skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah there is plenty of power in these old computers to pull off the simple user interfaces that are popular right now. I think it's funny how the trend has gone back to bold colors, blocky designs and full screen programs, all the things we were limited to in the 80s.

It's also funny and a bit sad that despite these extreme "simplifications" of UI, software still seems neither faster nor smaller...
He said the "best" slave, which I understood to mean the most eager and hardworking, without even knowing he's a slave. Not the most oppressed slave. Of course my sympathies lie with the child in Burundi, and I don't pity myself. My comment was mostly tongue in cheek - mostly.
New Math assumed young students had a capacity for mental abstraction that most young students simply lacked.

Also, like every other reform, it suffered because math illiterate parents (who know basic by rote by more) didn't understand their kids' curriculum.

Students with high aptitude (including many here on HN) thrived in New Math and became among the highest achievers in adult mathematical activity.
Um, okay. Here's a paper that did a study based on gendered behavior in Halo 3.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... (tl;dr: there is male hostility towards women in online video games)

No one's stopping you from posting evidence and discussing it, of course. In a debate with sides this polarized, you will sound partisan whenever you use any kind of evidence.

I try fairly hard to combat that fact when I present evidence, although I honestly don't know all the facts and thus can't represent them all fairly. But then again, that's why I participate in discussions online. To learn.
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Did you read the article? He has a particular definition of slave.
The unfortunate truth is that Gamergate has been harassed, you just likely haven't heard it. For example, there were bomb threats at several of their meetups, and a panel they had at a Society of Professional Journalism conference had to be evacuated because of several bomb threats.
Excellent blog post to introduce the vue.js concepts (http://blog.evanyou.me/2015/10/25/vuejs-re-introduction/). I was able to get up and running pretty quickly with a good understanding of the tool. Thank you for putting this together.
Some comments on comments:

- Tesla stated it was beta on multiple occasions. Also claims they have "UNIQUE combination of cameras, radar, ultrasonic sensors". For Tesla, this was categorically a beta test.

- A circumspect release would consider probability and severity of risk factors. The probability of idiots getting behind the wheel can not be discounted. Combine that with the temptation of said users to play with their new toy, plus (albeit low) probability of any number of hardware, sensor, or software malfunctions, plus all of the permutations and combinations of external road and traffic conditions that the Telsa network has not learnt yet, and the probably of accidents can not be insignificant.

- an accident in a high-performance car can easily result in deaths and grievous injuries of innocent people - a high severity risk

- beta software could have been made available to a select set of users rather than released in wild. Also could have discluded total hands-free and out-of-save-zone autonomy to make it safer
Do this bitcoin wallet in Kenya still work?
Nice work!

Please tell me the meaning of `Evangelion`... Is the japanese anime?
Excellent point. In other words, if you can earn a 5% (real) risk-free return by stuffing $100 bills under your mattress, you're much less likely to make a risky investment expected to make a 6% (real) return, and definitely won't make any investments earning 4%.
Nobody bats an eye when you use Python for logic, sql for querying your database and regex for searching text. Unlike the front end, there are ample opportunities for "uniting" the backend in one language, yet nobody really seems to bother.

I speculate that it's because these languages are better at certain things, just like having a non-executable language for data, helps keep the data, data only (cue angry lispers), and facilitates easier writing of prose in a mark-up language than a real programming language could facilitate. Just look at markdown.

More over, we invented JSON, rather than just sending JS files between browser and server.
All the more reason to name the co-founder. I disagree that a co-founder has the same right to privacy as an employee. Employees can claim that they're following rules or policies, and that any sleaziness on their part is due to the constraints they're operating under. A co-founder has no such excuse. He or she sets the policies. If the company behaves sleazily (as it did in this article), it's due to the policies and culture that they've created.
First, Congrats on $500k+ that's not easily done. I have a Ecommerce I started that makes $200k+/year. As of last year I gave my brother the CEO title. I still own my shares and have my seat on the board.

Right now the company is going threw some similar changes as you. We have decided based on feedback to do a Rebrand. Along with creating a new site. The first site was originally build using Bigcartel. We are still conducting research on what platform we will use but we are certain we will not create a completely custom site.

Simple explanation our company is not a tech startup, its a product company. So we want/need simple maintenance that our team can handle which a platform like Shopify, Squarespace, Bigcartel etc provides. My reason? I've experienced several problems in the past with maintaining a custom site.

The questions we are asking are asking our self, may be something you want to ask yourself as well before you build a new site.

What's our reason for wanting to rebuild the site?
Are we seeing loss in sales?
How long will it take to build?
What do our customers need, that they aren't getting from our site now?

