skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's funny and sad in equal parts. I worry about just how many different detections you'd need - surely there's more than one "offensive" shape.
Another reason why patents are irrelevant.
What actually is the point of posting it here, when one can not download it?
You're missing the point. If you "found another house", you would displace someone else. Restricting housing below demand is playing musical chairs with homes.
Pinboard 2015 Expenses
Just found this before I saw the article posted here.. but it requires an invite! There are no build & run guidelines either - all roads lead to an invite request.

Great use of Electron though, probably.
That's not my experience at all. I would suggest it's the opposite.
Twitter lost a decent chunk of its ecosystem and its users when imposing ridiculous API limits for 3rd party clients and killing them off.

Also, they arbitrarily told Instagram to fuck off by only banning their image embeds, which pissed off even more users.

Now I'm just praying that their new "while you have been away" crap doesn't get default (or if it does, make it opt out). I'm fairly capable of reading an entire day worth of backlog (though, again, provided it is not more than 800 tweets, once again a pointless API limit).

Getting new users all right, do whatever the fuck you want, but do not drive away even more of the most hardcore users unless you want to have a Twitter filled with brainless 12y kids and #cut4bieber/#cut4dagibee and similar junk.
Akka without the Actors
I think you are overestimating the importance of biological nature of live and underestimating the nature of intelligence.
(My assumption being that English is a 2nd language for you...) If you're referring to the "Mr. Late" and "late Mr.", it's a play on words. "Mr." being a male title in English, and the dead are sometimes referred to as "the late Mr. Smith" (why is a lifelong mystery to me). So it's better to be the guy that's late ("Mr. Late") rather than speed down a dangerous road and be dead ("the late Mr. Smith").
They don't have to it all at once, they can spread it over a year or two.
Funny you mention Lisp, because that's exactly what AutoCAD has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP
Wow, I didn't realize there was a 1979 cutoff. Glad to know there's a perk to this oven/icebox victorian.
> "I really don't want to follow through on what I agreed to"

Another commenter points out that this is a business contract, not a morally codified vow.

However, even if you want to assess the moral implications of the agreement, and the matter of whether to renege is justifiable, remember that the students who took these loans weren't fully informed of the circumstances that lead to their issue.

A college education was presented as a smart choice whose free market value had risen as the result of insatiable demand. However, we now know that public colleges - arms of the governments of which these students are constituents, colluded with private lenders to increase fund availability and force tuition prices up.

If the entirety of the deliberations between these groups had been known, as is proper in matters of public policy, students might well have made a different choice.
Analyse Asia 66: How will you measure your life with James Allworth
Hello Ben,

Would it make sense to run the Client + Server on my laptop? Will you package a version of the Client that includes the server?

What I really want is a replacement for Thunderbird. Thunderbird does not ask me to run a server anywhere else. Will N1 do that?

I'm sure the bulk of HN users won't want to use your hosted server solution.
You can see the comment by turning on show dead in your profile. I'll save you the trouble: it adds nothing to the discussion then uses a slur.
This was already on HN. Anyway what is notable to mention is that the default installation is using remote "sync engine", and thus sending all your emails through some 3rd party servers. The good thing is that you can setup this sync engine locally.
What's your point? The parents could transfer the home to the kids. Or they could sell it for top dollar and help their kids out financially. And perhaps the kids might need to live a few towns over where it's not quite as expensive. I don't really understand what your point is.
Ask HN: Programmer become UX designer
I have been an iOS developer for most of my professional career, but have started thinking about leaving programming as a profession and getting into UX design. I am well versed in using Sketch from my normal work, and am comfortable with Photoshop.

Whats a good path to take to start a new career in this field?
Permutation City by Greg Egan explores what it would mean if you could easily upload your consciousness but wealth meant access to better, faster, hardware to store it.
I'm not following. He said that 1) such training is possible, and that 2) at least in some cases, it is ignored or that dogs who have this capability are rejected.

So indeed, the feature appears, at least according to his source, to be available. And it also appears to be regarded as (or mistaken for) a bug by the users.
> For example, when homosexuality started becoming more accepted in American culture one of the first signs were prominent gay sitcom characters.

I suspect that was a cause, not an effect, of widening acceptance of homosexuality.
https://github.com/siddharthkp/robocop
I think what you want to say is: it's rational to be opposed to density.
> Safe for eyeballs ... in a single year, São Paulo removed 15,000 billboards, many of which were replaced by street art.

so they replaced commercial crap by street art shite that never changes, and that is supposed to be an improvement for the eyes ? Seriously ?
Do companies do that? I've never experienced any embrace of "nerd culture" at any place I've worked.
A group of middle-class white guys will bond more quickly and easily than a group that mixes white guys and low-income black women.

