skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, when blacking out data from JPEGs, leave generous margins, because there may be compression artifacts in the nearby pixels that also act effectively as a one-way hash. I haven't tested how consistent these artifacts are, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
Apparently her father, Albrey Arrington, was a signatory to a creationist declaration, which at least raises questions about his scientific integrity:

http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org/

I think her father, or his friend Craig Layman, who was Jud's former adviser, had a falling-out with Jud, and so her father is trying to retaliate against Jud passive-aggressively, by taking credit away from him by using his daughter as a pawn. It is very disturbing, if true.

This is just my gut instinct, from all that I've read, skipping over the technicalities of the papers and who cited whom. There's something bigger going on.

(See also: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2014/07/24/p... )
tl;dr Black preschool children are punished at much higher rates for the same offences than children of other races; unintentional bias is endemic among entrants to the teaching profession.
Nice strawman, "if you're against X you MUST be against Y".

What really matters is the cost-to-benefit ratio. A jab in the arm vs denying someone immigration, decide whatever you want but it's a sliding scale, not black-and-white.
Agreed, there's something constricting about it. Claustrophobic.
> I trust a human with my car over a robot at this point in time.

What do you imagine a robot is going to do? It will not steal your car, scratch it, over rev it, leave a bad smell, steal your small change.
Don't forget that Duh also lights up the twitter and the hubs with their SuperSecretCoderRing. On the internet anyone can pretend to do brain surgery.
I'm sure Google managers, engineers, and designers are just clamping at the bit to write for a tiny platform.
I am happy that you think I misunderstood his post (and yes I have more information than many about the situation). When I read the post I thought it was implicit that YC supported Seth fully. That is not the case. There are mentions of YC throughout the post, and a couple of references to the YC network. I was hoping to clarify that the YC network doesn't automatically include YC. My one example may have been misconstrued and there are many parts and sides to this story. As long as it is clear that there is not unconditional support at YC for Seth's handling of the situation, then that is all that matters.
The 500k number is disingenuous, I feel. There has to be something to control for effort/sacrifice. Everyone I know who works in HFT sleeps under their desk and doesn't even hit that rate.
It Looks Like 30 Is the Ceiling for How Many Apps People Use
(Kalid from BetterExplained here)

Thanks for the comment. There's this weird notion in Calculus education that we need to start from first principles. Limits were invented a century after Newton died, yet they're taught first. "Oh, students won't understand calculus unless they can build it from first principles. I don't care if Newton worked out gravitation with his understanding, it's not good enough."

My little candle in the darkness (http://betterexplained.com/calculus/lesson-1) is to start with intuitive notions (X-Raying a pattern into parts, Time-Lapsing parts into a whole) and then gradually introducing the terms. Eventually, if people are interested, we can get into the theory (which is like getting into the Peano axioms of arithmetic, if you care to go that deep.)

I think in math there's a tendency to express things in the lowest-level "machine code" we can. We need more comments and pseudocode outlines :).
This seems appropriate given today's news of Trello investment. Trello is a good example of a product that is not necessarily simple to use for any specific use case, but it's very easy to adapt to your needs, and leaves you in complete control over decision making. To echo gigawhat's comment, one could compare Trello to a manual transmission, and tools like Pivotal/JIRA to an automatic one.
Unknown Partial Knowledge is a huge problem in human cognition.

This blew my mind, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyHBnT4PmTE
They certainly do not. I always leave space for a car at the zip, and damn near every time 2 or 3 will try to push their way in there even though there is only space for 1 car. Infuriating.
They should sell you the 3D model with some simple racing game as an add on.
Yes. Absolutely. I work for a company where deadlines are continually mismanaged for features because it really isn't predictable when a feature gets done or not. And the problem is at the top - but the top doesn't ever blame themselves. And so the blame shifts backward onto the engineers who didn't make the unreasonable deadline. The worst part is that the founders are non-technical so they really have no business making estimates about dea. We try to give the best estimate we can but it really is just an estimate, and it should be multipled by two and then have 10 days added to it just as a baseline. But the incentive is to overpromise, and so we're run into time compression again and again.
That would be a very fun conspiracy meeting. "Alright guys, let's kill the Post Office by inventing a time machine, going back a few decades, then getting them to promise all employees defined benefits pensions. It will doom them. For the glory of capitalism! bwahahahah!"
Read the excerpts from California law that I posted in some other comments. IANAL, but the code is pretty specific to point out that the protections against harassment apply to "any lease or other tenancy or estate at will, however created, of property used by a tenant as his residence". As a landlord, I also have been told that judges have a tendency to dismiss eviction suits where there is substantiated evidence of harassment.
I think this would put you ahead of even some CS graduates. Especially if you have a good demo project to show in the interview.
Thanks, glad to hear you're enjoying it. I realized that until I could explain a concept intuitively, I didn't really understand it -- and it became a mission to find some analogy that really clicked for me. Hope it gives you some entertaining reading.
They constantly lose money. By the time they convince Congress to up the postal rate, inflation and market conditions have already exceeded the rate increase. All they can do is lessen their losses.