So far we are leaning towards Shopify over squarespace. The only payment option on ss is stripe and all though we love the advance tech stripe is building the rates are to high.
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Well there's that too. But to get people to use a new social network in the first place, you either need to hope for a viral effect or spend on advertising. Unless I'm missing something.
> The problem with using the fact as the smallest data unit is that it invites fact checking, which slows down the news reporting.

Could you elaborate on this? Specifically, what do you think is the better alternative?
That's an idea, thanks for the feedback!
Perhaps there should be some equivalent of Godwin's law for this sort of comparison. Golden handcuffs aren't meaningfully comparable to actual slavery. If you think it is you're out of touch with history.

The pilot contractor doesn't seem like a great example, either. Contractors usually have to think about their reputations. I don't know the industry, but it seems unlikely that there's a huge shortage of pilots, given how poorly beginning pilots are paid.
The problem isn't with finding new job, it's with time. There is no grace period for H1b. If you are laid off without any advance notice, you have to pack up your stuff and leave the country immediately. Not to mention, you have no time to sell off your car or any other property, unless you have friends who can do that after you leave.
So unless you are proactively looking to change company, you are always under constant fear.
Source: http://www.uscis.gov/tools/ombudsman-liaison/practical-immig...
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How India's Dailyhunt rose from zero to 3B pageviews
I didn't know Syria's population grew so much in that last 30 years. The effects a nearly completely stagnant economy must have been really compounded by that.
So glad to see this hit 1.0. VueJS has, by far, exceeded my expectations in a JS framework. Certainly faster, and lighter, than any other framework that I could find. Great job Evan!
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Umm... that's different. REI is known to allow you to return a product for a refund even when nothing is wrong with it.

Your links infers to a law that gets you a refund if something is wrong with the product.
We are more than animals. And at this stage in our development, it's no longer necessary to spend more than half of waking hours on it. Just because it has always been like that before doesn't mean it should continue. Social inertia is holding us back here, unfortunately.
the things you own end up owning you
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I think Jeffrey Way does a pretty great job of explaining things with Vue (among many other things); I think its also really great of him to put most of that series up for free.
Started this project a while ago and it's starting to take shape a bit :) It's a simple framework for Go that implements webpack with HMR and some other useful things for rapid prototyping and SPAs.
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Right, and if the comment had been more specific about these sorts of links (ie that the NYT and the Obama administration are not only both "the establishment" but the same flavour thereof) I wouldn't have thought it was silly.
if profits seem too good to be true, they probably are.”
http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2015/09/07/billion-dollar-clai...

Taleb also publicly disaffiliated himself from the trades.
The whole thing is either the hedge fund Trying to capitalize on the PR... Or lazy sensational wsj journalism.

Or both. Read PG on PR firms
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Lemire's work always pops up in regards to high performance or data compression. The paper is interesting and I learned about a new field of math. I especially admire the FOSS implementation of the theory, which is often missing from many academic papers.

Makes me think there's a lot more improvements to be had with the much larger and specialized instruction sets we're seeing nowadays.
Umm... That report does not say what you think it says.

Whoever did that excerpt was either utterly useless at statistics (and reading comprehension), or was trying to twist the results to try to prove a point.

The report was about harassment on Twitter in general, not GG. They were trying to get a very broad sample from all over Twitter, covering any abuse or harassment that was reported to them.

Since the whole GG mess was ongoing at the time of the research, the researchers decided to use the ggautoblocker list to see how much overlap their was between their sample, and people connected to GG, to find out how much it affected their results.

The result is that there was a fair bit of overlap - about 12% of the people in their sample were also on the ggautoblocker list. Most of the harassment they found was not related to GG.

Their finding: "Reports to WAM! constitute a much wider range of harassment than the GamerGate controversy alone".

That's not what the excerpt you posted claims at all. It interprets that as "only 65 out of 9,844 accounts on the ggautoblocker list engaged in harassment". Which is bunk - the study found nothing at all about the remaining 9,779 accounts on that list. Only that those 65 accounts were in both sample sets.

Here's another way to look at it. The 65 harassers who were also on the ggautoblocker list were responsible for 12% of the harassment on Twitter that these researchers found. So they obviously only noticed 0.6% of GamerGate. Therefore, if they'd found all of the GG-associated harassment and abuse, they'd end up with about with 18 times more harassment reports, of which 95% would have been associated with GamerGate.

That analysis is also complete garbage, but it's just as sound as the analysis in that excerpt you posted, and based on exactly the same faulty reasoning.

