skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Mail.app with Gmail and an elaborate set of filters/folders - Why should I use this product? - I consider Mail.app (and to an extent Thunderbird - or for that matter Alpine) adequate for my emailing needs - what feature do you have that I didn't know I needed but wont be able to live without?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

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HR personnel don't make hiring decisions for programmers.
The more unrealistic their demands, the less understanding they have over their situation. I found the best approach is to spend 10-20 minutes to help them think things through, so they understand what they're asking for and what they should be asking for and what a realistic timeframe is.

Then put that on the roadmap.
Even if it is capable of being a daily driver, I recently saw numbers here in Norway* showing that more than 75% of Tesla owners also own and regularly drive one or more gas (or diesel) cars. I believe the inability to tow stuff, and the limited luggage space (which won't improve too much with the Model X either), are both important reasons why people keep their Volvo V70's etc. around.

* (second only to the US in total Tesla sales, highest per-capita sales in the world)
Thanks! Technology stack is PHP, JavaScript (Mithril), Less. More info here: http://flarum.org/docs/extend/
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I've been using Mailbox for over a year now, I loved it a lot at the beginning, but since recent updates it become uglier and more unstable. I really got into an idea of inbox zero, but bugs and bad ui over time are really forcing me to try Pilot 2...
The number 9 slot is listed as just an SRT though.
> "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

There's a vast difference in values between us. I'm happy to let you do anything you want to do - even try to convince others that they should do what you want.

You accuse people who don't agree with you of being uneducated automatons who want women to be doormats.
I can clue you in: it's extremely opinionated. After 1.0 there haven't been huge breaking changes.
波, which is "wave".
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alternating very fast.
The Ford Focus ST and Ford Fiesta ST are actually fun cars to drive. But its more for the "small and nimble" sort of thing as opposed to "American Muscle".

They take very tight corners. I'd imagine that the turn-intensive tracks would be where these smaller cars would do better. Their acceleration leaves a bit to be desired (but what do you expect for $25k?). 0-60 in 6.3 seconds is still reasonably sporty.

Fiesta is too small for my tastes, but I did go with a Focus (non-ST... just normal stock Focus) for my vehicle. For a manual vehicle, its perfectly fine.

From 4000 through 6500 RPM, you can definitely feel the little engine work. Turbo must kick in or something.

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In any case, its amusing to see "just" the ST models do decently on these tracks. After all, people who actually want performance go for the RS model.
Whoa, whoa this is HN. Here Russia, China, and Iran are amazing powerhouses we absolutely can't criticize in any, way shape or form and the US is the worst nation in history. At least that's what you have to say to get upvotes here. Its pathetic how much anti-US bias gets passed for "fact" here and on Reddit.
If this is payback, why were they kind enough to give us notice? They could've not given us notice and sold far more than they did.
How recursion got into Algol 60: a comedy of errors
I'd love to hear stores if anyone here worked at Pandora during these times. I find it somewhat hard to believe that 50 people stuck around not getting paid for two years and didn't demand any equity or just walk out.
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Even if they were saying that, which they aren't, it doesn't really matter given that no one (outside of three special cases) in America starves.

Those three cases are abused children, the mentally ill, and forgotten elderly. In all cases food scarcity was not the problem. They're problems of community oversight.
There's some confusion, let me address a few points:

1) Superchargers aren't geographically positioned for daily routines, but rather strategically located between major cities across the country for long range trips.

2) There's a lot more places to charge than Tesla's 200 Superchargers. U.S. Department of Energy currently states that there are ~10k public charging stations ( http://www.afdc.energy.gov/locator/stations/?fuel=ELEC ). This also doesn't even count the many private chargers on commercial property provided by employers to their employees. (ChargePoint's commercial network has 20k stations as well.)

3) Most people will charge at home and start with 200 miles of range each day vs. filling up a 350 mile range gas tank once a week.

4) The cost to install a charger isn't excessive: my parents spent about $600 to get an 80 amp breaker outfitted into their 25 year old home. The work was complete in a half day. (When they visit my home, they were able to plug directly into my 240V dryer outlet to recharge.) Even with the cost of install + cost of electric factored in, it's still 3-4x cheaper to travel the same number of miles on gas each year.
A number of developers from RedHat were once very involved in the project. However, these developers had a very arrogant attitude towards Docker: They wanted docker changed so that it would follow their design ideas for RHEL and systemd. They often made pull requests with poorly written and undocumented code and then they became very agressive when those pull requests were not accepted, saying "we need this change we will ship a patched version of Docker and cause you problems on RHEL if you don't make this change in master." They were arogant and agressive, when at the same time, they had the choice of working with the Docker developers and writting quality code that could actually be merged.

