skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing in your post is wrong, and I agree that my phrasing did not properly illustrate both sides of the picture.

The people holding Uber back are also empowered by wealth and influence. I'd prefer that our country not work this way. It's very unfortunate. I'm worried that encouraging companies like Uber may seem to upset this system but it really enforces it. It further sidelines the average person, and the 'nice' rich people get to battle the 'evil' rich people.

So I instead have the idealist view that we can all vote our way out of this mess. That we can eventually put candidates in place that will create sensible laws around technology and markets. And that these laws will benefit the consumer.

The reality is that it's f*ed on both sides. I can avoid using Uber and the entrenched taxi cab lobby will win. I can use Uber and validate a startup that has systematically broken the law. I can use neither and never get where I am going on time.

So instead I'll just sit here and spout my thoughts on HN. Makes me feel a little better in the meantime.
Good idea. We will fix asap.
No, because you could also rename any shared prefix of file names, not just the parts that end with a slash. Instead of directories having a special significance, now any arbitrary prefix in a file name has the same significance.
Slides for the presentation: http://hosting.desire2learncapture.com/RIM/Content/attachmen...
Ha! I wish ChangeTip supported HN.
Do you really not see the yawning chasm between your 1-4 and what's described in the article? There's obviously a lot more going on here than this guy being in pictures with gang bangers.

> While he was incarcerated, the police matched his DNA to another gun recovered near the scene of a gang altercation.

As for his brother Jelani, it wasn't Facebook that landed him in Rikers, it was a witness identification. Now, that's a tragedy, but the old fashioned kind: over reliance on eye witness identification and overly aggressive prosecutor tactics. 20 years ago, these prosecutions would've been based on the testimony of random people in the neighborhood about who was hanging out with who.
According to BBC News, in the interview with The Sunday Times, Watson said he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really." He went on to say he hoped everyone was equal but that "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true."

Sounds more like racism than political correctness.
Do you think you could have called them back 15 minutes later and said, "Hey, sorry, I got nervous during the interview and that's pretty unusual for me. I just want to let you know I did solve the problem in 10 minutes after the interview. I don't expect you to give me a second chance, but if you want to talk about what I came up with I'd be happy to tell you what I started thinking about the problem as soon as we hung up."

They want someone to do well in the interview, so while some interviewers wouldn't talk to you more, I wonder if some might jump right back into the conversation. Any thoughts on how they might have responded to this? Did you consider calling them right back?
I thought he sold it because he wanted money and art.

"Mr Watson told the Financial Times he had become an “unperson” after he “was outed as believing in IQ” in 2007 and said he would like to use money from the sale to buy a David Hockney painting."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11261872/James-Watso...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iore - "From Riksgränsen on the national border to the Port of Narvik, the trains use only a fifth of the power they regenerate. The regenerated energy is sufficient to power the empty trains back up to the national border."

It's pumped into the grid.
Show HN: Simple.css – I was not happy with any CSS framework
This injustice is absolutely not a result of a single parent household, and insinuating that in some sense the mother is to blame here is gross. Your other suggestion, that the community itself is at fault (because they culturally value the wrong things) is mistaken. It's the other way around, the larger american culture is at fault because it is biased against black communities.

Coates wrote a very good piece about this: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/black-pa...
Your argument is basically that it's generally a good idea to make sure a medical treatment is safe and effective before undertaking it. That's hardly controversial. What does not follow at all is that Ketamine should be banned, or that medical researchers should have to jump through D.E.A hoops to do research.
> Real Technology can afford PhD Bigotry now because there isn't much of it...

I think you'd be surprised at the scale of demand for good programming talent in Cambridge, regardless of degree. The vast majority of those PhDs still can't practically build apps, and the universities around there simply don't graduate very many of those people.

In my experience, practical development talent is immediately obvious to HBS graduates. You instantly become a partner everyone wants. I've had no trouble while an unknown student to work on essentially anything I want, whether its biotech or nonfiction interactive media or e-commerce or whatever. Everyone knows programmers are useful.

The difference is that Boston folks don't understand how to compensate these people. They get that developers are useful, but not that they're valuable.

The cliche in Boston (and for that matter, LA) is, "Make everything that's valuable in exchange for 7% of the business, while I celebrate my fundraising in Vegas." Twitter understands how to give its Director of Engineering the second largest options grant after the CEO. Some random co. in Boston does not.

