skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love my engagement ring, sure it's not practical and we'll never get the money back that was paid for it. Every time I look at it sparkling, I think about my husband, and I think about the rock itself, where it came from, how it was formed, how old it is, and it makes me really happy.

We aren't short of money so the purchase of the ring wasn't a big deal - we would easily spend twice the amount of the ring's value on travel every year.

The ring is diamond and platinum and it's very strong - I've smashed it against all sorts of things, gone canyoning, scuba diving, you name it, and the platinum is barely scratched.

We plan to keep this ring in the family and pass it down through the generations. The sentimentality and 'family heirloom' qualities are also really appealing to us.

I'd much prefer this ring than a rolex, or a gold Apple iPhone for that matter!
I concur. Strong preference for diamonds is a pretty strong signal she might not be fit to raise your children.
people will stop doing it though, if they can't get any advantage out of it. see also "Mastered for iTunes"
> Breastfeeding removes the father's ability to independently take care of an infant. Because feeding is a bonding experience, this creates a dynamic where the child looks at the mother as the last line in being comforted. This is a choice couples can make, but it is one that involves trade offs, which the medical community ignores.

What about a breast pump? As long as some lactating female provides milk, the milk can be frozen for months and is nearly as convenient as formula for a father.

Also FWIW men can lactate if appropriate hormone injections are given.
In that talk he even describes, how they got the fingerprint from the German Secretary of Defense from a photograph taken in a distance of 3m at a press conference.
The overhead can be very small, but the overhead is besides the point. The point is that it for example allows you to run things in parallel that you otherwise would need to reboot to run. E.g. testing a different OS or distribution.
It's actually worse than that. The teachers and administration are very concerned about the test scores. Now they are compelled to buy the lesson plans and other materials from the same private corporation that creates the test. Every piece of paper my kids bring home says Pearson on it. Privatization of public education is a serious problem.

We will also be opting out like @themartorana. In case you want similar content about opting out with regards to NY state, look here:

http://www.nysape.org/refusing-the-test-resources.html
Lim is a great guy who has put in so much work to make an awesome publication - it really is a great example of a project done well. I started my newsletter about the same time and it has been great to work with him over the years. Really sad to see it go!!
Totally agree. Also, I'm very happy I learned C++ as my first language (after little bit of dabbling in QBasic, Pascal and VB in primary school). When you're learning programming for the first time, you have no reference points. You either learn it or don't. So I learned C++, not once thinking it's difficult or complicated, and it became my reference point, making other imperative programming languages trivial to learn.
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Brilliant! Wonder how we never thought of that! ;-)
It's not clear on what angular 2.0 will be based, the more the angular team talks the unclearer it is :

http://i.imgur.com/upcrFbi.png

this is a slide from ngconf.
> You are saying the cultures of Spain, France, Germany (and many others) is all the same? That doesn't make sense

Of course it doesn't make sense, that's why I never said it, but the cultures share some traits, even across language borders.

Having lived in more than one country in Europe I think I know something about the differences (and similarities) between them.
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> News has been able to sell itself with the dictum that you "have to know what's happening!"

Yeah. A couple years ago when I was about 24, I decided I "should be more informed" because that's what adults do, so I bought a year subscription to Minneapolis's major newspaper with the goal of reading it mostly every day. I did for a while, but quickly realised that I didn't give a shit about almost anything in the paper. And worse, the things I read made me actively depressed. You know what? I don't care about how the war in Iraq is going. I don't care what some dumb conservative politician had to say about my friends and family. I don't care what crazy shit Russia or North Korea are getting up to. I don't care how many people are dying in a genocide on the other side of the world.

I guess maybe that makes me a bad person or something, but boy am I happier and more productive not knowing it. I canceled that subscription and I'm never looking back. "Keeping up with the news" was one of the worst things I ever did.
What is useless about something that is beautiful? Many people purchase objects of beauty (just look at the art world!) which cost much more than a diamond!
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Apple is probably the only company that comes to mind when I try to think of positive customer service experiences. Even when my apple care expired they still helped me.

My MBP is now 6 years old, still trying to get my employer to replace it. The only problems I had were the HDD going bad (I replaced it with SSD) and the trackpad no longer works (i spilled a drink on it once or twice). I also dropped is in the street a couple times which could have contributed to the HDD failure.

