skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are quick to dump evolution when it does not sing along with PC.

I agree that EP has a low SNR ratio but I don't buy that every difference is socially constructed.
Tron: Legacy and Isomorphisms
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I haven't run into that issue but I am not surprised. Anything goes with Samsung phones.
With Gradle and Maven support I've found it really easy to manage dependencies to third party libraries. Personally I use Jackson when dealing with anything JSON related.
How to Write Highly Scalable and Maintainable JavaScript: Modules
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My Attempt to Get Hold of Sir Richard Branson: DearSirBranson.com
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Seems like Dremel would be better positioned to offer a mass-market small CNC machine. They have no background or corporate strengths in the additive-manufacturing business.
The interesting thing I've noticed about cofounders is that basically every rule about cofounders has been broken by at least one billion-dollar startup:

"Don't be a single founder"? E-bay.

"Don't do a shotgun wedding. The founders have to have known each other for a while and worked on projects together before they jump into the stress of a startup"? DropBox (met through a mutual classmate's introduction after Drew's first YC application) and GitHub (met at a networking meetup).

"Don't do an uneven equity split"? Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, Netscape.

"Don't be an asshole"? Apple, Oracle, SnapChat.

"Make sure everyone's willing to quit their day job or not return to school"? Apple (Steve Wozniak initially wasn't willing to leave HP until their VC convinced him), Google (Larry and Sergey tried to sell the company and finish their Ph.Ds, but nobody was willing to buy at the price they wanted, < $1M).

"Get a technical cofounder"? This one's harder, the only companies I can think of are Auctomatic (which had technical cofounders after it merged with the Collison brothers), Digg (which didn't do so well), and Travelocity (which was a spin-off of American Airlines).

This doesn't mean the rules are invalid, but it does point out how many exceptions there are. I think that usually a good test is simply that it feels right, that you want to work with that person.
Right, by definition, consuming any food is not bad for you, when done as part of an overall healthy diet -- any overall diet in which the food was bad for you would not, ipso facto, be a healthy diet when that food was included.

The claim would only begin to be meaningful if instead of "when part of a healthy diet" it was "when included in an otherwise healthy diet".
Books will really, really help. But targeted practice will also help.

For the original question, there's an Anki deck for English idioms with sentences.[0]

[0] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/846593111

Edit: It seems Anki is mentioned quite a bit further in the thread, so I'll skip defining it here.
Show HN: Cortana Supported Coin Flipper for Windows Phone 8.1
Then...they pull out there smart phone and look it up. Moral: just because someone gives you a computer to use doesn't mean you should use it.
Isn't this more likely down to pale skin being associated with higher social classes? Women from lower social classes (pre-industrialisation) would mostly work outdoors and so be tanned.
Is there any reason most evolutionary psychology articles talk about gender? Is there not any other element of human society that has both a biological and a behavioral component to study?

Aside from their hyperfocus on a specific part of what they claim to be their subject of interest, my main problem with evolutionary psychologists is that they keep the "evolutionary" part of their argument (too often) to a vaguely-plausible story that has exactly no biological substance whatsoever. I would be more interested if they even went so far as to use comparisons with other species or actual ethnographic research rather than elaborating about their idea of prehistoric human societies.

I also find strange that it's accepted in psychology to derive conclusions on human nature from a study of a single class of Western freshman psych students that have probably been recruited via spam email. I think even focus groups are more scientific.
I really enjoyed reading Papillon, as well as seeing the film. Does anyone have recommendations for good fiction / memoirs about modern prisons?
Tinder client for Chrome in JavaScript as an open source extension
Another Turkish here.

The spacing around punctuation in Turkish in the same as English. It's just that OP failed to spellcheck his writing.
I fail to understand your point. you can also install browsers on windows that ship with IE6.

your other arguments, maybe on your fancy phone. 99% of the phones still stuck on 2.3.3 or older, you

- can't disable system apps

- can't uninstall system apps

- usually have 60mb or less for apps.

- can use the SD card for apps.

that leaves ANY browser out of the option. chrome and firefox, both install on around 20 to 40mb... and then consumes an additional (non-configurable) 100+mb of cache on the app data partition. leaving any older phone crippled (you can't fetch background data when the low storage space warning is showing).
Keyword argument support is in the Emacs core these days, along with the rest of the CL library.

