skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "article" is but a mere click/flamebait, the likes of Kotaku likes to post. Absolutely terrible. In fact, the whole Salon website is clickbaits and it's a shame to see this kind of stuff on the front page of HN.

There is a recent wave of so called "social justice warriors" (SJW) invading video game journalism and writing articles such as this one under the guise of "feminism" and other fringe movements because the feelings of transgender people are not respected, because it promotes "misogyny, transphobia and rape culture". Excuse me? I don't really know what kind of agenda they're trying to push other than trying to fabricate controversies where there were previously none (apart from the "video games make you violent" crowd, which everyone already dismissed).

What kind of bizarro world does the author live in - and from reading the article I assume he's a pretty casual gamer otherwise he wouldn't write such an unsavory article and call PAX the Woodstock of video games (an event that appeared in 2004) - that people call themselves gamers? No one I know calls himself a gamer and I've been playing video games since the 80's. Your identity is not driven by your hobby.

Protip: Just because your feelings were hurt, it doesn't mean you are right.
Your .506 is right but the arithmetic problem that you set equal to it is wrong. I think you meant to type 1024/(1024+1000). (BTW, it should be 1024/(1024+999) ).
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@benjlang Arbitrary or sensationalist titling is generally frowned upon on this site.
I would make a couple of assumptions:

- price could be 0.0 for a book

- Total sales means the sum and not count

- Date format will be yyyymmdd (if not, assume that we converted in Oracle or Sybase)

SELECT a.name, SUM(s.price) FROM authors a
INNER JOIN books b ON (a.id=b.author_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN sales s ON (b.id = s.book_id)
GROUP BY a.name
HAVING (s.date >= '20131101' AND s.date <= '20131130')
> It occurs to me many universities have copies of the old journals and could setup their own sites to host it as soon as copyright isn't an issue

Yep, this is what CLOCKSS (http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Home) is for.
Noting that technical progress and morality begin diverging at the origin, and assuming that the graph is accurate, then the gap is just part and parcel of human existence. Analogous to Issac Bashevis Singer's observation that, "We must have free will - we have no choice," it could be said that we must have a morality gap.

But even more charitably, if such a gap exists it has been known for two and a half millennia.

This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

-- Phaedrus, Plato. http://oll.libertyfund.org/simple.php?id=111
Great summary and essential for every new and existing product. It's a shame how many brand-new startups still limit the password length for example. Really, it's one of the first things users do. Don't establish a relationship with a mistake, it's a burning bridge.
It's supposed to be recursive. That would only delete the files in the current directory, not subdirectories as well.
Wow. I'm sorry to hear your parents abused you in that fashion -- getting your ass kicked has got to be bad enough already, without such foolishness as being required, by your own parents, to just curl up and take it; mine, for all their other faults, at least had sense enough to grant me the right to defend myself if I could. (My schools mostly didn't, but that's a different matter, and one in which my parents took my side, as well.)
that's pretty much what I meant by wrapped in a utility function... generally... something akin to explitize(ConstructorName, 'methodname') .. so that the passthrough call(s) can be shimmed/mocked for testing...
Sorry - accidentally downvoted (this is what happens when I HN on an iPad). But thank you - agreed. I couldn't figure out what the parent comment was actually referring to either!
Facebook has a reputation to uphold, so they won't do anything completely and obviously evil without slowly ramping up to it over several years first; third party apps can abuse all the data they want, get shut down, and then come back a week later with a new name.
> Just try mentioning that people should be held responsible for things they say.

I have the right to free speech. If I say I think trans is a psychological condition treated by therapy instead of surgery or whatever politically incorrect thing might be the enemy of popular thought today, I shouldn't be put up in some discrimination court because someone was offended by my views. I also should have the right to publish my thoughts anonymously.

Long story short, political correctness is just censorship. While I certainly don't like hateful on-line communities, I think your suggestion to make people "accountable" for speech is only something that can lead to real human rights violations instead of perceived slights from overly touchy people.

Try criticizing Islam in the middle-east. There's accountable speech there. Why are westerners obsessed with bringing these horrific limitations on speech to the west? Free speech transcends being offended.
You have the right idea.

You're assuming an underlying model for the data. You have a test statistic( that estimates a model parameter) and you have a hypothesis regarding a parameter. The p-value is the probability that you get a test statistic more extreme than the one observed assuming that your hypothesis is true.

Ex. You have a sample of 1000 men's heights. You compute the sample average height as 5'9 and a sample standard deviation of 3 inches.

