skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One mandate requires an individual to take risk against their will?

The vaccinations being required provably decrease death rates, which sounds a lot like the opposite of taking a risk.

It's also worth noting that this is not a true mandate. Like how DUI laws only apply to people who choose to drive, vaccines are simply the cost of entry to the public school system.

> do you see a difference between government mandating vaccinations and government mandated sterilization or abortion of certain individuals with certain genes/DNA?

If you can bypass the law by a simple step like not sending your children to public school, and the abortion/sterilization significantly decreases both the risk of death to the person receiving the operation and the general public, then I suspect I would not be opposed to such a measure. I'm having trouble imagining what that scenario looks like, though.
"It's Hard to Be a God" is an awesome book, too
As someone who actually did start a company with a few grand in the bank, it felt like a lot less of a risk than it would now to put 99% of my savings into a new venture. I had a couple engineering degrees, and could have easily gotten a new job if I'd failed. If I risked my savings now and failed it would have a much more significant impact on my life.

One way to understand this is to include employment capital in your calculations. A person with $10k in the bank has considerably more employment capital than investment capital. A person with $50M in the bank has insignificant employment capital compared to their investment capital. So risking 99% of their investment capital would be considerably more, as a percentage of their total capital, than the first person risking their entire $10k.
> I was a bit surprised at the uncanny parallel between the author's description of the ships and the mechanics of ships in Eve.

That was my thought too. I always thought EVE had a fairly good use of nomenclature for its ship types ( https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Item_Database:Ships )
"It cites third-party academic research on the SAT exam showing that Asian-Americans have to score on average about 140 points higher than white students, 270 points higher than Hispanic students and 450 points higher than African-American students to equal their chances of gaining admission to Harvard. The exam is scored on a 2400-point scale."

It's odd that affirmative action is basically basing everything on color of your skin and not the content of your character. I was under the impression that it was supposed to prevent this.
Hey! I'd love to learn more about your favorites of the ones you've been to- would you mind sharing which ones they were?
Moods, location, and pictures
The key word there is our - bad news for our planet. anthropogenic climate change is not bad for the planet, but it is potentiality very bad for humans.
It's referencing a person that goes by gwern. Who that is, I haven't fully gathered. He is talked about a lot (and active) on /r/bitcoin and has had some popular Satoshi related answers on Quora. Seems to get a lot of respect (that is likely his website).
Show HN: Mata – Chrome extension that makes reading friendly for your eyes
Hello hackers! :)

I wanna share my side project, it's called Mata.

I love reading, it keeps me to be an open minded person. As usual, i read on my spare time. I found that reading much articles makes my eyes 'hurt'.

That's why i created this extension. Please have it a try, and i would love to know your feedback, and also whether you need to use this extension or not and why.

Happy weekend!
> Erik's dissmissal is ... not pejorative

Sorry, the phrase "incredibly stupid" is pejorative.

And I don't really care if his position is the result of years of experience. It's wrong nonetheless. There are certainly stupid things in SGML, but the attribute/element distinction is not one of them. (Or at least, it's not a no-brainer that this is one of the stupid things in SGML, so if you're going to claim that the attribute/element distinction is stupid you need to provide a cogent argument to support your position and not just proclaim it as self-evidently true.)
More than the article--they have signs up in the aquarium talking about how UPS shipped the whales there.
Can we also address .bash_rc, .bash_profile, .profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, disambiguation. I get tired of instructions advising me to put PATH and other modifiers in .bash_profile when that only works for a login shell. Doesn't work, as needed, if you are actually using Linux as your desktop system.
There are huge differences between India and Burma. And, of course, the context here is these thousands of years of development of Indian civilization before British.

Of course, every good insight about the proper way of living, be it of Upabishads, of Buddha or of Christ has been ruined by social institutions made by its "followers" to get a decent living out of it.

Nevertheless, the emphasis on inner rather than social development is an essence of the Indian culture.

As for China - it is too complicated. In times of the early dynasties they cultivated the same virtues - like statesmanship only for the best educated, etc but China is too big and too diverse and too dynamic to speak about it as one entity.
I have the same problem. I've come to learn that my issue is not that I am late all the time because I am lazy or disrespectful or whatever else one may think, but that I don't have a good sense for estimating how long things actually take. And, I am optimistic when estimating.

