skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are looking at this from your point of view. Someone who values his online identity and (probably) already takes the required steps to protect it.

At the other extreme, my father commenting on the news couldn't care less if his account is hacked. All he wants is a fast and easy way (using the same password he always uses) to post on the Internet, with a relatively secure way to identify himself to other users on the site.

You need to sit next to someone who doesn't live on the Internet to realize how simple measure, such are requiring a minimum password, can really piss them off.

"Oh, my account got hacked... I guess I'll make another."

"God FUCKING DAMNIT this stupid website won't accept my password!"
Couldn't such absolute statements actually be your own "rationalization" and prejudice? How can you be sure it was others who messed it up, not you, if you keep thinking this way everywhere? Very probably you indeed have some aspects to improve, but you just convinced yourself that "no, I'm perfectly capable, but that interviewer sucked and judged me arbitrarily. That was his fault, not mine." Thus you look at the world through hostile, cynical eyes and miss up on the opportunity to improve yourself. Isn't that even more harmful and irrational thinking, which you seem to be up against?

In short, possessing such a mentality is dangerous and likely to keep your mind shut.

I don't doubt that you might happen upon some pathetically incompetent interviewers. But if you treat every "no" response in this same manner it's awful.
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Show HN: 50 translated Charlie Hebdo covers in one place
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Uber partners with local police to get drunk bar-goers home safely
What, in your opinion, is the best research/study showing the benefit of competition in a high school classroom? Most of what I'm finding online are essentially opinion pieces.
> Even worse, increasingly automated systems are relying on journal articles for automated diagnosis.

Where can I learn more about this? Without hearing more, it sounds like a terrible idea.

As a scientist, if my beliefs were based on an unweighted sample of claims made in journal articles, I can tell you, I would believe a lot of nonsense. I hope no one is practicing medicine that way.
Apple Watch and Human Anatomy
Homeschooling is great but a lot to ask of parents. My mom managed to stay very active in my education despite being a single mother working all the time. A few of my friends mothers were the same. I think if they would have been given the chance to understand the status of our entire class(where we were deficient or doing well), they may have organized in a similar way.
Confirmed iiyama PL2779Q. Loud and clear
Why Netflix won't block VPN users – it has too many of them
The most famous thing Joel has written was a checklist. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
> Oops, the user entered their email as [email protected] instead of [email protected]? Or [email protected] instead of [email protected]?

...

> when presented with a login dialog, like to rapidly type

> [email protected], tab, p4$$w0rd, enter

...

So... Tell me. Considering that you don't block people finding out email addresses on Discourse in the interests of user-friendliness, why on earth are you blocking email addresses, and ones for the purpose of examples at that? An interesting juxtaposition there, and rather ironic, to put it mildly.

Also:

> I think a nice middle ground is to insert standard pauses of moderately increasing size after repeated sequential failures or repeated sequential forgot password requests from the same IP address. So that's what we do.

So what about NATs? There are countries with one public IP address.
TBH if your monitor would break due to a video signal I'd get a refund for supplying a sub-par product. Video signals shouldn't be able to break hardware (just people's brains according to some of the comments)
This happens so frequently to me. I'll Spend an hour running benchmarks and then post a PR. Someone chimes in and says "method x is faster" with nothing to back it up. I have to benchmark again, and then my way is still faster.
That sounds a bit like the cake mix people who discovered that they got better sales if the mix required an egg to be broken and beaten into the mix. The taste was no different, but the cooks felt better. Or the antiseptic spray that added a component to give the sting consumers expected.
> Less educated? Perhaps. Less intelligent? Now you're sounding like a bigot.

This only needs to be true for a higher percentage of the represented population to say that it is more likely. It doesn't make someone a bigot to talk about statistical measures. (i don't have the stats in front of me but i'm merely commenting on your accusation.)
Probably something Oauth-like, say Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, tumblr., Google, Yahoo...
Yup. While there's no sharks, there probably is a cat.
Hey, Jeremy,

Mainly full time.

Cheers,
Leo
Is it a good idea to provide 24/7 unlimited phone support for $25 / month?
This is what I always want. If I am trying to login to a website where I never register. Simply send me a mail to activate it.
That or he isn't aware of the subtle exception to the a vs an rule regarding leading 'y' u-sounds.
You missed the point of my comment. I'm saying that much of the "science" is so soft that the process is still based on judgement calls. Not only do I disagree with some of those judgment calls, but I prefer transparent value judgements to hidden value judgements.
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So Scotty-based software development?
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If you're trying to learn clojure, read this book. Maybe even first.

