skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic, but absence of evidence is in fact evidence of absence, though depending on the circumstances it might be weak.

Say we'd like to know if A exists. There's some evidence for A's existence, which we'll E. The absence of this evidence is ~E.

By Bayes' theorem:

P(A) = P(A intersect E) + P(A intersect ~E) = P(A|E)* P(E) + P(A|~E)*P(~E)

So the probability that A exists is a weighted average of the probability that A exists when there is and is not evidence.(Since P(E)+P(~E)=1) There is a kind of 'conservation of probability'.

If the idea that 'E is evidence of A' is to mean anything at all, then it means that P(A|E) > P(A). Hence P(A|~E) must be less than P(A). Another way to say it is that P(~A|~E) > P(~A). And absence of evidence is absence of evidence.
Your New Scientist article is laughable....

So Charles Branas's team at the University of Pennsylvania analysed 677 shootings over two-and-a-half years to discover whether victims were carrying at the time, and compared them to other Philly residents of similar age, sex and ethnicity.

This study only looked at one side of the equation of people who carry guns, the ones who got shot. What about all the people who carry guns and never use them? Wouldn't they be excluded from this study?
That didn't fix it (still same non-scrolling issue as parent).

However this fixes the second problem ;-)

Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementsByClassName("footerText")).forEach(function(e) { e.innerHTML = 'Published on July 11, 2015.'; })
I was looking for a list of resources, but your comment was long and insightful. Thanks for taking the time up to write it
Australia is planning to move from left to right hand side starting in 2020 but it's a big change so the change will be phased in with trucks moving to the right in 2020 and cars in 2021.
Everything You Know About Addiction Is Wrong
Jonathan Spence's The Search for Modern China is fairly decent, although it is not light-weight.

http://www.amazon.com/Search-Modern-China-Jonathan-Spence/dp...
Getting married certainly does end up getting filed somewhere, etc. It's part of the public record. So does having a child, or buying a house. Advertisers pay good money to figure out who new parents are. Voters are also registered, as are drivers.

Who should be more concerned about the behind-the-scenes stuff, gun enthusiasts, newlyweds, new parents, homeowners, registered voters, or drivers? And why?
There may not be a major target market. SRAM is one of the easiest kinds of chips to make- very regular patterning, doesn't need an army of engineers to design... so it could be a launch vehicle whose primary goal is to flush out the design & manufacturing process, with other chips to follow.

The 6T cell is also a critical building block to many kinds of chips, and it in itself can be hard to get right, so nailing it down early in an easier chip is good.
Can we have the program to do that transformation, so we can run it for ourselves?
They don't stay confined to their community. They use it as a communications hub to harass from.
Don't give me money, teach me how to make money. That's like a common saying. In this case, if I ever have a friend that needs to learn to code I think I'd rather point them in directions in which they can become self-taught programmers like myself. Although I am 100% in agreement that they should have bruises before asking questions
who could possibly benefit by having this data? I don't think it's of any use to scammers and criminals.
GPUs are a better measure of performance improvement, because they more easily add cores, and so aren't as affected by the clock rate plateau - for GPUable computation.
Hotspot is really quite subtle, and thorough in its strategy. Because of the alignment of java objects it can both shift and truncate pointers (reversing the shift when they are actually used), but can also handle the heap not being allocated in the low end of address space by storing the offset of the base address, and adding/subtracting that as needed as well.
I am no longer working on the project (it was part of a 4-month research project), but I'll make sure to tell my supervisor. thanks! :D
React UI Builder
"In the late 1700s, however, teamsters in France and the United States began hauling farm products in big wagons pulled by several pairs of horses."

I am interested about this statement and why it didn't happen in the UK which was also majorly agricultural in the same period.
I'm sorry but there is likely to be more to come. "All current and former since 2004" .. No one transfers all the files by accident unless the systems and controls and sheer "WTF am I doing this for" attitude is simply missing.

