skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact: If you open the logo on firefox, it'll show the shirked logo as a favicon: http://blog.arbitrary.io/content/images/2014/Mar/arbitrary_l...

It's a shame that gif favicons never made it back in the day. :(
Little of topic. What would be nice is to have something like "print to pdf, aka save page as pdf" via a browser using pdfjs.
While there are some astoundingly amazing treatments out there in modern medicine, I've experienced the most benefit from simple nutritional and habit changes.

The best bet for a healthy life is to listen to your body and take an active role in getting proper nutrition and exercise. If you're not doing that, very few doctors will be able to help you.

I've had many doctors, but only one of them was really great. She was unabashed in providing non pharmaceutical guidance in addition to traditional doctor fare. This included nutrition. Unfortunately she's retired, and I've yet to find a doctor that can do much besides being a traffic cop or pill pusher. I'm no longer surprised at the number of overweight, out-of-shape doctors and nurses.

If you can find a doctor that takes a wholistic approach, realize that they are worth their weight in gold.
There is a FAQ section at the bottom that has a lot of information. Don't worry though- I didn't see it either. It takes a little time to figure out how this all works here :) Thanks to Colin I have a better vision.
>They served their purpose and were good approximations for calculations we did and observations we had all those years.

In other words they were empirically more-or-less correct. That's what I was talking about in my first paragraph.

>Only if "previous dietary advice" was only all about fat, and only if it consisted of just saying "fat makes you fat".

I don't see the point of picking over the details of the example. Take plate tectonics. The scientific consensus used to be that the Earth's crust was not formed of separate moving plates. The current scientific consensus is exactly the opposite. If you have a concept of wrong according to which it's possible for neither of P and ¬P to be wrong, then I'm not sure where we can go from there.
Nothing but love otherwise! In case it wasn't clear: Photos looks fantastic. Add an API and it's perfect.
Let's please not look to Rails to determine the way forward for web development.
It looks like the government is getting value for money then, compared to where it usually parks its cash. Thumbs up, good job, carry on.
I agree and I don't know why you get the downvotes.

A large majority of users [1] take photos with their phones, upload a select few on social media, maybe with some basic filters/edits, and forget about the rest.

Google Photos is designed for that use case, and not for the 1% power users.

[1] No data to back this up, just my two cents.
Exxon and Chevron paid those taxes on actual earnings. As soon as Tesla starts profiting, then they will owe taxes as well.
Yes, I am.

I also like capitalism and free enterprise and find it frustrating that the show went from somewhat qualified vigilantism of actual bad guys to a downright idiotic "free the world" scenario by taking down a corporation employing lots of innocent people because a women was bad in a meeting.
I reject the feminist narrative of history, the feminist view of gender and the feminist idea of patriarchy. Basically the majority of the social critique that is the backbone of feminism. I'm also deeply suspicious of the notion that feminism as a movement is interested in equality and not power.

Being called feminist because I believe in social and political equality is like being called a Christian because I think heaven sounds like a wonderful place. But IMHO if you don't believe in Jesus you're not a Christian and if you don't believe in the feminist social critique you're not a feminist.
It was not an early main decision. Rust has been actively developed for a full decade now, GC was removed from stdlib 2 years ago.

The decision was only done at the point when the devs were confident that the ownership/borrowing system could manage all the normal workloads done by GC, and that GC could now be implemented well into the language as a library.
The indictment to which we are referring was filed on February 4, 2014. It does not appear to have been superseded, and is the indictment the prosecution makes direct references to.

Is there a newer indictment you can point us to? One in which the murder-for-hire scheme is not ventured as part of the case?
You might be interested in this update of CBOSS and Caltrain.
http://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2015/05/cboss-headed-for-tr...
Wall Street on the Tundra (2009)
In regards to SpaceX that is simply a mischaracterization, they do not receive subsidies they have contracts with the government. SpaceX received money from NASA to help develop its Falcon 9 rocket, but this is little different than other procurement programs, and was just a component of a large ISS cargo delivery contract, the bulk of which is a straightforward deliver cargo get paid / don't deliver cargo don't get paid system.
It feels like you can't do the same for "killing is bad" because people mean a bunch of different things by "killing is bad". Each piece, individually, is much more amenable to a reductionist treatment. Let me be more specific.

Suppose Alice gets in an argument with Bob, and stabs him. Is Alice worse off having done that? Is Bob? What is the impact on Bob's family, friends, and co-workers? Is society better off having a policy of arresting people in Alice's situation? And imprisoning them? Or socially disapproving of such action? When you learn that Alice stabbed Bob, how do you feel about it?

