skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I am faulting the other Chinese people who were in fact there, and did not in any way attempt to discipline their fellow countrymen.

I would expect the same of any nationality - if you are abroad, you should be respectful of the local customs, and if any of your own are acting up, you should make an attempt to put them in line. If I saw another Canadian jumping the queue at the airport, you're damn right they would have heard a word or two from me.
Traffic impacts that are created by increasing occupancy faster than new infrastructure can be built have adverse impacts on everyone using the transport infrastructure just like a polluting industry has an adverse impact on the area (also, it has a pollution impact, whether or not infrastructure is adequate, but that's probably generally not as big of a concern.) So, scale can make new office space a noxious impact, and the article seems to clearly indicate that a preexisting overall scale limit was applied and Google, who had asked for most of it, got far less, and LinkedIn got the lion's share.
I like many of your suggestions, but the article itself is total BS. First, Uber drivers are replacing taxi drivers, who were never employees to begin with. So it's not a valid example. Second, the headline should read "As long as US sticks to current policies, the number of employees in the US will probably decrease".

This is happening because right now in the US, capital (large corporations, billionaires) controls the political process, and they've used it to massively jack up the size of the labor pool:

* Illegal immigration -> unskilled jobs.

* H1B & other visas -> skilled and semi-skilled jobs.

* Free trade with Asia -> manufacturing jobs.

* Outsourcing -> IT jobs.

* Normalizing 60-80 hour workweeks -> increases the labor pool by 1.5x - 2x.

Basically right now we have about 2-3 billion people competing for jobs in the US economy, which is sized for 320 million people. They (capital) want you to believe this is the "future", but in reality they just jacked up the labor pool by a huge amount.

Any worker who comes to the US leaves their home country, so the employment dynamic in those countries is quite different. And notice that the EU, whose economy is larger than the US, has avoided this dynamic.
> Although I think it should be private neighborhood organizations to prevent this

How? Here's a way for me to speculate in this:

- Buy properties around the edge of said private neighborhood, set up all kinds of highly offensive things all surrounding the neighbourhood.

- Buy up properties in said neighbourhood as the price drops until I can get effective control of said organization.

- Remove the aforementioned offensive things and wait for property prices to rice again.

> All they wanted to build was a couple of office building and bike path.

Which impacts policing needs, fire services, traffic, public transport, garbage collections, postal services, and many others. It is also likely to have indirect effects on the local housing market, and through that an effect on local schools, hospitals and others.

There's no such thing as just a couple of office buildings when it comes to urban planning.
It's the new reactionary right-wing term for "feminazis". They belatedly realised that term made them look ridiculous It'll take them another decade or so to realise that naming your political opponents as warriors for social justice is a boneheaded move.
The second tweet [Could the journos...identify yourselves?] is my question. In fact, wouldn't it be slick to have a simple table of journalists/publications, major world events, and a simple list of check boxes whether they were for, against, or indifferent/agnostic? Maybe even some indicator of when they change their initial position. Might be useful to see which organizations consistently have to/chose to switch their positions over time...
Genetics allows the dead to speak from the grave
I think the solution here is universal adoption of the term partner.
And it still uses libsecret under the hood.
I agree largely with what you say but advice point 2 is an obvious smell in today's working world. I'm taking that advice as "don't do anything that would prevent you from moving tomorrow". That includes having a spouse that is employed, having family, having property, etc. Being mobile shouldn't be a requirement for the average person. If you are striving to be top in your field, then mobility might be a requirement.
Sure, I agree that individuals can improve their outcomes through looking after themselves -- I already do that and it's made a remarkable difference. It's the advice I give everyone.

The cyberpunk concept went further, though. Cheap, flawless, scarless cosmetic surgery. Tissue remodelling. Gene editing. It was a reflection on the 80s, when cosmetic surgery was in its optimistic dawn.

Taking the short bald confident ball of muscle and turning him into a tall, striking slab of muscle, dating the brunette with cheekbones that could shave wood. A world of meandering, alienated beauties. That's part of what cyberpunk was exploring.
One possible way to handle this is to decouple social insurance from employment, so companies can hire and fire at will and aren't required to provide social support, but the state directly provides income security and social support to its citizens, to smooth out the resulting fluctuations (essentially socializing some of the variance/risk produced by a flexible labor market). In Denmark this policy is broadly called "flexicurity": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity

I think in the medium term this is a more stable approach, since it brings in contract work within the aegis of the social-support system, rather than fighting a rearguard action to defend social support bundled into full-time employment, against contract work without social support.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/2/7963577/google-ads-get-thro...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/5/4496852/adblock-plus-eye-go...

