skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with a Texan. Really nice guy and smarter then me but he never talks down to me. He phrases his suggestions as questions and the thicker he lays on the drawl the more likely it is that his opinion will turn out to be good advice.
I never said Yale shouldn't be held to such standards as individuals are. I merely pointed out that, as much as we'd like to believe, and our laws try to contain, organizations of people are by their nature amoral. You can wish Yale could be held to that standard, but it's the individuals that steer the org that need to held accountable.

To cite another case, United Fruit enjoyed cheap land and labor in Guatemala. In the late 40's and early 50's, populist movements started springing up in the country until one day a land-reform minded president was democratically elected. Someone at UF called up some friends in the U.S. government who knew some folks, who organized an assassination of the president by the CIA.

United Fruit is not evil. A vast majority of the people who made up the corporation were probably blissfully ignorant of what the group they were members of were doing. And it's unreasonable and irrational to expect corporations of a certain size to have "all the facts." Instead, a small cabal of individuals colluded to implement a policy that devastated a small Central American democracy for the rest of the 20th century.

In the same way, Yale is amoral. It is not capable of making moral decisions the way individuals in leadership positions are. And American corporate law should reflect that. Instead we get bullshit like corporate campaign reform that allows individuals with an agenda to wield the power of the hundreds or thousands because there's a chance that the that individual's position will positively impact the corporate body.
San Jose could tap into residents' private security cameras under new proposal
You and I are very similar (I live in Seattle not Manhattan and my commute takes 20 minutes not 5), but I do watch sports. And I still have side projects. I am in fantasy leagues as well, and I still have time for side projects.

Do you mean all sports? Or maybe Baseball, Basketball, and/or hockey? Since those sports have multiple games during the week, they can be a time suck. For hockey, I generally only watch Hockey Night in Canada on CBC (assuming I can find a bar that will put in on). For basketball, I generally only watch the 4th period during regular season (they don't start playing till the 4th). Baseball I don't watch on TV because they only show the pitcher and batter, and all the other cool parts aren't shown. But football isn't a time suck at all unless you are trying to watch EVERY game on Sunday. But even when I go on binges of watching every game on Sunday, I still make time for my side projects.
I've never clicked on that link.

Different people have different habits. I generally google find most sites unless it's an easy URL or autocompleted. I sometimes even type things like "hack new" on my phone to get here.

(I don't want to make it too easy to get here, if you're wondering why I haven't bookmarked it. Can be a time sink)
It's 12 hours after your post, so you almost certainly won't read this, but you describe two serious hardware failures within the first nine months of ownership.

That sucks, but Apple would absolutely have fixed both problems quickly and without charge if you had given them the chance. And if you're right about an overheating problem, they'd have fixed that too.

Use your standard warranty!

I also recommend buying AppleCare. It's not a trick like most extended warranties, and it's fairly priced.
First, screening your guest is a task that takes time and effort as well. We are offering to reduce the work needed for the really low price of 1%.
Moreover, it's not just guest support, but you can also accept new guests while on vacation, allowing even back to back guests. It's almost turn-key service.
Engineers Spotted ‘Hundreds’ of Cracks in San Francisco Bridge
While that may well be true in some cases, in my own experience I've never felt like I couldn't get help with my problems, minor as they might have been. Long story short, a serious of unfortunate circumstances led to me having a period of anxiety/insomnia that was affecting my studies. I talked to my freshman counselor who referred me to my college dean, who in turn extended deadlines for several of my assignments to decrease my stress. He also referred me to Yale Health, where I had a few counseling sessions and was prescribed a sleeping aid.

The counseling itself was nothing to write home about, but at no point in the experience did I feel I had to filter my problems to avoid repercussions. Granted, the issues I was dealing with were quite mild compared to the author of this article, and her experiences may well be representative of students facing serious mental health problems. I merely wanted to post to say that, in my opinion, most Yale students are able to talk and get help with their problems without fear of repercussions.
Yep, cold + wind is what kills you. I've always said North Dakota is quite good at killing the stupid or unlucky[1]. Oil has brought a lot of people from southern states and I worry a lot about their safety. This weekend we should hit -26F before wind chill off a 20-30 mph wind. Good time to stay in and code.

1) for the love of what you hold holy do not go too fast on icy roads (that means you SUV driver). One unlucky moment like sliding a foot or two in front of a semi will be it. Don't leave that as an Xmas present.
The language. Really the problem with SQL is the API. I like having a relational database, but SQL strings are a really crummy way of writing to it.
Life is a sandbox game. You can choose your own goals, but from time to time it suggests goals to you. You get rewards for completing them, but you don't have to, it's just a way of making things easier if you have trouble deciding what to do.
> One certainty is that the space inside a black hole is bigger than the size of the black hole observed from outside of it. So it's entirely possible that you could have a solar system or even an entire universe on the inside.

