skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People are always quick to point out apple fanatics. I wonder if this is due to a real widespread zealotry among apple adoptees or is it some kind of knee-jerk contrarian response to apple's marketing.

It's the conspiracy-theory level idea a few have that somehow hundrends of millions of people are delluded, and buy some products because they are taken in by marketing / fad / reality distortion fields and the like.

Now, the fact that said products win tons of industry awards, are also used by some of the most brilliant hackers in the IT industry (you can't go into a programming conference without seeing 70%+ Macbooks), doesn't seem to play any part in their theory.

That the company sells great and ever increasing volumes for 13+ years (ever since the iPod) doesn't seem to register in their minds to remove the "fad" factor.

That marketing doesn't play much role outside the US, were, in my country for example, we never see any Apple ads in the press or on TV, but still they sell very well, doesn't also seem to register with them. Or that MS, for one, spends as much and more in marketing, without getting the Zune / Surface / Windows Phone, etc off the ground.
Why have a checkbox[1], if we can't toggle it.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/WbCJQsk.png
Quoting from the Hyperloop alpha paper: "To further reduce the inertial acceleration experienced by passengers, the capsule and/or tube will incorporate a mechanism that will allow a degree of ‘banking’."

A banked turn transforms lateral acceleration into vertical within the passengers' frame of reference.
First thing I check when I read "Free" is I see what the license is (MIT/BSD). Unfortunately, you can't find out what license the theme uses until you get the actual theme. You don't get the actual theme until you put your email address in. I couldn't submit my email address until I subscribed to the newsletter (but upon trying it again in incognito I wasn't prompted to subscribe -- might have been an error on my part, although the checkbox seems borked).

I went ahead and took the plunge with a Mailinator address to see what I could find out, and it looks like there isn't any license to the themes at all. I'm not sure if this is good or bad -- if code has no license, is it a free for all?

Second thing I check is whether the free theme inserts links in the code to their own website (visible or invisible). From what I see, that is not the case with the theme I downloaded.

Looks like some great resources guys, but a little more information would be invaluable. Can't wait to try some of these out for some quick sites though :)
"Maybe, just maybe, there will come a time when we have a major smartphone company in Europe again. I'm all for it."

(FTFY :) Ericsson pioneered with the R380, Symbian was a decent smartphone OS for its day, and Nokia was Nokia)

I also want Europe to have a major smartphone company, and I say that as an overtly (and possibly overly) patriotic American. Competition and choice are good things. Duopolies are usually not good.
have you ever been near the Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris? it's 110 meters tall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arche

Your "similar" one has "26 meter tall columns", the total height looks like around 30 meters. So no, not the same.
Yes, but it doesn't do what you think it does. Feel free to try it for yourself if you don't believe me.
About the Firefox OS, you could just flash a Nexus phone and have it run on that.
Well said. This is the biggest change I've made to my resolutions this year. I'm implementing them on a fixed timeframe -- and deliberately adding deadlines to my calendar, to check my progress and reassess the resolutions.
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Well, it's a really long rambling mess. So I'll pose this question instead. I type my long replies in emacs so I'll keep tinkering with what's probably best used as a blog post (if only I blogged) or essay than an HN post.

How do we interrupt the violence if we don't try to change the cultures that the violence comes from?

EDIT:

BTW, I really do think we agree on the end goal, it's just the way to it that we differ. I understand my view and will continue to try and get it down to less than 20 pages (exaggeration, though I've likely deleted about 10 pages of material so far in restating it over and over again), I just don't understand yours yet. And since I'm the one that's not understanding, I'd rather get your view first, I might find that my long-winded reply is unnecessary.
Hackers expose phone information of 4.6M Snapchat users
I agree 100%. I used to work in an IT job for a school and there was very little for me to do for most of the summer. I asked if my contract could be adjusted so I could have a month or two off during the summer, unpaid and, like you, I was told that just wasn't feasible due to various bureaucratic concerns.

I like the idea of benefits that are not tied to the employer but to which the employer contributes some amount of money. Although at that point, might as well just pay me more and let me take care of it.
It's arguable (though I'm not sure it's actually true) that being able to write perfectly, and consistently, correctly is necessary for "an A+ writer".

But that is not the same thing as "knowing the rules". A writer may be able to write perfectly correctly without being able to enunciate any rules accurately at all.

Perhaps you play one or more sports. Could you write down accurate rules telling you how to hold and move a tennis racquet, or exactly how to flex the relevant joints when kicking a soccer ball? Of course writing is more deliberative than tennis or soccer, but a good writer isn't thinking about grammar and punctuation much more than a good sports player is thinking about joint angles and muscle groups.

