skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Interesting" visualizations. Could someone without an understanding of lol and funny create this? Visualizations, in this context, show what you already knew to be true. How well can it be used to find something new, instead of novel?
> 2. The notion of locality states that what happens on Jupiter better not affect how fast your code compiles this morning (or how experiments run on earth). This is an important postulate, because if this weren't true, we might as well give up on doing science as there would be arbitrarily many external influences we couldn't take into account.

Unfortunately for science, the principle of locality has been violated multiple times with experiments involving quantum entanglement.[1]

I think you are confusing Micro-causality with Einsteinian locality[2], the theory that influences propagate at most as fast as light. Micro-causality is the locality that's associated with quantum field theory and what was discussed in this article. Many theories in the history of science have been proven wrong. And if one of these is, then it will no lead to the end of science as we know it.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/science/2007/04/new-experiments-with-...

[2] http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~as3/nonlocality.html
Says one person to the seven others, rather than try to form a constructive consensus.

Giving up isn't going to help. Not giving up, might not work -- but it can't be much worse than the alternative.

And no, sitting at home, shaking ones head in disbelief over how "stupid" the majority are isn't "doing" something. I know I'm not the only one that can (should and must) do more -- because we're at the beginning of the end if not.

So, until we've all done all we can -- we get the government that we deserve.
Asana Tasks are so much better with Screenshots
All good points and I don't disagree. Regardless, I was not arguing in favor of some reality without an objective correlation. I'm stating that the subjective has real distinction from the objective--which materialism at the very least doesn't acknowledge--or at least reduces to the low-level mechanics in which they are created, as you have done. But I do appreciate your engagement and i'd like to further it by asking what your take on the following scenario would be?

Say I'm being monitored by a machine that can detect my brain patterns in real time. I am asked to imagine an arbitrary object, say an apple. I close my eyes and think of the apple and all of its sensual properties etc. My neurons fire and the machine picks up all of the brain patterns that correlate with my idea of "apple". And yet nowhere will the machine detect anything remotely resembling an apple. Only I "see" the apple in my "minds eye". The subjective apple has objective correlative brain patterns indeed, but what else?

Now to follow that, you could counter with the fact that a computer's graphics processor will have all kinds of electrons flowing in certain patterns to produce an image of an apple on screen. And I don't deny that the brain is indeed a high-order computer. But the difference here is that the actual computer (of today's technology) requires an end user whereas the brain (we can only assume) has one built in more or less. There is an experiencer that has yet to be explained by any science I know of yet. Maybe you do, and I'm not going to claim that it resides independent of the brain, but I will claim that it is this very end user that creates it's own interior subjective reality.

See we all "fabricate" a worldview within our minds. We take inputs from objective reality and process them according to the picture of reality that we construct there over time. We all contain a subjective reality maintained by our hardware that is dependent upon but quite different than the hardware itself. The image of an apple "means" something and cannot be completely reduced to electrons or synapse patterns without losing the concept of "apple". It fits into this scheme that we create. This is how we "learn about our world." Some people use different means than others. Some people value The Secret. Some people value science. And so on. Materialism reduces it all to something less. To that which only can be detectable in the objective world. It loses the apple, for now it is just "brain patterns" or electrons. No, it is only in part those things, but also a part of a subjective reality that may or may not be shared by others.
VoLTE is largely a matter of carrier support, when it does get enabled on a major network it shouldn't be too hard to add support for it via a software update. The baseband might need to be updated as well, but the radio support is all there simply by supporting LTE.
If you know they're not the USG then you know your posted opinion is bullshit. There is no country out there with truly "free" speech because not all speech was made equal. Reddit has it's own set of acceptable speech requirements -- one of those requirements is no posting of other's personal information.
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But your conclusion is basically what I wrote, that one design is monolithic and one design is modular.

Yes in theory you could probably come up with a weird pathological scenario where a monolithic design is slower and a modular design is faster. But that usually doesn't happen.

Usually, turning a modular design into a monolithic design for a tiny performance gain turns into an epic disaster/mistake. Maybe the whole ZFS thing will be an exception. Probably not.
Well, as you apparently continue to use Youtube, it's not in their best interest.
It is WELL within his ability to, say, directly order all prisoners released

Released where? To Cuba? Into the sea?

If you want to release people, you need to send them someplace. Congress has banned the government from sending them to the US. You can't send them to other countries because those countries won't take them. So...where do they go?

or order all troops to leave the facility and no troops to re-enter the facility.

How do the prisoners eat after the US Navy leaves?
It is also blocked by the "Low" setting of the OpenDNS content filter, a fairly popular service and setting.
Seriously, Microsoft!

