skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually thought it was being sarcastic, until I got further in and realized it was not...
I'm not sure what the units are there in that graph, but when trying to scale the vertical and horizontal of the graph to have 1 unit vs 1 unit, it seems to have a larger looking slope to me. Still smaller than one though.

I may have made mistakes in resizing it though.
Does anyone else say "I've pung that IP address" ?
You don't pick compilers based on whether or not their site uses CSS5.3? Bro do you even web?
> Facebook doesn't share my personalized shopping data with advertisers. That's good.

Facebook wants to keep the data inside their keep.
It was 30ish years ago, so I don't recall details. But it seemed overhyped. The usual problem with tools that do a great job of generate code is that they do a great job of generating CERTAIN KINDS of code, but are unhelpful or even counterproductive with other parts of your development task. Certainly this was true in the 1980s, and back then the problem was exacerbated in that there weren't graceful ways to combine what was generated with what you had to write or modify by hand.
Transcendance: un thriller hors du commun sur votre mobile
OK so it's a pain in the ass. That's not really that bad on the scale of things.
Congress 'Endorses' Warrantless Collection, Storage of U.S. Communications
Third, "it's already over" over typing and app-launching wait time? Oh, the humanity.

My point isn't that it's difficult, it's that existing solutions are already better than the smartphone-based ones.
> If writing simple loops gets your hackles up, Go is not the language for you.

What gets my hackles up is claiming that "it's just the same".

The same argument works for any language that satisfies the structured programming theorem, including assembler.

"If writing simple BNE $reg gets your hackles up, Assembler is not the language for you."
It's a blog, rather than a wiki, but http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ is probably worth following for anyone interested in programming languages.
Criticism? The EFF comments were practically praising Facebook:

From the outside, says Adi Kamdar, an activist with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, it seems Facebook is “doing a good job” anonymizing personal
info as it seeks to link online and offline behavior. Facebook is adamant
that its system can’t be cracked—i.e. can’t be used to match names from
Facebook accounts with behavior off of Facebook—and Kamdar says he has no
reason to believe otherwise.
I was wondering the same thing! "No electronic devices" would most certainly allow for a Polaroid.
> The damage that is done to your credit

How will damage have been done to your credit? If they buy tons of stuff before you manage to cancel all your cards, or apply for tons of loans in your name before you manage to shut everything down?

Isn't that the same as if my credit card is stolen? These things are insured and all the charges get reversed and I move on with my life.... obviously a pain in the butt, though I don't think life altering.
I didn't say you could "blame" either one of them. I said that you are being inconsistent by only attributing total responsibility for escalating a situation that resulted in the confrontation to one party. The fact that Wilson was a professional and Brown wasn't doesn't change that fact, in fact not a single thing said I thought he shouldn't be punished. You are saying "Wilson didn't act within his responsibility." Well, what about Brown breaking the law by walking in the middle of the road? He had a responsibility to not do that, even if he is not a "professional." "Wilson should be held to a higher standard as an officer of the law." Indeed he should, but none of that excuses Brown for escalating it further. Again, there is a very simple calculus that goes into this: if you enter into a confrontation with a police officer, you are not going to win--and this is not underhanded justification for Brown's execution, but the basic fact that the law officer holds all the power. They both can provoke each other, but the costs are much higher for one party than the other. If you think a cop is being a dick to you, recognize that right or wrong, he has the power to kill you and get away with it. I understand your point. I reject it.
I'm realizing given my experience, operations management is probably the area where I would contribute most, at least early on. As an organization matures, sales strategy and execution are areas where I'd ultimately offer value. As I mentioned in another reply, I help co-launch a (failed) startup prior to moving into enterprise. The experience for me was really the school of Fort Knox in the sense that it wasn't just one role but was many (sometimes all at the same time).

I agree with your description of the problem. It's your solution I'd have trouble with - money is invested in secure but low yeild areas - the wife is extremely risk adverse. She's supportive of my aspirations as long as they don't touch the nest. Although it's something I'll need to consider. Thanks so much.
> For example, Europe believes the freedom of speech does not extend to libel or defamation. America does

Perhaps you were thinking of how truth is a shield against charges of defamation, but I feel compelled to point out that defamation is unlawful in the US.
For only several characters more the second form is much clearer to many more programmers. I think it's worth it.
These videos are awesome, thanks for sharing!
When will this be launching?
Glad to hear that! We care a lot about customer support so it sounds like we're doing something right there :)
An extension of the old "if everyone was just like me, the world would be a better place" kind of thinking.
You know, not really. You've touched on something. I wonder if part of my failing so far has been around the way I'm marketing myself. As in, 'this is who I am and my accomplishments' vs 'given my experience, this is what I can do for your startup'. Thanks for your reply
The FAA directive is real. The "issue" is based on lab tests, and I haven't heard of WiFi causing a display to go blank in flight.
What professions have virtually disappeared due to disruptive technologies?
Yes there is value in pointing out problem. I pointed out a problem with critical thinking being applied too much in too many situations at the cost of actually creating something.

