skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my company we all use Apple hardware besides screens and one surface and we have a failure rate of around 70% over two years for our MacBook Pros. We had 2 with the graphics problem and 7 had disk failures. 2 others had failing keyboards and trackpads. But since it was always in the 2 year span we didn't had any problems to get them repaired.
Not in a million years I will give my financial info to Facebook. Not. Fucking. Happening. Ever.
> 95% of the news you read does not impact you in any meaningful way

Maybe the world is better when people care about what impacts other people, not just themselves.
Very good attention to details! (like the position of circle patterns on edges of shapes)

Have a star, you deserve it :)
Our definition of coverage is pre-tax earnings/interest,
not EBITDA/interest, a commonly used measure we view as seriously flawed.

I would love to see a founder tell one of their investors this and watch their head explode.
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Patterns are useful if it is intended to be printed (or for other b/w media). For good color prints or screen usage I agree, colors often can do a better job.
The title does seem to imply that. What the article in fact says is that the free upgrade is being offered globally, but the motivation behind it is to re-engage with Chinese Windows users who have an unlicensed OS.
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The preview link at the Lulu page[1] does not show any examples of the translation.

The video on the kickstarter page[2] shows a few very blurry examples. (EDIT ADD: The page section below the video does show 4 more examples but it's not in the format that will appear in the actual book.)

The New Yorker article[3] shows a translation of the first sentence.

Since there are no substantial excerpts, there's not much substance to discuss on HN. I'm tempted to flag the post as spam.

[1]http://www.lulu.com/shop/fred-benenson/emoji-dick-hard-cover...

[2]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fred/emoji-dick

[3]http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-revolution-wi...
There are other methods, but regardless, it doesn't explain why keep doing it once you got that $3K suit. A relevant question for someone who got there using other methods, BTW. I think the answer is in the power of habits coupled with an unlimited and growing desire for money.
Anyone else sense the gradual, continuous change in the way MSFT has been evolving under Satya Nadella? Four years ago, I wouldn't take a second look at MS news, and now it seems every couple weeks brings some rather interesting new thing they are trying out.
Last line of the article is "And that’s it, now you can extract the full potential of your Raspberry Pi 2!"

Can someone explain this to me? I know almost nothing about virtualization, but isn't it be definition slower than straight up OS install?
> why is a private company even been allowed to test kids?

Welcome to money in American politics, and one of many reasons behind the outrage at the result of Citizens United v FEC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
I noticed this title with passing interest a few days back, but upon discovering that the only preview I could find goes no further than the TOC and hence shows no actual sample of the usage of emoji to tell the story, I really couldn't see the value in spending $40 on it.

At this point, I am still not entirely clear whether the editor intended this as an actual work of art he wants to sell or just a farce. If it was a farce, I'd at least recommend selling fractions of the book for $1 each. I imagine he'd at least get a chunk of curious visitors to take a peek.
Very beautiful :D
Thanks for the data, and I agree with your other comments in general. Articles about these studies pretty much always oversimplify the calculus.

I'll add that besides paternal involvement, maternal stress over societal pressure to breastfeed if it's not working out for some reason can certainly be worse for the overall outcomes than the loss of breastfeeding.

I'm glad that this study apparently included socioeconomic factors, but my instinct is that there are many other factors being left out. What are the correlations with maternal work schedules, time spent bonding with the child in other ways, etc? My guess is that other potential impacts on IQ and long-term outcomes not considered by this article also correlate with the breastfeeding/formula decision.
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And that why we (developpers, scientists, ...) hate marketing lessons :p
No Linux support would be a big downside.

Also, they would have to work tremendously on the dev tools. IE dev tools in the present form are not very good, compared to Chrome Dev tools, or FF's dev edition (with Web IDE etc.).
Type errors come in more shapes than the obvious one: e.g. Untyped data structures like dictionaries are a frequent source of error in Python (KeyError e.g.) or non-uniform lists. These are pretty common bugs, I'd argue, which simply cannot happen in statically typed languages like Haskell.
+ 1 I agree whole heartedly [1]

[1]source: father of two

;-)
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> If the bomb drops or christ returns then we have a warning system setup all over Sweden that wakes anyone up.

How does the warning system work for the return of christ? Church bells?
The best discussion and articles have shifted to lobste.rs which is wisely invite only. I think it's better to have a discussion site owned by the community as opposed to a VC firm/incubator that has funded many of our employers.

