skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't stereotype groups of people, regardless of how consistent your observations of them have been.

It's pretty damning to a group to automatically assign them to autism or asperger's syndrome, both of which are medical disorders only properly diagnosed by doctors. It's like automatically treating the elderly like they have Alzheimer's. It also ignores that there can be (and are) great variations within groups, and applying a label on them can have reverberating consequences in policy.

I'm sure you and Cory Doctorow have good intentions, so please don't take this as an affront against you. I'm just tired of people (especially the media) generating ridiculous stereotyped images of people. Good examples of these are the socially inept "nerd" Sheldon Cooper that you mentioned, the misunderstood genius that helps the heroes save the world in movies, and reclusive haunted writers. While I'm sure people of each type actually do exist, we should't treat people any differently unless we have a valid reason, and even then we should try to understand them as an individual.

I understand that I might have taken your comment a bit out of context, so I apologize for that.
For instance, if I messed up something in my code and had an error, the debugger pops up. In this debugger I can not only browse the stack trace and manipulate those objects, I can actually fix what is broken and resume execution of the program from that point

The developer tools in Chrome and Firefox remind me of the Smalltalk IDEs. I don't know if it's intentional or accidental, but the similarities suggest to me that some of the ideas from Smalltalk have been carried over to web development.
Assange believes that Jared Cohen + Eric Schmidt + State Dept have been involved in extrastatecraft in Arab Spring-type protests, so that they could better "exercise the duty to protect citizens around the world" [0]:

Cohen’s directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and “corporate responsibility” work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states. Jared Cohen could be wryly named Google’s “director of regime change.” According to the emails, he was trying to plant his fingerprints on some of the major historical events in the contemporary Middle East. He could be placed in Egypt during the revolution, meeting with Wael Ghonim, the Google employee whose arrest and imprisonment hours later would make him a PR-friendly symbol of the uprising in the Western press. Meetings had been planned in Palestine and Turkey, both of which—claimed Stratfor emails—were killed by the senior Google leadership as too risky. Only a few months before he met with me, Cohen was planning a trip to the edge of Iran in Azerbaijan to “engage the Iranian communities closer to the border,” as part of Google Ideas’ project on “repressive societies.” In internal emails Stratfor’s vice president for intelligence, Fred Burton (himself a former State Department security official), wrote,

Google is getting WH [White House] and State Dept support and air cover. In reality they are doing things the CIA cannot do . . . [Cohen] is going to get himself kidnapped or killed. Might be the best thing to happen to expose Google’s covert role in foaming up-risings, to be blunt. The US Gov’t can then disavow knowledge and Google is left holding the shit-bag.

[0] https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
For those interested, I highly recommend The Alcoholic Republic (1979) which had an honored place on my college bookshelf[1]. The colonists' drink of choice was cider -- 18 gallons per year per person during the Revolution. I've made available his table on alcohol consumption from 1770-1970, showing that pure alcohol consumption peaked at 3.9 gallons in 1830 and has been rising steadily since Prohibition[2].

[1] http://bit.ly/the-alcoholic-republic

[2] http://imgur.com/lTeKNUA
Waste / Refuse collection.
Great article. I'm not a game developer but I enjoyed reading about the constraints they face daily and the solutions they used and how those eventually backfired. I've always figured I'd never want to be a game developer but this gave the feeling I might enjoy it a bit more than I think. Boy, the experience of seeing a fully 3D game run and and run well, that must feel pretty good.

I really liked the final problem's solution!

Anyways, just rambling a little :-).
It looks like a really cool project that you've already done a lot with, but also with a lot of potential.

Are there many active competitors?

Is it written in all Objective C?
Windows 10’s new browser will have the most advanced features ever
The Secret of Effective Motivation
Those are crimes where the victim's testimony is core or critical to the successful prosecution.

In cases where, as this, the government has access to material evidence that doesn't rely on requiring someone to want prosecution or having to testify, then this is not the case.
Computers Conquer Heads-Up Limit Hold'em
How is this different from modern MRI?
Right--or more commonly the cores of old power transformers will softly buzz at 60 hz.
In general, Intel processors only improve about 5% per year. Thus it's not worth replacing an Intel PC if it's only 1-3 years old.
> While the new Core line has modest improvements in productivity, Intel hopes battery life gains will encourage users to buy new devices, said Karen Regis, director of notebook roadmap and strategy for Intel's PC Client Group.

It says right in the article that it doesn't have major improvements in performance (like all of its chips since SNB), so why would it matter that you have Broadwell in a NUC?

Intel is focusing on reducing power with all of its new generations for the most part, and is only slightly increasing GPU performance with each new generation (20 percent or so, for the same class of chips).
Bringing Development and Quality Assurance Teams Together
If I really want or need to acquire your doodad then I am a potential customer and I have three choices. 1) buy your doodad. 2) acquire it without paying money. 3) go without using your doodad.

