skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No tinfoil here.

That's a silly suggestion.

A more productive and charitable way to enter this conversation would be to engage it with fact-based and evidence-laden argumentation, and citation where necessary.

On that end if you have any fact-based questions I'm willing to unpack various claims and to discuss issues and ideas on their own merits.
They were probably messing with you.
Startup marketing lessons from scientific advertising
I think tuition trends are appalling and it's a real problem that so many students leave college saddled with debt that will drag them down for a decade or more. (It's also a little insane that even bankruptcy can't shed student loan debt.) However, it's really hard to sympathize with someone who went to Columbia to get not just one but three degrees rather than attend a state university because he "deserved better". Ten years of loans to attend a school that costs over $50K/year (today) and then playing the victim?

This seems a lot like buying a Ferrari because you need a car, instead of doing the sensible thing and getting a Civic. Sure, you've got crippling debt. But it seems entirely self-inflicted.
When you think about where the $$$ is, they DIRECTLY compete.

I think the thing people don't realize is that there is way more money in insurance than there is in payroll, ADP knows this and so does Paychex.

At my last company, I think we paid about $90 per employee per year for payroll processing, W-2s and employee self-service.

A broker commission for health insurance is conservatively 3% of the total annual premium. So with an average family premium (employee and employer) hovering around $17k a year, the commission on that plan would be $500+ dollars, well over five times what you could earn by actually doing payroll. an employee electing single coverage with a total premium around $7k a year is still far and away more valuable than "payroll"

If you look at ADPs earnings transcripts for the past year, you'll see this area is where the growth is at. It's even stronger at Paychex where benefits constitutes basically all of their growth.
This is handwavy and wrong.

Imagine we have two effects that need handling. One is "failure" - terminating the computation and propagating the fact of failure. The other is "emit", producing some value for an external process.

If I combine these two, the question arises as to the behavior of "emit 3; fail" - does it emit or bury the 3? Depending on the circumstance, either could be useful, and it's a tremendous difference that is neither irrelevant nor distracting.
I wonder what would happen is the nitrogen is increased to 78%?
I don't think Zane Lowe's discovery list - which includes a short list of middle-of-the-roaders like Adele and Ed Sheeran - is in quite the same league as John Peel's.
Experiences in Writing an Integration Service in Go
I have upvoted you, you make a good point. I commented originally because it was clear to me what Mithaldu was saying but others were misunderstanding his point. It was not really so much about whether his point is correct or not.
It's always just a SMOP, but my hunch is that Swift is way too integrated with the Apple runtime to not use it. I wouldn't be surprised if they have limited support for ObjC in their Swift Linux port, but happy to be proven wrong. (I started porting the Apple runtime to Linux last year but ran into the aforementioned linker issue. A way around it is to change the Apple runtime ABI on Linux of course.)
Thank you for your kind words.

Unfortunately it is quite common for people to commit suicide without mentioning their plans to anyone, without anyone even suspecting. For example during our training we were told of a college student who committed suicide in his dorm room. No one missed him until the smell of his decaying corpse disturbed the other students on his hall.

It's also commonly asserted that suicidal people attempt suicide to manipulate others, for example to win sympathy or to send a message. In my experience that is not the case. I've met lots of suicidal people; a former employer of mine, Chris Schefler - a cofounder of the world's first web hosting service - actually did commit suicide. In my whole life I've only met one person who attempted for reasons of sending a message.

"Self injury" is a different thing from suicide attempt. That's commonly practiced by people with Borderline Personality Disorder. A psychiatrist explained to our training class that people with BPD do not experience feelings, so they cut themselves in hopes of feeling something.
They "sold", not "pushed". If I've never heard of it, it wasn't pushed very hard.
Sounds like something that would be a lot easier to handle with "svn revert"..
Speeding Up PostgreSQL with Partial Indexes (2014)
Poosh’s Address Bar in Chrome Is Sexy Green on Android 5
I'd be surprised. I don't know the guys there but I suspect they're pretty sharp and will find great ways to distinguish their offerings.
Tumblr about mathematics with good animations
I hadn't looked much into Swift either, thought it was meant to be a declarative layer around Obj-C, my bad.

I would say though that QML + javascript fills a similar purpose as Swift.
What Europe Can Learn from Silicon Valley
Please for the love of all things holy please stop saying Swift would be great for Android or that Google is porting Go to Android. As an Android developer for the past four years I can assure you that there is zero evidence that Google is moving the Android FRAMEWORK to Go. There aren't even any plans to support lambdas and Java 8. Also, pretty much everyone on the bleeding edge of Android is planning on moving to Kotlin. It has even more higher level and functional abstractions than Swift or Go, full interoperability with Java (even in the same file), and almost no performance hit.
> They can interoperate through OS-level abstractions like pipes and via C APIs on at the process level.

