skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your app has data of a large enough size for serious analysis, shouldn't you be building a data warehouse separately and performing analysis on that?

(scientific) Python is definitely better at stats out of the box than Ruby is though.
> Although it pretty clearly is, since languages consistently lump in the female version of a human noun (cartera) with the grammatical gender of woman

Languages with grammatical gender don't even consistently have "masculine" and "feminine" categories (though certainly that's the most common distinction, with or without a "neuter" category, in a grammatical gender system.) E.g., several have the grammatical genders of "animate" and "inanimate" (or something similar), but not "masculine" and "feminine".
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if they break up, it might become 49.5% as this is not a done deal...
I have yet to see unemployment checks from facebook, or social security, or public services or infrastructure. But I've seen budget cuts and austerity and the GAFAM's tax evasion plays a role in this.

The point is that if facebook were to stop its tax evasion business, it would probably not be profitable.
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So, should we bend to our customers' wishes or only provide actual support?
I hope that there will be an investigation into who has been effected by this.

I look forward to seeing the details from the future court dates that result from these findings.
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I've dabbled with both, and they suffer from the same kind of problem that all frameworks on top of dynamic languages suffer from. You essentially have to do all the checks that the compiler /should/ do for you, by using unit tests. Also, on large code bases, I now prefer having real refactoring support.

I'd rather pick something on top of a compiler that is not brain dead.

If I had to do python again, I'd use pyramid or flask, and if I had to do ruby, I'd look at Sinatra.

I stand by my original statement, on the basis that both of the offered frameworks are built upon shaky ground to start with.
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If this story is not picked up in the larger media I will be disgusted, but I'm happy to see this come to light. Trust is a huge part of the police/citizen relationship, and it's in a bad state.
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WebView can work, but with no loading meters or error displays it's very painful. If a third-party developer released an app using WebViews the way Apple does, they would get a ton of complaints.
I don't accepts axiom 1 as valid.

1. The mapping between DOM content and Visible content should be well-behaved.

I don't see why the same edit, applied to two documents with visually identical renderings, should again produce two identical renders.

As a simple example, take document (a) consisting of the words 'an axiom' styled white on a white background, and document (b) an empty document with default styling of black text on a white background. Both would appear blank.

Now apply an edit, say inserting the text 'a fallacy' into both documents. After the edit, document (a) can be expected to remain blank while document (b) can be expected to show 'a fallacy'.
Another reason to decriminalize drugs in favor of self-help programs.
Parallel tests, curious if folks are seeing a big difference in their existing testing suite?

On_commit sounds nice.
I suppose it is related to Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, Divya Narendra and the out of court settlement.
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Excuse me for posting a video link, but my own reaction reminded me a bit of this: https://vimeo.com/20736616

Maybe the itch to be scratched was not so much a technical one?
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Its rather obvious why people are worried. It would be like having a lion in a cage with a deer. Sure maybe the lion isn't interested in eating because its full, or maybe it never intends to eat the deer because it gotten used to other kind of meat. Or maybe it gave its word that it wont. All that is possible. But instead of having to spend every second of your life watching if the lion eats the deer, we should structure the system so that its impossible for the lion to ever be next to the deer.

Google is an advertising company, and slowly they have been adding spyware-like capabilities to their product (address bar - keystroke logging in chrome, injecting every single search result with javascript, "accidentally" listening to users microphones for hotwords without their express permission, etc)
It is perfectly natural to be very weary of such companies. I suspect people would be fine with Google providing the chromebooks as long as the contract legally binds them to never collect the data.

>Unsubstantiated claims are also called conspiracy theories.

No, they are not. Conspiracy theories have a connotation of being ridiculous and outlandish. That is how the general public understands the term. A company like Google whose bread and butter is datamining, being accused of mining additional data is not a conspiracy theory.
Agree, lutz.

But EFF and Freedom of Press also use Paypal and they have a nice interface for monitoring recurring contributions.
Expanding a bit: the plan is that 2.0 just switches us to a new versioning system. The tl;dr is:

Versions start going 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, then 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, then 4.0, 4.1, etc.

Every X.2 is a long-term support release.