They can't add new products without Congress. They are also looking at money services, like basic check cashing, to help the 10+ million US households without regular access to a bank. It could be a great help to many impoverished Americans and, at the same time, boost USPS profits – but it relies on Congress to act. One or two Senators with heavy contributions from check cashing companies could derail, stall, or kill the effort – a net loss to society.
And the two years later, bazinga! I hope he also made his earn out. We played with Yammer and it was literally a kind of Workbook (it almost seemed like they reused Facebook code)
Pluses and minuses.
I just looked up "San Francisco" and I'm not sure I would call that list "curated".
My god, Airbnb is such a huge liability time-bomb.

All it's going to take is some tenant slipping on a wet bathroom floor or some other nonsense.

I hope they've squirreled away a huge legal defense fund from their last fundraising round.

edit

searched and found these, tip of the iceburg

http://www.sfbg.com/2014/04/29/lawsuits-target-airbnb-rental...

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/airbnb-legal...

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/06/18/airbnb_might_have_j...

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/06/10/stabilized_tribeca_...

http://www.fastcompany.com/3027798/the-secret-to-airbnbs-fre...
By a charity.

http://www.economist.com/node/6919139
Swing dance
True, but that itself is no small feat.
Glad it was helpful!

There's a strange tendency in technical explanations to expand, expand, expand. A heuristic I have: Imagine you're writing a letter to yourself, before you started the course. There's no reason to waste your own time, just cover the key difficulties and how to overcome them, in simple language you would have understood.

(Oh, this letter also costs $5 a word, so let's make them count!)
This is one of the flaws you get with leadership in the military - while enlisted and officers alike are encouraged to be a leader and speak out about issues when no one else does so or is able to, the reality is that if you do, you almost certainly will face reprisal.

The leadership principles preached by the US military are rock solid, but the execution can be incredibly flawed unfortunately, and good men & women get screwed by it for doing the right thing.

* I do not know if he went to his chain of command with the issues first, but this is just a general observation from serving in the military myself.
> awful when you have to maintain low-quality legacy code

When is it not awful to maintain low-quality legacy code?
Like all the clients of Arthur Anderson[1]? You don't get much bigger than the Big 5.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
New York Style Mambo
Senator’s Bill Is Stricter on N.S.A. Than House’s
MUST SEE FUNNIEST KID EVER
Different kind of streaming. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes all allow streaming media after it has been recorded. Twitch and YouTube allow streaming media while it's live.

There's a few other services out there that allow this, but not many.

With something like Netflix you can just put up the content in a CDN, compared to a live stream which can be more difficult to manage.
Seth - Thanks for sharing your perspective - its extremely courageous to talk about these things in the open.

I am a startup founder and have been there done that - allow me to seed you with a radically different perspective.

You made NO mistakes. None. Every lesson that you learned - you will unlearn it in the next year or so. There are lessons to learn over here, but not the ones you mentioned - they will come - just wait for it.

Everyone pointing out in this thread about your mistakes is dead wrong. They don't know what it takes - most have never been close to what you are doing - they just don't know. This is also one of the reasons it might NOT help to talk about these things in public - though I am not saying that you shouldn't.

Most successful founders make most of these mistakes - and then some. The only mistake that you really made is to not figure out the business - everything else is not important. Sales fixes everything - and it would have fixed all these mistakes. Specifically:

1. Skipping on taxes till its too late - this is a trait of a successful founder. It means you are focussed on the business too much to bother about paying taxes.

2. Poorly defined co founder relationships - the story about 'every' startup. Let me tell you the secret about founder relationships - ignore them. Figure out the 'business' - founder relationships will figure themselves out.

3. Hacks - This world is unfortunately run by people who don't see things like we do. To hack is to have tread that middle ground which keeps the peace and also lets us run things they way they should.

4. Going it alone - There is no other way. At the centre of the biggest changes the world has ever seen, there is a lonely founder. You have to do it alone - dont seek to change it - just understand it.

5. Investor relations - Investors like a good business more than you and me - you fix the business and let the investor will fix the relations.
Yes, really. Reference the SO post linked to; there are numerous people who had issues updating cabal-install. I've seen them referenced in /r/haskell and in Haskell documentation. The homebrew installation of haskell-platform may resolve some of these issues; I'm not familiar with it.

Additionally, you're working with the knowledge that once you install Haskell Platform, you need to update cabal-install (This is not something a newcomer would expect given that they just downloaded cabal via Haskell Platform).

