skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://youtu.be/fHMoDt3nSHs?t=3m32s

So what, be offended, nothing happens. You're an adult, grow up. Deal with it.
My point is more that there are differing levels of the prior probability of a study being true. Yes, 'xxx affected by cell phones' stories are bunk, however, those stories tend not to be published in Nature Methods, tend not to come out of highly respected laboratories, and tend not to have voluminous documentation and results, with 9 Supplementary Figures.

I've been reading this paper closely over the past 30 minutes, it's important enough that I'm sure it'll be heavily discussed at conferences and meetings this year. I can't think of a single thing that these researchers could have done that they haven't done. They've approached the question carefully, looked into a ton of second-order explanations and effects, and provided a plausible discussion of how and why they see their effects.
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I disagree. Given the various reasons people have for downvoting comments, including simple disagreement, trolling and trying to upvote on mobile but hitting the wrong button accidentally, being able to read the downvoted comments should always be easy.

If anything, I think it should take more effort to white them out at all.. it can be assumed that a comment with, say, five or more downvotes is probably not worth reading but a controversial comment could take some downvotes but still possibly be worth a look at.
JS: Designing fluent async methods using deferred pipes
7 Things Great Leaders Always Do (But Mere Managers Always Fear)
A lot more than that is wrong with capitalism like the fact that no value is given to anything you can't sell.
This is not a case of sexism. This is good case of nepotism and extra-organizational power. There are more than one guilty party here.

It is not sexism if you are harassed by the person of your own gender.
I think this is by design - Downvoted comments clearly show community disagreement, but one can still read them with minimal effort.

Not to mention that so long as they're displayed on the page, someone will come up with a userscript to display them.
Ya, I think the underlying issue is I do things very differently than people on HN.

The idea of creating dependencies on a configuration profile inside a bash script is the exact opposite of what I would do.

I also could not rsync things to my local machine [bandwidth constraints] and would be rsyncing between remote machines, which being a shared environment, I would rely on explicit invocations instead of creating configurations/aliases.

Thank you for telling me how/why other people make different choices. I always do seem to have the blinders of my process is the only process I consider when commenting on HN. :)
REPLs are for interactive development, where you try out your code live on a command line, insert working snippets into an editor, and gradually build up a working program.

Really shines when the language / REPL has decent introspection, is able to break out into the REPL prompt in the middle of your code with in-scope identifier lookups, and you're dealing with lots of libraries that you don't necessarily have encyclopedic knowledge of, yet need to get the job done under time pressure.

At least that's how I use REPLs, most usually, pry in Ruby.
> As someone who is a good-but-fast driver, I am not sure how I feel about this

Every fast driver thinks this about themselves.
I believe (so don't take it as fact), if your turn signal is on and they're behind you, you have the right of way. IF they edge forward to the line (as many do, which I think is legal?) and are to your front-right you should wait.

Again, driving and biking laws get muddled so it's hard to tell.
That's really interesting; thanks for taking the time to write it all up.

Do you think that it's possible to build a site or an app that captures the good parts of CollegeACB, without devolving to the bad parts of JC? You mentioned that you had failed to convert JC, and that the guy who bought from you similarly failed, but the fact that ACB was a positive force for a time seems to indicate that on some level the model is sound. If you're starting from scratch instead of trying to change a mindset, are there things that you think would encourage positive behavior over negative?

Or is it more a case of you really have to get lucky with the community, and it's possible with small groups (up to the size of a college, maybe) but not possible with larger ones; at a certain point, the bile just outweighs the brightness?
Well, I have some sources for that information:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/25/131125fa_fact_...

It's a long article, but search for "rain." Here's the most important quote for our purposes:

Left to its own devices, Thrun says, it could go only
about fifty thousand miles on freeways without a major
mistake. Google calls this the dog-food stage: not quite
fit for human consumption. “The risk is too high,” Thrun
says. “You would never accept it.” The car has trouble in
the rain, for instance, when its lasers bounce off shiny
surfaces. (The first drops call forth a small icon of a
cloud onscreen and a voice warning that auto-drive will
soon disengage.) It can’t tell wet concrete from dry or
fresh asphalt from firm. It can’t hear a traffic cop’s
whistle or follow hand signals.
The 'it depends' answers are good and I would not cite them as evidence of a problem. You employee people who understand what they are talking about and who also understand the importance of an accurate answer. They are probably very good engineers.

How does X close a TCP connection... it depends on the operating system in question. What cipher does my browser use when talking to X website... it depends on what ciphers are supported/available and how the client/server are configured. Which router do these packets go through... it depends. Is my password secure... it depends on the string you chose, the hash type used to store the password and who the attacker is and what their resources and time frames are.