(require 'cl-lib)
(cl-defun foo (&key a b c) (list a b c))
(foo :c 3 :b 4 :a 1)
You might be interested in trying Chinese Tutor (http://fastchinese.com/flashcards). (I'm the author)

It doesn't have pretty photos, but it does use a spaced repetition algorithm and have the flashcards ordered based on how commonly they will appear.
One thing not covered in the blog post (except Twitter) was social media or regular media where you interact with people you don't already know (e.g. Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News). Is this less common because friend-based social media is mostly photos and teenagers prefer using images to communicate? Does having a pseudonym on any of these sites count as anonymity, or is that preferred to communicate with friends anonymously? Thanks!
Spot on, and not very much. For instance, only 32% of inmates have a high school education or higher. Getting a job with both a prison record and almost no education is nearly impossible. What option do a lot of former inmates have that won't lead to recidivism?

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ecp.pdf
Doesn't Yahoo use Bing for search? How do they have a Search API? https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/
More often than not it is a print quality issue with a lot of them. At least what I've run into.
But, nothing in the universe is more similar to man than woman.

Both men and women are sentient (self-aware, conscious).

You know, human. :)
When it comes to health effects, it's not necessary to prove that all members of a category share those effects. Simply showing that at least one member of the group is dangerous can be enough to recommend that people alter their behavior.

For example, not all snakes have venom that's harmful to humans. But some do and that's enough to assume than an unknown snake is venomous until it's been shown to be otherwise. Similarly, your "liquids are poisonous" study is enough to conclude that we shouldn't be ingesting liquids that haven't been shown to be safe.

Similarly, if we can conclude that one or more artificial sweeteners are harmful to our health, we can and should be consuming unsweetened foods until such time as individual artificial sweeteners are shown to be safe.
https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker...
A Prophet http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235166/?ref_=nv_sr_1
How to Get a Famous (Price of Fame)
Sadly yes - the "science" that the author calls out is absurdly and blatantly bad. Apparently some people have never heard the saying "the dose makes the poison"
How do you know if someone can really write programs
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No, I dont think thats upstream.
Absolutely.

As another story to back this up, I moved to India when I was bootstrapping my first business. I got down to $2/day for food, and found free rent. This low personal burn rate massively extended the amount of runway available. Of course, Bangalore is no longer low cost, but there are plenty of places that still are.
How to Build a Treadmill Standing Desk Shaped Like a Giant Hamster Wheel
Journalists have a public responsibility, for sure. It'd surely lack moral sense to casually report on the mistreatment of Armenians, or not bother to really mention it at all, during the Armenian genocide when covering the plight of the Armenians.

This has been recognized in history by many, to leave you with two quotes from Einstein and King respectively:

"If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity."

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

I certainly don't want to get sentimental and I'm not one to favor hyperbole, being complicit in these crimes is too strong for my taste. But I agree with the sentiment of his post, which urges journalists to recognize their power and seize the opportunity to report on gross inhumane mistreatment of people, especially when these people are the subject of his writing. Again, I understand his wording was strong, but I wish we'd focus more on the intent of his post than on the semantics.
but there were no CNC prototypes in the makerspace they could license and slap their name on and put in a box... 3D printers though... overpriced and will be on clearance rack in 5-6 months where we can get them for a few hundred which will be a great deal.
iOS 8 – handoff, today view, and photo editing extension in fragment app
Great question. To be honest, I used deep learning algorithms as a metaphor into Neo4j's property graph data model. Graph databases like Neo4j store data as a graph, which is a similar data structure to a neural network. I store weights in the relationships based on the frequency that a feature has been matched from the low-level representations near the bottom of the tree, to higher-level representations.

So there are two parts, there is building a natural language parsing model and then there is a Vector Space Model classifier that uses TF-IDF weights as vectors to calculate the cosine similarity between inputs.

I explain more about the high-level idea here: http://bit.ly/1lMjSm5

Let it be known that I've arrived at most of this stuff by means of intuition and graph data modeling in Neo4j. I'm a hobbyist when it comes to the machine learning stuff. My goal is to show how amazing a combined application/persistency solution, like a Neo4j extension, is for solving these kind of machine learning problems.

People smarter than me should take a look at it to solve similar problems.
So the only way for programs to get data from the outside world is to poll with system calls? I always thought that programs defined a "holding area" that the kernel would write into when it had data - the program still might poll, but it's polling (potentially very small, perhaps a single register) local data rather than making a system call.
That'd be my guess as well, but my point as more about discussion etiquette and trying to read the best/most plausible interpretation of what somebody said.
That's fine, and I even agree with you, but hyperbole absent a rhetorical purpose like a contrast or illustration is a plague on modern media (loss of nuance).

