skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to add a bit: according to witnesses, he was driving the wrong way down a one-way street on which there was a street festival, vocalizing threats to pedestrians who wouldn't get out of his way, actually grazing one of them, with his car periodically leaving the street and jumping onto the sidewalk, at one point menacing a food stand on the sidewalk.

His mother, in the car with him at the time, indicates that they were driving the wrong way down the street on purpose: frustrated by the street closures from the ongoing festival, they got to within visual range of their destination (a garage where their belongings were) and opted to ignore the street signs to get there.

Photos of him post-arrest show visible injuries to his face. That wasn't the police: his driving menaced some young children (apparently near the food stand) so frightening their father that he ran after the car and decked the driver. It was at that point that the driver fled the scene.

Seven year is a crazy high sentence; much too long. But using a moving car to forcibly coerce people out of your way isn't a simple moving violation: it is, and should be, a felony.
Nobody asked to see my git account or any coursera/edx credentials either when I was hired. I did a week long interview that started with a phone call to briefly test my knowledge followed by the typical whiteboard interview, followed by work tests. However I don't live in some of these countries like India or Philippines where verifiable credentials seem to be imperative to even getting the phone call.
They gave permission to Google to store, parse, tag and understand 16 years worth of family photos of themselves and others so that Google can more accurately present them (and by extension the other people in their photos) with adverts that they believe will result in a higher conversions for their customers - the advertisers.

> Should I be worried?

That really depends if you think the benefits of giving Google such information outweigh the negatives. I personally think that they do not (but then again, I'm not much of a photo person).

> Should my family and friends [be worried]?

We still live in a world where it is socially acceptable for people to take, upload and publish pictures to a variety of 3rd parties without the consent of the subject - even in what would typically be classified as "private" events. I've seen some movement in the direction of explicit consent or "you can take the picture but don't upload that to X" but the truth is that most people don't think too far ahead and frankly probably don't care - should they be worried? Again, that really depends on what they think of Google.
But I don't see the quantum difference: those very same problems exist at the macro scale eg Loschmidt's paradox [1] about time-asymmetric entropy while the laws of physics are time-symmetric (even classically). And the free energy reformulation has been just as relevant to classical macro systems.

[1] I prefer the Barbour/Drescher resolution, that the second law is an artifact of observer's abilities to contain memories, not the physical laws themselves.
The only time it doesn't pay is during the interview:

http://recruitinganimal.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345220fb69e201b...
The evolution of an app
Yes, this is really how it works, and Bernoulli should be left in the dustbin, since in comparison it's a smaller effect, with more impact for carburetors than aircraft wings.

One small anecdote: the first time I flew a 1-26, I got it a bit slow, and a loud noise and vibration started to come from the flat tail at the rear. Of course, this was me approaching the top of that curve, where lift is lost and the surface stalls. I called ground, and they told me to fly a bit faster, and of course the noise abated.

Anyone who's interested in flight should go fly a sailplane. It really is one of the most awesome experiences a human can have.
Web workers would have been a must have for a project I worked in a few years ago. I had to write a real-time video allocation algorithm that had dynamic hardware with extreme combination constraints, and varying encoding rules for audio and video (think HD, SD, Dolby, stereo). It also had to allow for changes without moving existing allocations (otherwise viewers TV programmes would glitch).

The back-end was an embedded device that only accepted XML and could not do the calculation.

I had to have this do the allocation in IE8! So I wrote a timer based allocation routine that would release the UI thread enough to not lock up the browser. It worked (sort of), but was ugly and took way too long!
I Want It That Way Lip Sync Serenade
Why did you decide against it?
It's complete poppycock and mixes corporate taxes and private income taxes.

If you want a 'full cycle' accounting then you'd have to know what the money gets spent on, for instance, if you buy fuel you'll pay a lot more tax depending on which country you are in (or very little, that's how the rates differ).

If you really want to do 'fully cycle' taxation you're going to conclude that all money eventually ends up in the tax coffers but clearly that's not how it works because people actually end up with certain goods and services.

An example:

A business turns over 10M, makes a net profit of 20%, so 2M. Depending on the country it will pay roughly 35% corporate income tax, so 1.2M left. That 1.2M can then be paid out as dividends @ (again, depending on the country) 10% to 25% dividend tax, so the individuals owning the stock will receive anywhere from 800K to 1.1M.

So on that level you're paying anywhere from 45 to 55% tax.

If you're earning a wage then the above does not apply (because for a company wages are a cost), so the company will pay your social security, corporate component, quite a bit of which is your pension, social security and various healthcare components (depending on the location). You could see these as 'taxes' but in fact they will benefit you in a very direct way.

Your income tax will be anywhere from 25% to 50% depending on your country of origin and your income level (assuming staggered scales).