Also, of course, there isn't universal agreement about what is and isn't correct, nor about what the best set of rules is for describing what's correct. For instance, if you compare the famous "Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" by Quirk and Greenbaum, and the more recent "Cambridge Grammar of the English Language" by Huddleston and Pullum, you'll find that their analyses are sometimes very different. Totally different rules, even though they're describing substantially the same language.
Personally I think it's an acceptable observation. Even if reduced levels of dietary fructose are not directly responsible for their health, it seems extremely feasible that an ordinary person could elect to follow the model of avoiding fructose, and expect to benefit, because they will replicate the patterns of fructose avoidance, healthy-food-selection and all.

Do you see what I am saying? The two unique features of these people are fructose intolerance, and avoiding fructose. Unless fructose intolerance confers health, the act of avoiding fructose must aide in health. The precise reason for the improvement in health isn't important, if all you (on an individual basis) desire is to replicate their healthful results.
California Thinks Your Time is Worthless
I don't know anyone saying Apple's success is rooted in any one thing. However, IOKit is very important, "common code for device drivers, this framework also provides power management, driver stacking, automatic configuration, and dynamic loading of drivers". Even if the entire OSX could have been implemented on top of Linux and FreeBSD reusing those kernels (and it does reuse FreeBSD for low level POSIX apis!), how productive would that have been? I honestly don't know, but I choose to trust what I read from the original developers.
Jolla are working on it ;) Even Apple started with one phone on one carrier to refine the product and process and only then did they start to scale.
FireEye buys cyber forensics firm Mandiant for about $1 billion
I hesitated to mention LifeLock, because people would immediately assume i'm doing advertising for them. I'm not. If I were shamelessly plugging I'd ask you to try meta64.com which ACTUALLY IS my own site, and also happens to be the best news aggregator in the world right now bro.
It seems like the answer is no (GS is Guy Steele): "I spent nine years on Fortress, a scientific programming language (the project is finished now, we decided to stop working on it)."

http://ezyang.tumblr.com/post/62157468762/haskell-haskell-an...

For more on purely functional parallelism, see Guy Blelloch's research (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/research.html) and CMU's algorithms course (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15210-f11/www/r...) and parallel algorithms course (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15499-s09/www), and Manticore, a parallel SML (http://manticore.cs.uchicago.edu/).
* Not sure if my response was posted on your site. Repeated here:

It seems like what you and your team really need is 'like' a Sharepoint / Dropbox for Emails where anyone (if permissions are set) can read through email content and project progression highlighted in email communication.

I recently put together a hack introducing Hashtags for Email. The idea is you hashtag important emails (in your case, most to all emails). Ex: "This Tuesday, I giving a #Project_A demo on #storage strategy at #Boxcon." This creates hashtag threads #Project_A, #storage, and #Boxcon. Non-storage team members can be invited to the thread read through the email discussion.

This stems from activity done personally, saving important content - Evernote for Email. In a team environment, email can be distributed - Sharepoint for Email.

Demo @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948659

Granted, there are differences in your team's implementation vs. hashtagging contents. i.e. email client agnostic
I have a friend who recently got a job as a software developer and has two weeks of PTO.
Scarcity (of time and money) seems to generate a bipolar pattern between extreme (and unwise) stinginess and escapist binges when they just want to take a break from being poor. I've also noticed that people who get their cash in volatile distributions (e.g. independent graphic designers) tend to have bad financial sense, because they go from perceived but false richness (someone just gave me $60,000!) to drought. I'd assume there's a similar phenomenon in VC.
Thank you. I think I need to take a closer look at this. :)
asm.js can quite easily be optimized, but V8 is not yet optimized for it. So depending on the case it might run faster or slower depending on what JavaScript engine is running it.
When cars are driving on the vertical sides of buildings, then maybe that might be impressive
> FFS, The Atlantic should be embarrassed to publish articles with "correlation is causation" fallacies of this magnitude in them. This is standard food woo thinking: "people who heavily scrutinized and evaluated everything they ate because they have a strong adverse reaction to X means that not eating X will make YOU healthy too!"

You basically just described all of epidemiology and why it has been so bad for nutritional research.
We have it at the startup I work for. I recently spent 3.5 weeks traveling around Japan and Seoul and I didn't take a computer. I think I responded to about six work emails the entire time.
The MIT guide to lock picking is rather good as well:
www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/MITLockGuide.pdf‎
The “middle class” myth: Here’s why wages are really so low today
I did read that article, and was still disappointed.

This is health 'lite', with ten day quick fixes, beauty tips and doctors telling otherwise healthy people to 'stay off the gluten'.
I would say that 2 weeks is standard for most companies for entry level positions. But worse than that, 2 weeks is standard for anyone beginning at about 50% of companies I talk to.

We'll get through an entire interview process where they know I have 15+ years of expertise and team lead level of what they are looking for, yet they still offer 2 weeks vacation.

