skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Iraq needs better people than the Saddam regime or the current regime.

It's very difficult to take this person seriously when he's trying to refer to Iraq's current democratically elected government -- which has a minimum quota for women and minorities -- as a "regime," which refers to an authoritarian government or dictatorship[0]. Iraq's future is based on people being able to accept that we no longer have regimes and that we have democratically elected representatives, who can be voted in or out based on a popular vote. As long as people are not able to comprehend this concept and try to blame everything on a central figure -- much like they did to former Prime Minister Maliki -- then we will continue this cycle of ignorance.

While Ala Bashir's artwork and history is something commendable, his political opinions on modern Iraq (being expressed through the Gulf mouthpiece[1] Al Jazeera for the last decade) should be considered as Pan-Arabist or neo-Ba'athist[2] rhetoric rather than the unbiased opinions of an Iraqi civilian.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime#Politics

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera#Editorial_independen...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba'athism#Neo-Ba.27athism
There's a lot more to being a software engineer than coding competence, and timed questions reveal the non-coding competence parts of your abilities more than anything else.

Perhaps you're not as good as you think.
It looks fine with NoScript too.
Great compos this year. The PC 64k had some amazing stuff (conspiracy floored me). For anyone checking those out at home, your AV software is wrong.
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After further discussion offline, I came to that conclusion too. Before college, I only had a vague idea of what I wanted to do that had no connection to reality or my temperament ("Building spacecraft is like model rockets, right?"). Doing practical work and going on field trips gave me the real taste of careers, and if I had gotten some of that in high school or sooner, yeah, I would've been looking at schools based on the major I ended up with, and done better, faster.

I was given free reign to explore my interests, but maybe not actively encouraged, especially where you need to go meet professionals in their workplace. I'll try to correct that with the next generation. A car factory or construction site can be just as fun as the zoo.

And if work is fun and part of a balanced diet, there's less need to 'detox' from life for a year, or four years.
Don't host in Russia. Pre-2012 Russia had lacked copyright laws, not anymore.

I advise you to host in Switzerland. If you want multiple locations, jumping between Brazil, Latvia, Moldova, Luxembourg and Panama I would recommend.

You're currently using GoDaddy as a registrar... massive mistake. Switch to an offshore accredited registrar. I recommend https://www.nazwa.pl/domeny/ (Poland), https://regtons.com/en/support/accreditations/ (Czech Republic), if needed I can tell you of a trusted Latvian registrar by email. Also, Tonic.to & Vunic.vu but these are only for .to and .vu domain names. ISNic.is is good if you're getting a .is domain extension.

Legally speaking, as long as you don't make the suggestion that you are aware of users voilating copyright law and don't promote infringement (either via a 'Recent downloads'/'Top Downloads' list), you should be fine. Also, it's always safer to incorporate and not to involve other people (conspiracy laws could bite you then). If you're using ffmpeg on your server, you're altering the video and can be liable for copyright takedowns but if you don't modify the file you're then considered a proxy/cache (but that's EU, I don't know whether it's the same in Canada).
> College degrees do not correlate with productivity. The earning power of degrees is almost entirely driven by proximity and access to higher-paying jobs. Productivity simply has nothing to do with it.

I'm surprised to hear this. What is it based on?
First, there's a reason top-class students get better jobs. Not always, of course, but most of the times.

Second there are concepts that if you don't deal with them every day, you lose a your grip around them.

Third (and maybe most important), maybe CS was a good degree to have in terms of opportunities but wasn't their passion. You can't compete with passion. There are people who read this and that book only to acquire knowledge of a very specific domain out of pure passion about the topic at hand. You can't compete with those. These are the people who usually can make combine sources, spot errors, think outside the box for obvious reasons.

ps. I remember an instance when reading the Cryptonomicon, where Waterhouse - one of the main protagonists - was thinking that the fact he was at Princeton university in the 1930's was nothing special. He thought that in this place there was just a bunch of guys who knew one thing or two about maths and that was all there was to it. Later in the book while almost being drowned inside a German submarine, the only thing he could think of, was how to get his hands on a German strong box he came across. When he was healthy enough, he spent ~ 6 hours in a row trying to open the damn thing. When he did open the strong-box, he was almost depressed because he didn't really give a sht about what was inside. He wanted to know how thins German strong-box worked and if it can be reversed, somehow. Now that he knew that, there was nothing appealing about this strong-box. Not even the contents. To a pure mathematician like he really* was, there was nothing appealing in implementing something, once you understood how it works. Now, how on earth can you compete with a guy like that? :-)
I'm not suggesting that prosecutors should have no leeway at all to press for higher charges.

