skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know about equivalence classes and know to apply them. You can reason about partitions rather than needing to drop down the the level of logical implications (higher level abstractions for the win). If you remove the "think" part and become a little bit more assertive, your intuition becomes a proof.

You pass.
Was an interesting exercise :), I got in at 10:15 with all the SO I had to do.
What is meant by "moral progress"? Is it the illusion, (or less argumentatively, the perception) that we living today are somehow more enlightened than those in the past?

Such a thing can not be objectively defined.
It already has binaries. The current problem is that most of the binaries are dependent on the prefix being "/usr/local", and those that aren't need to be marked as such by hand. Search for "cellar :any" in your formulas:

grep -r "cellar :any" $(brew --prefix)/Library/Formula

I get 22/2597 that are prefix independent.
He put himself in this position, likely with the intent to lie.

Both intelligence committees submit questions to intelligence agencies in advance, who can then comment on these questions and make requests for change (such as moving some to the closed session). This is done in private, so moving a question to the closed session does not reveal any information to the public.

Even if for some reason this question blindsided him, he could have refused to confirm or deny it in an open session, as others have pointed out. But he wanted to put the PR fires out, and telling Congress and the public that they didn't collect bulk metadata indiscriminately served that end at the time, but later came back to bite him (and hopefully cost him his job, if not more).
Perhaps dedicate yourself to a specific area of programming that interests you, develop a portfolio on something like Github, network with people, express an interest in opportunities, and let your work find you something.
Processing remote sensing data with Python
Yes. The problem is the number of robots and the wide range of physical and mental defects they will exhibit statistically. Some of them will fail.

Sorry if it wasn't clear from the original post, but the hypothetical array of robots is an analogy intended to depict a perfectly moral society, the best case civilization achievable if you will, for the sake of argument. The larger argument goes that even such a "perfect" society cannot ever be deemed ready for its technological responsibilities - hence leading to the conclusion that the problem at hand is not one of morals to begin with and that the suggestion of holding back technological progress is a malevolent proposition on many levels.

Based on that... oh well, just read the post ;)
Nope that's it. I currently don't have a way to differentiate "I'm interested in having code reviewed" vs "I'm interested in becoming an expert." I plan to send a follow-up Google Survey to everyone who signed up to get a better sense of who's interested in this service.
Well, as this article implies, a lot of people don't consider bzr's speed minimally viable.
I'm good at sales.

But I would really bristle at being given a question like that (and luckily I don't have to interview so this will not happen).

For one think selling takes preparation, knowledge of the product and strategy. It also takes experience (for a particular product and buyer and situation). So in my mind I don't see what asking a question like that will prove other than that you can ad lib or bs in a way that doesn't matter.

Selling also takes interpreting cues (verbal and visual) from the potential buyer. With those cues you change strategy on the spot and try to hit the right hot buttons. [1]

In a hypothetical situation it's unlikely that those cues would be valid because the person you are trying to sell knows it's not a real situation.

[1] As an example the strategy that you would use to sell a car to a father for his daughter is not the same as to a middle aged woman. And by listening to the father you could tell what points are resonating and try to reinforce those points more if appropriate.
No political model succeeds in the face of unaddressed corruption.
Mark Klein was the ATT tech who exposed room 614A.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein
TL;DR
The article was not about the Haskell Cabal.
> "You type a web address into a browser, it doesn't load"

1) Check your internet connection.
2) Check if the website is broadcasting (assuming you control it).

99% of all instances of this issue solved right there. :-)
Hm. I hadn't realized that Elon's basic spec has no room for aisles--seats are two abreast in a 4.5' wide tube. On the other hand, "Beautiful landscape will be displayed in the cabin," so that may help relieve claustrophobia. He also allows for a larger version that can carry cars (with their passengers)--presumably the passenger-only compartments on that model would be roomier.
How to be a free thinker (2009)
> The best answers often involve the person playing with the app and figuring out something you could actually build into the app itself.

I'm clueless when it comes to marketing. Could you elaborate here with some examples? I think the majority of apps are in a place where nobody knows they even exist, so how could improving something in them improve downloads?
This is a great writeup. I used webOS on a Palm Pre back in 2009 and I loved it, I felt very frustrated when I moved to Android and was only slightly brought up to the modern times when I moved to iOS. There is still a great deal from webOS that I miss, the card metaphor was executed perfectly and the swipe interface on and off screen was genius.

It seems to me that many balls were dropped, but also that HP/Palm were unable to have multiple product development cycles running in parallel, work on the next iteration didn't start until the current one was shipped, or so it seemed, this didn't fly when competing with Apple.
WTF is moral progress? How do you measure morality and put it on a graph? What the fuck is this guy even talking about?

