skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, in Japan it is more hierarchal e.g. your boss will pay for everyone if you go out for lunch together. Amongst friends it is common to just split the bill.
i would suggest to start with html/css and JavaScript
This one isn't so easy. What should the footer github link to? Assuming they might want to keep the same footer across the whole web site, https://github.com/cachethq/Cachet does not seem right either.
I have worked with various cross platform tools for a few years now and in the end all of them came to the same conclusion:

Its faster and easier to get a prototype or very simple (non-polished) app working that does not rely on specific api's to the mobile too much.
So basically you will manage to get 80% done more quickly with the cross platform tool.

However the last 20% are the very tricky part. There might be some strange bugs appearing from the cross platform tool that are hard to solve or just simply wanting to achieve a very polished app with smooth transition and the latest 'native' UI components and UI paradigms (e.g. Android Lollipop).

I also had a few major bugs coming from the interface between the native SDK and the cross platform framework. One example was that suddenly the phone fonts for some Asian languages were not displayed anymore. These problems often happened when there were some SDK changes on Android or iOS and the cross platform framework had to catch up with these changes.

Compared to native developments its also way harder to find good libraries and solve bugs (e.g. via stack overflow) because there are just way less people developing with these cross platform tools.

Since last year I stopped all cross platform developments and are now developing for iOS and Android natively and I realised that I am actually developing IN SUM faster natively then before with the cross platform tools. Main reason for this is that I have a huge focus on polished and high performing UI's and in the past I wasted a huge amount of hours just to fight the weaknesses of the cross platform tools.

So my recommendation for all who want to develop polished and professional iOS and Android Apps is now to go the native route from the beginning. Its better to try and save time by shifting some code to the server side (if you have a mobile app that extends a web app) and by developing a great abstract documentation/specification that can then be quickly implemented in the respective native language.
Right, but they're universally awful. You only start getting sushi that tastes like it should around the $25 mark. I'm just curious what accounts for the fairly extreme price difference, especially given that most of the actual flavor in sushi comes from the fish itself. Is it the price of the fish? Respect for one's craft? Tradition?

I'd love to eat good sushi more often, but again, it's hard to justify that kind of price for such a quick and small meal, given the other things you can find in that price range. I've mostly relegated it to occasional celebrations at this point. It's a splurge.

(Reading back on it, I realize my initial post came off as too aggressively negative. I'm not venting. I actually really am curious about what goes into the price of sushi, and whether it's priced appropriately based on the skills and ingredients involved, or if it's instead treated and (over)priced as a luxury gourmet food like foie gras.)
I'd suggest it's a case in point for why the principle of charity is so vital to useful communication.

The trouble is that people's standard for whether or not a post is awful (belittling/sexist/etc..) tends to be whether or not they feel it can plausibly be interpreted that way. This is the wrong standard - we should judge a post awful when there's no other way to interpret it.
If you're not planning to sell property, high property values are bad because they just increase your taxes. There's no upside.
I was using web servers at the time, and the "a patchy server" story is what everyone said back then. Nowadays people take it all for granted but Apache was radical at the time, previously people had been running httpd out of inetd.conf (!)
I'm not sure "too stupid or indifferent" is quite fair. You have retirees who see it as a change of pace or just people who feel strongly about their civic duty (and whose companies will presumably continue to pay their salaries). That said, it's absolutely fair to say that it's far from a random slice of the population to an even greater degree that juries in general. I suspect that most (but not all) US readers on this site would try fairly hard to get out of a three month, five day a week grand jury commitment.
Got it now. I agree about the point of pollution near roads - air as well as soil.
Ideology isn't the issue. We vote on individuals who encompass a variety of causes, rather than on the individual causes themselves. So we'll vote because candidate A is in favor of lax gun control, or candidate B is in favor of more readily available abortions, or whatever other hot button issue is most important to us, or who encompasses a selection of important issues better than 'the other guy'; to very few of us does "has a sane position on how to regulate the telecom industry" overrule that.

So every candidate is faced with "I can accept these huge campaign contributions from telecom companies, and not hurt my chances at winning, or I can decline them to take a stand against the telecoms...and do nothing to help my chances at winning". Of course they take the money, of course they vote to keep the money flowing to them.
I have only had to deal with Cox (FL) and Verizon FiOS (FL and D.C.).

I have had very few minor issues that at the time I thought were a big deal. It blows my mind the more Comcast stories I read how bad it can really be...
I've setup Catchet and it was nice - unfortunately the dashboard isn't actually documented so it's mainly trial and error.
Never mind that virtually nobody is "rational" in the game theory sense. As such, people will go for the sure thing even if they have high odds of winning. We are wired to be risk adverse to the extreme.
This is not even a little "semantic", you know.
you are so right.

someone should fwd this to the developers of es6... what a succinct and more modern way to write javascript, regarding that example.
A lot of effort goes into the perfect piece of sushi.

