skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is also no longer the 1980s and hasn't been for a while now.
Facebook gets to decide what Facebook is. They don't have any contract with the user to support a certain feature if they no longer want to, or if they want to change the feature in some breaking way.

Most production environments are much more constrained and/or operate under a lot of outside constraints. In those situations you have to be a lot more careful.
Apple Has Acquired Faceshift, Maker of Motion Capture Tech Used in Star Wars
Plain-text plists are basically a slightly more cleanly formatted JSON with support for comments. Binary plists are just a binary version of the same, but with some additional data types which were never backported to the plain text format. Nobody should “hate” either of them who doesn’t equally hate JSON and e.g. MessagePack. XML plists are a trainwreck and should never have existed.

YAML and JSON and property lists are all terrible formats (inflexible and underpowered, forcing people to add half-baked ad hoc extensions on top to do almost anything). I wish they would all go die in a fire in favor of something with better data structures and support for extension such as e.g. EDN.
It is important to measure what you treasure.

However the concept of pairing metrics is equally important. Otherwise the power of what is being measured will become the entire focus.

Pairing metrics combine quantity with quality. Like speed of improvement with safety, or quantity of burgers processed with quality of the assembly process.
afaik that's not how it works in the 2006 Pasaat, you have to actually shut the mirror door or it stays on, even if the car is off. The service rep said this was fixed in later models.
I think that is globally true, largely because for the vast majority of people that is the best that they can hope for given their station.

I however am restricting my evaluation to the domain [high-tech] : [startup], which after all is the core demographic for HN and YC more broadly.

In that context I don't think it's an optimal outlook - and in fact I think it is detrimental to the zeitgeist and pushes further away from the PARC roots of paradigm setting technology development.

I grant that in the current environment it's "idealistic" but I think at the core, the real innovators still have the vision of changing the future through technology - at least I do, and I know I'm not alone in that.
Where to park the money if you have any, zero interest does not look attractive and real estate is not cheap either, in addition to the inflations etc.
API Gateway doesn't really encompass Parse's scope, either. It's more of a router-as-a-service that allows you to forward HTTP requests to other AWS services, Lambdas, or your custom backend (+ do some stuff with IAM and auth, etc)
Is it "doublethink" to know the legal system is flawed while believing it _ought_ to be better? Perhaps I'm laboring under "the myth of professional success"? But don't I just aspire to it?

As for this doublethink, I personally don't hear many strongly held generalizations about how the legal system works "under the hood". When I do, the word is either that it's utterly mysterious, or that lawyers don't do much of anything at all. Not that they do so with any particular rigor.

Perhaps among academics it's different. The folks I hear and read mostly just complain about cost and poor communication.

And the same could be said of auto mechanics. And programmers. Crises?
Looks like just their honour, unfortunately. If banks provided first-party support, rather than forcing people to reverse engineer mobile phone app APIs, we might see safer implementations.
Can you specify a search query in the url?
Pretty impressive that the syntax:

def greeting(name: str) -> str:

Turns out to be backwards compatible in Python3 before 3.5 (though not Python2, yet another reason, if you actually needed one, to start new stuff in Python3)
I used to refer to LLNL sankey diagrams all the time: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov -- really good work.

There is also the global model from the IEA: http://www.iea.org/etp/explore/
Isn't one of the best aspects of WordPress the powerful plugin ecosystem that adds functionality, much of which is in the admin UI? Or am I missing something?
Why can't it be both?
How? A necessary element would be to have a forgiving attitude toward those who don't tell the truth, let them save face when they get caught or fess up.. and ask them to shape up ... or get out (or remove them, if you can).

An environment with a minimum amount of cynicism and resignation along with a healthy does of forgiveness toward each other goes a long way toward creating "psychological safety".

And you guessed it -it starts with you. Don't wait on others to be like this... You be like that and watch it rub off on everyone.
Nor did x64... but did that stop them?
He has a condition that causes him to generate a large quantity of superfluous text, and append that to his posts.
The Sorry Tale of the PECB, Pakistan's Terrible Electronic Crime Bill
I read the article - There is not a single bullet point I give a shit about, that isn't summarized by their share price.

