skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"As an aside, that Chomsky poem is the most beautiful thing I've read all week."

To clarify (unsure whether or not you understand this):

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" was picked by Chomsky as a nonsense phrase that he asserted had no meaning despite being syntactically correct. That was an aside from his actual use of the phrase, which was to demonstrate that there is in fact something that we see as "grammatical" in even novel sentences that play by the rules - the point of the sentence was that it had not been uttered before. This was in the space of an argument at the time of whether we deem things grammatical because they are sensical, or deem things grammatical because we have encountered them before. I don't know offhand whether this was used directly as evidence or as pedagogy (certainly, I first encountered it in pedagogical context) but it makes it pretty clear that it cannot be the latter and it probably isn't the former, and we're really recognizing some deeper structure. A lot of this is more obvious to we who've been playing with compilers for ages - though I am only moderately confident that this "obvious" result is actually correct.

Coming back... the first half of the quoted sentence is someone else's work, trying to place Chomsky's "nonsense" sentence in a situation where it has a meaning. I'm not convinced it was successful - I think it plays with mood rather than meaning.

Regardless, that's the context...
hahaha. Will let you know when the foam promo logo comes out. Why do you think it's not helpful for you? If you ever travel outside the US, you will love paying 1c/min to call people using your own caller ID from anywhere in the world and seeing who called you from anywhere in the world without paying outrageous roaming bills. Also works great on ipod touch, ipads, and in places where you have poor cell signal and wifi.
Because it might add 20 years to your life?
What web designers can learn from Google’s Material Design
I'm quite surprised that there has been so little discussion of quarantine policy on HN, when there are so many discussions of security policy in regards to terrorism and air travel. Security expert Bruce Schneier has literally only had two words to say about the subject: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/the_ineffecti...
Office windows = free startup ads
To be explicitly pedantic -- graphite-web plots the graph, whereas graphite manages time series data processing and storage.
Do all or most of the existing cancer detection tests involve radioactive measurements?

A follow-up test that involves inserting an instrument into a patient's body to gather a biopsy sample is also invasive. For a disease that has a high risk of early death AND CAN BE TREATED AFTER EARLY DETECTION, a rather invasive test can be justified. If the test result doesn't matter (it doesn't detect an important problem, or the problem it detects is an unsolvable problem), there is less justification for the test.

Good write-ups about the risks and benefits of medical screening[1] can be found at the Science-Based Medicine website, one of my favorite sites for discussion of medical research findings.

[1] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/colonoscopy-and-other-co...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-scre...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/once-more-into-the-scree...
Making Flash obsolete is pretty important
It may make sense for other things in the OOMed memcg to wait for the OOM killer. Otherwise the OOM condition is likely to crash everything (since nothing handles malloc failures correctly) instead of just crashing the OOMed process.

ISTM the bug is that things outside the memcg are waiting instead of getting ENOMEM.
doesn't provide much insight. it says to build a website and submit your apps to the blogs, which is pretty insulting actually. not surprised coming from dice, the recruiters' den.
I know the feeling of wanting to be in touch with my technology roots. That desire is what got me into Ham Radio. I highly recommend it, because it's got a healthy mix of practical usefulness combined with old school technology.
I really enjoyed this!

I'm really interested in knowing more about the tech stack you are using. I work for Analytical Flavor Systems[0], where we do heavy data science in R and then display everything in R Shiny. Currently I'm looking at different methods of moving off the R Shiny platform as our application has gotten really complex.

The main problem is we are constantly running our algorithms when new data comes in per producer and we have to display it.

[0] https://www.gastrograph.com
>Median uberX Small Business Income Per Year: $90,766 (NYC); $74,191 (SF) http://blog.uber.com/uberimpact

Is it pretty much accepted that Uber is outright lying here? Does anyone believe there is a driver out there banking $100,000 driving a taxi?

I know the company is shady but hoping they can generate enough new blood to compensate for burnout of drivers chasing the dream seems abusive.
Interestingly enough, T-Mobile US customers are our biggest downloads. It's free to call and text anyone that has the YR app. We give you $.25 credit which is enough for 25 mins of calls to the US from anywhere in the world or 25 text messages to people that don't have the app. Incoming calls are currently for a daily/weekly/monthly subscription but will be switched to $.03/min from anywhere in the world.
The Many, Many Secret Lives of Teachers Ed
Last time I checked very few of them relied critically on Mesos (Twitter, some parts of Netflix, and Airbnb did IIRC). Most are just test deployments or non-critical applications. (e.g. I know Ebay and Paypal are also OpenStack users because they try all the new things).

Other than those, none of those are really huge companies. I have nothing against Mesos, but I hate overhyping something when it's still clearly in an early adopter phase. The side effect of overhyping is that the tooling isn't mature/simple enough for less ambitious people so they get a bad association with the project because they tried it too early after someone implied that it was mainstream already.
Say I'm using this to generate a background image for each post on HN. Also, I want them to be consistent, so everywhere you see a mVChr post it's got a green ringed background.

