skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that title right? It improved their situation 5%. That sounds like noise. Certainly they were still in extreme poverty. Its arguable that the statistics show aid does almost nothing (5% change), and better methods should be tried.
I still can't downvote after almost 3 years. I don't comment very often, so I don't have an incentive to chase the downvote privilege. But the thing is, after all this time, I dont want to downvote anymore, like the first time I came here. I just read and enjoy the place.
Yes it did, but they removed that option, at least in the Mac OS X version of Spotify.

[edit]
Apparently it has been added again in 1.0.5.x, but I'm not getting that update yet...
I can't downvote people, nor do I have any interest in doing so.

I don't upvote people either.
what do you mean? is it like facebook's "hide all from X"?
It's interesting that there's a whole subculture of this stuff now. There's a ton of subreddits starting with "bad," such as badhistory, badlinguistics, and badphilosophy whose purpose is to collect links to comments seen as "bad" in the context of whatever field it's about. This could actually be a valuable service, where you get experts in to correct misconceptions or incorrect claims that are getting a lot of attention. Unfortunately, they're never about that, but are simply about making fun of people behind their backs.

I'm reminded of the Robbers Cave Experiment, wherein all it took to create conflict between two groups of summer campers was the act of dividing them into groups. The subreddit system is genius for allowing one site to serve so many different communities, but it also sets the stage for subreddits to see other subreddits as the enemy.

(And if this comment was on Reddit, I imagine there would pretty quickly be a link to it from /r/badphilosophy talking about how badly I've misunderstood the experiment and how stupid I am, all while not actually educating me or any of the people reading my comment.)
What Passes for Excellence in Silicon Valley
Some portion of them, yes. But something as simple as cutting cable can save $500+/year, usually over $1k/year. And to someone who is below the median, either of those numbers is non-trivial.

Exclude a few other optional behaviors and the numbers shift more positive pretty quickly. Examples: smoking, iphone plans, pets.

Someone doesn't have to go without those things forever but cutting out all the non-necessities for a few years to stabilize and build a little savings is a great thing everyone should be encouraged to do.
On the contrary, his ad is getting flooded with responses. Any publicity is good publicity. I should know [1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/03/everyone-seems-mad-at-reser...
Oh, I was on reddit from very early on, concurrently with digg, and dropped digg as it got increasingly toxic and facile - definitely noticed a shift as the mass exodus picked up, and about 18 months later moved on from reddit.
Mr Money Mustache is good; I also really like Budgets Are Sexy.
In Quantum Computing, All Known Digital Signatures Will Be Vulnerable
For consistency like that you could always go with:

$('.foo .bar');

But I would assume you could do the same in D3?
What do you think about Hinto?
I'd just like to point out the Pao and Reddit can do anything they want on their property and it is not censorship. Private parties cannot censor, only the government can censor which why the recent nationalization of the US Internet by the FCC is so dangerous for Free Speech. When the FCC comes out with their "Internet Anti-Harassment and Diversity Guidelines" that must be followed at the threat of shutting down your blog, that is true censorship and should not be tolerated.
California Senate overwhelmingly passes SB 277, abolishing most opt-outs
> If someone makes a salary of $30,000 a year than they probably take home around $22,000 after taxes and insurance. It would be much less comfortable for them to have a lot of savings. True, not impossible, but much much harder than me since their takehome pay is equal to my "frugal" pay. They would have to give up much more than I do. Obviously you can't max out your 401(k) and IRA on that salary, maxing those out would be more than your take home pay!

Yes, but the amount they'd save is "a few thousand a year". I doubt they'd save more than $3,000/year after the big expenses and random things happening [e.g. dental, medical]

You'd need around $1,000,000 to produce $30,000 a year [3% "safe return"] indefinitely.

http://www.bloomberg.com/personal-finance/calculators/401k/

You'd need to save for 35 years to retire before 60 [using the defaults, no employer match since you need access before you could access a IRA/401k, etc] which is what /r/financialindependence is about.

