skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was weird that there were more (young, beautiful) women in my area on AM than Tinder.

At first I thought it was just a prostitution ring spamming AM, but maybe AM just generated fake profiles around male profiles?
>The USA is increasingly productive at churning out people who feel this way.

More-so than any other country? You didn't cite the source, so I have no other context than what you quoted, but it seems incongruous to say that something so 'universal; quintessentially irrational' is given outsize expression in one country in particular.
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The repo does not have License for the code. So is it not 'open source' project?
Yes, all the time. HN advertises jobs for y combinator companies and those ads are placed in between actual news stories.
I will be honest. I use ghost as my blogging platform for about a year, and in comparison to wordpress... it just doesn't hold up. Everything from stuff as big as upgrading, mid range as plugins, and even simple things like spell check were overlooked (at least in the version I have). It kind of reminds me of the Pepsi Vs. Coke test. Went to it for that initial appeal of simplicity.. and now am very dissatisfied due to how much its lacking.
> And this is why I won't use any of the "FreeBSD made easy!" distros: FreeNAS, PC-BSD, pfSense, etc.

one of the main people behind pfSense here...

You're not the target audience.
The grantland site is one of my favorites, both in the content (I generally stick to their sports stuff) and in the delivery.
YouTube has massive bandwidth costs, and it became profitable. Bandwidth keeps getting cheaper, user attention maintains its value or gets more valuable over time.
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They have one of those at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I'm not sure if it's one of the most awesome things I've ever seen or one of the stupidest, but either way, no Wikipedia article can do it justice.

Everybody who lives in the area (or who works for Amazon) should spend an afternoon going through that museum. It's full of thought-provoking artifacts like that.
India just turned off mobile access for 63m citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad
"Designed in San Francisco"

Instant brand equity in some markets.
Yes. You are right. But it was refreshing to see microsoft releasing patches for 10 within days of its initial release. I hope they maintain the momentum in future also.
> Speaking of updates, Windows 10 no longer offers a way to disable Windows Updates in the settings page. Pro will let you defer feature updates, but not security updates, and Enterprise versions will offer a long term servicing branch option, but the goal here is to keep Windows up to date going forward.

This is kind of a big deal. I have had Windows Update brake things in the past, and I also have a limited internet connection during the day time. It's disappointing that this can not be disabled, and ran at will, when I am good and ready to deal with the potential screwups.
Probably the sensible thing to do is talk to your current employer to see if you can resolve the issues with boredom etc.. Don't threaten to leave but just be friendly.

Also look at the local job market and interview and see what is out there locally.

Then with a possibly better current job, some interesting local opportunities you can better compare the Microsoft decision to what you have.

A lot will depend on what you want. Big company vs. Small. USA vs. Home Country. Citizenship vs. Being on VISA. Money. So much! MS would be good to have on your CV if you can hold the job for a few years.
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Worth noting that "The Amazon Underground program is currently available in the US, UK, Germany, and France."
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10126931
There's something that rubs me the wrong way about that article. It feels like it's trying too hard to drive an agenda, instead of presenting facts and letting the reader decide.

I have no idea about the actual situation, but this article doesn't leave me feeling enlightened.
Cagefighting came into existence as a way to test the efficacy of traditional martial arts. So much of what is taught is complete rubbish ("lethal techniques" that only ever practised against compliant opponents, etc.). All the beautiful movements and choreographed dancing of traditional martial arts fly out of the window when you face a skilled fighter that is trying to hurt you.

The fighters know exactly what they sign up for, and probably would not want it any other way. They are consenting adults having fun. :)

Regarding the brutalization of judo: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was born in the favelas, any martial art that was not brutal would be of no use there. Thinking that a martial art should not be brutal reveals a special kind of first-world thinking.
Wikipedia is not blocked in Russia AFAIK. There was threats from Roskomnadzor to block it, but they finally gave up. And it was specifically about russian wikipedia domain: http://ru.wikipedia.org
Aren't those other startups _also_ not healthy businesses? Where does entitlement come into the picture?
Dumb question: Could this give me a NeXT desktop in VMware? And could it run old NeXTstep software?
Such "precautionary" moves are putting the cart before the horse; they value the state over the freedoms of the people. They are incompatible with any honest representative government.
Note worthy is them sharing this publicly
Anyone else wondering what tool would Krebs use to download another users timeline?
The rules of MMA have become fairly well defined in recent years. With the goal of minimizing the chance of life changing injury (remember injury and potential death is possible with many popular sports). Which make it quiet different from a Roman spectacle.

A fight can be stopped by a referee if the fighter is deemed to be unable to protect themselves effectively in order to prevent excessive injury. A fighter can stop the fight at any time if he is not comfortable with the pain.