This Inwill guess is the least awful of a series of breaches to be released, as everyone falls over themselves to check their seals.
Airplane Wi-Fi is not safe
Who should be more concerned about the behind-the-scenes stuff, gun enthusiasts, newlyweds, new parents, homeowners, registered voters, or drivers? And why?

I suppose it depends on what threats you consider realistic.
Huh. I may have to walk that back. I just got back from cleaning up some Greg Chesson's computers (he passed on) so I haven't been watching stuff.

Caught up and read Steve Huffman's stuff, he seems like the real deal, he seems to care, be all over it, maybe he'll fix it. He at least sounds like someone who gives a shit about the right things.

So maybe I'm wrong, it happens.
Perhaps there isn't.
How Our Success Is Ruining Seattle
TSMC can tweak it all they like, but a smaller gate leads to higher leakage currents. Plus popular older nodes are still getting tweaked.

That said, you can still attain amazing sleep currents on modern advanced nodes. The catch is just that the best way to do that is with advanced design techniques, which require more design effort.
Given that this article is 6 years old, and the upcoming vNext is being touted as practically a rewritten v1.0 product... will this constraint still hold for the new ASP.NET coming next year?
The Defenestration of Search
This seems non-adversarial, more like a violation of DoD's own internal policies. I wonder why they don't say whether they were able to perform any remediation?
A couple of notes, since this article appears quite dated.

var hash = Object.create(null)

creates an object free of inherited properties, this obviates most of the need for a wrapper class for the "I just want an associative array" case.

For the "keys", "values", and "each" methods

In modern JS one could simply call

Object.keys(hash)

Object.keys(hash).map(function(key) { return hash[key] })

Object.keys(hash).forEach(function(key) { fn(key, hash[key]) })

respectively.

Or as the article suggests, simply use a library like Lodash for this kind of general purpose iteration.
""Japan and other leading countries in the 12-nation negotiation said they were awaiting action by Congress before moving toward the final stage of the talks.""

Does it sound like other countries may be having doubts also?
Well, you brought it up as something "that [might have] gun enthusiasts worried." Why do you think they consider it realistic enough to mention?

Is it because they don't know just how much data mining governments and companies do to us, and prefer to limit themselves to issues that might reduce their enthusiasm?

In which case it's not really a meaningful objection, since it's true of nearly every hobby. I'm sure that back in the early 1900s some ham radio operators objected to licensing requirements and power limits placed on them. That doesn't mean those were unreasonable restrictions.
Indian intelligence agencies seeking tech for mass phone tapping: WikiLeaks
Wow, that song really resonates with me.
Nit: I don't think copyright assignment is the correct term here. That refers to transferring the ownership of the root rights to the material, but you're just referring to granting specific rights under a license.
In programming (and many other fields) things change quickly, something that was a good idea 3-4 years ago may now be a really bad advice. Closed questions can't be updated with the improved answers, so IMHO they simply can't be trusted anymore
Thanks for posting this. It's also on Slashdot tonight: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/07/11/2255232/is-the... and on BB yesterday by Doctorow: http://boingboing.net/2015/07/10/how-seattles-economic-boom-...
Original author here!

Microsoft fixed this awhile ago; the constraint definitely is dead in vNext. You do, however, still need to set a flag explicitly to disable the behavior described in this post. http://haacked.com/archive/2010/04/29/allowing-reserved-file... has instructions on how this worked in ASP.NET 4, and I believe the situation is similar in 5.

Also, just to get this out of the way since it comes up every time this is posted, my description of CP/M is slightly incorrect; it turns out to have had a much saner COM/LPT/etc. situation than DOS had. The rest of the article was however correct.
I think this will be the single biggest revolution since aviation history. It would change the way we travel, send things up to space. Of course, military consequences will be interesting as well. I wonder if US military already has something like this in the works. I'd hate it to see it fall into the wrong type of people.