Overall I've never owned any other devices this long with continuous use. With all that being said they are going to need to change their approach on this issue or they risk damaging that support reputation.
The CC-BY-SA pdf can be found here: http://www.czyborra.com/unicode/emojidick.pdf
This is a very important point. I got the first pdfs for free and loved the format but didn't want to subscribe (poor as hell) so I believe if they allowed the digital edition for free to browse on their website and to download as pdf, they would have a much much wider and recurring audience and would have made more money inserting ads, well, just like every other magazine out there.
I have an opposite experience with Common Lisp. Yes, I tend to make bugs in it, but I tend to fix them so quickly I don't really mind. SLIME is godsend.
I see the article climbing back up the front page, and I want to make it abundantly clear that I don't believe that there is necessarily a causal relation from breastfeeding vs formula to IQ.

I could control for demographic factors, but not for other major important factors in a child's development -- parental IQ or views regarding parenting are huge factors in a child's IQ, and they may also influence the decision of whether or not to breastfeed. If parenting books unanimously decided that formula was bad, then parents who cared enough about their children to read them and follow their advice would be more likely to breastfeed and you would see a positive correlation with IQ, even if formula was completely equivalent to breastfeeding.

So while there is a clear correlation after controlling for demographic, there is not necessarily a causation. My formulation really wasn't meant to imply causation, but rather the handling of unknown data (I grouped unknown-status children together with breastfed children). When talking about correlation, it's not meaningful to make a distinction between IQ impairment and IQ gain.
Could you post some examples? Specifically ones that center on world news and not only the US / Europe.
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I've developed similar views of late, especially on political news and online comments.

I feel all those thousands of comments, mini essays, online slugfests, number of likes or dislikes on politics are not going to change even a little how governments work or how decisions are made. I feel I've wasted too much time on such things.

I still follow tech news though, simply because it's interesting to me.

As for crimes and scandals, well, it's not called "crime porn" for nothing!
Read the article. They don't care where you're from. If your copy isn't legit, you can upgrade to a legit copy of 10.

>"We are upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to Windows 10,"
I have had 3 warranty replacements from Apple at around 18 mo. point and the way they handle it disgusts me:

They show you a receipt that states the full price replacement and make you sign it and say I must pay. I say no, its within the warranty period. Twice they have then said "unfortunately you did not buy it from Apple so they cannot perform a retailer's replacement" but in both cases I had (from their website). Once they then said "did you buy from Apple business?" I accidentally said yes and they tried to use that to extract payment. In each case, once you have the dodged the bullets, the genius finally says a prepared statement along the lines of "it is out of warranty so it will cost £xxx but because <insert excuse> we will waive the charges this time". The <insert excuse> is something like "safety reasons".

It is just so damn deceitful. They are not "waiving charges" and they introduced multiple pressure points to unfairly obtain payment. What really happened was they were compelled to replace a 14 month old product they borked with a software update. I have no idea what the thing with size 6 pt. text and full price listed was that they make me sign. I have to assume they train and incentivise Apple Shop staff to trick you into paying for replacements. Scumbags.
How is this site going to use the data? I don't see it ever really mentioning the intention of collecting the various bits of data on its form.

Would be nice if we saw some more information, at least attached to the images. Maybe even some other aggregates, since there seems to be a lot more submissions than they have images.

I think the effort is noble, but would be nice if we had a bit more info behind the intentions of the data being collected.
"They point out that newspapers are a key part of our democracy, that by exposing wrong-doing to the people, they force the wrong-doers to stop.
This seems to be true, but the curious thing is that I’m never involved."

The sad irony of this statement is profound.
I don't think selfishness is what the parent commenter is referring to. A great example of "news" not impacting me in any meaningful way was a week or two ago when there was breaking news about two alpacas on the loose. Meanwhile, net neutrality passed with a 300+ page document the public wasn't allowed to see at the time.
Dell XPS 13, Lenovo Yoga, etc.
Even if we ignore the issue of residual confounding for a moment, how is one IQ point "damning"?
and it only took them 4 years to acknowledge the issue?
It would be nice if I could make the README a PDF file, so it would render the PDF on the front page of the repo. Like so: https://github.com/brenoc/testrepo

Spoiler: It didn't work
Of course, a virtualized Guest will have a performance penalty.

With that phrase I meant that, following this guide, you can make use of the Virtualization Extensions from the Cortex-A7 which powers the Raspberry Pi 2.

This is pretty useful for running multiple isolated services (such as a media server and an ownCloud instance), doing some kernel hacking, or testing a variety of ARMv7 distributions.
Ultrasound treats Alzheimer’s disease, restoring memory in mice
I guess I must be too dense, but I simply do not know how to use grasswire.

