skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then where is the unambiguous and enormous rise in student loan debt coming from?

Honest question, for anybody who has a real answer.
Rare Mutation Kills Off Gene Responsible For Diabetes
Well, no, I'm not actually interested enough to do the homework you've assigned me. I guess I'll just have to take your unsupported assertions about Myrtle Beach at face value.
> So by lying to the machine are you not lying to the person who programmed it?

Sure. And this is a problem that has many layers of depth to it, each with many interesting ethical questions waiting to be explored. It would probably make a really good book for someone who wants to make a name for themselves in philosophy.

At the most basic (simplistic?) level though, the reason software exists is to create a mapping such that every valid set of unique inputs always produces the same output. The question is, does the programmer sacrifice their humanity in doing so?

The way a human makes decisions is by looking at all the relevant facts, and then making the best decision in each case based on the information available. Software differs from this in that:

- You make a single decision, in advance, rather than a new decision for each case.

- This decision is only based on what you thought would be important at the time the decision was made, without taking into account the unique situational factors 'at run time'.

- You know in advance that there are going to be both false positives and false negatives, and determine the acceptable rate of each based on the economics of making hundreds or millions of these decisions in aggregate. Of course you also make mistakes when making one off decisions also, so the error rate of software can either be higher or lower than with human decision making. But even if the error rate is lower, the sorts of mistakes that are made aren't necessarily the same.

- The assumptions made by any given algorithm may become increasingly outdated over time, and often stick around long after any given individual would have stopped making the same decisions.

There are more differences obviously. And of course there are different types of software; lying to someone over a phone on the basis that there is some software converting the conversation from analog to digital and back again is probably different than telling some porn site you're 18. But overall I do believe that this may be one of the most important ethical issues of our time in the coming century.
> In general, a browser agnostic solution is preferable to a browser-specific solution, if they have the same functionality....

This is a great point. If a user went through the trouble of creating custom styles to make certain sites accessible, browsers should follow a standardized way of managing these styles. Just like a user can import their bookmarks when changing browsers, styles should be handled similarly.

It might be extra effort for browsers to handle this uncommon feature, but it is the right thing to do, especially for users facing accessibility issues.
This. I live in a relatively small city, so I frequently see 3-4 different firms ping me on the same job. I'm the kind of person who feels guilty not sending a frendly no thanks. Usually by the 3rd or 4th recruiter on a gig, I'm able to respond with 'Oh, this is the <company name here> gig. Thanks, but it isn't a good fit for me.'
Regarding the beard incident... ah yes, never go outside when there is any major event in NYC. The cops are unusually crazy. They bring in a bunch of auxiliaries who have no business doing crowd control or even wearing a badge, really.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/careers/auxiliary_police.s...

(Regarding the park incident.. to be fair, most parks in the city close at 1AM. I've seen people asked to leave, but I've never seen anyone get a summons. I usually try to get an extra lap around Prospect Park in as it's closing, and haven't had any problems, but I do keep an eye on the time.)
I'd definitely be interested in reading how you organize and maintain your codebase. Have you developed an in-house framework?
I agree with sssilver in his disagreement, but there's a nuanced logical flaw here that's not even being addressed.

sssilver brings up that someone who has experienced failure in x isn't necessarily a poor source of advice in x. Similarly, just because someone was successful in x doesn't mean that they have any clue what they did right.

A more defensible bit of advice would be to evaluate someone's credibility before taking their advice, but I can't think of a more obvious truism.
If you would have one beat a few milliseconds off, would that turn your 6/8 into e.g. 619/824?
There is no strict boundary between which streams of sound are music and which are not, so have fun analyzing whatever else will come up.
All the code you need at your fingertips
To read the atom.io threads. Plenty of positivity around here when a new product strikes a chord.
I don't have pity for people who choose to lock themselves in to tools and then ask for $800 because of it. Oh well, their choice! It really isn't much work to switch to KiCAD.
We didn't know what we had.
Sharepoint. I'm pretty sure that's multi-billion dollar business for Microsoft.
Chance of cancer and/or sterility isn't the limit of the problem. Acute radiation sickness would put a damper on their enthusiasm real quick.