I look at the yahoo.com front page, I look at msn.com front page - they look similar and are both spam to a first order approximation.

If they wanted to, they could turn sentiment around in 3 months.

There are so many things they can do :

- become the datafeed API for the internet

- buy a startup thats kicking ass [ and leave them alone to win ]

- buy a tech video review media site thats growing fast

- put up a $200k prize for best Yahoo innovation app

- take 7 devs / designers / product people, put them in a room and let them have at it to make an app

For any of these to work, they have to build a firewall around it, insulating if from the process of a big company, so it feels like a startup.
On the flipside, sometimes it seems like we rely on hindsight bias. Would we still be talking about Apple in 2015 if Jobs hadn't come back? Or Tesla if Musk hadn't taken over as CEO in 2007? Both companies had significant uphill battles. And if you had the foresight to imagine Apple in 2015 back in 1997, you're probably a rich man.

Just hypothesizing but imagine if MySpace had focused its industry connections in the music industry to focus more on music instead of social networking, and pushed for an on-demand music streaming player for mobile and desktop. They had millions of dollars in the bank and a head start in the U.S. market over Spotify and Rdio.

Or imagine if Blockbuster video had either taken up Netflix's offer to be bought out or had invested in online streaming long before Netflix.

I'm not saying it's easy or always viable or that luck doesn't play a role, but I often think we discount the potential for a company to still exist today because the only outcome we know of is the outcome that happened rather than the potential of alternate decisions.
This phrase is hard to understand:

> The NeXT/OpenStep plist format assumes that strings are written as ASCII, whereas Cocoa assumes strings are written in Unicode

Do they mean "UTF-16" when they say "Unicode"? ASCII is an encoding but "unicode" is not, so I can't make sense of it.

On another note, it's fairly common that \U0000 style escapes are limited to FFFF. Would it work to use a surrogate pair for the non-BMP character?
Dream of New Kind of Credit Union Is Extinguished by Bureaucracy
My god. I never realized that people used to actually dress up in suits made of inner tubes. Those pictures are surreal.
I've been very happy about more interpreted languages adding optional typing for exactly this kind of reason.
Xiaomi launches Mi Pad 2 with a Windows 10 variant
JSON isn't great--I use YAML for anything where I'm not in Ruby where I can just use a DSL--but they, and even well-thought-out XML, have the advantage of being usable by normal people. I have yet to see EDN that both didn't require a significant amount of work to set up and didn't look downright offensive. (Usually it's both.)
You say, "But I challenge you to find something in any of that which is concrete enough to be actionable."

So, you might have missed this part: Of those Google teams, the ones that adopted a new group norm -- like kicking off every team meeting by sharing a risk taken in the previous week -- improved 6% on psychological safety ratings and 10% on structure and clarity ratings. Teams said that having a framework around team effectiveness and a forcing function to talk about these dynamics was missing previously and by far the most impactful part of the experience."

So ... simply taking 5 minutes to talk about the risks taken in the previous week can help develop the environment. Of course it needs to be a positive discussion. Start it with the premise of: "how did we stretch our bounds last week even if it didn't work out?" rather than "what did we screw up this past week?"
> In my defense, the Supreme Court has already done this.

Yes, this is the whole point.
I've found it's a mix between the two extremes.

Obviously, I can't start suddenly returning XML instead of JSON, because "I feel like it and it's cool"; it breaks everyone horribly, so that needs to be version 2.

But if you insist on upping the version effectively any time you do, you're essentially saying that any side-effect (not just output) visible can't be fixed, except by duplicating the API and creating a new version, fixing it there, and moving the callers over (if you can — this, I've found is the hardest part[1]).

Often, these are things that I feel like the spec is supposed to hash out: what is it supposed to do. If it strays from the spec, that doesn't necessarily require a new version number, especially if it doesn't break things.

