skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly: I don't think the term "identity theft" is a good one. It's not clear at all what exactly that even means unless people have had it explained to them; and even then it's pretty vague and encompasses lots of things.

Identify theft is a kind of fraud or perhaps libel, but it's certainly not conventional theft.

Nevertheless, the term has taken on a life of its own, and that's just the way language works. The problem arises when people say inane things like "you wouldn't steal a car, would you?". That analogy is sort of like saying you shouldn't go on strike, after all, you wouldn't want somebody to strike you, right?

So, is it theft? Well, from a linguistic perspective: it's called whatever it's called. But it's simply deceptive to pretend that merely because the same word is used that the meaning must be equivalent too. It's particularly unfortunately that the manipulation of language is probably intentionally deceptive; the notion of intellectual property didn't arise amongst the average English speaker, but amongst a special interest group that stands to gain by causing this particular confusion.
I wonder if this is Bezos doing what he normally does, vertically integrating--Amazon Newspapers?
...agreed, what's the point? Besides, a lot of includes are already a mess of #defines, do we really need another bunch of them?
Among that 95%, some are actually malevolent and do understand that punishment doesn't motivate in the long term.

There are neutral-intended but incompetent managers who think "pressure makes diamonds", but there are also the political adepts who take out talented subordinates to pre-empt future competition, and the sadists who know that they're crippling the people under them, but because they "manage up" well, they can get away with anything.

The sadists (rare) and malignant politically-minded players (less rare) use "pressure makes diamonds" as a rationalization, and a much larger set of clueless people (without bad intentions) copy it. And that's how you end up with Theory X management.

Also, I don't think this contradicts the Maslovian theory. If you start fires on someone's lower need levels (security, physical health) then those trump their higher need levels (creativity, esteem). The thing is that, even though the baser needs are more "foundational", that doesn't mean they drive people to do better work. Creativity drops, and fatigue sets in, and you get really awful work because pain and fear rarely motivate; they paralyze.
Is the U.S. as Corrupt as the Third World?
[This is Jim Bumgardner - author of the maze that Kraft copied]. Amusingly, this comes full circle. One of the puzzle varieties on my site is based on Penrose tilings.

http://krazydad.com/slitherlink/sfiles/sl_penrose_b001.pdf

Years ago, I sought (and received) permission from Penrose to use his tiling on these puzzles.
The thing you are blatantly ignoring is this: standardized tests also teach children the lesson that there will be exactly one correct answer in all of life's situations, and that there will be exactly one OK method for every possible challenge faced. No exceptions.

Which is sometimes true sure. But it is frustrating working with academic "stars" who internalize this once they come to the "real world". They are focused so much on getting the "right answer" within some narrowly defined context of right, that they can't see the better solution by reinterpreting the problem or recasting the assumptions in a slightly different order. They are unable to combine bits of knowledge from different buckets, because the test questions are all neatly siloed.

For example, I've had this argument with fresh grads many, many times:

me: you need to limit your UDP packets to 512 bytes (or 8K depending on the situation).

them: but my teachers told me UDP packet size is a 16 bit integer.

me: yeah, but many stacks cut off shorter, because there is a different standard that says routers can drop packets bigger than their preferred size, the only minimum is 512 bytes.

them: my teacher told me that the packet size is a 16 bit field. Why are you talking about routers?

me: because you need to combine information to actually solve a problem?

them: whatever, I need to figure out what the bug in my code is causing these packets to be dropped.

Or -

me: hey $intern, let's figure out a few ways to solve approach this problem. expounds on the problem, lays out a few things that might work. The goal here is to try a few different techniques so we can work them into the bigger design. Any questions?

intern: no.

a few days later

intern: Hey I think i solved the problem, is this one solution right?

me: it's one way. It has some good stuff and bad stuff, but we want to try a few solutions to determine how to think about this.

intern: looks like a lost puppy but is it right?

