skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You forgot the detail which massively complicates this : James Watson' claim about the test scores is true [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

Note the first paragraph in the Wikipedia article : "The connection between race and intelligence has been ... It is still not resolved what relation, if any, there is between group differences in IQ and race."

Currently we have about 104 years of data, which shows, to put it mildly, a clear pattern of racial differences in intelligence (and pretty much every other metric. Size. Weight. Speed. Color. Body temperature...). Worse, they also show a clear difference in intelligence between different ideological groups (e.g. religion) (again, and they also show a large difference in other metrics).

To some extent Watson, in his first claim, has a point that we seem to be unwilling to make. There is a clear conclusion to be drawn here :

Different races are different. In pretty much any metric you can come up with.

Furthermore, if you look at the effect of average differences in a certain metric to examples in individuals, you get an even more politically incorrect result, based on pure math. If you take 2 groups, who differ by x percentage points in "blueness". Then if you take a random individual from group 1, and a random one from group 2, what are the chances that the first individual is more blue ?

x = 1% => p =~ 76%

x = 2% => p =~ 92%

x = 3% => p =~ 98%

So this means that if blue humans are 1% taller than green humans, then if you meet a blue and a green human on the street, the chance is about 76% that the blue human will win (be taller) than the green.

(Only intelligence scores vary more than 1 standard deviation. The largest difference is between 2.5 and 3 standard deviations (and does not involve either a white ethnic or a black ethnic group))
For me the point of OOP is that it isn’t a paradigm like procedural, logic or functional programming. Instead, OOP says “for every problem you should design your own paradigm”. In other words, the OO paradigm really is: Programming is Modeling

Bingo. The biggest problem I deal with in an OO language is people (especially non-programmers like business analysts) trying to "model the world" with class diagrams and inheritance trees. It only leads to endless debates about whether something is-a something else, or has-a something else, and it takes a lot of time away from implementing the solution to the actual problem.
Not convenient, but it appears that the sources are here: https://github.com/outpunk/evil-icons/blob/master/app/views/...
The Perceived Risk of Married Co-Founders
Seems like you can download an illustrator file from the home page. It's one of the two buttons - says "Download Icons".
Personally I think you should be free to yell "FIRE" in a theater too. If that started a panic and someone came to harm due to it then you might be held partially responsible to that harm, but so should those people who mindlessly trample on others without assessing the situation.

But if nothing happened then there should be no reason to make your exclamation illegal.

Of course you could still be thrown out of the theater for disrupting the performance, providing further disincentive for doing something like that, but that's separate from the legality of your speech.
FDB has a substantial per-node license cost. It makes sense to beef up the hardware on individual nodes as much as possible first, then scale out to more nodes.

https://foundationdb.com/pricing
I was going to suggest that you report this as an issue at https://github.com/golang/mobile, but issues are disabled on that repo.
I have seen so much of these posts that I am now only willing to take opinions on languages from people who do actual research / develop a language that is popular. Anyways I think this is an opinionated post that one can choose to reject if one needs to. The article is very vague at the least.
I know of a similar site for Czech Republic that has been around for ages[0].

You can see historic delays at different train stops[1], but the map is really where it shines, seeing patterns for trains running now.

[0] http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~babilon/zpmapa#mapa
[1] http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~babilon/cgi-bin/zpvlaku.cgi?869
You can do quite a lot of that in Microsoft Word, including the use of research tools, but it's a lot of work to set up.

Agree about the problems coping with company and product titles, etc. The problem could be reduced by refusing to play that game, eg by using registered names rather than marketing styles or logos.
ei-spinner-3 bothers me somehow. It's like its center of rotation is not fixed... Unbalanced spinners looks really janky to my eyes.
Tell me when you come by Frankfurt. Apfelwein is on me :)
The double-indirection of the visitor pattern is unnecessary in a language with pattern matching. I mean sure, it's just syntax, just sugar - but readability is important. As the saying goes, a design pattern is a structured way of working around a language deficiency.
Curb your enthusiasm.