Thats why I called it overrated and not useless.

You are wrong about critical thinking being a requirement for creation it's not and has never been. It can be used, sometimes with success but many times it's being mis-used to represent constructive thinking when it's really just playing devils advocate.
The remote is always exactly where you need it, in front of the TV. As for batteries.. when was the last time you changed your remote batteries? How about the last time you charged your phone? I'll take my once-every-six-months battery replacement over the chance that I'll need to plug my phone in to charge while I'm also trying to use it as a remote.

And if you think that tactile buttons are somehow "over", you're wrong. They're tremendously useful.
Google to shut down Russian engineering office after passing data storage rules
That was my first thought too. They're way better than USPS but the error rate is still substantial.

I used to run a facility that got ~200 packages a day split between the carriers. At least a couple of times a month we'd get mis-deliveries, or packages claimed to be delivered when they weren't, etc. If you figure 60 a day were FedEx that's 1200 a month or less than 1% error rate. But if I didn't have a couple of FedEx reps I could call when things went sideways it would have been a nightmare.

Even with all the technology mistakes still get made.
On the contrary - I think it's neat, and pleasant to look at - not painful at all. Please leave it.
And now you continue the irony!

As I said. It's all meta :)
A lot of the headline-making science fair projects are complete BS. It's a shame, too, because there are actually a lot of novel and interesting research projects at high-school level science fairs. The good ones win reasonably frequently, but they're realistic enough not to make click-winning headlines.
> You have a fortune-5 company here. Translation for you: They are a very large target for lawsuits. The open source software provides no indemnification.

I work for another fortune-5 company who uses linux in many products that we sell. Another well-regulated industry, too. I will concede that the hazards for operating automobiles are well-beyond many other industries' products.

I own a 2010 Ford Fusion with SYNC and I really enjoy the features. I suppose it could've been done better, but the speaker-independent voice recognition is stellar.
Zap Wars: U.S. Navy Successfully Tests Laser Weapon in the Persian Gulf
Interesting, so could one say being negative is easier, but expanding/adding to an idea is harder? I personally find that somewhat true.

The issue is people look at upvotes but read comments. An upvote doesn't say as much as a comment does (quite literally).
Honestly "pang" (past tense) and "pung" (past participle) don't sound terrible to me, in analogy to sing/ring. Native English speaker from USA, if that matters.
Why I left the GOP
As well as being vague, human rights prioritize actions of the government over those of ordinary people - the high murder rate in America is not a human rights violation (what right could be more true than the right to not be killed?) but the relatively less severe execution rate of political prisoners in many other countries is a human rights violation. I live in a country with poor human rights but very good safety against violent crime. I'd much rather be here than in America where I won't be arrested for complaining about the government but I'm likely to be robbed or threatened with a gun if I walk down the wrong street at night. Different harm caused by different groups but one is a human rights violation and the other is not despite both being ultimately under the control of the government.

The effect of this is America can say "we have good human rights, we don't torture political prisoners" and an authoritarian country can say "We have good security, our people don't kill each other". The latter is usually more directly helpful to more people, but the former has somehow become seen as superior.
It is worth noting that being an expert in one's field does not preclude one from saying stupid things. Lots of otherwise rational scientists can get caught up in mysticism.
Without any data behind this, it's just one more wacky theory of management that is being promoted without skepticism.

It's a bit like "brainstorming", the strategy of idea generation that has an appealing narrative, but doesn't result in greater creativity when measured objectively.
The problem with that method is that it doesn't have data access locality, while linear probing does. Linear probing ends up being more efficient because it is easy on the cache.
If you base your world view on religion and absolute moral values you may believe that there are real rights but besides that I would assume that most people agree that rights are just human conventions.
Isaac Newton practiced alchemy. What it comes down to is that all claims require a standard of validation and evidence, regardless of who makes them. I am often bothered by quotes bandied around by the incredulous about things Albert Einstein has said as arguments for supernatural ideas. Even if it were the case it doesn't matter if an otherwise brilliant scientist said or believed in quackery. Some people are so unfamiliar with how science works that there is a fundamental problem for them not understaning that it is not being about who said or wrote something, it's about what they said. And not everything those people said is of equal value.

