skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Empathy
2. Humility
3. Sales
4. Accounting
5. Spanish
6. Chinese
While the upvoted comment is a bit histrionic, I think it reflects the fact that Tim Armstrong could bring up specific medical cases as being contributing factors is a little frightening to most people.

We don't like to think about the reality that life or death situations we have no control over are being weighed on a balance sheet by people who's primary goal is making profits for shareholders.
I help start-ups configure their web analytics (need help? See profile for contact info), and may write-up some tips in the near future... In addition to the two examples you mentioned, what other questions or topics would you like answered?
Some people hope that the EU will cut Switzerland's access to the common market which will force it to officially accede to the European Union and have a saying in the rules and regulations it has to adopt anyway.
"How many computing technologies from 1969 are we still in daily contact with?"

Lisp? We're all reading HN which is written in some Lisp dialect. There are also quite a few Clojure devs in here (including me) and a few using other Lisp dialects (and participating in flamewars about what a true Lisp is or is not). Don't know if it counts ^ ^

And then not 1969 but 1976: daily Emacs user here...
This is definitely a point worth making. Arrows theorem is an extremely interesting result, but I'm fed up of hearing it brought out as an excuse for not changing from a plurality system.

Yes, every social choice mechanism has issues, but some have an awful lot more issues than others.
As I've never been to UK nor plan to, I would like to hear a digest. If you prove me wrong I'll admit it.
Not to mention the environmental concerns with putting industrial complexes in one of our most pristine environments.
It amazes me how GreenSock has made the swift from As3 to HTML5.I really thought they would just give up but nop, they made the transition pretty easily.
WP has tests, they are not perfect but they exist.

http://unit-tests.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/
https://github.com/10up/wp_mock
Mmm...tricky. Is it okay for the school to contact you when your child does not show up at school?
Feel free to change the subject, but don't pretend you're addressing the original topic, which is whether the Linux kernel is or is not open-source.
I suppose you consider not upholding one side of the treaty when the other side has been dropped "childish"?
I wonder wether this is part of a larger backlash against centralization in general. The British have become very skeptical of the EU. And in September, the Scots will even vote on becoming independent from the UK. Catalonia feels less and less comfortable as part of Spain. Is this only a temporary phenomenon or an ongoing trend?
Interesting. I certainly remember such a rule. I haven't looked at the reddiquette in years. Perhaps it's changed?

In any case, I would still say that the "if that's all you ever post" note is silly. It deprives Reddit of the channel idea, which would be a good addition, I think. (If people don't like your stuff, then they can downvote it.)
I'm assuming you'd be annoyed if you had a hand or foot amputated?

And they're just lumps of cells that have never had a coherent thought.
Streams in Java 8
None of the graphs are showing for me (using Firefox).
So would compression. The implication is that after you hard limit, you also increase the overall volume, such that the limit threshold of -Xdb is now 0db. Otherwise, there is no point to hard limit.
It's perfectly possible that you're both right, alas: that the best way to get pre-teens into programming is to give them free access to the internet, and that giving them free access to the internet is a bad thing to do given some of the other, … non-technical content out there.
There's more to it than that though. She is talking about hacking not just in the context of programming, but in a range of activities that may lead somebody to program on their own. It's more about the spirit of it. It's possible to be a hacker making web pages, learning what the markup can do, building whatever level of interactivity you could without 'proper programming.' And, possibly, the most important part of it was the 'thrill' you got out of it.

Of course there may be women in her example that take to their first LUG meeting and go on to become hackers, but assuming that that will be the result, and planning entire social movements accordingly, seems like a bad bet.
also https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2013/10/java-8-first-steps-la...
The game we've made in 40 hours is surprisingly playable
Hey, hackernews! We've just released next version of the game during hackaton. Would you like to spread the word or just ignore the meme? ;)
I agree with you. People learn best when they can see the relationships between what they're learning and the real world. Abstract theory should be learned only after there's something for the learner to latch onto and apply it to.

Think of all the best teachers you've had in life. Did they teach by throwing you head first into the water to see if you could swim, or did they start by telling a story and then slowly peeling back the layers to reveal more complexity? Start with simple applications and concepts and then expand on them.
The British have become very skeptical of the EU.

This is par for the course in historical terms. The U.K. has always been against the formation of a strong, unified, mainland Europe.
Since I can't reply to throwaway, sports stadiums in major cities offload their parking lots to the surrounding areas, or even far out and add in shuttle service. They still have parking, just not in the form of a giant parking lot.

