skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Node.js addon linked in this story ("volkswagen") credits the PHP addon which you link to ("phpunit-vw") as their inspiration.

It seems somehow very appropriate that the Node.js version is the one that gets to the frontpage of HN even though the original idea was a PHP thing. Edit: and the PHP one was posted to HN yesterday, getting much less attention.
Pandora was founded in 2000. Amazing how long they have survived!
In the article, he suggests finding Michelangelos. I imagine there are many who are clearly the right type, but many more non-obvious Michelangelos. Do you have (or intend to discover) a reliable way to foresee the best people even while circumstances influencing their lives have diverted them from the traditional outlets to look for such individuals? I assume there will be enough obviously great candidates wanting to "work" at YCR that you won't need to dig for hidden gems. I was just curious to know if it was something you'd considered.

Sam, when I met you at Startup School last year, I wanted to be brief. The most important thing I wanted to communicate to you was my gratitude, and I thanked you for sharing your startup class. I'm blown away by and so grateful for the stuff you've been doing since. I'm very excited to see how these new projects work out. Thank you again man.
Brilliantly executed pun, or clueless poster? Not sure which.
From what I can tell, back in the 70's Xerox PARC's annual budget that focused on computing was $10-14.5 million in today's dollars, which seems fairly cheap. But it took multiple years to develop it.

This also feels like cheating because we're targeting extremely successful research. If we knew ahead of time which research would be successful it would be a lot cheaper to do.
Take the existing list and add a sixteen-character word to it.
It's about the perception that the number provides.
Phenomenal undertaking! When you say "Shouldn't be owned by any one company" does that imply that these releases will all be open-source? Do you have plans to develop a new form of IP licensing to go along with the research?
The idea of having to invent badges to describe my job and justify my salary sends shivers up my spine.
It is really cool. I am now in a bind because I kind of stopped using Dropbox a while back and use BitorrentSync which is pretty much awesome, but I can see how this can't really work with that. Anyhow, really nice effort, congrats!
Fundraising After Failure
As a avid reddit user, these two sentences scare me more than any of the stuff that happened this year:

> Huffman believes Reddit can be mainstream, embraced by the larger world. But for that to happen, he’ll need to clean up the product so that it is more straightforward for new users to try it out—without alienating the existing community members.

Thing is, reddit is incredible fractured and all of the value I get from the site is because it is incredible fractured. I am not subscribed to any of the default subs (sub forums new users get subscribed to automatically) and in general I avoid /r/all which is just a cesspool of shallow memes. However behind this a some fantastic niche communities like r/worldbuilding and the history community (I avoid r/history though). And I believe, these communities thrive to a large part because reddit is fractured and I fear that a more mainstream reddit would look a lot more like a boring version of the current /r/all.
Sure, but that's still a choice that evangelical christians are making; they choose to run a public business, which means they have to interact with the public. If they're not comfortable doing that, then they don't have to run a public business.
Guys, this was a serious question. Who's he counting as "superpowers like the USA"?
Fixing this is on the roadmap: https://gist.github.com/zpao/6e12ee0f46ce87af2287#versioning
I also left Spotify streaming on my work computer when I left this evening. My average Spotify usage is probably 23 hours a day.
It was a serious question.
Great bit of history, now providing a valuable service for all the Internet dwelling horses
Zaparoom
Not sure why this is on the front page today.
Article is actually quite good, but it seems Rails is really slow. Twitter 2007 is said to be at 300ms/req. Others come in around 100ms. So it would seem that you don't get 16RPS without some effort.
Google Introduces Accelerated Mobile Pages
I suppose this would be fair use of the Volkswagen trademark for parody, were it not for the fact that the VW brand is so well known that that would outweigh the parody exemption?

(I'm not a lawyer, but I need to protect some IP rights regularly, so trademark law interest me.)
This should actually be the title:

> Denmark to tax electric cars like other vehicles by 2020

I personally feel that electric cars should get a tax break. However the title at the moment makes anyone who hasn't read the article think that Denmark are punishing people for buying a Tesla rather than just putting them on even footing with oil-based vehicles.

