skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always amazed that places like Germany generally have people including photos with their resumes. Blew my mind when I moved there from Canada.
Facebook announces a payment method via Messenger
Or just write the attempt count and flush to flash even before checking whether the code is correct? The count can always be updated to zero once it is determined that the code is right.
If you don't even know the question (can I afford Ivy League?) internet is little help.
How to Build a Business When Everyone Says Your Idea Is Impossible
The big design challenge is eliminating car door locks.
And that's based on phones that don't take 3 minutes to boot up.. Oh hi old phone :)
Heap is hiring a Customer Success Lead to keep our customers happy
I think unfortunately Bayesian inference often does mean bigotry. And bigots aren't necessarily always wrong.
An app that can cater to all tastes, and no excuses for being bored!
I'm using Safari. On your demo site, swipe to go back doesn't work. Any idea why this is happening?
i travel a lot for work and this is a great app when visiting any city and you have downtime between meetings.
Intelligence is one of the most genetically inheritable traits. Combined with environmental factors it's no wonder SAT scores and grades would correlate highly with parental income.
Many people, perhaps not you, are interested in distinguishing between discrimination based on Bayesian inference, and discrimination that isn't, and is instead, for example, based on incorrect views or inherent dislike of certain groups. You might say that both are equally bad. I suspect that if you were given the opportunity to argue that a particular form of discrimination is not justified by Bayesian inference, you would do so. It's only because I'm suggesting that it's possible discrimination is justified by Bayesian inference, that you are (rudely) objecting to the distinction.
I had a really hard time wrapping my head around the point the author was trying to make, and also a hard time making sense of any of the supporting arguments. Not sure where to begin.

I guess I'll start with the title. What is making a problem for blind people?
The problem is liberals and conservatives. Liberals tend to block infrastructure for "green" or NIMBY reasons, while conservatives de-fund it because infrastructure is socialism.

It's time to smash the whole political continuum and start implementing policies that work based on reason and evidence instead of vapid ideology and back room corruption.
Pentagon Wants Unhackable Boeing Drone Helicopters by 2018
Less Kanye West and more Linus. And I'm of the opinion that an attitude and approach like Linus' is fine - if you're Linus.

I think it's sort of made its way around as the way to act if you know what you're doing and that's a shame. I know a lot of great devs who are lost in the shuffle for not being boisterous enough.
if you are looking for an app to help you find a great place for a dinner, drink or activity - this is it.
Fair enough. Also, it is still technically a plane, so you'll need to be a licensed pilot before using one. It's not that you'll just borrow your friend's flying car for a spin on the weekend.

Still, it can be a lot cheaper and a lot more convenient than helicopters, and create significant progress to personal transportation.
Because poo
I've heard (but don't have first-hand experience so I can't verify) that selling it on commission via a local store might be worth looking into.
I agree with most of what you say, but regarding:

> There are a few extreme right-wing nationalists who might, but they're the fringe. They're smaller in size than America's Tea Party and should not be taken seriously.

The one does not follow from the other. Japan has a terrible history when it comes to fascism, the collusion of government (the temporary US one, and before/after Japanese), gangsters and the far right in union busting, and general nastiness (not to mention oppression of foreigners, especially non-white foreigners).

So "should not be taken seriously" doesn't sit right with me. It's a little like saying neo-nazis shouldn't be taken seriously in Scandinavia, because they've been so successfully worked against over the last year -- but one should not ignore history. These kind of groups breed hatred and bigotry, influence mainstream politics (both in Sweden, Denmark and Norway) -- and in general, if ignored and left alone, will fester and become a problem for any healthy democracy. See also: France.
Windows 10 launching in summer, being tested on Xiaomi
As other have said, Racket is a 'batteries included' scheme. The two things I miss from CL are CLOS (and no, tinyCLOS doesn't count) and loop/format.

Their pattern matching is easier to extend than optima though.
We are talking about academic studies, not how I would personally act.

You are asserting that the signal from race/gender is very noisy and the signal from the resume is very precise.

We can debate the precision of the signal from the resume, but race at least is highly predictive of many objective qualities, e.g. it is highly correlated with IQ. So what you call a vague, dubious, and unquantified signal is actually a highly informative signal.
Very much this. Refactoring simple code to handle more complicated situation as it develops is so much better than pre-engineering for possibilities.
Why do you think English is the best candidate for the universal language, how do you define simplicity? First of all, pronunciation and spelling are almost unrelated and you have to learn them separately. That results in really different accents throughout the world. Even if you look at AmE and BrE, they differ much at the word level. Which one you want to choose? Besides, personally I find English really ambiguous and density of idioms in average text repelling, although that's only a subjective opinion.

Usage of Latin alphabet in English seems like it's on plus, but there's at least one language that uses that simple alphabet better.