I could generate a random string for each user, but then I'd have to store it somewhere. It's better to just use the username as the seed.

It's the same fundamental principle behind identicons.
All sarcasm and cynicism aside... that IS 20 years extra life for them to be showing a warm body advertisements
Looks like this publicity stunt worked.
These aren't amateurs.
Exploratory Data Analysis at UN (Google+ Hangout on Air) Nov 10 2014
On 10 November, the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) is pleased to present an event on Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) in honour of Dr. John Wilder Tukey who pioneered this technique. This area of statistical research is used in almost all statistical reports. EDA has been extended to theory and applications in Computer Science (AI and Machine Learning), Data Journalism, and Data Science.

This is an online event that will be webcast through the Google Hangout at: https://plus.google.com/events/cj68mces4jggki4c7b4clvj7tak
Digital divide exacerbates US inequality
Ah, we see what we want to see.

You see Google as a company that is just serving ads.

I see Google as a company collecting and organizing information.

Should companies not do things beyond what they are doing right now even if it means improving people's lives?
One of the coauthors here. 1/4 was actually a conservative number compared to what was found by the NYTimes paywall study. Unfortunately, we do not have more comprehensive studies to cite for a more generalizable number.
Note however that the price one needs to pay according to our analysis is much lower than NYTimes (~ 2 dollars per month) and an average user would need only 2-3 such subscriptions.
Does the Browser Have a Future?
So... how long before they discontinue this, too?
Nobody is going to allow their work to be commoditized in the way you describe. The issues are 100% about human psychology. There just aren't any equitable and widely-adoptable standards so far for evaluating work and the scientists that do it.

Remember anyone can create a Facebook clone but it will never be Facebook. There is a very abstract currency in the human mind that no robot will ever solve.
Complaints About In-Car Electronic Systems on Rise, Consumer Reports Says
Read the article? Its about how people take it wrong when the issue is hard and they don't understand. Its about confusion about exactly what you said there.

One takeaway is, when someone expects you to read up on a subject before making conjectures, that's not condescending, that treating you as a competent peer, an adult who can take charge of their own education.
Is Mesos yet another cloud OS?
Some interesting points but I personally don't agree with most of them.

Time machine, I personally hated the previous interface. Always felt it was clunky and slow.

Icons are pretty poor but they are so small on my screen it's something I can live with.

The font! Oh where to begin, after using this font for hours on end now I thought I would have got use to it, but something just isn't quite right with it!

* beginning of wine-fueled rant *

Overall I personally am still in a mixed opinion on Yosemite, it took almost 2 days to get my work machines (iMac 2011 and rMBP 2014) back into a usable state.
Almost everything was broken, network drivers (I use 10GbE), my IDE, VM environments, file sync, backups.

But worse of all they seem to have changed the mouse acceleration settings! As a long time suffer of RSI/Carpal Tunnel Syndrome I have learnt to manage it so well that most of the time I forget I even suffer with this.
One of the best ways for me to manage it was to purchase a Razer Mamba mouse, which worked flawlessly in Mavericks. Installed Yosemite and the mouse was unusable even on the mouses slowest setting, tried another mouse, same issue. Completely unusable!
After spending hours upon hours searching for a solution and setting my RSI off to levels which I couldn't sleep for 2 days! I finally found the USBOverdrive app which lets me control the accelerations to something which matches Mavericks.
One week later I am still suffering with pretty bad pain in my wrist!

* wine-fueled rant over :)
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the cost of being late for "the next big thing" tomorrow is much greater than the cost of developing platforms for a variety of different niches today
At least you Americans have some choice. Here in Canada there are only 3 (nation-wide) carriers with virtually the same plans/prices.
I never said it wasn't, but that's not what is at discussion here.
Great initiative!

I tried to do somewhat similar as a hobby project -- connecting Zeo (now bankrypt) product (brain sensor) with a serial port to the computer and processing the real-time feed with python in order to provide feedback guiding to better focus or whatever the expected brainwave frequency was (deeper meditation was the other goal).

In the end it was working quite well so as a technology this can work great! Working well as in being able to transition my brain state easily. In terms of focusing better -- not sure, I'm quite well focused most of the time and I wasn't sure which targets to hit with my brain :)

My real goal with my hobby was more ambitious -- to use brainwave hemisphere sync technology (binaural beats) to guide brain to the expected state while monitoring the actual brain state with the sensors. Unfortunately, as with hobbies, time ran out and currently not working on it.

