skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is it writ that a person's right to not endure offensive speech trumps another person's right to express themselves? Of course I would opine that a person being needlessly offensive is a jerk but where would I get off insisting she has to change her behavior to suit my tastes?
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Or he could be, say, nipping a problem in the bud. There have been a few big but dubious crowdfunded projects recently. If scam artists think they can raise a bunch of money and then say, "oopsie," and have it all be a free pass, there could be a flood of bad projects.

Those interested in reading a history should pick up Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil's bio: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0767917375/

He was a pioneering American con man. Many of the scams he pulled weren't illegal at the time, so they had to come up with new laws to prevent him and imitators from fleecing more people.

Whether or not this AG knows and cares about limiting criminal innovation, you can be sure some of them do.
It looks like a boat/jet ski ride. Lot's of loops and turns, no right angles.
Have you worked in other industries? Most of them don't hold a candle to tech when it comes to diversity. It's slightly lacking in a few visible areas, but beyond that it is truly one of the most diverse industries in the world. My coworkers are from all over the world, with a huge variety of backgrounds. Get to know them. If you truly work in a mono-culture, that's not the fault of tech, that's an issue with your hiring manager(s).
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I almost got a heart attack listening to the 'Binaural Test', I have a v-moda crossfade m-100 and it's so incredibly realistic.

It's even freaky when I know that it's just an audio file playing.
Perhaps boaters are using Strava.
my conclusion from this is that a lot of people in Brookline and Allston need to buy "Great Runs in Brookline"[1]. No affiliation on my part, just the knowledge that book put me onto a lot of great running routes that aren't covered very well at all by these Strava wearers. There is more to the area than Beacon St, Comm Ave, and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Great-Runs-Brookline-Vicinity-Lowenste...
The drum major of Stanford's Band is pretty exceptional:

http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Stanford-band-s-...

I auditioned for the job this year in a King Tut costume but didn't get it. I can't say that I know exactly what the drum major does either, but I think spiritual leader is a good way to put it.

While it may be hard to describe the exact purpose of the drum major, some definitely stand out. This year was the 50th anniversary of the Band and many old drum majors came back to play with us. At one point each of them got to conduct a song, and some of them were just incredible.
Honestly, I don't get the pricing. (this applies to Heroku too, but they use Amazon). A bare metal server like this[1] priced at 130 EU/month should easily host (let's be generous and not oversell the CPUs) at least 100 containers at 20 EU/month = 2000 EU/month. Even with all the convenience of a PaaS, this doesn't seem like a good deal.

[1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px120
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Not everybody uses Strava, so the data is skewed a bit.
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Ask HN: What's your take on using ads for non-paying users?
I'm working with a startup on rolling out a sweet product. In our last meeting we spoke about differentiators for premium accounts and what we could offer to make it worth the money. Obviously, the notion of ads came up for free accounts (which would be disabled if you had a paid account).

I'm not a fan or flashy ads or crap like that. I feel it breaks the "feel" of the simple and clean website we have. I was thinking about using a service which allowed me to use text-only ads and style them in such a way that they fit into the website a lot more. Then I realized I've never seen a startup website that had ads at all.

Is this a good idea? The ads aren't meant to be a major revenue stream, they would pretty much only be introduced to "sweeten" the paid plan.
I know, but it makes the data set weaker than it is then (specially given the title of the post).
> Are you saying that men don't need to work with each other on their sexism?

That feels like a loaded question.
Really? Are you reading the same thread as me? Look at the current top comment, which says that the "big takeaway" from this post has nothing to do with gender.
I have an ex-coworker who is a really attractive girl, and she used to tell me lots of stories like this about places she had worked at previously. Vice presidents calling her to their room and offering her promotions if only she would give them weekly blowjobs, prospective customers turning away from million-dollar deals at the last minute after she refused to sleep with them, etc.

The really sad thing about is that the vast majority of guys I talk to about this topic are simply not aware that women, especially attractive women, go through stuff like this all the time. So when they hear women complaining about discrimination, harassment, glass ceilings, and so on, they think those women are simply "being bitchy." Which simply perpetuates and intensifies the status quo.
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This review comes very close to my experience. However, I would add one more point.

I used the new browser on two slightly older PCs (relatively old). On a 4GB machine, I almost fell off my chair because I wasn't expecting such a fine speed from FF. Like the author above, I got pretty excited thinking that FF is finally back.

I then tried it on 3GB machine, and I didn't get the same enthusiasm.

It boils down to what you're used to of already. Notwithstanding the other debates (Google, anti-Google etc - which is not my concern for this discussion).
Please tell me why this topic deserves more "care" than others posted on HN.
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Vocal fry is nails on a chalkboard for me. It's the vocal equivalent of slouching. It seems disrespectful to others to not say words without the required air support.
He also thought we should all wear identical brown cloth and have no possessions :D
I'm surprised the ToS of these services permit automated account registration.
Section 4.9 of the complaint specifically calls out this statement in Kickstarter's TOS. I believe it underpins the entire legal action, because if backers reasonably understand the project could fail and they would get neither reward NOR a refund, then the burden of proof on the state increases enormously.
More needs to be done to raise awareness of assholes that create a hostile environment, not to separate us into a classification based on genitalia.

