skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would regard it as prima facia deeply unlikely that processing wood into paper is carbon-negative, regardless of how long you then store the paper. It takes power to turn trees into paper.
Everest is already covered in junk and dead bodies. Most of this is hidden by snow, but it's a lot closer to a walking up a snowy trash heap than people want to admit.* A little over 4 thousand people have reached the summet which is about the same number of billionares in the world. So, it feels fairly prestegious even if it's mostly a question of how much your willing to spend to get there.

*Mostly becase people use a small set of trails on their assent, and really don't have the enery to bring their trash down with them. The majority of the mountain is untouched, but the trails get a lot of traffic.
> There's a ton options, many of them better, larger and older than AWS.

Some examples would be more interesting than a general "you're wrong".
If I understood correctly, you are trying to get a sentiment that is always correct for single sentences but that can extrapolate word frequencies if they don't appear in your list. I.e. for large neutral documents you want it to be neutral, although your negative words match statistically more often.

My intuition tells me that you can't really do both: Either use only those words in your dictionary and get the behaviour right for single sentences, or extrapolate as if both sets where the same size (weighted average, would be the easiest). By extrapolating you may assume, that for each positive match that you get, you'll miss other positive matches. That means you generally underestimate positive matches, compared to negative matches. This only works on large datasets.

But really, how bad is it to get a sentiment of -0.17 for a single sentence? It tells you that it was a negative sentence but that you have a high chance that there was a positive word in there that you missed, which is what you need to implement to get neutral sentiment for large neutral documents.
My mother was on chemo for years. Her only 'suffering' was tiredness, and she survived far beyond what was predicted for her. For others it is horrible and/or ineffective. You won't know if you don't try.
Google Releases Cloud Security Scanner to Test Web Apps
> McGill is not a great university

It still ranks pretty high:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University#Rankings_and...

and they still sell those "Harvard: The McGill of America" sweatshirts every year.

https://glasgowuniversityabroad0910.wordpress.com/2009/10/16...

That B. Ed. students are coming so unprepared from McGill is quite sad.

Its liberal arts programme is also much bigger than Waterloo's, but comparable to UofT's.
I don't see why this is any different than the patenting of chemicals. Lots of chemicals exist in nature, but if you make something "new" why shouldn't that be protected?
This notion that you only need to know as much math as you're going to teach is ridiculous. The more your students struggle in math, the deeper your understanding of the subject needs to be. It takes a fair bit of skill and understanding to accurately diagnose and address misunderstandings.

Knowing higher level math also lets you help younger students learn things in a way that sets them up for success later on. Students can learn "advanced" concepts at a young age if presented at the right time, in the right way. But you can't introduce those concepts if you don't know them, and recognize when it's appropriate to introduce them.
The law that would make this criminal would probably make innocently shipping software with security holes criminal as well.

(There are some people in the industry who call for this. I am not one of them.)
I agree. This seems like a "solution" completely out of proportion with the scale of the problem
> I honestly can't see the Australian judiciary sending people to jail, or issuing large fines, for sharing media.

You'll either be right, or you'll be wrong. If the latter...
Does Skype still do this? I know they used to -- the Chinese version was TOM-Skype -- but last I checked TOM no longer distributes a version of Skype. http://skype.tom.com/ redirects you to get something called Zoom messenger instead.
I agree. Back in the '80s scientists claimed that a large proportion of DNA didn't encode for anything (introns) and therefore was "junk".

Now our understanding is that although DNA might not encode for anything, it still plays a role in DNA expression.
Works fine for me.

To check for responses to your comments, why not click on "threads"?
I don't agree that it would be completely independent of empirical evidence. In fact, it would be relying on a vast body of empirical evidence: the century or more of data that has been collected to verify general relativity and quantum mechanics.

It would be an indirect conclusion, but mainstream physics is already filled with those (e.g., the existence of black holes).
Whatever this means: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-uni...
A big challenge is that cancer cell genomes are not well conserved. A study was done a while back to look at 1000 breast cancer patients. Mutations were rampant with only a few percentage actually sharing common mutations.
Same problem.

"We've limited requests for this url."
A Year Later, $19B for WhatsApp Doesn’t Sound So Crazy
Instead of downvoting, could you please explain? All I see there is some node-but-not-so-joyenty stuff without much substance. What is the problem being solved?
Yup: https://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2...

iFixit gave the laptop quite a good score too: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Dell+XPS+13+Teardown/36157
I found this whole Lenovo Adware-gate very hypocritical. Why everyone blames the messenger Lenovo but not the source Superfish? Why? Is it because Lenovo is a Chinese company whereas Superfish is a Iserali-American company based in Silicon Valley?

