skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was being sarcastic. However your points are worth stirring the pot over.

>What's the upside of being "on the side" of an entity of even less hesitation of engaging in aggressive warfare?

It would be preferable not to engage in aggressive warfare. But it's also preferable not to be the one who ends up dead from it.

>That's like saying making it easier to beat up kids and take their lunch money is a plus, as long as you're the one doing it - and that's the mildest example I could think of, to keep this as nice and friendly as possible.

You're correct. That's exactly what I think it's like. It's not fair and it's not just.

>This idea of "sides" is very flawed, too. Are US citizens on the side of those who lead them into wars, or do these wars more and more mean profit to a very small subset to them, and huge costs to the rest?

Americans are by no means the only militaristic nationalists around. And this is a complex question. But it's worth pointing out that those two things are not mutually exclusive.

>what if you're "on the side of humans", and don't buy into the whole nationality stuff in the first place?

If you're born into a nation, and into the systems which brought it into being, and you derive benefits from it - food, education, language, culture - then I believe you are to a degree a paricipant in or benefactor of the crimes which made those benefits possible. They were done on your behalf whether you like it or not. "Gain" from warfare can be a subtle thing, and can be doled out across generations, even millennia.

I think you can put yourself beyond nationalism if you wish, and doing so is understandable in a post-Internet age. But I don't believe that puts you above it. You are a product of the industries of slavery, barbarism, greed and genocide, as am I, as is every human being. Before nations, people slaughtered one another in the name of their tribe, or their clan, or their family, or gods. We are all of us standing atop a pile of bones simply by virtue of birth... it's just that some piles are bigger than others.
I see people using portable game systems on the subway. But then whipping it out in public for 5 minutes at a time is not particularly conducive to the kind of deep games that we're talking about.
The point that Ken White of the Popehat blog said it best [1]:

"This case sickened me. But I can't say that it surprised me. The only thing out of it that would surprise me is if any of the individual police officers or sheriff's deputies faced any genuine significant consequences arising from it."

In other words, the victim gets a $1.6 million settlement comes out of the pockets of the taxpayers. There are zero personal consequences to the individual police officers actually responsible for what occurred in this case.

[1] http://www.popehat.com/2014/01/16/update-the-quantum-of-reco...
Because people still use JavaScript
A New Nightmare - The Amereican Dream
10.9 has pretty good multi-monitor support.
Running Linux installed by this method on a (2008) Mac right now. Have done the same on recent (2012, 2013) models, too.

Macs have been using EFI boot for a few years, so the problem most have probably faced is trying to boot in BIOS emulation mode (which I've found to be iffy on pretty much every EFI motherboard I've come across).

Arch Linux has particularly good support. :P
Degrade gracefully
An interesting point. I don't really understand it, so please allow me a question.

Is there anything you would find disagreeable or unfriendly about, e.g., the following?

http://www.math.sc.edu/~thornef/math142/

To my way of thinking, this is obviously the way to present my course materials. Any friction points I'm not thinking of?
Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO
> But the authorities, hospital and doctors all refused to comment, and, a few days ago, the city and county settled the lawsuit by paying Eckert $1.6 million.

Holy fuck people are stupid. $1.6 million is not nearly enough. I would be smashing up the cops' shit if they did this to me.
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Hah, I'm glad you dropped the Matasano name in there, I didn't realize you where the one replying "upstream". Another plus for Matasano in my book -- I generally thought all you guys where typical SV over-performers without family, friends and other things to create "drag" on your business ;-)
updated http://codepen.io/lixonic/debug/LwnKH
> what more do you need? (don't say photoshop :@)

In my case it's Lightroom. :)

Longtime Ubuntu user here. Bought a Mac mini as my desktop replacement on the off-chance that I might write an iOS app.

I'm actually running Ubuntu inside Mac as my development environment. Ubuntu also nicely solves the "blurry text" problem [flame away! :)]
Regardless of whether they had a warrant, the doctor[s] who performed the procedure should be stripped of their license[s] and prosecuted for fraud, and any nurses or techs involved should be terminated. There's no plausible line of reasoning by which the procedures he was subjected to were medically appropriate or necessary.

But this won't happen because "they were just doing their job" and the medical licensing boards have long since abdicated any pretense of a code of professional conduct. (Witness the doctors sullying their credentials to peddle snake oil supplements and diet aids on late night TV).
I'm going to be adding support for credit cards that aren't 15 or 16 digits later on. I stuck with 15 and 16 digits for now because it covers 90% of the use cases.
Curious, is the opposite true? Maybe we should drop the 101 down to one lane, and the speed limit to 25 for good measure? Then there would be practically no traffic at all, as everyone would avoid it like the plague. Problem solved!