Also lobste.rs has tags, and a much more mobile friendly layout. It gets less chatter/upvotes but the submissions and comments are much higher quality. Not to mention that the comments are not dominated by a few voices that use the site to self promote...
The types objection may apply to Clojure (I've never used it, I don't know) but one of Racket's major development thrusts has been providing a way to get the benefits of both typed and untyped languages.

* Racket has a sophisticated contract system that allows you to enforce "type-like" properties at runtime very easily (e.g., you can say "This function should behave as an ((int -> int) -> int) function" and it will do all the necessary runtime checks to make sure that contract is honored as your program executes)

* It also has an optional modern type system, Typed Racket, that you can opt into on a per-module basis. Typed Racket modules can interact with untyped modules safely via contracts. The Typed Racket type system was designed specifically so that it's easy to migrate untyped, idiomatic Racket code to the type system, so you can write untyped Racket code idiomatically, and then go back and port your untyped module to Typed Racket with a minimum of fuss and get the benefit of the type system.
Technically he's at Oculus at Facebook. I think if the Oculus team was to go away he would probably walk. Not sure how this is any worse than Google X or Apple unless you think Google/Apple is intrinsically better than Facebook somehow.
They're easier and faster to develop in. Remember that the scripts usually only need to be run once - maintainability is irrelevant.

I don't think this all of the difficulty is intrinsic to FP, but FP language designers don't usually care about newbie-friendliness. The closest thing to a user-friendly FP language I know about is Scala, and it, too, has lots and lots of arbitrary symbols and hideously complicated function signatures.

Remember, the typical scientist has no patience for monads, currying, inscrutable value names or functions-as-arguments and compiler complaints about function signatures are more likely to instill deep hatred than anything else.

I know it's an extreme example, but a statistician will never try to understand what something like "def map[B, That](f: A => B)(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[Repr, B, That]): That" means, he'll just move on to a language that's easier.
OpenSSL is free to do that, but given the issues in their code it would probably backfire.
What would you buy instead?

This is my 3rd Macbook (best in terms of hardware, bar the display issue and worst in terms of software - too many glitches) and I'm really looking for an alternative when I next replace it.
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Has anyone tried using this with an iPad + USB connection kit from Apple? How's the power draw?

Most keyboards are hit & miss for me (Poker draws too much power, and so does HHKB 2 Pro. Older pre-shine Ducky on the other hand works fine. Matias Laptop Pro is fine over BT but rather chunky). I would get this in a heartbeat if it would mean I could reduce my mobile hardware list to just a 4G iPad and an Atreus.
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That has been my very limited experience as well, but with Scala I'm still things will get out of hand. The only "new" language I feel confident would not disappoint or surprise me negatively down the road is Golang.
That “language” seems extremely whimsical to me. But then, it's probably just sign-of-the-times — as a parody, it would hit the spot. In two or three generations, we won't be able to read letters any more anyway, so we might as well switch to pictograms right now. They're also more economic with mobile touch-screen interfaces. I'm sure there's an app for that.

Nevertheless, I miss a peek inside the book. Can't imagine what it looks like. Will it actually be readable (if you want to call it that) or is it just an alternative resting place for the dust on the shelf?
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in R loops are generally frown upon due to this issue.

BUT R is not slow when it comes to parallel processing or using Revolution Anayltics also has speed ups if you need it. R also has dplyr is speedy and the data.tables is even faster. I think the original Julia speed claims were a little biased to Julia and well there is plenty of awesome things about R, but "slow" isn't a far statement. There is a reason why R has grown so much.

Interesting argument for R usage:
https://matloff.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/r-beats-python-r-be...
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Like power, money is addictive. People who got their power or wealth through immoral means often don't stop once they have "enough".
I agree with you about treating newcomers nicely, but do note "having a new one teared" is an expression that doesn't refer to new people :)
Solid silver wedding bands reporting in. No stones. We have two pair. We've travelled a bit and never been afraid of being mugged for our jewellery. Cost was cheap enough that I can't even remember. Very happy that we weren't hoodwinked into giving large sums away to diamond retailers.
how about sharing the combined wealth? that is the real commitment
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This is something people have been going back and forth about for decades. There's even been a study that used more people and was randomized and controlled. You can read actual literature surveys of all the ways parents can affect their kids' IQs here: http://squid314.livejournal.com/346391.html
I wish news sites had a periodical system built-in.

One could choose the period, e.g. 7 days to the past, and see all important news from that time-frame.

It would of course require a human to tag the news as important within a period. Subscriber only feature would suffice.
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The suit is not a reward, it's a prop that helps you get more.
On the other hand, Youtube plays commercials louder than the videos (this is pretty jarring if you use Youtube playlists for background music, as many people do). So I fear this is less due to an altruistic desire to improve the music landscape, and more in order to give themselves headroom to outshout the music...
Managing to challenge ones preconceptions is always going to take work.