> Besides. UTF-8 is broken because it doesn't allow for constant time random character and length counting.

And why you'd want that? And how do you define length? Are you a troll?
I wonder if there is something which accelerates / causes this issue, like climate, cleaning with a particular cleaning agent, or touching the screen. I've had my rMBP since it was released in 2012 and have not seen the issue yet, despite using it nearly all day every day since purchase.
Interesting. I just turned off Simple Passcode as an experiment.

The number pad presented resembles a standard DTMF keypad. Which means that it also has all the letters on it. Some people might prefer using those to numbers. E.g. a long time ago a friend had a phone number of "tinyhat". Much easier for me to remember, even after nearly 40 years, than the 7 digits that translated to.
Here's an interesting script in the TypeScript repo that may be of use: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/scripts/...

Something else from the same repo that may also be of use: TypeScript's elegant and well-considered type system... wink wink
UltraFire is definitely a crappy choice - the capacities are often highly overrated. There's also one or two instances you can find on the Internet where they've exploded, and amusingly enough even "fake" ones with slightly altered wording exist, like "UitraFlrc".

TrustFire is not so bad for a value brand, the only explosion report I can find comes from someone who massively overcharged one and the capacities are not quite as inflated.

Avoid Sony cells. Sony never sold to end customers.

That's the official story for all the major manufacturers if you ask them, but they do get out there; I find it very hard to believe that these are fake or used:

http://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Sony%20US18650NC1%...

This guy has probably reviewed more 18650s than anyone else:

http://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Common18650Individ...

http://lygte-info.dk/info/Batteries18650-2011%20UK.html

http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/Battery%2018650%20UK.html
Most online SaaS/Internet startups? Yes. Maybe some on Azure too.

Every other type of business startup is going to use Windows because software. Call centers, restaurants, supermarkets, retail stores, real estate, financial, pharmaceutical, etc.
My friend worked for Makani for quite some time. I remember at the time, they were in financial difficulty and, in his words, laid off all the people who viewed it only as a science project in order to get lean. Not enough people were focused on what would be necessary to bring the tech to market. He ended up finally leaving after some time, but I think before Google took them. A Google X type of environment probably is perfect for people who like working on science projects and can't be hindered by financial constraints that would hold back innovation at this scale. Would be interesting if Google ends up being able to turn this into something used by many parties worldwide.
Same here. I think the hard part is choose what to control, how to measure, what to capture. After all performance testing is running experiment. Generating pretty visualization is 1% of the hard work if you have the data you need...
The coating on a MacBook Pro is similar to the anti-reflection coating you can get on glasses.

Chlorine and heat will affect glasses, I bet the same can be said for these laptop screens.

I have a feeling that with a database of 258 people, you should be able to find out what people are using to clean their screens and damaging them. Cleaning your screen using those bleach wipes is a sure fire way to damage it!
I wonder if it's the best risk ever for FB this period.
That would mean a lot of excess writes given the most common use case of the user putting the password in the first time.
One of my life's guiding principles, applied equally in both professional and personal endeavors, has always been this: Don't buy lithium batteries whose brand names contain the word "Fire."

So far, this ethos has served me well.
Ideas are germs – how extreme viewpoints feed off each other
You spelled efficiency wrong on the result for "Extreme Pragmatic". Interesting quiz tho!
Meteor 1.0.4 is out
The article mostly takes as a given that attending the 'elite' school would be better for these students. There's one quote late in the article, from the article's main source Stanford econ professor Hoxby, suggesting there's a big lifetime earnings-boost after graduating from top schools.

But, the actual story is a bit more complicated. Some research suggests that admitted students capable of attending top schools, who then choose to go to 'lesser' schools, do just about as well. Here's coverage of one such study:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/revisiting-the-...

Also note that the studies supporting big lifetime earnings boosts for either 'college' or 'elite colleges' tend to be based on graduating, not just enrolling. Graduation is not automatic, especially among low-income/first-generation admits. A student who chooses a nearer, cheaper, less-prestigous school may be increasing their chances of graduating enough to offset the premiums-conditional-on-graduation elsewhere.

There are some very-credentialist fields where school-prestige is of paramount importance – especially college education itself (graduate degrees/professorships) and some high-dollar finance/consulting/law careers. But there are many other careers, just as attractive to students and society, where college-prestige is far less important. For these, if a student plans to settle back near their hometown, the education and contacts from a locally-respected institution may be as good or better than a far-away prestigious degree.

So one answer to "why many smart low-income students don't apply to elite schools" may be that these students are really quite smart, and do actually know better what's right for them.
For every Carmack, there's 1000s of unspoken/unheard of people doing the same thing.