I am suggesting that the plea bargain becomes more along the lines of the accused's legal representation advising them "the prosecutor has made a formal offer to drop the dealing charge if you plead guilty to possession. They can still pursue the dealing charge if you plead not guilty, but because they've made that offer you'd be looking at an extra year if also convicted of dealing rather than an extra seven"

I think we'd see fewer plea bargain offers, but more importantly people would only accept them if they thought it more than likely they would be convicted anyway, which in theory is the point of permitting plea bargains.
So the follow-up paper that assesses the impact is here [1]

TL;DR is that developers just didn't find it useful. Sometimes they knew the code was a hot spot, sometimes they didn't. But knowing that the code was a hot spot didn't provide them with any means of effecting change for the better. Imagine a compiler that just said "Hey, I think this code you just wrote is probably buggy" but then didn't tell you where, and even if you knew and fixed it, would still say it due to the fact it was maybe buggy recently. That's what TWR essentially does. That became understandably frustrating, and we have many other signals that developers can act on (e.g. FindBugs), and we risked drowning out those useful signals with this one.

Some teams did find it useful for getting individual team reports so they could focus on places for refactoring efforts, but from a global perspective, it just seemed to frustrate, so it was turned down.

From an academic perspective, I consider the paper one of my most impactful contributions, because it highlights to the bug prediction community some harsh realities that need to be overcome for bug prediction to be useful to humans. So I think the whole project was quite successful... Note that the Rahman algorithm that TWR was based on did pretty well in developer reviews at finding bad code, so it's possible it could be used for automated tools effectively, e.g. test case prioritization so you can find failures earlier in the test suite. I think automated uses are probably the most fruitful area for bug prediction efforts to focus on in the near-to-mid future.

[1] http://www.cflewis.com/publications/google.pdf?attredirects=...
Two things to bear in mind when thinking about the Fermi paradox:

1) The more important observation is that everything we see is a wilderness of apparently natural origins and processes, not that we have apparently not been visited.

2) No hypothesis involving choice that leads to failure to carry out self-replicating colonization can explain (1). All it takes is one small group in one sufficiently advanced species. This rules out wolves, berserkers, relinquishment, self-destruction, and so on and so forth.

Clearly something is missing or incorrect in how the pieces of the various sciences fit together to explain what we see. Some of the best reading on the subject is speculation on what it is that we don't know or the relative odds on where the present consensus is incorrect.
Incidentally, I just finished watching the series 'Steins;Gate', where the characters' discovered ability to send text messages to the past becomes a focal plot point of the show. Needless to say, I didn't understand what the title here was talking about.

edit: Oh right, another significant plot point is the Large Hadron Collider, also featured on the front page right now.
As a typical kid in the US, it's virtually impossible to ever go anywhere on your own without getting a car. And the chances are high you won't get a car anyway, because your parents can't afford to buy you one and, well, how exactly are you supposed to afford your own car as a jobless kid?

The only way is to get a minimum wage job and suck out a considerable amount of time from your high school studies and extracurriculars, all just to have a car. But educational achievement is ranked very, very high in priority in the US, so a lot of kids who understand that are going to choose to just forgo the car completely if their parents can't get them one.

To top it off, most kids in the US have, up until college, never experienced a walkable microcosm of society, outside of shopping malls. The idea of living in this little walkable world is so exciting that it becomes worth the cost. It's like taking a (short) lifetime of observing all the systemic problems with American life and then finding a new little world that recognizes all those problems and fixes every one.

In that sense, in the US, going off to college comes with this tremendous sense of relief, where you feel like finally, for the first time, life is starting to make sense. Almost all college students will ask themselves repeatedly on first matriculating, "why the hell wasn't life like this in high school and earlier?"
They're talking about the algorithmic competitions like ACM ICPC or TopCoder. Google have their own (Google Code Jam), which they use as a recruiting tool.
The question is, is Uber going to swallow AirBnB, or AirBnB Uber? Distributed roving cities of the future.
I think there's an important distinction the parent was making that isn't just down to definitions.

A prosecutor has two roles. One is to select people to make into defendants, and the other is to try and get those defendants convicted. If we imagine that a prosecutor cannot get an innocent person convicted, then judging them by conviction rate is first judging them by their ability to choose the guilty to prosecute. You've not decided that every defendant is guilty - you've decided that every defendant should be guilty.

Imagine a sieve, designed to collect pebbles larger than 30mm. If you've already decided that every pebble collected is larger than 30mm, you have no need to examine the performance of the sieve. If you're wondering whether the sieve is catching smaller things, then you look at the collected pebbles, and it is quite reasonable to count smaller pebbles against the performance of the sieve.

