skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, 33/50 are in the US. The breakdown is 16/20, 33/50, 51/100, 78/200, 102/300. The US and UK systems are roughly of equal rankings, assuming I can simply scale by national population.

(That is, if they are the same, then I would expect the US to have more occurrences in the highest levels simply due to statistics.)
No. In this instance, an observation is the thing used to construct the theory. You cannot test a theory with the same thing used to make it. Scientific theories make predictions, which are things which should happen if the theory is correct, but have not yet been observed, and hence cannot have been used to construct the theory itself. Testing those predictions is "experimental evidence."
That doesn't sound like an improvement.
dropping.com is another good tool.
I used IRC every day for 15 years from high school through work. This is akin to saying having a different tab for each IRC SERVER (not channel) is a burden. I personally prefer having separate tabs for each project, but ymmv.
I agree that if the thing you're trying to show is "Here's bounding volumes and intersections in 3D", then the Three usage just cleans up a secondary implementation detail. However, it seems to be rare that people will write "Oh, and the drawing part is just for visualization, ignore this code because it's convenient".

The problem with the wide spread of Three is that it is some crazy sprawly combination of utility library, engine, and framework, and that it encourages a particular worldview on new graphics programmers that don't have any understanding on how the underlying hardware or math works.

It's useful in the hands of somebody that already knows that stuff, but harmful from a pedagogical point of view.
I don't really get the appeal of Livecoding.tv. I've streamed a few times on the service and it's not as good as any other live streaming service. Their email marketing is borderline spammy, their tactics are questionable, and they don't offer a particularly solid feature set, or anything specifically helpful for live streaming coding that you couldn't get with YouTube or Twitch (categories, I suppose?). The argument might be made they have audience specifically looking to watch people write code, but I've never seen more than ~40 people at a time on one stream. You'll probably see more traffic on Twitch in the Programming category.
2 hours and only a spellfix (which is even more insulting than nothing). Still no clue about priorities it seems. I guess after Twitch Creative all press is good press... Let's hope for some press.
I don't think they or the FSF are referring to chat apps like Slack. In fact, I think the FSF's definition specifically excludes group chat.
One could write a changelog against vim though.
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It's going to differ around the world but in Australia for business connections I'm used to paying a separate fee for the physical connection (which will have a maximum throughput) and a separate fee for the bandwidth allocation and a third for the monthly data cap.
could be a monthly cron job. Principle of charity right?

Of course, assuming that it is a monthly cron job and the account actually is scheduled for deletion then, the question would be: Why in gods name would you not just say that?! "Your account is scheduled for deletion at so and so time", and if at that point you're complaining that it's not fast enough, no one would really have much sympathy for that.

It's still possible this isn't an example of a vindictive and petty individual lying through their teeth. It may still be an example of someone who with poor PR skills, and is not coping with the situation those poor PR skills created.
The sea level rise generally isn't because of ice melting, it's because the water is warmer and warmer water takes up more space.
There will be a post commenting on the release later this week, but the main things are:

- neovim now follows the XDG spec: ~/.vimrc is now ~/.config/nvim/init.vim, etc.

- the viminfo files were replaced by a new system, "shada" (for shared data)

- lots of default settings have changed so it is more sensible[^1] by default

The rest is all the new features (when compared with vim):

- async execution (`jobstart()` et al),

- the extensions to the plugin system, so plugins can run truly asynchronously,

- the rpc api, that allows for extended clients.

I might be fogetting some things, but these are imho the most outstanding things.

[^1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible
I don't mind professional listings, really; but I do mind fraudulent ones. And AirBNB isn't setup to encourage honest feedback.

My singular experience with AirBNB was a listing where they advertised a NYC address 2 avenues from the real address; they lied about details; they used a multitude of names; they told me to lie about who I was to a superintendent who might stop by. The place was a pit.

But my recourse was limited, because I didn't feel like getting into a fight with fraudsters who knew my real identity but who'd hid their own, and AirBNB doesn't give a shit. So I just recognized that AirBNB is a haven for crime, realized that their review policies are designed to protect the criminals, and I stopped using it, and became an anti-airbnb advocate.

I hope I meet Brian Chesky someday, because PG loves to go on about what a great guy he is, but as near as I can tell he's a sociopathic asshole who made purposeful design decisions specifically to enable fraud that happens to increase his profits. This makes sense, given that he built the whole damned thing by being a spammer (and lying about it). I'm genuinely curious if he's not the completely worthless piece of shit that he absolutely appears to be from a customer standpoint.
"Hey, I just learned my cofounder Michael assaulted you. I will ask him to contact you again!"

this is too good, it could only get better if you could somehow manage to slip "soon" in your reply.
If I may allow myself a guess, possibly the line of thought at livecoding.tv, given the other examples of banned users on your site, and given the lie about the cron job, is that these are merely moronic, worthless customers you're alienating that you wouldn't want on your site anyway. Perhaps you think (thought?) that this is another such instance. This is not the case. You've created a huge leak in your potential enthusiastic user base, which now consists of "programmers willing to stream their content who also happen not to be HN readers."

