skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. I'm addicted to automatically running `gofmt` on .go file saves.

Now I'm crazy sensitive to whitespace and formatting discrepancies that show up in .js or .css files from different environments. It seems like EditorConfig has a shot at improving this, particularly since GitHub supports it.

Next step, strict linters/formatters for all languages.

Edit: Based on other comments pointing to the Javascript standard style project, I found this to auto format .js files in Sublime Text:

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/StandardFormat
In a similar case here in NJ, a local town was working to effectively block access to its beaches by non-residents by enacting an onerous parking restriction (no out-of-towners may park for more than 2 hours on any street near the beach).

http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2015/10/deal_reportedly...

The real insult here is that the town had recently accepted federal funds ($40mm) to widen and improve the beach, so blocking access seemed a little unfair if not illegal. Additionally most of the houses near the beach are only occupied in the summer season. So really, who is a "resident" when many are really only there in the summer?
I want to add to this:

- This has the graphics / production quality of a AAA game

- They need to redo the crytek engine in 64bit to be able to handle the necessary math (they made some vague-ish explanation)

- The game is 3 years in. With a more or less fresh engine. GTA5 took much longer to build AND they had the GTA4 engine as a starting point. So yeah, this project is not minor.

Criticisms:

- Seriously, they could have focused on features in the progression of: A space sim game at least on par-ish with similar games. Then afterwards get the "walking around a hangar" working. Then afterwards get the FPS mode working. Then afterwards get the "landing on a planet" working. It's all cool but stretching resources thin makes the features come in slow and the game not fun.

- Also they need to make the game approachable on non $500 graphics cards with $200 joysticks. Then again if you spent $2500 on a ship, I doubt you care.
Vox has a nice intro:
http://www.vox.com/cards/trans-pacific-partnership
A secret parliament is not a parliament.
I liked 'Bad Samaritans', which is attacking conventional wisdom on trade liberalisation. He also had a great series of food columns in the FT this summer - discussions that began with carrots and segued into Dutch trade wars, worth a read.
> Yes, but no one stays at a yard sale for more than 2 or 3 minutes

That would be an exceptionally short visit to a yard sale. No way do you actually manage to buy something in less than 180 seconds.

More likely, they'll be there for 10-15 minutes. That's still too short for a tow truck to come, but it's not too short to be an inconvenience.
>This prevents unexpected surprises //

A way to satisfy both sides might be to allow the discussions in private but have them recorded by independent parties who are in turn watched by public watchdogs. Then on conclusion of negotiations and before a law is ratified the entire debate could be made available.

You could have your private negotiations and laws could only be ratified when private compromises that negatively effect the demos hadn't been made.
From what I'm gathering as a developer moving into 30, you have two options:

1. Market yourself so that when you hit the pay ceiling, you can move into consulting/freelancing with enough of a name for yourself that you can justify your rates to businesses.

2. Move into management. If you hate marketing, start looking for management/mentoring opportunities now so that your next promotion/job has some sort of manager title, which will continue your mobility up to the Director -> VP -> C-level.
Toy Time in Space: (1985) Discovery Astronauts Play with Slinky, Yo-Yo and Jacks
Also, 96 million is a significant investment. Usually investors would demand progress reports, would also share in the profit. As it stands its just "here's my moneys!"
Yeah, because the idea is that the person is already weak and may have a relapse which will negatively impact their job performance, which is institutionally thought of as unacceptable. Welcome to late capitalism, where the money is gone and the "power" of labor doesn't matter.

Even if people don't have a conscious bias against potential liabilities that an employee might have, I'd suspect that subconsciously they do due to a general awareness of their own bottom line. When it comes time to make a hiring decision (an already an a-rational and largely emotional process), the subconscious biases against taking on a potential liability will probably manifest themselves, causing employers to invent an unrelated "reason" to disqualify a cancer-survivor candidate. Or maybe it's just an invisible push to the bottom of the pile without any false narratives. Either way, I assume the data doesn't lie.
Yes, exactly. And here we're talking about seed rounds, where the goal is to demonstrate a viable business.

To me the initial seed round is some people saying, "We have a theory about what it will take to demonstrate a real business." Maybe they're right, in which case they can proceed to a series A. Maybe they're completely wrong and they close up.

But say they're partly right. Say that their initial theory was wrong, but they've got plenty of evidence for a theory that's as good or better. I'd say the right thing for all parties is another modest infusion of cash.