We're all humans and those of us who aren't complete shitheels know how to work together and even encourage people that are somehow different.

If your mileage varies, shame those that are making you feel that way.
Couldn't it also just indicate that you've switched from an easy to a difficult subject? All you're really reading is emotion, which may or may not indicate deception.
I don't think that's really a fair categorization of the specific comment you've responded to (especially given its parent). Did you perhaps interpret "ribbing" as a sexual reference, rather than meaning "good-natured teasing" ? I do agree that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7688033 is quite low-substance, and think it would be better to call it out instead.
So much anger. My sisters boy just turned 21. His dad is a electrician and always stressed that he should do jobs that can't be outsourced. Corey just got a union job for 30 a hour as a carpenter.
How about we all just treat people like people. It doesn't matter if you are a man or woman, your respect in the community should be based on merit. There are plenty of terrible male executives, and there are also plenty of terrible female executives.

I'll probably get downvotes for this... but the one thing that annoys me is when someone plays one of the "cards", be it sexism, racism, etc. I've been around long enough to feel if you play a "card", then you have no merit (or just lost it all).

I may be in the minority, but in the business roles I've filled over the years, I've always had complete disregard to an employee's gender or skin color... it's irrelevant, if you are the best fit for the job/project, then you're the best fit. Plain and simple.

On the flip-side, employees should understand that just because they feel they are more qualified for a task, but were not rewarded with it... it does not instantly mean they were discriminated against -- usually the contrary. (Very few people are bigots, yet, the few ruin the bunch so-to-speak).
When someone always up talks they come off as needlessly timid and desperate for agreement. Or, coming off as faux-inquisitive, as if everything's an open-ended question to ponder.

What also bugs me: Prepending every answer with "So…" a la Zuckerberg.
On a mostly-renewables grid:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/the-grid-of-2030-all-...

The culture of budgeting new nuclear plants:
http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2013/11/21/why-officia...

Nuclear is tied to water in problematic ways:
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/the-energy-futurist/the-ener...
You'd probably be interested in this feature, which does exactly what you're asking for:

http://www.strava.com/routes
As an early learner of Rust, but with strong experience in C++, I also agree with this choice. It seems much clearer to me than ~ and @.

And thanks for the explanations and the tutorial !
2. A liar will naturally add more detail to try and manufacture credibility. Do not interrupt. Let them ramble. Silence from you will solicit more imaginings from them.

I've heard the exact opposite, that a truthful account will include extraneous detail because those details are part of the true memory that the person is replaying in their mind.
Part of the problem is that the article doesn't really define "political correctness".

If PC means not using racial slurs to people's faces, then I definitely agree with you.

If PC means that academic freedom and scientific research needs to be subordinated to 'social justice' goals, or that some research areas are 'off limits', then I don't agree.

It really depends on the definition.
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I've played around with it. It doesn't seem like a huge perf boost and would require a lot of dev work -- people who want value semantics use value types and the CLR can do better analysis then we can (e.g., across assemblies).
Actually yes it is okay to joke about white males in some corporate cultures.
And the book will only be available on the cloud. That's the only drawback.
Any time. Glad you like them.
They all have implemented SSO and (given how SSO works) have clearly worked with this site to make it happen.
The big-endian x86 is probably the worse one, but they're all gold
Indeed it could be, but that's syntax. The proposal is very careful to talk about semantics; most of the code examples have a disclaimer that the syntax is for illustrative purposes only.
We are fully integrated with the services, accounts are setup via an API.
Made this comment when I first heard of your service, and would like to know your company's perspective:

Any evidence you capture via this method should be immediately and freely available to any person involved in the incident with the police. If the cops pull me over for anything - I should have immediate access to all their recorded raw footage.

If your company is against this, then I have a very fundamental problem with the trustworthiness of your company.

Also - if any cop is wearing your equipment - then any person they interact with should have the reciprocal right to record the interaction as well.

What is Evidence.com's official stance on this?
The Grammar of Conducting: http://www.amazon.com/The-Grammar-Conducting-Comprehensive-I...
Actually Doctrine is Hibernate implemented in php http://hibernate.org/orm/
I have not; but I will now. Do wish it was on Kindle though...
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Can anybody tell me why not all music or audio is recorded binaurally? Because it sounds incredibly realistic, I really do not understand why this is not used at all, not even released together with normal releases. Or at the movies or something.

This is the first time in years I even see it mentioned and people sound all surprised and somewhat freaked out. It's not new technology or something, as far as I know anyway. My father happens to be an audiophile so that's why I happen to know, but it seems like really cool technology that nobody uses.
I found an industrial park that appears to be the next best thing to a Velodrome for local cyclists. Very cool map!

