skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The metric system is a "worse is better" approach. Why is Kg, a base unit, even if it has prefix?

Time in the SI is based on seconds, that relate very odd to the duration of a day.

The same horrible base60 system is used for angles.

Don't use SI. Use a system that fits for your Problem (e.g. the cgs system) Use Units that make sense (like Angstroms or barns) for the problem you are solving. Often SI fits. But SI shouldn't be a dogma.
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The Emerging Science of Human Computation
Are Multiple Personalities Always a Disorder?
Back in Wichita Kansas Town East and West malls have been in decline (the latter has been hit the hardest over the years) now that shopping centers in areas like 21st Street North and Maize have opened. It doesn't seem to be a uniform pattern across the country that malls are categorically dying, but that malls in towns like Wichita are basically dead or dying due to their location (Town East and West are located far away from the newest suburbs where as the shopping center I mentioned is less than a mile away from most of the subdivisions).
Wonder how this affects apps like Control that were built to service this purpose. Whats Stripe's stance on that? Also, is Android in the works?
Is there not a moral imperative for us to help people who find it difficult to transcend the bondage of their beliefs in the face of reality?
Thanks for the suggestions. I started contributing to gratipay recently.
You would have money. The people who used to work the security positions would not have money, and it's an open question whether your consumption of many products (such as food) could keep up the consumption rates to justify the production to keep the market operating at its current flow levels. If they can't, the market would have to contract, which means if what you're guarding is a food store, you may also find yourself out of a job because we no longer need to guard the food nobody is buying. This is how Great Depressions occur.

And that's just looking at the numbers. Stepping away from the simulation and getting into what it represents, we realize we're looking at a situation where some people have the money to do whatever they want and many, many more starve. If the system is structured to make that happen, the system is flawed by several quite reasonable metrics.
Google Nose. Smelling is believing
What if your 'risk/reward' was based off 'happiness' instead of financial gain?

I know I wouldn't be able stomach a 5+ year law degree and practice law for the rest of my life and be happy. I'd rather do something with numbers.
It's not broken, it's just that reality of labor is changing to the point that the ideas we have about how to create a healthy economy won't work anymore. It's similar to how Marx's theories were only applicable when the vast majority of labor was simple factory or agricultural work, and you assume everything about the industrial revolution would remain static.

The #1 method for creating a strong economy has been to try reaching maximum labor participation - everyone has a job, and government does what it can to move people into a position to meet labor demand.

Once we move into a post-labor economy, we will just have to adjust how we make capitialism work through things like Universal Basic Income.
I think you are looking at this the wrong way.

You have increased your value a tremendous amount. You should consider how much money it would take for you to stop thinking "wow I'm doing too much work" and instead think "This paycheck is pretty sweet." Go to your manager and tell them that is how much they need to pay to keep you.
> So you say I can disable the alert... that tells me dinner is ready... because I'm away from... um. Somebody didn't really think this one through, then?

Ann doesn't want alerts from her oven when she's away from home. Bob, who is at home, will still need to use the oven.
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On debian the program is cpulimit.
Not in a language with decent abstraction capabilities. You end up changing code from looking like:

myThing :: Foo -> ProblemDomain Bar
myThing f = do
x <- subthing1 f
y <- subthing2 x 23
return $ g y

to looking like

myThing :: Foo -> ProblemDomain Bar
myThing f = do
x <- subthing1 f
y <- subthing2 x 23
return $ g y

There's no difference, don't spend too much time looking for one.

The underlying representations of the type change. How you interact with the type does not. There's no mental overhead. There is a small bit of added run time cost. You pay somewhere for adding the ability to interact with the type in additional ways, but not by breaking any existing code.
Check out Sourceboxes. They are automatically linked (with jump-to-def), and you can embed any function/type or file range. (I'm one of the creators of Sourcegraph and would love to get your feedback!)
Investors don’t look at pitch decks for very long
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> tests shouldn't be needed, at least in theory

Tests are very useful for distinguishing between "what a function does" and "what you think a function does". Especially when you're building on functions written by others. Types and documentation help too, but if someone's already misunderstood something, such descriptive information might still fit nicely with their incorrect world view.

Personally, I can't live without QuickCheck :)
Oh, good to know! That was what NetworkManager auto-configured for me, some day I'll have to take a closer look at getting the /56 set up.
Let's add some context:

Would an average person from Iceland run from the police, attack and beat them, try to take their guns, or when a police officer stops them will they act like an actual human being and talk to them without the violence?

Culture plays a big part. Just look at the Demographics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iceland

93% are Icelandic.

In the US, many people come here and keep their (sometimes broken) cultures. We are expected to accept these cultures, even if it means more violence, crime, and less freedom for all.

