skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need more people like you. Some how we are lead to believe that its normal to get a fixed pay check while working uncountable number of hours while giving loyalty for free.
> I am old enough to remember as a kid how people perceived automobiles in, say, the late 1950s, .... Even dissidents of the time, such as Jack Kerouac, .... Therefore, it did not take a secret plot by General Motors (or whomever) to get people to push widespread auto use. People wanted to....

This whole paragraph is missing the point---the purported "plot" was not a product of the 1950s, but of the 1920s. The evidence that you provide in this paragraph does not support the claim that there was no plot; it might actually just support the claim that the "plot", such as it was, succeeded!

(That's not to say there was definitely a plot, although I think it's clear there was. But counterevidence for this claim would need to come in the form of recollections and data from much earlier.)
TXT records are actually variably-sized arrays of strings, making them very suitable for ASCII art. Unfortunately, `dig +short TXT` displays them as

"string1" "string2" "string3"

instead of on separate lines. However, this is easily remedied with sed.

Using TXT for artwork also has the advantage that you don't risk an intermediate resolver re-ordering things.

Source: When this came up about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7185326
"No, I was only pointing out that our evaluation of a given study cannot depend on how many other similar studies exist."

1) That's replication, and 2) that's not what I was suggesting. So I don't understand your "no" at all.

To clarify a little:

First, by "similar studies" I mean "studies drawn from the same population of studies", not "studies that are looking at the same thing in the same way".

Second, I said that the study has a similar chance of being flawed as those other studies, not that more studies means less chance of being wrong (which would be true to that degree the chances of error are uncorrelated, but wasn't at all what I was saying).

'Not in science. Peer review and the imprimatur of a "reputable researcher" cannot grant extra authority to a study, because there is no authority in science -- to the degree that a reliance on authority is a logical error.'

So wait... first, peer review is not a part of science?

Second, a paper having passed peer review tells us nothing about whether it's flawed? Seriously? So if I pick two papers at random, one from "the set of papers that have not been peer reviewed" and one from "the set of papers that have been peer reviewed in a reputable journal and not found wanting", they are equally likely to be erroneous?
My favorite remote control software comes attached to M16 rifle. That always faithful wetware automatically takes care of, transports, and operates M16 rifle in all conditions around the world.
Sadly you can't install SkyDrive in Windows 8.1.

I know, I know, it comes integrated with Win8.1, but you can't use a local account, and your options to use SkyDrive with a local account are just nasty workarounds:

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/11/09/access-skydrive-windows-8-1...
I've seen a cat take a small hawk. Eagles, probably not, but I've been surprised before.
What about the geography? Obviously, it's subjective, and I wouldn't claim that the USA has the best geography in the world, but it's pretty freaking varied and awesome if you like the outdoors.
Google announces 2$/100GB of storage
It's a good thing the Mongols didn't have modern _state delivered propaganda_, otherwise some real atrocities might have taken place in the areas they conquered.
If I thought for a second that you actually wanted a legitimate answer, then I would give you mine. But when you say things like "literally don't have 1 minute to spare" I know you just want to put people down. You don't want to know because you have already judged everyone and it shows in all of your comments. I'm not going to waste any more time thinking I can convince you of anything when you so clearly have already decided. Which is fine. You don't have to like the idea of Soylent. But you also don't have to shit on like that.
Why? Many/most fitness trackers do not track your location. They just track your steps (movement). My idea was that it would help encourage more physical activity in an era where sometimes video games and television supplant outdoor activity.

f.lux might help but lack of sleep is not necessarily the problem but rather quality of sleep. Excercise improves sleep quality.
The two are equivalent if you type them in full, but if you stop one before typing the feature branch name, you've broken everything.

git push -f (enter) => Death to all branches.
git push feature -f => Can only ever force push the feature branch

No matter when you press enter in the second line, intentionally or accidentally, you can't break all branches.
An Ode to Revis
They're different, but they're not opposite. Both involve probability and statistics. And those of us trying to make decisions in the real world must care how our decisions are likely to turn out.

Edited to add:

More to the point, does the universe care if you're a scientist or a gambler and change the laws of probability? Presuming the answer is no, pretend you're a gambler for a minute, and you should see what's wrong with statement "the initial probability is 100% that the correlation arises from chance": I offer you a wager, where we pick a correlation about which you have not formulated a hypothesis, and if I can show causation of any sort you give me zillions of dollars; if I can't, I give you a dollar. Your expected value, with an assumption of 100%, is that you always get the dollar. Do you really think that, over zillions of games, you'd make money?

