skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good practice is to seek out incomprehensible pieces of code and figure them out so you can perfectly describe how they work.

I don't do it as much as I should, but it's the best way of learning about a language.
I didn't see the original version of your comment, but it was probably fine.

It's natural for there to be a few glitches while the community works out how to interpret what "gratuitous negativity" means in practice, but as a hint, we're mostly talking about being mean to others and/or being glibly dismissive of their work. We're definitely not talking about bowdlerizing conversation. We'd hate that as much as most HN users would.
Interesting. I guess that's why they need a nominally much higher tax take than eg Singapore, where everyone pays.
You could check All Ravens Are Black
by:

1. seeking out all ravens and checking their colour, or

2. seeking out all things that are not black and checking they are not ravens.

Looking at an apple constitutes evidence, in that it contributes to the second case, and that's not in doubt here. But you're really checking that the apple is not a raven.

If you believe that apples are not ravens (perhaps by definition), then checking an apple no longer contributes to the probability at all.
At the other end of the scale Connecticut and Rhode Island have discarded counties as a unit of government. And Delaware has consolidated most former county functions at the state level.

The pox in many states ends up being townships, which mostly duplicate functions of the county (Especially now that we have an extensive road system and telephones).
How long does it take to get the first phone call. I was asked what my schedule is like in the next couple of weeks in order to have a call scheduled.
Not give away; I still wrote "lend".
I believe it is recommended to use one relative layout instead of multiple linear layouts, because depth quickly becomes slower than the more complex measurements needed for a relative layout.
I find layouting on Android really bad TBH and there are so many presentations and guidelines on what (not) to do.
1) You have a constitutional right to bring suit against a private company if the amount in dispute exceeds $20.

2) The clauses are meaningless as the problem is with the lack of provable assent.
It is a PC word. Your choice of word is as you said, your prerogative. How people read it is theirs.
Both fair points. WRT the second the issue then becomes how well people think the Fed will manage monetary policy. I would still argue "better than not being able to manage it at all", but it is a tougher argument to make.
I have DDR3-2133 in my workstation now. The new DDR4-2133 won't be any faster.
That's correct. Thanks for saying so. If there is any sincere misunderstanding it may be necessary to repeat this a few times, but hopefully it won't last.
Once had to read a fiction book for school, and write a summary. By the end of the book I drew a blank, and I had to skim the entire book again.

Technical books are a lot easier to remember, well assuming you are reading them to learn something (specific ). But that also implies you read something think about it, make exercises, learn it and THEN move on.
There's nothing evil about it (no point in doing more than what the law requires of you)

I think reasonable people could debate both of those points. Making either ethical judgements or PR/branding decisions based only on the minimal standards required of you by law is always a dangerous path to tread.

This is only partly for the reason you give, that some people will sue you now. It's also partly because of the other consequences. Some people may sue you later and with more success, possibly after the rules of the game have been changed by subsequent legislation or precedents. Worse, some people may not bother suing you at all and may simply vote with their wallet and/or encourage others to do so, and that is an attack against which a business is given little opportunity to defend itself.
http://grist.org/living/jonathan-franzen-is-confused-about-c...

"I find myself nursing some small ember of sympathy for Franzen. His essay reminds me of lots of conversations I’ve had over the years. I’ll be talking with someone — a smart, well-read person — and when they find out I write about climate change, they’ll kind of hesitate, and I’ll prod, and they’ll tell me their Climate Thing.

Most people haven’t taken the time to get familiar with all the ins and outs of climate change. It’s an incredibly complex and politically charged subject with all sorts of contradictory and fragmentary information bouncing around various info-channels. It takes some dedication and a thick skin to get a well-rounded understanding of it and most people have no particular incentive to do so.

So lots of people have a Climate Thing, that one tidbit of info or argument that they read somewhere, or heard somewhere, the thing that somehow resonated with their own concerns and beliefs. It’s the thing they latched onto, the thing they know about climate, like the proverbial blind people surrounding the elephant. They build on it and it becomes their Climate Thing."
I am somewhat underwhelmed by this because I can't really come up with a problem that can't be solved by C++, Java, Python or Go (or some combination hereof) which could be solved by another low-level language without garbage collection.
Jonathan Franzen is confused about climate change, but then, lots of people are
A lot of counties fell out of the Public Land Survey System:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System

(it looks like many Iowa counties are roughly the size of a Quadrangle)
I've used PhoneGap. There is a huge conflation of "feeling native" and the "native controls" aspect of PhoneGap's features. Can you access the camera on a phone using PhoneGap? Sure, but you know those apps you use every day? They are polished and you can't polish with PhoneGap. Scrolling is snappy, navigation doesn't lag, etc. etc.
> Sam's article talks about not directing gratuitous negativity at people when you're arguing with them.

