skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the historical motivation was just that there was not much of a concept of pollution harming people far away, so this sort of activity has traditionally been allowed by default. For thousands of years, you could burn your wood on your land and everybody was fine with that. At most you might have some trouble with your neighbors if they don't like your smoke. But the idea you'd cause diffuse harm to millions is pretty new, and has a lot of inertia to overcome.
This book basically taught me UNIX. I'm not even kidding.
Good read, as an aside I found this to be somewhat funny :)
from your link: http://imgur.com/dTdp2g7
In some cases I think they've gone back up since the downvote crew rolled through. In some cases I've deleted things too. A lot of times as I said, I'll get up several votes, and then be pushed down to 0 or negatives, and then perhaps end up back at 1 in time.

(On a discussion about Google, I managed to end up +30 karma for my comments there, then back down to where I was, then back up a bit, before getting -50'd and threatened by a moderator. Anything touching Google is a particularly sensitive topic to the folks who use downvote heavily, I imagine there's quite a few Google employees who participate here.)

I disagree that the comment you linked was off-topic. It was an issue with the link provided, and a discussion of possible solutions that followed it.
There's no contradiction between the two.
How different is American immigration policy than other similar countries, like Canada, the UK, Australia, and the author's New Zealand? I'm sympathetic to everyone trying to immigrate to the US, but I'm guessing he would have similar issues in any country. Probably less frustrating, though.
Sparkfun has and will do more awesome things and it has been interesting seeing how much growth has taken place there in the past few years. I wish Nate well and can't really blame him for wanting to get back to the reasons he started Sparkfun in the 1st place. As a longtime customer thank you Nate for all you have accomplished.
I suspect you need to have a talk to the MPAA/RIAA for that...
I am reminded of something in Brian Carper's old post "Keyword Arguments: Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp":

http://briancarper.net/blog/579/keyword-arguments-ruby-cloju...

This reminds me of everything I love, but also everything I hate, about Ruby. He writes:

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With even more added sugar, you can leave off the parens in Ruby function calls. So this is pretty common in Ruby:

foo :x => 123 # => {:x=>123}

How nice and punctuation-less. But then things get ugly. What about this?

foo {:x => 123}

That won't even compile.
Whats the difference to NAT?
There is some merit to having suspicion on nutrition. The amount of oil consumption is quite high. Every thing is fried or deep fried. You could easily see this in the snacks that are consumed with tea/coffee.
Don't we? I think most people would describe terrestrial radio, OTA television, etc. as 'free'.
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You can go to http://echo.amazon.com/ and see the entire history of recordings with the option to delete any.
I imagine if they are truly critical they are putting their jobs on the line. Apple will probably cut you off from them in a heartbeat.
I have no problem with design patterns as a concept. And I have no problem with design patterns being taught as the collective folk wisdom of wise sages of industry.

However, design patterns are craft, not engineering, and should be taught as vocational training--not as an academic subject.

Design patterns have no rigorous underpinnings. They have very little academic research to back up their efficacy. The only "proof" we have that the design patterns being taught are beneficial is the word of a few guys who wrote a book and the collective folk wisdom of industry.

There is nothing wrong with this, but it isn't firm foundation for an academic subject.
I'm working on www.seeflo.com
It still has some glitches but the start of the application is there.
My biggest problem right now is finding my audience.
It's PUFA consumption. They're using corn and soy oil and peanut oil with everything rather than their traditional ghee. They're probably also eating less dairy overall.
I actually bought their 2-year supply back when they were doing that. Details here. I guess it's the best $30 I've ever spent since I'm still using the same blades. Change every couple of weeks depending on how ratty they get (so it's more than a two-year supply) but I've never had any noticeable irritation. I do prefer the occasional Gillette as well as "pass-thru" cleanability as mine can get kindof gummed up and difficult to rinse otherwise.

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Apple, Yahoo, Adobe and Dropbox Received Perfect Scores on EFF's Privacy Ranking
It's pretty nice to not have to deal with ads while watching live shows, music videos, etc on youtube. For me it was a welcomed addition to what I was already paying for.
If you are looking for startup ecosystem, there is no city, including Seattle, that come even close to SF Bay Area. Seattle startup ecosystem is very small, lacks diversity in ideas, people, and connections and primarily Amazon and Microsoft network-centric.
I'm kinda surprised, it's working for me in Canada even though it's only supposed to be for the US.

Also I don't understand what they mean by "ad supported". How will that work? I am not a paid user, and I've been listening for almost an hour and still haven't heard one ad yet.
I suspect this relates to the debate over the 'poverty of the stimulus' argument. It's a pretty fundamental premise of Chomskyan innatist arguments that seems to me totally wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus
Systems Orchestration in the Modern Data Center
I didn't understand that part. It describes "high data rate" as "best case". Does "better than we ever imagined" means they were overflowing in good usable data? Because too much data sounds like a problem.

