skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously you have some things in mind, which I won't be able to understand entirely, but for the sake of argument let's look at your example. If you have a large contract built on fragile tech with no design and no care, then in order to save the project (from a technical perspective) my experience is that you often have to step on some toes. Code doesn't get that way by accident. Somebody (very likely everybody) thought that they were doing the right thing. Explaining that they were wrong is a horrible job (I hope you get paid a lot ;-) ).

But if you think back, how many times did people thank you (before the end of the project) for doing what was necessary to get the project back on track? How many times did you use super human effort to claw a monstrocity from the brink of disaster and have half the dev team pissed off at you because of it.

I don't want to get into a large discourse, but your posting stood out a bit, in a "I know that pain" kind of way. I don't know you so this may be totally wrong, but my experience has been that there are many roads to success. Even that word "success" is arbitrary (as we have seen so frequently when managers redefine it after the fact). You are allowed to choose your definition.

Sometimes you just aren't up for the gunslinging heroics that are required save the project. But you might be up for spending some quality time with the other developers and helping them improve themselves. The project may tank, but everybody might end up thanking you because of it. Even better, you may inspire someone else to do the necessary heroics now that they have someone to cheer them on.

The one (somewhat disturbing) reality that I have learned in this job is that neither my pay check, nor the way people feel about me seems particularly related to the success of any particular project. Sometimes giving people what they should value (success) over what they actually value (support) is a form of hubris in itself.

Anyway, I hope that is interesting even if it doesn't seem useful ;-)
Mh true. But will it remain opt-in ?
Question is whether we measure in/equality correctly. Is wealth really a good metrics of how equal we are? I would argue that it doesn't.

Look at a simple example - health care. In developed contries, does an idividual "worth" 10x receive 10x better health care? Not realy. Is it 2x better? I doubt. Sould you get a cancer, wealth buys you comfort, but not chances for survival.
The developers of BeOS went on to do Android and went with the single thread model, partly because BeOS had a big problems with buggy apps full of race conditions and deadlocks.

Though IMO the Android API is incredibly confusing for a lot of developers. I've found very often that some devs (the more junior ones) don't understand that services and activities are just objects all hanging off a single process and event loop. Bizarre hacks to let services "communicate" with activities when a simple static global would have worked fine tend to abound.
It is, but apparently something broke and the bot isn't getting through now. Nor am I, but I got in one last commit before they did, somehow (their pull request was made earlier, and yet?)

Which means that it's now just this, and has been for 10 minutes: https://github.com/art-dot-git/80x40/commit/675cb618fb6221d2...
Just checking: Do your emails have a link that will unsubscribe the user after one (or at most two) clicks?

Or does the link require the user to log in and adjust settings on a dashboard?
That was my reaction too. If there are conversations going on in the background, then YES! Yes... they will be recorded as a result of this. :/
Mythicizing the iPhone is both dishonest and unhelpful. They didn't just figure it out and walk in, it took them years and many iterations to build a world class product.

Apple was able to use the wedge of UX to convince customers to but their devices and gave them time to fix the gaps in their hardware and software.
If you're not in the USA or Canada, then your contract is with Facebook Ireland, which falls under EU Data Protection law. One thing this means is that Facebook is required to give you a copy of all personal data it has on you, if you ask for it.

If/When this feature is available outside the USA, then one could use it and then make a data protection request to find out if they keep it.
> The burden is on you to justify your right to privacy.

That's absurd. The right to privacy is codified in many developed nation's laws and constitutions as well as the UN and EU charters.

That's like saying the burden is on you to justify your right to free speech.
Ask HN: What Is Your view on the UK Investigatory Powers Bill?
The Investigatory Powers bill, currently under discussion by UK Parliament, would require ISPs to log all activity for 12 months, and (most worryingly), give warrantless access to police and local government.

The potential for over-reach and abuse is obvious, and frightening.

What's your reaction to the bill? And what specific steps will you be taking to protect your privacy?
The last bit should be easy to fix once letsencrypt is operational.
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If it's a big wall of legalise that regular users have to click past to get at Facebook, then that's hardly "opt-in".
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Maybe because it fits inside the README area on github?
Good to see that there is enough money to pursue stellarators while simultaneously working on tokamak designs like ITER.
If I've learned anything from the "war" on drugs: don't trust politicians and governments. They'll lie relentlessly; even in the face of evidence.
You need to stop and get your shit together, seriously you are doing irreparable damage to your company.

