skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Australia. Well, one should not be astonished about Oz if her govt would even demolish the homes of her first nation people or Aboriginals. How much more the Africans that look like them! Oz men and women stare at blacks in general like where in the world do people look like these AND won't this animal harm me.
> However, if you want to completely derail a reasonable discussion with a white male, just use that phrase: "check your privilege".

This is a typically a response of frustration when said white male does not realize that his entire worldview is shaped by never having experienced the situations that lead to the other's viewpoint.

If you want to have empathy sometimes you need to swallow your pride and just shut up and listen for a while. Because, frankly, no matter how much you believe in your own intellectual honesty, if you are a white male you don't know what it's like to be a woman or an oppressed minority, and you are better off for it. To say that only upper crust trust-fund twits like George Bush are privileged and all other white people have no privilege demonstrates that you emphatically do not understand what white male privilege is.

Sure it hurts to be dehumanized that way, but guess what, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the dehumanization that any black man in a major US city has experienced by the time he turns 18.
would A/B testing, in some capacity, the decision in some form or another, help with this?
Those people were never going to buy anyway. There (hopefully) are enough people who want good games and are sick of the freemium garbage, that they'll pay for a game.

I.e., 100k paid sales and 10M "unauthorized copies" is still enough for an indie dev to make a living.
Learning Angular by Coding Angular
Do you have a better example? I don't find the select diag's like in Desktop Chrome easier to use especially on a mobile. I think what they've done is better than anything else I've seen. With enough following it'd become the norm like anything else.
It doesn't go all the way down. Obviously, you can't have a society where some people are free to murder other people.

But other than ensuring freedom and basic human rights (and perhaps some other minimal rules), why should you have the right to decide how other people live? Do you really think you (or rather, the majority of people) are really that wise? Isn't that being pretentious?

I will give you a challenge if you want. Give me one law or rule that exists now (in this society that you like so much) but wouldn't exist in my view of society that I explained above, and I will tell you how that law is ethically wrong in at least one (admittedly, possibly slightly contrived) situation.

> You know what's interesting? Whenever I bring up this whole "Bitcoin is undemocratic" idea, no bitcoin defender ever says, yeah, we should work to include more people in how it's run. Not one.

Well, the point of my comments in this whole thread was to explain to you why a democratic vote is not a particularly good decision-making process at all (by the way, I find it amazing how when people see the word "democratic" they automatically shutdown their brains and assume it's good... it must sound like "bacon" in some accents or something :-).

So do you also want decisions at companies to be done by a democratic vote? Should all the people in the country (or in the world) decide how Microsoft or Apple is run?

The point of Bitcoin being open source is that if you don't like it, YOU can create your own Bitcoin alternative literally with the click of a button! (And again, many people have!).

So why are you imposing your economic policy on Bitcoin when you can have your own economic policy along with all the people that agree with you, call it Frondocoin, click on a button and have it created 5 minutes later?

Now compare with your way of doing things, that you said yourself:

> propose something better and do the leg-work to persuade everyone that Wizemanbucks are the right way to go. In time, with enough of a national coalition supporting you, you'll be able to build the political organizations to encourage people to vote for Wizemanbucks. Keep at it, and if people really do like your ideas, you'll have a new currency, just to your liking.

Does this really sound easier, cheaper, or better in any way than what I described?
Do you even think that what you said is even possible or realistic in any way?

You think that if I don't agree with the way the USD is managed, then with some effort I would be able to do what you proposed and change the national currency of the USA?

I think you are being deluded if you think that's even remotely possible. It doesn't even matter which economic policy I wanted (not even if I think that the interest rates should be only 0.05% higher than what they are now).

People don't vote Republicans or Democrats because they think some interest rate should be 0.05% higher. They vote because charismatic politicians go on television and say what people want to hear...
Combine this with multitail (http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/) and you can even have multiparty conversation !
Well, good design is obvious once you know it. But before you know it, it's as opaque and obtuse as anything else. It's just that design has this strange property with us humans in that, when done right, it feels so natural and emergent to us to the point we automatically take it for granted the instant we "get it".

In the realm of modern-day web-design, most bad design is because the website was built before a lot of these good design principles and conventions were invented (e.g. responsive grids, tons of padding, flex-direction(column), etc.). Next followed by prideful "designers" who steadfastly refuse to use a design framework because the site they're building must be a special snowflake. Next followed by the missing-the-point-followers of RMS (that is, they're not following RMS for the free software philosophy) who plainly look down on CSS and design as something that is beneath them. Finally, I'll give you laziness.
This is the best source of numbers I have found in the industry. Especially the CPI numbers and 6 months of buying installs before it paid off.
In the general setting A-star is optimal. JPS (and JPS+) can speed it up if you have additional information about the topology of the search space: 1) search is on a rectangular grid, and 2) movement between adjacent grid squares has uniform cost. In that case, you can take advantage of certain properties/symmetries of a rectangular grid to safely "skip" parts of the expansion that A-star would normally do, while still being guaranteed to find the optimal solution.