This is vaguely the lines which you'd take to talk about human morality in terms of behavior and mental states. This is not an exhaustive breakdown, and there's some parts that "morality" still claims afterwards. The point is that there's only so many things that people can mean by putting moral judgement on something, and there's nothing left when you've addressed them all. Addressing the pieces is usually done by going to human behavior and experiences.

Circling back to people thinking homosexuality is bad - we can make moral judgements about moral judgements. Statements like "'Thinking homosexuality is morally wrong' causes a great deal of pain for the people I care about."

Minor quibble: at one point, scientists believed that you couldn't prove whether or not two particles were identical in every respect. "I don't think that it's possible to prove X" isn't a proof that it's impossible to prove X. I'd rephrase that quote as "I don't know what a proof of X would look like."
The headline is utterly misleading - nowhere in the article is there any evidence that employees hate holacracy and want to return to the old days. The closest they get is citing the people who chose the Zappos redundancy package, but there are many reasons one might take such an offer - especially since the severance package includes at least 3 months of salary.
Because that's entirely within one country. Thats roughly the distance between London and Moscow.
The parent comment was... overeager, but marginally more useful than the grandparent.
This is just daft.

Supermarkets are fueled by 'government subsidies'; the poor get welfare and go off and spend there.

Freight companies are fueled by 'government subsidies'; the roads are hardly paid for by them solo. Oh, and the supermarkers they are delivering to are fueled by 'government subsidies'.

My grandfather was a truck driver. He was fueled by...

And so on. The government is supposed to support Good Things (or at least get out of the way of them). The way that the media seem to be obsessing over spending recently is really rather silly.
Dunkin Donuts is so clustered thoough. It is one of those places that is really popular and common in some areas and almost unheard of in others.

Dunkin Donuts across from another Dunkin Donuts http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1xwnxf/only_in_new_en...
In Chrome you can press Ctrl+P and select "Save as a PDF".
You had me at defense contractors. Successful or not it wouldn't create a net benefit for humanity or even the subset of it our government is ostensibly serving.
Man breaks Guinness hoverboard record after standing on a drone
Wow, something I wrote made the front page of HN? Cool!
A healthy doctor probably weighs less than average, so let's make the gold inversely proportional.
which is why I'm so upset :(
I saved a lot ($70k+) from contractor jobs in my 20's and invested in index funds, this was in the bull market of start 2000. Because the stock market has remained relatively flat since then the magic of compound interest has not materialised - the funds are not worth significantly more than when I invested the money. I don't regret it but I still expect to be working for another 35 years, minimum.
As for metrics of success, we're talking about right or wrong here

Right. My entire claim is that right and wrong do not exist, only successful or unsuccessful.
Given that it doesn't have an API, I don't understand why it was announced at Google I/O. What is supposed to be a conference for developers has somehow turned into a place for Google to demo a ton of random new end-user product features.
> saying "if it compiles it works" is one of the most damaging things people say about Haskell

I've recently been getting a lot of logic errors with code at work I'm working on for a typeclass instance, so the "if it compiles it works" phrase has been banging around my head.

It's not always true with how most Haskell is written, however even the current logic errors I'm having, I can imagine how I could turn them into type errors or how I could encode the logic in the types.

However you can still get a logic error with your types as well. I think it's still a win as long as encoding those logic errors doesn't increase complexity too much.
IIRC,

- Tesla re-paid a 495 million government loan 10 years early.[0]

- Musk personally invested $100 Million in SpaceX

- Musk personally invested $275 Million in Tesla[1]

[0]http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/22/autos/tesla-loan-repayment/

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-borrows-150-million...

I don't consider Musk to be mooching off of the government. He's put everything on the line.
>and believing in pseudoscience

lie detectors are a big thing for FBI
Border-crossing lines are utterly fascinating. The traditional visual signalling system tends to change exactly at the border, but you may find pre-signals just inside the other country. The in-cabin signalling and automatic train protection may or may not change at the same location. Changeover of the electrical system is more elaborate, and can take place at the border, a few kilometers inside one of the countries, or at one of the larger stations on either side, in which case you will find switchable tracks at that station.

There are different allowed widths and heights ("loading gauge") for train cars in different countries. Finally, few people know that the overhead lines veer a little bit to the left and right to spread the wear on the pantographs. The extent to which this happens also differs between countries, and some countries have narrower pantographs than others, which means that trains cannot just ride both in Germany and Switzerland even though they have the same electrical system.
Sure but private keys are on the device, no? Doesn't this mean that without access to the device, one can't decrypt messages?
its flight.
Second, I'd certainly recommend play framework.
The figure compiled by The Times comprises a variety of government incentives, including grants, tax breaks, factory construction, discounted loans and environmental credits that Tesla can sell. It also includes tax credits and rebates to buyers of solar panels and electric cars.

