skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm exactly the same way. I have a weekly gig that occasionally gets recorded and thrown up on the web. I hate watching the video, because whenever I do, all I hear are my own mistakes. People tell me it sounded great, and I think, "Sure, to someone with no musical training, maybe."

It never occurs to me to realize that "someone with no musical training" describes easily 80% of the audience. Maybe more.
Or as the people who fight wars for a living say: "slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
I find F# to be really great for scripty things. Honestly, it's more of a Python replacement than C# for me.

I've scripted Google Maps scraping using F#. It doesn't showcase any particularly functional features, but you can see there is very little code (relative to C#) in order to accomplish what I needed. [0]

P/Invoke works well, too. I've called native Windows APIs to audit user-mode and kernel-mode memory usage. [1]

The last project generates a Mandelbrot image in parallel. It's as easy as `Array.Parallel.init` on line #81! [2]

[0] https://github.com/ChadSki/MapMaker/blob/master/MapMaker/Pro...

[1] https://github.com/ChadSki/RamCensus/blob/master/RamCensusFs...

[2] https://github.com/ChadSki/FSharpMandelbrot/blob/master/FSha...
how do I create 3d models with this? needs some video tutorial but this is very cool.

btw how do you create applications like this that rivals desktop apps?
>if neonicotinoids are a net win for agriculture

The logic here seems to be that:

* Farmers buy neonicotinoids.

* Therefore, neonicotinoids have a net positive effect on agriculture.

(in other words, like a good libertarian you are assuming that the market has complete/perfect/accurate information)

Unfortunately that's just not true. Today's farmers simply don't have the required soil science/botany/ecology/hydrology knowledge. Worst, they are actively misled by biocide and fertilizer salesmen, who have a natural profit motive to convince farmers that their products are essential.

Far from being essential, in reality pesticides destroy the nutrient harvesting ability of healthy soil. Soil microbiologist Dr. Elaine Ingham explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H60ritjag
Japan court rules against Bitcoin compensation plea
> Those who like the philosophy and/or reach of the Web but don't want to use JS have no alternative to using languages like CoffeeScript.

Could you explain what you mean by "languages like CoffeeScript"? If you mean it as "languages compiled to JS" then many of them are completely unlike Coffee in both syntax and semantics. There's a great many of them to choose from, too.

But I think you completely missed my point, which is that you have an alternative for JS (in the form of compile to JS languages, but why should it matter if a language is compiled to JVM bytecode of JS code? It's an implementation detail!). You have an alternative for every single language out there, and a wide array of languages optimized for different use cases. Yet, instead of embracing this diversity, people try to push their favorite[1] language everywhere. Yeah, it's easier to write something that way, but until we have "sufficiently smart compilers" the effect is going to be worse than if you just used a best-suited language for each component of your system.

[1] Maybe because it's the only one they know?
> Why is there a tophat over "IAM role”?

Presumably because rather than being a person, the IAM role is a “hat” that a person wears.
This seems kinda crazy. Is the recording industry lobby so powerful that they made this happen? Was there anything else that directly preceded this law change?

The article makes it sound retroactive as well. Is it possible the UK will round up numerous people with large collections for prosecution?
Ask HN: How to fix the headache of telephone haggling?
I wish corporations had their shit together, make it easy on the consumer, but often they don't. Calling institutions to resolve disputes or handle general maintenance issues is a big waste of time and pain in the ass. Familiar with the long wait times when you call corporation x? It's especially bad when your question/problem is a thirty second (or less) fix/solution for the corp. support personnel to provide, because it's hugely frustrating to have to deal with waiting thirty minutes for something so simple.
Could a startup solve this? At least fix the easy stuff?
Could it save me the hassle of calling corp x when I need to: change home address, set up payment plans, resolve a charge dispute, request credit increase, change service, file a complaint, etc. etc. etc.
I checked the license. It appears that the content is licensed under creative common attribution non-commercial.

I haven't found any indication that the website behind Project Euler is open source or follow open source development processes.
Show HN: Blurring the Lines Between Real World and Virtual World. How Soon?
I was disappointed that I could not actually scroll of down to read the article on mobile Android/chrome.
I can change the speed if I watch with HTML5; with Flash the option doesn't show (Firefox on Linux).
I don't think it was obnoxious. But, anytime someone is going to bring up code formatting, others will get their panties all in a twist. It's what people like to argue about when they don't want to argue about real problems.
That project is a symptom of manual pages not having good “EXAMPLES” sections. The examples on that web page should be contributed upstream to the manuals pages of the software that they are for.