Mr Money Mustache and all of their idols retire early [by 40] and that is what they emphasize. That simply isn't possible on $30k/year in the US.

EDIT:

> Which was exactly my point. :)

Ah okay. I thought you were like the guy I was replying to who is completely 100% convinced that they can retire in their 30s like /r/FI aims for if they'd just "save more money".
IBM Advances Silicon Photonics, Quantum Computing
There's a paid upgrade version as well. http://theolabrothers.com/pro.html
Ahh right, so "Youtube 360" is an actual thing and it's made for phone first. Ok that makes more sense :-)

Thanks!
It would take only one nuclear device being "detonated" in low orbit, to wipe out nearly all of the satellites in a large area of that space. The resulting EMP may wreck quite a few ground-based systems too, IIRC from a book I read recently. Can't recall the name, though...

In any case, disrupting satellite-based navigation is the simplest kind of rocket science: a missile that just has to go up and then detonate, no aiming required.
You get what you pay for. And sometimes not even then...
No, in fact it's becoming less common as time goes on.

In the US by 2008, maternal sole-custody had declined to 42% of custodial arrangements (from 80% in 1986), while equal shared custody rose to 27% (from 5%).

http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/05/22/joint-custody-becomi...
I'm in favour of a few criminal limits - perjury can't be allowed for example.

A person who supports placing legal limits on expression because they offend a group, religion, political party, etc. can't sincerely claim to be an advocate for free speech. Better to avoid the doublethink and stop defining free speech as speech that you approve of.
I think one difference that I've seen is that the US has a very different attitude toward computer programming. In the US it's more glamorous? That's not the right word, but it seems like when I talk to a number of foreign developers who emigrated to the US, it's more about being a good job than it is about being a genius hacker, rich by 25, or being a technical tour de force. I see a lot more women overseas who become programmers. Maybe because the culture is different, and becoming a programmer is like becoming an architect or engineer?

I think that different culture might self-select US developers the same way top schools produce highly motivated, successful people because they recruit highly motivated, successful kids. Not to say every US developer wants to climb to the top of some technical or economic mountain, but it seems like maybe there's a smudge more passion among US developers. Also, intelligent, math oriented individuals have other avenues in the US, like finance, (and unlike the rest of the world) dentistry and medicine are lucrative careers. Meaning you choose programming more because you want to program, but in other countries it's because it's a better paying job.

I've also noticed that in some countries, once you've done a few years writing code, you quickly want to join management ranks and develop a coding allergy. More so than in the US, where it seems like 50 year old developers still want to write code. I get the sense that, in some countries, if you don't get into management then you are a failure at some level. So in the US you can find someone with 10+ years experience developing software, but in other countries you just have people who've stagnated and never moved up.

I dunno.
I find this explanation pretty intuitive:

1. I left Earth at 0.75c and haven't accelerated or decelerated since

2. I receive a message from Earth that an object is heading my way at 0.75c (far enough away for them to message me at 1c before it hits me)

3. I look where they point and see the object approaching at 0.96c

4. I'm not confused because I fully realize that relative to Earth, my brain and my instruments are running slower due to time dilation. Speed is a time-related measure (d/t) -- you can't use relative distance and absolute time to calculate (d/t). You use relative values for both. So the speed I get when I divide by my t is different to what Earth gets when it divides by it's t.

The problem arises when people accidentally assume an absolute vantage point to observe the two objects. A scientist on Earth will see the gap between the 2 objects close at 1.5c, but he'll know better than to make the usual assumption we make on Earth -- that everyone else will see the gap close at the same rate (because time will be slower for some observers).
In portuguese it literally means "going someplace else".

