skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's spread out, but the S- and U-Bahns will take you quite far, out past the edges of the city. It's hard for me to imagine needing a car (OK multi-crate Bier runs maybe an exception, as another has written, or moving apartments). For real long-distance stuff there's the Regional Express and normal long-haul train service. As to walkability, I'm a dedicated walker and the city's fantastic for it. Sidewalks are quite wide (by US standards) and there are usually plenty of safe places to cross streets, legally and otherwise. Mind the Ampelmännchen and you probably won't even get hit by a trolley.
+1 for markdown inline docs.

A simple, obvious, useful idea I hadn't seen before.
That wouldn't have caught Heartbleed, wouldn't have caught a vulnerability like the one in Apple's TLS implementation, wouldn't have caught... Basically, testing that your software works in normal operation isn't enough to ensure it's secure, you need to explicitly test its behaviour under attack.
Pricing Google Glass at $1,500 only added to its problems
Yes when you have nothing to lose you can afford to not worry about the legal niceties.
Then he should get a new lawyer
Yes, but the thing that the Fundamental Failure Mode Theorem tries to draw attention to is "what is the probability of those failures occurring".

i.e. it's possible that some of those failures have already occurred, and you just haven't noticed because the redundant systems are being redundant and preventing the overall system from failing catastrophically. Or you have noticed, but think that the redundant systems are sufficient, not realising how much closer they bring you to a single point of failure. So the probability of your whole system failing are higher than you'd expect, because you already have failures which you think are p < 1 (possibly p << 1) but are actually p = 1.

In the case of the Gimli glider, they had two independent FQIS systems and a floatstick in case of a single failure, and a rule that the airplane was non-servicable in case of both failing.

On the flight in question, one FQIS was non-servicable. The second was servicable but had been switched off, but due to a miscommunication it was thought that the no-fly rule had been overridden and the plane was OK with a floatstick measurement. Further, if the fuel calulation from the floatstick measurement had been correct, they would have refueled the plane and no-one would ever have heard about Air Canada Flight 143 because everything would have been fine.

The problem was that they were knowingly operating in a failure mode, without either FQIS and disregarding the no-fly rule, and thinking that the floatstick measurement was sufficient. Therefore it only needed one further failure - miscalculating the amount of fuel from the floatstick - to bring about disaster.
How do you find the keyboard compared to that of the X220 and earlier X series laptops? It's the one thing that makes me reluctant to consider the newer devices of the series.
i don't see what's wrong with it. same as before, only i can move everything around.

that said, some people don't like change, which is fine, it's what themes and extensions are for. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...
There are likely to be tax implications in your case, but determining those without knowing your country is impossible.

Always check those kinds of things either with a tax lawyer or an accountant.
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What does Just Rolling With It mean to You?
Thanks for the nice words, it does help the morale.

Regarding javascript execution there are two cases:

External javascript: won't execute because the net request for the external resource is blocked.

Inline javascript: won't execute because a Content-Security-Policy directive is injected into the main page or sub frame.

This week I had to write an explanation of how this work because the idea that inline javascript can't be reliably disabled on a Chromium-based browser is still going strong. Here are the details:

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Blocking-jav...

Regarding the "flash and reload", I noticed that too lately, I have to look into this to understand what is happening.
I'm confused - was the case of John Carmack cited because his tweets have now been raised in court and have hurt his case? I haven't been following this situation so I've zero context.
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There is a 'variant' in Japan where every players start with rock, and the game starts after this first move. It's a small variation (I think it was originally aimed to synchronize more easily), but it nills the effect described in the Article for each session.
Does the public care about this? I really don’t think so. This is a case about some boring legalities. I really can’t see it having any impact on how Carmack is viewed.

There are probably many other situation in which that is not the case, but here I really can’t see anything bad happening as a consequence of Carmack not responding publicly.
This is true. Sometimes it is better to respond and risk losing in the legal court of tomorrow than stay silent and lose in the court of public opinion today.
Aren't loops and ifs goto statements with implicit labels?
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Alright. This also seems more in-line with the type of work the people involved in the study were doing (episodic). Thanks for the perspective.
It's only been a day to two since thise was public, I'm doubtful that they're being mentioned in court.
WikiLeaks Just Blew A Big Hole In The Snowden Narrative (intent not known)
Henrich’s work with the ultimatum game was an example of a small but growing countertrend in the social sciences, one in which researchers look straight at the question of how deeply culture shapes human cognition.

It's so sad that academics in the social sciences fields are terrified to ask honest questions that they might not like the answers to.