Is there some alternate approach you're advocating for?
You should keep in mind that getting the lens focal length right is very important here, and it's something that's rather hard to do if you don't know what the original focal length and film size was.
The picture of the City Palace (Stadtschloss) is interesting. It looks like they accidentally swapped the old and the new picture. The building is complete in 1939 and far from finished in 2015. Upon further research (Ok, I wiki'd it) I found out the original building had been knocked down to make way for parking in 2008 and only 5 years later in 2013 they decided to start rebuilding it.
Grafana + InfluxDB are the simplest to get up and running. Literally two binaries that you download and run, that's it. Can't beat the simplicity of this set up and you can get a lot done with it, if you are just starting your metrics infrastructure I can recommend it.
There are a few sides to this.

One is, yes, a lack of imagination.

But too: it's exceedingly difficult to find something that you can devote yourself to given the demands of work. A 9-5, 40-hour week is bad enough, but the norm for many, particularly in the tech world, is 50-60 hours or more. Commute, sleep, and other activities tie up yet more time. If you're following guidelines to stay fit, that's other hour, or several hours per week (though time I consider well spent). Obligations to a partner, children, or elder parents can be extensive. If you're in a high cost-of-living city such as San Francisco, New York, or London, you've got very little space to call your own.

The time and space it takes to cultivate a meaningful alternative activity is difficult to come by.

We're awash with messages from advertising and media which further pollute our heads and distract.

And the work many of us do is itself largely mental -- it requires prolonged exposure and deep understanding, and tends to follow you around. Inspiration is as likely to strike in the shower as at your desk.

Given all of this, you're far more likely to be primed to be in "work mode", to understand a quick query or email, and even quite possibly appreciate its distraction from whatever it is that surrounds you.

I'm not saying this is a good thing at all. I don't believe that for a second. Unless your work is exceptionally gratifying and you're the very rare soul who's doing something actually useful for the world, you're far better off with downtime and the ability to get away from it.

But it does explain much of the psychology behind why the behavior is so appealing, and why creating more compelling alternatives so difficult.
The hack needed an extra rooted android phone and a special 'helper' app. It also took advantage of the subsidy they give new users and the driver for new users. (I have no idea if this has been patched)

Another subsidy I heard about gave about $1000 per week if you had over 80 rides. $4000 dollar subsidy a month goes a long way in China.

It really blows my mind that people think this is a sustainable business. Even after you out-spend the competition, who's stopping someone from downloading a new app from a new service? I've seen users in China blast all ride apps at once and just take the first one to arrive. Subsidies won't buy loyalty.
CLion 1.5 roadmap: Python support or Valgrind integration
randomizing helps, but they can still track you over the lifetime of the mac.
I played SC2 heavily when it came out and for some time after and I loved it. But you're right - the game does not allow someone to be casual or even semi-casual.

It is an unbelievably stressful game and you have to not only master all 3 races abilities but understand numerous and ever changing strategies around them, have excellent macro skills and understand timings, etc. If you don't keep up aggressively with practice and all these other things you'll simply get slaughtered over and over. And although their rating system tries to pair you up it has become harder and harder to find casual players.

I think it's one of the best games ever made and I love watching the top players to this day even though I do not play any longer. But I wish they could come out with a scaled down version with fewer units, easier macro and certain rules in place to limit cheese play, etc. Have smart units or something where different strategies can be used throughout a game and various units will intelligently play a certain role of scouting, attacking, defending, etc.

The truth is the game is amazing because of its difficulty and also unplayable for most people for the same reason. I am not "gosu". I have a life and can't play for hours every day - or every day for that matter.
Contradictions at the Heart of Product Hunt
Ask HN: What would you consider your coding standards?
Just wanted to see if people had different coding standards..
20 years ago, I remember dreaming up a train pulling a cable with a glider at the far end. I'm sure there are many technical issues with this approach, possibly including the cable needing to be incredibly strong, light and flexible. Please tell me it would work, though, as I still enjoy the mental image.
Our brains also use far less energy than almost any computer but your cell phone.

2500 kilocalories / day = 120 Watts. Your brain is something like a quarter of that, so about 30 Watts for your brain.
I would advise you to start reading The Art of Computer Programming. Not because you'll maximize your learning over three days, but will maximize it over your career. And gaining useful habits that last a career is the purpose of an internship. A career isn't like school. It isn't a series of tests that one studies for. It's a life of learning and applying over many years.

Good luck.
It's pluralistic inside a small window. They may be on opposites sides inside that window and tear at each other, but everyone tacitly knows where the limits are, and when you're off-limits. The underpinnings are absolute.
Isn't it unlawful for the police to stop you under these conditions (peacefully using a public road without any suggestion of criminal activity or intent)?