That is not a certainty at all. The entire premise of Hawking's paper is that the object we call a 'black hole' is just a really degenerate dense lump that slowly turns incoming matter/energy into background radiation with as much entropy as possible. And that's it. No fancy Time Lord bigger-on-the-inside science proposed here.
Pavel Durov sold his stake in VKontakte (www.vk.com)
I think the rationale in bullet chess is that playing strategically isn't going to help and you're in less danger of getting checkmated. From that point of view, you might as well prepare for the endgame, so the best way to do that is to keep the king in the center of the board while connecting your rooks.
What's so crummy about variable interpolation?

def insert_person(first_name, last_name)
sql.query("insert into persons values(#{first_name}, #{last_name})")
end

So long as you're not plugging form data directly into that function, that works just fine.
As a physician, and former member of a college staff, I suspect Ms Williams will look back on this bit of writing with a twinge.

She had to "listen to the rattling gasping sound coming from the person two beds down" and to "a schizophrenic person declare, every hour or so, that he had soiled himself". When she is interning for The Congressman, in a policy debate about primary care or mental health, she will value the opportunity to have borne witness to their sufferings.

She was asked to recite the presidents in reverse order? You mean the psychiatrist was adapt enough to develop a intellectually appropriate variation on the mini-mental status exam? That sounds like first rate care to me.

The men with guns have guns because they're representatives of the state. Yes, ultimately, they exercise the state's monopoly on violence. Which is mostly incidental. We can't arrange special neutered cops for the sensibilities of Ms Williams, and frankly, the psych ward of a downtown hospital is one of the more volatile places in the world. Same for the room/cell, etc, etc. The physical confines are a function of what's safe based on the lowest common denominator in the population: the 6'7" 230 lb schizoaffective linebacker (have met those patients ... do not care to meet again).

Her central thesis, that Yale is focused on image, frankly doesn't sound like anything the university is really worried about. No rational administrator would allow image to enter their minds. If anything, that would be antithetical to the image argument. These are people who live their lives by the mantra that they should be prepared for anything they say to be published on the front page of the New York Times. And they're pretty savvy. They know that doing the best for this student, no matter what the blow back, is ultimately the right thing to do. Take care of the patient and the image issue will take care of itself.
I removed my post because I didn't like the way I wrote it, and wasn't sure how to rewrite it. I wasn't meaning to contradict tptacek with it, but it came off (to me) that way. And I deleted just after it popped up after my 2 minute post delay.

My point was: Physical health - all I've seen from jobs is a requirement for a physical. They may request the records from the physical and it could be comprehensive. I've never heard of requests for older records, though a doctor may need to fill something out (like a physical limitations form for an applicant or worker who has had a hernia or back surgery).

Mental health - I've only seen this in relation to security clearances. In that situation (IMO) the request is entirely reasonable, and has not (IME and experience of friends) been a showstopper to be honest. But I don't know anyone that was hospitalized either (well, that I know of) who sought a job with a security clearance requirement. Really, the agencies involved knowing about the problems is the main thing. If they know about it, then it's harder for someone to use it as leverage. Similarly, with good bosses, them knowing I have issues with anxiety/depression has meant they've intervened and helped me catch it earlier than I ever would have on my own.
For you, maybe. And even then, probably not.

It's so easy to try and attempt to break it down. And every-time we work towards that, we are neglecting the true nature of the chaos from which we were sewn.

You don't know when you will die. I don't know when either of us will die. OMFG it can't make sense. Should it? Do I prepare? If so, how? WTF will my dog do? The truth is: you can't know the truth until the moment comes to you. When it does, be it with fear or amazement, it will be only yours. You will get to tell no-one. It will just be yours. In the same way you remember Sandy or Tim's glance in the third grade. In the same way as now. In the same way it is for everyone telling you the theory they believe in that moment.

The question should not be "when will I die?" but rather "how will I feel about my life in the last moment I'm lucidly able to do so?". It will hit you in the same way as Sandy/Tim: it will be something you know you feel no matter what anyone could say. Analogous to someone in love. They might be a jerk, but that time they did that thing...that's what grips you. It will feel like that. And it's likely money won't be the kicker. Nor will knowing that this is the moment you die.

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1) Select an object

2) Select the rotate tool (whose icon is the universal symbol for "rotate" that can't possibly be confused with anything else)

3) Click once to define an origin

4) Click and drag to interactively rotate about that origin.