As a business owner, which would you prefer I do? Would option 2 not result in a loss of potential revenue? Would it not be super-harmful if everyone who wanted to use your product chose option 2?
An in-memory distributed Posix-compatible file system
I agree but the idea of "voting" here can be extrapolated into striking, attending protests, etc. as it's really a stand-in for the idea of "making your voice heard", as opposed to "completely opting out of the political process and telling yourself that doing so is making your voice heard".
>Sure, the majority of sales happen in this timespan, but that doesn't mean someone intent on pirating the game will give up and pay just because it isn't available now.

Sure not all will, but a lot of pirates aren't intent on pirating. They just do it when they can. For example, I want to see American Sniper at the theater. But if a DVD quality rip is out on launch day, fuck it, I'll take it free.

Most PC games go on sale a few weeks after launch and yet people are still paying a premium at launch.
Nuts and Bolts #4: Create and install SSL certificates with ease (and Capistrano)
I've been getting two issues more and more recently running CM11 M12 on my m7vzw:

- random reboots
- lack of signal (while the icon in the notification bar shows connection)

I've been considering moving to CM12 when M1 is released, or perhaps trying out OmniRom.

Now I'm starting to think that maybe just wiping and starting with a fresh CM11 M12 could be the better option...

Thoughts?
Does anyone know if you get a bump from PSPACE closer to EXPSPACE with a quantum harddrive similar to how BQP gets you closer to EXPTIME from PTIME?
Make it a triangle that can be plugged in in any _three_ directions.
High-DPI PCs have been out for a couple of years. I don't have firsthand experience, but it's my understanding that while the Windows world had to play catch-up, it's fairly decent today. Linux support for high DPI varies depending on the desktop environment (I've heard it's abysmal to mediocre).
"slang some Americans use"? C'mon.

"Corée du Nord" and "Corea del Norte" each have millions of search results (in each case, about 10x as many as the formal name). The BBC says "North Korea".
2015 will have an extra second added to atomic clocks
Backand Supports HP’s Data Warehousing
Apropos of your thoughts on copyright infringement, he at the very least committed trespass. Even if MIT had no interest in prosecution. That is undisputed.
I'm sure, and there's probably a ton of other considerations that went into this design e.g. space savings in laptops, manufacturing costs, etc. I just really like not worrying about connectors breaking after replacing laptops and cellphones early because of broken power/micro-USB jacks.
How much time do you put into it each year? You need to subtract that time from your yearly revenue.
>The current wireless cell phone industry is a much better comparison, because it's already regulated under Title II.

Quoting from the posted article and jiving with my memory: "[...] the FCC explicitly exempted wireless data networks from Title II in 2007"[1].

More specifically, I think only mobile voice services are regulated under Title II[2]. Mobile data (aka mobile broadband) is exempt, provided the FCC follows their own declaration made in 2007.

[1] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-30A1.pd...

[2] http://techliberation.com/2014/11/19/the-myth-that-title-ii-...
Many of us would love an app that was making $10k a year. That's a lot of money, can you do without it?

If it was me, my financial situation may be different, but, I'd drag myself up by the scruff of my neck and set aside some time to fix it......$10k a year!
Have you seen the new xps13? 13.3in 3200x1800 screen, in an 11in form factor has been announced.
It looks REALLY nice, congratulations.

It's something I could see myself using, but it seems too US-centric at the moment :) . Still, I'll give it a try :)

Do you have an e-mail or something for feedback?
Yeah. Well technically you'll be able to run it, and probably use it via menus and buttons, but some keyboard shortcuts won't be accessible.

Mostly cross-platform stuff I'd expect, can't think of any OSX software using function keys, but some of Firefox's developer tools are bound on F-keys for instance.
Who was it who said that phones are getting smarter and people are getting dumber? Maybe this is part of a new trend that bucks that theme. Athletes have always known that equipment is important, but not as important as training; but not everyone can afford coaches. So there could be a whole raft of product ideas around making behavior change more accessible to the average person. And the effective solutions might be the simplest ones.
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Shielding them from responsibility doesn't mean it can't force them to take measures to prevent it.
You'll just have to take it on Faith.
15 minutes in, I am finding this talk to be slow and unfocused. I assume this is getting a lot of promoters because we all agree with the theme?
New York State Senate bill offers tax credit for open source dev expenses
Hooray, Moiré! :)
> why vote? When democracy emerged in the U.S., the voting population was about 800,000. The current voting population is 206,000,000. The power of an individual's vote has decreased immensely.

I agree that the power to change the outcome of an election is minimal, roughly equal to every other voter.

