skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if I could change the default to NFC in the next version without breaking people's expectations. It is a safer default.

When it comes to text analytics, the underlying tagger and stuff won't know what O21 is any more than it knows what O_2^1 is anyway. And NFKC is useful for mixed Latin and Japanese text, which I wouldn't entirely dismiss as strange and geeky. But it's true that the default could be more conservative.
> Your brain can't entirely distinguish between watching a video game on a screen and actually controlling the action.

I'm not sure I agree with that. I'm an avid gamer but find long gameplay-only vids to be pretty boring. The really successful lets-plays are good because there are one or more people talking over them.
You are in your twenties and have still to start working, why would you chose a platform over another ( even right now )? I would learn both and move on jobs to make almost equal experience over them.

Else you will end using the only tools you know over the best tools for each specific problem, and it can be a disaster for you career and your satisfaction as developer.

I am not saying to be a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, you can still have (and focus on) a preferred platform/os/tools/etc for any reason (like you like it more, you have an ethical problem with another, in your zone one is overused compared to the other, ...) but, imho, is better to be something as a T-shaped person [ as described on the Valve handbook, page 46 http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p... ].
Giddy up pal. Whatever this phenomenon is, it's coming to your corner of the world sooner than you think.
Why not simply put them in a classroom and watch them teach? Give them a day of lecturing to (existing) classes on whatever topic they want (or you can pick the topic). The incumbent teacher can observe and comment. Or you could hire them on a trial basis (one year) with oversight. There aren't any trade secrets to hide here.
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That is one dangerously chosen company name... seeing the banner at the top I was immediately reminded of Hex-Ray's IDA and was wondering what kind of art they'd be creating from assembly now...
They have https://www.fastmail.fm/mail/compose?u=[someUserHash], but at least when I tried it removing the query string (=> /mail/compose) still worked while logged in.
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I've only interned at large enterprises so far, but I'd eventually like to start or work in a startup, which is why costs come into play for me.

Right now, if I want to make a site in Django, I can just get a $5 VM and spin up the rest for free, regardless of my goal. The same can't be said for an ASP.NET website, unless I'm underestimating Azure's free tier or something.

I live in Montreal.
> Kids are seen as a cost, not an asset or an investment

I doubt people are actively trying to keep the population dumb, but this sounds like it would have such a side-effect.
Good summary of surprising behavior. You can work around a lot of these issues using "--" as an argument before you use any wildcards. This tells most commands to stop processing options and treat the rest of the arguments as files (or whatever other non-option arguments the command takes). That's getopt(3)'s behavior[0]. For example, "rm -- *" will not have the problem where directories are removed if there's an entry called "-rf" in the directory.

[0] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ge...
Working in betting for >5 years. In EU, if real money involved, you will need a gambling license. Bit hard to provide you with more help with the little information you gave.

What would you like to know on technical side?
It's not just Verizon - Comcast and AT&T are also trying to kill copper, because that would allow them the same unregulated control over phone service that they already enjoy over the Internet.

http://www.timmins.net/2013/12/11/how-att-verizon-and-comcas...
I'm closing in on 50 and I dropped my landline years ago. I had a VOIP service at home for a while because cellular signals is very poor at my house, but dropped that when I switched to Republic Wireless. Now my phone uses WiFi at home and Sprint's network when I'm mobile.

Yes, I'm now subject to failures of my home internet service (Comcast), my cable modem, and my wireless router, and if I lose power it all goes offline. But so far it hasn't been enough of a problem that I want to go back to the expense of a separate POTS service.
They referenced AirPooler's interpretation in our response. http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/agc...
I'm quite skeptical about it.

Maybe it's because I don't really have any hope, at all, of succeeding in life since being introverted and having feelings of rejections are the biggest obstacles in my life.

I do believe that highly capitalistic societies, where each individual has a bank account and property, seems to be exclusive societies. The age of life in communities has really ended. People used to live in tight communities, never excluding family members, always using available arms for something. Now corporate jobs are nearly mandatory.