This is how the Illustrator rotate tool has worked since, literally, Illustrator 1.0.
Would be interesting if we could flag a side conversation and they appear collapsed by default, with a button like "Off Topic. Click to Expand."
I both hate and admire you for that. One bonus like that is all I need to finish plans for good. I know talented programmers getting the equiv of $50k and I wish I could do something for them.
For cooking stuff, Cook's Illustrated is the reference. Are there better recipes and cooking equipment reviews out there? Definitely. But it's generally of very high quality.
Use Subqueries to Count Distinct 0X Faster
I have to plug OpenNIC[1] anytime I hear of a DNS hijacking story. OpenNIC is a peer run network of DNS servers that are open for public use.

[1]http://www.opennicproject.org/
I tried to do a fair job in recreating your queries and techniques with MSSQL. Turns out MSSQL picks the best plan from the start [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7119976 or http://ta.speot.is/2014/01/25/use-subqueries-to-count-distin...
Hu? That doesn't make sense in any interpretation I can think of. A second factor is what you need in addition to the first factor (in a conjunction), not what you can use instead, that would be a second summand (in a disjunction).
Does this bug affect only android phones that are rooted?

It flashes saying that the bing App got root permission. I think that's disabled unless the phone was jailbroken.
Sure, any advice is always appreciated!
You may visit a site hosted on blogspot more often than you think. Blogspot is blocked where I live (China) so I notice immediately when I click on a blogspot link on HN. If I didn't have to deliberately turn on VPN, I might just read the post without bothering to notice where it's hosted.
Another cost of the "more elaborate microcode" is that there was no way to resume or restart execution of the current instruction after a bus error exception. The 68010 fixed that by dumping internal state onto the stack. I wished that after 68010 was released that Motorola promoted the 68010 for new development and the original 68000 only for situations where the system software cannot be modified (since to fix the problem the exception stack frames had to be changed). Motorola had some patents describing how it worked: https://www.google.com/patents/US4493035
I had a discussion with the creator about beating the last level. I had a solution that solved 95% of it, but I have no idea if it was close to working. Zachary confessed he hadn't beaten it either, but he did prove that it was possible.

On another note, the histograms you get after beating a level are the best high score screen implementation I have ever seen. I gush over them whenever I get the chance.
I've lived in Finland and spent time in Sweden in the winter and I grew up in Ohio (went to college in Michigan) and I can tell you that the winters in the midwest vary greatly depending on which part you live in. Finland and Sweden both had longer, colder, winters than Ohio does, for example. Chicago will get super cold and windy but the winters still aren't as long as in Scandinavia.

Basically, much of the midwest has shorter winters but some parts of it have equally harsh or even harsher (the Dakotas, for example) weather. Northern Michigan is quite a bit like Finland, for example, while the lower portion of Michigan is nothing at all like Finland.

Totally depends on where you go, even within the midwest.
meaning is created, and its worth creating
Heh, and around that time, it was in the high 60s here in Southern California. Sure, we don't have enough water to sustain ourselves, but it's winter and shorts weather.
Cute!

You can get a significantly higher resolution with Unicode Block Elements[1] and a half tone foreground-background algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
Humanity never fails to amaze me in its capacity for stupidity.
You're solving the wrong problem.

The combination of checking account, debit card, and local bank branch helps businesses:

- take care of the cash that accumulates on premises.

- take care of routine bills.

- purchase goods by distance sales

The article discusses the loss of these benefits. Bitcoin won't solve them until it's more widely accepted.

Sure, you can convert your cash to other stores of value (bitcoin, gold deposits, and so on) and that may be better than keeping cash on premises. But, again, I think most business owners have better things to do with their time than deal with these kinds of transactions, and they don't like the exchange rate risks.
Would you care to guess why?
Bay Area Street View vs Income quiz
Use this link instead. Thanks @ryanhuff.

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...
Some people are looking for places to spend their relatively-high incomes. Ditto for other, oddball things that have come along, of late, like super-expensive shaving equipment (first thing that came to mind).
The Christian in me wants to say "hey guys, I know what you mean, I've felt the same way, and I found a reasonable answer." But my experience reminds me that kind of conversation is futile.
Searchable Database of Genes Effecting Longevity
Well, yeah, but what does two-factor auth help with any of that? Ending all existing sessions when you change the password doesn't require a second factor. Limiting the validity of a cookie to one country also doesn't seem to me to be much of a security feature, and more something that prevents you from using the service anonymously through Tor - the local thief won't be far from you and the botnet operator probably has more than enough systems in your vicinity to tunnel through, and in any case requiring the password would do the job equally well, wouldn't it?
If you don't mind sharing, I would love to know what sort of thing is used for this. Normally I would think Twilio but that's more of create your own number and pay per minute.
You drove from Seattle to Redmond? Why would you do that to yourself. (Assuming you're talking about MS) why wouldn't you take the 545/542/Connector?
There really isn't a one-to-one mapping between quantity of experience and behavior exhibited.
The Unix and the Echo
Show HN: validator.py -- data/form validation in python
TravisCI requires admin permission for all repos
> Having Rails/Django/(Framework of your choice) automatically notice the need for a column to exist and make appropriate modifications you could work with it the same way you would managing a document relation in your code.