It needs to be challenged when seen, not passively accepted.
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> Though still wildly popular, my sister mentioned that anxiety around “like-to-follower ratios” and “judgmental viewers” has been leading to less posting amongst her and her friends.

There's a lot of weird things that I notice many people do (including myself) related to metrics like this. I'm 24, and a lot of my friends use Snapchat; however, they've switched to using the personal stories over sending actual messages. I really don't like this, mainly because you can see who has viewed your story. And there's a sense of anxiety where you don't want to look at other people's stories if they don't look at yours. So I just avoid it altogether.

Similarly, when I first got Facebook, I never sent any friend requests. So I have about half as many friends as most of my friends have, and over time I realized "number of friends" serves as a surrogate for real-life popularity. There's exceptions; some people deliberately limit their number of friends. But for the most part, those people with 1,100 friends are the social, outgoing, and extroverted whereas those with less than 400 are the weird, introverted quiet people (myself included). So as soon as Facebook released the option to hide your friend count from your profile, I applied it immediately.

I never liked the trend of "trying to be popular" when I was in high school and undergrad, and I like it even less with social media. I wish the newer social networks would design away from concepts like number of followers, and number of likes. It's somewhat disheartening when you post something like "my work was feature on such-and-such national lab's homepage" and it gets 20x less likes than your friend who posts "Shopping at the mall with my friends!!!!"
Yeah, I had read that and came out unsatisfied. Back then I was hoping that Sandstorm was fundamentally different in a better way, but it turns out to be that it's "just" a different solution using the same kernel-provided facilities as Docker uses, in order to provide a more user-friendly container solution.

On second reading, that post does actually answer my original questions, I guess I was hoping for something different back then.
It’s Not About Creating Another Silicon Valley but Preventing Another Motor City
There's also http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
VC/Investor Match Algorithm by Prior Investments? (match.com for Investment)
Seems with all the discussion these days on how to get in front of a VC, how to find the right investors, and the due diligence startup founders are encouraged to do, why isn't there a relational database that finds top investor/firm matches for a given situation?

Or is there? Am I just not finding it?

I'd like to see something where a founder can put in a few quick facts like:
Funding Stage
Ask Amount
Revenue (or not)
Industry
Location
top 5-10 funded companies that could be drawn as a comparison.

With that info, a fairly simplistic matching engine could scour industry and comparable company data to find prior investors, cut out those that don't invest at a given size or stage, and return contact info as well as bios for the partners or individuals who were responsible for a given highly similar investment, ranked by either similarity or number of highly similar investments by said individual.
(It's a little like dating, is it not?)

v.2 could auto-search for linkedin, facebook, twitter, or other social connections, mention school or prior employer affiliations, or if there is another known best method for getting in touch with someone.
presumably it was a linux binary...
heh. It seems a CSV containing an email address would be pretty simple. Maybe just a V file.
I used simulated annealing for my Master's thesis. I was trying to fit a differential equation to some experimental results. With small changes in the parameters, you could get huge changes in the solution of the DE. For some of the experiments, the parameters it chose fit almost perfectly. As a result, simulated annealing is one of the techniques I look at for highly non-linear optimization.
I certainly expected controversy, but I did not look forward to it.

My argument is thus: what really makes me a person is some quality which both men and women posses, some quality which nothing else possesses--and that having that quality calls off all other bets.
This is a legit. The concept comes down to if you know the diff of your models/collections, do you really need to do all the work that React does with diff-ing the virtual DOM to know what to render? If you know the diffs of the models/collections, and the logic of handling the diffs is bound via one-way binding through the mix-in then I do believe this is efficient and viable. I also would like others to discuss about this.
Well, I can't comprehend how normal people think about ANYTHING!
I bought a legit sarsaparilla mix with some friends years ago and made it using dry ice. Worked out fairly well. But in general sarsaparilla root beer is a lot better than regular root beer.

The flavor profile is just.. different. Maybe has a kind of spiciness that root beer lacks. Definitely worth trying.
> "One out of every 200 people on the planet makes more than a million dollars a year. That’s one half of one percent of the world population. In the United States, it’s one out of every 50. It’s actually people talking about the one percent, but it’s actually the two percent."

Good to know. The article would have benefited from a discussion of country club entrance and eviction policy.
> Employers that do this are ridiculous.

