skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. I mean, when you put the same object under yellow light or blue light, the physical photons going into your eyes will be different. It would be like being someone who didn't hear the Doppler effect when a police car drove past.
I think you are unfairly generalising from your personal use-case. Efficiency can also mean "time" or "being able to do it at all".

There's scenarios where TransferWise, MoneyGram, WesternUnion etc. either don't work or ask for extremely high fees.

It can also be simply inconvenient to go to the physical pick up locations of MG/WU. Keep in mind most people in the world are not blessed with 3 different banks and a starbucks within walking distance.
By feasible I meant the price of doing that compared to the current systems. It's simply not cost effective.
This is a bit frustrating - part of the premise is that people who are engineers somehow have a predilection towards extremism. Then they admit that that it's a tiny proportion of engineers overall.

Then they mention that it could be random effects - an extremist group that's strong in an engineering school would of course recruit more extremists, for example. But they dismiss that with "well we didn't notice that" and go head on with their personality argument. Similarly with a tech-based recruitment argument.

Then, they go on to "prove" how most engineers are right-wing conservative (which is a very American position) by looking at a study of 9000 Americans (what a non-representative sample) and finding that 57% self-identified as so. Then they stretch this conclusion to extremists everywhere.

They mention that engineering is a stepping stone profession in a lot of the middle east, that families encourage their kids to be some kind of engineer, because of better career opportunities. They also mention that there is a selective entry process and the title of "engineer" is an honorable one (which I think may be a bit exaggerated but whatever).

No mention of the fact that engineering is super broad and includes tons of subcategories and professions, and thus a larger cross-section of the population in general.

No mention that because of this broad variety of subfields, even though some programs have high entry requirements, the overall entry process can't be nearly as social-class selective as something like medicine, where you need money even to prep for entry.

No mention that an engineering education doesn't necessarily expose you to more progressive (or western-oriented if you want to be cynical) ideals like a law or humanities or social sciences degree does.

They just slap on their own narrative. This is shoddy work IMHO. How did this even pass peer review?
You could enforce it in other ways. Require a longer holding period or even plain increasing the transaction fees would knock out high frequency trading.
for further background you can check out the video from container camp last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zve7rJ1FoDU&feature=youtu.be...

...in which my demo didn't work lol but you'll get the idea
What's fascinating to me is that this layout makes it much more difficult to understand the timeline as linear since you have to read across the page (left-to-right) and down with noted differences in the sizes of each tweet.

It's the effect of reading all tweets at once instead of focusing in a single tweet at a time. Clutter adds distractions which take away from the value of each individual tweet.

However, when I hit a batch of tweets that are primarily photos (as opposed to pure text and links), it's much easier to understand what's happening.
Unless your site is about one thing, it’s about everything
Well it is Play in the "press Play on ..." sense.

Even the icon is a stylized version of the mark found on the appropriate button.
Thanks for the feedback. Will fix that.
> so you'll be better-equipped to take me down.

Seriously guy?
But according to Obama, Muslims are radicalized because there aren't enough jobs.
I've learned to accept that work should only be a certain percentage of your life. Occasionally it can bleed over, sure, but unless you want it to be 100% then you need to drop it and think about other things. Maybe I'm just lazy, but when I'm with other things I care about - especially people - then work can kiss my ass :)
My pet theory is that INTJ males are prone to extremism. We see it here with this kind of pie-in-the-sky Libertarianism and other fringe views. Not sure why this is, I imagine having a disconnect from the social and emotional parts of life means that its easier to justify very strict and simplistic philosophies that miss out on many nuances. Often that comes with a mix of OCD and ADHD-like behaviors. When push comes to shove, these types may find it easier to justify violence. The amount of revolution talk on libertarian forums is evidence of this.

My own life has been a personal struggle against these traits and opening up myself more and more to the softer side of life. Its very easy to pretend your side is "technically correct, thus the best kind of correct" and develop a sort of moral superiority over others, especially if you and your peer group dismiss others as "stupid" because you only value what you perceive as "smarts." Look at how often STEM types dismiss non-STEM fields as useless pedantry.

I think in the case of Islamic extremism, its well known that suicide bomber recruiters focus on oddballs and loners. These types have less to lose and may be easier to convert. INTJ males are often have loner traits. These recruiters aren't stupid. They know how to spot these types of weaknesses and use them for their own gain.
It's a till. With the pen and paper system, you eventually need to key it in to the till anyway, so why not bring the till with you? If you have one of these: http://www.verifone.com/products/hardware/mobile/payware-mob... you can take payments on it as well.

It also sends the order through to the kitchen immediately, so the waiter is now free to serve other customers rather than going back and forth to the kitchen. A small time saving, but everything adds up if you're busy.

