skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? Is this human DNA that can be found in hot dogs harmful to me in the quantities it's found in?
Frames like frameset? It sounds more like Netscape 4 layers.
Again, at the moment where javascript is required to read a website, you have already lost.
I see a lot wrong with what you're saying too :)

I do agree with some of your points though. Focusing on (and talking to) women who are succeeding in tech would be much more productive than hostile, aggressive or "ironic" feminism. That would include this piece. I don't know how an author can talk about rapey bros then complain that someone uses the word "chicks". If anything her ad hominem is much worse.

I liked this from your post:

> We go looking for an obstacle to break through and fail to find it. We show up equipped with tools to destroy a barricade only to find there is no barricade and the people we are facing feel threatened by and unwelcoming of us because we are weirdly armed to the teeth for a battle that should not happen, and if it does happen, it harms the cause of women rather than helping women.

I would argue that this is what lukev is doing in this thread and like you say, it's not winning any converts.

I think the only thing I really disagree with in your stance is that you greatly over estimate the support system available to men. There's a reason women now outnumber men in higher education. While the stories of master/apprentice, captain/crew are nice, the reality is most men are extremely isolated and left to fend for themselves. Just like women.
You don't explain how you think Shadow DOM is too complex.

They're simple to me: basically just isolated tree of DOM attached to the document. The only slight complexity comes from projection, which really is just a way to plug in a child element into the shadow. Projection is absolutely necessary for composable widgets, you couldn't create containers without them.
Really depends on what the project is. Assuming you are referring to an app or website.

I always start with an Evernote page with my general thoughts, then grab a pen and paper and start drawing what could be a barebones UIm then do more research.

I go through the cycle again and again until I am ready to graduate to Balsamiq for a clearer UI and have a clearer story to tell about the project.

I try to balance between doing and researching. I find that excessive research in the beginning is just another form of procrastination of just starting.
It does say in the Recommendations area with regard to not accidentally getting pork to "Stick with Kosher brands you know and trust, like Hebrew National" and they assigned them a score of 96.
It's easy to forget that the German re-unification wasn't simply two countries merging together. The reason East Germany was merged into West Germany was that it was effectively defunct.

East Germany had mostly sustained itself by forbidding people from leaving the country (under threat of death), forcefully keeping its citizens in line (via ubiquitous surveillance and extortion) and frequently selling captives ("traitors" and "collaborators") to its next-door neighbour.

Heck, the entire country had been ransacked before it was even created. While the US and its closer allies limited themselves to seizing high-tech and research after WW2, the Soviets transferred a large part of the industry and factories out of Germany as reparations.
Of interest:

>2/3 of the human DNA samples were [in] vegetarian products.
>10% of Vegetarian products contained meat.

Sounds to me like the meat hotdogs are the better ones.
David Zetland has outlined a system of "All-in Auctions" that would preserve water property rights while imposing an opportunity cost for using that water, by auctioning water usage and paying the funds to any rights holder to the extent that they forgo water extraction they would otherwise have the right to.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1658193

That is, you can continue to invoke your traditional rights in the water, but you have to forgo cash payments from the new auctions for doing so. This would eliminate the ridiculous system of "use it or lose it" that results in farmers blowing $1 worth of water to produce $0.05 worth of crops.
Except someone has to write those generators...
Agreed. Vienna Beef also mercifully left off the list, though I'm not sure how as it's the regional staple of all of Chicago.
But how does that (semi-)relate to tptacek's other points?
What extra requests? Are there any requests you get with Web Components that you don't with React, Angular, jQuery or plain JavaScript?

Web Components are just a set of APIs and capabilities in the browser. They don't imply anything about the number and type of files that are used to create your app.
TalkTalk spent the weekend in full PR mode claiming the attack was the work of cyber jihadi's[0] and suggesting huge resources were used to target and overcome their defenses (i.e. the "no-one could have withstood this sort of attack" defense) and then switched to a defense of "no legal requirement to encrypt customer financial data" when people got upset about their bank details being pilfered[1] and reports of bank accounts being emptied started to emerge.

Now we find out the likely candidate is a spotty teenager. I wonder how TalkTalk plan on trashing this kid now.

[0] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/talktalk-hack-by-cyber-... plus many others
[1] e.g. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/26/talktalk_crypto_obli...
I don't work at Blizzard but know someone who recently went there. I have not spoken to her yet about her experience but I would imagine that by "not what everyone expects" is probably related to the fact that at the end of the day it is still a business, gaming or not, they have bills to pay.
That's a pretty fair assumption. It would also mean that 2% of pretty much every food should contain a bit of human DNA, making hot dogs a moot target.
The official money man behind the project Wang Jing lost a huge chunk of his fortune after the Chinese stock crash. The Nicaraguan government says it won't affect the project. But most people I talk to down here think the success of the project as being more doubtful than ever now.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-02/china-bill...

