skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should smokers have the right to pollute the air in public places? We all have to breathe that stuff, you know.

Also you seem to be ignoring the "certain places" part of this ban. It doesn't say you can't smoke outdoors. It says you can't smoke in public parks, public beaches, and similar places.

You can smoke outdoors on your own property. You can smoke indoors in your own property.

The general trend is simply that smokers are free to enjoy their smokes in ways that don't affect others.
Seems like a good way to waste money on a service that will very seldom provide value (logo redesigns) and will not work across all platforms thereby introducing an additional thing you have to worry about instead of solving it.

Better idea:

1. Take sheet of paper

2. Write down where you use your logo
As I read this I couldn't help but think of PG's essay on Growth. "The constraints that limit ordinary companies also protect them. That's the tradeoff. If you start a barbershop, you only have to compete with other local barbers."

He might have to rewrite that paragraph if this goes big!
A part of what programming/comp-sci deals with is rapidly changing and somewhat disconnected nomenclature. In the 90's, you may well have been "corrected" that it's the Gang of Four Visitor pattern. Map-reduce, if that's what you're referring to, didn't become popularized until later.

Again, Alan Kay is right -- computer programming is "half a field" that often forgets its own content. Ironically, programming patterns were actually forwarded as a form of technical literature for the programming field, not so much as an approved cookbook.
LLVM bitcode is a moving target, not a firm spec.
great!!!! really really great!
Surprisingly good start for Beats One, although the NYC host is a bit too saccharine for my tastes.

The question becomes can they maintain the quality? They definitely need to hire add more diverse DJs and expand the number of countries they broadcast from if they want to be the radio station of the world.
I wonder if these guys have seen Americathon?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americathon
Don't more women attend college than men?

Hasn't that been true for 40 years?
Thanks? I am not trying to attack the author, the writing, or the idea; it's just that I don't know what to make of the data they present, because I require some context to understand the situation they are trying to characterize. I do not doubt their dedication, their motives, or their work ethic.
The pathetic Indiegogo campaign to save Greece
> It will dominate many roles trivially

This is exactly the kind of hubris that got us into this mess.
If I'm not wrong, Apple allows you to install Chrome on iOS? Of course for a long time they didn't allow other browsers to use their Nitro Engine (so deliberately forced them to stay slower), but seems now they allow that as well ...

Again, it doesn't allow them to be made as the 'default' browser - which in itself is a big reason to criticize them.
I would argue opt-in for having your logo with the service, rather than opt-out, but it might be difficult to come up with a benefit that's enticing enough.

There's maybe some value in the logo owner being able to get information on who's using their logo (service not yet provided).

From the logo-consumer standpoint, it's pretty cool, though, it would be difficult to know if the logo is current enough.
That could well change.
I have never really followed tennis but I happened to see the end of Agassi's last professional match (and this speech) in 2006. It's basically required viewing for anyone who is capable of feeling emotion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bybiN6mTjmY
> I sympathize with people who like developing on the desktop with Chrome and for Chrome, but as a user, I prefer the browser that doesn't spin up the fans on my MacBook Air

For me it's just video perf, but the worst part is that it's Google own web services that are spinning up the fans, and their video services work 10x better in Safari!

I have a shiny new 15" Retina MBP, which heats up like a stove if I use Chrome to open a video Hangout or watch YouTube. So for work meetings I've made a habit of having my calendar always open in Safari so when I click the video link, I get the Hangout in Safari as well.

And Safari manages to not set my computer on fire, amazing!
The others make more sense, actually. They report proportions, so if 40% are women, you know 60% are men. Therefore there is no need to report men. But as I said in another comment, the article is indeed poorly worded and confusing on this.
Ask HN: Will VR (Oculus) be a hit?
I want to do something for VR devices, but many reviews seem to be negative, saying it will be doomed as soon as being launched.

I want to ask your opinion on VR (not necessarily oculus)?

I have tried both oculus dk1 and dk2 briefly. but I wear heavy prescription glasses, I don't think they are very friendly to shortsightedness. I can't see clearly if I take off my glasses, but if I wear them, oculus pushes my glasses too close to my face.

looking around within a game feels great, but as soon as I move in the game (with keyboard), I start to feel dizzy.

But I see its potential in non-game use cases. I think it could replace monitors. But I never had a chance to wear it long enough to tell.