I was using Adblock Plus, but this made me think a lot about this. Now, I'm using Privoxy + NoScript with custom filters.
Is there a government that does not use propaganda to forward their own agenda?
Because rent control has worked out so well for San Francisco.
Tell this Ludwing van Mises. He would call it proof!
Learn to rebuild core web infrastructure - reading list
> "so?..."

The blog post on detecting PhantomJS is from Shape Security. The "fun fact" is that PhantomJS was developed by someone at the same company.
This is why no one downloads the band Hostile Scrolling's app.
Uncovering Hidden SSIDs Using Wireshark
The PPP reference is about as worthless of a concept as you could get in measuring economic scale.

If I make $80,000 and my cup of coffee costs $4, and the person in China makes $4,000 but their equivalent cup of coffee costs $0.10 - they'd have you believe that person has a meaningful purchasing power advantage.

Right up until that person earning $4,000 tries to buy a BMW, take a vacation to Paris, or save more than $400 per year.

The last five years of China's growth has been entirely fake. Their return on invested capital has plunged, and it now takes an extreme amount of debt to generate each dollar of GDP growth. Their economy stopped growing normally with the end of the global consumer boom in 2009. They've spent the years since accumulating one of the greatest piles of debt in world history. Within two to three years, they'll be the most indebted nation, with their total debt to GDP ratio already exceeding that of the US.

It now takes $4 to $5 trillion in new debt per year, just to stay near their 6%-7% GDP growth target. Put another way, they have to take on $7+ of new debt for every $1 of GDP growth.

Their PMI, electricity usage, imports, exports, and real estate market are all signaling imminent disaster. Up next their record-shattering stock market bubble is going to go bust, causing trillions of dollars in damage.

The next 20 years are going to be extraordinarily painful for China. They're making the same mistakes Japan did, except they're doing it at warp speed, and with a billion very poor people to deal with.
What if, for every date in the future, you showed a message saying "published in the future" instead of the date?
Understood and agree. Im just giving the best advice I can on how not to get hit and run over by the oncoming train. Unless you're Superman and can stand in front of and stop it.
Market replacing firms. I like the way you phrased things. It's more precise than my current explanation. I don't have much to add other than I really liked your breakdown. We have an complex market, thanks for describing Coase's paper.
It's a good software development principle. Make things that are secure look secure. Make things that are insecure look insecure. This is going to be insecure no matter what precautions are taken, because the source is open and the key is part of the binary, so it should look exactly as insecure as it is so no one assumes anything untrue about this code.
Is there any evidence that it did make his peers uncomfortable?

It's fucking clothes. Who gives a shit what someone else is wearing?
It's a good thing then that those IDEs can show the method's documentation right next to the autocomplete list as you're browsing through it.
It's not a distraction in the "hey look over there!" kind of sense. It's more like "it's totally Snowden's fault all our spies are exposed now...like a week after the OPM and SF-86 hacks."
While not quite the same, 10 gig and 40 gig ethernet can use twin-ax connections. Big copper cabling like coax and twin-ax can carry a ton of bandwidth over short runs.
Do you realise that emacs supports 'intelligent, realtime code analysis'? I program in Go, and I have auto-completion and documentation.

Emacs is more extensible, and more easily extensible, than Eclipse.

Yes, an IDE is pretty nice for a particular kind of horrible enterprise coding: the sort where no-one understands the system, where everything's horribly over-architected and where, yes, ultra-fast auto-completion is necessary to get anything done. But…why live like that? There're interesting problems and fun environments where one doesn't need to live in that kind of hell.

emacs can handle that, but you have to start asking yourself if it even makes sense to do. A lot of times, those IDEs are just managing spurious complexity, not actually helping build something great.
I wish Europe weren't so nuke-averse. The lander should have been powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), not solar panels. Then it would've had uninterrupted power for years and it could have been returning scientific data continuously since November.

Most of the US's long distance space probes have been powered with RTGs, which don't put nearly the same kinds of limitations on mission profiles. The New Horizons mission to Pluto, for example, is powered with 10.9 kg of plutonium that provides a steady 228 watts and enough heat to prevent the kind of cold-related damage we fear happened on Philae. That mission is so far from the Sun that it wouldn't even be possible with only solar panels.
Golang gif to webm/mp4/jpg server
The Go stuff works pretty well.

I never needed it in Python, because Python libraries are so clean and orthogonal.
Uber is tracking its drivers in China, will fire anyone attending taxi protests
Ask HN: Best books/resources on running a lean/bootstrapped company?
Apey Eye – An Object-Resource Mapping Node.js REST Framework
Ads seem to be paid attention to enough for webmasters to bother using them. Vendors blocking them by default could be problematic
Wait a minute, how does free trade "jack up the size of the labor pool"? Did the foreigners who were previously forbidden from competing with natives not exist?