Following conversation about multiple solutions and exploring solutions resembles "who's on first"

The biggest problem with standardized testing is there is no room for the idea that outside of school, it isn't always about doing the rote thing, the simple siloed task in front of you, but rather incorporating various bits of knowledge, about applying the bits of knowledge in ways that allow task completion for tasks that aren't extremely well defined with a pre-arranged solution.

In fact - the lack of a pre arranged solution is what defines most work outside of menial jobs. The idea that there is more than one approach or solution to something is antithetical to the core of standardized testing.

(keep in mind - that for the statistics to be meaningful, the tests can't allow for grading criterial other than "one strictly correct answer" or you end up with issues in the numbers as the result of graders being different.)
What is the benefit of having this vs say a monolithic framework?
Ok, so what is your suggestion for making the parents less poor or less high? General and baseless comments like these do not contribute positively to the collective conversation.
"I wasn't precise enough in saying what I wanted, so now the code doesn't do what it should." is not, in any sense, a new category of bugs.
> A Diabetic is not healthy individual

Neither, in a very significant sense, is someone who is clinically obese.
Is this the re-usable launch vehicle, i.e. the one that re-enters the atmosphere and lands itself upright?
These statistics were very interesting to see, and definitely not what I expected.

On average, I expected the number of "Show HN" submissions to increase dramatically, but it does not seem to be that way.

Possible reasons:

1. The "Show" section on the header bar adds too much- people want a simplistic view and the show section hasn't caught on as much as the "ask".

2. People are wary of submitting "Show HN" posts and sharing their work due to criticism

3. The guidelines set are restrictive

Personally, I think it will just take time to catch on. It would definitely be interesting to see these statistics with "Ask HN" for comparison.
Microsoft Challenges Google’s Artificial Brain With ‘Project Adam’
ummmmm ok... give us some context. Without context this is mix and match site that could be one of the tutorials in an online Javascript class.
Google to Expand San Francisco Office Space in Two Deals
A corrupt incompetent cronyistic mess is going to be a mess whether or not you use a small set of gamed statistics or nothing at all.

The reporter doesn't get it when they critically remark that the reform model "ignored less quantifiable signs of intellectual development" - no, what would happen if it didn't is just that the people who are willing to make up test scores en masse will also make up all those 'less quantifiable signs' except you won't have any way of knowing about their bullshit.

The NCLB gaming of standardized tests, on the other hand, forces the incompetence out into the open in the form of unmistakable undefensible clear outright fraud.

So, which is better? To have all your metrics gamed and to not know it, or have them gamed and a chance of detecting the fraud?
I think I addressed that:

> You can't even go back a single century before your pan-European notion of "white" identity breaks down. English-descended people refused to consider Spanish and Italian-descended people as "white".
vert.x is limited to only languages with supported implementations and hooks in the JVM world.
This is why self-hosted WordPress is cool. If you have something important to say, do it on your own domain where you have permanent control of the content, presentation, backups, etc. And nobody can ban you, downvote, etc.
SwiftInFlux – An attempt to gather all that is in flux in Swift
That makes sense. I feel like a crash would have been bigger news. Lucky I caught the stream when it actually went up!
Show HN: Chrome extension that hides Medium.com articles on HN and DN
The other half is "I've got mine, so fuck you!"
And oncw again if your user is a developer he'd or she'd be able to stitch it back together.
A Different Way to Write
Hmm, definitely didn't mean to submit it if it was already done in the past. I thought that if it was submitted previously then hacker news would automatically detect that.
Diabetic here. (Type 1)

Several times in both articles (linked post and the post at nerdfitness) they mention the diabetic/other blood sugar regulation issues.

