skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, this anecdote is completely misleading. IIA is about the group's preferences, not just your own.

Here's an easy example that shows the difference. The first is more like the anecdote, and evidently disproves it:

Given that there is no war to deal with, you prefer candidate A to B.

Given that there is a war to deal with, you prefer candidate B (who would stop the war quickly) to A.

Candidate C is a war-candidate; though ranked below A and B no matter what, the important thing is that he is running for election if and only if there is a war to deal with. You know this.

Therefore, your ranking of {A,B} is A > B, but your ranking of {A,B,C} is B > A > C. This "disproves" the pie anecdote. It does not, however, have anything to do with IIA.

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The second example is more like what IIA actually says:

Given that there is no war to deal with, everyone prefers candidate A to B.

Given that there is a war to deal with, everyone prefers candidate B (who would stop the war quickly) to A.

Candidate C is a war-candidate; though everyone ranks him below A and B no matter what, the important thing is that he is running for election if and only if there is a war to deal with. Everyone knows this.

Therefore, everyone's ranking of {A,B} is A > B, but everyone's ranking of {A,B,C} is B > A > C. Everyone votes accordingly.

IIA implies: the SOCIAL ranking of {A,B} should agree with the SOCIAL ranking of {A,B,C}, as long as the individual rankings for {A,B} all agree with the individual rankings of {A,B,C}.

Here, the conditional fails: the individual rankings are completely reversed. This example does not disprove IIA.
I haven't celebrated my last three. They just become like any other day to me and they fly by.

I didn't even realise my last birthday was coming up within a few days until my dad mentioned it to me.
Hollywood Is Just White Men
The planet is 8% white males yet Hollywood, which represents the entire planet has more than 50% white male protagonists. As a half asian half white male I am sick of having no representation in media. If you want a project, fix Hollywood. Hollywood is supposed to represent the entire world. It doesn't even come close to representing the United States. I am an American at the top of my profession. It's disgusting.
Assembly: Turn ideas into great products with people around the world
We wouldn't be quoting Paul Buchheit or talking about Dave Sandberg if they hadn't sacrificed some of those relationships, or health for the products and platforms that we know them for. And that's the real point - legacy. Someone's legacy is not the relationships they had personally, just look at the miserable relationship failures of Steve Jobs, but their impact on bringing their vision and impact on groups outside of their circle.

Hmm... legacy. That's the bit that's tricky.

You suggest that "telling junk from non-junk is an exercise in futility," and in many ways that's quite an agreeable sentiment. So much speculating and lots of people mostly get it wrong.

But if it's futile to tell the junk from the not-, what's the argument for sacrificing your joy and happiness while "chasing the rabbit?" If we can't generally tell the difference between fantastic and flotsam, what's the argument for removing ourselves from the lives of people that care for us and love us?

If it's legacy, I think we're missing the point of it all. Because legacy is a personal goal, is a self-effecting goal. Legacy isn't about helping other people, it's about some lasting kind of immortality.

We have to be more whole than the people we're trying to help. If we deficit of our joy and happiness, if we don't know how to give that to ourselves and our loved ones, how can we possibly hope to give it to others?

There's that parable about dealing with the plank in your own eye, so that you can see clearly enough to deal with the speck of sawdust in your brother's. I think this is a time we might find some wisdom in that story.

It sounds like a lasting impact of Dave Goldberg was the love he helped grow in his family and their friends. There's a heartbreaking outpouring of love in Sandberg's essay. I don't wonder if it was their achievement in being whole in their love, his commitment to his inner circle, that allowed him to bring passion to those outside of it.

I think we'd all be so lucky.
Don't think of it as optional semi-colons, think of the { } block syntax as containing zero or more alway-semi-colon-terminated statements, as well as zero or one bare not-a-statement never-a-semicolon expression giving a value to the whole block. <:D
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> Oh no! This media file
> isn't available anymore.

Hmm.
Well, the article said they spoke on the condition of anonymity so as to prevent retaliation from Disney. And Disney already has their data.
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All non-software engineers employ complex (often mathematical) techniques to analyse their design in terms of reliability, performance, safety, robustness to external conditions etc. We, except maybe for the area of critical embedded software, barely do any of these things. What's more, with the rise of the agile methods, we actually make a point to not spend time on those (see "Move fast and break things"). That's why IMO most of us aren't engineers.
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Yes in EU they are used for coins mostly.
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I agree.

I am also in Denmark, and my university has a number of students from eastern Europe, Russia, South America, Iran, China, as well as those on scholarships from developing nations, and exchange students from the US and Canada.