I think the distinction between sports violence and criminal violence is that both parties are well informed, consenting and aware of what is happening and that its happening in a controlled environment where the risks are minimized with doctors on hand.

Whether or not sanctioned informed violence is personally to your taste or good for society is a different question.
From the top comment:

> Yoneda-crazy: I know Haskell, I know some category theory, but I am highly sceptical that teaching the Yoneda Lemma to C++ programmers is actually useful in any way.

This is infuriatingly true. Everything you do in Haskell you can understand in terms of what code gets executed where and how. This is just as true of Haskell as it is of any other high-level language.

Indeed, you can take an arbitrary Haskell program, and rewrite it in C with the same semantics, and all you'll learn is how GHC's runtime is implemented and how it executes your program. For a small concise program, this actually makes for a nice exercise. I don't know why, but people sometimes seem to think the runtime is "magic".
Where's the growth potential?
Perhaps you should watch other sports then. I try to avoid watching things I don't like to watch.
Here is an alternative:

tty1$ mkfifo /tmp/jobqueue
tty1$ eval $(tail -n 1 /tmp/jobqueue)

And then, in another terminal:

tty2$ echo ls > /tmp/jobqueue
While Indian PM addresses people on Twitter, the countrymen can't even access basic Internet. Cry for Freedom of speech? Irony!
Never mind, got the answer

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison...
I was out of the mainstream by 1991, but I seem to remember a bunch of completely failed projects and companies as people tried to switch to windows development using C++. As in we put our best programmers on it, hired extra help, they failed and the company went down.

Projects using Visual Basic fared a lot better.
You login with your Facebook credentials.
Should owners/operateros of certain web sites need a license?
Take for example, this healthcare provider that has an F rating on the crypto used for the site:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=mychartor.providence.org

This server is vulnerable to the POODLE attack against TLS servers. Patching required. Grade set to F.

This server is vulnerable to MITM attacks because it supports insecure renegotiation. Grade set to F.

This server uses SSL 3, which is obsolete and insecure. Grade capped to B.

This server uses RC4 with modern browsers. Grade capped to C.

This healthcare provider clearly should not be allowed on the web as they have no clue about security.
Bill Nye actually hates children which means he _really_ , really loves science.

Mr Wizard was amazing. He actually challenged children to think as well as showing a human level of frustration occasionally.
Thinking back to the dawn of the (post-IBM) PC era, an awful lot of companies went under trying to win a race to the bottom against IBM and Apple.

Companies that refuse to indulge in "me, too" behavior in the smartphone era are probably making the right call.
Isn't the current German national song "Deutschland Ueber Alles" modified in some way like omitting the first verse?
I was wondering if your page menu accept input, and it really does. So cool!
Not necessarily. It depends on the installation and does, usually, contain 2 tones.
For instance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precise_Tone_Plan - none of two frequencies used in NA's dialtone is E.
Search for 'Jon Harrop' and you will begin to understand why...
Peoples' motivations for doing things are never cut and dry. Yes, an amount of ego may have snuck in there, but they may have also genuinely thought they were doing a Good Deed.
Not even. Factor in taxes, benefits, office space, software, hardware etc. Most employees actually end up costing you between something like 1.2-1.5x.

So realistically, probably something like ~40k per employee is more accurate. That's not much for a developer.
Well I am from the effected area. Believe it or not this move has surely helped to maintain peace. No doubt it has effected many peoples work. But this was one of quickest way to control mass communication.
Plus the ban is on 2G/3G & SMS on mobile network not on broad band or usual wired network.

On wired network probably only fb & whatsapp are banned.
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Maybe they had a private communication with AM, and only released it after the negotiations broke down?
A review? Umpteen billion lines of code, vast new features, privacy issues, tens of thousands of man hours ... and this "reviewer" cannot get past the GUI.
Although this isn't OCAML, one thing I ended up missing when writing Haskell was F#'s Active Patterns.
Isn't that the user that left the comment, jdh30?
U.S. Drone Strike Kills Islamic State Hacker
If by "similar to systemd" you are referencing launchd, not really. The intent of launchd is more along the lines of xinetd[1] than systemd. Here[2] is more info on what launchd is intended to address.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinetd

2 - http://launchd.info/
Not much for a developer in the Bay Area. The article mentions 6 developers ACROSS 3 continents. If any one of them is Asia, then $40k is a very, very good income.

