skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Since you bring it up... In my country we have this idea of self-governance units in school; students elect their president who is responsible for working toward their common interest; also each class has an elected president, vice-president and a treasurer. When I was in my school years, those were mostly administrative functions - chores, I'd say. But I'm observing my former high school now, and in recent year, the election of school-level president turned from a simple voting into real-life politics. Candidates run huge school-wide political campaigns, with posters, meetings, videos and social media activity; they lie and make promises they don't fulfill, have huge staffs and engage in political back-stabbing. They mimic the worst parts of democracy. And I really don't think this is progress...
Thanks for these temporary bumps so that I can finally sell my overpriced bitcoins left at a minimal loss, close this page, and move forward to some more meaningful investment strategies.
Story is a year old but as of yesterday this new laser device has been added to the primary microwave relay tower at the NYSE: http://i.imgur.com/Jm0YO82.jpg
Interesting.

How about blue? No? What about International Klein Blue[0][1]? Maybe yes? Just goes to show. I would say that the first deliberate black canvas, yes. After that, no. Derivative :)

Shark-in-a-tank[2]. The contemporary work of art people don't think is a work of art. I wonder why that is? The title alone is intriguing, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living". The formaldehyde gives it a distinctive hue. The vitrine is divided into three rather like a triptych. It's outrageous something gave its life in the creation of this work though people have been worked to death for far more mundane tasks. I don't like shark-in-a-tank, but it's art I'm afraid.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue

[1] http://www.themilanese.com/?p=6939

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_...
> normal relationships between adults.

People don't walk naked in the streets so why do you need to show naked people at peak TV times on public television?

It's "normal between adults" in private places.
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Firefox is going to have to fight to get any kind of market share. As Microsoft has shown, you can have great hardware, great interface and tonnes of money behind you, but it does not buy you market share. As long as Mozilla is prepared for the uphill battle they are about to fight, I think they might have a chance.

They really need to carve out a niche like they've done in non first-world countries. Merely being the same as Android or iOS is not going to be enough. They need to get developers on board, but even so, will they have the games that most consumers like to play?

It's a tricky situation, but one nonetheless I am excited to see what happens from.
I don't believe we are made safer by crushing anyone who makes a mistake or has a temporary lapse in judgment. We all make those.

There are better ways to improve safety - we've already come a long way.
Not trying to be "that guy."

This is not evidence, it's an anecdote. It's speculation on your part that this is the reason you're scared. It could be, and maybe it's even likely--but it takes a wider study to have any kind of assurance that you're correct.
Politics, lack of trust in teachers and standarized tests, which tend to average-out everyone - i.e. they bring everyone up to a mediocre level, at the cost of eliminating those actually good at something.
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One of the fascinating things to come out of the widespread distribution of non-lethal weapons to police has been two effects:

1 - police are more likely to use non-lethal weapons, even in cases where no weapon at all would work fine, because the long-term consequences of using a non-lethal are minimal

2 - in cases where people do die due to being attacked by a non-lethal weapon, there's generally quite a bit of moral outrage that the weapon was used at all, even if it was well warranted

I suspect if soldiers were issued stun weapons tomorrow, we'd see both of these come true and people would still cry foul when some percentage of targets inevitably died as the result of the use of the non-lethal weapon, and rules of engagement would be vastly changed to virtually eliminate the idea of escalation of force, just go in shooting and sort it out later.
I always thought this was a weird nod to typeclasses
The release management page is https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/B2G_Landing. You can probably think of the code complete date as the lower bound on a production device shipping with that version of the software.
> you're happy with a traditional/conservative xfce and I'm happy with a more minimalist/moving GNOME

Funnily enough, there are only two things I need from the traditional paradigm: Window buttons in the panel (so I can hide windows by clicking their buttons in the panel), and panels than can be set to be vertical. Everything else that is new in Gnome 3 I pretty much like, but these two things I cannot get in Gnome 3.

So I run the Xfce desktop, but with all Gnome 3 apps, like gnome terminal, gnome file browser, etc. The Xfce alternatives I have uninstalled.
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> This is, unfortunately, why I so rarely go to the movies anymore.

I hate people talking around me as well, but the other thing I hate is people eating a whole bag of popcorn during a good half of the movie. It makes so much noise, for me it's as disturbing as someone chatting next to me. Yet seems like nobody has any problem with that. It just sucks.
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There are various studies that show inner-city kids do much better when they attend various full time summer education programs. I have a strong feeling the benefit is not what these programs provide, but what they prevent: time spent in dysfunctional neighborhoods and households.

