skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I thought the same, but in the end honesty didn't factor much into it. Everyone was, right or wrong, pretty much straight up with each other. Maybe LJ wasn't so true to RH and MM & RH's relationship must have been somewhat less honest to come out with such opposing expectations but that predates this event. I even have trouble thinking the sheriff isn't honest if he's open about his misuse of power.
While we're at it. How about company's stop linking fucking screen shots of their press releases on twitter which are impossible to reflow or read properly on a mobile device.
Hacker News isn't really about news, although that's a big part of it. Really, it should be called HackerJoy.

The guidelines say:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I hope this never changes.
It's a better use of Twitter than celebrity updates, so there's that.
Can't PowerShell do all of this?
That map sure looks nice. On the other hand, it's nearly impossible to actually get the stats for Kansas, because it decides I want Colorado or Iowa and the resulting popup covers Kansas. But it's the design the really matters, not the data, right?
The same is true for Illinois. Close to 80% of the population lives within 50 miles of Chicago. Almost everywhere else has a much lower cost of living. Only four towns outside of the Chicago metro area have more than 100,000 people, and two of those are just outside.

Even from suburb to suburb, the amount of house $200,000 buys you varies greatly.
It seems the choice is between an Authoritarian left or a small-government right.

I'll take small government over monolithic Authoritarianism any day.
ExMplayer -CNET user review
Are you reffering to something that has to do with the second bullet-point?:

> Octave now uses OpenGL graphics with Qt widgets by default. If OpenGL libraries are not available when Octave is built, gnuplot is used. You may choose to use the fltk or gnuplot toolkit for graphics by executing the command graphics_toolkit ("fltk") OR graphics_toolkit ("gnuplot") Adding such a command to your ~/.octaverc file will set the default for each session.
For me, the general PITA and loud departure/security announcements of airports is a huuuge fixed cost. Train stations just feel much more civilized.
That's "simpler" in the "fewest number of base rules" sense, and more complex in the UX sense.

Given the frequency of the desire to enter into a partnership with something like the kind of mutual exchange of commitments and agency relationships packaged in civil marriage, it makes sense as a UX optimization for government in terms of providing sensible defaults for common needs (with the ability for users interested in different configurations to reconfigure the defaults to a certain degree.)
Health insurance is far less predatory in Australia. We have a hybrid public-private system, where everybody is covered by single payer universal healthcare (including specialists, but not dental), but if people have the means they can opt for private health insurance to cut down on wait times or have things like remedial massage or optical included.

There are zero cases of bankruptcy due to medical illness, or people being denied care because of a lack of insurance.
"I have a black friend who wants to listen to music. What music do I play to please him?"

WTF.
Never draw long term conclusions from real estate. It is the most cyclical of cyclical markets. Money is historically cheap, when that changes... Boom.
Yeah I've seen that before, and it's obviously false and slightly nutty (as long as there are people voluntarily willing to provide care--and there will be--there is no force involved). But going up against the entrenched interests to reign in defense and spying is going to take someone slightly nutty. So at least on this particular issue its a virtue.

I'm aware that his politics comes with some, possibly many unsavory views, but I fully believe unchecked surveillance presents an existential crisis to America as we know it. Backsliding on marriage or abortion can be corrected in the future. There comes a point where there's no turning back the clock on ubiquitous surveillance.
Increasing head-parking interval from default on Western Digital drives (2014)
How did Lisp solve (40 years ago) the problem of generating a compile time errors when types of the arguments into a function call did not match with what the developer of the function anticipated?
Google – Web Starter Kit
Corpses are insentient and void of working central nervous systems, lungs, hearts, etc.

You didn't really answer either of my questions. What is 'horrific' about chopping up a dead animal, and what is a will to live?
> As Wikipedia puts it, "An entire processor can be created using NAND gates alone". That's a functional program, whether I'm able to convince you of it or not.

We're going to explain why you're wrong down below, but a quick note on the logic you're trying to use upon that faulty premise: Just because some processor could potentially be made in a functional manner does not imply that commercial CPUs are done that way. Do you remember why we're talking?

> As a final point, consider that your precious C programs and the C compiler can only run because of the CPU, which was not written in C nor in any Von Neumann language - oh no, they were written functionally, with only logic gates, in a dataflow-oriented way

You weren't talking hypothetical. You were talking about CPU's that people actually use and their relative stability compared to the terrible software that runs on them. It's really obvious to me that this statement, the entire reason I'm here at all talking to you, was not talking about an abstract Platonic CPU. That you're not admitting it was incorrect and retreating to this ridiculous absurdity is boggling. But you've managed to be wrong yet again, so let's not dwell on the past and just dive into that.

> If real-world CPU designers prefer to use state in their processor design that's up to them - but the nature and essence of a CPU obviates state, as a bunch of NAND gates suffices for one as Wikipedia puts it.