Well, okay, then, there must be millions and millions of programmers writing CRUD apps and for loops, because that covers probably 95% of the general value created in programming worldwide.

I don't see anything wrong with being impressed by the accomplishments and interests of others. I'm not Carmack. I'll never achieve anything like his level of productivity. I don't care, but I'm still vaguely interesting in reading about the guy.

I don't plan to climb Mt. Everest either, but I wouldn't mind hearing a story about it. And yeah, there are thousands of people planning Mt. Everest climbs, but that has zero bearing on my feelings about it.
We need a free-body diagram here, talking about the balance of forces in English is madness.
Unlike cookies, laptops should not be baked. These things probably sat in extremely hot vehicles or something.
>One way to think of affirmative action is that it says "people from this group, on average, will score k points lower not because of a lack of ability or intelligence, but because of a lack of opportunities earlier in life due to social inequalities"...

Which is why the people actually helped by affirmative action tend to be middle class people from favored ethnic groups who had opportunities.

"Affirmative action" is a terribly divisive, blunt tool which creates more injustice than it remedies. The idea a poor white guy from a broken home in Appalachia is somehow starting out behind a middle class black girl with an intact family in Southern California is laughable.
This video explained dynamic soaring for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVN-oF6tPLc

The key thing seems to be having different wind speeds available at different heights so you can do the upwind part through slower moving air.
The project I most recently left: very little technical debt.

The legacy project I've been moved onto: Dave Ramsey couldn't save it.
Keep it. You're likely to sell it for quite a loss. If you think you're likely to find a partner again, you'll be in for buying one again. Diamonds are /forever/ (:P), keep and reuse it.
Craigslist for Startups
I built thestartupdeck.com over the weekend. It's essentially a craigslist for startups. I'm looking to improve on the MVP as I learn what features might be most helpful.
Effectively, yeah. Thinking from the RoR world something like sidekiq or delayed_jobs could do the same thing.
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/553697333817659392?...
At this point, I think we both understand each others' positions for the most part. I just have two final questions for you, if you'll indulge me.

Do you believe, given the person described in the article, that Sami Osmakac is either unwilling or unable to kill someone in the name of Islam?

Do you believe that this article proves that the federal government acted in bad faith in investigating and prosecuting him?
FWIW,

- 3.2 is considered broken with a narrow unicode build (although it doesn't matter here)

- .lower and .upper are primarily for display purposes

- .casefold is for caseless matching
Pearson Under Fire for Monitoring Students’ Twitter Posts
I too feel the sense of waste. It's a box. I'm going to throw it in the trash. To me, a pricey box says, "You just spent an extra X dollars that didn't need to be spent." It's like sending a donation to a charity and they spend it by mailing you every week begging for more money.

> Startups seeking to emulate wasteful and expensive packaging are convincing me they're more concerned with image than substance.

We see this in new restaurants all the time. They go crazy remodeling, throw away too much money, then it opens and they don't get enough customers to pay for the lovely interior. Bye bye restaurant.
It may be a south-of-the-equator mentality, but it's not going to be summer in all of the 190 countries when Windows 10 is launched. differing calendars aside could USA-centric press releases just mention the month rather than the season?
My 13" MBPr has this stain pattern.

Here's my guess, I used an alcohol-based solvent to clean my keyboard and then closed the machine. Now I have stains of the oleophobic coating coming off in the places you'd expect it ... where the keys manage to come in contact with the screen.

So I suppose it's my fault, but I have a Lenovo T440s here with a beautiful matte screen that has no need for a fancy oil-resistent coating that comes off when you breath cleaning solvent on it.

Color me unimpressed, Apple.
The difficulty is that there's still no guarantee that an Uber would be available. It'd just take care of the request part. Would need to be some thinking around what if there's none available in the area etc.
Except that the whole purpose of Unicode is to create a character encoding that "enables people around the world to use computers in any language" - taken from the Unicode Consortium website. Bengali is also not an obscure language. It is the 10th most spoken language in the world and the national language of Bangladesh.
Something like this could work well with a more dirdct democracy approach.
They wrote some article about Eric Schmit being a sexist asshole the other day (maybe yesterday) and low and behold the senior editor was talking trash to people in the comments section. It was a flimsy terrible article that I honestly felt contributed nothing to tech journalism on one side, or diversity and women's inclusion on the other. It was almost as if they wrote it to pick a bone with their readers and then battle it out over the blowback. Sometimes I honestly cannot stand that website.
An excellent proposal. The first thing to do is stop allocating water through the political process, and start using the price system.
I feel absolutely idiotic to not have known that the Bourne shell was actually named after a Mr. Bourne. I just assumed it was an acronym or something.
No matter how horribly you miscalculate the length of a buffer in rust, you will not access arbitrary process memory (without unsafe). Yes, you can overflow a bound in rust. No, you can't overflow a bound into arbitrary program memory.