The deprecation cycle gets tweaked so that if you're on, say, 2.2 LTS and your codebase runs with no deprecation warnings, then you'll be able to just run as-is on 3.2 LTS. You can then clean up any deprecation warnings on 3.2, and you'd be good to go for 4.2 LTS, etc.
> I imagine that were I in their shoes, I'd be fairly confident that I could do more good for the world by private philanthropy, directed to causes that I felt compelling, than by fueling general government spending/avarice around the world.

I think that is beside the point. These companies are violating the spirit of law, not the letter of the law, when they avoid taxes. Take for example, the recent Pfizer/Allergen merger which happened merely for tax-avoidance reasons. It's legal, but it's totally uncalled for and it's clear to see why: a lot of what Pfizer stands on is from NIH-funded research, it's from us the tax-payers. Pfizer should have played fair by paying back, so NIH can fund even more studies, so that more people are employed, so that academia has more breathing room, etc.
Anecdotally, this is blowing up on my Facebook feed. My guess is it will get coverage.
Agree about it being annoying for native English speakers as well, but I don't think you have to be PC to balk at the use of "he" for the ambiguous case. Brains work by association, and forcing "he" to do double-duty is simply confusing.

For example, let's say you tell a story and refer to a generic surgeon as "he", when some patient's father is known to be far away. Later, you have the surgeon saying "I can't operate on this patient; he's my son!" People will feel deceived if it turns out the surgeon was a woman after you used "he" to refer to her, and no amount of lecturing about how "'he' is a perfectly fine for ambiguous cases" is going to change this.

Btw, Douglas Hofstadter (somewhere in Metamagical Themas) made a great point that the use of "they" vs "he" for the generic singular being an issue of whether people are more offended at being called a man when a woman or multiple when singular. There are fewer interest groups looking out for the latter...
I don't think the point of the argument is that it's a good state of affairs. The point is the incentives are wrong, so obviously this will happen. Hoping the FBI's heart grows the sizes won't get you anywhere.
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Note that as well as the DA being complicit, the involved supervising officers are the current department chief and the state Director of Homeland Security.
Before anyone says something about Django not being hip enough for realtime stuff, just know that you can layer Pushpin (http://pushpin.org) in front of it. This may sound like a bandage but it's actually good design, regardless of programming language.

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I know -- I perhaps should have clarified that I meant "languages with [something commonly referred to as grammatical] gender for nouns", although I feel it was clear from context, since the footnote was referred to after "these languages" (not languages in general).
You're citing jwz's CADT post in a thread discussing Firefox? It's a product for which people regularly complain about open bugs that are 10 or more years old.
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Not an option for me. Signal / TextSecure is not available for Ubuntu Phones yet and coding efforts like janimo is doing (1) are only half-cooked by now.

(1) https://github.com/janimo/textsecure-qml
Crystal Reports was what all the help-wanted ads were for 10 years ago.

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

"Business Intelligence" was the previous buzzword.
Hope you're ok with whatever that billionaire's vision is.
Glad that you're here to tell us about how their art is bad.
Can we truly empower everyone -- women, children, underrepresented minorities, immigrants and the unconnected?

Yes you can, Mark: Stop requiring people to use real names. And stop caving in requests from authoritarian governments that want to do their dirty work for them.
TextSecure (the predecessor to Signal) used to support encrypted SMS. You could send all the encrypted messages you want without using their centralized service. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, they dropped that capability a few months ago. Then, to add insult to injury, the app disables itself if you don't update it for 6 months.

On the bright side, there's now an open source fork called SMSSecure. As the name implies, it does encrypted SMS. It works pretty well. I just hope the open source maintainers are keeping up with security updates to the protocol and not introducing any new bugs...
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> Eich was hounded out of his job. It's absolutely clear from the sequence of events.

Oh, absolutely. No question. If not for the outrage, he wouldn't have resigned. My point is that he could have stayed on if he wanted to. They may have lost ~10% of their userbase, but they're hemorrhaging users at such an alarming rate these days that it'd hardly be a blip on the radar.

What is your alternative? Why is it free speech for Eich to donate to Prop 8, but not free speech for others to decry said donation? Should they have called for his job? Probably not, but as evidenced by Eich, people are allowed to say terrible things.

> In 2008, Eich's was the mainstream view.

Popular opinion is not a justification for discrimination.

The litmus test I go by is: "does it harm non-consenting living beings?", and if the answer is no, then I don't have to like it, but it's not my business to interfere.