Right. Along this kind of thinking, we can also add the Iraq war and the unmentioned trillions in subsidies that accrue when you would actually charge a market price for environmental damage and add all that to Shells liabilities.
Bitfields are evil...the fact that the language designer left them out signals he/they have good taste...I have to get around to trying out Rust.
I don't disagree with the main point, that the three companies has benefited from subsidies. But it's framed as if this is unique, where in reality you'll find subsidies in these (and many other) industries.

# Cars

GM, Chrysler etc. bailed out for $85B. Sector subsidized in other ways too.

# Space

Most of the space industry is paid for by various governments (some satellites are the only exception). NASA is about half of SpaceX revenue, certainly a large chunk.

# Energy

IMF recently released a report[1], where fossil fuel subsidies are estimated at $1.9 trillion. Other types of energy are subsidized too, solar in China, nuclear in France, etc.

[1] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp15105.pdf
"Can we please show people what actually works from Haskell instead of just saying monads and then giggling about it?" — I think the speaker would wholeheartedly agree with you.

In several places, he says that learning and applying functional concepts can be hard, that it takes intellectual work, that is isn't just "magic".

Actual, useful application came up quite a lot at the conference, Javier Soto talked about async programming https://realm.io/news/swift-summit-javier-soto-futures/, and there's a decent talk with "Monad" in the title that makes jokes, sure (given the context you'd expect it), but also definitely educates https://realm.io/news/swift-summit-al-skipp-monads/

If you're heading out to WWDC, Abizer Nasir is elaborating the talk for AltConf, Wednesday 10th. A good chance to talk this over in person: http://altconf.com/schedule/
"Yet when you look objectively at the impact a map projection has on the beliefs and world view of the general populace, you really don’t come up with much. Maps are only a tiny part of most people’s lives. They’re exposed to many projections anyway—as they should be. They take cues from a map in many ways, not just relative sizes. And mostly, they really don’t care."

Well, personally, I've never been exposed to other projections until 28 years of age and that was only because I happened upon an article about how wrong mercator projection is on Hacker News.

While it really is a tiny part of my life and I don't really care, the realization that Africa is huge and almost three times bigger then Europe and that Greenland is tiny is something I consider an important thing to know - and probably changes some of my views on things (for instance I never quite understood how Africa has so many countries - which if you triple it's size, it becomes much clearer).
Answering Health Questions via Text with IBM Watson and Twilio SMS
Takeaways from Mary Meeker’s report on Internet trends
https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2015/05/29/best-hacks-wats...
They are getting desperate as demographics bite.
Has anyone here done a comparison of server-side PDF generators? PDFKit, ReportLab, etc?
Full pilot episode for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxvvnWvffM
Yeah, you pretty much have to be a homophobe to laugh at a joke that disparages homosexuals, just like you pretty much have to be a misogynist to laugh at jokes that disparage women, a racist to laugh at jokes that disparage whatever race is the target of the joke.

Oh, sure, you will find "in joke" types, where members of one group will tell jokes in an ironic kind of way for their own amusement - but I guarantee you that that will be seen as controversial and far from universally accepted within that group.

Of course, you also get groups telling the jokes that disparage them in such a way to identify the group that would have told the joke originally, as a way of bad mouthing that original group. That's just as bad, just as sleazy.

There is plenty of humour, plenty of belly rupturing spit out your beverage humour, without disparagement.

There is never any need to disparage or be sophomoric to get a laugh. Ever.

Was this post humourless? Good. So are racist, misogynist, and homophobic jokes.
We will never know about this one individual data point, but discriminatory hiring happens at all levels. It would not surprise me if men were accepted into the class from a lower skill base.

That's the reality for this industry.
If only everyone applied that rule when deciding what fields to call "sciences".
Probably something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY
If it's only possible to deny that scientific theories are ever wrong by denying the very distinction between right and wrong, then I think that underlines my point. Freedom from being wrong at the price of never being right doesn't seem like a very good bargain.

As to the question of whether pragmatist theories of truth are viable, that is a separate one, but I tend to think that the standard objections are quite decisive.
Locker Ransomware Author Allegedly Releases Database Dump of Private Keys
So, what is the environment worth? Cause that seems awfully cheap.
I've completely forgotten where I read it but the most convincing sociological explanation for old school secret society cross-dressing I've heard was along the lines of:

1. These are cultures with very conservative ideas about gender and gender roles. Someone who cross dressed in their regular life would be shamed and excluded. It's considered degrading.