Heartbleed was not just re-using a buffer, it was also blindly copying program memory into that buffer because C allows such memory access.

You're simplifying the problem and wording it in a way where the difference is masked, but as I already explained clearly, it's different. Feel free to tell me how the rust code could access the linking program's process memory without using unsafe and without explicitly taking ownership of data from it, and I'll eat my words.
Image 3/19 is very interesting and numerous show fairly specific markings indicating scratches near the center of a stain which would support a chemical leaching through a broken protective coating. Similarly a chemical near the edge of the screen/coating could leach into the area there as well.
If you have not read Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things I highly recommend it.
So Apple has to figure out how to stop people from using abrasive cleaners on their computers that would also cause issues if it came in contact with switches/circuitboard or anything else in a laptop?
And besides, the argument isn't "Why aren't all Bengali characters represented when all English characters are?" The argument is "Why aren't all Bengali characters represented when a pile of poo is?"
You should try the datahand. If you ever get a chance to spend a couple weeks with one its a real treat.
The CBS Evening News had a filter bubble too, it's just that everyone had the same filter bubble and his name was Walter Cronkite.
If there were multiple accepted styles, the code wouldn't be as boring. But it is, and to some of us, that's a good thing.
Re: the Han Unification debate that's going on in parallel here,

I think CJK unification makes sense from the Unicode point of view (although if they had to choose again after the expansion beyond 16-bit I doubt they'd bother with the political headache). The problem stems from the fact that only a few high-level text storage formats (HTML, MS Word, etc) have a way to mark what language some text is in. There's no way to include both Japanese and Chinese in a git commit log, or a comment on Hacker News.

Sure you can say "that's just the problem of the software developer!" but that's what we said about supporting different character sets before Unicode, and we abandoned that attitude. Hacker News is never going to add that feature on their own.

What's needed is either a "language switch" glyph in Unicode (like the right-to-left/left-to-right ones) or a layer ontop of Unicode which does implement one that gets universally implemented in OSes and rendering systems.
I'll see your 1kW arc and raise you an 800 million candlepower arc light.[1]

I got to see it in action and talk to the owner, Bob, about it for quite a while a few years ago. Really nice guy and an incredible piece of history/machinery.

These lights were used as part of the coastal defense system to spot and highlight approaching enemy aircraft. One fascinating thing are the pre-radar trackers used to drive these lights. They used man-in-the-loop and automated stereo visual and aural systems to locate the incoming planes.[2]

[1] http://www.victorysearchlights.com/#see
[2] http://www.victorysearchlights.com/victory2.html
Just want to clarify a little. Since x^2+y^2 = 1, the projection of the torus onto the xy-plane is a circle. The same is true for the zw-plane.

A position on the torus can be specified by specifying the position in the xy-plane, and the position in the zw-plane. Since the projections are both circles, those two positions can be represented by one angle each.

And this is exactly what you see on your screen. The right-left axis is the xy-angle, and the top-bottom axis is the zw-angle. The edges of your screen correspond to an angle of 180/-180 degrees.
I'd argue that the lesson here is to choose the girl who doesn't need the engagement ring.
Imperfect graphene may lead to fast-charging batteries for vehicles
Hopefully there will be more. Adafruit claims to have 7 in stock: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1725
Yeah, I ended up remapping Caps Lock to ESC. Never use Cap Lock anyway. The function keys bother me since they are used on Mac OS and are debugger shortcuts on my IDE of choice.
Not quite, if the wind is too strong the blades feather (edge on to the wind) brakes exist but are puny and are only for maintenance use. Some blades have a tip that the rotates and causes high drag in the event of feathering failing and going into an overspeed.
There are a staggering number of honest jewelers and gold buyers out there. But stories about obviously crooked people are what makes everyone say "see, these guys are ALL crooks". Just because he did this in his brother's store and it is his only experience, doesn't mean that all places are like that. And yes, I spent a decade working in a high jewelry store. If anyone did anything like this they would have met the front door so fast they wouldn't even realize they had been fired until they were in the parking lot.
What you say is true. What is not true is that those children were typical illegal immigrants. Most illegal immigrants have low educational background and their incomes will reflect that. They and their citizen children are usually a net drain on the government. Legal immigrants are a different story. If you want to argue for Open Borders go for it but the current US immigration system is a clusterfuck that makes no sense on any level. It's also extremely unlikely to be reformed for many, many reasons.
Why would anyone want that? Most people are not interested in holding cash or precious metal in a safe at their house. It's extremely inconvenient, expensive to do correctly, and still much riskier than keeping your money in an FDIC-insured bank.

This is the problem with bitcoin: Everything its advocates claim is a desirable feature is actually a huge bug for normal people.