skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chief difficulty is more social than technical: the description of a language is a Schelling Point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)). Satisfying computers on the other end of the transformation doesn't necessarily help you satisfy people on both ends of the transformation.

Are you in web development? If so, I rate it as "Extraordinarily likely" you will use transpilers in the future or have done so already. Common ones which people would generally agree with me "Yep, that's a transpiler" include Sass, CoffeeScript, and Babel (an ES6 to the-Javascript-modern-browsers-actually-run transpiler -- which is, by the way, quite nice).

More broadly, and sidestepping a definitional debate, our day to day life is "Take a program state described in Language X then shoot it down the pipe in three other languages and pray the virtual machine knows what it is doing."

Random note: you can totally write a compiler. Writing a really compelling one is a social and technological challenge, but writing a limited one for pedagogical or personal/business use is roughly "an undergrad lab assignment" in terms of difficulty level. I think many engineers get scared by words like "compiler" and "emulator" and "virtual machine" and "programming language" and "operating system" and forget that these are the kind of things that talented-but-very-much-mortal solo developers can ship in weeks for fun.
The crossed out '2025' in the timeline is bizarre. Have I missed some joke here, or does the author not like to use the delete key?
Specially if you cannot freely convert VEB to any currency under any of the three (yes, three) official rates, unless you're a friend of the government.
These seem like pretty standard bug bounty terms. "Find bugs, but don't disrupt production systems trying to exploit them to find more".

The last bullet addresses a problem everyone has with bounties and scanners, which is that (a) they don't work and (b) they generate loads of bogus findings that the people who pirate the scanners then demand bounties for.
Adjust sleep stages using simple vibrations
The Lully Sleep Guardian is based on years of research looking at why people wake up at night (i.e. sleepwalking, night terrors, frequent night awakenings). In this research, it was found that for certain sleep disorders, there is an unhealthy stage of sleep prior to a night awakening event, and this "unhealthy sleep" was not seen in those who were not prone to these sleep conditions.

The Lully Sleep Guardian is is an under-the-mattress vibrating pod that uses precisely timed vibrations to gently adjust sleep stages prior to these events, preventing them completely.

The pod connects with the Lully app via BLE -- the app has a proprietary algorithm that can predict when these awakenings will occur based on user input about their sleep history.
He's being sarcastic. It's a running joke among frequent fliers that flying United is almost punishment because they are so bad. So even though you get the miles, you actually have to actually fly on United
Show HN: Stash It – Simple bookmarking app
Those pointers always need to be defined as volatile anyway
Not sure why he took CNN as an example instead of this very article... http://i.imgur.com/4w9TxOw.jpg > 146 requests, 1.8MB transferred.
Did you see all the little american flags come out when New Horizons reached Pluto. I found that a little disappointing. As deliberate as unnecessary. Almost looked tit-for-tat following the EU cheer at Rosetta.
"HOW TO CRAWL MARKETS" section has good tips for general crawling as well.
HTTP/2 largely won't help the problems mentioned in the article. If I'm loading 200+ assets for 30-50 hosts, HTTP/2 can't help because I'm making 30-50 TCP connections and fetching 5-8 resources over each. The efficiency of HTTP/2 over HTTP/1.1 really doesn't excel when fetching so few resources per connection.

HTTP/2 helps when you are downloading 200+ assets for 1 or 2 hosts.
Thanks for putting these links together. It's beginning to look like sleep is the brain's garbage collector.
Wow, advocacy organization that supports freedom of speech and democracy writes about freedom of speech and proper use of electoral systems. I am shocked, I tell you, shocked.
I don't get it. How are we unable to make a reliable mechanism to increment numbers and then print the result at the end?!
Probably fixed it after publishing the article, and wants to keep corrections visible?
Also "planet"!?
You want to make it fair by prohibiting people from paying for a better defense? So because some people can't afford private lawyers, an unfortunate state of affairs that public defenders exist to remedy, private lawyers should just be banned outright?

The independent legal profession is a cornerstone of our free society. My lawyer shouldn't have to be on the payroll of the people trying to imprison me. Lawyers try to do a good job because it improves their reputation and wins them more clients.

You don't make society better by reducing the quality of everything to the lowest common denominator.
This is unlikely considering you only have access to the external power supply. As Dave notes there is a filtering stage on the PCB to help isolate the chip.
"... occupied by Russia until the 90s and his is still."

which stands uncorrect.
Where to go and why (2007)
First Pluto Flyby Pictures Are 'Complicated and Fascinating'
In the US a lot of terminals that technically could support Apple Pay because they use NFC (and have the logo you mention) have explicitly disabled Apple Pay support. So the scanner 'sees' the watch and kinda starts the transaction, then fails later because it's "not supported yet". Because they have a vested interest in a competing product.
Top 100 Scala Libraries- Based on 64,562 GitHub Libraries
fyi: Whiplash was originally shot as a 20min short (different lead actor) which then got it's budget expanded so they could re-shoot and go for a full length movie. Annoyingly don't have details to hand.

