skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument sounds semi-reasonable.

It's not though. Everyone hates the USA by now, and that's because they're spying on everyone (even allies), they think they can tell everyone what to do, else they use their military to intervene.

The USA is currently the world bully. For the military aggression, hopefully Americans will at some point realize that fighting the world can only end in tears - the USA is drained financially and simultaneously breeding new terrorists through the drone war which should be classified a war crime as there is no telling how many innocents have been killed.

Karma's a bitch, friends. This is how empires fall.

Really, the USA needs to re-evaluate its foreign policy. Spend half the military budget for 2015, that's $300Bn, on education and hospitals and bingo, you're once again the #1 nation in the world.

Then, instead of making war everywhere, make friends and trade partners and watch the money pour in, the soldiers stay home and stay alive. Fight terrorists with gestures of goodwill and they will go away all on their own - as opposed to killing random children in Pakistan, so their fathers, uncles, and other relatives may justifiably become new terrorists with a life-long grudge against the USA.

And tell the NSA to focus on defense - keep out the baddies, keep out the Chinese and Russian hackers, keep American businesses and business interests safe, stop others from hacking in the USA. But don't go out and listen to everyone's phone calls and hack allies, and enemies alike, and have secret laws like the Nazis did - because honestly, all that shit will get back to you eventually. Do something bad - somebody will find out. That's the new reality we live in, all facts will be discovered.

That Kaspersky was able to uncover the most sophisticated hacker group in the world is a case in point. The internet is the perfect paper trail, no matter how good you are.

The ostensibly noble, good goals that secret laws and secret operations supposedly lead up to never materialize. The ends that the means supposedly justify never arrive. So keep the means good, keep it clean. This whole idea that you must deceive, cheat, and betray in order to survive is a wrong idea, and it's proven again and again until the lesson is learned. Your choice when to learn it.

Karma is a bitch, friends.
As well Microsoft should be.

Its brand is as tarnished (if not more so) by this sort of crap.

Not that Microsoft's own hands are clean or that the issue of crapware preloads isn't a massive problem.

Google should also be paying attention: Android preloads are also increasingly a massive turn-off.
The proxy accepts fake certificates so you can MiTM anyone. It does not properly verify the remote site's certificate.
Right but this only means you can decrypt data coming from websites using a starfish cert. It doesn't mean you can decrypt your bank traffic because you have this proxy installed which is what Graham is claiming.
This is a link, if you've never hovered over it: http://i.imgur.com/Bs4B4Ch.png
Arguably you are the person that everyone else should be protecting with herd immunity. I'm surprised that you are ended up on the anti-vaccine side. I also have a (milder) set of incurable health problems that have led to hospitalizations and several surgeries. The anti-vaccine crowd drive me crazy because they literally lead to people like me and you ending up dead when preventable diseases get passed around.

You don't have a great feeling with the doctors because they don't have all the answers for you, and it took along time to diagnosis your condition. I also had to deal with that 'why is this happening to me?' moment, and the doctor just shrugged. They don't have all the answers. But for the things that we do have answers for, not using those answers is crazy.
If you paid Apple, maybe ask for a refund anyway. They have a record of your service/transaction, and it's not like the computer is required, just ID and perhaps a credit card statement or the like.
That's so that you'll click around and eventually click on the product referral links to Amazon.
Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession
As an avid consumer: I approve of any device which makes it easier to get this product to my mouth. :)

Very well done!
Actually I meant by

> It's certainly reasonable to argue about whether this actually applies

literally that it is reasonable to argue, i.e., that neither position is obviously irrefutably true; and also I think I've created enough of a de-rail already here; but, if I had to make an argument for authoritarianism, I think that I would claim that the concept of free-speech zones instantly implies, for some parts of US government at some times, more respect for authority than personal liberty.
Which words in that passage are not easily understandable? The most "obscure" one that I can identify is "notwithstanding" (Google gives 48,000,000 results for "notwithstanding", so it is not exactly an obscure word).