Mistakes happen. Many startups have survived bad publicity on HN. Your actions have not ensured you a spot in this roster. Even generously overlooking the juvenile behavior of your cofounder and ban messages, the narrative of livecoding.tv stored in the collective brain of HN is now "fails to respond to user and petulantly refuses to apologize for seven hours."

The best thing you can do right now is to identify the responsible individual in your company, apologize specifically, and abjectly, as a company, on behalf of this individual, remove all the ban messages, delete OP's account, explain how a cron job came to enter the story, and both explain and apologize for why this took two hours to resolve after you heard about it.

(Disclaimer: I was about to sign up for livecoding.tv for similar reasons as OP just yesterday. I'm disappointed to know this might've happened to me.)
A YC startup annoyed, failed to follow an account deletion request of, lied to, wrongfully accused of spamming, and doxxed a female user.

Well, if it's not a YC problem, it should very well become one.
It seems that the author is following his own lesson faithfully:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3r3m6q/please_...
1. But isn't that sort of the point? IRC as an ecosystem has had years to get its act together. Like many corners of the tech ecosystem, perverse incentives have frozen IRC's progress. The very things that Slack, Hipchat and others have exploited are the things the old guard IRC users love. Opacity, terminal interfaces and a total lack of accountability are exactly what many IRC users find alluring.

2. Using cloud services in exchange for contributing to aggregate data seems like a pretty clear understanding of personal value.
On the about page Michael is described as

customer‑focused ... and professional

Might want to re-think that too.
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What? Whether or not a browser matters depends on the amount of people using it, not on whether you can install it on several operating systems.
That's a misrepresentation though.

There's a difference between polite white lies and malicious lies. In addition, there's a difference between free users lying when they are approached unasked and a service lying about your personal data.

Comparing them is disingenuous because they really aren't comparable.
A more comparable thing would be if she asked them "Do you have plans to implement a way to batch-delete videos" and they responded with the fine white lie of "I've made sure our technical team is aware of this feature request, thanks" rather than "no, buzz off".

Any time a user makes a request to a service, especially regarding personal data, it better be answered honestly and well.
Except that if it's truly about renting out something you already own (and likely attached to your house) then it still makes it possible.

However, what it massively disincentivizes is buying property solely to use it for hosting on Air BnB (and thus preventing others from buying or renting the property for residential use).
Worst?

Surely not the worst possible advice.

E.g. it is much better than "work with the intent to cause as much harm as possible to yourself and those around you"
Show HN: TouchScale.co, weigh things in Safari on iPhone 6S
How does Airbnb have two faces? Their entire company is just an app that offloads all of the regulations, upkeep, and safety of running a Hotel on to the users, and charges them for the "privilege". The only face there is a greedy leech taking advantage of "not illegal yet" loopholes.
> "Now if insurance allows someone who decides to build an ocean front home on the Gulf Coast where three other houses have already floated away then its not very productive."

Okay, so it is possible for insurance to be used for non-productive means. Would this extend to anything that wasn't a productive investment? For example, if I buy a house, and I insure that house, is the money I spend on insurance being productive?

Let's also extend this to at another example, the government bond market, which as I'm sure you're aware controls how much new money a government can create. If you take safeguards against hyperinflation, is there any reason you would want to keep the current government bond market (bearing in mind that the bonds come with a debt burden for the government)?
If you use brew, its straightforward. Check this link https://github.com/neovim/homebrew-neovim/blob/master/README...
In the US, most states have said that in a person to person sale, you are only committing a crime by buying stolen goods if you know the goods are stolen.

But, there are separate laws for commercial entities who deal in second hand goods (like pawn shops). They must do proper due diligence when buying goods or they will be held accountable if those goods turn out to be stolen.

I would assume that financial firms should also be under extra scrutiny in the same way. But alas, our phony government has made it clear whose side they are on.
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> Let's be honest, Trello and Slack have taken off because young developers aren't familiar with this system and are taking to a new one. And maybe in a few years they will become the norm and my argument will no longer be valid because my workflow will change.

I completely disagree with you. My entire team is ~30 or older, and we all used IRC "back in the day". Slack is simply better for communicating with your team because of all the features mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

To suggest ignorance is the only reason Slack and HipChat have taken off is offensive to the people using it because they like it better.