However, it has been my experience in that even the most benign changes will break things; you've got to be able to evaluate and figure out who is not following spec, and sometimes, how bad is the effect of the change if the clients didn't like it. (Is it so bad that, even though it's to spec, I should roll back? Or should the client fix the buggy behavior they've been depending on, and we can carry on in the meantime?)

[1]: Mobile clients are out there. Unlike a web page, there's no way to edit/update them — you can push a new version, but will the users upgrade? At some point, you have to cut them, I suppose, but after how long? 6 months? <2% share among the user base? the active user base? What's an active user? (and now higher ups are involved, and you're in meetings…)

[also]: https://xkcd.com/1172/
I'm insanely happy that I have a new job that is not stuck on Python 2.x

This is one reason. All my personal fun-type projects are in the latest Python, and I have the leeway to update work to this.

I know there are a lot of people who don't like or want this, but coming from a C# background before Python, I really like this feature. (not that I want Python to be more like C#, I just like the safety net and guaranteed documentation.)
SkyJack is a drone engineered to autonomously seek out,
hack, and wirelessly take over other drones within wifi
distance, creating an army of zombie drones under your
control.

...and then:

No authentication or encryption is used by the Parrot
to secure the connection with the pilot.

Well, there's your problem!
Growth Hack the News – Ridealong Month 1 Update
Did a ShowHN about a month ago. Thought I would do a quick update so people learn from mistakes, wins and learnings. As we are all constantly learning together along the way, which is what HN is great for

What it is
Growthhackthenews.com is a productised service of which writes the press story, builds a distribution list, and out press stories. Using a growth hacking technique call trading up the chain.

Cost to set up
~$100 - all costs setting up squarespace & hosting on godaddy

Revenue
Three sales $900USD

Ongoing Costs
So far just my time for each job. The plan is turn it more and more into a process so can automate the entire thing using a outsourced team.

Channels
Linkedin (no sales), Reddit Entrepreneur slack group (1 botched sale, screwed this one up though look in learnings), Direct (2 sales) & Word of mouth (1 sale)

Learnings
1) People want to be taught how to fish. This is especially so in the start up community where people want to hustle themselves and also don't have the cash.

Therefore writing a blog post now detailing every part of the process so anyone can do it. However if they don't want to they can pay us to. As can take some time

2) Customer service means timely engagement. I botched one sale as disappeared to a overseas wedding in a wi-fi limited place and my engagement just wasn't there

3) Not as easy as I thought it would be, however this is a statement that you can say for every business ever. You always think it will be easier to make sales. However have persisted and will continue to

What's next
Really drive out my current clients stories while building processes

Start to automate with an outsourced team

Write a blog post detailing how anyone can do it (including the process, emails, templates)
I couldn't agree more. As someone who made some stupid decisions by letting friends (or so I thought) borrow my car and take care of my cats (opened my home while I wasn't there) and who got totally fucked over for thousands of dollars, I'd never ever let anyone rent my car or in my house without me being there. I learned my lesson the hard way and many people are now learning the same hard lesson.

The thing is, it doesn't have to be this way. Companies like airbnb, flightcar, etc. have more than enough money to easily cover the damages that do occasionally happen. Their failure to act and remedy things basically shows what shitty companies they are. It's amazing to me that the biggest percentage of users of such services don't get fucked over, but it's even more amazing to see companies shirk their duties. In fact, if the company doesn't clearly list what they'd do in case of such foul play and their insurance policy, I don't even think they should be allowed to legally operate a business. Of course, this is part of a growing trend of companies trying to get rid of any liability they have and put it on their customers. I'm hoping that as more horror stories happen, someone will start legislating these companies and demand that they pay for any damages. Until then, I would stay away from such companies as a "host."