Am I the only idiot that doesn't understand? How does this get voted to the front page?
You totally made my day with that comment. It never occurred to me to think of it that way! Thanks!
Reading the Classics (college course)
Reminds me of http://www.sergioschuler.com/startup-lessons-learned-from-my.... Test the waters before you give a commitment. Personally, I would like to see what the review includes (syntax, tests, patterns?)
Are you 100% certain? I mean programs do have bugs and it's not impossible to run into bugs that have catastrophic circumstances.

I hear stories of minor bugs that bankrupted companies (bad development practices) so what make you 100% certain that no robot will ever press the button?
TL;DR Nice, planet-saving thoughts and all, if the original author could put a bit of markup around the key takeaway points. For example the following:

The main thesis is that it may be possible to apply science and technology to understand and improve human morality, and that this is a most critical human endeavor.
A nation's newest war ship is slowly disappearing. The ship's hull
is made of Aluminium while its cannon bores are made of Stainless Steel.
What is happening, why, and how do you stop it?

Grad school chemistry/physics candicacy exam question, sure to generate colorful answers!
There's also a personal element. It's nice to see the faces of the people you work with throughout the day. Certainly has helped to create a tighter social bond on our team.
Is there an app that is also centered around events and trips? Most apps classify expenses as travel, food, lodging.

I want to see my transactions grouped by the excursions I've made to see which events I spent the most on.
Here's a little "growth hack" tip for you. Change this:

> As always though, if you need any help, even just a sounding board to chat things through with, we’re here to help.

To this:

> So what's the solution for all of these? We'll be following up in later blog posts, so <a>sign up for our newsletter</a>. Want the answers now? <a>Buy our book!</a> We cover all of these potential traps and more.

Also, spelling error:
You’re making it harder to upsell me
On the eight day
Should be eighth.

Nice blog.
In my personal experience, Jews are discriminated for being non-Christian.
White People Do Good Things for One Another, and That’s Bad for Hiring
So I'd like to step back, because these arguments have a tendency to start to miss the point.

My general claim here is "people treat ESR uncharitably". In this thread, that started with people choosing an unfavourable interpretation of you are not a master of C until.... When I pointed out that this was uncharitable, people said "this is a common theme in ESR's writing". I think that what they meant was something like "it's okay to take the uncharitable interpretation, because ESR often writes things similar to the uncharitable interpretation, so it's probably correct".

mwfunk gave a specific example of ESR acting similar to the uncharitable interpretation. I pointed out that the example was simply not true. It made three verifiable claims, and all of them were false. I call mwfunk uncharitable for this.

The example was "ESR took action Y". You said my evidence showed that ESR actually took action Z, and Y and Z are both instances of ESR taking meta-action A (updating the jargon file to say hacker politics match his own). And if ESR has done A, then uncharity becomes more justified.

But to interpret Z as A is much easier if we accuse ESR of being a neoconservative. This, too, is uncharitable: he has said that he is not and has never been a conservative, and that conservatives are villains. He did align with neoconservatives on one issue that a lot of people fervently disagreed with neoconservatives about, but that doesn't make him a neoconservative. And if ESR isn't a neoconservative, and merely aligns with them on one issue that people care a lot about, then Z is much less strongly an instance of A.

You have leveled accusations against ESR that I think stand by themselves. But they're far less damning than we started with, and in the meantime, this thread has been filled with examples of uncharity, which is exactly what I'm objecting to.

(On a broad level, I think what we have here is uncharity piled upon uncharity. ESR says something, and people interpret it uncharitably, because the uncharitable interpretation is how ESR acts; and they know this, because of uncharitable interpretations of previous things that he's done. But those interpretations are justified because...

And perhaps this tower bottoms out with something that is not uncharitable, but every level of uncharity makes the next one less justifiable.)
Thanks Gigablah! We appreciate it. Stay tuned for more ^^
Wow, I didn't see that you wrote "(bad)" when I first skimmed it. Bit of a shock.
I think the best alarms are ones that require you to get out of bed to turn off (meaning an iPhone placed across the room) - essentially it's not a kind of alarm but the positioning of it in your room. Once you are out of bed I don't think the UI of how you silence the alarm really matters.

Some of you have probably heard of Tocky and Clocky (http://www.nandahome.com/products/index.php). I've never used either but my guess is the concept is better than the execution. I've never felt a need to do anything but put my phone on the opposite side of my bedroom. Also, by doing this I have no way of checking my phone while in bed - either in the morning after waking up or at night before falling asleep.
25 Food & Ag Investment Sources Launched in 2013
I'm in violent agreement with this. If I have to call you to get a price, I've already moved on.
There's GNU in android.
Then there are MUCH bigger problems than the first word anyways.
Monkeycalandar? Candygram? The names are ridiculous. It's like the whole place is staffed by 12 year olds who loved the "Spy Kids" movies.
This is amazing, huge thanks for the analysis of our pricing page Patrick! Will go ahead and work on that for sure, some great pointers, you're right, there's so much power in the new analytics and we're not conveying that very well at all.
It is odd, I predicted about 5 years back that Apple would gradually converge the API to FreeBSD and then switch. They would still be better off doing that I think, but they show no signs of doing this.
I got feedback from interviews with non-technical users and a couple of top universities.
Looks like Dyn has changed theirs; http://dyn.com/email-delivery-express/
MTBF of robots is not ∞.
Are you saying that laying down on a roller coaster would make it less nauseating?