I think even vagrants and wanderers were friendly enough to either live together or to speak to people.

Since my problems at school and in family, my conscience has entirely refuse to socialize or to be part of a group. Now the consequence of this are quite dire, but I doubt society can really realize exclusion is a problem, or really do anything about it just because psychology shows it.
> I'm sure some adults watch it to, but it's aimed at very young kids.

This specific video might be aimed at toddlers, but the article notes that there are unboxing videos for all sorts of products with hundreds of millions of views in aggregate. Hundreds of millions of views represents a significant portion of Americans.
Where's the linux download?
Auction for domain name refer.ly (YC S12)
Welcome to the Bay! Yeah, thought he expressed "life is about the journey" particularly well.
I need a collaborator o leader for this project
> This phenomenon is similar to how people enjoy watching others play video games.

Agreed, in that I can't understand why somebody would be interested in either.
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Me and my bird are really owning this game.
The Ownership of the Machines
God and I just swear at the retard-nigger-monkies running this jail. God is perfectly just.
I never caught the TV show but the film was fun if not a little hard to buy because it was so over the top. I think probably the success of the show can be helped mostly on the high profile catfish of star college football player Mante Te'o. A very large audience had been first enthralled by the idea of his cancer stricken girlfriend that he was playing for. But then that same audience learned both the phrase "catfish" and the hard truth that he had been duped because that girlfriend didn't exist.[0] It was national news for awhile and broke thanks to research from Deadspin. How ABC and other outlets (ESPN,CBS,Sports Illustrated,NYPOST) didn't look up if the girl had existed before they spoke about it still blows me away.

[0] http://deadspin.com/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-hear...
I really wonder who this person asked, that was an "old-school Unix admin", that didn't know of this attack. This article also doesn't mention the countermeasure which is available in every utility I know of: the -- argument, which disables parsing of all further arguments and treats them just as filenames.
I hate to say it but this article reeks of Neo-Luddism.

Fiber is the future and it it here to stay. In trying to hold on to the old tech, these Verizon customers are forcing Verizon to stagger their support between two technologies for much longer than they would otherwise - leading to diminished customer service and perceived reliability for both.
Do you watch sports?

I sometimes watch people play video games. Some of my reasons are:

1. I'm bad at video games, but like seeing the story unfold.

2. I'm not sure if I want to buy the game or not, so I watch someone play it to decide.

Some other people also watch others play games to learn, to increase their skill, because they find the player/presenter amusing, etc.
Not only is this incredibly sleazy, it's a sign of things to come; it's incredibly clear that Verizon has ceased to give anything reminiscent of a fuck about their networks. How do you think that bodes for the longevity of LTE? Or FiOS for that matter?

Regardless of either, the PSTN is a great tool, and an incredible, self sustaining network. The fact that Verizon would shrug it off in favor of running off with the money Netflix gave them to resolve their peering dispute or what have you instead of trying to innovate illustrates their future in telecommunications.

Though I think by now, it's incredibly obvious it isn't a bright one for consumers. With any luck, a company like Frontier who gives something beyond a negative fuck in regards to the wireline network will end up buying it up and smashing Verizon with it.
> If too many people get caught out in the cold, the government might start pushing back against those companies to protect the workers.

That seems unlike the government, they've done nothing to address the shrinking of the middle class, the dismantling of unions and the shift from stable employment towards mcjobs, so why would they do anything about the uberization of the workforce?
I've just tried it after clearing my cache and it takes 5 seconds at most.
Note that what you think of as a landline and what is counted (for regulation purposes) as a landline are two entirely different things. It's entire possible that you didnt have a regulated landline service, even though it appeared to be one.

Verizon cares only about ensuring that their phone service doesn't fall under the regulations of phone service
It can increase the mortality from 50%-60% to 100%. It can protract death, make it more painful.

