skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was contacted and offered some payments to start including some sort of ads in my Chrome extension. As I understood it, it would inject ads and/or replace links on web pages with affiliate links.

I declined their offer.
In your posts, you demonstrated neither category of qualities, and thus deserve to be down-voted in either "world". (The real world is in between anyways, and it is the only world that counts.) The only expertise you demonstrate is in being a prick.
I think the author is complaining about the opposite: Mozilla is now making available GPS coordinates from volunteer's contributions, which could be used to determine where a volunteer lives.
Ron the racist and daisy doodle
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What is the rationale for believing that there are more than 30 good links?

Why is this a function of the size of the HN community?

Why wouldn't a larger front page create a situation in which it was easier for collusion to move a post to a prominent position?
The problem with this article is that the author's field is full of experts who have wildly different opinions. There is no way to appeal to expertise in this situation. For example, he says

> The death of expertise is a rejection not only of knowledge, but of the ways in which we gain knowledge and learn about things. Fundamentally, it’s a rejection of science and rationality, which are the foundations of Western civilization itself. Yes, I said “Western civilization”: that paternalistic, racist, ethnocentric approach to knowledge that created the nuclear bomb, the Edsel, and New Coke, but which also keeps diabetics alive, lands mammoth airliners in the dark, and writes documents like the Charter of the United Nations.

But there are many experts in sociology who would ask us precisely to reject science, rationality and Western Civilization.

I think a far better approach is to educate all people better, so they are able to properly appreciate the knowledge of experts because they understand the field. One aspect of this would be teaching a lot more statistics, although the classical fields of debate and critical reasoning are also important.

Another problem is that many people, especially academics, think it is more important to push a particular agenda, than to make the public more informed in general. Hence people who want to promote gay rights, for example, don't want people to know that the probability getting AIDS from heterosexual intercourse with a White woman is extremely low. But in order to do this, they have to actively lower people's understanding of probability and statistics. They have to teach people to ignore their (admittedly imperfect) intuition about conditional probability.
One thing you can do at home is the cooking (including buying the food and the washing up). It is not hard to do if it is something you always do.

Serve up a great meal prepared from actual ingredients and enjoy eating it - plus the conversation that goes with it. If you can do this then you are likely to succeed at home.

If you can make cooking something you enjoy then that becomes an 'inline hobby', i.e. something to care about, enjoy and look forward to doing. It does not need extra time. You can feel good about yourself for doing it if what you serve is well appreciated. But you have to do it as soon as you get in, put your feet up, watch teevee, allow an hour to pass and it all goes wrong.
Yes, but so what? Sometimes a little IDE love is a lot easier and more productive than changing your entire stack to use a different language/tool. Verbosity is a downside which might be more than offset by other upsides. It might certainly be beneficial to change your stack, but that's usually a very big decision that might have some serious and unforeseen consequences. Verbosity alone is rarely reason enough to make a switch.
I very clearly remember the week this clicked in my brain. Being very successful, really crushing it, and whining to my wife that the company should give more vacation, and her reminding me that I had been at work on Christmas Eve. My whole perspective collapsed around that instant. I could see the hit in career path I was going to take by changing my perspective, but I decided to do it anyway. And I have always been glad I made that choice.

The challenge is there will always be people who are willing (either consciously or unconsciously) to throw away their family and personal relationships in order to pursue success in their career, and it is difficult, if not impossible to compete against them with the 'balanced life' bit set.
Blog article about ltrace tool.
For what it's worth the previous generation X1 Carbon has a "new style" keyboard, but with a completely standard layout. It feels great, too. If you don't mind older hardware, I'd thoroughly recommend it.
In Assam, an Idea Whose Time Has Not Yet Come
I don't see any reason to believe that the primary reason for greater surveillance is to enhance security. The terrorists plots are mainly fabricated to increase the control structures of the state in order to maintain or increase its powers.
Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker?
Oops, yeah, I wanted to change the title...
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Metadata-as-a-Service for you!
Forgot to mention that we're using Akamai, and it's actually Akamai's servers that are hitting the limit. We'll see if we'll be able to convince them to bump up the limit. I have a hunch that there might be some resistance because of performance implications (I'm not an operations guy, my knowledge of how web servers work internally is limited). On the other hand, it seemed to intermittently work, so there may be some servers in their farm that are configured differently. Or it could have been due to fluctuations in the header length because of different query string lengths and cookie changes.
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Out of curiosity, how to purely functional data structures compare with classic mutable data structures in terms of real hardware performance? From what I hear, they are useful if you are into functional purity, and sometimes if you are doing certain parallel programming tasks, but suffer significant overhead outside that domain, but I would like to hear of any specific evidence people have in either direction.
Nasty Spotify bug on ios & android costing mobile subscribers huge overage fees
Bugsweeper Full Screen. JS game like Minesweeper but with bugs ;)
A reasonable approximation is to model a sine wave per region with peak amplitude based on typical usage patterns. For example entertainment services will peak in evenings and at weekends, business services will peak during typical core hours Monday to Friday.
With enough users spread across enough regions you never have a good time for all users so in practice it is better to engineer things so you can do deploys / maintenance whenever is best for the teams working on the service.
I don't think you understand how the EU works. You don't have to "deal with... 50 different legal systems" just the one you are based in. That's the beauty of the EU, free movement of goods, people and capital.