The Boston business culture just does not reward technical or practical business talent. In actuality, LA and Boston have whole businesses dedicated around arbitraging talent. That could be talent agencies in Los Angeles or finance firms in Boston.

Arbitrage is rampant in Boston tech. Boston's tech scene is the most eager to take desperate international grad students, give them H1Bs and grind them to making pharmaceuticals or making back office finance code, paying them exceedingly nothing and enriching real partners. This is just as true with Valley public companies, but how many trendy young people like me or you have first hand experience with places like Intuit or Intel? Or put another way, public Valley companies get taken over by "fratty Young Republicans" and transfer that culture.

I think if Boston or LA's tech scene actually paid people commensurate to their value, those tech scenes wouldn't exist with their current levels of funding.

Sometimes I start reading the comment, and I read something too real, like "fratty Young Republican types who get funded", and I look in the upper right corner and, of course!
Could call that a feature ;P
Well in that case the New Cyberwar Era started in 1982 not 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
Thanks a lot for the feedback. We shall make clearer the benefits for the businesses (which are a lot).
It wouldn't so much catch on fire as revert to gas, straight from solid to H2. Otherwise known as an explosion. Then maybe you get burning hydrogen.
You may be interested to visit (or at least read about) Milton Keynes, then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes

It's notable for three things, to me: the perfectly planned grid of roads with bike paths, Bletchley Park, and the weekly gathering of car tuners and tweakers in a huge parking lot that fills with neon light and surplus bass.
>$3k/month will get you into a triplex in Somerville with no T access

I'm a software engineer in Boston, and I know tons of people living comfortably with good T access for far less than that. I live in a nice building in Boston walking distance from my company's offices in Cambridge. I also tend to prefer the public transportation options to many of the places I've been and lived (New York very much excluded.)
Funny, this is new but there is this article from 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/health/10depress.html?_r=0
Zinsser mentions this one sentence paragraph thing in "How to Write Well", citing an AP article from 1993. (In the "Paragraphs" section of Chapter 10.)
Should have given it to the family of Rosalind Franklin.
" is basically a magical fantasy of those who understand neither the technology nor its sociology."

Ever hear of steam, MMO's, F2P? They've started with backend chaining of software, they are going to try to turn everything into "cloud based" bullshit to as much as they can do it.
We will do exactly that !! Thanks a lot !
I switched to BlackBerry from Android last year and the browser is amazing (composing this reply with it on my Passport). Just wanted to say thanks!
> Can anybody explain what's the fuzz regarding pirate bay? I mean, there are tons of good torrent sites and search engines everybody use every day...

Such as?

No, seriously. This is why TPB going down is a big deal. There are plenty of other trackers, but most people don't know about them, and Google makes them somewhat difficult to find. And, of course, the really good trackers are by invitation only.

So enlighten us poor heathens and share some links. :)
Yes, this. Momogoose is fantastic. They have a truck by the T stop and a stand by the mall.
Anything's worth a try, but as a somewhat cynical interviewer I'd assume that they Googled it.
Depends on how you derive it. I've seen derivations that end up with a log* term. Of course, inverse Ackermann is a tighter bound.
> because their comment is anonymous to the author and won't be available to the readers

You can make comments on your papers available; there is nothing against that. I really think, however, peer review comments should actually be published with rejected and accepted papers (at the author's consent, not reviewers) so that conferences can be more transparent.
I think falcolas means that python3 is not available as a native package (i.e. apt-get, yum install, etc) on the systems s/he programs for.
This is a really solid framework. A couple of humble suggestions:

1. Package up your site itself on github as one of the examples. Mixing up some elements of your base site with some of the landing bits would make for a solid base for a lot of people.