Just getting the Platform installed is misleading as well; there's still the issue of dealing with package conflicts which happens frequently in Haskell and is non-trivial to deal with for a newcomer.

Finally, using Haskell Platform at all might cause troubles; it's explicitly recommended against by the popular Getting Started guide by bitemyapp https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell because it uses the global package database.
A more mundane concern is insurance and financial (dis)incentives for behavior change, http://www.salon.com/2014/05/30/in_the_future_insurance_comp...

"23andMe Is Terrifying, But Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6811167

"23andme has suspended health-related genetic tests",
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6859732

"A problem with much statistical analysis is ignoring the fact that humans, umm, react to things around them. (Social science jargon for this is reflexivity). I know this seems so simple, but it’s amazing how much predictive analytics don’t factor this in.",
https://medium.com/message/learning-from-natesilver538s-omg-...
So you collided with a stationary vehicle, and it's entirely their fault?
The graph I would like to see here is "integrated expense" and "integrated income" over the years. That would indicate when the point-of-break-even happened (or will happen).
I ran London this last year, which was my first marathon. I'd done a few halfs before that but was coming bac to running after a nasty injury and surgery.

As others have said the important thing is to get that long slow run in at the weekend - not worrying about pace as much as time on your feet. The furthest I ran in training was just over 20 miles. If you can find people to do that run with - or even part of it - it helps. I listen to podcasts if I run alone!

It's then also good to do a shorter run in the week at race pace, as well as some sort of speed work.

Also, get yourself a foam roller and a tennis ball. Roll your legs, glutes and feet a lot and don't forget to add in some core strength and stretching sessions. That will help get you through in one piece and still enjoying running!

As already suggested make sure you train with the nutrition you are going to have on the day. It may be that the race is sponsored by some company and they hand stuff out at the water stations to save you carrying it. Make sure you have tried it in training if you intend to use it. I pretty much have an iron stomach but a lot of people find running + unusual food is a bad combo!

Good luck with it, it is a great experience and achievement when you cross that finish line! I wrote a rather long post after running London, some of it is London-specific but might be of interest for another first timer http://rachelandrew.me.uk/blog/2014-04-14-i-ran-the-london-m...
Looks like a show stopper in Canada; http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf10822.html
I really like this cheatsheet, it is very inspiring actually. You should consider doing a version written for elementary school aged kids. You need to get buy in while they are still young!
Gamer discovers deceased father's ghost car, gets to race him again
I'm excited to know which diets, exercises and lifestyle define a healthy human, which I'm hoping this information will give me (assuming the information will be released).
That is mess up beyond all rational belief.
Fair enough critique of the woman in this story. Let's temporarily put aside the nature of her failings. I'd still describe them as naiveté more than greed, per se, but regardless, we can agree she has failings. She's not a very sympathetic protagonist. But let's talk about others like her.

Do you not agree that Airbnb is probably attracting a fair number of would-be landlords to the market who would not be in the market otherwise? Yes, the vacation rental market existed long before Airbnb. No, I don't buy the implication that Airbnb is only attracting people who would have operated in the pre-Airbnb vacation market. Clearly Airbnb has expanded the supply side of this market, at least somewhat by enticing new entrants into it, many of whom are probably unversed in the laws and regulations they should be versed in. That's not Airbnb's fault, but it is Airbnb's headache.

Regardless of our sympathies toward this woman in this particular case, she might be a canary in a coal mine. There are plenty of theoretical Airbnb hosts, and perhaps actual hosts, who could very easily take the plunge on Airbnb without coming to grips with the ins and outs of rental laws. They would assume, furthermore, that because Airbnb exists and thrives, then surely it must have sorted out the fine print.

Airbnb can take actions to prevent this situation from happening again. That doesn't necessarily mean blocking 30+-day rentals, or cutting back on the range of options one can undertake on Airbnb. But it probably means providing more information, at the very least, triggered by certain actions taken when posting a listing. Not because they have to, but because they know that their business model creates an "easy button" for a lot of unsophisticated users. That's a fine business model. But if you're going to do that, then you need to design prophylactic solutions to protect people from their own stupidity [greed/arrogance/naiveté/haste/whatever we want to call it in any given case]. You can't protect them from everything, but at the very least, you can learn and adapt as you go.

Not every PR hiccup deserves a complete redesign of the UX flow, of course. And no solution fixes every potentiality. So you evaluate the problems on a case-by-case basis as they emerge, estimating the likelihood that they'll happen again, and weighing the costs of a fix against the benefits. I'm not a fan of preemptively freaking out about possible edge cases. But when something like this happens, at the very least, you need to analyze whether it's a ridiculous edge case, or whether it's likely to happen again.