You can manufacture a car in Austria and sell it in Portugal without there being ANY barriers, except those imposed in Austria... which is the same legal framework as in Portugal and the rest of EU countries.

The EU economic and trade integration is in many cases more homogenous than that in the US between states.
> What's a tofferie, by the way?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toff
As soon as I see an article entitled "the death of x" or "n xs that y" I just skip it. Not everything is worth reading.
Radio's answer to Spotify: less variety
Why do you assume working on his project doesn't bring him happiness?

Also, though I'm sure you are well-meaning, advising strangers how they ought to live their life makes you sound like a prick.
To me, "a nasty abomination of a product space" reads like "a product space which is a nasty abomination". The "only related ..." bit is good, but it comes much later in the article; it's the early bits that I think are liable to confuse.

I do appreciate, by the way, that explaining nontrivial mathematics to anything other than an audience of very good mathematicians is really bloody hard!
You're missing the point. Google and Apple are trusted sources in the real world. In the real world, people say things like "I have an Android" and advertisements say "Get a free Android with contract" If the distinction there is lost, I don't think you can expect the general consumer to know that Google isn't a "trusted source" by the definition of FSF advocates, right? Nor, I would contest, that they need to.

>Hardly, if this kind of thing is allowed in their marketplace.

They'll move on this just like they started actively patrolling the Play Store for malware. Because they are a trusted source, even if they aren't an FSF definition of trusted source.
> Is the goal solely to avoid having to explicitly state the type of the target collection?

Pretty much.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722726/is-the-scala-2-8-...
It's not a question of the word "jest" having anything wrong with it, and I think you mistake my point somewhat if your impression was that I was offended by the author’s rhetoric.

In North America, one does not hear the word “jest” that often. It is a perfectly decent word, but it is also — along with other turns of phrase employed here — symptomatic of a particular discourse that makes assertions regarding social order and fundamental power relationships between humans.

My objection is not to the author’s rhetoric. My objection is that the article suggests it will help the reader conquer the ‘fear’ of tensors while still using language that confronts the reader with an anxious situation. He is bluntly interpolating an elite — those with a notion of belonging to an elite — and presenting material as a test of membership in that category.

This is a good way to teach smart kids who are strongly motivated by the notion of belonging to a high(er) ranking peer group. (In the short term, at least.) It is a very, very bad way to teach anyone who has learned, consistently, that this language specifically disincludes them, and it is bad enough when it comes to teaching those who have learned that they are not, in fact, a member of any sort of intellectual elite.

“Tofferie” is a (probably misspelt) inferred word; that is, there is no such word, but its meaning is readily deducible. A “toff” is a person who displays mannerisms associated with wealth and status; the usage of this word in the North American context would be an example of the sort of signalling I am talking about.

I’ve met professors, both associate and full, in various social contexts; I probably have a very ordinary (or even mundane) impression of academics.
You notice it's rarely the physics professors, or the (good) programming teachers, or the medical profs going, 'Our students don't respect our expertise any more'?

Expertise needs to grant you a visible advantage in some way, or of course people aren't going to respect it. You can respect experts with computers very easily, they can do things you can't, or they can do things you can much more easily.

Expertise in other areas is similar. Trained doctors produce measurably better outcomes than laymen and the system in which they're trained is trustable enough, and the systems they practice in are generally well designed enough, that it's pretty common wisdom to trust doctors. Of course not everyone does, but then again people have believed in crap like homeopathy for a long time, that's nothing new.

Experts in philosophy? Social science? English? That's a lot harder to measure, and to then be sure that you've got someone who's a well-vetted member of the expert group, rather than someone with a degree who's spamming noise is harder still. Not that I'm saying that they are, just that the visible manifestations of their expertise are very hard for the average person to see in some areas.

