skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And of course the counter-story:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1144377 (page 5+ is most interesting)

These are injuries caused by helicopters, drones, quadcopters etc. I don't want that shit floating around me. They are seriously dangerous bits of kit. Yes I know the "versus cars" argument but cars don't intentionally fall out of the sky on you and have roads to go on.
It really depends on the person. People are different, some may get flow from coding and others from knitting. An important point is to achieve flow you have to find what you are doing intrinsically rewarding. It is really ok that some people don't get flow from coding, and some do, but we shouldn't expect everyone to.

There's even a checklist for "have I achieved flow?" so you know.

Nakamura and Csíkszentmihályi identify the following six factors as encompassing an experience of flow. [3]

intense and focused concentration on the present moment
merging of action and awareness
a loss of reflective self-consciousness
a sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity
a distortion of temporal experience, one's subjective experience of time is altered
experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, also referred to as autotelic experience

Those aspects can appear independently of each other, but only in combination do they constitute a so-called flow experience.
Comments from two years ago, when this first came out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120610

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110106
Please do tell us how you found a job in NK.
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I assume because the concept of those messages and the 'undo' action they contain match. The message is a confirmation of sending and the action is to undo sending. Having read the message once and learn about it allows you to dismiss it in future interactions.

Moving this message of 'did you forget an attachment?' to that same message would result in a mixed and unpredictable result -- unpredictable because you didn't know you forgot about the attachment. You expect a confirmation message, dismiss it (meaning you don't even look at it), but instead the attachment message might have been shown there. You wouldn't have known.
Ha ha that's hilarious. Will try some cheddar next time as well :)
The first three are in English, sure, I'm talking about the last two paragraphs. I understood the problem, almost from the title - I was interested mostly in the proposed solution.

In particular, the last 2-3 sentences where a complex procedure is defined in a few inline code snippets - and then the author continues as if the result is obvious.

It reminds me very much of when I read overly mathematical scientific publications (which I do a lot, being a PhD student.) In such papers, the authors often expect you to stop and spend 5 minutes reading a few symbols (perhaps reading a couple of Wikipedia articles along the way) before continuing. This makes the articles highly unreadable - I sometimes spend 2-3 days slowing working through the particularly poor ones. (Obviously, I only do this for highly relevant/useful papers!)

This article isn't in the same level of awful, obviously, but it did give me the same "I'm lost now, I should go back" feeling - which I thought was worth feeding back to the author, especially since they had provided the explanation, but they'd hidden it in a footnote.
Blacks and Hispanics suffer disproportionately, when it comes to sentences and everything else, even adjusted for economic status. I'm sorry pointing out that fact pisses some people off. But why the heck do that think blacks are disproportionately poor to begin with, if not for reasons having to do with their race? Its not like we didn't just get done with a couple of centuries of race based slavery and oppression. But no, the attitudes that animated that oppression have simply vanished within my parents lifetime![1] Sociological evolution happening in a historical blink of the eye.

Again, I'm not bringing it up randomly. What drives sentences? Fear. You think fear has nothing to do with race? That's utterly naive. Nobody who has even the barest experience with the criminal justice system can come away without the feeling that racial issues pervade how it works.

[1] Even less. Sentence inflation in the US started in the 70s and 80s, just a decade after George Wallace proclaimed "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" Sentence inflation happened in the aftermath of desegregation, race riots, and white flight. Even if people are much more open minded today, the legal structures and policing apparatus we still have today were forged then.
If by professionalize, you mean state-licensing then I would agree. Compulsory licensing is simply a way to cartelize the industry by lobbying the state to create hoops and barriers to the entry of the craft under the guise of legislation "serving the public good". It's thuggery, raising prices by hampering competition. Hopefully ACM doesn't go that route, because that would be stupid.
The whole idea behind 4k is that you can feed it 1080p content and it will be displayed no worse than it would be on native 1080p display. In other words it allows easily swap between having conventional 24" 1080p performance or full 4k resolution, and this swapping can be relatively easily be done on a per-application basis, or possibly even more granually. Imagine eg having a WebGL context being pixel-doubled while the text on the same page being rendered at full resolution.

In comparison, in a 2560x1600 24" monitor you'd get either quite big/ugly double-pixels, or scaling artifacts of non-integer multiple scaling.
Idk/idc.