(Unlikely) hypothesis: the average height is 4 feet. Your p-value is the probability of getting an sample average more extreme than 5'9 given that your 4 ft height hypothesis is true. Given that the sample standard deviation is 3 inches and 5'9 is 7 standard deviations from 4ft... the p-value is going to be small, so you'll reject that.

Note: I'm leaving out details and assumptions
Does email really need to look like email?
"It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism." -- H.L. Mencken

Morality is the wrong word to use. It is also highly subjective. Whose morality is this guy even talking about? What does it mean to increase morality? Mencken again:

"Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time. You will never convince the average farmer's mare that the late Maud S. was not dreadfully immoral."
The first known theorem to be created for the sole purpose of entertainment
Back when the choice was made, micro-kernels was all the rage in both academia and commercial ventures, and Stallman chose Mach since he thought it would speed up development, he was hardly alone in choosing Mach at this time, Apple (MkLinux, NeXTSTEP), IBM (Workplace OS) amongst others.

He fully acknowledged that he made a mistake in going with Mach and as soon as Linux took off FSF focused on providing the necessary software to combine with Linux into an operating system and placed Hurd on 'life support', where it's been ever since.
Yet it didn't occur to you, to worry about nerds getting beat on, until someone pointed out to you that that happens. Disproportionate targeting just conveys the idea that the problem is not one's propensity to deliver beatings, but rather merely one's choice of victims.

Edit in response to your Edit2: I admit no such thing, but even conceding the point, you still ignore mine, which is that "against vulnerable minorities" is a problem. If you're going to shoot for a utopia, why not aim as high as you can?

Edit in response to your Edit3: No, I suggest that it matters less to you that nerds get beat up than that gay and trans people do, and I suggest further that, having been beat up both for being a nerd and for being gay, worrying more about one than about the other misses the point that it's not the cause of the beatings, but the beatings, which are the problem.

And, for pity's sake, will you comment in response rather than editing? It's a lot easier to keep track of the former than the latter.
You're just seeing how bad C++ and VB are for UI work (by modern standards)
Slightly off topic but would the video training site have content on writing/authoring? If so, I can't wait.
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RebelMouse is a social CMS that allows for easily creating beautiful sites. Users (which include Fortune 500 companies as well as individuals and media companies) use it to power entire sites as well as ads and user-participation features like http://www.corybooker.com/runwithcory.
There are a number of interesting frontend challenges to work on here, as we're focused on letting users easily customize their sites significantly while remaining secure and easy to use. To this end, we're looking for a developer with strong Javascript experience, including use of Backbone.js, and experience architecting large web-apps.

Key requirements:

• Strong Javascript skills and a passion for front-end web development

• High level understanding of architecture

• Experience with AMD/RequireJS, Backbone

• Experience optimizing page speed
Nest Raising Round From DST, Valuing Smart Home Startup at Upward of $2 Billion
People Are Far More Concerned with Updating Hardware, Sorry Microsoft
Book Review: Good Math
NASA engineers have also released an optimization framework for the Hyperloop concept as well. It's completely open-source and written in Python.
Docs here:
http://openmdao-plugins.github.io/Hyperloop/

Their baseline optimization focuses on 5 subsystems: Compressor Cycle Analysis, Pod Geometry, Tube Flow Limitations, Tube Wall Temperature, and Mission Analysis

Initial results indicate that the concept is still very viable. However, due to very tight coupling between the tube and vehicle size, the tube size will need to be around twice as large as originally proposed by the Tesla/SpaceX team to reach the proposed speeds.

Feel free to download the entire analysis and play with it yourself, without purchasing several expensive toolboxes from MATLAB!
In what year were you born? I've heard there was a cut-off at some point in the late 90s where they stopped teaching it. Whenever it was, it was after I was in school. ;)
Propaganda at those times said that Jewish people will get "the best education in the world" for free and then leave the USSR without paying back for it.
I had opened the tab in the background and later wondered where my Haskell tab went :)
Well, sure, if you want to heat something, you must create heat. That's a tautology. But it's not true that the appliance is almost exactly as it was, it just has the same goal.
I like that a lot - it kind of bothers when people talk about what Bitcoin IS, like a recent TechCrunch article explaining how the writer lost faith in it as a money transfer protocol. Just because BTC is really valuable right now, doesn't mean it will always act the way it acts now. It's just getting started.
A simple Snapchat web app
Smartphone to eliminate mirrorless camera.
It already has this kind of functionality, it is called bottles and most of the bigger packages like Qt are already available as binaries. Recently I've noticed that some of the smaller ones are also becoming available which is nice.
So who are all the ppl on the about page?
This paper was fascinating when I read it tomorrow. Unfortunately, I had to warn my former future self about their compelling results and prevent myself from posting all those really fun tweets.
Yeah, that's what I was taught. So what are people answering instead?
Actually, C standard does not directly specify that. Only fact about structure layout that is explicitly required by standard is that address of first field is same as address of the structure itself, other constraints on structure layout can be deduced from other requirements scattered through the standard, but nothing in standard requires in memory field order to be same as declaration order.
You're only seeing one small similarity- React components are very different from old-school components.
Ask HN: what are the best start-up/entrepreneurial blogs of 2013?
I've been reading The Lean Startup and Running Lean over the holidays and they both originated from blogs. I'm wondering what are some of the best startup blogs out there right now? I'd love to read some of the most cutting edge work in this space. What have people leaned in the years since these books were published?