Of course, our assumption there certainly doesn't hold perfectly, and may very well hold poorly enough that we significantly reward "ability to get the innocent convicted". But dragonwriter basically said as much.
The problem with fake meat
There exists an amazing device which dramatically increases the efficiency of body-powered locomotion, not to mention speed. However, it is more cumbersome and cannot go to all the same places as an anke exo. This device is called a "bicycle".
... and many of the programmers I find in the corporate world do neither. But that is probably for another discussion.
Latest Chrome on OS X, I'm getting Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'drawBuffersWEBGL' of null at bundle.js:8816.

Let me know if you want me to try anything, or want further information.
Grass fed beef is noticeably drier (doesn't cook down as much) and stronger-flavored than corn fed beef. I really notice the difference in chicken - try a fancy organic chicken breast and compare it to a normal store bought one and it's like night and day.
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Man, the Amiga community is so fascinating to me. It still keeps trucking, albeit minimally, after all of these years.

Fun times.
Good call. What are some headlines that scream these categories?
How do we get around the issue of funding though? A lot of innovative projects come out of universities because governments give them money without expecting an immediate return on investment. How can we create a non-academia system that has the resources to take on big, risky ventures without that system becoming isomorphic to academia?
I'd humbly suggest that one should consider the Venn diagram of writers in general. Out of the entire population who is writing with regard to careful formatting? The large subset, i'd assert, would be academics. And to further prove the unreliable nature of impressions, I see in university the least use in engineering, (where MSWord seems to dominate). Also Europe seems to use LaTeX more than in the states, (again MSWord?); but perhaps that's because of the subtle demands of diacritical marks and the like.
Google wants no-cost international roaming for its phone service
Firefox:
adblock plus + noscript + ghostery and no comparable substitutes from chrome.

Tried uBlock for chrome but it's just not as good as adblock plus.
The anime also features crossing worldlines (their version of parallel worlds). I've forgotten how the "mad scientist" crossed worldlines.

Also, features sending of memories/knowledge into the past - their first step into time travel.
And ZipPy (Python on the JVM) handily beats PyPy on most benchmarks but obviously doesn't beat Java on the JVM for idiomatic code due to the better data structures available in Java Collections vs. Python's standard library.
There remain some big tests, among them: Can we accumulate and release enough energy to take us to the stars without having a civilization-ending war with ultra-destructive directed energy weapons? Can we avoid mistakes in modifying life, and in nanotech, that would cover the planet in goo? Can we master germline modifications of humans without doing something that ends with no humans, and no post-humans? So plenty of filter to go yet. Never mind the smaller-scale "do we have way too many humans already to not overheat the planet we're on?" questions.
Artificial Intelligence as Alien Intelligence
Yeah, if any one person decides that they don't want to end up in front of a grand jury, then obviously they shouldn't commit a crime. However, treating the accused fairly is an important aspect of our society.

Suppose 10-jacket guy was walking out of the store with his big back stuffed with jackets, and he accidentally bumps into someone and knocks them down. Without a grand jury there to protect the accused, the prosecutor is at liberty to call that "assault" and tack on some extra charges to help him push for the plea-deal and make his life easier.
As far as I observed the Pirates in Germany - they basically trolled themselves to death ... they acted disrespectful against each other - regularly crossing the border of misogyny and cyber bullying. Most of them seemed to be just angry and frustrated nerds with severe lack of social skills. Those not falling into that category - f.x. Marina Weisband - sooner or later left the party.
Yes, I think it has to either be tunable or self adjusting. If the ratchet releases early, you are just carrying it around. If the ratchet releases late, I expect it will result in uncomfortable tugging.

So my question is more about the behavior of the implementation, not about the design space for it.
On the topic of dupes, within HNs Parent relationships, would it be possible to create a meta-dupe tree? Basically, a meta-list above articles that adds dupes (or maybe just closely related) as quasi-children of the "best" or "highest comments" or whatever version of the article. If an article had a parent you could just keep goin up to find the old one.
If the Model S has all the sensors and actuators for automatic driving, those should be accessible. The cameras might not be on CANbus (it's too slow) but the brakes, steering, powertrain, and radars probably are.
I'm a little amused that they did not remark that perfect bug prediction is known to be impossible in general. Is this because they assume every reader already knows that, or because they forgot their theory lessons?