Unrelated, note how difficult it is for people to accept 100% responsibility for a problem. For example:

> Did we (the JPL team) make an error in assuming how the select/pipe mechanism would work ? Yes, probably.

There's no "probably"! A mistake was clearly made.
In case you didn't see it, there's an unhappy update to that story: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kalief-browder-1993-...
He certainly can, but as a citizen I should have preferential right to work instead of my job taken from me and handed to H1B's.
Slow Reading as a Practice of Reckoning with Love and Loss
Sure there is. However this article seems to make the point that just even if you eat right and are active, you are predisposed to these problems just by being of South Asian decent. The section of the article "The Indian/South Asian Risk Factor" talks about that.
Please post this in the thread on Friday. This one is just to let people know we'll be doing this.
Well if we're going to talk about worst case, the safety worst-case from coal might end up being a rerun of the Permian mass extinction, so nuclear is still the very clear winner.
Rhabdomyolysis has a very large variety of causes including extreme physical exercise especially exercising while dehydrated. It can occur in any sport or exercise program.

That's not the point of this article though. It seems they believe the injury was caused by prolonged squatting and was further exacerbated by compression from the jeans as the legs started to swell. The jeans had to be cut off. That's what I got from it anyways, it was difficult for me to get the jist because it was written in "medicalese."
The CIA Can’t Keep Its Drone Propaganda Straight
Similar issue at Stanford, right down to there being a Keeper of the LaTeX Style. I certainly couldn't have used any old off-the-shelf style that I happened to like.
WTBBQ? I pasted this into the Goog and the internet is full of people squatting in track pants and flat caps. Why are they doing that?
OpenSource often means easy to use without paying. It gives you choice to use but not pay. I am not against open source but most of the time people religiously screaming that this and that must be open source are the ones that never pay for software.

Oh and also replying to the guy above. Tell that to dozens of OSS tools that had to be supported by real companies because people were not that willing to donate. Look at grsecurity for example, tmux, and the other ones i do not remember that Stripe donated 100k to.
It kills me that our legal system is like this. You should never has to "give in" simply because you face a harsher sentence if you exercise your right to defend yourself. I don't see why our justice system simply lowers sentences or fine individuals rather than tacking on ridiculous sentences.
I want to add Last.fm scrobbling - I don't understand why Apple, Amazon, and Google ignore this.
> They use 'inbound' and 'outbound', but without knowledge of the centre point for that line this information is useless!

Especially since that changes once you cross the center—you can go "inbound" to your destination, and then "inbound" to go home.
This is an excellent book, very well reason, quantitative, and clearheaded. I do wish it was a little less UK focused (I have the same problem with many books that are US focused; it's a world problem and leaving out the BRICs is missing a lot of the story).
OK, then why does the same effect seem to exist in Indians living elsewhere, and not among non-Indians in other smoggy places (e.g. China)? The smog factor was already accounted for. There's still something going on here, and several credible genetic/metabolic explanations are being examined. That's science. Presenting obviously-irrelevant facts as explanations is how science gets derailed (and apparenty the local tone police are more than happy to help with that).
Why would HR look at your github account? They are just screening hundreds of resumes to find the ones worth interviewing; they don't have time to dig deep. It's up to the individual interviewers to look further if they feel motivated and have time, which they probably don't.

I think I can recall maybe once having seen someone list a github account on their resume. It definitely hasn't been common in my experience; certainly not enough so that people would be on the lookout for repository links.
Article 5(2) of the Berne Convention:[0]

"The enjoyment and the exercise of these rights shall not be subject to any formality"

[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Convention_for_the_Protection...
Fwiw, Songza is actually in Google Music. Google bought Songza a while back, and a couple/few months later Songza playlists were available in Google Music.

It was nice because i could then cache my favorite Songza playlists and cache them on my Google Music App. Handy
Yes, and you can't access the vast majority of services the phone offers without a hell of a lot of latency. If you can at all. JS is a joke compared to the capabilities of a c compiler.
A family plan is so sorely needed, even more so on other the Play properties. I don't buy Play books because I can't share them. TV shows are a pain because we have to watch every episode together.
From the article:

> “With more than 40 million members, we are excited by Credit Karma’s widespread adoption by people all over the country, giving us insight into $2.3 trillion of America’s household debt. This massive data enables us to deliver top quality insights for everyone looking to improve their personal finances.”

Does CK make more money off of people with large amounts of debt? Are they chasing this demographic? I suppose that demographic might be more susceptible to following through with refinance and credit card offers than people with little/no debt.