(I suspect we may have attended the same university, as mine also focused heavily on semester projects (50% of the ECTS) and group work)
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Good, fair, well-explained banning for abuse policies would be great. Real names would destroy it, because a lot of the most interesting stuff on "Weird Twitter" is from bots, joke accounts, parodies, shared accounts (e.g. @sweden), people who daren't post under their real name, activists, etc.
I really wish MSys2 also left SourceForge, especially since it comes with a Windows installer.
Sure, but there are ways to call out behaviour and I don't think we need to descend to "FOAD" types of comments. I wasn't criticising the gist of your comment, just the way it's phrased.

Arguably, this comment wasn't worthy of a response, just a downvote and flag.
If you can't understand why Sheryl Sandberg and David Goldberg are important to the Hacker New community then I fear you have a misunderstanding of what Hacker News is.
Bullshit. I live in Germany and am learning German but everyone here speaks English. If you even sound the slightest bit non-German they respond in English. It does vary from city to city but I have experienced this universally and have colleagues who have lived elsewhere in Germany that this is indeed the case.
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You're not alone in this. Many people find this difficult both to do and to witness. I think it's because many of us are, sadly, not comfortable with vulnerability. Brené Brown has an excellent and very popular talk on that topic, I warmly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o
It feels like the video is sped up ever so slightly. Even the user is talking pretty quick.
Legacy is about being remembered; it's your name attached to tangible achievements, your name credited for effects.

Impact exists with our without legacy. The network effect of your friends' lives may be outwardly invisible, but the impact of their work, on the lives of anyone they lived near and around, had fun near and around, served near and around, worked near our around... is quite vast.

You don't have to be Abe Lincoln or John Rockefeller to have lived a meaningful life.
Why don't you pick the one-time install ($100) on a server you already own? If your ML is low-traffic there's no reason it should cost you much more than a couple dollars a month.
Twitter is like any other social network in that it works better if the people you know personally are using it. The only way to build up a good feed is to explore out through your friends' retweets to find accounts they follow that you also like. Then periodically look at your feed volume as a whole and delete anyone too high-traffic or recently uninteresting.
I understand the sentiment but isn't the web confrontational enough already? I always think of the people on the sidelines who might be lurkers, interested in engaging the community, contributing, whatever and who read those kinds of comments, thinking: "There's no room for error, those people are really aggressive". It's just computers, nothing life-threatening so I like it when we keep it as civil as possible.
3D monitor (autostereoscopy like Nintendo 3DS 2014 ed), augmented reality (Google glass, MS Hololens, etc), virtual reality (Oculus, Samsung Gear, etc.), virtual assistant (next-gen Siri/Cortana/Watson/etc.), 3D printing (industrial precision, metal sinter technique), consumer cloud storage & sync, drones, cashless life, etc.
There isn't any conflict between believing both this and that some of what Snowden did was admirable. The common belief is that the U.S. is supposed to be a nation of laws.
How is TISA, TTIP and TPP not the foundation of the New World Order?
only thing i can think is why is this not a webapp usable with any git server..like github?someone should get to it !!
Horrid. Besides poor threading (I'm speaking about the UI itself), it's unbelievable how HEAVY google groups feels when loading and using their web interface. It's so sad to think that google groups was the best interface ever to nntp in the past when it took over dejanews.

But it doesn't stop there. I had endless problems with regular subscribers ending up as junk. Likewise, as a subscriber, I had several issues in the past with subscription, where I had to contact the owner of the list and "debug" the issue (like there's anything to debug really: it just goes to junk and there's nothing you can do).

It doesn't help that google groups doesn't show prominently the fact that it's a regular list you can subscribe to without creating any account.

Fortunately, google groups generally plays well with gmane.org, so as long as they don't screw that up, I couldn't care less.
Have a look at discoursehosting.com, they have been around for quite some time and they offer 3rd party discourse hosting for much lower price compared to the official discourse.org hosting.
What if the FSB was surveilling all Russian citizens?
I work on distributed systems, and I thought this was a nice post and echoes some of my own sentiments.

The hardest problems in distributed transactions (banks, inventory, etc.) are often easier solved with human psychology (UX) than algorithms.

Hi, I am an ATM. Yes you have money, yes I am offline and can't check, yes you can withdrawal so you as the customer are happy with high availability. BUT I know who you are, and if you cheat me I will punish you when I find out!

Hi, I am a shopping cart. Why yes we have one of those in stock, but I am offline so I can't check. I'll take your money now and have it 2 day delivery for you. Oops, I just found out we don't have it in stock but I already have your money, this will take a few weeks now but we'll give you $20 off your next purchase - or do you want a refund?