I'm already skeptical there is any coming back from this situation don't make it worse.
Hi, I am Janne Koschinski, a 19 year old female Computer Science Student from Kiel, Germany.

I don’t know who you think I am, but this is the most ridiculous claim I’ve ever heard.

Proof of not being this "alex" here: http://i.imgur.com/G7qo5qn.jpg

Thanks for giving me a laugh in my math lecture, though.

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Now for the legal part:

Dear Sir or Madam,

If you are represented by legal council, please redirect this message to your attorney immediately and have your attorney notify me of such representation.

You are hereby directed to

CEASE AND DESIST ALL DEFAMATION OF MY CHARACTER AND REPUTATION, AND CEASE AND DESIST PUBLISHING ANY CLAIMS I WOULD HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO "Watch People Code", or "Dan", OR THAT I AM IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO OR INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL OR IMMORAL ACTIVITIES

Additionally I demand that you provide me with prompt written assurance within ten (10) days that you will cease and desist from aforementioned actions.

If you do not comply with this cease and desist demand within this time period, I am entitled to seek monetary damages and equitable relief for your defamation. In the event you fail to meet this demand, please be advised that I will pursue all available legal remedies, including seeking monetary damages, injunctive relief, and an order that you pay court costs and attorney’s fees. Your liability and exposure under such legal action could be considerable.

Before taking these steps, however, I wish to give you one opportunity to discontinue your illegal conduct by complying with this demand within ten (10) days. Accordingly, please sign and return a statement that you will stop and publicly apologize for aforementioned actions to

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I recommend that you consult with an attorney regarding this matter. If you or your attorney have any questions, please contact me directly.

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I will send a written copy of this to your mailing address as listed on your website.

Thanks.
Lately I have the feeling that, because Marx have so bad press, people is reinventing Marxism with other name.

The author say:
"In Piketty’s view, the only reason we don’t see such extremes is because some kind of random event always intervenes before we get to it"

And then:
"I think Walter is on to something, and his theory can be made endogenous. That is, when inequality becomes too high, the chance of a state collapse or transformative revolution increases."

What are those but crisis of capitalism?
Seems all Ycombinator haters are always lurking for their next moment to trash Ycombinator whenever they get an opportunity.
I've just been handed a flyer for escape room here in St.-Petersburg, Russia. Didn't know it's such a popular thing in the world right now.
4 websites deeper I finally found at least an outline of what are they actually measuring:

"Our data and insights are calculated and measured utilizing four drivers.

Digital Economy Driver - Demand
Demand: covers consumer income and demographics as well as internet usage.

Digital Economy Driver - Supply
Supply: focuses on technology and infrastructure and whether or not they can support digital commerce and transactions.

Digital Economy Driver - Institutions
Institutions: accounts for government policy and access to trade.

Digital Economy Driver - Innovation
Innovation: rates the environment for creating startups and the overall competitive landscape."
It will be honest if you could disclaim your name to the people reading here so they know how to intepret your comments here. Not good if you just hide your face and troll.
So it will add up to your GPS data..
Facebook has a history of starting with opt-in and then making it opt-out and then over time making it harder to opt-out. It is a well established pattern.
Looking forward to seeing your beta product! Where can I keep apprised of your company's news?
If I've learned anything from the "war" on drugs: don't trust politicians and governments. They'll lie relentlessly; even in the face of evidence.

If I've learned anything from being a human: don't trust humans. They'll lie relentlessly; even in the face of evidence.
Well, Wikipedia is pretty famous for its fairly vicious politics, infighting and general difficulty of getting incorrect articles fixed if someone has decided to camp on them. Whenever I read it I'm constantly amazed that it works as well as it does, given that whenever I peer behind the curtain what's going on there is fairly appalling.

I remember some years ago the wiki page for Bitcoin insisted it was a ponzi scheme. Wikipedia has a page that defines the essential elements of a ponzi scheme and Bitcoin didn't meet them, but no matter - edits to remove this statement were immediately reverted and diverted to an endless discussion page in which the camper in question couldn't be persuaded by any means, not logic, not evidence, not weight of people disagreeing. I see that these days the issue has been "resolved" by having an entire section called "ponzi scheme dispute" that consists merely of different pundits contradicting each other.

