skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who gets to define the appropriate way to phrase things?

I see the difference between your two examples but they don't necessarily work for me in terms of what you were saying.

There's nothing wrong with saying the ACA will never work because it's too expensive. It's an opinion that could be proven wrong. A potential intention is to stop the ACA because it is too expensive and I fail to see what's wrong with that intention if the person actually feels that way. A good response to the statement is to ask for details as to why one would think that, not tell them to offer alternatives or shut up.

As for your second example. If I were a big supporter of the ACA my answer to your question is easy, the answer is simply the ACA. Which does not further the debate in any way.

Maybe the "about how you phrase things" and "intentions" should be considered a two-way street?
Shutdown means no new beer from craft brewers
Yes, I get why they wait the first 2 months before they even send the money (Google waits 23 days), but it takes at least as much afterwards with the sending and processing of the check, which has nothing to do with Amazon. They get nothing out of that in terms of cashflow, since they've already sent the money after 2 months. But as I said, it takes another 2-3 months, before I can actually have that money (on top of Amazon's first 2 months).

So why can't they just send them to my credit card or bank account, like normal companies do, after those 2 months in which they hold the money? At least it would only take a week or a few days to get the money after that.

I just don't see what Amazon has to gain by not partnering up with credit card companies. It's certainly a terrible deal for their affiliates. Not only do you get the money 2-3 months after Amazon sends it, but it's also like 10 percent fee, when the credit card company gets only like 3 percent. So yeah, I really don't get them here, and I think they're just being lazy, and used to the status quo.
Don't Use Hadoop. Your Stovepipe Still Works
There’s no need for big data when you have structured datasets that fit into the computing capacity of a single machine. Hadoop is only one of the enablers of Big Data, but Big Data itself should be seen as a set of ideals.
punch drunk Ali? Doesnt he have parkinson's?
Why do hotels have different building codes? If the room I'm sleeping in catches fire and collapses, no legal arrangement with the landlord is going to save me.
Beautiful landing page using bootstrap + font-awesome
Show HN: Monitoring any website's search for new results with provided keyword
Message security is actually quite good with Bitmessage -- the issue is scaling the network and correspondingly, its vulnerability to traffic analysis.
> But by my reading, you do actually believe that.

The problem is, my clarification and your subsequent agreement don't mesh with reality. So yes, I don't believe that people should have total privacy over whatever means of communication they wish, because I don't believe it's realistic, not necessarily because I don't believe privacy should be considered.

You actually explain it best:

> "I'm not saying that all communication channels are designed in such a way as to make that possible, but for those that are, I believe that's completely ok."

And here we have a problem. What exceptions do we allow? What's reasonable? What makes one communication method okay to not expect privacy from, and another to make it a right?

Is it the use of standard encryption methods? Is it the intent of the owner? Should it be technical capability?

So, when you say that people should be able to engage in total privacy, and I say they can do that already, my follow up is to clarify what you really mean. Clearly, I was wrong (despite you agreeing to what was said). Their are limitations on a person's rights to engage and expect total privacy.

And this might all seem pedantic, but it's really the core issue, because even you realize that not all methods qualify for a level of privacy.

Where do we draw the line, because all the discussions seem to miss that crucial mark.

So yes, when I was asked that loaded question, it's because it was assuming intent that simply didn't exist.

I've learned my lesson though. Next time, instead of trying to say only what I mean to say, I'll add a bunch of words and sentences, maybe repeat myself a few times, and state my position, despite the fact that it shouldn't matter.

Edit: In case theirs any question as to why I'm asking these things, it's because of comments like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519416

"All you should really have to have in order to keep a conversation private is the intentions."