Don't quit your day job... if you live in the Bay Area and want to still live there.
Awesome! Couldn't happen to harder-working guy. I'd say Qasar has been selfless with his time and given our team some great advice, even though we weren't a YC-funded company. He just cares. Interesting to see what'll come out of this - I'm sure it'll be great.
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didn't you have a post about that? I could look it up but maybe include the post in this comment for us lazy and uninformed folks

actually here's the one i think i was thinking of

http://blog.samaltman.com/energy

link to helion in the post
The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined
This is exactly what the Fire Phone was lacking, and I think that the entire company can learn a lesson from it.
Amazon's attempt to create its own App-based-Ad-Network? Fighting Ad-blocker or Killing Google?
Isnt this how the Amazon App store would work on the kindles?
Instead of one free app a day,you have several apps free.
I only get standard, typical search results.

Mobile Chrome, latest Android version.
The link title is misleading, this is only talking about the Fire Phone
I'm not arguing it's moral, I'm arguing that you should only as a policy prosecute people on your own side of a war if such a policy wouldn't make your chances of winning worse. Because if you lose, your morals are worth nothing. I'm talking about total war like world war 2 here, not something like gulf war 1 where the USA completely outclassed Iraq and the goal was to push Iraq back into its own borders. Conflicts where if you don't win you're dead, there's no point in going back and punishing individuals for what happened in chaos. The goal should be preventing wars in the first place, knowing that wars enable terrible, uncontrollable circumstances.
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Why do I have the sensation that critiquing programming language communities in general is going to end in, shall we say, less than constructive conversations?
Your mental model of designers seems to be "people that make stuff pretty". In the field of software development that's typically not even the most important part of a designer's job. The post specifically mentions HCI. They typically help you A/B test you stuff and are very data oriented and use quantitative methods.
The user centered design process (one example being ISO 9241-210) focuses on the user and users' needs. They typically can crank out prototypes (that you can interact with) at a great pace which helps a ton with testing all sorts of hypotheses about your product.

That seems really valuable. Especially since they usually can make stuff pretty as well ;)
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Do you have any examples? I'd be curious to read the discussions - in particular, legitimate criticism that was ignored.
That's not my experience. Most Haskellers are indeed good people, but quite a few "vocal" ones are extremely arrogant and intellectually dishonest. Let me give some examples that I've met recently:

- A Haskeller once said Haskell is just as easy as Go to learn. I mean, yeah, many moderately complex languages might be as complex as Haskell, but seriously, Go? It is designed to be as simple as possible. Hell, it even doesn't have generics, which is considered pretty essential in nowadays' statically typed languages. And this claim isn't an outcome of ignorance. He is the author of a very popular Haskell learning material.

- Another said: "Steep learning curve is an interesting expression, because what it actually means is that one is learning quickly." Ok, that's not my interpretation of "steep learning curve" of Haskell.

- "The average Java programmers are worse than the average Haskell programmers" thing. This sentiment even existed in one of the "how to spread Haskell to the industry" presentation. I'm pretty sure if Haskell does be accepted by the industry, it will have the exactly same dumb programmers using it. So, what's the point?

You must be lucky if you haven't met any of them in the Haskell community. Actually, their reputation outside of the community is quite terrible. This must be resolved if Haskell wants to succeed. (And yeah, please stop saying "avoid success at all cost". I know it can be interpreted as "avoid $ success at all cost", just stop it.)
The precision comes from custom software and hardware we've created, including a robot on the ground that's equipped with a camera and laser rangefinder to guide the drone along a pre-defined path.

That's relative position, which seems adequate for what's exhibited here.
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This is a situation that happens all the time in teams developing code together. The first developer creates the abstraction, and the second developer feels the need to continue with it, and to refactor, despite the fact that it;s not really working. What Sandi does not talk about here is team dynamics, and communications. This is really a root cause of the problem.

The barrier for for the second programmer is cost of communication. It is far easier to continue a bad abstraction than to engage in discussion and perhaps arguments about the code the first programmer wrote. Her suggestion, to revert the abstraction and go back to duplication, will most certainly result in a long thread in the code review, or even a heated discussion between the two programmers. That's OK, but it assumes the team can handle this situation gracefully.

When a programmer spends time to come up with an abstraction, it often takes a lot of mental effort. The resulting code is something that the first programmer feels made everything better. They removed duplication, and they are proud of the new shiny abstraction. Simply reverting it is a big message that says "that was a bad idea", and is sure to bruise egos.

Perhaps the problem of wrong abstractions can be avoided in the first place when a team has a strong code review culture, and when developers pair more. In these teams, code ownership and shared responsibility lead to a lower barrier for making changes to abstractions, which are generally held on to more strongly.