THIS. It was both amusing and sad to watch this happen time and time again. My favorite is what happened (or, rather, didn't happen) around CoW filesystems and how they decided to just use a FUSE-based one instead.
I suppose that's right. But it's also kind of a short term worry. I mean, don't you think mobile networks are going to keep getting relatively faster and relatively cheaper and will therefore be more relatively OK with a few ad-related keepalives?

Around this time in 1997, the PBS Newshour website[1] was an outrageous 113.7KB, which at the very top end of the GSM GPRS 2G networks of the time, 115 kbit/s, would take 8 long seconds to download. Why? Because of all of those obnoxious Sun Netra banner ads![2]

What do you get in 8 seconds on LTE today? Lord of the Rings in 720p. Or a whole bunch of Buzzfeed pages with some ad trackers, sure.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19970605132107/http://www1.pbs.o...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/19970605132107im_/http://www1.pb...
> Google is fast. General Motors is slow. Startups are fast. Big companies are slow
Not even a year, about a month. Swift for Linux will arrive with the release of Swift 2.0, which will coincide with the release of Xcode 7, which will coincide with the release of iOS 9 ... which will coincide with the announcement of the next iPhone, which should be around late September, as usual.
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Is this based on his thesis?
Find Business Ideas That Make Money and Do Good
Strict type system?
It's buggy, prone to spam, probably not secure, missing features, etc. Probably should've named it an alpha, almost. But if you're game you could give it a spin - we're running our support forum on it currently. Will fill out that roadmap tomorrow :)
Isn't it kind of absurd that this is news?

On one hand, I totally get it that a multibillion dollar company is altering one of the defining aspects of its user experience, and that's a really big deal. But if you erase that context, it's also a little ridiculous.

My mind is also drawn to making a parallel with struggling Twitter, where you have "essays" composed of indexed sequences of 1-2 sentence thoughts and where people resort to taking screenshots to make quotations of other content. At some point, you have to wonder if the medium is still serving the content as well as it could. Will they be bold/risky enough to break out of their arbitrary constraints?
What's really funny is that two years ago, every single qz article posted to HN came accompanied by a horde of comments on how awful the site UX was.

Site redesigns occasionally make the front page, I don't remember Quartz's ever doing so.
It is a prerequisite for wide adoption. It is far easier to find a free or cheap PHP host.
Ideally, our government would be user-friendly enough to make this service simple.
If I got it right, the points made in this article are:

* Docker breaks other software

* Docker breaks it own API at random points between major versions

* Documentation is incorrect

* The project's management is bad at working with the community

I was thinking of trying Docker, but I think I'll stick to LXC for now.
> All of this looking at the screen means your eyes aren't on the road where they belong.

... which is why the HUD (for velocity, navigation) in my 6 years old BMW is my favourite feature. I don't understand why so few manufacturers offer one.
Weird. Seems like different people have different opinions and perspectives on the same question.
Quite cool. Must not stare any longer. Must work.

>> Do you say "made" or "discovered" with cellular automata?

Discovered feels more appropriate, but I think they end up being the same thing.

Have you documented the system's rules anywhere other than the source?
Learned about this in school, cool to see it on HN.
I'll add - this is something that's interesting - it's new knowledge for many people. It's not political or an 'outrage article' about some injustice.
I was looking at forum software for the first time in years just last month, and was surprised at how fresh EsoTalk looked compared to the traditionally crufty UI patterns of even more progressive forum packages. As you might imagine, I was then completely blown away when I saw its successor! Congratulations on the beta launch; it looks amazing.
I happened to head through this region last year.
The desert near Isfahan is absolutely mind blowing.

It's like procedural generation meets the clone stamp tool.

http://travel.ninjito.com/2014-08-18-Iran
See: lemmings
Maybe it's because the only strong unions left standing after a long campaign against them are those that protect the already privileged categories: law enforcement, firefighters, etc.
I think this type of answer is great for "unexpected questions with unrealistic deadlines". I once had the misfortune of working with a manager on a team tasked with releasing our code into production. As release master, I'd email him on code complete, when the QE cycle finished, and when it was good for release. His response was always: "Our team is really busy right now, let's get together in two weeks and discuss".
> ... Tim said, “This is bad. Someone ought to get over there.” Thirty minutes went by and the conversation moved to other topics. Suddenly Tim looked back at Sabih and asked, ‘Why are you still here?’

Good manager could be more specific, WHO ought to get over there?
From TFA (or I guess that should be TFP):

"Strictly speaking, no Bell experiment can exclude the infinite number of conceivable local realist theories, because it is fundamentally impossible to prove when and where free random input bits and output values came into existence. Even so, our loophole-free Bell test opens the possibility to progressively bound such less conventional theories."