Agree with what others have said, Clojure for the Brave and True is a fantastic book, was excited when I got the leanpub email this morning alerting me to a new chapter.
I am not Charlie Hebdo
Similarly, I've lost count of how many times I've hit "log in with Facebook" and accidentally created a new account.
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You expect them to come out and say it? How quaint.

Private corporations want government sponsored private education. For example, (thankfully ex) governor of Pennsylvania has made aggressive funding cuts to traditional public education, and he was heavily funded by private schools, to the point where his radio appearances on the local talk network were sponsored by "PA cyber charter school".

On top of that, traditional public schools are union, and the political leanings of unions are well known.

Defunding and destroying non private schools is an obvious goal of the conservative movement.
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Interesting. My primary screen, a 27 inch Dell something-or-another costing me €350+ a couple years ago gives an audible noise at the thinner bars.

My secondary screen though, a Fujitsu Siemens 19 inch thing probably eight years old by now doesn't do a thing. However, that one broke down a couple of years ago - the condensators in that one had broken, and my dad replaced them with higher-voltage alternatives.

Note that monitors breaking down due to capacitor malfunction is a common issue - the manufacturers intentionally install capacitors with a too low voltage limit, which will cause the monitors to break down within 3-5 years, shortly after the required 3 years warranty. Planned / designed obsolescence, and stuff. Free business opportunity for anyone with a soldering iron: buy old 'broken' TFT screens and replace the broken capacitors with ones with higher voltages.

(note I'm not an electronic engineer and I forgot all of my education about the subject, my phrasing may be wrong)
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The US being a giant country has very little to do with the US being mostly car-dependent for the activities of everyday life. We built most of our settlements on the inexpensive outskirts of existing settlements, with free roads and cheap (and secure, as the world's greatest oil producer at the time) oil. We saw such development as 'business' & 'industry' rather than 'planning', and largely consigned design elements to private developers, with the asterisk that we would pay for whatever roads and utilities they needed - including an interstate highway system that was practically a wonder of the world at the time. Strong tax inducements on depreciation of commercial property, and ownership of a single-family home, resulted in an ever-growing sprawl. We actually tore up most of the public transportation that existed in the early 20th century, and the economic vacuum of urban decay accelerated itself with racial tension that much of the rest of the world does not have.
I think "Remote Management" is an option on pretty much all consumer routers. It's pretty unfortunate to have it default to on when there is a non unique default password though.
The inglorious essence of heroic individualism
Sorry. I knew I was mangling it, but it was the only way to get within HN's title restrictions. Thought about leaving a pre-emptive comment to that effect, and I probably should have.
Confirmed with LG 22MP65 IPS LED and iiyama ProLite E1906S.

You can hear a faint sound when the lines reach a certain distance from each other and it fades out as the distance changes.
Way cool, worked on my Dell U3011! How does this function, why does the screen emit a high pitched noise?
Why is this downvoted, this is a very reasonable question.

Noise is a mechanical wave produced by something vibrating.
If you can hear it, it means that thing is vibrating quite hard inside your monitor.
People with a pointing stick, good luck!
If that Angular guy could be an instructor for a class on it in NYC, I can give you a $200 referral fee! zach (at) nycda (dot) com.
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What are Leap Seconds?
As an aside on the username/password thing, unless it's going to be visible through your window, you're probably best off keeping them on a sticky label attached to your router. That way, you have them when you need them, they're not available on the internet.
But...why? I use an external display with my Air(through the built in display port), connect external storage through USB 3.0, have 8GB of ram.....and now they want to throw this away for what? To make it marginally thinner? And add the inconvenience of having the same port for charging/data/video?