I always thought that IQ tests are silly.
>There are more jobs around now than there was at the dawn of industrialization

But the population also exploded since then.[1]

I believe there are possibly no jobs for every one and a basic income of some kind should be considered. Just a way to avoid misery until people figure out their talents. [2]

I'm not a hater, though. I love the idea of Amazon Air, even though I'll probably never use it. Just to know it exists is a funny thing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-Population-1800-2100...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-latvia-young-people-d...
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By punishing those who would fake them. For instance, retracting degrees based on falsified work.

This university has substantially lowered the reputation conferred by their degree by allowing this person to keep his.
I have to assume that the tech support person's idea that my problem was related to my password (punctuation characters, upper case letters) was nothing more than technical superstition. I'm often surprised how often I seem to run into what I can only consider superstition when talking to first level technical support personnel.
Contrary to Bitcoins, your credit card does not scale.

Try to do a debit or refund of 150,000,000$ on your card. Cannot be done.

Bitcoin will happily do it's thing, either with 1$ or 150 M$ without discrimination, questions, etc... There lies the true power of Bitcoins.
Well-intended advice from another non-native speaker: You probably meant "sensitive" instead of "sensible" in your P.S.
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Either they are going to be autonomous or this will be very expensive delivery system. One man attending one package delivery for 20-30 minutes will not do.

If they have human involvement, it's just checking the drop point. In any case, it will be extremely low paid job.
> 20+ minute flights

That's 10 minutes each way. Assuming they fly at 30 mph, you get a range of 5 miles. That might work for big cities, assuming they can fly for 5 miles in a straight line, which they can't.

> No, GPS is perfectly reliable "at best", and utterly nonfunctional at worst. Fortunately, there are lots of alternatives for GPS.

GPS got hacked a long time ago, and even military drones got stolen using a fake GPS transmission.

There are not that many GPS alternatives. GLONASS. Maybe if you have some local towers, but that's a huge project in itself.
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It's a joke...

I hope.
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To deal with the issues of landing Amazon Prime Air would best be served by sending you a plastic "landing square" when you subscribe so that you designate the place in your garden so that the Drone knows where to land and you can keep an eye on it. With an iBeacon built into it it can guide the drone landing and even use IR to warn the drone of nearby movement/people. This would also serve as a signal to members of the public that it is a potential landing zone (perhaps with a red flashing light when a drone is making a land).

Amazon could even give you a discount if you allow the drone to recharge at your landing point.
>Aggarwal is now working at Bristol-Myers Squibb.

I wonder what action, if any, his employer will take.
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...or we could have a much larger home page, so we don't have to deal with the end-of-page-1 discontinuity, and we rely on the end-of-reader's-attention-span discontinuity, which is much smoother.
It is an artificial scarcity embedded into the system AFAIK.

Or is there something that forces the null prefix lenght to change?

As an artificial scarcity, it strikes me similar to the king of an island who would collect all the shells, and distribut only a few of the as money.

Any would be king could start to collect square shaped pebbles, and do the same.

At least, the one who would choose to hoard coconuts would provide for money something that can be used, that has some intrinsic worth.
My favourite of going to get a coffee, is leaving the office for a little bit. I find a change of environment gives me new ideas.
It's a good idea, though I wonder if there is a better way to do this without randomness.[1]

I mean it's just an exploitation vs exploration problem. You want to maximize the number of articles the average user will upvote (essentially avoiding wasting our time.) You want to use the time and number of votes to predict the probability that a user will upvote it. But you also want to do "experiments" to find even better articles even if it means wasting a few people's time.

I'm certain there is an elegant math equation that does this perfectly but I can't figure it out.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/vp/worse_than_random/
While it's true that the relationship is unproven (the only way to really prove it is to see it happen), it's not just an idea, it's a result of modelling.

Now, these models are not entirely correct and still lack elements (climate is a very complex system), but it's not as if no thought had been put into the relationship.
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How does one serve multiple jail terms concurrently? The whole idea makes no sense.
"What you are doing is reducing to a SEXUAL OBJECT one of the GREATEST SCIENTIFIC MIND THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN." - blah that is just his opinion. She's still a great scientist, even if some guys whistle. I think the author doesn't understand even half of whats going on. He thinks he's making the world a better place, but I think the opposite is true.

Furthermore, I fear creating a world where such a behaviour, even if appropriate (but some might say, typically male), is completely outlawed, we will lose more than we gain. - I suspect that a world in which everyone is always politically correct and polite, would also be a world of hypocrites and liars. Not a desirable outcome.