My solution is to become aware of how long things take throughout the day in an effort to make better efforts at planning. How long is my shower? How long does it take me to get dressed? How long does it take to get to my car and my actual commute, etc. With some real numbers, you can start to be realistic about what it takes you to get to work and so you can work backwards from there to make sure you leave on time. Works for me. I don't miss my train anymore.
Against all odds, the PhD thesis itself is both approachable and extremely interesting to read, even for someone who has never written in Julia (and in all likelihood never will): https://github.com/JeffBezanson/phdthesis/blob/master/main.p...
Just like human civilization itself.
how is this different from just running `lynx https://news.ycombinator.com`?
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Simulator sickness is solved? All you need is 1to1 tracking. Of course this means a whole genre of games is impossible (first person action) but every other genre would work fantastically (and I hate FPS anyway). I'm pretty satisfied with it. There really isn't any sickness problem anymore.
This feature looks great, but the blog post has one very confusing thing about the main example: why is "spy" the first suggestion for "sy", and what does the text "Create Jasmine" next to it signify?
I am surprised that it is faster to resize the image, than to pass the (resized) bits right through. Is the outbound network a bottleneck?
Candy Crush Saga comes preinstalled with Windows 10
If you want to hire an HR professional who's at least trying to make HR suck a little less, feel free to hit me up. :) I hate the paper-pushing bullshit too, and worry/wonder to what extent my industry's professional society (SHRM) is reinforcing it.
Sure, but what code is the sd card running? All sd cards have drm protection (which interestingly, hasn't been cracked) and memory that isn't user accessible (see wikipedia), as part of the standard. And they are riddled with security vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution on them ( see http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554).

I mean that's a level of paranoia I usually don't hold to, but if you are going to go all out, I have to wonder if there is a more secure form of non volatile memory.
You don't have to be dumb, or a sucker. Anyone can be conned. In fact, con artists rely on this overconfidence to blind their victims. They flatter your ego, making you think you're too smart... to be their victim.
Having decent autocomplete ui out of the box and a way to add providers that drive it is one of the key steps towards an IDE.

This is especially exciting when you look at Dart and TypeScript as both provide analysis servers that can easily be consumed without having to build this yourself.

It seems like going forward we will see popular platforms to provide their own analyzer and debugging tools which should level the playing field for text editors, IDEs and other tools to compete on UX.
FYI, email address validation doesn't support new gTLDs.
Agreed. I liked your post elsewhere... It was a bit cynical but spot on.

I also did not mean to imply that all "hot young founders" fit into this mold, or that VCa are all dumb, etc. But this stuff most definitely exists.

The real dynamic is a touch of so-called "reptile brain" plus a heaping portion of self-reinforcing cult of male ego.
I knew this was going to be a grand failure by simple indications. Their "app" was a total waste of bytes on my phone, even for something as simple, it was buggy and wasteful. Also, their verification system was broken. Never got an SMS and I exceeded their limit of 3 (cheap bastards). I've sent numerous emails, never got a response. A real startup never does this!
Sandwiches from a local deli make awesome lunch.
One hackathon I went to had these ginormous bean bag chairs, so that was cool.
Don't make people attend certain sessions/presentations. You can offer them for those interested, but don't require attendance.
Having a very open prompt/challenge is appreciated. If you want to make it more specific, that's fine, but keep it open ended within that specific theme. i.e. "do something creative related to xyz and abc", not "design a solution that will do xyz and also does abc and of course meets the criteria of jfk".
Hi all, I am the cyclist/coder behind the site. It's clearly not "the solution" but I think it's an important part of it. If you do ride, I encourage you to sign up, the site becomes more effective as the network grows. I am also exploring a couple partnerships that should make the site more effective this summer. Appreciate the support. Thanks.
Picking a picture of a person is an indication of how fair the article is going to be. If a publication uses unflattering photos of people they have an angle. It's generally a good tell of what way an outlet leans. Basically the same scheme as showing a child / baby picture of someone accused of something to make you lean towards that someone's innocence.
I'm astonished at how ignorant otherwise intelligent bicyclists often are of the rule common in most US states that they can and should take the traffic lane (and should take the center of the lane to block cars from edging around to their left) when they are stopped at a red light where there is a shared right turn/bike lane.

I often see bikers who have helmets, lights, visibility vests, etc., all signs of being clear thinking riders, parking themselves squat in the middle of the shared turn lane at a red, when they should be in the main stream of traffic for the duration of the wait (in fact the recommendation is to ride with traffic if your speed matches it, absent bike lanes).

When the light turns green, cars are stationary, and bikes accelerate plenty fast in the first few seconds. One or two turns of the pedal gets you over back into the right side, and onward into the continuing bike lane as you cross the street. This can happen in a couple of seconds without significantly slowing down any cars (unless it's a Tesla P85D, maybe).