Will you feel dizzy if you use it to watch a movie? which is relatively static? how about coding with it or painting? Will you buy it when it's out?
I've done a lot of data scrapping for my statistical-analysis blog posts, both via API and HTML parsing. (E.g. http://minimaxir.com/2015/01/linkbait/)

I have not received any complaints; in fact, I've received complements and promotion from the parent sources. I would not recommend breaking any API limits or selling the data for profit, though.
not the poster of this article, but when dang sends you an e-mail to repost a story, I tend to listen
As is almost the entire DoD budget.
There's one discernible difference between Chrome and Safari on iOS 8- try scrolling on both and you'll see that both render them differently. Much faster on Chrome and less so on Safari. Prior to iOS 8, scrolling on both browsers were very much the same.
Actually aside from minor memory problems after long term exposure (years) all reports suggest pure marijuana is very healthy, so no, no comparison with it.

If I started burning lithium batteries probably people will complain even if I do it outside or if I put it in my lungs, why should nicotine be any different?
Exactly what I'm thinking. But when banks get in trouble, politics bail them out. They should have let them go bust, because now everyone is paying to keep them alive.

Letting banks go bust will be though at first, but it's the only thing that will let the economy work properly in the long run.
In India, Ixigo has launched a app which shows cabs from all the various cab providers including Uber,Ola,TaxiForSure and others.
Similar statistics are included for men. They're reporting male-female split in self reported interest data versus representation in the profession. So the 37.4% for civil engineers in the first chart means that 37.4% of people who "liked" that career were women, but the field has only 16.5% representation of women. You can get the numbers for men just by subtracting those from 100%.
PagerDuty Guarantees Uptime with Downtime Insurance
So aside from the part where taking up smoking is a choice, it's weird to suggest that it's a choice?

You're right, some people got addicted back when it was cool. But there aren't a lot of those people around these days. (Most of them have either died from the habit or quit it.) Of those who remain, I do feel sorry for them. But they're not generally the ones I see complaining and trying to be a martyr.

Plus if you're addicted that badly, how about using the patch as a substitute? Or smoke in private. Just because you have an addiction doesn't mean you shouldn't be responsible for satisfying it in a way that doesn't impact other people.
PPv2 to Jailbreak iOS 8.4 Released
Planetary Defense Is a Public Good
> We have one opinion from one test here and suddenly everyone is convinced that the F-35 can't rule the skies.

This is not the first negative information regarding the F-35, just the latest piece in a litany.

> Anything they can do to make Americans hate their military and our fighting men

Distrust of a particular piece of hardware is not hating the military or the "fighting men" in the military. Heck, often, that's a position that is shared with the military, or at least the "fighting men", who often are not enamored of the equipment that the politicians decide to purchase for them.
That's nothing. You should see what Louisiana used to do for florists. http://www.ij.org/chauvin-v-strain

and what Texas used to do for hair braiders (no cutting/dying involved): http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0109/Can-Texas-for...

-- raw incumbent-protection measures where the veneer of "consumer safety!" usually as an excuse to justify them had worn a little bit too thin...
I haven't had a chance to try this out yet (because iTunes 12.2 isn't available yet), but honestly, I would never even dream of using a service that required me to keep a browser tab open. Meanwhile, iTunes is open 24x7 on my computer, and is playing music for a good chunk of that time.
I remember changing a compiler message to HP aC++ to quote the C++ standard verbatim, because at the time aCC was the only compiler doing template dependent name lookup according to the standard, so we kept receiving bug reports.

Moral of the story: sometimes, explaining why you are doing something may require hyperlinks, just saying it's wrong is not convincing enough.

The error messages in XL and Tao3D are terrible. I'm ashamed :-)
"0% funded."
That's just the power of good upfront design.
Apple's model has been apps instead of websites for a while now. It seems unlikely that Safari will ever be cutting edge.
On the whole, the Cochrane Collaboration is a force for good, but its methodology of reviewing previous published studies lets it miss important issues of prior plausibility (that is, lack of plausibility) when reviewing "alternative" treatments.

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/of-sbm-and-ebm-redux-pa...
Handling time-series data with Google BigQuery https://cloud.google.com/solutions/time-series/bigquery-fina...
Looks good to me; that's essentially the solution I had in mind (though, I think you have a race on NintBucket::waiters in modify and append_cv). Using a custom two-mutex lock class and condition_variable_any is particularly clever, I hadn't thought of that.

I just published my solution, which uses a similar strategy: http://dgoldblatt.com/a-threading-riddle-solution.html

I don't think of this as violating the N^2 primitives rule; the solution is still linear in the size of the problem its facing (it only uses K condition variables for K threads, so even if K is bigger than N^2, it's still morally in the scope of the problem).
And while Netscape screwed up on their own too, it also affected Opera (remember the ads?)
Not quite, the visitor pattern is a weird kind of map, that avoids specifying the exact type of arguments to the function. This article doesn't do a great job of explaining it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern
> What might be being implied is that women inherently don't have equal opportunity to pursue interests, if a bunch of women are interested and somehow never enter the field in comparison to men who show interest and enter the field in rates according to interest

Well, most male software engineers in the world aspire to become rich and famous like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Does that mean every single male has equal opportunity to become one?