If you want a fast way to read the EXAMPLES section only for a command, here is a shell function which creates an ‘eg’ command which only displays the “EXAMPLES” section of manual pages:

eg(){
MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 man "$@" 2>/dev/null \
| sed --quiet --expression='/^E\(\x08.\)X\(\x08.\)\?A\(\x08.\)\?M\(\x08.\)\?P\(\x08.\)\?L\(\x08.\)\?E/{:a;p;n;/^[^ ]/q;ba}' \
| ${MANPAGER:-${PAGER:-pager -s}}
}

Usage:

$ eg tar
EXAMPLES
Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
tar -cf archive.tar foo bar
List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
tar -tvf archive.tar
Extract all files from archive.tar.
tar -xf archive.tar
$
Portland, OR is getting pretty bad as well. Average cost to own a home in 2015 is $313,000[1]. I can't find a current house hold income figure but I know it's pretty low. Definitely below the national average IIRC.

The thing to note is that many of those houses selling for ~$300k are very small (< 1000sqft). So the average housing cost for a family of 3 is probably much higher.

1. http://www.movingtoportland.net/wp-content/uploads/AverageMe...
Not exactly true, back in feudal times just being able to read was quite a privilege. They also had a lock on information.

We're much more on equal footing in terms of ability to gain information. Whether we act on the information is another issue.
UNSW has always fielded a strong robotics team, ever since the start of the robocup competition: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/about-us/help-resources/for-stude...

They were either first or second the first 5 years of the competition and have generally stayed at the top of the rankings every year.

What's fascinating about Robocup is that each team releases the source code to their robots at the end of each competition, which means each team essentially starts at an equal position every year. What differentiates top performers is their ability to innovate and improve every year.
> seems to indicate it does for Haswell and above.

and the exploit affects CPUs below sandy bridge, so that's of no use to the affected users if they want to use a virtualization solution inside their main OS (instead of cooperating with the underlying hypervisor)

> I thought one of the features of hardware virtualization support was to mask the fact that you are being virtualized

You could simply have a virtual CPU that does not support virtualization.

Or you could trap the offending instructions and emulate it in software. But that would come at a performance penalty that GP wants to avoid.
(60 * 12) / 5000 = 14.4% which is about 1/7th not 1/10th.

Kinda depressing where there is a glaring math error in the 2nd sentence.

Edit: Well I suppose the NY median wage could have been higher than the US median wage that he quotes, but who knows? He doesn't even say.
This time is different. The new money enters the system via central bank asset purchases, which lower the returns on those assets. These purchases push investors into asset classes with higher returns, raising the prices of all assets as a result.
But that's not what he asks, that's just one of the many questions he puts forth, including this one at the end:

"Am I going about this the wrong way? Am I misunderstanding how git can work in other ways to simplify my process?"

Which is answered correctly. It could have been a typical XY problem but he adds enough background information that he's able to get a better answer. Great question AND great answer.

I'll give you that Google didn't index that question particularly well, but that's not really StackOverflow's fault.
How can such beautiful images can be free (CC0). Another photostock site
> If you asked the person in the street, “Why are interest rates so low?”, he or she would likely answer that the Fed is keeping them low. That’s true only in a very narrow sense...

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/03/30...
It's certainly one possible solution. This isn't just my idle speculation; see Coase Theorem [1] in economics:

The theorem states that if trade in an externality is possible and there are sufficiently low transaction costs, bargaining will lead to an efficient outcome regardless of the initial allocation of property.

In the interest of intellectual honesty, I should go on to quote:

In practice, obstacles to bargaining or poorly defined property rights can prevent Coasian bargaining. ... Coase argued that real-world transaction costs are rarely low enough to allow for efficient bargaining and hence the theorem is almost always inapplicable to economic reality. Since then, others have demonstrated the importance of the perfect information assumption and shown using game theory that inefficient outcomes are to be expected when this assumption is not met.

That being said, it should be equally clear that the failures of public choice [2] are also legion, and in the example of pollution, it's clear that the regulatory system has bungled quite a lot of it, so it's far from obvious that the private ownership approach would be any worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
It really depends on the mindsets of users. My guess is that Github users tend to browse/read code in multiple repos more while Bitbucket users tend to work on their own private repos more. So it's logical that Github defaults to source tree while Bitbucket defaults to commit history.
Funny, if you look at news and popular media from the 1970s you get the impression is was an awful time economically and pretty much everyone agreed we were doomed. Rents were cheap in NYC in the 1970s? I don't doubt it; ever seen "Taxi Driver"? Yes rent control is great for people in rent controled apartments. The flip side is that as demand rises everyone who hasn't been in NYC for 40 years is SOL...which seems analogous to the complaint the author makes at the end about middle aged home owners vs new renters. As a renter, I agree the current situation is ridiculous but the author doesn't explain it. He just notes who has incentive to favor the current situation and winks
What is the typical rent and the typical salary (For developers) in Vancouver?
I would appreciate it if you would not call me a libertarian, as I am not one of those, and you couldn't possibly know anyways. This mistake --- the fundamental attribution effect --- causes more bullshit misunderstandings on HN than anything except for perhaps the is-ought fallacy.
Labor has been on the decline for years. The union corruption and bashing seems never ending. The ignorance in the general populace allows this to happen, as people will vote against their own best interests.

