skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least on Facebook, there's no way to (for instance) list which bands and TV shows you like on your profile anymore without Liking their pages and all the potentially undesirable consequences that come with it. Facebook have systematically and intentionally replaced lighter-weight mechanisms with Likes.
I suppose it explains how SOAP came about ...
I am well aware of the difference between base 2 and base 10.

You asked "why not just use doubles?" And my answer is "because one often multiplies by powers of ten."
So per my original comment, there are lots of indicators of a lack of integrity. Just ask enough questions about someone's life, their values, their ambitions, how they'd respond to various conflict situations, ask them their opinions on just about any issue. If you get unbalanced, dramatic, polarized results, it indicates a lack of integrity, which might crumble altogether given enough incentive, monetary or otherwise. If this approach is too sketchy, or you don't want to miss out on otherwise talented people, use an NDA.

I know that might sound a bit bullshit. I guess this is speaking as someone who lacked integrity in the past that feels they can generally recognize it with some precision in others now.
Look at the healthcare.gov source and you see the following technologies in use:

- jQuery 1.8.2
- Backbone 0.9.2
- Bootstrap 2.3.2

You may need to look inside the all.css and all.js files.

Page Speed: 92/100
YSlow!: C, 76/100

At least on the homepage I don't see Backbone actually being used.
And obvious that when he speaks of "Javascript on the users computer" he is referring to the architecture choice of frontend JS web framework. Which in the case of healthcare.gov is Backbone.
Believe me when I tell you ... I don't want Cygwin. When I want a Linux-like experience, I return to one of my primary computers, all of which run Linux.

For Windows, what I want is a way to make it appear as much as possible like a remote Linux server, granted that it's running an absurd operating system with a bunch of peculiarities like drive letters, confusion of upper and lower case pathnames, and the inability to register anything less precise than two seconds of time (in file and directory access times). So a simple SSH server seems like the best approach.
Yes indeed. Thanks for pointing that out.
Seems nice but turns out to be the worst kind of service: instead of offering the marketed video chat, clicking 'go'displays a big advertisement for google chrome.
I really hate those 'free' product that try to push chrome on you.

So I tried again in firefox (because I value privacy too much to ever install google products), and now I have a box with "connecting to room..." accompanied by a sad attempt to give away my data to google analytics and that's it.

So much for "copy. paste. video chat.", more like "relinquish your privacy to google, do that again, copy, paste, hope this will work".

I'm sure I'm happy web browsers are getting the ability to control webcams and watch as your surf the web.
Joystiq has a habit of downloading YouTube videos and self-hosting them with their watermark. (How is that even legal?)

Then when people visit their blog articles, they see watermarked videos and think they're exclusives.
> The way I've heard it explained is that Japanese has too many homonyms and simply writing things by sound would be too ambiguous.

I explored this concept in this Reddit comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/14bv4p/wednes...
The ads are the tribute we "pay" as users of free services that are convenient and useful for us in some way..

Theres nothing wrong with the model in itself, it works, it make some things free for us..

The review model you have pointed out, is a ok model i think.. because there's social benefit for all users involved.. this is much more a "facebook like model".. and that can be done because its up to you and your own choices to sponsor some idea, a place or a product if you wish..

But the proposed model will not depend on you, or your will.. and thats what's bad about it.. its just disrespectful.. and we are talking about the possible customers of the sponsored services and products..

But if they really need to do that, at least they should share the profits with the people being exposed to do that..

That way people would consciently participate of this process(by choosing to opt-in and not to opt-out)..

The other thing that is pretty disrespectful and make people anger about, is the fact that people would automatically get into this advert model thing and to choose to opt out of it.. so people that dont even know wahts happening will have their faces and privacy exposed, and maybe look to their friends that they wish to do it...

The correct way to do that would be create this, and invite people to opt in.. if they wish.. this show that the company, whoever they are respect the user of its service..

Otherwise the message looks like: "You use our free services therefore we own you"

I dont care if its google, facebook, microsoft or apple.. i know that things dont used to be like this.. things are getting scary with time.. in a way we wonder what sort of transformation are happening to them? they used to have such a cool services.. and they were profitable in the same way..

Somewhere over the rainbow, they lose their track.. its time to get back to its own roots, before its too late
No, your argument is not what is aggravating. Don't assume someone disagrees with you just because your argument is aggravating.

What is aggravating is that you claim to be getting the point, but you're not.

> Death is two things: your mind stops being executed, and the information making up your mind is being destroyed. Neither of these things happens to an uploaded person if the upload is sufficiently recent.