Did no one involved with the approval process on this post think this would be an, um, inopportune time to tout the fact that the US Govt certified your security?
Students Pitch Their Ideas For Kanye West's New Logo
At the level of customer that the Fairmont deals with, losing any Platinum customer would be a major deal for them.

They also realize that one negative customer experience in their line of work gets retold over, and over, and over. Taunting customers with "go ahead, sue us!" would be a P/R disaster of even larger magnitude if it got public. Didn't we just see an HN discussion on how rage spreads faster than good news?

It was cheaper for them to honor the deal in the long run. Upgrades are one of the cheapest things hotels can give away, when you think about it.
Thank you for not making this personal, it is appreciated.

There are options, Obama chose to pursue none of those.

Obama resigning about a particular subject would definitely have consequences that would help the opposition but it would also send an extremely strong message that this president will not be co-opted into doing the wrong thing. As it stands he's as guilty as the rest, 'my hands are tied' does not work any more here than 'dog ate my homework' worked in school.

The senate voted 98:0 against because they don't want to be part and parcel of the aftermath of giving these people the minimum level of rights that they should be afforded.

Guantanamo is simply a concentration camp and the US is running it pretending that because it is outside of its borders inmates have no rights. The rest of world is looking on and not doing much about it but you can be sure that this turns attitudes against the US the world over and that the long term costs of this will far outweigh the short term political fall-out of dealing with the problem.
Identifying resources used in biomed studies is huge issue for reproducibility
A promotion, not a device. It's different.

Anyway the intent was more sarcasm than anything, but I guess I'll take the karma hit.
That's awfully negative. Lying to the store employees isn't important. The packaging would have gone to landfill anyway. The wife presumably benefited from the flights. Ruining pudding for kids hopefully means they ate less junk food afterwards. A promotion for a manufacturer is a cheap marketing trick, they'll be betting that the conversion rate is low, but it's their risk and it sounds like they delivered. It's a story of a man beating the system.
See, my first thought on seeing this URL was that it'd be a site that skipped to the most interesting part of a video first. So many videos on YouTube have comments like "to get to the good part/skip the waffling, go to 00:47" or whatever ;-)
This is a spec series, and every team will expect reliability. Endurance in top flight racing is a given. Races are well with in the endurance of the cars. Technical failure is way less than driver failure.

Besides, the car swap is an interim thing to get them going. In time, it will go.

Im very looking forward to this.
In other words, you think it's fun to make up a sentence, out of whole cloth, about how Apple is supposedly "making something sound like the moon landing", etc., and then post a troll attack based on what you made up. In addition, all your facts, every single fact in your post, is wrong:

-No, the Touch ID scanner is not like the one in the Motorola Atrix, at all. Totally different and superior technology. The Motorola uses the standard, inferior, straight-line fingerprint sensor that you have to swipe your finger across. These are easily fooled by many methods, including a lifted print or a mold of the user's finger.

-No, it's not an ARM chip; Apple designed the chip. Not ARM. Apple also designed the secure area of the chip; not ARM. It does use ARM CPU cores, yes. Which is different.

Are we allowed to call you a troll yet? Or just content-free and annoying?

Apple hasn't "made it sound" like anything except a fingerprint sensor with good convenience and very good security. Which is what it apparently is. So pipe down, mister.
> the type system of Go is so complex;

Go's type system is not complex at all. What is complex about it? There is a limited set of types, and they can have methods. You can define your own types. What's so complex about that?

> programmers need to know all the details about the implementation of standard types, before they can use them correctly.

You should not have problem with knowing the details of the language or the third party libraries you are using if you want to be a proficient engineer builds stable, secure and easily-maintainable systems.
Johnny Cash has been everywhere (Gmaps Music Hack from 2012)
Great story.

But don't be surprised Fairmont will drop this 'lifetime' deal eventually. AA did that with the Unlimited Miles First Class group - http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-...

So take advantage of it every year as much as you can!
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You'd be wrong. Go IS faster, but not significantly so, and it's not a clear cut winner either.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
> The iPhone 5S is, in some measures, computationally superior to the top-of-the-line MacBook Pro from just five years ago. In your fucking pocket.

I wouldn't be so sure, especially after reading this http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...
Though a Salesforce, Atlassian, and JetBrains three way merger would be cool.
Kind of surprised there wasn't a bookmarklet. Here you go:

javascript:if(/youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([^&]+)/.test(location)){location='http://www.youtubeskip.com/watch?v='+RegExp.$1;}
My friends and I got a few round trip plane tickets once. Wendy's had a deal where their largest drinks had coupons to cut off their sides. I think 60 coupons got you a one-way domestic ticket on AirTran and 120 got you round trip. We were kids so we went dumpster diving at a couple local restaurants, found hundreds and hundreds of cups, and walked away with 3 or 4 round trip tickets. Not nearly as amazing as 1.25 million air miles, but we were pretty proud of ourselves.
> Not really. I've tried it, and it still has pain points I'd not like to have in my filesystem. It's like ZFS almost a decade ago (and I'm not talking about features)... although ZFS on Linux vs. btrfs on Linux... right now I'd still go with btrfs.