Now if people want to argue about the pros/cons of giving electric cars a tax break, more power to them. That's a completely legitimate discussion and is based entirely on the reality of what was changed in Denmark.
1-2 years? Heck, thats not much risk to start a hugely profitable drug market. I'd take that risk if you could ensure I only get up to 2 years.
That's a fair point. I had been using .dev for this purpose for years, and just applied it to this project out of habit. It still doesn't fully resolve to anything from Google, but I see that ICANN is now resolving it to 127.0.53.53 to indicate a name collision. Many other projects (like Boxen) also use .dev, so it seems to still be something that people do.
What is the Apple app? Do they mean the app store app? The Apple Store App? I'm confused.
Browsers aren't supporting that part though, so HTTP2 for the web is only encrypted.
Harvard's debate team loses to New York prison inmates
I've been thinking of going back to Drupal for some time now. Thanks for the heads up to take another look at it again.
That's pretty obvious from the content of the article. A new government that repeals environmental policies instituted by a previous government is practically a synonym for a right wing party taking over from a left wing party.
Metrics converted to goals lose their focus
http://www.apple.com/music/
Another interesting data point was the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. It no longer exists, however, at one point it was considered the most densely populated place on earth with an estimated population density of 3,250,000/sq mi. [1]

The Wall Street Journal also made an interactive portrait of it recently: http://projects.wsj.com/kwc/#chapter=intro

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
It seems to me that .local is reserved for purposes within a local network, not necessarily local to an individual computer itself. You could, for example, set up an internal server on your network and have it resolve with storage.local. You could argue that a collection of containers is basically the same thing, though.
Parody is free speech stuff. Trademark is different. It is mostly about avoiding confusion. No one is gonna confuse that this product is developed by Volkswagen.

IANAL. someone correct me if I am wrong.
Oh! Different Mike Rogers. Thanks for pointing that out.
I think he meant "Apple music app", as in iTunes.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/265340/horsechat-horsechat-h... gives background.
Self-made millionaire: a single choice might be why you aren't getting rich
There don't not seem to be browser extensions for bookmarking yet.
Adding momentum to a draggable Node in Konva/KineticJS
7 week fellowship in NYC/DC/Online preparing for careers as data scientists
>To teams who are using it in production, did you talk about this? What are arguments for using it despite it not being 1.0?

That it's stabler than most 1.0+ libraries is a good argument.

Facebook uses React at massive scale, so they're very careful with changes, go out of their way to keep deprecated behavior for at least a version (and a version takes a few months), provide codemods for changes that can be automated, provide useful warnings, run React master in FB production, and catch many issues in internal FB-specific tests before they even reach the React master. This is as stable as you can get without stagnating the platform.

The only problem with React being pre-1.0 is the impression that it isn't stable, which couldn't be further from truth. That said they plan to address this perception eventually: https://gist.github.com/zpao/6e12ee0f46ce87af2287#versioning

PS Yeah it's a bit frustrating React doesn't bump majors and bumps 0.x minors instead and yes semver says “production better be 1.x” but realistically I choose real stability over “fully adhering to semver production-is-above-zero doctrine” any day, and stability is what React releases deliver. As long as NPM understands what breaking changes are (and caret gives the intended meaning for 0.x), I don't really care which number as bumped, as long as the migration is relatively painless, and the platform moves into the right direction.
Well, if it was... why would you re-invent it under a new name? HTML already exists and is pretty great!
Make phone calls via slack, yes it transcribes in real-time
> is an incredible insistence upon cognitive dissonance.

It seems like one more (maybe even initially unintentional, I don't know) gag of many of them. Python was named after Monty Python, but Perl 6 lives a Monty Python life. Remember the "Parrot"? The support for it in Rakudo was suspended only some months ago:

http://pmthium.com/2015/02/suspending-rakudo-parrot/

The Parrot was of course named after the most famous "Dead Parrot Sketch."