As a CK user I am not too worried. It's been clear to me that my information is shared with lenders/creditors, and I know I have enough willpower to only accept those offers if it is fiscally responsible.
Good find :) This kind of information should definitely have more visibility on a site dealing with highly sensitive financial data.
Hi there, do you know what's up with HTML5 audio lately?
I'm almost certain this is specific to your team/location. Three years ago, when I was a grad student, I had a screening round on campus with VMWare, and rate it my worst experience ever. A HR person (who contracted with VMWare, acc to her LinkedIn) interviewed me with a pre-printed list of questions; among other things, she didn't understand the difference between the TCP/IP stack and the data structure called stack. To top it off, when I mentioned something about Citrix in my work history, she said she hadn't heard about the company, and said VMWare doesn't bother about "small companies".

I guess both of our stories are anectodal, but maybe my situation was because of an arrogant contractor, as opposed to an employee. It's really cool that VMWare actually looks at github profiles.
I think you overestimate the straight-forwardness of this. Option #2 means including economic incentives in your relationship ("I better rush towards marrying someone, lest I get kicked out!"). Option #3 is very restricted -- if you are on a non-immigrant visa (e.g. student visa), then the simple fact of applying for the lottery (and thus signalling immigration intent) will likely make you ineligible for a renewal.
>> The cream (Proraso in my case) lathers quickly and consistently, and is vastly superior to the canned stuff.

For what it's worth, Proraso works well with cartridge and disposable razors also.
Eternal vigilance is required to ensure the government the citizens demand exists.
I've spent about 8 years in Japan. I love parts of the culture (the good parts, not the bad parts). Things like the service ethic, politeness, safety, and the basic idea of "do whatever you want in your private life but don't put out anyone else while doing it."

My guess is that a massive influx of foreigners would likely destroy that culture.

Is there any way to open borders and still preserve a place's culture, at least the good parts, or is that just doomed?
The stock ticker is GOOG and everyone who works there knows it; "the goog" and the more anagrammatic "el goog" are common slang.
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That "no competition" stance requires defining that Apple has a monopoly on selling their own products, which is true, but fairly useless. In the larger market in which iOS is a participant, they have quite a competitor in Google, with a number of also-rans clawing for attention.
So it's not a revolution in computing, it's a revolution in the ability to sell those devices to other people. Big whoop. Let me know when they can root the devices they buy so they aren't crippled anymore.
Why would anyone dislike having ads removed on youtube for free after purchasing Google Play Music? lolwutt
It's not just about Taylor Swift having way more pull than any developer, she was also presenting Apple with a problem simple enough that it could literally be solved by throwing money at it.

As Rob Napier pointed out in a great blog post [1]: The app store sustainability problem is definitely not the sort of problem you can just throw money at, and thus can't be responded to by Apple with the same way.

Even in this article it is immediately apparent there is no consensus among the affected as to what the real problem is: Is it lack of free trials? Paid upgrades? Review times?

[1] http://robnapier.net/throw-money
Docker and Microsoft announce more innovation to cross platforms and win hearts
This is not my first, or even second position. I have several years of experience. The company paid good lip service to proper software methodologies in interviews.

On top of this is a monolithic object model. With every device produced by the company (the company does PCB fabs) supported within the code base, literally hundreds of thousands of devices.
I usually disassemble my Merkur before it's in my toiletry, but have a spare blade or two in wax paper floating around-- it doesn't seem to attract attention if it's not inside the razor assembly...
Can Free Mobile Content Survive?
Thank you. So it doesn't sound like there is much that specifically hurts middle class to lower upper class Americans, it's just that it contributes to continued power & wealth accumulation in the upper upper class, the prevention of which could be seen as a reasonable goal in its own right.
For you. I know people that have been in Canada decades that still don't have their permanent residency. If it was fair across the board it would be 'first in first out'.
This might be a possibility, though in the article it seems the risks are similar if they're in the US or India

It might be a systemic cultural thing though.
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Can you show us examples of this echo chamber in action?

In my experience, low-quality posts and comments get downvoted, high- (or even okay-) quality posts and comments get upvoted.

Also, why is there all of this focus on votes? Don't get worked up over magic internet points that people give/take without a second thought.
We have a very active dogfood group internally.

It's likely, even with a lot of internal users, that none of us have hit the text selection problem, or haven't reported it (or there's some technical or prioritization reason for it). I'll look into it and report it to the group though!
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I had an epiphany when I switched from Mach 3 razors to a safety razor - some markets are dominated by marketing, meanwhile there is equivalent, sometimes better, solutions that exist but don't have the means to market their product due to having such low operating margins.

Dollar Shave Club comes around as is able to mimic that concept, but hits a middle ground between a low-margin and mainstream marketed solutions.