Also note that for someone getting their news from FOX News, the New York Times is a left-wing outlier. News is pretty terrible in Norway too, but I always feel like I'm in a sitcom whenever I visit the US/Canada. Where BBC and the Guardian appear as bastions against the establishment -- while they of course are very much mainstream.

On the other hand, I'm quite grateful to many of the Republican bloggers/commenters for offering their view on US politics -- it can be easy to forget that the US has a strong intellectual tradition, and while you'll find me agreeing with/quoting Chomsky or Klein more often than anyone on the other end -- there are quite a few voices on the right that have strong and interesting opinions on freedom, independence, commerce, curbing of federal powers etc.

Anyway, with HN being so dominated by the US in general, and Silicon Valley (including the part of SV that lives in NYC ;-) -- I find it can be quite a contrast to my other echo chambers...

I'm afraid I couldn't suggest anything similar that is more left leaning -- maybe https://zcomm.org/znet/ or http://monthlyreview.org/ (but I don't really follow either -- and they certainly can't compare in any meaningful way with hn).
Yes, that was indeed remarkable. The inflated valuations, the self-interest of those that get paid in those transactions - I'd love to read something as insightful as Mr. Buffet has written, only for the tech sector.
I use window 8's built-in scaling to put everything at 125% too because my laptop screen is a 15-inch 1920x1080 and I find with that kind of pixel density I need to make things a little bit bigger. It's ridiculous how many things are broken when doing this.
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What kind of numbers? Those appearing alone in attributes, such as <rect width='10' height='5'/>? Those appearing in path or polygon data are more complicated, as the syntax allows whitespace, commas, etc. as separators, but they're not needed in some cases. E.g.

M0-1.2.5-3

is perfectly valid (AFAIR, not sure about the decimal points now), but not really nice to parse or extract.

The main point would be what your use case is? If you just need to transform something, e.g. translate or scale a shape it's easier to put a group around it and apply a transform on that.
No rush, it's not like MS is running out of money :)
R does support functional programming. In fact, it was based on Scheme (see discussion for comparison: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-December/181982.h...).
If this works, recruitment costs will go way down & researchers could afford to give/loan people iOS devices who may not own one. Very excited about Research Kit.
I'm a Scala developer and I use its type system to approximately its full potential and I prefer it to other languages precisely because of its static-ness. With a powerful type system you effectively eliminate certain problems from happening, like I once had a bug that I couldn't understand, yet I eliminated the possibility of it happening. And I prefer it precisely because I'm not smart enough for the problems I'm working on, so I prefer having a static type-system holding my hand.

That said ...

> On the other hand I can get by with writing Haskell and OCaml without writing tests

Tests and static type-safety serve different purposes. If you end up writing tests for properties that should have been inferred by a static compiler, then you're using the language in a wrong way or you've picked the wrong language for the problem at hand.

When working with a dynamic language, I don't need to write tests just to see that my code works. It's because I work with a REPL and in terms of happy paths, that's just as effective as having a static type system.

And surely having a compiler is very cool when refactoring, however we tend to miss the fact that (a) the kind of refactorings we are doing are very superficial and for architectural / design refactorings the compiler doesn't save you and (b) in a dynamic language there is less need for refactoring, because you don't end up modelling the whole world through types.

> I don't want to start a discussion here on typed vs untyped

I'm also thinking you're making a confusion. Dynamic languages can be strongly typed. A language Clojure is very much typed. The difference is in the moment those types are used, at compile time or at runtime.

This is important, because a dynamic language like Clojure can do optional typing when you want it. Of course, something like core.typed will never be as expressive and potent as Haskell's type-system, however this leads to gradual evolution - at first you don't have a well defined shape for the data you're working with, so you can enjoy the relaxed rules and protocols of Clojure and afterwards you can start introducing type definitions with core.typed or with prismatic/schema.

As I said, I'm a developer that leans on the static side of the argument, however this debate will never be settled simply because which tool is the best depends on the problems you're trying to solve, therefore people will never agree on anything, because people are always thinking from their "personal experience".
I believe those are called "weekly newspapers" :)
I, strangely enough, agree with Most of what Aaron says. And I'm the founder of a news company.

I worry about this attitude on a macro scale, but it's hard to argue with on a micro one. I spend most of my day following what's going on in the world, and it hasn't added much value to my life. But I worry about everyone not caring. Not because that would kill my company (I started it because I hate news in its current form too), but because there are times when public outrage changes things. It's like voting - my vote doesn't matter, but on aggregate it's everything.