Admittedly I have not tried it but I don't think that would work.
I think people realize they need to sign up to vote or comment, but seeing the description is illogical and immoral (you're asking people to give you their email to see content you didn't create). That's like if HN or Reddit didn't let you read the articles they link to without creating an account.
Because it looks so much cooler. And you never have to worry about bumpy roads or rocks or any of that ever again. You can go over water like it's nothing! It's something that seems amazing but not completely impossible.

When people romanticize this idea, they're never thinking about efficiency or practicality. Only how cool it seems.

Video phone calls are the same thing. As someone else pointed out here, the idea of it seems really cool and amazing. But we've had that ability now for years, and it turns out: it's actually less convenient and efficient than just sending a simple little text message. So it doesn't get used a lot.
Guys. The article has nothing at all to say about vertical acceleration. He's plotting left-right acceleration, not up-down.

He says: "However, I only used this information for plotting. For this first study, the derived route is only 2-dimensional."

And the graph's acceleration is noted as longitudinal and lateral. Not vertical at all. The word "vertical" appears nowhere in the article. All of the pictures show 2D diagrams of routes.

I don't know where this sub-thread about vertical acceleration came from.
Agree wholeheartedly. There are any number of apps out there than can provide me with beautiful graphs and visualizations once they have the data they need, but I don't use any of them. Why? Because:

1) The ones that collect the data automatically require me to violate my bank's online TOS to gather the data (e.g. Mint), which potentially leaves me with no recourse should my bank account be compromised.

2) The ones that require me to input the data are just too much work.
Show HN: Firefox Addon, Supertab - list of tabs in most recently used order
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/supertab/

Addon provides a list of tabs in most recently used (MRU) order. Triggered by Ctrl-Tab or Alt-Tab.

I made this addon during Christmas vacation. Inspired by the addon LastTab (which stopped working after FF's change for addons from XUL to JavaScript) and Opera's MRU tab list.
It seems that my memory does not serve me well :)

ISO C actually explicitly specifies that the order is same in §6.7.2.1.13.

The "deduced" remark was essentially intended to cover constraints that come from 6.2.6.1.2 ("...objects are composed of contiguous sequences of one or more bytes..."), ie. fields cannot be (conceptually) outside &foo and ((char*)&foo)+sizeof(foo), which can be hard to implement on sufficiently weird architectures.
I did basically what Sergio did with CameraLends.com last year. I've learned from that and want to "date around" before committing to an idea this time ;-)
There's a great graphic summarizing fixed vs. growth mindsets:
http://www.dolezalek.com/chris/Mindset.htm
Happy New Year from Y Combinator
Of course, too much of a 'can do' attitude can lead to completely unrealistic expectations, spread your resources too thin, and bankrupt a business or lead you to waste years or even decades of your life.

The smart choice is obviously a happy medium. Too much of a "can do" attitude is just as harmful as too much of a "can't do" attitude. We all need reality checks.

And this is why diverse teams and groups are so important -- one person says "of course we can't do", another says "of course we can do", and everyone hashes it out until they've come up with a realistic assessment that is neither clouded by overly optimistic nor overly pessimistic thinking.
JavaScript performance tricks
I've been updating this for a while, hope you find it useful.
If you look at the thread, it seems to be neither, just inertia. The licensing is fine, its GPL, no different from bzr.
>The whole "I made 30 apps this year..." posts are rediculous.

I'm pretty sure those were young kids. Sure, I've seen people complaining about those types of posts in the past but I think being negative about someone's desire to learn and (perhaps) eventually build something that solves real problems is a caustic attitude.
Here's another amazing tutorial for metaclasses:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/6581949/764463

This is probably my all-time favorite StackOverflow post!
> And even in that, there's another bogus assumption, which is hidden behind the word "entrusted". No one entrusted the human species with nuclear weapons; there was no event in which God, or angels, or sufficiently advanced aliens, descended from on high, amidst clouds of incense or rocket exhaust, and bequeathed unto us the knowledge of what happens when you squeeze a ball of uranium very tightly.