Fortunately, I've found this to be the most easily negotiated point of the offer as it doesn't actually cost against anyone's budget. I'd put it at around 20% of companies total that absolutely can't be flexible and offer more than two weeks for a new employee at the senior level.
I've been watching this same story submitted over and over again - it's nice to see it get some traction.

In case you're wondering, the other submissions have no comments, so I won't link to them, even though the other sources may have more videos, more commentary, or better explanations. I've decided not to do the cross-referencing for a while.
We work for the same company. I've always wondered how many of us there are on HN.
That's not completely fair. There are at least 4 or 5 good epidemiologists publishing high quality research out there!@
Ask HN: Any concern with unknowingly employing/contracting NSA operatives?
Given the leaks we've seen from Snowden, perhaps these situations aren't tinfoil hat territory anymore. I don't know of any instances of such things, but it probably should be discussed a bit.

For all sorts of objectives, government spy agencies have made a science of repeatedly putting spies, moles, and compromised individuals into places of power within other major governments (and even other spy agencies). Why wouldn't the same tactics be used in much easier circumstances like placing (or 'compromising') agents who are engineers, administrators, recruiters, or contractors at important tech companies?

Hiring: Do any of you know of major tech/infrastructure companies that consider such things while recruiting/contracting?

Threat modeling: Is anyone here including such possibilities in their security threat models for workflows, networks, and software? Rogue employees seeking personal gain (and sometimes corporate espionage) has come up in threat models we've done for years, but we never really considered imaginary infiltrators from one's own government, nor more complicated scenarios (such as an entire contracting company being a front for a 3 letter agency). The typical NDAs, contracts, and legal defenses clearly don't offer much in the way of protection/demotivation for those cases.

This might be too paranoid of a topic, but I'm genuinely curious if people are seeing signs that tech companies are mulling over such possibilities now (especially given how much heat companies are taking for government involvement).
It's just easier to work with when you have to do things like iterate over dozens of game objects, each of which may or may not have certain properties or methods. Delegation is also a lot easier. So is FFI in some cases; the runtime exposes C functions for querying and even creating and updating classes. In fact, inside the (relatively tiny) ObjC runtime is a complete, COM-like object model that's less of a pain in the butt to use than COM, which is why ObjC was so central to NeXT's software-componentry plans in the good old days (WebObjects, etc.).

Obviously you don't want to have any method calls on code paths that need to be super fast, but I'm not afraid of using straight C for those. It's a 2D engine; and from the profiling I've done, drawing and updating the screen still dominates the CPU time used, and it works fast enough even on many, many years old hardware, so I'm not worried about performance.
I think that viaduct has been blown up in at least a 1/2 dozen movies. :-)
I don't know. As a SaaS buyer (occasionally) I have to take strong disagreement with some of the points. For instance the first two sites links--first bad, second good. Both show pricing structure, the "bad" one shows a feature list with a bunch of check boxes. I wish more vendors did this. I look at it and I know what I'm getting with the basic plan. I know what each increment buys me.

I look at the second example--the "good" example--and the basic plan looks like it gives me---nothing. So now I have to go to some other marketing page, read the description, then, in my head, subtract all the great things that higher tiers give me to figure out what exactly I'd get with the base tier. Having it all in one place is preferable to me. The second problem with the "good" site is by summarizing feature each plan comes with, rather than being more specific, they are assuming that they know what is important to me. What if I could care less (and this has happened to me several times) about some big picture feature, and just need the version that provides database X integration? More clicking, and more likelihood that I buy a higher specced plan that I actually need.

And that is where I think these come from. Not a desire clearly layout what you get for your money, but a desire to obfuscate just enough with requisite marketing to push you towards more expensive options.
Facebook’s reporting algorithm abused to silence pro-science advocates
Lets suppose you're selling a B2B analytics product where the minimum commitment is $5K/month for 6 months. Using this product to maximum value will require some training QA, CS and possibly dev staff in your organization. Is there any chance that a customer would purchase this product without calling the vendor in person and probably arranging several meetings between the vendor and key stakeholders in the customer's company? More to the point, would the customer even consider purchasing the product unless they expected to get a 10X ROI on the investment? I don't see how publishing the price is advantageous at all to the vendor (since they want to price discriminate) or a dealbreaker for the customer (since they will have to reorganize to use the product and expect to get a massive return anyway).
Ideological fixations can lead people to believe what they want to believe
> I, working with grad students at UCSF and elsewhere, have picked apart the materials and methods of his studies and found numerous statistical errors which make us doubt the validity of his conclusions.