Once an order is in the system, it can be retrieved by any staff or manager from any till or handheld.

It's targeted more at the chain restaurant where the till is the tip of a large reporting and logistics iceberg, rather than mom-and-pop small restaurants.
"I can't think of what "insane" could possibly mean in this context other than technically challenging or infeasible."

Apparently, responding to keystrokes by putting a character on the screen in less than a couple hundred milliseconds is still technically challenging, or at least, doing everything we want to do within that time frame is still technically challenging for a high-powered editor. Which is less silly if you think about it. A single keystroke in "notepad" is one thing, a single keystroke in a programmer editor is quite another.

"Looking at the call graphs, Javascript itself or even the DOM obviously were far from being the bottlenecks."

If Javascript really was a fast language on par with C++ or something, that amount of abstraction would not have been a problem. The fact that Javascript is slow really is a problem. It is not necessarily the problem, because many other things are contributing, but it is a very significant part of the problem.

You can bring a Java or C++ program with its knees with too much abstraction too, but it takes a lot, lot more work than that. (Many have managed to leap this bar and more, though!)

It's one of the reasons I'm really trying to get the 1990s-style dynamic scripting languages out of my professional life. It really isn't that hard to reach a point where you simply can not have both of "a good design" and "sufficient response time" because you literally want to do more work than the language can get done on one core in 100ms unless you essentially manually inline everything, but that's not practical for its own reasons.

In fact, on that note, note that this is it for Atom. This is the fastest they can go with this layer. Should they end up pushing the editor a bit farther and should they end up needing a bit more performance to do something else properly, they won't be able too, because they just tapped out this well.
The tech industry for the majority attracts like minded people. We tend to have an all on our nothing mentality. We don't do it on purpose, it's just how we're wired. We work endlessly, hours upon hours, and at some point it starts to take its toll. The mental burn becomes too much, it wears on you. Eventually there is only one option, to walk away, for some time at least. I wish we were able to find balance. I've been doing this for close to a decade now, maybe not as long as some, but I've hit burnout and had to walk away. Upon my return I vowed never to get there again, I'm not so sure I was able to keep that promise. Maybe these are things we learn through time and experience. Or perhaps its subject to the way in which we lead the rest of our life.
That abstract reads strangely to me.

"This article demonstrates that among violent Islamists engineers with a degree, individuals with an engineering education are three to four times more frequent than we would expect given the share of engineers among university students in Islamic countries."

That sounds like they started with a sample of "violent Islamists engineers with a degree" and found lots of people with engineering degrees! I must be misunderstanding this, but I did do an engineering degree rather than "social science".
Good for you man. I took a year to do the same thing and travel.

The first step for me was creating a blog and writing a similar post, reflecting on what I had been doing and what was about to change. I also wrote down a lot of things I wanted to do in that next year. While I only did a handful of them, its great to look back now a few years later and see where my mindset was.

It is also great to reflect on the things that I did do on that year off that were so amazing, the things which I didn't write down, because they weren't even things I could imagine. That's the best part, realizing you've broadened your horizons.

:a toast: Wishing you do many unimaginable things.
There was no trend in MBS. What you had was

- a regulatory environment encouraging subprime loans

- high yielding securities which were rated as AAA (by a legal oligopoly of bond rating agencies) and thus could be used for bank reserves

- a short term interest rate that did not respond to market pressure (because determined by the fed) and thus created a gigantic carry trade

Mistakes in risk models always happen, and they can be caused by many things, including an over-reliance on mathematical model. However, for a real catastrophe, you need to remove all the feedback mechanisms such as

- a free market that would allow the short rate to rise with increased demand

- a free market that would allow bond rating agencies to compete

- a free market that would allow bank to compete for balance sheet quality rather than having a government insurance scheme creating a race to the bottom
Cognitive Biomimicry – Generating content summarizations
Google changes course and won’t ban adult content on Blogger
Two Eerie Lights Are Shining from This Dwarf Planet – And No One Knows Why
don't make it mandatory. we're lucky some people don't vote
It's likely that you already know how Hello World works in at least one other language. By showing you it in the new language, Hello World allows you to start mapping concepts across those domains (ie, how to print characters to the console, where the entry point is, how to express string literals, etc).
It doesn't take modern build processes and frameworks to need to know that you've crafted the bare essentials for a running problem, and the multi-stage compilations and linking process has performed as expected. Or that your cross-compile is working. Building software has been complex enough to warrant this for many decades.
Verizon's wireline capex was $5.7 billion in 2014.
Sales Outsourcing
As best i recall it started with Windows Messenger, aimed at intranet use (and with a client bundled with Windows, natch). Then MS used the same protocol to offer a AIM competitor. In the end though what they killed seemed to be IRC...
Related: Five new undisclosed Xen vulnerabilities (xen.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9116937
I usually add "Wow, underneath all that crushing atmosphere Venus doesn't look that different from Earth."
The official news was released a long time ago http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2012/05/expanding-internet-dom...
"markets-solve-everything"

When did I say that?