This is the better approach, changing your business model to prioritize customer satisfaction (UX). Trying to build a globally consistent system instead either has to break the laws of physics with the speed of light, or make your customer have to wait - and if they have to, they probably won't be your customer anymore. One of these options is possible, but incorrect for your business, therefore use a distributed system with good UX.
Yes :P

At least if you are doing unnecessary damage to the person. For example, if you are just defending yourself, it is okay. If the robber was not armed and you shoot him/her down, you will be prosecuted for that.
Privacy policy points out that the system sends voice recordings to Houndify but is totally silent on how they will be treated.
Robot Navigation Using Neuro-Electronic Hybrid Systems [pdf]
Not wkhtmltopdf - It is on github and has been for some time. https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf

It was never on sourceforge as far as I know. It was in Google Code and then later github
Now just wait for the 'tmux.mirror' project to appear on Sourceforge, 'maintained' by the SF admins...
Can we include the illegal invasion of countries and the subsequent clusterfuck of death and destruction as a human rights violation?
Echoing the sentiments here. If you can afford to take the degree (both financially and time-wise) then I think you should go for it. There will always be positions waiting for you after you get your masters, but the reverse doesn't necessarily hold true.
We've only seen the tip of the iceberg, in my opinion. AAA is in the process of a slow-motion collapse, despite its best efforts, because the nature of retail has changed to favor digital distribution, triggering an erosion of price points and upending the balance sheet. (no shelf space, no distributor lock-in, etc.) This was set in motion in the 2000's, but only became a life-or-death issue more recently. Console gaming hasn't had it this bad since 1984.

And indies have always had it tough, but they've experienced a sudden shift from a private market with the most prized audiences available only to the well-positioned and connected(e.g. get on XBLA in 2008, or Steam in 2011), to a market that is saturated everywhere, with few opportunities to stand out of the crowd. In theory, this means people should be more creative and adventurous. Anyone who intends to make a business of it is obligated to shrink scope, derisk and focus on getting a great promotional story together, though, and so it's hard to remain optimistic if your approach is more technically-inclined and favors design risks. I got to be in the thick of all of it as it happened and gradually concluded in the past year that I couldn't make it work full-time, not within the context of the projects I genuinely wanted to work on.

There is still room for AAA where it feeds into the F2P business. So MMOs will definitely stick around, and competitive games like League and DOTA. But that model doesn't favor the typical single-player campaign experience. All the paths to sustainable, growing success in gaming right now lead to something that involves F2P marketing tactics, community-building, platform ownership, or preferably a combination. Anything less than that faces a huge uphill battle to not simply get lost in the shuffle.

All of that said, the market is not dead by any means. The graphics race is on its way out - it'll continue to be advanced by dedicated engine devs, but the ability to render things is entirely a commodity now, borne witness by the frenzied price wars between Unreal and Unity. That, along with the shift to digital, has shaken the industry's dynamic into something way more unpredictable. It's great if you're enterprising enough, but most devs aren't, when it comes down to it.
I've been thinking about live coding on twitch but having to think about not revealing any sensitive information would make it a hassle. I will give it a try for some side projects.
From the abstract:

“... we have set up a system which demonstrates the use of a live neuronal culture to solve a real world problem of controlling a robot doing the task of obstacle avoidance. We show that a neuronal culture can look at the sensor inputs to the robot and generate motor commands to allow it to explore an arena while avoiding obstacles.”
What I meant is that you should be prepared - save a little money aside, keep your skills current, network with friends and keep tabs on the job market. In other words, enjoy the cruise but know where the life boats are.

BTW, I love going to work. :-)
Applitools Eyes has a free account option as well, which grants access to all automated visual testing capabilities as in the paid packages - for a single user.
Why humans are so quick to take offense (2008)
Samsung does not support Linux because it is OSS
You may consider yourself relatively informed, but you'd be wrong.

Joe Biden was a very well known senator before he became Vice President, any criteria you use to call yourself relatively informed about US politics when you had never heard of Joe Biden is flawed.
Could you explain what is cynical about his message, or undesirable (or so I gather from your post, incorrectly perhaps)?
Disclosure: I'm one of the developers behind The Masterplan

We've been very happy with Haxe and OpenFL, but for us the most important thing is definitely not the Flash API but a cross platform way for writing games that use OpenGL ES 2.0 for rendering and OpenAL for audio. See Lime (https://github.com/openfl/lime).

We've made a tactical team-based heisting simulator called The Masterplan with this setup. It's finally coming out of Early Access today! The current release runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and hopefully we can release this on many more platforms in the future.

http://themasterplangame.com
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This is an understatement. Imagine if Obama had worked for the CIA his whole life, had come to power in a nondemocratic fashion mysteriously after Bill Clinton was forced to step down, had nationalized Chevron and put the CIA in charge, imprisoned the Koch brothers, invaded Mexico twice, held a series of sham elections, stayed in power for decades, and was rumored to be one of the richest people on the planet.