Still, this is better than it used to be.
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No one is trashing YC here, plenty of people criticising you and your behaviour though. Maybe you should reflect on that.
Ask HN: Ncurses first development
rather than mobile first, couldn't apps be built for the terminal first and then given a skin (web/mobile or otherwise), just in the same way you can prototype a program in the CLI before giving it a UI.

But this time you give it an ncurces UI with all the UI paradigms that come with ncurses like windows, panes, panels, buttons, etc.. (web or mobile are just reimplementations)

I propose a react-ncurses or something similar (react-blessed), it would also make for more comprehensible terminal based integration tests.
> Who the heck wants multi-threaded GUIs?

Widgets aren't static; presumably you want them to keep updating (spinners, size changes, status updates) when the user is interacting with other elements.
The index's criteria...

...high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally

...is so nebulous and silly how could anyone take this seriously?
It's a button you have to press: https://www.facebook.com/help/android-app/1499418503612943
Android is in desperate need of allowing users to change permission for app. It's ridiculous that the application decides what it has access to (and android it is not making it easier with a bad permission granularity). And I believe this functionality was in some pre-release 5.0 versions. They removed it because apps would just crash if permissions were removed. However, there are apps that solve this (for rooted phones) by providing dummy (null) data on API calls that you blocked.

For example, there is absolutely no reason my facebook app should ever have access to a microphone.
Only single gene traits. Intelligence (however defined) is multi-genetic - there are thousands of genes that contribute to intelligence. Given this the only way that individuals with high intelligence could be anything other than edge of a normal distribution is if they were part of a human sub-population.

Edit. I should add that the humans are not completely one population because of genetic isolation and differential selection (especially over the last 10,000 years), but we are almost a single population. Like everything in genetics it gets fuzzy at the edges.
No site in the world likes banning any user. We only put a temporarily ban on certain users or in severe cases a permanent ban. As explained we are a community and you can expect that there a lot of people who hide their real identity and misbehave in away they wouldn't do in real life.
This is one of the greatest events in the history of energy research. Really, really hoping that the upcoming results of the machine will at least meet expectations.
Well, the first comment I see is someone worried about the open source vim project being used in an open source manner and the original vim author losing money or something, in addition to people saying they're happy about the new asnync plugins and properly managed, open to everyone development model, so there's really something for everyone here!
Look, I know that nowdays it's popular to pay attention to security and privacy, and I understand that it's important. But can we for once not immediately assume ill intentions?

I mean come on, do you seriously believe that programmers at facebook are rubbing their hands and laughing at how smart they are, figuring out how to turn on your mike for 15 seconds? Is that really what you believe is going on?

Or is it just trendy to scream "creepy! surveilance!" on every occasion?
+1 data point: In my anglophone school system we say 5x3 as "5 multiplied by 3", not "5 times 3". These semantics lead children (and me) to think 5 + 5 + 5 instead of 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3.
Well, whichever nation builds the first working Fusion power plant wont know where to put all the money.
You seem to enjoy this whole thread, but very coward that you hiding your real identity. Can you at least post your Linkedin profile url as comment for others to know?
and i still won't use facebook.
I was chatting about this with a friend and there are something like 5 different in production technologies which produce or cause nuclear fusion. Only three I think are aimed at sustainable power generation, but it's still pretty cool.
> In my experience, this translates as, "governments who think non-car transportation modes should be treated as seriously as cars."

I agree with you but in the sense that non-car transports should be treated much more seriously than cars, which I suspect is not what you meant to transmit.
As a parent of an older child, I can assure you: It will get better.

One tip I found especially helpful when trying to let my child sleep through the night: Try not to be on their side, when they fall asleep. If they wake up during the night and you're gone, they will more likely stay awake and call for you. When you were not there when they fell asleep. They will more likely sleep again without calling for you, when they wake up.
A person usually wakes up several times per night. It is important to make it as easy as possible to fall asleep again when that happens.
Of course genetics plays a role in intelligence (a very important role). In the case of chimps they are not part of the human population so they are not really relevant to any discussion about the genetics of human intelligence.
For it's own sake, not so much any more. Getting things done, and done well - yes, for sure. That often involves research and learning new things to get the right level of quality.
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Those bizarre hacks help the service don't crash when the service needs to talk back to an activity that just got replaced between request/response cycle, because the user had the strange idea to rotate the phone.
I agree strongly (on WP8.1). However, the change clearly improves things for people on some other mobile platforms, so can we have a user preference for whether we're served the desktop or mobile version when a mobile UA is received?
I've been running my own (personal) email for a while now. And for a while, both hotmail/outlook.com and gmail have been eating my mail. Google is enough of an asshole to not report anything to the sending smtp, while outlook.com/hotmail at least gives you an error, so you know they got the mail all right, just didn't like your sending ip.

