skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the people who were just scammed a little? The people who just don't want to have to look hard to find a job after they graduate and so just want to call their degree worthless and get their loan canceled? Because as soon as you draw the line, people are going to challenge where it lies. It's really dangerous to allow someone to externalize all of the consequences of a particular bad decision.

Altruism's great and all, but you need to think very hard about what it means to provide a benefit to everyone. It's not just the people who were legitimately scammed.
think about switching to ramen

Though it's temporary, and somewhat romanticized (I still eat ramen), that's a terrible suggestion health-wise :-) I think dry beans + crock pot + rice is a better, low cost diet.
How would you go about selling an online course? Specifics would be great.
Yeah, I mean...you typically assume that any guy (and many gals) you're friends with or work with watches porn at least sometimes. And in your head it's just "porn" without much thought given to it. For better or worse, a person's sexual fantasies and proclivities are considered very personal and private. Knowing that the fella in the next office over doesn't just watch "porn" but rather that he watches a lot of scat porn or porn with specific focus on power play between (for example) people of different races or ages or is into any number of other fantasies...it might cause many people to get skeeved out. Even if you're fairly open minded and don't care that people you know could be watching any number of porn sub-types, there's something uncomfortable about knowing the specifics. It's like seeing someone defecating. Everyone does it but for whatever sociological reason, it's not something you want others to see (usually (see porn discussion)) or something you personally want to watch.

I think on some level, the situation of "modern man" is one where we cultivate the image of our higher functions and logic while hiding the more primitive, animal sides. For many people, sexual activity and elimination are just too "gross" and primal for comfortable observation. Of course that transgression is the fuel for several fetishes but that's only tangentially related.

The other thing to consider is that fantasies are often a way to address those primitive motivations and desires in a way that doesn't interfere with the operation of modern society. Maybe a woman likes the fantasy of a dominant or forceful partner even if actual coercion or rape would be horrifying. Maybe a man likes to fantasize about sex with a room full of women or people who look like his boss. In reality he's not going to attend orgies or pursue his employer but the fantasy is a way of exorcising and addressing what his lizard brain keeps pestering him about.

When others learn of these fantasies and interests, how do you know they aren't going to draw the wrong conclusion? Your coworker probably isn't a rapist or a rape victim or planning to pursue their boss or someone who goes cruising for anonymous sex with lots of partners but when their porn history is exposed, how do their coworkers not recoil from them or judge them harshly for those thoughts?

I guess in a perfect world we would all just accept sex fantasies as what they are but in reality, the line between public and private life is one that seeks to minimize the conflict that would arise if we really knew everything about other people.
>I also dont like how it switched on me from google to yahoo as my default search engine. If MS did this in IE people on HN would be losing their shit, but because this project is a FOSS darling, everyone just made excuses for it. At the very least it should have asked me if I wanted to change to whatever search engine pimp they've gotten into bed with this year.

No need for excuses, I use FF and my default search engine is Google. It was two "clicks" to change back but sorry if that was to dramatic for you. Most people realize Mozilla is not going to make someone's search engine the default for free and that contracts end.

People will complain about anything...
Thank you for not requiring email to download the cheat sheet. Almost all companies/websites say they put customer first, but when they require your information to let you read something for "free", it's obvious they are bullshitting. So, good job there.
If your bachelor's degree is from a for-profit college that has just gone out of business, what is its value?
One thing to keep in mind is that the helium used for balloons is a fairly small amount of helium compared to say, an MRI machine, in the same way a dripping faucet is way less water than a garden hose. But if you leave the dripping faucet on long enough, your water bill is going to go up.
> Its important to look for supporting evidence and gather facts.

That's a reasonable stance. I tend to agree with you. It seems uncontroversial that it is important to look for supporting evidence and gather facts.

I wonder what do you make of this public statement, published by Le Monde and written by 34 French scholars, made in February of 1979:

"The question of how technically such a mass murder was possible should not be raised. It was technically possible because it occurred... There is not nor can there be a debate over the existence of the gas chambers."

Do historians get a pass? Do they not need to look for supporting evidence and gather facts?

I don't mean to be inflammatory so please don't vote me down. The point I'm making is that it's easy to dismiss "conspiracy theorists" for their silly ideas, and have these lofty goals of "evidence first", but when an extraordinary claim that is politically motivated stands on very shaky grounds, and "evidence first" is called into action as a modus operandi, then people are told they should not raise questions.