After that the situation for both forms of income is roughly the same (we're now on the expense side of things):

If you spend that money to buy a house VAT does not apply.

If you spend that money to buy food then VAT will be typically a low rate (4 to 10%, again, depending on the country).

If you use it to buy consumer goods, you'll be paying 15% to 25% VAT depending on the location.

If you use it to buy energy or fuel you may end up paying no VAT to a terrible amount depending on your location.

VAT is typically not tax deductible in the EU, but to avoid double (or n-fold) VAT taxation companies can in fact reclaim their VAT.

VAT is an end-user tax and the purpose of it would be totally defeated if it were deductible for private individuals.

Note that in many countries VAT was instigated after WWII as a 'rebuilding tax' that had a 15 year sunset clause, but (of course...) the money was too good and the tax remained (and climbed substantially in %age).
> It's a good approximation empirically.

But that's the whole point: if a theory is a good approximation empirically, then how can you say it's "flat out wrong"? Doesn't that obfuscate the very important distinction between ideas that are good approximations, but not quite right, vs. ideas that aren't even good approximations? (See below for more on this.)

> Is it really your view that there has never been a period in scientific history when the scientific consensus on a given topic was simply mistaken?

In the sense in which you are using the term "simply mistaken", I think there have been such views, but I think they're a lot rarer than you appear to think. (At least if we restrict ourselves to views that can be taken as "scientific" in some sense.)

An example of a view which I think was indeed simply mistaken is the phlogiston theory of combustion. It was simply mistaken because it made no predictions whatsoever; it was not empirical. And when a better theory of combustion was found, there was no sense in which the phlogiston theory could be viewed as an approximation to it.
Yeah, kind of lame that they couldn't be bothered to have a version with a normal text box for mobile rather than their fancy eat-all-of-the-key-events-even-control-characters desktop version.

Still the thing is cool, just the explicit desktop-only attitude is grating when a mobile-capable one would actually be easier.
> It's silly, I know, but free certificates were the gamification of learning, and I'll miss that particular aspect of the game.

Absolutely. Even if I'm the only person in the world who even knows I took the class, grades and deadlines, and (to a lesser extent) certificates are part of the added value of an online class, compared to self study.
Me> "I'm looking for a sound bar with a wireless subwoofer."

Big box store employee> "Such a thing doesn't exist. It would defy the laws of physics. The signal couldn't travel across the room to the woofer in time to produce a clean sound."

Me> "Odd, I could swear I've seen such a thing before."

Employee> "Nope, it's impossible."

Me> "Then what's this right here?" (Points to a sound bar with wireless subwoofer on display.)

Employee> "Oh! Well this isn't my department, and the guy who knows about sound bars is out to lunch. I didn't think it was possible because I'm a Java programmer, you see, and I couldn't think of a way to program it so the signal would reach the woofer in time."

Me> "A Java programmer? You don't say."

---

I don't want to spend two hours researching every little consumer electronics product I might buy, and I'm willing to pay a slight premium to someone who is able to spend five minutes educating me. I suspect there are many others who are similar.
If it helps, I sometimes wonder whether this thought crossed the mind of Sergey Brin and Larry Page when they were starting Google:

"Is it worth competing with Microsoft? Is it worth competing with IBM? Is it worth competing with Yahoo?"

In hindsight, it obviously was! But I do wonder what they thought at that time.
It's way more complicated than that:

http://flighttraining.aopa.org/magazine/1998/November/199811...
What looks like the golden ratio is sometimes just fool's gold (2013)
One of the most obvious problems with this argument is that the National Organization for Women has stood in the way of alimony reform (http://www.flnow.org/press%20release%202013-4%20alimony.docx) and supports the Obama administration's expansive Title IX interpretations, both of which are harmful to men. If this author's ideal pro-male feminism does not exist at NOW, then where can it be found, and to what extent is it actually relevant to a discussion of real-world social movements?

I would also point out that to a great degree, the public face of the feminist movement is Jezebel and other such mainstream sites. The author you quote essentially claims that these feminists aren't True Scotsmen ("public, academic, or otherwise serious"), but on the other hand he or she has no problem judging the men's rights movement by its most grating voices.
Speaking of zero-boilerplate game framework for education, you may also want to look at big-bang framework which is part of HTDP 2e course[1]. Also you could compile those Racket games to run on your browser[2]

[0] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP/Worldv300/

[1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

[2] https://github.com/soegaard/whalesong
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
> Isn't it the same with US?

After trekking through the US and being in 40+ states in total I'd say there are significant local variations but even the furthest extremes do not come close to what you'll encounter on a few hundred kilometer drive through the EU.

> Have any source for that information?

Yes. For instance the (well intentioned) attempts of the EU to manage public works and utility programs in countries that look like they could use a hand with these.