The JPS paper from a few years ago explains in more detail: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~dharabor/data/papers/harabor-g...
What probably fudges around this, is that all the nodes get looked at before any routing code starts running. A* is coming to the graph cold.
The NYTimes is running a nice collection[1] of the jaw-dropping photos of the comet from Rosetta over the course of the mission, including some from the past month, and the spectacular close fly-by in March.

As many faraway and strange places as we've explored in the Solar System so far, something about this comet – roughly the breadth of Central Park, yet with untold nooks and crannies – feels more coldly alien than anything else I've seen.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/20/science/space/...
A page about mobile design dos and don'ts and it's not even mobile optimized!
No comments yet about why in Python 3 the map behavior changed when the iterables are of different lengths? That seems like a gratuitous change. How is that better (not just different) than what Python 2 did?

Also, there was one other change in Python 3 that should have been left alone. I'm stealing the meme from a previous poster on HN:

Python 3 broke "Hello, World!"

Why? Why couldn't that "wart" have been left the way it was?
Sometimes it's smarter to not change something, especially if that change breaks nearly 100% of existing programs.
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Typeset in the Future – 2001: A Space Odyssey
I'm not sure about OS X but most Linuxes have netcat installed.

There's also OpenSSL s_client/s_server for an encrypted connection, although you need to setup some certificates first.
That is what Stephan Hawking does.

http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html

"My main interface to the computer is through a program called EZ Keys, written by Words Plus Inc. This provides a software keyboard on the screen. A cursor automatically scans across this keyboard by row or by column. I can select a character by moving my cheek to stop the cursor. My cheek movement is detected by an infrared switch that is mounted on my spectacles. This switch is my only interface with the computer. EZ Keys includes a word prediction algorithm, so I usually only have to type the first couple of characters before I can select the whole word."
I can't think of a more perfect name for a UI library for the Coq programming language. I'll show myself out now.
I tend to think that doing physical work, understanding what's involved, is educational, informative, and motivating. A significant part of the world does work with their body. It's important in having empathy for other "classes" (assuming your kid gets an "information worker" job). Related or not, it's important to also learn how to do a job you may not like well, to pursue excellence in one's work.
I read it as hyperbole, not a serious factual statement.
I learned how to touch type before home computers were commonplace, so I get frustrated when I can't close my eyes and type what I'm thinking. Maybe I'm a dying breed. I've had laptops with such difficult keyboards that I've turned them into servers that I can manage remotely, and others that I'll plug an external keyboard into to get a consistent experience. I can use a wide variety of keyboards, but some are just plain bad.
These are fantastic. I want to get them printed and hang them up on my wall.
Surprising how many of these people get wrong. I think this page is for people building apps without help from a designer.
I have been wondering the same. I went to the Apple store and none of the employees had heard of Xcode...
Breitbart Texas confirmed Tuesday that “an Islamic Tribunal using Sharia law” is indeed operating in Texas. But not to worry: an attorney for the tribunal assures us that participation is “voluntary,” and one of the Sharia judges, Dr. Taher El-badawi, says it’s devoted only to “non-binding dispute resolution.”

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/28/volunt...
Soylent has proven to be exceptionally filling for me, more so than any other food. It actually gets rid of that ever-present background hunger for up to half a day.

I've lost a ton of weight on it, enough that I've gone down 3+ inches in pant size in a few months. Of course, being in a stressful situation such that I lost interest in eating, then getting out of said stressful situation so I didn't have as much of an urge to binge and stretch my normal appetite again, probably helped.
More specifically, JPS works on unweighted grids (not arbitrary graphs). That allows it to use properties of a grid topology to figure out where it can safely "jump" without sacrificing optimality.
This looks fun, and it's nice to see third-party software starting to appear for Crystal.

While parts of it do indeed appear to be inspired by Rails (the routing and the controllers in particular), it feels like it's much more at the Sinatra level right now - by which I mean that Rails, out of the box, does an awful lot more than this, but Sinatra does a similar amount.
Most definitely is, our farm is California too. If you wan't the best quality avocados go to a farmers market (esp around August).
So there is a Muslim town called Islamberg on U.S. soil ...
I never used Uber, but I will be boycotting them intentionally after this.
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.Neg that!
Thanks, Phil! Your post about Logo (http://technomancy.us/167) was definitely an inspiration for this project.