This is an improper reduction.

If you want to extend the computer analogy: If I die, a particular instance of my mind's execution goes away forever.

You may argue that that doesn't matter for some reason (perhaps by analogy to going to sleep and then waking up, as I do every day), but you have to first accept the that it is a fact.

Your account pretends that it isn't a fact.

For example:

> The notion of an "original" and a "copy" is not even applicable if the copy isn't degraded somehow.

This ignores the fact that a copy is a different instance.
Launching the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (May 2013)
If anyone else is looking for the straight youtube vid it can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeAjkbNq4xI#t=12
"the CPUs won't run it"

A TOS is a contract between Google and its users. The "CPU" in this case should then be the two parties to the contract (as these are the people meant to directly consume the contract's contents), not the legal system.

The legal system is more like an attached debugger. You wouldn't want different code being interpreted in the runtime and the debugger. Similarly, there should not be a different contract being agreed to and being litigated.
I think the voters realize this and will likely reject this. The idea got 100,000 signatures on a petition and that's all that has happened so far.
what is this - a campus for ants?
No that is D and it is with CTFE. Also joking... mostly.
To summarize the top HN complaints: No date format, no comments, needlessly strict commas.

Is it too late for edn? https://github.com/edn-format/edn

Symbols that aren't "strings" are kinda neat too, and you get downright attached to arbitrary key-value mappings once you have them.
Show HN: Should This Be Legal?
From what I can see, all of the sibling links just eval javascript. I believe LT goes one step further and uses the jit to replace code, so that even closures (eg event handlers attached to the dom) are updated to use the new code.
Certainly there would be a learning curve, but in a well-designed game learning the input device is part of the fun. I think there's nothing about controlling a mouse pointer with both thumbs that would make it inherently less learnable than e.g. traditional gamepad FPS controls (which are anything but intuitive).
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” (2009)
I don't know. I think that the current version has created a lot of zombie proceses that only live from it. But these also happend in all the forks that mantain other countries.
Sun powers old car
It's cooled down by now, but I recall far more aggressive advocacy for Python even just a few years ago. Everyone was pushing it as the best language ever and a healthy breath of fresh air from whatever else they happen to be using. After all, all those other languages are not Pythonic! Of course, look where that got them.

PHP users do not talk about other languages as being inherently dangerous because they simply do not have a leg to stand on. They're perfectly happy talking about how all other languages are impossible to set up and completely impractical for beginner web programmers though--just look at any recent PHP thread on HN. They essentially push PHP as a language for "Joe the plumber", which I personally find rather more condescending.

And, before my time, OOP was getting pushed far harder than functional programming is now. I've read plenty of old articles and whole books about how OOP (in its C++ or Java guide) is essentially the second coming, here to liberate you from your horrible procedural C/Perl ways. Hell, design patters practically became a religion with the gang of four as its prophet. Good times. But hey, with all that crazy proselytization, there's no way that cult or Java would ever catch on, happily.

Don't even get me started about Go, the language whose designers dismiss practically every recent PL advancement as academic nonsense and have reinvented a bunch of wheels. And yet it's "just in a league of its own for concurrency", to quote a recent HN post.

But yes, Haskell is unique in this regard.
"I noticed an Indian boy in his early twenties at the end of the room." anyone else think of aditya? http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-...
Co-routines are based on what I would call closures (they just continue running rather than returning a value to be called!).

Surely you weren't using Simula 1 or Simula 67 in your courses?
> Maybe Japanese writing was more culturally ingrained by the Middle ages in Japan compared to Korea to make such a sweeping reform unthinkable

I don't think this is true. By "Middle Ages", I'm guessing you're referring to the period from 1185 to 1600 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Japan#Medieval_Japa...). I've been working on translating two classical Japanese texts on my blog (http://www.kakekotoba.com/), one from the 1830s (http://www.kakekotoba.com/2012/08/introduction-to-shunshoku-...) and one from the 1100s (http://www.kakekotoba.com/2012/11/introduction-to-konjaku-mo...).

If you look at the texts, there's a huge difference in the writing style, which is partially due to the nature of the content and the target audience. As more people became literate, there was a marked shift in how Japanese was written.
Why are you +1ing underwear?

I've been able to see if somebody +1'd a search result for ages now, and quite frankly I don't want to know if somebody in my circles wears Bonds.
Any person visiting the US today should be expecting this
It doesn't show a person playing PC games rapidly - it shows, for example, a common Civ5 action (moving cursor to a position in menu and clicking) being slow and awkward, requiring multiple separate finger movements just to push the cursor from middle of screen to side.