Many of the accounts on the ggautoblocker list are either bots, or duplicate accounts created specifically for the purpose of harassing people and discarded when they are no longer useful.
If an object is measured to be a billion light years away, that means that light from that object takes a billion years to get here.
Actually, #Savepoint will still be having the panel, at a separate location. It seems like they expected to be canceled, or not get the panel, so they planned ahead. With tempers this high, it's likely have one (or several) bomb threats will be called against the location the day of.

http://www.theopengamingsociety.org/savepoint-dear-community...
Probably assuming that the people she's reacting to are imaginary, because he doesn't believe it could possibly be that bad.
Was Steve Jobs the movie another failed biopic?
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Did not know about Tangram, seems awesome!

I have a (dumb) question. Why do you use Leaflet? Isn't Tangram the same as Leaflet, or am I missing something here?

A fully WebGL mapping solution is better for performance, but won't using Leaflet HTML5 Canvas defeat this purpose?

It seems to me that, because of this, Mapbox GL will have a better performance than Tangram.
Life with My Robot Secretary
thanks! I'm shifting my focus to blockbuilder.org because it's compatible with bl.ocks.org, the defacto standard for sharing d3 related code examples. I've applied a lot of my learnings from tributary to this new project, and hope it will exceed tributary's most advanced features eventually!
> 2) The tsunami disabled primary and backup power to the cooling systems which was the proximate cause of the failure.

What I find really disgusting is that they had backup BACKUP generators trucked in and they couldn't use them because the plugs didn't match up. IT'S A FREAKING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT! DO YOUR JOB, CUT THE CONNECTORS OFF AND MAKE A CONNECTION! Literally EVERY ONE of the people who worked there are directly involved in the power generation business and they couldn't make a wonky connection work? If that's not in the top 10 completely preventable disasters of the century I don't know what is.
California was stretched so far that it covers the full distance from the lowest elevation in the lower 48 to the highest summit in the lower 48.

It was also shaped so that it encompassed the driest point in the U.S.--Death Valley--and one of the wettest: 100 feet underwater below the Golden Gate Bridge.

Also, if the state of California were its own country, it would be referred to as the nation of California. True story.
The most profitable companies on earth got their by having a time horizon of longer than 8 months . there are critically important things that you can't measure on a multiple choice test
This used to be possible, but browsers put into place various mitigations: restricting which properties a :visited selector can affect, always computing both the visited and non-visited style to avoid timing attacks, etc. http://dbaron.org/mozilla/visited-privacy has a writeup describing the issues and the solutions that were adopted.
>>And what they hear is that every single thing causes cancer

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/processed-meat-causes-c...

...you're so right it's painful. =/
Maybe not, but maybe one should be more circumspect about using a word like "slave", which has a very literal meaning, and which applies to actual slaves, who are still an actual thing, and not even slightly to you.

If you want to complain about the fact that you've chosen to work long hours for a six figure salary (I know, it can be frustrating sometimes!) then go right ahead, but pick different words.
Wow... tough crowd.
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Ha ha. I used to be a hard core gamer. Then I grew up, moved out of my parents' house, and got a life. There's nothing wrong with playing games as a hobby. The losers are the ones who actually care about games and take them seriously.
In case anyone at REI corporate is reading;

I applaud this move and will likely be getting a membership as a result.
how does it track data changes without an angular-style digest cycle?
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88% are "not related" to GamerGate -- how many of these accounts weren't just throwaway accounts? Who uses their public identity to harass people?
Whelp, you're missing out on some interesting stuff, man. Happy to hear you finally moved out of your parents' place!
Yes it is. Changing jobs will reset the greencard process ( which is 8 years for Indian & Chinese citizens ). So H1B jobs cannot be changed easily. Cannot ask for raise because the employee's destiny is in employer's hand. H1B's spouse ( H4 ) cannot work even though they are well qualified. ( I feel restricting spouses to work is something similar like in Saudi where women can't drive )

I am in H1B. I cannot change my employer because my greencard has been filed recently. I have to wait for 8 years to get permanent residency. Every three years I have to renew my petition. I will be 40 when I get my greencard. I am going to get married now , my spouse resigned her job in India at Oracle and is going to sit at home watching TV & cooking in US, because she is not authorized to work with H4 visa. She is a Master's degree holder in Finance and fluent in English & French. Now she has to spent all her productive years in a rented apartment.

I140 work authorization is a ray of light. USCIS is like a chameleon , changing rules all the time , putting many skilled workers under anxiety and stress all their life.

So me & fiance is planning to apply for PR in Canada as soon as we get married through the express entry system and get out of this mess soon.
If you need their business and see potential in having them pitch them a alternative enterprise price.

If it's causing a headache, time to man up and handle business.
You've just moved the goalposts, from 'having to work' to 'having to work more than half your waking hours'. Plenty of people don't work more than half their waking hours, including plenty of us poor chained slaves in this software shtick.
Thanks for the constructive criticism!
1. You got it spot on, I wanted to keep a tight coupling with bl.ocks.org. Personally I spend most of my time in side-by-side mode which is probably indicative...