A failure to understand that passage is a failure of comprehension, not of vocabulary.
Post-oculus idea – use magnetic fluid inside inner ear to simulate acceleration
If there is a way to somehow make fluid inside inner ear to be magnetic(drink/inject something?), you could then add magnets to oculus and use this magnets to simulate vestibular feelings like acceleration or tilt.(magnets will control inner-ear fluid position, which will be interpreted by brain like actual body acceleration)
My guess it could add a lot to your oculus experience.
Any thoughts?
Ah; I noticed all the 'p's, but not all the 'b's. (I did notice the two 'a's in the response. :-) )
Uh I think this isn't about you - it's about the problem of (some) boys in school. It's presumably not your fault that they have to endure a "one shoe fits all" approach, but neither is it their fault.
To be fair, it is one of the most intelligent cartoons.
Based on his evangelism, which accounts for almost all of what I've personally heard about Twilio, I hope you guys are going to reward patio11 somehow. :)
Then give me another reason to explain why educating has become largely a female profession in America?

Before high school I think I may have had two male teachers. One was fired for making "inappropriate comments", the other was considered weird because he patted kids on the back and said good job. It is not just a meme, it's a reality.
Exactly. One could easily come up with a corollary: "The worst startup ideas are the ones that seem like bad ideas and really are." Which is a truism that probably applies to most startup ideas.
I think that this may actually be attributed to the lack of working Windows Update on a lot of pirated systems.
Just in case they're readng this: the huge and fixed header is sub-optimal. http://imgur.com/JTIImb5

I don't know why people fix those headers. It's a weird idea.
I don't understand how this would be the conclusion reached. If you asked a person on the street, would they not think that Lenovo is a entity of authority? That they were the ones dictating the computers configuration? That they were any more or less fallible/malicious than Sony or Microsoft or HP?

If you asked anyone, would they not follow the line of reasoning that, if the manufacturer was releasing hardware in a default state of compromise, that we could not trust the default state of released hardware? Why would you conclude the opposite after this?

I can't see a way to construe this as "We need to ensure that machines must stay as the manufacturer ordained to protect us from security threats introduced by the manufacturer!"

I don't understand the rational here.
"Gold-plated connectors" are a common snake-oil in audio electronics. The only benefit it provides is that it doesn't tarnish like copper would. Gold is a worse conductor than copper and it's very soft and brittle. With pieces that are constantly making contact that plating is likely to wear away quickly. You only need it your contact is exposed to air anyway, and then if it is you really need the whole thing to be gold-plated. Also, you'd better have some nickel on between the gold & copper.

If I understand things correctly, anyway.
Asking candidates to take a 1-10 hour test or assignment before you even talk with the hiring manager.

I already have a job and don't have the time to waste.
> They exist so that people can enjoy them

No. They exist because they exist. It's a privilege that we get to appreciate them.

We can't seem to lose the notion that the universe was created for us.

When the earth is a barren ball of rock and humanity is long-gone, maybe someone out there will notice the irony in it all.

> I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
> how hard was it to develop the genes that separate human intelligence from other primates?

Well, less than impossibly hard. Here's an interesting spin on this argument: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/ai/How%20hard%20is%20artific...

On a related note: http://fennetic.net/irc/human_chimpanzee_brain_differences.p...

And also, this was an interesting exploration of the topic, with in utero electroporation of cortical matter to induce more brain growth: http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11034136.pdf

> Of course, human intelligence is hard to pin down -- for my personal definition

I suggest giving up on that question. Even if humans are not intelligent, there's at least one or a few properties of human brain matter that are causing all of these unexpected and unexplained results we observe from its operation.
Yes and no.

Netflix's basic original goal is the same: they want it to be the entertainment option that you instinctively reach for when you have free time (the "moments of truth").

In the past, they achieved this via their vast catalog and their customers' viewing queues. Most customers have a queue full of things to watch, so when they sit down they can just pop the next thing off the queue.

In the future, it looks like they hope to achieve the same default status by simply replacing the queue with fantastic original and curated content and content recommendation systems. No, they won't have everything, but they'll still have more than your limited free time can handle, and their stuff will be of higher quality than anything you can get elsewhere.

I'm not sold on whether they can pull off the switcheroo, but it's also clear to everyone that their existing business model can't survive the next 10 years as content incumbents move their content off Netflix and onto their own proprietary platforms. In that world, no one can be Netflix (not even Netflix). However, Netflix has a good chance of being better than any of the other proprietary platforms. Given customers' limited money and patience with juggling accounts and different apps, Netflix stands a good chance to come out on top in that situation. That said, in that world I can't imagine them being more than 5x more profitable than the next most successful competitor in a landscape made up of tens of competitors.
Viv built by Siri's creators is an AI tech that can teach itself
Best picture of how it works that I could find: http://www.honeyflow.com/media/images/content/detail/honey_d...
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I find it odd that you're rejecting vaccines in general because one of the things doctors suggested you get is the regular flu vaccine - which everyone else (in the United States, at least) is recommended.