Oh right, better to have folks born on the wrong side of an arbitrary line continue to live on $3k/year in order to make sure American wages continue to rise from $40k to $60k. Be honest - your actual complaint is that reducing inequality sucks when you are at the top of the heap.

Actually "sucks" isn't even the right word, since I doubt you can name a single good or service that Americans have less of today than 20 or 30 years ago. (Expanding categories of goods, e.g. "health care", don't count.)

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/P...
> iTunes was their only other attempt in the "war" and it absolutely dominated.

iTunes appeared when there was nothing, there was no "war" in that time
No, which is why these "journalists" should know better.
That one is rough, agreed. A better interpretation might be,"don't get bogged down on an illiquid asset, i.e. a fixer-upper when your cash reserve is low, and would be difficult to generate rental income from". The point is to not let that be an anchor if you lose employment for an extended period of time. It's as much a defensive as offensive posture.
For me personally the best solution is to run an open source operating system like GNU/Linux or *BSD, and use that operating system's package manager or else build from source.

But I'm aware that doesn't work for everyone, since most people (especially Joe User) are using either Windows or Mac OS. For Windows, Ninite covers a decent range of basic freeware and open source software, and Chocolatey covers a lot more but is less user-friendly. For Macs (and I shouldn't have to tell anyone here about this) there is the excellent Homebrew project.

Back to the Windows arena, maybe Microsoft's new package management system will be a boon for power users and those seeking good freeware for their computer without having to worry about tagalong malware.
The so-called "green parties" have caused a lot of environmental damage to Europe and the earth. Instead of relatively speaking quite safe nuclear power, in many places we are getting quite dangerous coal power. Pretty much just out of ignorance.
I also wrote a book in Emacs org mode. My plan was to do all the editing in emacs, and then design the layout in Adobe Indesign. I struggled a lot with several delirious XML-based solutions for this (e.g. Docbook), but finally I found out that a fine method is to use pandoc to directly convert org mode files to IDML (a markup format native to Indesign).
Expecting privacy (or privacy-preserving security) from Google products has always been folly.

Mozilla used to be different. However, when Brendan was purged, first doubts may have arisen. Now that we also see cyber-bully Klabnik on their payroll, the probability has risen sharply that Mozilla has been successfully subverted into a political pressure group.

Since Mozilla now is enrolled in support of the dominant ideology, it has no incentive for supporting privacy anymore, either: The dominant ideology wants minority opinion holders to be outed and ostracised.
I know that Andrew Ng and colleagues say that they don't use HMMs. I haven't spoken with them (I haven't seen them at speech conferences) so I do not know whether they actually believe this themselves.

I believe the best comparison between "CTC" (which is billed as recurrent neural networks without the HMMs) and the traditional approach is by people at Google, Sak et al, "Learning Acoustic frame labeling for speech recognition with recurrent neural networks", ICASSP 2015. (I can't find a PDF online.)
The Fed doesn't print money, the Treasury does. QE is artificial strangulation of supply, not increasing supply.
Practice Hangeul IPA with Everyday Korean and Pictorial Vocabulary
Practise Pronunciation IPA with Everyday Korean + Image Associations

Please learn how to read hangeul and pronunciation first, before using these pictory (“pictorial vocabulary”). The rules:

No direct translation from your native language (most probably English)
Read the hangeul using the IPA.
See the pictory and try to guess the meaning.
You can Google it to see if you’re right.
Associate the pictory with yourself.
For example, kimchi pictory, you just think of the last time you were having the Korean cuisine with your family, you told them what’s your feeling about the kimchi prepared by the restaurant. Flashback how’s the kimchi taste!
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/30/that-chocolate-study/

> For me, the takeaway from this affair is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to make statistics impossible to hack. Getting rid of p-values is appropriate sometimes, but not other times. Demanding large sample sizes is appropriate sometimes, but not other times. Not trusting silly conclusions like “chocolate causes weight loss” works sometimes but not other times. At the end of the day, you have to actually know what you’re doing. Also, try to read more than one study.
> Add to that the fact that in most dating sites the analogy of men to women is at least 3 to 1

I've never actually seen this proven. Did you scrape profiles? OkC staff have repeatedly claimed that the ratio is around 50/50 for major metro areas:

http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/older_lover/Age-Distribution-With...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-male-female-ratio-on-big-f...
It is probably also a lot easier for the US to launch a space probe with a nuke power source than Europe.

Regulatory requirements are very different and I am sure the US would not be too happy if Europe where to launch something with a nuke onboard without their approval.
Practise Hangeul IPA with Everyday Korean + Image Associations (Pictorial Vocabulary):

Rules:

- No direct translation from your native language (most probably English)

- Read the hangeul using the IPA.

- See the pictory and try to guess the meaning.

- You can Google it to see if you’re right but stop there, don't write/memorise the translation.