Suddenly, I'm violating rights just because I happen to overhear someone talking quietly in public.
When this took place, they also herded everyone through a "convert your interests to likes" flow so that you had to actually confirm the new likes, rather than just convert it for you.
How to get noticed by important people
Best enterprise marketing blog post of the year - funny, fact-filled, self-deprecating, clever.
A report card for MOOCs
There are almost no organisations that expect a code of silence indefinitely. It is not really a practical expectation of a human being. Most covert organisations (e.g. Hizbollah [0], KGB [1], IRA [2]) will expect their agents to remain silent long enough for everyone else at risk to escape.

This is what happens when you remain silent rather than turn informant [3]. I have immense respect for Stephen Watt for keeping his honor, but I would not recommend taking that path to anyone in a similar situation. Lawyer up, and angle for the best plea deal you can get.

[0] http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/61946725012/hizb-allah-resurrec...

[1] http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/59968838056/mastering-secret-wo...

[2] http://tensmiths.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/15914572-ira-gr...

[3] http://infiltratecon.com/watt.html
of course not, but in general i think that a monetary barrier prevents lots of people from publishing on a whim or prematurely
Many gangs are the black-market equivalent of corporations. They are economic and social entities that have evolved to profit in illegal markets. Unlike ordinary corporations, they cannot resolve disputes with courts--so they use violence. Unlike ordinary corporations, they cannot prevent theft by calling the cops--so they use violence. And, of course, because they're already facing very high prison sentences if caught, the marginal cost of committing additional crimes is lowered.

Removing a giant market for gangs wouldn't just send gangs to work in other markets. Many of them would go out of business. This is precisely what we saw during the time of Prohibition--entrepreneurial gangs took advantage of their new market opportunity when alcohol was made illegal. They went out of business, or their power was greatly reduced, when Prohibition ended.
AirBnB are themselves guilty of spamming, so their willing customers don't merit this kind of consideration.
I don't understand the brandmark's meaning. It may as well be a swoosh
I set up an automatic grader for a class I TA so students could submit code and have results immediately (it just pipes input into stdin and checks stdout against a set answer). They had to set up little accounts on my grading website. I told them not to use an important passwords or anything since I am not doing any sort of security. Upon examining the plaintext passwords, there is a decent number (maybe 5 out of 73 students) who used things like "Proverbs22" (number made up) as passwords.

Seems like a good strategy to brute force passwords.
30 Life Hacks Tested Pass/Fail
That's not the argument. The argument is that it's impossible to artificially improve a person's intelligence.
'The Daily Show’ tries to end government shutdown with ex-FBI hostage negotiator
Not in any areas of the north I've lived / stayed in. the only people in England who call pants 'underpants' and trousers as 'pants' are those who watch excessive amounts of US TV shows.
NationBuilder Platform Launches
I assume the content stay in the store but you can't upload new content.
Vertascan support HN search too.
type keyword, hit enter and paste url into your project to monitor HN
> I think I remember noticing that Fedora carries a patch that fixes this issue, but am too lazy to check. It's possible other distros do too.

Doesn't look like it; I checked the Fedora sources for their make package, at http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/make.git/tree/ , and none of the patches appears to affect that backward-incompatibility.

If anyone knows of a patch, in a Linux distribution or otherwise, which fixes this backward incompatibility, I'd love to hear about it.
That's good to know; thanks for clarifying.
Experiments like that might benefit server VMs most. How soon your nodes go up after a reboot or after spinning up a new one can matter. But, of course, you'll not be cutting corners as the poster does; you'd need a usable system.

On a desktop or laptop, you probably use hibernation, and your biggest time sinks are typing your password and having your network connection go back up. Rebooting these things is rarely needed.
I'll clarify that when he says sub-nanosecond timesteps, he means way sub-nanoscale timesteps. Femtosecond timesteps are used at the molecular dynamics level. Even smaller ones are used at the QM level.
When you see an exclamation point, you know that compile-time fishiness is happening. If you don't see it, you know that there's nothing fishy going on. You might not think that's useful, but I hardly see how it can add to the confusion.