In my experience, they're usually startups or smaller companies that are trying to "copy google" in their hiring practices, but don't fully think out how they're doing it. It's not a good sign.
>>> A particular thing that I've found really odd is that I have trouble getting a text response from my siblings, even though I know they have their phones on them and are constantly snapchatting, or whatever. I text a lot, but maybe get one response for every 5-10 texts I send.

text messaging for kids is what email is for the older generations now. I remember when I first starting email and I thought it was really cool. It was instant communication and I felt like I was living in a brave new world. Nowadays, I almost despise email. Too many messages, or ads, or stuff I get subscribed to, then have to remove or unsubscribe to when they don't mean anything to me.

This is how it is with kids and text messaging now. Unless you're one of their 10 most important friends they text and arrange their social calendars with, you're the equivalent of spam to them. I should know, I have the same experience with my nephews.

Anything about how something went like a sports event, or something that I thought was important in their life? No answer. Even stuff like, "I have two extras tickets to the Maple Leafs game, you want to go with a friend?" will go without an answer sometimes for days. The response? "Oh, sometimes I get so many texts, I forgot sometimes to reply back to people." When I spoke to my sister she said they were starting to have the same problem. Until they took my nephew's iphone away for a week and told him if they text him, it's a priority and he had better respond or lose more of his gadgets or his iphone on a permanent basis. So now they have a way of cutting through the noise to signal ratio and get a hold of him. I just don't have that much pull with them. Now, I usually just call my sister or call him directly. It's the only way I can get a response within a decent amount of time.
When I say 'software testing' what's the first thing that springs to mind?
(Serious question from a 'tester'!)
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This will fail so hard that it's not even funny.
I was yesterday at a large local electronics store. I can assure you that almost nobody paid there with cash. Most use the EC card... Got to a supermarket. Lots of people use the EC card. Buy some clothes - use the EC card...

Very few people use a credit card. Often the shop does not accept them, because they are too expensive. But they will happily accept the EC card...

Germans are 'Pfennigfuchser' and they can easily see that the credit card makes things more expensive.

A bit background:

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/bargeldloses-bezahlen-...
Mountain Dew like most soda is bad for you. If nothing else it's bad for your teeth and the acid harms your throat.

Now, it's not all that harmful and if your starving the calories are useful but starvation is not a healthy diet.
I also think Marionette is awesome and enforces modularity. The author mentions, "View A handling events from View B and vice-versa" which makes me think that he's may not be following the adage of "signal up/invoke down"; He may be just wiring up listeners in an adhoc manner and not establishing clear ancestor/child relationships with his views.
Nintendo is determined to beat 'Space Jam' for oldest looking website
Ars Technica: wifi browsing test, 200 nits, 526 minutes.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/review-in-its-second-...
Live-Coding Music with Clojure, Haskell, and Ruby
Almost nothing is being done. In the US the model of how our criminal justice system handles the guilty is one of revenge, retribution, and punishment, not of rehabilitation. This works about as well as you'd imagine given that most inmates only spend a few years in prison.
As the author of a crash reporting framework, this is the first time I've seen execution speed of a frame unwinder so strongly touted :-)

Without code, I can't make much of a comment otherwise, although I'm certainly interested to see your patches to libunwind once it's upstreamed.

One of the reasons we didn't use libunwind in PLCrashReporter (and instead, wrote our own DWARF unwinding code) was the relative difficulty we saw in porting libunwind to Mach-O and the Mach thread/VM APIs, as compared to the cost in porting our relatively platform-neutral code to other platforms.

The analysis side is super interesting too, and it'll be great to see more of what emerges from your work. I can't think of much that's been published on that front other than Microsoft's overview of their Windows Error Reporting heuristics:

http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/glerum-sosp09.pdf

Congratulations on your release!
Ubiquity should not be an excuse for the promotion of what is, by all objective measures, a rather poor programming language.

This is especially true when it's an environment where there are numerous other languages available, and they're all so much better than JavaScript. Lua, Python, Perl, Ruby and even Tcl would all be better choices.

It's mildly excusable when it comes to web browsers, because JavaScript really is the only viable option. But that just isn't the case with a full-featured environment like OS X.
For my Master's thesis, I couldn't get satisfactory results with a genetic algorithm, even after spending quite some time tweaking the parameters from the default. But, with the default parameters of the simulated annealing code, I got some excellent results. For a few cases, I managed to get my model to fit almost perfectly with the experiment. For those cases, the only spots it didn't fit were parts where the experimental apparatus wasn't characterized well.

So, it's highly problem dependent.
As someone who works in this area but is not aware of academic developments or terminology, this looks like a great paper. Thanks for sharing. My direction: http://stani.sh/walter/pfcts/