Surprised that no-one would do this with recording equipment and then sue for unlawful arrest or whatever, or have they?
How do you take photos that look like the old ones? They seem to have much more interesting colors.
Actually this is the same conclusion usually associated with richer kids being more successful.
"The best kids to get ahead are often the richest".
My statement wasn't about the world, only about the existence of such demographic groups. I was thinking about groups such as "urban young German laptop owners".
Sorry, but "they hate our freedom" has been patented by the US government for their propaganda. Also isn't Syria one of the bad guys right now, so waging war against them is a-ok? I'm getting a bit confused sometimes whether we're at war with Eurasia or Eastasia.
There is something revealing about human nature when you consider that Buffett gives his proven wisdom away for free while a whole industry of prognostication thrives based on a track record not half as reliable as his.
Approachable Functional Thinking, Using Protocol Extensions
I would understand that in a private place such as Disneyland or in an ultra-orderly city such as Singapore. But for a so-called public park, this is an insult to democracy. Part of what makes public parks interesting is how impromptu activities take place.

Enforce existing law to keep people safe; no need for locking everything down.
This "study" seems flawed in so many ways (or the article describing it doesn't do it justice).

According to the article, the people who did not get a job were the ones who "indicated on their resumes they were cancer survivors AND WORE A HAT that read 'cancer survivor' when applying for a job."

NEWS FLASH: Wearing a novelty baseball cap to a job interview may not be the best idea -- cancer or not.
Using the same approach I used to construct the formulation, divisibility by 2 and 5 actually just break down to the normal "is the last digit even" or "is the last digit 5 or 0" tests. We end up with:

10*A + B = 0 (mod 2)
B = 0 (mod 2)

and:

10*A + B = 0 (mod 5)
B = 0 (mod 5)

Of course, these are trivially small cases and we've all learned the patterns. An interesting case with N = 4, the quick method I learned in grade school was to look at the last two digits. But using the approach I've adopted here, you get something more complex:

10*A + B = 0 (mod 4)
2*A + B = 0 or 2*A - 3*B = 0 (mod 4)

If we instead break N into ABC (A * 100 + B * 10 + C = N):

100*A + BC = 0 (mod 4)
BC = 0 (mod 4)

And we've got the method I learned in school.

EDIT: Formatting.
That's exactly what Kremlin propaganda wants you to believe: "everybody is lying, we are no different". No it's not. There are, of course, dishonest journalists, paid articles, power play, political pressure in western journalism, but it's by no means comparable to mass, state-run propaganda machine Russia's so-called "journalism" is. Snowden's story is a perfect example of that - the wast amount of resources by the most powerful western states were put into efforts trying to stop the leaks to no avail.
does anybody know what's the current situation of this? I'm going to LA in a few weeks and I would like to know if I can get to see the sign.
> 50% more time spent working than a standard 40-hour workweek

That's the part that I find crazy.
Anywhere other than London, it's alright for a mid-level developer.
In London, it's awful.
Show HN: React Universal Blog
The history of the Slink is pretty interesting. Its origin:

"In 1943, Richard James, a naval mechanical engineer stationed at the William Cramp and Sons shipyards in Philadelphia, was developing springs that could support and stabilize sensitive instruments aboard ships in rough seas. James accidentally knocked one of the springs from a shelf, and watched as the spring "stepped" in a series of arcs to a stack of books, to a tabletop, and to the floor, where it re-coiled itself and stood upright." [1.]

[1.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slinky
I like numerical methods like this because they sit neatly in the space between high level algorithmic ideas and low level implementation details.

The library CGAL has many clever algorithms with floating point numbers. Its strength lies in the mixture of numerical approximation and exact computation it does to solve problems.
If you like it, then YES
The PM's salary is artificially low for PR reasons. Many many local government heads earn far more than the PM.
We have to remember that there were a lot more controls over propaganda from other nations just earlier this century than what they are now (e.g. banning communist literature).

I honestly don't see a solution to this unless we have a general increase in the wisdom of the population. Censorship worked when the flow of information could be regulated, but with the internet, it seems unlikely that this is possible (unless you take pains to implement something like the Great Firewall).

Ideas can have a powerful effect on people. The Bolsheviks believed that the world was ripe to adopt communism, forming an international union of communist countries, and this would happen not through war (necessarily) but by people's revolutions in each individual country. When you understand that plan, it makes sense why the US was so paranoid about communism on its own soil.

I'm not saying its communism which will take grip of the imagination of people. But it might be some other radical idea. We need to understand that this is a very real possibility.
A digital team is helping Obama find his voice online
Zed Shaw: Taking Down Tim Hentenaar
Please don't use four spaces to quote blocks of text.
I'm pretty sure the Hollywood Hills aren't leaning real hard on the tourism industry.
Gotham – Simple coffeescript framework for front-end development
And just 4 years after their insistence that GPUs would never have a role at Google... How 'bout that?
I was cool headed when i asked them to please not block my driveway. They got hot headed and argued because they are rude people.