Very inspiring stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_a21fPkYM
Well, that's a trivial proof. Kill everybody and there will be no suffering. Then you invoke what does intrinsically matter to recognize that this is an unacceptable solution, because you've actually destroyed everything that matters.

What does matter is reliable, flexible decision-making capabilities, and killing someone is just about the worst way to achieve that (barring that the person you kill isn't doing more damage than good in this regard.) Suffering is bad because it causes people to make bad decisions.

And that isn't something you can easily argue is true for the situation I was responding to.
So we'll switch to an entirely different basis - as we did from vaccuum tubes, relays, gears - I like Kurzweil's historical argument on this.

It's like Peak Oil - when the straightforward methods are exhausted, the price goes up, making it viable to explore other avenues that were comparatively inefficient before. Think about an intel-killer. Think about VCs thinking about an intel killer. Some tech may turn out to be much better than expected. To change the figure again, those neglected minor veins may lead to greater deposits, as has happened before.

There is so. much. demand for this.

eg biological neurons are far superior to our best silicon.
Seems like all the usual downfalls: innovators dilemma (sticking with analog mobile phones too long, being late on smartphones), arrogance based on past successes leading to a massive investment in a product nobody wants (Iridium), too many internal fiefdoms, etc.
Nice article, but please do be careful in your descriptions of sampling and digitization. They are not quite right.

The video here from Monty Montgomery of xiph.org does a nice job of explaining things without in a way that reduces the confusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM
Yeah however the C standard recommends that the integer conversion rank of size_t and ptrdiff_t is lower or equal to long.

http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#7.19p4
The NY Times and Bloomberg have been pushing these interactive articles. I think the genesis was probably the Boston Globe and their Big Picture articles.
I found the cartoon format odd for a publication like Crain's. I remember them as a "serious" business publication but it's been many years since I really paid them any attention.

I didn't really mind reading it, though.
AMAbot - is that the one?
You're going to put a lot of PR people out of jobs with that.
Bypassing Control Flow Guard on Windows 8.1 Update 3
No, it did not just look at one side of the equation.

"We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants within Philadelphia, PA, from 2003 to 2006. We adjusted odds ratios for confounding variables."

How does this only look at people carrying a gun?
Ask HN: What companies are doing work related to scientific computing?
I'm about to graduate with my Bachelor's degree in mathematics and I'm looking for companies that are do more research-oriented work, like making use of GPGPU programming. (I'm also looking for positions related to web development and data science, so I'm not limiting myself by any means, just curious!)
> is that trains were invented and first implemented in the UK while metro was first implemented by French people.

As with any invention, attribution to any one person or even nation is difficult; the UK did have the first machine-powered rail trains and the first intercity machine-powered passenger rail service (Liverpool and Manchester Railway).

The metro looks to be British as well, though: the Metropolitan Railway, now part of London Underground, opened in 1863, and John Fowler was its chief engineer. The first electric-powered underground railway was the City and South London Railway, opened in 1890, James Henry Greathead as its chief engineer. (Budapest metro opening in 1896, Paris metro opening in 1900.)
Do parents not have a moral right to look after their children?
He's better educated than most politicians in Europe - including most finance ministers.

I wasn't expecting a deal, and lo - it seems a deal will not happen.

Greece could offer to sell its people into slavery, and it seems that still wouldn't be enough for certain elements in the European nomenklatura.

So Grexit it is.

If anyone is crazy, mad, and delusional, it's the German establishment. Schauble would rather rob his banks of any timetable for repayment than deal with financial reality like a rational adult.
Interesting author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_James
The 'mount a horse on the left' argument seemed far stronger.
As a former ARNG member and a current Army Reserve member, this doesn't surprise me at all. The U.S. military's regard for personal information has been dreadful. Service in the military entails endless filling out of paper and electronic forms and almost every one of them has the servicemember's SSN on them. These forms get filed in filing cabinets, e-mailed around and--quite often--left on desks. The situation is made worse because our pay grades are typically part of the form, too, so a potential identity thief knows the approximate salary of the victim because our salaries are standardized and readily available.