I wouldn't buy rMBP13, purely because it's heavier, and if you walk a lot with your machine,then it adds up.
Tree-shaped Wind-turbines Shows Biomimicry at Its Best
101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication
I'm a bit confused how the interview came in at the end? Did the author use their project in a job application?
I'm the main developer on Axiom, another computer algebra
system. I'm also looking for employment. I wish Robert
all the luck he deserves. -- Tim Daly
Box Seeks Up to $162.5M in I.P.O
Dell P2210 emits a tone. Motorola Moto G phone does not.
>Unfortunately I follow the money for survival, but if it weren’t for that, I really feel that I could be doing world-class work for what basically amounts to room and board. I wonder if anyone here feels the same…

Ok. So find where to do that, and do it. If you don't have children to support or other family to stick by, you're only excuse is your fear of doing something too unconventional.

You want to do world-class work? Cool, let's talk about it. What's world-class to you? What would get you out of bed rather than give you an existential crisis?
I thought listening to CRT with AM radio was cooler, with Tempest for Eliza[0] :)

[0] http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
The rise of the mobile mega niche
Then may I perhaps interest you in this monstrosity?

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7495073/msi-mechanical-keyb...

This is a laptop with a full mechanical keyboard, 2x graphics cards and a 350W power brick.

But if that is not insane enough, there is a company called Eurocom, which will build you this monster:
http://www.eurocom.com/ec/configure%281,234,0%29ec

It can be configured with a 12-core(24 thread) Xeon CPU + 2 GPUs + 4 hard drives. It needs TWO 300W power bricks to function, and is supposed to be used as a mobile server.
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Could you articulate more? Why aren't Academic Hospitals allowed to increase the cap limit on Residency programs?
Thanks for the perspective, but this is actually a standard practice in the software industry. Also, If you voiced that kind of attitude with many of the folks at my company, you would never be hired.
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Ah, palette shifting, that takes me back... but man, Mark J. Ferrari, truly a master in the 8-bit field. Really took palette shifting to another level. And the site does a great job exposing what's going on under the covers. Great link!
It is more likely to clear up lcd ghosting
Yeah, I think characters like that (such as the glyphs for the Emoticons Unicode block (U+1F600〜4F) that the font Symbola¹ uses) aren’t as legible on low DPI displays at font sizes like 12pt, which is even worse when you’re using them in plain text where everything has to be the same size. On 'HiDPI' or 'Retina' displays though, even in the situations mentioned above, they look razor sharp.

Here’s an example of how it looks on an iPad Air².

――――――

¹ — http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

² — http://cl.ly/image/0r2d2x3F1P0F/U%2B2611.PNG
There's a working theory in the Github explanation.

White and black pixels take different amounts of power to draw. As the screen scans up and down to draw the various rows, it thus has to rapidly charge and discharge the capacitors. The capacitors are expanding and contracting a bit as they do so, which vibrates the air and makes a tone.

Frankly this sounds like an awesome way to blow up those capacitors.
I'm one of those humans. I helps not to look at the screen just listen and glance at it when you hear the tune.
Nothing on mine, 2011 model.
So get better at being a fake extrovert for 90 seconds. Programmers as a class of people are shy and awkward. Not hard to be not the shyest and awkwardest around.
I'm sorry, but my main take away from the discussion wasn't about the LGBT community at all. It was that India is still not ready for democracy. A candidate decides to try out this election thing without any agenda and plans, and they win without any reason. They don't even know why they won and what they can really do for the community. Giving government jobs to beggars isn't a plan. And I'm saying this as an Indian.
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- We built our own project management and graphics preview tools because…why not?

Depending on your experience and preference we will help you focus on the customer-facing front end parts of projects, the server-side back end, or both. The end goal is to find what you love and what you’re talented at and help you grow professionally as a developer.

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Still put your Bitcoin # on some page if not here. Someone might make an investment if you talk about your errors, changes, and goals.

Especially if you're comfortable talking to technical people who already use cryptocurrency, it makes some sense it helps to show your hand, and maybe ask if to share a hand is normal.

Sometimes people have been there and it is easy to read your needs make sense.

I find how much effort it takes to say "money comes and goes" very difficult but realizable as needing basic speechcome, as much a power to share speech we need to validate sharing many things, from problems to solutions.
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Our current frontend stack includes: Node.js, Coffeescript, Express.js, Jade, Stylus, Backbone.js, gulp.js, mocha and WebdriverIO.

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You dismiss the research

Nope. I'm assuming it's fine.

I get that you want to make the fight over those studies. That's fine, but I won't.

Instead, I'm assuming that all those studies are fine, but I'm still trying to figure out things that actually exist in the world around me:

1. why does the UK, with all its "permanent drops" in suicide, still have a rate within 10% of the US, which has so many guns?