Edited again:

The hypothetical people you're criticizing - who read this article and go out to find a man - aren't trying to "do science", they're trying to successfully wager and make the best bet they can with their health and their life. Of course, we agree that if they're making substantial changes based on this study, they're probably wagering poorly, but that's beside the point.
pugiox _at_ gmail

Thanks!
The documentation has a pretty good example where they bundle session related functionality into a reusable context manager (Python's `with` statement). I took this approach in one of my projects, and it worked out rather well.
"99% Invisible" by Roman Mars did a very good, 24-minute radio show on this:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-...
4096 = 2^12. So you would need to utilize at least 12 out of 16 squares (if done perfectly) in order to beat it.

Since there are 16 squares total it is not hard to put upped limit on highest possible variation of the game that you can actually beat at 2^15 = 32768. Unless somebody expands the field of course.
That's got to be a damn big, atypical cat. Eagles take out foxes. Wind energy needs to address the problem it causes because it sure isn't good for the birds.
The problem with slippery-slope arguments is not that they are slippery, it's that you can't predict the future to know that the assertion will fall off of it. It's a post-hoc problem.
Thanks to you folks who commented on this! I really appreciate it :-)
This gets into something that I think derails a lot of debate when dealing with people of faith. Most people, including religious people, try to argue as if both sides of the argument are starting with the same assumptions, when they're really not. If they accept the same premises for a specific argument, then sure, they can have a meaningful debate about it, but if they don't, and they very frequently don't when it comes to debates involving people of different faiths (including atheism for the sake of semantic convenience), then the debate will just be a shouting match. This idea is often referred to as presuppositionalism, that people have fundamentally different, and frequently irreconcilable, ways of looking at the world, and any argument where the arguers have different presuppositions is therefore futile.

This is relevant, because it seems that the system you propose would make presuppositions very explicit, which would help people with different presuppositions to realize why they are disagreeing instead of just yelling at each other till they go hoarse. It sounds like a very cool system, and I'd love to see it in action.
Bullshit.

There were horrible UIs with giant software manuals, weeks of training, etc.

You likely just grew up on the stuff and didn't realize how bad it was because learning was easy for you then.
I heard the "Code Keyboard" is pretty good. Anybody tried?

http://codekeyboards.com/

It doesn't have Mac mode, though.
Google and EdX together created MOOC.org, so this isn't really the first step of Google into that game.
What they currently do is crumple zones. That's not what I was talking about (the entire skin of the car being a honeycomb sandwich).
Logitech K750, wireless solar keyboard.
Ask HN: Which online bookkeeping services offer 2FA?
It seems like banks and accounting services are slow to adopt multi-factor authentication, anyone use a good one?
Commentary on California's robocar regulations workshop
Ask HN: What's the best platform for a web apps MVP?
Hello all, I'm about to write a MVP for a web apps which I have all the ideas and design. Coming from an infrastructure background, I've personally developed few micro-services in Sinatra and Rails, but want to learn about NodeJS and Django.

I haven't come to a conclusion on which platform framework to use and each has its own pros/cons.

I have few things that might we are looking for :
- handle very well in real-time traffic
- starts as a web app, but eventually most traffic will be coming from mobile apps
- build RESTful API at beginning
- deals lots of location data
- using MySQL
- provide some analytics

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advanced.
I swear, the things I'd do with that downvote button.
[edit: I just realized this wasn't actually written by Mr. McAfee]
I know this is the case with probably all major clients to them. If I remember correctly from talking to Dropbox employees during a recruitment visit, they had spoken about how they helped Amazon AWS reach milestones as they accounted for approximately 50% of AWS's file storage service usage. Obviously this is done all programmatically as everything is at an extremely high scale.
When my daughter was pretty new, couple of months, she'd only go to sleep if I held her. I got pretty good at typing lying down with her stretched across my forearms.
Definitely, the main thing is that we need a unified UI system.

The web isn't a current solution, although it has the potential to be it.

And there aren't any good desktop solutions because there are so many UI patterns and elements that are required.
States set their own educational requirements. The federal government has no "hard" power there, but it has a big pile of money, lots of ideas, and likes to promote the latter with the former.
It looks like there's some cress labelled broccoli?
Interesting, do you have a link to any of those David Simon comments? I always thought that the themes of "The Wire" were so coherently presented that they would be impossible to overlook.
A linux client.
You can click the "flag" link like I did...
The companies that own the satellite images are not running charities.
> You can't spin up/down quite as easily as amazon, but they're not targeting that exact use case anyway.