Care to elaborate? I've never tried ZFS, but been very happy with btrfs for my smalltime personal usage, I'm wondering why people find it so painful in comparison.
> If Apple has 20% market share but 50+% profit share, then what does that mean?

Except it doesn't: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/07/26/samsung-dethrones-app...

You Apple fanboys are constantly moving the goalposts. First it was who sells more devices, then it was who had more revenue. Now you've lost the "who has more profits" argument as well. What's it going to be next? Who uses more aluminum in their devices?
Some believe that permissive licenses are good because it do not restrict their users. Some believe that copyleft licenses are good because it do not restrict users of derivate version. Both are views, rather than practical actions. They are just thoughts about the promised land that licenses might give.

The parent post talked about porting hardware drivers from Linux to BSD kernel. The BSD project decide against it, citing the license as reasons. As a result, BSD users goes without because the drivers are not of the right license.

Pragmatism: Based on practical uses and successes rather than in terms of believing.

Idealism: Mentally constructed ideas on how things ought to be best. Its priorities what it believes over practical gain.

Deciding against practical gain because of an mentally constructed idea is Idealism over Pragmatism.
More trolling from you, just like elsewhere in this thread. As you are no doubt well-aware, Apple's fingerprint scanner is not at all the same technology as the Android phones of the last few years, which all, without exception, use the type of sensor you must swipe your finger across. These are less reliable, less fast in recognition, and less secure.
I no longer have to sit at my desk pretending to complete tasks, as the only person I am cheating is myself.

A job is not about individuals in the workplace. It's about people contributing to an organization to make it better: asking for work when none seems to be available; helping co-workers; coming in early and staying late.

Whether you work for a large corporation or you run your own company, you'll have to think about your whole team, not just yourself, to succeed. And when you think about procrastination from a group-oriented standpoint, workers always cheat themselves by pretending to work.
How linkshells turn Final Fantasy XIV into a social experience ... and a job
Maybe he's doing it for fun? There doesn't have to be a reason for doing it.
Hypothesis confirmed. I posted this as an experiment to see how moderation occurs. People were clearly interested in this (7 points in 15 minutes), made it to #11 on the front page, and then was killed completely. I was mainly curious how these articles (non-startup, non-tech) that are quite interesting get killed so quickly, and now I know.
Are you sure? JetBrains uses Atlassian http://confluence.jetbrains.com/dashboard.action
These posts could help us in choosing the best tool for our jobs.
Yes, although you have control over that kind of thing: this is a problem HPC groups have been tackling for decades so there's a ton of prior art as well as options for whatever makes sense for your application (e.g. if you're doing some sort of shared memory simulation you have to restart every instance, not just the one which failed).
PG - just today, Yesware announced they raised an additional $13.5 million which started with an associate cold-emailing them.

http://www.yesware.com/blog/2013/09/18/just-simple-idea/

For what it's worth, we've also funded great startups where it started with one of our associates sending a cold email.
> the third party libraries you are using

That's true only to a point. I'm not sure how deep the dependency tree of the two main Java projects I work on at the moment is, but I can guarantee that I don't know "all the details" of, well, most of it, despite considering myself a "proficient engineer".
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I work for a software development company and one of the new hires had never even heard of Office Space. I think it brings our entire vetting process into question.
Obama never wanted to end the injustice of Guantanamo, he merely wanted to move it:

Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention — the defining injustice of Guantanamo — as his own policy.

...

hen the President finally unveiled his plan for “closing Guantanamo,” it became clear that it wasn’t a plan to “close” the camp as much as it was a plan simply to re-locate it — import it — onto American soil, at a newly purchased federal prison in Thompson, Illinois. William Lynn, Obama’s Deputy Defense Secretary, sent a letter to inquiring Senators that expressly stated that the Obama administration intended to continue indefinitely to imprison some of the detainees with no charges of any kind. The plan was classic Obama: a pretty, feel-good, empty symbolic gesture (get rid of the symbolic face of Bush War on Terror excesses) while preserving the core abuses (the powers of indefinite detention ), even strengthening and expanding those abuses by bringing them into the U.S.
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/the_obama_gitmo_myth/
Ask HN: What should I learn next?
For the better part of the last 2 years I've been freelancing part-time as a Wordpress developer, focused mainly on building custom themes and modifying existing plugins. Naturally, this meant PHP was the thing to learn, since I was already familiar with HTML/CSS, and 99% of the time, a bit of jQuery on the side was just enough to get the job done. However, after taking a break for a couple of months in order to focus solely on school, I've realised something pretty scary: I actually suck at programming.
What I mean by this, is not that I can't code ( I've pretty much learned programming by myself and am passionate about it ), but the fact that this entire time I've been half-assing it, and now I find myself in a place where I'm not really good at anything. I mean, I know a little bit of C that I picked up in school ( although no OOP ), enough PHP in order to be able to write simple functions that hook into Wordpress, a little bit of Ruby I picked up while building a Rails app, and although I am pretty good with HTML/CSS I'm definitely not up to date with the latest technologies.