I'd like to remind everyone that it is not controversial to state that there is no documentary evidence for the use of gas chambers between 1942 and 1945. This much has been stated in public television by Tim Sebastian in a 2000 BBC "Hardtalk" interview with a WW2 historian, and stated under oath by the leading WW2 atrocities historian Raul Hilberg.

It's also important to talk about this because this places 99% of people firmly in the "conspiracy theorist" camp, as most people believe these unquestionable claims based on hearsay and not on any body of evidence. If someone disagrees and can show me wrong, please do so without naively assuming that I must have some racial agenda, which I can assure you - I don't.
And what about falling back to a verbal description of the chart for those of us on ELinks?
The footer also says "BROUGHT TO YOU BUY"
Not sure it was intentional or not, but surely reduces the trustworthiness by a lot and then some
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.. at a significant cost to execution speed, experience shows. The fastest interpreted "general purpose" language is apparently Lua, which switched from stack to registers to get that speed a while ago.
With ES6 JS feels pretty mature, so the question is how much added value would another language provide and at which cost.
I think that answers the question "Is the market ready for smart watches?"
> The fact is that as a first time buyer I cannot get a mortgage with monthly payments at 70% of my current rent. Yet if I rented it out for that rental income the maths changes and I can.

It would seem grossly authoritarian to prevent people from lending money to each other on freely agreed terms. So I think you have to go after the causes of this. Why are the banks more willing to lend to buy-to-let folks? Is it because they can recover more in a foreclosure? Is it because people who buy-to-let are already wealthy so the banks know they'll get their money back?
"Women are en masse working quietly in writing, music, painting, knitting." None of these involve numbers.

Sincere question: why do you think women are less involved in engineering and more involved in teaching and social work?
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have you considered hiring an intern?
What a great problem to have.

I can't tell you much about managing the coding part, but I've got experience getting solid support systems up and running for developer-type products. Feel free to drop me an email if you'd like to bounce ideas back and forth on what you're doing and what might help make the load more manageable. I may be able to help with some of it too for cheap/free time permitting. Good luck either way!
If the young are unwilling to support the old then there will be no such thing as retirement. Is that really what you want?
Nice to see some data-driven recommendations, even though the review sample size is still limited for many of them.
For whatever reason, I hear it as a "challenge" trying to show someone they don't understand math.

But again, I would argue that you're ignoring the difference between an object and its representation for the purpose of communication. A function is defined to be a set of tuples (a relation) with some extra properties. These tuples are the input-output pairs of the function, which is exactly how you define the graph of a function. They are literally the same object, regardless of whether you choose to represent them as a picture or a mapping. The choice of language suggests they are different things because you want to treat them differently (and this is a good thing), but when you get down to the definitions they're the same.

Your example of vector graphics is not a counterexample to this because the sets that define those functions are uncountably infinite. When you render them on the screen to have to approximate them by a finite pixel set, but that is unrelated to the underlying function's mathematical nature.

These set-theoretic definitions of functions and relations are standard parts of an introductory course on set theory.
The fundamental flaw of the twheel is well known: something gets stuck in the spokes (mud, gravel, etc) and they go out of balance. At highway speeds: best case scenario is annoying vibration; worst case scenario is dangerous loss of traction and/or broken suspension components.

Michelin currently has a factory that makes these for low speed industrial applications (e.g. a skid loader). We probably won't see them on dealership lots any time soon.
Honestly I find it real hard to believe that they sold over 13K pebbles in less than an hour. imho it doesn't make sense.

They have a great product, but not 13K / 60 min great
Just look at Europe's cookie law and law about removal of "personal information" from Google search, how well regulations work.
To pay for infrastructure repairs someone else must be taxed. Why is it better to tax a working person in order to repair roads instead of just having drivers pay for the proportion of roads that they use?
I would say both are correct. From a psychological\SE standpoint know your faults and develop defenses for them. That could be use a language that doesn't allow them to even be thought in the first place, or develop defensive coding standards that prevent them. But that answer is more stochastic, it helps but anything short of formal proof is just raising the likely hood of success not a guarantee.

