skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With this much concern in the community a fork actually isn't a silly idea.
Anyone prepared to actually fork this thing?
Anyone have other name suggestions?
The ups and downs of trampolining
Re: grading in blackboard, oh fuck is it bad. I invariably download the component grades, work out the custom grade on my computer, and reupload.
Don't get caught and you won't be arrested. Further, you can probably spot weaknesses in a machine that can't construct new strategies outside its programming or has to be controlled remotely.
It used to be the case that social justice warriors getting offended whenever their pet cause is looked the wrong way had an overwhelming presence in comments and impressions. With such ridiculous think-of-teh-womynz brouhahas breaking out every few weeks, it is telling (and encouraging) that more people of the generally neutral silent majority start speaking up against the silliness. Keep it up, "bro" :)
>Your attitude and remarks are creating a hostile and uncomfortable environment for me. I demand that you stop immediately.

I don't understand the point you are making. If your remarks were making me feel uncomfortable wouldn't you expect me to say so? Why not?
3 entries for alias -- submit your own example with "bro add alias"

# make 'sis' equivalent to 'bro'
alias sis=bro

bro thanks to upvote (1)
bro ...no to downvote (0)

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"Just as confident as you are now of the law?"

Well, yes. But that's primarily because I am not currently confident in the law.
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Fallacy fallacy much?
Another similar program is the `cheat` Ruby gem, http://cheat.errtheblog.com/.
ebooks are brilliant as reference books. You can search and access them on multi devices almost every where.
Plenty of schools will you just usually will have to take some undergrad courses like jlund said to make sure you have the knowledge.

Source: doing this from a mechanical engineering degree this year.

What I did, went and talked to my local university's CS advisor to see how I could pursue a degree in CS and they suggested that instead of a second bachelors I go for a MS.

So if you have a local college you would like to go to or if your alma mater has a degree program that interests you I suggest making an appointment with an advisor to talk about options. Many times you can start off non-degree and switch to degree seeking grad after a set amount of hours.
Hahahahaha! Really?

>Slashdot "OMG Ponies" April Fool's Day joke

REALLY?!
Common sense 101 teaches that this can only be true after some point.

In the case of this particular "101", that point is not yet met. However, when the cost of 6.4 miles of single-lane is $72 million, it does get a bit pricey. [1]

They are planning to add another TOLL/HOV lane for most of the corridor, and open up the existing HOV to TOLL. You might get to drive it in 2018! But I don't see cost estimates for that one yet. [2]

[1] - http://www.vta.org/projects-and-programs/highway/us-101-auxi...

[2] - http://www.vta.org/projects-and-programs/highway/us-101-expr...
My point was that the person I was responding to is wrong: that not everyone would want a stranger to try and help them in every situation, and that sometimes not helping a stranger in mortal danger really is the ethical choice.

I'm aware that we don't know nearly enough details here to judge what he should have done; I was responding to the emotive response that we should laud every attempt to help someone in danger.
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I was at that water fight. I was headed to a party afterwards so I stopped at a liquor store to buy a sixpack. The lady at the counter looked at me very weird, asking me repeatedly if I was okay. I didn't think much of it and just answered "sure". Just before I packed my beers, her manager stepped over to me and asked me the same thing, so this time, I was getting a bit irritated. He then explained to me "Sir, it's just that your eyes are very red and your clothes appear to be damp, so we're not sure we should be selling you alcohol right now...".

It took some explaining.
Perhaps I'm rubbish at it, but I felt like the AI in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was fantastic.
IPython is great, but that was the most unconvincing article I've ever read.
My deity, what an absolutely sickening comparison.

The simple fact is that the 1% have achieved grossly disproportionate wealth thanks to the inherent self-reinforcing nonlinear distribution of rewards from capitalism itself, massively aided and abetted by a corrupt financial system.
Indeed it is mainly the latter which is at fault.

In short, Tom, you and your companions may (or may not) deserve to be rich as a result of cannily buying and selling other people's labors, but you certainly don't deserve to be as rich as your are.
Could you please share a few examples?
The theory of evolution should encompass techniques, politics and non-organic tools as part of more a capable existence that is bigger than anthropocentrism and organicentrism. That the rifle and the soldier are a machine together, just as a rifle on wheels. How the rifle got there doesn't matter but what does matter is the decision process of whether it fires or not. Right now, the ROE for USM legally requires an officer to approve any kill order made remotely (drone strike). That might not always be the case going forward, especially for secret wars as well as adversaries that just want any kind of revenge.
I really like this. I'm going to go ahead and add it to my ~/.bashrc, because I feel weird about typing bro a lot:

alias tin='bro'
Hy: The Logical choice
Its a free world...if you don't like it, fork it? Isn't that the open source approach, rather than telling volunteers what to do?
No, let's merely be aware of what we come up with when we use our sense of humor and wordplay.