I was staying with friends in Shinjuku and one who was a chef at a hotel regularly got up at 4-5am to get to Tsukiji fish market in time to get a good fish.

Then there's the rice. Cooking it for just the right amount of time, not squishing any grains, etc.

There are a lot of different variables, and you're trusting the person to get them perfect as opposed to "good enough" in exchange for a bit more money.

I can't see where your confusion is going from but hopefully this cleared things up a little.
But will it be slower for real-world applications? I've seen numbers indicating a ~ 10% worse memory latency. Don't know how that will be felt.
Hopefully it's fairly straightforward. If not, then I do apologise. Documentation has been focused on the API for now because that's what most of our current user base is looking for.
Unless you are in the UK. http://www.lbc.co.uk/why-dont-landline-calls-cut-off-when-yo...
It's kinda too bad that the expected path is to go right to college after high school. Because,although it can be a lot of fun, it's an awfully expensive way to "detox" if one isn't even taking advantage of the school and its resources. I might have been more productive being a ski bum for a couple of years before heading to school.
I'm always suspicious when I read articles like this that claim to tell the "real story" when "everyone else" is lying, so I looked up the author:

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

> Campos is perhaps best known for his 2004 book The Obesity Myth (later published as The Diet Myth) which reviews medical research on the association between higher body mass and health. Campos's contentions that obesity is healthy were praised by some sociologists and critical theorists, and overwhelmingly criticized by medical, epidemiological, and statistical researchers with professional training in empirical research.

So he's a professional at this kind of manipulation.
This is one of the costs of being a citizen in the USA. You do it because your fellow citizens depend on it.
Considering statuspage.io is set up in redundant data centers and has all the bells and whistles that you need, building and maintaining your own seems less and less desirable to me.
Also, the random numbers generally interact like 2-dimensional vectors when not observed, and in a different way, like probabilities between 0 to 1, the moment they are observed.
While you obviously have the freedom to do what you wish, I got the impression that colleges are going further along the path of hand-holding to cater to those who can't/won't make that K-12 transition. From speaking with my coworkers who were alumni of the university I was attending and were of the same major, it really seemed like the rigor disappeared. The amount of times a professor would extend deadlines, cull portions of an assignment, or just flat out cancel it because of students complaining became enough to drive me away from classes. In several other courses, we had adjuncts that were former K-12 educators and they frequently treated us as their former students. In fact, the final straw that lead to me leaving the university entirely was an incident where I was castigated by an adjunct German professor for the atrocity of discretely pulling out my phone in order to translate a word so I could properly ask a question of the professor. This was only a few years ago, and having tutored a few friends through the years, I have a good idea of the state of things. They haven't changed.
That's exactly why the footer links to the organisation.
Wow, that's steep! I would expect a dual-income family making about $140k total to be able to pay $25k/year for schooling without making other lifestyle adjustments, but 65k-70k for one student -- that's outrageous!
Idea: Self-optimizing crypto trading bot
I once had an idea I wanted to have developed, but it turned out to be way more complicated than I realized, such that I couldn't afford to begin the project.

I wanted to have developed a crypto trading bot which had the ability to self-optimize its settings to make the best use of market conditions to turn a profit. I hoped one day that it would be able to reverse engineer what other market-moving bots were set to do, and adjust accordingly to profit from their moves.

I imagine if such a thing were made available for public consumption, that they'd wind up working against each other, & it might defeat its purpose.

But I liked to think about it for awhile, until I looked into it & was crushed by the complexity of it.
and what problem would this solve, exactly?
The cost of StatusPage.io is one of the reasons I started Cachet; https://james-brooks.uk/cachet/
Good advice and thus upvoted. Its a fair point, and just because this article mentioned gamergate, it doesn't mean some people would belittle one group of victims on order to make an other set of victim more likeable. It should have seemed more strange, and thus promoted a investigating question rather than an assumption.
In less than two minutes I noticed a few issues. Some examples:

- In FF37 the left hand navigation to components overflows into the footer: http://titon.io/en/toolkit/2.1.1/components

- On the main page toward the bottom where components are listed, the tooltips always appear above the element in question, even if the element is at the top of the window. This means the tooltip is above the top of the viewport and cut off or entirely not visible.
“Don’t Go to Law School (Unless)” by Paul Campos (2012)
FWIW, I live in the same Wicker Park neighborhood in Chicago. I've have Comcast for 11 years and I can count outages on one hand, both tv and internet. I've had to deal with Comcast on a handful of occasions without issue. Including a self-installed cable card activation on a Tivo and self-installed cable modem. I'm not defending Comcast, but YMMV.
You are wrong on the facts, about how laws against fraud work.