/joking, obviously
I wonder if there's a way we can work through our own doctors. Send them an email saying that it horrifies you that doctors can get away with this. Ask them if they agree and if they can raise their concern to the medical board.

If there was an internal rejection of this sort of thing by doctors, maybe the medical boards would feel enabled to take action.
> Nothing about this situation would be any more acceptable if instead of drugs, they had been searching for child pornography, a bomb, or an abused animal.

The difference is that the other things you've listed are far less common and far less lucrative than illegal drugs. If you took away the war on drugs then you could give law enforcement significantly less than their current budget and still have them allocate more officers to each case, have them each spend more time on it, train them each better, etc. etc.

The war on drugs is the primary impetus for the militarization of the police force. Police should be investigators, not soldiers. The war on drugs encourages them to behave like soldiers which is the root cause of their unacceptable behavior.
Granted, the application of the adjective "free" to an inanimate thing like software is confusing. But the point of free software is to promote freedom for the users of the software. So it really is about freedom for animate beings after all.
> If most of the voting population was remotely rational, things would be fixed

What if the Democrats and Republicans are both too beholden to the status quo to make changes, and a rational voter figures that their vote means something if they vote for one of the two main parties as the lesser of two evils, whereas voting for a third party is basically throwing their vote away?

It's easy to sell me on the idea that most people aren't rational voters, but saying that the situation will automatically be fixed if everyone votes rationally is a much more difficult sell. It would be a good start, but you'd need some other things to happen.
Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. I'll be adding this on pretty soon.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13183421/how-to-change-pl...
as a solo developer doing my own devops, ansible has been fantastic for its near-zero infrastructure overhead.
I find snapchat hilarious, almost as hilarious as the vc defense/commentary regarding their rejection of 3 mmm as rational. It's a good thing the founders got a partial cash out; but I think that this company will serve as iconic peak idiocy for this investment cycle. But fuck, I've been wrong before.
No, they should not. Taxes are not voluntary. You act as if we all merrily signed up for this system, when in fact it was forced upon us since birth. This idea that if we somehow elect the right person that horrors like the drug war will go away, or that something else won't replace it, is a an abdication of true responsibility. The tax payer, like the individual in this story, is a victim of a predatory institution.
Never heard of a primary election?

The politicians pretty accurately represent their constituents. The voters demand more tough on crime pols and that's exactly what they get.
Been there. Done that. Teachers are "encouraged" to decorate their rooms. Decorating is a feminine activity. Most meetings are surrounded by the woman talking about things important to them - sometimes very womanly topics like their period or lack their of due to menopause. Never once did I feel that I was being oppressed or anything. No other males mentioned it if they did. Guys and girls are different. This is a good thing.
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Ya I know. I just made this very recently, so I haven't had a chance to make any tests yet. Rest assured, tests are coming!
You're fighting to create a world in which the intellectual currency is not reason, evidence, or logic; it's self-proclaimed victimhood.

If I claim I'm a victim in a way that you're not, it becomes literally impossible for you to prove me wrong. If I go on to claim that we need new policies to protect me from (and/or compensate me for) that victimhood, you can't disagree. You can't do anything other than supplicate.

I hope you fail, buddy.
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The monetary settlement should be just a start. Does the doctor involved still have a license to practice medicine? He shouldn't. Do the nurses and techs involved still have jobs? They should be subject to extreme disciplinary measures at the very least. Are the cops still on the force? They shouldn't be, as they are obviously unsuitable for the job. Is the judge who authorized the warrant still on the bench?

No, there's plenty of room for indignation.
"Guys" to include a mixed audience is how we get shit like "he" as default pronoun.
The NY Times fails to mention that only the lawsuit against the city was settled. There are still active lawsuits against Gila Regional Medical Center and the doctors, and against the district attorney. The names of the perpetrators are:

* Dr. Robert Wilcox

* Dr. Okay H. Odocha

* Deputy district attorney Daniel Dougherty

The officers involved were Deming police officers Bobby Orosco, Robert Chavez, FNU (first name unknown) Hernandez; and Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies David Arredondo, Robert Rodriguez, Patrick Green.

In my opinion, doctors Robert Wilcox and Okay H. Odocha are rapists. Wilcox and Odocha sexually violated this man forcibly and repeatedly for over ten hours. This is rape, and they should be charged with rape.

In my opinion, the police officers and deputy district attorney Daniel Dougherty are accessories to rape, at the very least.

You can see the rapists (again, my opinion) here:

http://www.grmc.org/Doctor-Directory/O/Okay-H-Odocha-M-D-.as...

http://www.grmc.org/Doctor-Directory/W/Robert-M-Wilcox-M-D-....

The list of defendants was copied directly from here:

http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_24461411/lordsb...
> Given HN user demographics, there are almost certainly some of you reading this who've gotten it already, or who will.