This is just a thought on why multi-billion dollar organizations might run into decreasing marginal return on education dollars spent to help the children uneducated families.
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Interesting that "failure to monetize" didn't make the list. Either that isn't a problem or isn't recognized by founders as a problem.
If you have some evidence to back that up then you'll want to correct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

"In February 1991, Van Rossum published the code (labeled version 0.9.0) to alt.sources. Already present at this stage in development were classes with inheritance, exception handling, functions [...]"
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Why not? More volume = more stable.
I don't get why you were downvoted.

Anyway, I think so too. Humans seem to have an innate fear of the dark, and any recent memory of danger will increase that effect. Heck, I'm an adult and still after watching something like Aliens I get seriously stressed when going to bathroom at night. And my closest friend openly refuses to watch scary movies when she expects to be alone home at night.
A strong opportunity for FirefoxOS growth is supporting ad-hoc and mesh link layers and providing an intelligent APIs that support that access without compromising security.

It's the anti-Google, anti-carrier, anti-corporate, anti-surveillance, anti-government, pro-efficiency, pro-security, pro-developing world feature everyone wants but nobody can have because none of the mobile OSs support it.

Read bug+PDF @ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945047
Speaking for myself, I was exposed to pornography at 8 until about 10 pretty consistently (friends' dad worked until dinnertime, they were home alone, they found his porn stash [not stache]).

I can't say I wanted or didn't want it, but I turned down some opportunities in high school and was fairly old, compared to the average in my circles, by the time I had sex.

I don't think the pornographic images (movies, not softcore, in my case) had much effect.
Yes, Robocop did do this to me. It was one of the weirdest movies I had watched at the time. It's been a long long time since I've seen it though, I'm probably due for another viewing.

I watched the remake a few weeks ago. It was ok but it didn't leave an impression on me like the original did.
It's a complicated topic. Being exposed to porn at a similar age definitely affected my attitude and desire for sexual encounters, though I still didn't get one until being in a serious relationship at 24.
Rothstein was a classic psychopath. All the tell-tale attributes are there. The article is confused, in wondering how he got "this" way - he was born that way.

"I learned that when he laughed the laughter was a surface demonstration, a combination of the movement of face muscles synchronized with a sound, counterfeiting, but not partaking of, hilarity"

"His father—who had witnessed his toddler son standing over his sleeping brother with a knife"
The issue isn't what color the dress is, but what color people when they see the photo. Some see white and for and some see blue and black, from the same photo. Yes, it is a horribly lit photo. Bit the issue is different people perceive the color differently. Never mind that the rgb colors in the photo tend towards white and gold. The fact remains people perceive the same photo differently. What amazes me is some people actually see different colors after reading about the dress, or seeing a better photo of the dress.
A parental filter is going to "ruin the film" too. I think that's the whole point of this smaller conversation.
That does not make the transition from iOS to Android or vice versa easier. Once you have invested in one ecosystem, you lose your investment if you switch.
That does not happen on the web, where you can switch from a browser to another with a very marginal cost.
Is there a guide somewhere for someone that has used mongodb before but is new to postgres on how to map the first to the second? Would love to try some of this out, but the complexity is a little daunting.
There are many investors who have money that can't easily buy bitcoins for various legal reasons but can buy ETFs. For example 401k or IRA accounts fall into this category.
In some static languages, the inferred type for a and b could be Numeric, and foo's type could be:

(Numeric, Numeric) -> Numeric

Which seems good enough to me.

But what if + is also String concatenation? Or any other overloading of "+". Then maybe the type of a and b is Something_that_can_be_+ed. The user can then think "ok, I'll pass a couple of Ints to obtain an Int, or a couple of Strings to obtain a String!". This also seems useful to me.
To me, monetization has to do with #1 - making a product that people want. Obviously not all products require actual revenue, but they all require users.
The single paragraph in the postscript of this paper (part 6) is actually really important. It's very common for people who are using statistical testing in applied settings to entirely forget about type II error (and correspondingly, the power of the test), and so when they see a p-value that isn't significant at a certain level (say 5%), then they just assume that the null hypothesis is true.