You can't purchase laptops:

http://mensk.com/PHOTOS/1/msft_bitcoin.png
> I hate having to say everything twice. Types force me to do that

Thats just because most OO languages OP uses don't have powerful type inference. Sure, type inference is tricky in languages with subtyping but it certainly doesn't need to be verbose and redundant like it is in Java.
My comment would apply to any acquisition. If I'd use an analytics tool for Facebook acquired by Twitter, I'll take 10 minutes to think about it.

I'm not anti-MS. I was one of the first to make Windows Phone apps. I like a lot Nadela, but do you know how many time will he stay MS CEO?

As I said, MS is not only interested in Windows Phone but win a lot of money with Android.

We probably continue to use HockeyApp but I'm not fan of the "don't ask questions that may hurt" bashing here.
>"Daily average people" instead of "daily average users"

Seems like a hollow argument more about semantics to me. Yeah yeah, we get it. Your users are people too.

To the local corner store, I’m a customer; to Southwest, a passenger. Each institution may refer to their customers in a different manner, but it does nothing to change the fact that they are a customer/consumer.

>As somebody once said, it’s kind of arrogant to think that the only reason that people exist is to use what you built. They actually have lives, like, outside of the experience they have using your product. So the first step to designing in a human-centered way is to recognize that they’re humans.

Just because I am a "user" does not mean I only use your product
Way to put words into my mouth.

I said makes it accessible.
Next trend on the internet: teens doing webcam shows for pedos so they can get bitcoins to fund their xbox accounts.

The medias will love it.
In such an unfair fight, i'd argue it's the BEST method.
> countries ignored the deficit limits to increase investment
EU finance ministers reject the European Commission’s recommendation to initiate sanctions proceedings against France and Germany for flouting the Stability and Growth Pact’s rules.
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/economic_governance/time...

> smaller countries are forced into signing treaties that forbid public investment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Fiscal_Compact

This treaty defines goals that in practice leave no budget for public investment. In the last years Portugal's debt ballooned to 125% of GDP due to all the austerity implemented. Getting this to lower to the standards of the treaty in such short time forces any government to cut spending in essential public services, sell at discount prices natural monopolies such as electricity and water distribution and raise taxes (50%+ total rate for freelancers).

As for the last one, at least in Portugal the biggest amount of money was spend covering for BPN's losses, a small bank with a market share of 2% that required upwards of 5 billion euros of taxpayer's money. Another giant money sink was BPP, an investment bank.
> Go, just like an abacus doesn't have generics, or, besides channels and goroutines, most other facilities modern languages offer for that matter

If you need mainly a large number of features in order to program, Go probably isn't for you. But from the perspective of a C/C++ programmer, this isn't likely to be an important point. Languages with more features than C have been available for 40 years (depends on what you'd count as a feature), so there were plenty of "better" choices in that regard available for said people.

For me, the lack of some "features" is a great asset for Go, I probably wouldn't have bothered to learn a new language if it had boasted the complexity of Rust or Haskell.
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"No stations match 'london kings cross'"
I'm not big on Boca Grande (snobby Californian checking in) but am a big fan of Squeaky Beaker (and the related Second Street Cafe). If you really want terrible Chinese food, there are a couple of options in the Cambridgeside Galleria food court.
I stopped taking this article seriously after the first two sections, neither of which are problems specific to OOP.
When you're in such an unstable environment as using a 3 year old startup to build apps for a 7 year old OS, I don't think that worrying about 2 years down the line is really worth it.

If Microsoft hadn't bought them, what would Hockey look like in 2 years? What will iOS look like in 2 years?
You could say that about almost any activity in today's digital age. Sending abusive emails, making harassing phone calls, stealing money from people's bank accounts - these are also activities that essentially are also just copying bits.

Describing these in such a way doesn't imply anything about the moral implications.
I think it is pretty obvious D/H would be higher for a comet that has been out a long time and that doesn't really tell us much about if Earth's water came from comets a long time ago since those crashed early. H is a lot lighter than D, so it is a lot easier for a body to lose it, especially if the body has no magnetic field like a comet or Venus (D/H is also very high on Venus). Thinking the ratios would be the same seems like a mistake. Their graph should really compare the values normalized for loss rates and time since solar system formation.
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Fair enough, but that's like telling a normal person he can download a Open Document Format document: It's probably not going to be very useful communication.

