skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dang:

(I don't need answers directly, but perhaps a FAQ would help. ...)

1) It's good to see threads managed more agressively; thanks. I can think of another benefit from higher quality discussions: I see a few Mozillians here and of course they aren't the only vendors to participate; perhaps more would come and be more engaged if there was less nonsense. And that would attract more people who are interested in valuable, informative interaction, which would attract more vendors, which would ... etc.

2) "marked it off-topic": What does this mean in practice?

3) While the issue with Eich is off-topic, so is the issue with Pocket and many other threads and subthreads. I don't understand the distinction, unless that the former is more inflamatory, more outdated, and more tired. Yawn.
Yes, that's the standard approach, but I was wondering how that meshed with not having to declare types (maybe the answer is just, that's the one place where you have to - or that's disallowed), but I was curious.
JUCE is a very, very well-designed cross platform framework that was used very successfully in the development of Tracktion, a competitor with programs like ProTools and Garageband. The API is C++ based but carefully designed to shield you from the weirdness of C++; if you needed to create a cross platform app and learn C++ at the same time this would be the gentlest possible introduction.

Jules, the creator and prime maintainer of JUCE, is indefatigable. I think maybe he's triplets, but nice triplets. He answers questions on the forum (http://www.juce.com/forum) at all hours and with extreme patience. There seems to be absolutely no difference between the way he treats casual users vs. enterprise customers on the forum.

JUCE can be used to develop audio plugins, synthesizer programs, etc., but is also a complete framework for GUI apps that have nothing to do with audio. It has canvas drawing, 3D support, and forms support.

There's a ton of documentation on the site and the source code is a dream to read. If you were creating an API for something you would be well served to see how Jules did it.

I rank JUCE with web2py as one of the two most comprehensive, ridiculously underrated open source products I've encountered.
>This caused problems for a LOT of people, but I reluctantly supported it because a minimal core with most features as plugins is generally a good design. For them to turn around an integrate a plugin that baits people into using spyware is outrageous - and somewhat suspicious.

Bah. It's basically a lightweight extension, and will soon get packaged as one. It's not integrated into the core, which means the main anti-bloat principles are still upheld.

And it's not like it hides the process of making an account. If you want to sync things, you need a server. Not suspicious.
I agree, to an extent. But I did get burned by this mindset...

I owned a non-trivial amount of MSFT back in the 90s, and they had never paid dividends. Instead, their share price seemed to be linked to the tech bubble and their own popularity. I bought as part of that herd mentality. Eventually, though, I realized that their share price was really not bound by anything concrete, so I sold. A month later, they paid out a big dividend. I missed out on a decent payday.
Why is the title in orange? Color does not convey logical information when used in text.
CR bug in GitHub diff lets people hide code in PRs
(apparently a known issue)

File on master: https://github.com/jacksingleton/cr-newline-diff-test/blob/m...
File in pull request: https://github.com/jacksingleton/cr-newline-diff-test/blob/v...

Note the diff does not show "print 'did you see this coming?'" as a change - yet once merged python will run it with no problems.

Interestingly, if you hit expand at the bottom left, you will see "print 'did you see this coming?'" in both the master and the PR version... which is not the case.

Remember to review PRs in git, not GitHub - especially if you're working on sensitive software!
It cheats a ton. You can turn misses into hits by carefully jiggling the camera. Still a great game though.
Oh. Then it's fair - if developers actually conform to the suggestion, of course. Sorry, I guess I've got a wrong idea what it does.
To my mind, this mainly reinforces that ample success does not lend one's opinions any credence. Fortunately, there aren't many people relying on DHH for market analysis. It's kind of like how no one really needs to hear my opinions on politics just because I'm a championship level drinker (but I'll give them anyway).
Aahh, I've been moaning for ages that banks should implement a read-only interface for services like Mint; I had no idea that one already existed. I think this is the nail in Mint's coffin for me. Thanks!

This does invite the question of why Mint isn't using (or even just offering) OFX read-only credentials... or do they?
or three employees were bringing in all the money, and the others were overhead.
Peak Booze in Britain
It's the corporate version of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism

It was very popular in the 70s when Japanese business was totally a thing.

The Japanese are probably reading something loosely related about Tim Cook and the shareholder-indifferent culture at Apple.
You're reading things into my posts that aren't there. Please note that the context for my original comment that you selectively quoted was the add-ons (plural) I had used before. My full comment on uBO was that it was OK for blocking most ads but didn't block some of the trackers. The next part of the comment was about Ghostery, which was what did previously block (but no longer appears to block) those trackers.
I'm (loosely) affiliated with Mozilla and I can guarantee you everything I heard from inside is about poor reception.