In Iceland, you are expected to follow their rules..or leave.
Nope, looks like the command should have been removed anyway... https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/9161#issuecomment-...
Do I need to point out that all the complications of posix_spawn() could be taken care of with clone() and exec()?

I guess this raises a larger question, why is spawn() such an attractive idea, while the fork()/exec() idea is so difficult?

Sure, sure, with only a little tinkering, spawn() will work for all the current use cases, and my new one, but what about the use case after that? Get rfork(), baby!
Calvin and Hobbes embodied the voice of the lonely child
How South Korea's DRC-HUBO Robot Won the Darpa Robotics Challenge
If it just hit the app store then it's probably not even released in all the countries or showing up in searches yet.
This actually is sort of possible, you have to mess with the system clock as seen by the program, to make it think much more time has passed than really passed. It will run those scenes at hyperspeed.

Then give back the time later (if you need the clock to match the real clock) when it's waiting for input.
I don't understand what is hard in the language: http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/Documents/direct-taxes-code...

Indian tax code is beautifully spelled out. It is basically a collection of to-do list items with each item having an extremely simple description. For a nominal Indian, you have to, at the most, read this document till point number 85. All the points are collected in groups. So you if you do not have a non-profit org, for eg., you can just skip that entire section.

Don't judge it by it's length. It is extremely clear. So clear that Income tax is taught in grade 8 and 9 in Indian schools.
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Microsoft's big selling point is backwards compatibility with their older OS. Furthermore, according to this source Windows 7 still makes up for the vast majority of Windows installs on consumer desktop computers:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....

So it's lame that they're releasing software that doesn't work for the majority of their users, because they're trying to shove Windows 8 down people's throats, which is quite frankly terrible user experience.
1) Granted, German tax payers are paying for German universities. But do you really think that tuitions in the US reflect the actual cost of operation of colleges? Mathematically speaking, Harvard generates enough money to provide free tuition. Are they gonna do it? No, cause in the US you pay for a brand.

The fact that schools are public means that there is no price inflation due to image, brand, PR, etc. You pay what it costs to get education.

2) It is not just about throwing money through the window. It is an investment to get young educated people, some will go home but some will stay and use their education to create jobs.
They are, in day-to day usage, up to a factor.
Sure, and I accept that. But I would at the very least like to be able to open these files in Visual Studio and inspect them. It doesn't even let me to that much. It just gives me a lame error message about how I have to upgrade to Windows 8.1.
Deep nesting always bugs me too. It's so much cleaner and easier to understand (for me anyway) to identify the else case ahead of time and stop processing immediately.
This should perhaps be more prominently displayed: http://try.buildwinjs.com/
When I was referring to web, I mainly considered the web-backend on web-servers. JavaScript is the standard for frontend, no doubt.
I bet my Clojure or Groovy version will be simpler. I agree Scala is super complex :). Maven does suck. Gradle wraps it and does not suck. Probably the best build tool I have ever seen.
How many people shot by US police are immigrants?
Are you sure you didn't turn red?
CISA is a surveillance bill
While predictive coding (using machine learning to identify potentially interesting documents in discovery) exists, it is not common. Armies of first year associates have mostly been replaced by armies of contract lawyers, not machines. I imagine that's true in a lot of other industries. Entry level jobs pay less and have less prospect for growth simply because labor supply continues to grow while the economy and consequently demand is pretty stagnant.
Why such high compensation for recent grads at Google, Facebook, etc?
> > Like cruise control on your car, June continually calculates the power needed to maintain a constant temperature

> So you say it has a thermostat in it, then?

Having a thermostat is not the same as continuously maintaining a constant temperature. Typical "dumb" ovens have thermostats, but they maintain a rough temperature by turning on, overshooting the target temperature, cutting the heat entirely, dropping substantially under the target temperature, and repeating that cycle.

> So you say I can disable the alert... that tells me dinner is ready... because I'm away from... um. Somebody didn't really think this one through, then?

There's often more than one person who lives in a home and may use an oven. Its quite possible for one of them to be away from home and not want notifications, while another is at home and using the oven.
Digital placebo can work.

I was once debugging some issue with my laptop's multimedia buttons driver. I found some tweak which helped: enable the tweak, reboot - works fine, disable tweak, reboot - no go. Tested repeatedly several times.

I filed a bug report and received an answer that my tweak absolutely cannot work. The tweak was disabled at the time and the button didn't work. I pressed it again after reading this email and boom - it works.

I swear.