So now, after graduating high school and making the decision to get into full-time freelancing, I'm faced with the following dilemma: What would be the the best thing to learn next? I am interested in web development ( although it's not excluded I'm going to learn iOS dev. too sometime in the future ), and after a lot of research I still have no idea what's the right way to go. Foe example, I know I could get serious about learning Rails ( or Django, for that matter ), but then from what I've been reading more recently, javascript ( and javascript-based MVC frameworks ) are the next big thing, and that's what I should focus on.

I know this is a pretty subjective matter, but I'm hoping there are some general guidelines which will help me make the best decision. Thank you!
If we all refused to watch ads, they'd have to find alternative solutions; we might already have micropayments by now if it weren't for the people who watch ads.
Let your visitors control your site with voice commands (Js)
I earned 1.25 million miles easily at http://hackthesystem.com using credit card bonus tricks. It'll last me maybe 5 years economy, 2.5 years business class --- but I fly every couple weeks.

The real benefit is the hotels, biz class, upgrades, amazon GCs, and more.
Exactly what I wanted to say, but put much more eloquently!
There are options, Obama chose to pursue none of those.

Of course there are options. The President could simply have ordered the military to start executing members of opposition leaders' families until they complied. He's the commander in chief, right?

Simply having options is not enough. We need options that are legal and likely to work. You have not demonstrated the existence of any of those options. When you tried to come up with some, you failed badly.

So, what are the feasible legal options that the President has? Can you name any?

Obama resigning about a particular subject would definitely have consequences that would help the opposition

No, that's not the issue here. The problem is that you can't threaten someone by offering to do something they want. That's not an effective way to change their behavior. It has nothing to do with helping the opposition; at a much more basic level, your proposed solution doesn't work.

but it would also send an extremely strong message that this president will not be co-opted into doing the wrong thing.

Let's say Obama resigns. Congress throws a party and does nothing about Gitmo. How does that help anyone at Gitmo? Or is resigning just a perfect expression of moral superiority?
What is deceptive about the sales process with respect to subsidies? It seems pretty straightforward to me, and anyone who cares enough to ask can find out the details in a matter of seconds.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter - Issue 44
Why You Need to be more like Microsoft, and less like Apple
This is only a major issue if you fly a premium cabin out of the UK. Elsewhere the taxes are minimal.

In college I racked up 135k United miles through credit cards and then used them for a first class ticket to Thailand and Singapore after graduation. The taxes came out to less than $100.
Yeah, i don't think we've ever had a problem with anyone being too picky.
You might have a point if you'd said you refused to watch the content and told them it was because of ads.
They're already working on that. They demoed some really early version in Malmö, Sweden recently. There's a video somewhere.
The 5 stages of visceral change. Feedback welcome, does this happen to you too?
> But it is inefficient to pass an array or struct; instead, we should pass pointers to these types.

I feel like the author hasn't used go much. You almost never work with arrays directly, you use slices, which CAN be efficiently passed around.

EDIT: Upon re-reading I think the author was making a point about the consistency of go, and how different types have different behavior with regards to pass-by-reference/copy. There's actually a pretty simple rule for it:

If the variable is a primitive, or defined by the user, it is passed by copy (ints, strings, structs, etc...). Everything else (compositional types like slices and maps, and others like channels) are passed by reference.

The outlier are raw arrays, but again you don't ever actually use those, so you can just ignore them.
It was. He also had some other more elaborate examples, but I couldn't think of any. I believe he is coming out with a new edition of The Design of Everyday Things which is mostly rewritten. Looks like it's coming out November 5th.
Although it's nice that everything is in one place I don't think Github would be my first choice. It's made primarily for managing code and everything surrounding that. I do think the issue tracking translates very well over to "real life" issues.

Why are the legal documents not on GitHub though? That would be perfect for github.
Best is vague and ambiguous, you might as well be trying to find out what the best instrument is for making music (or the best color for painting).