skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
''' I guess you didn't read the article that I posted because it clearly states that the robots can't do the work to the required precision. Yes, robots do a lot of work in factories but they still need further refinement before they can do some jobs that require a lot of dexterity. '''

You miss my point.

You can make complicated electronics entirely automated if the design were better.
Microsoft billionaire takes on cell biology
:) Awesome man. Fwiw, the new version makes it super, super, super easy to scale since the grid is % based now. Can just change the max-width of the .container and voila. Done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JfEJq56IwI
Difficult to implement something like that on OSX without a resource-intensive overlay. As it is, Artful takes advantage of the built-in NSWorkspace API to change the wallpaper, which only causes activity on download and change of the image.
Yes, for almost every existing project I've ever worked on, I had a net negative line of code count per day, and boy did that feel good.
Seagate’s first shingled hard drives now shipping: 8TB for just $260
The religion was not found by TPB, but rather its users.
Physics or Psychology
My father played math games with me when I was little. Made it exciting, not fearful. Grade school math was kind of slow and boring. Didnt get more interesting until algebra.
I missed the part where any of this justifies Uber's behaviour. This is just a bunch of baseless conjecture about what you think "normal cabbies" do.
Peering into the minds of the 4.3B 'Unconnected'
There's no doubt that in many areas, including the San Francisco Bay Area, the current trend is not sustainable. But I think you're underestimating some fundamental shifts that have taken place that will put a floor under rents.

First, in the wake of the Great Recession, many folks are simply not able to buy homes. They can't meet more stringent lending standards and while there are efforts to make mortgages more accessible, a repeat of what you saw in the last housing bubble isn't likely any time soon. Making matters worse for folks still getting their financial footing is that home prices have appreciated considerably over the past several years.

Second, you need to consider demographics. Most young people can't afford to buy homes (more and more of them are living with their parents into their late 20s and 30s), and surveys indicate that home ownership is generally less important to younger people.

Finally, in some areas, including some of the most desirable parts of the Bay Area, there is realistically not going to be a significant increase in supply any time soon, so demand is likely to exceed supply for the foreseeable future.

Obviously, another recession would put a damper on things and double digit decreases in average rents are even possible in the hottest markets under such a scenario, but people waiting for $1,500 studio apartments in San Francisco shouldn't hold their breath.
Yeah. I find it weird to see that [Cochrane shows statins prevent heart disease](http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD004816/VASC_statins-for-the-...), despite the whole cholesterol debacle. It would be nice if we understood this situation better.

We know now that only some types of LDL are dangerous, but how often are people given an LDL particle count?

According to Michael Pollan, the whole Fat/Cholesterol thing started when the government found some weak evidence that beef is bad for you, but they blamed it on cholesterol so as not to single out a particular industry. But is beef even bad for you? Or is it something in how hamburger meat is processed? Or what?
I'm interested too.

My 8 year old son hates math. I've tried introducing him to some of the apps like Scratch and its ilk, but he's not interested. The closest I've successfully come is using the blocks in Minecraft to illustrate why/how multiplication is not simply repeated addition.
The only man who fought the CIA over torture is in prison
We are definitely not living in financial hardship and I didn't mean to come off as someone who did. I definitely consider myself as one of the privileged ones and it helps that I have someone else contributing to the household. It's hard for me to imagine however, how I would be able to survive on my own or try and raise a family in current conditions, let alone being one of the less privileged, meaning not working in tech and having to live off (way) less than 100k in and around SF.

Now that I think of it, no-one I work with (with families) live in SF, even my boss and her boss (undoubtedly making north of 200k) all live outside the city (and even outside the peninsula) in places like Castro Valley, Fremont, etc. and most of those places have caught up pretty well with SF prices so I have no idea where to go next. (We bought a house in Tracy, CA that we are renting out, which was the closest place we could afford to buy).