2. Get a compatibility table together stat. To help you out, I did a quick test of both your main site and the landing page. Nothing in depth, just the basics. The following browsers worked properly:

On Windows (8.1 unless noted):

Firefox Stable 34.0.5

Firefox ESR 31.3.0

Opera 26.0.1656.32

Google Chrome Stable 39.0.2171.95

Internet Explorer 11

Internet Explorer 10 (Windows 7)

Internet Explorer 9 (Windows Vista)

On Ubuntu 14.0.4:

Firefox Stable 34.0

Chromium 39.0.2171.65

Google Chrome 39.0.2171.95

On Android 4.4:

Google Chrome 39.0.2171.93 (both landscape and portrait, phone and tablet)*

Firefox 34.0 (both landscape and portrait, phone and tablet)*

* Note that the UI navbar didn't stick on the phone for either browser despite the phone having a 1920x1080 resolution vs the tablet's 1024x768 resolution. I think this is by design on your end

The following browsers did not work properly:

Windows XP - Internet Explorer 7 and 8 - Failed to load custom images at top hero secion (custom CSS not contained in skeleton), alignment issues of buttons, full nav list visible (not part of skeleton issues), example grid completely broken (shows as full width divs), very broken visually but still usable

Windows XP - Internet Explorer 6 - issues above plus more visual issues. semi-usable
Android 5 hard to send and receive calls
is it just me? android 5 becomes much harder to use when I need make a call or receive a call.
I left RIM in 2012 so I could not confirm that this is how the browser works in new devices released today. But given the success and advantages that having the html browser gave us there would have to be some really compelling reason (or $$$) to abandon it. The group I was part of was formally TorchMobile and as a group had significant browser experience having written a fair number so we understood the hassles of maintaining two projects. Being able have webkit developers help with part of the browser made development go faster on both sides (webkit devs could easily abuse the browser to test new feature). Even if it isn't used in the browser as mentioned at the bbjam the weblauncher application was used by not only the browser, but for a number of other purposes.

I can only imagine there is a fair amount of overlap in Mozilla where there are two developers working on the same thing, one for xul, one for html.
> It's nice to read something uplifting once in a while

Poetic justice?

Dr Watson said: he is "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours" but "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true".

He sold the medal because he wanted the money to acquire an expensive painting.
Looks like a proprietary version of: https://github.com/softcover/softcover
Visual programming languages (VPL) attempt to reproduce the low level constructs of general purpose programming languages and thus the complexity of the diagram becomes such that it is hard to discern the logic.

In highly domain specific areas VPLs are actually widely used. Blender 3D modelling tool is basically a graphical way of editing and visualising the underlying data structures. Now if you replace abstract syntax graph you can see the similarity.

wrt @RNeff's comment, AutoDesk Revit is a great example of how it might be possible to create a more general purpose programming language. What sets Revit apart from Verilog & VHDL is that it presents the user with context specific editors by which to set the parameters for the many different components of the designed building.
Write music scores in realtime within Google Hangouts
Indirect GLX Vulnerabilities in the Nvidia  Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD Driver
I'm going to say something controversial.

Minor reform of the referee system is treating the symptoms, not the disease.

The disease is that there is no honest, mutual, voluntary exchange between a party that values a given research project and the party that produces it.

Rather, we have federal bureaucrats handing out money taken from taxpayers willy-nilly via an old-boy network as described above. (The difference between taxpayers and slaves is that taxpayers only must sacrifice a fraction of their productivity to this absurd system, not all of it.)

In CS, all the research we do either goes to benefit shareholders of companies that ultimately profit from it, or (the majority) is just ignored because it's part of the paper mill competition. Those companies should be the ones paying for the research, not the taxpayers. Those companies are free riding, and "we the people" should put an end to it.
I'd have to agree. Great magic players (kibler, finkel, lsv, anyone in the hall of fame) will often have lifetime win rates that are slightly higher than 50% with 60% in a single season being an extreme outlier.
Wait, so you're telling me that gun control laws are used to oppress the under class? Even though they were passed to protect them? Because that's the socioeconomic group that suffers most from gun violence? Well I'll be monkey's uncle...
I had/have to use vim almost every day (a lot of it was managing headless servers, but also being a linux user myself), and it was somewhat of a pita every time I used it, but a bit less so than nano, pico or what have you.
After some time I finally had enough and decided to invest some time in figuring it out mostly in the hope of making it a bit less of a pita. Also, so many people seemed to just love using vim. Makes you think that it may not be the most pointless thing in the world to invest some time in.

What I got from it personally is:

Most text editors now feel like there's not much to them, you rote learn the editor specific shortcuts, but they often don't have any meaning on their own so there is a tendency to forget them when they aren't used every day. Luckily the ones used most are often somewhat consistent across editors so it doesn't take much time to get to some level of proficiency with a new editor. Also you often have to use your mouse and sometimes arrow keys for efficient movement and text selection. This requires constantly moving one of your hands out of the typing position which seems a lot more distracting if you get somewhat used to "mouseless" text editing.