NAND gates can be combined in such a way as to retain state. The way this reads, I think you're assuming that since a single NAND gate cannot retain state it must follow that any combination of them cannot retain state?

Look up "D Flip Flop". Made out of NAND alone, retains state. Given how often you talk about functional things, I'm really really surprised you didn't think about the possibility of feeding an output back into an input. The thing you're missing is what combinations are lurking under that description. I don't think you did the slightest bit of imagining or research on those combinations before declaring all circuitry functional.

> Clearly I'm missing something, but I'm not sure I know what.

Luckily we've found it! You thought all circuits were limited to Combinatorial logic. You were unaware of Sequential logic. I hope you will reconsider the <i>nature</i> and <i>essence</i> of CPU's in light of this new information.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/corporate-doss...
Frankly, I think we'd learn a lot more about non-blacks than we would about blacks from the data.
Not sure why you were downvoted. I haven't seen much research on any other drug other than cannabis. Correlation(not causation) between its overuse and psychosis has been documented on several occasions[1][2]. But its good evidence only for people with already some form of genetic predisposition to get diseases like schizophrenia. So its 'triggering' in that sense. Of course more work is needed on such an important topic because there are contradictory studies like this one[3].

[1]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/09209964940...

[2]http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/17007222

[3]http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/2...
I just get a pop-up that blocks out the entire state with a "more info" button and definitely not a map by county, but I can fuss around and choose specific counties.
Little better than Ethiopia;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-24804...
I just finished treatment for tonsil cancer in November. Don't be afraid. You're not alone. There's more support for you than you realize and you're stronger than you can imagine. Everyone you've met has been touched by cancer somehow. Everyone.

I was afraid, but not alone. Family and friends showed up strong in every way. You'll find that people are really caring and compassionate if you let them be. Ask for help.

Your employer wants you to get better and they want to help you. I'm a freelancer with hourly clients so it was especially hard on my finances. I turned to credit cards, savings, and family to help out. Ultimately, I tried to handle as much as I could, as long as I could. Depending on the type of treatment, you can still work. My clients understood and stuck with me when I had to take a break.

I did work up until the really bad parts of treatment. Throat cancer is a very hard course of treatment as you have radiation daily plus weekly chemo. I was very nauseous and tired, but mentally I was ok for a good while. There are pain meds you can take that don't mess with your head very much. Take them if they prescribe them.

Get the best coverage you can. Fight your insurance company if you have to. Don't back down. The last thing they want is a cancer patient getting denied care. I had to fight the insurance company for all the tests up to and including the needle biopsy. After they found it was cancer, the insurance company rolled over and paid for everything without argument. I hit my out of pocket maximum within the first round of treatment.

The other patients you will meet can be a great resource. If you go through chemo, it will most likely be a big room with lots of chairs so you can talk to the other patients. Ask about tips and tricks. There's lots of good info on how to combat the side effects.

Confirm any supplements/vitamins with your doctor as some chemicals can hinder the chemo meds. Buy Ensure Plus. It's hard to feel like eating & that's a good way to get calories. Make sure you get enough calories. You need energy to fight.

Don't believe people that tell you X cures cancer. They don't fucking have cancer. Go with what the medical community can validate with science. All those treatments have all been debunked thoroughly and there is no conspiracy against vitamin C. Doctors want you to get better. Survival rates have doubled in the last 10 years.

Chemo is not worse than cancer. That's ancient history. Nowadays the anti-nausea/pain/steroid meds are amazing. It's not like the old days where you vomit constantly for a year. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's better than it was even 5 years ago.

Take it serious. Don't give in to fear or negativity. Ask your Doctor to shoot straight and not sugar coat the facts. Don't think about the future. Stay in today. Don't lay in bed all day. If all you can do get is up just sit outside. Let your friends/family see you sick. You don't need to be alone.

Choose life. I mean it. Make that choice every day.

It's hard to explain, but you'll face a choice at some point during this path. Choose life.
"As the ’70s wound down, Cerf and Kahn abandoned their efforts to bake cryptography into TCP/IP, bowing to what they considered insurmountable barriers."
Without looking too closely at it, the infographic looks suspiciously similar to this one: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/04/lies-damned-lies-and-fa... . Does that same rebuttal apply, or are these numbers more accurate?
Personally if I had to choose between banning abortions or a government that completely ignores the 4th amendment I'd have to choose to ban abortions.

Luckily this is just a distraction issue and even if Paul did manage to get his legislation passed it would never stick. I know the leftists would really like everyone to think that he'll appoint supreme court justices that are literally immortal, but those guys die all the time.
Income level isn't a protected class in the Fair Housing Act, so it's possible to just refuse to rent to such people.
> Giving Robin more credit than he deserves indicates that you identify with the feelings he had.