Personally I was absolutely blown away by it...
People are objecting to the costs that the defendant must bear, not the total cost.
I think HN is good but everybody doesn't use it at least in North India.
What's wrong with you... What version of the WW2 did you learn in high-school[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Agreement_on_German_Ext...
BookFusion Android – EBook Reader That Supports Over 15 Different Formats
They can use worker hours, labor hours, etc.

However, it's true that criticizing man hours is not understanding language or etymology.

We could go on with things like cowboy and cowgirl. Why do we call adults boys and girls? On the other hand, they are just terms. Just like husband really isn't interpreted as "house bound". Bound, tied to a house, i.e. not free.

But... people being people we see others getting in trouble when son misunderstand etymology and meaning like when people use synonyms for frugality and people find offense. There will doubtlessly be other words which fall into disfavor for looking or sounding too much like a scoundrel word.
The 3 Percent – Why Tech Has a Diversity Problem
Breaking into robotics / UAV
I'm relatively recently out of undergrad (1 year) and i'd really like to get into this field. It's where my passion lies. During my free time I've developed (from my perspective) an impressive 3d vision algorithm using structured light patterns. This algorithm could easily integrate into autonomous navigation systems using SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping). SLAM is used within robotics to allow a robot to autonomously map and navigate it's environment.

I'd really like to further my career in this direction. What else can I do to make myself more attractive to potential employers? Should I go ahead and implement SLAM within my own framework? Any advice?
It's worth noting that, due to GCC's new and esoteric version numbering scheme[1], this is a bugfix-only release on the 5.x branch. The bigger news was when GCC 5.1 (a major stable release) was released in April. That said, GCC 5.2 fixes a pretty serious bug that I was hitting so I'm happy to hear about it!

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#num_scheme
If people who like Microsoft-quality tools are suffering "Stockholm Syndrome", what should we call ideologues who consistently eschew high-quality tools and interfaces for openness?

Furthermore, if you you're not trapped on Unix, what system could you easily get up and move your life and your work to?

> They probably could have ported their entire stack to open source alternatives in the time it's taken just to get our SQL Server licenses straightened out...

I bet they'd still be trying to figure out which broken front-end to use to interact with PGSQL. Then we'd see a headline like "After a 10-year Linux migration, Munich considers switching back to Windows and Office".
As I mentioned earlier, it really depends on the country you are in. Outside US $100 - 200 per hours is ver high, even in most EU countries.
She can't get free council because either

1. She's trans.

2. Her case is complex with many elements to it, requiring a large amount of money and time by many different people to argue correctly.

Or some combination of the two. I think 2 is far more likely here, while you seem to only think 1 is a factor. I find that position obsurd.
Whistleblowing almost always involves breaking at least one law. The general trend has been to bring in more laws to make it less likely that it is possible legally in any given situation. To say "I support whistleblowing but only if no laws are broken" is almost meaningless.
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It sounds like they're just not very serious about getting this job done. In this business, it seems that a lot of potential clients are just fishing.
Constructor Theory Solves the Riddle of Life
It needs to be consistent quality and non imported ideally.

Guiness for example is going to cost a lot to ship, or local beer could be very low quality in order to keep the price affordable.
Then the moderators would just edit the title and summary as they see fit.
same for me, Mac OS 10.10.3 with FirefoxDeveloperEdition, but also with Safari
Your tl;dr; doesn't sufficiently capture Dave's level of Australian...
> Kahneman hypothesis implies that such teachers reward students only when their level of achievement is higher than it has ever been in the past and punish them whenever their achievement is below their highest level of achievement.

Not really, Kahneman is talking about doing better or worse than expected, not about your best or worst performance.

Regression to the mean arises when following up on any deviation from the mean – though of course the more extreme the deviation, the more pronounced the effect.

Similarly, the effect of regression to the mean is smaller when measuring longer periods of time (less measurement error means fewer fluke outcomes) but it doesn't disappear.