And let's face it, as students - by and large - aren't expected to do particularly hard things any more in most subject areas, that provides less and less opportunity for the expert to demonstrate their skill even when someone has the rare opportunity of interacting with them.

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> Once upon a time — way back in the Dark Ages before the 2000s — people seemed to understand, in a general way, the difference between experts and laymen. There was a clear demarcation in political food fights, as objections and dissent among experts came from their peers — that is, from people equipped with similar knowledge. The public, largely, were spectators.

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And thus you can't say either way whether they respected you enough to change their opinion, at least not based solely on that observation. Their thoughts simply weren't on display.
It's easy to write about what you should have done after you've made it through the gauntlet.
You know what else is on the decline? Listening to your voice messages. What people do is note that you called and then call you back later, having never listened to the message that you left. Kinda makes sense. The primary message in 99% of the cases is definitely "hey I called, call me back". We should go back to beepers.
Since we're lionizing crazy paranoid conspiracy theorists, please add me to the list of people to praise.

My conspiracy theory is that Satoshi Nakamoto is the NSA.
That's a valuable info, thanks for sharing.
I already do :(

I think, it's in best interest of the people in power, that the campaign is so costly. When you look at the presidents of the last decades (I don't know to much US history, to go back to far), they all where already millionaires when they where elected.

But you should better watch this one, I don't know if you know Lessig (I think, he is a real patriot):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g

In our country, the campaigns are less costly, but until anybody comes to the top of any major party, he must be inwardly corrupted already. I see it this way, that nearly no current leading politician in our country is not already totally corrupted by money and power. I think, Mark Twain had this one right, but I don't think, that it had to be exported, it seems to lay inside the human kind. I think it was already visible in the first republics like Rome. Maybe we are in a similar position today as in Caesars or even Neros time.

You should know, that some years ago, even in Europe, rich people started building places to live for millionaires -- apart and secure from the "plebs". They provide for times, when the 99% will no longer hold still. Of course, millionaires are only third class "rich" people in our world. Second class are billionaires.
> Europeans, though are certainly enthusiastic, are not going to go for 80h/week workloads, not even as founders.

I think it's more abstract. Europeans are much, much less likely to find understanding among friends and family for the idea of making sacrifice of any kind (of which long hours is only one kind) for "work".

Europeans are much less likely to understand the idea that a startup isn't "a job" and that starting your own business isn't just something you do to work from home, have less hours and (especially) not have a boss.

It's all on average and stereotyped, but it's definitely my feeling.

Also, it's just very, very suspect to want to get ahead. It's impolite to admit, but I can't help but think it's a damper om ambition, and with no ambition, there can be no Silicon Valley scale startups.
Dear journalists and bloggers. Please stop mentioning Weev. Never associate him with anything you want to succeed. He is a completely awful human being, and yes his arrest was inappropriate, but you shouldn't make him a champion of your cause unless you'd make an antisemitic highschool-anarchist your spokesperson.
Another reason to know a bit of Java is that a lot of interesting software design books and articles use code examples written in Java. It's good to have a basic understanding of the language to be able to follow.
Is it scraping, or just presenting the data from a feed?
If you intend to honestly leverage expertise and experience

And:

If you believe that anger and defensiveness harm rational thinking.

And:

That being rude is liable to make people angry and defensive.

Then - regardless of what world you'd rather live in - being condescending and arrogant seems liable to be ill aligned with your aims.
Any chance you can add our site to it? http://www.techendo.co/feed.rss

How are you collecting what sites to follow?
Also, Symfony 2 makes it almost trivial to build cli applications.
Enjoyed this post - reminds me of something i wrote last year on the same subject http://paulstamatiou.com/simplify/
First thing I did on my new sim card is call my provider and disable voice mail.

Most annoying feature ever, if I don't pick up, just send a text - 90+% of voicemail I ever received anyway was someone's pocket for 10minutes
Show some evidence to support your claims and it will be taken into consideration.
This recalls a recent article that made the rounds of various news sites: A 1929 book perfectly captures the distrust of authority, the distrust of elites we so clearly see in our modern, digital society.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/05/the-smartes...
I think you're on the right direction.

About the ambition aspect, it's not so much as "dampened" but also a dose of "they don't see a point in too much ambition" or of "doing it just to be n. 1", and they certainly want to reach the top, but enjoying the ride as well.
Why use any extensions ever?
Kinesis recently started selling "linear feel" Advantages, which are Cherry Blues.
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The trouble I had was in the first sentence:

> I am (or at least think I am) an expert. Not on everything, but in a particular area of human knowledge, specifically social science and public policy.