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/images/ballpark/y2010/...
http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/chc/ballpark/transportation/
I have foam ear tips on my ear buds and wear them without music playing so co-workers are none the wiser while I get full sound isolation. It works out quiet well for me, and pulling one out to engage with anyone is effortless.
Is there a plan to support building docker images?
> Medicine hasn't fundamentally changed our quality of life.

Maybe not for you, but I think many current and former developing countries would strongly disagree. Take a look at this: http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/#section=home
How many calories do you consume in that one meal?
The Ghost Foundation is a UK organisation and I can assure you that USD is not the default currency here. If they're willing to make the effort to accept USD, I'm sure there are plenty of bloggers able to make the effort to pay using it.

Regardless, USD is the de facto standard for SAAS payments (whether this is good or bad is a discussion for another time). If you can't pay in USD then you'll find a substantial proportion of services unavailable to you.
Actually Switzerland will most likely have to take this action itself, as the Swiss law now contradicts itself in this aspect.
Well lets be honest here no Taxi driver has ever worked a 7 hour shift. Minimum is 12 and they often go more than that. They would go 20 if they were not regulated. Thanks to Uber they are not now. Many taxi drivers who switched over are turning in 16 hour shifts daily.

Better money for them?? Yes
Safer for the traveling and waling public? Not so much.
Oh, yes, obviously a scientific survey, one in which Visual Basic has more than ten times the vote total of any other candidate language.
I hadn't known the Spruce Goose was damaged by its flight. That explains a lot.
there goes my hope of making a career in crime :/
What I'm trying to describe is the "by 20, it's too late to make a hacker" sentiment, which I do hear people say. So if I did have these qualities, and we're going to identify them after we've already established that I am a hacker, then it must be true that lots of other people also have these qualities, but did not become hackers.

My point: the notion that good hackers must be hacking on, and tinkering with, computers at a young age is probably too simplistic.
I have used ptrace and cgroup (in an online judge system). The cgroup way feels more correct and stable while ptrace feels a hack. The usage of ptrace and SIGSTOP in upstart looks pretty ugly to me.
Seems to check out, at least anecdotally. I seem to find that extremely good looking people are initially very hard to identify. For example if I had just met such a person briefly, I wouldn't be able to spot them in a crowd 5 minutes later. I've always wondered by this happens.
A Startup that makes easy contracts for startups, launching beta
hey Ray - just came here to say it was a brave attempt at near-casting.

About your "Third World", have you read D Suarez's "Daemon"? He develops a darknet which is FB on steroids (to put it mildly).

Also, you didn't manage to address the issue of climate change and global warming. I'm rather pessimistic on those counts.
Nope, that part is automatic.
MongoDB “Lightning Fast Aggregation” Challenged with Oracle
The UK is not part of this, though.

The grand-parent said 27, but Shengen area (with free movement) is not the same as EU: The UK and Ireland are not part of it, but Iceland, Norway and Switzerland are (well, not anymore it seems).
Curious what you paid for it if you don't mind disclosing.

Edit: How much for the dog?

Edit again: Baffles me how many chairs they left. That's a couple bucks just sitting there.
MongoDB and the fine art of data modelling
I never claimed that, read my post again.
School attendance is a legal mandate and you are financially responsible for serious fines if he doesn't. So yes.

This is very different from telling you what he talked about at lunch or what he read in the library.
As callous as it is, this is the best solution under a not-for-profit health system. The cost-benefit analysis in such a system is not 1 million dollars in shareholder value versus 1 million dollars to save a life, but instead is 1 million dollars to save one life (just the first year to save the child. there most certainly will probably be a lot more money spent over the entire life of the person born under such conditions) versus splitting that million dollars over procedures and medicines to save several lives.

At the end of the day, you need to value all person-years-lived equally, and determine who gets treatment and for what based on what maximizes the number of person-years lived over the entire pool of people.

I have no numbers to back this up, but I would expect the greatest benefit from a fixed amount of healthcare dollars spent will be on people between the ages of 4 and 20.

Once you've figured out roughly the cost per medical issue, frequency per capita of each medical issue, and a distribution graphing that issue against the age at which most people are afflicted and number of years left in their lives given their demographic, you can probably come up with a reasonable algorithm for maximizing person-years-lived at a certain health premium per person per year (assuming all dollars go back into the system).

Then the only remaining question that is left for society and individuals to answer is what level of premium will be paid and the medical issues that will be covered at that premium.

Furthermore, I think it would be interesting if we gave people in medical situations the following choice:

"The procedures necessary to save this person's life are estimated to cost 1 million dollars. You can choose to save this person's life, or you can choose to donate $800 thousands dollars to save X number of lives by donating it to procedures that maximize the number of lives saved."