Fasting isn't an issue for me. I generally fast from 8pm to 11-12am every day. My morning glucose is generally better when I do this, but there are sometimes swings caused by digestive issues, such as food being too nutritionally dense or slow to digest.
There is market for quality journalism. Vox.com is doing quite fine. And a lot of people are ready to pay just not at current NYtimes paywall levels. My threshold is 1$ per week or month.
Essentially yes. They won't be able to reuse this particular vehicle, but it will return and hover over the ocean for them to retrieve. They'll recover it and study the results to make the next one even better. Real reusability is probably at least a year away.
J.A.E.S.A : Next Generation Artificial Intelligence
For any book, there exists some program which generates it, but most books are not created that way (so we consider those books to be products of human creativity).
My point was less about the difference between now and then and more about the built up knowledge base that exists from that much collective experience. Especially about game UI design. Super Mario Brothers (or Quake/Doom or warcraft etc...) has more in common with a more modern AAA game than a touch screen based app when it comes to Player controls and design of the Player interaction. We are only lately really starting to figure out how to make really good serious touch first games. Leo's Fortune, Fates Forever, Thress!, Monument Valley, and Wayword Souls are all great examples of this process. In game play none of them are completely revolutionary but when you combine the touch controls and player interaction with the type of game play they offer, then IMO each of those is a major step forward in game design for touch devices.
That is really cool.

Combine this with struct definitions in function bodies and I see a great teamup with variadic functions.

Take a theoretical struct_printf, which prints out non promoted data with struct packing (not variadic stack packing, which requires type promotion)

/* Only uses va_start and va_arg to*/
void struct_printf(const char* format, ...){
...
}

void print_foo(){
struct foo_t{
float f;
uint16_t u2;
uint8_t x;
} input;

struct_printf("No type promotion here: %f %hu %hhx\n",
(struct foo_t){ .f = 0.1, .u2 = 1000, .x = 0xF2});
}

Now we can actually pass what we mean to pass without the compiler changing it.

NOTE: After I wrote this I'm not actually sure what va_args does with a struct or how to get a pointer to the first member...
Red is Beautiful: A Visualization of Redis Commands
Blackest: Scientists develop a material so dark that can't be seen
Yes, the first stage has landing legs. They're planning to deploy the landing legs over water and attempt to hover the booster just before it hits the surface.
This looks great, and I am wondering what the "ink" will be like. From your presentation, I can see that it's silver, or some compound of silver. I think the ink will be key to your profit here, and you should definitely patent the recipe you come up with.
Show HN: ChatMe – Chat with people on your school campus
There's no support for a reason. These are very low cost and therefore we're not willing to commit to providing support. We will help when we have time and where we can and I'd be happy to either setup IPv6 or reverse proxy a domain for a client if and when I have time. Anyway tickets can be submitted here: https://definedcodehosting.com/client/submitticket.php?step=...
It isn't higher gravity they're overcoming with the first stage, but rather the much higher atmospheric pressure near the surface. Gravity in orbit is almost identical to gravity at the surface.
Any recommendations for similar small/cheap devices with better Ethernet?
Authoring Critical Above-the-Fold CSS
Smashes battery life too I bet.

Also, why XFCE? Wouldn't Unity be closer to Aqua in terms of resource (ab)use?
Having a square sensor or a sensor rotating physically is a big tradeoff in cost or complexity. Until now no one cared to make these tradeoffs for large scale selling cameras, and the few attempts to fill the niche didn't seem to be so successful. I think in the photo world it's the same niche level as for true B&W sensors.
Node.js API Tip of the Week: An in-depth look at model driven development
>> Best WiFi today will consume about ~2mA when in standby.

So, what's the 2mA module?
Sorry, i can't find a download for Linux, so how is this supposed to take over the world? :(
Hi,

After lots of good feedback and appreciation on the performance tip of the week series, I have just started another blog series - API Tip of the week. In the first blog off the block, we talk about model driven development of APIs in Node.js. We look at ORM and ODM in detail and the pitfalls associated.

http://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-api-tip-model-drive...

Kind Regards,
Shubhra Kar

Product Manager, StrongLoop
> kill your children and rape your women

Firstly, that sentence is badly sexist – it presumes that I own “my” children and “my” women, and that I, myself, is not a woman.

And, isn’t this exactly what I was saying? I.e. “I must make weapons since someone else would otherwise make weapons and attack me, therefore it might as well be me who makes weapons and attacks them.”