I can't even begin to think where the next generation of workers will be living and in what conditions. Seems to me that if the 'middle class' is already being priced out of the city (and most of the bay area in general), in another 20 years or so, the city will either consists of VCs/dotcom/execs or prices will have to fall significantly.
Nice, looking forward to using this. I'm a CSS/JS framework creator myself (Ionic), but often when working on simple websites with a designer I just need a nice grid and some clean defaults. Congrats on 2.0!
Yeah, this is more apt, since Twitch doesn't directly run any major tournaments that I know of (although they do often sponsor some).
I'm sure TPB gets torrents added faster than Google caches.
Geoff Hinton AMA – Deep Learning's Biological Inspiration
You are correct; and of course, any hardware-level behaviour is likely to be implementation defined. I should note that MSVC [1] guarantees "non-deterministic and cryptographically secure" behaviour; and that libc++ [2] uses the "cryptographically secure" rand_s [3] on Windows, NaCl on other platforms where NaCl is available, and /dev/urandom where it isn't.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb982250.aspx

[2] https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/master/src/random...

[3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sxtz2fa8.aspx
To the contrary, you're not going to get much mileage in court attacking someone's weakest argument. On the internet, however, mocking someone's weakest argument is fair game.
You might be looking for this: https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Updateable_Subspace_Key
In e-sports land, KeSPA owned Team 8 (now Jin Air Green Wings) for a year or so until they found a sponsor. MBCGame owned MBCGame HERO for a while.
Continuous Delivery with Docker and Mesos
I wonder how effective that is vs going through the middleman. I'd guess if the "end company" is small enough without the bloated HR structure, it's more effective to get in the door by contacting them directly. On the other hand, if it's a behemoth like GE or similar, it might be more effective to go through a middleman to get past clueless HR.

I'm struggling with these decisions currently, as I see the same position posted by multiple middle men, as well as the "final client" directly, and sometimes it's difficult to figure out the best way to handle it.
The first Ember beta in the 1.10 series released with HTMLBars support
Ask HN: Best general-purpose package manager to distribute private tools?
I'm looking for a package manager that can easily be used to distribute tools of all kinds: system extensions, command-line tools, applications, etc. Homebrew doesn't have an easy way to manage custom taps, and providing `curl | sh`-style installs doesn't seem secure enough neither makes it any easier to publish/update with a centralized source.

Is there something that works on Linux and OSX, and makes it easy to publish things, write install scripts and provide updates (or at least update notifications)?
I'd like to know what the other 17942 seconds are being spent on, if not maths.
I'm not the author, but there are no hover classes for tables or alternating rows, as seen in the source, which is very readable [0]. Also, each additional level of list-nesting requires additional CSS, so it's actually impossible to support arbitrarily nested lists as seen in most word processors.

[0] https://github.com/dhg/Skeleton/blob/master/css/skeleton.css
This doesn't explain anything. Because it "did not work out"? At least RMS isn't this hand-wavy when he's busy zealoting.
They have a comparison of tab, Perl, and Python: https://bitbucket.org/tkatchev/tab#markdown-header-compariso...

TL;DR
Perl: 4.1s
Python: 3.1s
shell (cut, sort, unique): 2.7s
awk: 2.1s
tab: 0.9 s

syntax
./tab -i req.log '{cut(cut(@," ",2),"?",0) -> sum(1)}'
vs
a few lines of Perl or Python...
I would love a code.

Where are you pulling the art work from? Are you hosting the art on your own AWS account or pulling from some sort of art project guetenburg?
Thanks for pointing that out, another_sigh. I just wish my comment hadn't been buried while being argued against. And my point had nothing to do with the merits of rural life, but pointing out the over simplification of proposing intentional integration as a way to beat human psychology game theory. Like we haven't tried intentional integration before.