I'm not tremendously offended by the name, but I'm put off enough that I can't be arsed to actually click the link and see what these things are. It's simply in bad taste.

Imagine if somebody built a new version of ksh that had three times as much stuff, and they decided to call it kkksh.

This is not the same degree, but it's the same basic thing. It's just distasteful and dumb.

Witty wordplay can sometimes get away with being distasteful if it's sufficiently good. But "bro page" isn't good.

And note that none of this is based on my guess at what other people would think. I simply don't like it much myself.
The likely logic behind shutting down Picnik would have been to lessen the competition to Google+.
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At least in American and British English, "Christ", "Jesus", and "Jesus Christ" are used as exclamations:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/jesus-...
This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_learning_environment
This doesn't make any sense. When you two adversaries with global ballistic nuclear weapons, you're not going to have a winner even if one side has "killer robots", unless those robots have the ability to stop what happens when the opposing side pushes the big red button. Right now they don't.
Yeah, that's wrong.

UNsigned applets by default run in the sandbox; signed applets (including self-signed) run with full permissions unless you specify otherwise in the HTML and in the JAR manifest (where you can explicitly request sandbox-only execution).
As for 2, I'm currently studying at a university that this occurred in, I'm not sure if it was the same one, however mine was in the north east of England.

One of the reasons that was given (and which I felt was totally reasonable in this case) was that Microsoft provided assurances that the university could manage their own data, and none of it would ever leave the UK - something which Google couldn't do.

This was pre-Snowden, however I suspect that this was a big reason why Microsoft was chosen over Google.
Bad news for Yutu rover
I miss Datasoft's Alternate Reality.
Terrible tragedy for this man's family and friends.

I wonder if I ever find myself on the platform hearing screams for help coming from down in the tracks... is it reasonable advice to just scream back at the person to lie down between the tracks -- what's the clearance?

Apparently sometimes enough, but not always, says Gawker/Reddit. [1] The 'best advice' is run like hell to the far end of the platform, and there should be a ladder there.

[1] - http://gawker.com/5965694/what-to-do-if-you-fall-onto-the-su...
That explanation didn't make any sense at all. What do you mean group together? In a mining pool? That already exists with bitcoin.

Also, how is predictable behavior a bad thing? Perhaps the US mint should have super-mint months where they print 20 times as much currency as they usually do.
According to the author, it runs better with Firefox than Chrome.

You may also have to tweak the cycles/frameskip parameters, assuming it's possible with this version. The tweaks rely on modifiers + function keys combinations. I don't know if the browsers will pass them properly to JS.
For real? Someone does a play on words with man pages and we end up with a 546 comment thread about SJW bullshit?

Unbelievable. Someone does a cool thing and the discussion is about the name they chose for it. Not what it does, not what problem it solves, but because someone, somewhere, might have an issue with the name.

Concentration on the minutae of mostly irrelevant things instead of stuff that actually matters, like function and effect. Basically everything a developer hates.

What the fuck.
> if anybody knows how to use PHP properly I'd think it is somebody who has worked at Facebook, and you can't just dismiss natmaster's complaints with hand-waving that he must not have been doing it right.

Well, considering the scenario he described in his own post, it's obvious that PHP wasn't used in the right way. Working at facebook itself, unfortunately, means nothing as i have no idea how their code actually is and what natmaster was doing there.

> Well for what it's worth, I keep reading that from people whose exposure to programming languages and techniques is limited to making LOB applications in PHP and maybe one or two other lowest-common denominator languages.

For what is worth, i've seen PHP applied with different patterns and architectures in scenarios that were pretty wide, powering millions of contacts daily. It's probably because of this that i learnt that it's actually a well-done language whose only fault is that it isn't popular among engineers and mostly used by amateurs. But this has nothing to do with the language itself.
If it's apparently so difficult to learn how to use it 'properly', maybe it's just a shitty language.
This is a good example of the Tu quoque[1] logical fallacy. Just because America may have its own problems, or be hypocritical in some sense, does not mean that they should not criticise the international community. Hypocrisy does not invalidate the argument.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
On their own websites, nothing was the same across classes. I'd have to learn how to use the site again every time I took a new class.

I guess I had the advantage of less "creative" professors. Most of them did pretty much the same thing with the course web site. Click the "Syllabus" link to see the syllabus, click the "Homework Assignments" link to see the list of problem sets, etc.
Someone else in the thread suggested 'tin', which I love!

"What does 'curl' do?"

"Does what it says on the tin page."

