skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About having a predefined script of things to say: we all have them, whether or not you realize this consciously is a separate matter. It might be a bit disingenuous to use such a script, but that slight is less important if the conversation doesnt feel disingenuous. The only difference to the other participant is whether or not he knows of the disingenuousness. That is a cost which, however, can also be offset by potential gains. In this case, the gain is sympathy. People, in most conversations today, remain remarkably distant and non caring.

For example, contrast how the following two sentences make you feel: "That sounds hard" and "I don't know much about that line of work, what sort of challenges do you face?" The first sympathizes with you whereas the second is more interrogatory which distances the speaker. The first is something a friend might say and the second is something an interviewer might say. Lastly, the line isnt meant to be a literal script pages long, but rather as an icebreaker to make this person feel like they can talk to you without being interrogated. Where the conversation goes after that is completely unknown. This is also the logic behind trying to put off asking "what do you do", because you again become an interviewer.
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Ah, I don't really know anything about privoxy. I'm guessing the ad-assets domain is pretty easy to block at any rate.
You misspell the name of the gene and don't seem to understand p values, so I'm not sure anyone should take this criticism of that paper seriously.
The intent is that it does not influence the content and quality of the journalism. How well that is actually maintained is up to the sales and editorial teams striking the deal, of course.

A good team won't take a deal that will tie their hands; if BP says "We want a solar energy series, but you can't say anything bad about us", then that deal isn't likely to be struck. We might pitch them on an alternate series that doesn't risk putting them in the crosshairs, but letting the brand have any say in the content is a big no-no, and the sales team works to try to find advertising opportunities that work well with advertisers, rather than working against them.

Just personally, I think it's healthy to assume that any sponsored content is influenced by the sponsor, but I don't think it's valid to write off any content that happens to have a sponsorship attached to it as invalid, inaccurate, or biased. Be suspicious, but equating native advertising with PR dronespeak is flawed.
Death per road mile driven might be a more useful stat. I suspect Europe looks better than the US on this visualization due to lack of driving.
Maybe you should bother checking before you start making stuff up.
Licensing has nothing to do with it. BSD is a much better OS for this type of work-load than anything out there that would require licensing.

Just because you pay someone or a company for something, doesn't automagically make it better.

> Sony switched over from Linux (ps3) to kfreebsd (ps4) due to licensing.

neither of these options require licensing btw.
Both of your counterexamples are bogus.

1.) Workers in eusocial insects are more related to their sisters (75% similar) than they are to their own offspring (50% similar). This results in selection pressure that favors cooperation, rather than producing your own children: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_eusociality

2.) Deleterious de novo mutations are, obviously, deleterious. Duh. I didn't say that all genes are beneficial, I said that no gene selects for reduced fitness.
I won't deny it's complicated, but there's more to thinking about how we conduct war than just the proximal individual act of killing. Two cultures that, for instance, respect military vs. civilian distinctions may war with each other with much less total damage than two cultures that practice Total War, even if the political outcome is the same in the end.

Just because war is bad does not mean we are forced to throw up our hands and stop making distinctions between degrees of badness. War is not simply infinitely bad... that's ultimately a very sophomoric view.
>> "iBeacon is a specifically licensed "technology" from Apple"

Any sources on this? I thought that was just Apple's name for their own BLE API's. i.e. iBeacon is their marketing term for BLE.
Claiming that "a lot of talented people being excluded for one reason or another" is a positive claim. It's merely a fact about the world. If you are against this, that's a normative axiom (or possibly a normative conclusion derived from another normative axiom).

As for the undue rigor involved, it's you who seems to be demanding a lot: you demand proof that men and women are statistically unequal merely to admit it as a possibility.

More precisely, let A = "women are unequally treated" and B = "women are not statistically equal to men" (at the point of application for Facebook employment). The diversity numbers imply A || B. You are assuming that B is false because there is no proof it is true, and therefore concluding A must be true (since A || B and !B => A). But strangely, you are not asserting that A is false without a rigorous proof that A is true (which would imply B).

That's the fundamental asymmetry that Scott Alexander is talking about. The people you disagree with are merely saying "A || B, we don't know which."
It's really complex, and I can see where you're coming from, but I wouldn't call it a right.

I also agree that society should be better structured to accomodate and support parenthood. Many European countries are doing it right.

What I'm personally ambivalent about is people forcing me to support other peoples' children, when I have delayed having my own children (and I'm in a stable relationship and we both want children) because I don't believe I'm financially able to support them.