It's a bit strong to call it loophole-free then, isn't it? But "free-of-the-two-most-common-loopholes" is a lot less sexy. Nevertheless, cool work.
This... isn't a car forum. Excuse me, but are you lost or something?
Looks like bismuth: https://www.google.com/search?q=bismuth&espv=2&biw=1242&bih=...
Well, I doubt you ever want dummies in the strictest sense, but as for "experts who don't care", I'll just say that there's a time and place to bring in "mercenaries" to deliver specific abilities for nothing but money. Nothing says your workforce can't (or shouldn't) be made up of a mixture of people working for different reasons. In fact, it'd be pretty hard to put together a company where everybody wasn't working for a mixed-up combination of different reasons.
I brought a computer graphics textbook into my high-school math class and asked my teacher if he could help me figure it out. His response was that I needed to pay attention to the current lesson plan, and would need to get through trig, then calculus before we could approach the book.

What's amazing about this video series is that they have actually captured the elements that _can_ be taught to kids of various ages and skill levels. Man how I wish there were a resource like this when I was younger.
That's interesting. Thanks for the link.
All else being equal, XYZ makes a difference.

is the weirdest logical statement.
>Most Haskellers are indeed good people, but quite a few "vocal" ones are extremely arrogant and intellectually dishonest.

This is actually what the rest of the world says about the tech industry.

(Yeah, I just finished pushing a commit or two in Haskell to my github. And I hang out with Ed Kmett once a month. Oy.)
Just because I'm curious, what do you mean by "proxy server support?" As far as I know SMTP/POP3/IMAP/etc doesn't readily support proxying natively.

Are you talking about proxy support for a native browser/HTML rendering engine?
A company full of mercenaries is fine when things are going well, but if things go bad you will have problems. Zynga's culture was notorious for this and it had big problems with retention after its bad IPO. Conversely, Facebook's culture was the exact opposite of Zynga's and it had very little turnover after its bad IPO.
When I here this argument made as to why one shouldn't use a language, you're right it is trivial. But when you're trying to find the right language to teach someone, the first impressions and learning curve matter deeply.
Not so surprising. Already do it about iOS and Android; Windows, Linux, or OS X; Ruby, Python, Java, PHP, etc. Why not cars?
> A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.

Er... what? In what world is this a universal truth?
Ad companies are not typically considered "sexy". This is just an image problem because few industries drop you into such massive scale and engineering challenges from day 1. There is a lot of cool stuff to build.

It's not necessary to get computer science geniuses for this, and frankly I need people who get stuff done rather than trying to save the world through code. But the talent has been subpar because most of the companies outside of the top few (google, facebook, twitter) are smaller and not tech driven. They just pick up whoever can code up some simple server and get an ad on the page. Add in all the shady companies and it gets worse. Optimizing for the user just hasn't been a requirement.

We have a honest and fast ad network, probably the best you'll find. Quick, simple, static ads that are non-intrusive. And we actually perform quite well. It's not somehow at odds with the model, it's just harder... the question is, who's willing to work harder at this?
> ...[F]or our tabloid press, that button would be the main focus and the car manufacturer would be hauled over the coals based on that alone.

When did tabloids change from the place where you went to get the latest scoop on The Amazing Bat Boy to publications that folks actually paid attention to?

Similarly, should manufacturers design their products to be inoffensive to every bloviating, prevaricating alarmist with a blog? I don't think so. That's an unreasonable tax on both innovation and sound design. :)
I haven't read it. On IRC he said he was gonna post this and then go to lunch, but given that he submitted it here, I'm sure he'll be back to elaborate at some point :)
"Having driven both a 7 Series and a Model S, I'll take the BMW any day. More comfortable, better handling, looks better, doesn't have a huge iPad in the dashboard, and allows road trips with far less planning needed. It's nice that the tesla has insane acceleration, but in practice that's not super useful. And gas is a small enough part of my budget that it's not material so that isn't really a factor."

I (the parent) agree with all of this ... that is, except for preferring the 7 series.

I think the 17" screen is a real abomination - it's a stylistic void, in fact - there's a big black hole in the middle of the dash that has no styling since it's just a screen.

I also really don't like the Tesla interior - specifically the surprisingly lack of seat adjustments.
That says more about your boss's (or her boss's) level of punch within the organization and horse sense about the seriousness of the issue.