Before this adware-gate, EVERY PC manufacturer bundles adware, HP, Dell, Acer, Lenovo, Asus to name a few top players(Apple perhaps is the only exception as I don't count them as a PC manufacturer). Did anyone bother to look if there were tons of similar security risks with those?
Some of the courses here are still to be launched. Does anyone know whn they will be? Thanks
What Russia Wants: From Cold War to Hot War
If it's my boss's machine, yes, my boss gets to do it.
Only for a very narrow definition of science (Positivism or Popper/Lakatos).
Try running Powertop and check out the tunables pane. You might even be able to reap some additional battery life.
Their PR style is a bit outdated. Denying and minimizing worked before very well -- major news sources would publish the official denials only and it would kind of stop there.

And most of all it helped if there would be litigation. The thought goes if CTO goes on record admitting guilt that is a slam dunk case for anyone suing them.

Therefore the typical corporate non-apology apology "I am very sorry you feel this way" kind of bullshit.

The problem of course is information sources are a lot more diversified, with Twitter and other media bubbling up tech news to the top faster.

The other problem they are facing is a lot of technical people were their proponents and would advocate and drive purchasing decision (in turn putting their own reputation on the line). This is where it is going to hurt them.

Something to the effect of "We are very sorry, this was a mistake, here is how to remove the software, we'll send you free software or Lenovo.com discounts. We'll cut off our relationship with this company. Etc, etc.." I think would have been much better for them in the long run.
The T60 was one of the very first laptops Lenovo released after it purchased the IBM PC division. I wonder if it had already been in development under IBM before the purchase.
Say Hello to Stanley – the self-driving car (2006)
> An university.

Did you go to McGill?
This is my use case for having 16GB on my laptop as well. Being able to simulate the network architecture of our infrastructure with a bunch of little 512MB-1GB VMs is a nice thing to be able to do.

If I'm not doing development with a cluster of VMs though, I rarely go over 8GB.
Read the other comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9081053
Everyone I know under 25 uses Snapchat. It is pretty remarkable. I know people over that age that do too, but the 100% of those under 25 impresses the heck out of me.
No paywall via Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Warning:+too+much+finance...
The 60 fps thing is super weird to me. Do people really care if their website/mobile app is 60 fps? Who are these people?

The only place I could possibly imagine that mattering is for fast-twitch video games, or theoretically videos (though most of those are still 24 or 30 fps).
And this is a great talk by the creator of Stanley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqzyd7fDRc
"The DOM is slow": with all the advancement of the JS engines we'll hit a wall if the DOM does not start improving by an order of magnitude.

Is this a fundamental problem or is this a case of JS being so bad that now that it's faster it is exposing a need to focus on the DOM?
Summary:

> In short, the finance sector lures away high-skilled workers from other industries. The finance sector then lends the money to businesses, but tends to favour those firms that have collateral they can pledge against the loan. This usually means builders and property developers. Businessmen are lured into this sector rather than into riskier projects that require high R&D spending and have less collateral to pledge.

> A property boom then develops. But property is not a sector marked by high productivity growth; it can lead to the misallocation of capital in the form of empty Miami condos or Spanish apartments.

> R&D-intensive industries - aircraft, computing and the like - will be disproportionately harmed when the financial sector grows quickly. By contrast, industries such as textiles or iron and steel, which have low R&D intensity, should not be adversely affected
They are talking about a free market.
This is heavily government regulated.
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck

She's also exhbiting a static mindset. She of all people should believe in the growth mindset.
Because there are all sorts of insecure malware/adware out there. They're all various levels of evil and a known quantity of badness.

Lenovo is a company that you paid your money to to buy a laptop. It shouldn't come pre-infected with something that compromises your security and privacy.
Is this band doing something right?
As I said I'm one Solr guy that does 'effin care about this issue - I should have replied on this sub thread, sorry. Will have a submission ready soon for my AutophrasingTokenFilter - when I get the JIRA number, I'll let you know.
Because hacking education is an interesting problem and a good portion of HN is shade tree mechanic discussion about interesting problems.

There's nothing wrong with shade tree mechanic discussions. They are an interesting diversion when you are trying to waste some time while drinking your coffee at the start of the workday.
> I think that it is a very life altering precedent to say we ban adults from consenting to things because they don't know what they are consenting to.

Just going off your examples, I don't think it would be unreasonable to require both parties entering into a contract to understand what they are agreeing to. I'd say anything else is unethical, really.
Each widget occupies one whole row by itself. The bundled Content widget can generate columns and can't accept other widgets into one of its columns. Might be a future feature tho...
It's discipline and only discipline.