I still use IRC for open source projects I use or contribute to. For the record, I agree with the article insofar as that OSS projects should probably continue to use IRC rather than Slack despite the persistence and team based features. Purely because it's unfair to expect all of your users and contributors to use yet another system for communication that isn't relatively open.
A former co-worker used to work at Dunkin' Brands HQ and said the franchisees call the coffee "black gold". Outside of the cup it's pure profit.

He said it was pretty comical that you could always tell when a franchisee meeting was taking place because the parking lot would be filled with exotic cars (which is a rare sight in New England's pothole filled roads).
One reason not to use Slack for FOSS projects that isn't mentioned in the article and has had few people mention here: choosing between short history or ridiculous expense.

The free version of Slack only has a 10k message limit, which runs out very fast with a user count in the 3-figures range. So if you want history, you need to shell out $8/user/mo, which is ridiculously expensive for chat. And not something a FOSS project should be spending it's limited funds on.

Slack has been successful because it's onboarding process is buttery-smooth. They've put a lot of work into making everything easy, from signing up to installing integrations. Unfortunately those integrations also waste a ton of space in the chat window. I use Slack at a couple of companies, and each of them got excited, installed a couple of integrations... and then abandoned the channels with integrations, because they waste so much screen space and you can't follow the flow of a conversation. It's a pity Hipchat got caught napping - they did displaying integrations well.

Another FOSS-specific problem with Slack is that they don't have a linux client, so you have to use the web app, which is terrible when you have to track more than one Slack team - you have to manually switch teams to check for updates, which takes a non-trivial amount of time (and the 'switch' control is right next to the 'sign out' control, which I've accidentally hit a couple of times)
"Urban" is also a great euphemism for "black" that often pops up.
If it happens in business hours then it's Conglomacorp's job to supervise Big Mouth properly and make sure he's not playing favourites (which as your sibling points out would be a Reg FD violation). If Shylock wants to trade on information then he needs to get it through the official channel where it's subject to compliance monitoring and all the rest of it. I'm fine with it being a crime for him to get information from Big Mouth in a way that bypasses those processes even if it turns out those processes wouldn't actually have blocked the information in this case.
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I stayed in an AirBnb property and I had good experience. But when you realize the place you stayed wasn't really surveyed for security, it's scary.
It's likely that the two of you are talking across each other because you read slightly different articles. Paul added an assumption to his article, possibly after William read it, which is intended to rule out his posited distribution: "(c) the groups of applicants you're comparing have roughly equal distribution of ability".

This strikes me as a "heroic assumption", but it's true that if you make it most of the flaws in his argument go away. Add in the unspoken assumption that the groups are both are large enough that sampling variation does not matter, and I think he's probably logically correct.

On the other hand, once you make these assumptions, the rest of his argument seems unnecessary, since all you need to know is the ratio of males and females funded. If male and female founders are exchangeable, the process is biased if one group is funded more often than they are represented in the applicants.

You don't even need to look at outcome, since we've already assumed the founders are of equal ability. I think that Paul is aiming at the case where we don't know the ratio of applicants. I think his argument can be useful in this case, but only if you have already accepted his assumptions.
This is an almost unbelievably stupid and upsetting thing for them to have done.
Toyota got a lot of heat over their software implementation surrounding the whole stuck accelerator debacle.

They have set the bar pretty low, despite their myriad of experience.

Pretty sure a technology company that designs cpu's for a living can do better than toyotas example of what not to do, at least in an electronics sense.

They have already hired staff that has a lot of experience in this field, and already had all the engineering chops and bank account to fund this.

While they have a lot of experience to catch up on in the auto industry, I don't think it will be amateur hour.

Has Apple ever released a cpu that had the same quality control issues as Apple maps?
An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf]
Remember, pg has defended a YC company's sleazy tactics for bundling unwanted software in installers (including disguising the choice to install them as an ordinary EULA acceptance scheme, which he whitewashed as confirming that they wanted to install the software) and even that didn't do them any real damage.
Australia is a bit of an outlier, mainly due to Telstra and the Gang of Four. I believe the polite expression for their actions is "maximizing shareholder value".
> Yes, the current ad system is inefficient, regularly disruptive and even occasionally destructive. But it's here and it's redistributing,

Talk about fallacies! Based on that kind of argument, you can defend any awful, destructive policy if it benefits someone, somewhere.

> as someone who lives in a country where credit cards are rare and the average wage is under $15k/y, it's not as abstract to me.