I found the opposite to be true, spinning up instances on DO is quicker and easier, using the web interface or the API. Or are you referring to auto-scaling and such?
Also, it makes people Agile, with a capital 'A'.
Alternative challenge: least number of moves to game over.
Emacs supports it for many different vcs' http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/diff-hl.html

And magit is the best git integration I've seen so far: http://magit.github.io/
Should be titled "How We Don't Care".
It's an interesting concept. Reading some of the comments here, I think there's a fine line to tread between creating something which is too formal, structured and academic, and something which is too gimmicky and meaningless, and actually de-values people's opinions. There must be a middle ground here though - or are they mutually exclusive? There is a fundamental difference in an opinion and an argument, and I wonder if some of the formal aspects (i.e structure) of an argument could be utilised to make this a place for intelligent discussion, discouraging opinions which are just opinions. The ability to research and reference related content could be crucial here. On another note, would be interesting to be able to see the stats related to opinions/arguments easily - the data could provide some really interesting info, if enough users got on board.
At least UK has independent courts. Human rights activists should hire good lawyers, get them in touch with experts on networks and cryptography, and start example cases, adding nice proper focused coverage on top of it all to form a public opinion. The precedents should be set until it's too late.

UPD: I should probably have mentioned that I'm from Russia.
The case for Web sites ending in ‘.sucks’
Well, which part? Clearly reading the book helps someone to be more attuned to interface, and maybe more bothered when interfaces are poorly designed. (In the same way that learning about typography can lead to being bothered by all the crappy typesetting in the world, or learning about statistics can lead to being bothered by all the horrible statistical analyses in academic papers and news articles. Etc.)

But even before reading the book I observed people running into trouble with household objects all the time, found great frustration in some of their designs, and was constantly puzzled by the many features on appliances and gizmos that no one ever seemed to use.

The book just gives a nice framework for thinking about such problems, and a great set of concrete examples.
Thanks, your response really helped me understand taxation in the US.
Why do you think that it deserves to be flagged?
Hi pugio, I sent you an invitation.
Thanks- I understand the historical background, but I don't agree that it was meant to be limited to just what the early Americans had recently experienced. You are correct that the word "reasonable" can be interpreted and re-interpreted by the courts over time.
My dream chair is a lazy-boy with two trackballs in both armrests, a swiveling 24" display and a swiveling wireless keyboard attached to the base of the left armrest. A pivoting right armrest for easy enter/exit like an airplane.

Just sit, rest your arms, control the display with the trackballs and when you need to code, slide the keyboard in and type furiously without moving your head from its resting position, like looking to the ceiling.

If you place a laptop on your legs, the neck will suffer after some time.

I know, I am a lazy-boy surfer.
They are good at one thing: marketing to stupids.

Windows. The market has spoken. Let's just all be smart enough to not be defeated by the marketing to stupids.
Depends on whether Pi is a normal-enough number. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number)
> it still fulfills OSMs mission of making mapping better for everyone. Yeah, OSM alone isn't as high quality as OSM+Google, but who cares?

One of the main reason I contribute to OpenStreetMap is because I don't like googles monopoly position. Yes, it's not a real one, but youtube, maps and search are pretty close. I can't do much against search, I can help a bit by using vimeo & Co, but with OpenStreetMap I can really contribute a lot to create a great alternative to companies and app developers out there.
Article lost me at the first phrase:

'Have you ever used Atom...'

Thanks for asking but no I haven't because I'm still waiting for a $%#$#%ing invitation!
I have lost all respect for TechCrunch
What Red Bull does to you....
Does Red Bull really give you wings?
Got it, thanks again!
Raptors typically pounce on prey and kill it quickly. A bird on the ground (eating, say) that is surprised is far less lethal than a bird attacking. Like I said, though, probably not eagles.
Mark Zuckerberg Called Obama to Lecture Him About Privacy. It Did Not Go Well.
i think many people did so some time ago.
Dell SK-8115 is a classic.
Ah yeah that's true, I could see it being a bigger issue even as a regular salaried employee if I had really moved a lot of stuff to Denmark. As more of an expat than a committed immigrant, I have all my financial stuff in the U.S. still: I contribute to an American Roth IRA, my mutual funds are American ones held with a U.S. brokerage, etc. So all I really do financially in Denmark is pull a salary.

Come to think of it, violating Danish tax law is probably the biggest likely issue as a result. E.g. income in the Roth IRA doesn't generate 1099s, because it's not a taxable account. But is that taxable income to a Danish resident? Maybe!
I mean no negativity here, but isn't it neat how this is sorta like Call of Duty 5 or whatever sequel they're on now? Where people use terms like "milking the franchise."