For clarity I just want to note here that Rust macros are structural (like Scheme) rather than textual (like C).
Don't know what to say. This is just beyond infuriating:

The immigration officer then returned to the room and accused Grande of being a liar. He claimed that he talked to her aunt, who allegedly told him that Grande will take care of her as a caregiver.

She said the immigration officer's allegations are not true because her aunt didn't even know she was arriving in the US.

"While Officer Mam kept on repeating his questions about why I was in the US, a fellow officer by the name of Chang, joined and shouted, calling me a liar. He even searched my purse where I had wedding cards (with money) for my daughter and future son-in-law, and a birthday card for Joshua (also with money) and other stuff. He scattered all the items in my purse on the table, asking why they should believe me, when my aunt, according to him, seems to be the honest one," Grande said.
The chat room/forum problem
Geek Mythology: What Tech Startups Say vs. What They Actually Do
I'm willing to bet something like this will be done but I don't know if it's the explanation of the "audit activities" phrase.

Since you can apply for subsidies that take income into account, it stands to reason they would need to do the occasional audit to determine if your current income matches what you claim on the exchange.

How to do that? Well, the IRS is heavily involved in the enforcement of these laws so it stands to reason that every once in a while the exchange will compare notes with the IRS to make sure your stated income on both forms match.

I expect this to happen sometime after April every year.

I'd be curious if there are penalties outlined in the law about getting extra subsidies based on lying on the exchange about your income levels. If you decide to read the law and get to that part of the monstrosity, then let us know what it says.
If this is your case you may want to consider Mozilla Persona, which will default to OAuth for some providers such as GMail.

We do have bizarre situations like people logging in using Twitter or Yahoo accounts bound to GMail, but they are rarely an issue. It's more frequent the case where a user is trying to open their account page using the wrong GMail account.

Anyway, our plan is to detect multiple accounts with the same e-mail address and offer the user to merge them, but we are not sure about how to do this since e-mail addresses are not immutable.
I concur. In my opinion the "impossibility of improving IQ" in gwern's first sentence should be understood as "impossibility of improving IQ through supplementation at the current level".

I think the source of the problem is rather our very limited understanding of maintaining and improving the brain functions. As far as my limited knowledge goes, we still cannot reverse many dementia-inducing illnesses; once we see deeper into them, maybe better supplementation will appear. It's understandable that various "trivial" methods at increasing IQ fail.

(Heck, we don't know much about benefit/hazard of many chemicals that enter our body; and even when we do -- smoking, obesity -- people tend to disregard the advice.)
Startups when should you employ your first junior developer?
Depends on your hardware I suppose. I got it working the first try but had the unfair "advantage" that I had already had experience with installing Ubuntu on a laptop with sli before the Nvidia drivers included support for it and also ran the archlinux menu-driven installer before doing it the manual/script based way. The nice thing is that, as long as you keep updating, you don't really have to reinstall.
I'm also in this field and couldn't agree more. I hate to be a cynic, but the reason IBM is going down this road is almost purely because it allows them to capture a lot of poorly allocated health care resources (in essence, this is all about government rent seeking.)
The shutdown will likely cancel Twitter's IPO, they are not out of the woods yet.
AngularJS ported to Dart by AngularJS team
‘Bulletproof’ Hoster Santrex Calls It Quits
Samsung phone with curved screen
The Intrusion Of Actual Life
You still need a way to exchange the RSA encryption keys with each sender and receiver.
Protection for consumers and tenants?
Does anybody know if SSD is subject to the same delayed sync issue?
A perfectly acceptable answer to me is "I don't know, but this is what I would do to find out", go on to describe what books you'd refer to, what google searches, etc.
It's not just tech journalism, it's a phenomenon that echoes in Western media.

I'm waiting for an article on how Silicon Valley discriminates against otherkin.
> the forcefield itself remains very high quality, and the breadth of functionality is still as good as it gets.