Voting does much more than change election outcomes; it signals the electorate's priorities. Win or lose, every vote from your neighborhood, district, town, county, etc. signals that people there care, and pressures elected officials to pay attention to them. Every vote for your issues, win or lose, signals your priorities. Your representatives' jobs depend on pleasing voters. Democrats elected in districts where people vote for gun rights are not going to push gun control in Congress (and vice versa for Republicans). Counties where 75% vote will get politicians' attention and have their issues addressed; those where 30% vote will be overlooked.

And every non-vote in your neighborhood, district, town, county, etc. tells your elected officials that you don't care and that they can safely ignore you.
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Why?

What does the OS or network config matter if it's "airgapped"?

What do you consider an "airgapped machine"?

1. http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Thanks. The only Mac-only competition I know of is Cartographica, which is $500 vs $40 for Magic Maps.

It's mostly Objective-C. The core map-projection library is C and OpenCL, which I had a lot of fun with! I open-sourced that library (ProjCL) a while back: https://github.com/evanmiller/ProjCL
I confessed to the "crime" on the spot, and provided all proof that I did it immediately. There was a clear documented log of what I did. No "investigating" was necessary.

I would have been chucked into jail for a year in theory, if they could get it past a grand jury, since there was/is sufficient evidence. The only reason it never went that far is because I cooperated with the FBI in other regards that I cannot disclose.

I can assure you that no harm was done to anyone. It was/is a technical violation of the letter of the law.
Some of these are dirty, but I think the majority are smart hacks in the best sense of the word, especially the final story about memory allocation
Thanks. I'm not qualified to discuss this, but Apple did include hardware decoding for HEVC on the iPhone 6, and they're extremely power-conscious.
I know you love talking out of your ass. But if you ever decide to push yourself for more than two months, you will understand that a fitness habit never feels forced. You will chase it in an active manner because you will love it.

Ask any fit or sporty individual you know. They don't do it because they have to. They do it because they want to.

The boredom you mentioned is natural. Everybody gets it at the exact same strength and at the exact same moments. The difference is that some people are disciplined enough to continue and burn through it. And only then you get to see the fun and enjoyment part.

Discipline is king. With anything else you're just lying to yourself. Nobody will create the perfect environment for you to be comfortable with physical effort. You're the one that has to do it.
This trick has an interesting artifact.

When I came back to HN, I noticed that my mind made my vision appear actively "wavy." In other words, I could see some slight movement of waves on the horizontally drawn elements currently displayed -- the top orange bar that says [Y]Hacker News [...] had the appearance of fluctuating with low frequency waves.
That's the point. They're taking away the fun keys.
> Is the "keep the government in line" thing really a reason that anybody actually believes anymore?

If they don't, they should (I'm not a gun owner or an NRA member). If you look at history, it is exceptionally rare to find a 100 year stretch where governments and militaries didn't kill more civilians than any amount of murderers. Not always domestic governments, but that only adds to the point.

> if things got so bad that the government was "turning on its own people" with weaponry, somebody really thinks some guys with guns from Wal-Mart are going to be what stops them?

I'm not going to speculate, but it might not be as one sided as you'd think. Put all the hunters in the U.S. together and you have the largest army in the world by a factor of five.

Regardless it doesn't have to be that bad. Government apathy or corruption can be enough to justify retaining the right to self defense. Consider the police work slowdown in NYC turning into a thinly veiled version of protection money. Local LEOs that ask for more money every year or 'gee I guess we will have to just let everyone out of jail'. Or consider something like that judge that sold children into private prisons. Imagine that despite protests and uproar, they sweep it under the rug and continue? History is rife with examples of people being exploited simply because they were dependent or defenseless.

Someone who has your best interests in mind won't demand that you be defenseless or dependent upon them.
Title really should be consequences of business models in education reform of higher education. It showed a consequence of selling scientific research and less tenure for the scientist and researchers looking for a job outside of college.

Was a former faculty member of a college as a librarian. Colleges have nothing on Public School Administrators.

My city of 120,000 went from

2003 = 8 administrators and 4 high school principles for two high schools.

2014 = 32 administrators and 16 high school principles for two high schools
Ok, that is the best Monty Hall explanation I've ever heard.
Japan's fertility rate is rising
I deleted the post because I felt truly stupid afterwards and hoped nobody would see it, my account was actually hellbanned long ago and for a good reason (personal insults). I've just been on a slow boil afterwards and after I posted my thoughts instead of just thinking about them, I realized how childish they were.