Clearly, these forks/derivate works have some value (both to creators, and those playing), but I find the parallel to be interesting.
Still lower than suicide, sadly. Not many articles about that except the ones about statistics. No real op-ed pieces? Not as newsworthy or good for business?
It's your responsibility as a driver to pay full attention and avoid crashes. Isn't that hour 1, day 1 of driver education?
We don't need them to leave us alone. We need them to not threaten the regimes that sell us oil. We also need to keep them from creating a competitor to western culture.
It's easy to hate on him now, but when you're 68 years old you just might wish you looked young and did badass shit like John McAfee.
you are the man.
I would be happy to provide one if you give me your email!
Indeed - he basically just said to the ISPs 'do this or we'll make you do it'.

Thanks to the (abysmal) technical knowledge of our MPs, any site-blocking bill would have flown straight through as soon as the phrases 'cyber-bullying', 'think of the children' or 'illegal downloads' were mentioned. In that light, I think the ISPs probably chose the least bad option - comply, lie low and hope that they can sit it out until the government forgets about the whole thing.
That's what they said about blue underlined links too back in the day.
I was talking about you, and the credibility of your views. There's lots of yelling on the internet, but most of it you shouldn't take seriously.

I do apologize to HN for helping hijack the thread.
I bet the scorpion can be easily built for under $999 and sell like hotcakes.
Not sure I agree with the idea that `Rails == UI`. A lot of the time I'm trying to fight Rails on this as decoupling HTML means refactoring HTML which isn't fun.

I use Rails as a thing that controls boundaries, a glorified CGI really. It's a router, input sanitizer, and general plumbing that spurts out JSON every now and then. It's a mid-level wall in a fortress: server + OS deal with TCP, Rails + Rack handle HTTP, Rails handles raw user input, proxy objects handle Rails, the actual business logic handles proxy objects.

This is the only workflow that allows me and Rails to be long-term friends:

When a request comes in to the API (say, change password) the controller will sanitize and confirm presence of the right params and collect things like the current user. It'll then pass these off to a proxy object e.g. `CustomerPasswordUpdater.update!(user, new_pass)` which will validate length, entropy, etc and perform any necessary crypto. Then that data gets passed off to another proxy object which abstracts over ActiveRecord e.g. `UserPersister`. There's literally nothing inside the model itself. The core `Customer` object is nothing but a decorated window on the relevant data (accessed through unambiguous proxies e.g. `UserReader`, never directly through the model).

This may seem a bit framework-inside-a-framework but the result of this approach is that specific chunks of logic - your logic, the stuff you write on a whiteboard - is clearly identifiable in these small unambiguous classes.

The grand upshot is that I can plan my application on a piece of paper, write all my logic in plain old Ruby with plain old RSpec and plain old gems at breakneck speed, and there's no stupidity like tests hitting the DB or 40 minute test runs in sight.

Once all that's done wiring it up to Rails takes a day or two. At any point I could write a few new proxy objects and drop the whole thing in to Sinatra&Sequel/ Sinatra&Neo4j/ Sinatra&PStore/ Whatever&Whatever. At no point does the logic that defines and encapsulates the actual business problem that needed solved need to be touched.
This post makes me sad.. I hope and pray that you recover and enjoy life longer..
Algolia opened a datacenter in Asia, here is why
Yeah, and that part is quite nice. It may even be more useful than the gutters within files. I have to admit, in this particular sub-area, Atom has clearly done better and made ST3 look bad in comparison. This is great because it shows improvement, and I'm all for making our tools better. (I mention this because it's the first time I see Atom actually excel over ST3.)
true that my friend.
has russia block RT news? i doubt so, in fact i dont live in Russia and see this news site as one of the best in the world and truly biased. They were the first to interview Julian Assagne, talk about Bitcoin, and interviewed Ed. Snowden and many other gr8 thinkers.
I highly respect Vladimir Putin's decision. And, as Rafael Correa would say, "When private benefits come from public services, then there is nothing left for the public"
If I'm in the US and I want to start a corporation, would it be wiser to incorporate in another country?

Would this invite additional scrutiny from the IRS or other governmental institutions?
Cooler Master QuickFire Stealth

After trying Das Keyboard, I realized I wanted something smaller. I found the CM, a ten-keyless design that had the correct inverted T configuration and am hooked. By correct, I mean some 'keyboard designer' didn't get their hands on the placement of insert, delete, etc.--you know, those keys that nobody uses except programmers and touch typists that have been wiring their brains for them for years.

They have a variety of Cherry MX switches to choose from. They also have some nice extras behind a hardware Fn key like the ability to turn the Windows key off and nicely placed volume keys. I like it very much compared to my Das Keyboard.