That is true for any drug. What are the odds of that, though? one in 100? one in 50,000? one in a million?
I'm aware of two major subgenres:

1) the "first impressions review". Descriptions of how sturdy or flimsy or smooth something feels, how it disappoints or delights compared to the picture on the box, whether it works as expected immediately. This actually seems really useful to me as a supplement to written reviews.

2) the "revel in the thing itself" unboxing. My preschool-aged nephew loves these videos. He seems to have as much fun watching people play with new toys as he does actually playing with new toys, or more. In a sense, this sort of video actually shields him from disappointment -- if the toy sucks, he can just move on to the next video, or he might not even notice since the person on screen is probably having fun anyway.
It IS extraordinarily unlikely that a drug, tested in animals, will cause a worse result than one of the worst diseases we've ever seen. Concern about "false hope" is bizarre to me - it's not like this is a long-term disease like cancer, where false hope can damage a graceful death and grieving process. It's going to be over for these patients, usually brutally, in days.
I don't know what places the author's referring to, but according to one study, most fetuses diagnosed with Down Syndrome in Europe [0] and the United States [1] are aborted. The rate of live births has remained steady, but apparently it would be significantly higher if not for prenatal screening [2]. This discrepancy isn't very mysterious, nor is it really an absence, so maybe the GP has something else in mind?

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10521836

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22418958

[2]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pd.2702/full
hey!™ stephenitis are bots bad? if so, this is no bot posting.
In a work environment, I don't really mind learning one thing over another (I normally wouldn't touch Java otherwise, for example). I agree that you have to choose the right tool for the job.

My dilemma is more towards choosing a preferred platform. I've been interning for a large enterprise since the beginning of my studies, and would like to try working for or starting a startup eventually. And that's when choosing Microsoft isn't as easy as choosing anything else, even though I would like to.
Virtualenv-api – An API for virtualenv/pip
Yep, this is a huge driver of many of these youtuber's traffic.
NS and ProRail to laser leaves from lines
The Men Who Hacked Mario Kart 8
A better workaround is to prefix your wildcarded arguments with ./ as this will work with all commands. For example, rm ./* will safely remove files regardless of how they're named.
Would be interesting to know from Google's analytics how many views are unique vs. repeat.

The super-engaged toddlers are remniscent of those in the "Smile Time" episode of Whedon's Angel.
Mother invents app to ensure children contact her at all times
Whese – A new social iOS app to find out what your friends are up to now
> Do you watch sports?

Nope.
"MythBusters" is an unscientific television show run by stunt men. Imagine someone holding a candle underneath a gas tank for five seconds, not exploding, and concluding with cheesy sound effects that the flammability of gasoline is a "Myth". That's "MythBusters".
Here's a video that I think has a similar appeal:http://wimp.com/cinderblocks/ - it's just a guy laying cinder blocks, zero consumerism. But relaxing.

My daughter is about to enter Montessori, and one of the techniques they like is to simply demonstrate to a child - not much narration, no shortcuts or summarizing, just demonstration. And I realized how little I do this, even though I describe things to my daughter constantly.

So maybe these videos are filling that gap. The commercialism might be a supply-side phenomena, since that's where the ad dollars are.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) is legally possible in the US: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling

Every article I've read about Verizon suggests they're run by dickheads, I'm sure there would be plenty of people willing to switch to an alternative provider, why is LLU not popular in the US? To make it clear, LLU means you can lease the same copper or fibre lines to run your own ISP as long as you install your own routing gear in the exchange. I know it's very popular in the UK.
I think that depends on the increased cost. Do I want to pay more to avoid a couple of hours without power during a storm? proably not, it's not really a big deal. Do I want to avoid multi-day power outages? Sure, but those are rare and a system that is fully resistant to e.g. major hurricane damage might cost be more than people want to or can afford to pay for.
Recovering ancient voices from clay pots
Hey Horowitz – we need to talk about your taste in rap music
This is awesome, but I wish this was searchable...
Cool game! A few notes:

I think your choice of license may be incompatible with the GitHub terms of service--there's an implied right to fork by using GitHub, but your license states no derivatives are allowed. IANAL, but something to look into: https://help.github.com/articles/open-source-licensing

As I mentioned in another comment, it's pretty slow under Firefox.

