skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but limiting the human element (as opposed to 'drastically limiting') can lead to better productivity.

But most developers work better in offices with doors that shut (at least according to what I remember of Peopleware [http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-...], though that was published before IM was everywhere).

So I think acknowledging that you work better with quiet, and framing it as 'I want to be as effective as I can', is fine.

It can even open up a discussion on true effectiveness--if I am writing tons of great code because it is quiet, but you could have saved me 8 hours of code writing because of a library you know about or wrote, am I as effective as I could be (no). This is the quiet end of the spectrum.

The loud end is the bullpen with no headphones, where it can be very difficult to think.
Ask HN: What advice would you give to a college freshman?
I'm writing an article: https://medium.com/p/4c5df90c6c00 for my website (http://www.collegeanswerz.com/) about advice I'd give to a college freshman.

1) What advice would you give?

2) What do you think of my article?
NumPy works fine on python 3.
My new PVR can play at 2x speed with audio adjusted to sound normal. It is a godsend. You can really churn through the 30 minutes of bullshit to extract the 5 minutes of gold in double quick time (pun!).
> Low cost of living for a city of its caliber. Rent: <$1k/mo. Food: if you cook, less than $0.5k/mo.

Eh, I suppose you can call that cheap if you compare it with NYC and San Francisco...

Even in Tokyo you can get a 1BR for <$1k/month, and you can spend <$300 on food if you cook (some people claim they spend half of that).
Yea, I get it. I'm just saying it's suggestive, not conclusive.
Sorry, you're plain wrong. Both states have had communist administrations for decades on and off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_%28Ma...

But the latter part of your comment is still valid, in that these administrations haven't been "as communist" as in China or Russia.
I agree with the rest of the post, and this part might be true of this thread: "Also, no one is accusing Tesla cars of bursting into flame for no reason, so the cars that are not in accidents aren't important either." but not necessarily among the general public.

I think this is precisely the idea they are combating. The initial news reports didn't have any details and just said there was Tesla on fire on the side of the highway.
Under normal conditions, aluminum oxide forms a protective layer for the rest of the aluminum. This goes out the window for unusual sorts of corrosion (say, mercury).
Don't be a coward.
I felt so when I was primarily on a mac. If I remember correctly they moved over to applescript instead of the built in macros, which seemed like a nice thing as first, but then you realize all sorts of hairy stuff that was created is no longer compatible.
For real. Today alone, I got someone else's golf course information (twice) and Valvoline receipt. I hate golf, and am deliberately car-free. I just mark it as spam now.
Good job EFF, when the bill gets inevitably defeated, you can claim a personal victory and solicit for more donations! Put it up with all your other accomplishments on your website you invested so much time and money into achieving.
He also has a classic result in measure
theory that the French probabilist Le
Cam called 'tightness'. For any probability
measure and for any h > 0, there exists
r > 0 such that the probability mass farther
than r from the origin is less than h.

This
result holds in spaces of considerable
generality, but I'd have to look up the details
now. Details are in P. Billingsley, 'Convergence
of Probability Measures', 1999.

I used the
result in a paper once. It's nice result
and gets used occasionally in advanced work
in probability.
A Sierpinski gasket? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle

It can also be generated by doing mod 2 on Pascal's triangle.
I think we're all on special lists already.
Transmissions...
A nice marriage (Wordpress and Ruby) and perfect example of Ruby-powered productivity-boost!
So was Stalin, are you going to defend him as well?
I actually tried compiling a list of all the new shortcuts but it felt that even the shortcuts got more difficult. I gave up after that.
apparently 2 of 3 fire departments did it wrong, so...
The results are terrible, even using actual names from models gets you random results.

I even tried kurt cobain on "Destroyer of childhoods" mode and didn't get even one copy of the infamous coroner's picture.