Of course, this is not correct, and all we can really say is that the test did not reject the null, given the size (type I error rate) and power (type II error rate) of the test. It's entirely possible that the null should be rejected, but the test is just not very good (i.e. it might have the correct size, but very poor power).

So given some complex and eccentric real-world data, how can we figure out what the power of a given test might be in practice? If you have some idea of what the data generating process might look like then one option is to do some simulations. This enables you to see what the size and power properties of your test are by empirically measuring the type I and type II error rates.
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I don't disagree, but it's definitely a minor one - if there's only one copy of a historically significant book in the world, I can't think of any better place for it to be held than the Library of Congress.

It's unlikely they've digitized it, though - I'm pretty sure the digitization effort there prioritizes the oldest books first, to make sure it gets done before they reach a condition that makes it impossible.
I find it very strange that people talk about soldiers as if they had some special moral responsibility for what happens during a war.

Sure, they should be thinking about the implications and ethics of their actions, as we all should, and yet they also signed up to serve the nation, and to do what their nation thought necessary and just. Do people think that democratic nations should not have armies, and it is an ethical imperative for Americans, English and others to refuse to serve? If not, then it is all of our responsibilities, as voters and citizens, to ensure that only just wars are fought, and using ethical means. If not, then we are all responsible, not just the soldiers.

Instead of asking "how could you kill someone" we should be asking "how can you live in a political system that causes people to be ordered to kill people, in which you have the ability to change this fact".

I'm not a pacifist myself, I just don't see how in a democracy, the buck stops with the soldiers.
Interesting. Do you have any more resources about how these bots are made?
Of course take everything with a grain of salt.

The Hacker News community's comments are actually more intellectual than the writer's click-bait propaganda,
and leaves room for debate on the author's one-sided views.

Edit: grammar
This is actually a good idea. If I didn't care what other people think, I'd probably do that.
Only problem is that you get

social_standing-=1;
romantic_relationships-=1;

But if you have a good amount of money, it suddenly becomes an OK thing to do.
"Given learning by 'doing' is known to be worse I wonder if they have hit some sort of local maxima."

I'm curious - would you be able to expand on this? I find that I prefer learning by doing projects, building, etc as opposed to reading/problem sets/etc. Has there been research to compare the two approaches?
Is profundity something we should need a doctorate to have access to? Should Murakami be larding up his books with Turkish puns to alienate the plebian readers?
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Is it too late for Bitcoin cloud-mining to be profitable?
Because it didn't really matter what color the dress really is. The fact of the matter is, based soley on the photo, some people see it as blue and black and some see it as white and gold. Never mind the fact the manufacturer didn't make a white dress. The important thing is how people see the dress in the photo. Personally I think it is difficult to say what the dress color is, because the lighting is so poor. But I would lean toward white and gold. But other people, with no other knowledge of the dress see it has blue and black.
Great article, and I like Dan's willingness to sometimes boot to Windows or OS X, when needed to get some task done.

I feel good using Linux even with some rough edges, but I am also practical minded in the sense that I have Windows 8.1 and OS X laptops available if needed.

I am not so happy with smartphone options. Basically, I am nervous about messing with my expensive Note 4.
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What are these terse languages you speak of?
This is perfect. Watching Aliens at exactly that age was a rite of passage for me. I had been really scared of scary movies up to that point. When I saw Aliens, it definitely freaked me out but, after the movie was over, my mind had been blown and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Totally cured me of my scary movie phobia too.
Unfortunately, guix seems to fall into the problem so many source distribution systems fall into. Looking through the documentation, they make it entirely too difficult to customize compilation options. For example, FreeBSD's packaging system has make.conf, which allows one to set environment flags for the package build system, its ports tree lets you make custom builds of software for things like additional library support, and generally supports options that let you make your systems your own.

Guix, while it claims to support repeatable builds, keeps you in the same restrictive build process as other package managers. It's hard to configure how your packages are built, hard to maintain your custom options between updates, and from the scant documentation, and hard to maintain a server for private packages. Add in its poor capabilities as a package manager, such as the bizarre requirement to upgrade the distribution to upgrade your package list, and you just have a poor mess of an operating system.
This is ridiculous. Soldiers aren't 'selected' for their trust in authority and lack of responsibility. And they are supposed to ask for permission to shoot. Especially snipers.

I don't know where you got your information, but it wasn't from any experience with military.