And you can't do this in OSX or iOS?

> The average Unix desktop or server is probably running code written in 5-10 languages, more or less transparently to the user

The average iPhone is probably running code written in just as many (if not more) languages - C, C++, Obj-C, Swift, and Javascript are a given before you even look at third party stuff. And, modulo sandboxing, you can do all the Unix stuff too.
Copyright and tech is intertwined thanks to software...
Yes if everything is untyped then types are less useful. And for interactive scripring, compilation feels a bit strange too.

(Of course, I think text-only Unix tools as a way of interacting with a computer is a fundamentally broken idea).
Powershell is an interesting idea, though maybe not the best implementation of that idea.
When people say Elixir is just syntactic sugar on top of erlang I point them to Stream and Enum. It's a great example of how polymorphism via protocols is an enabler for powerful designs.
I'm confusing types and 'Java-like interfaces and design patterns' to the same degree that you're confusing swift's type system with 'what great type systems can do for you.'

The type system of swift is much closer to java than to that of haskell. (Or whatever language you think has a 'great' type system)

For example in F# if you just use one method the type system will infer that you need an object that has that method. (especially if that method is an operator)

eg.
let add a b = a + b will work on any pair of objects that have the + operator defined. That is a good and useful type system, what swift has just makes you type more for little benefit.

eg. making types is easy, reflecting methods is hard. (it should be noted that swift effectively doesn't support reflection)
I hear you on technical books, but I think the author (a Phd candidate in Marketing) has a different definition of Marketing.
Spending lesser amounts means a higher volatility of returns. The expected return on a $1000 bet might be the same, but your chances of actually equalling (or bettering) that ROI are much lower than if you bet $100k, especially if the the prize money is concentrated at the top end.

The Boston Globe article implies that the MIT syndicates bought so many tickets they actually affected the distribution of the prizes in their favour
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012...

Not to mention that having even just $1000 of free cash to "invest" in a positive sum gamble already puts you in a higher income/wealth bracket than most lotteries' most loyal players.
Right now my favorites are Emscripten and Firefox.
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
"Neo-colonialism" may be the term you are looking for, along with "soft power".

Russia and China in particular are upset with this form of cultural domination and export by the West. Both have stated quite frankly in real terms that they seek to maintain and spread their own culture instead and in fact both Russia and China have begun programs for culture export based on the US model.

China is heavily invested in working in Eurasia, Africa and South America at the moment. They are a bit careful about the Middle East.
Version 0.6 is out – RetroShare Team
Not quite as cool as the visual 6502: http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
BitShares re-org: BitShares 2.0
I mean, you could always compile some yourself. Separation of concerns and what not.
"Xcode 7 has a ENABLE_BITCODE option to embed bitcode in apps, app extensions, and frameworks. The option is turned on by default for iOS and is mandatory for watchOS projects submitted to the store.

When bitcode is enabled for a target, all the objects, static libraries and user frameworks used when linking that target must contain bitcode. Otherwise, an error or a warning will be issued by the linker. (Note: missing bitcode is currently a warning for iOS, but it will become an error in an upcoming beta release of Xcode 7.) ENABLE_BITCODE should be consistently turned on for all the targets. If you use a library or framework provided by a third party, please contact the vendor for an updated version which contains bitcode."

Dear God, do we need to wait for all libs to update? :S
Try to make a movie using say Aladdin and i'm sure you will get some very nasty letters from Disney about trademarks etc.
And that's why they added fullscreen mode to OS X. Both ways of working excel for different situations. It's great that they are now making the enhancements in sync on OS X and iOS.
How Bitcoin Tipping Could Replace Online Ads (And Actually Work)
iOS 9 will let you use the keyboard on iPad as a trackpad area to position the cursor. Quite clever.
The sort of people who stop playing the lottery because the odds are bad were never playing the lottery in the first place.
Discussed previously on HN (before his death) -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8403451
Ask HN: How to go about learning Swift for iOS and OS X development?
I want to jump into iOS and OS X development. Coming from a web development background (Python, Javascript, HTML/CSS, etc.), what would be the best way to go about learning Swift to make apps? What are the best resources (preferably free) to use?
Open a Vim visual selection on GitHub
While true, my point was more that there /are/ standardized ways of doing that, and there is no barrier to apple working on and/or with standards bodies to discuss any concerns they have with WebRTC, SIP, etc.
Apple Music will be available for $9.99 per month
Is that a joke?
Normal breathable air is made of 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth). Thanks god is not all oxygen otherwise you will catch fire in practically 0 seconds.
On the pressurization that compress your body. But the problem is, they pressurize the plane to the same level of between 3000-6000 feet. It is less then the pressure you usually feel. So doesn't make sense.
For the same price as an iMac, without a computer.
The dynamic hierarchical permissions are huge improvement to multi-sig from a user experience perspective.
I've been a software engineer for 15 years, have meditated with varying degrees of consistency for 10 years, and have taught meditation to peers, friends and the public for the last 3 years.