> Common language for 90+ of citizens would go a long way to establish common culture.

You mean like Canada, Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland and the United States have a common culture?
Who's working on this? I may have something to contribute in this direction.
It's a good try to connect it to the two-slit experiment but it doesn't work for several reasons: double-slit is about a particle passing through two holes at the same time and the waves go in the direction of the motion instead of perpendicular to it.

You get a good consolation prize though, because it is a little like quantum tunneling which is in the same neighborhood as the double-slit experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunneling

In the tunneling case what's "waving" would again be (I believe) the probability density function, but it's definitely a case of a particle using some sort of waviness to pass through a classically impossible boundary.
I am thinking that Yahoo should probably acquire SourceForge.
The art of clutter
I don't see how the early anthropologists would be so bored with this tribe. They sound so different than anything else and fascinating.

This shows how important play is to develop imaginary things like gods, rituals, etc. however, I do wish American adults played a little less. Whenever I'm in the u.s. or when American friends visit me they're constantly futzing around on their phone playing games. I mean constantly and nearly everyone.

Imagine how much you could accomplish if you used that time to for example learn a new language. And before you say that people need to take a break every now and then the people playing these games don't seem to be taking it easy - they're working really hard it!

So there probably is some value in shaming play, at least in adults.
Does anybody care about Slashdot this decade?
I'd love to see posts about how hacker news buries articles too. Some kind of analysis would be great.
It's trivial to periodically pass control back to the UI with setTimeout or setInterval.

So doing something that takes 8s doesn't have to block the UI at all. The "without webworkers" version should be renamed to "Naively programmed version" or something.
I think this might be Slashdot's Digg moment.

I guess if you destroy the reputation of one of your businesses you might as well take care of the others at the same time!
I think you may be still seriously confused by the definition of Kolmogorov complexity. It's not a fine distinction I'm trying to make, but rather that your definition has a type error! You should think hard about how Kolmogorov complexity (which is defined for strings) can make sense when you try to extend the definition to algorithms in the way you want. They way you've done it is not consistent from what you've written.

I suggest you read a few more tutorials on Kolmogorov complexity.
A Canadian ad executive, Paul Coffin, pleaded guilty to fifteen counts of defrauding the federal government of $1.5 million. For five years, he and his wife had lived the good life by double billing for his services and submitting bogus invoices for fictitious employees. During the investigation, he had been uncooperative and experienced many memory “lapses” about his criminal activities.

He received a conditional sentence (no jail time). The judge accepted the man’s suggestion that instead of prison he should deliver a series of lectures on ethics to university students. The proposed topics of these heartfelt lectures are: “Never compromise your integrity, no matter what the perceived benefit.” “The only person who can rob you of your reputation, credibility, and good name is yourself.”

This is an excerpt from a book about psychopaths. You could argue that their condition is due to an organic brain damage, but they are basically immune to rehabilitation and a danger to society. They are masters of deception and will cheat and lie in order to be released prematurely. I really hope the Scandinavians have thought of this.
To be fair, facebook only publishes the dispatcher. You are on your own to figure out your stores, action creators, hooking it up to components, etc.
Sustainable Architecture – The Living Bridges of Meghalaya
You'd love to see that because you've witnessed such instances, or because you like scandals?
Kiloreux and others who have benefited in similar ways, PLEASE email your stories to Coursera, edX, MIT OCW, or any other sites whose MOOCs have helped you. Sometimes, they are sitting in a meeting room discussing whether to discontinue some free aspect of the service, and your story will be enough to convince them to keep it going a little longer.

You might feel insignificant off in some far corner of the world, but when the creators hear your voice, they REALLY care what you think.
That's a pertinent question in relation to the article submitted here. The main answer to your question is that there don't seem to be any invariant behaviors, or even reliable behaviors, associated with lying.[1] Some people are "naturally" capable of lying shamelessly, and many other people can be trained to lie while beating any lie detection system based on physical signs.

The best methods for detecting lying when (for example) conducting a police investigation or engaging in foreign intelligence is to analyze the liar's statements for inconsistencies. Statement analysis that prompts new questions in a structured interview is the best way to detect deception, because it's hard to make up a consistent set of story details in advance when making up a story.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0...

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20079233,00....

http://www.amazon.com/A-Tremor-In-The-Blood/dp/0306457822

[2] http://leb.fbi.gov/2011/june/evaluating-truthfulness-and-det...

