skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's a phenomenon we might as well get used to, and I think it has less to do with clever marketing than one might initially think.

What it boils down to is that we will interact with interactive characters as though they were people (and hence with gender, at least in the linguistic sense). It wouldn't make sense to consider a page of search engine results a character, or the alarm screen of your phone. But when software is programmed to respond to general input... well for one thing the authors will surely script some responses (as is the case with Siri and Cortana). And something potentially recognisable as a form of personality would probably just fall out of the quirks of the system. We can quibble over whether (linguistic) gender has meaning here but the software is well within the bounds of anthropomorphism.

It would be fine to follow Greg Egan's usage with ve and vir for virtual personalities. Or to agree that software is a neuter gender even if it has a soft voice and refers to itself as female. But you're not going to convince people that (even quite limited software) with character and a name shouldn't be anthropomorphised.
Well, now you know one who started out writing machine code. And I'll tell you, don't learn PHP and Rails is a joke and doesn't scale well. But any noob switching to Haskell to do a simple web app is equally insane.
I heard about it from a friend while in college.
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Nice one. Seems the day I joined was just 4 days after the big Tohoku Earthquake. Things were quite strange in Tokyo those days..
It's case specific. Did you try Edw519 or edw519?
> else: why are they using them?

Because, surprisingly, most people seem to prefer killing people in a manner that is more like a video game, safely at home, over actually going halfway across the world, to an actual war zone, where they actually are confronted with the destruction and havoc they wreak.

That's some really heavy shit to expect from most people.

And then they come back with all sorts of psychological trauma from the terrible things they've done and witnessed, getting those people the help and support to heal their mental wounds to live a relatively PTSD-free life isn't cheap either (as you mentioned in your fourth point).

And fortunately, because for the USA war is an export-only product, you have this option.

Sure there's economical factors, but I would not underestimate just how much nicer it is not having to actually go there and breathe the same air as the herds they're ordered to thin, or think about. Think of it as a Roomba, but for the desert.
I did 3.5 years of Mechanical Engineering, but I realized that what I really love is programming...

So I changed to a CS course, but I did just 1 semester and dropped out... The educational model nowadays have countless problems.

For that reason, I created this list, for those (like me) that want to have the knowledge offered in a CS course, but without spending too much time/money.

https://github.com/ericdouglas/computer-science-and-engineer...
Why don't we just develop people with better morals.
Php is still a super effective lever for people starting out. It has some really bad technical warts but it has the shortest path to "shit's on screen" amongst web-based scripting languages.

I may not like it, but it has its place.
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December 1, 2011. The frontpage was filled with the Carrier IQ thing unfolding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ#Rootkit_discovery_a...
He is already profiting from the US prison system. Also I would not recommend tangling with prison guard unions for his first project, tackle something unrelated and revisit it when more experienced.
Garbage collecting seems to get solved in each new release of Go and Java, apparently.
How we quadrupled the performance of Elasticsearch
I agree, but most of the pictures look like stock photos or clipart. In my opinion, the first genuine photo are #16 and #19 (in my personalized order produced by Google image search, your numbers may vary). Anyway, the apparent genuine photos also have a good variation.

My complain is that most of them use white coats, so they look like Chemistry/Biology/Medical scientific. I never saw a Physics scientific with a white coat.
'The government' refers to something different in the US than in (most of?) Europe.

My American friends were mightily amused and amazed when Belgium spent >500 days without government a couple of years ago, but of course they were interpreting the word in a much more encompassing way than it is done in Belgium. 'The goverment' is really just a couple of dozen people (with perhaps a couple of dozen assistants each).
Well obviously - depending on the helicopter and where its turboshaft (jet engines, with air inlets, but designed to create rotational energy rather than raw thrust) are mounted, it's quite possible for a drone to get sucked into the inlets, possibly causing FOD (foreign object damage).

Likely - maybe not, but definitely possible.
a raging singularity of abuse

Oh, come on. We hear about an over the top email every couple of years and we discuss them endlessly. Linus gets talked about because all of his communications happen in an open record. Not that it excuses his abuse, but a "singularity"? Please. Offices I know have instances of that kind (and worse) abuse every month, if not every week.
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Monads in OCaml
Yeah, they dealt with EMC. That's never going to go well.