At least in America, courts only hear actual and not hypothetical controversies. Judges also do not grant a priori restraints on speech very often or very lightly. Laws against fraud criminalize (and preclude 1st amendment protection for speech implementing) dishonesty in certain contexts. But they do not restrain it by punishing the speech itself.
> how do we go about stopping this from happening more frequently?

I suppose there's more to it than just better police procedures, but I'm gobsmacked every time I read about a police force breaking down a door, or even drawing a gun, based on nothing but an anonymous email or phone call. It smacks of a system that's never encountered bad inputs before.

In a way it's surprising that actual criminal gangs didn't catch onto this years ago, and start swatting their rivals.
Are you in Boston/Cambridge? I'm in the same boat, although I'm not in a spot that RCN covers. I can't complain about the service I've gotten from Comcast, and I wonder if it's because FiOS keeps them honest. To be fair, I have Comcast Business, which has its own support.
Why? Google, Facebook, and others convinced consumers that software, storage, etc. should be free.

Try to sell better email than Google email to consumers? Good luck - you will get so much hate email "this should be free" that you can write a book from them.

Anyway I'm not aware of any new B2C software company which is hot right now. But please correct me - I would love to know (and learn how they get over 99% users who think it should be free).
What would be the point of developing with the Xamarin Platform on Linux? You'd only be able to target Android, not iOS, Mac, or Windows. In that case, one might as well not use Xamarin at all.

To target the full range of mobile devices, one has to have Windows, a Mac, or both anyway. So there doesn't seem to be much advantage to supporting development on Linux.
If there was any insight on slashdot, it was drowned out by the noise a long time ago. The S/N ratio on GrokLaw was incredible. If you didn't get that, you just weren't paying attention. There hasn't been a law blog like it, since.
> I can taste the difference between grass fed, and grain fed beef

Would it be possible to describe the difference in taste?

> But don't care for the really raw/fresh stuff (texture just doesn't appeal to me).

Isn't freshness also about taste, not texture? (I could never tell when something is "really fresh", when other people could.)
Judges have also been known to threaten anyone with jail who suggests jury nullification is a possibility. It seems pretty clear that it was the sort of thing the founding fathers intended when the created the system, but never the less if it takes away from the judges and prosecutors power they will fight it tooth and nail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification_in_the_Unite...
Thanks for this contribution. I'm considering adopting a dark grey t shirt, black hoody, dark jeans and black Converse as it seems to be the most neutral and versatile look that someone can have. And I certainly agree on fit. Nobody wants to have their jeans dragging under their shoes.
There's also Staytus (http://staytus.co) which is free but it also doesn't have Twitter integration yet :)

(Disclaimer: I wrote Statytus)
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I guess what I'm getting at is, the freedom of speech is a bit stronger than you have suggested, but it is only a shield, not a sword.
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There's a publication comparing plea bargaining system of US with the tortures commonly applied in medieval courts to get convictions: http://www.ibccrim.org.br/DPE2014/docs/flavio/torture.pdf

In short, the way the plea bargaining system developed was due to the jury system being too ineffective and time consuming in producing convictions. Thus the workaround which forces innocent people into accepting charges.
The problem is with the post-indictment actions of prosecutors rather than the way grand juries are set up though.

It's certainly within the realms of possibility to introduce legislation which limits the scope of plea bargains though (most likely by preventing prosecutors from pursuing charges and sentencing options they have indicated a willingness to drop in return for a guilty plea for a significantly lesser offence)
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Yes, these public displays (internally called vistars or fixed displays) are a real-time stream. Essentially the same that's being broadcasted in the Control Center (the CCC), but at a (much) lower frame rate.

You can navigate and find others, like the ones focused on the luminosity that the experiments are getting (not yet useful), or on the injector accelerators.

(I was working on the vistar project for a year.)
> I even use Xylitol to sweeten the sushi rice!

I'm amazed sushi restaurants let you in after they notice that. That's a level of disrespect for the chef I can hardly imagine.
That last paragraph didn't contain much information. Wish it did, it seemed toyally illogical.
You already acknowledge that sushi is a commodity item you can get anywhere, at various price points, but it tastes better when you pay more.

Why is it so confusing to you that quality food costs more? Yes ingredients matter (more so in sushi than most food), yes it requires a lot of skill to prepare. Not only that, the type of sushi restaurant cited in the article, the chef serves the customer directly as he prepares the food. Surely you can see why that'd cost more?
Apparently I have to agree.
Is there a ui framework that uses BEM?
> In a way it's surprising that actual criminal gangs didn't catch onto this years ago, and start swatting their rivals.

In England it used to be the case that many reports to "Crimestoppers" (an anonymous tip-off line) were from drug dealers informing on the competitors.