People choosing to exercise their right to spend healthcare dollars on a lifesaving procedure for one individual are the ones that should have to face that philosophical and ethical dilemma of deciding to value one life over many.

If I were running a healthcare system, I would make it policy that everyone put in such a position would have to knowingly have to make that hard decision. It's the only sane way that would put the burden of callousness on the people with the right to to those health services. Just because you have the right to those services, doesn't mean you should exercise them in a not-for-profit healthcare system.
Try Chrome - they give you an option to check a box and not allow any more popups.
I completely agree. Its kind of sad to see student get stuck on simple tasks on problems that would never show up in a higher level language and end up just serving to distract them.

The undefined behaviour is particularly bad. Its hard to tell if a wrong result is coming from a wrong algorithm or from some undefined behaviour that is silently messing up your results and this only serves to confuse students. Its also a PITA to debuig segfaults - even just getting a stack trace means that you need to use a separate debugger tool.

Another thing you didn't mention about the garbage collection is that it makes it much harder to do string handling. For example, the simple task of reading a name from standard input has multiple solutions and but all the simple ones (scanf and gets) are potentially dangerous. And this is not counting the off-by one erros in allocation because of forgetting to account for the null terminator.
It's important to capture the imagination of young people and encourage creativity. Projects like Scratch are a fantastic introduction to solving problems with computers, and young children actually enjoy using it. Kids are excited about building things and getting results. Think LEGO/KNEX, would these toys be as popular if you needed to study the composition of the plastic and physics of forces? Think how many minds have been inspired with simple toys like these.

Computer science and the intricacies of sorting algorithms are a really fucking boring thing to learn/teach. Why make coding in schools monotonous and irrelevant when it could be fun and inspiring? I agree that the fundamentals are important to study at some point but that can wait until a higher level of understanding is achieved.

I have worked with a lot of developers from different educational backgrounds I can tell you that knowing computer science and being able to code are two totally different things. Businesses are interested about getting shit done and seeing results, not how you did it. I don't think that a computer science degree properly prepares you for real life software engineering.

Make coding fun, inspiring and motivational! Teach kids what they want to know and help them to enjoy learning.
Indeed we fought two wars in the last century to prevent it.
I agree. For many of the attributes of voting systems, you can actually remove the voting analogy altogether and think of any competition between individuals, like tennis. In a tennis tournament, you could easily have non-transitive results, where A defeats B, B defeats C, and C defeats A. So how do you organize a tournament to determine the "best" tennis player? Round robin tournaments (where every player plays every other player) can have non-transitive results. Of course, there's usually not enough time to do that anyway, so tournaments go with a bracket system. Brackets have their own problems, namely that it's very possible that the bracket winner would lose to a player who was knocked out of the bracket earlier by some third player.
It's a similar reason to trade unions traditionally opposing minimum wage laws.
Using Powershell to update Windows firewall rule IPs
Yes, Comcast provides v6 PD prefix(at least in bay area), which allows every v6-capable device in your home to have a v6 address. if your router is a bit outdated and doesn't support v6 with factory firmware (as my TP-Link router), I suggest to use openwrt 12.09(dhcp6c + radvd)
My father in law is a neonatologist and was given an ownership stake of the NICU he started in a midwestern hospital.

He makes around $4 mil/year.

Granted, he does sometimes stay at the hospital for two weeks at a time with only very brief visits home but at this point he also owns apartment complexes, office buildings, a gentleman's ranch with a few dozen horses and staff and on and on.

I think it is shameful, personally, that he profits so much. He works hard and he saves lives, it's true, but how much is enough?
That depends on how much you value electing a candidate who is the top choice of the most voters. The value proposition is completely subjective.
True story: I almost never recognise Madonna when I see her on TV or on a poster.
I believe preventing the need for such wars was one of the reasons why the UK joined the EU, or am I mistaken?
I was really thankful that the author specifically expressed this viewpoint, which I'm always afraid to state in real life in case I'm labeled as being sexist.

Special robotics classes for girls are not the way. Making robotics cool again, like space travel was cool in the 60s and 70s, is the answer. Most schools in the US see these pursuits as some kind of uncool dorky stuff, and girls who face a ton more peer pressure than boys for their age, tend to be directed away from them.
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"The guts of CS are a great place to expand after a certain point."

"...an introductory course is the wrong place"

I'm glad we're in agreement.
Just curious - are you accessing your SmartThings device directly or via their API? Thx.
Music is self learn able with instruments like the guitar, using online tabs and videos as a learning resource. There's quite a lot of famous self taught guitarists, although instruction at some stage can be useful.

