far-fetched but nonetheless another bold endeavor for Google and their continuation of investment in innovative R&D projects
Well.....what could possibly go wrong there? There have been several air disasters over the years that resulted from a failure to flip the right switch or check certain settings, either in-flight or pre-flight. A Greek crash where the pilot forgot to flip the auto-pressurization switch, killing most on board before the crash itself, comes to mind. This video leaves little wonder why these things happen.

Having spent 18 years trying to design software and websites to be idiot-proof, to me it looks like they could seriously use some human-friendly UI and procedure design. When the stakes are as high as they are during a packed commercial flight, it would seem to me that maximum possible simplicity would be the goal. Perhaps a "flight checklist wizard". It is possible to enable the granular control that pilots need without making them this complex.
A guide to the good life: The ancient art of stoic joy by William B. Irvine
This was a bizarre read. Here's my favorite line:

"I expect that a successor to Google Glass will replace my laptop, iPad, and TV; incorporate voice recognition and gestures; and provide me with an immersive 3D-viewing experience."

If you aren't convinced that Google is doing amazing things, then just look at this feature list I made up in my head for the next version of a product that hasn't even shipped!

Stand clear when those expectations collide with reality.
The author lost me here:
"Despite having programmed computers since age 8, I was rejected from about 20 programming jobs."

This reeks of entitlement and, well, whining. When I first entered the SofEng job market after undergrad, I stopped counting rejections once the number passed 30. It took another 6 weeks after that, and the rejection count must have pushed 100.

Should I write a navel-gazing blog post too?
Apple Notification Center Service (ANCS)
Because they only care about the ends, (feeding her kids). Not the means, (the bank account).

I don't like this ends/means thing here. I mean bank accounts aren't 'ethical things'. Not having a bank account isn't 'unethical'. In the context of money people only see accounts as an ends. Very few people have a bank account "just because".
Ask HN: Is there a leetcode for senior web ui engineers and web ui architects?
Wow, a lot of harsh criticism for Ph.D's on here! I can't speak much for a graduate degree in computer science (I don't know anything about it), but at least in my field - chemical engineering - there are many jobs that absolutely require a Ph.D. When I was an undergrad, I was dismayed by the number of "Ph.D. required" comments I saw on Intel's job listings for anything involving original processor design (only a BS was necessary for being a fab engineer).

A BS in chemical engineering basically qualifies you to be a process engineer. Sure, you can get a R&D job, but it's going to be a lot harder than if you have Ph.D. And there's plenty of research jobs out there; it's basically the impetus for a company's success over its competition (again, the science-y industries). There's certain tasks I would not consider hiring anyone for unless they either had a Ph.D. or had somehow independently demonstrated the capability for novel, unique research and problem solving skills.

I know the article was about CS, but the title was "Ph.D. - Industry Gap" and there's many fields out there where I feel like a Ph.D. is almost essential for particular jobs in those fields.
I don't think this chart comes close to proving that Obama was born in the United States.
Having money gives you free mistakes. If you have very little money, then little mistakes can mean you have no money for food or accomodation. Then you start on the downward spiral. Having extra cash allows you to make the mistake without it ending your career.
They maybe coud have shown them Apollo 1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
The coach's response is not reassuring. Anyone trying it for the first time should start with a weight light enough that they can hold the correct form and not lose control.
Literally one-hundred percent of the people I know who are really serious about email are moving away from Gmail. It was only in mid-2012 that they passed Hotmail for being the biggest email service in the world. Gmail is very popular among certain types of (mostly technical) people.

In fact, it's probably Android that has put them over the edge. Gmail still has a fragile position. At least as far as my browsing habits are concerned, using Gmail didn't lead me back to google search or any of their other services.

Could you imagine what the world would look like if somehow in 4 or 5 years Firefox OS ended up eating Android's lunch?

Search is a major component of their advertising business, which these days is their core business. If people switched they'd definitely be in a major pinch.
$40 for one liter of red, that doesn't seem too bad.
The fed is buying bonds on the secondary market i.e not directly bidding and taking down auctions at treasury. This may sound minute but is a huge point. See http://pragcap.com/understanding-quantitative-easing
Ok, I added that to the list as well.
Yeah, I thought that after posting my original comment. With the processors on the control-plane already being as slow as they are, I can't imagine they'd intentionally choose to use such a slow algorithm for such "time-sensitive" operations (verifying OSPF authentication, etc.).
That would be very bad if they did. When you have hammer that huge, everything starts looking like a nail, but this kind of power is switched to easily from going after the "bad guys" to going after the guys that inconvenience people in power. We're watching it happen right now.
BBC: The History of Online Shoppping
Maybe it is because the services sucks as well. American banks are decades behind Eastern Europe, Russia or even Africa.