So where do you draw the line? It's clearly not OK, even in the name of "cohesion", to encourage a culture that excludes people of different income levels or ethnicities.
Sure! Here's an example I'll ruefully draw from the last company I helped manage: all-hands offsites at local breweries.
It's not true that there's zero risk. As they say - "you can't get blood from a stone".

There are plenty of people who just don't pay their loans and make so little money there is no realistic recourse for the banks.
I don't really understand your whole post but am also not sure it merits down voting.

Where I think you're wrong is with respect to concentration of people/activity/opportunity. It is quite natural for such concentrations to occur and certainly far from irrational.
> The correct way to handle it is to either find out my gender or speak as if you do not know what it is

And the correct way to do the latter, in English, is to use male pronouns. It's different in other languages, no doubt.
I was extremely annoyed after graduating and consolidating my loans. After a lot of pressure from the financial aid department about consolidating being a good idea, once it was all said and done they just picked the highest interest rate of all the consolidated loans and applied it to the new one. I guess I should have seen that coming but it was a surprise after it felt like the financial aid dept touting it as a good thing.

However, I never had trouble regarding the loans being sold to different services. I had mine switch three times and got multiple emails and physical letters. It was a little shocking the first time I logged into my account and my loan was "paid off", but it quickly became apparent what had happened.
Static sites can be dynamically generated ;)
I do software QA on a physical device, that has a computer in it. We set up scenarios that exercise the software in specific ways. It is very much manual, following written tests driven by software requirements. This is specifically software testing, although we use the hardware to exercise the software.

Even exploratory has written tests that basically say "explore," and they are often assigned with a particular focus.
What rubbish. The article talks about the welfare state as if it is inherently bad. Their solutions? Surprise, surprise! Freer markets. Obvious bias here.

Unsurprising, of course. The Economist is owned wholly by a few billionaire families.
I completely agree, but this might seem counter-intuitive to this forum, given the fundamental advice to new entrepreneurs: hyper-focus.

Once a company reaches a certain maturity, it "knows" that it needs to diversify to some extent. But it's hard to generalize about diversification strategies because it's tough to agree on the right metric for company maturity. Too many of the historical examples we could use for discussion directly relate to changes in what the state has considered a monopoly over time.
Twitter has actually recently started placing notifications on my phone's lockscreen containing partial text of tweets from people that I don't even follow.

So, something for you to look forward to.
Is there any source that Infiniminer is based off Lego?
Software developers are not unique in spending lots of working time alone. Plenty of other careers, virtually all of them with something closer to gender parity, demand extensive, solitary contemplation.
This is a good article.

Four simple words that convey so much: I care about what you think, I want to listen to you, I respect you, I trust you.

If you work with creative teams, try to use it sometimes. It doesn’t cost much, and you might be surprised by the results.

Yeah, that's the optimistic version. I'm the creative team member sort of referenced and in my experience that's a fishing question. Fishing for an answer that can go either way - either the answer is suitable and an out for the asker, or an opportunity to lay down some management style "keep you in check" disagreement.

Think of the movie Training Day. Put yourself in the subordinate position. Even when you give a praise worthy response, it's at the whim of the leader. YMMV.
> The purpose of instruction based testing is usually to avoid regression bugs and to make sure requirements are fulfilled.

You just described my job. :)
Yeah having lived (and worked in tech) in both Austin and SF, there's really no comparison as far as the number of opportunities here as well as the breadth. It's absolutely not irrational that people want to live in the Bay Area, that's the problem.
This is absurd. Qualified psychiatrists are the only way to diagnose and deal with an actual mental illness, and the only way to be sure you're not having a break or don't have a problem if you don't. Always helpful? Sure, nothing's always helpful. Doing nothing when OP thinks he's "going crazy" is a terrible strategy.
This explanation seems to rely fairly heavily on the current, potentially unknown state of the system, and the ability for the military to respond without delay to stockpiling of weaponry by producers.

> Because it's good money and government has already plenty of bombs to force people to make more bombs for them.
If the military could express force against a producer the moment they refuse to supply weaponry, and before they stockpile it for themselves, then this is true. However if the period of delay between producer non-compliance and military intervention is too great, the producer may have an opportunity to stockpile enough force to mount a realistic defence.

The government, nor the military, controls the means of production that their Monopoly on Violence depends upon, let alone the responsiveness and potentially not even the stockpile (I'm not sure of the figures) to mount a sustained defence against cooperating producers.