(continues reading)
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Understanding the Subject -- I think this better describes understanding the problem you're trying to solve. After that, solving it in any language, while not trivial, is still far easier.
Black people in America killed at 12x the rate of people in developing countries
Wow, arabian use Linux.
Underperforming means whatever your manager wants it to mean. That is why it is bullshit. For instance, after I closed some wide open security holes (0.0.0.0/0 open, no authentication or access control to our $$$ stuff) after several days fair warning the team. My manager called that underperforming because some people don't read their email. I also got hit for doing extra work after hours because it was "not authorized" even though it saved thousands in identifying idle instances. Turns out my manager who recently transplanted from India was just trying to force me to work under another engineer who was still in India. Presumably once that guy had enough manufacture responsibility over here maybe the company would give him a visa.

So shit like this is why so called performance management is bullshit. Performance is not doing what is in the best interest of the team or company. It is whatever is in the best interest for your manager.
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If you are looking for any funding for your new Astronomy or Particle Physics project always somehow throw the popular buzzword "Dark Matter" in the mix. Nobody knows what you are actually looking for and nobody expects you to find anything. However now you have enough time and money to concentrate on "real" physics which in most cases sounds much more boring.
Glad I'm not the only one who notice this on howacarworks.com yesterday.

This YouTube video [0] seems to be the source of the GIF, or at least the full version. Maybe the mods should change the link to it?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDdmDFDYHA (skip to 2:10)
And even toxic to mathematicians. There is value in applied mathematics, just as there is value in getting things done with php/html/cars/js.

In the long run it doesn't matter if you're not the next EWD or Euler in the long run.
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The article mentions "other developed" countries, not developing ones. That makes a huge difference.
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MapReduce is largely described in books and papers from the 1950s.
Believe me, you are happier for it!
I hope Sony will be implementing this with the PS4 for running an emulator of the PS3 for backwards compatibility in response to Xbox Ones recent emulation implementation.
This is related with English language itself (and most languages as far as I know). For example if you say that in Italian doesn't make sense:

Io sono architetto. // I am an architect

You must say:

Io faccio l'architetto. // I make the architect (job)

Disclaimer: I'm not a linguist neither an Italian native. More accurate comments are welcome.
I wonder if you could use some kind of foam gun, which fires a fast hardening and sticky foam to jam up the motors/cover the blades. You still have the issues of (possibly heavy) drones falling to the ground, and lithium batteries in a fire. But it might be worth the trade-off for dealing with the wildfire quicker.
Indeed. The part I find most ridiculous is that he is pushing a portable music player on the strength of its high bitrate digital source.

The key thing to realize is that there are a lot of pieces in this signal path (bits to brain). The best you can do is start with the highest quality source possible, and then focus on minimizing the reduction in quality which happens at each step past that.

His intentions are good with choosing a high quality source. However, the idea that a portable music player is going to have a good enough DAC, good enough analog amplification / filtering, that the user will select good enough headphones, and will be listening in a low enough noise-floor environment (sitting absolutely still in a dead room with the A/C turned off) to be able to come anywhere close to hearing the difference made by that high quality source is laughable.

Is it possible to detect the difference between 320kbps streaming and 192kHz/24bit lossless? Sure, you'd see it on an oscilloscope. But could you hear it through $50 ear buds while walking down the street?

One way to reason about sound quality is to mentally model it as two sounds mixed together: a loud, perfect signal, and a much quieter distortion signal. For humans, loud sounds mask quieter sounds, and if the amplitude difference is great enough, you simply can't perceive the quieter sound at all.

Now, take that one step futher: model the sound as a loud, perfect signal mixed with five or six small distortion signals (A, B, C, D, etc, each representing a step in the path from bits to brain). Neil's player reduces distortion signal A by a tiny fraction. Great! But that reduction is only perpectible if it isn't swamped by distortion signals B, C, D, E, and the noise floor created by whatever environment you happen to be sitting in (ultimately, "is this reduction in distortion swamped by the noise floor created by the sound of blood rushing through the veins in my ears?")
Profiting from the system by being employed there? That's not what I had in mind.

There are many opportunities outside of prison guard unions for innovation regarding the overall institution/process of incarceration in America.

Domain expertise will only be built by tackling a problem in that domain. How could one possibly decide against pursuing a topic without trying it at all?

Tough, seemingly entrenched markets often prove to be the most interesting: SpaceX, Uber etc
AM radio is monural. His argument is invalid. Source: we evolved two ears for some sort of evolutionary advantage.
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Why Most Internet Writing Is Terrible (2006)
I used a 7 inch tablet and now my Nexus. I just need a terminal and/or ssh window and a browser. I have also been sshing into my Linode so maybe that's cheating.