Reading about the "announcement" on the Pigdog site was of course completely fitting. An another site covered the beginning of the presentation:

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2015/10/06/the-night-larry-wall-...

"At 7:30 the room grew quiet, and the small throng of geeks migrated into the "Kanbar Forum" room." "There was already a browser on the screen that was displaying the Perl6 home page at Perl6.org, and two more tabs appeared to be IRC logs "for #p..." The quiet chatter turned to applause when Larry Wall finally walked out onto the stage. Then he made shadow puppets on the screen with his fingers — and left."

Once you accept the spirit, it's clear that nothing should remain "sacred." Not even the consistent naming of the language.
Show HN: A modular Yeoman generator to create or update node modules
If you are as confused as I was and, like me, you came to the comments first instead of reading the page, I got you fam: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/265340/horsechat-horsechat-h...
The same thing is going to happen in Norway, and it's so sad.
Yes, it's appropriate because the title of one submission sucked, and caused it to not succeed. ;)

> PHPUnit VW extension

> Volkswagen – detects when your tests are being run in CI, and makes them pass

Tellingly, "Node" and "NPM" aren't in the title or URL. So much for bias.
A copy of the transcript with both sides arguments would have been nice for us to read.
Heh, fair enough on Descent, I just remember a lot of time spent playing it over modem (and cursing noisy phone lines). Wasn't aware that LAN was the first class citizen there :)

But league, I was more referring to the standpoint of everyone else on the team, not the one guy with high ping. The one guy is living in a world that's offset a quarter to a half of a second behind everyone else - he can't play better than his ping. 350ms is enough time to blink, dodge a skillshot, and so on. In casual games or lower tier ranked that might not matter or even be noticeable, but get up into Diamond/Challenger? Painful.

What if one's enjoyment of the game is based on their performance and competition (i.e. the people who play in the higher levels of ranked?), rather than vague "happiness"?

I've played enough of the game to know that being stuck in a losing game (yes yes, it's just a game, not the point) sucks. It's awful and inescapable (since quitting hurts your team and penalizes you), and a lot of the time, it happens because of factors completely out of your control, whether that be internet connections, that one guy who just disconnected leaving you down a guy, or that one guy who uses phrases ending in "...or I feed". You enter this system to compete with others, and you're denied the one thing you came there to do (and knowing how long matches can take, perhaps the only time you had to do).

Competition as a system necessarily involves unhappiness on the part of one party.. I know few people who enjoy losing.

>You can't seriously believe that..

At the risk of sounding overly snarky, you just said that riot's goal is to maximize happiness. That means removing things used by children to cry about, even if the adults have a legitimate reason for their inclusion. That is the very definition of optimizing to the lowest common denominator.

>It is there, it does work..

And yet the new player experience is still awful. I can say this, because as far as League's system is concerned, I am a new player. There's a reason some high 90s percentage of my games are with friends, rather than matchmaking games that actually raise my standings- dealing with the community sucks. People who leave, people who feed, people who just act like jerks.

If there is improvement, it's completely invisible to me. Perhaps the higher ranks have been cleaned up, but the bottom of the pyramid is still godawful.
> Googling the term pulls up a few the wiki article for verbal abuse, but even that article makes no mention of violence

Well, pull up Google translate and see which languages translate "verbal abuse" as "verbal violence". There are more than one, but I'm sure the process would be very educational.

> exactly what you're doing, attempting to equate verbal abuse with physical violence.

I never did such thing just as I don't equate murder with theft when I call them both crimes, or 53 with 75 if I call them both positive integers. Equating means putting things on the same level, not in the same category. I'm not even sure I did that. I may have only made an analogy, which is a rhetorical device using comparison to draw attention to specific properties with similar function in different categories in order to assist in understanding or viewing a subject from a certain perspective.