Hey, lets look at some US Marine Corps ROE documentation:

"We must review all aspects of the fight, from weaponeering
to the understanding of proportionate force. Training needs
to be discussion and scenario based, thus forcing Marines
to articulate their perceptions of and responses to the
situations. “Wrong” answers should not be reprimanded but
need to be explored further. This will take time, but we
cannot allow wallflowers to escape participation. We must
further empower subordinate unit leaders to continue the
training at their levels."

Virtually everything the US military teaches is contrary to what you've stated.
The Bible very unambiguously does not prohibit killing, it prohibits unjustified or unlawful killing. If we took it to heart, we'd continue doing exactly what we're doing, which is killing people when we feel justified in doing so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_kill#Justified_k...
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What I meant was:

1. US law provides for ratified treaties to have the same force as federal law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Clause)
2. The US and Iran have both ratified the NPT
3. The NPT guarantees the rights of signatories to establish peaceful nuclear programs
4. It's therefore, in theory, illegal under US federal law (which of course, at least applies to US persons) to interfere with the establishment of a peaceful Iranian nuclear program.

The practice of course, differs greatly from the theory. This is because, as per usual, law is more about politics than law.
It wasn't that bad (I was negatively disappointed by it and my girlfriend was pissed off at me for taking her to it, but it was because neither of us realized it's a prequel to Alien) - though I still think the best part of this movie was the TED 2023 trailer.
Dalvik is not a Java VM though it is a VM.
As of Lollipop Android left the whole VM thing behind and moved to ART so there is no stagnation on that front
You linked to the page that states it all but its like you didn't bother to read it yourself.
>In the absence of strict moderation, we’d be much better off without them.

I have little doubt as to the particular types of views that the author would want moderators to enforce.
And yet, maybe those men were actually farmers, producing an irrigation ditch to produce the food they need to feed their families.

War terrible or not, whether your side believes it is righteous or not, is an us vs. them endeavor: there is no absolute right, both parties assume they are the righteous. A moral human does not get himself in a situation where he has to make such a decision. I've never killed anyone and I suspect you haven't either.

Normal, well-adjusted adult humans may be apex animals, but they certainly aren't inherently violent. There's a subset of that population who has a cluster B personality disorder that exploits a larger subset of the population who has limited opportunity to feed their family in order to create such violence.

Any analysis of war must take in to account the us vs. them situation. Imagine reversing the scenario, imagining an Afghani soldier wandering around the United States with a weapon, deciding who to shoot and for what behavior. Would your reaction be the same? Would you still think it was the correct decision?
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Oh wow, thanks for the context and links.
Temporary lapses in judgement are fine - what I hate is the attitude of disregard towards safety and law.

Fortunately, it seems that the whole discussion will soon become moot thanks to self-driving cars.
Glad you like them! Feel free to play around even if you are not interested. If you do successfully beat them, shooting us an email to say how you beat them is always a fun read. Good luck!
More and more of the people I subscribe to on Youtube are disabling comments, purely because the amount of time and effort required to moderate them to stop personal attacks, spam, and those stupid chain comments is simply not worth it.
New York has the same thing. 11 points in 18 motnhs and you lose your license. Violations go from 2 points to 11. Speeding 1-10 MPH is 3 points, 11-20 4 points, 21-30 6 points, 31-40 8 points, and >40 or 11 points. The full list is at:

http://dmv.ny.gov/tickets/about-nys-driver-point-system

Though I expect the speed cameras are not actually giving out points. They don't for the red light cameras. You need a "real" ticket from a cop to get points for that.

Also, depending on the part of the state if you hire an attorney, then there is a good chance you'll get any points reduced. You might even get a parking violation instead and just pay a fine. In NYC, being able to plead and get a reduced point sentence is less likely than in other jurisdictions.
Not really -- he's been an active Google+ poster even before he joined FB (https://plus.google.com/+YannLeCunPhD/posts)
I saw Event Horizon in the theater when I was seventeen or so and I was traumatized. That movie was pretty twisted. I felt completely exhausted when I came out of the theater.
And somehow your incompetence makes you an expert?
LAPD shoots (Kills) homeless man already being held down by officers
Not everyone who goes to a bar drinks. Not everyone in a car on a highway is driving.
Probably a good time to tear your eyes out.
Doing this blows up your camera's low-light performance. Don't do this unless you don't like your phone (and I like mine, so I sure won't).
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