I guess that's the reason that social sciences get disrespected so heavily.

The funny thing is that the REAL question that these people don't want to face is "Are these differences more than just cultural? Are they genetic?"

They'd as soon ask that question as a Baptist congregation would seriously ponder Occam's Razor and a need to posit a deity.
ibisum: If you read this, all your posts are auto-marked [dead].
If someone makes a spurious allegation against you then I think you should defend yourself as much as possible, including via tweets or any other communication channels. Refuse to go quietly into the night.
Really?

I have the 2014 edition, mine never gets uncomfortably hot, and I rarely hear the fan running.
I routinely compile lots of code on it (C/C++ and some Java).
If so, those videos had perhaps 240 frames each, not 10.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
With the blessing of dang [1], I'm starting a thread to allow those looking to be hired by a company a way to communicate that to the HN community. Think of this as the inverse of the "Who is hiring?" monthly threads [2] -- except this is not a whoishiring sponsored or monthly thread (yet).

There are a couple of reasons why this thread may be valuable on HN. One, it gives those interested in looking to hire HN enthusiasts a quick view of who is looking for a job. Second, it also gives the HN community a way to give back by helping other HN members find a good fit through networking.

If you're looking to be hired by a company, please use this thread to let other HN members know.

If you're looking for talent, by all means, check out the candidates below and if you see a good fit, connect! Please no recruiters, unless specifically indicated (opt-in).

If you're not hiring/looking to be hired, take a look over the candidates below and connect with them if you're aware of a potential fit for them.

Up/Down Voting: I would propose that up/down voting be reserved to help promote high quality submissions, and push down those clearly not putting in much effort or are off-topic. Use sparingly.

I am loosely proposing the following format (obviously you're welcome to use any format you'd like):

[Location], [Remote | Relocation], [Full Time | Contract | Part Time]

Stack: [Comma delimited list of technologies]

Resume: [Link to resume]

Contact: [Email address or other means of contact]

[Brief overview, what you're looking for in a company, etc.]

Note: Do not use this thread to hold meta discussion. That belongs on the original thread [1]. This thread is reserved for posts by those looking to be hired.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682189

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679431
Apple's Health-Tracking Headphones Leaked
So the idea that scientific studies should include people that are not upper middle-class westerns, is wrong because of the purchasing power of $100?

There is a link to the published paper in the article[1]. I have only skimmed it, but there are many different studies and findings. One I think is really interesting is this:

"Research on IQ using analytical tools from behavioral genetics has long shown that IQ is highly
heritable, and not particularly influenced by shared family environment (Dickens & Flynn 2001,
Flynn 2007). However, recent work using 7‐year old twins drawn from a wide range of
socioeconomic statuses, shows that contributions of genetic variation and shared environment
varies dramatically from low to high SES children (Turkheimer et al. 2003). For high SES
children, where environmental variability is negligible, genetic differences account for 70‐80%
of the variation, with shared environment contributing less than 10%. For low SES children,
where there is far more variability in environmental contributions to intelligence, genetic
differences account for 0‐10% of the variance, with shared environment contributing about
60%. This raises the specter that much of what we think we have learned from behavioral
genetics may be misleading, as the data are disproportionately influenced by WEIRD people,
and their children (Nisbett 2009)."

What they are arguing is that we have conducted science in a way where we have consistently sampled from a specific sub-population and used the results to generalise about the remaining sub-population. To me it sounds like they are on to something that could change many of the "givens" that are "known to be true". I recently saw a TED talk with Paul Johnson[2] where she discusses the problem that the sex of subjects in medical trials is often ignored leading to results that only holds for men or women.

[1] http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/Weird_People_BBS_fina...

[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/paula_johnson_his_and_hers_healthc...
I don't know. I'll give it a try.
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That's actually quite smart :)
Ahead of time, or after it is available?
@Passwordless sudo: Because then you have effectively made your user root, and compromising your user account is enough to get root access immediately. If you do that, then why have a seperate user at all?[3]

@Partitions: Seperating /home and / prevents normal users from filling up /. (And if you put both on LVM, you can grow them as needed.) Yes, I've only had this on some of the servers I've run.

@Impractical: it's one additional command for something I do quite often[4], and I still don't see the benefit (reminder: I fully agree with never using "PermitRootLogin yes").

[3] Granted, it does provide some context seperation in the sense that if you want to perform an administrative task, you have to explicitly use sudo. But it doesn't increase security, and it offers no advantage over "direct root access + normal user account".

[4] Not just scp, but also things like "less /var/log/messages" or "git clone root@host:/etc".

