skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even Apple can't innovate anymore, they coast on prestige alone.
Well, hopefully? As well as telling that abortions are up to the woman, contraception is ok and gay people are actually just people.
Bah, get yourself some roommates and enjoy the ride of a lifetime.
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Doesn't hurt to try it out! That's what I'm doing (been here for 3 months now). If you ever get nervous or have any last-minute questions feel free to ping me!
Tip: you don't have to go to Tartine every morning.
Apple is listening (Yosemite)
> why do people get to engage in fun with ridiculously overpowered vehicles when I'm in a more practical commuting vehicle right next to them driving to work?

Why do people get to tell me what I can and can't drive? Lots of people manage to drive safely on public roads with cars far far more powerful than they technically need.

> We don't go hunting with fully automatic weapons

Then you're clearly not having as much fun as you could be ;)
Good point, and it makes me even more convinced that all rules of thumb have important exceptions. In fact, I've also used tools that use ANSI colorization, and disable that when not talking to a tty, and wished that they wouldn't because I was piping them to "less -R" :) (At least that's a graceful failure mode, and it's pretty clear what probably happened even if one doesn't exactly understand the details.)
The elephant in the room in these discussions is that the cost of bringing a function compiler to fruition is so high that too much of the discussion gets muddled in the semantics of these hypothetical Haskell-successor languages while no one is actually working on said language. Academia simply isn't set up to incentivize large engineering projects, and industry would never invest in building such a thing either since there's no profit in language dev sadly.

The blunt truth is that at the end of the day Haskell works today, period, and until someone actually forks or starts writing a new language very little of these criticisms of Haskell actually matter if the answer to "what should I use for my project at work" is "well it doesn't exist yet, but it has modules and extensionality and a magical pony that shits money".
Yes I wonder what the criteria were - what defines "winning" in each game..
Not sure if this meets your needs, but I find Air Display to be excellent for this purpose. Zero quality degradation, and the latency is less than I expected. Quite usable for most purposes. I grant you're not going to be doing video editing this way...but you could certainly use the iPad for the palettes for the app you're using to do the video editing.
You know, as much as I've heard some variation on that phrase, I've yet to see the benefits in practice--at least not from the last couple of revisions of the language.
"the learning curve was extremely steep"

I beg to disagree. I learned me an emacs around the same time period (mid 90's). I don't remember the learning curve to be that steep. I started by doing the tutorial. If you download a GUI emacs (e.g. from http://emacsformacosx.com/ ), and open the program, you'll see a mouse clickable invitation to take a tutorial. Do this. Don't take shortcuts. Just spend the one or two hours and go through the entire tutorial complete with practice exercises.

Or if that's intimidating, start by reading this gist:

https://gist.github.com/ChetanAhuja/42ee8321c906466b601c
Thanks for the kind words. I might take you up on that.
you can live basically anywhere in the east bay for pretty cheap and hop bart into the city btw. source: first 22 years of my life.
Ask HN: Karma not adding up
Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right forum for it, but since about last week, I've noticed that my karma points do not seem to be updating correctly, based on a couple of posts and upvotes (no downvotes that I'm aware of). So far, I can't find any pattern in how it does or does not go up.

Is there anything in the karma system that I'm missing?
When they won't affirmatively state what's in the database, it's nowadays very safe to assume that the answer is 'everything they could get their hands on'.
I prefer Writing C in Tcl:

https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/tcc4tcl/wiki/Ex...
Let It Go: A Frozen Inspired One-shot RPG
Sorry about your friend. Good on you for helping him out here.

Unfortunately I don't know of anything in the way of custom joysticks/setups that might be helpful, but maybe I can offer some reassurance for your friend. Even with the standard input devices (mouse/keyboard, controller) people[1][2] have been able to adapt to very extraordinary circumstances. Anything's possible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bONUFkP3i8s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83nSodg-HTU
I love California. This is the 300th reason why I will never leave the state. It is so good about protecting workers ( when compared to the rest of the US. )
This is an unsurprising extension into the electronic realm of India's notoriously weak support of free expression. They were the first country to ban the Satanic Verses; its import, I believe, is still illegal there. Citizens are routinely persecuted under laws that literally prohibit hurting people's religious feelings (recently invoked against a researcher who exposed another fake Catholic miracle[0]).
India is the most prominent example of a country with plenty of voting but no democracy.

[0] http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2012/07/sanal-edamarukus-situ...
I clicked through to a linked article on drug combinations being used to combat chloroquine-resistant malaria [1]. Nothing seemed amiss until I reached the bottom and saw a missing image for a "Map showing the distribution of drug-resistant malaria in 1987".

I checked the byline, and low-and-behold, that article was published in 1987!