I couldn't potentially drive through my grass yard (if I had needed to) because all the non rude people were properly and legally parking along the grass in front of my house. (At various times, sure, I could, but not always. It was a pretty popular event).

Edit: For clarity.
Making an offline fallback page with service worker
Despair, American Style
Finding Undefined Behavior Bugs by Finding Dead Code (2013)
You should actually watch parliamentary debates sometime. For the most part they are completely boring and debates in name only.

It's rare for parliaments to have actual passionate debates. That usually only happens on controversial and dividing issues, where it's worth it to make a stand to appeal to voters or where public support might help.

Most of the time these debates are just a formality to pass through a compromise everyone already has agreed to pass through beforehand. Accordingly you'll see that parliamentary debates and even votes are attented often only by a small number of representatives, not because they're not doing they're job it's because they've already done theirs at that point and have better things to do.
Much enjoyed Sherry Turkle's Alone Together
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Holy crap man, best of luck. I'm not sure how I would function enough to hold one job. Do you have any active crowd funding or anything going on right now?
If we could stop using the term Neural Networks in relation to computing, that would be great. Computers don't have neurons.
Implementing a Scalable Judging System
I live in Minneapolis right now and we have tons of jobs and the cheapest housing ever. The graph is true!
Phoenix, AZ: CloudFlare's 64th data center
I agree with this, but I don't think that it accounts for everything. For example, my experience in Denver is that wages are below national average, but cost of living is much higher. The consensus that gets spouted here is that the opportunity to live near the mountains is great enough to offset whatever monetary discrepancy there is.
Warming set to breach 1C threshold
This is disgusting, but not surprising. Companies want young, healthy people that they can under-pay and over-work without fear of them needing a medical leave.
I have a lot of sympathy for people when some new things moves into their neighborhood and causes a disruption. On the other hand, I have about as much respect for these people, since the sign predates them, as I do for people who move next to farms and try to shut them down because of the smell. I think there is a special place in hell for people who alter data on public spaces.
Spent on development. They'll probably need about $40m more.

Funny thing is that I know of at least one guy they fired for telling them they'd need $100m to release a product anything like Roberts vision. I hope they send him an apology.
There is an obvious creeping issue regarding the privatisation of public space, which is the interesting part here and what we should be pushing back against.

I'm less bothered about using wifi MACs to measure traffic, so long as no data is retained – it can provide useful insight into the number of visitors. Randomisation is obviously in modern devices, but I'd be concerned that older devices won't have the data regarding them deleted.
Google's new phone bends way more easily than the iPhone ever did
LotV preorder came with beta access and a few single-player missions so that you could play something right away, and only went up for sale after the final single-player campaign was basically ready to ship and an approximate release date was announced.

The Overwatch preorder is unfortunately the "give us money now for no good reason" sort of preorder and doesn't even come with beta access.
Unfortunately, this doesn't tell us whether ethics in hiring practices have grown worse, or whether they have always been this bad, and we are just getting better at objectively measuring them.

Either way, the well-intentioned laws governing discrimination in hiring will always be toothless as long as there is any legal reason to not hire a person that otherwise meets the stated job qualifications.
My first blog post: Why it took years and why now?
Uh, no. You don't have to provide your own smartphone.
They are going to have problems finding high calibre software developers (especially in London) who meet the eligibility criteria (No Class A drugs in the previous 12 months, no Class B drugs in the previous 6 months). Not even the UK Prime Minister himself falls into this eligibility criteria!
> $200 joysticks

I got an HOTAS for Elite Dangerous. <satire>Let me say that it wasn't at all a wasted purchase for SC because I never intended it for that game - the support is currently terrible.</satire> You are wasting your time if you are playing with anything but a mouse and keyboard. I unplugged the joystick after little more than 30min. In addition, "2.0" has mouse-driven UIs in the ship, driving further nails into the idea of competent joystick control[1].

Don't feel bad about not having a joystick/HOTAS - they are second-class citizens in SC. This is not a bad thing, the HOTAS definitely gives me an unfair advantage in ED.

> Seriously, they could have focused on features in the progression

If they had used an iterative approach we probably would have had an actual game at this point. I firmly believe it's not too late to switch strategies to something similar to what you suggested. The other issue with the "module" approach is that there is no guarantee that the modules will work well together when they are combined - in whatever terms are appropriate (fun, stability, feasibility, etc.).

[1]: https://player.vimeo.com/video/144917841