On google is on top of all result with safesearch off.
Allow me to recap your evolving assertions:

a. >> "Massive overpopulation, caused in part by over-aggressive family planning measures"

b. >> over-aggressive family planning measures [...] led to Government family planning measures being widely distrusted in rural areas for the next few decades. This, combined with improved healthcare and low infant mortality, has led to roaring population growth.

c. >> the fertility rate would have dropped much faster if the stringent family planning incentives during the Emergency would not have been imposed

If you think a = b = c, I rest my case.
This is less like "you are holding it wrong" and more like a hypothetical response of "don't drop it" prompted by complaints of screen fragility.

Holding it wrong isn't an accident in the same way that hitting debris or dropping something is.
Sending Feinstein a bunch of letters is going to help reign in NSA power? Good luck with that.

She's a big part of why the NSA is as powerful as it is, because people like her are given total power to watch over the watchers (the secret panels of judges) who watch over the watchers, etc. Each level seems as apathetic to reigning in the NSA's power than the next (including the president).

This is a big systemic issue, the political response both by the public and politicians has been embarrassingly impotent, considering the scale of the mass surveillance.

Forgive my apathy, but this isn't like SOPA where internet campaigns are going to fix things. The power is already deeply rooted in place and the players involved are not giving it back easily.

If you're going to try to counter it via politics, why waste your time sending letters to politicians who are totally complicit in the problem?
Chinese-style food?

In Japan it is common to refer to Thai, Vietnamese etc. as "Asian".
#FFFFFF

Just kidding, not 100% sure yet.
exactly what rails has become to me. Models and API controllers that respond_to json. The client does the rest with Backbone, handlebars, css3 animations, ...
> If the user enters "4", you get an int back.

No, it always returns a float in Python 3. 4/2 gives 2.0.
Why would anyone in DC 'raid' Bitcoin (which isn't possible in any comparable sense to LR btw)? The Feds are now major stakeholders, holding 100,000s of coins.
You might have as well generalised that experience to the whole northern hemisphere, would be as justified.
So what do you suggest the EFF do here, not oppose the bill?
> Thats AMAZING. The only languages have shorter grammars are core lisp/scheme.

It's nice, but I'm not sure I'd go with amazing. Most or all of Niklaus Wirth's languages have shorter grammars, for example. I'd imagine quite a few others do as well.

E.g. Oberon-2 has 33 EBNF productions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon-2_(programming_language) - that fits fully on screen for me with my default font size...

Regarding Ruby, I agree. I'm working on a Ruby compiler, and "decoding" the MRI parser into something closer to optimal will still leave an awful mess no matter what you do. I love programming Ruby, but implementing it is hell (and one of the reasons I'm trying it...)
Every time I hear this woman's name its attached to bad legislation proposals. She didn't manage to strip america of thier 2nd amendment rights so now she's going after our 4th and 5th amendments apparently? How did this women get into office?
you should definatly do that. Hope you get some responses ;-)
Google basically requires that sites show the Google crawler what the user will see when they click the link. Showing Google the content-less paywall page would be Google-suicide, so instead they show the article if your referrer is Google.
I'm hearing more rumblings about using 3.x now. Certainly people in this community aren't racing to switch, but I wouldn't say it will never happen.
Chances are much higher that you've seen the output of Docco or one of the multitude of imitations for other languages.
>Smartphones with powerful cameras have begun to take a toll on sales of expensive, dSLR cameras. But are they really good enough to replace them for most users?

Yes.
I suggest they actually do something other than asking the public to publish empty rhetoric via an auto-form.

At least they did that one thing a while ago and helped sue the RIAA like 10 years ago when someone already started the case. That was a real big PR win for EFF. They can use all those donations to actually fluff their couch and sip iced tea now and publish more damnations from the comfort of their non-profit internet connection.

All the EFF does is take in donations and claim any legal victory as their own, you know because they wrote a letter on their website saying how nasty the defendant is. Thanks EFF! They also help spin pro big-media legislation as victories for information freedom. While people fight against pointless strawmen DRM issues that the industry knows will ultimately fail, the real line is being fortified legally in bills like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Pact has negative conotations) and being enforced at the network level with internet-breaking packet-inspection devices.
It was explicitly stated that it was a weekend attempt at generating passive income.