It's kind of weird that forcefields haven't improved all that much. Implementation has improved drastically (LAMMPS, Gromacs, etc.) and QM level theory has too (FCIQMC, exploiting symmetries to eliminate the sign problem), but MD forcefields don't seem to have made a whole lot of progress from CHARMM, AMBER, and UFF. I suppose some of the reactive potentials (AIREBO and Tersoff) are a step up, but still...
Krump dancing drunk to soul music
Evernote rolls out two-step verification to all users
I hope so, I'm planning on releasing about a dozen e.p.s over the course of a year, which i don't expect to ever sell more than 5 copies each, tops. it's a personal project to help myself improve as a song writer, and spending 45$ apiece is not worth it.
Yes! There's a basic implementation for Raw Sockets that I used to port node-irc to FxOS: https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/fxos-irc
Probably a pretty girl in his first class :)
Apple "cheats" on that regard, getting your wifi back up after sleep.

http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2755461 <-- good discussion
Seems nice but not doing the fb
Unless you want to work for a hedge fund, in which case there's a ton of money to be made in mathematics...
The reason most of those images of underwear didn't look like their logo is because most of those pants (as us Brits refer to them as) were not proper Y-fronts.

If you look at this image - bar the colour / pattern of the underwear, it's actually geometrically similar (which the briefs they exampled were not)

http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/00418/SNF14WOM01C...
Results of the NoSQL Survey
Calabash - Automated acceptance testing for mobile apps
I also thought they already had a working client.

The wording is misleading:

"FlowingMail is the name of a new decentralized messaging protocol, while FlowingMail Client is an email client that uses the protocol."
fix turf cutting yet?
Uninsured Find More Success via Health Exchanges Run by States
The Next Uber or Airbnb for HomeCare (old people living alone)?
yes, PHP.
https://github.com/ircmaxell/monad-php
Pick MongoDB only if you know it well or it exactly fits your use case. Otherwise just use a relational DB since it will suffice, more flexible, more scalable, and higher performance.
Ah! That's great, I didn't know that. The more I hear about rust the more I like it. But then I'm reminded that it bakes garbage collection into the core language...

Oh well, perfection is no of this world.
Unfortunately, refusing to talk to the police makes it vastly more probable that you are involved in criminal activity. So, while you are perfectly within your rights, the police are doing their job to regard you with an extra level of suspicion. To do otherwise would be incompetence.
Agree. I was seriously frustrated recently while trying to get a friend's car to tell me why the brake warning light was on. Turns out a proprietary scan tool is necessary. A used one on Ebay cost $500.

Modern computer-controlled cars are incomprehensible to many traditional mechanics, but I bet the average HN member wouldn't have too much trouble understanding the code that runs the computer-controlled mechanical systems of a car.
I haven't read the whole article, but there is at least one inaccuracy I spotted.
Piracetam's primary mechanism of action is glutamatergic, not cholinergic. This is why the known side-effects include anxiety, headaches, insomnia or irritability. The cholinergic impact is less pronounced.
The mask registers that can turn off operations on individual elements of a vector reminded me of CUDA. It might be possible to emulate individual "threads" on these pretty easily.

Does OpenCL have a similar threading concept? I don't know much about it, sadly.
The technology exists to create feelable/texturized buttons on a touchscreen. Even though the screen is flat your finger feels a small bump that would allow you to navigate the screen without looking at it. Alpine has used this on a few of their head units. Not sure why factory touchscreens aren't making use of it. Patents maybe?
Completely agree there. Consider using TestDriven.NET, it provides great integration with NUnit. I think it's really the integration that MSTest should've had. The only downside is that it doesn't seem to work with async tests, at least in the versions that I've used.
Running ubuntu, don't rock the boat, just use the system default unless you have strong opinions.
Those are two separate questions, IMO. In the context of a job interview, however, I believe giving the interviewee permission to say "I don't know" makes the interview go better because they'll spend more time focusing on the interview and less time trying to figure out "what the interviewer wants."