$ tin curl
# get the contents of a web page
curl https://news.ycombinator.com/
BT already do this in the UK with their infinity routers, they run a separate public channel (BTWiFi), I've got one in my flat right now.

Anyone can connect to it for free if you're a BT customer elsewhere or you can pay. It doesn't effect my bandwidth as most plans are unlimited anyway.
Putting Tom Perkins Into Context
Agreed. SAP wouldn't be in business if that were the case.
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Mh, not sure what you mean here. As you know 11 programming languages, you might be aware that "knowing your tools" is always valid and goes far beyond syntax itself. PHP is as capable as complete as any other language. Reasons behind most devs "hate" are mostly minor things and mostly a matter of taste.
Hey dude, here's a hint: perhaps these women are arguing on social media because guys like you fail to give them the basic modicum of respect as a human being, and they have to spend time fighting to be respected, which takes away from their time to build stuff. Whereas, unlike your privileged life wherein people don't fundamentally deny you basic human respect, you have plenty of time to spend on doing things you enjoy, rather than getting people to treat you like an equal human being.

Beyond that, the entire rest of your comment reeks of sexist views (prejudiced biases against women), so I’m probably already wasting my time trying to get you to open your mind slightly to the possibility that perhaps nobody here is "cowing" to anyone, that being "politically correct" is actually the admirable and proper way of being a decent human being (aka "not being an asshole"), that people favor those leaders who listen to complaints from within their communities rather than those who behave like dicks and tell huge numbers of people to go away, like you're suggesting. But if you entertain these ideas for some time and express a genuine desire to learn, rather than find support for your skewed and misinformed perspectives on how the industry (and society) works in the dark recesses of a community that was once full of people sharing your harmful worldview, then I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.
On the subject of all-nighters and sleep debt:

You might be surprised at what a difference just a few hours of sleep + and afternoon nap can make. The downside is that it's really hard to wake up at that point (due to sleep inertia as the article calls it) and you feel really crappy- probably crappy enough that you might think "I'd feel better if I had just stayed up", and you wouldn't be wrong.

However, the upside is that you will be much more clear-headed later on than if you had stayed up. My personal guess is that after about 3 hours, most of the neurotransmitter metabolite soup has been cleaned up in your brain, and the rest of the normal sleep cycle is maintenance and repair (very important, but not 100% essential to basic functioning for a typical 8-hour work period).

I always ask myself whether I really need to be up all night or I could afford to spare a few hours for sleep.
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Standing firm on something dumb is not a matter of integrity. Backbone and integrity mean you do what's right even under pressure not to. Sticking with this name isn't right. It's not particularly wrong, but it's not some noble thing.
My suggestion:

1) Go to a college you have some connection to (e.g. the one you graduated from), find a decision maker who has authority to BUY your BB killer.
2) Sit down with him/her - see if they are interested at all. If not - try a couple of more times and forget about it - it's easier to fulfill the market, not create it
3) Now if they are interested - create a product they are willing to pay for (very important), sign them up.
4) Ask that decision maker or any other professors who are happy with your product to introduce you to their friends at other colleges.
5) Repeat

I think the problem with most companies who tried an failed is that they assumed that if they build a better product - colleges will pay for that. In many cases it does not work this way.
It's not neccessarily $300/year.

I got a code-signing cert (for the applets at eMusicTheory.com) for $75 plus the annoyance of proving my company was legitimate. Here's the guide I used as a starting point: http://srcbin.blogspot.fr/2010/04/tucowscomodo-code-signing-...

People who want to make a point about the awfulness of an option they're not taking don't usually search very hard to find the best price.
Must be an American thing then, I'm European, for me "bro" is just short for brother and it is a term of endearment. It's not hard for english speaking humans all around the world to arrive at a natural abbreviation such as "Bro" without being exposed to isolated pockets of misuse. We certainly did.

I'll continue to use the word "bro" because in my timezone (and on a few on either side) it's not a term of offence.
This is a cool concept, and I added myself to the mailing list.

However, I do wish there was something - anything - to sample other than a generic landing page. This is basically pre-beta, and (as far as the user is concerned) purely conceptual.
A couple requests:

1. sort by date. this is very useful to find discussions which have dropped off the front page but might still have interesting updates.

2. verbatim search (right now "algolia" -> "algorithm")

3. fix the fact that this thread doesn't show up when I search for "algolia" with [last 24h] checked.
>I thought I could get away with calling my post "White Power."

See, you just gained respect from me. I suppose it's all about the community in the end. If you linked that article on /g/ or /prog/ it probably would have resonated.

It's too bad most people are such slaves to political correctness.
I don't care about "type safety" discussion. Hardly have I heard this argument from serious Python users at all. You won't hear Python users bitching about bugs that could have been caught by some compiler magic. I do hear programmers bitching about other compilers and their anal retentiveness though...