The irony in all of this is that the Dollar Shave Club is still too expensive when compared to my safety razor that costs me about 10 cents per shave. So it is actually more like the mainstream solutions they're trying to undermine than not.
A sense of entitlement always fascinates me. Yours isn't as much fun as the variety you can find reading gaming forums, but it's still making me smile. Thank you!
Read the sibling threads.

I agree that I have no guarantee. That is not related. I don't have a massive problem with the Echo - I plain don't get the risk/reward situation and it's not for me.

The only problem I do have is people jumping from 'having a smart phone' to 'cannot seriously be worried about random other gadgets with microphones'. There's no connection. That logic is flawed.
Which way do you want to have it? Kalief Browder endured the kafka-esque nightmare product of an overburdened criminal court system. Plea bargains keep 95+% of the overall case load out of that system. You can have less plea bargaining and more court overhead, or you can have more plea bargaining and fewer delays for trials.

There is a huge problem with the US criminal court system (I personally think it's almost entirely product of ludicrous oversentencing, the product of the 1970s-1980s "war on crime"). But I don't think it's helpful to point fingers at parts of the process that are unrelated to those problems.
I signed up fairly early and I got a request in a few weeks.
Hmm, I seem to meet 3/5 criteria on that article. Signed up with the screening center at El Camino. Thanks for posting this link.
Some people can downvote. Everyone with a logged in account can upvote. So your problem is not just that a few people downvote your posts, but that other people do not upvote your posts.

To go from +4 to -4 is not normal. You have to try hard to craft a post that has that vote pattern. Have you considered just avoiding those types of threads? (Apple, Google, or MS threads have that kind of voting. Or if you say anything critical and also wrong about OpenBSD).

Do you have any examples?
Well, the properly might refer to if it was reasonable to make that assumption.
This is probably a "cover you ass" clause in case there's an altercation between security and the photographer. It's easy to imagine a low paid security guy resorting to saying "I told you you can't take pictures here" and smashing the camera.
Not talking about the Google Now notifications. Meant "OK Google"
In reality there would be a CentOS and everyone would use that instead.

Although this would not be much of a change for Sublime in particular, which is commercial with purchase optional (just occasional nagging.)
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Though if Apple removed its cut it would likely be even less incentivized to fix thing like app store review times/app store discovery, as those teams would suddenly become pure cost centers.
It's not SSD, but it's flash memory nevertheless, so, the same price predictions valid for SSDs apply to it.

And yes. Carrying a worry-free laptop is priceless.
Do advertisers screen content for exploits?

It seems dangerously easy to use advertising as a distribution platform for your malicious code.
So wavy, when all I wanted was a straight line! I'd like a series that can approximate not just the values of a function, but all its derivatives as well.
I had to look up what it means to be answered with just the word Mu. I've seen it before, but I never really bothered to look it up. The humorous explanation is here - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mu
There is a way, selling support. Do you really see people paying for commercial support of Sublime?
I'm not sure, but I think the author means that there is no extraction of fields from the instruction, which is one way of defining the decode step.
This is science, all knowledge is both inductively reached and imperfect. More people should use the word "probably"—if you're going to assign blame, which is not always necessary, it is important to do so accurately.
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Do they have Taylor Swift's stuff?
RTC works like that. You can also set up rules so that you can't even check in without linking a ticket.
Squatting is a common posture when hanging out in certain cultures (notably, but not limited to, slavic countries), and it also turns out that there is a large overlap between these cultures and the cultures in which wearing track pants and flat caps is common everyday attire.
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Probably because their stuff is mostly only available in the US.
If you asked a manufacturing worker in Youngstown, OH what they thought of the TPP, their answer would immediately be "it's just a way to help rich people export our jobs to Asia".

On the other hand, it might be reasonable to assume that the barriers to that were already so low that jobs that can be exported to Asia already have been.
Carbs in diet. The diet of most Indians has more carbs than most other diets.
NTS: Real-Time Streaming for Test Automation
"The offline playback stuff continues to be pretty clunky to set up. If I know I am going on a road trip and will be driving out of range, actually adding that music to the device is a huge pain, and often the easiest way is just to leave the device playing music for days and let it build up a cache. Horrible."

It's not obvious but the way to do this is to "pin" (aka mark as keeping for offline) playlists on the device. Create a few travel playlists, pin them on the device, put the device on wifi or change the data settings in the app, go to the web client and mass drag and drop songs onto the travel playlists. I manage about 6 GB worth of offline music this way and it works decently. Once in a while you have to go into settings and tap "Refresh Music" to get it to recognize a new playlist but I maybe do that once a month.
Open source makes a lot of sense for things developers use in common (i.e. language runtimes, compilers, libraries, etc.) because they can all "give back." This is entirely consistent with developers selling application-specific software to other people.