skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>better-informed parties find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed parties

Reading this made me think of poker. Calibrating to the skill level of lesser players is often very difficult for intermediate and lower-advanced players. Being able to synthesize the less sophisticated thought technologies beginners are using is surprisingly difficult. Failure to adjust often leads better players to play incorrectly against newbies. Anyone who has experienced the frustration of beating medium/high stakes cash games only to lose in home games with your friends for 1/1000th the stakes will know what I mean.
This is a statement by the accelerator regarding the unfounded allegations made in this post. We appreciate you taking the time to read the other side of the story.
hope.ly/1BLIuRz
Why could we not have at least seen this happen?

"“We outsourced Thomas Friedman to an Indian content farm, where they produce for pennies a word, any kind of material you want. Really, it’s terrible and I felt kind of guilty after I did this. But you hire them to write a blog post or an article, and I hired this company to write ten stories about globalization and the economy. I basically told them I wanted them to write a Thomas Friedman article, I told them I wanted then to write an article about globalization and its effect on the workforce that’s positive about globalization, speaks about the challenges, but in the end works out for everyone. I told them to quote a cab driver. I just gave them Friedman’s theses, and asked them to write 800 words, and they did.”"
Pretty sure that's not what I said. I said that would be a recession for that person, in other words, from the point of view of that one, individual person. Of course you've over-extended my point. I wasn't talking about individuals, I was talking about fairly large groups of people.
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It does seem like a non sequitur that a country with the mindset "government is best which governs least" would routinely utilize SWAT teams. I'm curious about the social dynamic that transforms the desire for minimal government intervention to overkill in policing. I have a hard time believing that it is simply low expectations. Perhaps the low expectations exist because reform is structurally difficult (e.g., voting system, etc).

On the other hand, perhaps the situation is slow to change because it is exactly what the majority want? Only poor and minority populations interact with police regularly.
> completely dependent on that Software-as-a-Service.

Indeed, that was disappointing for me. People on the look out for a similar tool might want to check graphviz and its emacs mode.

http://users.skynet.be/ppareit/projects/graphviz-dot-mode/gr...

or

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-d... if you're into org-mode.
There's always a danger that you'll introduce a bug in your code at some point, right? If you 'pull' from a lot or sources, at some point one of those sources will introduce a bug. But if you have a lot of high quality committers (book authors) and you continue to pull (read) from those sources, you stand a good chance of discovering and squashing these bugs eventually. In fact, as your code (mind) matures, you start to develop procedures to test unproven pull requests (theories/ideas) before merging and committing. You'll be especially careful of unknown authors or authors that have introduced buggy code in the past, while possibly giving full commit access to authors you trust.
Well, I was genuinely asking what you were talking about since your very very brief response were really not saying me anything.

This reasoning is nothing at all like being asked to prove there is no god, the history of science shows that we are able to untangle the mechanisms of the natural world, and there are no evidence to the contrary.

Now, in the eyes of science it is not the responsibility of a religious person to prove that god exists or does not exist, it is as much the responsibility of science - it's just very much a non-topic in science since no evidence have been found either way.

(And there are a lot of evidence that science will be able observe an experience - we already can do very basic recognition of patterns in brain waves based on what the subject is experiencing, we are starting to map, understand and simulate a human brain. Eventually that might turn into an engineering problem of hooking up the proper equipment to neurological pathways.)
Facebook’s automated conscience
I think you are correct, the commercial models are marketed as circulators so they have both the heating element and a way to move water around to ensure even temperatures throughout the water tub.
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It's already back online.
I think this is part of a larger point. Books aren't just collections of facts. Deleuze and Guattari perhaps said it best in the introduction to "A Thousand Plateaus" - "A book itself is a little machine..."

They then go on to say: "We will never ask what a book means, as signified or signifier; we will not look for anything to understand in it. We will ask what it functions with..." Books are machines you plug into your understanding of the world and they either have an effect on you or they have no effect at all. What and how a book plugs into your understanding and works on it is more important than the content of the book itself under this view.
Is this page violently broken for anyone else on desktop?
The Ethics of Publishing Hacked Information
James Joyce followed proper English when he published his first novel as a nobody. (And his second novel, and third.) He was also a professor of English at the time, so he wasn't really "a nobody" even then. So he may not be the best test case.
Broken for me, too. Running Firefox
Hi, we are really not like other accelerators, our deal is standard, 20K for 8%. We do our part for the 8% he has to do his for the 92%! anyway, here is our statement in response. hope.ly/1BLIuRz
I love the DSL for sequence diagrams the most. I've always wanted a structured text notation for architectural concepts (databases, queues, load balancing, failover, etc) as well as more atomic (non-text) graphical symbols for each. UML specifies a symbol for database, for example, but not for most of those other things. Perhaps I should get serious about scratching this itch.
Ask HN: How to tell if new manager will suck?
For all fellow developers out there... how did you determine (when you interviewed) that the boss you interviewed with will be cool, or suck?

