skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the root of what identifies Twitter and there is value in consuming 140 char tweets. Twitter is not for everyone and shouldn't try to be. That will be its demise though as investors demand that it become more like Facebook and more power users leave the platform. Soon, only the bots and marketers will be posting regularly.
> ban all imports made under conditions which don't meet U.S. human rights standards and remove the economic inventive

Different countries have different standards as they are developing. The US had different standards years ago and some attribute the higher standards to our relative economic wealth. I'm sure the US will have higher standards in the future as well as it grows wealthier. But the US wouldn't have gotten that wealthy were those same high standards enforced in the past.

Imagine that you think paying a living wage is a moral imperative. In the US, this may include enough money to live in an apartment with air conditioning and a fridge. If you were to impose those same living wage standards to some employer who would normally hire in a poorer country, that employer might as well hire someone in a richer country. Because those in a poorer country never get the opportunity to accumulate any wealth and pass it on to make future generations wealthier (as many American families did), they will never be able to progress. If they remain poor, they demand less from their institutions.

Many of the things that Americans demand, like environmental standards and a relatively less corrupt political process, are a direct result of our wealth. You can't just mandate higher wages and better living conditions. If you try, unintended consequences are sure to result.
Yes, seen that. One variation I experienced was separating retention rank (how critical is this person to the team, dept., etc.) from performance rank (how effective and skilled is this person). That was a bit of a painful exercise as it was very clear to me that the organization was sifting for a reduction in force despite high performance after having culled the low performers.
Wow, very interesting.

Can this be used for other purposes - like finding ideas for an app/website/biz, finding deep discounts on products etc?
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Without a doubt, the modern compilers' *san features are great at closing the gap between C/C++ and higher-level GC/memory-safe languages.

No matter how you feel about open source software licenses, I think we can all agree that llvm/clang has inspired the world to create better technology that we can all benefit from.
I'd be glad to give everyone a raise with someone else's money -- when there's no downside to doing so. I think the point is to remind you that there's a cost associated with that.
Hi Marijn, I'm curious if you've taken note of substance.io, and what you think of their composer and viewer, which similarly keeps the structure and views separate.

I'm not related to substance.io, just someone curious about editors on the web, and so have kept track of various options. Prosemirror looks very promising.
Does this include [dead] comments?
You wrote, "when you are using an ORM, most of the arguments [against using a different DBMS for testing than production] are obsolete, too," which is false, unless the point of the ORM is to bring the production DBMS down to the test DBMS's level of capability.
Somehow I can never turn down a data dump, despite never having done much with one.

Some day!
I think your experience has been skewed by doing pair programming with someone on the internet, as opposed with a coworker or lab mate. Very different dynamic when you're pairing on something you'll personally work on again, as opposed to just fixing someone else's problems.
I won't say this isn't very clever, but how is it different (or dare I say better) then creating the entire logo with a random vector tool and then using it as a SVG? You can easily scale SVGs, they look great on HiDPI screens (what Apple calls Retina) and you don't need a bunch of random CSS (that probably won't ever change) cluttering your styling.
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Wikipedia has this[1] (sourced [2]):

> On July 21, 2015, the operators blocked access to the service from all Finnish IP addresses, stating on Twitter they did this in order to avoid escalating a dispute they allegedly had with the Finnish government, that they refused to provide additional information on.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.is#Worldwide_availabil...

[2]: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/623524336184524800
Why i am an elitist
> I think it's better as a plugin

Except that every instance runs as its own process. A page with a dozen flash ads is a dozen flash programs all hogging memory and processor cycles, happily exposing holes in your security.
At least it's being up for promotions, not having to finger one for remediation/termination. The binning scheme where every team needs a super star and a low performer (a la Jack Welch) is atrocious and the smaller the unit it's applied to, the more likely that the curve fits.

I've seen (in Banks) this applied like a religion and it leads to situation where the "low performing" member of Team A would be solidly in the middle of the pack of Team B, if not the "high-performing" member of that team.

If you're exceedingly lucky in that kind of environment, there's enlightened management running interference and manually balancing team to avoid having to can a good person because their team is overall good.
Yes, it was the right way to handle it, but my impression when I went through it was that it was completely novel to the HR organization and they were reluctant to agree to demote anyone at all, whether they were requesting it or not.
>As facebook is way more complicated than twitter is (which is just a textbox, a submit button and that's basically it).