"The Man Without a Face" by Masha Gessen is a great read on Putin's rise to power.

http://smile.amazon.com/The-Man-Without-Face-Unlikely/dp/159...
I'm not an expert on this by any means, but are you sure the reason they don't have nukes is that other countries are stopping them? I had gotten the impression that they definitely have the ability, and haven't done it because they know it will cause a serious escalation in tension for not really a lot of benefit.

When the recent Iran deals were being announced, I read material that said something along the lines of "Iran is 3 months from having a nuke" (breakout). It seemed to be saying, "Iran is holding steady, but could pull the trigger (so to speak) and begin the final 3 months of preparation at any moment". The goal of the nuclear agreement was to keep them perpetually some certain number of months away (or increase it) from having enough material for a bomb.

> The IR-1s installed in the Natanz and Fordow facilities have been performing at an average per unit rate of 0.75 to 1 SWU per year. Using the 1 SWU/year performance of the latest IR-1 model, the breakout time with 9,000 machines using a natural uranium feed would be six to seven months. However, Iran also has substantial stocks of 3.5 percent enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6) that can be used as an alternative feed, shrinking the breakout time to three months.

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/iran...

> Mr. Kerry was joined at the talks by Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz, who will have to certify to Congress that the deal ensures that Iran will remain at least a year away from being able to produce a weapon’s worth of bomb fuel over the next decade, a complex calculation in which the size of Iran’s stockpile is a major factor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/world/middleeast/irans-nuc...

Now maybe there's far more sabotage than we know about going on, but it sounds like Iran has the ability to accumulate enough material, and is choosing not to. The way this is phrased implies that Iran is halting work toward a bomb.

> The [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspectors, who have had almost daily access to most of Iran’s nuclear production facilities, reported finding no evidence that Iran was racing toward a nuclear weapon, and said Tehran had halted work on facilities that could have given it bomb-making capabilities.
I think it is not a local thing but I never really paid attention. Try gas stations or small lottery or tobacco stores, they tend to have the ones with displays showing the jackpot sum or cigarette ads. On the other hand you usually won't see them say in super markets with cash registers with conveyor belts. But even there is, at least sometimes, a small pit build right into one of the surfaces. Solutions similar to the one in the amusement park are also used at gas stations during the night hours, mainly at gas stations with low customer frequency.
Just a little whiplash and broken glasses. I was one of the lucky ones.

I've been on it once since that day to try and get over it, I spent the entire time shaking and holding on to my partner very tightly, heh.

Thanks :)
Was he also whistleblowing when he mysteriously appeared on Russian television asking softball questions to Putin?
Can anyone explain why there needs to be a subsidiary?
Proportionate? The US has killed 4 million Vietnamese and poisoned large parts of the country with chemical weapons.

I doubt that their "regime" has ever done something comparable.

How many millions did any Vietnamese government in past or present kill in the middle east. How many terrorist organizations are currently run out of Hanoi in comparison to those run out of Washington?

Does the Vietnamese president sign kill lists and run torture camps across the globe?
Lystable - http://www.lystable.com

London, UK - onsite - full time

Lystable is building a design-focussed SaaS platform for companies to manage their external network. We've just closed a round of funding that marks Peter Thiel's first seed investment outside of the US (http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/27/lystable-seed/) and are looking to expand the engineering team.

We're currently a team of 6 with backgrounds including Google, M&C Saatchi, Salesforce, onefinestay and Huddle.

Engineering-wise we're using Python 3 & Flask to expose a RESTful API and currently building a standalone clientside application using ES6 and React.

More details on openings at https://angel.co/lystable/jobs but most urgently we're looking for a mid-senior Frontend engineer to take ownership of the clientside app and a DevOps engineer to help design and build our infrastructure on top of AWS.

If the above sounds interesting, drop us a line through AngelList or ping me an email (fergus at)

Must be eligible to work in the UK and personally have the skills described above (eg. not be a recruiter).

Cheers
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Probably for support / sales / community outreach based stuff.

Lots of people in Japan, even techies, have less than stellar English skills. There are also a lot of companies here that are still in the dark-ages when it comes to technology (e.g. I worked at a company that tried CVS in 2009 before I joined but didn't see the point of version control)

Sales / Support staff fluent in Japanese will help a lot I think.

Japan has 130 million people. I think there is probably lots of room for Expansion for github. Having a Japanese sub also makes taking payments easier, I am sure there are other legal / administrative reasons.
Well at least people readily live next to solar power cells and even install them on the roof of their houses. Not claiming it is the solution for everything. But coal and nuclear power are not the only power sources (energy efficiency is another approach).
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By what metric has he been invisible?
Now that's the daredevil attitude I like to hear :)
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I've a feeling that the formation of a new Japanese legal entity by Github is due to legal hurdles in doing business in Japan. I used to work for a firm earlier which had created a Japanese legal entity for this purpose.