I also wonder if a static analysis tool would have caught the bug. Are there any good static analysis tools for Java or Python that might have caught the bug without the overhead of writing the formal proof?
Also the detail provided is not as informative... I was recently migrating a website and while doing this needed to modify my local DNS. To verify the site still worked on the new infrastructure before putting all traffic. So, I was able to use the network tab in Chrome to confirm that I was loading the site from the new servers and not the old servers. In the network tab in Chrome it shows you the IP address of the requested site. Very useful when loading from multiple servers as well... I couldn't find the same information when trying in Firefox.
Yes, that's right. The thing is that nearly all of the times you want to order arrays that fit inside the L1 cache, neither execution time nor allocation size are a problem.
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Sure, but why provide the information if it's in Triganic Pu - I think it's fair to assume he meant USD, unless otherwise indicated, otherwise it's just an utterly contextless number.
The salaries of professors, lecturers, college employees, construction workers, etc. go to rents, food, other necessities. That money doesn't go back to the college, but rather to the general area these people live in and spend their money in.
They also used to put fake horses out in front horseless carriages. This will pass.
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Thanks! We prefer to just put stuff out there and have faith that if people are interested in trying ChartMogul they'll come back and signup.

We have started using the little 'Sniply' powered signup at the bottom of the PDF just to do a bit of unobtrusive prompting.
This is one of those questions I use to see if sites know how to research a topic. We have proven reserves to last at current consumption rates for 300 years. A little googling leads you to the facts, which is that we have plenty of helium to last a long, long time. A plant is coming online that will provide nearly the entire planets consumption of helium for then next 50 years. And this is just with places where we know we can get helium out of the earth. We put helium in balloons because it is so cheap because of abundance. It is almost as bad as when I hear cries of the "coming phosphorus shortage".
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I've owned an original pebble for a couple weeks now, but I'm still skeptical on their usefulness. I save maybe 5-10 minutes of time per week by being able to check the weather forecast or dismiss non-urgent emails and texts using my watch instead of having to pull my phone out of my pocket, but that's about the only benefit I'm seeing so far.

Maybe a smartwatch would be more useful to me if I was more popular and had calendar events to keep track of or more friends who contacted me regularly, but as your typical socially-isolated introvert software engineer, this thing seems to have limited utility.
That's weird, since Flash runs on its own process (plugin-container). Is it actually crashing the whole browser?
You should reduce reliance on IPs and instead give people unique IDs once they solve your captcha. Then any abusive traffic will be de-muxed based on ID and so legitimate users will be effected much less by the bad behavior of others.
Why would both sides of the transaction use this? Even if it works well, what is better to a merchant than a permanent transaction? And if it is better to only consumers, who would then put pressure on merchants to accept it (in theory) how will you get consumers to put pressure on merchants to overcome what may be a lack of incentives on the merchant side?
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The killer feature here is something that no one is talking about!

>We've included a soft silicone band with each Pebble Time, but all standard 22mm watch bands will fit. All new Pebble watch bands include a quick-release pin, letting you swap bands in under 10 seconds.

Standard watch bands is something that most other wearables aren't embracing. This makes the Pebble significantly more enticing.
Well, except, you have to buy one from somewhere, and I believe they are only officially being sold through their own site or Amazon. So you are providing your identifying information to some party before even getting the device.
Doesn't load for me on my home connection, works on my server. Route broken somewhere?
Just tested FF Hello. A very nice experience! Too bad it didn't work with a recipient on osX/safari. I will be using this more often!
90% of the time you can replace "political correctness" with "politeness"... including this case.
Until there is a serious reform of the courts, either by active effort or by sufficient replacement with younger judges, taking things to court is likely only going to bring about the opposite.
good tips here, thanks!
I'll admit to being disappointed. After the Pebble Steel I thought they were going to take appearances seriously, but the Pebble Time barely even looks better than the original Pebble. Maybe if they make a Pebble Time Steel it'll be the one for me (and the sales figures suggest plenty do not agree with me).

That said, kudos to them for getting it out and being independent competition to Android Wear and the Apple Watch. We need that.
I have the feeling eventually everything on the "tools of the trade" list will be mentioned

https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
Simply put, not everything is commutative.
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Cost of Living is just one factor to consider, and everybody has different priorities.