The problem with Twitter is exactly that it's a text box and a submit button. Following 0 people and with 0 followers what is my Mom supposed to type into that text box? That's what new users see when they create an account, literally nothing.

On Facebook you just add the people you know and talk to them like you usually do. On twitter you can't even find the people you already know.
Then it isn't MIT licensed. The MIT license allows for commercial use.
Show HN: MakeBoot, a C# flash drive Windows disk creator
I made a simple C# console app that puts a Windows install disk on a flash drive using diskpart. There is no documentation, nor will there be, but downloading and building the source will give you the fully work application which will guide you through the entire process. I am looking to expand it slightly, things such as a progress counter when extracting the very large ISO, otherwise it is completely finished.

https://github.com/Wargog/MakeBoot
Ah its because effortless uses localStorage to persist its LESS variables. Thanks for the spot I'll raise an issue on git!
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It's nice to see projects using other things like Gitlab a bit more. I like Github very much but it looked like it was heading in the direction of a monopoly which isn't great for anyone.

We use Gitlab at work and I like it very much (but as it replaced Subversion, maybe I'm a little biased).

Edit: Fixed the stupid Github/Gitlab swap
And then someone prints a billion of those QR codes and drops them in bins.

(As good luck being able to distribute the means of making unique QR codes to every manufacturer under the sun without the method being leaked...)
Cool stuff. The mobile team at Couchbase (my team) is hiring. http://www.couchbase.com/careers
I'm always fascinated how the editors we use tend to bloat. It seems like they get more and more features till they are a full blown IDE. I come from a Unix/Vim background and I thought "can Vim have a pair program… uh… wait! WAT?!" It does and it is call TMUX/GNU Screen. See in the Unix world programs do one thing and they do it well. You compose them or layer them to accomplish a bigger picture. So running Vim edits text while running TMUX/Screen lets you pair with multiple tabs and/or interact with the same Vim instance. So again I must ask "Why do text editors need to feature creep?"
The disaster part is not the tooling, but indeed the nobody understanding how "X" solves the problem and actually choosing an "X" and stick with it.

There is a clear lack of _direct_ and _concise_ documentation about Python packaging. Something between overly descriptive reference documentation which nobody reads and "copy-paste this setup.py" that teaches nothing of substance.

Let me use the OP as an example:

"Wheels are the new standard of python distribution and are intended to replace eggs."

Ok, I've done my share of Python coding and have published stuff on PyPI and this sentence means absolutely nothing to me. I'm not even sure I can define what an egg is if someone asks me. It probably means even less for someone trying to make it's own package.

One important thing to remember is that packaging is a means to an end. Nobody gets excited about packaging so nobody wants to know too much, but also not too little that thinking about doing it instills feelings of dread.

PS: This applies to other packaging scenarios too. I've seen people fall to their knees when faced with building Debian packages for deployment (ending up not doing it at all), RPMs, etc.
Yes, dead comments were fetched / scraped from the website (so it might not be perfect since it uses regex to parse HTML :p).
The guy is sickening! Not only did he come across as very likeable he also dropped in that as a child he had to decide between going into computer science or becoming a professional jazz musician (I think he played guitar).

Choosing between musician and computer genius is bad enough but to retain being likable with this is frankly too much :-)
That's better than funding it with tax money, no?
By looking at the list of winnings, It's quite funny how cheap you can get some people to retweet (and probably get some more audience) by offering such things as:

-free infographic

-some logo

-lipstick from Avon

-graphic

-wall planner

(and so on and so forth)
Yes definitely. I have a floor lamp from them as well and the metal was so thin it folded the first time it was moved so now it's a metal and duct tape lamp :)
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Objective-C, Swift

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Email: michael dot lo at pocoapps dot com

I've been developing for iOS for around 5 years, and I can work on OS X apps as well. I've also worked on APIs / small projects in PHP/Laravel, as well as mobile projects using AngularJS.
In the age of containers this able thing is baffling to me. I have a couple of things that need postgres in production, and a single script which launches a two docker containers with tmux running postgres and apache with live scrolling logs, and which binds the postgres port to my local host.