Sports can be pretty cheap too, playing soccer in a field is a popular activity with poor British youth.
Yes, that's the right spirit. You make a deal, then you don't keep up your part of the deal, and then if the other part reacts they are "childish".

Democracy means that the Swiss are free to make their choices, and bear the consequences, like every other democracy.
The date of mathematical works is hardly relevant. Are you aware of any publications in the last 10 years that are crucial for people to know about, or that otherwise supersede material here?
This is of course potentially disastrous. Our startup is based in Switzerland, with about half us working in Zurich and the other half in the EU. The goal has always been to do most new hiring in Switzerland rather than continue building a distributed organization. If the immigration situation changes drastically, we'll probably need to instead grow in other countries. And after that happens, there really is very little point in keeping the company registered and paying taxes in Switzerland at all. Even in the current situation being outside of the EU is already rather inconvenient.

And I'm sure ours isn't a unique situation. A sane immigration policy has been one of the main things Switzerland has going for it. For example Google Zurich can't be at all happy about this.

(As is normal in these kinds of things, the vote to restrict immigation was concentrated in the rural areas where no immigrants would move to. Meanwhile the places where immigrants actually have an impact voted against the proposal).
Audio is generally handed over to the OS via a format called Pulse Code Modulation. This is a series of audio "samples", which in the Windows case are individual signed 16-bit integers. Typically each second of audio is broken into about 44,100 of these integers. Each integer represents the sound amplitude during a particular 1/44,100th of a second, with a large negative number (-32,768) being a small amplitude and a large positive number (32,767) being a big amplitude.

You can view PCM sample amplitude as telling the sound card how much power to apply to the circuit driving the speaker. A large amplitude means the speaker cone should move a lot, and small amplitude means it should stay nearly at rest.

So that means that the sound card has to interpret each of the signed 16-bit values and determine what kind of electrical signal it should output to the speakers to get the desired effect (sound). A sample with the highest signed 16-bit value (32,767) tells the sound card to produce its most powerful signal.

Now, in a laptop, the sound card and speakers are chosen by the manufacturer. Different sound cards can produce varying amounts of output power, and different speakers can handle varying amounts of input power. Obviously the speakers need to be chosen such that the sound card cannot produce more power than the speakers are rated to handle. (It sounds like Dell made a design error here.)

If the sound card and speaker choice is such that the speakers cannot handle the sound card's output power, then any audio software that produces signed 16 bit samples above some threshold (let's say 32,000) could damage the speakers.

So what audio software could produce such large amplitudes? ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL. Not just VLC. I could create a .wav file that was just a bunch of loud noise with amplitudes above 32,000, and it would destroy your speakers.

In fact, most well-mixed sound files will have at least one sample at the maximum amplitude. This is called normalization -- to provide the highest fidelity sound, you want to use the entire dynamic range of the PCM sound format, and thus ideally the loudest bit of the track should be exactly at 32,767. Lots of modern music uses a technique called compression ("dynamic compression," not to be confused with data compression) to make good use of the full dynamic range of PCM, which results in LOTS of samples at or near the maximum level.

On a correctly designed audio system, this is great! You get to hear audio with the fullest dynamic range that your equipment can produce. If your system has been designed incorrectly, though, you'll blow out your speakers. But that could happen due to ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL, not just VLC.

If you really want to buy crappy Dell hardware and not blow out the incorrectly designed audio system, you should permanently decrease your global Windows volume level. That will put a hard cap on the PCM amplitude levels sent to the sound card, and thus will cap how much power is sent to the speakers.

Blame Dell. VLC has exactly nothing to do with your problems. The "volume above 100%" feature is not dangerous on a properly designed audio system (like 99.99% of computers out there).
When I first arrived in Switzerland I was very surprised by the open racism and generally far-right-wing platform of the SVP. The black sheep poster[1] is pretty infamous of course, and then there's the small fact that the SVP was strongly against women's suffrage, within my lifetime! I think of universal suffrage as belonging to the American Reconstruction era but for Switzerland it's contemporaneous with men landing on the moon.

Even an American can easily see that a large chunk of Switzerland is quite reactionary. It seems weird. For some reason I expected a wealthy European country to have liberal social values.

http://www.hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/svp_0...
> What exactly is corruptive information?

Mostly porn and torture? I remember that when I was visiting my uncle, and he left me alone playing on his computer. I was poking around, until I found a folder containing video of a group of soldiers beheading a guy.

I didn't sleep well for a week.
Not really, we were drawn into the wars for a variety of political reasons (e.g. treaty obligations to protect neutral countries) rather than because of a philosophical objection to a unified European power.
With strategic voting, that is not what plurality voting gives you.