skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you know of way around that, please let me know.

Beamed power has been proposed to get around this problem. Keep your oversized powerplant at home as much as possible. This still requires a monumental infrastructure, but once it's built it's reusable. More importantly, beamed power would be very useful inside the solar system.
>After that, she left New York, going as far away as she could, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She flew there alone and got a volunteer job doing P.R. for an NGO working to reduce maternal-mortality rates.

Anyone for whom something even remotely resembling this can be said certainly has had a thick mat of privilege to land on, even if the experience were difficult, as it seems to have been.
I'm not certain if you realise this, but that was part of a much broader discussion on sexism in tech - there's plenty of discussion on the topic of women feeling threatened by the male-dominated atmosphere at some tech conferences.

It's not good, however, that these two got singled out when I have no doubt that there was much worse said at that conference alone.

Anyway, the point of my post was the last line - if free speech doesn't work when the masses have a voice, has it ever actually been a good ideal to work towards?
It's the opposite side of the computing spectrum. Many languages aimed at using machines, Lisp was an ideal to express computability. As other said, yeah the eval definition hides away GC, IO and the read function, which fits my interpretation (sic) of lisp as an abstraction abstraction. They weren't interested much in the machine details, this itself is already a fun fact.

So it started an ideal until a student was foolish enough to actually program it. Yet this vaporous ideal was enough to write a symbolic differentiator. You don't have bytes nor integers but you can express non trivial mathematical concepts.

You had almost nothing yet you could do a lot, another fun fact. To me Lisp is like a linguistic library, on top of which you'll add primitive types as needed. The expressiveness is given by scope, lambdas, logic and recursion, the rest is secondary. Maybe my lambda calculus classes are making me biased though. McCarthy said he wasn't too inspired by LC even though I've read he was a student of A. Church.

ps: about scoping, I've read emails from Lisp users circa 59 who were discussing the addition of lexical scope, that was before Algol was publicly released.
In my experience, the people who find these things the most offensive are the people the barb is pointed at. Privileged white people--who have nothing better to do than run around worrying about what other people are thinking out loud, trying hard to make sure that the whole world is protected from harmful speech, but who do nothing about actually solving things like the AIDs problem in Africa--are exactly the target of these kinds of comments.

These comments call out and critique the people who only care about Africans when someone says something that can possibly be interpreted to be offensive to them. Of course, privileged white people then use the alleged racism as a shield to hide their own hypocrisy behind and make blanket statements to the effect that there is some universal, writ-in-stone definition of what's offensive.

Now that the mob has doled out justice and protected all the Africans from a menace like Saccio, they go back to Whole Foods after their yoga classes and continue right on not giving a damn about how shitty things are in Africa.

If you find that tweet offensive, perhaps you should pause for a moment and consider that maybe, just maybe, it feels that way to you because you were the intended target.
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I think the trick is to build something people want, and you'll have plenty of people to test it out for you. If you are having a hard time finding people to test your app, then perhaps it's not something that is going to catch on. Just my $0.02.
I think it's much more likely that people revel in seeing someone go down; the article clearly alluded to this sadistic aspect I think.

This is possible. But I think it's less about this and more about status marking. Joining the pile on is often a quick, cheap way to demonstrate that you care about the right things.
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As a fellow Eastern European ... man up. Really. Taking offense is the stupidest thing to do.
Isn't that coinductive recursion?

"corecursion" is usually a recursion that goes via multiple definitions.
A simple SWIFT transaction (wire payment) is generally enough, though in order for the actual transaction to move, there are confirmation and settlement procedures. All of which depend on the company and bank policies (for example, American Companies are all by law offered the option to use 4-eye verification processes to prevent a single person from making a tx, two to confirm etc etc).

Giarc's story is the confirmation process, likely being chased down by the back office at the bank as they go through the various procedures that minimize fraud and mistakes involved when moving large sums of cash.

If FX is involved, then they'll likely need to purchase the sum in a different currency (if they do not already have cash in that currency) and use the result to settle in another bank account. For example, an American company purchases 15 million euro to settle in a German bank account that belongs to the purchased.
I am guessing you live alone. Try telling a one year old to put on a snowsuit to eat soup in. Or your dog. When the weather is -40 degrees, a sweater won't save you. When it is 110 you will need a trunk with batteries behind you to power your personal AC 24/7. Give it a try and turn off the heat and AC for a season. You might make it, but will it be worth the $100-200/month?