Things are getting better and the DoD has switched to a non-SSN identification number but the SSN is still frequently used.
There's an explosion in the container/VM space or competing and complimenting products that I can barely keep a handle on. One thing I've noticed is that they've all seemingly failed at actually abstracting anything and are really just adding another level of obstuse syntax on top of already obscure linux commands. Why can't list out my software stack as a list of dependencies and versions (like npm package.json or a maven POM file)?
Good thing we didn't kill him in the womb or in the cradle then, as others on this page are advocating. His life was sadly short, but we are better for having had him.
He's probably right. Italy and France are the next overextended countries bound to fall once their ratings go down and their government bond interests go up. And compared to these economies, Greece's is negligible.

Maybe the spectacular punishment of Greece will teach them a lesson and convince them to reduce their public debt. Or maybe nothing can convince politicians to worry about the medium-long term.
My short-lived experience driving on the right only gave me two problems, though I didn't drive a manual. Reversing up was weird, looking over the 'wrong' shoulder. But the real issue was having to be very conscious at turning into junctions, to make sure I was turning into the correct half of the road. Everything else just fell into place, for me.
No, I'm using Lumia 830 and had 520 before. There are all basic apps and many Unity games.

And Lumia 5 series are selling like hotcakes in poor countries. Windows Phone OS is smooth and fast on low-end even compared to iOS.

(I'm not a MS fan, OS X is my desktop.)
Code Review Hygiene
> What if there's a double quote in a commit message?

This is what I want to know too. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't do any escaping. The last time I did something like this, I used %n and %x00 to delimit the output of git log, and converted it to a JavaScript object on the JavaScript side. Git log isn't smart enough to write JSON by itself.
Not if the print edition is considered the record.

The NY Times, like all newspapers, is feeling some financial pain. However, go back about 40 or 50 years to the salad days, and there was no such thing as "the print edition". Many newspapers, including the Times, published a number of editions during the day. National papers were also published regionally, with somewhat different contents. I don't know what happens nowadays.

In times of old, the NY Times National edition was supplanted by the Late City edition. But this caused some problems, as this FAQ discusses: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/faqs/news/nyteds.html
>next to nobody is using OS X, so what's your prediction?

Depends if in "nobody" you include: almost every student in a modern US university, almost the majority of top-tier programmers in any programming convention (from Java to Rails and from Python to C++ and Go), almost all creatives (designers, musicians and video editors), and almost all business executives.

Of course that's for the US. Finland and Kazakstan might differ.
Why submit a 6 year old tech article? What's the context and relevance?
How is that clear? Where is the data that backs up your claim?

The studies cited in http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/having-a... certainly point the other direction.
Undefined behavior in C standards is often not a result of technical decisions but of practical concerns when developing a consensus during the standards process. The people on the standards committee historically included compiler vendors and users of diverse operating systems. When the process started in 1983, there were 8, 16, and 32 bit systems [and things like Burroughs 48 bit word systems].

The practical decision to leave the sizes undefined was made so that nobody was burdened unfairly. It's choices like this - not biasing stakeholders toward forgoing a standard for clear business reasons - that makes the adoption of standards likely. Subsequent C standards have adopted the same undefined behavior for the same reasons [there are still 8 and 16 bit systems developed with C] and to facilitate backward compatibility of the new standards.
Web proxy to surf the web anonymously. No tracking, zero logging
tl;dr The Eurozone needs means to cope with differences in productivity and fiscal policies - either needs free floating exchange rates (ie no Euro) or it needs federal budgets and bonds (ie fiscal Union)

Either option scares the shit out of everyone so no one has brought it up.

The ex Greek finance minister thinks the current German finance minister is forcing Greece to exit the Euro so they can force the fiscal Union closer - but (implicitly) without having to messily deal with democracy or referendums.
As a country, we are imprisoning too many people. The laws are pretty clear and won't change the prison pipeline.