Hell, I use one-tab on Chrome, but pocket is just a usability disaster. If I can barely bring myself to use it, imagine the rest :/
I just want to point out how relevant I find your username, or more specifically, Lao Tzu, these days. He is a very undervalued character in philosophy. Also, thanks for the MLK quote. I think for Americans at least, the bill of rights and the constitution should be our unifying point, which in turn is why people who threaten to undermine the division of people, such as MLK, are seen as such huge threats to TPTB.
>This was bad enough we would have to consider going with how to block the attack before we actually had an update

ah good old Microsoft, where mere idea of default ingress firewall was a taboo
Public Citizen has released initial analysis, http://www.citizen.org/documents/tpp-ecommerce-chapter-analy..., "The E-commerce chapter … addresses a range of issues including duties on digital products, paperless trade administration, and rules on electronic signatures, net neutrality and data protection. The text also includes provisions limiting the ability of countries to keep data within their territorial borders.

… any legal system that imposes limits on private sector data transfers to jurisdictions for the purpose of safeguarding citizens’ data against foreign government intelligence agencies, as was recently accomplished by the Court of Justice of the European Union in Schrems v Facebook Inc, 2015 Case C-362/14, could contribute to violation of Section A of the TPP’s Investment chapter and be subject to sanction and heavy penalties through the investor-state dispute mechanism.

… Article 14.17 prevents governments from requiring the disclosure of source code as a condition of import, distribution, sale or use of software or of products containing software … while the Article excludes disclosure obligations in commercially negotiated contracts, it does not exempt source code disclosure provisions imposed by means of a software license.

… As open source licenses are not ‘commercially negotiated’ but rather imposed on others, there is concern that any attempt to enforce such licenses against third parties by means of the courts would amount to a violation of this Article, opening the country whose court system carried out such enforcement to heavy-handed penalties through the investor-state dispute enforcement mechanisms.

… addressing cybersecurity breaches can require mandating the publication of source code so as to facilitate fixing of security flaws. The TPP’s prohibition on such requirements could undermine security measures of this type."

ISDS primers: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4-mlGRPmkU & https://youtube.com/watch?v=AABOIcXZZwg & http://isdscorporateattacks.org
This. I've been wanting this sort of thing for ages.

It could actually be extended into a very compelling product; imagine being able to issue not only read-only tokens, but a token which authorizes the bearer to withdraw up to $100/month. Parents could issue such tokens to children for emergencies, or other such situations.
Ask HN Moderators: Why did my submission suddenly drop off the front page?
I don't mean to seem like sour grapes, I'm genuinely curious what happened here. The post was on the front page, gathering upvotes pretty steadily, and then suddenly disappeared from the rankings entirely. Was it flagged? Did it trip some filter I'm unaware of? Did I refresh the page too many times because I was somewhat embarrassingly excited that something I submitted actually got on the front page?

The submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515961
The HN rankings graph: http://hnrankings.info/10515961/
The Light Field Toolbox by Donald Dansereau allows you to view and modify Lytro Light fields and is open source, I've used it before.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/49683-li...
November Is National Adoption Month  Watch “Adopted” by BHH
Aren't proprietary RAW formats pretty much standard for cameras?

The difference at this point is that I can use the RED format with industry standard software.
I am not well informed about Japanese Buddhism. My knowledge of Buddhism comes from having been a monk myself, ordained in the Theravada tradition.

I do know about these "priests" having wives. That means they are not monks since celibacy is one of the foremost precepts of Buddhism. Other aspects of being a "householder" also preclude Inamori from being a monk.

Based on your description it seems like the priest title is imported from other religions.
Cartels are practically part of the government. Top level officials throughout the Mexican government have been identified as cartel members, from law enforcement to members of Congress. Hundreds of thousands of Mexican soldiers defected to the cartels.

The 'war' in Mexico is mostly cartel vs cartel, not unaligned government vs cartel.

So what do they have to lose? That means possible more consumption and possibly less pressure from the non-corrupt portions of the government and/or less legal power for one cartel to wield against another. (They'll have to stick with charges for the rampant human trafficking and slavery by the cartels.)

The idea that the cartels will just dissolve away upon the emergence of legal marijuana and a subsequent Free Market Flowering of the marijuana industry just seems hopelessly naive. Yes, the mafia was, perhaps, not happy about de-Prohibition. But guess what: the American mafia and is still responsible for the majority of organized crime in its area of influence. [1] The legalization of alcohol did not stop the mafia. And the cartels are far more ingrained in Mexican society than the mafia ever was in America. Even assuming someone unaffiliated with a cartel starts growing and selling, and the cartels don't just kill him, they would certainly run protection rackets.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487041154045760963...
Inside Amazon's First Physical Bookstore
IoT cloud framework features Linux-ready gateway design
Your resume isn't really necessary in applying. Building things are nice, but you really need a network.