But I can do that stuff fine on a tablet/phablet. Laptop is really big and heavy and uses 2-10x as much energy. Seems outdated. And typing is really loud.
Would it be ok for someone to fly their private Cessna over the fire? EDIT: Nope. Learned about Temporary Flight Restrictions from a comment here. So, we just need to be enforcing these for ALL aircraft.
Fun 'fact': it is estimated that less than 2% of all paperclips is used to hold papers together.
A web developer wears many different hats. These days you have to be a real polymath to make really beautiful and functional websites. I never enjoyed the limiting belief that web development is some symphony of JS+HTML+CSS in the browser. It's more than that, and it is multi disciplined. Elements of WebPerf, Browser Engine quirks, progressive enhancement, A11Y, Design, UX, build scripts, templates, design patterns, server backend, frontend, bothend, mobile/handheld, analytics, rendering engines, etc

The list could go on for some length.

Not to mention the various principles borrowed from 'real' software engineering canon, like D.R.Y, K.I.S.S, etc.

In terms of proficiency and confidence, you should look up the Dunning–Kruger effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

And its ugly cousin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
This may get better with the latest OCaml, but Core-powered binaries are ginormous. And AFAIK, Core doesn't work with js_of_ocaml (and I'm not sure if it works on Windows at all).
Do you actually follow Go development? 1.5 is a major improvement to the GC.

The only other stable release that had any change to the GC worthy of mention in the release notes was 1.3, which was a minor change.

The only possible way to interpret your statement as true, would be if "get solved" meant ANY change or bug fix was applied to the GC. Which is a statement that would apply to so much code (not just the GC) that it would make the statement completely meaningless.
Ask HN: What startups are you following?
Are you following any special startup's blog who shares their progress?
I think that would be a great way for me to learn more about how to build a startup and start from scratch.

What startup blogs do you guys recommend?
Neat, exactly the same :P

It's wrong by one day. The page with my first comment didn't exist until the next day and I registered to write that comment.
Hi Mohamed, Good luck for your journey. It would be really exciting to know more about your journey, I hope you will have time to maintain blog or post more here :)

Again, if you need any tech help, feel free to ping me at @naveensky (twitter) or email in my profile :)

ATB
I stopped reading after this sentence:

"One kale sample reported thallium at 1.14 ppm, nickel at 20 ppm, and aluminum at 120 ppm. (As has been widely reported, aluminum is often suspected as a cause of both autism and Alzheimer’s disease.)"

It's pretty controversial claim that aluminum is related to Alzheimer's disease http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/guide/controversial-claims-r...
Also one of the question the OP has not answered, and that I've seen a lot of people asking themselves is

How one does leave web development.

I'm graduated from an engineering school, were most of my classmates were doing smallwebsites/wordpress plugins etc. on their freetime for the easy money (as anyway it's very rare, if not impossible, to find a freelance job as a student on embedded system)

To the point that when they're graduated, as they've accumulated experience in web development, they find a job in it. And later they get defined as a "php developer" , though we did learn about data structures etc.

Then HR will discard your resume when you apply for a embed system or other non-php related job, because you got nothing marked with it on your past experiences (even if you had worked on some arduino on your freetime).

So how one does the conversion ?

* create/participate to open source projects in the field you're interested ?
* try hard to find a job that involve both, so that internally you can try to make the transition ?
* remove the PHP experiences from your CV so that you're just a "junior"?
I'm constantly impressed by people who have true, in-depth knowledge of any space.

If you're world class at HTML / CSS, know the specs intimately, know the differences and quirks in rendering engines and can explain why IE8 renders a selector differently -- that's impressive. That's also very valuable.

That wouldn't be considered real programming by a lot of folks. Who cares.

I've found that going broad is fun, going deep is hard. If you find yourself seeking challenges, there's often little need to branch out. If you dig deeper, you'll run into highly technical, hard problems really quickly. You also gain expertise few people have.
There is nothing grammatical about it in English. In practice gender in British English generally specifies the actual sex of the object, except when the object doesn't have a sex in which case it is merely conventional. Things that are sufficiently important to us are anthopomorphized and this a social and cultural process rather than a strictly grammatical one. Ships are conventionally female in British English, so are cars in some circles, but there is nothing grammatical about it. Similary my wife refers to her Android tablet as he, and he has a name; however the name is ungendered in modern British English while it is a female given name in Ancient Greek.
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Just joking :)
So according to joering2's statistics, 4% of drone kills have been children.

Maybe we can agree that's probably a bad thing. Regardless of whether killing children provides a tactical advantage (they might grow up to become terrrists, after all).