I have the exact same problem. In fact, in trying to build my latest and greatest creation, I've decided to use Django 1.8, since it'll be ready for prime time before I'm done. This isn't a problem, but the need to try out every new feature and uncover bugs in features that I don't even need (bugs that will be ironed out in the next few weeks anyway)... that's a huge problem. I've spent 8-12 hours of my precious coding time at night, after work, on this nonsense, in the past week alone. Why? Because I'm always in search of perfection, or something. I'll spend 8 hours trying to figure out the best way to model my data, instead of just trying to accomplish the end goal. If I try to accomplish the goals I've set out, I'll end up with the right data models anyway.

Next, time to finish learning Angular, because this time I'm going to use more Ajax, so may as well. It'll save me time in the long run, since jQuery.ajax(...) will remove the DRY from my app.... right?

Engineering creates a kind of OCD / ADD combination. I've found in the past, the only way to overcome this is to set a schedule and stick to it. No email after X and before X, no Hacker News or any other distractions from X to X, no new tools while building your app, etc.
Lenovo had a chance to redeem itself by apologizing, removing the software and quickly distancing itself from the company.

They screwed up by denying there was problem in the first place. Which means they were defending both their decision to install Superfish as well as, by proxy, Superfish itself.

Thus they are seen to be either incompetent (can't trust them) or malicious (also can't trust them).

Also consumers never bought Superfish. They paid for a relatively expensive piece of hardware from Lenovo and got screwed. They are right to blame Lenovo for it.
Why everyone blames the messenger Lenovo but not the source Superfish?

Because Lenova is the one who took your hundreds to thousand+ dollars and in return compromised your experience (for what has to be pennies). And in this case it caused a serious security compromise?

"EVERY PC manufacturer bundles adware"

Crapware/bloatware and adware are very different things. Dell installs some bloatware crap that I can uninstall (and even that is, truly, unacceptable. Again, they can't make more than a dollar or two on that junk, yet they compromise the user experience), but they don't MITM my secure communications, or compromise my security.

This has nothing to do with Lenova being a Chinese company. Further, no one expects anything out of Superfish (some slimy adware company), but they do expect standards from Lenova.
An interesting analogy, but the wild variety of gut flora makes me think that our borders are not so closed. Our own homogenous cells are outnumbered (some studies say 10 to 1) [1] and dependent [2] on our vast colonies of bacteria.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiome

[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13micro.html?pagew...
Thankfully American companies _never_ have technologically incompetent managers...
>bright student realizes that school has nothing to do with learning

Depends on the high school and teacher. My high school (and primary schools) had really great teachers and they motivated me to learn things I otherwise would not have. Young people often need a push to learn things that they don't immediately see as useful. Schooling does interfere with learning, but when the stakes are high (getting into a top college) we might as well make the most of it if the privileges are afforded to us.
It depends entirely on what your app does – but yes, I'd paint this as a fundamental problem for any app that needs to render a large amount of content (and keep it updated).
We didn't want to fork WordPress and turn it into a Frankenstein. The actual core of WP is untouched however if you look at our code and the interface, we've tried to stick as close to what WP recommends as possible.

Many existing WP page builders out there look nothing like WordPress at all. Their interfaces are totally different and their code is not to WP's high standards. We wanted to avoid that with Layers. We wanted you to still use WP as is without feeling like you'd just installed something that takes over the normal experience.
Interesting read. I'm reminded of Chris McCandless [1] of Into The Wild fame. I was so inspired by Chris' story I quit my job, sold all my stuff and spent two years driving from Alaska to Argentina. I made a trip to the now infamous bus in Alaska [2] during my trip.

While Chris and myself have never gone moneyless like the article, I find myself tending towards that every day. I now hunt all my own meat and fish, grow as much of my own vegetables as I can, work on my own car and bike, etc. etc. I try hard to not pay for anything I can do for myself.

I'm also once again disillusioned with work and consumption, so in a couple of months I'm heading out to drive around Africa for a couple of years, then all going well I'll drive Europe->SE Asia.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless

[2] http://theroadchoseme.com/the-magic-bus
You're not eating the rubber and by the time the tires have made their way to recycling I would expect basically all the volatiles would have offgased. The MSDS [1] would suggest the biggest risk is breathing the fumes caused by burning or rubbing the crumbs in your eyes and scratching your cornea. While there are trace amounts of naphthalene, I imagine its more an issue for those involved in the manufacture than those people playing on a playground padded with it.

[1] http://edge.rit.edu/edge/P11413/public/Crumb%20Rubber%20MSDS
Responsive prototyping tool Weld.io launches, trends on Product Hunt
I am pretty sure it was. Mine still has the old style IBM Thinkpad logo on the case. Documentation and driver downloads pointed to ibm.com site for a long while even after the acquisition.
I never quite got this distinction between consumer and non consumer machines, when you can buy high end ThinkPads (but not the blocky T models) at a retailer, and are just as nice as big old blocky good old ThinkPads.