Thanks
I've written about what worked for me here: https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/3408064eda35
AI + substantial assumptions = almost free labour force

You are assuming:
- cost of materials and the energy consumed by an AI manual laborer or scientist would be negligible compared to a human for every n beneficial position, including the last position at the margin. That is, we would run out of resources to make AI scientists and laborers before we ran out of uses for scientists and laborers
- Zero R&D costs to build that AI, or that they have been sufficiently recooped so that the end-user cost is negligible
- AI can be equivalent (or superior) in every way to a human being in every possible task
- An AI scientist would be able to perform every function as well as a human, and yet would not demand an income, equal rights, etc. Essentially, disabling those parts of the human psyche would have no limiting effects on the capabilities of the AI system in any useful task. That seems unlikely, and at least is impossible to know at this point.

And then, if your assumptions hold, then given appropriate population controls so resource contention isn't an issue, I imagine it would be a pretty remarkable upgrade in quality of life for everyone across the board. In which case, the sentiment is not that no one is exempt, but that no one is left out.
That sounds more like a great interview question than a good FizzBuzz question though.

FizzBuzz questions are all about assessing, in less than 30 seconds, if you should even be giving the person on the phone the time of day.
Do you know any women? Seriously, most of them are OK when calling assholes (like many of HN users) "cock suckers".

You guys need to go out more, since women are more than OK when people swear, you're not talking to toddlers here.

Now, this is a comment, not a fucking essay or interview (haha PG fucked up really bad huh? So bad he's gonna have a women only conference).

Now I sound like a troll, so I'll shut up, but seriously, women are OK with swearing (that includes all George Carlin's 7 words).
This doesn't help you at all.

The provider is able to change the settings through two primary methods.

1. DOCSIS configuration file - this is the file your modem downloads when it comes online and includes settings like your speeds (Upstream/Downstream service flows) and it also includes the SNMP settings (used for #2).

2. SNMP - The MSO can also remotely monitor and change your modem via SNMP. There is a large number of DOCSIS MIBs that every cable modem must support in order to get certified and there are also vendor specific MIBs that a modems manufacture will add to support specific features of that modem.

Without SNMP it would be very difficult to maintain a cable network. Other types of access networks have similar features.
Jumping onto this chain, I'd also like to take a stab at a sanitized version of your test. We often have to reverse engineer our Client's existing reports when creating new BI reports for them in Cognos, and I'm curious to see how challenging your 3rd and 4th problem sets are.
I disagree. I'd say the free month is not for a tweet, but for the number of users who sign up because of your tweet and then how much those users end up paying to use the product. If just one user signs up because of your tweet and pays to use the product for a month, then what's been given away has been earned back. And none of this says how much the product should be valued quantitatively, i.e. how much one month is worth.

On the other hand, you do comment about perception–if the users perceive the product to worth less because of this deal, "a tweet for a free month", the rationale behind why the deal is good for the product might not do anything to offset that loss in perceived value.
Close enough for beta. We'll refine after user testing. (Guess my specialty!)
It's also pretty rampant in the US and in Europe.

The odds of being hired when you have an Arab name in Western Europe is frightening, regardless of qualifications.

For the US, just look at the ethnic distribution of death row inmates.
Something on beer: http://bit.ly/JLNgZA (wisc.edu)
With DOCSIS cable modems only the provider can update the firmware. And end user doesn't have the ability to update the firmware, even if they own the modem. That is part of the DOCSIS standard.
I remember hearing an interview with a civil engineer about why highways have all these "unnecessary" curves in them. Why can't engineers build highways that are more direct and straight?