2. This one is a struggle, I want the width to stay 960px so that the end result is more likely to be compatible with bl.ocks, but this might be too patronizing.

3. Yep...

4. Yeah, I'm still working on this. I do think a tutorial is necessary for all the ways this can improve a person's workflow. Also, a lot of people will start with d3 here (I use it to teach, and expect others will too).

5. I've definitely paid attention to those, trying to take the good parts but stick to some firm design principles (mainly, code in blockbuilder should work 100% the same in bl.ocks.org AND when you clone it locally).

Thanks again for this comment. Please shoot me an email at enjalot@gmail.com or hit me up on twitter if you have more ideas/questions!
> More importantly, there’s no need to worry about calling $apply in a timeout, or calling setState(), or listening to store events

Calling `setState` is not a big deal and neither is dealing with stores. It's very simple and you keep your state separate from your HTML.

At this point I probably can't do web development without JSX and not be miserable. The days of separate templates are hopefully forever behind me. Not trying to dismiss your very hard work I'm sure, but React has taken us into the future. Maybe with esperanto you could add templates into your own JS or make it work with JSX and react-dom.
how is this compared to mithril? https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/ , trying to find a front-end js framework/library these days for an embedded product (use browser to configure it), angular seems a bit heavy for me, have not learned react yet.
I hate arguments over syntax but 'slavery' is a more nuanced thing than you are representing. ( e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery )

Substantially: You are downplaying a big part of "Slavery." The most important factor in a successful fight for freedom is the fact that you are fighting for your own freedom. There is no reason to have guilt over principally addressing your own.
which I never did because I don't like to use an editor where you can only see 3 lines of code.

A close button would go a long way here.
Yeah, the purpose of this tool is to cut out the command line, which is a sin to many advanced developers but a blessing for many beginners. A big part of my motivation is to be able to teach people d3 without having to teach them about the entirety of the internet, client-server model, web servers. Just let them start playing with d3, see the fun stuff for themselves and then be motivated to learn all the other things once they're hooked.

I do hope it is a useful tool for many advanced developers who want to quickly put an idea out there with minimal friction. I know my personal blocks output has sky rocketed since I've launched it, and I'm no stranger to the command line.
Sorry for the faulty logic. This is a difficult topic, and I'm glad you corrected me.
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The reason I'm not mad is because on a logarithmic scale, a 10-20% difference is very small. Wage differences don't affect your lifestyle until you start moving decimal points.
Seems to be plenty of blame to pass around. It would be interesting to read more perspectives and definitely enough material for a book. That HN job post is immortalized even more now.

But one interesting take-away it seems, not just for Homejoy, but for just about everyone in the market; the software is really bad. Not scheduling time to get from Point A to Point B - is that rocket science? If the customer support line is on fire, isn't that when you start fixing the bug? Failing basic usability and billing is not an MVP for a $40m funded startup.

One thing I'll say, is trying to own the experience, establish a heavy brand, and take a large cut means you have to be providing a valuable service in return to the contractor. For the on-demand economy, the way I think I would approach the problem is my customer is the service worker first, and their customer second.

These companies think about churn all wrong. The service provider is ultimately providing the service to the end-user, intentionally churning the end-user across different service providers is madness. You only win by making the service provider's job more difficult? I don't get it.

Obviously a lot of value in connecting a new household with a new service provider, whatever that service may be. Making that connection is a job well done and should be monetized at that time. If you can provide a new reliable repeat customer then that's even more valuable to the service provider, and the startup who made the connection can in theory charge a higher price for those customers.
I'm still using Mithril quite extensively, really worth it for the projects I've used it for. Felt like React without all the extra features (slimmed down).
It's not fine print. It's the basic service model. They are very upfront about it. I understand that lots of people in this thread would prefer a different model. But that's not what they offer right now. I'm not for or against it: just tying to add facts to the thread.
@Nullable already does that.
Hi, I'm the creator of this. Would you mind giving me some more detailed feedback at enjalot@gmail.com? I'm actively working on making the first run experience better.
I consider it "functionally complete" for my Kickstarter audience, who weren't coming at it from a blank slate. Now I need to make it easy for people to adopt who are new to the tool, and even new to d3!

One of the design principles I'm wrestling with is that I want the home page to be where you go to create a new block, minimize the friction for all users. The problem is that most people expect a home page to tell them what a project is about. My existing solution is clearly failing to strike the balance, so I'd like to find out how to do that.

thanks!
That's a neat idea

What OS and browser will it run?
We are still like two sigmas right of the mean.
I believe voltagex_ meant outgoing requests from his/her location.