On another note, I wonder whether one could rigorously define bug prediction for a "helpful" programmer who isn't trying to trick the machine by using diagonalization tricks and obfuscating things.
West Virginia is the latest state to ban Tesla direct sales
It's hard to come up with evidence since there are very few options to create your own SSD/NVMe firmware for a real-world like device. The closest I've come up with is OpenSSD and that required $3000 and was for an old controller with very little documentation behind it.
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Who said anything about keeping it quiet? Are you doubting that this already happens?
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Why code when you can go full dilbert on corporate politics.
You can afford any apartment in the city, but spending a ton on rent isn't the requirement everyone makes it out to be. I live in a new building 2 blocks from the Caltrain and pay $1200 a month. Just be diligent about it (as others have mentioned: roommates, location-specific, etc.). Leverage your network if possible. My friend in finance who makes close to 7 figures just got a room in a rent-controlled apartment and pays 800/month in the heart of the Marina.

Have fun in the city, but be mindful about saving as well.
The "significant" list is a bit biased. Also Struts but no Spring?
I remember when I saw "hardwired" (2disks) on my Amiga 500 and I was like "wow" at the time. Is there a place where I can download these and play them on an emulator?
Looks like there's not support for that extension[1] on your system. Unfortunately there isn't really anything I can do about that. Thanks for trying, though, and for the feedback!

[1] https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/extensions/WEBGL_draw...
Like otec below, I had RCN in goldcoast Chicago and it was really cheap (40 bucks) for 25MBPS. I can't complain about that.
Yet another opportunity taken to bash Europe! Try harder next time:

Income inequality (Gini coefficient, CIA Gini):
EU: 30.4
US: 45

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

Life expectancy at birth:
EU: 80.02
US: 79.56

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world...

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births):
EU: 4.33
US: 6.17

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world...

Homicide rate:
Europe (as a whole): 3.0
US: 4.7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

Freedom of the press index (lower is better):
EU (weighted by population): 17.32
US: 18.22

https://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html
I'm not using ffmpeg on the server, just proxying the file. I don't even cache it. Thank you for the excellent advice. Just one question, do you think this is legal in Amsterdam (where the main server is hosted) and in France? I know it's probably illegal in the US, but then again everything is thanks to the reach of MPAA.
Ruberik ran Google Code Jam for several years. (Or maybe someone registered his handle on HN just to forge this comment, but that seems like a silly thing to do.)

EDIT: To be clear, Ruberik is NOT an impostor, and it's sad that someone is now going around flagging his comments.
Any sources on this? I would be very interested in a detailed account of how the EFSF was used to nationalize private bank debt and spread it across the 17 member states of the EU. This would seem almost criminal in nature to me, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.
All experimental evidence points to space being continuous, not discrete.
There are things like Hype[1], and I'm sure there's more out there

[1]: http://tumult.com/hype/
There is a disconnect between these two statements:

"No alien civilizations have substantially colonized our solar system or systems nearby. Thus among the billion trillion stars in our past universe, none has reached the level of technology and growth that we may soon reach."

While the article is in a way all about exploring that disconnect, it's a bit strange to find it written down so explicitly in the conclusion. We can ascribe a very high level of confidence to hypothesis that neither our own nor any of the directly neighboring star systems have been colonized. But to postulate that therefore the universe has not yet produced a civilization as technologically sophisticated as our own is still a non-sequitur, at least in my opinion. The article also makes a lot of assumptions (it has to!), some plausible, some seemingly arbitrary, which might in the end not be important factors at all. For example, any consideration about radio communication must be on very shaky grounds, in particular when charting the absence of it.

The reason why we're not seeing alien neighbors or predecessors (which would be "neighbors" in time), might well be a combination of factors. While we can exclude certain scenarios, such as a cloud of Von Neuman Probes eating the galaxy, it still leaves room for a lot of little factors that can change the galactic stage for us in a fundamental way - especially if they work in conjunction.

For example, the average duration of the technologically recognizable phase a civilization goes through may be smaller, and there may well be less of them than expected. In addition, willful avoidance or isolation may well play a role; the zoo hypothesis is an extreme example of this, but in a sparse cosmos the measures you have to undertake in order to isolate an emerging civilizations become less heroic.

It's also worth mentioning that we ourselves are not past the Filter by any means. In fact, as time progresses, it seems to become less likely we'll ever move off the Earth as an exclusive habitat. Part of this is due to psychology, we could have made it happen by now but didn't. The best bet at becoming an interstellar civilization right now seems to be to wait until we're pure computer systems, unburdened by aging and the passage of time, but that development, too, might end up being something we never elect to actually pursue.

Luckily, this whole thing is a mystery we can solve over time, just by gathering data about what's out there.