Until you have this jumbled mess of radioactive debris thoroughly mapped, you don't want to send anyone in there, and once you do, there are going to be a lot of places they just can't go. Cleanup workers lying on the ground vomiting their guts out aren't helping anyone.
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I remember Sale to the Moon, also by Radiohead, as being particularly strange. It changes from bar to bar.
But why make UIView subclasses when you don't have to? If I'm just using a tableview, and I need to lay that out, I'm not going to subclass UITableView. I'm just going to add one to my controller or use UITableViewController. If you're already making subclasses of UIView, then yes, do the layout code there, but for many applications this isn't necessary, and there's no where else to put that code.
the real horrifying part is not that they lost their money but that they invested it.
NASA: Free flying further away from your ship than ever before
Ship's cat
The lack of a Wacom style digitiser seems to be it's biggest critique (aside from price). The point about their being only 1 USB port is a good one, I wonder if it's possible to charge the device while using the port if you have a USB hub...seems unlikely.
Hints of genomic dark matter: rare variants contribute to schizophrenia risk
I go to "CopBlock" and "Photography is Not a Crime" for these sorts of stories.

The general advice there is to start recording immediately, keep your mouth shut, and use a save-to-the-cloud video app like Bambuser so the fuzz can't erase your footage.
And google talk and facebook chat both used xmpp, and are both(?) avoiding federation -- and both(?) phasing out even supporting xmpp clients.

For a little while I actually bothered using IM, as I actually had someone to talk to (most of my friends had facebook or gtalk -- and I could talk to them in the same interface I used for xmpp at work) -- and I could keep all the logs in one place (if I needed them) -- and it all supported secure texts (OTR).

Now all my friends have access to crappy html5 chat silos that I'd rather not touch with a stick if I can help it. The things are all but impossible to use in a sane way without having to use a mouse -- and even if I could use them, I can't aggregate the logs, keep them independently of whether or not I keep the account(s) and I can't have access to everything in one application.

Why would anyone use this or slack.com rather than setting up a jabber server? If you desperately want to restrict your choice of interface, you could always deploy a html5 jabber client, and pretend there aren't good native clients out there. I'm not sure why anyone would do that, though.
Be great to hear from folks and we are genuinely interested in bringing a tool to market.

Peter
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As someone who's written a lot of manual layout code for iOS, count me as interested if part of your decision to open source it or not is community interest.
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It's a problem preventing solar penetration beyond a niche market. It also, as you point out, prevents solar from actually displacing existing power plant capacity. That means that solar power comes at an extraneous cost, since it doesn't obviate the need of building even a single non-solar power plant. Those are big problems and it's not as though we're magically going to start building lots and lots of solar power capacity without solving those problems. The sooner their tackled the faster those technologies will be on the amortization/improvement train and their costs will fall.

Solar and wind are today just sideshows in power production, if you want them to be otherwise the smart move is to invest in storage technologies.
I've used a similar one myself. Same name but different project: https://github.com/jrturton/UIView-Autolayout/blob/master/So...

Thank you for making this area of ios dev less painful. :)
Just as a comparison, Albuquerque has ~8 police per sq. mile, and Tucson has ~4.5 police per sq. mile. However, New York has ~27000 people/sq. mile, while Tucson has ~2800 and Albuquerque about ~3000. So NY has about ~9x the population density, but ~12x the police.

Now what I'm also curious about - would you expect high population density to increase or decrease the number of police needed per capita? Off hand, I would be inclined to think lower population density would need higher police per capita, but here it seems to be the reverse (possibly reflecting the coffers rather than the needs, though).
Why are C++ int and long types both 4 bytes?
They needn't be in competition with each other. I'd really like to see "social commentary" become an established genre in gaming, as it is with other forms of fiction.
I've never understood the American stand point that all government intervention is presumably bad a priori.
I can't speak for his French (or English) proficiency, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that he "speaks Japanese."

He may know enough Japanese to get along in daily life -- many people I know who have lived here for a number of years develop some level of listening proficiency regardless of whether they can speak it -- but the Japanese he uses in the video does not convince me that he can "speak Japanese" in either the normal usage of the phrase (proficiency in the language) or the cultural usage of the phrase (understanding register and when and how to say things).

This should be a perfect, well-rehearsed apology. There's really no excuse for the level of Japanese he demonstrates in there. At the least, he should have written something, had a native check it, and then practiced saying it. He should also have gotten a suit/shirt that fit properly.