I've sometimes had thought experiments along the lines of: if you're in welfare or otherwise financially dependant, then you should have your ability to procreate temporally restrained (there have been some amazing advances recently in reversible contraception). That would cut hard on these cases. It's not "forced" (you want to have children? sure, but don't ask for welfare), and it would allow for resources to be distributed much better to those who chose to have children and then fell on hard times (it can be the case, though the lack of a parent in the story suggests it was a case of irresponsibility and lack of contraceptives).
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I would like to see a lot more projects along this line of thinking.
I first saw this type of thing with http://www.manfreda.org/i-robot John Manfreda's I,Robot emulator where he takes parameters sent to the Atari mathbox/rasterizer and sends them to D3D instead. This gets you classic I,Robot with much higher resolution for the polygons.
That locomotion system is really interesting. Using three rigid legs and vibrating them individually to achieve directed motion. Does anyone have any more information on how that works?

Update: I found a paper that describes something similar. It is vastly improved by a vibrating table — Does anyone with access to Science know if Harvard used one? http://wiki.polymtl.ca/nano/images/a/ae/C-2007-NW-AIM-ANguye...
Cool, came here to report the exact same bug. Twitching, and doing the down smash eventually caused me to warp through the floor and initiate an endless fall into white nothingness. [Edit] After exploring some more, the extents of completeness are more obvious. I like the design style, and the art is very evocative. In terms of gameplay, there's a lot of blind jumps that basically end in death (spike and lava rooms to lower right). While I like the quick save mechanic with the light pillars, telegraphing those rapidly changing hazards might be less frustrating. Also, is it currently possible to get to the stuff up to the left?
Except his coworker didn't offer a complement. His coworker offered an admission that what she thought was a personality flaw ended up working out. It was, in fact, a rather impolite and off-putting delivery. I see no problem with his description of his coworker as being impolite. The important bit about that interaction was that, because he was a polite person, he didn't immediately treat the impolite remark as being off-putting or insulting or any other way that another not-so-polite person might take it, but he understood that this was just his coworker's way of offering a complement, and that he should take it as a complement despite the delivery.

In other words, a polite person forgives other people for inadvertent impoliteness and recognizes the intent behind the words.
In the grand scheme of things, the situation that held during the Cold War was a historical accident. Not every nuclear bomb in the future will necessarily be possessed by nations who are facing adversaries who can respond in kind to the use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are very scary indeed, and we are very lucky to have made it decades since they have last been used in war. I have good faith that we will make it to a century, but I would not make a bet that they will never, ever be used in anger ever again.
Cruise Automation, for example, is working on self-driving cars.

There are some biotech companies too, but I don't know much about those.
Like many benchmarks, results may not match performance on real-world work loads.
Do you still have the picture? I would love to test it out on one of the old scanners I have. Also, maybe HN could identify the reason for the bug.
Awesome project!
So, are there any hard-way books or something, to begin developing for GB platforms? ASM and C have already learned by me, but I'm really frightened about code environment like IDE, testing and run on real hw? Are this question already answered or I'm really can't google?
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I was more or less criticizing their presentation of their product rather than the actual product, i.e. I think they could use better examples.
Those are also just words with no inherent religious connotation: "equanimity" means "even temper", and "asana" is sanskrit for "pose".

Your objections seem to say more about your personal bias than they do the words being used.
Maybe C?

http://gbdk.sourceforge.net/#Highlights

http://gbdk.sourceforge.net/examples.html
You will run into an awful lot of people thinking you are being sarcastic.
Snapchat Could Be Stripped Of “Tap-And-Hold For Video” Patent
http://beekn.net/2014/07/ibeacon-for-android/

iBeacon is some interaction standards atop BLE, and early on everyone assuaged themselves that it was safe and open -- because it's just some BLE interactions -- but Apple has it covered by trademarks, patents (similar to Microsoft's ActiveSync patents, as an aside. It's just a web service, but use it in certain ways and you're at risk of a patent suit) and marketing.
There a number of hardware companies as well.
Seriously I am amazed by your project! I wish I had the time to do something like that! Great job and I can't wait to play the final version.
I don't think anyone was comparing happiness against other people here. It's happiness against yourself. Are you happier now than you were last year? Average happiness in this context doesn't mean the average happiness of the world, or a community. It's just how you would deem the average happiness of your life at a certain era. Yesterday I had a terrible day, but I would still say I am happy on average, I just was not happy on that particular day.
Rather than a literal plasma gun, I think they were just saying the risk is that the team will pivot into weapons research. But no one has thus far explained why weapons research would be anything but a positive thing.