Edit: don't forget that AC is much more efficient than heating. With AC you are looking to change the temperature by at most 35 degrees and you are moving heat, so you are getting a multiplier there. With heating, you are heating from freezing or below for most places.
French guy here, had the same thought
Hmm. This the same biometric login routine used by USAA for their mobile apps. Curious to know who actually built it, is it being used under license or is it delivered as a service. Anyone have info?
> There is so much bigotry and racism that goes unnoticed in the depths of comment boards and bad blogs. Why aren't the masses also voicing about any of this?

They do. Constantly. It's just that most of the time, they're talking about <such-and-such a site's community> or <such-and-such a blog> rather than individual people.
Why does code style matter?
This is the reality of social media. If you offend the wrong person, you will most likely get fired from your job and or get unwanted attention in other parts of your life..all for just expressing an opinion.

It's essentially online bullying by people that want to silence you for having an opinion that is different than their own.

The ex-Mozilla CEO knows this well. An online bullying campaign was launched against him and he was forced to quit.

I see this especially in many of the open source and tech communities, which is why I no longer contribute.

I also don't post anything political on my Facebook account. A future employer may look at this and judge me before I'm even hired..and decide not to hire me. Just looking at my list of friends, most people don't seem to realize that this may be a problem.

The same power that gives special interest groups and individuals the ability to launch campaigns to get people fired gives companies the power to not hire you based on your lifestyle or personal beliefs.
It's a rite of passage when your college teacher make you trip Java's dispatch.
Damn. I was already a bit skeptical of Joyent, but this doesn't inspire more confidence.
Ask HN: What is your linux IDS and AVS?
If you're HIPAA compliant or PCI compliant you must run an intrusion detection system and anti virus software. What do you use to solve these requirements on Linux?
You're correct, there are basically no worker protections in America. The euphemistic term is "right-to-work", which means that you can be fired for any reason whatsoever.
Most (maybe all) of the ones that don't require insurance require you instead to post a bond.

"In some cases, substitutions, such as a bond from an insurance company or a cash deposit of $60,000 posted with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) will be accepted."

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/drivers/drivers/apply/doc/proof...
That may sound hateful or angry or whatever, but here goes...

> I was among the first people to alert social media. (This was because Gill always gave my television documentaries bad reviews, so I tended to keep a vigilant eye on things he could be got for.) Within minutes, it was everywhere.

Is this really what we've come to? We have all this technological progress so you could stalk someone you're butthurt over and try to get at them?

> Amid the hundreds of congratulatory messages I received

So that others who have nothing better to do could pile on this?

> Still, in those early days, the collective fury felt righteous, powerful and effective. It felt as if hierarchies were being dismantled, as if justice were being democratized.

Wake up! Who ever gave a damn about some tweet? Be it corrupt mega-corp or a media figure.

> I didn’t want people looking at me

Well, now that's a cool story you better tell everyone on twitter :)

> The woman had, in fact, overheard the joke. She considered it to be emblematic of the gender imbalance

Ah, nothing like snooping in on the conversation that isn't meant for your damn ears and then getting all butthurt about it.

> <Story about people who can't take the, admittedly, offensive joke, a person who's not smart enough to not crack that joke on the net>

It's not the tweet that is stupid, it's people using the platform in such ways and maybe even the platform itself. Come on, we can do better than that after all this time.

TL;DR She got exactly what she deserved in this context, but that doesn't mean that community is some righteous force - quite the contrary, it's simply poisonous.
Claiming "most" is "due to" "years of hard work" sounds good but is far from enough to explain what actually happened.

See the state before the article was published:

https://gnupg.org/donate/kudos.html

Donations for the previous years:
Year	#	€	net €
2011	21	553	465
2012	53	5991	4963
2013	148	5041	4145
2014	801	34700

Do you think Koch worked much less hard in 2011 or 2012? It's that Snowden's revelations raised awareness both among the potential supporters and by Koch himself (he claimed in the article he'd have quitted due to the "lack of support" hadn't had Snowden "happened") motivating him to continue working.

Then before the ProPublica article, the only known contributions were cca 30000 EUR (apparently the Linux Foundation grant was agreed but still not public). But just in exactly 24 hours since the ProPublica article was published, the contributions were 180000 EUR plus commitment from Facebook and Stripe for 50000 USD yearly each, plus the publishing of the Linux Foundation grant. People who did contribute on that day could see how the "goal bar" moved from "mostly empty" to "full" and above in a few hours.
Waze shows a lot more information than where police are.

I don't see criminals relying on this heavily. It's not like every cop car is going to be in Waze and up-to-date or anything.
> Often referred to as the cornerstone of statistics

Well... often referred to as the central theorem of statistics. Each time you say its name. What's central is the theorem, not the limit. It was Polya who first called it that, "zentraler Grenzwertsatz".

> Why the Central Limit Theorem Works

Well... I don't think that's really an explanation at all of why e^(-x^2/2) is such a privileged function. Why would any distribution converge to a normal distribution?