At least as far as the US is concerned, public policy encompasses everything. So as far as I can tell, this person really is claiming to be an expert on everything.

"Social science" does not fair much better. NOAD helpfully supplies "the scientific study of human society and social relationships". That seems to be a substantially broad claim, on the level of claiming to be an expert in, say, physical science. While there certainly are a few people who might make a competent application for that title (Feinman comes to mind), it seems to stretch the meaning of "expert", as Feinman's expertise in, say, biology, is of a substantially different sort than his expertise in particle physics.

I think the author may be falsely attributing his frustration about being heard to the "generational" "disregard for experts" instead of his own inability to defend an overly broad claim of expertise. If this article was "I am an expert in how much money we should be spending on space exploration and nobody is listening to me" then that would be an interesting, and entirely different, discussion. As it stands it's just tilting at windmills.
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If conspiracy theorists come with sufficient facts to make a good case, it becomes useful, and then it is the news. Until then, well, good for you, keep looking, but don't expect anyone to care about your passtime until you have enough solid evidence to convince us. The false positive rate is too high to pay attention before then.
I've heard that Clojure support is good in most popular IDEs/editors.
That's a great idea. Another way of doing this is to use Google map. Google map already knows your location for their collection of traffic data [1], they could cross reference this to when they car leaves a parking location. The emptying of the car park is notified to Google map. Trouble is the data is only available to Google.

[1] http://www.theconnectivist.com/2013/07/how-google-tracks-tra...
Your entire argument is a non sequitur.

Also if you really believe that conspiracies have no effect on the average person's daily life, that's just being hopelessly deluded.
Tofferies are things done by toffs that show they are toffs, where "toff" is a snooty, upper crust, elitist, aristocratic twit who holds commoners in contempt. Or so I learned while working in the UK.

It's all a part of the jargon of British class warfare. We have toffs in the US (Fraser Crane was a good example), but when Hollywood wants to create the ultimate toff, one whose every vowel drips with contempt and condescension, they will always give him a certain British toff accent that screams toff to every native English speaker--even those of us who don't know the word toff.
Thanks. Sorry I mis-remembered the flag(s) from memory. And be sure you're using both, to make sure the separate profiles do not share the same process or something like that (again, from memory; Google can quickly turn up the details).
> I'm really having trouble with the notion, common on HN, that programmers don't need to understand or be able to code simple data structures.

Well, do they? Being able to code simple data structures is not a pre-requisite to being paid to write code.

I can't base this statement on cold hard numbers, but I feel comfortable stating that the majority of dev positions in the world today do not require this particular skill set.

Thus : no, they (programmers) don't need to be able to understand or be able to code simple data structures.

If the inverse were true - namely, that a large percentage or majority of dev work required knowledge of and the ability to implement basic data structures - then you would be quite correct.

> You might feel OK about what you're doing now, but a career spent redesigning unit test suites and coming up with ever- more- elaborate HTML templating schemes is unlikely to be fulfilling.

That's a bit dismissive. Also, are you speaking generally or referring to me as an individual?
nice! HN should use this list for the domain display.
Sadly enough, the average commute time in Sao Paulo (Brazil) is 4h daily.

10 million people live here after almost a century of chaotic, totally unplanned growth. Currently there are 7 million vehicles licensed in the city, with more than 1000 brand new hitting the streets daily (3.8 million considered "active").

At the peak hours, main streets look like parking lots - 500km of jammed streets is not uncommon on a typical day, worst if it is raining (and it rains a lot in summer). Public transportation is crap, so people prefer to suffer inside their own cars - at least they can sit, have AC and music (and even being forbidden, I see people watching television all the time). Sometimes after a big rain fall there are floodings and thousands of citizens can't even make home.

I'm lucky enough to telecommute (why do I live in such a hellish metropolis if I'm able to work from home is a very good question). Once or twice a week I go out for some meeting riding my Yamaha Tenere at 60km/h (40 mph) between the jammed traffic[1]. By average 3 motorcycle riders die daily splitting lanes like this, and yearly traffic kills are higher than the casualties at Bagdad and Afghanistan together (on both sides).

[1] http://www.mundomoto.esp.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/corre...
Right, they were also saying a great many things that are not true at all. Its easy to point out the couple of true predictions in hindsight.
Having mostly only seen each, I am unsure how K and J compare.

http://www.jsoftware.com/
You're entitled to your view and I won't disagree with some of it ... but shady accounting practices? What are you alleging exactly?
Ha.

Skolkovo is just another way to steal money from the taxpayers under the guise of innovation. Which they already did: $3.72 billion dollars (125 bullion rubles).

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/skolkovo-warned-o...