There are so many conspiracy theories about the project. One of them is that it's secretly being funded by the Chinese government with Wang Jing only being a front. This doesn't make much sense to me as the Chinese government is already pretty well invested in the Panama Canal operation, but who knows.
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the reality is most men are extremely isolated and left to fend for themselves. Just like women.

I think there are important differences. I think I just have a lot more work to do to adequately convey them.

I notice it (my piece) still doesn't have more upvotes. So presumably you did not upvote it. Nor did you comment there. You commented on it here. I will suggest that keeps the focus on a piece you think is doing it wrong and does nothing to redirect focus to a piece that is at least trying to look for real answers.

Anyway, I have work to do.

Thank you for the comment. Take care.
What is your take on the canal? Its pretty clear that the Panama canal provides a lot of economic value for Panama (from tourism to transit fees). Do you think the country as a whole sees it as a good thing? bad thing? just another thing?
Did you RTFA?

Hebrew National was rated 4th least contaminated with a score of 96 (out of 100).
related Apache Tika 1.11 release

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201510...
"Technical debt" as a catch-all is not ideal, but it's usually an easier sell than "We need to start looking at and fixing the never-ending procession of short-sighted and slipshod decisions that you, management, and you, lazy developers, have apparently booked for a year-round appearance in our codebase."

The problem is that "technical debt" has no bearing on the business functioning of any company whose primary deliverable is not a piece of technology. At best, it's seen as a sort of odd thing that suddenly causes schedules to slip and engineers to quit; at worst, it's dismissed out-of-hand and ignored.

There is really no good way of explaining to non-software-engineers why technical debt is a big deal in such a way that they prioritize it as something to be addressed. The article's suggestion that you break it down into actionable items fails: technical debt can't be explained in terms of any individual issue, because the problem isn't any particular issue--and if you try to do it that way, each issue invites a hacky solution that drives you further into debt!

It's a culture, it's craftsmanship, it's ownership, and it's quality that are attacked by technical debt. It's how you guarantee that only malicious geniuses and shitty developers stay on your project.
>>The top of the warrior’s shaft grave lies at ground level, seemingly so easy to find that it is quite surprising the tomb lay intact for 35 centuries.

>>“It is indeed mind boggling that we were first,” Dr. Davis wrote in an email. “I’m still shaking my head in disbelief. So many walked over it so many times, including our own team.”

One wonders how many other discovery are similarly near the surface.
Soylent Green?
Tokutek makes a lot of claims but none of their code demonstrates any advantage. Since their algorithm is patented I've avoided reading it in depth. But assuming there's a "there" there, clearly their implementation of it sucks. When your code needs 2x RAM as the actual data volume to operate, you've failed as a database.

I'm inclined to believe there's no "there" there.
People have been eating hot dogs for years and years without major issue, I think you'll be fine. The saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium is a bigger concern to be worried about.
> Water rights are treated a lot like property rights.

No, water rights are property rights.
Alternately: 2% of tests done by an advocacy organization are tainted by human DNA.
Looks neat! Any plans on adding support for Consul as a directory/backend? (understand if you'd hold the same arguments against it as for ZooKeeper)
The most cut-off man on Earth
> A well regarded standard UI library, say jointly developed by browser vendors,

This is commonly known as the web browser.

lol @ browser vendors deploying UI components via Javascript, when they could just as easily deploy them in the web browser itself as part of upgraded HTML specs.
Yes, it's right there among with three other brands having received the highest score of 96.
Among psychologists studying the development of expertise, it is considered well established that outside of some rare and obvious cases, there is no such thing as aptitude. Skill is just a function of practice. It all depends on your willingness to put in the time.
Is it OK to you that there's human DNA in the hotdogs as long as they're not harmful to you?
No, you're perfectly capable of eating people. Assuming they didn't contain poisons of pathogens that can resist cooking temperatures.
So this joke repeated through decades never gets old. Its been like 50 years since the times of nationalist dictators, its 50 years ruled by U.S backed leftists, yep.. the same who have created the skirts of misery: ghettos and fabelas.

It should be obvious by now that USA will support the left wing if it fits with its agenda. There you have WW2 and polpot to mention just a few extreme historical cases.
word2vec is a broadly neural network based embedding.
No, you cannot be added to a watchlist for playing a video game.

There's a multi-analyst system for reviewing the criteria for adding someone to a watchlist, and under no circumstances is someone going to be added without a legitimate nexus to terrorism. Terrorism might be ambiguous to define in a document, but it's pretty cut-and-dry in actual practice. There are people who attend terrorist camps, and there are people who visited a terrorist forum. The first is definitely a terrorist, and the second (by itself) is not.