Additionally, I had a an unpleasant and almost visceral reaction to the notion that anyone would hope for community diversity death. As though the world would be a better place if we all just had access to Uber and curated art museums and such.
Docker without containers: Introducing `pulldocker` and CVFS
You are so right, we live in San Mateo now and the closest place we could afford to buy a house without maxing out our budget was Tracy, CA (Pleasanton/Livermore are is also still quite affordable). Needless to say the commute is terrible from there so we have rented the place out and hopefully we can return there once our jobs are more settled and we have more flexibility to work remotely.
Yep, I am. I'll do that.
It's not a legal argument at all. Go up to a random person on the street (not in San Francisco), and tell them that the rights of people caught fighting against the U.S. in Afghanistan are just as important as those of law-abiding immigrants trying to build a life in the U.S.

To the contrary. I think you have to have a very legalistic dedication to procedural due process to assert that people abroad advocating the violent overthrow of the United States should have the same rights as ordinary accused in the United States.
I was using this before my Yosemite upgrade, I suggest changing to different maps (The bing ones seem more up to date at the moment). I've seen more interesting things that I didn't know were there than just randomly looking around google maps or openstreetmap. I also got lots of comments from people about it too.
Looks really awesome!

One piece of feedback I have is that I don't think it's wise to put "maximum-scale=1" in the viewport meta-tag because it makes pages hard to read for people with less-than-perfect vision (because it prevents zooming in on phones). I created a github issue about this too: https://github.com/dhg/Skeleton/issues/173

Is there an actual benefit to having this on web pages? I see it a lot (unfortunately -- makes it very difficult when I'm on my iphone sometimes), and am not sure why people do this. Is it just "common wisdom" that has been copy-and-pasted down through the ages without anyone questioning it, or does it provide some benefit that outweighs the (pretty big) drawback of reduced accessibility?

Thanks!
Some examples using Modula-2, a Mesa's successor.

How it allows for all the C pointer features, while adding a little bit more safety.

MODULE examples;
IMPORT Terminal, SYSTEM;

(* procedure with reference parameter, no need for pointers *)
PROCEDURE ChangeParam (VAR changeMe: CARDINAL);
BEGIN
changeMe := 25;
END ChangeParam;

(*
procedure with a slice, bounds given by HIGH(changeMe) and LOW(changeMe).
also a string in this case
no need for explicit pointers
*)
PROCEDURE DumpLetters (VAR letters: ARRAY OF CHAR);
VAR
i : CARDINAL;

BEGIN
FOR i := 0 TO HIGH(letters) DO
WriteChar(letters[i]);
WriteLn;
(* Or just use *)
WriteString (letters);
END DumpLetters;

VAR
anInt : CARDINAL := 12 ;
aPtr : POINTER TO CHAR;
aBuffer : ARRAY [1..2] OF CHAR;
anAddr : ADDRESS; (* think void* *)
aPtr2 : POINTER TO CHAR;

BEGIN
WriteInt(anInt); (* writes 12 *)
ChangeParam (anInt);
WriteInt(anInt); (* writes 25 *)
DumpLetters ('A simple string');
NEW(aPtr); (* The compiler knows the size, no need for sizeof, but you can use ALLOCATE(aPTR, SIZE(CHAR)) if you want *)

(* This is where it shares the same problems with C, due to manual memory control *)
DISPOSE(aPtr);

(* do pointer arithmetic if really required *)
anAddr := SYSTEM.ADDADR (SYSTEM.ADR(aBuffer), SIZE(CHAR) * 1);
aPtr2 := SYSTEM.CAST(POINTER TO CHAR, anAddr); (* aPtr2 now points to aBuffer(2) *)
END examples;

So the compiler will mark this module as unsafe since the meta-package SYSTEM is being used.