I figure my mind must have been believing so much in futility of pressing this button that it didn't even bother pushing it all the way down. Scary stuff.
Google wants you to be able to search. Being able to have lower latency for things like text to speech means that you're more apt to do voice searches and the like. You've got to keep in mind that the high end google phones already tend to have more RAM than their apple counterparts.
This is in the class of problems that naturally corrects itself over time. When your firm can't hire anyone with experience, and there's no entry-level jobs, it will discover the same solution to that problem that has been discovered any number of times in any number of other situations already: Mentoring and something that looks like apprenticeship.

Compared to the prospect of there being no job at all because software ate the whole thing, at the societal level this is barely interesting at all. Yeah, it sucks if you get caught in that moment where the problem hasn't quite become acute enough for the field to realize it needs to do apprenticeships instead of expecting experience, but, well, there isn't necessarily a better solution than waiting for the field to figure it out.
What chart? The linked PDF goes back to May 2012. The title claims 15 years.
Jet: Realtime Message Bus for the Web
Release 1.0.0 of Jet (http://jetbus.io) for NodeJS/io.js/Browser http://github.com/lipp/node-jet

Open Source In-Memory Database and Realtime Push-Framework.

- Improved Error Handling
- Semver
- Bugfixes
Sorry about that. They all have tools that make them work on Android. Kotlin is reasonable option imo. It doesn't effect app startup and runtime size is so much smaller compared to the others. Clojure Android adds 3 seconds to startup time for example. I haven't used Scala so I am not sure how nice it is for Android.
From your perspective, it's pretty black and white. However, from society's perspective, it's pretty nuanced. What are the people who would have taken that guard position going to do now? They have to eat and pay rent too. Some might be able to go study and get better jobs, but many will not. They simply may not have the economic freedom to not have a job and go study, which is a HUGE luxury. So what is to become of them?
ugh, i smell an Internet Explorer standard compliance story approaching in the next year. Not just the app engine but also android:
Big player stays on old version for years, standard is moving forward with tons of long awaited features, nobody can use those new features because supporting big player is too important.

Software development in a nutshell, these kind of stories just keep repeating, python 2vs3, C99 in MSVC, etc etc. I guess i should just stop pretending that a new version has been released until 5 years after the actual announcement.
Except you'll have increasing encroachment on motivation of the productive.

When Ronald Reagan was a top-billed Hollywood actor, he faced a ~90% tax bracket. Rather than work hard only to see most of his earnings confiscated, he'd make just a few movies and then enjoy those profits instead of spending time on diminishing returns. Same for plenty of us motivated ones: if 80% are living off the 20%, that will require taking so much from the 20% that most of those will opt for doing something interesting and untaxable. The "seriously productive" ones you're expecting to leech off MUST have lots of less-but-still-productive people working for them - and you're tearing out the incentive to do so. Raise my taxes enough (only to "redistribute" to those opting to not work) and I'll switch to untaxable yet satisfying "off the grid" living.
Not sure what you mean by "dominate", but there's $13 trillion in mortgage debt outstanding as of Q4 2014, $5T of that is held by federal agencies, and $4.5T is held by financial institutions [1]. So it's actually a much bigger business than you imagine.

> How exactly anyone expects to make money ... and with low recovery percentages if the security needs to be seized is beyond me

which is probably why you're not a mortgage banker :).

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/mortoutst...
This reminds me of my DIY reflow oven: http://viennot.com/reflow_oven.pdf
Probably, but an increasing number of software employees are striking out to become software employers as well. Software is interesting in that virtually all capital is human capital, and that small changes in the environment (a shift from web to mobile, for example) can invalidate large swaths of accumulated domain knowledge.
If I had to personally maintain GMail app, I couldn't do it myself, either. I don't see how this is remotely relevant.

I'm not suggesting I'd build GMail one way or another. I'm saying that since GMail web is available to me on my desktop, where I spend the majority of my day, that's how I prefer to use it. It's nice to also have an app, but that's way less percent of my time. And I think reading and typing in GMail is way nice on my desktop.

Sure, it's an edge case, but so is Reddit, so is HN, so is G+, so is Facebook, so is CNN, so is Github, so is StackOverflow, so is xkcd, so is news.google.com...

I spend way more time on those sites on my desktop than I ever would in their corresponding apps.

Add all those edge cases up, not to mention all the websites those things link to, and it's a HUGE part of my day. Apps? Sure. I like em.

And sure, when I'm on mobile, any given content is probably nicer in an app. But sharing, mixing, quickly browsing... web wins hand-down for me.