Hibernate can do this (IIRC, it's been awhile), which is great for development mode, but I would never trust a framework/ORM to "auto-migrate" my production database.
Nostalgia for anonymity. And also, sometimes you make a throwaway and then need to respond to a response and then you respond to something else while logged in and then you have 50 karma points and well, why not?
Yup. The double-quotes indicates the subjective nature of legitimacy. (It sucks when decision-makers fail to grasp that legitimacy isn't objective.)
I agree. People here are acting as if our collective unwillingness to lobby for rent-seeking legislation, is a personality flaw.
Ask HN: Making Server with open source?
My organization currently own a server from Fujitsu with cent-OS 6, but Redhat hinder us to install open source software by saying that they will not provide support if we install patches and software's from untested sources. So want to know what is the best list of open source software’s to implement a server with Ubuntu which should have mail server, firewall or watch-guard, ldap and webserver.
Not sure I understand what that has to do with jQuery being on npm. The only way that Cheerio uses jQuery is by choosing its popular API to implement an interface to scraped pages in.
I enjoyed this analysis of PowerPoint and agree with it wholeheartedly.

When I was studying business communication in college, a few of my professors demanded that if we chose to use words in our presentations, we were limited to three.

At first this was a difficult constraint, but I learned to love it, gradually implementing more visuals until my presentations were almost 100% photographs and data visualizations.

This improved the audience's response by leaps and bounds. They just can't comprehend all the information from a slide and a lengthy speech simultaneously.

Presenters should only use visuals to augment effective public speaking.
The history of both desktop publishing and image processing, at least, is very intimately tied to the Macintosh via Aldus Pagemaker and Adobe Photoshop, respectively. There really wasn't anything like them before they shipped -- there were typesetting programs like TeX and "paint" programs like Deluxe Paint (and for that matter, MacPaint!), but TeX and competitors used a much more arcane non-GUI paradigm and, as good as Deluxe Paint was for what it was, it was not designed for the kind of image retouching work that Photoshop could do out of the gate.

I see comments sneering about the "democratization" claim, and while I wouldn't have chosen that word, it's worth keeping in mind that Pagemaker and Photoshop enabled Macs to rival $25K+ dedicated, single-task workstations of the day. They really did revolutionize industries. And they both started their lives as Mac exclusives.

I liked the Amiga, too, and it really was ahead of its time in certain respects, most notably video processing. And it kicked the Mac's ass for years in anything relating to multitasking. And it really did revolutionize video production the same way the Mac revolutionized DTP and image processing. But let's not go overboard and claim that everything the Mac was doing by 1986-87 was somehow "ripped off" from the Amiga. The Amiga certainly got capable layout and image software, but that software wasn't creating markets the way the Toaster was -- or the way Pagemaker and Photoshop did.

(As for sound, well. There's no one hardware/software combination that strikes me as a real paradigm shift in the music sequencing or recording field, certainly not in that era; cheap MIDI interfaces drove that across all platforms. Apple didn't make sound software back then but that certainly didn't mean the Mac wasn't used extensively for it with third-party tools.)
This is true but irrelevant because nobody is talking about adding restrictions to existing GPL software.
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Thanks. s/CGA/HGR{,2}/

Neat read (I never coded for Apple II):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_graphics#High-Resolut...
Inspired, I tried DroidQuest, but can't get figure out the controls. I feel like I'm missing something really dumb, but all I can do is move around the starting menu, how do I select something?
This is true but irrelevant because the freedom to distribute software without the source code does not take away anyone else's rights.
Depending on what these configuration files are used for it might not be ideal to update only part of the clusters. That might leave the system in an inconsistent way.
I grew up in the area too, and moved back a few years ago. People often give me weird looks when I say I live on the Illinois side, assuming I'm living next to Pop's or something. The Illinois side is all really nice farmland if you just go a few miles out from the city. That is one of the nice things about Saint Louis. I grew up on several acres of land, my dad was able to commute to downtown in less than 30 minutes, and he was able to afford that on a mid-level government employee salary.