This is exactly the kind of information which you can't glean from rankings.
Massive triumphal marble arch built by Romans to honour Emperor Titus discovered
> Yeah I've seen that before, and it's obviously false and slightly nutty

It's not "false and nutty", it's either malicious or outright idiotic.

Just fyi, Bernie Sanders' stance on NSA spying is very similar to Rand Paul's.
Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by government subsidies
Oh, ya, NSFW...Oops

Here's the original thread too:

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/33n77s/andr...
Pretty disgusting, but not surprising.

What amazes me is that juries place any weight on jailhouse informants. As the article suggests you can be convicted solely on the information provided by a single jailhouse informant. What sort of jury could come to an 12-0 vote that any case like this was beyond reasonable doubt?
In case you are still interested in those stats, it looks like following a link in this format: http://nlihc.org/oor/<state> can get you them.

Eg: http://nlihc.org/oor/kansas or http://nlihc.org/oor/michigan
That is unfortunate. But that is a bitter pill I'm willing to swallow for someone I believe will actually reign in surveillance. Backsliding on social issues can be corrected in the future. But there comes a point where the surveillance state is so ubiquitous and their grip on the country so strong, that there's no dialing it back. The direction we're headed with surveillance presents a clear and present danger to America as we know it.
>"Neurodiverse" individuals do not self-harm or harm others with their outbursts, elope when stressed, and self-stimulate to the point of injury just to deal with the sensory overload.

Actually, they may. That's the whole point of the word. Everyone is neurodiverse.

Besides, my only point was that ASD is just as susceptible as any other term to reclassification. Hell, reclassification has already occurred to Asperger syndrome/autism as per DSM-5. This has been a discussion of language, not of the disorder itself. I do agree with your last sentence.
My employment options aren't as great as you say, because:

1. There are lots of languages, frameworks, and tools. For each job interview, I'm expected to already be an expert in whichever ones they are using.

2. I'm already at the point where age discrimination starts to kick in. When I go on an interview and everyone there is either 10 years younger or on an H1-b visa, then there isn't much chance of me getting hired.
Missing the point... it's not about what they're looking at on screen, it's who they're looking at.
Passpie: manage login credentials from the terminal
Extensive discussion a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9631598
Except the original that you replaced with your copy. You're opting for an external functional description of identity but the discussion is about the individual.

It should be understand as conceded that a perfect copy of me would pass any Turing-style test applied by an external auditor that the copy is me, but that doesn't mean that I am the copy.
I don't understand why they can't just use SMT 0.1" headers.

That would let them do both. Sure, SMT headers are a bit less mechanically robust, but unless you're unplugging/replugging the thing continuously, it probably wouldn't be an issue.
Search "receive sms online" :)

Ed: And use the Tor browser.
I'd go one further and say that in some regions, a single-bedroom unit is for someone making pretty good wages. I've never known anybody on minimum wage in California not to live in shared accommodation (mostly because it's impossible).
Note that this was written with Phoenix v0.8 and Ecto 0.2 [0]; Phoenix is currently in 0.13 and Ecto in 0.11.

[0] http://phoenix.thefirehoseproject.com/3.html
> I have concluded that universities do not operate by a merit based system, but rather by a form of elitist inbreeding wherein only a handful of privileged individuals are hand-picked through political intrigue and spoon fed to glory by a handful of privileged individuals who were hand-picked through political intrigue and spoon fed to glory.

That's a chilling description of the academic world. And yet so apt -- as I recollect it, anyway.
Everywhere I've worked and to my knowledge everywhere I've interviewed has considered culture fit. I don't think it's always as pernicious as you're describing. When done right, hiring for culture fit means some combination of "don't hire people who aren't excited to work here" and "don't hire assholes, no matter how well they code." Both of those are important filters, and I don't think either of them is unfair to the applicant.

Unfortunately I've also seen teams where it meant "don't hire anyone who isn't a workaholic," and teams where it meant something like "don't hire anyone who is going to wreck the hard-partying vibe of the workplace." (I've never seen anything nearly as crazy as "don't hire Yankees fans.") It sucks to get rejected for a job because the current team all hangs out and they don't think you'd dig the vibe. It would also probably suck to get hired into a team that's also a close-knit social group that you aren't particularly interested in joining. I think the takeaway is that if you get rejected for a team for being a bad cultural fit you've probably dodged a bullet anyway. Go find a job with a team that knows how to make people of all ages and stripes feel welcome.

EDIT: I just remembered my favorite "culture fit" interview question of all time. I was head of engineering at a startup that was interviewing around with potential acquirers. I was talking to a senior engineer at one of the companies. He ran me through a couple simple warm-up questions and then hit me with the big one: "If we acquire you, are you likely to up and quit in two months?" I stuttered for about two minutes.