As a (non Rails, non Node) developer, I will probably not bother looking into how I can extract things from a proprietary Adobe Illustrator-file when I don't have Adobe Illustrator.
Many are, but unfortunately not all.

I've worked 32 hour weeks (with occasional overtime) for most of my working life, I think. I've never had a 5 day work week since 2009, and I don't quite recall my work weeks from my first few jobs (2001 - 2008), but I think those may have been 4 day weeks too. My brother had also always worked 4 day weeks, since the early '90s, I think.

But I have also worked a 5 day week for at least a year, and I've turned down a job at a company that totally understood my desire for a 4 day week, but still only wanted to hire me for 5 days.

All my freelance gigs (since 2012) have also been 4 days or less, though my current client cannot accept less than 32 hours per week for some odd reason.

But this is in Netherland. I'm sure it's different in other countries.
Oh Hacker News. This is like something I would have seen on kuro5hin 13 years ago. Please grow up.
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Resolution independence is the main reason. No matter what the screen density, the images will look sharp. And, there's even the possibility that rendering engines can use their own tricks (such as sub-pixel rendering) to make it look even better (though I'm not sure if any browsers actually do this).

File sizes can be better (though they're occasionally worse), and I'm not doing anything fancy enough to be straining any [CG]PU made in the past decade.

Also, I really like the fact that the image format more closely represents the actual intent of the image creator. "Draw a line from [ax, ay] to [bx, by]" is much more accurate than "Draw a pixel at [ax, ay], then draw a pixel at [ax+1, ay+2], then draw a pixel..."
Yes. You can give up now. You'll make plenty of money working for someone else. Your wife will thank you. You know you want to do it, so do it. DO IT NOW!!
Peru to take legal action over Greenpeace stunt at ancient Nazca lines
>>The only reason the iTunes model has come to exist is because of torrents and illegal sharing.

TPB is popular because Netflix is still budding. Had Netflix/iTunes been around in the late 90's I doubt file sharing services like Napster would have been half as popular. I dont believe people who have the means to pay for media desire to steal.

The fact is the market failed to keep up with consumer demand.

If you examine how TiVo came to be you will see the main concept is "TV on your schedule". Netflix services this need in a much simpler manner.
Tips on avoiding the consulting famine, from experienced consultants
I believe it's a shortening of pied carré, literally "foot squared".
Tasker is the most popular one, but there is one or two that are much more user friendly.
"some of my students" ?! Wow the OP is a teacher!
The US constitution does not effect me. Thanks for the correction on satire/parody, got them mixed up.
I was just about to ask this, and I'm glad that someone else did. SVG is not tied to any one programming language. I don't understand why the repo tied to this page is not just a folder of icons and perhaps another folder of CSS.
Caveat/warning: Oftentimes, learning how to translate your game data into an A* -traversable graph is harder than implementing the A* algorithm itself.
>You don't need a graduate school experience to target ads or be a financial quant

Yeah, but targeted ads and financial quant-games don't actually constitute real innovation or advancement of... much anything. The fact that this sort of crap pays so very much better than doing actual research that genuinely advances mankind's fundamental capability to arrange the universe to our benefit is, to me at least, a low-level itch or irritant of moral indignation that I am unfortunately condemned to experience regularly due to growing up in the neoliberal era ;-).

>There's a talent surplus, which is why you see PhDs filling BA-level research positions.

In the life sciences, perhaps. In physics and mathematics, the PhDs go to finance. In computer sciences and some engineering fields, the PhDs can get jobs, even sometimes academic ones. I've interned for at least one Silicon Valley company started by a PhD in computing who published at USENIX (HEY GUYS WE SHOULD BRUSH UP THAT PAPER FROM LAST YEAR AND RESUBMIT HALP HALP MY PUBLICATION RECORD IS TOO SHORT!).

>I hope this isn't summer, because it still seems that a lot of of "data science" is business bullshit dressed up as being more interesting than it is. Cleaning data so it can be fed into an off-the-shelf SVM package isn't very interesting. That's a 40-degree day, to use Stringer Bell's terminology. Being optimistic about the very long term, I like to think of it as an AI March (which means there are a lot of 40-degree days out there).