OP wasn't exactly setting out to free Tibet here...
Whether its dwarfed or not, isn't the point. The point is, that DRM lobby sneaked that junk into the agreement. Since there is no way to remove the junk without tanking it all, let's tank it. It should send them a message - don't accept junk in the future agreements if you want them to succeed. If they are fools not to learn from the ACTA lesson, then they need another one.
Be sure to tune in next week for "Why Go will kill both Rails AND Meteor"…
Three 20-year-olds build their own version of Healthcare.gov
"If you see a stylus, they blew it. If you see a task manager... they blew it." -Steve Jobs
There is negligible danger pulling over on the freeway

Unless you've driven the section of freeway in question, I don't see how you can so confidently say that.
Bypass paywall with a google.com referrer: http://google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...

Note that you might have go incognito or clear your cookies if you already tried the direct link and failed (I can't believe how far they'll go to block everyone but search engines).
Washington, D.C. was named after George Washington while he was still an acting president.
So by 'many British people' you're referring to the Scots? ;)
Stores want bitcoin as a secondary method of payment, not a first...
Perhaps it is because successive rotations of the spiral are proportionally longer, which offsets the decreasing density.
Are you kidding me? The EFF, along with EPIC, are the two organizations that actually help with modern 4th amendment issues. I don't know where your hate for the EFF comes from, but it's certainly not based on a reasoned analysis of their work over the last decade.
Smart traffic lights use game theory to ease traffic congestion
Where would you rather be gay - the US or Saudi Arabia?
It's a Canadian company (Bitcoiniacs), but the ATMs are made by an American company (Robocoin). So the Bitcoiniac ATMs seem like they will be limited to Canada for the time being, as far as I know. (I spoke a bit with them at the opening event).

But maybe other firms in other countries might be able to order devices from Robocoin, if they can figure out the regulatory issues in their country.
US abolished legalized racial discrimination just one year earlier.
You'd think all the complaints about Youtube's forced Google+ integration would have given them a hint that it was a bad idea.

Also a company that basically got a second wind because of people fleeing Google's Reader decide they want to force integration with Google even more?
Tesla has no engine. Oh, don't follow a truck.
http://www.teslamotors.com/models/features#/safety
Yes my iPhone has a good camera but it won't replace my D300s. However I can see that smartphones will replace the need for entry level DSLRs Nikon D3200 & D5300.
How exactly would one hold a 32" tablet, or situate it at a desk? Arms grow very tired operating horizontal touch screens, and if the screen is on a table, angled, it's awkward to sit and look at.
dig the idea
I can't think of any sites I frequent that use Ember. Please, where is the proof? I would like to see the numbers.
Perhaps "Web API" makes more sense.
Twitter twitter twitter :)
Why is this wall of text an image? It's not even an svg with text. F for accessibility.
Something like this seems to get posted every time academia comes up. I'm sorry for the people having shitty experiences and being forced out of academia, but it's important not to exaggerate the problems. I've been through two UK universities, and I'm now at a US university, and I still meet plenty of very smart people doing interesting things.

Yes, there are shitty bits in academia, like the intense competition. But we should focus on where the problems are and how to fix them, not just write the whole enterprise off as shit.
Even if you clicked on the link, it's a completely innocuous page. It explains what it does, but it doesn't use any foul language doing that.

What's the risk of having one of your kids looking over your shoulder?
It would be great if Rails had a good solution for Meteor-like real time apps.
Simply put: Facebook and other social media sites are as much public places as streets and restaurants, except every word you utter is recorded forever.

The solution here is to carefully and consistently remind people, especially children, about this.
There's a world of difference, and in fact Johnson's case has a happy ending compared to the hundreds of honest inventors who lost everything in legal battles against the conglomerates that stole their ideas and made billions.