If some person were to discover the explanation for dark matter in the universe with substantial evidence and then later in life turn around saying fairies were also real, it would not make fairies real.
While we're here, what problem are you trying to solve by writing this article? It's hard for me to believe that you really think that snapping a photo is a dangerous distraction while paging through sectionals or check-lists isn't.
If you're looking for extra info, NOVA did a documentary on Kepler: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/alien-planets-revealed.ht...
The judges in the case in this article say differently:

"The majority also found that whether someone has protected their phone with a password doesn't carry much weight in assessing that person's expectation of privacy.

"An individual's decision not to password protect his or her cellphone does not indicate any sort of abandonment of the significant privacy interests one generally will have in the contents of the phone," Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote."
Deploying Wordpress with Capistrano on Godaddy Shared Hosting
Indeed. Restrictions on women in Muslim countries sound bad, but western countries don't allow women to go topless in public and don't allow prisoners or children to work for money at their own discretion. They even have compulsory detention for children (school), which is a human right sacrificed in the name of economic development but doesn't get complaints because us westerners are used to it. If only everyone else was just like us we could forget those inconvenient human rights and just do things the normal proper way (sarcasm).
Eavproblog.com
Any plans to integrate something like this into the app?
This research could be funded by the low-fat industry!
The article hangs a key portion of its "violating rules of the air" argument on the claim that using a GoPro or similar WiFi-enabled camera is necessarily unlawful.

That claim seems shaky: it's possible to disable WiFi on newer GoPro devices via the setting labeled "TURN OFF WIFI," and simply leave it passively attached in the cockpit without ever touching it in flight. And as <tjohns> pointed out, not all GoPro cameras have WiFi.

But pointing out that important point would have made it a less incendiary story.

Disclaimer: I'm a pilot, though not a commercial pilot, and have enjoyed taking aerial SLR photos when I'm not pilot in command. Here are some of San Francisco and Baltimore's inner harbor:
http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/1ds-3/san-francisco-aerial-view...
http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/1ds-3/baltimore-inner-harbor-ni...
My guess is that it's that these particular branches of physics and philosophy overlap considerably in the field of "what are the fundamentals of stuff". A biologist is interested in how organisms work, but is less interested in how the atoms making the organism came to be. A materials scientist is interested in how different things are tough/strong/flexible/tasty over the fundamental origin of those things. A social scientist is more interested in how humans interact with each other than how humans physically originated.
I talked on a cell phone in a cirrus with a glass cockpit, guess what happened? Nothing. I've also done the same with streaming music. If the displays stopped working because of wifi they would always be left trying to navigate taxiways without them... And that would be a very real problem.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21379912

> "And we don't get bullets any more," he adds. "The Army doesn't give ammunition now - it's all kept in a central arsenal." This measure was introduced by Switzerland's Federal Council in 2007.
The RockBLOCK is even compatible with Raspberry Pi! https://www.rock7mobile.com/products-rockblock
The United States are probably not the best country for comparisons when it comes to human rights.

The United States was a traditional leader in human rights and one of the few countries that has used its power to advance human rights in other nations.

What? When? And compared with which countries?
Not trying to be disagreeable, just want to add some info about Texas' crappy grand jury system. Texas' grand jury system is one of two IIRC that allow the use of the "pick-a-pal" system.

Speaking from experience I can tell you that high-profile indictments are often discussed and decided before the indictment is presented, outside the juror's room.

And finally, we're having a little crisis currently in Harris county over the threatening of a witness by a grand jury foreman who was also a retired police officer, serving on a grand jury that was deciding to indict a man for the murder of another police officer.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/daily-post/grand-jury-system-tex...

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/09/15/time-ditch-key-man-gr...

http://www.constitution.org/jury/gj/041113_chron_casey.htm
The foundation of all laws is the right of the stronger. Government monopoly on power is a prerequisite for being able to implement derivative "rights." Human rights are an articulation of what the west has found generally leads to productive and stable societies over the last 200ish years, but it took us well over 2000 years of rather violent despotic rule to get there.

The implementation of human rights has required the continual political participation of citizens (not really an apt term for a baron, but it will have to do) since at least 1215 and the only way we were able to get there is because various groups of men had enough power to confront their ruler and demand concessions.

The problem we face today is that the modern state is far and away the most powerful tool we have ever created and is highly resistant to change (this is a feature, not a bug). Instability often takes a long time to reveal itself (consider Syria) and is extremely bloody and violent yet for some reason we don't quibble about the "human rights" of combatants in a civil war. If you want fast change it is almost certainly going to be in the form of violent conflict and the expected value of winning needs to be vastly higher than the value of maintaining the status quo (unless you have a large unemployed male population between the ages of 18 and 34).