Correct. That, plus not being gratuitously dismissive of others' work, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9314065 was. (I don't cite that to pick on a particular commenter; some users said they would find examples helpful and it's a random recent one.) Substantive, respectful criticism is of course fine and valuable.
> Considering that Genghis Khan is probably an ancestor to most of the eastern half of eurasia,

This is simply wrong.

Maybe some 16 million. But that has also been more of a hypothesis. See http://clubtroppo.com.au/2012/10/15/why-genghis-khan-wont-ha... for one of the refutations for instance.
US Citizen/Resident owns UK startup – Tax implications
I live in the US and am a US Citizen. I own equity (but not more than 50%) in a UK registered company. I haven't received any income or distributions from that startup. We did complete an angel round valuing my stock at 500k or so on paper. Does anyone know if I have to file From 8938? Are there resources to help with information here?
I had an uncle actually get scammed and send money because of a call like these. He's a pretty intelligent guy, I was really surprised he got fooled by it. But goes to show how effective these scams are. There never seemed to be much interest from anyone in helping him recover his money / tracking down who did it. I also wish there was more action to stop this kind of thing, although maybe there's a lot more action than we think in the background.
What "weeds" does do for you is increase the amount of useful land. Many of our favorite crops require very preferential choice in land.
More than 300 enslaved Asian fishermen rescued from island after investigation
be careful what you wish for -- allowing use of nsa recorded phone conversations for non-terrorist crimes means they set a precedent for using those recordings against any citizen for any infraction, no matter how minor. there is a good reason we DON'T accept the use of warrantlessly obtained phone recordings in bulk (at least not yet).
Statements are statements, and expressions are expressions (in Go)
The "nosology" could have started from a list of fallacies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

The overall story is actually quite simple: thoughts are simply models that are no more than representations (the map is not the territory). As such, they inevitably lead to contradictions such as paradoxes even though they often have practical applications.

So the good news is: you now understand that philosophy will always turn into endless discussions, therefore you can spend your energy on possibly more useful things :P
The book Closure by Hilary Lawson is a heroic effort to resolve the problem of self-reference. He doesn't address all the questions you raise but offers a framework for considering them.
While that is true, it's also good to take into consideration the fact that the rationale/hypothesis behind a diet plan doesn't have to be right in order for the diet itself to be useful.

Personally, the paleo hypothesis has always sounded rather dubious to me, but there's more than enough evidence that the ketogenic effects of paleo-like diets are useful at least: http://ketopedia.com/principia-ketogenica/
I can see what you mean about the scaling problems.
>which is also why, until recently, Georgia voters would waste time voting for such low-ranking officials as coroners and dog catchers.

We still vote for coroners. The corner has powers similar to the sheriff (to execute arrest warrants, serve process etc..). In some places coroners even have the power to arrest the sheriff if needed.
And just how do you prove each user is tied to 1 person as opposed to one elite running a million copies? You can't.
I assure you, if inflation reached 10+%, most every voter in the US would know what the Fed does and what they wanted it to do instead.

The non-conspiracy fact is the Fed has stayed quiet during the past 7 years because it has done a remarkably good job compared to their conservative-to-the-point-of-incompetency European counterparts. Europeans are quite familiar with ECB policy, because it has handled the crisis so astoundingly badly.
Avoiding wild mushrooms is generally a good plan without a lot of education and training in mushroom ID.

Few weeds will kill you, but quite a large percentage of wild mushrooms are harmful. The ones you find in the supermarket are the exception.
Some things that could make the functions fail:

1. In addition to stdin being closed (so gets(buf) would fail and continue execution without blocking), stdout/stderr are line buffered when writing to a terminal stream, so they are implicitly flushed when there is a newline[1]. There is no newline, so it is possible for the text not to be printed.

2. strcpy/memcpy is not safe when the memory regions overlap since it might do optimizations that corrupt the string[2]. memmove is the right function to use.

3. Running the process with a non-writable working directory would raise an exception when trying to open the file for appending or create the file. Additionally, the example mentions web developers, so it probably means multiple threads/processes executing concurrently. There is no synchronization in place, so output might be corrupted (small writes might behave atomically, but larger ones will most likely be written in chunks, which introduces races).

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4201325/688337

[2]: http://linux.die.net/man/3/strcpy

edit: formatting.
Cool concept but site doesn't say much?