Thanks
Extensive discussion from 24 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8749619
Internal Memo: Sony Could Not Have Prepared for ‘Unprecedented’ Hack
Swank – Reseller Item Search Ranked by Profit and Sale Frequency
Oh interesting, I'd noticed that at some point between my childhood and now, burned out bulbs stopped taking out the entire rest of the light string. I wonder if the bypass wire is a new(ish) development, or if we just had cheap Christmas lights when I was younger.
https://archive.today/s6N9C
If you can raise your price without reducing rides (1), your prices are too low to begin with. Does Uber really strike you as the kind of company that would leave money on the table like that, only incur the wrath of users by raising the price when it rains? That's really poor marketing.

> The question is, if you raise prices 4x, will you get 4x as many drivers

Nothing in the surge pricing argument is predicated on that relationship being in place. As long as the relationship is positive, surge pricing works. Presumably, Uber has a data-driven model that allows them to calculate which level to surge to to satisfy a given demand - which is probably the same model they use to set base prices - if the model consistently suggests a 0.9x surge, it means they should lower the prices, which, incidentally they did in London four months ago (also in direct contrast to your case 1).
This is also why it is so incredibly important to treat everyone's input with respect and consideration - you don't always know what you don't know, or someone could give you an experience or new input that reframes how you think about a particular thing. I think this is one of the elements of human interaction that I value and enjoy the most - being able to try to learn how other people think, and what they think about, and sharing how I think and what I think about.
Maybe off topic, but I'm actually really surprised that monitors and GPUs are still different pieces of hardware.

I'll admit I only know the basics of GPU architecture, so please forgive/correct me if I'm wrong about something. However, I am just too curious not to share.

I'll try to explain. A frame buffer is nothing but a bunch of 1s and 0s in memory, meanwhile a monitor is just a bunch of 1s and 0s in pixels. We currently have the GPU write to memory in parallel and we currently write pixels to a monitor serially (and therefore interlacing). However, given the similarity between memory and pixels, why then can't we optimize a GPU to (parallely) write to pixels instead of memory. To the extreme, you could optimize, your GPU to have 1 shader per pixel, and since the shaders all run on the same clock cycle, the whole monitor would update simultaneously. I think that would be really cool and more importantly efficient. In more practical terms you would probably have 1 GPU shader be responsible for some group of pixels (so you only need 1 shader per 4x3 pixels or per 16x9 pixels).

So, before you say it, I get you might disagree with me when it comes to desktop GPUs, since 1. the GPU memory needs to be close to RAM (you don't want to have the GPU memory be on the other side of a "long" cable) 2. You would like to update the hardware for a GPU separately from your monitor. However, in something like Mobile/Oculus, the form factor is so small/tightly coupled already, I'm surprised optimizations like this aren't being looked into.

Am I just not up to date? Is there something fundamentally wrong in my logic? Does getting rid of the frame buffer/interlacing, not provide as much of a boost to make this worth while?
And they look fucking awful.
I urge you to read our response to his claims. hope.ly/1BLIuRz
+1 for aggressive pricing. If you are looking for a fully managed NoSQL, Google Cloud Datastore might be a good alternative - https://cloud.google.com/datastore/
Stripe's AWS-Go and uploading to S3
Sure, it will slow you down compared to the idea of writing only the source file... assuming the source file is as well-structured and bug-free as it would have been by writing the test. In which case, why would anyone ever write any tests anywhere ever?
Sous Vide is used in high end restaurants to make some of the most delicious food in the world.
Yes, that is correct. I used an aquarium circulation pump for this (http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.14/people/matthew_arbesfe...). They go for about 10 bucks on Amazon.
That's why, always checking for the origin of things is very valuable, asking why we currently do things the way we do them :)
>>It may prove to be very useful eventually.