I think you're looking at industry, while I'm looking at research (where I enjoy living). Neural Turing Machines (paper published out of DeepMind), for instance, can learn a general, arbitrary function on arbitrary-size data structures from input-output examples. That is a phenomenal advance in learning: generalized induction of functions, up to complexity limits. And then there's some of the stuff that gets published at, as I alluded to, NIPS.
>Making money from producing entertainment isn't a human right.

No, but at least in the U.S., and most of the rest of the world, it is a legal right. Does that count for nothing just because we're on the internet?
Haha, I'll be in Munchen after the MWC, which is probably the closest I'll get to Frankfurt :)

Similarly, let me know if you're in Thessaloniki!
This is like watching a nuclear superpower go down in a fist fight. I honestly think HTML5 was designed to eliminate Mozilla.
Composer against Security Vulnerabilities
Computers That Teach by Example
The station's correct name is "Kings Cross", not "London Kings Cross" (unlike say Paddington which is actually "London Paddington"
> But there are other ways to do that, significantly more effective ways. Martin Luther King (as an example, not a comparison) went to jail too, but he also went to the right schools, wore a suit and influenced the right people.

And he was making a moral argument founded in religious principles. He was literally risking martyrdom in order to fight for justice in the name of his God. And he ultimately was murdered for his work.

It might not sound relevant to an agnostic or atheist, but I don't see how you can get there from here if "there" is Dr. King and "here" is a secular argument for the right to share files.

At the end of the day, in his theology, King would have enjoyed success just for fighting even if his efforts changed zero minds and were swept away in a flood of racism and indifference. It's the difference between "we can make a difference" and "we are making a difference... let's see how much more we can do".
It's a slim review really. Like a typical software review they include a feature comparison table, but don't dive very deep into daily usage of the platforms, and really only show demos for Slack.

The overall tone I got was, if you aren't using chat software now, you should really be looking into it and here are three options.
I agree, but I'd argue that double-indirection isn't really a defining characteristic of the visitor pattern.

In fact, I'd argue that the visitor pattern is really one of the most "functional" patterns there is.
Why Nobody Force You To Use OOP
A “did you mean?” Feature for R
May I ask you, what is the preferable method for you? We're going to make Gulp/Grunt plugins and CDN version.

Also you can download .ai file here https://github.com/outpunk/evil-icons/raw/master/icons-sourc....
Or separate SVG files https://github.com/outpunk/evil-icons/tree/master/app/assets...
Or compiled sprite https://github.com/outpunk/evil-icons/blob/master/app/views/....
Isn't this the one that turned out to be a scam?

https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoin/issues/71
Yeah, Sunde's far from being the martyr he's trying to portrait.

"8 months in jail in Sweden" is not that much of a big deal, I mean, jail is still jail but he's writing it as if he were some kind of digital Mandela, far from it, I'd argue that the publicity associated with his sentence was extremely beneficial in terms of exposure of the site and thus economical revenue.

Yesterday's post about him not being OK with what TPB had become (a sexist 10th anniversary party, a site full of ads) really show how twisted the guy's mind is; he truly believes (or wants the public to believe) that his ideals are good and pristine and that the business he created had spontaneously (and against his will, yeah) became something else. Well done is better than well said; I'll believe his statements the day he spends a major part of his wealth in supporting actual charity or at least some kind of net-neutrality non-profit projects. This guy is Kim Dotcom all the way.
Just because no one was strong armed for a loaf of bread does not mean that a theft did not occur. No one may have been deprived of physical property, but we do not live an entirely physical world. Piracy deprives content creators of opportunity: the opportunity to distribute their products in the way that they see fit. Perhaps this means that they give all of their work away for free through the channels of their choosing. Perhaps they sell it. Perhaps they don't sell it to people who live in certain regions.

As a content creator, shouldn't I have the opportunity to give away my products (or sell them) in a way that I see fit?
The mental retardation paradox is the most humorous indictment of the popular understanding (amongst upper-middles, anyway) of the Flynn Effect.

One need only look at the quality and quantity of fin de siecle science, engineering, letters and arts to retire the concept with uproarious laughter.