Of course, it's perfectly possible that strict teachers are truly beneficial even when accounting for regression to the mean, it doesn't have to be one or the other, and Kahneman certainly doesn't prove anything of the sort, but it does shift back the burden of proof to those who would claim that strict or even borderline abusive teaching is helpful.
I've been getting "Too many redirects" from businessinsider.com all day.
Alexis Ohanian out as executive chairman of Reddit?
It seems he recently updated his Twitter bio:
https://twitter.com/SocialJerm/status/621701204364562432
I agree. This seems to me an abuse of the term "paradox". Lots of math results are surprising to people who've never worked through them. I think "paradox" should ideally be reserved for things that have two logically incompatible logical solutions.
Reminds me on this on:
http://www.distancetomars.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5489039
That is how immigration law is supposed to work so it is not a hack. [1][2]

I represented many, many individuals who were in removal proceedings (deportation) or where otherwise immediately detained while entering the US without authorization/documentation. In many instances there was a real threat to the lives of my Clients if returned to their home countries (Haiti and Columbia) that they would be killed/tortured by the political opposition and/or FARC. But they didn't hack the legal system, they availed themselves to it.

[1] http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/obt...
[2]http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum
How to use typealias to make JSON parsing more readable in Swift
'Interns should be exploited' – a rebuttal
The debate over presentism vs. eternalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(philosophy)) is alive and well, and conducted by many people who are well aware of Einstein's theory.

Still, of the main arguments for the eternalist view comes from special relativity (one source: http://www.amazon.com/Four-Dimensionalism-Ontology-Persisten...), and I think it's rather compelling, as far as it goes.
There are plenty of other, worthwhile terms like "Billable Hours", "Person Hours" that are present in many existing contracts.

You're being mentally lazy for no good reason.
if I had some type of practical application that I knew could benefit from data science, like learning RoR to make a marketplace app for example, it would help a lot as I have a clear goal and route to achieve that. However, data science, machine learning, these are so broad, and seemingly complicated (my fear of complicated math formulas and statistics) and worse I don't know what I want to achieve out of it nor do I know what I want to make which really hinders the learning process for me. I need some incentive or reward at the end of the goal.
Bearing in mind that the tickets were sold on an ad hoc basis over the course of more than a decade, and each individual pass sale represented a negligible sum compared with American's running costs, I suspect (2) was a surprisingly attractive option. When airlines actually need to raise funds, they borrow big, and have plenty of high value assets to secure lending against, and plenty of scope to refinance when interest rates come down.

It's pretty difficult to view this as a smart fundraising strategy as opposed to a questionable promotion with ridiculously loose terms.

But ultimately neither the odd $xxx,xxx in revenue from a frequent flier nor the implied $xxx,xxx per annum foregone from the promotion's biggest abusers are likely to have made a great deal of difference to AAL.
Mostly adequate guide to functional programming
I've been working as an analyst for 7 years, it's only last couple of years I've heard of statistical analysis referred to as data science.

Am I missing something or is it just a new word?
It's objectively the best they've ever made, as GP stated. Here's a comparison https://html5test.com/compare/browser/ie-Edge/firefox-38/chr...
> You don't make society better by reducing the quality of everything to the lowest common denominator.

A common denominator is the only way to make things fair. You pointed out the conflict of interest; very well, that's a good point. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The system we currently have is so vulnerable to corruption, that it wouldn't be hard to make something more fair.
How about fn(upvotes, downvotes)/fn(pageviews, prominence)?
what you described is prevalent in social sciences. Ton of biases and causation/correlation error and putting blind trust in some arcane statistical analysis without knowing what they really mean. Conclusion: statistically significant is the magic word peppered throughout academic literature.
Whilst I agree with the sentiment, it is probably best to address NumberCruncher's views directly rather than an entire nation.
Ask HN: Esoteric Databases
I am collecting esoteric database designs.

Off-the-cuff, not implemented ideas are welcome.
A ballpark estimate should be given within a range.

If you aren't communicating the probability of it either being less or more expensive, then you are setting a false expectation.
I have panic attacks too. How do you deal with them?
Embedded computers: Hacking the planet
FBI busts through huge Tor-hidden child porn site using questionable malware
All this really shows is that our descriptions of time are inadequate, not that time is unreal. In essence, he's confusing the map with the territory. He's arguing that, because the map is inadequate, the territory must not exist.
Hahaha I don't usually laugh at jokes about Grandma's passing but that got a good chuckle out of me.
A Overview of Hacking Team’s Leaked Data
The Economist describes open-source lisense liability terms as "untenable".
There are various security-related jiggery-pokeries you can perform with access to some of those old protocols as they interact with browser security. It's safer just to disable them. And, well, let's be frank, the inconvenience of not being able to hit "echo" servers through your browser is pretty minimal.
More visible protection against Unwanted Software
Yep, it costs $38,000 to make a Google.

