skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm routinely impressed that my cat uses a litter box with no problem that is almost completely dark at night. Not sure how she can see what she's doing, but it's cool!
Agreed. A young woman sitting next to me at a Hadoop oriented class during the summer (right as the Snowden info was coming to light) had just left the NSA.

She was brilliant. Little coding experience outside of Perl, but was able to keep up on the exercises in Java with only minor hiccups due to her lack of familiarity. She had been recruited out of graduate school.

On the other hand, she became extremely hostile when the Snowden incident was mentioned by people next to us (they didn't know her former employer) and was stating repeatedly that "None of you know what you're talking about, and if I was allowed to I would correct you, but I can't." and "Do you really think people can just sit down at a computer and spy on people without their supervisor's approval?" (as it turns out, we were right, and she was profoundly wrong)

It was a revealing moment, because it demonstrated the group think that can permeate even the most brilliant mind. Of course, she also thought there was nothing wrong with mathematics education in the U.S., which in my opinion makes her clearly deluded.
Org mode is one of the greatest things that ever happened to Emacs.
the one posted above says that it has been released today ( https://itunes.apple.com/ro/app/microsoft-remote-desktop/id7... )
And if the intent is to watch legally purchased DVDs on a legally purchased computer with a legally purchased DVD drive running my choice of operating system, and I'm a 14 year old Norwegian kid, clearly prosecution is warranted.
Maybe you can still run a tiny operating system on it.
Yeah, I think those are 2 really bad justifications. Android has file managers, you don't need them for most things, but the ability to transfer a file from a remote computer, an sdcard, a webdav server, etc. makes the OS more usable in those instances where you do need those things.

> Everybody likes the idea of having an SD card, but in reality it's just confusing for users. If you’re saving photos, videos or music, where does it go? Is it on your phone? Or on your card? Should there be a setting? Prompt everytime? What happens to the experience when you swap out the card? It’s just too complicated.

This is pretty easy to answer; you do it exactly like you do it when there is no sdcard. Leave 3rd party apps for power users to extend the base functionality with outside storage.
Mouseover effects are neat for mouse users. I see on mobile the mouseover happens on touch/press. Assuming your icons are linking somewhere, is this useful for mobile or just for mouse folks?
I like the concept on the homepage, but the demo doesn't work in latest Chrome (or at least the demo page is blank) even though they say Chrome is supported.

Doesn't make a strong first impression..
I always felt that Scheme was the Scheme of scripting languages. Or is Scheme rather the Lisp of scripting languages?
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I use a remote dev server that behaves exactly like this, except it's just a hosted virtual server. What advantage would doing this in JS give you?
My 2 cents... Being able to question your education system is a sign that you're doing something right. I hated my (good public) high school. I could write pages and pages of things they did wrong.

Then I went to college. Most of the people praised their high schools. I really felt that my school must have been at the bottom of the heap. As soon as the first set of grades started coming out, I realized how much better prepared I was than everyone else. The people pushed through "Rah Rah, aren't we great!" factories lacked critical thinking. But their schools did have great basketball teams and marching bands.

When someone pitches how awesome their educational was, I wonder where their critical thinking is.
Much simpler an explanation is that having removable storage means that everything in the stack needs to understand removable storage and that that imposes a cost on library authors, app developers, and most problematically, on users. Better to do away with the possibility than have to deal with explaining to someone why their pictures have all of a sudden magically disappeared.
What you're describing is the ability to program in isolation.

That's different to the ability to thrive in an industry where basic ability (which is what you'd develop with the manual, computer and time) is just one factor.
As a PSA, if you can get the model number, the following SSDs are checked for in the update package:

TS064E - Revisions TPSABBF0 and TPVABBF0
TS128E - Revisions TPSABBF0 and TPVABBF0

That is all.
How is that in any way a solution? You have removable storage right up until you use it?
Many chromebooks have sdcard slots, all have usb.
You are talking based on your own experience. I am talking based on mine and 12 others I know of. No offence, but you get the point, right? :)
Naturally, my 1-10 scale is loose and collapses a number of dimensions into 1... but yeah, I'd say that the government and particularly the federal government is in our everyday lives in bizarre and unnecessary ways. At very least, you could look at government spending over just the last 100 years to see that it's at least 4 times bigger. Add in an extra factor for regulatory burdens and yeah, 6 is about right. The Federal government is a catastrophe and the real shame is that it didn't start out that way.

And that ~45% of the country wants to be more like North Korea?

Unwittingly, yes. They think of it in terms of safety nets, equality of outcomes, security, enforced politeness or political correctness, and government coerced egalitarianism... but to have those things they require strengthened centralized control of the population.