> As for your response, you don't get to tell me how I react to people. Blunt, but true.

I didn't. Blunt, but true.

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P.S.

Your reaction, however, perhaps ironically, raises a difference between physical and verbal abuse (although, just to make sure -- I've never said there wasn't any), which is people who are victims of physical abuse usually know it, but those who are victims of verbal abuse may not. This opens the door to some very interesting discussions no only on the nature of humiliation (e.g. most people would agree that humiliation causes harm even if the humiliated is not aware of the humiliation if there are spectators), but also on the very core of ethics (and in particular ethical naturalism vs. non-naturalism and phenomenology).
Is this the paper they're talking about? http://people.csail.mit.edu/madhu/papers/1992/almss-conf.pdf
That's correct. You build the image and then run (from inside a container) bundle install. This mapped well with our current flow, where you need to run bundle install after fetching new code anyway. This way, when you fetch new code, you don't need to rebuild the image and launch new containers, unless something changes in the Dockerfile or the docker-compose.yml file. That now happens fairly rarely, and, when it does, it's a pretty quick process.

You don't have to run it at runtime, however, as the data volume for a container sticks around until the container has been deleted. If you don't delete the bundler-cache container, your bundler cache sticks around. If you want to clear the cache, just remove the container.
Exactly. And I think that's a huge problem.
Totally agree with one caveat for potential purchasers: my copy of BMW uses US/imperial units which is a little annoying if you're from a metric background. I'm not sure if there's a metric edition.
don't use $1, use named captures or list assignment. qr/\$\d+/ is a oneliner thing or a code smell.
..did you miss the part where I said that subreddits who had explicitly not broken any rules were banned?
Also a problem.
OS X does weird stuff with the .local tld, making usage of it for local hosts non-trivial. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201275
any time a post starts with "Relevant XKCD" you should reconsider posting it.
Startup employees don't earn more
Fun app but RIP your server, there are about 100 ppl in there right now pasting books of text.
Thanks! I would too love to spread those stories to new audiences. We are really trying to branch out beyond the startup world but are honestly new to it and unsure so far what will work. So any ideas from you or anyone would be appreciated! Open to try almost anything :). Also, unjust sent you a DM on Twitter about a related matter.
Here's a good example of cash equivalents: Families in Appalachia who convert their entire TANF deposit to soda pop and use that as cash.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367903/white-ghetto-ke...

"It works like this: Once a month, the debit-card accounts of those receiving what we still call food stamps are credited with a few hundred dollars — about $500 for a family of four, on average — which are immediately converted into a unit of exchange, in this case cases of soda. On the day when accounts are credited, local establishments accepting EBT cards — and all across the Big White Ghetto, “We Accept Food Stamps” is the new E pluribus unum – are swamped with locals using their public benefits to buy cases and cases — reports put the number at 30 to 40 cases for some buyers — of soda. Those cases of soda then either go on to another retailer, who buys them at 50 cents on the dollar, in effect laundering those $500 in monthly benefits into $250 in cash — a considerably worse rate than your typical organized-crime money launderer offers — or else they go into the local black-market economy..."
The core problem with reddit is there's no firewall between communities. So the fact that there are communities specifically set up with the goal of hating blacks or fat people or women or what-have-you means that those people spend a lot of time on reddit and end up spilling over into other popular communities. The moderation tools and admin support on reddit are comparatively underpowered so for a lot of popular sub-reddits it's very easy for the overall quality to plummet when a tiny group of vocal assholes decides they want to squat there. And for most sub-reddits this just starts a spiral of death as good people decide not to waste their time wading through toxic garbage and just find somewhere else to be, while the toxic minority gets stronger and more brazen.