It essentially boils down to the Fourier transform. When you take the Fourier transform of the sample means, if you ignore all but the quadratic terms (there are no linear terms if you centralise to mean 0 and variance 1), you get the exponential limit (1 - t^2/2n)^n. That's the Gaussian, which is its own Fourier transform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem#Proof_of...

In other words, because the Gaussian is its own Fourier transform, sample means converge to the Gaussian.
Does anyone want to comment on flow batteries?

E.g. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/organic-battery-hailed-as-...

I assume the primary issue now is cost, but if you can decouple the reaction -> electricity engine from the reactants to a greater degree, then it sounds attractive? I imagine increasing storage tankage is a much easier problem to solve than increasing energy density.
Why is Facebook supporting React?
It seems strange to me that Facebook Corp. would want to create and support React for free. What is the play? How is React in Facebook's best interest? Is it only about attracting engineering talent? Or is there a long-term play here?
It merely illustrates the absolutely craven nature of companies. Her employer is basically a coward.
> if the code were written like Haskell programmers write programs [...] then it would be correct

and if the code were written like (true) bash programmers write programs, taking full advantage of "set -u" and "test", then it would be correct.
App Store Ranking Manipulation
I'm not sure this is a shakedown. The article mentions a previous case against Netflix that was settled with an agreement from Netflix to provide closed captioning in the near future.
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It's a phenomena in the UK that everyone makes tea using electric kettles during commercial breaks, which is magnified by the popularity of TV events such as sporting events to the point where the power grid is affected by how well the English team is faring in the game. The power service ends up having to predict the popularity of TV shows and how long sports games may last.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
Apple bans 'bonded servitude' for factory workers
Some starting conditions have multiple solutions. A trivial example would be a 2 x 2 game with two "2" at opposite corners.
Programmable IoT: Netvibes' New Dashboard of Things
Understanding and assuaging client fears
Is education worth a fight?
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Show HN: Staply – Collaborative notebooks: work with others and store anything
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This has long been the raison d'etre of downmarket UK newspapers The Daily Mail and The Daily Express.
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It basically pushes the burden of averaging to the consumer -- except the consumer gains the advantage of being able to adjust their usage patterns to take advantage of the cost fluctuations.
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Principal component analysis explained visually
Comedians have a social context for their jokes -- the presumption of anyone looking at the content of what they say is to look for a second or ironic meaning first. Justine is just a normal person, so the presumption of the mob is that the literal meaning of what she says is what she meant to communicate.

There are a lot of people who are hungry enough to signal how righteous they are to their peers that they'll immediately jump to the least-charitable interpretation of anything anyone says, and Justine was their target for 24 hours.
Fingerprint, iris, and voice are identifiers not authenticators. Their perceived security comes from their perceived scarcity and difficulty in emulating their presence, barriers that are being removed as technology gets better. In the future the device will know who you are identified as by detecting these markers but you'll still need to prove you are who you are presenting yourself to be.
What will the tech of Valentines 2025 look like?
I share a similar viewpoint. Wouldn't it be a better usage of funds to donate to these projects for caption support instead of using those funds to pay attorneys? Why is it so hard to be constructive?
I really hope this is not a shakedown because I believe asking MIT and Harvard to caption their courses is good. But I can't believe two leading universities would willfully ignore that request.

On a related note, EEOC has been tweeting a lot of disability settlements. https://twitter.com/EEOCNews
This would be such a great learning tool!
> Well... I don't think that's really an explanation at all of why e^(-x^2) is such a privileged function. Why would any distribution converge to a normal distribution?

> It essentially boils down to the Fourier transform

Precisely.

One motivation for taking a fourier transform is that the the p.d.f. of the sum of several random variables is the convolution of corresponding p.d.fs, and that convolution in the original domain is equivalent to multiplication in the fourier domain (by the convolution theorem).
Agreed. If it is a custom build then the builder is more likely to use better components. Then again, will he account for the crumple zone that could save his life and the lives of the people he hits with his car? Here using stronger materials is actually bad. Volvo used to do this I believe: their cars would survive all manner of crashes unscathed. Their drivers and passengers, not so much.
This has been a standard practice with journalism for a long, long time.
"If"

He said (correctly, IMO) that he only works on features that enough customers ask for. If no one needs a feature, then working on it is wasted time.
I am a big supporter of accessibility (i.e. access for the blind, deaf, or otherwise disabled).

However unfortunately in this specific case I am conflicted. On one hand we have far more free content available to us because the "cost" of providing this content is relatively low. They just reproduce the course's normal materials, and have a camera rolling during lectures (and, yes, someone has to do basic editing, transcoding, and so on).