We really need to figure out who is truly dangerous and needs to be kept off of the streets versus who we're mad at as a society (and funnel those people to probation, treatment, and community-based correctional programs).
Apple definitely uses Shazam, because there's a Shazam icon next to the result: http://i.imgur.com/xTKUyyH.jpg
3x is BOM to street price.

Retail is higher than street. 5-5.5x is about right.
Very timely words.
The argument in your first paragraph shows that suffering is not the only thing that matters; it doesn't prove it isn't a thing that matters (which is what you claimed before).

I don't think it's tenable to say that suffering is bad only "because it causes people to make bad decisions", unless you are comfortable saying that inflicting pain on infants is morally neutral. (I don't think a very small baby can rightly be said to be "making decisions", good or bad.)
As spacehome points out, that advice is a logical contradiction (and therefore not particularly suitable for logicians). Absence of evidence is not proof of absence.
Same on Safari on Mac OS X.
Victoria wasn't involved in those subreddits being shut down by the admins at all, as far as I'm aware.
I remember in my teens in the early 80’s visiting the USA. Having come from the left driving country which is the source of iocane powder, I was quite startled when the taxi shot out into the middle of the intersection to do a left hand turn instead of hugging the curb.

The linked[1] trivia article was quite interesting as well. Loved this bit: A newspaper story on April Fool’s Day suggested that, to further European integration, the UK was to convert to driving on the right. However, owing to the huge amount of work this conversion would cause, it would be phased in: for the first six months the regulation would only apply to buses and taxis.

The mention of locations of turn signal levers also reminded me of the time I drove a car which was opposite of what I am use to. Every time I went around a corner I would switch the window wipers on.

[1] http://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/trivia-about-driving-left/
>Uh, the one following hordes of brain-dead Java developers hand-coding getters and setters?

I can only image what they think of you and it's probably not very good. You must be a nightmare to work with and be around. Which is probably why they keep you away from people.

>And is delivered 2 years later, requires 5 times more people and costs 10 time more to develop. And Python can be plenty fast if you use the right libraries.

Sounds very anecdotal. This seems to be your modus operandi. I could say the same thing about worthless Python developers. No wonder that language is in decline and seldom used in the enterprise.

>What do I have to be bitter about? I get paid well to write Python, C and Go on bespoke and interesting back-end systems and don't have to attend daily stand-ups with brain-dead Java developers and Oracle DBAs and listen to them duke it out over who's fault it is queries are running slow. No thanks.

Again with the idiotic anecdotes. You must have been exposed to a work environment that was not congruent to that of your own, but somehow think it's the blueprint. But, make no mistake, you are a bitter man and if Java contributed to that then I'm thankful for its existence.
Bad UI. I almost didn't know it was English text on it but it does its job fine which is the objective
Look for Greece to just start putting land up on ebay.
The "actual, real controversy" wasn't the story, though. It was the forced fed made up controversy that was the real story.
> The change.org petition has been around for about a month.

Just to be clear, it was made in response to FPH being shut down.
Well, game theory did not work out for him and no he is mad.

It is a little bit if your wife threatens you with divorce and you say: OK, let's do it.
You can compose Monads in this way too. Even in Haskell, mtl-style transformers are very similar.
Seeing you, of all people, peddling this genetic fallacy claptrap is rather discouraging.

Any such "subtextual nefariousness" is in the mind of the reader.
I agree, but am pretty excited by the opportunity that such research will have outsize long-term benefits.
Only somewhat related, the really neat tool code-maat[0] can do a lot with your commit data, but it uses plain CSV. It provides a bunch of canned reports you can run on your repo as well.

[0] https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat
reminded me of fallout
"If you have nothing to hide, exert this effort."

No thanks. Come take my clothes off, bring a camera. I'll charge my normal hourly rate and we'll both be upset about time wasted.