I'm convinced that the goal of a good news publication should be like Google - to get you in and out the "door" as quickly as possible understanding what you need to know. We're rebuilding everything around that. A publication one can consume in thirty seconds with the most important stuff, ruthlessly curated and fact-checked. No entertainment gossip or puff pieces or PR pitches. (To get it as an email sign up at https://grasswire.com)

I'm looking forward to reading what others think on this subject.
That sounds exactly like a weekly news magazine. There are quite a few that are worth reading, if you want to follow the news. The slower publishing pace allows a greater perspective and context on most stories that is missing on 24/7 channels.
> impairment in the 1-3 IQ points range, after accounting for confounding factors.

But 1-3 IQ points doesn't seem much, right? I mean, what difference would it make in real life activities?
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"the GPL is designed to globally maximise the ability to
use, modify and distribute a piece of software. The only
ability the GPL does not provide is the ability to take
these abilities from future uses."

I would summarize that as "the GPL is designed to globally maximize knowledge about the software, and the ability to use that knowledge".

The part about forcing published forks to release their source code is a consequence of that purpose: hiding the source would reduce the amount of knowledge, and thus it is forbidden.
It's true that Ti rings are harder to cut, but the equipment to cut them is standard in American ERs. It still takes longer though. Even worse are the newer cobalt chrome rings, those take forever to cut off even with the right equipment. Safest of the alternative materials is probably the tungsten carbide or ceramic rings, since those can be fractured off with a pair of common vice grips. Don't know what happens when you're traveling in an area with a less developed medical system. If you aren't at risk for anaphylactic swelling, don't work with your hands, and don't travel in undeveloped areas, the risk of this sort of situation might be low enough to not worry too much about.

A more practical problem with alternative materials is that they can't be resized (some jewelers will resize Ti a little, but it's challenging). The alternative materials are cheap enough that you can buy a replacement that's the right size, but if you're sentimental (and a wedding band seems like something one might be sentimental about) it's a problem.

There's nothing wrong with alternative materials, it's just that sometimes the drawbacks are overlooked while being dazzled by the advantages.
Sorry, we've underestimated the attention this post was going to get. We've just assigned more resources to that machine.

Let's hope that'll be enough to bear with the warm, warm hug of Hacker News ;-)
I thought expensive jewellery was meant as a sort of life insurance policy. ie the widow could sell it in the event of the husband's death and have enough to support her for a period of mourning. Or something like that.
That's the problem. One of the main reasons I got this was to do iOS development, and it's not like there are any non-Apple alternatives, unless I go w/ a Mac (iMac/Mac Pro/Mini).

But those are not exactly, you know... portable.

Looks like the MacBook Air may not suffer from this problem, so that's a possibility. Though I wanted something larger and more powerful.
> The complaint in this silly article about tiny Klingon being included before a complete Bengali is precisely because getting Bengali right was more complex and far more important.

This is factually incorrect. It seems you missed both the factual point about the Klingon script in the article as well as the broader point which that detail was meant to illustrate.

> although you prefer to follow the orthodox pattern of blaming white racism for your grievance du jour, the policy of the Unicode Technical Committee for years has been to use the national standards created by the national standards bodies where these scripts are most used as their most important input.

There's a huge difference between piggybacking off of a decades-old proposed scheme which was never widely adopted even in its country of origin, and which was created under a very different set of constraints than Unicode, and which was created to address a very different set of goals than Unicode, versus making native speakers an active and equal part of the actual decision-making process.

Rather than trying to shoehorn the article into a familiar pattern which doesn't actually fit ("orthodox pattern of blaming white racism for your grievance du jour"), please take note that the argument in the article is more nuanced than you're giving it credit for.
It's probably not meant about performance, but more along the lines of "now you can use every feature it has".
Yes, but in theory you cannot sign up unless you're older than X.

Thing is that neither twitter nor facebook do anything to prevent children using their networks, you know, data is very important, specially that data.
> I'd like to think that financial strength isn't a good basis for choosing a partner.

You rarely or never see beautiful women dating beggars and homeless people. You often see beautiful women dating the rich.

Draw your own conclusions, but I observe and I see that financial strength is often required for attracting a partner.

Required but not sufficient.
It's not, 7 days to the past from current day is not last week. The period should be adjustable for example 14 days or arbitrary number.
Would you mind telling me which MOOC you did for SQL? I am quite rusty - (~10 years since I did any serious SQL stuff) but I am finding it is coming up quite a lot now for me.