Lastly, the game is quite pretty, but I feel that since the gameplay involved is so precise, the imprecise visuals can be confusing. It's hard to tell exactly when a piece is going to set in place, when a group is eliminated, what would happen if you rotate and a piece is blocked by a stack already in place, etc. I went by pure geometry at first, but I definitely got bitten a few times where a piece moved after I thought it was in place, or a piece didn't get eliminated with the rest of a group since it hadn't fully landed in its column. The collision animations don't quite help there either.
And this is why charter schools are such a sterling success? This is why West European schools are uniformly catastrophic wastelands compared to ours? -- This experiment has already been run repeatedly, there is nothing in it at all.
As someone in their twenties with a landline, I have to ask if you went around to every person you conceivably could and asked if they had a home phone. Utilities aren't exactly a source of frequent conversation.

That being said though, regardless of your preference, the point of the article is that there's advantages to copper that nobody is trying to replicate with fiber-based last mile delivery; all people are asking for is that there be no significant drawbacks for them if they're to be given something seen as an upgrade.

Think of it this way - what would you say if the gigabit fiber offerings we're seeing only gave 750 kbps of upload bandwidth?
Bottom line.. we're killing ourselves with overloading our bodies with carbohydrates. Nearly every bit of nutritional advice handed out by the government since the 70s is a pack of lies made in concert with the subsidized corn and wheat industries.

These industries sell you poison, then the pills that slow down how fast the poison kills you and tell you it's okay to keep eating it. Then the prescribing doctor gets kick backs.

Diabetics take note. How does continuing to eat the thing that got you there to begin with make any sense? Complete and utter lifestyle change.

Eat as many eggs as you want. Ignore EVERYTHING a doctor tells you about cholesterol. Eat a ton of vegetables and as much grass fed meat and butter as you can afford.

(note: 'poison' is a bit of hyperbole)
lucio: not an easy job, Uglify2 has a large amount of locs
incidentally the way Zmapp is made (it's made in tobacco plants) it's unsurprising there is a shortage. Interestingly, there is in the last year commercialized technology (humanized yeast) that would make manufacture much much simpler.

The second issue, of course, is patents, which are undoubtedly getting in the way here.
David A. Wheeler, FOSS (and occasionally security) luminary, who also happens to be creator of the popular sloccount tool, has an excellent page that covers this topic and how to use paths safely and portably in shell scripts (spoiler: it's hard) :

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html

I strongly recommend his many other essays to HN readers: http://www.dwheeler.com/

Edit: a simple way to avoid these problems is to prepend the wildcard with ./ (so globbed files won't start with - or -- but with the path ./) and on GNU systems put -- before the wildcard, telling the tool that following arguments are not options.
Chrome addon shows if a site uses CloudFlare
Curious, what did you end up doing? Did you pay the firm who bought your debt?
just "compress.js", it has 2400 lines. But the "translation" process is trivial. The refinement is not easy, but the "translation" is trivial
levy-stable distributions with an alpha less than or equal to 1, (e.g. cauchy distribution) don't have finite first moments.

The cauchy distribution is most simply explained with the blind archer analogy. An archer is blindfolded and placed in a random orientation. (Let's restrict it to [0-pi] radians for simplicity). She then shoots the arrow in the direction she's pointing until it hits an infinitely long, straight wall. What is the position along the wall where the arrow strikes?

The CDF is the normalized arctan(x) - should be easy to visualize, but the integral of x arctan x (the first moment) is undefined.
Love it! I'm terrible at it!
I would be surprised if you weren't pleasantly surprised.