Joining the main stream of traffic in front of a car at a red light (assuming you beat that car to the red) may miff some ignorant drivers (ignorance all around, right?) but they'll be pleasantly surprised that you are out of their way in no time when the light turns green. Obviously this doesn't apply if you're a super slow rider... in which case, people just need to be patient for a few seconds. The point is, if you are blocking a shared right turn lane, you are doing it wrong.
Oh, original. "Kids these days". Look around you, the "millenials" you are ridiculing are taking the tech world by storm, graduating at record rates with more advanced degrees than ever.

Who do you think you are debating with on HN? I would guess the average user here is under 30 and making twice your inflation-adjusted salary at 35.
While this story keeps getting posted again and again, I'd like to step in and provide some first hand experience here instead of just claims, hearsay, or obviously biased opinion.

I had the... experience of working next to Brendan Eich for a while. His Throne of Skulls is no joke and I have no idea how it got past either HR or the ergonomics coach. I kept cutting myself on the damn thing when I'd bump against it, had to keep a first aid kit at my desk. We didn't even know where the skulls came from either, but more kept appearing mysteriously each day.

The laugh was annoying too. I'd be sitting there trying to work on the monolith of doom (which was actually the name for multiple technologies, but no one could decide which was doomier so we just called them all that) and all of the sudden, it's evil laughter time. Nothing breaks concentrating on code like a roar of pure malevolent guffawing. I'm sure many engineers at startups can sympathize.

Much like the rest of this comment thread, I have no idea how this much of the web happened around this man.

-- Web Henchman #1982587
Once, as a child, I recall waking-up and running to the cupboard expecting to find it recently replenished with food, only to discover it was bare. My mom was still out shopping. I realized that I had only dreamt about her returning home with groceries.

It's probably not applicable in the Berenstein/stain case, but I've long suspected that a lot of false memories originate in dreams that I've forgotten about having. The contents of the dream lives on, along side legitimate memories, while the fact that it was a dream fades away.

The empty cupboard experience was unique because the dream was recent enough for me to recognize the false memory as a dream I had just had.
PHPServices: Mockable wrapper classes around PHP built in functions
Is there a specific reason why you didn't use an off the shelf open source solution like Thumbor ( http://thumbor.org/ ) ?
I was thinking about how fast it would be to find matches, so I wrote a little C program that runs in about 1/7th a second: https://gist.github.com/robert-wallis/b7faf94976b153923fde

It generates a random number, then tries 8^8 times to generate a new random number and find a match.
At a party you...
...listen in fear at the sounds of people who enjoy other people, observe small material details as though you were an anthropologist encountering alien beings, depend on searching for beer to consume time, and occasionally find someone who is amused by your off-kilter humor, but who ultimately is not really anyone you're likely to form a meaningful sober bond with?

Oh, apparently I have to actually be remotely ok in social settings. Seriously, what the fuck.
Thanks for clearing that up. For the record, I didn't say that was what happened to Clinkle, only that a16z does (or at least used to) make many small spread-your-bets seed investments.
Thanks. I wrote a partial implementation in Go [0] and I think a Rust version would help me learn Rust, and hopefully contribute to the ecosystem.

[0] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/snmp
MCRed's narrative can be true without the "lizard brain" nonsense being true (which came from someone else).

What he is describing reminds me a lot of grad school (although that is a totally different context).
How much is their work really known outside Eastern Europe? I lived on outskirts of the SSSR cultural influence (in Yugoslavia), but their books were mostly unknown to us. I discovered them as a kid by a pure chance. I was in a city library, bored (no Internet back then), and had no idea which book to rent... and the title "Hard to be a God" caught my eye. Story seemed interesting enough and it was marked as sci-fi, so I got it to see if it's any good. And well, yes it was, very good, one of my fav books to this day, in matter of fact.
What's your point? I've seen that episode. Unfortunately, Whorf does not discover the A in "Berenstain Bears" and then discover that it's due to manipulation of the timeline and violation of the temporal directive and then go on a mission to repair the timeline and replace the A with an E. But that would be really awesome.
The Value of the Internet: Much Less Than We Think
I had to educate my wife on this one while we were living in the UK. If you are going the speed of the traffic, use the lane just like any other vehicle. Doing anything else is dangerous. A good example is when turning right (in the UK, left in most of the world). Get into the proper position before your turn so that you don't have to cut over a whole line of traffic in order to turn.

We've returned to Japan now, but unfortunately the laws here are different. You must be in the left side of the lane and they even encourage you to ride on the sidewalk :-P. If you want to turn right, you have to wait at the left side of the road until there is a break in traffic and then cut across all the lanes of traffic. I wish someone would update the laws here...