An example: I enter the subway and sit next to a man. For some reason, I stink. The man is unconfortable and asks me to move. I shouldn't move. I am OK where I am. If he's not OK he should be the one moving somewhere else.
Sakai is an open source offering that seems to be pretty good. At Texas State we use a (heavily customized, I believe) instance of it as the standard e-learning platform, and it's quite a bit better than Moodle in most respects.
I think that's the question I need answering as well. Time frame mismatch. I don't get why they would.
Carl Icahn Invests $100m in Lyft
As a parent I've found that "kids are pricey" can easily stem from financial illiteracy as well. It's easier than people think to have kids and not blow the budget. Don't go crazy on Christmas gifts, limit eating out, buy secondhand clothes (which are usually in great condition), etc.

We always chuckle when our friends talk about how expensive their kids are, right before mentioning their three cross-country trips. Financial literacy can apply to child-rearing too!
I'm assuming many individuals swallowed their pride as part of this agreement. Kudos to you all!
Possibly. The frustration over Pao seems to be on the verge of going mainstream despite it being relatively pointless in terms of actual things changed. The shadowbanning of users discussing Pao is more of a problem than Pao herself so far IMO.

My guess: the anti-SJW crowd will leave to go to voat (and if we're unlucky, here) and the SJW & neutral crowds will remain, warping reddit into something more along the lines of tumblr with more cat pictures.

On the other hand, even before this recent Pao stuff, reddit had been getting a pretty solid reputation for being an advertising/PR platform. The shilling and advertising is pretty horrendous, and almost all of the default subs are completely overrun by paid content-- if you don't believe me, just take a gander at how frequently McDonalds, Doritos, TacoBell, etc make the front page with content-free posts that are often as simple as a picture of their products.

I guess you can say "avoid the larger subreddits" but there is a lot of content-based shilling too-- try posting anything about Israel or Russia in the context of a serious discussion and see what happens. It isn't a coincidence.
The person getting the 230M isn't just some random guy on the street that a bet was made with. It is employee #1 who still works there. Presumably he was/is key to the companies success and future. Personally, I would happy to give someone 10% of my companies worth and have it be 230M because that means I have built a 2.3B company.
The most important factor I think people are over looking is the fact that it is HUMANS who have to put in EFFORT and TRY to CREATE these robots. They don't just spawn from an old female computer. Humans have to put in work to create these artificial intelligence. We have 100% control over the future of AI.
Does anyone know the background of the decision to restrict commercial usage for the 64bit version? Seems strange to have the 32bit vs. 64bit versions licensed differently.
That link still doesn't work if you're using privacy protecting plugins.

I think I'll opt to not read the WSJ :)
The good developers move here.
Nothing can exceed the speed of light. This equation represents that.

I also seem to remember that causality is not preserved. This means that if A happens before B in one frame, it's possibly that B happens before A in another frame.

I also seem to remember that if it's possible to break the speed of light, it'd be possible for B to fire before A (if A triggers B, all in one frame).
Yeah. These folks questioning our ability are in for a rude shock in a few years . There's a whole eco system of mid tier firms + startups which are shaping up really well .:D
No problem, just double your outsourcing team!
A legend. My first exposure was through his participation in U2's Rattle and Hum album/rockumentary [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRHV-HWhqWQ
Hint: it's an ad revenue based cash-out. They don't actually need more servers or features, they need more curators and ways to channel money.

Sell off the valuable real estate and make the site cleaner for advertisers so that there's less bad PR when one of the uglier subreddits gets critical mass and finds public attention.
There's some top talent in and from India, but they will be as hard to find or expensive to pay as anywhere else. It may have been slightly different in the past, but it settled quickly at a point where you get what you pay for. Developers below the top talent in India can often be worse than bad developers locally, between the distance, language, managerial and cultural differences you can end up with a mess that would have been easier to diverge away from with local developers. However, if you can manage that well it can work out and you may be able to build bigger teams over time.
Why We Are Not Waiting for the “Eureka” Moment for the Internet of Things
These things take time ...
The numbers are there to support it. I don't believe it's getting widespread coverage because it's considered anti-feminist to believe that women want to find a man to marry or have kids. Look at how Joss Whedon was thrashed for having Black Widow even suggest that.