Even if accidentally.
I think Rails should rename has_many to couples_many

Logical coupling crops up in lots of unexpected places as well:

<%= partial :foo %>

Partials are functions but with no clear argument signature, so they may be used sloppily with no obvious way of determining what (interface, state expectations) they are coupled to.
Ask HN: Which one will bring more beta users? Product Hunt or Betalist?
The Legend of the Worst Kindle Ebook Ever
I am a big fan of CasperJS which sits atop PhantomJS. This tool certain looks like a fun way to get introduced to Phantom.
> Even though pvnick was incorrect about their claim that the recession isn't over

I was not, please see my reply adjacent to your's
Indeed. It's hard to have a comsumption based economy if 99% of the population have no money to spend on things.
Network monitoring options for a home lab
This is something I see popping up fairly often. We all work on enterprise networks during the day (or maybe night as well) but also may have home labs for testing. I put together some info on how you can get network monitoring setup at this link. When I say monitoring I mean something more detailed than the stats you get from SNMP.

http://www.netfort.com/network-monitoring-options-for-a-home-lab/
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It's even worse (at least with emotional political opinions); when confronted with adversarial data we tend to become more entrenched in our positions.
> the secret weapon for making cheap beef tasty

Traditionally, that has been barbecue, no?

http://bbq.tamu.edu/meat-selection/
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Ok, I agree that is a bit mean. But seriously folks, a snippet is not a 'royalty worthy' bit of a copyrighted work. But getting your traffic from Google, now THAT has some value. So the publishers are finally figuring out that this equation is "Publisher gives rights to publish snippets created by Google on its Google News page, Google publishes those and sends the resulting traffic to the publishers site IF SOMEONE CLICKS ON IT."

There alternative is to pay some web site to put their snippets on it and train users to go to that site to figure out if they want to visit the paper's web site. Not going to be cheap for the publishers, that is for sure.
Native Windows client for Slack
The distraction economy: how technology downgraded attention
Lounges can be between $30 - $100-ish depending on location, quality, amenities etc. There are lots of really great lounges that can be had without expensive flight tickets - http://www.plaza-network.com/ it's interesting that most people don't know about independent lounge providers. These lounges have massages, showers, tasty food, etc. For people who don't travel enough to warrant a membership but still wants a nice experience it's pretty awesome.

I started using airport lounges when I joined LoungeBuddy (since I had no idea it's even a thing worth checking out before), and it's definitely is a much better experience.

(disclosure - I do iOS work at LoungeBuddy and we pretty much have all the information on all the lounges on the entire planet, including access rules and entry price of they offer walk ups etc. http://www.loungebuddy.com/ )
British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Uncomplicated Pregnancies
Money is not wealth. It's a (very efficient) mechanism for exchanging wealth. "Where did all the wealth go?" would be a better question to ask. The answer is that nothing in life has inherent value, only perceived. If the perception changes, wealth can be lost (or gained).
There are some things I would do different, based on experience with managers that really did suck.

I suggest you ask where you will be sitting. This because I expected an office, but was made to sit in - this is what my manager actually called it - "The Boiler Room" because I was a consultant, and not an employee.

Also I suggest driving to the company from your home at the same time of day as you would be working there, as well as back during the evening commute. Had I done that, I would not have taken some of my jobs.
Ask HN: Help in creating a curriculum for students from Grade 4 to Grade 9
I've been asked to advise a school to help with their computer training curriculum.

Some background - This school is located in India. Financially, this places constraints regarding the number of computers available as well as the amount of time the students can spend on them. In social terms, there is still a lot of pressure on students to prepare towards their Grade 10 examinations which is geared towards rote learning than understanding. Programming / Computers is not part of the syllabus. Parents would rather have their kids score high in tests rather than code some programs. Internet connectivity is also a challenge so many online training courses might not be possible.

The school's current curriculum, does not prepare them for further exploration into programming. Students are assigned an hour of computer lab time per week starting from 4th Grade.

I had a look at 'Hour of Code' [1] from Khan Academy which seems very interesting, especially the one on 'Drawing' [2].

I was thinking of introducing Javascript from the 6th grade. Something like RaphaelJs [3], which is what the 'Hour of Code' seems to be using but with a better interface.

I was thinking of Javascript mainly because, every computer practically has a Javascript IDE built in. So, they won't need to install additional software across computers. Another language I was thinking of was Visual Basic, specifically Visual Basic of Applications (VBA), since this comes bundled with Microsoft Office suite. This would also help them learn basic code modules and structuring.

Any suggestions, advice, is welcome. Free software is preferable. The time they have with computers is quite limited, so that also has to be kept into consideration.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/hourofcode

[2] https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/hour-of-code/hour-of-code-tutorial/p/intro-to-drawing

[3] http://raphaeljs.com/
> PS: Feel free to look for any counter example.

Ok, create a loop equivalent for `(define (f g x) (g x))`.
We use scratch and its clones phratch/snap/bingo at our local coderdojo to great effect. Today I discovered Dr Scratch http://drscratch.programamos.es which does an analysis on your code.
Same here! I did a pretty extensive search about 8 years ago for real-world examples, and no one could point to any, outside of test code to make sure that a given tool could handle these mythical files should they appear.
I love Mitro, but it doesn't have 2FA.
Sure you can say specific industries are in recession but if you don't qualify it that implies the entire economy.
The bigger issue is Amazon's inability to recognize the situation when the author followed up. In their defense, they probably have hundreds of thousands of self-publishing authors. And with most of them earning very little, Amazon may not even generate enough revenue from them to support a full-time staff even just to follow-up on every author's question.

