skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who lived directly behind the above mentioned Wal-Mart and north of the Home Depot, I can confirm that the Wal-Mart, along with my apartment complex (http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/), took a "glancing blow", the two were pretty much in a straight line along the path of it.

More likely, we both suffered from side effects of the actual twister, and my apartment complex would have been in worse shape if we'd been hit by winds as bad as the Wal-Mart. While emptying my apartment, I ran into a NOAA team that based on things like how bolts sheared from adjacent cell towers estimated that we'd gotten hit by ... hmmm, can't remember exactly now, but not very fast winds compared to the 90 mph standard almost every building is designed for. Maybe 120 mph?

Whereas the Home Depot was in the zone of EF4/EF5 total destruction, we're talking 166–200 mph/267–322 km/h for EF4, greater than that for EF5, and everything was flattened or otherwise destroyed in that area. Nothing but short piles of rubble, twisted girders of industrial buildings, etc.
People had this argument in the late 1970s and your viewpoint won, although nobody seems to have noticed. Of course you need break or return or something like that to write a linear search that doesn't have a confusing condition variable.
Are more civilians killed by drones or by cluster bombs[1] or "shock and awe" style campaigns?

Any civilian death is a terrible thing, but if drones reduce the rate of civilian death it's probably a good thing.

[1] even when we exclude cluster bombs that we the same colour as air-dropped food packages
I think he's just bad enough at public speaking that it adds to his charm - he comes off as sincere and eager rather than polished and professional.
Looking forward to this. Nice feature, does exactly what you expect it to do. I think, you would not even notice it if you had not tried to use the unpacking operator in such a way and learned, that it was not possible.

More of these + performance, please, and I am happy with you, Python.
It looks like they used the GE-235 originally, which only had 8K words of 20 bits each (i.e. 20KB.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE-200_series
this is just astroturfing from their HR dept, fishing for cheap temp labour
Why are you complaining that my comment is taking yours seriously, when yours is taking colin's seriously? Nice hypocrisy there.

I was actually referencing your underlying understanding for your ridicule, not the joke itself.
Yes, the repository is an app-specific one, containing cross compiled (and sometimes patched) packages to run directly without chroot. Just tell me about desired packages (such as picolisp) and I will look into adding them!
It is vague to those seeking logic. To those exchanging intuitions it is not vague at all. The United States is conscious is concise. The logic behind it is weak but the intuition is there, which is what matters. And from here the debate can begin as well as scientific inquiry and logical scrutiny -- all unfolding only to deepen our understanding of what is right or wrong, beautiful or ugly, real or imaginary (basically whatever your interests). Just count the comments here. A job well done.
In all seriousness I've been running Windows 10
Preview for a month, and it's been a joy. All of those things you mentioned have been addressed. As far as the shell is concerned, learn how to use PowerShell. CMD is there for legacy compatibility. PowerShell works well, but it is different that anything you've used before. Also, Microsoft Edge web browser is there instead of IE. It is 95% as good as Chrome for everyday use.
> there's nothing stopping them from letting you go.

Not everywhere allows employers to just fire-and-replace an employee on a whim.
I am running Windows 10 RTM, and it is a huge improvement over Win 8.1.
There's a section on that article called recent development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_curve#Recent_development

"For example, rather than finding that the probability of telephone communication increases with distances, as face-to-face probability decays, our data show a decay in the use of all communication media with distance (following a near field rise)."

It's not the tech, it's the behavior.
Except I can't find my 1999 Ford Explorer Sport in those, are there alternatives?
Crashes Pale Moon (25.2.0) on Win 7.
I would like to see MiniDisc get the same attention. Guess that'll never happen again as it was always a bit niche while tape was as mainstream as it can get. Ok it's digital and somewhat more expensive but apart from that it imo is very similar (easy to record, share, portable) yet has much advantages over tape (noise, portables last way longer, medium does not lose signal under normal circumstances, less mechanical parts, higher density in same form factor)
Was there a reason Ng decided to teach the course in Octave rather than Python? The only time I've ever used .m files was during the course.

I appreciated the challenge of thinking from an array based language, but I felt it held me back from directly comparing my solutions to the tutorials to external sources. (Unless that even in of itself was the reason).
But isn't "I believe my company is treating me unfairly by paying me less for equal work" a legitimate reason?
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The attraction to mix-tapes for me was the artwork. They had this "college band" vibe to them, where someone had cut out art from a magazine, or maybe drew something in pen & ink, then used transfer letters to put a title on it, and ran it through a photocopier until it had a street grunge to it, and looked like something you didn't want your parents to know you had.
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I've been on the other end of this for a few days - basically any company I do business with who has their e-mail on Google simply doesn't get my e-mails. Sometimes I get an active bounce (i.e., a reject due to my originating address), sometimes... Nothing. No pattern, either. Same destination, different behaviors.