On the other hand, scooters are have a speed limit of 30 km/h where as push bikes have no speed limit :-) I'm a bit afraid of the day that the powers that be realize that cyclists often go faster than 30...
"By ST you mean Haskell's StateT monad transfomer?"

No, I mean ST. An entirely different monad: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.0/docs/Control...

"Are you suggesting to define purity by the inability to define O(1) mutable vector-like operations?"

"Define", no, as that certainly doesn't encompass the full scope of purity. I think mutability runs counter to most people's notion of purity, particularly when they say "Haskell isn't pure". Of course, we can fake mutability at a cost of O(log n), which is what makes the O(1) notable.

If you do think ST is "pure" then it's not an open question whether you can implement update-heavy array based algorithms in a pure language without algorithmic penalty - you clearly can.
My point was that the odds of this particular individual pulling it off were near zero to start with. Calculated risks are fine. This "risk" had essentially no chance of success, both because the concept was not compelling, and because the founder was incredibly immature and had zero experience.

For comparison - the odds were probably against Uber succeeding, but it had a compelling value proposition for its customers: with a few taps, you can summon transportation anywhere. What was the value proposition that Clinkle offered? There really wasn't one that I can see. NFC already existed when they came out, and users weren't going to care which technology actually transmitted their data. Uber was a calculated risk; Clinkle was just a blunder of an investment. It wasn't even a gamble; the term "gamble" implies that you have a chance of winning.
Answering to "why can they change the license after the fact?" , I think the answer is something close to "Licenses can be changed after the fact, provided the owners/maintainers get permission from each contributor, or rewrite the problematic parts".

VLC went through a similar transition (from GPL to LGPL); jbkempf's blogposts about this experience may be of interest to you:

- http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/How-to-properly-relice...

- http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/How-to-properly-relice...

- http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/How-to-properly-relice...
The example you've provided is confusion/complexity related to what a "character" is.

If a language supports a string type and related functions that equate "character" with a grapheme they'll deliver your first two invariants.

With an appropriate approach to byte representations your third invariant can also be maintained.
I am actually working my way through that series right now.

I think there may have been a confusing episode where it seems like he dies, but he didn't if you pay close enough attention.

Because I do remember being confused at one point and thinking he was dead, but I think my confusion got cleared up somehow.

Star Trek tends to do things like that. e.g. the episode opens and bad stuff happens, but then you find out it was in the holodeck. Or a dream. Or alien brain manipulation.

In fact there was an episode where Chakotay led a rebellion against the captain and (probably) died (I don't remember now), but it turned out to be a "holonovel."
Silverlight should have never been. HTML5 tech is the way forward and has been for years now. The fact that all of these demos work at the speeds that they do is proof:
https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Porting-Examples-...
“Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.”

― Helen Levitt
Heck, when doing Objective-C I'd drop down to C++ as quickly as possible just because the language is nicer. I'd be even more inclined to drop down to Rust.
Thanks for posting, this was eerie. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be brought up, from a small child, to unconditionally love one man and to unconditionally love everything about your country, even if you're starving.

After watching the drive, I watched this as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xs--To414I. It gives a more in-depth look, and has interviews with officials and citizens.

Some of them you can tell they are fighting to say the "right" things. I wish everyone in that country well.
In case it isn't clear: the collapse of an ice shelf does not raise sea levels. A ice shelf is floating ice. If it all breaks off and becomes icebergs, then it's still floating. No sea-level change.

The worry is because ice shelves block the flow into the ocean of glaciers, which are not floating ice. If some large glaciers flow into the ocean a lot faster, then we can expect an impact on sea levels.

However -- and here is the key point that the article leaves out -- we would not expect a significant change in the rate of sea-level rise within the 5-year timeframe they are talking about for the final collapse of the Larsen B ice-shelf remnant.

I don't know what timeframe we're talking about. Maybe New York would be in serious trouble by the end of the century; or maybe not. San Francisco, being hilly, has rather less to worry about, I think.

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Here is a nice SVG map of Antarctica from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Antarcti...

The gray areas are ice shelves (floating ice). The white areas are ice that is on land. The Larsen Ice Shelf is on the left, along the Antarctic peninsula. The division into A, B, C portions is not indicated on this map.
I worry that by the time you merge back in, a car from the right could take you down. Merging is terrifying as a bicyclist.

Those "shared lanes" are a disaster, and even the non-physically separated bike lanes are dangerous, since you can both get door'd by a parked car from the right, and you can hit on the left by a car.

I've noticed that they've been adding physical separation on Market st, but most of the bike lanes here are still incredibly dangerous.
Interesting -- but it seems like it would have been rather lonely to be an engineer out there
The cost was probably tabulated and tax deductible. That helps.