skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No

So then there is no reason to believe that her leaving has anything to do with gender.

> and I object to the argument that I said anything of the sort. If you want to debate things with me, please don't start by imposing inflammatory and stupid positions on me.

I'm not the one that started by posting an inflammatory comment that suggested Bethanye left because of gender issues. If you didn't mean to suggest that Bethanye left because of gender issues, your comment should be corrected.
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This is usually a fair point to make, but you're pointing at neither the flaws in the underlying case study nor the weakness in generalizing Utah to a wider area. That's not really fair, especially since parent comment is providing data.
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Full-screen version: http://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

Index of circuit examples: http://www.falstad.com/circuit/e-index.html
if we were to humanize alien that much, I'd see more likely for his ashes to become cosmetics for their gullible upper middle class.
I have seen a lot of WW-II movies with almost all sorts of stories/plots, but can't find anything on atomic bombing, does anyone know why ?
I'm wondering if there's been something lost in translation there, though. The word, in Western understanding, means holy war, but a more apt translation is "struggle", in the same connotation that one would struggle with a cigarette addiction or the like. Extremist groups have claimed the word for more violent connotations, but traditionally is more like a burden that one struggles against.
Can you elaborate on this? I'm debating whether or not I should get one.
The US absolutely does censor group organization efforts in the US and political speech as well. What the US does is quite different than China and it faces quite a different set of challenges than China. It's an apples and oranges comparison. We agree here.

So to address why this is relevant has to do with China DDoSing content that is not a domestic product/service of China. Telegraph is not from China. China blocking Telegraph is like the US blocking stopfasttrack.ru and videos from warfighters in the Middle East. China blocking Telegraph is like the UK plans to take what they currently do and what they plan to do by law and block certain foreign tools for secure communication. The US, too, blocks (and sabotages) secure communication software - it has been defunding secure communication software with partnerships in the valley, has Comey talking to Congress about the need for software front doors, and the Snowden leaks showed us how comprehensively backdoored everything is including relationships between vendors and services with customers.

The US does this with foreign developed services and it thwarts secure communication capabilities both provided by foreign governments and its own private sector intended for domestic use.

That's the equivalence and the relevance.
1. No pattern matching. Libraries can't help here, it's a syntactical and
semantical issue.

2. No product types. You can emulate those, but it's awkward.

3. No recursion over lists. You can emulate this, but it's awkward.

4. It's difficult to write code that is efficient, yet is side-effects free.
Good luck with prepending an element to a list.

About emulation, you can emulate closures on Turing machine, though it doesn't
make Turing machine a functional language. Lack of the aspect is simply lack
of the aspect.

And no, JS doesn't explicitly prevent functional programming (or rather,
some aspects of it). It does so implicitly.

> OP isn't trying to be strictly pure and is simply trying to explain the concepts in a manner that those used to imperative development can easily digest.

It's like trying to show how to do OOP in C. It's a different paradigm than
the primary of the host language, so any educational aspect will be severly
diluted, to the point of being useless to anybody who doesn't already know
functional programming.
Ask HN: What do you do to drive downloads to your iOS/Android app?
pretty slick! I like that it actually has chatrooms you can navigate between, but it'd be nice if they were linkable.
According to wikipedia:

"Due to crosswind, the bomb missed the aiming point, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 ft (240 m) and detonated directly over Shima Surgical Clinic"
Have you thought about getting a screen (like one for changing clothes) to put between your desk and the hallway?
Of course, just like if you could avoid ever driving in a car it would be better to skip that known -- and much bigger -- risk. Practical limitations apply.
Yeah, a height adjustable desk which allows to switch between sitting and standing is the way to go.
That's something the big markets (USA/Europe) can improve by being less crap tolerance.
You can definitely get the hardware for <$15 in bulk if you source it yourself. There's a huge variation in quality though, as with most of the China stuff. If you're willing to deal with the caveats&lock-in of the Gimbal Beacons you can get those for $5.

Feel free to hit me with beacon questions, I've got a bunch of varieties sitting on my desk right now.
It's bad (for firefox) because it's already too slow. I used to be a loyal firefox user but they have completely lost it. While I can keep tons of tabs open on chrome, on firefox when I try anything similar it just hangs a lot of times, and yes I am talking about the latest version. So I don't use firefox as my main browser anymore. I think people wouldn't complain as much if they already do well what they're supposed to do, but from my experience they have been just working on all these unfocused initiatives while the browser itself has grown to become bloated and cluttered. Lastly, the "share" button is just too clumsy. If it's a native feature it should function like a native feature and make people's lives easier. I tried connecting my gmail and all it did was load gmail website. This is no better than installing a 3rd party bookmarklet from gmail.
Nice. Great starting point, would be cool to be able to direct message another user by clicking on their name.
I think you missed the point. I didn't give the 1mph example to imply that it should be the way it is. I used it to point that you are incorrect in saying "or maybe they were not." Accidents, mishaps, misjudgements, say what you will, but they are all just human error, not "acts of god." So you are incorrect to say they were anything but that, no matter how much you wish they were.