And who knows? Maybe this woman's mistake serves a sorting function, and the problem solves itself. Nobody will make her mistake again. Or so we'd hope.
Soviet probes were not just attempting. In fact these were the only ones which delivered lunar soil to the mankind for research. Almost everything we know about the Moon geology is from success of the Luna robots. The author is very ignorant and keen to raise the US superiority in the eyes of the uninformed reader. Looks like the Cold War is still running, huh. Robots did the real job. Sending man to the Moon was a joke of some self-important mind. Robots do better. Lunokhod-1 is quite a thing, not a Hollywood animation. It is still there!

Upd: for the interested mind http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Luna/Luna.php

I seriously doubt man really stepped on the Moon. Lunokhod-1 laser experiments had more practical value than fancy jumps of Aldrin.
figure dash, em dash, en dash or horizontal bar?
Turning dance into music using Kinekt
I used to work at Epic, but it was over six years ago at this point. Their entire stack at the time was MUMPS and VB6. No idea if that's still the case, mind you -- there were some modernization efforts underway when I left. Although from what my friends that work at Epic hospitals tell me about their software, it likely hasn't changed much.

And I almost certainly got hired there because I actually knew MUMPS from a previous job. Of the developers they hired during my cycle, every one of them was on an H1-B or fresh out of Carnegie Mellon or MIT; meanwhile I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree.

(If you do some light searching, you can find another famous story on TDWTF that I wrote about MUMPS.)
HIVE – Hidden Volume Encryption
I don't think it's a requirement in business but that doesn't change the fact that businesspeople, and sales people and executives especially, lie and lie often.

They shouldn't. It would be better if nobody lied in a way that harmed people. But in a world where you have every reason to never disclose that you harmed people by lying, we should be encouraging people to eventually come clean. After all, the moral hazard here is that if you punish people for eventually coming clean you will never know what happened, which is worse than the already bad situation of only knowing after the fact.

That's why these failure stories are good, even if they admit wrongdoing. And that's why we should be receptive to them, even if it's something we don't want to hear.
I've heard lots of concern in the community about this acquisition since many of the streamers also have youtube channels that got hit during the recent overzealous copyright nonsense that happened on youtube. Since Twitch is basically "violating" copyright in the same way they got beat up for on youtube, it wouldn't make sense for Google not to do the same with twitch, but then of course it would gut the service.
You don't need to run Windows in a VM, you can run it natively with Bootcamp (which boots into the image on a separate partition, as you would do on any multi-os computer).

But still, if you are using it primarily as a windows machine, definitely get a windows machine because it will likely be cheaper.
Again, the correct way to zipper merge is to reduce your speed to the traffic beside you and then merge at the end.

The whole reason zipper merging is efficient and safe is that both lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, making merging quick and easy. If you zoom past the other lane of traffic, you are actually worse than the early mergers in terms of safety and efficiency.

Edit: For those of you downvoting me, could you please explain your reasoning? Do you disagree with the content of my message or its delivery?
> An external ethernet dongle is more likely to break or get lost.

Sure, but it's replaceable for the cheap cost of ~$10 - 20.

> There's no VGA port either which is a necessity for me.

2007 called, they want their already-deprecated video standards back.

> No CD drive either.

2000 called, they want their already-deprecated media storage standards back.

>Is this thing a laptop or a big smartphone with no touch screen?

Clearly a laptop.

>No numpad either, wow.

Now I'm convinced you're trolling.
Show HN: Plane Popper – New game for Android
A child who throws a chair - twice - and spits on other students deserves a suspension.

Is the American education system really that different to the Australian system?
Will you also include support for Docker containers?

Would love to use Cloud9, but as previous poster - the company won't allow it.

Also, will you keep it updated this time?
QBasic was my first experience with programming too.
Think of The Atlantic -- at one time, it was on par with The New Yorker for quality content. Now, it contains one rare pearl of compelling and thought-provoking writing (e.g., Ta Nahesi Coates's "A Case For Reparations") for every thousand transitory blips clamoring to acquire page-views.

The paper magazine contains more of the though-provoking articles, hence why I subscribe and skip reading the online version.
I made this game totally on my own. I did the programming, graphics, and sound. I even made my own game engine which uses OpenGL. Currently I am working on generalizing my game engine so that I can release it for others to use.

For more information, visit: www.bobbyloujo.com

I hope you enjoy my game!
What about, say, Safari browser itself, which presents "Gecko" in it's useragent string? If it is a punishable offence, imagine how much money one can extract from Apple for doing so...
She's arguing that the punishment / discipline is not fair.

One after another, white mothers confessed the trouble
their children had gotten into. Some of the behavior was
similar to JJ’s; some was much worse.

Most startling: None of their children had been suspended.