After going on a bit about requirements for different kinds of terrain, the kind of strata the road needs to go on etc. and how those were difficult and expensive to surmount (so curves were often chosen to deal with it instead of a more expensive solution). He lamented that the most difficult and expensive aspect of new road construction was right of way through existing developments and other properties. Most of the curves we experience on highways are apparently the result of somebody, or a block of people, simply not wanting to give up their land.
There's a certain variety of budgeting I've yet to see, but that I think would be very valuable. It's something I'd pay a decent amount for, actually.

The majority of my expenses and income are very predictable, such that I get paid every N days, I get billed X every Y days, etc. I would like to see an application that tracks my balance for every day, from now and into the future, such that I can see my predicted balance on, say, February 21st.

It could also tie into my bank account and track current and past spending, both to recognize recurring events and to update the current balance, which also cascades into all the future predictions.
From what I understand, the Mach kernel which is now used in XNU is not the Mach micro kernel (3.0 >) but based upon the pre-micro-kernel 2.5 version of Mach.

I'm not sure where I read this originally but I just googled this source which seems to back it up:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/0506.mk3.html
It's purposeful ambiguity to create drama, elicit an emotional reaction, creating a slightly tenser situation in the brain, and hence divert resources from baseline functioning to a heightened start of awareness.

So, we react to the fear, find there's nothing to worry about and move on.

Ultimately, though, gathering attention this way is counterproductive because it inhibits the brain from taking in new information.

If we were invited to collaborate in the thought in a more relaxed matter, there would be fewer "stress-clicks" and more worthwhile, creative contributions.

The main purpose of the article is of course to promote the product of his organization through making a community contribution, so what do I expect. Maybe I'm just in a more serious mood on this day. We should be grateful to this person for pointing out this info to us :)
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Nokia's budget Android phone still in development
Native API are probably easier to learn, just more cumbersome to use :)
"I got mine by quoting a price of $7/hour(lower than the minimum wage) and..."

Depressing stuff like this is why I've never used the odesk acct I made a few months ago. I pretty much only visit the site when I receive email invitations to "apply" for a job, which is 90% recruiter spam and 10% unbelievably underpaid. Most recent example: "creating the official Diffbot Javascript client library"; fixed project price: $75. wat
I'm think vertical means bumps and dips, for which we really have little tolerance. I don't see i being much of an issue for hyperloop, as varying height of the pillars is pretty easy...
That unportable code includes CPython, Sun JVM, essentially anything GUI related in Windows and anything that uses BSD sockets.
You have no idea what the spectrum of edits is on SO. Why do you think your heuristic is obviously better, despite making no argument for it?

The heuristic they use is something along the lines of "only accept edits that are grammar fixes, equivalent thereof, or rewordings". Content changes without the authors consent are considered poor form.
I believe the author meant that the app (or company, maybe) is one year old, not that there's only one person involved.
Even making it criminal won't work - don't you know the NSA and the government are above the law. They have government endorsed hackers who are known to be actively exploiting these systems... but if you, Joe Public, are caught doing this, you're thrown in jail under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. So even if it is made criminal, it'll only be criminal for you... if it's government mandated, however, it's fine.
I think they don't want to be intimidated by complexity and don't want to have to pay someone more to deal with it for them in the future. Typically they want to be able to administrate the site themselves, and they can do that through web forms easily enough.
I think what's far worse is what most applications ask for in terms of permissions... I mean, why does a "flashlight" app need access to my GPS position, contacts and sd storage? I've waded through lists of apps for simple things like that (note, it does need "camera" access to turn on the flash).

I think that when apps register on the store, they should have to include at least 100 characters explaining why they need access for each special permission.
But why is that relevant to the article? I'm just lost as to what point you're trying to make. It seems like a non-sequitur to me.
It's not wrong, but it did open up some great questions as to what it means to have values created by chance and how that relates to "this experiment".
Ember Run Loop, Visualized
Highly speculative. Nothing concrete proposed.
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That's what I got.

There's a .999 chance you have a fair coin and a .001 chance you have the rigged coin.

(0.999 * 0.5) + (0.001 * 1) = 0.5005.

Seems too simple, but a coin is a coin, right?
IFTTT recipe: Spy on someone (ex, crush, stalker, etc.)
http://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F027q8xw
Oh, youre running a binary that uses CPU extensions or dependent on a kernel that doesn't exist yet? Enjoy your segfaults.
People can be easily lead to misinterpret p-values even if they can define them. Most often people assume that p values indicate something about the correctness of a model or an inference. This is the classic p(d|h) v p(h|d) debate.