I'm stuck with live feed on left which shows me exactly the kind of useless "breaking" stuff I want to avoid and popular feed on the right which I don't seem to be able to control beyond either providing fact-check or comment.

What am I missing?
News does serve at least one basic function, even if many other things can do the same: It gives you something to talk about and ask opinions on.
I know the feeling, but I worry about the consequences. There are news I think as many people as possible should process. How is democracy or any discussion as a society supposed to work if people don't know about the issues going on? It is a problem that seemingly all news channels use "wrong" selection criteria about what to report, including a lot of things that are not directly important, leading to fatigue and news that are only consumed, not processed. Of course, there probably is no "right" selection of issues, just differently flavored biases.

Many issues that are sort of important I ignore because I can't see how I am supposed to get to an educated opinion about them. There is so much noise and bias going around that I don't have the time and abilities to aggregate them down myself, and no way to know which external aggregation to trust.
Why do programmers databases with JavaScript? Lua is more embedded language than JavaScript. http://www.aerospike.com/ http://redis.io http://tarantool.org use LUA and it more powerful and easy to use as procedures.
“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.

Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”

Helmuth von Mioltke the Elder
> Whilst they use ground-breaking [..] thermal design

Apple has had an overheating problem for the last two to three generations. They used to design the MBP at least to be a mobile workhorse so heat was more important than sleekness, but then their designers got ahold of it and now it is an overheating mess.

Plus the discoloring this thread is talking about is likely due to WHERE Apple hid the vent (i.e. within the screen latch, so it is "invisible," but jets hot air up the front of the LCD constantly causing the glue to fail per the OP).

I've owned recent gen MBP, Surface Pro 3, Thinkpad, and few others. The MBP gets hottest followed by the Surface Pro 3 and then the Thinkpad. Actually my Asus ROG laptop stays coolest (like cold to the touch) but it also weighs incredible amounts.
I read the headline thinking it was talking about 2600 Hacker Quarterly. Haven't really looked into Hacker Monthly, but I hate to see someone have to shut down their company.
This, but also, IQ isn't an exact score, right? Wouldn't this fit snugly within the margin of error?

Not only that, but are people even still using IQ as a metric of intelligence? As I understand it IQ is only a measure of one type of intelligence. I mean I'm all for giving a child every advantage you can fathom as a parent, so I think this is still kind of cool research, but I don't see how it equates to anything truly meaningful.

It kind of just adds one more point in the "breastfeeding is good" column.
On having a totally reasonable amount of self-confidence
Interesting. Can they sell it to TV manufacturers so they can automatically lower the volume level of commercials?
Not sure how things are going over at wikinews, now -- but it is at least one project trying for locally sourced(ish) news:

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page

I seem to recall it was practically defunct for a while, maybe while google news was in vogue/before it made (more of?) a point of showing "news fit for you". I suppose it might still show an interesting sampling, if opened in an incognito tab? (actually the Norwegian edition appears identical to me, logged in or not - so who knows?): https://news.google.com

Either way Google News insist on one choosing an "edition" -- would be more interesting if there was an "International English" edition IMNHO.

FWIW during the height of the #Occupy protests, I always found the various local/community web/fb pages more interesting than mainstream media. But it can be hard to sort through the deliberate and accidental mus-information when one hasn't got the ability to just walk down and talk to people there, to find out who's writing what, and get a sense of the why (I did eventually have the chance to visit and do that -- but travelling to another continent whenever something interesting is happening is obviously not a workable strategy. And I wouldn't exactly go hiking through Syria just to have a chat with people from all sides of the conflict...).
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100% environmental.

We had an "elite" SAT training program at my high school. (A very smart teacher ran it). Learned 100 words per week, by straight up rote memorization. Mastered math formulas to the point that you could do them without understanding the theory. Studied for the test, not for the concepts.

We all weren't learning anything useful. It was basic rote memorization, no concepts, no nothing. Students were pronouncing "Epitome" as "Epi-tom" (instead of "e-pit-tom-ee"). But it don't matter, as long as you recognized the unfamiliar words and memorized dictionary definitions... and then practiced analogies for 2 to 3 months at a time... you will get it.

We learned how the SAT was graded, how to pick out easy questions. How to skip the harder questions that mattered less for your score... and focus your mind (while it was still fresh) on the more important questions. We even learned patterns to hypothesize which of the sections wasn't gonna be graded. (one section of the SAT is not graded. It is a baseline for next-year's SAT)

After the SAT, most of us forgot the meanings of those words. But we got the score we needed to get into college.