I'm really interested if a high end (but "consumer") ThinkPad like http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Lenovo-T... that you can buy at a retail store (in this case, a special MSFT Store version that has plain Windows supposedly on it) was infected.
Why that is not a part of the Readme/FAQ?
I think James is on target in many ways, but I just wish it wasn't such a bleak near term outlook for high end mobile web apps. I don't want to write my app differently for different devices. I know that is the reality of today, but it is an unfortunate reality.

That said, many apps don't need to push the limits and PhoneGap or a similar solution is sufficient.
That is pretty sad.

Having gone through the Quebec education system and now reflecting over it, I can relate to that student. It seems to me (of course I'm biased but...) that french and history were always seen as more way more important than math classes and that is very unfortunate.

I was very lucky to be able to skim through french and math for most of high school. I didn't have an interest in french grammar and thought I was just horrible at math so I just skimmed through it and assumed it was normal. It wasn't until my first year of CEGEP where I had a very good math teacher and a great group of friends help me catch up and discover the beauty and usefulness of math. I would've never thought in high school that I would end up becoming an electrical engineer.

I'm sure I'm not the only one from Quebec with a similar story and from your experience, it doesn't seem like things are going in the right way.
Can't say Digital Ocean was ever looked at when we designed Layers I'm afraid.
>with all the advancement of the JS engines we'll hit a wall if the DOM does not start improving by an order of magnitude

We already hit that wall a long time ago. DOM is the bottleneck in any non-trivial app (unless your app mines bitcoins or something).
Don't think it is purely happenstance. There is absolutely and unequivocally either brigading Microsoft fans, or paid shills, hitting HN hard. There was a garbage post on the front page yesterday and I left a completely benign post that didn't go with the pro-Microsoft/anti-Google narrative -- saw -11 within less than 60 seconds.
Sounds like your school is suffering from grade inflation. The average grade used to be a C. (At my college, it still was.) If you tell the teachers that a C is a failing grade, they will not give a C grade to a student who's doing an OK job in their eyes.
Then there's a disconnect between the PR people who handle that Twitter account, and the PR people who are quoted in this story.
Somewhat unrelated, but if you had to pick an American school that Toronto would be 'our version of', Harvard is probably a better bet than Columbia:

> from 2000 to 2004 U of T professors produced more publications in the fields indexed by Thomson Scientific than faculty at any other public research university worldwide... the University of Toronto stands second only to Harvard in publications among all private and public universities.

(The numbers are a bit out of date, but Toronto's relative place among Canadian universities is probably unchanged).
I'm pretty sure if you had sensitive documents sitting on your desktop while your laptop was at a cafe and I moved your mouse to turn off the screen saver and opened the document, a good prosecution could spin that as "Cracking".

It's a buzz word for sure, but unfortunately our industry is full of them
I absolutely agree. Having to bring my laptop in on a yearly basis to get it fixed due to this issue definitely lowered my expectation of hardware quality in Macs. I will absolutely still be buying another Mac, but that is primarily because of the operating system and ergonomic design principles -- all of which make me a much more productive developer.

Because Apple bundles everything (and refuses to unbundle the OS from the hardware in any way), you are likely right that the effect will be minimal because the benefits of all the goods (bundled together) outweighs the costs (and consumers have no choice -- if they want any part of the bundle, they must buy all of it).
Well, in an environment where the human body will never decay it's pretty much pollution. Please don't take it wrongly - I don't mean to disrespect those that died there,but it's true that their bodies stay there for years. And how many dead bodies can Mount Everest keep until it looks like a scene from some depiction of hell? 100? 1000? 10000?
They have existed on Linux for just as long, it's just you Mac folks haven't heard of them as there's more choice, and all the major desktops have this functionality built in, at least as far as app launching goes - just press the windows key and start typing works in Unity & Gnome at least.

Less chance for market dominance from any one tool.

The coolest, ultra minimal yet featureful one is dmenu, which I haven't seen mentioned yet.
Gnome-do, Kupfer are also good.
Not necessarily. The respondents may have just applied a mechanical procedure and did not do any kind of sanity check.
"Too much finance is bad for the economy. Please pay us to hear our reasoning."
Only after various rounds of denials followed by backlash against them. Even their "removal" instruction initially failed to fully remove the root certificate. Every single step they made PR-wise was too slow and just reactionary to the backlash. Somebody up there should be fired and replaced.
A Finnish teacher at midcareer appears to make pretty much the average wage in Finland:
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/teachers-salaries_tea...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_a...

That said, 'Finland's teachers have high status, professional support, and good pay'[0], teaching 4 hours a day for 190 days a year. One can also presumably make that wage pretty much anywhere in the country, where the wage will go further than private wages that are likely mostly available in higher-cost areas.

So basically, it's a job with an average wage, but high respect and good working conditions.

[0] http://www.vox.com/2015/2/18/8063785/finland-schools-educati...