Except you won't have the search algorithm, machine learning algorithms, and Hadoop stuff. But at least you'll just have a nice polished UI, with integration with Facebook, Twitter and Google+!
Google brings container experience to OpenStack
if I could get fired based off the way I input text to my email client, I think I would actually want to be fired.
They're billing as a company or freelancers. As an employee it's high.
There are still causal arrows between the different moments of conscious cognition, and it's the causal arrows that are Time on a reality-level, not the awareness thereof.
most of the best SEOs i know, if not all, didnt have any insider knowledge but still managed to learn how to do their job and grow traffic. im not sure i would expect any insider knowledge or treatment in this position.
You are right. However, the problem has no resolution in technical sense. When your boss tell you 'integrate that sh#t to this page now' you are just doing your job, right? You are not going to spend 4 nights developing technical proposal and organisational framework tailored to your employers business to introduce http2 and hire 3 interns to map external dependencies for the whole 50+ domains ecosystem, right? I did that several times in my life. Will not do that again.
Mozilla lifts Flash Firefox block after 0-days plugged
I saw another article that referred to this as a sign of the slowing of Moore's law. However, Moore's law has its variances so I'm not really worried about that.

What I do wonder about is why we are not seeing more cores as we go down to smaller nodes. 2 and 4 cores are common now, but have been seemingly for a decade. Why aren't we seeing 8, 16, 32 and 64 cores? If you reduce the feature size and effectively thus double the surface area available, why not increase the cores? It seems the new area is going into integrated GPUs (never as good as discrete GPUs, but certainly cheaper) and cache. Cache can improve performance but not like more cores. While intel does a tick/tock design revision, each core seems to grow to fit the available space, with only adding a few instructions, which only add marginal utility. Not the same as doubling the number of cores, which would double theoretical performance.

Under Erlang/Elixir, we are able to get close to linear speedup from additional cores. I understand other languages struggle with multi-threaded programming, but should CPU designs be hobbled simply because the software industry is not where it should be?

Am I missing something?
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> Professors always brainstorm ways to motivate students, employers always seek methods to motivate employees

Uhh.. You must have quite a fortunate streak of having great teachers and great employers. Speaking for myself, I had some great teachers, but finding a boss who seeks to motivate employees with the right challenges is rare. Bosses and companies generally assume your salary is the primary motivator.
To clarify Animats' point about getting non-TCP/UDP/ICMP packets through, it should probably be pointed out that it is difficult at scale. Yes, you may be able to send it from your network-aware workplace straight to your home computer, but if you release an some network product, an IM server/client perhaps, and switch it after a couple of years and some solid succuss to use SCTP only, you better bulk up your tech support staff first....
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Agreed. Fortunately, excellent social scientists really care about this -- see Andy Gelman's blog for many rants on this topic.
That's not a particularly good example, since you have the same ambiguity between the use of commas to set off non-restrictive appositives and the use of commas to separate list items, it still occurs in lists where the ambiguity is between four (or more) elements with no appositive or three (or more) elements, one of which has a non-restrictive appositive attached.

You can't really eliminate that source of potential ambiguity in isolated excerpts, only in larger works or bodies of work by adopting consistent practices that go beyond whether or not you use the Oxford comma (mostly, structuring sentences so that if one or more items in a list needs a non-restrictive appositive, it is either just the last item -- which is already set off with a conjunction whether or not it also has the Oxford comma preceding it, so the following appositive is unambiguously not a list item) or using parentheses rather than commas for non-restrictive appositives attached to list items (which is clearer even for two item lists, where item-separating commas, Oxford or otherwise, don't actually come into play.)
> you can ask for a 10% premium to cover sickness and fallow periods

That is extremely low and, IMHO, not even close to what you'll need to make freelancing viable.

My rate is about 100% more than my former FT salary expressed as an hourly rate and it wouldn't make sense for me to freelance for much less than that. Remember all of the hours that you are not getting paid, looking for leads and doing admin work. Also you don't receive benefits as a freelancer.
With this release the golang frontend catches up it'so Go version 1.4.2.

EDIT: I'm wrong. That was GCC 5.1.
One form of glitching is voltage glitching though
Uber vs. Facebook valuation in years one through five
There are dozens of varieties of potato. Not all have the same costs to go from seed to market.

What is a 'potato'?
"Modalifinil" the solution to all the problemas
Google are sponsoring the OpenStack Foundation to "add container-native patterns to the toolbelt of enterprise developers, and improve interoperability between public and private clouds"

See also http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/Containers...
I'm against this website.
I'll echo for biology and sports sciences (think moneyball).

http://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
If Moores law ends with 14nm, I wonder what we'll be doing 10 years from now.
System Integrity Management Platform (SIMP)
Bye, Bye, Adobe
I think you found the answer already. Already there are server processors with a lot of cores (i.e. 20) - if you can utilise them all then buy one.

However, for most client workloads, more cores does not translate to better performance because many of those cores will just idle. Single-threaded performance is still the king.
July 5, 1998 is "X-Day", from the Church of Subgenius. It actually happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Day_%28Church_of_the_SubGeni...
I guess we'll be removing cruft from the web.