It's better than any other couch-options, but the controls in Civ still looked frustrating instead of fun.
Welcome to America, where we read your private mail, track all your movements online, shoot your dogs, abuse you at the borders, put antibiotics in your food, bankrupt you when you get sick, throw you in jail with hardened criminals if you smoke a spliff, and drone-execute you with no warrant if the president doesn't like you. Would you like fries with that?
In other words, it solves the problem that they are trying to solve well, and does not solve problems that they are not trying to solve?
I just took a one year trip. I think it helped me to get a lot of perspective on my life, this might be interesting to you or not.

I was on the verge of starting my own business but I back tracked as I saw it in a different light, I gained new perspective on it.

I spent one year in South America learning Spanish, studying yoga and mediation in Thailand and India, learning bit of Chinese, learning to run and running a 10k and getting fit. Getting a real low paying job in America selling fireworks. ect...

Now I am back at the full time gig and getting shipped off to Puerto Rico to build a solar farm, something that would have never been on the table if I didn't take the time.

two weeks seems so laughable to me.

I spent 12 days in a silent meditation retreat, that is almost two weeks there.

One way to look at life is through the lens of time, we all have x amount of time, we get to choose how to use it. Everybody is given time, rich people and poor people all have this x amount it's a great equalizer.

My year abroad cost about $17,000, that is an incredible deal.
It's very hard to extrapolate from stories like this to know if the actual instance and intensity of abuses is increasing, or if reportage is increasing (i.e. landing on HN front page) because of folk's irritation with other aspects of the US government.

For my money, TSA is right after HSA as far as FUBAR government agencies go. Seems like quality control is right in the shitter. As for solutions, I'd like to see a customer satisfaction survey implemented across the board. You might actually be able to implement something like this in a favorable political environment (there's no law saying that TSA has to attempt to piss off every person that comes through our borders). I've noticed that some of these completely dysfunctional agencies seem to attract the worst sort of bad eggs, so with something like that you could at least weed out some of the most underperforming TSA mob squads.
Sorry you had a bad experience. It does work in Firefox, although there are bugs in the current stable version (which is why we are encouraging Chrome). Specifically, two nasty ones are audio echo (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916331) and audio latency (up to 10 seconds: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785584).

What version of Firefox are you using? What OS?
In some sense, it is condescending to insist that you were not. You may be certain that was not your intent, but you can't really know how your words come across.
I'd like to see a video that I can compare with, for example, controlling the same game on a good laptop touchpad - the current video is weak even compared to that; if they can do better, then they should make a video that proves it.
> Something as simple as putting one tiny raised dot at each of the 4 main positions would make a huge difference.

Hmmm. You could do that yourself at home with a little Sugru...
David Byrne Slams Streaming Services
I think it makes a lot of sense to build the features of Less/Sass etc on top of a well-known parser/interpreter (JS), rather than inventing a new one from scratch.

I already feel like I understand how AbsurdJS works better than I understand Less/Sass, for that reason.
I feel helpless each time I read an account like this.

I used to get angry.
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Algorithms by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani looks really promising as an introductory algorithms textbook. I wonder if anyone has experience using it in class?

We used this in our upper-division intro to algorithms course. Solid book, goes over important algorithms while remaining short and concise, A+ would read again.
I don't mind it as long as it is not animated, and doesn't take up huge amount of space.

What I do mind is the clunky scrolling common associated with these sites.
It's basically just the lecture notes for their class bundled up into a book. I took the class it was based off, and, well, it was okay but not great.

It lacks any sort of underlying narrative or structure--I think this is common with algorithms texts in general. Probably why I didn't like the course much. It feels like a bunch of disjoint topics held together very loosely by some techniques that get repeated a bit.

I compare it very unfavorably to Sispser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation which, I felt, was much more coherent as a book. It's not a fair comparison at all because they're about different (although related) subjects, but I think it neatly illustrates my point.

Also, I don't believe Sipser's book is free, so it's not entirely relevant in that sense either. I just brought it up because I think it's the best example of the underlying narrative and structure I was talking about.
Anyone else reminded of the Solzhenitsyn book, "We never make mistakes"?
How Apple searches the App store for its new ideas
What authors would you recommend who have studied the issue in depth?
Sociomantic is a German based company that does online real-time bidding and is using D to do it: you can find more info in their blogpost about Dconf 2013 with links to two talks talking about their company and how they dealt with the GC issues you mention.

https://www.sociomantic.com/blog/2013/06/dconf-2013-review/
That's actually as much, or more, of an argument for better ads as it is for "worse" content.