Check out "Men on Strike" by Helen Smith. She highlights the trends and proposed a number of theories to explain it.
I don't use Chrome, but I installed Chromium to test websites on webkit, and, amazingly, it still manages to crash after a few hours of uptime despite being a fresh, barely used install. It's beyond me how people are using such buggy software regularly.
I am not a habitual Reddit user and know little about the controversy with Pao, but I am interested in the subject of Internet site moderation so I have been looking into what has been posted in this thread. I found this. Pao linked to this post by a non-reddit admin recently as an example of how she thinks shadowbanning should be done: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/35ym8t/promote_ideas_...

Selected quotes:

>You will never be told exactly what will earn a shadowban, because telling you means telling the sociopaths, and then they will figure out a way to get around it, or worse, they will file shitty, frivolous lawsuits in bad faith for being shadowbanned while "not having done anything wrong"[...]Shadowbans are intentionally a grey area, an unknown, a nebulous and unrestricted tool that the administrators will use at their sole discretion in order to keep reddit running[.]

The first thoughts that come to my mind are "this isn't compatible with a culture of transparency" and "there has to be a better way" but I can appreciate how hard it must be to keep a site the size of Reddit running.
Didn't he leave google?
Our illustrator Pybus's work- http://pybism.com/ is a sort of blend of Pushwagner and Moebius through his own acid absurdist style. I'm sure Rob draws on all sorts of inspiration in his work- I can't say for sure if it was a conscious inspiration.

As for myself, I was drawing inspiration from (other than pybus) PS1 era games and artists like David O'Reilly, John Karel, Eran Hilleli and brianbrianbrianbrian.com basically everyone who embraces the low poly (we had a strict budget for how many triangles the gear VR's Note 4 could handle)
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Then you need to review the code once in a while and also put some code quality related clauses in the contract.

If you do that you'll find that outsourcing to India is actually not such a bad idea and guess what , we're cheap :D.
So, what's the driving force behind this?

They're not doing it out of the good of their hearts, so I see three obvious possibilities: making the website a more attractive place to advertize, external pressure hurting their image (like that time they banned some subreddits only after being featured on CNN) or trying to appeal to more women. Did I miss anything?

I assume it's some combination of the above leaning heavily towards advertizement. Considering the number of house ads I see them running, and the anecdotal things I've heard about advertizement sales on 4chan or other uncouth websites.
Is this what inspired the organ donation skit in Montey Python's The Meaning of Life?
It's a fuzzy statement of values from a corporation. Reading it as if it is a computer program is a mistake.

I guess you can choose to give them more or less credit based on how closely they hew to a pedantic squeezing of the meaning, but my point was that they do not emphasize that they are absolutes (even where simple language is available to do so).
I am starting at a UK company where most of the developers are based in Bangalore, however, as I understand it, they are not freelance but employees
Bitcoin's political alignments are a distraction and I encourage you to ignore them if your goal is to understand what's happening in the world.

No one buys game currencies to hold. They buy them to spend. If you don't understand why people are excited about Bitcoin, you should go find out. It's a trustless database in the sky, and that sort of thing wasn't possible before 2009. New technologies make old analogies misleading.
But if you scan this entire thread as it grows (like the previous 6 "McDonald's is in trouble" threads on HN over the past year), you'll see that mantra repeated over and over. The food is shit. The upscale food is better.

It's an image McDonald's knows they need to combat and their newest ad campaigns are already working on that angle.

I'm not defending MCD by any stretch of the imagination. But it's amazing how the food was just fine when the economy was in the shitter and people got by on $1 McDoubles. Now that things are turning around and wages are microscopically better, suddenly everyone's a foodie and that $11 2000-calorie Chipotle lunch is a feel-good while the McDouble is dog food.