Did they recommend it to decrease your chances of getting the flu? If you have a medical condition, I would imagine that preventing other infections is kind of a no-brainer as the literally most basic step towards care.

I don't want to make it sound like I'm jumping down your throat; I have no idea what your circumstances are, although I'm sure they're worse than mine.
> 14,736 versus 21,231 at 95%

So about 50% more words for French. The very extreme tail is less interesting because it captures the size of the dictionary, and words very rarely used.

I think the exponent of the tail would be the most relevant metric, but I can't open those pdf. Can someone plot the inverse CDF and make a log-log plot?
I'm surprised that stating one is "moderately anti-vax" and has chosen to forego the flu vaccine for themselves turns into such a train wreck on a discussion forum that prides itself on being logical. You and others here are behaving in a strongly reactionary fashion to very tame statements.
Yep, Missing a few, like Russian and Babylonian
How are schools not evil? They are compulsory. That's pretty evil in my book - like putting people in jail, except they didn't commit a crime.

Maybe they are not all the same. But I worry that they won't try to teach my kids skills, they will try to teach them obedience and fitting in. I don't want that.
I completely agree with your sentiment and I'm definitely not asking for research paper quality in comments (be it HN or other places), but I do think getting the basics right goes a long way towards better comprehension and credibility.
Since the start of the industrial era, energy extraction has been the linchpin to civilization. Without net energy available to society to do work, we could never sustain such a huge population.
Compatibility and stability is always somewhat fuzzy. For example, strictly speaking in JavaScript, it's basically impossible to make any semver-compatible change to any library; adding a method "foo" could break anybody who was counting on monkey-patching in a method called "foo". But people still get a lot of mileage out of semver in the node.js/io.js community as a promise that we intend not to break code. Likewise, in Rust we might break some subtle details of behavior that we explicitly left unspecified, such as type inference or heap layout, but we'll do our best to avoid breaking real-world uses of the language or libraries.
This also applies to comments within the presentation, not just the verbal part of the presentation.
Viv, Built by Siri’s Creators, Scores $12.5M for AI That Can Teach Itself
Stalin: The Tyrant as Editor
The typical vancouverite response (annoying) is

"oh but our prices will never fall, we live on the best god damn city in the planet, just look at all this foreign demand for our real estate, we are in a bubble you say, you eggheads have been crying about it for the past 15 years and look it hasn't happened so it never will, this time it's different"

"this time it's different" - japanese real estate bubble.

"we are in a new economy" - dot com bubble

"samsung now makes cars" - asian financial crisis

"these people will pay us back" - subprime mortgage crisis

"oil will never fall" - oil drop

"bitcoin is gonna keep going up" - 2013
If we diverted billions of dollars to doctors or cooks we would gain the benefit of increased, more healthy lifespans.

If we did the same for bankers we would get, well what we got in 2008.

The difference between service jobs which are purely symbolic, in that they only work within human created environments, only interface with other people and ultimately the only arbitrator of how good a job they do are people and those which have to deal with the real world at least tangentially is huge. Artists and banker are in the former category, doctors, gardeners, cooks are in the latter.
Back then I didn't have developer tools though. That lowers the bar considerably to newcomers. :)
I find it odd that so many people here are painting me with such a broad brush and refusing to hear that I am not rejecting vaccines in general.
Completely agree with this. Fortunately there are ways around this for savvy people. But yes. Canadian Netflix is poor, and the price should reflect the diminished offering.
Check out Jamie Benning's filmumentaries on this film[1] and the original Star Wars trilogy and Jaws. Great fan produced pieces with making of info and interviews with cast and crew. Throw him a tip if you enjoy them too :)

[1] https://vimeo.com/36011979
Any further EU integration, of the kind necessary to make it a functioning union will likely require referendums in many countries. More than that it will realistically signify the death knell of what was traditionally the nation states of europe. The public mood is not there for those to pass in many countries
I feel victim to this a while back and documented it here: http://marknugent.tumblr.com/post/98203319356/linkedins-evil...
I'm also a native French speaker, but I'm bilingual ( British mother ).

French definitely neither has nor uses a wider vocabulary than English, if only because English keeps growing while modern French stopped evolving a while ago. The only kind of French which does evolve is spoken French, which bears little resemblance to written French nowadays.