Is this XMPP?

You should check out www.razer.com -- specifically their "comms" products
The term "firmware" originally referred to code that ran from nonvolatile memory, such as EPROMs. Originally these devices weren't electrically reprogrammable; you had to pull them off of the board, erase them with UV light, and burn your new code and data onto the chip with specialized equipment. Firmware was also commonly shipped on mask-programmed ROM chips that were cheaper than EPROMs but that couldn't be reprogrammed at all.

Essentially nothing like that is used anymore. Almost every programmable part is reprogrammable in-system unless someone takes extraordinary measures to prevent it from happening. That means that there is no longer any real distinction between "firmware" and "software," and there is no such thing as "read-only software," as you put it earlier. There is only "software" and "locked software."

This thread is all about who should own the keys to the lock.
The Predictor might know which way you'll choose, but you don't.
http://teespring.com/greys-forever
Was this song prophecy?
You have quite a combination of anti-bitcoin posts in your history and half truth straw mans in your post.

I'll give you a guide: download a wallet, choose a password, backup your wallet file. Then don't epoxy any ethernet ports since that is ridiculous.

And work on transaction scaling is far ahead of its need as the current block size is not a hindrance at the current transaction rate, although maybe you actually know that already.
Stop pushing the damn button http://teespring.com/greys-forever
i recently had the pleasure of hanging out with both zooko and warner and they're both excellent. as @whyrusleeping mentioned, there's lots of room for interop + collaboration on things. (in short, we <3 Tahoe-LAFS)
Honesty.

Some guy comes in with half a cornfield stuck to the undercarriage of their vehicle, who should pay for the suspension work? I deeply feel we should each be responsible for our own stupidity.
If it is submitted as warranty, it becomes a cost to the manufacturer and I feel that is inherently dishonest. Additionally, increased costs _do_ get passed onto customers.

I get _why_ it happens, but it shouldn't.
In short, p=0.05 means that 5% of no-effect experiments show a false positive.

But due to publication bias, negatives are ignored. When there are lots of experiments looking for mostly non-existent effects , the false positives appear ever more commonly than true positives.

This is why Bayesians insist on choosing a prior probability. Without it, there is no way to interpret the result of an experiment.

The takeaway lesson here, which is horribly underemphasized in school , is that statisitics never answers yes/no questions! Statistics can only give you a function for combining a Prior with an Experiment to obtain a Posterior. Without a Prior (which is subjective; it can never be chosen objectively!), you cannot get a Posterior Probability out of a experiment.
I wouldn't say it's a non-problem, but I agree that there is a certain elegance to line-oriented text processing. It's the same design problem as choosing a data structure; sometimes you can get by with a list, but some problems benefit from non-linear data structures.
1) Negative. You do not. What you have is a right to a jury trial in a civil case, where a federal court has jurisdiction , that would have been brought before the courts of law (rather than equity) in England in 1789. In the case of class actions, if you don't have a federal law that authorizes your claim, you actually need $5 million in controversy before you can get into federal court.

2. This is only partially true. Yes, there might be a problem with assent, but it doesn't render the clauses meaningless. As far as I'm aware, so-called "clickwrap" contracts, where you agree to a contract by clicking, suffice to manifest assent in every state. Companies haven't been as successful arguing that they can prove assent based on a tiny "terms of service" link on the bottom of their page that you don't have to click to agree to (sometimes called "browsewrap"), but click-through contracts are pretty much valid. Yes, they're contracts of adhesion with a seemingly unfair power imbalance, but between pro-business judges and the pro-business UCC, this argument doesn't get far.
Cheese, milk, and other dairy products in general are very common in American and European cuisine. In the English-speaking world, not being able to consume these foods is kind of deviating from the norm. Language reflects the culture it develops in, not the world outside of it.
Alternative point of view, separated for clarity:

"seeking out all things that are not black and checking they are not ravens."

This statement seems a faintly ridiculous idea.
Our mental model holds an infinite number things that are "not black", so there are still an infinity to check. Checking one thing should not change our internalised probability at all.

Even if you disagree that there are an infinite number of things, checking all apples contributes 0% towards this case - and is surely no easier than checking every raven.
We are spoiled; "open source" has come to mean in many people's minds, "free as in speech AND beer"
Staying clear for now. I'd love to play around with it a bit, I think there are some real neat ideas in React...but there are other alternative libraries out there, and I'd rather not use something that would significantly damage my negotiating leverage vs. Facebook.
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I didn't see the original comment and appreciate your positive intention, but you might have been slightly off in practice there.