And again: what does "PermitRootLogin no" gain you over "without-password"? Why restrict it for no additional benefit?
These things do not just happen, there is usually a good PR firm behind these types of coincidences, probably pitching it as "everyone loves contrarian articles and don't I have a good one for you."
I am on a W520 and things worked fairly well until I decided to connect an external monitor.
Has this problem gotten anywhere in the past year or so?
Wait, you can't really "make" someone hold onto their stock, can you? Like have a condition for continued employment be don't sell?

I'm guessing it will just be market forces: a bunch of twenty- and thirty-somethings with credit card debt or an eye on Tesla deciding weather to cash in those pieces of paper.
What happens when we hit the speed limit of python
Thanks I am based in Pakistan. I am researching this further but wanted to understand if there are any implication for me in Britain. Any pitfalls in contracts. As well as experience of someone who has gone through this.
Reminds me of the Bret Victor's "Alligator Eggs!": http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/
alantutorial is an alternate reality "game" starring a fictional character named "alan", made by Alan Resnick[1]. It seems all those videos are narrating a story!!! Now, I need to see them all :)

[1]http://tutorialheads.wikia.com/wiki/Alantutorial
Another fun exercise if you already have a well-worn walking route: walk it in the opposite direction. It's striking how doing so makes it seem like you're traversing an entirely different place, even though obviously you're not.
One thing I've often wondered: how does one even find the best lawyer, with the most appropriate experience etc.?

It seems you'd almost need another lawyer, who knows the best people in each specialty, to advise you.
Is it actually a 1/3 chance of winning though? Is that including a draw as a win?

I've tried coding it up here:

https://gist.github.com/andyhmltn/5c8c5734fe894db5aa02

Baring in mind it was a rushed 5 minute bodge-job so it could be wrong but there seems to be a massive skew towards draws

After more tests with this code it seems there's an 11% chance of winning if it's random. Baring in mind javascripts RNG
To be fair, social scientists are not the first to find this prospect troubling.

I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

--Blaise Pascal
Top 7 BYOD readiness questions for the school teachers
With education and education technology (edTech) diversification, it has become increasingly challenging for the teachers and school administrators to keep abreast of all the novel concern that education technology brings along.
People love a bargain :)
Clickables:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682189

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679431

I strongly suggest that if you contribute to this thread you should upvote the item, otherwise it will sink without trace and your contribution lost.
Honestly I am mostly just shocked that at no point was there an ASCII hello.jpg

The code, the readme, and all the other bits are in standard "lulzsec" tone. There is no dissemblance to feign respect for your sensibilities, they don't care. At least they're honest.
And with some hospitals still running Win XP, it's easy to get a foothold on their network!
8 Visual Studio Debugging Tips
Make sure you bury it with enough soil. You will get termites (in sub/tropical Australia at least) if you leave the wood exposed or too lightly buried. There is also the matter of snakes - they like to live in wood piles.
Companies do it primarily because they don't understand the large variance in productivity between tech people, which seems to range between 18x-25x. They think they can outsource the task like outsourcing office cleaners.

The problem with that is companies can't tell how badly they are doing at recruiting. They think they are doing great, because they fill positions with people with credentials, but they can't gauge the bottom-line productivity. They can't see how badly they are doing compared to other companies. (Ironically, some companies see that when they go out of business.)

The skills needed to know how good you are at something are the same as the skills needed to be good at it. Which means if you aren't a good tech person, which HR people aren't, not only do you not find good tech people, but you also can't tell you are doing a bad job it.

Most companies are also not willing to pay to get this higher productivity. Partly because they can get away with it, and partly because they have been conditioned to believe tech salaries shouldn't vary more than salaries in other professions.
Before gmail, using a free email service made you look like a shmuck. That is, try to register on a site with a hotmail address and we'll tell you to use your real email address.

Google rolled gmail out in an exclusive way that made it seem like a privilege rather than a stigma. It was a good call back then but the Valley is a dangerous place to make these calculations today.

Some people might spend $1500 out of passion but there are also the ones for who $1500 is not a lot of money.
Yes, but...

* Public opinion has little or no monetary value where the courts have tremendous costs. Things said in public to influence public opinion can increase your court costs (possibly including judgement costs) tremendously.

* The public's attention span, and thus its opinion, generally is measured in days, maybe weeks. Court verdicts are forever.
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop that's about 1.5 years old. It runs 14.04 LTS just fine. With one exception: The external USB CD/DVD drive is not supported. The built-in CD/DVD drive works like a champ, so it's okay.