All Modula-2 successors, have GC support, as such the DISPOSE() would have to be written as SYSTEM.DISPOSE() and could only be applied to untraced pointers.
Cuddle Bids
Thanks, it's fixed !
Whether they are making money doesn't matter. Crimes aren't suddenly legal just because you do them for reasons besides profit. Otherwise the only murderers in jail would be professional assassins.
Deck screws don't have much resistance to sheering. When any kind of force is involved other than gravity deck screws do well holding things down but not up or on. If you look at a well built deck all horizontal attachments are bolts or nails.
Haven't read the technical details, but http://www.tribler.org/ already offers decentralized torrent search.
Here's a statement from Peter Sunde:

http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-foreve...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8726110
It doesn't apply much force. The video shows it barely deforming the surface of some water.
Well, to a certain degree the Jupiter study indicts itself, at least at brief glance. It uses a surrogate endpoint, not actual disease or mortality. As I understand it, large dose niacin used to promoted as good for your heart based on more iffy lipid surrogates, but when a real study was done, it turned out to increase mortality. Oops.

And while I'm not so influenced by "the drug company paid for it!" bit, Crestor's situation is special, it was introduced when earlier well studied statins had gone generic (or nearly so). It had to muscle its way in, so to speak. So I view it with extra jaundice in my eye (tempered by the fact that it's brand name, so you know you're going to get the real stuff at the right dose, and in my recent study of statins it's clear that bad side effects are very strongly correlated with inadvertent overdosing).

Anyway, if an iffy source says something, as long as you can track down what it claims to be quoting then you shouldn't dismiss it out of hand. Given that it's peppered with links to PubMed....

I myself am looking at statins (for primary prevention, pushed by my doctors with some justice) with a jaundiced eye, based on how far their target is from actual cholesterol production. They interfere with a lot more than that.
Employee Access to Sensitive Files Puts Critical Data at Risk
Harvard Business School Professor Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food
I threw up a python version, and stole your group_by for the frequency portion :)
I learned this the hard way as well.

If you've worked with some technology or product, but don't ever want to work with it again, don't mention it in your resume.

I mentioned doing some ColdFusion work because, well, that's what I did as part of a previous job, but when I started looking for a new job, I quickly found I wanted to take that out.

Of course, if word gets out you're a software developer looking for work, there are a whole slew of recruiters that will spam you for anything that even remotely involves computers. It's been 2-1/2 years since I was looking for work and I still get a couple e-mails a week spamming for jobs like a Linux Admin in Detroit or a Data Analyst in St. Louis (I live in Virginia and never had any intention of moving).
I wish they'd posted longer transcripts of the interview - this seems like an excerpt, or a teaser.
They seem to recognize and accept that the market paradigm is rapidly moving from one of dominance of the platform to dominance of content [1]. EG has one of the strongest content and persona (i.e. character driven narrative) in the scene in the world and certainly in the West (not entirely sure how the older European powerhouses like SK Gaming have fared in recent years).

The question to me is whether additional acquisitions may be in order. For example, would they perhaps move to acquire Sean Plott's Day[9] TV?

Even in "regular sports", ratings rise when narratives like rivalries or dynasties are in play. We saw the decline of viewership in Starcraft:Broodwar in Korea when such narratives fizzled and when the old stars faded from relevance, despite the considerable increase in overall skill level. Starcraft 2 has arguably suffered from the relative lack of such a narrative, due in part to the fragmentation of its competitive scene. Blizzard has taken matters into its own hands with WCS, following Riot's lead. The question to me is how, if at all, Twitch will involve itself, given that its success depends on content and content very much hinges on narrative.

[1] I am not sure if Amazon is involved with the decision at all, but since Amazon Prime Instant Video is in a platform and content war with Netflix and others, it wouldn't surprise me if they influenced the move.
To anyone who wants to see a damn cool modular datacenter implementation they have, and how your server fits into it, checkout this video of their newish DC up in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnarvq0XpkA#t=100

When you use said DC for your servers and you see the severing naming conventions and routing paths involved... its cool to kinda be able to visualize how it physically is laid out.
I'd wager that politics tends to sic people on you because they disagree with your philosophy. If you don't espouse a philosophy, you're much less likely to become the victim of a politically motivated attack.

It's less likely that someone will read Wired and get riled up.
There are many, many ways to count and to comprehend magnitude. Jumping is a valid one.
Exactly. They may or may not have actually broken the law, but they are certainly in spirit a service that makes money through the unauthorized monetization of other peoples' works against the wishes of those works' creators. Even if it doesn't make them criminals, it certainly makes them assholes.