2. Since it's such a "bad" thing to do, when you are with your other high status peers it signals status to confidently do it anyway, as a joke only, to show that you are so confident in your position that you can even get away with cross-dressing.

When you live at an extreme the normal status rules apply less and less to you, while the middle class engages in conspicuous consumption for status reasons, the upper classes can engage in conspicuous anti-consumption for status reasons. When you are high status enough, you can just ignore the normal rules because you are so comfortable and confident in your position. And this fact is something to show off with conspicuous rule breaking.
If everyone used Lojban, I wonder how it'd evolve? Surely people would develop slang and shortcuts, until new dialects formed.
Letters from Beckett (2009)
Roles for Making a Great Software Dev Team (2014)
Cybersecurity and the Tylenol Murders
A nice tool i played with back in school. Together with PStart we created an portable suite for "privilege extension" on our very restricted school environment.

I do not really think it belongs on a news page in 2015.
Well, as I said, these determinations are up to the house style.

I prefer that blocks of code hold together -- think of them as paragraphs. Spacing each sentence of a paragraph out is similarly confusing. But as you say, YMMV.

I find
return is_valid(result) ? result : ERR_CODE;
common and clear, but perhaps you don't.

I do think that any style guide should forbid while and do..while simply because for has become by far the looping construct of choice in C.

In all cases the point should be correctness and clarity, not showing off that you use unusual language features.
Shocking, government uses tax payer money to invest wisely in the future.
I don't think it's a surprise that Tesla would not exist without government subsidies (I say this as someone who thinks the Model S is an excellent car). From a piece in today's WSJ:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-savior-elon-musk-1432938547

...Tesla likely might not even exist without a former State Department official whom Mr. Musk hired to explore “what types of tax credits and rebates Tesla might be able to drum up around its electric vehicles,” which eventually would include a $465 million government-backed loan...

In 2017, he plans to introduce his Model 3, a $35,000 car for the middle class. He expects to sell hundreds of thousands a year. Somehow we doubt he intends to make it easy for politicians to whip away the $7,500 tax credit just when somebody besides the rich can benefit from it—in which case the annual gift from taxpayers will quickly mount to several billion dollars each year...
> But this month Amazon-owned online shoe retailer Zappos.com, a leading proponent of no-boss, non-hierarchical governance, was rocked by a mass employee defection.

Wasn't it zapier.com that hit the news recently?
By the way, a comparison between Google Maps in satellite view and in map view: http://imgur.com/a/GXczm

(satellite view uses a projection on a sphere, and then renders the sphere from the users current viewpoint)
Me too! I don't like it when programs insist on storing my photos in their own, non-human-readable directory structures and file names. Otherwise it becomes a nightmare trying to use them in other programs. Even iPhoto->Photos managed to break my library.

I just wish that Google would bring back the simple online photo sharing that they used to have with Picasa. The Google+ merge ruined all that.
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Other photo-storage sites that are no longer around include Streamload, Kodak Gallery, Nirvanix, Snapjoy and Everpix.

I won't count Twitpics as it was a posting service, not a storage service, but I expect there are a few closures I've missed....
What's the problem with a mercator choropeth? Assuming scaling by area (if necessary) is done on the true area (not the distorted area visible), I can't see any obvious issues - am I missing something?
I Won a $5,000 Magic: The Gathering Tournament on Shrooms
I'll go ahead and plug my own introduction video which gives a light introduction to the core grammar concepts in lojban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjSTUK3hFI

If you can absorb what's in this video, you could probably pick up lojban with little effort on the grammar side. Alas, vocabulary is just something you have to get through.
Wow, that's almost Kafkaesque, but really neat.
Is it forbidden in America to celebrate islamic architecture? Islamic stone architecture is far advanced over roman, greek or native architecture this guy seems to propagate.

See for example the old stone bridge of Mostar (Stari Most), which had to to be rebuilt after the war, and they could only do it by finding old turkish craftsmen who were still able to build such a bridge, without steel. Modern architects all failed.
And SpaceX has been profitable for the last 6 years.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3046121/fast-feed/210-zappos-empl...
Italian boy survives being trapped underwater for 42 minutes
Of course, and the point is that the fossil fuel industry in the US more than pays its own way.

Should the US Govt. stop subsidizing fossil fuels? I think so. However, many of the subsidies that companies like Exxon or Chevron claim, are general industrial / manufacturing tax breaks, that are available to any industrial firms. Those two are doing $600 billion in sales, and claiming $1.3 billion in tax breaks, it's an almost comically small number compared to the taxes they pay and the scale of their businesses. I don't think there's any legitimate gripe to be had with the weight the US oil industry is carrying in terms of paying a fair sum in taxes.