2. why is the suicide rate for young people in the UK higher than it was 50 years ago? http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/msui6811.html NB: this especially points to the fact that cultures adapt in the long term to availability of suicide methods; young people who've never seen a coal gas stove don't even try.[1]

3. if half of homes have access to a guns, and assuming gun owners are as sane as non-gun owners[2], and if access to a gun is a major major factor, how come only slightly more than half of suicides are done via gun? (NB There is some factor, and I haven't denied that.)

4. instead of being in the same cluster as most modern countries, is the US really "supposed" to have a rate of suicide that places it about a factor of two lower than that bump? Why is the US so exceptionally awesome this way?

There's something in the macro-picture that isn't adding up to what all the micro-studies are asserting. All those micro-studies can be completely right and still not add up to the right picture.

[1] this suggests that you could reduce suicide rates by promulgating a widespread story that a great way to kill yourself is to do something that is plausible enough to cause self-harm but actually doesn't; then when people try it and it doesn't work, maybe they give up

[2] you could argue that gun people are crazy, because guns, but it would work against your position
Had no clue about there's actually a book on this topic! No more googling around differences between actors/goroutines/threads. Thanks a ton.
Nothing on my Retina MacBook Pro, Thunderbolt Display or 2011 27" iMac. Then again, I've got pretty bad ears. Now I need to send this to coworkers to see if their mileage varies.
> I also disagree that not using your real name is for losers, but that one is pretty controversial.

It was a more innocent world, back then. I do not go to any measurable lengths to hide my actual name, but I would rather not volunteer it to the social engineering underworld either.
From another thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856829

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8857209

I see that this screen has alternating black and white lines. I count 43 black lines on my monitor. Assuming 60 Hz refresh rate, that is 2580 Hz in terms of the pixels being off or on, which is a perfectly audible frequency. Even with 120 Hz refresh rate, that would be 5160 which is still easily audible. Without knowing anything else, I guess that there may be a capacitor somewhere that is charging and discharging along with the brightness of the screen as it is refreshed from top to bottom, which is causing it to flex in a way that produces an audible noise.
Why so few developers are using Firebird SQL?
SpaceX Launch and Historic Landing Attempt Reset to Jan. 10
reminds me of dbz. nice.
The checklist oscilates between high level (does it work?) and very specific - even stuff auto format could take care of (braces).

Creating such an checklist is great exercise though - writing my own made me think heavily on what is important. Then I realized writing it down is not enough - how do I know it is not bunch of made
up rules? So I have also tried to provide rationale for each topic. At the same I have tried to keep the list actionable.

You can judge if I di well here: http://www.michalkostic.com/post/104272540521/code-review-ch...
Eli's attempt to collect information seems well-intentioned but very silly. There's no way to make some finite list of the things you might want to do to enable an intelligent decision about what information to export from GCC. You want to be able to do everything, so you can write new program transforms as you think of them.

Think of a Guile REPL with C++ syntax trees as values and a set of functions mapping trees to trees. That's the sort of thing that would be very helpful in thinking of what to do in the first place.

It doesn't sound like Richard would appreciate this scenario though, which I find a little sad.
> "Desirable" is not synonymous with "high status".

Not in the sense that it means the highest level of status.

It is in the sense that it means "some (arbitrary) mid level of status". This is exactly what it means.

We're not talking about physical comfort while working. It's not labor, it's indoor/office, with air conditioning.

> Your arguments again higher pay can be used for any profession

Yes, and they're correct for those as well. It explains quite a bit of HR buffoonery.

> which is a good indication that the reasoning is flawed.

But if you're doing meta-analysis to try to determine if my logic is flawed, it means you don't understand the logic itself. But that goes without saying.

> If that is true for teacher pay, then why not engineers, software developers, doctors, lawyers, etc?

Engineers: Supply more closely meets demand.

Doctors: Supply doesn't meet demand, but there are so many other obstacles and inefficiencies no one can tell. Besides, dumbasses can't claim doctors should be paid more so that we'll get more doctors... supply is restricted by AMA and medical schools which limit the number of seats.

Lawyers: Supply of good lawyers meets demand, oversupply is something they write editorial cartoons about constantly.
Late 2009, 27" iMac: emits tone.
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