So we (wisely) settle for slow change in our own countries while demanding the rest of the world quickly catch up so we can stop feeling guilty which is tantamount to demanding they forsake even a semblance of stability and a modicum of rights for bloodshed and the potential for the victorious regime to be worse than the current one (as Egypt had the misfortune to discover).

If there is a solution it almost certainly is to work patiently with other countries and push for gradual liberalization and development of governmental institutions that are less corrupt. China is a perfect example. They are walking a fine line between economic and political liberalization and if they move too quickly in either direction they risk igniting a revolution at which point we can throw human rights out the window along with the bodies.

Human rights are like a design doc that no one know how to implement (and no team has been hired to implement) and was created by reading half the api of four similar software projects that have been under continuous development for over a hundred years (just imagine that for a second). The doc might contain some essential truth's about what said piece of should do in some abstract sense but gives no guidance about how to do it and certainly doesn't mention the various children sacrificed during the implementation of the reference systems.
Well:

- The WinCE driver model was pretty hopeless; you could write a simple interrupt handler, but a thread was supposed to do most of the work. There was a ton of context switching involved in any I/O, and the drivers tended to have many useless layers of abstraction, which was probably half architectural and half bad practices followed by the CE culture. (We managed to get about 8 Mbits/second of bulk traffic through USB on WinCE, using 100% of the CPU of our 800Mhz ARM, while a later bare-bones embedded system with a gutted but more functional version of the same driver got 40 Mbits/second with about 5% CPU).

- You could choose what features to build in (this was really baroque and complicated, to say the least). I remember getting WinCE down to 6MB, and this got you an empty app with some drivers. It took 45+ minutes to build (we never got incremental builds working reliably), maybe 20-30 seconds to boot, and did nothing. For 6MB. Yike.

- The BSP (Board Support Package) drivers from vendors were miseries. We found so many bugs in them that we just gave up and wrote our own, which wound up being smaller and way more reliable. Our feedback to the BSP folks was usually ignored (I'm hedging "usually" because I don't know a single case of a bug we reported ever being fixed).

Our decision (inside of MS!) to punt WinCE 6 and do our own thing was one of the best we ever made. It was politically rocky for a while, but if we hadn't done it, we would not have shipped.
C++ wins again.
It isn't because gun ownership is up, it is stating that police shootings occur because of the mere fact that there are already more guns in the USA than any other first world country, thus police are more likely to encounter criminals with guns. We also have the highest gun homicide rate of any first world country. The two are directly related.
Interestingly, HN seems to have a large number of people at the intersection of athiesm and absolute moral rights.
Ionic is OK but has its limitations. Its CSS components are not all that pretty, compared to those from, sat, SemanticUI or other CSS frameworks. And it's not easy at all to integrate other CSS frameworks. Also, current Ionic does not support Angular 1.3, although its next beta release will, but not clear when it'll be released. You lose a lot of functionality by not having Angular 1.3.

I'd seriously look at two relatively new frameworks: AppGyver, which looks fantastic - so much so that I may switch tools/frameworks on a start-up product. Or, Telerik's NativeScript looks really promising, but it won't be ready for production use until 05/15.

Take a hard look at frameworks before committing to one - esp. Ionic. It looked really good, which is why I, as lead dev in a consumer-oriented startup, chose it for our hybrid app. But, after several months of working with it, its warts become evident.

My $0.02.
Is this some common style?

int (**hnew())

I've never seen parens used like that. Usually it's:

int **hnew()
If you really want to you can walk around topless in Germany. It is also legal in New York.
Lets take in mind that some big newspapers in Spain are buyed from the banks. Same big companies can have a newspaper in Spain and another in Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. Is not so inusual.

And yes, as spaniard this is another shit from our beloved government that basically is butchering the whole entire country and giving all, blood flesh and bones, to carefully nurture his friends and family. A small and really happy minory. Everyday is his/her birthday.
Of course a decision can't be made with 0% information, and waiting for 100% information in unnecessary. But how would one arrive at the range of 40-70%? For a decision about risky surgery I would hope that the amount of known information is much closer to 90%.

"40-70 rule" seems like a banal remark once you realize different decisions require different amounts of information
A Facebook Ad by a Lyft employee to refer 'internally'
Might be to fix some -pedantic issue.
She didn't fight filesharing of her novel; she decriminalized it
People understand that the compiler/executable doesn't run any faster the less newlines there are, right?

This is cute, but as others have pointed out it, it isn't really a correct implementation of a hash table. Also, it wouldn't pass a code review anywhere I've ever worked.
Where do the '40' and '70' come from? Who's defining what the final amount of available information is, and judging what the current percentage is? How do you even know at the time?

I mean, it would be one thing to create some kind of simulation and discover that this was actually something statistically meaningful. But there aren't exactly any citations here..