I would assume that the populace movement that is gaining steam with sanders and warren will start to expand if the inequality continues.
is there any privacy issues with this? I'm thinking no since it doesnt seem to require any installation and it just sends push, am I correct?
Hi, I've been trying to find a way to contact you about the Tezos paper, which I found very interesting. Are you working on an implementation? Is there any way to participate in the process?
Issue tracking is one of those areas in computing where there's a compulsion to over-organize things and store a lot of peripheral information that may or may not be germane to the actual problem of issue tracking. It's fascinating how much applying the YAGNI [You Aren't Going to Need It] principle to Issue Tracking reveals. A lot of fields are either to duplicate stuff that should already be searchable (in the main body, for instance) in a good issue tracker [1]. A bunch of other fields are business process related and it's not surprising how many of those business processes themselves could use a good YAGNI refactor, and the few that remain after tree-shaking are often easy enough to store in a label, a "tag" in the title of an issue, or a status on a kanban board.

[1] I honestly think that a lot of blame goes back to the very slow search of early issues trackers (including and especially, but not alone, Bugzilla) and needing to lump things into specialized fields to get any sort of search improvements.
This explains the how, but not the why. I have found in life the best way to work out why something happens is to follow the money.
making a simple credit card payment to Macy's cost me 2 hours of wasted time. They frequently apply payments to the wrong accounts. I feel your pain about sitting on the phone
On this system hostname -i says 127.0.1.1, despite this address not being set on any of my interfaces (lo0 is 127.0.0.1).
It's a shame the maintainer of the site is going to let it fall into obscurity instead of just adopting more modern development practices.

edit. Such as allowing people to audit the source of the site as opposed to requesting pentesting.
My social networks include a fair number of wealthy people. Some of their kids are dumb as rocks, and they don't have to improve themselves, ever. Those are the real welfare queens. Sometimes a fool can be made a leader by other people in power. Believe me, I'm American.
Sousa held a very low opinion of the emerging and upstart recording industry. Using an epithet coined by Mark Twain,[8] he derided recordings as "canned music", a reference to the early wax cylinder records that came in can-like cylindrical cardboard boxes. In a submission to a congressional hearing in 1906, he argued:

Sousa in 1900, by Elmer Chickering.
These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy...in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
Law professor Lawrence Lessig cited this passage[41] to argue that in creating a system of copyrights in which control of music is in the hands of record labels, Sousa was essentially correct.

2c
Judge to Decide Whether Uber drivers get class-action status for employment case
Why do you keep an account with them if it's so difficult to work with them? If you paid with an account held by a bank instead of by them, it might be much easier to make your payments and regain you those 2 hours a month.
You've mistakenly abused a very inflammatory word. I understand how it happened: eugenics sounded like a generally descriptive term about selective breeding; it is not: it's a philosophy about the genetic superiority and inferiority of different human beings.

It's no big deal. Helpful tip for future reference: avoid calling people eugenicists.
Deprecating support for older Linux distros with Mesos 0.23 – Mesosphere
Vancouver is bad, but nowhere close to that bad! (edit: his post was originally just the first line, to clarify.)

I could argue it anecdotally (I live in BC), but here are cold hard numbers instead:

> The median household income across New York City stands at $50,711[1]

> One bedroom apartments in New York rent for $3039 a month on average and two bedroom apartment rents average $3805.[2]

Compare:

> Vancouver Median household income of $73,390 [3] (~$55,877 USD)

> Vancouver, Average 1 bedroom rental $1561, 2 bedroom: $1972 [4]

1 http://project.wnyc.org/median-income-nabes/

2 https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-new-york-rent-tre...

3 http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/f...

4 http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/odpub/esub/64467/64467_2014_A01.p..., see Figure 7
Use of the three most common neonicotinoids has been severely restricted in the EU since 2013. If they can withstand the lobbying pressure from Bayer, who makes literally billions of dollars selling these, we'll hopefully have good data in a few years time.
[2011]

It took a while before programming really "clicked" with me too, and I started with BASIC on an apple ][. It probably wasn't until a year or two into CS that I could approach a problem in an organized manner.