Yes, using weapons is unfortunate. The decision to ever use a weapon should be made with the utmost discretion. But when it comes time to use a weapon, it seems hard to argue against having the most effective weapons that also have little collateral damage.

Maybe people are worried that a new, extremely effective weapon will be discovered which happens to have high collateral damage. That's a concern, but it's never been possible to delay the advancement of technology. If something is possible to discover, then it seems like some diligent researcher will eventually discover it. But the concern itself seems misplaced: most new weapons have less collateral damage, not more.
You could probably figure out if you're dangling without a dongle by using your accelerometer. The key would be to see if there is any measurable difference between your pace when your fly is zipped versus when unzipped. You may need to get seed data by walking around a bit in either state in each of your pants. If it's precise enough, it could then detect which pants you are wearing and the state of the fly based on differences in your movement. If it's not quite there yet, the user could just select pants at the start of the day to use the right data set.

There you go. Build your company.
I agree. I think there is more that can be done to enhance it, and make it a more enjoyable tool. Email clients --and I am not talking about third party services a la Mailbox, who rely yet in another server-- are still very primitive.
I didn't know Github had interns to spend time putting this data together. Pretty cool.
"What do you do for a living?" is a canned question to begin with. It's what you ask when you don't know what else to say. People in social situations usually aren't there to talk about work, they're often there to get away from it. The point of the canned response "oh that sounds hard" is to give the other person an opening to talk if they want to, because the phrase signals that they have a sympathetic listener, but it doesn't require them to do so (because you didn't ask a direct question). It also signals that you aren't about to start asking direct questions about their job, which is something they probably don't want (because, again, this is a social situation).

You may decry it as "canned" all you want, but it's a phrase designed purely to allow the conversation to flow and to make the listener feel like they aren't being put on the spot. I bet you have a bunch of canned questions/phrases you trot out in social situations too, for various reasons, you just haven't catalogued them.
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> eager to escalate the situation

I don't think "eager" is the right word here -- I hardly believe anyone, cop or citizen, is eager to escalate a situation where nobody is going to win. It's bad mojo for both sides if it continues.
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Do you have an opinion about Bussard/Polywell?
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No evidence presented whatsoever.

The US and Russia both have weather modification capabilities.

Yet, the USA has never admitted to controlling the weather.

It's 2014, and we have patents dating back to the 1960s on weather modification. Tesla himself even knew this was not such a great feat in itself.

When will America wake up?
There are too many hoops to jump through. The person who finds the dogs needs an iPhone. They then need to be able to figure out that the tag requires an app. They then download an app to receive a notification from the tag. Then you somehow figure out that the dog is lost and display reward information. You reunite dog with owner. The non-dog owner somehow keeps the app around for the next time they find a dog?

Alternatively, you can just write your phone number on a dog tag.

Additionally, I don't see anything on the tag that explains to people that they should download an app for owner information.
Ok so i should gather emails...what is the best way? Posting to forums/reddit or something else can help gathering emails or driving people to landing pages?
Unfortunately the only way to combat this is to manually disallow negative SEO backlinks. Meaning you have to go into your Google account, goto the disallow tools and manually disallow the links that point to your site.

Now, in this case the spammer has supplied you with a list.

That makes life a lot easier, as you have a source of 20,000 links to disallow!

Unfortunately in remote places and smaller towns, it'd cost you <$50 to completely decimate any online competition in your area via Google. It'd cost them >$300 to fix these with a paid "SEO expert".
which dictionary did you pull this from?
I see "characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed"
That's irrelevant, because developed countries (i.e. the countries that are in the position to have a social safety net) almost universally have shrinking populations, not growing ones.
I enjoyed this post too - if you don't mind I plan to link to it from next week's RealTimeWeekly.com. Thanks for writing it!
I tried very hard for a long time to explain to my daughter how to make herself go on a swing with no luck. "Lean back, legs out, when going forward..." Then I sat on the swing next to her and did it myself. She watched and was doing it herself in about 5 seconds. No idea if anything I had said helped prepare for that. I think she had seen me swing myself before and didn't get it, so IDK what clicked.
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It's a tricky balance, make no mistake. I'm not involved in sales, but my understanding is that "run our PR fluff" pays really well, and it doesn't require any man-hours on the media company's end of things. Financially, it's massively tempting. But there's an awareness that that sort of thing comes at the cost of reputation, trustworthiness, and engagement; several years ago we'd run that sort of thing as clearly-marked "sponsored posts" (another commenter had a few examples from 2010-2011 linked below). Those never converted well, never engaged well, and generally left readers feeling a little ripped off. Nobody liked them.