It's already hard enough to make a living as an artist, musician, etc. without being kneecapped by opportunists. We've gone from the old pre-Internet system, which screwed artists most of the time, to a new system that screws artists all the time.

I don't understand why there's so much sympathy for industrial-scale piracy -- especially for-profit industrial-scale piracy -- among people who make a living from creative work (programmers, entrepreneurs, engineers). I guess only certain castes of people and professions deserve compensation and respect, and everyone else can suck it...?
French are all around great guys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
I see the latter case used as an argument lots but I just don't seem to understand it.

OVH will rent you servers for as little as a month at a time, for a _massive_ reduction in cost over AWS. We're talking >10x. Are there really startups that only have capital to last a week?
Another Hacker News participant recently kindly shared in a comment a 2007 report by Educational Testing Service (ETS) titled "Teacher Quality in a Changing Policy Landscape: Improvements in the Teaching Pool".[1] The report showed that even though changes in teacher license requirements are boosting selection of higher-SAT-score rather than lower-SAT-score aspiring teachers, elementary teachers are drawn from college students who scored significantly lower than most college graduates on the SAT math section (Figure 21 in the report). The mean score of a recent prospective elementary school teacher in the United States when that teacher took the SAT for college entrance was barely above 500 on the math section.

Alas, in general, American schools are underperforming in teaching the most advantaged members of American society,[2] especially in mathematics,[3]
while not doing well by the least advantaged young people in American society either.[4] The current efforts in preschools reported in the interesting article submitted here should be followed up by further reform of elementary school mathematics instruction. The book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Liping Ma[5] is especially informative about what to do to help all learners in the United States learn mathematics better in early schooling.

[1] http://www.ets.org/Media/Education_Topics/pdf/TQ_full_report...

[2] http://educationnext.org/when-the-best-is-mediocre/

http://educationnext.org/young-gifted-and-neglected/

[3] http://educationnext.org/teaching-math-to-the-talented/

[4] http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/pisa2009/48165173.pdf

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf

[5] https://www.engageny.org/sites/default/files/resource/attach...

http://www.ams.org/notices/199908/rev-howe.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/opinion/q-a-with-liping-ma...

http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...
Just wanted to say thanks for making this. Skeleton introduced me to the basics of responsive design and my company now uses it in several applications.
Well, at least it was seemingly written specifically for this occasion.
why don't you download the internet and run grep, then you don't have to leak your search terms. Seriously - why would you want Google to know what search terms you're using? Why would anyone want to pass this information to an untrusted third party?

As for me, I think once a site has seen my exact search term, knowing which of the results I'm clicking on is a small leak and quite useful so that the popular results can be put at the top.
The Kiriakou story is not as straightforward as this thread makes it. You can go to FAS.ORG to see the actual case files.

Kiriakou was charged with using numerous forms of classified information about foreign intelligence operations in order to promote a book, and, in doing so, outing a still-undercover foreign operative involved in the Zubaydah case. That operative had allegedly been under cover for over 20 years.

If you read the filings, you'll also see that Kiriakou claims to have outed the program accidentally --- in other words, that the leak didn't occur because he was deliberately blowing the whistle on the program, but instead by accident (or, as the USG would have it, negligence).

However terribly Zubaydah was treated by the CIA, we should probably remain clear on the fact that he was believed by everyone involved, including Kiriakou, to have been an integral part of the Al Qaeda network.

The case files are not themselves dispositive; I merely comment to suggest that it's harder to judge the Kiriakou case than it immediately seems.

I share the prevailing sentiment that our failure to prosecute CIA employees at all levels for torture is frustrating, and a miscarriage of justice. Though I'm not particularly interested in discussing that on HN.
I know lots of people who love Game of Thrones but it's a bit silly to think that there's a deliberate attempt to normalize incest or feudalism. It's just a TV show people happen to live.