Now, for some reason, there's a widely propagated myth in France which is that English in particular is a <em> very poor </em> language : English is supposed to have a very limited vocabulary, and no possibility to express subtle ideas accurately. I have no idea where this myth comes from - maybe the old French-English rivalry - , but I guess it is the source of your belief.
That argument always comes up. And I agree, maybe it is a worthwhile lesson to learn to sometimes do things you don't want to. I'd say it would be worth dedicating maybe 3 months to it. Not 12 years (the length of school in my country).

Responsibility and obligation might be better learned with something worthwhile to be responsible for. Pleasing teachers isn't.
Check out the code in http://www.ilikearchitecture.net
And in particular prismjs lets you select lines of code without selecting the line numbers, which you probably do not want.
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NYTimes.com: All the code that's fit to printf()
We're hiring: http://nytimes.com/careers
nub is widely recognized to be a terrible function; it's not indicative of anything
Don’t waste your time on stuff that doesn’t matter (i.e.
things other than building your product, talking to your
users, growing, etc.). In general, avoid the kind of
stuff that might be in a movie about running a startup
—meeting with lawyers and accountants, going to lots of
conferences, grabbing coffee with people, sitting in
lots of meetings, etc. Become a Delaware C Corp (use
Clerky or any well-known Silicon Valley law firm) and
then get back to work on your product.

First you tell me not to waste a lot of time with lawyers and accountants, then you tell me to start a subchapter-C corp. Okaaaay.
Money laundering doesn't really solve the problem of being able to buy good digitally without revealing your identity.
Why would you not be able to use jQuery Mobile alongside jQuery in a fully responsive app?
Pixar and Google Employees Are Vaccinating Their Kids, Say Pixar and Google
IP holders have pretty much embraced streaming. They have not embraced Netflix's price point. And at 8 bucks a month, I don't think it is reasonable to expect them too. I don't think 8 bucks is enough revenue to be a major source of funding all the content that is produced.

Netflix has been essentially freeriding on cinema goers and live tv watchers who subsidize all the content creation. If Netflix replaces those sources, it'll have to provide similar revenue.
Somebody should totally help them make their source code look awesome. Like the first of its kind as a bookstore. Maybe they deserve it :)
Try going to the dentist every day, for 6 hours per day, for twelve years straight.
The distinction absolutely does matter! It wouldn't matter if ONLY WOMEN dressed differently than stereotypical techies, or ONLY WOMEN had higher-than-average pitch voices, and ONLY WOMEN were young. But they're not! Both women and men might display those attributes. In order to treat people fairly, you have to treat people fairly. It wouldn't be a triumph of justice to reset men's prejudices towards women but not also towards other men.

In other words, discriminating against someone for a particular characteristic like the ones she mentioned is terrible and it shouldn't happen, regardless of the sex of the person being discriminated against.
I know they spun off Condé Nast, but according to that they're still owned by Advance Publications. I'm looking for info about them being completely separate.
Voice application code challenge – $2,500 cash
These parks don't just exist in a vacuum. They exist so that people can enjoy them.

... Enjoy them in certain ways, that preserve their nature as much as possible. Think about designated wilderness areas, for example. How do you run an asphalt sidewalk through a designated wilderness area, where rangers must use hand-saws instead of chainsaws? Can it still be wilderness if you do?

“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
The Science Behind Naming Winter Storms at the Weather Channel
Corvisa is hosting a code challenge over the next 10 days with cash prizes of $1,500 for first place, $500 for second place, and $500 for third place. The challenge is to build a simple IVR that can be used by small businesses or startup teams that is 100% open source. More than anything, we’re looking for feedback on our platform. We do not intend to monetize your work, but we will promote what you build to be used by others.
Where did you read that? Are you responding to a different article?
komodia.com admits to be undergoing a DDoS attack at 2300hrs UTC (fri 20th Feb 2015)

(komodia is apparently the underlying tech for the superfish thingy)
Every political candidate says that they will prioritize OUR CHILDREN, WHO ARE THE FUTURE. Seems like every proposition on the ballot always has a little mention of how it'll put more money into local schools, too.
since a lot of people on here have probably been involved / applied for companies posted on here, their feedback would probably be useful. in my case, an unnamed YC company made me a really insulting lowball offer. i feel the desire to mention that every time they post on here. maybe thats not what you want, but i think its good for everyone if companies are accountable and dont try to take advantage of people in the hiring process.
The new Mad Max film is supposedly nearly all practical effects.