It's just stupid to do business with such companies, just as stupid as letting your friends borrow your car / stay in your place unsupervised. And that is indeed, quite stupid.
New Li-Fi Internet Is 100 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi
I think so :)
I think the commenters so far are wondering what job it is that doesn't require you to be present on site. Most people don't have the option of working wherever they choose, whenever they want to. This is true even in the software industry, where telecommute should be the norm given the nature of the work and Silly Valley's traffic situation.
A New Way to Think About Hypervisors
My pleasure.
Theory Z of Ouchi
US believes Russian jet was in Syrian airspace when Turkey shot it down
Are those improvements meaningful? Are those statistically significant? Raw numbers like that aren't even remotely important without additional data.

And further, improving on those metrics does exactly what for the team? For the company? For the individuals?

What we know so far is that improving on that score does nothing but improve on that score.
YouTube App for Children Faces New Complaints Over Ads
I don't take a side in this statement.
Your description is exactly how Gallwey addresses these issues in The Inner Game of Tennis (published in 1974). There appears to also be an Inner Game of Golf.

http://theinnergame.com/products/books/the-inner-game-of-ten...
Mortgage Startup Lenda Raises $2M to Make Refinancing a Home Easier
Right -- it's simply legacy. Too much work to change it now for not enough benefit.

In 20 years we'll say the same thing about json and yaml. In fact I say it about yaml now.
I wouldn't call NeXT an expensive failure, especially seeing how it laid the framework for Apple's current success. It is hard to say what would have happened if Steve Jobs stayed at Apple in the 80s....he was never actually CEO before 1997 (see http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/08/25/a-look-at-apples-ceos...).
In terms of regulation, the UK government is actually in the process of getting ALL banks to open up their data with APIs. It's really exciting: http://theodi.org/news/open-banking-working-group-uk-experts...

"In this year’s Budget the Chancellor committed to delivering an open API standard in UK banking, and setting out a detailed framework for its design by the end of 2015, in order to help drive more competition and innovation in banking for the benefit of consumers."
Also see The Inner Game of Golf:
http://theinnergame.com/products/books/the-inner-game-of-ten...
The "typing"¹ backport package on pypi claims to be compatible back to 2.7.

EDIT: A gem i found on Reddit: Configure setuptools to install it only if required².

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/typing

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/32643122
Yes, they mean UTF-16. I don't know if Xcode's parser actually supports surrogate pairs in practice, but it should.
Yelp reviews are uneven. Sometimes they are done by competent people paying attention, many times they are not. Crowdsourcing has its uses (I use Yelp for some things), but professional opinions definitely have their uses also.
Creating a Raspberry Pi Cluster Running Kubernetes
.xcspec predates Swift -- it's an Xcode format, not a Swift format -- but I don't remember by how much.
Why do you think chewing is healthy at all? It allows organic matter to get into your teeth and physically wears them down. This is a hard question to google, because you get chewing tobacco and gum chewing results, but can you provide any evidence that chewing on its own is somehow healthy? What mechanism do you think it hits?
I recall people demonstrating something similar this with passports at defcon some years back from quite the distance. Picking up credit card data and ids wirelessly is definitely not new. This is why I use small magnetic / RFID blocking case while traveling.
The correct terminology is a diacritic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics
Anyone can write a review on yelp.
"""
Everybody is (or should be) mad at Sales and Marketing for not selling more
games.

Well, Now We Have The Solution.

Let's contract everything out. We are already contracting out hardware
and game development.

By contracting out the hardware, Engineering Management finally has the
control it wants over costs, technology, and schedule. Of course, the
hardware may need a few finishing touches for Testability and Manufacture-
ability, but the Engineers will be happy to finish someone else's hardware,
put it into production, and thereby contribute to this someone else's
royalties. This has the added advantage that licensed product is not eligible
for Bonus.

By contracting out the game development, and making Marketing the main
contact, Marketing can finally enforce their decisions on game play. (Do It
My Way If You Want To Get Paid.) Perhaps they can do for game play what they
did for Side Panel Graphics.

I don't think we should stop there.

Let's contract out Sound and Music so that the team (which is now Marketing)
will get what it wants. Dittos for I.D., Mechanical, Harness, PCB,
Publications, and Animation. Did I leave anyone out?

