skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thanks for comment. I'm a bit skeptical of the whole linguistic analysis thing, for various reasons. But I could be convinced otherwise (Also this would bias the analysis away from people who just register and lurk) ... Another thing I looked at was Facebook profiles. But this part was cut due to space. Here's what I found:

Not surprisingly, most Stormfront users do not want to announce their white nationalism to the world. But about 100 Americans say on Facebook that they like Stormfront and are publicly searchable. This small, selected sample can offer suggestive clues to the membership of such sites. Are, for example, white nationalists unpopular and social pariahs?

Nearly 80 percent of Stormfront fans had more than 100 Facebook friends. Nearly 60 percent had more than 200 friends. By comparison, a 2011 study found only half of Facebook users had more than 100 friends.

Finally, another thing that was interesting was the percent of people who are atheists on the site. But I wasn't sure exactly what to compare that to, so that got cut too.

- Seth
I think you rather exaggerate the case for both Hiroshima & Nagasaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombing...
Jeez

People (especially on kickstarter) think that if they have a pretty 3D drawing of the thing the hardware is going to be a breeze. Oh and they're going to use Arduino for it

Funny. Not.

I think Arduino made people think "everybody can work with hardware now wohoo!!" Oh but they don't know Ohm's law.

"We quickly learned that there was no concept of “off the shelf” when manufacturing in China."

Well, of course there is. Unless the existing parts don't fit your project. Then you'll need a lot of parts specd for your need. Tip: don't do that.

You'll already have to do the case, circuit board and maybe power source, this is enough trouble. Add in mechanics and you're in for a tough ride.

I've seen hardware bugs in reference implementations from people that should've known better. Manufacturing reliability is always lower than you think it is.
Yeah that makes perfect sense. The notion I'm getting at is where you say "declare a variable to contain". If you have only immutable objects then you can dispense with the idea of containment and use only equivalence. As an equivalent semantics you can have containment and copy-on-write everywhere. Under immutability they are the same.

The trouble is that if you try to have both "name-equivalence" and "containment" and mutable things. At this point, copy-on-assign almost works uniformly. Except unless something like

var a = x
var b = a

does not refer to three separate containers, only at most two if x were immutable. At that point I feel like the explicit copy-on-assign might be better.
Thanks for the reply. Both of what you said (filling the skills gaps and applying to more places) is great advice. I think what I'm planning on doing is a combination of both e.g. apply to 10 places per week and also build on the side and potentially join a team.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't his manifesto discuss how he was radicalized in part by the minorities in Oslo when he was living there?
Tracking everything about myself: 104 days, 1280 commits and 14 burritos later
It sounds like you're suggesting pursuing tens or hundreds of small offenders whom many people would likely find sympathetic (caught in a sting -- for taking $4 for telling someone about a parking spot?) instead of a single offender that's making the whole problem possible. That approach depends on publicity from the people you catch to dissuade other people, but that publicity could be very negative for the city. Plus, you have to catch enough people for it to be compelling.
I've always wondered why only Java seems to have this concept.

I haven't quite dug into a "real" macro system (I don't mean the c macro system) but is it that a good macro system is able to replace("emulate") AOP?
I'm glad an "Internet Developer [in] Jew York City" is one example that the author picked to profile. I personally believe that the current "sensitivity training" and "diversity-based" US K-12/college education based on African American literature, history classes on MLK and slavery is misdirected.

Instead I propose a curriculum where we teach our children the dark side of humanity and allow both white, blacks and asians express our racial and other prejudices openly and honestly. Then to encourage and train everyone to come up with a plan of their own to overcome whatever perceived prejudices in athletics, academics or artistic outlets offered in schools.

Instead of suppressing the human nature to discriminate and giving people a sense of their own agency to either confront their bullies, or to subvert the majority power or to overcome in a round-bout way the limitations imposed on them, we allow people to feel entitled to an abstract idea of "fairness" and "justice" which never existed in American society. And we end up with one hand, "diversity HR Managers," "social justice campaigners" who resort to the ideals of civil rights to rally people, but are actually oppressing people by feeding them a false sense of moral superiority. On the other hand, the "banally evil" professionals who pay lip service to "go along with it" but actually just operates business as usual.

Instead of acting "shocked" and "indignant" every time about racism, we should openly acknowledge it in ourselves and concede that it'll never go away. I believe ironically, the benefit of not suppressing that speech and shaming sites such as Stormfront will help the discriminated people to find power in themselves to overcome than the other way around ("white lady" going into the hood for Teach for America to rescue all the poor inner city kids).
i've lived in both NYC and SF.. NYC is far worse. I've seen people fight over parking spots.