Just basics: account where 'overdraft' is not possible (account can not go into minus). Debit with low (5%) interest can be arranged separately .

My bank had mobile banking in 1999 (simtoolkit & SMS). In 2002 mobile banking become free!

Credit card fraud? How about white-listing expected transactions over the internet? How about setting up your own filters?
I'm an audio nerd; I went to school for it, and I'm back to working professionally in the field (after a 15 year hiatus where I did it as a hobby). Serious audio problems do still exist on Linux systems, and it is a source of huge annoyance for me that my system still causes my (very expensive) studio monitors to pop when switching between some sound sources in some situations. But, these are mostly to do with the sound server and switching sources rather than with glitches in actual audio.

I still can't use Linux as my primary OS for audiovisual work because there are still issues with getting many channels of low latency, high resolution, audio playing and recording reliably.

But, the issues you describe as they apply to this task are mostly a long solved problem, at least for very simple tasks, like reliably playing 16 bit, 44.1 kHz, stereo audio. Honestly, there's never been a time that I can remember when I couldn't reliably play a stereo 16 bit, 44.1k, file back on a Linux system...going back to 1995, or so, when I first started using Linux. The problems come when you demand a little more of the system.

Once again, errors of the level that exist today (which are completely inaudible to even trained ears in most cases), in terms of latency, jitter, dropouts, etc. are so tiny and insignificant that they would be impossible for the current hardware to replicate. The hardware is so much slower than the input signal that noise from the audio signal will be lost in the much larger noise of the hardware. You can see the hardware noise in the printed objects. It's vastly larger than anything the computer output is going to screw up, and it'll be many generations before that stops being true (and, by then, maybe Linux will finally have its act together on audio).

Windows, BTW, finally does have its act together on audio, and has for five+ years. I can reliably play a couple dozen 96k 24 bit tracks while recording more on slightly high end laptop. Obviously Mac is also solid on this front.
If your back is healthy, you're not confusing the muscles hard enough.
The title of this article is one of the most misleading I've ever seen. It implies that rhabdomyolysis is little known and covered up. But later the author admits that it's not little known. "How, I wondered, is it possible that the layperson exercise instructor is on a first-name basis with a serious, yet rare medical condition?" Why does he do this? Because being sensationalist draws clicks.

This article is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with mainstream media. It takes something quite rare and spins a narrative designed to incite fear, making you think that these horrible things are happening much more frequently than they actually are.

I'm no stranger to intense exercise. As a competitive swimmer at a young age, I knew what it meant to push myself to the limit. It wasn't until 2007 when I started CrossFit that I was ever educated about rhabdomyolysis. But I'd much rather be educated than ignorant. Everything in life has risk. And strangely enough, things that are more worthwhile seem to typically involve more risk. Is exercise risky? Of course. But not exercising carries its own set of risks.

As for me, I'll stick with exercise. And for that, CrossFit makes more sense than anything else I've ever seen.
It sounded like you started off by agreeing and ended in disagreeing, but I can't tell where the switch was, or if your opening line was just sarcasm... Surely those facts about him are the business of anyone who would potentially enroll in his classes.
"Too specialized" usually seems to translate roughly to "Specialized in things we don't care about"
> sell

Worse, people freely give them away.
Facebook has stickiness and the network effects to keep people on it

People thought that about Myspace as well.

If a better social network appeared very few people would switch

Yeah, right. A wholesale exodus from Facebook isn't just possible, it's likely, if not inevitable, IMO. Just based on historical trends... the Internet is fickle, man.
Not ensuring affiliate quality isn't really a dirty secret. They're pretty open about it.

From conversations I've had with higher-ups at Crossfit Headquarters, they're _terrified_ of a court finding them to have a franchise model, because that would open them up to all sorts of liability each time one of their affiliates does something dumb.

Per their legal interpretation, they become a franchisor if they do things like ensure quality or consistency.

I'm not a lawyer, so I can't comment on the soundness of their legal reasoning, but the negative effects for the clients are pretty obvious.
I completed the beginners course at two different "boxes" in the last month and this is the first time I hear or read about this condition, so thanks for the write down.
I never understood why anyone would buy an AppleTV when there are cheaper, much more capable alternatives that will play just about anything you can throw at it...without idiotic DRM restrictions.
What killed Blackberry? Employees started buying their own devices
I get that. Which is exactly why it is feasible to me that a PhD might wind up applying for code monkey jobs.
Touch processing adds somewhere in the ballpark of 15-45ms of latency depending on the technology used in the screen and the quality of filtering in the touch controller. Anything about ~20ms of latency (total from touch to display) is perceivable by humans, is usually a good approximation for noticable increases or decreases in latency (i.e. shaving off 2ms doesn't really matter, but shaving off 15-20 will be noticeable).
3ders is a summary site. All their articles are on this level. And yes, they are scummy like this with most of them.
I am currently working on my PhD Biomedical Engineering (3 years in), and I have mixed feelings on this. Certainly most PhD dissertations are a joke, but during the first few years of a PhD you are acting as the arms and legs of your professor, who, if they are any good, is capable of pushing forward human knowledge using you as an "instrument".
Human perception can notice anything above about 15ms of latency. If you want to easily see the touch latency on your phone and have an Android phone, go into developer options and turn on Show Touches. It's pretty readily apparent once you see that.
While you can extern C, Linux will never move to C++: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/5791...