Where do the slave labor camps come in, is that at 7.5 or closer to 9?

You joke, but the recent jackbooted thuggery of the Federal government to shut down parks that have never been a part of any government shutdown (and even some that are privately funded) shows that the Feds are bullies who are high on their power. It demonstrated how vindictive and untouchable they can be when the media helps them. It demonstrated more than ever why we shouldn't allow them to control healthcare more than they already do.
You have a session key that encrypts the entire channel. A MITM attack would require negotiating two session keys: one for you and one for your human chat parter.

Next you have a message key for each message that is used to encrypt and send each character and is sent at the end of each message (encrypted with the session key). A key detail I forgot to mention is that message keys should be tied to session keys so that the MITM can't just forward on the characters encrypted as they arrive.
And they can probably smell you unless you're down wind.
I was under the impression that OSX already supported trim. Is that not the case, or is it only for certain models?
Maybe, but it's pretty obvious when it happens. And of course if that weren't enough, every time you post people tell you that you're hellbanned.
I see Chrome ads on TV all the time. They know how to do it but it seems for the Nexus 4 they just didn't bother. Maybe because it was out of stock for so long after launch.
Microsoft is working on Books
Do you really need all the details, since you can immediately see he has the skills? Why bother checking his university grades?
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A friend who works at Google told me this in the pub; I don't have a link or anything.
Still, it's not as easy as the person I was replying to made it sound.

How many Macs would you have to compromise before you randomly stumble upon a registered developer, let alone a registered Mac developer (of which there are far fewer than iOS developers)? And how much more secure is a developer's machine likely to be, and how much less is the user of such a machine likely to fall for common email attachment-based infection attempts?

At some point, the feasibility is low enough not to bother. That's what all security ultimately is, since nothing is foolproof.
The Nexus devices aren't attractively priced in many places outside of the US. Eg my most recent device, the Nexus 7 (v1) was $199 minus $25 rebate on launch in the US, and ~ $270 ($345 with VAT) in the Eurozone, no rebate.

Apple products for example are less than 10% more expensive in the eurozone, which is reasonabe given the mandatory 2 year warranty here.
If you can't get past the initial complaints, try squirrel.

http://www.squirrel-lang.org/

It's basically Lua, with his complaints fixed.
The idea that culture is sexist therefore it's reasonable to expect an industry within that culture to be sexist may be true.

My question is why where in so many areas we as a group aim to be better than culture as a whole, why not this one?
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Trim is only enabled by OS X on Apple-branded SSDs.
Looking at the whole article, the author is making the argument that the Chinese do not "invest" for monetary gain or loss, but rather use the Treasury purchases as a way to decrease their supply of dollars (a strategy necessary to keep their currency devalued, worth less than it would be if it were fairly traded without central bank intervention).

While it certainly is correct that a debtor at risk would have some concern for default, the point of the article is that (the author asserts) China doesn't particularly care for the stream of interest payments on it's bonds, or even the principal payment back at maturity, but rather the tool that the "investment vehicle" (Treasury) provides, it is China's most powerful weapon in sustaining its relatively devalued currency.
I really don't know whether to believe this article. The whole setup sounds a little too ... perfect.

We have:

* a language where "speakers can dispense with their vowels and consonants altogether and sing, hum, or whistle conversations"

* a language that "contains no words at all for discrete numbers"

* a tribe too arrogant to learn any other language

There are stranger things in the world, but I'd take a long, hard look at the guy reporting these facts before I took them at face value
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> I'm surprised that you agree w/ the conclusion of the review that segregating talent into higher and lower achieving groups is bad.

I think it's bad too, and here's why: The teachers & staff in charge of the less-performers will do less to help them. Won't push them as hard. Generally just not care(as much). I think it's better for the under-performers to see the strong-performers and understand those kids are not magically-smarter, they just work hard and it's completely possible for the under-performers to be like them if they try to mimic their study habits.

Once you divide a group between the "desired" and "non-desired" traits, there's no way the less desired people will get the same quality attention as the desired. It pretty much will turn into: Group them all together, then systematically eliminate them, condemn them or make them irrelevant. Basically, that segregation will become the solution itself:

"We need to get class-A performance up to get more funding or raise our GPA average so our Class-A looks better to those affluent parents to send their kids to! Hmm, billy & mandy aren't too bright and are lowering the average. We could help them to be better, or we could just move them to the Class-C group; thus eliminating their scores from Class-A's GPA average."
War is made less likely as a function of economic interdependence.

http://web.mit.edu/~sabrevln/Public/GameTheory/Journal%20of%...
The creepy capital efficiency of Goldman's cafeteria
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis[0]. It's incredible, the effect that language can have on the mind. Given that they can communicate in whistles and hums, I'd also be interested in a study about their music as well.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
My personal preference is a combination either a demonstration (which this is a very good example of), or a short well-written paragraph that's sufficiently free of common resumé tropes to convince me that I should make contact. Possibly both, but the hardest part about these things is keeping them concise.
>I have no formal background in economics, but I'd really appreciate it if someone who does could explain this statement in some context.