Sometimes I boot the Windows-7 partition.

My spinning rust is a 500 GB drive.

How you should buy your machine also depends on what country you are in. Local suppliers often give much better support than mail-order.
Yeah, this confused me significantly. I would have picked a different name.
Are you training your customers to subvert your support process?
I find this article very weird. I completed a psychology/neurobiology degree in '94 at a second-tier Australian university. Half the stuff in this article was obvious then. The idea of physical differences being different between cultures wasn't (like the neuroimagers mention in the article), but so much of the rest of the content was.

Visual lines, as quickly glossed over in the article, are different for westerners used to square corners... but this is hardly news. The idea that your environment shapes your perceptions goes back at least as far as 1970, when Blakemoore & Cooper did their vertical/horizontal line experiment on kittens: kittens raised in an environment where they only ever see vertical lines cannot later perceive horizontal lines and vice versa.

And the idea that moral reasoning is somehow genetic? What kind of craziness is this? Throw a brick and you'll hit a family whose children have quite different moral reasoning to their parents. Or between neighbours. Same for the other features of socialisation that they mentioned.

At one stage the author even mentioned that Westerners are the product of "thousands of generations in ever more complex market economies". A thousand generations ago, we hadn't even reached the Neolithic period, let alone 'thousands'. This part of our history isn't particularly well known for its trading culture.

It just seems strange that these guys are painted as anthropologists, yet find it surprising that social aspects of the human are different in different cultures.

THE TURN THAT HENRICH, Heine, and Norenzayan are asking social scientists to make is not an easy one: accounting for the influence of culture on cognition will be a herculean task.

Here is the nub that annoys me about the article. Accounting for the influence of culture is a difficult one - doing a study in your home city is considerably easier than doing it against a representative slice of world cultures. However, recognising the influence of culture on social actions (like the 'fair money divide' or moral reasoning (particularly moral reasoning... I'm still gobsmacked the author even suggested it was genetic)) is something we've known for a very long time, yet the article paints it as 'astonished everyone'.

Don't get me wrong, it's a good point to make, that studies done on any aspect of the human condition can vary between cultures and that that's often overlooked, but it really isn't as astonishing as the article makes out.
Hawking: Creating AI would be the biggest event in history – and maybe the last
How does this have to do with "Americans"? I think the comparison was more towards indegionus native people verses civilized ones?

Where is the comparison to other more civilized people like Europeans, Asian countries, Africans, or even Russians.
I've had a fair bit of NPM installation issues as well and I am a big NodeJS supporter. Often their service is down. If you installed npm a long time ago, it likely doesn't work reliably with the service as it is now and you need to do an "npm install npm" to fix it.

Generally, npm needs to get more professional and I think they are trying.
It's astonishing and not obvious to others - those outside of the small group of people in the know. It has applications far exceeding social science.
Very cool! Thanks for the explanation.

One last question (sorry!): I just used the "Google" preset configuration to load gmail and it all just worked. I'm still trying to get the hang of interpreting the grid, but at the top left I see in blue ".google.com". Does that mean these whitelistings only apply to pages in a Google subdomain? For example: google analytics requests from some other* domain aren't whitelisted?
The article mentioned in a few places why North Americans were more weird than other Westerners in particular.
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> My current laptop is an X1 carbon

Is this the second generation?
Show HN: Hackernews for Daily Quotes
So, Here is something I always wanted. Fed up with quotes/proverbs which are always seen, old. I made this site to get new quotes and listen favorite quotes of the people, daily.
The median income in the US is $50,000. The average work week is 34.5 hours (per the OECD), or upwards of 40 according to other sources. $25 per hour is a reasonable baseline for the US average. So it's about four hours of work. The average tax rate is 18%, so it's more like 4.8 hours of work including taxes.
It has a chicklet type keyboard, not the ones you find on previous thinkpads. I like it better than the old ones. Layout-wise, it has the weird layout of the home/insert island, and a stupid positioning of the print screen key. Other than that it's standard qwerty.

As for the trackpad, I'm not a good reviewer. I use the red trackpoint exclusively. My previous laptop (X61t) didn't even have a trackpad. Between the trackpoint and the touch screen, I don't ever use the trackpad.
Look at all those butt… I mean, links :P
DOJ Morality Police May Be Behind Chase Closing Accounts Of Adult Film Actors
Right, I was just saying that some of the build environments are "smarter" than you might give credit. I think you'd be surprised how many people don't know about gcc -M and friends.
Local privilege escalation due to capng_lock