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5GjTLtibmXYC&oi=...
Too much noise for most users. The video itself has links to patreon and more information.
I found this thread from about 3 years ago interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566365

Basically if web workers could access the GPU as well via WebGL.
Deep Learning Is Teaching Computers New Tricks
The HTML for this page is 2.7MB. Somebody on the train to FOSDEM was telling me that they use it as a test case for web browsers and HTML parsers.
Please do not equivocate PTSD with offence. That is not what "triggered" means.
Freedom Cove Is a Gorgeous Self-Sufficient Floating Home
Isn't that a useless tautology? Like "if nothing else kills you, you die of cancer".
I frequently see extremely interesting posts vanish from the front page. Maybe there should be a section on HN where we can review 'banned' posts.
Many have identified the "flag" link as a super downvote. I've seen stories fly off the front page in a matter of minutes less than an hour after being submitted due to flags. It definitely happens.

More than once I've been in a comment thread where conversation dried up, and it is because the story got flagged to page 2 and beyond. I won't list topics but the usual suspects are fairly obvious.

(I'm not complaining, but it's intriguing to me that this comment shot from +3 to 0 between refreshes.)
Check out Matthew Garrett mjg59
Everybody likes scandals.
>The reason that kids are building dongs is because they know it's a taboo. If the reaction of others upon seeing it was not shock but a mere "Oh, a penis. So what?", I doubt they would be doing it. //

To posit an alternate hypothesis children find squirting water innately amusing; hence the whole activity of urinating, particularly with the apparent extra control a boy has over direction, is a point of fascination and so too the organ of this action. Beyond that children realise the differences between themselves and others. A primary difference that is noticeable between boys and girls is genitalia and so they become more fascinating still.

One thing that tends away from your perspective is the apparent Roman fascination with dicks [eg the Greek's Priapus / Roman Mutinus; the fascinus (from which our word fascinate comes)] in a comparatively sexually liberal society.

I guess data from anthropological studies would help to flesh this out; are children brought up in societies where genitals are often displayed less fascinated with them?

A further thought:

>'But the penis grants man "immortality." [...] It is the perpetuator of human existence.' (A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis, by David M. Friedman, p.70)
Go vs. Functional Programming: Simplicity to Achieve vs. Simplicity to Express
The simple fact is that after 15 years of corporate mismanagement there isn't anyone left there that cares anymore. It is really sad, when we started the sites, all we ever wanted to do was help the OSS community. But those were the days before a plethora of other alternatives existed.
Or because if everyone's doing it, that probably indicates a necessary systematic game-theoretic incentive.
Casetext CEO here. First, thank you for writing this. Hearing honest feedback from people who try out our service and improving is precisely how we’re going to get better. And I love that you share both our enthusiasm for the idea and our optimism for the future of legal research.

I wanted to note that we will be getting a lot better. Keep checking in over the next few months, and expect to see a lot of major improvements on the issues you noted as well as many other things as well. Until very recently we were a very small operation, and as it turns out, building a competing product to LexisNexis and Westlaw is exceptionally hard. (I don’t want to make excuses – trust me, nobody wants Casetext to be much better more than I do – but the reality is that a perfect product couldn’t be built overnight.) That said, with the backing of amazing investors [1], we just assembled a killer team [2], and now have the people and resources to get there.

Another commenter (dmix) put it well: “Building hard things takes a long time.” Think of how long it took for a lot of the best sites on the web to become what they are today. We’ll get there – I promise.

Finally, we do have the case you were searching for [3]. Why it didn’t show up in search is something we’ll be looking into this weekend.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/legal-tech-startup-casetext...

[2] https://casetext.com/about

[3] https://casetext.com/case/people-v-powell-521
I could give a rats hiney about scandals
It turns out that these folks are not easy to find - more difficult than I thought. If you qualify for the study or know someone who would, I'd really appreciate it if you'd reach out.

Thanks all,
Lena
Windows 10 Release Date and Pricing
To their credit, they were (apparently) the first blog / news aggregator. R.I.P.
Some people I've talked to have complained that modules aren't objects, and that throwing away the coupling of types and reuse files is "abandoning 30 years of learning" and that "I don't trust myself to be disciplined"

I think that these arguments are not strong! But what would be useful would be some detailed critical thinking on the topic.

My take is that thinking about where you put multiple dispatch parameterized type matched code components is actually a real challenge. The module structure chosen for a library requires "artful" approaches. Perhaps a good workshop on the topic would yield a guide or an approach to making these decisions? Perhaps a labeling system could be evolved to provide metadata for modules better enabling reuse and promoting discover-ability ? Perhaps static analysis of a code base might be provided that gives recommendations (and assistance) for creating good decompositions and associations?
They might launch some asset that is tracked via blockchain, but I'm quite sceptical about that - to me it sounds like marketing bullshit. More like running mysql database where people have this digital gold. But of course, since they are professionals they use something like Oracle or DB-2 or some existing legacy software to ledger the clients accounts.
Far simpler: it's a fundamental flaw in voting sites.
Yes, but even back in '96 it was as dumb as a box of hammers.