Also realized I should take a break from HN, if I can't be civilized about commenting here. Sorry.
The Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 was legendary for the amount of radio interference it caused. I used this at age 7 along with my older brother to add sounds and victory music to pinball games. You could tune the FM radio to a harmonic of the frequency of the processor. Then you constructed loops with short delays to alter the frequency of the sound. You'd hear all kinds of processing garbage during the game loop, but the sounds came out fine.
I think there are a lot of practical problems with Assembly's model, but it feels to me like an imperfect glimpse into what will someday be a really valuable model. I love the idea of being able to contribute to a project with minimal barriers to entry, and get an automatic stake in its success in return.
> Most scientific research done in the United States is publicly funded and therefore should be publicly available at no cost to the public. Less cost might sound like a good idea on paper, but no cost is fair

It costs JSTOR money to get permission to use the material from the publishers. It costs JSTOR money to digitize print journals. How would you suggest that JSTOR get the money for that?

Because of JSTOR, public libraries, community colleges, non-profit research institutions, and many universities outside of the top tier research universities can get organization wide access to large collections of journals for orders of magnitude less than it would cost them without JSTOR, and they can let the general public use their access for free.

Individuals can buy JSTOR subscriptions covering thousands of journals for less than it would cost to subscribe to one individual journal directly.

Yes, that's not as good as no cost, but it is a tremendous improvement over what the world would be like without JSTOR, and that's a good thing.
This is a misleading headline! This 'hard drive' needs to be in a superconducting magnet and held at 2K. I'm not aware of any desktop chassis that comes with a a cryostat...
Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo
I had an Evo, and I must admit that it had more ROMs loaded onto it than those matching the cartridges I actually owned. But about 20% of those dozens of cartridges that I did still buy were for games that I might not have even tried otherwise. There were plenty that were played 0 or 1 times, then deleted forever.

I bought the device primarily so that I would have full access to my complete library without having to tote around physical security tokens everywhere.

And that is the same reason I have hard drives and alternative loaders for my PS2 and Wii. I can play any game that I buy without getting off the couch to switch discs. And with the Wii, there is the added benefit that I probably won't have to open it up and replace the optical disc drive for a third time. This has the unfortunate (for them) side effect that it is dead simple for me to pirate games on those platforms if I had the inclination.

So in my particular case, it would seem that the most effective anti-piracy measure would be to remove the requirement that paying customers have to continually juggle physical tokens to enjoy the content that they paid for.

If I have to break the security features in order to add the convenience features that I want most, the psychological barrier for piracy is lowered. If everything that I want is already on this side of the fence, I am far less inclined to jump over it.

It just so happens that Steam provides the feature I like, which is easy access to a whole library. As a result, I have on a few occasions preferred to re-license a game I already own on disc through Steam, just so I won't have to dig up the physical disc, configure a DOSBox or WinXP VM, install drivers, make tweaks, download the official and unofficial patches, and such.

I already have more games than I have time to play games. If I go to pirate something, it won't be because I don't want to pay, but because I don't want to be hassled every time I want to play.

So the number one anti-piracy measure from my perspective is DON'T WASTE YOUR PAYING CUSTOMERS' TIME. That applies equally to unskippable DVD scenes, physical disc checks, and connection-always-required schemes. Don't waste my time, and I won't go looking for ways to stop you from wasting my time. It is impossible for you to irritate me into giving you more of my money.
If anyone has questions about building a sales team, I'm happy to discuss over coffee if you're in SF. I was the first sales hire at PagerDuty. Email is in profile.
> "3. sed is more performant (or so I hear)."

There are regexes for which awk (maybe sed too?) will perform at a reasonable speed while perl is incredibly slow. Graph: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rsc/regexp-img/grep1p.png Article: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Perl...could...employ much faster algorithms when presented with regular expressions that don't have backreferences.
Yeah. On that front, it kind of seems like a step backwards unless they've done something quite different.
Life Paths and Accomplishments of Mathematically Precocious Males and Females
Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger (2012)
I think you're right about accessibility. Steve was all about taking what was out of reach, or poorly put together, and packaging it for the people.
That packing the controller id into a pointer, which you couldn't use to point at a controller id because it gets freed before you can use it?

I must misunderstand something because the hack is going to fail too, except that you are going to end up with some controller id in your allocator's free list or some other such nonsense...

That last one is best. After having to struggle and fight for 640k for /the heart of a renderer/ if someone had left 2MB lying around that would have been great. Then again so would not using loads of memory for all sorts of weird and wonderful things that are much less important... like C struct padding, or making everything into memory pools, before you have any memory problems. :)
Lower power would be nice for the energy savings and reduced fan noise. I'd like to get one of these as a Linux home server.
I think we've all been there and started throwing out crazy z-index values at one point or another, usually out of frustration. The only real solution is to keep this stuff under control from the start and always use exactly the z-index you need.
I'd agree, it takes faith to know that there was no creator of the world, the same faith it takes to know there was. Just to clarify, I'm not arguing there's proof that 'God' does exist, I'm arguing there's no proof that 'God' doesn't exist. The original comparison falls short, the world can be proven to be round, not flat.

edit: a thanks in advance to all you enlightened fervent atheists for the down votes.
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