EDIT: The idea of producers acquiring legitimacy greater than that of public institutions is also an interesting idea with respect to Monopoly on Violence. Immediate self interest of citizens (taxation minimisation) could potentially lead to a "tragedy of the commons" type outcome for public services; leaving the private sector as the only viable and legitimate provider. This could also undermine the legitimacy of public institutions perhaps?
Picadilly Circus without ads? They're part of the legend now.
How to Be an Expert: Knowing You Know Nothing Is Everything
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I tend to agree with this. For whatever reason, girls just don't like the work. When I stated studying, the ratio was 50:50 split. By graduation time, it was down to 80:20 as he girls transferred into different courses or dropped out. I was friends with many - as they changed or dropped out they all said they don't like the subject matter or the type of work.

By the time we all started working, it was further down to 90:10. My office recruited a lot of female grads, we had a female department head who positively discriminated. One of my first mentors was female. In that respect I think my early experience was atypical.

But they kept dropping out as time went on, transferring into different streams/jobs.

There are some things that need to be done - particularly at helping parents understand their school age girls like of STEM - but ultimately I don't think it's worth trying to socially engineer and entire field to be 50:50 when you'll struggle to find that many women who want to study it, learn it and work in it for decades.
> The government sells the loans out of the gate.

Pretty common to sell loans to others to service them. At no point is the company getting paid twice though.

>Please see the article about the number of times his loan has been sold.

Shouldn't impact the borrower at all.

> And people willingly buy them because they can make a boat load of money of late fees and other penalties, and because they are 'backed' by the government.

Late fees and penalties only come into play if people are not paying. Backed by the government is most likely the only reason the loan was written at a certain rate to begin with.

The point, no one who writes the loan is getting paid by the government in full and then going after the borrower and getting paid again in full. It is the government going after the borrower through some intermediary.
I just googled. College towns are often seem as insulated from larger market conditions because of the constant supply of student loan support students.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/real_estate/1203/gallery...

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/mortgages-real-estate/0...
Again, you make lousy points but probably not downvotable points.

The Bay Area has a major tax disadvantage in prop 13. San Francisco is perhaps the highest taxed city in the USA.

If a geographical area is just slightly more appealing than another area, you would expect people to migrate there. So I'm not really sure why you think the concentration is irrational. It's really the opposite.
we're NOT "built" for zero gravity, so, the only way to live and travel in Space is to add an artificial gravity to ALL future spacecrafts and space stations kapipal.com/newspace
> If you were to tell me what life is, that's life.

That boils down to "life is stuff happening", which is true, useless, and does nothing to answer the question posed. It is trivially obvious that it's impossible to stop all death, or even all human death, so I think it's also obvious that what's being talked about is not the elimination of death, but the elimination of the current main cause of death, which is aging.
I think it says something about the region, about what is important there. A lot are neutral, but some are ridiculous -- liposuction, jesus saves, abortion will take you to hell, matress discounters, private investigator services for when your loved one is cheating on you, snake petting zoo next exit. One can argue, yeah it is free market, if you own the land next to the freeway, you can do whatever. But another argument is it make the whole area look bad.
I do too but I wonder if Lafeyette is as much to blame as say Mountain View. While they're almost certainly not building new housing as fast as the area population grows, it's not clear that they're building office space instead, whereas many of the communities in the South Bay are doing just that. Still, it sounds like this is meant to be a more general attempt at proving the concept.
> I've never seen anyone so reactionary that they suggest that SysV is in any way or shape the better alternative.

Unfortunately it's... a position that is not as rare as it ought to be. Some of the frustration and heat undoubtedly comes from the fact that while reasonable people can disagree about the best way to implement many of the goals of systemd, it's hard to take anyone seriously when they propose that SysV init is "more Unix" or technically better.

> ...cannot be solved by improving systemd itself

I suspect the most fundamental impediment is that upstream simply aren't interested in radical changes to how it works - it would be like trying to convince Linus that Linux needs to be a microkernel, or Theo that he needs to start using Rust for OpenBSD.

Any replacement for systemd is probably going to have to do what systemd did (and what daemontools and runit didn't achieve) and create a broad buy-in, with the additional overhead of working with at least some of the systemd dbus interfaces for compatibility.
> So all we need to do is overhaul computer science's anti-women culture is remove computer magazines, computer parts, computer games, futurism, and coding.

Best comment on this submission IMHO.

Making a subject more welcoming to folks who aren't actually interested in it just seems ridiculous. I wouldn't want a physician who doesn't actually care about bodies and biology; I wouldn't want my care designed by someone who isn't really into reliability, moments and materials; why would I want software written by someone who doesn't hunger and thirst to manipulate symbols and code?
> But it's so hard not to categorise you together with North Korea, China and the United Arab Emirates with how trigger happy...

United Arab Emirates... trigger happy? You have no idea what you're talking about. The police there are extremely pleasant to deal with. You actually feel safe talking to them.
> Also, they arbitrarily told Instagram to fuck off by only banning their image embeds, which pissed off even more users.