I hope that something in Clojure can be made to be as effective as DrRacket has been for you.
Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger protocol
talk has been around for like...30 years now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)
I think that some connection was implied. Why else mention it?
These new laptops with compromised layouts are sad.

Especially when you see empty space on each side of the keyboard, which isn't being used for speakers or anything else.

I have an X60 and while its layout is not exactly like the standard 101-key, they did manage to fit all the keys in there including Scroll Lock/Pause Break.
While your snarky comment seeks to point out your distaste for libertarianism and possibly this community itself, I think it is intellectually dishonest to characterize HN as a single entity. It is many people, with many different viewpoints, spanning in age from young to old. HN doesn't have an "opinion", people utilizing it do. One would do well to remember that when characterizing communities such as reddit, hn and 4chan. They are the sum total of many people and are often characterized by a vocal or visible minority.

edit: The parent said something similar to "Hacker news should love this, corporations can do what they want, hail Rand".
There are existing (old) *nix commands for this. E.g., the `talk` command which I believe needs the talkd daemon running (ntalkd on OS X). There are also `wall` and `write`.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talkd_and_the_talk_comm...
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Stephen Fry: Mass surveillance is 'squalid and rancid' (2014)
I hate to sound all conspiracy theorist crazy but this makes me scared of the fact that people may start to just up and disappear 1984 style. Covering up murders of people is not good on even a personal level as nobody gets closure, but on a wider societal scale its just frightening. It starts with takedowns on Facebook and moves into the larger media: whats next? CNN?
If you really want raw speed then how about using a chorded keyboard and get over 200 wpm? Here's an HN post on Plover:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510409
What's wrong with deep learning (by Yann LeCun)
Solving Verbal Comprehension Questions in IQ Test by Word Embedding
An Infinite Restricted Boltzmann Machine
Announcing Hashtag Helper for iOS
Just sharing this link since a11y gets so little attention:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
It's too bad that you had to say that in a public venue, but at least it's a niche like HN - where it's all tech geeks, and virtually certain that no one here actually knows or interacts with you on any regular basis. Expect a knock at your door in 3... 2...
Why does this author sound like he has an agenda regarding duck boats?
why edit to say what it had said, rather than delete in turn? (parent had posted and edited within < 5 minutes)
Maybe he didn't actually share it to Facebook. He's just going on the fact that he can't find it, and immediately assuming Facebook just deleted it without mention. I'm skeptical any of this happened. That's not how it works.
Nope, it's not about the speed. It is about physical comfort and pain.

I'm 34, and have sadly discovered the reality of RSI over the past couple years (The author's final warning is appropriate). As a result, I've definitely modified keybindings specifically to avoid some recurring painful movements, and I think that's the reason the author discusses the topic, not speed of input.
> I posted the photo to my Instagram account and clicked the button to share to Facebook. But while discussing the incident with a colleague last night, I scrolled back and discovered that both posts had been deleted.

Censorship issues aside (I know, seeing the trees instead of the forest here), I wonder if this is an actual mechanism due to Facebook and Instagram having a high level of integration...i.e. a Facebook mod pushes the "delete" button and it makes a privileged deletion call to Instagram's API (or vice versa)...or did it just happen to be that users from each service separately flagged the posts, and by the time OP noticed, the post had been removed from both services?
How exactly are you hung up with form data? Its low level, so you certainly can't get validation out of box, but otherwise in my experience getting form data out is fairly straight forward. I recently wrote my first Racket web app. Its not pretty or following best practices but you can take a look.

https://github.com/vishesh/whalebin
map(lambda x: x, ['a', 'b', 'c'], [1, 2])

This should be

map(lambda x, y: (x, y), ['a', 'b', 'c'], [1, 2])

If you want the same behavior as passing None as the first argument.
It is slightly ironic that that comment was deleted on a post on this subject. Did the poster do it themself or were they censored? Part of the conspiracy?
Check this out: http://www.secretlifeofpronouns.com/exercises.php
Why the Marines have failed to adopt a new sniper rifle in the past 14 years
Ask HN: What is the best route to take for good internship/career next year?
So, I am currently 27 and have already graduated with a degree in college once (although with a non STEM degree). I have since been working in a finance job as a licensed rep.

Last year, I decided to pursue a post-bachelor of science degree in Computer Science and have been doing it part time outside my full time job at a state school (basically another undergrad in CS without the fluff classes). Previous to this new degree, I was teaching myself some programming.