I know this comes across as sounding very superficial and nitpicky, but image means a lot here, especially in business situations, and especially with these formal apologies.

I don't know about his motives or feelings, but when I watch that video, it comes across as very half-assed, as if he doesn't really care and someone is making him do it. It's very unprofessional and culturally deaf; I would not use it as evidence that "he's no dummy."
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crunchbang.org, simply because it gets out of the way while I work. I also use an arch/ob setup on my main laptop but that requires a fair amount of upkeep / fiddling and such isn't very suitable as a work horse.
EU regulators, the people who brought us lead-free solder, are going to love the "plumbate" part. It might as well be plutonium.
We really need to redesign officer uniforms so that the badge number is inconspicuous the same way numbers of football and soccer jerseys are inconspicuous. It should be possible to identify a police office by their badge number from any angle once you're within 10-20 feet (i.e. it should be on the front, back and both sleeves of their uniform). Cameras should be able to track officers the same way that officers can track the license plate numbers of cars.
We are talking about a half a billion dollar heist here. That's a lot of money - probably in the top 10 of biggest robberies ever committed.

You wouldn't have be a super hacker to pull it off. Some hidden cameras, USB key loggers and some microphones in the office could probably have gotten you a lot closer to that money.

And if you then could lure MtGox into emptying their hot wallet with the tx mal problem, then even better, but that was probably not even necessary.
You can always use god-mode if you don't like holding C so much. Then you can just hold p or n to move the line.

https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode
Why stop filming at all? I'd want something that kept on recording until the battery was dead, regardless of any action that an app can resist by any means publishable.
In my extensive experience with storyboards, XIBs & NIBs, I've found it to be incredibly easy to unintentionally change something that has a profound effect on how that particular view works. Frankly, with iOS storyboards or XIBs, I'd be much more comfortable only having engineers handle visual tweaks.

Recent example - went into a storyboard, changed a constraint, must have accidentally clicked on the wrong thing at one point, and the next time I ran my app, there was a faint detail disclosure icon in the middle of my view controller. It was absurd - somehow, unintentially, I had redirected a push segue onto a UIImageView. No clue how it happened, but it took me a good 10 minutes to diagnose it.

IB is just way too buggy to trust non-engineers with UI work, IMO.
>we bullied them in school with no come back and they are crap a lobbying as a group so lets go to town on techies.

This motivation is not sufficiently acknowledged on HN. I think people are afraid to face up to this fact. A lot of what feminists say about rape culture is true, and similar observations apply to nerds. Our culture trivializes physical and sexual (wedgies) assault on nerds. It is only natural that this same culture put on a front of false outrage when some nerds earn a good living.
I watched enough to know where it was heading.
I built an easier way to bulk follow/unfollow people on Twitter.
No votes for http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ ? While I'm not quite looking for a job right now, that's been one of the most interesting places for me (as a potential coder/system engineer) too look (other than here on HN). UI is much better, and a lot of the positions look interesting.

Any experience from the hiring side with stack overflow?
It is not very precise but I am undecided if this is a good thing or not.
Here's Gruber's take on a related piece by the same author in The New Yorker: http://daringfireball.net/2014/02/fitting_facts_to_the_narra....
There is a Chinese distro :
http://www.linuxdeepin.com/index.en.html
not bad.
they're mildly active on fb here, but the name is a made up one.
Nonsensical paths to all of my disks, the terrible emulator that is cmd.exe, the poor support for spaces, the ambiguity between forward-slash and back-slash, the fact that here and there, this or that random feature I take for granted on POSIX will not and cannot ever work...

That last one is especially frustrating because I'll spend three hours getting tool XYZ to compile on cygwin, and then just when the finish line is in sight I find "BTW /dev/null is unsupported in cygwin, and tool XYZ cannot run without it". I mean, /dev/null is supported, that's just an example- it's always something fundamental that you would never imagine doesn't work.
Fascinating. I think it's particularly tricky because I'd argue it's not 13/16, but rather 6.5/8, in terms of where we intuively feel the beats. (Like the traditional difference between 4/4 and 2/2.)