- Associate the pictory with yourself.

For example, kimchi pictory, you just think of the last time you were having the Korean cuisine with your family, you told them what’s your feeling about the kimchi prepared by the restaurant. Flashback how’s the kimchi taste!
I think your suggestions are good, especially for young people who are looking to stay afloat in their 20s. One thing that I would add is the time perspective - in the US right now, people in their 20s and early 30s are competing and slowly sorting themselves out into stable career fields.

So my suggestion is definitely stay afloat, but don't assume that you will be able to stay afloat forever. Look at what other people are doing and how they are securing stable spots for themselves.
In 2015, do you think most people are using emacs or vim to work with Java or with a Lisp? I think this point stands for the vast, vast majority of people using emacs and vim.
that property is non-standard. Many viewers don't respect it. So calling it a bug is a bit much in my opinion. More of an RFE.
That argument is incomplete. Why isn't the market providing enough new housing?
It's more than a little ironic that you claim Emacs/vim users use their tool out of 'harcdore, programmer machismo', and you're doing basically the same thing in the opposite direction by accusing them of being unprofessional.

For me, I've used both IDE's and plain ordinary text editors for close to 30 years (the first IDE being QuickBasic 4), and tend to find that IDE's get in the way more often than not. My personal software designs tend to use single components for single functions, so the additional complexities of an IDE's second compiler, second build tool, second VCS front end are less than appealing to me. That said, I've gotten a lot of use in the last 24 hours out of code refactoring the the IntelliJ debugger, so I think the honest answer is to use both approaches if you like.
Developing with Bottle – updated
Best example I have is the whole navigation structure (this is on iPhone). Let's say you were listening to a playlist and then you went into an artist, maybe a related artist from there and played a song (basically, you've gone pretty deep). You now decide to search for a song and play that. In order to do that, you need to hit the back button repeatedly until the hamburger icon appears. Then, you can search and listen to the track you wanted. If you want to return to where you were previously, you need to hit the back button repeatedly until you get the hamburger, then redo every step you took to get there.

How is this fixable? Really easily! It's built-in! There's a UITabBarController that is used in many apps, such as iTunes, for this exact purpose. You can switch between sections of an app without losing your place in each section.
You're blaming this on Europe being nuke averse, but Europe is not a homogenous area. While some European countries may be nuke averse, others have adopted nuclear power to a huge extent.

There are other reasons why an RTG might not have been appropriate for Philae. They're pretty heavy, and the lander is pretty light. Also, it is wasteful to use an RTG that could last many years when the mission is only expected to last several months.
Ask HN: How can I learn math?
So this is embarassing: I work in HCI, and I know next to nothing about math.

When I was younger, I had a lot of problems. Ended up in a reform school, and they weren't very focused on education.

Fast forward ten years. I've done a lot of self learning... mostly statistics, but there are huge gaps in my knowledge.

Too often in my career, I've decided on a project or course of study based on my math skills rather than my passions.

The problem is, I don't even know where or how to begin. I don't know what I don't know. And whenever I try to look up a specific concept (say, the Wikipedia page on Calculus) there's so much more that I don't know that the gulf of execution is so great I end up just giving up.

Does anyone know of a good online resource to sort of start at the beginning and work my way up?

(For example, I used to also hate learning foreign languages, but discovered Duolingo and have been working on learning German every since. And it's actually kind of fun!)
Ludwig 'von' Mises would've rejected all inductive arguments.
By the way, this is the documentary for which this was done:

In French: http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/052711-000/pour-maigrir-mangez-d...

And in German: http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/052711-000/schlank-durch-schokol...
System credential managers are the established way to do this properly. They are user configurable, generally maintain credentials in a separate security context, derive a strong key from the user logon credential, can more easily support hardware security mechanisms, and introduce minimum user friction by default. That's why Chrome and most browsers prefer the system credential managers when available (on Linux: libsecret, Gnome Keyring, or KWallet).

The application specific "master password" is more of an anti-pattern for effective credential storage. The most glaring issue is that user friction is so high that it's rarely ever enabled, because it's just too inconvenient and confusing for most people. But beyond that it has the weaknesses typical to any credential manager not deeply integrated into the OS (e.g. credential management is handled entirely in the user's context, management is inconsistent between applications, etc.).
Does anyone else consider these massive corporate arcologies short sighted? I mean, they're literally walling themselves off from the community under gigantic glass domes, an absurd design given the peninsula's mild Mediterranean climate.

Couldn't they consider something more, I don't know, _permeable_?

Though I have to admit the cyberpunk in me relishes the day we have smooth, windowless Googlecars shuttling 'plexmonks through automated checkpoints guarded by robotic Brinhounds.
I think nuclear power is safest even in absolute terms not only relatively.