Check the inventor of the FM radio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong

Was he a patent troll too?
Ohai!

I wrote the talk, and just want to let you know that you can watch it over at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77BR6e1uoo

--Chris
Go is a programming language. Rails and Meteor are frameworks. Although Go does come with more web framework features than most languages (like templates and an http server), well except for PHP.
I was asking about equal rights for homosexuals, not slavery. As far as I know, very few countries qualify today.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a movie. OHMS (On Her Majesty's Service) meaning government business is a thing. And indeed a formality of language based on tradition. The former was a joke on the latter. It is most certainly not a real thing beyond the movie.
Just imagine playing mine craft with so many pixels! I don't care about the price or battery life, we are finally in the age of overpowered 'gaming tablets'
South Korea 'Behind the Times' with Internet Explorer Laws
I wrote a Java application to generate and save variations of the Ulam Spiral a while back. The code is here: https://github.com/PatrickYevsukov/Ulam-Spiral-Explorer An example of the output is here: https://twitter.com/PatrickYevsukov/status/35502312719085977...
Again, you're missing the point and buying into the myth of the quantitative analyst. Irrationality and emotion are like a balloon: you squeeze on one end by implementing a bubble factor (however you defined that...) and the irrationality comes out on the other end.
"When expensively educated, fashionable young graduates start showing up in your field, you're in a bubble." Michael Lewis
New UK Bitcoin exchange to bar US clients
Really wanna know what GPU is equipped to cover 4K graphics.
"While one could increase the resolution to make up some of
the difference, it is meaningless unless your tablet also
includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their
fingers to around one-quarter of their present size."
-- Steve Jobs (on 7 inch tablets)
> I'm suspecting that there's a diversity of situations among the people in the individual market that would make this challenging. These are people who are self-employed, or have low wages, or irregular work.

I'm afraid I don't follow. Why would self-employment or low wages make it more challenging to sign up directly rather than through an exchange?

I'm not proposing any changes to the subsidies. Simply remove the requirement to go through an exchange to get the subsidy.
Want to work with databases in Golang?  Let’s try some gorp.
What the incomprehensible kind of title is that, exactly?
And an ad company is designing the home of the future because!?!?!
Any tips on places to car-sleep in Palo Alto? I'm often hacking there late into the night and would appreciate any suggestions.
Google Terminal
Ask HN: Would you bloc vote to defend electronic freedoms?
Would you join a voting bloc that is motivated by the single issue of blanket voting against politicians that have ever supported curbs on electronic freedoms?
Would you rather get home and deal with your fucked up car there, or deal with it on the side of the high way? It makes perfect sense why you would try to keep driving it if you were close to your destination.
It's not just Ember, it's all the front end frameworks.
In much of the US atheists are forbidden from holding many electe offices. This is not true in the UK. Fretting over the Lords Spiritual and their lately ceremonial role is to misunderstand the nature of political power and the lack thereof vested in the House of Lords, and in particular the non-party-political members.
Ask HN: How can you be sure the world is moving?
And the 3rd one was in Mexico . . . hmmm
If you make your blog a place where we can be updated about how your business are going in real time, it ll retain and grow your traffic and build a great comunnity around

Good reference: http://groovehq.com/blog
This seems to be as much a reflection of the finance industry's loss of luster as technology being wonderful and whatnot.
I saw a great bumper sticker today: "One nation under surveillance."
Jeff, first, thanks for the response and I'm heartened by what you say.

If I could suggest, please look at ease of configuring replication in MongoDB. If you make it that easy, even if it's just for the JSON stores, I know that maybe you can't make it easy for relational tables, I will move my product to PostgreSQL in a heartbeat.