---------------------

From the perspective of the vast majority, scientists entrusted us with the knowledge of how to make nuclear weapons. They could have kept quiet on that score.
The main culprits for startups' diversity problem? Investors
Thanks for your feedback. Not all of them are UI stuff, e.g the survey, the open-source warranty and the email where I asked why users had canceled. And these was the first 10, now I'm at day 36 and all of them are not about just UI. But I see your point, and the problem is mostly to be able to pull off one hack each day, many would have to be simple and easy to do, and therefore lower quality.

Regarding what actually is a growth hack or not, if it has to be new, none of my 35 hacks are a growth hack. Sharing stuff on social media would be social media marketing, blogging would be content marketing and SEO, and more fundamental "hacks" would be either a part of a business plan or just a marketing strategy.

However, my main goal of many of the things I do is to increase growth, both direct and indirect.
I don't think there is. What are you thinking of? All of userland is not GPL licensed, I don;t even think any is LGPL, so I don;t think there is any GNU there.
Ubuntu Unity for Arch Linux
That low bar is the critical aspect. Comparing public opinion of Snowden to Congress right now is like comparing public opinion of Snowden to cancer. This just in, Snowden more popular than cancer!
Oliver Reichenstein from iA did this much better in 2006. He also had a photo of a book next to a screen....

The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
http://ia.net/blog/100e2r/
Computer generated, of course. Though I have no doubt a person has the final say, screwing with the otherwise perfect randomness.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams#X-Ger.C3.A...

"Jones had already concluded the Germans used code names which were too descriptive. He asked a specialist in the German language and literature at Bletchley Park about the word Wotan. The specialist realised Wotan referred to Wōden and might therefore be a single beam navigation system."
Wow. This just happened, as I took the screenshot very early this morning. Not a big fan of the change in terms of clarity, but there's improvement in the product marketing around why their solution is better than Maildril, Amazon, etc.

Biggest thing I'm curious about from a data perspective concerns the science behind the thresholds they've set. You want to see where the break in usage or value is and make sure you capture 95% of that group. Power users of that plan are then pushed into the next plan accordingly.
Mars One announces Round 2 Astronaut Selection Results
> Ok, but then my follow up question would be: why put him in front of congress to testify in the first place? Did congress not understand that he was legally required to lie to them?

I think Congress would think that he is legally required to answer them truthfully, not to lie, and would be appalled at the suggestion that anyone could be legally required to testify falsely to them.
Kelo v. City of New London
If generic drugs are too cheap, it seems (3) is the real issue here. (2) can be accounted for by large companies if they are allowed to raise the costs of their products.

(4) wouldn't be a concern if there was room to innovate on the business model of pharmaceutical manufacturing. It seems like this sort of thing would be a great opportunity for disruption in other industries. I'm assuming that the regulatory burden makes this difficult? Car dealerships, restaurants, and grocery stores all have razor thin margins as well.
Thanksk for your thoughts! As I mentioned in another response, maybe this is best aimed at coders picking up a new technology (or non-coders becoming coders), similar to AirPair.
You'd still be going up (from the Earth's surface) and down (towards the Earth)...
The Scalable Herd
Thanks for the feedback wavesounds, and I definitely hear what you're saying. You've convinced me to make the change - we'll make sure to flag to the wider team for the next iteration!
Shining light through skin to diagnose malaria
Windows and space behind them could be faked with some tricky display setup.
MOOC's final grade: Inconclusive
And black people were lynched and denied voting rights. Women were second class citizens. Gays were beaten by the police. Those were the days !
Yep, thanks for including Buffer here (I designed this pricing page) - there's lots of improvements to be made here which will be coming soon :)
> There are so many that just loading, copying, and pasting all of them took the little script I wrote more than 20 hours.

I want to see that script.
The probability of which coin you have affects the probability of the next toss coming up heads, so having this knowledge is implicit in determining the solution.
Are those posts entitled Male Hacker-Founder AMA? I just don't see what new this brings to the table, other than perpetuating this silly conversation about the lack of x in y because of z.
Thanks, homie.

LOVE you guys with all caps intended. I'd look to Wistia as a really good example for you guys. Your value metrics follow a similar slide up and you can use that extra space for what you do best - awesome content/product marketing.
Please read something about Russian history. Most early socialists leaders were Jews. Some prominent anti-socialism authors are bordering antisemitism (Solzhenitsyn).

Places at universities were not 'for everyone'. One needed political connections, family history and bribes. If your father would emigrate to west, you may forget about higher education.

Most restricted were elite humanitarian studies (philosophy, film-making...). Technical studies were bit more free, but still had lot of restrictions.
So why doesn't the VA, Medicare, and Medicaid fund two GSEs (similar to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the housing/lending side) who are non-profits, and their only role is to provide generics and other non-patented medical/surgical devices at cost? Non-profit to remove the profit motive, two for redundancy, and sponsored by the government because sometimes healthcare shouldn't have a profit motive when the free market has failed.