SF would be a lot easier if everyone didn't have a garage. I would be willing to bet a good percentage of people with a garage might not have a car.
Fwiw, SF is actually moving to market-rate pricing for meters and garages, with a pilot in a subset of spaces currently underway: http://sfpark.org/
Agree 100%.

Another common approach to further mitigate manufacturing reliability issues is to contract a single vendor to make and assemble the mechanical unit. Basically everything from input shaft to output shaft goes into a box. You put the motor in and build a contraption to measure the output torque, etc.

You only pay them for units that actually pass the test. The failed units are their problem. Look at the price they'll quote you for this and you'll know how reliable they really think their process is.
Ghostrank has never been enabled by default
"Hundreds of millions" sounds like an exaggeration. Where did that come from?
Kickstart the Q: A hackable home lightshow that's long overdue
Walmart on Ford Road near Dearborn.
Ah! That wasn't clear to me from your wording. I think I was especially confused because that means your argument seemingly boils down to "only the first language to have a feature is notable." (And I guess also that C-like languages are hard to learn?) But all languages stand on the soldiers of giants. I don't look down on Haskell simply because other languages had its features first.
As per #1, is WiFi really that bad? Because Geofencing is used quite extensively in the iOS ecosystem and doesn't seem to affect my battery that much at all... although I'm likely just missing what the feature was advertised as, possibly its something different.
You _need_ to do side projects, and put them on github. As a hiring manager, I'm telling you that people who have a github account with side projects automatically move to the top of the pile.
Carbon storage recovers faster than plant biodiversity in tropical forests
> Worldwide, and across all scientific realms, burning wood is considered carbon neutral, right?

Absolutely not. For wood burning to be carbon neutral, you have to replace the wood and produce exactly zero CO2 during harvesting and transportation. Even if we gave your picking up twigs example a good 50yrs to cycle, you're removing fertilizer that would otherwise help the growth of current/new trees. There's a reason we put restrictions on wood burning and overall traffic in a lot of forest areas; it reduces the forestation.

> This is relative to coal or oil or natural gas that have been carbon stored underground for millions of years.

The length of the cycle doesn't make a difference because we're growing energy production exponentially and seeing consistent global deforestation (thus the scaling problem). That carbon from your stove might get replaced in 10-50 years.... if not for the environment suffering immediate effects that propagate.

> And it's actually humorous that you mention forest fires given that removing the brush that camp stoves like this burns helps prevent forest fires

Not in any significant way. As far as we know, forest fires are caused by weather patterns, forest life-cycles, insect life-cycles, ect. Clearing brush is a stop-gap fire fighters use to protect homes.

> As to being rough on the lungs, the whole point of this whole initiative is clean burning the wood, eliminating the vast majority of particulate that is the result of an incomplete burn.

The vast majority? I doubt either of us is going to do a study on this particular stove, but given that Biomass power facilities still produce large amounts of particulates, I'm pretty sure the little self-charging fan doesn't solve the problem.

> I suspect you really don't care about the actual facts though, but just for anyone else coming along.

I'm doing my best not to be confrontational, but your only "fact" is the misapplied notion that trees can only release carbon that they've previously absorbed. Every study I've read on using biomass for power generation has concluded that their only "environmental" advantage is that the fuel is easier to renew.
Seems like it should be a FIFO queue weighted on verified proximity/travel-distance to the locale you are trying to park in, if such a system were to be put in place.
> If we could locate the source of these ideas, perhaps there could be a way of battling it.

That is interesting. It would be nice if there was a source for these ideas (well besides human nature) and if it was curable. We want to think these people a basically good but sick. Something happened to them and they became like this. If we could only prevent or even undo that.

Could it be for example that by default people are racist and will automatically dislike others from different groups (social, religious, national, intellectual, professional).

Hate of "others" is used for group cohesiveness.

Maybe it isn't them that are "abnormal" but us, who maintain that we don't have these beliefs, biases and stereotypes (at least rationally). Wouldn't that be scary...

Historically and geographically maybe instead of a sea of tolerance with island of hatred, it is the other way around. A sea of hatred and division with islands of tolerance.

It is also interesting that we often attribute craziness to these people. I do it all the time. They are mentally sick, they are hallucinating etc etc. But if you read manifestos of killers and how these people behave towards each other, how they function in real life, you might find they are are disturbingly "normal". That that is really disturbing to me at least.
"Why do some people feel this way?...And I can honestly offer the following answer: I have no idea."

Do you actually not know? Or are you asking rhetorically? The reasons seem pretty obvious to me, not sure why they would be hard to figure out.
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Subject of infringing activity is talking about websites that host files for users, not source code to programs that, 65 steps later, may possibly be used to infringe.