Amazing, though not surprising, that the digitised legacy of the paper is being put to good use by the writers and editors of today.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/08/science/drug-combinations-...
One application is where the "pixel" is a complete IR spectrometer that can perform a chemical analysis.
Thanks. I see what you're saying and I think you're right. The point you were originally making about causation vs correlation is more clear to me now. I guess I'm guilty of letting myself get too excited over what worked for me.
With foot pedals and a mouse and he could probably play FPS games at a high level. It's mostly about the mouse hand.

There are also mice with a lot of buttons, like the Razer Naga: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004AM5RAM

Voice commands in games is becoming real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmsuTiuRaog
xmlstarlet is also handy for command-line XML parsing:

http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
Wherever it came from it is an insensitive and antiquated quote.

There is nothing noble or character building about someone who has become a quadraplegic, lost all bowel and sexual function control and now relies almost entirely on strangers for day to day living. It recently happened to my sister-in-law and it's a truly devastating situation. If we can remove suffering in the world then we should.
Again, this is only in SV. In canada, its pretty difficult to get a $100k+ job.
Article is from 2012, can someone please edit the title to mention that?
THz is the big one right now.
If there are no live objects in the nursery, a Cheney-style collector copies nothing and is done. The modification to mark-and-sweep to make it O(live objects) similarly is a bit more sophisticated but routine among high performance GCs.
I have a startup in a solar accelerator program in downtown Oakland. Our building right around the corner from a BART stop. When I have a meeting in SF, it's only 15 minutes to get to Embarcadero. It takes my co-founder longer to get from North Beach to that stop.

Also, Oakland is pretty flat, so riding your bike around is super fast and easy. You don't need a car at all to have an active social life. I constantly go to meetups all over the bay area, and the only time I drive is when something is in the peninsula. Heck, San Jose is easily accessible via BART + express bus.

If only they would make BART 24/7 like NYC...
"I have never once had a recruiter lead actually result in a job offer."

I once had a recruiter (he had my resume) contact me for a Novell admin position. And there was nothing related to Novell on my resume. Then I knew not to waste time with 'recruiters'.
No, they are actually pretty good at this. Probably the best within the mobile phone space.
Nursery gc is proportional to the size of the live object set (here alleged to be 0) plus a constant overhead. It's not a simple thing to benchmark.
A lot of people are building things [with big data] hoping that they work, and sometimes they will ... Eventually, we have to give real guarantees. Civil engineers eventually learned to build bridges that were guaranteed to stand up. So with big data, it will take decades, I suspect, to get a real engineering approach, so that you can say with some assurance that you are giving out reasonable answers and are quantifying the likelihood of errors.

It's seems like the idea is that machine learning and data driven inference have to grow up and become a real scientific discipline. "Why can't you be more like Civil Engineering?" This isn't the best way to look at it. Machine learning is designed for situations where data is limited and there are no guarantees. Take Amazon's recommendation engine for example. It's not possible to peer into someone's mind and come up with a mathematical proof that states whether they will like or dislike John Grisham novels. A data driven model can use inference to make predictions based on the person's rating history, demographic profile, etc. It's true that many machine learning approaches don't have the scientific heft of civil engineering, but they are still very useful in many situations.

I'm not disagreeing with the eminence of Michael I. Jordan. I think this is a philosophical question with no correct answer. Is the world deterministic, can we model everything with rigorous physics style equations? Or is it probabilistic, are we always making inferences based on a limited amount of data? Both of those views are valid, especially in different contexts. Some of the most interesting problems are inherently probabilistic, such as predicting the weather, economic trends and the behavior of our own bodies. "Big Data" is obviously a stupid buzzword, but the concept of data driven decision making is very sound. We should put less focus on media hype terms and continue to encourage people to make use of large amounts of information. Get rid of the bathwater, keep the baby.
You don't speak for people of ALL faiths.

Embryonic stem cell research is a controversial topic regardless of faith.
I'm assuming it's some kind of tech job. Keep in mind there are thousands of people living in the city who make minimum wage. You're going to be doing substantially better than them.

Find a share house with people with similar interests, get a studio in the Tenderloin or (potentially) move to the East Bay.

Either way you're going to have a blast. :)
http://ponderout.cloudapp.net:3000/brainFlow

Move with arrows jump with z
I've re-written a couple of systems. I think sometimes a refactor is a lot more expensive. e.g old system was written in actionscript/flash. The old devs left and lots of little bugs. Best to just rewrite in HTML/JS that works on mobile and you have full control.

Another example. This dude had a giant wordpress site with a bazillion plugins. It worked but when something went wrong he couldn't figure jack shit and couldn't add more. Re-wrote it with a CMS, he got a 100x boost on how fast he could get things done.