Women nowadays have full access to all kinds of education, all kinds of scholarships, all kinds of resources (as much as any man). If they don't take those things to pursue their interests, what else can be done?

Are you suggesting women should have a red carpet laid out to enter any field? Why? Where is equality then?
Fairly sure I remember using VisualStudio to debug some JavaScript back in the early 00s.
"You have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (As long as your pursuit makes me happy as well)" - Too many Americans.
The uruk.org opinion article was the one I encountered first, though the BYTE mag one is of higher quality.

The wiki article lists quite a convoluted history, not to mention all the rebrandings. It seems like they never really focused on attracting researchers or considering any FOSS presence, which is a shame because it's now practically lost by this point.

If Hinsley answers, that'd be great.
Yes, that description of the visitor pattern seems wrong to me. The visitor pattern isn't about operating on the elements of collections, it's about altering behavior depending on the type of object being operated on.
It seems the movie is going to be very pro-Snowden.

HN readers should instead watch CITIZENFOUR, but general population will find it boring, so I guess this new movie is a good thing.
There's another relevant Cochrane review that compares the effect of multiple topical fluoride therapies vs. a single therapy (i.e. toothpaste.)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002781...

"The separate meta-analyses of fluoride gel or mouthrinse combined with toothpaste versus toothpaste alone favour the combined regimens, but differences were not statistically significant; the significant difference in favour of the combined use of fluoride varnish and toothpaste accrues from a very small trial and appears likely to be a spurious result. [Except for two studies finding gel + mouthrinse to be more effective than gel alone,] no other combinations of topical fluoride therapy were consistently superior to a single therapy."

Since fluoride can harm brains, kidneys, and more at certain doses, I'm glad people are interested in which therapies are most effective and are seeking the optimal exposure level.
Giant American robot wants to lay the smackdown on Japanese rival
Why do these people get to decide if it's a failure or not?
You are correct, and I did misunderstand the writing initially. I would still like to see the raw numbers for interest, credentialling, and employment for each gender, but it appears the author tried to boil down the data and make it more easily understood.
What browser? I'm using Safari and it scrolls perfectly smoothly (on a several-years-old iMac).
In Japan, it's actually illegal to smoke and walk around in public. You have to stay in a designated smoking space.

Many restaurants actually have a separate, glass-enclosed section for smokers so they don't bother non-smokers.
Pleasantly surprised that they're planning on releasing an Android client for this.
By certain places I meant New York City.

Do a lot of people in NYC have "outdoors" on their own property? I suspect not. Do a lot of people in NYC even own their own homes? Because most rentals disallow smoking. So in order to smoke, you have to outright buy a house or condo. Yeah, that's a reasonable compromise.
Sharding. =)
I never thought of it that way! That is pretty amazing!!
Oh, I'm so glad someone ressurected this old article. I kept talking about it, but docon the Internet of Taos and Elate became quite sparse. It was full of great ideas.
Are you sure that's still the case?

This[1] would seem to indicate you can use a U2F device[2] as an alternative to providing a cell phone for verification.

[1] https://www.google.com/landing/2step/#tab=how-it-works

[2] http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/strengtheni...
Yeah that was it, thanks.
CloudFormation: The Perfect Cloud Deployment Tool for AWS?
Yeah...there's a huge disconnect here for me with this community reading these posts.

There's so many people advocating "10,000 hours" for proficiency in things here and then going "why can't just anyone cut my hair?".
With Many Contenders, Which Blockchain Will Win?
Update: No, I can still cause buffer under-runs during podcasts by opening lots of Safari tabs and app-switching fast.
This had me worried:

"God-given axioms, which is academic lingo for a truth we accept purely by our God-given logic, like: if something is not true then it is false, something cannot exist in an empty set, something logical is logical."

But then I saw this and started laughing:

"Remember when everyone used tables to lay out their HTML? Well, that proved to be a horrible way to do things, because tables are inherently inflexible. It’s a strictly geometric constraint. Now we all use divs and CSS, because we get a much-more flexible CSS engine to define our layout. Postgres and her SQL friends are all table based, just like the <table> of 1999. Don’t be 1999."
I imagine it will - over a very long term. And I imagine faculties like CS will take even longer to evolve, but will eventually follow the same pattern.

When there's such a divergence in post-secondary attendance (as there apparently is), I think the effects are somewhat unavoidable.
Will self-driving cars sacrifice your life if it means saving more lives?
You can measure interest more objectively by seeing how many start down a career path, for example. Another measure could be to look at proxies to interest - such as hobby programming as a proxy for interest in computing, or reading books as a proxy for writing.