I have used and promoted PostgreSQL throughout my career, but I'm currently stuck with having to deliver HA in a product for redistribution to customers and Slony can't cut it for our use cases, it's too complicated. I think the key is that we are a vendor and we need to provide a database with our products, so it's not me that's responsible for configuring HA, it's our users. And replication is what I'm concerned about 90% of the time, not necessarily horizontally scaling out (i.e. we're not using sharding in 90% of our cases, we just need HA).
"penis" barely returns any penii
They havn't done anything in the last decade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Electronic_Frontier...

Pick one thing in that list that is "ground breaking" where the EFF actually invested their own resources into helping accomplish. Did you even know that the President of EFF owns a record company?
There is a middle ground between stopping immediately on the freeway and continuing home at your previous speed.

There is lots of damage that may not immediately be obvious. For example if the debris struck his tyres he could suffer a blowout that could cause him to lose control.
Yale Adds Another Stop To The College Hacker Circuit
I get these as well, roughly once a month.

Getting that first E-mail is not too bad; having to sign in to a service I never signed up for in order to stop the e-mail is the pain-point.

I wish more companies would require e-mail verification before activating accounts and sending out a flood of messages. It would also protect their customers, because it is quite easy to request a password reset and then, say, go dick with someone's data-populated chat-app settings.
I think to the contrary that Brits, an Europeans in general are vastly more sensitive to the threat of nazi-style or communist-like government - and corporate - oppression than Americans who are, by and large, complacent on this topic despite all the anti-government rhetoric you hear. As a result governments can't get away with as much because people watch closely. Combine this with the greater sense that the government runs the provision of critical services like healthcare and people have a better relationship with their government so fight over what matters, and there tends to be a good sense of what that is. Also the British political system is far more responsive to the electorate than is the US system which famously has less churn among elected officials than the old soviet politburo. This means that the electorate has more confidence in its ability to effect change.
Star Wars Yoga
Panasonic is dying... I've been following this company for my whole life. Their concepts are bad and their focus is wrong. Typical Japanese company with board full of elder chairmans, who are afraid of big change. I don't see light in this tunnel....
"Tech companies, which once may have dismissed business-school graduates as smooth talkers with PowerPoint skills, are warming to M.B.A.s ..."

I'm not buying it.
What do you think about raising kids there?
Personally I don't want people in my domain if they aren't interested in building cool shit and making technology better. If they are, well good for them. Hard for me to see someone who might have been interested in finance compatible with the people I work with though. Maybe they just all want to start startups or get into venture capital.
NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M

AFAIK better than the GPU in the Retina MBP
What's wrong with embedding python interpreter as a C library?
Nah, that's just either a bad joke, or stupid.
A minor accident? Are you sure about that? Running over a trailer hitch at 70 miles an hour is no minor accident. It could be so munch uglier. The car could flips over, tires pop and loss control. In fact, the car continued to operate normally for another minute and stopped safely is quite amazing in that situation in my opinion.
Show HN: Send Pebble Notifications From Any Site Or Server
Here is a very interesting comparison between the Lumia 1020 and the Nikon D800e: http://www.nokiapoweruser.com/2013/11/09/weekend-read-nokia-...
In short: your blood is mostly water. Your blood is surrounded by a selectively permeable membrane (your vascular tissue). Solutes increase osmotic pressure (see: biology 101). Sodium chloride (table salt) is highly soluble in water (see: chemistry). Therefore, sodium and chloride increase the osmolarity of your blood. Water passes through the semi-permeable membrane back into your blood to decrease osmotic pressure caused by the excess of sodium/chloride in your blood versus in the surrounding cells. Your blood pressure increases because the water increases the volume of your blood while the vascular tissue tries to contain and mediate this reaction (see: physics).

Blog posts are not a substitute for an education in biology, medicine, and science.

If anyone is going to nitpick about things in this post, please understand that I am striving to be understood. While I could put an asterisk after every sentence ("*except for...,") it would not be productive to do so. If anyone wishes for clarification, I would be glad to provide.
The Math PhD one reminds me of the sorts of symbolic algebra systems that you find in Haskell and Scala.