With vi(m), yes, you have to learn the shortcuts/commands but they kind of add together, almost every command or way to do something seems not only useful by itself but also expands your vocabulary and enables you to tell the editor what it should do in a more efficient way. In a way you are making up shortcuts on the fly all the time by composing commands you know depending on what you want to do, only most of the time (at least while editing text) you don't actually think about commands or shortcuts just like you don't have to think about ctrl+x and ctrl+v, it's just select, cut, paste.

tl;dr, my opinion

Is it worth spending the time and effort given the steep learning curve?
If you don't already use vim at least some of the time and would have to force yourself into using it, I personally would say no. I think I still would have tried it but I don't know if I would have stuck with it once the novelty had worn off. I wasn't really unhappy with text editors, I just didn't like using vim the way I was using it. Also you end up adding "vim mode" plugins to every damn thing you type text into, IDE's (used for those behemoths), other text editors, web browsers, ...
Hey there, would like to chat if you're open to it - jeremy goodrich linkedin, facebook, etc (the digital marketing, consulting, hookupJS, etc guy). Cheers.
Not only that, it's not a hallucinogen. It's a /dissociative/ anesthetic. About the only other thing commonly used that has similar effects is dextromethorphan hydrobromide - the primary ingredient in over the counter cough syrup.
FreeBSD security bug: Buffer overflow in stdio
We use Atlas to build the e-book versions of Pro Git (which you can download at https://progit.org/). We don't use their editing system, though; it's basically a continuous-deployment system for the book, and it does a pretty great job at that.
Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled [pdf]
Racist or not, he is still a pioneer in biology and should keep his award for his contributions. I certainly don't agree with Watson's remarks, but I think it was an admirable thing that Usmanov did here.
A Q&A with Esri Founder Jack Dangermond
Out of curiosity what broken languages in particular are you referring to? I'm also somewhat curious at to what language(s) you use.
Dealing with unreasonable refund requests
What's an appropriate response to a customer who requests a refund for a year of hosting service because they 'meant to cancel'?
There are automated services that let you do this, I've used Open Calais and MetaCarta in the past with great results.

To be honest I'm surprised services like those aren't automatically used on new content within every major media outlet as a standard.
It's a dissociative hallucinogen.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen
Here's another nice big number link:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

If the inverse of the Ackerman function grows more slowly than loglogloglog...log, and the inverse of BB(N) grows more slowly still, maybe that would be enough to conquer Knuth's arrow notation?
Conjecture: Given enough time for science to make progress, eventually all mathematical theorems and conjectures will gain applicability in practice.
Cornell to Digitize a Rich Hip Hop Archive
>whereas all the testing says not really."

sounds like his statement is based on facts known to him (and being Nobel winning scientist he probably has good skills at understanding and analyzing facts)

>Sounds more like racism

Either you're trying to say what his statement wasn't based on his knowledge and analysis of facts or you're introducing a concept of "racism rooted in facts"

I wonder though whether the Watson will accept the medal back from Usmanov's hands.
Runs fullscreen in Chrome on my iMac just fine. Framerate isn't so hot though.
There are many projects like this, but a lot of them are done wrong: they use a straight main bolt and they don't compensate for the error in the driver motor.

This one is done right - the main bolt is curved, so no error (or very little error) is introduced while tracking. Good job.
Generally, boot camps don't teach CS. Probably because CS requires mathematics and abstract concepts like Turing Machines in addition to concrete vocational programming knowledge skills and ability.
What Great Managers Do – HBR
No I didn't. I could have at least emailed them with the code attached. But at this point its been 8 hours so I'm a little over the time limit :P. Do you think its worthwhile to email them?
That's what the minimum days you must take is for. If the company culture is right, it's a liberating policy. At my new job now it feels like I'm spending a precious commodity instead of booking vacation feeling like reprieve due in the wake of hard work or payoff.
What he said is racist but it's still true - IQ in most countries in Africa is abysmally low. Problem is that saying it loud today in US produces the same effect on your career as saying that communism is not the true path to future would have produced in USSR.