We also solve for the future all the time, constantly, every day. We build solar powered devices to stop global warming and pollution. Every day we work towards a "future fantasy." It is like saying we don't need roads because we have these horses we have been riding. Why build rubber wheels when our wood carriages work just fine. Why build a smaller computer when this massive datacenter works just fine.
I've seen them used as birdbaths, and people let their dogs drink from them. It doesn't make me terribly excited about drinking from them myself.
Well, it would be an amazing business opportunity for yacht outfitters.
It makes quite a bit of sense to go back to more archaic learning methods. I don't mean that in a snarky way, but only for lack of a better term to describe very very old. Apprenticeships were how the average population learned prior to colleges becoming a normal thing. If you wanted to learn how to make chainmail, you had to get an apprenticeship with a blacksmith - learning was done on-the-job. You didn't go to college and learn how to make armor, farm, write literature and then just get whatever job when you got out. You started at a filthy young age in that one craft.

Nowadays, college educations are worth basically nothing. You're not thought to be any smarter than the next guy and unless you go to a really well known institution that provides you esteem and wealthy connections, it's essentially just an advanced High School degree.

The point I'm getting at is - and I've seen this in the occasional job search I've done - the Generalist role is dead. In theory, it makes sense, wouldn't 5 people with general knowledge more slowly build a worse product than 5 different experts? Experts are always wanted and that only comes through years of dedication to that craft. And you simply cannot get that in college. On a side note... I think College is just a 6 figure right-of-passage into adulthood and learning how to feed yourself, become responsible enough to wake up on time, and find good friends.
I think it is just as "simple" as software, except that it is very different. Also hardware has typically been the realm of patents and software the realm of copyright when it came to protecting IP. So you can always re-implement your take on a software idea if it is only copyrighted but you can't make work alike hardware if it is patented.

Fortunately a lot of hardware patents are expiring which makes the amount of useful hardware you can implement that much more useful. Over the next 5 years a huge number of microprocessor patents are due to expire into the public domain so I am looking forward to a lot of inexpensive hardware coming out of places like TSMC and China.
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Facebook is migrating from Flash to HTML5 video. As of last week, they are serving HTML5 video to users running Windows 7+, including Firefox users. Firefox supports H.264 video on Windows Vista+ and OS X because those platforms ship H.264 decoders.
That's actually exactly why US and Israel make great allies. Both have great interest in aggressive imperialist foreign policies with little international oversight. I think the best chance of the US breaking away from Israel internationally is to change foreign policy in the US, versus specifically targeting Israel.

Edit: I'd like to add that I am not trying to make value judgements here. I'm not arguing that either the US or Israel foreign policy is bad or good, just very similar.
There's a much simpler answer to what those values are : freedom of speech, sexual orientation, and religion.

They're basicaly the reason refugees go from the east to the west, and not the other way around.
These music streaming sites use Flash because they want DRM.
I was on the verge of giving an Uber driver a bad rating once because he wouldn't stop yapping about how great Uber is for him (I had not asked, and I generally prefer my rides to be quiet).
When I was a tourist in Rome I didn't know what they were for at first. After some research I became an enthusiastic Nasoni user. I really like the trick where you plug the end and the water comes out of a hole on top of the spout like a drinking fountain.
Something I've been wondering for a long time that no one seems to be able to explain is "what the fuck is a monad?" and why is this seemingly the one question about programming that is inadequately answered
Maybe in some cities, but the roads in London are gridlocked all the time and there is something like a 98:2 ratio of people using mass transit vs driving. I would assume it is the same in NYC, etc. No amount of lane selection, car pooling will ever make that better. And unless people carpool from the exact same place to the same workplace, there's going to be duplication of drop off points which probably makes things worse as they'll be downtown with the most traffic.

And no, there was no surge on uber to get that journey. There was other transit routes everyone else will take but I was in a real rush (even routing round the disruption would've still been way faster than driving).