I actually said explicitly that I believe in minimum wage. That already puts me well out of free-market fundamentalism.

If you've read some of my comments on HN, you'll see that I'm also in favor of regulation.

I happen to also believe that a Basic Living Standard is necessary.

I wish we had single-payer health care.

And I'm all for free, socialized education. (With BLS [stipend] on top of it.)

So, no, I'd say I fall WELL outside of the free-market fundamentalism you're referring to.

So, when you call me willfully ignorant, it's pretty damned offensive.

I happen to think data entry is demeaning. Some people enjoy it. I think busing tables is demeaning. Some people enjoy it. I have a friend who loves moving boxes in a factory, because he has free time to think about his poetry. I would never want to sell tooth paste to a super-market chain. Some people like to deal cards at casinos. Some like to sell pull-tabs. Some are waiters and airline stewards. Some people clean bedpans. Some clean houses after grisly murders.

Some people LOVE being a concierge. Well, this is a digital concierge service. And just because you and bendoernberg think it's menial and degrading, doesn't mean IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO OFFER THAT JOB. Or, that we as a culture should be embarrassed that job exists.

If a person hates their job, I want to give them every chance to get out of that job. Every chance. But you're angry the job exists... regardless of whether someone WANTS to do it, for the pay they receive?

> we are not acting with sufficient empathy toward the people who are doing the work

I can't imagine why you think that of me. My grandpa worked four jobs at a time, sometime - because he grew up during the Great Depression, and if you can get work, you work. He set bowling pins. He delivered milk. He drove a school bus. He laid brick. All kinds of crap. Meanwhile, I TYPE in an air-conditioned building, and they pay me VASTLY more than he ever earned. It's ridiculous. And my peers are upset because the product owner violated the spirit of Agile when he made them change priorities mid-sprint (because we were shipping defective product). WHAT? GET OVER YOURSELF!

I want affordable housing. I want upward mobility. I want meritocracy and elbow grease. I want a safety net, and government-supplied-bootstraps. I want people to be able to declare bankruptcy, unlike today. I want an immigration system that's less like the mythical Labyrinth, and has empathy for immigrants.

So, are you really "solving my ignorance," or are you reading WAY TOO MUCH into one line of thought - and then running with it, half-cocked, and totally arrogant?
> the fact that reclassification gets us one step closer to rate setting

As I've said elsewhere, this is indeed FUD. (I also disagree with most of the rest of what you say, but I agree that it's not FUD.)

The notion of "steps closer" to rate-setting makes little sense in the real-world regulatory environment. If today's FCC hadn't decided to reclassify broadband Internet service under Title II, this would do very little, perhaps nothing, to hold back a future Commission that wanted to impose a rate-setting regime. That future Commission, persuaded that rate-setting was a good idea, would simply open a proceeding to reclassify broadband internet service under Title II and impose a rate setting regime. The fact that broadband internet service was not already classified as a Title II service would be, at most, a very minor impediment given the tremendous deference the FCC is given in making such regulatory decisions. (For one thing, the reversal of a prior regulatory decision is subjected to no special scrutiny.) This would only require a single proceeding in which whatever reasoning the Commission had to support rate setting, would also be its support for Title II reclassification. And since one of the primary objections to Title II reclassification today is that it somehow raises the risk of rate setting, one can only imagine the resistance to actually imposing a rate-setting regime.

In other words, this is a classic slippery-slope argument. All the considerations that stop us from setting rates today will be present in the future. The minor administrative hassle of reclassifying broadband internet service under Title II, barely ranks as one of the impediments to imposing such a regime.
Which is why they've been so proud to share the details with the people of the USA, right? Foreign companies will be able to sue the USA if any of TPP provisions are violated (allegedly... it's a secret agreement), so it would be nice to actually debate it first. Legislators have been excluded from TPP negotiations as well.

Additionally, fast tracking bypasses Constitutional procedures to ratify treaties.

The supporters of TPP are the legislators who serve big business, generally. Those opposed are the populists. If by good for the American people, you mean American corporations and American investors, then you're right that it's good for them.
Yes, You got it right.

If you have 50,000 subscribers and you send bi-weekly emails or roughly 10 campaigns every month.

You would be paying $49(Flat Fee) + 10*($5) = $99

Any other email service charges roughly $250 or more for the same. So overall there is huge cost saving with SES along with SendGlide.