Let guys be guys, even if they behave like idiots sometimes.
I don't think there is a point where you don't try to get as much as marketing as possible and Jeff Bezos is a very ambitious person who likes to be seen as "crazy but very successful innovator". As far as I can see, Amazon has only two major man-in-the-middle parties left: the parcel services and banks.

My guess is that Amazon tries to buy or build their own parcel service company in areas where parcel services don't compete enough (= not cheap and fast enough for Amazon).

This PrimeAir marketing stunt could therefor be a message to their current parcel services to get faster and cheaper OR amazon will enter the market and do it themselves.
but is right now a good time to buy into an index fund? Or to buy any stock?

Most things revert to the mean, and right now the market is substantially above mean, and that market level is based on other aspects of the world that are currently also out of mean.
Oh man, this one will be fun.

> Every person must die!

> But I don't want to die.

> But thou must!

> If that's your position, I respect that. I'll go on living and you can die, even right now if you want to.

> Oh no no no, I don't want to die right now. I just want at some future moment to have died and be dead and have checked off every one of life's achievements, including death.

And it is at this point where I cannot continue this sarcastical mock-conversation -- it gets too surreal for me. As horrible as it sounds, at least the people who don't want to live past 80 will gradually die off and leave the rest of us to live.
He was neither a reviewer (the product was not even available) nor a journalist. And his opinion was well founded. The iPad didn't have wireless, it did have less space than a Nomad, and "lame" is pure personal opinion.

That post is always trotted out (particularly on HN) as an example of how normal "nerds" are so disconnected from the general public, but what it ignores is that not everyone cares about what the general public will buy. Not everyone is a startup founder looking to sell gadgets to Average Joe. Some of us are just looking from the perspective of our own lives, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that.

Guess what: for CmdrTaco, and probably for many on Slashdot, the iPod was a crappy player. Deal with it.
Spectacularly wrong. Either way you fail to notice that he DID let boys be boys, he simply educated them afterwards as to why they had been idiots. He didn't say it should be illegal or shit, he just changed those "lads"' perspectives on what it was they were participating in.
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Whilst it's true that the American standard is taught in Japanese schools, people come out of schools not speaking much English. To achieve a native-level ability in English, a Japanese person would probably have spent significant time in an English-speaking country, and that's likely to be a larger influence on their usage.

(I have lived in Japan in the past.)
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> Are there hash algorithms which are upper and lower case agnostic? Or should I assume that they store a hash of both the original password form and a lower cased version?

The hash may not be case insensitive, but I've seen plenty of code in and around password handling code that forces all letters to be lower/upper case prior to hashing.

(There's rarely ever any explanation as to why, nor anyone still around who admits to writing that code.)
I'm not sure that knowing how to code is even that useful for most people.

Let me explain - coding is neccesary when you are doing something technically innovative. As things become less inovative, layers of abstraction are built to make them easier. Until eventually, there is a nice GUI that lets you achieve that thing without too much trouble.

So once, displaying a square to the screen involved assembley and custom hardware. Then the hardware got commodotized, and we got graphics libaries. Now, you just fire up MS paint and draw a square.

10 years ago, my mum wanted a website, so I coded one in HTML. 5 years ago, she wanted a website, so I coded a wordpress theme and she maintained it for years without trouble. This year I asked her what she does. She uses a facebook page. You don't need to code to make websites.

The website isn't important to her - the day to day activity of the charity are important to her, and the website helps them do that stuff. It is worth considering that while technology is a big part of what we do, most people are trying to do really hard things, sell stuff, help people, whatever, and only need a small amount of easy to use technology where it makes them more effective.

We learn math at school. I used trigonometry last week to create some cool android interaction mode, but I bet most of my classmates forgot it at 18, and only wish they remember it when it comes up on a TV quiz show. It will be the same with code.
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SCREW. TYPEDEFS.

I hate it. Have you ever used WINAPI directly? For god's sake, everything is typedef'ed. Horrible to work with.
Similar to this, Ars Technica published a very interesting, and more in-depth, article earlier this year: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-mi...
I agree. Even as an opinion, it was probably wrong for the majority of men. Whistling doesn't "reduce" the woman to just a sexual object, it just points out that she is also a sexual object. I think a woman can be both beautiful and smart (and I think most men-loving persons would say the same for men), claiming otherwise seems plain ridiculous to me.
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right ;) thanks.
It seems kinda strange to me, honestly. All the big SSL libraries have had (and fixed) very subtle side-channel, timing, etc attacks... so why open ourselves to known exploits, if the fixes weren't re-implemented in Go?
Of course, I don't know why I didn't simply assume that whenever the password is handled it is lower cased.