In my experience, a codebase that suffers from wrong abstractions (and over-engineering in general) is also a sign that the team is not working well together. Typically one or more programmers are committing code without discussing it, due to bad team dynamics, physical distance, different POV on the project goals, or unhealthy "rockstar" mentalities.
Impressive demonstration of precision!
For most of us, it doesn't actually work that way. Folks like you've mentioned don't take on work unless you're a non-profit. And a pro-bono attorney generally won't touch a case like I mentioned, speaking as someone who asked multiple attorneys.
I've had Julius Sumner Miller stuck in my head for the last few weeks, but have utterly failed to remember his name. Thank you so much for saving me from this hell!

I watched his videos in junior high; they're absolutely amazing, not least because of their lack of frills.
The end of capitalism has begun
Yeah mine while I was in high school and it was 1998. I think there was a lot of FBI trolling the usual channels in the late 90's when the 2600-related movements were really getting underway.

Strange how different - and how similar! - the scene is today. Good memories, except that law enforcement back then was a lot less scary...
Yeah, again, no it doesn't work that way. Again, the folks you mentioned generally only work for non-profits and individual hobbyist devs. They don't work with for-profit companies (even if the company isn't making a profit at present).

And the whole contingency thing... a lot less common than you think. Speaking as someone that's had his copyright ripped off multiple times and been injured due to negligence by the city of New York and/or Amtrak and looked into it with multiple attorneys in each case.

For the most part, the legal system serves those with means and those with means alone.
So did they declare martial law?

Edit: Yes[0]

[0] http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/indian-army-deployed-r...
Oh you get get it. Closing that loop between what the customer thinks they want, what they actually need, what the engineers can provide and at what cost, so so so important. I'd agree with the article, having the UX guys (or any keep team) dispirited is a bad sign. For companies with some sort of monopoly this stuff can continue indefinitely. Companies that don't have some sort of market power usually are a few years or quarters from death when you see this stuff.
Not at all. He said "don't quit your day job," which is a cheeky way of saying: this is below market rate. It was a comment on the status quo; not on how things should be, but on how things are.

Entitlement would have been: "programmers deserve more than that."

Maybe he's very grateful for the high market rate many programmers can command? I know I am. Does that mean that I would advise people to go below market rate? Heck no.
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"""We don't need a bunch of people standing around doing "research" telling us that."""
As an engineer I very much disagree with this sentiment. I usually prefer to base my decisions on quantitative methods. Sure you can say "it's obvious that design should get out of the way". Even if I agree with you I'd still prefer to run some tests using actual data instead of taking your word for it.
"Steep learning curve is an interesting expression, because what it actually means is that one is learning quickly."

That is technically correct in the original meaning of "learning curve".

Many technically inclined people totally disregard changes of language and cling to their perceived "pure" meaning.
I'm seeing very similar wording all over the place, although most accounts posting are new and yours isn't.
I've toyed with Haskell before (enjoy toying with languages in my spare time). Its a nice language, that has a good community. But for some reason I could not see myself using it as one of my main goto (no pun intended) languages. Not due to any technical reason. Mostly because there is no easy introduction into it. No small projects to undertake showing what practical uses it might have. No twitter clone using SQLite (laugh all you want, this type of tutorial project helps understand how the language should be used and showcases libraries). Its just seems purely about doing math with it. But Im probably wrong. Last time I looked into it was about a year ago. I'll gladly look again if anyone can comment about it.
Did you have an out of state plate? It frustrates me how often one hears stories about out-of-towners being singled out.
But more significantly (I think): it is socially acceptable to expect people to sign up to closed systems in order to communicate.

How can we reverse this trend?
Proof is my bar. An email from her male manager telling HR to put her on notice for going on maternity leave would be more than sufficient to justify the claims in the article.
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This isn't the end of tracking, just the platform owners angling in on the market and setting up toll booths for advertisers. It does have the advantage of potentially less tracking overall, but personal data is still valuable and Apple just wants a piece of the pie on something they perceive they own. Tracking will be allowed as long as it doesn't significantly impact the user's experience or over-burden the data usage.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Apple is (indirectly) going after any ad that they themselves don't power with iAd. Is that even considered "fair", in a legal sense? Seems pretty anti-competitive.
Tree-planting.

FTFY.
Resembles Nokia N9 :)
> And though other companies—such as Xiaomi—sell models at the similarly aggressive price points, Obi aims to offer a better phone for the price.

> ...

> The hardest part of the design was not coming up with cool-looking designs," Sculley says. "It was sweating the details over in the Chinese factories, who just were not accustomed to having this quality of finish, all of these little details that make a beautiful design. We had teams over in China, working for months on the floor every day. We intend to continue that process and have budgeted accordingly.

So, how long do you think it will take the other (Chinese) companies to reach the same level, given that you teach them?
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