But fractional top numbers in the time signature basically don't exist -- this is the first time I've come across something that feels like that -- hence why it's so hard to pin down.
debian

a) It just keeps on working.

b) They are conservative with new technology. This means that by the time things hit debian theyre well thought through.

c) The community behind debian is principled.

d) The debian package repository is very exhaustive.

e) They offer a small net install iso which is ~180 megabytes. This makes a fantastic foundation for a minimalistic linux install with a tiling manager (without pulling in monstrosities like libre office).
In theory, yes. In practice, MtGox hasn't said what outputs were lost/stolen and there are ways to defeat blockchain analysis like depositing to BTC-E and withdrawing.
Will there be a print version? I have the print version of the other no bullshit guide and love it. I much prefer print for this kind of material.
> I bring this up only because a lot of pro-nuclear arguments comes down to bold assertions from experts that certain things could never happen.

Heinlein said (in Glory Road, I believe), that "Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."

It seems to me that this is a double-edged sword -- not only can people accomplish things that experts claimed were "impossible," but things can happen that experts claim are "impossible."

Most people are limited by our own views of the impossible and never change their views until proven wrong. Some never do change their views.
Every time I try to overlap different sync tools, I get conflicts and wind up either losing all my data or having twenty copies of all my data.

Also, of course iTunes isn't greased lightning & a buttered dream on OSX, it's just "less awful", or so I hear.
"I am from government and I am here to help" you can only shudder at those words irrespective of the context.

I will be surprised to see if Google or its investors do not care about their long term future. I will be less surprised to see someone like Obama planning only for re-elections and short term popularity ratings.
> Hope is not lost in this situation - you just have to work at it more.

I did. A "stellar mind" would also probably understand how much insane luck it took to get where I am with my rolodex, too.
Right. I would like to somehow subscribe to new and up coming book releases and their reviews. You know, submit a link of this book on a site, let someone else take the risk of buying it, then get updated on the first review and on the average reviews after a week.

Note: The author should add a: "I may want this." field with an email subscription option :/.
I don't know how car manufacturers would agree to this if they didn't strong-arm Apple into promising to support Android as well.

Apple has supported non-Apple platforms when market logic compelled them to. If there was no iTunes for Windows, the iPod would not have been nearly as seismic a shift.
Feeding trolls on IRC sounds like a waste of time when he could have been, like, securing his customers' money or something.
Just take it at face value.

> > I really like to hear from other countries about what is already working in public policy on the same topic.

I think that explains it.
I always have to mention my all-time favorite introductory book on this subject:

Liner Algebra Done Right (http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mat...)

Its breakthrough is its focus on the basic algebraic properties of vector spaces and linear maps between them. It de-emphasizes matrix computations and especially determinants (they are covered, but only insomuch as they are necessary).

In my experience, the result of a typical linear algebra course is most students don't fully understand the determinant and more importantly they don't understand the proofs of major theorems which involve long manipulations of the determinant. They also don't understand the more algebraic side of the subject because they aren't given a chance to--it's not covered in much detail. The result is they don't understand the subject overall much at all.

This book is based on the observation that the abstract algebra involved in linear algebra is actually remarkably easy, much more so than arcane determinant manipulations.
Specifically UITableView is a bad example here, because UITableView relies heavily on the `UITableViewDelegate` and `UITableViewDataSource`.

For that, though, you should make a separate class for the TableViewModel, to keep that code out of your ViewControllers.
> Of course, that would be an irrelevant and unhelpful thing to randomly say at a business meeting

Now you're getting the idea.
> What do animals naturally do? Well, they don't sit and wait to be told what to do. No, they seek out opportunities.

Emulation is a massive part of animal behavior and learning, just FYI.
I can speak this much in 5-7 languages. It's not impressive.

I'm only fluent in 3 languages.
Because there was a huge recession that depressed or eliminated incomes. Student debt often rises during and following recessions, because some people who can't get a job, can get student loans, and choose to go to school.
But you like sucky elisp?
and 99.99999999% of the time, a self signed cert represents... not much of anything, other than the fact that a site owner declined the to pay the PKI racket's protection money.

And even if we ignore that, the whole "EV Cert" thing is a total sham. All the EV cert does is indicate that you overpaid for it.
I'm a solo creator on www.searchpocket.info, which provides full-text search for articles saved in Pocket. It is not profitable, and it was created for my personal use. The investment is about $10 each month for the VM.