I simply cannot understand where the friction on this is existing today. Even pre-docker its fairly easy to setup any of the big dbms in their own little environments (5 versions of mysql on the same server for a migration project).
Thanks for the counterpoint, and I agree. Some areas of biotech are much less mature than others when ti comes to regulation.

Most of what people think about when they hear biotech still falls under typical FDA CFR regulations for either pharmaceuticals or durable medical devices. I think that's what the grandparent was talking about.
Philosophical question: What's when "running around in circles at high speed" becomes normal? Will then "normal" become "new"?
Hey @MatekCopatek, it's not any better it's just a different way to make them.
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On most discrete samples for the 1/4 or 1/2 case, the probability of choosing any two points in the subset may be uniform, but the location of the permitted points is definitely not. If you add the requirement that all discrete point samples should be equidistant, then you fix yourself on 1/3 and there is really no way to break that conclusion.

Sorry, in this case "uniform" is ambiguous and I didn't mean the usual definition related to probability, but rather to point spacing.
Funny how svgs are last year when they havent nearly been tapped for their potential across the web yet. I have no desire to draw graphics with code. I appreciate innovation and experiments but I don't know it just looks like trying to make a tool work because you were too stubborn or didn't want to buy the right one
At 19:19 it's hilarious - British Aerospace gave the game away about the 3rd "Skynet" satellite being at 53deg East instead of where it should be, then that info was rescinded in later releases (showing it was important), then the centre for tracking the Skynet satellites (in this segment) only has 2 tracking dishes.

British SigInt were really, really bad at lying it seems.

Or, was this just the diversion ...
Wow, I have to say React looks pretty nice. I can't yet say I see a major improvement from Gulp to Webpack yet. Anyway, thanks for the quick intro!
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Hey - I really like the idea! Can you explain how the interview process will actually work? Do you oversee the interview process or is it a nominated "interviewer"? I'm also interested to know - can anyone sign up to be an an interviewer or do you select a pool of interviewers who then conduct the interviews for users? How do you incentivise people to act as interviewers? Finally (as i'm not too techy) will there by a way for beginners / less developed coders to practice too?
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I think in the sentence were you're talking about a monopoly you mean GitHub and not us :)
If I need flash, I load up a VM.
I think I will use flash only inside some disposable VM... I'm getting really sad when hearing yet another problems with this increasingly useless plugin...
of course! I was actually just trying to make a dumb joke though. "It's like uber for dumb jokes"
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This sounds tremendously interesting. I'm currently a C++ developer in (one of the big) EDA companies and I'm interested in working in performance and distributed systems. I need a working VISA though. Also, where do I send my resume?
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I agree with the part about how some people may not be bothered by the label.

Still, I think the point of it is like calling someone a "morality crusader". Morality is good (if you don't mean "hating gays" by morality, mind you), but if someone called me a morality crusader, I'd get that they thought I was pompous, self-important and meddling in other people's business.
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Nice idea. Coding interviews are a true pain for so many hackers. I like the approach of connecting similar people to help each other improve. That makes a lot of sense, especially for geeks.

But that also seems somewhat troubling... especially because I'd normally inexperienced or first time job seekers using the site. Would that be like the blind leading the blind in a sense? There is a lot to learn to turn into a good interviewer.

Even if you don't test someone's ability, having them declare if they are interested in conducting interviews or being mock interviewed would likely get a good separation and better experience for all.
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Amazing. I didn't know that. The lengths software people will go to avoid getting compensated for their work, eh?

So yeah, scratch the above then. You'll have to dual license with a modified license for non-commercial use. Same idea, slightly different execution (but still no need to go to GPL extremes if you don't want to).
I used an android app that did that - I no longer use it.

Just require users to click to enable plugins and that should take care of everything.
Instead of marketing to a general audience, I'd approach the people who really might need something like this: owners of vehicle fleets (haulage trucks, rental cars), and companies that send their workers out on the road (consultancies, sales).

In other words: B2B rather than B2C.

The app could be tailored to any of those particular markets (and relaunched under different names, if necessary). If there's any existing competition, then you know you're onto something!

Lastly, re-examine how other 'receipt' apps do their data entry. IMO, it's easier for the user to photograph a till receipt or fuel pump meter readout and have the system magically convert that into data.
But there is no cost/downside. At least for you. What I'm arguing is that this "reminder" is not effective.
Our local Barnes and Noble has turned into a gift store. Flashy, inoffensive, stereotypical, light, current, topical, looks good on coffee table.