There is constant fear that someday China (and the rest of the world) will simply lose faith in the credit of the US and stop buying bonds. In the same way that you might decide CitiGroup is no longer a good investment, and stop buying (or selling) their bonds.

But in reality, it's not like the Chinese are looking around at all the sovereign debt in the world and deciding where to put their money. They have an excess of dollars from the sale of manufactured goods to go put to use. They could spend those dollars on American made products (and they do, to some degree), but the Chinese economy isn't quite in need of most of what we manufacture yet, and they have a lot of dollars to get rid of. So they buy US bonds. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement.

I'm glad some of this is reaching the mainstream media. I'm no expert myself, but this crisis, and the past few years have revealed that when it comes to the economy, we have a very misinformed, ignorant population.
I think it's strange to talk about this without mentioning the concept of reserve currency: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency

It's not just China that has a lot of investment in US dollars - and no matter what the policy reason is, it is an investment because their wealth is tied up in the status of the US economy.

Now, our reserve currency status is something that China, along with the rest of the world, can lose faith in. And if they lose faith - because of, say, a default - then there's a serious risk that the US is no longer the reserve currency. And if the US is no longer the world's reserve currency, then a lot less other countries will buy US Treasury bonds, and US easy credit and privileged trade status will end.

Planet Money podcast, "Why The World Still Needs Dollars": http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/12/139583229/the-frid...
Phooey. I found that that LSD keeps very nicely without special care. I had some acid I'd kept at room temperature for a number of years in Delaware (hot, humid summers), took one tab, thought it had gone stale, and took another. Both tabs worked.
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>> "Yeah, I think those are 2 really bad justifications."

I disagree. The SD card confuses people. I have several friends who bought a Galaxy Ace. It had very low internal memory but they thought that was ok as they could put an SD card in. Problem is they had no idea they couldn't store apps on the SD card. Now they're pissed off. They don't understand this limitation and don't care. It makes Google/Android look bad.
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It looks very good on my phone.
Both the DailyMail and PopSci websites reference this "deals" website as the source. So while the site doesn't look like official news, from what I can tell it seems to be the proper source.
> It's a nice looking phone

i'm not a fan of rounded edges like that. "Straight edges" usually make a phone look more modern( like the htc one ).
Also black plastic is ugly. Aluminium makes a phone more elegant in real(and more robust). That's why i'm not a big fan of Samsung phones neither, they are overrated.
> So what they choose to do instead is to purchase lots of US government debt.

Isn't "purchase debt" the same as "give a loan?" Is he saying China is not buying US T-Notes and Bonds? I don't understand how the US Treasury would not be liable for paying back the principal and interest on the bond. And not paying it back is the definition of a default.
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Ah, I see what you mean now. Then a MITM attack would basically double your typing time. Given that messing around/thinking about what you want to say/etc takes a variable (and pretty large) amount of time, I'm not sure that just doubling your typing time would be detectable.
I've been interviewed by Google and they definitely do as part of the screening process before even the first phone interview. They acknowledge the limitations of that kind of rating upfront and give examples of what each number would represent.
Curiously in the UK carrier subsidies seem to have dried up totally for the iPhone 5S at least.

To buy a 64Gb 5S from Apple for cash is £709.

To buy it on finance over two years from Apple (which is a commercial rate loan) costs around £820 in total.

To buy it from 3 is £99 plus £51 a month for 2 years. The same tariff as SIM only is £15 a month giving a total handset cost of over £960.

Essentially carriers are not just no longer subsidising the iPhone here, they're charging a greater than commercial loan rate for people buying it as part of a contract.
Nice logo and cool concept!
Lua uses a register based virtual machine. Python is stack based. That is the primary difference.
The thing about personal experience is that you can't really quantify it. His 3 anecdotes (3 SSDs over 3 years) are just as valid as your 13 anecdotes.
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Mike Pall is behind Luajit.. Get him or Lars Bak to work in a jit compiler and you language will be fast as it can be..