By contrast, the "modern" native advertising we do tends to be some of our highest-engagement content. It's generally high-effort, well-researched, well-produced stuff (and has to be, in order to satisfy our obligations to the advertiser) that people enjoy and which converts well.

I think that rational and reasonable people are right to be suspicious of the practice; after all, the industry has an established tradition of advertorials already. But I think it's worth pointing out that the "native advertising" trend is about moving away from advertorials and towards content that more naturally marries media and advertiser interests.

In a perfect world, nobody would have to run native advertising. But in the meantime, when it's done properly, I don't really have any issue with it when it's transparent and isn't just a reprint of a PR release.
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This I don't mind.

At my company though, those articles are ghost-written, and then they ask every employee to retweet and share it on Facebook and LinkedIn. It hasn't gotten to the point where we get in trouble for not doing it, but I fear that point is quickly approaching.

One line that I won't cross is if they start requiring me to post to social media using my personal accounts, and I will change jobs over it.
So basically it goes like this.

1. Hypothesis: Women are discriminated in tech.

2. Argument: There are less women in tech. (shows number of women in tech)

3. Counter argument: There are less applicants.(shows number of applicants, number of uni students)

4. Counter counter argument: They self-select out of tech because of the discrimination.

Afaik, there is solid evidence for points 2&3. What is the evidence for 4?
I did research on incorporating offshore when I was planning on becoming a travelling freelancer.

The Seychelles came up as one of the easiest and cheapest places to incorporate. Very little regulation.
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Sounds like a misuse of the word to be honest.
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A while back I had this short story I was working on that was a sort of conspiracy-fiction; the premise was that through efforts of the cold war, weather weapons were being actively developed by both sides. However, these efforts inadvertantly broke the natural weather cycle.

As a result - the use of weather creation/manipulation had to be brought up in earnest. This being the reason for chem-trails that people see: The weather system has lost its natural balance, and chem-trails are used to keep as close to regular weather as possible, else catastrophe would ensue.
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There was a recent thread here with a pdf survey of entrepreneur attitudes towards VCs. It has since disappeared from the web, and google can't find it. Has it been censored? The survey was at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8145547 - I can't find any pdfs named YouGov_Entrepreneurs_Survey_2013_Participants_Summary.pdf on the web.
I think his proposal for a company town is that all that stuff is free.

Daycare, longings, travel, food, medical care, all free (or more accurately included in your paycheck).

The only things that cost are luxuries.

Seems to me that would solve the problem you outline.
What a joke. These software patents are getting out of control. They should be limited to unique, meaningful algorithms.
Very cool. I hope to have spare time again in my life, at some point!
That statement "Java was calling Haskell as C via its FFI" kind of confused me, but I admit I'm not all that familiar with how FFIs work.

But, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that "Java was calling native binaries compiled from Haskell source just as if they were compiled from C"? Because Java is linking to a binary library (a .so file) that's already been compiled from Haskell, right? Or am I misunderstanding how this works?
I feel that gmail has held back development of good desktop clients (which is what we really need). My laptop has an almost empty 1TB hard drive yet I need to wait to download an image attachment every time I want to view it. Email should be built around abundant storage, not a dependency on bandwidth.
http://devrs.com/gb/
It's a bit hard to find, but it's all there :)

- http://gameboy.mongenel.com/dmg/gbspec.txt (html version http://problemkaputt.de/pandocs.htm#soundcontroller )
- http://www.otakunozoku.com/nintendo-gameboy-cribsheet/
- http://realboyemulator.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/gbcpuman....
- http://students.washington.edu/fidelp/galp/megaguides/GameBo... (The original Manual)

There are more, but I can't seem to find the links right now :O
War, itself, is a pretty damned sophomoric thing.
I don't think your conclusion logically follows. The free market argument would be that the fairest price is whatever Comcast can get netflix to pay (or vice-versa). From a policy perspective I don't see a reason to intervene except that both parties have unfair advantages relative to their competitors (and Comcast basically has a monopoly). However, if that's the reason to intervene on traffic shaping then I think it's a reason to intervene on peering relationships too. I'd love to be able to peer with Comcast, but I can't. That's not fair.