Theoretically, if a system rewarded analysts by how many people they watchlisted, then you might have the possibility for people to try to game the system in order to up their numbers (get promotions, bonuses, etc.). That's not even remotely the case, however. The system that is in place is one that takes putting someone on a watchlist very seriously, as it can have an impact on that person's life. Not only that, but it adds a lot of noise to the whole, and could end up taking away from the effort to identify real terrorists.

How do I know all this? I helped build the system. Feel free to ask questions, but obviously I have to stay within what is allowable (unclassified), which admittedly isn't much but at least can shed light on the "why" of the matter.
In addition to intake during consumption, I wonder how much "human" we intake during respiration, with all the dust in the air.
Interesting coincidence – TAC Missileers, "a US Air Force, Cold War veterans group, whose members proudly served our country, as part of the Mace or Matador cruise missile programs." (quoted from their website) is having a reunion next week in Orlando, Florida.
In general miniz library was so-so to work with. e.g.: if you need to go and actually understand something, it was subpar experience.
Identifying hundreds of inaccurate SNPs with high-impact in 23andMe raw data
I agree. This sounds sensationalized.
I have a hard time reading that as a good-faith question.

> The bigger issue is shilling

Based on the data I see, I'm pretty sure that's false. But any user with specific concerns about astroturfing or shilling should email hn@ycombinator.com with links. When we get an email like that we look for evidence, and when we find evidence we act on it.
It's also extremely common for countries to be conquered by foreign invaders.
I don't think the tipping model makes sense at all, but as long as we're talking about people we pay to clean up after us, it's worth pointing out that hotel housekeepers have a particularly raw deal, and despite the fact that people frequently seem surprised to hear this, you are expected to tip them.
Does anyone have a source or any numbers on how Microsoft's revenue is split among its departments? I'd be curious to see how much of their revenue is from their hardware vs. software now.
Suisse Mania – Amazing WebGL Map of Switzerland Built with Goo Create
It's a convention in American governance to pay one's protection money after the official's tenure, to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
I like those odds.
If the contamination levels are above the legal limits, please report them. Otherwise, this article seems more politically motivated rather than a focus on public health.

We are all cannibals and coprophages, so what?
Why else would it bother me? I mean if people were being killed to make the hotdogs... but otherwise?
There is a high demand for engineers right now so with a little bit of patience and hard work you will find your way I am sure. Here are a few things you can try:

1- Start by creating a web presence for yourself, a simple bio website that explains who you are and what you do a long with links to some of your work.

2- Create a GitHub (or Codepen) account and open source any reusable code, plugin, etc. Just make sure you actually own the work and are allowed to do this.

3- Create a profile on UpWork and find freelance work there.

4- Pick a side and a language and start specializing a bit. It's great to be well rounded and have lots of skills but it is a much easier sell to say I am a front end engineer and love building UIs, I am experienced in CSS, JS, Angular, etc. versus I do C, C++, front-end stuff etc. You can mention that you are comfortable on any side (front or back) but it is better to say which is your stronger skill.

Good luck!
Sketch 3.4
Walmart applies to FAA to run drone trials
This doesn't even get to the overall design of css in the first place and the problems it has...
http://blog.vjeux.com/2014/javascript/react-css-in-js-nation...
General Power was well-known to be batshit fucking insane. Even General LeMay thought he was unstable and aggressive, and LeMay himself was the guy who oversaw the war against the Japanese Home Islands. When the guy who burned the best part of a million people alive with firebombings and then nuked the remains thinks you're a bit of a loose cannon, well...

He is often viewed as the likely inspiration for Gen. Buck Turgidson in the film Dr. Strangelove. A quote from Power, when the RAND Corporation raised the proposal of a counterforce strike instead of striking at Soviet cities:

"Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea
is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans
and one Russian left alive, we win!"

In the words of Gen. Horace Wade, a subordinate who served under Gen Powers:

I used to worry about General Power. I used to worry that General Power
was not stable. I used to worry about the fact that he had control over
so many weapons and weapon systems and could, under certain conditions,
launch the force. Back in the days before we had real positive control
[i.e., PAL locks], SAC had the power to do a lot of things, and it
was in his hands, and he knew it.

SAC pushed back very strongly against this intrusion. The first Permissive Action Links were installed in 1959 and the bulk of them in 1962, but the 8-digit security codes were set to "0000 0000" until around 1977, because SAC was afraid that they would be unable to fire the weapons if needed.