To be honest though, if you're driving to the transit station then you're missing the point. I'm really talking to the masses of people that have giving up/will give up their car entirely and rely on public transit & the occasional taxi (uber, autonomous, whatever) for when they've been out partying or what not.
I it works for you, fine, but I think the standing desk is more of a trendy/cool thing:

http://www.fitdeskjockey.com/7-reasons-why-you-dont-want-a-s...
Great question. Scientifically, I can't say that Uranus is "better" than any other planet or Solar System body. Neptune, for instance, is also a fascinating system, especially as someone working on modeling planetary rings.

My "preference" for Uranus simply comes from the hours and hours I've spent trying to model dynamic processes in the system. It's a truly fascinating and in some sense "rapidly" evolving system. I spent my time looking at the tiny moon Mab [1] and I could spend hours telling you about how fascinating it is. If you consider how many other moons and rings there are in the system, it's just a shame to think I might not live long enought to see the undoubtedly incredible discoveries that an orbiter would lead to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mab_(moon)
Obama didn't do that, and I don't think I would support ACA if it were universal healthcare.

ACA provides tax-deduction bonuses to people who purchase "high-deductable" plans to encourage people to actually _look_ at the bills they get from the doctor, instead of thinking "My Insurance pays for this anyway. I don't care".

That's... about it. Granted, these high-deductable plans have various standards (no preexisting conditions) on them, but at the end of the day, its a mechanism to attempt to bring the free market back into the health care system.

Health care remains broken, but at least it is more obvious to consumers now.
We've had discussions talking about how cloud industry could learn from supercomputing industry's successes/failures and vice versa. Pretty awesome for me to see a supercomputing-style company with the cloud model. That could've been great for research I did in the past where I needed supercomputer time but it's cost or administrative issues were prohibitive. I expect to see interesting things come out of this.
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I've got a sort of wacky treadmill desk setup in my basement. Got a cheap treadmill off of Craigslist for like $200, spent maybe $15 on a simple shelf board and a piece of foam I cut up to get the shelf at the right height, and I got the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard and Logitech M570 trackball mouse, both are amazing.

I don't walk constantly, but it's a fantastic setup.
So, you're basically telling me their marketing copy is as Zesty as their business name?
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To a certain extent, one could imagine a tech conglomerate would be easier to manage than a traditional brick and mortar conglomerate, and least for the digital offerings. It's a lot easier to wind down less successful initiatives, and redeploy creative, skilled people to work that is more valuable. No sunk costs in production lines, inventory or call centers.
Someone could write an Adobe Air application to play old Flash content outside of a browser.
As with most nation-states, the Iranian ruling regime is threatened mostly by its own subjects/citizens. As long as their eyes point outward, they won't as easily see the corruption going on behind their backs.

The biggest actual external threat to Iran is the US becoming a net oil exporter.
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Thanks, I thought your points were good too. I think machine learning in combination with human oversight is the least bad. Machines can help eliminate human bias, and humans can pick up on things that the machines missed. I wouldn't trust a machine to lend out my money, but I would trust it to give me a lot of data about someone and make recommendations on that basis.

When you search Google, you get a mostly impartial set of results, but then you need to choose the most relevant from the top 10. Without Google, you'd visit far fewer websites based only on your accumulated experience. Without a human to filter through the top 10, you'd have to systematically read webpages in order until you found what you wanted. Maybe the example is a bit stretched, but machines and humans cooperating seems to work well, even right on the HN front page, or in the browser spellchecker as I type this message (apparently HN is not a word).
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>> "despite it being arguably in [Israel's] best self-interest to defuse tension within the Middle East."

Israel and its backers don't like the Iran deal because it enables the Islamic Republic to gain nuclear weapons, which its powerful religious leaders hope to use on Israel.

And history has taught Jews to take threats to our existence seriously.
New piece of information A - "Twitter might have got a bid buyout"

New piece of information B - "That last story was completely fabricated".

I'm not EMH believer but to claim that any version but the strongest (which is known to not apply) was implicated by this story is just misrepresenting what the EMH says.
> No, you have this backwards. Ohanian was Pao's boss.

You based this on what specific information? The only insider information I read about this suggested that Pao was Ohanian's boss. Regardless, I still assert as CEO, Pao is the one responsible, and she had options to not put herself in that position.
Same with Inbox and Sheets. It's really getting annoying, since I prefer Firefox.
Flash has offered these same clipboard APIs for years and these clipboard "attacks" have never been a problem before. I don't see how replacing Flash clipboard APIs with HTML clipboard APIs will change web developers' behavior.
I've seen these at the PDX airport and nowhere else. I would love it if they'd become more common.
We do an open source one you can make yourself https://www.opendesk.cc/lean/standing-desk
Cool! gonna test this soon...