This language also refers to computer programs, such as Napster, et al., and by extension to the websites that host them.

If your employer is willing to gamble on its safe harbor exemption by making its own judgment about whether the substance of a notice is adequate, that's fine. If a copyright holder decides to pursue a matter further, your employer may be willing to accept the legal cost of defending itself in court from an invalid copyright infringement claim it shouldn't have had to fight in court. But most websites and businesses aren't in the same position, and would rather just avoid court (and the attendant costs) altogether by accepting a DMCA notice that is, on its face, valid under the law as presently written.

Instead, they made a statement that operating and further evelopment of popcorn time causes a bunch of stuff that, later on, may cause something unauthorized by the copyright owner.

Until recently, the PopCorn Time website, hosted by github, provided executable files that would provide access to infringing content on startup. It's an even worse example of contributory infringement then Napster or Kazaa were; those programs at least required the user to search for infringing material first.

The proper thing for the MPAA to do, if they wanted it down, was file a contributory or indirect infringement case against github.

They can't do this until and unless GitHub fails to properly respond to the DMCA notice. The whole point of the safe harbor is that a content hoster is protected from infringement actions so long as it responds to DMCA notices. Maybe you should work on the litigation side before you talk about the mechanics of how things work once a court gets involved?
Well, I don't know that it's merely all ascribing negative traits to a group with whom people disagree.

With racism/other prejudice, in particular, it is somewhat intuitive to see a link with below-average intelligence. Much prejudice is based on ignorance, fear, and unquestioned learned behavior, all of which less-intelligent people would seem to be more susceptible. In other words, more intelligent people would seem more likely to question dogma and better able to reason through answers.

Beyond intuition, there has been at least one study which shows a correlation between low-intelligence and racism:

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/millennial-media/201304/...

EDIT: None of this is to say that there are no intelligent racists; simply that there may well be a correlation and acknowledging that possible correlation might be viewed as somewhat intuitive vs. simply a knee-jerk reaction to ascribe negative traits to those one finds disagreeable.
There's also products such as this: http://www.amazon.com/Schlage-FE599NX-CAM-619-ACC/dp/B0083GJ...

This has the option for a single product from Amazon, or a "2 pack" for a $100 surcharge from some random supplier. This is on MOST products from Amazon and a real pain in the ass to avoid. I hate that Amazon allows this crap which is basically spam. I would be willing to bet that the supplier simply orders 2 of these products from Amazon after the purchase, then ships them out to you and makes $100. It offers zero benefit to Amazon's customers, but it's a rampant issue.

There's also the companies with names such as "Prime inc." which are just trying to trick people.

They probably make the most money off of assistants or employees who are asked to purchase a product and don't really look at the prices or shipping.

Imagine this scenario: I send the link above to one of my family members saying this is the product they need for their doors. They see 2-pack and immediately click it and continue through the checkout process, because I had told them this was the best value product and I had done the research for them.

A query parameter such as (?only_show_amazon=true) would help the issue, or better yet would be a permanent setting, but Amazon doesn't see the problem with allowing these sellers or products. Maybe utilizing the Amazon API and creating a website to avoid this would be a solution.
Sending a one-way hash of a hack phone-home URL only AFTER the hack was detected is far less disturbing than sending a ROT-13 list of recently used programs indiscriminately.
Ask HN: Names for app company?
What are some names for an app company that you would put at the end of it? Example:

Example Productions

Example Apps

Example Creations
To expand on the sibling post, you obviously won't find it in faster-than-current factorisation processes because this isn't acutally doing quantum algorithms, but rather emulating them.

What it's useful for is understanding the processes. I found quantum algorithms tough to get my head around at times so this could be a valuable learning tool.
Let me be a little more specific: how would the performance of finding prime factors using Shor's algorithm running on libquantum compare to classical factoring algorithms? I know it would be less efficient, but by how much? How many digits could I reasonably expect to factor in non-geologic time this way? How big a task would it be to code? Is this a reasonable experiment to try to do?
This is interesting, although it contains a few misconceptions/mistakes/typos.

http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2al19j/rust_for_functi...
If the issue is fairness, there are two things people generally have they can give up: time and money. Right now finding parking is based on random chance. A better system, if we decide time is the thing people pay with, would involve people having to wait a pre-determined amount of time before they can take ownership of a parking spot, which would increase as demand did and vice versa. Additionally this duration could be determined by the amount of time they spend in the spot.