Of course, bad designed language in terms of performance will suffer more to get into the state-of-the-art
I don't fully understand the authors reasoning either but one thing that is highly misunderstood about the bonds is that a) they're not callable, meaning that borrowers can't suddenly decide that they want to get their investment back and b) China while the largest foreign national holder of US bonds (iirc) holds >10% of the issued bonds. Almost all bonds are held here in the US in things like mutual funds and by retail investors.
Ok, so the difference seems 'huge' in size. But the language complexity difference doesn't seem proportionate, so I'm curious what the list of these additional python language features is.
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That's the whole point of my comment. It's anecdotical evidence and you'll find as many people having the opposite experience (ie. me).

If you look at the actual failure rate, it's well known that the failure rates of SSDs are well below those of HDDs:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2319966

(With the notable exception of the aforementioned brand.)
No one will care
Whatever the reason for the investment a debt is still a debt.
One of my favorite Scheme reads was an e-mail discussion on whether it was possible to add OOP to a functional programming language, and then the author goes on to do so in a trivial amount of code. A cursory search doesn't turn up the exchange I had in mind though, or I would link it.
Everett gave a very interesting talk [1] to the Long Now org a few years ago in which he describes some of his experiences working with the Pirahã. Video is available at [2].

[1] http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/mar/20/endangered-language...

[2] http://fora.tv/2009/03/20/Daniel_Everett_Endangered_Language...
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If someone would do the same for eagles instead of cats, that would be awesome.
Actually, look at what is written..."go read the book"...and "don't talk to me until its done", are both clearly implied. It is a dick attitude, sorry.

Some people may respond to this, and some may not. Statistically, without question you will get adverse selection. So, yeah you can now start to make assumptions on how to avoid this fate, or not, but otherwise people with real options will do other things.
I know keyboard codes in web browsers are a nightmare, but, afaik it is possible to get the intended ascii/unicode character code value of the key, so the emulator could translate that to the US keyboard equivalent to fix this issue.
"Questions about sexual orientation are not appropriated at my workplace."

Really? Do you fire me if I say 'my wife really likes that show, but I haven't gotten in to it"?

If someone wants to keep their sexual orientation private, that is absolutely their right, but people do talk about their lives. If you say "don't talk about sexual orientation" you're effectively saying "straight people get to be out, but gay folks stay in the closet."

I hope and kinda suspect that what you really mean is that if someone doesn't say something that indicates their orientation, it's no one else's business. That's certainly a necessary attitude.

But you also need to understand that most straight people are "out" by default, without ever thinking about it. And it needs to be understand that gay and lesbian employees are equally free to be open about their significant others (not sex itself--that's a different topic).
I've had a Nexus 4 for over a year and it's been passed around quite a bit between friends and coworkers who all either have iPhones or S3s and I've never heard a disparaging remark about the screen, quite the contrary actually.
The number one thing iPhone users lament about when they hold my phone is how bright and spacious the screen.

I've never once felt the camera sucked, in fact on a trip to Scotland with family I ditched my Canon PowerShot because the Nexus 4 was producing better results. The group consensus was that it took the best pictures on the trip beating out an iPhone 4S, Galaxy S3, two different Canon PowerShots and (shocker) an iPad.

I used the S3 quite a bit and I always come away feeling like it's a toy or one of those phones with giant numbers for the elderly. Samsung's UI tweaks feel like a throwback to UI design in Windows 95 or XP and the font sizes feel like they're geared towards old ladies. I always feel despite the screen size that things are cramped.

Physically speaking the iPhone windows out hands down by a large margin. The S3 just feels plastic, it's not really cheap but it's not nice either, the Nexus 4 feels much more solid in your hand and the choice of matte plastic appeals to me much more than the glossy of the S3. That being said it's build quality is dwarfed by the iPhone 4 and 5. It's sad that the beauty of those devices are hidden by the garish cases people always put them in because holding one naked is an experience.
most popular colour names from guys:

Penis
Gay
WTF
Dunno
Baige

I feel quite embarrassed for my gender at moments like this.

EDIT: I didn't realise that Randall actually typed "I weep for my gender." a few lines lower down...
The thing to remember is that everyone has these advantages, so really they aren't advantages.

All they have done is raise the standards, you can't just knock out something of the W3D standard and make millions, these days people expect quality that cost upwards of 100M to make a top hit.
The biggest comfort about China buying all our debt is they are less likely to invade or nuke us because it would destroy them economically.
You've now got to remember all of the kids' individual names (and hope that you haven't got a somewhat largish amount of John Smiths in your group), rather than remembering "I had 6. I've still got 6".

It's also even more of a challenge when the things you've got to remember aren't easily individually identified - a flock of sheep or apples or whatever.