As someone who contributed a bit to a kernel in D, it's... interesting. Rust could be used to write a kernel as well, but I'd recommend anyone to wait for 1.0 before doing so...
This is where we delve into questions of whether we can understand the impact of our actions. Mosquitoes actually underpin a great number of relationships in nature. Most people have largely cast aside the question of whether it is ethical because of how much harm mosquitoes cause to humans, but there remains that sticky question of what happens to the ecosystems when they are gone.

Also, before someone posts a link to "that" article, let me say in advance it was written by an intern based on interviews that (in my opinion) suggest exactly the opposite of what the writer concludes.
There are lawsuits out relating to accounting fraud. I know they have been caught reordering transactions to increase overdrafts. I have also experienced what seems to be deliberate delays in online reporting of transactions and even one case where a transaction somehow did not appear in the record until after I had withdrawn enough money several days later that this meant my account was suddenly overdrawn. They will also happily overdraw your account for an electronic transaction of $300 so that they can start collecting fees.
MailChimp's UX has always been quite miserable. The new redesign is better in some ways, worse in others. I'm pretty convinced that it leads because it has the best freemium plan.
From getting into the airplane (cold and dark) up to "ready for departure" in 30 minutes is quite doable (with coffee)

Source: me, for commercial airline (b737-800)
Let's not oversimplify. Ignoring the culture of the company you're interviewing with is a bad idea.

If you're a serious candidate, it's hard to imagine a phone screening where you don't ask a few questions to feel out that sort of thing.
That's scary. Thanks for sharing.

I'm an amateur bodybuilder and I workout alone. Over the years I have contemplated joining Crossfit (mostly for the comradery aspect), but the insane level of cult mentality has made me shy away from it every time. Articles like this just drive home the point.

My friend Jane, who is a physical therapist, specializes in exercise injuries. She once confided in me that local Crossfitters form by far the largest percentage of her repeat customer-base. She said she finds the level of irrationality unbelievable, in that the same people will come to her in a lot of pain and brag about their injury on the one hand, and beg her to fix them up quickly so they can go back to Crossfit ASAP. Then they will come back in a few months with a different injury but the exact same mindset.
Yes, I have.

What do you think is so unbelievable in the body of the article that's not summed up by what I said?
Yeah, but cookies are a really bad way of tracking people over multiple sites. They're cheap and ubiquitous, but not actually very good. Logins on the other hand...
Can we have that full audit of the Fed yet?
This is so ill. Nice work.
So these are regular document fragments? I vaguely remember that we tried that and it didn't work nearly as well, but it's been a while.

Building strings and using innerHTML is a very ugly

Ah. Then you'll be dismayed to hear we use tables for layout as well :)
Bruce Eckel on Learning Scala
iOS latency is still well above what's noticable by human perception. Tack on to that all of the delays you get once you're running a newer version of iOS on older devices (which I suspect is the majority of people using Apple products) and I think it's pretty obvious that there's less of a gap in how people perceive the interaction model than you're suggesting.
Out of interest: which part of the fms did you build? And thanks: I lovend working with it.
It would certainly help the interviewer reject the interviewee. "Sorry, I can't afford to pay two salaries. Oh, your parents won't be coming to work along with you? Then why are they here, now?"
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$40/liter for small prints

$45/liter for large

Not cheap if you want to print anything larg-ish.
> than the fact that a European ally is spying on us.

It shouldn't be news that GCHQ is spying on you. It has been their publicly declared mission for many years now - to monitor all communications at all frequencies. (It is news that GCHQ is spying in mass on UK citizens).
Where I work an advanced CS degree is a strike against you. What we've found over the years is people with advanced CS degrees just aren't very productive when it comes to actually producing code.

They tend to want to rewrite things that work but aren't very elegant, or they become despondent over the language we're using and the reluctance of management to allow them to use Haskell for their piece of our Java project.
Since it's a hard problem, it sounds like someone should write their PhD thesis on finding jobs for researchers at for-profit businesses.
Do you think it's more important to build products for the end user, or (especially in a B2B situation) the people that are paying for it?
The location of the line between necessity and desire is the source of many heated conflicts.