The conclusions reached in this article about the temporary nature of all states and experiences, as well as connecting with the wisdom of the body, resonate strongly with me. I'd add that the ability I have developed to monitor and redirect my thoughts, as well as enhanced concentration, are other direct benefits.

I believe you can see some benefits from meditation without embracing the full retreat experience. But a retreat is definitely a step-up and solidifies a lot of the lessons. I've done 8-day insight retreats which are a little less austere than Vipassana but seem to bring about similar states and changes.

I wrote the story of how I ended up teaching meditation (I teach 8-week courses with similar content to MBSR). You can read it here if you are interested: http://www.geekmindfitness.com/mindfulness/why-this-software...

There's another write-up I did of how some of this affected my journey through anxiety, specifically impostor syndrome:
http://www.geekmindfitness.com/mindfulness/how-mindfulness-m...
> I'd say that things like the integrated fingerprint reader (2012) on the home button was pretty innovative/bleeding edge. It was a bit of a gimmick, but ultimately they pushed the boundaries of what anyone else had done.

I'm not super familiar with TouchID and its capabilities, but is this true? According to Wikipedia, Apple announced its fingerprint reader in late 2013, not 2012, and this feature was available on a high-end Android phone (I forget which) a couple years before that (2011 if I recall correctly). I understand that "having a touch button" isn't quite a binary feature, and TouchID could have some novel elements as a product, but as I said I'm not super-familiar with TouchID. Is there something in particular about TouchID that was innovative/bleeding-edge?
Not really sure what you're looking for when it comes to "pushing", then. Beware the echochamber, maybe. All the android watches have been pushing out quite a few versions, ads on tv, I've even had one of the people at an AT&T store try to sell me on the samsung watch he happened to be wearing at the time and they conveniently had on sale.
If you have thoughts on what you'd like to do in the ideal case, feel free to send them to brandon@cardiogr.am. We whipped this up over the weekend.
Thanks, but I managed to re-enroll via iTunes Connect instead. Though why a $99 developer program costs £79 in the UK I have no idea, I guess it's VAT. Hopefully I'll finally get an app out to justify it this year!
Very true and probably more so when Job was somewhat into computer render animation. That and attention to a good working audio driver setup and API's have helped keep Apple still in the audio DAW industry. AS you say much has changed and can see why they shifted focus. Though I do as many wish they at least had a server flavour, more so given would not be much to change I feel as to what is already there. But exposure to a consumer messing up and a sever messing up can be vastly different in support/costs to make sure 100% right and less customers.

Still they do like consumerising things and who knows, personal home iCloud that sits in your home would perhaps be a likely server offering if any they may take as targeting consumers. That if any route is maybe the one that could happen.
> A migrator in Xcode 7 to convert your existing your existing Swift code to use the new Swift 2.0 features and syntax.

woops, repetition !
Advanced != Exclusive/Innovative/...

That said, the spec here is a bit different than C++ exception I believe.
Why when the aftermarket will do it for them?

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Amen.

I have been (and still am) an advisor to Pearson, which now includes Addison-Wesley and Prentice-Hall, ran a book series on "Innovative Technology", solicited authors, and helped get important books published. Outstanding technical books are few and far between these days. Hank Warren's Hackers Delight is one worth reading as will be the forthcoming The Programming Language Go.

There has been a corresponding erosion of the content as the number of books has decreased. In the old days, books were a primary mechanism for sharing knowledge. Today, rather than consulting a integrated linear presentation of technical material in a single (nearly) comprehensive volume, technical information is burried in papers which hide principles with details and confuse matters with non-standard terminology. It is not only the technical literature that has been degraded. Business books have become the equivalent of brain-dead landing pages where a single simple idea is presented in a verbose and focused narrative style.
I mean, really, you're comparing paying rent with a $100/yr fee (which now allows you to sign apps across their platforms)? Really? I highly doubt most indie developers even have to make that choice. Finding the $100 a year is not the most impossible task in the world, even for a tiny indie developer.

Plus, more than a few apps have added instructions on their download pages to show users how to get around Gatekeeper. They can clearly take the Gatekeeper hit, so you probably can too.
Why is a 65-year-old story being covered today? Was there new information recently uncovered? Is it propaganda?
Simple Trick for Finding a Lost or Stolen Android Phone – Onenaija Blog
Well I presume the hash wouldn't change in between installs, just from user to user.
Indeed - giving talks, supervising research students, etc.