Also, you must differentiate between the argument against having guns and the argument against making guns. A person might own guns out of practical necessity but still not want to participate in the manufacturing of more of them.
Rikers: Where Mental Illness Meets Brutality in Jail
Raspberry Pi Model B+ adds USB ports, expansion pins
That was not the point of the article. In fact, had you read the article, you'd find that your point has been addressed three times over and that the author acknowledges it's all futile anyway.
Source Code Released for HTML5 Canvas Export Plug-In for Adobe Illustrator
Everybody starts developing for Mac...?
From looking through the article, and what's available online (Apple page and Wikipedia), it looks like they took most of what folks like about interpreted languages and just moved them into a compiled form, married to a decent debug / testing environment.

It also has a bit of Perl, in that its written so that patterns conform better to English speaking patterns. For example, they use the "let" keyword to do constants like:

let appleSummary = "I have \(numberOfApples) apples."

and they use Javascript-like simple concatenation operators like:

str = "hello,"

str += " world"

And like Perl, I also like that associative arrays / dictionaries are top level:

let people = ["Anna": 67, "Beto": 8, "Jack": 33, "Sam": 25]

After that, it mostly looks like standard evolution. They've taken many of the top, or high use programming patterns of the current day for i-products and rolled them into libraries or main functions to speed up development.

It could be good. I do like Javascript and Perl, which look like they had a child with Objective-C. And that article has a point that its only main competitor is Obj-C, which is not much of a fight. Now if they'll only allow you to develop and build on non-Apple hardware.
That demo messed with my eyes. Even though it is interlacing faster than the eye can see for some reason it still felt weird to look at it. Overall, not worth the trouble or the decline in user experience.
What is the technical limitation that stops an app from making the camera shoot native horizontal while holding the phone vertical?

Would the camera have to physically rotate or is it software and iOS/android just don't give devs access to it?
> He claims to have been following this diet for three months whilst maintaining the same weight, and only started seeing a drop in his weight after starting to fast for one day a week (standard sample size disclaimer etc etc).

Its interesting that I don't notice any discussion of caloric intake on either model -- if he was eating the same except skipping one day of food later, then you are looking at a ~14% reduction in weekly caloric intake, which, without any special effect of fasting, you'd expect to turbocharge weight loss.
JQuery Scroll to Slide plugin (As in Nexus 5 website)
If You Want to Teach Kids CS, First Teach the Adults
MIT Is Working On T-1000 Style State Shifting Robots
Ask HN: Are submissions allowed more than once on Hacker News?
Yesterday I came across an interesting wikipedia page and thought of sharing the site on HN. It was "Timeline of the far future".

Someone commented and noted that the same link had been posted multiple times before (link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8029426)

In the past, I had been unable to submit links that were already submitted at one point. Does anyone know if multiple submissions are allowed? Is this a bug?
I assume it would also depend on whether there were other steps in the process, such as if he selects the mazes for his books, etc., from a larger number of randomly-generated mazes based on aesthetic appeal, difficulty, or other criteria.
> My biggest issue with Swift is that there often seem to be too many ways to do things.

This is my biggest issue with the Apple libraries in general. It's an artifact of the software's bloodline running back to the 80s.
Nice! I could see myself paying for such a service, if the need should arise in the future.
> As a speaker, you will have free admission.

That wasn't the case in the last years and i think it's a bad change. Congress had always had this kind of community feeling and you could always hit up speakers in the hall ways and they'd treat you as equals.

I kinda liked the rule that everyone has to pay the entrance fee, but maybe that's just me.

I hope this doesn't change too much, but the kind of "huge family" feeling was already kind of going away when the event scaled from 3k to 10k people. Probably unavoidable at this scale though. Nevertheless, looking forward to another awesome c3. It's still my highlight of the year.
> It's an unusual body/brain hack...

No, its not...intermittent fasting has been a fad in the last few years. There's nothing unusual about it.

> he seems to have done it methodically and observed the outcome...