If you are willing to join SendGlide, Feel free to jump on the live chat on the site or send an email. http://www.sendglide.com/contact-us/
i just thought it was really funny that each bitcoin creates so much carbon. the actual study itself is awesome
I agree with the sentiment, but how's he going to pay the bills for rent, school, car, etc? A lot of people work on jobs they don't like to pay bills. Is he not going to have a place to stay? May be his girlfriend has enough income that he can pursue hobbies while she works A 'proper' job? There is a minimum you need to make to live a comfortable life and not rely on government to help ends meet.
I had sort of the opposite experience. I moved furniture for a number of years...manual labor at its finest. I put on 10 pounds of muscle, melted any extra fat from my body, slept like a baby every night, and had no back problems compared to slumping in a chair all day. It was certainly hard work, but I look back on it with a simple fondness that I can't conjure for all my past office jobs. All I see is this weird fluorescent limbo in my emotional memory despite all the interesting software I've worked on.
And now I've just hidden my email on GitHub.
the cumulative hash-breaking power of the world would be much, much higher

Why would the "cumulative hash-breaking power" grow somehow disproportionally to the general computing power?

how are you powering that multi-core smartwatch?

Likely in the same way as your current multi-core smartphone?
Because responsible adults have demonstrated their ability to follow a coordinated disclosure policy which lets them improve their own security without harming anyone else's.
Articles like these are sidetracking the conversation that we should really be talking about. Beliefs have consequences and religious beliefs should be subjected to the same kind of conversational pressures, that we subject all other beliefs to. And this taboo that gives beliefs, in the name of god, a free ride in our discourse has to be lifted.

To attribute this to professions as opposed to what people think, seems to me to completely miss the way people behave in this world.
This just seems to be a collection of short videos showing how to form guitar chords.

It's not a very effective or interesting way to learn chords (it's just the videos; not even chord diagrams), and there's no clever tech involved.

Why did I see this on the HN front page?

Friends voting? Odd.
Vim itself is fine, but the plethora of plugins that a lot of people install can drag it down. Firefox has the same problem with extensions. And it's really not the fault of the base package. It's the plugin developers not doing due diligence, and it's the shear number of plugins making it impossible to test all combinations.
Using robotics to raise awareness about landmines and explosive remnants of war
Actually, I do both daily. I program only for fun, but work on the computer and also do manual work. I also started a little bit with farming, but for pleasure mostly and healthy food, not as a way of living.

It's very good thing to switch between totally different tasks, makes you miss all of them occasionally and in the end you remember only the good things about each one of them :-)
My perception of the dress's color has flipped from white/gold to blue/black and now back to white/gold again over the course of the last day.

I can say that, in my case, there's been a fairly strong correlation between my own ambient lighting conditions. I've only seen white/gold in well-lit settings and I've only seen blue/black when I was laying in bed with all the lights off. Whether that's coincidence or not I cannot say, but I felt it was an interesting data point.
Droid danger: 5B Android apps open to hack
It seems to be a software limitation. On an iPhone, if you try to download a movie from the iTunes app, you'll be prompted to switch to wifi--the download won't proceed. It isn't tied to carrier, I think, but at the iOS level.
I think you're right, it seems like graphene offers a promising next step though.
So this guy:

- Changed his major overnight from whatever it was to computer science after writing a Hello, World program

- Left "so-called higher education" to work at a real-life job "without even thinking about it twice"

- Quit real-life job to be a bartender and chef

- Quit doing that after getting girlfriend pregnant to 'go back to the "real world" to get a job'

- Quit that to build a house and work on a farm

Every life event he describes here is a movement to extremes out of frustration or anxiety from what he was currently doing. I'm sure there's much more to this story, but if anything, this is an example of how peace of mind can't be found on either ends of a see-saw.
US-Bangladesh blogger Avijit Roy hacked to death
There’s already a conspiracy theory brewing over net neutrality
I envy people who can simply walk away from a career like this. As the single source of income for a family of 5, I will be slinging code for The Man for years to come.

I started programming shortly after learning to read, so it's not something I'll ever give up totally -- I do find side projects help in alleviating the ennui somewhat (given that you can at least challenge yourself, rather than solving the same problems over and over and over and over.... ).
Digital natives: well connected but less critical
Sure, but I don't see how bitcoin becomes a very widespread payment mechanism without first being the best option for many transactions.
It seems the author of the article had spent a lot of time in a windowless, fluorescent-lit room. No wonder the urge to be outside is so great for them.
That is their announcement for their plans to purchase those domains, but with competition and a particularly long application process with ICANN they only just officially acquired .app.
I am in the opposite situation. I've tried all the tricks/explanations and different monitors and devices. I don't understand how the dress could be black and dark blue.

When I saw the actual picture of the dress in good lighting I questioned my sanity. :)