Now after decades of exposure, as my CS algos professor prophesied, it takes me a week or two to pick up a new language.
"1920 pixels gives you nicely 3x80 col editors"

Depending on your font. I use 1920 (-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1), and I get almost 4x80 col's, 3x96 works nice.
$313k? That's a pittance compared to Vancouver where the average home is over $1M. Even in the shitty east side with drug-dealers and prostitutes hanging out on your street you still pay over $1M for a detached home.
Nope. It does use HTML5 service workers, which are sort of like cookies that can run code. But, like cookies, they're limited to actions on the hackernews.onesignal.com domain and they can be removed at any time.
A web API is a great candidate. Or really, anything that needs to work well at scale.
That is false.

Jet has warehouses to cover the whole U.S. With two day shipping on core items. As well as a marketplace like the other businesses you mentioned.
Yep :)

We'll update this page to support other browsers once those browsers implement the new Web Push APIs.
Understanding bind: how to compose world-crossing functions
agree.

http://everythingisaremix.info/
I will not stipulate that "the onus is on an the producers and beneficiaries of all the toxic mess of industry, to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that their profit isn't coming at a permanent cost to the full realization of planetary health and sustenance", because I don't even know what that means. The Precautionary Principle works well in some places and not in others. In this case: you're pretending that the policy you're advocating doesn't have an embedded tradeoff, but it does. If you use less neonicotinoid pesticide, which you're hyperfixated on because of what seems to be a BS media trend story about bees, you will use more of other pesticides (or, worse, more land, which destroys habitat for all animals) which may be more harmful in the aggregate.

Honey bees are not a natural part of our ecology. They are a livestock animal. Worrying about their population and the energy it takes to sustain them is a lot like worrying about the population of dairy cows.
This isn't actually a new law but the overturning of a new law passed last year that explicitly legalized these things. The law now is as it was when iTunes was originally introduced.

Story about the passage of the now-overturned law: https://torrentfreak.com/uk-government-legalizes-cd-ripping-...
Fair enough. Perhaps rental was a better comparison. They are very close, and Portland pays way less than Vancouver (in addition to the US not having healthcare) - I'd say it's more expensive to buy in Vancouver, more expensive to rent in Portland.

1. https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-vancouver-bc-rent...

2. https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-portland-or-rent-...
Because wild populations of bees are affected too.

From a strictly utilitarian point of view, that reduces biodiversity, which increases the risk of disease. The narrower the gene pool, the greater percentage of animals could be lost to a particular virus or bacteria.

From a broader perspective, it would be a bummer of a world of the only bees are managed colonies that are trucked around from farm to farm. Goodbye to fields of wildflowers with bees buzzing around, and goodbye to all sorts of wild plants that depend on wild bee pollination.
Sauce Labs - San Francisco - Core Infrastructure Engineer

We're looking for backend developers to help us scale our highly available service and massive cloud of Windows, Mac and Linux virtual machines. If you re an experienced developer with an interest in distributed systems, Linux, Python, async programming and devops. If you love solving complex problems and working with awesome people, shoot me an email at santi at saucelabs.

What we are looking for:

- You are passionate about software.

- You know what it takes to ship something.

- You can think outside of the box.

- You are not afraid of learning new things and improving every day.

- You enjoy difficult problems and solve them in straightforward and practical ways.

What we offer:

- You will join a productive team

- A work environment operating with values to prevent politics and friction

- Competitive compensation, including benefits and equity

- Catered lunches, company events and after hours with a happy group of coworkers

- Sunny office in SOMA, San Francisco, in a pet-friendly building

About Sauce:

Sauce Labs is a SAAS+E2E series D startup in the bay area. We provide an automated testing cloud service so our customers don't have to build their own Selenium or Appium grids. We pride ourselves about our values and transparency (https://saucelabs.com/our-values). Oh, and a nice to have these days: we have a real business model!

About the Team:

Our Core team is currently 8 people and we plan to grow in a controlled fashion this year, hiring awesome people who are excited about what we do. Most of the team is in SF, with some members in the EU working on a re-location. The system we built runs millions of Selenium tests every month, in real time, using VMs hosted on our own infrastructure. We own all our hardware and we collaborate tightly with our Ops team to run our cloud.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company and team. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, food preference or pet preference.
It sounds like maybe the parent is the one we should have detached and marked off-topic? Can fix, if so.

Edit: it looks to me like the rest of the repliers managed to resist that particular provocation.
I would go and talk to some of your potential customers first. Find out of its a real pain point for them or if there is something you did not consider. I took this approach when I thought about doing a startup focused on recruiter
its over $2.23M now apparently.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ho...
To be fair though, neonicotinoids have become popular since the 90's because they are much more narrow spectrum than previous pesticides. In particular, they are not harmful to mammals, which is often seen as a good thing.
>if we had some private entity or entities that were recognized as the owners of air or water

How exactly would that work? Say I buy a piece of land. Under your proposal, I presume I would have to pay a licensing fee to Nestle whenever it rains, and to 3M for the privilege of breathing?