The mail simply does not reach my suppliers'/partners' inbox, and as a result we're all losing time and patience with this

The really funny thing? Some of those people I work with are @google.com.

(And yeah, my corporate domain is clean, SPF'd up to the wazoo, etc.)
> Concise and maintainable are antagonistic qualities

Uh? How so?

That's quite a strange argument to rationalize Erlang's verbosity and boiler plate.
I have worked with a large number of Nilenso co-opers doing Clojure. We've pair programmed for postgres benchmarks, editing a large (and complicated) A/B testing codebase, and one even ramped me up at that job.

I've found them to be extremely good to work with.
I'm interested in the historical and current use of FORTRAN. However, the article wanders off topic and (in my opinion) loses credibility when it dives into opinion.

For example, "Fortran is the language of high-performance technical computing -- even if this is an increasingly smaller segment of today's computing activities."

I grow weary of this form of sentence construction. Saying "X is the language of Y" smacks of marketing, not something that I want to see in a journal such as the International Journal of High-Energy Physics. I don't mind if a writer claims something the best language for high-performance technical computing, but they should at least give some comparison with alternatives and empirical support.

Update: I see this was written in 2007.
>I'm still going to call it extremely naive to expect anything close to 100% of cleaners to meet that standard.

That was the promise made by Homejoy.
Technically, we're several tens of miles east of Tornado Alley, but as I noted in my first comment, the accepted standard for residential and commercial building out here is 90 mph, which will handle more than 50% of all tornadoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Fujita_scale).

And the odds of any particular location getting hit with any sort of tornado are small; in fact, I gather that derechos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho) do more, but much less intense, damage since they effect vastly larger areas of land. It's just not worth the resources to build everything to handle > EF0 tornadoes, better to have alerting systems for people to listen to them and get to safety in time, although of course safety in an EF4/5 tornado is not trivial. We had 20 minutes of warning before it touched down, with 2 warnings sounded, and it took 5 minutes to make its way to my location. A large fraction of the fatalities were from people who simply didn't heed the warnings.
That is because sales people are overrated because you can measure what they bring to the table.

Programmers, not so much.
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Great episode.

Big takeaway for me was that salary transparency generally benefits the employee more than the employer.
Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" show hits closer to reality everyday.
Yeah. It happens and when it does, it isn't them that is negatively impacted but you :P
No you don't need any reason. You can go to the tax office and use their public computer for example.
> why would it piss you off if someone negotiated a good deal?

I think you're being naive. If you have a peer who works less than you (or whom you think is not as good as you are) and that peer is making more money than you, you will get pissed. It will impact your work, it will make you resentful and you will want to renegotiate your compensation. Either way, it will impact your work, probably your happiness, and it will force the company to deal with you instead of dealing with its business.

Keeping salaries confidential solves all these problems.
If I were to guess, here are several reasons:

- radio signal power goes down with square of the distance, so closer sources are much stronger than far ones

- any (be it software or hardware) filtering is not perfect, so a strong enough signal will probably still drown the weak ones

- it may be tad more difficult to filter out a close source because you can't assume it radiates in parallel lines, which to some extent you can with far ones (like for most practical purposes here on Earth we assume that sun rays are parallel)

- strong signals close to the ground means lots of reflections, which means more strong signals coming from random directions

- it's probably cheaper to make an exclusion zone in the middle of a desert rather than shielding yourself and upgrading the tech even more to filter out all the surrounding RF noise
I'd like to agree with 'Why not just pay people the same for each position' but to play devil's advocate, off the top of my head:

* not all people in the same position are equally qualified
* reducing the difference to bonuses might mean a lot more overhead
* salary might cover for things other than just competence, i.e. Alice and Bob are equally qualified, but you hire Alice out of college while Bob already had a well paying job

I wish there was enforce transparency about salaries but I'm not sure all of them can be just leveled to position+bonus.

Joel Spolsky had an interesting approach to this, a more complex formula but still public and consistent for all employees:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html
I only read a few paragraphs... I doubt I need to read further. The writer, who obviously is rather self-assured that he sports an IQ higher than 95% of the rest of the population, is clearly falling short on a few vital aspects of the human condition. Redistributing wealth to those with high IQ's does not ensure ethical use of capital, and will only serve to widen the income gap. If severe enough this will eventually lead to the poor rising up against the "smart people". It doesn't take a high-IQ to kill.