BUT -- it could be a fun thing to think about --- using brainwave entertainment/binaural beats in sync with your sensors for maximum effect! Thoughts?
Alexis Ohanian, Y Combinator Partner, on Crowdfunding: It Makes Our Job Harder
I got to see an IMP get installed at McClellan AFB in 1986. I had no idea what it was at the time, but these days .. wow, pretty cool bit of history.
It Seems No One Is Rich or Happy: I Looked
That's a fair amount of money to be giving away for free to lawyers or AT&T.
In 2012 when I was rejected we got it at about 5:10 PM EST
I'm probably too late with this comment ... but if the diameter of the tube is significantly larger than the diameter of the ball, and the initial velocity of the ball is large enough, then the trajectory of the ball as it leaves the "curved tube" won't necessarily correlate well with the straightforward textbook answer you'd expect to see. Perhaps the original context for the question made this a bit more clear, but as presented in the article, the "real world" might intervene.
Mao is Chinese for cat.
Why would you need a website OR an app to eat at Taco Bell? It's a restaurant.
Analects of Confucius, Book II, Chapter XVII.

https://archive.org/stream/analectsofconfuc00confrich#page/1...
Your app won't benefit from incremental GC during an event loop turn, because nothing your script did before the incremental GC slice will be made visible to users until the entire event loop turn is finished.
That's what the Human Interface Guidelines is for: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserEx...

Or is there something you mean that the HIG doesn't include?
It certainly could be either side of the interconnect that's causing the problem. The important insight is that no ISP is uniformly bad at either end, which means that the problem is not at either end, but in the middle. So this study has found congestion in the core (at the interconnects), precisely where it is not supposed to be, and has found that congestion to be so bad that it drives performance to sub-broadband levels.

Cogent and L3 are ISPs as well, so I think saying "ISPs are failing to provide broadband speeds" is fair. However, to add context, L3 had a blog post a while back explaining that they are standing ready to add more capacity for cheap and that the congestion is, in at least one instance (in LA), Verizon's fault. http://blog.level3.com/open-internet/verizons-accidental-mea...
> the Oligarchy of popular browser implementers

In the past, only Mozilla cared about what the W3C said, and they built Firefox on the idea that interoperability by following the standards is the way to go. Not that long after Apple initiated Safari, and led Google to their own browser initiative.

All this because Mozilla, the insignificant actor of the all IE time, decided to follow W3C.

You're not totally wrong telling that W3C doesn't mater that much, but browsers are what they are today because of W3C for a good part, and it still have a very important place in the browser game.
Product-market-fit
I find this interesting. Personally, I'm someone with absolutely no technical background. Haskell programmers seem to come from many backgrounds - math, CS, but also backgrounds that don't involve programming, various sciences for instance.

I've personally always found the communities of many less-common, more functional languages (Haskell, R, Clojure, etc...) to be very welcoming to newcomers with little programming experience or non-programming background, although perhaps I could see how it would be less welcoming to someone coming from a C++, Java or C# background.

To really embrace functional programming (and their communities), in many ways you need to discard what you know about imperative programming. Different mindsets. And I've never found functional programmers to be smug or condescending, though they do use terms that don't make sense in other programming languages/paradigms...
I should have specified, "Second World" has nothing to do with economic power and Mexico is definitely not a "Second World" country.
And they said they "may see reduced data speeds" which really means "will see drastically reduced data speeds."
If they came up with a highly effective method to quickly and inexpensively screen me for cancer or an impending heart attack...

I would do it because their interests are aligned with mine: they want me to live a lot longer so I can do a lot more searches and view more youtube videos etc, and so do I. Our reasons for wanting me to live longer are different, but they get their benefit and I get mine, fair trade.
Calculus with pics and gifs
> There is nothing wrong with saying "I'm sorry, if I did this for you I would be fired."

Nothing wrong for you maybe, the CSR could easily get fired for saying that.
Well the set of Mozillians today is not the same as the set of Mozillians in 2009, which is not the same as the set of Mozillians in 2004. It's such a facile thing point out, but it has a huge impact on a project.

Then, it's another very facile thing, but a person involved with Mozilla today who was involved X years ago differs from themselves by X years of experiences. X years' difference also produce X years' worth of changes in the externalities on a project. For example, what impact did the timbre of HN alone have on Mozilla in 2011? What impact was it having in 2008?

So pick how far back you want to go, and then enumerate events that have happened since then. The establishment of Mozilla Corporation. Key developers exiting the project to go work on what would become Chrome. Working with Google on VP8 before the public announcement at Google I/O 2010. The reality of a company that had a couple hundred employees or so for years and then quickly grew to one that now has 1000+, and dealing with that. The shift in focus from the Internet to a focus on the Web, and coping with a lack of influence on the direction of both. The shift in focus on users to a focus on designers and Web developers. The not-terrible idea but also not-amazing idea to try out directory tiles, then dooming it and destroying all kinds of public goodwill in a single stroke by doing this: < https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish... >. Coping with a number of other failed projects and initiatives over the years like: Theora+VP8 for free video, BrowserID, Do Not Track and changes to third-party cookie policy, and Firefox OS.