Those who study the SAT have a supreme advantage over those who don't study it. Everyone who took the class shot up by like 200 points in both Math and Reading.

The teacher was very frank. It was a "study for the test", "beat the test" attitude. And frankly, it worked. I'm pretty sure anyone who went through the training I did would have scored 1300 minimum on the 1600 test.

Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, Male, Female, Christian, Jewish, Muslims. Everyone you can think of was in this class, and everyone got significantly better at taking the SAT.
I must be the opposite of cynical, because I assumed they were doing it to combat that. The FCC already acted against the practice on TV. http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/loud-commercials
A similar thing happened with an HP laptop I owned. They had problems with hinges breaking for no reason other than poor design. I searched online and found a bunch of people had the problem and some got it replaced as a manufacturing defect. I tried for months to get HP to do something about it. Finally I went to my boss who at the time was connected with some HP big shot. Using that leverage is the only way I've ever gotten HP to fix a single thing.
1-3 IQ points can mean the difference between living on Hamburger Helper in a tenement, and living on fresh lobster on a 300 foot yacht.

I'm kidding, btw.
I think in the last major updated they made it really worse. No horizontal scrolling ever. My father has severe AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration) and has to zoom very heavily. One day I went to his computer to fix his gmail to be welcomed with a white screen. It was just after they made the shiny new compose popup. It was placed so nicely that only the empty white center was visible. It confused the hell out of me for a moment let alone my father.

I know scaling Gmail is a gigantic effort but I don't really understand this part (can anyone enlighten me). Gmail essentially has two core pages, the inbox (or list) and compose and tens of millions of users. If they can't fix the positioning of one compose popup how will the rest of us manage?

A fair disclaimer in my own work I'm not sure how good we are in handling these issues but we do have a lot more UI and UI changes. It just makes me feel hopeless.
yea but you try to make them for $14 and see how nice they turn out man

what only banks and the government can overcharge us?

heres what 14$ gets you at lowes:
1 2x4", and 1 roll of copper wire. GL
> ruthlessly curated and fact-checked

The problem with curated news is that we can be consuming propaganda and not know it.

Even as it stands now, we hear of certain news in the world, but not others, and it severely affects our understanding of the world.
>It happens to be an abominably bad vehicle for both.

Precious metals are like an insurance policy in that you hope they never pay off.
Even higher beings confirmed that we're just thinking meat. So I'm fine with that.

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
Textures and colors can be combined, for example if you need to select according two different group of categories/variables.
R is, at its core, a functional language with a bunch of largely optional imperative bits bolted on.
What you're looking at is kind of like a backend - consider it the "talk" page for Wikipedia.

It's a little bit chaotic this early in the morning, but our algorithm pulls in the "breaking" stuff on the left, and the most upvoted stuff flows to the top of the "popular" page. Grasswire users fact-check stuff for accuracy, and comment on whether or not/why it's important. The site is mostly for news junkies. It's a little bit hectic right now because a bunch of people from HN are just upvoting random stuff to screw everything up, and it will take the power users a minute to sort through it.

The result is at the end of the day, the best stuff curated and fact-checked by a couple thousand people, and we send that out to the everyday person in an email they can digest in 30 seconds. We're adding a short, editable description to each news item to give some background, and allowing anyone to submit external stuff, so it's still a work in progress, but that's the gist of it.
I don't get the argument. Can't I say then "learn Logo and you can handle all programming?" Because you are defining an arbitrary cutoff of functionality and detail further which there is no effort involved in "handling" new languages, based on your experience, I suppose.
Really interesting post thanks. Even as an audio novice I've noticed the terrible loudness trend in music, particularly in Foo Fighters releases. It literally makes my ears tired.
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Gold jewelry has that function in India. Which incidentially where most of the gold that is being mined goes to.
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And they've prevented hundreds of millions of people from going with a different OS, thus eliminating potential threats.
> You know what? I don't care about how the war in Iraq is going.

Well, that's the problem with being informed. If you don't get off your ass and protest (or do something one way or the other) -- either cognitive dissonance will drive you towards being a less caring person ("My government is killing civilians with hellfire missiles without declaring a war and I do nothing - it must be ok, then") -- or it makes you depressed. Or both.

I think the happy balance is to accept that you can only do/care about so much: engage locally and do something meaningful -- work on one or two issues that have global implications -- and not let the fact that you can't right all wrongs (or support all rights) get you down.
This is more difficult than it sounds. The curation part, anyway. "Important" is a pretty subjective, and flexible, term. Something that might seem innocuous now could well have far-reaching ramifications twenty years from now.