For me type safety just isn't an issue in practice. Guido also says, and rightly so, that every moderately large project, especially in a strongly typed language, eventually implements all sorts of mechanisms for dynamic typing, even if these mechanisms are then called something else.
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It was deemed too expensive for Singapore as well, until public outcry against deaths changed things. Some reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_on_the_Mass_Rapid_Transi...
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Yes and no. When I was in college, Blackboard once lost all my previous grades in a calculus class, when we were close to the end. I was averaging maybe a B. No other records existed.

It was awesome! The only grade that counted, as a result, was the final - an A.

Also - fantastic writing.
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No. All MRT stations - above and under ground - have platform doors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_on_the_Mass_Rapid_Transi...
Patterns anyone?
3 Enemas Later, Still No Drugs
Have you ever considered the idea that your apparent dislike towards all things and people described as "feminist" suggests that you have, over the course of your seemingly-angry life, adopted a huge amount of misogynistic perspectives on things? Because, hate to break it to you, but you were born a feminist. Everyone is. Every person that has ever lived on planet Earth was born a feminist. Because the idea that women are somehow in any way inferior to men is a completely fabricated notion by a sexist society that instills these views onto people (meaning all of us), and feminism at its most fundamental is simply the premise that women and men are not different (in terms of hierarchical notions, like one being better than the other, or more "valuable", …etc.), which is the default view of any newborn mind.

You are born a feminist; if you don't die a feminist, you lost a bit of your humanity during your life.
This is relatively old. I first recall seeing it a few years ago.
If you assume that datacenter bandwidth is cheap and the last mile is expensive, then this problem can be trivially solved by tunneling all of your traffic through an IP address hosted at a nearby datacenter.

Unfortunately it's difficult to achieve this sort of innovation on a large scale, because we don't have enough IPv4 addresses, and everyone's dragging their feet on the IPv6 upgrade.
As is usually pointed out in these conversations, that's true of all companies you could depend on, and all companies depend on others. That's why people sign contracts (which usually contain clauses about being honored even if the supplier gets bought out). That also saves you from things like a company you depend on deciding that it's going to compete in your market now: they still have to honor your contract.
Stolen Foscam Continues Uploading to Sensr.net
Awesome work, loved thr name
IM Observatory: Testing the security of the Jabber/XMPP network.
Isn't Moodle open-source? If you offered a wrapper for Moodle that made it a hell of lot nicer, maybe teachers could gradually move away from it towards a superior, affordable offering without the wrath of their powers-that-be. I don't know about Blackboard's internals, if you can do that too.
Kind of funny, but what makes the new Mac Pro beautiful is the internal design, and that hackintosh is not beautiful on the inside.
Foreign Policy should be buzzing about how to first defend against quadrocopters strapped with an IED. The moment the first one happens, there will be dozens more. And that's just getting warmed up for emergent "asymmetric" threats. (Banning and licensure won't make it go away.)
Okay, so poorly researched stories and confirmation bias aside, did the author mean to imply that China's air pollution issues are more about belief than fact?

My wife would like to live in China, but every time we look at the PM25 / PM10 for the cities where I can easily get work, it looks genuinely life-threatening - I'm an asthmatic.
Added myself to the list. I hope it turns out nicely.

Messing with hardware is one of my biggest procrastinations. I always decide that I'm going to stop fiddling with programming languages that I'll most likely never use and start fiddling with some home automation. However, I've never done anything with hardware, so I look for more hand-holding than I can ever seem to find. In the end I end up trying another safe experiment. I feel like this is in part because hardware costs money, which was hard to come by until my graduation last year. Anyhow, I think something like this could really be a good start for myself and hopefully others who may be daunted by hardware as well.
A basic understanding of statistics is crucial to being a doctor. When my wife was pregnant, we were faced with decisions like whether to get genetic testing and whether to breastfeed, but were frustrated to deal with statistical incompetence from doctors and nurses who couldn't explain the consequences of courses of action except in child-like "do this" and "don't do this" ways. One nurse, when discussing IUDs, quoted a failure rate by itself as a percentage. When we asked about the time frame, not only did she not know it, but she couldn't understand why a failure percentage was meaningless without reference to a time frame. And forget about being able to reason through the research on alcohol exposure in pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Is it actually illegal to resell? I was under the impression that it was just a contractual agreement with the provider not to resell.
@OP PSS == "post script script". I do not think that means what you think it means.
Strangely managed to omit the word Macintrash.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/Macintrash.html
Google uses a lot of AI for their search engine, their ad targeting, their automated translation service, voice recognition, reverse image search, Google Now, and probably a 100 other things that I don't know about. They are almost a machine learning company.