The status quo is obviously broken. The question is if there is an easy and effective way to improve fairness.
> Pay an experienced EE or consulting company 20, 30, 40 for hours worth of work to review your design, plan, and feasibility

Would be interesting if projects disclosed that consulting company A has signed off on their design, such that backers can review the delivery track record of other projects vetted by consulting company A.

How should hardware projects source such a company? Is there a directory?
i meant that i don't know what the answer is. because the obvious answers that sound really good -- diversity, education, economic development -- may not work.
Malware hidden in Chinese inventory scanners targeted logistics, shipping firms
Github doesn't need to violate copyright. Github would be sued under a contributory infringement theory (i.e., the same one that took down napster and kazaa), and could be found liable for the infringement committed by others. The point of the DMCA safe harbor is that by responding to takedown notices (and by not deliberately hosting infringing material), they are immune to infringement actions for hosting infringing material.
I don't think there's any innate racism, but people do tend to be hostile towards those who they see as "not of their own tribe". This view of the problem would suggest that racism is the result of people having a very narrow world-view, where they don't recognise many other people as being "like them".

This would seem to be a solvable problem. We can break down communication barriers. The internet is already transforming the world in this way, and we've already come so far in the past few decades. Surely we can keep going, until nobody lives in a small corner of the world that's isolated from the rest of us.
I definitely wasn't trying to say this project would be better served by a "real" CMS, just that I'd like to see how someone would put one together. I've heard the idea of your second paragraph repeated in a bunch of places, and it speaks to me on an intellectual level, but I'd like to read through examples of non-trivial apps to put it in concrete terms.

About dash - presumably users will want your content inside whatever editing environment they have going (I know I do!). I find myself jumping between the built-in Emacs thing for clojure (shows function signatures in the minibuffer, let's you jump to official docs and source in other buffers) and dash for ruby (pretty html rendering, loads all my library docs).
But a more efficient heat transfer would mean smaller fuel consumption. Maybe important if you carry the fuel yourself.
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The challenge with door locks is that I'd like to change the battery every couple years, particularly on infrequently used doors. Most people can understand having to change batteries every couple months on a door they use frequently, but let's say you have a storage locker - it kind of sucks that every time you go to the locker, the battery is dead.
> Rust has generics, which are higher order types (you can't have just a vector, it needs to be a vector "of something"). I'm not sure if the rust team would describe them that way, but there doesn't seem to be that much of a theoretical difference.

No, there's no first class "type level functions", i.e. you always need `Vec<T>`, and you can't ever write `Vec` by itself, which is what a true higher-order type is (and what Functor needs:

impl Functor for Vec { ... }
impl Functor for Option { ... }

Thus, your example isn't at all possible now or even in the near future.
A common standard for a Ph.D. dissertation is "an original contribution to knowledge worthy of publication", and the usual standard for publication is "new, correct, and significant". The length of time devoted is not part of the criteria. Maybe can do the work in a weekend; maybe take years.

When I was a grad student, at one point I took a 'reading course'. A paper was required, maybe just expository and not necessarily original. I started with a problem seen but not solved in a course. I hit the library and saw no solution. In an evening I got some rough ideas for a solution and then proposed solving the problem as my 'course'. A prof looked at the problem for a weekend, didn't see a solution, and agreed that the problem was significant enough. We shook hands. Then immediately I outlined my first cut solution.

Then in some pleasant evenings for two weeks, sitting with my wife on our bed as she watched TV, I found a
good, clean, solid solution. In addition I discovered
a new theorem comparable with the famous Whitney extension
theorem and applied it to solve my problem and, also, produce some curious additional, new results. I also found that I'd solved a problem stated but not solved in a famous paper in mathematical economics by Arrow, Hurwicz, and Uzawa. Poor Uzawa -- apparently so far he has yet to
get his Prize! I published the paper in JOTA, right away, with no significant revisions. So, about four weeks of pleasant, not very hard, work, and I'd met the formal requirement for a Ph.D. dissertation. I used another piece of work I'd done for my Ph.D. dissertation, but that paper did 'polish my halo' in the department.

Net, length of time is not one of the criteria!
Hiroshima was only necessary if it was the only way to get Japan to capitulate. This ignores rumours of back-channel diplomatic dealing that could have seen through a less humiliating exit for Japan.
Attempts to artificially control prices for a scarce asset in the names of protecting equality will always fail. Prices will inevitably rise to their market level, the only difference is whether the owner of the good (the city) will reap the full benefit of the transaction, or whether the fruits will be split between (initially) secondary sellers and (later) law enforcement efforts.

The most important effect is that the incentives that might have favoured innovation to improve the efficiency of the use of the good and offer affordable alternatives are distorted in favour of incentives which favour unscrupulous competition for arbitrage gains.