It's a goddamn miracle we didn't go over the edge, either accidentally or with those guys at the controls. In one case, a B-52 crashed in North Carolina in 1961. The bomb went through its full arming sequence, being stopped only by a single low-voltage switch. That switch later became known for being unreliable and failing to interrupt its signal properly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

The Russians had some close calls of their own, notably when the sun glinted off the clouds and tripped their launch warnings during ABLE ARCHER 83.
Ask HN: Telco support horror stories
I've recently been reminded of the nightmare that is consumer technical support, via a weeks-long support call with Three UK that ended with them disbelieving my error report in favour of their remote diagnostic tools. It really gave me more empathy for users that rely on the software I write for their livelihoods.

Does anybody else have similar experiences, and would support engineers from telcos shed some light on how one could get past the "dumb user" filter and through to people that actually care about the network?

(In case anyone's interested, my problem was that Internet doesn't work in one small area despite a strong signal - which happens to the most important place for me, my home - but fine everywhere else. On two different devices.)
Not just the "industry", it's modern culture in general. There's a lot of pressure being put on women from a very young age as to how they should talk, dress, and generally behave.

The fact that there are so few female programmers shows that the problem is education and culture. Take kids' books - 95% of the time it's the boy who goes on adventure, and the girl just sits there waiting to be rescued or given by her father to the male hero. Then you go to toy store and the girl toys are all about makeup and nail polish, while the boys get to actually do stuff. I really don't understand how women can take this shit, and I say this as a white male.
Is there a 'UX Hall of Shame' somewhere on the internet? This one belongs there, I figure they're using a larger monitor, but when you're on a smaller laptop with a lower resolution it sounds crazy.
they're referring to Sec 4 (d) (4) (b)

Also 5 (d) (3) (a) and (b) which exempts "Cyber threat indicators and defensive measures provided to the Federal Government under this Act".
Are you making hiring decisions at the company you're at now? Can you share the name of that company either here, or via e-mail? I, and I'm sure others, would like to avoid applying there.
A memorial to people who exercised good judgement and common sense in stressful situations would be great. Maybe we could have a reality show about this, to prove to the rest of the world we aren't just a bunch of slobbering troglodytes.
U.S. Navy to send destroyer within 12 miles of Chinese islands
They tested “345 hot dogs and sausages,” and found 2% of them tested positive for human DNA. That's only 6–8 contaminated hot dogs. If 2/3 of those were vegetarian, that’s just 4 hot dogs. I wouldn't jump to any conclusions from such a tiny sample.

Also, if the human DNA was caused by sample contamination in the lab, it could just be that the contamination is more likely to be detected in a vegetarian sausage than in a meat one.
I visibly cringed reading that.

Does Y-Combinator review those posts at all before they go out and provide any guidance? If not they might want to consider it...
Quite probably not more than all the "lose on every sale, make it up on volume" shenanigans VC land does with VC money.

Personally I am getting to a point where I would be thrilled with even a "grad student" setup: three desks to a room and if someone needs to talk they go into the corridor if not a meeting room.

It cannot be that expensive to give people working with their minds some peace and quiet to think.
We're still shipping Delphi, yes.
To be honest I found it challenging to actually derive information out of the series of infographics interspersed with various bits of text. Once I ascertained they really weren't going to reveal any insights into the origin of things I simply classified it as a companion hit piece on hotdogs to the "processed foods cause cancer" piece.
Because less nature is a good thing? Far apart, self sufficient and largely unmaintained would be best IMHO.
Squeeze hot dog juice into 23andMe test tube.
> Additional value by virtue of being a startup? Joining a startup doesn't make someones labor output suddenly increase.

shhh, you will upset the Founders are gods and we should worship at their Startup temples viewpoint that is the foundation of HN.
> Did you RTFA?

Please don't. The sibling commenters have all provided nice examples of how to reply respectfully.

From the site guidelines: Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Two Asian Americas
I understand what you mean, but for this to be manageable for the end user it should be automatized. On Debian or Ubuntu, when you install a package, all the dependencies are defined. apt-get downloads all related packages taking in account the dependencies. This could be generalized to smaller library units.

But I do like snapshot upgrades of Ubuntu because upgrading is a risky process that requires time. Geeks probably prefer the Debian way with a rolling upgrade. If something doesn't work they can fix it.

For users that are not tech savvy and don't want to fill their head with the versions and dependencies of all the packages the Ubuntu upgrade model is much simpler. The OS and all its packages do share one global version number.

I would say the choice depends on the public. Its not all black and white.
If they succeed in building it, it will no doubt have a strong economic effect on the country.

Right now there is a lot of tourist investment in the same area that the he mentions in the article. An ecological disaster could hurt the growth in that area, but it might open up the whole Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, which is very difficult to get to now.

Most educated people here are doubtful about the success of it. The majority of the country is not very well educated and buy most of the Sandinista propaganda about the canal. The main exception are poor farmers in the affected areas who have been demonstrating against it.

Nicaraguans are normally very open to foreigners, but even I've heard many mostly poor people worried by the headlines of 10,000 Chinese workers being needed.