If someone has to go through every single lecture and transcribe it (since I assume auto-transcription wouldn't be acceptable) then they will likely just start pulling less popular/niche content because the viewership/return wouldn't be high enough to justify the cost.

And to be honest the niche content is far more interesting than the common stuff. You can find Computer Science 101 lectures all over the place, but want to watch a video on metallurgy for industrial tooling there is like one lecture several years old with just a hundred or so views.

So I really think if the Advocates for the deaf win here they'll gain a small victory but at a large-ish cost to the rest of society. And how long before YouTube is next?
So who will be first to make a 0h-n0/2048/flappy-bird mashup?
Interesting take on minesweeper
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This is one of the two reasons that I refuse to sign up for LinkedIn. The other one is spam.
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No good deed goes unpunished...

This just makes it that much more likely that institutions will hesitate before offering free access to materials online.
I remain unconvinced that Nootrobox's mixture of caffeine, green tea extract, and herbal supplements is anything more than an expensive stay-awake pill.
The current relational database is too limiting. We're dropping all sorts of interesting data on the ground because we don't have suitable pigeonholes to put it into.

That is the best description of the problem event sourcing tries to solve that I have seen. Short and to the point.
A big improvement over 0h h1. I never felt like I had to think when playing 0h h1. Every puzzle was solvable by searching for a series of patterns that had an obvious solution.

0h n0 seems to be just complex enough that sometimes you actually need to think about the problem. At least that is the case so far.
Yes, of course that is discrimination. But it's only illegal in certain circumstances.
I agree with him, to be honest...especially in a lunch room. They get grimy unless the staff is meticulous about keeping them clean and they have to be constantly monitored so that they don't get over-filled. Also, changing the bags is unsightly, especially when people are eating nearby.

This is just scratching the surface of all the potential arguments against them.
The government provides mediation and reconciliation before these things go to court. I don't think anyone disagrees on adding captions. They probably went a head with the suit because they couldn't settle on a dollar figure.
Most developers already knew about this I suppose. We just partnered with them about 4 months ago and have been working closely with them in preparing our platform for this coming change. It's not news to us.
What are the webdesigners at Bloomberg smoking?

This sticky scroll nonsense works for landing pages, not for articles that people are supposed to read.
This is interesting. I wonder where the line is drawn, though (surely there are some ways to get fired by saying something in Europe).

I believe that it will soon become necessary for some sort of online bill of rights which protects one's identit(y,ies) and privacy.
I completely agree. I hesitate to say this because it might come across too much as 'gut feeling' (and I apologize in advance), but Joyent seems to be somehow too lopsided towards the 'public relations corporate' side of things over developing and maintaining something valuable.

It's not so much to do with my opinion of the specifics of the situation with Noordhuis, or the announcement that is the object of this conversation, but rather the vaguer feeling that they feel way too much like a 'company' acting in its own interest for me to trust them.
That would be extremely nice, if it worked. Then the entire question about distasteful means wouldn't come up, which would be better for everyone, because distasteful means are still distasteful.

Unfortunately, that's not how changing minds works, in practice.

http://www.contralbum.com/blog/2015/2/5/political-correctnes...

See the section starting "The second great flaw...." (And yes, I get the irony of trying to convince you of this by cordially linking you to some random blog post that lists research.)
Agreed. Really, I do applaud people going out of their way to accommodate others. If I had just one personal, direct request to create closed captions along with a "please," you bet I would try to help someone out. But making it illegal not to do so puts a sour taste in my mouth.
Seriously? The school in question is Carleton University. They charge CA$5,600-10,700 per semester or CA$1,000-1,800 per credit hour[1]. That's plenty to hire and pay professors properly.

Educational institutions of all levels bloat themselves with overpaid administration. If funding is an issue that is the first place they should look to cut.

1: http://carleton.ca/studentaccounts/tuition-fees/fw-ug/fallwi...
This case is a good example of plight of donation supported products and users unwillingness to support Volunteerily. If it wasn't the threat of project shutting down and the article about it, I doubt project would have recived the funding it did.

It also goes to show that Users are very bad at judging the value of a product and paying accordingly. They need to be provided an anchor price.

I believe this project will be a good case study for business of free and donation supported products.
Tis means that hotels in the Us and Europe now effectively have only two partners to consider for distributing their inventory. This means less competiton to drive commissions and prices down. Bad news for the consumer. Good analysis on Skift with more details: http://skift.com/2015/02/12/its-expedia-against-everyone-els...
To me, the biggest question left is if/when the default mobile browsers will support this.

I feel like Apple and Google both have too much desire to push people towards facetime and hangouts to ever have default support for webRTC that works reliably.