Competition is generally considered good, and I see competition all around here. In search Google is not simply going to slow down, that would be a recipe for obsolescence. If Google can make search results 10x better, I'm sure they can figure out how to monetize it. If Google lets Bing catch up, that's trouble. In ads, if the ads compete with search results, then make the ads better. Showing endorsements from friends is an example of this, just like such endorsements can show up in search results (I think, not sure). Ad networks also compete against each other, so another search engine that does ads in a way that's better for users will hopefully get rewarded for that, making others respond.
Even if you were born and raised in America, you're not truly American unless you're white.
Until then, prepare to be accosted at immigration.
This appears to be opt-in for Google Apps accounts.
That seems slightly hyperbolic. 50 million people visit the US every year.
isn't new is it ?
Bayesian probability still requires data as an input or your result is meaningless. If you start with a made up value and update it with more made up values, you still have a made up value. You still haven't offered any explanation for how you were able to come up with a 1% probability that P=NP.

Your example still isn't the same as mine. Mine didn't involve goal post moving. For your example to be the same, you would have to start off with a dragon whose presence is not detectable in any way. What's the difference between an empty garage and one with an undetectable dragon in it? Absolutely nothing. I'm not saying you should believe in the dragon, I'm saying that determining the presence of the dragon is not done scientifically.
> Asking "but are you sure the sequence shows flight and not moving on the ground" for a bird that is widely known to never touch the ground is not constructive criticism

"Widely known"? Are you reading the same article? No one had any idea this happened until this study.
White and gainfully employed, I think.
all of our rad things today
will look cute tomorrow,
just like this old classic...

-bowerbird
All the messaging I have been getting from Valve is it is a no compromise controller.
NSFW, even the URL so I ran it through a shortener you're welcome: http://bit.ly/Zfi1J7 (Chuck Wendig)

Very simple one year plan: write 350 words each weekday. Take the weekend off. Done. Chuck Wendig provides more obscenities, but that's the meat of it.

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Novel-Print-Lawrence-Block/dp/... is a really good book on how to write a publishable novel. Block has written an awful lot of them, some of which are great, some of which were cranked out to pay the rent.

Do not hold yourself to impossible standards. Everyone's first million words are not so great. (Some of them still get published, which is OK.)

Write, keep writing, revise, find discipline.
Appreciate the reply and attempted kick in the pants! I'm certainly not interested in helping anyone 'perfect code' and frankly I'm not the person you'd want to technologically save you anyway, trust me on that!

I have several of my own ideas, but none that I feel are good enough that I'd want to stick my neck out and seed myself at the moment. I'd rather get on board with someone who already has a vision to change the world and then help make it a success. I'm just not sure where to find early stage start-ups. It seems all my connections point to companies where the strategy is already figured out and they just want executors.
Marc Andreessen: Series A investments still bread and butter of A16Z
IANAL, but "reasonable expectation of privacy" sounds like a default position when no expectation has been set between the customer and the service provider. In this particular case, there was an explicit expectation of privacy set out in the terms of service, and in fact that expectation was the entire justification for charging for the service amid a proliferation of free competitors.

Of course my interpretation could differ from established case history, or even with a technical legal reading of that particular clause, but there seems to be a logical argument there (whether or not there's a legal one).
It's not "incorrect". You just don't like it. There's a fundamental difference.

> It allows you to think for yourself instead of just parroting "he is gender neutral" because you read it in a book.

That would be meaningful if English grammar was some kind of performance art. Instead, it's a fact that must be learned through study - yes, by reading books that detail what the rules of the grammar actually are. If the established grammar says that "he" can be a gender-neutral pronoun then it can be a gender neutral pronoun. It's not a matter of opinion. It's not up to you to be, like, independent of The Man's English, or whatever.
I don't think any rate of change of instances of abuse matters a whit. As for the TSA/HSA, I really think there's a case of governmental PTSD and they really have no idea what they're doing, so they just fuck with everybody. There's no strategy, they just collect all the data at the NSA, crawl up your asshole at the airport, detain you for a random number of days, and call these policies of full-spectrum personal invasions "protecting the country." They hire the stupidest, weakest and most unquestioning people so that they will perform perfectly robotically, with a maximum snitch factor. Seriously, they're just guessing.