As I understood it at the time, the integration was turned off from Instagram's side - http://status.twitter.com/post/37258637900/instagram-photo-r...
Putting bullshit on the lockscreen is something I only experienced with Failbook yet, thanks for the warning.
I don't think that is true at all. Many parents undertake difficult logistics to ensure good education.

Those parents who choose convenience over education quality are not interested in education quality - therefore no change in the school apart from location will matter to them.
I would assume that schools are paid by students/year and that someone other than the school gets to decide who goes there (in the real-world examples I've seen this is usually the parents and a lottery system to work out who picks first). The first criteria means the incentive is to get as many students enrolled as they can, but the second one means that no one will enroll if the school's quality falls off.

Hospitals work for care when you have enough time to decide and can look up average costs and results. Certainly not appropriate for car accidents or gunshot victims, but it works if you're getting a early-stage tumor removed and can afford to wait a week.

This does require enough extra space in the local system for people to be able to make a choice.
I dunno, I'll take mediocre street art over high quality "Buy Samsung!" posters any day, but that is just me.
often, billboards are ugly, but all them give "life" to our streets, so, I don't agree with the ban kapipal.com/newspace
it provides little gain, and a year or two is very ambitious. more like 10 or 20. plus we don't have the resources to replace the stuff that needs replaced. let alone to move it all underground.
Billions in profit? You are sorely mistaken: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=YHOO+Income+Statement . For years, Yahoo was propped up by it's stake in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. In fact, the core business was valued at less than zero at one point: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-yahoo-really-worthless-w...

Make no mistake, while Yahoo hasn't died YET, that is exactly where it's trajectory points unless it is able to significantly grow revenues in its core business.
I was replying to MichaelGG's statement:

Just because it seems inevitable, we should not make it socially acceptable to give up and view death as anything but the wickedness it is.

As I said before,

Lengthening life span? That's a different matter.

EDIT: Reply to below, that's a good explanation, thanks. I don't think I could come up with it so clear and succinct, if I could I would have!
I will go a step further: Advertisement in general should be banned.

Yes, I realize how unpopular this is. "Advertising has been around since the dawn of time!" and "Who will know what to buy? Economy would crash." To them I say the following: If you could choose to live your life and never see another advertisement, would you?

If the answer is yes, do you believe it is technologically feasible to live as a human being without ever seeing an advertisement?

If the answer is yes, then we agree.

By the way, if you want or need something, google it or watch a dedicated "ads about X" channel. When was the last time you saw an ad for anything and it changed your life more than marginally?
Synopsis: James Allworth, co-author of “How will you measure your life” with Clay Christensen and Karen Dillon, joined us in an interesting discussion on the book and his reflections on disruption theory. From discussing motivational factors to why you should not outsource your childcare, James offered his thoughts and perspectives to how we can draw valuable ideas from businesses to apply to our lives. Finally, we have a short chat on James’ current podcast “Exponent” with Ben Thompson and also his thoughts on disruption theory and “jobs to be done” framework applying to not just Asian but global companies as a whole.
The same but from a few decades earlier: http://www.oddiooverplay.com/ears/kresge.html

These are MP3s of muzak played in Kresge stores (K-Mart) from the early 1960s.
Elon Musk is an obvious fraud
Node.js errors – to crash or not to crash
I had an interesting discussion with a fellow developer last week and would like to expand that discussion here. Essentially we were discussing the sometimes-heard advice that, when coding NodeJS applications, if the app encounters a an error of significance, it is more advisable to crash and restart. What an error of significance is could/should be debatable. But have any other NodeJS developers encountered this advice? When is it something to be used in practice? Under what circumstances and types of apps would it be advisable to follow this pattern? What about e-commerce?
You seem to have those the exact wrong way around, or? I have never heard any evidence that people with APOE mutations are "greatly harmed" by eating a ketogenic diet. Link? Ditto for alcohol.
DNS Vulnerability in Netgear Routers
Dell XPS Lineup Is Reinvigorated with Skylake on the New XPS 12, 13, and 15“
> 'character' is just code for 'I don't want to share'

Nonsense. I don't live in San Fran, I do live in a city whose character has changed. I don't mind that people saw the cool inner city and wanted to share. I do mind that developer put up cheap high-rises with shit sound insulation, and then waged war on music venues, getting most of them shut down. I do mind that rents escalate massively year-on-year so that the hitherto broad range of inhabitants have steadily whittled down to a richer and richer (and frankly less interesting) rump. I do mind that many landlords would apparently rather see an empty shopfront than an interesting store that's no longer viable because apparently the thing to do is year-on-year 30% rent rises.