And here's an article from 2000 about informants

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/12/ukcrime.tonythomps...
That's right! I'd forgotten he did this. He calls it the Black T shirt Prject and explains it here. http://www.josh.is/the-black-t-shirt-project/

My only gripe with his approach is that he owns two pairs of pants? I was thinking three would be the minimum that one would need; two in the wash, one out?
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Front-end framework based on Material Design
I tried to use Semantic UI and I didn't grasp it properly. Don't get it as negative criticism but I found there is a simple tutorial and its grid is kind of unusable even looking examples.

In my last project ended using Zurb Foundation although I had Semantic UI as first option. Any pointer will be useful.
Ask HN: What laptop should I get with a $2,500 budget?
I am mostly doing software development (Salesforce, Java, PHP, etc). My current laptop (3rd gen Intel + 16GB RAM + 1TB HD) has Windows but I mostly work inside a Linux VM (Xfce Mint 64). People tell me to move to Mac (terminal + a GUI that just works). Nevertheless, I don't want to buy Mac specific hardware (Ex. Mouse, keyboard, screen) and I like being able to download software and use it without having to pay (I contribute to OS with my own OS software).

Should I move to Mac or just buy a good Win Laptop (Ex. Razer Blade) and place a good linux distro in it? Thanks for your comments :)
Ask HN: Canadian junior dev wanting to move to the US. need Visa advice
Hi everyone, I completed a web development bootcamp and around 8 months ago and have been working in startups in Hong Kong. I'm looking to relocate to the states (LA, San Francisco etc.) soon. I'm a Canadian so I do have an advantage in attaining a work VISA, but I dont know how much. My questions are:

1) How easy would it be to get a work visa?
2) Where should I be looking for jobs at?
3) I'm a junior level developer, looking to target front end jobs in javascript/jquery/angular, but have some experience with javascript and ruby backends... are people only wiling to give VISAs to more experienced people?
4) How much would it increase my chances if I were to fly over there without a work visa and job search then, so that I can interview face to face?
5) What kind of companies should I target? Big companies like GOogle I'm probably not qualified for, but companies that are too small may not offer work visas
6) Any other advice would be great.
The reason that a paradox is perceived is that evidence-based inductive reasoning is dressed up in logical language.

A logical proposition like "forall(x) : is_raven(x) -> black(x)" is not something that is justified by evidence. It is a statement of logic, which requires a proof.

Just because you've examined a hundred million ravens, and they have all been black, doesn't mean you have reason to believe that the proposition is true. A single counterexample destroys it. That is the case even if the counterexample happens to be the last instance which is examined, of the entire set of ravens in existence.

A counterexample is some X which satisfies is_raven(x), but fails black(x).

It is not the case that any other X is evidence; any other X just fails to be a counterexample. A non-counterexample to a universal claim is not evidence that it is true; evidence is simply not an applicable concept and misleading. If you accept a logical statement on evidence, you're committing a logical fallacy.

Now if we want to study the color of ravens empirically, then we must throw away the logical proposition. Our goal cannot be to prove that all ravens are black. Rather, something else, like "based on our random sampling method, we are 95% confident that between 99.996 and 99.998 percent of all ravens are black".

If we strip away the misleading instances of over-reaching logical language from an empirical investigation, then the paradox goes away.
I think the whole system of inadmissible evidence and plea bargains is unfair and dishonest. If a cop decides to lie or break into a house, what they find should be admissible, but they should also face the consequences of breaking and entering, armed robbery or whatever. In fact, these consequences would be more severe for public servants like cops. If the cop wants to lie to get a conviction, they should be able to do it BUT also pay for their lie. The mitigating circumstances would be considered and the cop might get off with less, but they should be under the same law as everybody else! If they want to get the guy so bad that they are willing to face prison themselves for a few years for entering without a warrant to photograph the smoking gun, they should be able to do it.

This way the truth and justice actually wins out. As opposed to murderers getting off on a technicality or cops lying with impunity and ruining innocent people's lives.

Of course, the above would still not obviate the need for entrapment defense etc.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki....

Sweden has two universities in the top ~100. Boston has three. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh have two, mostly in the top 50.
Peter seems frustrated because he actually has ideals. But the way TPB was presented gathered a mass of followers who's mentality is "I should get my movies and music for free because, uh... because what he said!"

It always seemed to me that few were ever in it for the cause. Most just wanted free shit. I had figured Peter and TPB knew this all along, but maybe not?
If the plea bargain is close to the sentence and not order(s) of magnitude less.

If you take 10% reduction in exchange for not wasting everyone's time is one thing ... but taking one year when facing possible 40 is absurd.
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It's extremely rare for a masters degree to be funded. Most PhD programs are, because PhD students provide cheap labor to the college in the form of TA and lab technician work.
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Either PHP or Python for the server side.
HTML5 + CSS + Javascript (jQuery + KnockoutJS are my favorites there) for the client side.