The cycle will repeat.
The public aren't criminals, I agree wholeheartedly. The law (in the USA) probably says otherwise, but law enforcement isn't supposed to treat the public as criminals. That's pretty basic to the US's form of government.

The issue is that the FBI and DEA (with help from NSA) do treat the public as criminals. We've all done something wrong, or are going to very shortly, and they're gathering lots of information on all of us to ensure they can find that wrongdoing.

I think that's the issue. We, the public, are treated as criminals in all of these snooping programs. We didn't get to vote on it, the FBI and NSA went rogue, creating "secret" laws via secret courts that justify all the assumptions of criminality. We didn't get to choose.
[Un]Planned Obsolescence in Software
By whom?

Most Western engineers I have worked with don't think much of their Indian counterparts. While no single assessment will ever properly fit everyone in such a large group of people, the quip goes "the Chinese will do exactly what you tell them to do, but nothing else; the Indians will do exactly nothing you tell them to do but a whole lot besides." This seems about right to me, so I don't think anyone is being over- (or under-) rated. If you hand a project to India you will get something that mostly works, is three times as complex as it needs to be, took five times too long to produce, and is completely unmaintainable. Despite some very impressive individual results, the education system in India is atrocious, on the job education nonexistent, and technical leadership and independence completely lacking, so this result isn't surprising. Americans or Brits sent through the same system and given the same management would produce similar results.

By the people who decide that work should be done by Indian engineers instead of those in the company's home country? The answer is more complicated. Most corporate management is extremely short-sighted; the incentives of the role demand it. Their primary incentive (handed down by their superiors) is typically lowering home-country head count, average salary (and in the US, especially those oh-so-costly medical and insurance plans), and other coarse personnel cost metrics. By these metrics, Indian engineers are not overrated. By the metrics the company will actually be judged by the competitive marketplace, which include time to market, total development cost, and product quality, they are overrated. Managers who think about these things will conclude that the cost of Indian engineers relative to what they produce has been bid up beyond fair value; i.e., they're overrated. But few do.
The new version supports some cool new features.
eg.: Hi-Precision Mode: When activated it increases zoom and slows down your mouse so you can pick any retina pixel on screen - currently no other picker offers this.
What has happened to journalism? Is anyone else on here sick of reading typos. "GoProp". Can't even get the name of the company right.
Lazy is easy: it's call-by-name evaluation, i.e. (lambda x.M)N -> M[N/x] with caching, ie. each argument is evaluated at most once.

Purity is more subtle. I don't think there's an agreed upon definition. [1] essentially ties purity to the equivalency of
call-by-name, call-by-need and call-by-value evaluation orders (ignoring divergence and errors). I'm not totally sure that is the right definition.

[1] A. Sabry, What is a Purely Functional Language?
And that's not a problem since it's the point of that subreddit, but the behavior is sitewide.
To demand a raise of that size from your current employer would likely sour your work environment there. Put yourself in the current employer's shoes: it is either an admission from the company that you're severely underpaid or carries the expectation that you'll be more productive to earn that raise. Yes they didn't have to try to recruit and train to replace you, but a raise of that size quickly overcomes the cost of a new hire (if they're brought on at 1x or less of your current salary).

If the money is important enough to you that you want it, then I think you'd be best off getting it from the poaching company. They'll be glad to have you - it's why they made the offer - and they are bidding for your current/potential productivity level.
Both yes and no.

The thing that hadn't changed is humans - it was and it's still acceptable for an application to take a second or another to load.

Technical details had changed, but I can't really judge if those changes were drastically innovative or we're just redoing the same shit over and over, and can't tell if world has gone better or worse. I guess such judgements are highly subjective.
I think top talent competes globally so it's able to either move to where it makes more money or demand higher rates. It's the anonymous guy in the cube whose skills may range from incompetence to excellent, but you don't know what you're getting at first.
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