GO TO MEETUPS

That's by far your best strategy. Ask to "drop by the office or join in for a standup. Most companies are really open (and interested) in having new talent come through.

IF MEETUPS AREN'T WORKING, THEN YOU HAVE TO CREATE AN ONLINE NETWORK.

Comment more on HN, stackoverflow, even Quora will get you into more conversations.

That's my two cents :)
I'd be happy if I could shut off the reminder to upgrade Sync that pops up every day.
"A weapon like this example would make guns obsolete. Criminals would prefer it, because they could use it on people with a much lighter consequence."

This is naive in the extreme.

Criminals most often fire guns to kill their enemies and rivals, not as part of robbery or any other task that could, in theory, be completed as well with any nonlethal mechanism.
Napoli qualify for round of 32 after a 5-0 win over Midtjylland
You would only expect the percentage of people with any specific ancestry to double if they never had children with people of similar extraction, and there was no immigration.
Show HN: SHML (shell markup language)
"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three."

or to put it in terms that this forum would appreciate

representatives = {NH:3, MA:8, RI:1 CN:5, NY:6, NJ:4, PA:8, DL:1, ML:6, VA:10, NC:5, SC:5, GA:3}

def census(state): #call this in 3 years, and again in every 10 years
result = 0
for i in state.persons:
if i.free or i.bound_to_service:
result += 1
elif not(i.indian and not i.taxed):
result += 0 #included for clarity
else:
result += 3/5
return max(int(result / 30000),1)

Note the 3/5th compromise is reached by way of "no other category applies" rather than an explicit "slavery" condition. Make of that what you will. Unrelated note: imagine if all law were written as programming.
The Real Opening Chord to a Hard Days Night (Randy Bachman's Guitarology) (2014)
Read this article instead

http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookse...

It's more informative and less bitter.
We spend plenty of effort is spent on both stability and performance. "Improved performance by x% in this particular situation that you may or may experience!" just isn't something you can wrap up neatly into a high-level blog post like you can with a new feature, so you may not get an accurate picture of where development effort is going based just on reading the official blog and release notes.

For instance, somebody just landed a pretty tricky bit of code to fix a severe incremental GC performance fault he'd been experiencing with a lot of tabs open (disclaimer: I reviewed the patch): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1214961
Ouch, very ugly. What was Github's reaction to this?
The style reminded me a lot of the writing style of Fight Club: lots of anti-establishment bitterness seeping through observations of comical ironies. Probably also a reflection of the conflict between corporate Amazon and the cool kids who want to keep Seattle cool.
The human in question is standing in the bottom-left of the photograph, on the pavement by the curve in the road. He is having his boots shined.

So there is enough information to know that there are two human beings. Sounds like those records of the very first man to climb a mountain, you know, except of all those native guys that went there before and carried the bags, guided and have all support so that european could be the first man to get there.
A lot of large companies got onto Oracle a decade or two ago, and now are at a scale where Relational DBs are just not quite enough- but getting off them isn't fast or easy either.

All that's left is a Big Iron, while a new architecture is figured out.
I can remember going to the computer lab at Berkeley (would have been '89 or '90 probably) and seeing SPARC stations for the first time. Sexiest things ever. Huge monitors (at least they seemed huge back then), and those three button mice...with no trackball!
Evernote QA Report: Merge & Sync
Every technology company I have worked for claims and receives the SRED. None of them have deserved it - not even remotely close. Each of my companies have made millions in profit each year. We have never done anything innovative that required actual research or risking anything by developing new technologies. My teams have used linux, mysql, memcached, redis, and a couple of programming languages. 100% of the work is just writing normal code for web applications. How much of that $4 billion dollars being handed out is for fraudulent claims of R&D? I would bet more than $3 billion. There are supposed requirements to meet to be eligible for the benefit, but everyday programming work is being rephrased to sound innovative and difficult.