I have hopes of leave this job by December this year to go full time in this program. I would only have 10 classes left starting in January 2016. My plan is to switch over full time January 2016 (doing 3 to 4 classes per quarter) and taking off during the summer to do an internship.

Would anyone have any good recommendations on what I should focus on between now and next summer (specifically a field like web dev, mobile app, software engineering, or anything else)? I have asked this question to a few people, and they have recommended either web development or mobile development. However, I have heard that most job growth will be taking place in Software app development.

I know one should pursue what they “are interested in”, but honestly I’m interested in pretty much everything. So, I may as well pursue something that will have the best chance for job growth for now. After all, if I get my foot in the door I can usually easily learn a second skill outside my job to move to a new field if I choose.

But, seeing I’m just starting out, it seems it would be best to focus on something that would lead to a good internship and job starting out.
So, with all that said, does anyone have any advice on a field I should focus on for the next year that could easily lead to a good internship and job? Keeping in mind I hope to get an internship the summer of 2016 and have a job in the field by December 2016?

Thanks for any advice on this.
Yeah, the headline on eetimes is a bit...sensationalistic. It may be useful for cellular signal processing, but there are quite a few other things that fpgas are used for. Now, were this chip to have a proper PCIe x16 bus dangling off it, and elements useful for video encoding/decoding, it may be more intriguing. Right now, it's just an interesting toy for telcos.
For those wondering about buying one: a used, working Atmos is in the $1k range and a new one (JLC still make them) is ~$6k. Not cheap.
> I posted the photo to my Instagram account and clicked the button to share to Facebook. But while discussing the incident with a colleague last night, I scrolled back and discovered that both posts had been deleted.

OP claims it was deleted from both services.
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That was my first thought as well. If there are people who can corroborate that they commented or liked it, great, but if not it's just a single unreliable anecdote.
I posted the photo to my Instagram account and clicked the button to share to Facebook. But while discussing the incident with a colleague last night, I scrolled back and discovered that both posts had been deleted.

Even if he might not have shared it to Facebook, he does mention that his Instagram post was also deleted.
That's one aspect I really like about South East Asian culture - it hasn't been infected yet by the whites "politically correctness" - life happens and they simply get on with it. I follow some people and man some of the graphic photos that get posted (Facebook) there are intense, think /r/gore x10.

Anyways minority ruling the majority... 1 person complains all obey, sad
It doesn't seem to me like he has an agenda. Keep in mind that the "duck boats" are pretty much universally reviled by natives in Philadelphia; they are loud, feel out of place in the neighborhoods they operate in and are full of gawking tourists.

The incident in 2010 he mentioned was pretty big news in Philly. Just seems like a concerned reporter who was at the right place at the right time and noticed a series of recurring events with these boats.
Bit ironic really. This article is about the preservation of content. I personally dislike coming into threads and seeing a deleted conversations, so I try not to delete my comments.
Back in the day, we made much use of ytalk. One of talk, ntalk or ytalk should be available for any system you use.
No reason to sound all conspiracy theorist.

It's happened in the past, the same drives that motivate "disappearances" haven't gone anywhere and we're a country with a recent history of disappearing people to black sites to never be seen again.

Inconvenient content is buried or erased on the internet all the time. Entire events have been tried to be erased from the from the internet (think Great Wall).

Nothing is more inconvenient than Joe Citizen catching you red handed and making it public.

Monitoring or shutting down social media and chat services is one of the first thing that happens during a political upheaval. Violence and people dying in the streets is inconvenient.
Archive link:
https://archive.is/lAxHz
Good riddance.

This can't be overemphasized. Both 10BASE5 and 10BASE2 were a "shared medium". Everyone connected to the same cable. It really was "an absolute nightmare" to debug.

There were no hubs and/or switches to isolate users from each other.
The Return key is usually the bigger problem.
Would a blackberry bush live in my yard with just rainfall? Or is it to dry in the bay area?
I was brought up on corn fed beef. I recently switched to grass fed beef after learning more about the effects of a corn diet on my health and cow health.

The truth is that I find grass fed beef very dry. Presumably because of the lack of saturated fats. It just doesn't taste the way my brain thinks a hamburger or taco meat should taste.
Take a listen [1].You'll be amazed at the ingenuity. No teacher required!

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_educa...
I actually really miss the user experience of 'talk' and 'ytalk'. Split-screen so people really could type at the same time, and touch-typists could type at the same time as reading what the other person was writing. Character-by-character, too, which helped improve the feeling of connection.
So duck boats are bad, butt he million people who die a year due to car accidents are somehow more acceptable to society?
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