Just checked myself .. I may (hopefully not) have proven your statement. Will see doctor on Monday.

Thanks for the PSA
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At a startup you work for customers, if you're doing it right. The VC investors are there to accelerate your growth. If you find you're working for VC investors, you took VC too early and you have a very tight tightrope to walk to get to profitability.
According to this, you're the one who's making it worse for women: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121942

I found that pretty amusing, and aligns with my expectations.
I can't tell from the site, but how mature is this lms?

I recently toyed around with Canvas[1] and found it to be really stable and feature-rich without that messy feeling that Blackboard or Moodle give you. What were the motivations to develop this system instead of enhancing or forking another lms?

[1] https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
From the webpage:

curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That is in every quality typical of the patents granted and enforced in court every day in the USA. Pointing out that the claims were anticipated and are incoherent doesn't help much in front of a jury of laypeople.
I first heard someone mention something like this maybe 1-2 months ago and think it's great. The person compared it to being bonded like an electrician or plumber. The process to fire police officers in many districts is very difficult so this could be one method to get control of the situation.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is this about? The language is too tough for me to understand, I being a non-native English speaker.
Even felons have to say 'yes' to anal rape if there is not a valid warrent. Parole or not, you can't just rape someone 6 or seven times.
I have a friend that was turned down by the police force because he tested too smart. We were all amazed what that said about our police force.
Writing your congressman is the least you could do. Maybe get out there and start filming the police, raise awareness about jury nullification, encourage peaceful parenting so we don't have bullies on the police payroll--etc. These are more effective than writing some narcissist who cares more about getting re-elected than what's just.
I don't understand - whats wrong with the Prius ? It's kinda crappy in NY winters but you can deal with it if your a good driver. Get's great gas mileage and isn't bad looking... You said yourself, Toyota has solved the direct injection carbon buildup - ??

Mines pushing almost 90k miles. My next car will be an SUV simply because I do a lot of DIY around the house and buying 6 60lb bags of concrete at a time kinds sucks but Home Depot is all of 3 miles from my house, so I deal...
Having seen this happen in a number of internet communities, where women have described the reasons they would no longer visit, and having watched these communities change from reasonably well represented by both sexes to almost exclusively male-only: yes. It's almost certainly because the community at HN is offensive and exclusionary towards women.

This seems to be something of a hot button issue within the community at the moment, probably spurred on by pg's comments taken out of context, but the last few threads on similar topics have been filled with bile, reverse sexism claims, and general attacks against women. It's sad to see, because at this stage it's essentially too late for this place. The last community community I was (and still am) a part of made a conscious effort to change its moderation and terms of use to be more inclusive and punish individuals who stepped over the lines, but it was too late for them too - the sense of community was already destroyed for most of the visibly female members there. I haven't noticed them come back.
Given that we don't know how google search currently works, that's some serious speculation on your part. We've made quite some progress since the 80s.

For example, neural word embeddings learn which words are synonyms without any input (and google recently release a faster algorithm for doing this called word2vec). There are algorithms for parsing sentences, and numerous databases and ontologies representing manually curated 'concepts'. Google could well be using some of these within it's search.

That it doesn't come back and say "that doesn't make sense" might only be because the search is designed to always try to find something, even if it's the wrong thing. That's because it's posed as a ranking problem.

In any case, what is intelligence? One of my favourite sayings on this topic is this (and I forget who to attribute this to, but it's not mine):

"We will never have artificial intelligent. Every so often we come up with a problem to test for intelligence. When a computer finally beats a human at this problem, detractors are quick to backtrack and claim 'well that's not really intelligence' and proceed to come up with a new test for intelligence."

I suspect that this will likely go on for a very long time. In the meantime, we've been using intelligent algorithms for decades already.
I too was on the receiving end of that talk. Are statistics so really so difficult that doctors cannot give them to patients?

Here's a Kaplan-Meier curve for patients with Leukaemia:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202035/figure/F...

Would it really be so difficult to say, "We estimate you have a 50% chance of being alive in 18 months, and a 25% chance of being alive in 10 years. But don't give up hope because that will reduce your chances."
There is a blob explorer built into visual studio. There are also third party ones available, and lots of command line tools similar to s3cmd built by open source community.
Another student here with my two cents.

Your course website looks very clear, easy to use, etc. (also, I like the approach you seem to be taking with the material, I learned from the same book and always thought the convergence test guesswork was silly)

Part of my personal frustration with custom Professor sites, and that of other students I know, is simply that it's yet another site to keep track of. For all the failings of large LMS's, they are effective at centralizing coursework into a location a student can check daily. When a few professors have custom sites, it's easy to forget to check one Prof's site for updates, announcements, etc. Even just for syllabus info, I have more than once gone to my LMS and groaned when I realized that I had to look up the address for a custom site or dig through bookmarks. I once had a semester where every Prof used their own site, and I had to cycle through 5 bookmarks daily to keep track of everything.