I discount the CoL "bonus" because of the generally poorer environment with respect to culture, public institutions like libraries and parks, and educational opportunities. I grew up and lived in the south for most of my life. With precious few exceptions I found it to be mainly a canvas upon which the bigoted (race, gender, sex orientation) and extreme anti-government types painted most of the landscape. You could give me 100% of my current salary/year tax-free in a high-yield/low-risk investment account and I wouldn't move back to one of those places. I may have considered it before I had kids, but not now.
great product - i also saw one of the founders talk at BrooklynJS the other night - great talk and great demo.
The theory isn't snake oil, but it isn't novel (it's called network MIMO) and I'm not sure if performance has been established in practice.
Memory isn't being doubled though, some bookkeeping that is a fraction of the total memory being used is being increased by less than 2x.
I looked into this research area as well. In fact, I considered writing a thesis about CAPTCHA. The problem is really that there is little to no formal theory about this subject. CAPTCHAs remind me of how cryptography used to work: Someone invented a cipher, someone else broke it and so the cipher had to be improved to prevent this attack (well, it still works kinda like that, but the theoretical background is much better now). Much more an art than a science. What is a strong CAPTCHA? Again, almost no theory behind this. It's strong if programmers have a hard time figuring out how to break it with software. It is a frustrating situation, really, and computers aren't getting any dumber so CAPTCHAS must get harder to the point where they're not recognizable by humans.
The embargo might have ended, but perhaps all of the details are not yet in place to make it practical. Customs forms need to be reprinted (whether paper or electronic). Are UPS and other carriers ready to go? And so on. An entire generation of US businesses and people have never done business with Cuba, that isn't going to change overnight...or even in a few months.

Or maybe the Pebble founders just don't like Fidel.
How are arguments passed in JavaScript? By-value or by-reference?
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I don't think you'll be able to exploit it remotely directly, but indirectly this sort of thing is more realistic.

For example, many popular PHP applications store serialized data as strings in its database. An SQL exploit like the one Drupal had some time ago could allow an attacker to modify that data.
From the article:

"Web browsers leave an essentially unique footprint every time you visit a web page, even in Incognito mode (and even without supercookies). This is well established; many web tools such as Panopticlick will confirm that you give a website lots of information about your computer every time you visit."
A lot more needs to happen to this country before leaving London is a viable option for a lot of people.
Poor vocabulary, most probably, not being a native speaker. But I wanted to emphasize the fact that it was not just a stupid decision, but a well-documented stupid decision. It takes few minutes on google to learn that it is detrimental to learning (with scientific facts), and if everybody can do stupid mistakes, I call insisting on doing documented mistakes being "retarded". And no, I did not intend to attack handicapped people, this is just plain ridiculous. But you may have a better, more suitable adjective for that.
What about AFL?
To me, https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/02689... reads like the bug was known (err, the possibility of running out of slots in the bookkeeping stack was understood). That indicates that it could be an intentional tradeoff.
>I was shopping for a house a few months ago, and was simply unable to buy one; those in my price range wouldn't accept my offer because it wasn't an all-cash offer

I don't understand this. If you're pre-qualified for a $500,000 dollar loan how is your offer worse than someone willing to pay $495,000 cash?
Hmm are there even enough levels for them to reach that goal?
I don't want to sound too pessimistic and I agree with the sentiment of the article, but I think people need to come to terms with that there isn't really a choice to be made here. Just like you suddenly isn't going to change the at least decade old path of the NSA, you aren't suddenly going to change the fundamentals of the Internet. The choices that affects us now has to a large extent already been made and we are living with the consequences.
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Or what your coworkers/family/local officials consider "ordinary porn".
You're old fashioned. I used to write book reviews, and for a couple of years I literally got boxes of books from publishers every week.

After a while it got insane. The local charity shops and libraries hated me on sight.

Schools wouldn't touch the leftovers. I still have no idea why.

I kept a few thousand for the house, and the rest ended up in the wood burner.

Ebooks would have been much more practical.

The flip side of paper is the way that entire forests are laid waste. A print run of a million - not unusual for a best seller - will clear cut a huge area.

Then the pulp has to be bleached, which is a nasty process.

Eventually most of that paper simply gets thrown away.

The whole process is incredibly, stupidly wasteful.
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