I'm having trouble crediting something as a methodical study of a diet pattern change that doesn't have any indication of tracking the specific patterns of what is being eaten (or even quantification of total calories) before and after.
Flying–and crashing–a $1,300 quadcopter drone
You mean like this one (from the last launch)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjZ33C9JZTM
Show HN: Nerdy Birdy – The Game
I think AW is still online, although I imagine it's pretty empty by now. It became free in 2013.

https://www.activeworlds.com
Bitly: Lessons Building a Distributed System that Handles 6B Clicks a Month
Yeah, the Threes devs released iOS first and made a ton of money, and basically no one made money on 2048. I can see why releasing on a platform where people actually pay for apps is a mistake.
Why indie gaming’s obsession with moneymaking hurts us all
Some of these comments reminded me of a story Clotaire Rapaille told in his book 'The Culture Code.' He gave a talk at an obesity conference. Each speaker gave their own solution to the obesity problem. Rapaille's observed:

“I think it is fascinating that the other speakers today have suggested that education is the answer to our country’s obesity problem,” I said. I slowly gestured around the room. “If education is the answer, then why hasn’t it helped more of you?”
I'm pretty sure it's not interlacing faster than the eye can see, which is the whole problem.

For this to work perfectly, your monitor refresh rate would need to be at least 2x higher than what your eyes can detect. And why would anyone build hardware with such a fast refresh rate?

It's a cute idea, but in the end it ruins the image for normal uses just like the watermarks do.
I'm not that concerned with Apple's purposes.
You could pick a third of the languages on this list and improve on Obj-C: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

Or rust, D or go which you mentioned elsewhere. None of therm are ideal, all of them are > ObjC

You could have an open ecosystem where all of them exist. That you don't is an indication of how "Apple's purposes" diverge from programmers' purposes.
I live in the Chicago suburbs with minimal public transportation options. It would not be cheaper to use Uber/Lyft than to own my own car.

Your use case exists, and while the majority of people are living in cities now, plenty of people (myself included) are still willing to pay the full sunk costs of owning a vehicle for the flexibility that it provides.

Insurance = ~$800/year
Fuel = ~$2000/year
Maintenance = $1000/year
Taxes/Fees = ~$200/year

~$4000/year is pretty inexpensive for the mobility my vehicle provides.
No, nor is it necessarily a bad thing for politicians to monitor and even edit the Wiki, even their own pages. But, it is interesting to watch, and it definitely isn't appropriate for a politician or their staff to vandalize the Wiki pages of political rivals, or manipulate Wiki pages to advance a political message they're trying to sell.
> The article's title is "Why I don't eat on Mondays" not "Why you shouldn't eat on Mondays".

The title isn't the content. The whole article is a lead-in to a call to action in the the last 7 paragraphs which can be summarized as "you should choose one day a week and not eat on that day (it doesn't have to be Monday, though)".

> Also, intermittent fasting I fairly well researched and known for its benefits

[citation needed]
I've held several positions in America, from subsistence farmer to minimum wage retail flunky to upper management in higher education. I've also been to 3rd world countries in South America.

None of the places I have worked were 3rd world working conditions including the subsistence farming (we had much nicer/safer machinery). Granted it's a small sample size, but still.

Anyway. Stop with the hyperbole. It's an ineffective argument tool, it's insulting, and it shuts people off from debate.
At least it's better than the "Man Creates Language to Rule Them All" they used for the Julia article. That one still makes me cringe when I see it. For what it's worth, it's not the article author who picks these headlines – there's some editor who does that.
The OP mentions that he eats extra on Sunday.
Exactly what I was wondering. How different from mongrel2 it is.
Teaching programming with the Solarus Zelda engine
You're not alone, people have been asking that about Linux for years.
I could see it flickering and when I tried to print screen I got the image...

Disclaimer: I only skimmed the artcle
Indeed. Traditional writing is hard. I like the idea of Piece Writing. Also I found a little bug on your blog. When you click the title. Instead of redirecting you to the main website it sends you to localhost:8080