There is hardly anything absolute in technology/software. And, people who want an absolute answer are only indicating that they do not understand the fundamental complexity issues that we deal with as technologists.
So in other words you wrote an entire post about how you are used to outdated technology and are mad because you have to come into the 21st century....got it - next time go complain to you cat instead of wasting time telling people how your technical knowledge is 4 years behind. By the way, my 3 yr old figured out the Magic Mouse in about 5 minutes.
I had to hack the CSS a bit to make it readable, but I agree with the author. Particularly, I like his comments on Go's attitude towards OOP.

As a Ruby hacker, I find that everyone on my team really likes to build a class and think of the instances as real physical objects. That's to be expected because it's how we were all taught to think of classes/objects/OOP in general. Objects in your code are not physical objects. You don't have to carry them around with you and pass them back and forth and up and down. You can build new objects that are specific to your functions.

I find that Go encourages me to build structures that are relevant to the situation instead of classes that are broadly scoped concepts. I also feel this way when I work with C, but I like it better in Go due to the receiver syntax.

It's true that my problems in my Ruby apps are my own (and my team's) damn fault. We should be better at single responsibility. Still, Go's approach to OOP encourages single responsibility and other good practices. I don't understand what's boring about that. I for one get a real thrill when I write some Go code then go over it and think "damn, that's just not going to break..."
It doesn't need to. You could also write
type Runes []rune
but the struct variant has the advantage that you can get the array back without any conversions - it's pretty cheap.
And you can embed it. That's an advantage if you e.g. don't define Less on Runes but define it on RunesAsc and RunesDesc.
See http://golang.org/pkg/sort/ -> Examples (SortWrapper)
When someone spreads a rumor, they get a reaction from 3 or 4 people. The fun is to see how far it goes. With an app, they get a reaction from many more.

It's nice to say "ignore it" and when it's 3 or 4 people they can actually do that, but with an app you're talking about the will power of many more people. Much harder to self control.
But this app isn't a bully picking on you every day. It's every potential bully standing behind a curtain yelling non-stop insults against every person in the school.

Surely it takes most of the sting out of the insult when everyone is getting continuously insulted anonymously.
As a (very) rural satellite consumer, it's only awful in most respects, not all. With the latest incarnation of satellite, the speed isn't terrible. Really, it's not.

If the weather isn't bad, and it's not spring/fall sunspot season, and you only use 15 gigs. But at least it's overpriced.
Psychiatrist here; glad to see this near the top of HN.Schizophrenia is a serious illness, and often misunderstood as "split personality." It is a constellation of delusions, hallucinations, and scrambled thoughts that is often (though not always) pretty devastating to work, school, relationships, etc. For some reason, because we have no blood test or genetic test for it, the diagnosis is still met with skepticism from many in the public, even though everyone seems to accept the diagnosis of migraine headaches which similarly has no clear-cut lab or imaging findings.

What most people don't consider is the change in life span:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21741216

Life expectancy as about 17 years less for those with the diagnosis, which is worse than most cancers. It's mentioned in the article, but worth repeating.
You can do it that way too, http://play.golang.org/p/gsq8PCcDpx
its called flag and move on.

However my simplistic bar for determining stories I like are, is it related to programming, new business ideas, or fields I am so out of my league I swap tabs to wikipedia or the like to understand the words I just read.

Having worked with a bipolar person I was always interested in what knowing how they separated the two.
An Open Letter to PuppetLabs
There's nothing wrong with it, but all the parties involved just need to be conscious of the tradeoff involved: shifting focus from the production of wealth to the consumption of it. As long as the production is higher than the consumption, it's all good and sustainable.

But remember that especially in the scandinavian welfare states, your consumption isn't just your salary, it's a wide range of often rather expensive public services.

As is mentioned in the article, this has a flavour of political posturing, and it's not given that it will treated perfectly scientifically. But, of course, if it turns out that the employees are actually more efficient at the same cost, you can have your cake and eat it too.
Over 25,000 sites have already installed KejeK.

We're talking on a social sharing tool that shows those using it how many people actually see what they share.
We've pushed it for some time, and today it's installed on more than 25,000 sites.

We're selling it via SideProjector (BTW, for those here who said there has to be a site for selling side projects..) : https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/709/kejek-soc...
I think `dang recently mentioned* that he's found the majority of downvoted and greyed out comments to be noncontributory. If that's the case, then there's little reason for them to be read.

*He did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7642127
Ask HN: DO you recommend useful articles to read? 
This list is summarizing useful articles and links posted on HN, Let's keep it updated and reviewed by HN admin team.
yep, so the point of that example was that there isn't a sort.Runes() convenience method, and you have to roll your own (like with any custom type). which is a mild problem to be certain, but there are lots of other little corner cases like this.
If you lack the option because local government banned all other papers from the city (and courts approved this since it's "public interest") then it's really not right to lay this at capitalism's doorstep. Capitalism didn't do it, voters that elected politicians who approved it did.
> The California state government has been running this experiment for a while (sort of).