Have you published your work anywhere? I'd like to read it.
Booking.com vs airbnb: Is your online service ‘tabloid’ or ‘quality paper’?
Whenever I teach a course in advanced Python, the people asking for the training specifically request/demand that I talk about metaclasses. This is almost certainly because they (1) want an advanced class, and (2) metaclasses are advanced. So yeah, I cover them to some degree in my courses, but I give plenty of advance warning that we're looking at this because it's fascinating to see how some of the deeper recesses of Python classes work, not because this will truly be useful.

Sure enough, when I'm done with my explanation, the participants agree that metaclasses are really something that they're not planning to touch or use. And then I repeat my claim (which isn't original with me at all) that decorators are easier to understand and maintain, and should be used instead.

I totally agree that learning to write readable, testable code is a far better use of time. (I include that in my classes, too... but people rarely request that, I'm afraid...)
I decided to try it out since I have fidgety hands and I figured I could practice while I read articles and such.

I was disappointed at how easy it ended up being. Every lock I purchased I could pick within a few seconds with a rake, or maybe 60 seconds with a hook, so I just gave it up.

I splurged once and got one of the top brands meant for homes. It took more concentration and you couldn't just rake it, but I still got to where I could open it in under a minute.

I'm talking about maybe 20 hours total spent on developing this skill. A complete novice, only understanding how to use the tools, can open any wally world bought padlock with a rake in seconds.
Shameless plug here, check out my iPhone app Begin: http://beginapp.co/

It's goal is to be an extremely simple to-do list. I'd love to hear what you guys think.
Sorry, nope. The content of discussions in journal clubs are generally considered confidential.
Difficult to find a decent picture of it but both the Amtrak/NJT trains and Lincoln tunnel offramp pass through 450 West 33rd Street in Manhattan.

http://i.imgur.com/NgeSIDZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bEeGinN.jpg
I prefer to read biochemistry books. this is my current bible http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-G...

Every single hospital-ward double blind clinical trial over the last 100 years says exactly the same thing: net energy balance is what determines how fat you are, no matter the macronutrient content of the diet.

Nutrition's role in lifelong health is a LOT more complicated. What your lifetime Vitamin D levels probably matters a lot. But over a lifetime, eating a diet of mostly whole foods, and in amounts scaled to activity is going to give you benefits that will completely drown out what kind of fat you ate over the last 30 years or if you ate pop tarts for breakfast.

My point is, if you're fat and unfit, it's not any particular macronutrient's fault.
I did some poking around, and the license information can be found here: http://www.blacktie.co/about-themes/

It uses the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Athletes don't push themselves to extremes during training - I remember reading about the training schedule of a pro cyclist (Cavendish IIRC), and it was a lot lighter than my usual day. He was getting up early, doing a couple of hours in the morning, lunch+siesta, then another couple of hours in the afternoon. And nice and early to bed. (He also had someone to cook for him, do his washing, etc. etc.)

Racing is of course a different matter, but even the hardest working athlete (say during the playoffs or a major tournament) is only playing every other day. The Tour de France riders are some of the hardest working, but even then the top riders are only expected to actually be competitive in one major race per year...
Why would you even care to give an excuse to anyone? We need to take vacations because that is one of the reasons we work so hard. If we didn't need vacations, if we didn't want to eat what we love and do things to spoil ourselves, might as well give up everything and go live in a jungle.
You're probably right, I only looked at the path.

Thanks for the followup.
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Stalin killed millions, mostly Russians. For example huge part of army officers were executed just before German invasion.

He hated everyone, Jews were not exception.
Jolla is satisfying pent-up demand for their phone

That's the biggest one, IMO. Launch numbers are largely meaningless, let's see how it's doing in two months, let alone six month's time.
I devised for myself a no-sugar "dog food" recipe to use for all breakfasts and lunches for the rest of my life, and dinners when what the family eats is not suitable. Contrasting with my diet before, there is a noteworthy decrease in the amount of time I spend thinking about food now.

Before, I would have cravings and seek out food when I wasn't really hungry. Now, when I get hungry, I eat until I am no longer hungry, then stop. Afterward, I'm not hungry and not thinking at all about food for at least the next 6-12 hours. The hardest part is coordinating social meal schedules with people who now seem to be either eating or talking about food almost constantly.

Without sugar, I don't feel deprived or lacking one bit. And since my "dog food" is mainly comprised of three commodity food ingredients, it's very easy on the budget, too. I have noticed myself becoming more smug, though, so I have to be careful not to judge other people for their food choices.
Shorter Cato: "CA thinks your time is worthless. As libertarians, we think its value should be decided on the open market, where it is currently valued at... zero."

Seriously. Managing the effects on existing residents of traffic congestion caused by new development is a CLASSIC example of a situation where the free market utterly falls down.

You'll note a conspicuous absence of any actual solutions suggested in the piece. Cato could have shortened the whole article to "California is run by commies!! BLEEECH!!"
The Origin of Chinese Internet, and Where It’s Headed