TL,DR: it's simply one more thing to keep track of, increasing the friction of information acquisition from a student's perspective.
It's not just the police, either. Keep in mind that the police only had to try two doctors before they found one who would cooperate with them.
The other great thing about this is when you read about a cop shooting someone for no cause, usually there were warning signs like he escalated a ton of situations with other suspects. This makes a third party (that is interested in not loosing millions to a victims family) start running psych tests and algorithms against arrest and escalation records. At some point the data will get good enough that people will be un-insurable before they kill someone.
Grew a Beard for 1 year. Time Lapse. Picture a day. AMAZING
I grew a beard for a year and took a picture every day. Put them all together for an awesome Time Lapse!! Enjoy!!
While I cannot speak for the parent, and while I am not offended by people thinking something is a bad name, I find it to be perhaps the right sentiment directed in the wrong direction. Yes, we want to encourage more woman -- heck, more people -- into our industry. I think this is done through different means. I think it starts off when people are young and they get exposed to programming. If I knew someone left our industry because they were offended by the naming of command line tools, I would be baffled.
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P.S. It really would be best to discuss it with your doctor. And as for my scenario with the pill cutter (again, preferably with the doctor's knowledge): That will only work with "instant release" forms, where there is no delayed release mechanism. Cutting a delayed release tablet can partially or totally defeat the delayed release design/mechanism, resulting in a spike in absorption that is undesigned and that may present a health risk.
> Someone needs to coin a term for businesses like Snapchat.

Psychopathic Hockeystick.

Please note I'm referring only to the company, and not its owners/founders when I coined this.
Blackboard is a piece of software - although calling it that discredits all real software - used by universities and colleges to manage student marks and assignments in a way that's supposed to be easily accessible to students. Speaking as a first year who's had to endure it for only a semester so far - it's a complete mess. In addition to the above two features, it attempts to do lab group management and acts as a dropbox-like file sharing platform between profs and students.

It is good at neither of these. File sharing is inconsistent. Rather than having a single, designated file area for each class and each prof, every prof can customize where it's located in what can loosely be called a directory hierarchy within the webapp. Additionally, they can even link to their own sites (and the linking is a calamity too - but that's another story).

Group management is tolerable when it works. More than once has there been a missing asset issue, or a permissions issue, or a straight up JSP error that prevented my peers and myself from joining appropriate lab groups and uploading assignments on time.

All of this is worsened by the scores of profs who haven't a clue how to use this.

Lightly put, this is one of the worst user experiences one can have, and rivals Windows 8 on desktops in terms of user unfriendliness (read: user hostility).
"Signals". Ok. So what's the signal being sent to women by a bunch of men that think that women are so weak that a mild mild MILD joke about fratboys is going to chase them away? (A lame joke that doesn't even involve women directly). Do you really think they're that emotionally fragile?

Don't you see how incredibly patronizing this discussion is towards the people it's supposedly benefiting?

Which do you think is more offensive: a comment that slightly gets under your skin, or someone questioning your ability to handle a comment that gets slightly under your skin?

Isn't the whole point of feminism that we treat women like normal fully functional adults that can stick up for themselves? I'm not a feminist, but how does shit like this help their cause?
Why would you want your own biases get in the way of educating your son? Python is a great first language because it is both approachable and practical. You can go in any direction... webapps, scientific computing, and even games (as I've already suggested).

I learned QBasic when I was 9, when I was 11 and realized the world wasn't developing real applications in QBasic, I was pretty upset and never wrote a line of QBasic ever again. I was pretty bummed at the time, and moved on to C.

There certainly is a reason top universities are moving to Python to teach beginners programming...
For a production ready alternative, take a look at http://creditcardjs.com, which was posted on HN a while back. The web site points out common mistakes when implementing credit card forms and delves into the motivation behind every design decision.
I'm very curious: are there people who fear samsara? I sure do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saṃsāra
One of my colleagues hates IPython for no particular reason, he prefers using the standard python shell.
The problem is not in DMA. The problem is that DMA is allowed across memory protection, without authorization and without user consent.

I suppose it made sense when Macs and PCs ran single-user OSes on hardware that lacked memory protection. Keeping the default behavior from that day is not wise for, well, last decade or so. (Fresh OSX seems to have changed accordingly, as the tool's page mentions.)
How is this different than playing Street Fighter, Contra, or any other arcade game? I remember pulling a roll of quarters out of the bank just so I could go to the arcade prepared to slowly spend money years back.