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#15/-119.86045/34.43307/yello...
I wonder how many people will add this book to their digital library in preparation for some cataclysmic event which necessitates rebooting society...
I have a pair of Sony CD-1700 and they're really wonderful headphones, I love them. Light, comfortable, and great sound (hardly distinguishable from the CD-3000, quite close to the Sennheiser 600 but more aerial and comfortable). Probably bought 15 to 18 years ago.
From the very little I read of the documentation, it seems like a similar concept -- mapping the objects to the data is done outside of the objects.
Looks like id's went above 120m in early march. Does that mean activities after that aren't included?
Odd, I've just been getting the impression that the language is become much, much readable. I agree with thestinger, here:

> uses and instead of &&, or instead of ||, list instead of [] and so on. Most people find it far easier to read and search for these than the sigil alternatives. The avoidance of more than one way to do the same thing (like including both ~T and Box<T>) is another reason why people find Python easy to read.
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...
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That's one good takeaway. But there's one that is more important to me: no matter how good my intent is, it's easy for me to accidentally make people suspect I'm just like some total asshole they've dealt with before.

So I'm going to try harder to avoid triggering those associations. And when I do, I'm going to try to be bolder in apologizing for it and learning from it. My good intentions may explain a fuckup, but they sure don't justify it, and they don't excuse me from taking full responsibility.
He meant a language with an actual ecosystem and hundrends of thousands of users, like Java. Haxe does not qualify at the moment...
> a first-class syntax back.

I would argue that this change elevates the clarity and quality of Rust syntax.
Stanford has a better CS program then any Ivy League school so that's not a surprise
It depends on the project. Quite often there simply isn't that much repetition.

On the flipside, how do you feel about slower performance? About diagnosing problems through multiple abstraction layers? Or about having different abstraction layers for different languages?
Contract law, fine. But this is the consumer protection act specifically http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=19.86.020. My argument is that there is ample proof that kickstarter is not engaged in trade and commerce relevant to this law. For example "It's hard to know how many people feel like they're shopping at a store when they're backing projects on Kickstarter, but we want to make sure that it's no one." - https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store . The fundamental nature of speculative projects is that they can fail. If this case goes forward and is found against the creators for reasons other than explicit fraudulent activity with no attempt whatsoever to complete the project then it will be terrible law and undermine kickstarter completely.
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Your random number generator shouldn't block.
Interesting, thanks. I had heard of Hibernate before but never actually looked into it. I can definitely see the similarities - especially between Doctrine's DQL and Hibernate's HQL.
A really funny related affect is had using the SpeechJammer app, or similar. It plays back a slightly delayed feed of your voice. Other than the delay it's not altering the speech. If you get the timing right it's almost impossible to talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjWzQEBGCMo

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icechen1.s...
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> Well, JS is used because it's the only way to run code on a client system.

Not sure what you mean by this - I guess you're assuming the "client system" is always a web browser?

Currently, I'm writing code for a piece of middleware that is a client to a server that models networking equipment. This client then pushes hundreds of thousands of responses into a fast message queue. None of this is written in JS.
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That sounds familiar, though I'm more of the former. Not sure I'd enjoy the lower level stuff day to day, but I do enjoy knowing the full stack (all the way down to the transistors, digital system design, and physics) because it allows you to converse with a wide range of people with a diverse range of backgrounds.
The idea on principle is nice, but silly to assume that you can sum up human knowledge in one book.

Think about the amount of literature people have to read to became doctors, programmers, engineers, think about "re-inventing" electricity and computers, the world might be re-built but it would take so many generations and it would most definitely look nothing like our.
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Would it kill them to format the article nicely?
This is not intended to diminish the perfectly valid stories in her blog, but about 30 years ago I went to a Silicon Valley talk where Heidi Roizen was the featured speaker. Minutes before the talk started she swept into the room surrounded by a half-dozen very handsome young guys in designer suits, all smiling beautifully. It was exactly the same as if some older guy had showed up surrounded by models in Versace dresses. I thought it was very inappropriate and lost some respect for her. Of course, I may have interpreted it incorrectly...perhaps there is another explanation for the entourage of young men accompanying her.
Increased incentives for solar (which serves as a consistent energy source during daylight hours)

Solar, though, is not a panacea, for a variety of reasons: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/243plj/the_koch_at... or http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/jcap-... or http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/04/24/sol...
Can't remember the terminology they use but Strava allows you to define privacy areas (within a configurable radius of a point) where no points are shown on your individual routes. Exactly to stop someone working out where you live/work from browsing your history.

Either they haven't honoured this when calculating the global heatmap or, more likely (and harder to fix), such locations are given away by friends uploads (who don't have the same privacy areas defined).

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Was the question about the baby really so bad?

It seemed to me like the person asking about it tried as hard as he could to ask it in a positive way (i.e. not accusatory, but offering opportunity to explain).
Is this something you are going to release for people to include in mashups? I'd love to get it in hillmap.com

Also how accurate is the bike vs run stuff? I'm seeing a a surprising amount of people biking activity in wilderness areas.
There's actually at least one on Spotify - search for "Sheffield Lab". Very handy for end-to-end testing your streaming setup.