Sometimes the old just needs to be replaced with the new.
But the difference is only one person can use it.
Idiotic indeed. Upvoting an article from 2012. In terms of content too it doesn't mention specific content that was targeted for removal. If any content is offensive to an individual e.g. nude pictures of celebrities they should have the right to ask them to be removed. No different for India - or any other country in the world.
India has too much free speech if anything! Anybody can go to the steps of parliament or the presidential palace and blow their horn off on whatever issue they want.
I'm assuming that a treatment like this will likely be much more successful with a more recent injury?

From what I understand once a nerve is injured processes continue that result in less and less activity. When you're treating an injury as old as his, you not only have to "make the connections", but also reverse any nerve atrophy (for lack of a better word).
How much does the iPhone 6 really cost you?
What a bizarre article. It's about the real estate crunch, but they spend so much time at the beginning talking about the weed store and the gardening sensor startup (not to mention the clever use of "high times" in the headline) that I was thoroughly confused about the point they were trying to make for a while. The relevant part of the example is basically, "SF tech startup finds relatively cheap office space in a long-vacant storefront in Oakland."
That HN is unwelcoming and intolerant towards people of faith?

All the faith in the world won't move us an inch closer to the stars. If the blind are going to see, the lame are going to walk, and the mute are going to speak, we'll have to make it happen ourselves.
>>It'd be really interesting to find out the correlation between the users who down-voted and the color of their skin. I am pretty sure about the outcome.

I downvoted you and I'm first-gen Nigerian in America. Just about everyone else is in Lagos. I feel very confident, at least as far as educated Nigeria is concerned, that most suspect Africans-used-as-experiments more than withholding-for-white-man.

Not giving Dr.Khan the medicine was the right thing to do.

Having a few people like you talking about withholding-conspiracies that don't really make sense... is better than giving him the untested drug, ends up not working(maybe producing horrible side-effects) and the general public freaks out even more and trusts all the doctors even less than they already do.
No Hands Ken is another in the former camp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrMivdZ-mbI

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/ken-worrall-twitch-diablo-warcr...

Sorry to hear about your friend, chrissyb. Some great suggestions in this thread; only thing I would add is that so many PC games are getting optimised for controller these days, so the number of keys is small enough that a Naga may well be all you need to play them.
> India is the most prominent example of a country with plenty of voting but no democracy.

Second you on that one! I lived in various parts of rural India for a little over 12 years, and the deeper I went, the more I saw people there actively voting in droves. And the harder their life and generally poor state of affairs!
So phones are a big and a small part of Samsung simultaneously? Right.
Very interesting. Not sure if I could live with the input lag myself, however.

I've been a full time developer since 1998 or thereabouts, but have been coding since I was a child. Early on when I started working full time I found myself quickly getting RSI fatigue and tingling symptoms. I switched to a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard and various trackballs; this greatly ameliorated the growing pain.

In the past few years, however, I've made the switch to gaming grade laser mice (e.g. the Logitech G9X) and have almost no issues. The high sensitivity and precision these allow for at high DPI settings are great vs RSI. Furthermore, since a shoulder fracture earlier this year (now healed) when I was forced to use only mainly left arm for some time, I've kept up the use of left hand mouse. At clients I'll have it on left hand side, at home office on the right hand side. I believe ambidextrous use of the mouse has a lot of benefits, spreading the effort level being the biggest of them.

For keyboards, I touch type and made the switch to mechanical keyboards (Logitech G710+ with O ring dampened MX Browns) around 1.5 years ago - I'm not getting any additional pain as a result. I am however kind of interested in getting a more ergonomic mechanical keyboard for use at client spaces, to preemptively combat the RSI risk. Was held off by the cost, however I guess this means I'll be reading reviews of the TEK vs the Kinesis Advantage again shortly. ;)

As a related issue, I believe back pain is just as critical as RSI. The only way for myself to combat this is through consistently exercising. I ride 100-150km per week, mainly commuting but also MTB XC single trails whenever time permits, and try to get my deep squats, deadlifts, shoulder presses and bench presses done 1-2 times per week at gym. Only riding isn't enough; I find the gym work essential for fighting back pain, no matter what kind of chair I use - which happens to be a Herman Miller Aeron at home, and some random chair at work.

Long post, sorry. My final comment / tip will be to set up JustGetFlux for those late night coding sessions. I'll leave it at that. :)
Long options are very nice to use in scripts as they are somewhat self-documenting. Compare:

curl -kLIiso example.org www.example.org

versus:

curl --insecure --location --head --include --silent --output example.org www.example.rog

And of course as a practical matter, with short opts you'll run out of characters eventually, and meaningful mnemonics before that.
recommend world of tanks with a footpad set up for wasd
As long as you didn't find a keylogger, screengrabber or mousetracker everything is fine (or the software firewall is silently deactivated).
Helm is incredible. Helm and org mode too!
Worse yet, Indian government is apparently trying hard to emulate NSA's Surveillance Programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A91idibgT0&feature=youtu.be

Here's the video's info:

"""India is currently implementing some of the scariest surveillance schemes in the world. This lecture will shed light on India's surveillance industry, its UID scheme which aims at the collection of all biometric data and on various controversial surveillance schemes, such as the Central Monitoring System (CMS).