It was a great question! In hindsight, I almost certainly would have. We both dodged a bullet there!
> this social taboo is, to some degree, absurd

This social taboo is pretty much exclusively limited to the US. The rest of the world is a lot less freaked out about genitalia in general.
It has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with perception and the damage to the brand.
The designer of NYC's subway map, Massimo Vignelli, has published a meta style guide "THE VIGNELLI CANON".

This little book reveals our guidelines -
those set by ourselves for ourselves.

It's only 49 pages and available for free on his website:

http://www.vignelli.com/canon.pdf
Holy shit, fuck that site. It overrides the BACK AND FORWARD BUTTONS for fucking page changes.
Ditto this. I've been using an X240 as my primary home/work computer with Arch Linux for 18 months or so, with 8-12 hours of use a day. I have no complaints. Everything worked day 1 with linux and all the hardware is supported. Lenovo is active with BIOS updates to fix things like the rowhammer exploit, as well as linux-specific issues, which is nice. There have been 10+ BIOS updates since I got the machine, and it doesnt require Windows to update.

If you have a need for multiple VMs or top or the line performance, you might want something a bit bigger (RAM is limited to 8GB on the current X250 and processors top out at 15W models). That being said, I have yet to feel even remotely limited by the capability of this laptop -- it is my primary machine.

edit: I should add my 2 batteries have 77% and 78% capacity after 18 months of extremely heavy use, which I consider to be excellent.
According to a recent Mixergy interview with founder Casey Fenton, Couchsurfing tried for years and years to be approved as a 501(c)3 organization (basically, a charity) so they could receive grant money to support cultural exchanges. Eventually the IRS gave them a final, non-appealable determination of non-status. Apparently, the cultural exchange aspect was not a strong enough reason when most people probably couchsurf to save money. So their business model was broken, and they had to stop being a non-profit and become for profit, which, at that point, costs $1 million to convert. I presume this is because non-profits must give away their assets to another non-profit if they cease operations. So $1 million in VC dollars plus other investment converted them into a for profit. Alas, not with such great results. I think it is unfortunate the way the meme has spread that the founders were just making a money grab.

http://mixergy.com/interviews/casey-fenton-couchsurfing/
A thousand wrongs don't make a right.
It seems to me you don't really have a counter argument to make at all. You're just looking to delegitimize my opinion by not even considering it.

K.
Hadean Lands (recent IF game by Andrew Plotkin) is all about trying to figure out the rules of the magic (alchemy) system and it's relation to the world.
Interesting to see how MicroSoft handles this in MineCraft 2...
Is This the State of Stack Exchange? – Q: How Do I? A: You Don't Need Do It
Please provide comparison measurements of the things pcwalton mentioned.

Just a URL to published comparison measurements would be so much more interesting for anyone interested in Rust, than downmods.
Just last month there was an exhibition in Paris at the excellent Jeau de Paume gallery featuring a video exploring this phenomenon in the US by artist Taryn Simon, who actually tracked down numerous people who had been falsely imprisoned for her 2003 project The Innocents. More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taryn_Simon and https://books.google.com/books?id=RRoiDl9rJtoC&printsec=fron...
If it came down to Sanders and Paul, it would be a tough decision to make and I'd probably lean Sanders out of concern for all the other issues. But at this point Paul is more likely to get the nomination for his party than Sanders so it seems like a moot discussion.

But the fact that I haven't heard Sanders make surveillance the forefront of his campaign is a bit concerning. Also the fact that he didn't make an appearance at Paul's "filibuster" says quite a bit. Say what you want about how useless the filibuster was, lack of awareness of the facts around the surveillance issue is the biggest factor in the government's favor. Making a very loud and public stand against surveillance has tangible benefits. I was disappointed that he didn't take advantage of that opportunity.
> Charity is nice and all, but most charity is tremendously inefficient

Have you ever even been to a welfare office? A paragon of inefficiency.
There have already been so many articles posted on how much someone made on AirBNB that they no longer live up to the HN guideline of "gratifying one's intellectual curiosity". (It's doubtful that they ever did.)
Does your takeout archive include the drive takeout archive?
Thanks, I was going to post the same link.

Basically the more interesting stat, is that Union membership in this country is in danger of dropping into single digits[1] and that has two effects, one it increases the ability of companies to keep wages low, and perhaps more importantly to unions it disempowers them from the political scene. From as far back as early 2014 there have been a large PR campaign to push for unionization, from trying to demonize companies like Uber or Instacart which pay a minimum amount to the people that make the companies work, to stuff like this which tries to position the world as unaffordable as the "rich" race away with the money.

But submarine PR or not, its important to put stories you see in the context of who benefits and how. Critical thinking and reading is key here.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm