skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I charge a man extra for car insurance because men on average get in more wrecks, then I am discriminating based on sex.

If I charge someone extra for car insurance because he shares dozens of innocuous traits with other people who get in wrecks, I am not discriminating based on sex. If some algorithm can accurately predict the sex of that person by the same data, I am still not discriminating based on sex.

If I target blacks with predatory loan advertisements because that demographic is on average more susceptible to those ads, then I am discriminating based on race.

If I target an individual because they share dozens of innocuous traits with other people who fall for predatory loan advertisements, I am not discriminating based on race. If some algorithm can accurately predict the race of the individual based on the same data, I am still not discriminating based on race.

The software is less biased than a human because it has no concept of race. Even if the data can be used to accurately predict the race of an individual, it does not matter. The program will not spontaneously recognize the concept of race and then discriminate based off of it. If some trait correlates with race, that's because reality is biased, not the math, algorithm, company, or implementer.

It is not the responsibility of programmers to make their algorithms less accurate so ideologues can live in a fantasy world.
Currently Goldstone 14,24,25,26 and all the dishes in canberra are communicating with New Horizons.
Exciting times!
What about people like me, who live with in range of just one cell tower. When ever I am within range of my cell tower at home, my signal always comes from the same direction, and roughly with the same signal strength. So far I have yet to be disconnected, though who knows, maybe I am flagged for suspicious activity :)
If you're just commuting; charge it at your workplace? park it anywhere you can access a power outlet? If absolutely nothing is available, spend an hour of your time on the weekend using a supercharger.
I think this works best if you pass a pointer to an error structure in the parameters. I've found people often use signed integer types with arrays so they can return a -1 to signal that something went wrong.
Imagine having multiple children to support...
This is an interesting external approach to metaprogramming in Go. After working with languages that have full metaprogramming capabilities, you really take for granted what metaprogramming gives you. The section "The Problem" really drives it home for me.
Google Incremental DOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwGsOBTlhE
I think everyone knows Donald Duck.
I don't get all the bad sentiment. It's written respectfully and he clearly assigns blame to himself.
I completely disagree with the whole "it makes people that got layed off feel worse so don't post it"/"this is too selfish" line of reasoning. He's a human being, too. It's probably therapeutic to post his point of view.

And personally I'd rather read this blog post after being layed off than nothing at all.

+it seems like they handled the layoffs pretty well
Could this be done with Apple's iBeacon as well?
Some problems with the article.

One you cherry pick SPA attempts, like with Twitter. This is an example of a company trying to refactor for SPA, not doing SPA from the beginning.

Libraries that help with SPA are maturing. It's easy to implement routing with backbone for example. You just have to be a good developer and actually learn.

The part that really matters is being a solid dev. Not if you choose SPA or not.
Pour encourager les autres? If annoying "P""R"C means you hurt worldwide, perhaps the next company with evil foreign values will avoid trespassing into the only harmonious country or something.
There is an entire mountain range between Seattle and the ocean. I am curious how the Sound would affect the tsunami.
Lower interest rates increase your relative propensity to spend by lowering the opportunity cost of consumption. For example, if you have $10K and can get only a 1% annual return, you might as well take that trip to Vegas. If you could get a 15% return, though, you might rather stay home and rake in the interest.
How We Solved Authentication and Authorization in Our Microservices Architecture
Vizit – An Interactive Map of Reddit
hmmm maybe east coast Canada is different from west coast? Here we have primarily commuter schools where vast majority of students live at home and use subsidized public transport (so no campus culture, isolated student body unless you join a club), apart from the international students who commute in Lambo and Ferraris (I'm sure they have no problem paying 10x what a Canadian pays).

Living on campus first year was expensive but I don't think I ever spent more than a couple thousand bucks per semester with a 4 course as full load that lasts 4 months. Science courses were the cheapest based on my experience of switching majors many many times. Business courses were the most expensive and the easiest and had no substance. We had like one student union fee which wasn't much, food was cheap if you just ate instant food. Oh and I spent like 3.5~4 hours daily just commuting to campus and back for 3 years. I remember I did some math and I spent a few months of my life just on commuting. All that work to get a piece of paper that can't even be used as toilet paper because it's so rough or rolled to smoke herbs due to fact that it emits toxic fumes upon combustion from the ink which says I'm qualified for absolutely nothing.
So why are so many companies jumping in if there were not much profits? I see variety of low end Android sold in India, surely they would exit if they don't make a profit.But many are now upping the specs and releasing good quality mobiles. I checkout out a 400ppi mobile with Android 5 which seemed better then my N4. It seems at least in India the mid to high level mobiles sales might fall back.
A new way to kill bacteria at your house
OK, you basically have to compare your own internal discounting rate of consumption with the public rate of interest offered on savings.

If your own internal rate is higher than the public one, then indeed you should borrow to consume (or put off saving).

Companies only care about the public rate---if they have a higher rate of reliable return internally, they can keep borrowing money to invest until there's an equilibrium. A low interest rate makes companies more forward looking.
Oh, that's true. Though they do show you a bunch of the basic features in the official tutorial, don't they?
This is just an Occupy wrapper for the same video you just posted.
Microsoft's compiler has been ALL OVER THIS for 20 years.

Nothing says "buggy port of Linux app to Windows" faster than "#pragma warning (disable: 4018)".

Clang is catching up. GCC doesn't seem to care as much. Given all the bitching about undefined behavior you'd think they'd up the warnings.

Compilers are programs too, y'know. We can define (and gasp, re-define) behavior.
I will only speak to the completeness as compared to other AOP[1] implementations[2]. Note that other[3] languages[4] address these concerns within the language definition themselves. Also, keep in mind that this project has just recently come into existence and should not yet be expected to support what mature AOP projects like AspectJ have been able to accomplish.

Considering the newness of the project, it seems to have good support for simple AOP use. There are a significant number of pointcuts missing when compared to AspectJ's pointcuts[5], though some are not applicable in Go.

The "after throwing" advice is inapplicable to Go[6], so can be discounted. However, "after returning" seems not to be supported yet and "around" is limited to call pointcuts.

All of this assumes that the project operates as advertised as I have no first-hand experience with this one.

1 - http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/progguide/index....

2 - http://www.postsharp.net/aop.net

3 - http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_modules.ht...

4 - http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/stackable_trait_pat...

5 - http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/progguide/semant...

6 - http://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go
Still, when you're a leader, it is good practice to lead rather than make excuses to flaunt your lifestyle in others' faces.

EDIT: Don't mean you personally. :)
Don't they have to reply to make it a conversation?
These new regulations are pretty much meaningless:

>Regulation A deals will not be fast, or cheap. Kendall Almerico, the lawyer preparing StarShop’s paperwork, says a typical company will need to spend $50,000 to $100,000 on legal, accounting and filing fees. Every offering must be reviewed by and gain approval from the S.E.C., a process that takes more than 300 days, on average.

If anyone is interested in the origins of blue sky laws, this is an interesting read (http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...)
Code Using Only Your Voice
This is just another copy of the same story you just posted.

Miyazaki is a great filmmaker and would probably disapprove of spamming.
I am one of the project creators. This was a last year project in our company innovation week (http://piweek.com/) but it never become a large project because it is hard to make changes to the

Inkscape UI if you are not a developer.
So it was just a first draft to see if inkscape developers will like our ideas and we could help them to improve the UX/UI for future releases. It did not work and we just left the project.

The useful links you are looking for are: http://piweek.github.io/rethinkscape/
Docs: https://github.com/PIWEEK/rethinkscape/tree/master/docs
Mockups:https://github.com/PIWEEK/rethinkscape/tree/master/mockups

Thanks!
While it is a very nice car, the i3 is really limited by its range. Tesla had journalists take a S from Munich to Amsterdam and back without issues a year ago. It took 1-2 hours more (on an 10h trip) than a petrol car would have taken, assuming the petrol car driver did not require rests. But indeed, charging networks need to be expanded/unified. This also sets Tesla apart from other manufacturers, they are taking care of the charging infrastructure too.
You're not new here, so you probably already know this, but when HN users flag a story, the story gets demoted. A sufficient number of flags kills the story altogether.

This is a very flaggable submission and that's probably what's happening.
Ask HN: Could browsers support parsing LESS and Sass natively?
Could and should browsers (Chrome & Firefox) support native browser parsing of LESS and Sass? It would be great to not have to convert to css via a build system.
Fine for the handful of spaces at work that have a charging outlet. Most workplaces don't have any. Nor will they want to pay for the electricity to charge everyone's car. It's all fun and games to do it for two or three cars as a novelty. It will be an entirely different matter to do it for hundreds of employees. And even if they wanted to do it, and have a payroll deduction or something to pay for it, the electrical grid will need to be upgraded to deliver that kind of power.

I believe that scaling up the electrical grid is going to be the biggest impediment to mass adoption of electric cars. It may happen, but not in 10 years. It will take many decades.
Heh weird. 15 years ago my job was porting apps the other way. Turning lisp desktop apps into lisp web apps with cl-http.
Of course that was hard. Turning a web app into a desktop app is just a matter of embedding a browser. The other way around requires work.
Tsunamis are in fact a lot like waves, just real big ones. Tsunamis move quickly, a tide does not.
Is teaching kids code really THAT important?
How Google kills your boring time
Agreed, this news on TC put up a few facts and seemed to imply the link between them without a logical support, which is not a typical behavior I would expect from a good tech media.
It's a shame that something that got this far would be lost to 'political bickering'–though as a project it does seem to have also fallen at just the wrong moment in history as well. It's interesting to speculate about how it could have affected the development of Cincinnati as a city if it had been completed.

I was also amused to notice that the owner of the semi-finished subway system is 'SORTA'...Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority.
I've just updated the README. Sorry!
But that's how sexism and racism and any kind of discrimination works in the human mind. There are innocuous traits, like sex and skin color, but also many other traits, and we use them to make predictions about behavior. This is unfair discrimination; fair discrimination looks directly at the behavior of an individual, not some innocuous proxy for the behavior, even if that proxy is right 80% of the time.

For example, most people who have an account throwawayXXX on HN are using it temporarily to say something. However, I actually kept one such account for a long time. My username is an innocuous trait, but you're discriminating if you assume my motives and behavior will be like most of the other throwaway accounts, just based on my username.

That said, I believe unfair discrimination is unavoidable in life because we can't always wait around to see what an individual's behavior will be before we discriminate fairly. We couldn't function without stereotypes and assumptions. And so, while still unfair because of the potential for unjustified penalties, it's much better to look at many variables than it is to look at one or two.
That is actually clever. Did not know that. Indeed that somewhat change the driving behaviour.

Does it add more value than the cost premium of the electric car? Doubt it.
Thanks; that's useful to know. I should point out that I wasn't only talking about millennials.
Personally, as someone that doesn't want to be hacked, I would think anything I run that connects to the internet and isn't already very well sandboxed.
Exercising your dog in the Winter months
Were the employees aware of the risks of their role? Did they know that success was uncertain and that failure would mean termination? Did they know their severance package when they agreed to take on the risky role?

If the answer is yes to all of these questions, than no wrong was done. It's just business, and they knew what they were in for. The company did the right thing.
PIC32 is a MIPS core
This is a recent similar submission with some useful resources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9588901

Pay attention to the response by HN user patio11:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9589223
I find it hard to imagine a conventional petrol powered car only lasting 200,000 miles. Which manufacturers only build cars to last 200,000 miles?

I can't think of a car I, or my family, have owned which hasn't lasted at least twice that long.

My current car is a 2002 BMW E39 530D. It has almost 900,000 kms on the clock and is still going strong on the original engine. The cloth interior is still in quite reasonable condition. There has of course been the need for minor maintenance (rear shocks were required at the last inspection). Right now I need new door seals and there is some minor rust attended to. However, at a consumption of approximately 7 liters per 100 km on the autobahn, I don't see any need to buy a newer car for quite some time yet.
> I notice it every time I brush my teeth in another country, it just tastes bad.

Depends where you go. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, tap water tasted similar to Magdeburg, Germany, tap water. Both very hard.

Glasgow has awful tap water. Fort Williams has some of the best, if you are into making tea or coffee with it, very soft.
It would have been nice if the bash line contained a way to compare hashes to verify the script is untouched.(store the hash file on a 3rd party server like s3) Or pgp sign the script in some way.
I wrote Living with Schizoaffective Disorder specifically to help people like you.

That is, many work tirelessly to help mentally ill people such as me. But I myself work tirelessly to help those such as yourself who are not mentally understand people like your family, as well as to point out to the sane that reality is not as concrete as it commonly seems.

Consider that of all those who "shed their vehicles" in the 1997 Heavens Gate mass suicide, only one was truly mentally ill. The the minds of the others were captivated by their cult leader Marshall Applewhite.

I once escaped what should have been a veryy, very secure osychiatric intensive care unit by inducing a psychiatric nurse to hallucinate. I did so not to hurt anyone but so I would have a topic for yet another essay. There was an All Points Bulletin out fir me all over the San Francisco Bay Area. San Mateo PD Officer Wayne Haas pissed himself laughing when I dropped him a dime to explain that I had been staying in the guest room if a wealthy friend, dining in the very finest restaurants and posting new drafts if my essay from one of my very favorite cafes.

Thatbessay is no longer online but I will repost it, tonight maybe but I am very tired as I exoerience chronic insomnia.
> he clearly assigns blame to himself

I found the amount he said "it was all my fault" over and over again to make the whole thing sound insincere, but I guess there's no pleasing everyone.

I've only fired people before, never laid people off, but where I'm from the process is long and drawn out, and you have many many meetings that need to focus on a person's failings. Being able to say "it's not you, it's me", and sending someone on their way with generous severance sounds like a bucket load more fun than having to document - in excruciating detail and face to face - why someone you like as a person is incompetent and needs to go.
They will eventually.
NASA’s New Horizons probe finds Pluto is bigger than predicted
For passenger capacity, note that most car owners utilize 1/4 or 1/5 of their available seats.