My ip/domain name was in no (public) black lists, however - when I finally set up SPF google stopped black-holing my email.

After I managed to get hold of admins of outlook.com via (I think, there were a few redundant hoops I jumped through):

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/getsupport?oaspworkflow=...

Outlook.com/hotmail.com provisionally started accepting my email again. All this without my domain sending any spam the past few years.

Personally I think SPF is rather silly, but apparently it's considered an important filter-knob by certain services. I'd much rather gmail/outlook require valid certificates for smtp, and turn of plain-text, than all these add-on protocols that are supposed to avoid "forged sender"-type stuff.

Then I'd have to move over from cacert to a "real" cert, but hopefully that bar will be easier to clear once letsencrypt is up and running.
Then you weren't informed/advised properly, because it's possible much easier and cheaper, especially for digital goods suppliers. But yes, if you naively follow the simple interpretation of the law and/or what the website of the tax office says, you'll get shafted.
That's one very scary invasion of privacy masked as a "feature".
My thoughts were that this is probably quite similar a technology to Shazam and other song identification apps. The usage is a bit different, and as long as they're really, really clear about when they're listening (for example, Shazam has an "auto-shazam" feature that highlights a big red bar on my iPhone), I would be okay with this.
Look, I know that nowdays it's popular to pay attention to security and privacy, and I understand that it's important. But can we for once not immediately assume ill intentions?

Not really. If I find it important to mention what I am watching or listening too, I can add it myself.

Obviously, the goals is not surveillance, since 15 seconds would be a too small amount of time. The goal is getting an even more fine-grained idea of your preferences for advertising.

A company who knows more and more about me, removing privacy one small step at a time, is creepy.
It's open source. That's what's supposed to happen. Vim is great but the developer is by all accounts the bottleneck in any progress towards cleaning up the code, adding async support, letting people make susbstantial changes to how the project works so it's essentially stagnating. Neovim should give it a huge shot in the arm and make it possble/easier for more people to write better plugins. There's no downside to it; if you're happy sticking with vim that's totally awesome too, but I can't help but see too many new plugins being started for vim once this is out (well, v1.0 on all platforms; perhaps a bit too soon now) because..well, what would be the point?
Joe - I hope you doing fine in Indiana. Can you at least be honest and add that you spammed on Livecoding.tv many times marketing your website and service for which our support team warned you and banned your numerous accounts?
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I also wonder if it might be workable to deploy the D-lang forum just for the mailinglist bits: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
You seem to enjoy this whole thread, but very coward that you hide your real identity. Can you at least post your Linkedin profile url as comment so people understand how to take your comments in this thread?
This is likely to be more important, for much less expenditure, than ITER.

Edit: to add some additional context, the main problem with fusion reactors is confinement time and plasma stability. The general idea of a fusion power plant using magnetic confinement is that a gas is turned into plasma, confined magnetically, and heated until it can undergo significant fusion reactions. There are two core problems to creating fusion plasmas that could potentially produce power. One is pumping the plasma up to conditions that enable self-sustaining fusion by maintaining a high enough temperature from balancing the heat losses in the plasma against the heat gains from fusion reactions. The other is producing more energy from fusion reactions than was put into heating and containing the plasma. The longer the fusion plasma is contained the longer it has to continue fusion reactions and producing energy.

Tokamaks are easy to build but have a fatal flaw in that they have high plasma current, which makes them difficult to control with very unstable plasmas. Stellarators are vastly more difficult to build but they don't rely on currents in the plasma itself, which offers the potential for vastly longer confinement times.
James Bond said No to Android, despite Sony offering millions of dollars.
cia in 1944 how is that possible ? the agency was founded in 1947...
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