If they're in/from a culture that likes books, and you forgot about the birthday party this afternoon, you go to B+N and as a punishment pay list price instead of online Amazon prices. Its just like if you stop at a gas station convenience store in an emergency, don't expect health store quality or discount supermarket prices, but you can expect to walk out the door with at least something more or less usable. If they don't like books, B+N now sells legacy music CDs, dvds, board games, legos, kids toys, chocolate bars, coffee, magazines, pretty much anything in the store can be wrapped up as a gift for someone else in a couple hours. But its all pretty bland inoffensive, send auntie to pick something up for her nephew, kind of shopping destination.

They seem to have almost no competition as one of the very few stores left in the big suburban mall that isn't a womens clothes store or a food court. Its not like I can hang out in the Radio Shack anymore, LOL. Its sort of a more conformist "hot topic" but without the band tee shirts.

Some folks predict the death of B+N because of the decline in book selling, but books are only about half the floor space so they can just shove out the books, public library style, then move in some cell phone accessories, americana home decorating novelties, maybe candy, posters, maybe candles, maybe housewares, and honestly rebrand it as a gift store.

Or in summary B+N is not primarily a book store and has not been one for some time. Its a gift store that is currently, temporarily unusually heavy on physical book stock.
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Hey ChuckMcM. Good to see you around HN again.

Check this out: https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments...

Specifically p.18 Figure 8.

Figure 8 shows that since 1980, real income has grown 174% for the top 1 percentile of earners, 56% for the 81st-99th percentile, and 16% for anyone earning below the 81st percentile. Also note that these are 2011 numbers, and that inequality has gotten worse in the past 4 years.

This is probably the most succinct and alarming graph that shows the degree to which inequality is growing and wealth is being transferred to the top 10% of earners in the US.

Historically, a strong middle class has driven housing which in turn powers consumption, the engine that powers America's economy. [1] Housing construction was heavily subsidized on both the supply (construction) and demand (purchasing) front by the government after WWII - in 1940 only 44% of Americans owned a home whereas in 1960 62% could make this claim. Along with this spike in ownership came increased consumption of all goods that owning a new home implies - a car, a dishwasher, utilities, spending on children, etc.

Owning a home also reflects well on an family's balance sheet: After paying off the mortgage in 10, 20, 30 years, the property is usually a middle class family's most valuable asset by far.

With the decline of the middle class, less and less working class people will be able to afford to own a home. Instead, they will be forced to rent. [2]

The rich will invest in real estate as they have since the beginning of time, and will seek rent as a generally reliable form of earning a return on their capital. With employment numbers improving, but income staying relatively the same, we can foresee a picture of more people working just to pay the rent, and not having enough left over to afford a mortgage, kids, etc.

So to answer your question: the people with money will own the property, and the people without money will work to afford rent. Unless the government take serious steps towards reversing the rapid accretion of wealth to the upper quintile of earners, the future of housing for my generation looks very bleak in my opinion.

[1] http://jcr.oxfordjournals.org/content/jcr/31/1/236.full.pdf

[2] http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf
> that's again partly nostalgia for the old way

Book discoveries, like album discoveries, happen better in stores. It's not nostalgia, but just the way the physical world works. (Think of how music lovers connected with album covers in the vinyl world.)

Just because something is "the old way" and there is nostalgia for it doesn't automatically make it worthless.
Orange chick I ate the other day tasted nothing like orange.
Well if you know Armin, you know that it about as close to a compliment as it gets from him :)

I help co-maintain salt, a config management tool which he used and contributed quite a few bug reports to.
But on the other hand...

My 1994 Nissan Sentra got 35-38mpg and my 2001 VW GTI (with a V6!) is still being driven by my bro-in-law and gets 30mpg highway with 260,000 miles on the original powertrain.

The fact is that cars are far more complex, far heavier, and have bigger engines today than they used to, at the expense of gas mileage.
Is System 7 considered abandonware yet?
NASA rule of thumb I read somewhere.

"Test what you fly. Fly what you test."
Since he mentions the UK I assume he means the diesel version which is estimated at 60MPG. The latest version of that car is estimated to come in around 78MPG.