I can't address your SE question, I am not caught up on current tech. The TSX[0] stuff looks really fun, but it is off for now.

You might enjoy realworldtech [1] for hardware info.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_Synchronization_E...

[1] http://www.realworldtech.com/

PS Just ran across this while weeding for multiple issue architectures, http://mcg.cs.tau.ac.il/papers/

PPS http://transact2014.cse.lehigh.edu/wang.pdf
He is vindicated already, it's time to move on.
Spaced Repetition is Awesome
Pedantic aside: I guess you mean non-associative multiplication? That is, ax(bxc) versus (axb)xc. Since rounding happens at different times, they can give different results. Floating point multiplication is indeed non-commutative as well, but that has to do with NaN handling, not imprecision.
The last time this appeared on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700562), I tracked down some of the citations:

>The social experience that most reliably predicted whether an HIV-positive gay man would die quickly, Cole found, was whether or not he was in the closet.

Cole, Steve W., et al. "Elevated physical health risk among gay men who conceal their homosexual identity." Health Psychology 15.4 (1996): 243. http://cancer-network.org/media/pdf/cancer_gay_men_disclosur...

>While Cole discovered that loneliness could hasten death in sick people, Cacioppo showed that it could make well people sick—and through the same method: by putting the body in fight-or-flight mode.

Cacioppo, John T., et al. "Loneliness and Health: Potential Mechanisms." Psychosomatic Medicine 64 (2002): 407-417. http://ccutrona.public.iastate.edu/psych592a/articles/Caciop...

>A longitudinal study of more than 8,000 identical Dutch twins found that, if one twin reported feeling lonely and unloved, the other twin would report the same thing 48 percent of the time.

Boomsma, Dorret I., et al. "Longitudinal genetic analysis for loneliness in Dutch twins." Twin Research and Human Genetics 10.2 (2007): 267-274. http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/jtcre...

Finally, you may be interested in tokenadult's comment on twin studies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5701565. An excerpt:

>The article's explanation of "heritability" of human behavioral traits is poor. For four years now, I've had regular in-person interaction with a "journal club" of researchers and graduate students who are deeply involved in the Minnesota Twin Study...Your attribution of causes for human differences (e.g., human differences in IQ) is also heritable. Your opinion about regulation of the Internet is heritable. Everything about human behavior is heritable, including the tendency to loneliness mentioned in the interesting article submitted here.
Should you make Facebook your new dating app?
Drawing inspiration from the original tetris, maybe the legibility could be improved by having some sort of grid-like background (maybe the height of cells could not be uniform but higher for the closer ones?), and cell-by-cell transitions rather than continuous.
Whenever I do my PHD, it will revolve around fourth quadrant ideas especially in this domain. I just need to compile all the research that has been done and get to work.

Glad to see this is getting the attention it should.
Good point, a lot of views could be coming from a few obsessive compulsive repeat-viewers.
I enjoyed watching my boy play Final Fantasy on the PS1 much more than I would have enjoyed playing it, which is to say, quite a lot.

I even had the emotional connection and cried a little tear when one of the main protagonists is murdered as part of the story arc, I have posted it as "most emotional response to a video game" type threads on Reddit.
Well yeah but they're hiring PHDs to write PHP? I would think their proprietary trading algorithms (which I was talking about) would be...not written in that.
Perhaps rising wealth inequality leads to a larger proportion of money being stashed away in investments trying to make more money for the wealthy, and ultimately results in pathetic investment yields which create a self-balancing situation where people who actually work for their money are actually better off..
Perhaps I'm too sensitive but I feel the current Ars runs a lot of techno-sensationalist stories that often are inconsistent from one week to the next. Next week I expect to see Ars run a story chastising the US for its remaining high percentage of users still on slow copper internet whereas Europe and Korea have much faster internet speeds.
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But you do understand, in principle, why people watch sports rather than play them themselves, right?