This benefit needs to be abolished, as the number of tax dollars being sunk into it is ridiculous. For the few percent of businesses that might actual merit such a benefit, oh well. Compete in the market like everyone else without assistance. The difference between a deserving business and a business that will lie and twist words to save 15-35% on salaries is impossible to determine accurately. Too many liars and fraudsters have destroyed the system, so kill the program and nobody benefits.
Wow! I want to see how Apple and Google will treat this hole in the wall of their walled gardens. Updates that don't go through their app stores.
Police Union to Quentin Tarantino: We've Got a Surprise Coming for You
I wonder could this potentially be used with Electron or nw.js?
Well I am in Chicago, and I just can't seem to find any good networking events. But I going to go to a Hack-a-thon this weekend. Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it!
> The domain connect.facebook.com isn't in there, for example

"Anti-ThirdpartySocial" aka "Anti-Facebook List‎" list https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt

> ||connect.facebook.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.net|~fb.com

> ||connect.facebook.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~fb.com

> ||facebook.com/connect/$third-party

Is that not what you are looking for?
In Idris, as far as I know, runtime type information is kept around by default and erased through usage-based optimization (and possibly annotation?)

http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/reference/erasure.html
Interesting. I've been a customer of theirs for ~2 years. It's been really great until a couple months ago. Then something seemed to change. Rather than just being a great payment provider, they seemed to change direction in order to become a "platform".

In emailing with Sahil about my concerns about Gumroad's new direction, he said "We want Gumroad to be the core channel for everything. We started with sales, and are moving into audience/list management."

He made it clear that they want me to import my audience lists to Gumroad and that they don't plan to support future integrations with CampaignMonitor, Mailchimp, etc. That makes sense, since those email platforms are now the competition I guess. It's bad news for me though - if I wanted to stay with Gumroad, I'd now have a project on my hands to move everything over to a (currently) much less powerful email platform.

I imagine this will work for many of their customers, but there are customers like myself that don't want to be pushed in this direction. I prefer to keep my audience management separate from my payment provider. I don't want my payment provider deciding that my customers are now their customers that they can now spam and upsell them in order to grow their platform. I'm not saying that that is Gumroad's plan - but I'm increasingly worried that it might be. Particularly if they get in a "desperate for growth" situation like this article hints at.

Again, they've been great for years and I really appreciate that. The new direction just seems too risky and not a good fit for folks like me who don't want their payment provider as the middle-man for communicating with their audience.

I guess there's an argument that they're not a payment provider, but a "sales platform" or something.

Currently I'm looking for a replacement payment provider (or whatever they should be called) to use. SendOwl looks promising. If you've used them, or have another provider you'd recommend, please let me know!
Found one:

> Founders and employees that are burn out nearly always work at startups without momentum. It’s hard to overstate how demoralizing it is.

s/are //
Where do I start the rum thread? specifically spiced rum...yum!
My entire browser bar was reset. (I wasn't thrilled, but whatever, it's free.)
There is no reason to apply economics to education. "Value" is not only monetary. Your post is a prime example of someone who has absorbed the system to an extent that it becomes the very backdrop against which to analyze everything else.
Liquid: Language-Integrated Quantum Operations Simulator
Great stuff, thanks
> How can I make that enfold me?
I've had these moments when money and paying the rent was not a concern. You're free to think when you don't have pressing issues.
NAFTA contains language that strictly defines bourbon as well.
The aluminum market is global and generally thought to have too much capacity. Even if US aluminum demand increased dramatically it would unlikely help the US industry much because production cost are cheaper elsewhere.
This is such a popular misconception amongst the nerd set. Perhaps because there's a great us v. them narrative implicit in it. I suspect what initially birthed it was a basic misapprehension common to people who have great faith in their own intelligence and opinions - that of needing to ascribe stupidity to people who don't seem to share viewpoints.

I won't bother citing because it's literally overwhelming, but it's pretty clear that there are many companies producing software with the long-term view in mind, and I bet every single one of them is subject to schedule issues.

I've certainly been on teams with long-term thinking embedded in the process and spent time explaining delays, which is of course merely an anecdote, but rather suggestive of things not being as black and white as you'd like to present them.

edit: minor wording cleanups
A Princess to Save Me: Finally, a smart dive into a “Damsel in Distress” trope
With the skill of this scheme it's likely the perpetrator could land a job. Maybe not the best job, but some job.

Yes of course people steal, and it is forgivable. Nonetheless, it's not legal anywhere. Most of us do not knowingly make an entire living out of stealing while we could be pursuing legitimate job opportunities elsewhere. Everyone makes their own choices.

> From the top to the bottom, everybody steals

Everyone does not steal for a living. Most people contribute towards making happier communities. Are people perfect? No. If I see one criminal get away with a crime in my community, does that justify my criminal behavior? Do two wrongs make a right?

> only the pawns take the fall when the time comes. Look for the head of a problem (and cut it off), not it's tail...

That is case by case and you cannot say it is always the tail. CEOs and presidents alike have been fired, jailed or forced from office.
...and he probably wasn't all that "passionate about" it either.