The author also misses the fundamental point of a basic income, which is equal distribution. Providing income to one group over another based on means testing undermines the entire concept. And there is no need to do so. Smart people will use the money they receive wisely, which is great for the economy. Others will use is less wisely, but that is okay. As long the the Basic Income isn't artificially inflated that will have little negative effect on the economy. The point is to give all human beings a modicum of dignity to at least have the opportunity to conduct their lives in a productive manner. Starving and homeless people have little chance to make something of themselves regardless of their IQ's.

If we wish to ebb the world toward higher IQ's -- and I agree that is noble pursuit -- the best policy is to curb population growth via a policy of two children per parent, and provide special allowances to those who demonstrate exceptional talent. Many people will find that objectionable at first. But if considered carefully, it is the least offensive means of achieving this laudable goal.
A materialist? Which one are you talking about? Marx? Descartes?

And saying that consciousness is a fruitless concept is a bit short, when this very concept is unavoidable when trying to know what is humanity. It's so fruitless that hundreds of books have been written to try to grab a part of it. It is also central to psychoanalysis, and to many major novels of the last century. Fruitless you said?
Video on experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jFGNQScRNY&feature=youtu.be
Obligatory pg essay link: http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

Describes in greater detail the exact problem with philosophy you are lamenting!
GOOD managers can only dream about such a strong opportunity to champion their reports.
A materialist? Which one are you talking about? Marx? Descartes?

And saying that consciousness is a fruitless concept is a bit short, when this very concept is unavoidable when trying to know what is humanity. It's so fruitless that hundreds of books have been written to try to gab a part of it. It is also central to psychoanalysis, and many major novels of the last century. Fruitless you said?
> Could Pluto have an unusually large amount of radioactive elements in its core

I heard Real Scientists mention that as a possibility. We didn't expect much radioactive material out there, but we also have very little real knowledge.

I can't be the only one hoping Pluto is shaped by Plutonium?

> Could it have recently collided with a large KBO

I like that idea. I guess a planet that is mainly ice could absorb that without showing obvious scars.

> Could it have been subjected to large tidal forces relatively recently

I think it has to have been a moon of Neptune for that to have any major effect. Don't know if that's at all feasible.
Yep, I was a bit annoyed to find stuff like the Boomerang in here. Most people don't realize that losing the critical engine on a multi can be much more dangerous that losing both. Burt's Boomerang is probably one of the least ridiculous designs out there, as the asymmetric design of the wings is there to negate the adverse effects of a critical engine failure.
I would think that the logic is that if there were no drones, the US army would drop no bombs at all. I wouldn't expect them to instead start carpet bombing cities in the middle east.

Reasoning in that way, the drones result in civilian deaths that wouldn't have happened without drones.
> I know I was told that could happen more than once in my early years

It's illegal for employers to prohibit employees from discussing compensation[1].

[1] http://www.govdocs.com/can-employees-discuss-pay-salaries/
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Except for a few mathematical concepts I don't see any thing that would have such property, e.g. Art, Good, Justice, Culture, etc.
For some wider context of his views, check out his other articles, particularly http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/CrazyMind.ht....

I don't get the impression that Schwitzgebel takes analytic philosophy very seriously, which is something I find very refreshing about him (compared to other philosophers of consciousness such as Chalmers). His early interest was on ancient Chinese philosophy, and in http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/ZZ.htm, he promotes what he regards as an ancient Chinese outlook about not taking language too seriously, which contrasts with traditional Anglo-American philosophy.
i personally know one of the first people that brought electric cars to your country (im assuming USA, sorry if im wrong!) and i know for a fact he was sunk by your oil companies on purpose and they threw the idea away. in his case, it certainly wasnt anything to do with a lack of market or bad business decision, big corporations ruined him on purpose.

You're dead, gorgak, but I'll respond anyway because it's a point I think needs addressing. I don't think the oil companies single out electric car companies for failure (at least not anymore... Nissan and Tesla have broken that seal), but I do know the car manufacturers do. One of the biggest reasons electric car and motorcycle companies fail is they underestimate the cost of homologation[0]. Those regulations were lobbied for by the car companies to make sure they weren't seriously threatened by any new competition, electric or otherwise. There's a reason the only new american car startups that make it to production are three wheeled designs. Three wheelers are exempt from most of the ridiculous legislation.

[0]: https://evmc2.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/homologation-whats-th...
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Reddit very quickly loses its appeal if it's just content.
The flashing block was "4 Computer Buffs" on Channel 4 - you can see them describe the process here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKmu68URUeI

I recall seeing a torrent of the full series a while back - I'd like to think that it's probably still possible to decode the programs even today. :)

4 Computer Buffs also transmitted some software as audio, usually over teletext pages or the test card, while the channel was off air - again, see here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4gRgcnj8lg

One of the BBC programmes - either 'The Computer Programme' or 'Making The Most Of The Micro' transmitted a BBC Micro program as audio, too, but they intentionally kept it very short so as not to offend viewers who didn't like the noise.