However, your argument to me sounds a little like

"You want us to stop using drones? Guess we'll just have to go back to murdering even more children, then. Seriously, you're forcing our hand here."

And BTW, I have a brilliant idea. If you put drones over your roads that shoot missiles at drunk drivers (preferably as soon as they enter their car), it'll reduce civilian deaths! So it's probably a good thing. You only need to figure out a way to guesstimate blood-alcohol levels from a distance, but if you can get its fault tolerance below 24% (or 4% if they're drunk children), you'll have a pretty solid net-win in civilian casualties over having to transport your flying death robots halfway across the globe.

import drone, random

if drink() and drive() or random() < 0.24:
get_blasted()
Your[1] argument seems to be "We don't know if they're dangerous, I personally don't think they are so we should just allow them". The first part is okay, the second part I strongly disagree with. We're dealing with an emergency situation here, if drones can damage helicopters/hamper the efforts of the firefighters and they're not banned there is the potential of loss of life. If they don't, and we ban them, there's the loss of cool pictures, and personal freedom in a disaster zone. Something which we have experienced without problems for ages now.

Sure, perhaps some research would be in order to determine if/what kind of drones can cause issues, and allow those which are safe (or atleast give licenses to news drones and the like for public interest purposes). But erring on the side of caution before the results are in does not seem to be a bad idea IMHO.

[1] as in, the people in this thread arguing for the use of drones, not you as an individual.
You can also tweak the sound with impulse sampling of speakers in your room and use DSP to correct for the room response. I went this route and couldn't be happier with the result.
I think it is. The distande between the folding parts on the wheel account for the lenght of each straight part.
Interesting! Meteor.js, which I've been using on my latest project, was debuted the same day I joined :-)
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There won't be a ban, it will be licensed. Big companies like banks etc will get their licence right away, so your secure banking will be fine. Routers will still have wifi encryption because they'll have a licence.

The licence will be implemented as a fee for a digital certificate that properly authenticates.

So, you're a small startup with an idea for a secure messaging app. want a licence. no problem, its £10M. have you got the money handy?
This is going to be an existential crisis for most cities, and to survive they will have to figure out how to avoid paying these pensions. Whoever is to blame for the mess, the current generation of workers isn't going to want to pay higher taxes while having reduced services just so public employees can have their benefits. Especially when for most of that current cohort, those benefits will be far more generous than anything they will ever get, as everyone cuts benefits for newer hires first.

For all but the most compelling cities, this situation ends with their tax base moving to non-Union cities in the south.
Please think of your dignity and the quality of the board when you post asinine garbage like this, 'Mohamed'.
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Interesting. I've just converted it back to a salary figure for the UK. As a salary that works out at £58,000 - which is considerably higher than the average salary in this part of the UK.

However, given in practice it's essentially contract work it's about 30% less than average contracting rates.

If they manage to get paid work equivalent to working full time though, they'll be earning a fair whack more than me, so good on them.

Whether it seems reasonable or trustable probably depends an awful lot on where you are based.
Tension builds between Canada, U.S. over TPP deal
The 8GB limitation is really unfortunate.
i call them the black government, ruining everything for everyone behind the scenes. these politicians have no control over them! they must be stopped.
What's to stop companies from additionally encrypting their channels end to end while passing through the backbone? They can decrypt the backbone all they want.
If you take away a kid's toys, they'll grow bored and start vandalizing public property in more creative ways.

> I wouldn't expect them to instead start carpet bombing cities in the middle east.

Except that is almost exactly what most drone-apologists are threatening the US will do instead when they argue they have to use drones because otherwise, well, they'll just have to kill more children and civilians.
I'm starting "Dangerous Drones Daily" I'll include links to HN discussions so it'll be easier to repeat the same discussions.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/dangerous-drones-dai...
Not really related to the article, but big thumbs down to messing with the browser buttons. I scrolled down two articles and then had to hit 'back' about 5 times to get off the page. I'd be interested to know who thinks this is good design or a good idea - does it get the site more ad impressions or something?
Off topic: is anyone else annoyed by those background-fixed image sections? Because the height of the section is bigger than the height of the viewport while scrolling past those sections it appears for a moment that the page stopped responding; the effect is especially prominent on wide screens.
You are wrong. Both "sono architetto" and "sono un architetto" are valid italian and actually very common. Also the verb closest to fare is to do not to make. Source: I'm italian.

Y'all are philosophising too much about the copula (a rather common philosopher's pasttime).
What about apps that keep the encryption keys in the user phones and can't decrypt the contents of messages? Do they intend to ban those apps?