By "gratuitous negativity" we're mostly talking about how community members treat each other and their work. It's ok to kick ideas around a bit harder. And certainly a few uses of "fuck" don't hurt. It looks to me like kang was just being enthusiastic.

That kind of thing can break the guidelines if someone overdoes it repeatedly and their comments add no new information or arguments. But that's not the case here.
And a 20 page small-type contract with dozens of companies. If you say you're getting informed consent from consumers you're a liar; there's no practical way to read and understand all the contracts (that can be updated at will) I have to agree to in order to use gmail, my isp, my cellphone, github, slack, zenefits, docusign, hellosign, groupon, my gym, my bank, my credit cards, direct deposit, yelp, google maps, android, paypal, ebay, hipchat, instacart, amazon, aws, backcountry, kingdom rush, uber, every single app on my phone, and I'm sure more that I can't list off the top of my head.
Python has a webbrowser module so that you can use it to remote control your webbrowser. It is much more fun to see results that way than mess around with print.
I doubt they're in the US. voip and one compromised something with an ethernet connection and a modem.
Timur's Registan: noblest public square in the world?
> The first step is designing your data to be stored in files, rather than a database

Somewhere in the middle-- ipfs gives you native access to the merkledag datastructure, so you can actually port most databases to using ipfs as a kv-store directly. (think an embedded sqlite or something). and on the other side, maybe you dont need a database. maybe you can just construct the graph of objects you need and write that to ipfs.

> maybe becoming "friends" with another user involves a key exchange?

yep! we've discussed an `ipfs friend` cmd

> Ultimately I think IPFS is a pretty cool concept, one I've kicked around a bit but never fleshed out. Major kudos to Juan and everyone else for taking it on - I look forward to seeing where this goes.

Thank you!! Come help us build it! :)
While other comments about security may be right, it probably isn't a reason not to pursue this. It's a great idea and very worthwhile pursuing.

My main concern is over using hashes as an address. A hash isn't a unique address but I haven't seen any mention of protections being built in to protect against the risks of downloading different files with the same hashes.
Problem is not xml, json or any other non linear data structure. It's trying to use shell to manipulate data that it's not intended to.

Shell will always have problems with handling bloated/overheaded data structures. In these situations using intermediary higher level languages would help.

PS: I'm sorry my first post is unintentionally against new rule. I just realized.
Let me be the first to suggest to you that the primary resource for a question like this is a good tax accountant.
GIMP is much cheaper, and less of a hassle.
Agreed. The reality is that the offer was probably still on the table in roughly the same form. After the Olympics, he could had the offer examined, weighed his options, and had pretty much the same starting point as Mayweather.

I won't bother to speculate whether he would have had the same success from that starting point. But he did NOT lose all opportunities in the instant he turned that deal down.
> No, it's you and people like you.

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN.
Where are the UML diagrams and how many sprints will it take to implement all the tools? Has an architect approved all the design patterns that will be used to implement them?

On a serious note though, wouldn't XML sed and awk just be XSLT transforms?
If Unix's commandline were critiqued as a REPL (and its commands as functions/procedures), problems like impoverished datatypes would be more commonly considered.
Instead of choosing a box, submit the source code of a program that decides whether or not to open a box. Then, the predictor reads the source code, puts money in boxes, and only then does your source code run and open boxes.

Now, imagine that there was a computer program that makes the same choices you do in the same situations, and the Predictor can read that source code before filling the boxes.

That's the intuition pump I use for thinking about Newcomb-like problems.
I would say its a non-problem. It's not hard at all to grab columns using awk, do replace using sed and find using grep. Programs that output plain structured text are simple and versatile.
what new rule?
Not to be pedantic, but the correct French version would be "dents de lion", "dans" translating to "in" (for non-francophone readers: "dents", singular "dent" and "dans" are pronounced the same).
Using a Surface Pro 3 for Game Production
In the larger scheme of the economy, virtually nobody uses Bitcoin for transactions.
Is lactose tolerance purely genetic, or is there an element of exposure that causes it?

The reason I ask is funnily enough that I've made the same observation as xiaq: I'm Chinese. There's no suggestion of any other ancestry than far eastern, yet I can still drink milk.

My mom is lactose intolerant but my dad seems to be able to process it. Though he doesn't expose himself much; it's just not that big a part of Chinese diets. I grew up in the West, where kids get milk all the time.

I guess another way to say it is if a kid drinks milk and keeps doing it, will he suddenly get the squits from it one day?