Confession: I worked on a website where this was done both for usernames and passwords (about a decade ago). The justification at the time was that the users could not be expected to understand the difference between upper and lower case letters (or something to that effect). I suppose that justification continues to play well.
I think the author completely misses the point here. Coding is learning how to write and read. It does not prevent one from learning other disciplines but rather helps make links between disciplines such as literature and mathematics. As for computer accessibility, with initiatives like the raspberry pi, decent computer power is more and more available.
You are talking about pressure, hate and pain when researching. So if I understand you correctly you say something like:

"Research is hard. You try to discover something new. You spent months on research and you still have not discovered something. This is part of the reason why some researches fake results."

Right?

Wouldn't that be 'solved' if we had well established research journals which accept papers of failed research?

Because then you could at least publish what you tried and how/why it failed so that other researches can learn from what you did even though it did not turn out to produce new "positive" knowledge...

Just did a quick google search - there is a journal out there for that: http://www.arjournals.com/ojs/

Maybe it is not prominent enough?
I'm pretty confident you could have expressed what you think is wrong with the parent, without being insulting.

"Be civil."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I just want to weigh in that I am really glad that none of those falsely convicted by this faked evidence were sentenced to death. At least those falsely imprisoned by the "evidence" this scum planted can be set free, even though they lost years of their lives.

And that is the argument of why there should not be a death penalty, even for people who you are really sure that they really deserve it. It's a form of humility: To admit that there can be wrongs in the legal system, and so to be very sure not to do anything completely irreversible.

That's why people argue that the death penalty is unacceptable in any case whatsoever: the system has to be able to admit that sometimes it is wrong.
> There is an unimaginable amount of suffering in this world. Around 150,000
people die each day. About 5 million children die each year. Millions of
people are maimed or killed by accident, disease, and violence.
Considering this man's talents, I would much rather live in a world where
he devoted himself to solving important problems. I realize he wouldn't be
as happy, but the expected value in lives saved is quite high.

Most human suffering isn't just solved by smart people thinking hard about solving some problems.
Most human suffering is caused by missing compassion for people.

> I've chosen a career geared toward maximizing my benefit to others, not my own happiness.

Sorry, but I don't think that's the case. You're doing what you do,
because it feels right for you, so in a way you can't get happier by
doing something else.

You might not follow the hedonistic path, but you're still doing what
makes you most happy.
>Where could we be now if we hadn’t repressed half of our society throughout our entire history?

And where could we be now if we hand't repressed all of our society throughout our entire history? Men were repressed too, and in many cases more than women (hard labour, conscription etc). Men and women have gender roles which limit their lives.
Not looking to pair (plus not a python/excel/ui guy), but dropping a note to say this seems like a great idea. Plus you have a huge market in the financial industry (obviously), which is where the pain points mean $.
"My theory is that it was designed to experiment with advanced type and language features first, and only secondly became a language intended to be widely used." - I have same feeling about F# sometimes - OCAML is cool but too academic to be approachable.
>Let guys be guys, even if they behave like idiots sometimes.

Women do not expect adult men to treat them primarily as sex objects in an intellectual context: There is a time and place for sexualizing each other, and part of becoming an adult is learning context.
Articles and discussions like this seem mostly like trying to comfort ourselves on the fact that in our lifetimes we probably won't clinically cure death.

It'll matter a lot more when we've actually done it, and we're asking people to stop living voluntarily.
There's a new colour space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020 coming for the UHDTV (4K TV) standard; gonna be a son of a gun.
Giving a randomness to the whole sorting of the articles could have a "noisy" effect on users who update the home page often.

On the other end, PG could just add a line at the end of the home page to show one post randomly selected from the new articles. This way we could all contribute to the selection of new articles, instead of only relying on those brave souls who regularly wade through the "new" page.
How about we not treat women as objects at all?
I think that makes sense. Shared memory is mainly a performance optimization. Erlang is not known to have C++-like speed, so if it is fast enough to do in Erlang, it probably is fast enough so that shared memory is not needed.