I've been on both sides of that question. It doesn't always end well.
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As someone who travels internationally for work, sometimes on short notice: yes, I generally carry my passport in my briefcase. Passports are important documents to be sure, but if you have one lost/stolen it's just an inconvenience. My company provides travel immigration assistance, so if I lost my passport on a business trip I could just call them and have a courier meet me at the airport with another the next day.

Money solves an amazing number of logistical problems like that, and if you're an executive who flies around the world checking up on billion dollar supply contracts, money likely isn't an issue.
You can compile Objective-C on Linux but nobody does.
Pretty much this - the price is just a minor quibble. What it comes down to is what it's going to be compared against - the free apps we all know. Mail.app, Thunderbird, Evolution, sup, mutt, etc.

Do the extra features justify the workflow changes and the license price? Dunno. Have no way of knowing in this case :(
At risk of being a downer in response to a light hearted video and comment, I've read that smartphones can become dangerous projectiles during car accidents.

Imagine the speed they could travel at a very sudden stop. Posing a pretty big risk to people in front of them, not to mention themselves. In this video the phone nearly smacked the girl in the face.

After reading that I always make sure to check my phone on my lap while in a vehicle and not up towards my face where it could go flying at a sudden stop.
Can you get a home equity line? You can get credit on very good terms this way and I think it is reasonable to use it to fund improvements to the house.
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Of course. I fully recognize that the Tesla is a great car for a lot of people. I take issue, though, when those people start saying that it's so much better than other cars, pointing out the ways in which the Tesla is better but ignoring the ways in which the Tesla is worse.
In a capitalist society with "at will" employment now that the average tenure is around 2 to 3 years, I do not believe that there is much difference between an employee and a mercenary. I believe that we're now in an era where "employee" doesn't mean anything anymore - at least in tech or for highly skilled workers. When you are an "employee" you are actually a contractor with one client, they pay you for your expertise to solve their problem, once they don't need you they'll let you go.

I also believe that you don't need to be excited about the industry you work in to be excited and stimulated by the technical challenges. A lawyer can be excited about using the law to win a difficult case without caring for his client.

Just to be very clear, I don't blame people who believe in what they do. That's great, but I don't recognize that deeply caring is a requirement to be a good, productive employee.
There was a documentary on either PBS or NPR in the last year or so specifically about harvesting plants and fungi in the disaster area. I can't find it now, but the overall idea was that it would be a really bad idea to eat meat, worse to eat the plants and grains, and just an overall terrible idea to eat the fungus.
This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_hunting#Radiation

Is the only thing I could find regarding mushrooms specifically. I wish I could find that documentary. Essentially, mushrooms are really good at accumulating radioactive particles through their mycelium.
You mean mere core php?
(I am from mob so nt seen the code on git)

No use of modern framework like laravel or something?
s/believers/suckers/g

In the world of tech having more suckers than your competition is often the difference between winning and losing. What sane person would give up years of their life to enrich some investors they've possibly never met and one or two founders?
Anybody know what he uses for his diagrams?
I was watching those stanford videos YC made last year recently and in one of them they encourage founders to write down a set of values, principles, beliefs etc that employees should follow. Then drill it into them at every opportunity.

The idea behind it is that as your company grows you end up making less of the decisions yourself. Setting a framework for employees in making their own decisions maximises the chance that they would make the decision you might want them to make if you were directly involved.

Zuckerbergs 'move fast and break things' is the perfect example of this. It gave him the chance to set the tone for developers for years after he ceased writing the code.

Where companies go wrong with this is just dishing out the guidelines without explaining the reason behind having them. Doing that leaves everyone thinking it's just some management bullshit.
Don't get me wrong, women and LBGT can definitely be victims of discrimination. I'm sure you suffer from real harassment on a daily basis, and that's totally unacceptable.

I was just trying to say that when there is a conflict between a man and a woman, we tend to want to identify the woman as a victim and "protect" her. The mere questioning of this by a straight male makes him a misogynist and subject to a ton of scrutiny, but if a woman or a gay male does the same it's somehow permissible and given more weight. This guy (a gay male) summed it up pretty well https://youtu.be/VCaEO6ue_io?t=3m36s (3:36-3:54).

My statement probably applies less to transexuals, so apologies for that.
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Are there any apps that A) make it easy for people to host homeless families or individuals, or B) let people offer housing at reduced rent after some type of qualification or just based on a profile or C) allow people to pay into pools similar to Section 8 to sponsor housing and then access funds from them -- sort of like a privatized streamlined Section 8 app.
I really enjoy content like this on HN. No opportunity for vitriolic spats between dissenting opinions; just a cool thing that we got to see today.
I will look into this, thank you very much.

I'm not well versed in finance, etc. so this will be a good real-world crash course :P