Having said that, I worked with a professor who had effectively taken the same route; his work was relevant in the eighties and hardly used since. My job was to try and reimplement his algorithms (ALGOL 68) in Java, which involved talking to him a lot to understand the work -- it felt like he was genuinely happy to have someone to talk to about it, and various departmental shifts and changes over the years had gradually disconnected him from the world, rather than his own decision to start gathering dust.
Do you have a source for "no plans on adopting Vulkan"? Apple is definitely on the Vullkan working group (logo is part of the image at the bottom of https://www.khronos.org/vulkan).
Could they have open sourced it? Yes. But it was never likely since firmware is almost always done as a binary blob from intel or otherwise.

They're actually being more open than most vendors, since skylake isn't even shipped yet.
Two centuries ago, the kind of thing that we post today on social media was common knowledge, passed from person to person as gossip. People that didn't have that trail of information were viewed with suspicion.
I've read phrases like "battling", "fighting", etc. used in a variety of illnesses. Its never been apparent to me that it is specifically relating to cancer.
Don't they already offer that via their Airport range of routers? I seem to recall they offer file storage/backup, perhaps even with a iCloud link.
Ah, I just noticed you are the OP.

Sure, you have to start somewhere with any analysis, and Poisson is the place to start. Anyone (like me) can then question independence assumptions from the sidelines.

I was moved to speak up originally because a commenter referred to inspecting the logs to verify the Poisson assumption, and in my experience, looking at the data is always an excellent principle, and generally preferable to just stopping at an intuitive understanding of the arrivals process.
Perhaps so, but I think it is enough in the vicinity of the chilling effect line that it is worth discussing and being concerned about.

I say this specifically because it was a professional conference and such conferences are important for earning a living. If private organizations vital to earning a living voluntarily censor people for their political opinions, that is equivalent to denying careers to those people, and that is a substantial chilling effect. If it's one conference, occasionally, then sure it's a minor effect; but look at the Hollywood Red Scare and you'll see it can become a major one.

Personally I'm even more uncomfortable with forcing private organizations to ignore participant politics than I am with chilling effects, but let's not deny the chilling effect. A culture which denies professional opportunities on the basis of personal politics is lacking tolerance and diversity where it really matters: for ideas, not just skin shades and accents.

Then again, China took the opposite model and seems to be doing fine. So YMMV.
If you ask me, "Food babe" is as credible as whale.to.
I am very much against the way Cocoa & Cocoa Touch work (a "ViewController" is NOT!!! a controller in the MVC sense), and Interface Builder makes me want to take a high powered rifle to Cupertino, but Swift is definitely a winner now that it's going open source.

I rebuilt a dysfunctional OS X application that was ported from iOS (obj-c) from the ground up almost entirely in Swift last year, and really enjoyed working in swift. It's worlds better than Objective C, and compares favorably with other modern languages like Go (which I also like and use quite a lot). It takes a minute and a bit of annoyance to get used to optionals, but that ends up being really nice for issues most languages let you shoot yourself in the foot on. Along with switch patterns, easy immutability, memory management, string handling, and Playgrounds/REPL make it a really pleasure.

Even with that endorsement I couldn't recommend it seriously for anyone without being cross platform / open source. Now I can say I really think it's worth learning.
Kids will occasionally have their mobile data and home wi-fi access revoked by parents, for a variety of reasons, which may or may not include texting/inattentiveness in class.

For instance, her first week with a phone, my kid managed to consume almost half of the shared plan for the month. So that phone now has a hard cap set on data usage, and was wi-fi only until it reset for the new billing cycle. For bonus points, much of that time was spent at a Luddite relative's house who did not have a home Internet connection (though leeching off the neighbors was barely possible).

That wasn't even a grounding. Parents may wish to lock down a kid's phone to the point where it doesn't do anything but communicate with whitelisted contacts or place a voice call to emergency services. Taking the phone away, the only sure-fire way to eliminate undesired uses, also eliminates the phone's use as a tattletale/tracker for the parents. Parents who are not tech savvy may not even realize that mesh networking even exists, and thus Jott may present a partial countermeasure to grounding restrictions.

I have also seen social posts wherein parents encourage the completion of chores by changing the wi-fi password and giving out one character of it to their kids per chore done. Teen-to-teen meshes sabotage that strategy.
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html

Argument By Dismissal:

an idea is rejected without saying why.

Dismissals usually have overtones. For example, "If you don't like it, leave the country" implies that your cause is hopeless, or that you are unpatriotic, or that your ideas are foreign, or maybe all three. "If you don't like it, live in a Communist country" adds an emotive element.