That said, they lengthened the broadcast as a result of transmitting the program at 300 baud - they did tell everyone at home to make sure they typed *TAPE 3 (i.e. to crank the loading speed down to 300 baud rather than the Beeb's normal 1200 baud), presumably to strengthen the chances of some usable data actually making it through. :)
An old article I keep reading once a year. A masterpiece if you ask me.
I don't know, 2GB seems much clearer than "1000 songs" to me. All the questions you ask are even more applicable to the "1000 songs" figure, but on top of that you also suspect that this amount was computed by marketing for some average-lenght low-quality music.

But then again, I'm a technical person, I have an overall feel of how much space my data takes, so I can do a quick estimate in my head.

Also, I believe that all this marketing for "technically clueless" tend to make them even more clueless. In this case, it promotes understanding of "mp3 player" as "a box to play music" instead of what it really is - a portable storage device that can also play music files. Yes, the less clueless people actually used their mp3 players to move files around, at least before pendrives were as disposable as ballpens.
You really didn't read the article did you?

He makes it quite clear that they (i.e. mozilla) have tried to multithread things many times and the resulting complexity has led to bit rot and increased bugginess. In that context your boasting seems inflated and inane.
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People are not enamored by his presentation skills; they are drawn in by the sincerity and the ingenuity in his manner/style.
I have never been bothered by envy either, but for some people it can be all consuming. I have worked in environments where the most common topic of conversation concerned how people in other departments were getting better perks or earning just pennies more. The resentment was really intense.
> I think even internal criticism of companies should be considered free speech and protected as such.

I think you misunderstand what free speech is: it simply means the government can't arbitrarily prevent you from saying whatever you think (well, most of it anyway, you can still go to jail for saying certain things).

We're talking about corporations and individuals here, no free speech laws apply. It's perfectly legal for a company to restrict what its employees can talk about publicly (within certain boundaries, e.g. whistle blowers, ...).
The Custer Channel Wing is one of the strangest looking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Channel_Wing
Sure, but then you have to live in St. Louis, Missouri.

I'm sure I could move to a third world country and have an even lower cost of living. As though it were otherwise equivalent to living in a top US city.
Good point. However, Gmail does let you load an HTML version if you want something less bloated....
That's a bit different, though. Of the popular mediums from the last 50 years, cassette tapes are by far the worst in terms of sound quality. Particularly, the noise floor of a tape is absolutely horrible for anything but constant-volume loud recordings. Ever tried to listen to a delicate classical passage on tape? "hissssssssss...". Vinyl would fare far better.

So I'm actually pretty surprised to see a revival of interest in tapes. But I get it: its not about the sound quality. Its about the physicality of the container, about the process of making mix tapes, etc...

(Note: there are a lot of things you can do to drastically improve the sound quality of a tape: buy better quality tape, record at high speed, use DBX noise reduction (dynamic range compression), etc. But this article is talking about the bottom of the barrel: cheap tape which can be played in anyone's walkman).
Homejob shuts down due to funding and lawsuit issues
Astonishing performance (3rd place) by North Korea with pop. around 25m. Not sure what incentives were in place for the contestants.
Gödel's ontological proof certainly derives its conclusion correctly from its axioms. But the problem isn't only that the conclusion isn't really "God exists" if you want that to match the god of any actually existing religion; it's also that the axioms are ... well, let's just say "not obviously true".

In particular, he relies on this notion of "positive properties". It is not at all clear that there is any notion of "positive properties" that satisfies his axioms, still less one for which "positive" is actually a good name.

(The axioms are certainly false if, e.g., we take "positive" to mean something like "regarded as good by some particular person" or "regarded as good by a majority of intelligent and thoughtful people". Gödel wants the conjunction of all positive properties to be positive, which in particular implies that it isn't outright impossible. But it's easy to find properties generally regarded as good that are not mutually compatible.)
Many years ago, I complained to myself that in Python something required two expressions instead of one. Later I understood - it is probably intentional.

I think there a design guideline for Python that says roughly if you can create an operator/function with a combination of 2 or 3 operators, then it probably is not worth adding. This keeps standard library relatively small and easy to memorize. Many other language keep adding various flavors of operators (and types, too) despite the fact you can easily build one from another.
Is someone with that attitude ever not going to be a problem? I feel like if you could get offended by that, who knows what you'll be offended by. And if that affects how you work with others, your thin skin* is a liability.

*Not saying that being offended is always bad--there are things that one reasonably might be offended by, just that this is one of them.
At a glance, it looks like that changed just in April, 2014.
Don't Googlers openly state that they pay unequally?
South Korea, according to the article.