When it comes to surveillance, the most mainstream argument is that the majority of India's population lives below the poverty line and that surveillance is an elitist issue - and not a "real" issue which affects the masses. Given that the majority of India's population has mobile phones and that the Indian government is currently implementing the Central Monitoring System (CMS) which aims at intercepting all telecommunications (and Internet communications), surveillance does not appear to be an elitist issue. Given that the UID scheme aims at collecting the biometric data of all citizens residing in India and that most BPL cash programmes require UID registration, surveillance appears to be an issue which (unfortunately) affects the 1.2 billion people currently living in India. And this is to say the least. As part of the Privacy Project, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore, India, is investigating surveillance within the country. The project is funded by Privacy International and aims to map out various forms of surveillance in India, ranging from drones, CCTV cameras and GPS tracking equipment to phone and Internet monitoring gear. This lecture aims to present the research that Maria Xynou has undertaken at the CIS so far, which includes data on the various surveillance technology companies operating in India and the type of spy gear they sell to Indian law enforcement agencies. This research also includes the presentation of India's various controversial surveillance schemes, with an emphasis on the Central Monitoring System (CMS) which unlawfully enables the interception of all telecommunications and Internet communications. India is currently implementing the world's largest biometric data collection and interception of communications schemes. The aim of this lecture is to present India's scary mass surveillance and to discuss its implications on the right to privacy and other human rights."""
Hearthstone is a great Collectable Card Game type free-to-play game. A lot of the top players were pros in faster-paced games, like DotA and Starcraft, before switching over. It's pretty fun and fairly deep. I've been playing for about a year. Twitch gaming skills peak at a pretty young age (as young as 25 or earlier) anyway, so switching to something slower is, in some ways, a natural progression anyway.

http://playhearthstone.com
Have you tried to rent in the east bay lately?
Tutanota: encrypted DANE based mails
> I can't read anything by Larry Summers without thinking about this article from Naked Capitalism

I'm no fan of Larry Summers, but that article was crap. He was there from 2001-2006, and in 2008 they lost a bunch of money.. which the article says is Summers fault.

You know what Harvard said in 2007 about their fund [0]:

Harvard University’s endowment earned a 23.0 percent return during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007. With FY07 being one of the best performance years since the inception of Harvard Management Company in 1974 ... In addition to significantly outpacing the University’s total return target, HMC significantly out-performed its internal benchmark. Furthermore, the fiscal 2007 performance compares favorably to that recorded by other large investment management institutions. Specifically, the endowment’s return of 23.0 percent out-performed the median for the 151 large institutional funds as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service (17.7 percent), as well as the 20.9 percent that marks the top 5 percentile.

The fund posts record gains, but when the economy tanks and everyone loses money, at Harvard it's Summers fault. If he was as terrible as the article says, they had two years after he left to undo the damage he caused. Instead they waited until the recession hit, then unwound it.

Actions speak louder than works (not to mention story telling after-the-fact when you need a scapegoat).

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/08/harvard-endowm...

Edit: note that the gains in 2007 ($5B) were significantly more than the loses in 2008 ($2B) that summers supposedly caused. Since 2001, the fund nearly doubled(!):
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/09.26/06-endowment.html
May be on TV and in person, but definitely not on the internet. Just a cartoon of a stupid politician could get you arrested [1].

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/11/world/asia/india-cartoonis...
> Not giving Dr.Khan the medicine was the right thing to do.

Sure. How did you know it was the right thing to do?
TFA is correct that corruption and inequality are major hazards. But the greatest and most immediate threat is the real estate bubble, in my observation. There have been plenty of articles pointing out that the prices are unsustainably high and fueled by speculation and artificially cheap loans, and that the construction quality is terrible largely due to embezzlement. It's not a matter of if it all comes crashing down, but when.
You can simulate this with so-called "Bernstein chaining". Basically, each program takes another program as an argument, and finishes by calling exec() on it rather than exit(), which preserves the environment. See:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch06s06.html

Or write environment variables to stdout in Bourne shell syntax so the caller call run "eval" on it. Like ssh-agent, for example.
It is quite a weird read. A lot of these articles feel like the realizations of people who previously were too blinkered to even notice Oakland's existence. It will be bad for Oakland when such people start flooding over here.
I wouldn't say that anything in death and beyond can truly right the wrongs that happen in life.

Also suffering has a very damaging effect on character in many people.
Bolts from the blue