I usually give a little preamble telling them to feel comfortable blurting out nonsense. I'd rather have them blurt out nonsense than sit there for 30 seconds in silence because they're afraid to say something stupid.

You can see the interviewee relax almost immediately.
If you want to try arch with an easy install, have a look at Antergos(www.antergos.com). Sorry to self-promote, I do some work on the team when I can, especially on the installer. I'm very proud of it, and of the team.
Once installed, although it does install some extras(drivers, codecs, etc), you are left with a vanilla arch system. It does, however, take away from the fun of your first successful arch install :).
I remember when the BBC News aired a goatse interpretation of the London Olympics logo without realising the references being made.
And yet phones are already doing real-time 4k video encoding.

In other words, since a lot of compute intensive scenarios are already being served by less general purpose hardware, what are the most recognizable scenarios where AVX-512 will make a big difference over AVX-256?

I know video encoding can be an integer only algorithm while AVX seems to help floats more but still...
> Agreed. I believe requiring a service provider to turn over their private SSL key, exposing their entire user base to privacy breaches, to be an unreasonable search.

Requiring someone to turn something over is a seizure, not a search; if it is the only way to effect an otherwise-reasonable search, its probably also a reasonable seizure. If the recipient of the seizure order has deliberately engineered it to be the only way to effect potential searches of more limited scope, and it has broader impacts, there's really no one to blame but the recipient of the order.

> let's say one of their previous marketing points might have been that they are immune to such things

As, if such an order is legally possible, this advertising was false, I'm not sure why it should be allowed to provide them with a benefit.
Unfortunately we've hearing way too many of these stories over the past several years to the point where it they no longer sound like "aberrations", but systemic abuses.

Unfortunately they aren't backed by hard data... because CBP/TS/HS aren't wont to publish stats on how many people they've needlessly and humiliated (or worse) at border checkpoints. But taken together with recent trends which we do have hard data for (for example, the ACLU's stats in the phenomenal expansion of detention facilities for immigrants suspected of illegal entry... and the abusive practices that transpire within) suggest that very disturbing trends are taking hold.

All that is reported here sounds like an aberration, ...
This is a great discussion of the issues involved, and should be required for anyone seriously trying to critique or criticize healthcare.gov.

I'm also a fan of Tom Lee's post (referenced by Phil) about the easy and hard problems of healthcare.gov, complete with a pretty good party planning analogy:

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/05/easy-problems-...
I personally think it's ridiculous that those are the terms people think in. If it's not exactly the same it's not as good, never mind the actual merits.

Thankfully the world is changing, MS products are no longer as essential as they once were. Excel really is the last holdout...
Why would you voluntarily give Amazon all of your sales data? They'll aggregate it, mine it, then use it to optimize their store / pricing / products. At least with PayPal, I know they won't be using my sales data against me.
I think you are missing the point. The problem is that it is just not a good logo. It doesn't mean anything, it doesn't say anything about your company. If you can't come up with a good logo just make your company name the logo. Random geometric figure is not a logo.
Show HN: Using Twitter to execute commands on unix server
What makes Apple's iPads and iPhones feel so zippy?
One thing i always ask on that chat before the trivia questions, is what tech news sites the candidate read. And where he usually goes to were he wants to know the correct argument order of a function he does not use too often.

That usually gives me a better grasp of how he will solve a real world problem than the trivia questions.

But when hiring for teams that need to get specific work done fast, i do not underestimate the value of the trivia questions as it will show me the ramp up time to get that work done. Of course i apply that on top of the other means to get an idea if the candidate is a good fit overall.

There is no silver bullet for hiring.
In the era of automatic payment processing I can't think of any reason why a member of staff should have access to anything other than the last 4 digits, name and address for verifying it's the correct card
Not to mention all these ads and sharing buttons with poor taste