Imagine you have several subscriptions to a bunch of different print magazines. Every couple days a new magazine shows up. Stuff like Scientific American, The Economist, Better Homes and Gardens, National Geographic, TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Cat Fancy, etc. All fine and good. Except sometimes, maybe once every quarter per magazine, maybe less often even, there's some really weird stuff in your magazines. There's a 10 page article praising the KKK in your copy of Rolling Stone. Or there's a thing about how the jews did 9/11. Or the ads in Cat Fancy are all relentlessly making fun of fat people. Or there's an insert in the October edition of Scientific American that's actually a personal letter to you that is filled with hate and vitriol and ends with a plea for you to commit suicide.

Who would put up with that? They wouldn't. But that's what people have been asked to deal with on sites like reddit, and it's beyond a reasonable level. How much shit is acceptable in your drinking water? Just a tiny bit? How about just 1 hour a year where the tap pours out 50/50 shit & water? Is that acceptable? No, it's not. There's far too much shit in the drinking water at reddit, the fact that the drinking water is not, in fact, mostly shit is not a defense.
> "Economists reject absolutes like 'full' and 'need,'" says Joe Cortright

Economists might. Humans (of which I can only assume economists are not) definitely do accept the concepts of full and "too crowded."

> Everything we know about cities suggests that, in fact, quality of life doesn't go down as more people crowd in — the opposite happens.

[Citation Needed]
I agree, making the world a better place doesn't pay well. Screwing the world over pays really well.

I remember when I was in school people would often say that to get money, you have to find something you love doing and the money would come by itself. I don't know if that used to be true, but that is certainly no longer the case.

In general, doing good is at odds with earning money.
AI had IQ of four-year-old child
This is an amazing find! I'm wondering if anybody knows of a site for stock music tracks. I'm writing a mobile app (free) in which I want to include some stock music for my app's users to create their mixes but I can't find a single site which allows you to bundle their tracks inside your app. Anybody know anything?
Live Now: Education Analytics in the Wolfram Language
Except SPDY has been out for a while so why would anyone have been or continue to wait?
I'm in Germany, I can't get it from here :(
any way of emailing it to me? Or providing an alternative link?
Well, it kind of does when comparing virtual DOMs before and after changes.
IQ Test Result: Advanced AI Machine Matches Four-Year-Old Child's Score
That was a different Florin, though perhaps it would be possible to find the exchange rate in 1825: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_gulden
I'd probably argue that it's a bad thing for anyone to have the chance to be "insanely wealthy."
Your work computer's Spotify usage doesn't have anything to do with Pandora's claim about being the most used mobile app.
It kind of depends on your definition of "war" and how you attribute causes of death, but in general, deaths due to warfare have been declining since the development of nuclear weapons and globalization.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jul/21/...
Exactly, just because you can stuff millions of people in a city doesn't mean you should. Dhaka has one of the worst pollution, sanitation, traffic that no other city wants.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03390
Looks like now you'll have 65 ways.
The ISI search generated 12 465 papers. Eliminating papers
that were not peer-reviewed (186), not climate-related (288) or
without an abstract (47) reduced the analysis to 11 944 papers
written by 29 083 authors and published in 1980 journals

That seems like a pretty large sample size to me. I guess you could claim that they cherry picked 11, 944 papers out of some much larger number, but that seems like a stretch. Of course meta-studies like this are always problematic, but considering the overwhelming result I think its at least safe to say that scientists producing papers that run contrary to human caused global warming are in the minority.... and to me that is the best answer we can get as far as what the consensus is. Like you, Im willing to change my view on this (or anything really), but im always going to go with wherever the scientific consensus seems to be.
Wikipedia seems to say that there is not a single idea of what countries are superpowers.

Some say that the US is currently (and since the end of the cold war) the world's only superpower. Some would say that the term "superpower" is not applicable any more.

Wikipedia also gives a list of "potential superpowers", being "the countries (or political entities) most cited as having the potential of achieving superpower status in the 21st century" :
" China
India
European Union
Russia
Brazil"

This might answer the question.
You aren't the customer. The venues/teams/promoters are.
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