It's unfortunate, because authors do deserve better, and they'll understandably be upset when they're routed to a malfunctioning robot. But if the problem is too many authors and not enough support staff, maybe the real question is: does self-publishing scale?
This is a memory leak now, not a stack overflow.
> The OP suggested the American economy is still in a recession

I didn't read it that way. Whether we are technically in a recession or not, from the perspective of many, many people, we never left the recession. The rest of the comment makes it clear that this was the correct way to read it. Arguing over the throwaway usage of a rhetorically convenient (albeit not technically accurate) term is a waste of time.

Pvnick lost no credibility in my eyes, despite the fact that I know the definition of a "recession", because I recognized the point being made and was able to see through the terminology.
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I've been seeing a lot of these types of articles lately, trying to convince how bad off the American worker is and how those fat cats in the 1% are siphoning all of the wealth away. I've also noticed a recent uptick in socialist-populist activity. I'm not sure which is the cart and which is the horse but it seems like articles like this have a specific political agenda in mind.
My silliest main gripe with Go. No, it's not the lack of generics
For people who don't care for 'apps' that are just websites inside browsers, Slack supports XMPP and IRC gateways. I've only used the IRC gateway, and there are some janky bits, but it got the job done. https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec...
You're not the first to comment like this (see the comments below the article). I was surprised to see how many people pay too little attention to naming of variables, methods and classes in object-oriented programming. I strongly believe that a wrong name can play a key role in a good design, as well as a bad name can ruin the entire project.
Yep, and that bit of JS you are distributing _is_ a decoder. I've been bitten by this before, and it resulted in buying the MPEG-LA a few ferraris a month after they noticed and we were popular while we worked to create an alternate solution.

Good times.
Would you consider writing up your wiki design choices, and how they differ from the typical wiki?
Sure, but if someone lost their house and the bank took it, wouldn't that mean the banks ate up all of the assets?
the super metroid 4 way race is good. the game is insanely optimised by now and the commentary is comprehensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmfV8IhsHq0
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> It's far from "a hidden fee." You simply have to know the rules

But that's the same thing! If people don't know or understand the rules, the fee is hidden to them. You could say that people have should educate themselves, and my reply would be that there's infinite amount of complexity that could be added to the pricing if needed: "Oh, on cloudy Wednesdays, when Jupiter shines and the Yen is down.. it's 2$ extra"
Just to chime in here.. I _really_ like keeping notes on books now. I put them in my vimwiki, write it in (github flavour) markdown, and publish statically. Very handy.
Just installed it. Is there a way to set multiple home airports? There's a bunch of airports near me that I'd drive to if a good flight were available.
> You've unfortunately sparked a fairly pointless litany of quibbling about language

Perhaps unfortunate, but very predictable. We have to agree on the definitions of the words we're using otherwise we're just monkeys at keyboards. And starting from a false premise is one of the worst ways to construct an argument.

As an aside, I'm always intrigued when people use words whose meanings they don't really comprehend. I think it's interesting how we try to infer meaning from contexts and how rarely we actually check that model against reference sources.
I recently met some people who swore that photoreading was legit and that because of it they'd read about 10 thick books per week. Not knowing what it was, I looked it up and immediately didn't believe the premise. There's something to be said for speed reading (at a rate slightly faster than normal) but photoreading just seems ridiculous. Not only can no real content/meaning be gained from doing it, but no mental models can be formed. I'd love to be proven wrong, though...
Show HN: Bohemian Guitars disrupt the instrument market with oil can guitars
New Shopping Websites Transforms Regular Purchases into Purchases That Give Back
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Screen emulation:

iDisplay: http://www.getidisplay.com/

AirDisplay: https://avatron.com/applications/air-display/

iDevice preview:

LiveView: http://www.zambetti.com/projects/liveview/

Skala (Pre)view: http://bjango.com/mac/skalapreview/
ArsTechnica Hacked?
I think ArsTechnica got hacked not sure... it was up about an hour ago but now Its just a black page with a couple of links to Twitter Feeds (that look brand new)
I'm here to confirm to you that it doesn't. Sorry buddy, wish it did myself. 5K is out of reach for most MBP's (if not all).
Yeah, not having much luck with that. No response so far. Not even ACK :(
Surely if it's on a network the proton has to be read at some point so it can be delivered to it's destination? Wouldn't that change it's shape?