No, they haven't.

> They require all their workers to take a day off out of each 10 work days (so a 5 day week and then a 4 day).

No, they don't. Some California state workers have the option to take a "9/8/80" schedule (an 80-hour, two-week schedule with 8 nine-hour workdays and 1 eight-hour workday, and 1 weekday off) or a "4/10/40" schedule (a 40-hour, one-week schedule with 4 ten-hour workdays and one weekday off). [1] But these, like the baseline 5-days @ 8 hours/day schedule, are all 40-hour/week (averaged over each two-week period, in the case of 9/8/80) schedules, not reduced schedules like a 4-day, 8-hour/day schedule.

Additionally, most permanent full-time state workers have the option of an additional leave day per month with a 5-percent reduction in pay. [2]

And, recently, there were several years where most employees experienced furloughs varying between 1 to 3 days per month with accompanying pay reductions as part of a cost 'cutting' (large, cost deferring) measure. [3]

[1] http://www.calhr.ca.gov/employees/pages/alternate-work-week-...

[2] https://www.calhr.ca.gov/employees/Pages/leave-benefits.aspx...

[3] see, e.g., http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/14/local/la-me-state-pa...
Primarily opportunities to do things I haven't done before.
As someone who has direct experience with schizophrenia I very much enjoyed the article. It is rare to read something on this topic that is anything more than fluff.
If all else fails, 1/8 inch out of headphone jack to 1/8 inch into microphone jack, hit record, hit play.

/s/
Best place to work?
Yeah, if they have no backups.

Also, they said they looked at both the push log and the commit history.
(just the submitter to HN, not the writer of the article. )
> a school that was “different,” a school that rose above petty high school malice.

Almost sounds like petty malice is something that wants to exist and, if kept away through the most well-meaning efforts, will eventually turn up all the more virulent.

Could there be some sort of (relatively) safe outlet for such impulses, something that can be both carthatic enough and somehow contained in its impact (e.g. available one for one day every month)?
Exponential self-improvement may or may not happen. I'm of the opinion that it will. The first AI is likely to be vastly suboptimal and just thrown together. The very first thing that actually works, but not the best possible thing (same is true of humans.) Therefore there are likely to be lots of optimizations and improvements that can be made - low hanging fruit. So lots of progress will happen very quickly until it starts to approach the actual limits.

But those limits don't have to be anything near humans. Transistors are many thousands of times faster than neurons. It will have massively superior serial processing power, which is good at doing optimization tasks (i.e. the kind of tasks we want it to do or that will be useful in improving itself.) They are general purpose and can be reprogrammed for specific tasks, unlike our brains. And we can create infinitely many instances of them to work on every conceivable problem in parallel, and share resources (human brains are quite limited at that.)

There is Plenty of Room Above Us: http://intelligenceexplosion.com/2011/plenty-of-room-above-u...
"Today we’re announcing that you can donate Bitcoins to homeless people" is the worst sentence I've read on the Internet today.
Yea, but are you changing the world like Silicon Valley start-ups are? /sarcasm
> Not a lot of people I know would open themselves up to the kind of harassment and character assassination that Julie has for no reason. [...] What would she have gained by lying?

Some people really like attention. I've known people who'll lie about things like that just for the sake of being in the public eye.

Alternately, she might have not expected the harassment, and thought of it as extra fodder for getting GitHub to compensate her for the stuff that their investigation says definitely happened.

To be clear: I'm not saying either of these is the case for Horvath. Just that the hypothetical "she was knowingly lying" case could be explained by these motivations.
"One of the most important characteristics of a successful business is that it's growing."

I hope this doesn't come across as nitpicking, but the lead sentence of the article is incorrect. It should be:

One of the most important characteristics of a successful STARTUP is that it's growing.

Businesses which successfully serve their owners, employees, customers and larger surrounding community, can easily be steady-state.

I realize HN is startup-focused, but I think in the interest of productive conversation it's important to make the distinction and use precise terms.
kidslikemine.com

I considered selling it but I don't see it really being worth the effort. So, yeah, I guess I would be okay with giving it away. I am doing nothing with it and I don't plan to ever again.
This particular study seems fairly solid, but the linked one about a cardboard cutout appears contradictory. The comment about predators seems careless, in that light, but the person making the comment has clearly been theorizing about the effect for a while.

So I don't expect the study to be retracted, but I expect half a dozen more papers and then a theory that will be eventually debunked in favor of a more politically convenient one.
"The majority"? What about the others? And anyway, who cares what dang thinks? :) (Hi dang!)
Well, with respect to dang and his having admin rights and all, his opinion is not necessarily objective fact. Enforceable policy, perhaps, but not fact.