I'm sorry, but I can't seem to find the contract I signed where I agreed to be tracked by giant corporations and choke all my devices to the point of nonfunctionality with malware and ads just so a stranger wouldn't have to pay for content. Maybe you have a copy?
>For me personally, I cannot ethically abide coercion, ever.

Do you support Basic Income? The system of "free market capitalism" is certainly coercive in the way it walls resources off and forces people to play into the system of exchanging labor for money so they can survive.
In the same way that "urbane" doesn't.
Yes, but I had the same thought; along the lines of "does YC really have to do a dinner where someone comes in and tell the batch's founders not to try to make examples of customers/users that are annoying them, because they will look ridiculous at best and, as in cases like this, actively malignant at worst"? Is that really a lesson YC needs to teach?
> we probably are warming the world with all of our machines

Probably very little compared to GH gases contribution, see here: http://skepticalscience.com/waste-heat-global-warming.htm

There is a lot of energy coming to the Earth in the form of sunlight. We could power world economy with it many times over.
Yes but how do you correlate the two cookies?

I go on site abc.com, which gives me the cookie abc:111
Then I go on xyz.com which gives me the cookie xyz:222

Because of the same origin policy, xyz.com can't access the cookies set by abc.com. Abc and xyz can communicate as much as they want on the server side, they will not be able to tell that abc:111 and xyz:222 are the same user (absent additional information: browser fingerprinting, email address if you have an account on both, etc).
It's only expensive compared to HipChat which is a subsidised gateway service that leads to Jira. Our company used HipChat for about a year before moving to Slack. Honestly, the differences are not many and any reasonable team could choose either.

I think we migrated to Slack for connectivity reasons, fonts and general user interface, and the bigger list of integrations. Are these worth $6 per user per month? If you've got the money then maybe. But it's by no means a given.
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This has nothing to do with blocking ads. You'd still be affected by this hack whether you were running adblock or not - the service is designed to be extremely difficult for adblockers to catch except maybe on a site-by-site basis. It's more of an argument for blocking all scripts.
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All big players in the car industry have a research center in SV nowadays, it seems, not only the Germans. There is undoubtedly a lot of talent in the Bay Area, yet the rush of the car industry to SV smells of cargo culting.
Sadly, a lot of people (generally die-hard nerd types) genuinely believe that marketing was the sole reason for the iPhone's meteoric rise in 2007. They don't place any importance on user experience and therefore can't tell the difference between the iPhone and the early-gen smartphone predecessors (Palm/Nokia/etc).

These are the same people that are now confused as to why Slack has risen in popularity despite the existence of IRC, which (in their eyes) is technically superior.
It's terrible as the sole advice anyone ever gives when you ask for advice. If you can't have all three thirds, then at least make sure you can pay bills and save money, if for no other reason than that living hand-to-mouth is an unsustainable lifestyle over the long term.
Sigfox doesn't have channels per se.
Each Sigfox message is concentrated on ~100Hz, with the base stations listening to a 200KHz part of the available spectrum.
Regarding interferors, the Ultra Narrow Band technology offers a great resistence: energy concentrated on a tiny width, plus the "random frequency" effect of the sigfox protocol.
Yeah..Some of them are self-explanatory, it makes me to think that the comments/description may not be necessary. But, a simple comment it's not a problem...Let's see. =)
The Scott Adams (of Dilbert) slides about "Passion is Overrated":

http://www.slideshare.net/Scottadams925
The reason they don't do this, I suspect, is because "for sale by dealer" is illegal is a lot of places unless the host registers as a hotel and complies with hotel regulations (which probably excludes their property from being usable).
just imagine the chaos of using this! nice idea tough :)
And because human affairs are hard, we should criticize anyone who dares to voice an idea they haven't fully figured out yet.

This idea that statistics can only confirm and supplement "qualitative observations" (I.e. my priors) is completely unscientific and anti-intellectual. If that's true, forget stats - lets just write down the one permitted belief on a piece of paper and not waste resources on science. Science is really boring when only one answer is possible.
I also like $DEBUG! =)

if $DEBUG
p "var is %p" % var
end
Two hours later her profile still has the "Dice.com employee" (which is false) and "banned for spamming" (which I think is false.)

Mishandling personal information is a big deal.
I'd expect any decent adblocker to already have blacklisted this and similar services.
If someone doing a PhD on some subject made it PhD level and inaccessible to non PhDs, you wouldn't be able to use virtually any of the data structures you use today.

Additionally, even if discovery of a certain pure algorithm is difficult, that doesn't mean that using that algorithm (especially one abstracted behind a nice API) is difficult.

There's no doubt that not having aliasing everywhere, and having basic laws available about the behavior of programs and combinators aids in reasoning about programs.