Those are some changes Mozilla has been through.

(Note that this is a list of changes Mozilla has gone through, not a "list of bad things about Mozilla". If I were trying to make that kind of list, there are things on there that I wouldn't have put there, and things that aren't on there that should be. But it's not that kind of a list.)
That was the exact same thing I thought after reading the title.
I think this is harsh full stop. This guy had an amazing experience, it was his experience alone and therefore it is his story to tell.

He can say whatever he likes, in whatever way he wants and so can you. Isn't the Internet awesome?
Why Is Kim Kardashian at a Tech Conference?
as long as someone else besides ATT enjoys that money and the situation gets resolved (but they need to also go after the other "unlimited" plans at other companies)
You could argue that, but Cogent is willing to provide the interconnect to its customer, Netflix. But what we're seeing is that the ISP that is selling internet to its customer isn't willing to provide sufficient bandwidth to meet their expected-but-not-contractually-obliged obligations.

They can do this because they have a monopoly on their customers. Not just a "Microsoft monopoly" where there are plenty of alternatives but network effects that keep people using Windows, but honest-to-god monopolies not just granted but ENFORCED by the government.

What we have here is a failure of the government to break the monopolies, revoke the monopolies, or police the monopolies. A little legislation that said "you can't oversell your bandwidth by more than X amount" would go a long way towards giving consumers an effective stick to beat their ISP with for over-promising* and under-delivering.

Note: The * is there to denote that they've written the contracts such that basically no matter what happens they're not in violation of them. We're only entering those contracts willingly in the sense that it's an abusive contracts from one of two or three vendors, or no contract at all. It's kind of like asking someone if they'd rather be beaten or stabbed. Given the choice; neither. If I have to pick one, how big is the knife?
Being around for a long time in this space simply means no one with means has seen fit to sue/extort them out of business yet.
And what is the worst thing that could happen?
> I mean, you gotta admit that between the long, scary warning and flipping the buttons around compared to other privacy related settings, it certainly seems like a dark pattern.

Hanlon's Razor is a good rule to apply here.
Some people don't realize that the real cheap rates are because you are giving up a subsidy, and that your next new phone will raise the rates again. OTOH I personally think that's a benefit since I can choose to get the subsidy or Next or just buy the phone outright.
I don't care about this the slightest. I would gladly see something that replace the http/html/css/js combination with something more dynamic that involves less text parsing...

compiled html with something that resembles protocol buffer would make webapps much smoother.

I guess I'm a low level nerd.
Digital Ocean has never, since their release, provided anything impressively technical with regard to their infrastructure. It's not surprising that this is half-assed as well.
The REAL problem is that confident incompetence in males is attractive to females.
I don't think that's how that works. A process inside a cgroup has consumed all of the cgroup's RAM. Outside that cgroup you run `ps aux`, which will list all processes, including those inside the container, and this will hang forever. Unless, I am misunderstanding it, and each cgroup gets its own /proc filesystem.
Websiyte – Build a website with no code knowledge
I have the same experience.

Until university positions and research grants stop being given out based on prior research results we won't be able to trust the research performed there.

There are millions of dollars on the line for researchers involved. It is the difference between a well paid career or a life of destitution while being a slave to huge student debt. It's no wonder they are blind to the flaws in their research.

I believe strongly that teaching positions and research grants should be given out based on criterions that are only incidental to research results.

Evaluate profs and grants based on:

1. domain knowledge (test the applicants)
2. math skills (test the applicants)
3. motivation and leadership
4. prior and current research proposals (but ignore results, especially the fact that they were published or not).
5. other skills such as written and oral communication

Universities should not rely on journals to evaluate their professors. This corrupts the whole system. Journals have different goals. They want to publish well done research with interesting results. Universities should hire researchers that do well done research with interesting _questions_ regardless of the results.

If universities keep giving out jobs based on having generated interesting results in the past, they are going to keep getting researchers that ignore biases and publish whatever results are interesting whether they are true or not.
> Downvote away. AT&T is behaving rationally.

They are not. Their executives probably are because they're paid based on quarterly profits and won't still be around when it all catches on fire, but their actions are not in the long term interests of the shareholders.

Acting like a bag of idiots and making everyone hate you is bad for business. Your customers may not have any alternative today but tomorrow they're going to be lobbying for Google Fiber, municipal networks, community networks, more government regulation, antitrust enforcement, etc.
A Tale of Two Recruiters
>If the answer is 'use' iptables, fine, but then I would expect the automation that builds my cluster to do it for me, not leave me with a $200 a month cluster just waiting to get hacked.

Did you confirm that the tooling is indeed missing?