Would it not be better to allow people to make up their own minds about it than to make that choice more difficult?
Actually, I see what you're saying. Tell the investigator some cleaned version of the repo is the official one. That is a plausible way to get around it.

I still feel like it's less likely they were willing to throw a co-founder under the bus, but would go to such great lengths to protect "some engineer".
I don't know the system, but I'm sure it's already synchronous in that there are numerous receiver channels and their acquisition values are correlated with the illumination angle.

If the system has to deallocate time channels for other vehicles to use, it loses bandwidth, proportional to the number of vehicles in the vicinity.

Sharing the data between vehicles is possible, however, it invokes geographical/networking problems, such as how to partition the acquisition, how to synchronize the acquisition and how to share it, including the necessary bandwidth, which I'm sure is quite high.

As soon as multiple vehicles sharing data enters the picture, security must also get factored in. Besides the link control concerns, the system will be sensitive to jamming with that much multiplexed sampling taking place.

PP is correct in hinting that the leap to multiple self-driving vehicles from one self-driving vehicle will be large indeed.
> OP's post: one of the signals of decelerating growth is the loss of popularity of early products.

Just because a blog says something, doesn't automatically make it true.
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I call the fallacy a fallacy - it seems way to simplistic to me. There is obviously a fluctuation in work demand, for example all the seasonal work, but this fluctuation is not arbitrarily large. Take it to the extreme, 20 instead of 40 working hours per week - how would this not require twice as many employees, maybe even a few more because of reduced efficiency, to yield the same output? In essence this is nothing more than more equal distribution of available work.
I wish I could reply to your last comment directly. HNs comment system is sometimes beyond my understanding.

I make the better vs. faster distinction because, if merely faster, the creative works and solutions to problems such an intelligence could cook up would be fathomable to humans, whereas if they are thinking better somehow, that is not a given. Kurzweil, Vinge et al predict intelligence that would leave ordinary humans behind.

It could be that the problem space (reality) and 'algorithms' (for lack of a better term) used to approach that problem space in what we would term creative and intelligent ways, are as such that even a million fold increase in raw speed would not help very much.

All that being said, I hope we do create durable intelligence at least up to our own capabilities. I personally think it is our responsibility to seed our part of the universe with intelligence and that is really the only practical way to extend intelligence into the wider cosmos.
I think the parent was just talking about the "serious allegations regarding genderism" part, as opposed to the crazy-founder stuff.
If they supply the information, will the EU prosecute?
Apparently in specific workloads the move from AVX -> AVX2 was very substantial, though I can't seem to find the article that showed this.
>Well, if someone says or implies that these students shouldn't be legally allowed to say the things they say, that's an issue with free-speech consequences. It's really quite patently obvious.

HAS somebody said or implied that? I certainly didn't notice it in the article; it seems like what you're saying here is "Well, if somebody makes it an issue about free speech, then it's obviously about free speech", which I'm not going to argue with but is also not really the point.
I saw a startup do a tablet once (a very early one). They'd written a lot of demo code in Smalltalk V.

I interviewed there, and turned down an offer. When I was talking with them, I joked that they needed to be careful or they'd wind up shipping their demo code. "Oh, don't worry," they said, "We're going to re-write all of that."

A year later they shipped their demo code. A year after that they'd sunk without a trace.

(I sometimes wonder if they would have had a chance if I'd joined them. I'm guessing it would have turned out pretty much the same).
I agree completely. I am astonished that Google people genuinely don't understand the things that are off-putting about Google+.

I've never even tried Hangouts because of the G+ requirement. I suppose if I had to, I'd create a one-off account for the purpose.
I'm guessing that in a thread about being supportive to your female coworkers, your use of the word "cunt" was not appreciated.
Hey Micah, thanks for weighing in. Good to re-connect over HN of all places.
I'd think that "people Julie asked her to speak with" strongly implies some direct communication between them...
No, not a camera. An IVI system.

That's all I can say about it for now. (Although I did learn to dislike 3D drivers in that project. With a passion. Can't get contiguous kernel memory? Oh, I'll just wait here and block until I get what I want. What, you wanted to do something ELSE while I probe the hardware and spend 1.15s initialising myself? Tough luck, go sit in a corner and cry.)
From the guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

This article is a nice survey of science around a disease that affects people I care about. Quite cool in that gives me a bunch of search terms, etc. Much better from my perspective[1] than the SSH Kung Fu article that only reiterated things I've been doing for a decade, and were old when I first read some article about "awesome things you can do with ssh".

[1] I won't complain about the SSH article though, I think it's needed for the community - see an old comment of mine for why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3735386