Yet while all 3 of my vehicles (2 cars and a motorcycle) are 2-seaters, virtually all of my driving is solo (and I'm not even talking about commuting -- I'm primarily a bicycle commuter. Okay, my other 3 vehicles have 1 seat and 2 pedals).

The "average" or typical use case is not how people choose their vehicle. They choose it based on the uncommon use case. The executive buys himself a Porsche not because it will get him anywhere any faster, or because she really knows how to drive it, but because it projects an image of what she could do. The SUV is sold on the promise of rugged camping trips and dodging boulders to transport the children safely back home under conditions that can best be described as "apocalypse". Hell, I have many car enthusiast friends who have bought practical, boring cars because they've got that 3rd row seating for hauling their kids' friends.... before they even have kids!

For 99% of use cases, yes, the electric car is cheaper and more convenient. But my next car will be a comfortable, powerful, gas-powered car with AWD. Why? Because today's weight (and efficiency) penalty for AWD is basically zero, and on the one trip to Tahoe a year where chain control is in effect, I won't have to freeze my digits off trying to fit chains (or, worse, get taken out by a vehicle careening out of control in the snow).. and I won't have to hunt down nonexistent charging infrastructure where I don't have a driveway, let alone a garage. It will be for the 2 roadtrips I take a year. It will be because, while the electric car is better for MOST of my driving, it doesn't accommodate the rare circumstances we really buy vehicles for -- Because the electric car isn't enough better at the 99% of use cases to make up for its virtual uselessness at the 1%.

I love electric cars. I've driven the i3, various hybrids, and the Tesla Roadster and Model S. Some day I will own an electric car, but I wouldn't surprise if the tipping point takes quite a bit longer to trigger than he expects.
Patent threats don't really hinder community reverse engineering efforts, but they do discourage the major vendors from being open-source friendly, because nobody wants to open up their tech only to get sued over the details you just disclosed.
That's approximately my student loan amount for 4 years of school (started in September 2005 until my last exam in December 2009) with 4 courses per 4 month semesters (full load with volatile major changes so ended up taking whole range of stuff I was just interested in). I'm sure there's other costs like eating cheap food, long commute ,opportunity cost, and mental health cost.
Most of the best features of LESS and Sass are in proposed drafts of the CSS spec:

CSS variables: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-variables/

Calculated expressions: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/calc

Mixins are almost always used just to support multiple browser prefixes, and so they go away as features graduate from being browser-specific to making it into the spec. A number of prominent offenders (transition, transform, border-radius, box-shadow) have already done this.

Nested rules are similar to <style scoped>. The latter is actually a bit more powerful, since it gives true namespacing, but it's clunkier to use. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/st...

Shadow DOM also gives style encapsulation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...

Browser support for most of these features is pretty spotty:

http://caniuse.com/#search=var

http://caniuse.com/#search=calc

http://caniuse.com/#search=scoped

http://caniuse.com/#search=shadowdom
I'd be interested; will have a roof at 2nd/townsend at some point late this year. More interested in satcom, though.
I can't help but chuckle a bit at the situation of all these public promises being made in the wake of the firing of Victoria, and the person responsible for having to deliver on these promises noping the fuck out when seeing they are being set up for failure.

Whatever the reasons behind Victoria's firing...I wonder if the powers that be would do it again if they knew the shit storm it would kick off. CEO, gone. Chief Engineer, gone. Public sentiment, pretty thoroughly buggered.
"Why Apple killing the 16GB iPhone is their biggest mistake yet" - future article from this author.
The Codist: After 3 Decades in Programming, Looking at the Next 3 Decades
That's a key point, Altera and Xilinx may well have decided to keep some of their inventions secret, banking on being able to keep them secret, In which case a patent may do them little good. And there is no 7-year date of expiry on secrets.
Dublin, or at least the non-Schengen bit of it. Even the restroom taps are set to warm water only.

One potential hack around this is to find the disabled bathroom, which usually has taps with adjustable water temperature,
Cars being expensive in cities is nothing new. Mass transit in cities is nothing new. Hard to say what energy prices will do but there's no clear trend[1]. Most people aren't really very worried about climate change[2].

[1] http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/images/charts/Oil/Inflati...

[2] http://www.gallup.com/poll/167843/climate-change-not-top-wor...
Why don't Americans go to Europe for their University degree?
It's not massively cheaper to solve the problem of the building itself requiring some multiple of its current electrical service supply once all the tenants want to start charging their cars there.
Reddit’s troubles mount as chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits
Cannot disagree more - Erin's letter grabbed me and just kept on reading - I loved the tone, the digressions and the attitude. It how I think I write.

If that's mentally disturbed, I'm in the club :-)
The 2011 and 2012 were disasters for Nissan. Never buy one of those, especially in a hot climate. I've had my 2013 for two years now and haven't noticed any drop in range at all.
How to conquer the US as European startup – Part 1: Before the journey