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Join here: https://apigatewayusers.herokuapp.com/
It says png on the file and headers.
Iran is not as theocratic as Saudi Arabia or other Mid-Eastern states. The ayatollah is a religious dictator, yes, but the civil government is more powerful in Iran than in many of its neighbors.
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I really like your second point. That's kind of a difficult failure case to try and mitigate.

I've been vaguely concerned with how to ensure my C code avoids undefined behavior, but it didn't occur to me that I also need to watch out in being overly conservative because then I'll be causing the optimizers trouble.

I'm not trying to disparage anyone who is actually able to be productive in a C environment, but I'm really hoping something like Rust is able take over that development space.
Moz Legal posted about the ToS here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/2PYq2w8te...
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Or "The Beginning of the Robot Uprising".
This is an update to work previously posted on HN. I'm interested in getting feedback on the 3d experience and the UX of the new layout. Thanks!
Strike for physics funding
So many good software engineers I know are way more interested and talented in physics than they are in software. Yet, the money is here in software. But software seems so obvious, it's always just the next single thing, to create a new login script that's five chars less than the previous. And so un-inventive in a way. Physics however is its own completely undiscovered realm, with potential beyond our imagination. Is there a way to "strike" to pursue our dreams, without having to live on the streets to do so?
these look pretty nice.
And they have been answered here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/2PYq2w8te...
No source, no thank you. There are plenty of proprietary alternatives already!

P.S. Outside of the above, pretty decent early version.
This is a product that seems to have the right features, is very flexible, and is extremely usable. That's a great combination in INFOSEC. As usual, I assume low assurance methods and plenty 0-days waiting until proven otherwise with rigorous review. Yet, doing a great job on the first part can generate enough revenue to gradually improve on the second part.

I wish them luck.
On a log scale. 20 orders of magnitude is f*ing huge.

It's way bigger than the difference between having one penny in you account and having all the money in the world.
There is one question though, what about varicose veins forming in legs due to prolonged standing?
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"We should not be afraid of this discussion. We should embrace it and have it."

That's true, but that's not what happens when a politician, and especially one as highly profiled as Hillary Clinton, delivers a speech. Politicians never raise "hard questions" when then don't have the exact answer already worked out.

This was not Hilary starting a discussion. This was Hilary pledging allegiance to the unions.
It's a pattern that recurs in lots of different programming environments. It's an abstract pattern, so it confuses people who've never encountered them, and then they go out and read a bunch of terrible monad tutorials which obscure what's really going on.

Programmers are good at abstract patterns though! Look at iterators: they're obscure and complex if you've never encountered them, but now they seem really easy. The same is true with monads.
> Email/Push Notifications : Spam

Mind explaining this one?
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Mozilla Legal posted about the ToS here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/2PYq2w8te...
Agreed. My doctor said to me that a lot of people raving about standing desks in their 20s will have serious regrets about them in their 50s. He also said that being seated but moving around for a few minutes every hour was fine, which is a similar point to that made in the article - standing still for an hour is just as inactive as sitting still for an hour.
The problem with crap tolerance is that crappiness doesn't become apparent until after you make the purchase, whereas price is obvious beforehand. People heavily discount the future in favor of the present, so people will naturally favor something that's cheaper but worse even if their overall experience will suffer for it.
The major difference between your odds of success when playing the lottery and your odds of success when working at a startup is that you can affect your odds of success by your actions when working on a startup.

A successful startup is not an accident, and a failed startup is not just a lack of luck. Make good business choices, product choices, and infrastructure choices and you can make the startup a success. On the other hand make poor product choices, and poor business choices and your startup will fail.

On the other hand there is very little strategy or way to improve your odds of success when gambling.
It's worth to do a linear scale miniature of the solar system.

At the 1:10^9 scale, it fits well within a farm or a big park, all the planets are at a viable size, and the Sun is not too big.
Pocket had an add-on that was working just fine. The old one even needed less space than the new button and didn't require a cookie.

I'd reinstall the old one but "This add-on has been removed by its author".
This is exactly what PIC is for images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic_language
The problem with Apprenticeships is they evolve slowly. AKA, you probably don't want to be a buggy whip apprentice.

The real advantage of a high level generalist education is it enables on the job training. Someone with a 2.5 GPA from a reputable collage can do most jobs in the US with an additional 1 year of training. But, someone with a 8th grade education plus 8 years working as a landscaper is far more limited should say a back problem force them into a more sedentary occupation.