I wouldn't even know how to take a page from my CNN app (unless they give me a web URL) and discuss it on my Reddit app. Do you?
Having an economy dominated by private, profit-seeking businesses isn't really the problem here. For example, communist societies also face some awkwardness when there isn't enough work to go around, albeit to a lesser degree. The fundamental problem is the assumption that people have to work to live.
Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app (2013)
You did not specify who or what should turn red. Probably you are now, when realising that.
Given the political landscape today, we need a different solution. That's basically socialism (something I don't have a problem with), and I'm sure you've seen how well things with even the hint of socialism have gone over in the US. Most Tea Partiers would be completely happy to have things turn out Hunger Games style, as they're assuming that they'd be on top, rather than having to send their child in to fight.
Or flip it:

Placebos are another face on the basic processes underlying what we call "magic", with all of the "mystical" "woo" removed.
Take a look at julia!
I've been in that situation and I just shared my knowledge where I could. It was a team in which we were all required to learn a particular framework and I was the only one who did. By answering questions, I was able to further my own learning. When I left that job, the knowledge I had gained on my own through hard work went with me to my next position.
Where do you get your money? I'm assuming from customers paying you. But customers will only pay you as long as they have money. If the trend toward this kind of automation keeps going, then the number of customers with money will keep shrinking and shrinking.
No, we wrote our own. It's not hard.
That's not entirely correct. What actually happened was that the button itself had a buffer which accounted for the possibility of people pressing the button, but the press registering 'late'. The buffer was 2 seconds I believe, and because of that even when the button hit zero, you could still press it for two seconds until it actually ends. So, it did hit zero more then once, but the click-buffer never expired until the time it actually ended - All the times before that, an account clicked the button before the click-buffer expired.
They're probably too busy right now talking to their recent investors [1] to provide one.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/zenefits-rising-hrs-hottest...
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My favorite version was this:

http://vhemt.org/philrel.htm#button
The fine folks at Eldarion have saved me a lot of time with eldarion-ajax: https://github.com/eldarion/eldarion-ajax

Just use a few data attributes and you've got AJAX support in your web app.

Update: Not to mention all their work with the Pinax suite of Django packages: https://github.com/pinax/
Actually, HP had been doing that since quite some time. In 2008, they announced that they have discovered the memristor and would bring it in the market by 2012, which then shifted to 2014, then 2015, and now they are still not sure whether they will be able to utilize this by 2020. No surprise here.
So then every time his wife walks in to ask a question, he immediately Alt-Tabs to another window, and she thinks he's watching porn all the time.
Apple has actually done a really good job of pushing IPv6. For years their devices have supported it from their routers to their laptops. Between Apple and Comcast's recent IPv6 turnup I'm actually on IPv6 by default.
TiVo Now Lets Subscribers Stream Recordings and Live TV via the Web
React-native-multipeer – Insanely easy mesh networking in React Native
Working on a project at work that's got about 50+ endpoints all saved in a single paw file. Paw makes it stupidly simple to go back to any of them. It also remembers headers and POST request bodies which saves a ton of time. Just found out in this thread that you can distribute paw files to the rest of your team to use. Should be onboarding new developers much easier.
I normally use Postman, and the one feature that turns me off right now is the inability to import from a URL. Specifically, Swagger.

Postman has these type of import options: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/4moihw0kt47f2sy/lona1q...

I also tried saving my Swagger JSON spec to a file and importing it via the Swagger Importer, but it failed. =\

Otherwise, it seems gorgeous!
> By using the Zenefits Service, you hereby grant us permission to access your Account Information maintained by identified third parties, and make changes to this information as directed by you, on your behalf as your agent. When you use the 'sync payroll' feature of the Service, you will be directly connected to the website or APIs for the third party you have identified. We will submit information including usernames and passwords that you provide to log you into the site. You hereby authorize and permit us to use and store information submitted by you (such as account passwords and user names) to accomplish the foregoing and to configure the Zenefits Service so it is compatible with the third party sites for which you submit your information.

So basically a user of Zenefits gives Zenefits the authority to act as an agent on behalf of them. So, technically when Zenefits accesses the ADP site they are legally seen as the authorized user themselves.

If I knew that a service was going to act on my behalf towards another party and that other party wasn't happy about the way that service behaved towards them. I might question my use of letting that service act as my agent.

Zenefits is actually pretty smart here because they can say "our users want this, they've agreed to our ToS that says we act on their behalf".
Also check out the aMAZEing labyrinth. There's a "junior" version, but in my experience most younger kids can figure out the regular "8+" game just fine.
Aiming an Axe at Asinine Alliteration.
Autohotkey's syntax is expedient for keybindings, but I agree it's pretty awful for nontrivial automation. I find AutoIt3 better for complex automation, but it still lacks features from general-purpose languages.

Your best bet for Windows automation might be AutoItX, a DLL/COM control that can be used from C++, C#, or other managed languages such as F#.
The threads aren't full of sensitive analyses of the design of TempleOS. They're full of unseemly gossip and flamewars that are the same every time. That's what I'm calling off-topic.
As moderation calls go, the distinction doesn't seem like a difficult one.

The guidelines already cover this when they say: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."