But, those are much harder to measure than just counting "likes" on a web form.
It is an interesting side note that Richard Miller, who hacks on Plan 9, was part of the Taos OS scene.
Odd, your text is going outside the bounds of the piano. In Safari, the text goes right up to the edges of the piano and doesn't go outside. This is true even if I shrink my browser.

Not only that, but it starts playing a video that ends up in a mostly-black static background, and I can't even manage to get a screenshot fast enough that shows it with the piano background.
It depends on how far into the 8 figures they have made it, their headcount, net income and their stated goals, in my opinion.

I have worked a lot with SMB market (as well as tech startups) and there are a lot of smaller 7 and lower 8 figure type businesses where owners travel for significant chunks of time and the business keeps running. That to me is a lifestyle business, as the owner(s) aren't required to be sitting there everyday. At the same time most that I have met that have this luxury aren't going to be going public or seeking outside investments etc (nor could they likely).

The first one I met I thought was a huge anomaly but after now having done a lot of SMB work in the past 6-7 years, I have found a lot more of these types of businesses around the US then I ever thought. They aren't usually glamorous nor tech focused but they are "lifestyle" businesses in my opinion because the owner can really set his/her schedule and doesn't have to be there daily or worry about income. I also have seen a fair number of these businesses are family owned and may go back 1-2 generations.

So not sure what 37Signals founder goals are, but they seem like the grow slow (relatively speaking) and grow long, versus the typical tech company that is trying to do it all in 3-5 years using OPM.
Not quite free, but this does exist at a pretty low price point: https://www.tailorbrands.com/
You might want to see how Linus Torvalds types. Typing skills do not equate to anything other than may be being lazy.
I started taking machine learning courses in 1999 until later 2001. One of my professors (who had worked with Vapnik back when we didn't know if support vector machines were a good idea) said that he didn't use ANN too much because probably Hinton was the only one who knew how to used them.

I'm telling this anecdote because, even when I agree that we are forgetting to mention a lot of names, that "PR" work that Hinton et all did, was necessary (IMO) to bring ANN back to the mainstream area.
Well, to the argument I was trying to set up (whether cities should regularize Uber or fix taxis), one important change is that Uber now has the capital to make self-driving cars happen, and will continue to have the capital to make them continue to improve, and the taxi industry and transportation agencies don't. That is, I'm not drawing a huge distinction between Uber and Lyft, since both are questionably legal, but between Uber/Lyft/etc. and taxis. You could argue that letting Uber run self-driving cars is better than trying to have government-run self-driving cars.

Depends a lot on whether Uber themselves are making this happen, or we're looking to Tesla, Google, etc. If self-driving cars are going to happen anyway, then there's an argument from the other direction that permitting Uber has no long-term benefits.
I am also worried about normalization. Perhaps men like more careers overall, for example? Seeing the raw numbers would clarify if that is a confounding factor or not.
I don't know much about tennis, but that sounds familiar regarding McEnroe and Connors from the generation before - I remember announcers talking about how McEnroe had a great server and Connors had a great return.
Actually, it was just mentioned two weeks ago (in reference to Apple's bitcode):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727810
Real-estate as ~The Ultimate Investment~ sitting in hedge fund portfolios with the motive of maximum financial extradition of the local population could easily eat the cost of empty units at the gain of forcibly starving out available living space in urban areas.

A tax crafted in such a way to disincentive hording and speculation would push empty homes and apartments into actual use as living spaces instead of financial siphons.
This article is pretty much spot-on. I'm taking a similar direction with the architecture of my startup. However, I'd like to point out one mistake. Your implementation of a linked list is suboptimal. A better implementation would be as a tree with a branching factor of one. That way, you don't expose object IDs that could then be cached by the user of the data structure. Hope this helps!
As someone who majored in Physics and minored in Math, there was quite a bit of women in the Math department and a few women in Physics, but both had much more women than the entry level CS class I took, and I'm not sure there were any that I can remember in the one, large, entry-level EE class I took.

I did graduate 2008/2009, and tried to find a job for a while without much luck, partially because employers were (short-sightedly) specifically looking for EE/CS degrees.

That's where I think the second part of this problem lies: Majoring in math and physical sciences, specifically with only a BS, doesn't get you very far in a job market when even entry level positions are heavily favoring CS and EE degrees... even though most STEM degrees usually share a common pedigree of math, sciences, and basic programming skills. In many cases, students who are able to do any kind of research as an undergrad in math or physical sciences will have quite adequate and advanced programming skills, but that's still harder to market than a engineering degree.
Hence the emphasis on Clojure for the Brave.
There is no reason for h264 decode to take much power at all, it's all done in hardware now (or should be done in hardware).

In other words, Safari's power number isn't surprising but I don't know how chrome manages to use so much processing power. Even my cell phone can decode 1080p60 without catching fire but chrome manages to bring a $2200 laptop to it's knees doing it.