Let's contract out Manufacturing to eliminate overhead (and unused Production
Capacity). Or, we could deal with unused Production Capacity by having
Manufacturing become a Contract Manufacturer for other companies. (Outside
contracts always have priority over internal product, so internal product
will have to be contracted out, anyway.)

Finally, after having completed the total disintegration of the Company, we
can contract out Management.

Regards,

Jedidiah (The Mad Prophet)

"""
Google scholar says closer to 50k citations. Where did you get your information from?
Yep, in the 1973 Scientific American, they compared Kcal/Kg/Km of different modes of transport. Bike vs 40x over a Car.
Ask HN: Should I build an airline booking system?
Hello, I turn to this community for advice.

My close family owns a small airline that used to be for personal concierge services (6 planes). They are trying to move into another space which is air travel for remote place within the country (LATAM), where other airlines don't usually go. They have asked me to build an app as a booking system for travelers.

I am thinking that before going for an app (iOS/Android) it would be best to build the website system that works well on mobile and then if needed, go native (iOS/Android). Either way, my question is the following:

Is it best to hire a team and build the system or buy software for this? What would you do? Any guidance would be appreciated!

Please keep in mind the following that this is at a very small scale compared to a regular airline you find on KAYAK.com. Total fleet can't carry over 150 passengers.
I wonder if anyone setup a fund for her? She is probably going to need some help given the constant attacks.
How to Take a Screenshot in Windows – PC (With Pic)
1st Bitcoin ATM Arrives on the Lower East Side
> (If anyone doesn't get how this works, I can explain.)
would you mind explaining me?
Indeed it does! I just find it very curious that Apple hasn't bothered to migrate .xcspecs to one of the newer plist formats. As far as I know, you lose no capabilities with the newer format. Perhaps the NeXTSTEP format is easier to read with a text editor? XML format isn't terrible, and Xcode itself provides a not-bad GUI editor for all plist varieties.

EDIT: I believe that Xcode will load .xcspecs in any format. The .xcspec ends up getting fed into a TSPropertyListDictionary class which is backed by a plain NSDictionary. I'll test tonight. :)
Michelin's reviews have nearly always been in line with my own tastes. Yelp, not so much. A good portion of Yelp reviews are written by rubes who don't don't know what good food is, tightwads who prefer a low price over quality, and boors who don't understand why a restaurant won't tolerate their embarrassingly bad behavior - enough to significantly botch their accuracy.
It's worth pointing out that we never converted our Bitcoin to any other currency (other than Bitcoin), it just sat in our account accumulating. We never actually tried to exchange into our local currency. Nowhere in your documentation or user agreements does Coinbase mention denying companies like ours (adult comic publisher). https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement (see APPENDIX 1)
That's exactly it. The movement and power you develop is different when you're trying to puncture thru the target rather than just hit it. You'll recruit different muscles, etc
This comment is rife with fundamental misunderstanding of the main purpose that HR serves in a company. That purpose is to protect the company from legal action by employees, former and present. This is the overriding principle on which HR operates, everything else it does is gravy.
Why do you want to know?
Turns out that experience and careful thought does actually make you better at evaluating a good or service.
I made it as a member of hacker news for 1065 days with out having to listen to a penis joke; a miracle in the internet age. Oh well all good things come to an end eventually.
You make it sound like he unfairly pissed off the political correctness police. He's actually shadowbanned because he posted wanton, meaningless, racial-slur-filled rants that contributed nothing to the discussion, despite warnings.
That seems like a somewhat inaccurate takeaway. A few of them "gave them back" because they didn't like the pressure and/or wanted to change their menu. Bourdain of course doesn't care much for them but he was the only one in the article that really took that attitude (and being a rebel is kind of his thing). Other chefs mentioned were devastated to lose them.

There are certainly some misgivings about the organization and process but it seemed like most of them still consider a 3-star to be the top honor in fine dining.