> Even Barack Obama stated in 2008 that he believed marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Obama was for marriage equality in the '90s, but he was running for president in 2008. He knew he could lose the presidency if he said he supported it in 2008. I don't know how I feel about that, but I think I'll take it over McCain/Palin winning.

It's the same way we pretend every US president in history was a Christian. Yeah, and I have a bridge to sell you in New York.

> he chose the high moral ground of resigning.

The one thing I will give him definite praise for is his honesty: he could have easily donated $1000 to the HRC, said his views evolved, and the controversy would have vanished overnight. None of us could prove he was lying. I wish his views really had changed, and I would have forgiven him, but barring that, I respect that he's at least remained honest about all this.

> It's never a good idea to politicize a technology organization whose mission is to create free and open tools for everyone

In general, I don't like the idea of people being forced out of their jobs because of something they did in their spare time. (Especially around drug use.) I also understand that popular opinion could make the right thing to do that which would end up costing one their job. And indeed, almost no one called for his resignation prior to his promotion to CEO. I can sort of see the argument for how a CEO can represent the face of the company, but it's still a bit troubling. None of us are perfect, and a huge amount of people will protest absolutely anything you do.

But what I do know at the end of the day, is that people were absolutely justified in calling out what he did as completely unconscionable. And they had every right to boycott Firefox in response.

At least in my case, I never called for him to be fired. The damage to me was done when the board promoted him, knowing about this in advance as they did. I tried (and continue to try) to stop using Firefox, but Chrome is just so. awful. that I keep finding myself forced back. My kingdom for some real competition in the browser market.
At first I didn't notice that they actually have STEM classes here.

The spiral does however have maths and sciences, the titles mislead me at first but it appears to go through calculus 1 and physics 2. Newtonian dynamics is covered, electromagnetism is covered...

However about a third of the advanced curriculum is devoted directly or indirectly to Astronomy. "Archaeoastronomy", "Maya Astronomy", "Islamic Astronomy" etc. etc. through "Cosmology"

Biology is covered with heavy heavy emphasis on human spirituality (I presume), with courses devoted entirely to the brain and mind. Evolution and Human anatomy are covered, but I'm guessing taxonomy and the boring stuff like how kidneys work or what ATP is pays the price.

Chemistry seems to have drawn the short straw here.

Not going to lie though, I'm jealous of that History schedule, that looks really tight.

At first I came in with a really judgmental statement, but I've eased back quite a bit. I still, however, would not send my child here.
That's made clear in the manga, in a scene that was dropped from the anime.[1]

[1] http://www.mangahere.co/manga/gate_jietai_kare_no_chi_nite_k...
FunFacts.js
I spent half a year reimplementing what should be a native browser behavior, and it is currently used in production at a company with 100k+ users.

https://github.com/amark/monotype

It solves some enormous headaches, yet is NOT an editor, but a replacement to selection and range APIs.
Yes but the context is the mac app store which is much more a web-layout than a native app layout.
I've been really digging http://codepen.io but I'll give jsfiddle another shot next time I'm in the need for a scratchpad.
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It seems like there is a smoking gun in this case (though I didn't review the evidence thoroughly). Widespread availability of video recording and distribution has provided many more smoking guns. Certainly, there are many more incidents where no smoking gun evidence is available.

For a long time, black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved. It was and is a grave error - I can't imagine how many victims there are. This raises critical questions:

1) Why did our society make this error?

2) How do we prevent making the same mistake in the future, regarding other issues?

3) About what issues are we making the same mistake right now?

Also: What do we do about the legions of victims? Ignoring them yet again would be a crime.
Who runs the initiative?
There are clear interpretations and case law that state that faithful adherence to the letter of the tax law is fine. How is one to interpret the "spirit" of the law when the spirit inferred by one reader is at odds with the text of the law as acted upon by someone else? It's (relatively) easy to show compliance with the letter of the law. It's (essentially) impossible to show compliance with all possible spiritual interpretations thereof.

The Internal Revenue Service (of the US) writes:

Avoidance of taxes is not a criminal offense. Any attempt to reduce,
avoid, minimize, or alleviate taxes by legitimate means is permissible.
The distinction between evasion and avoidance is fine yet definite. One
who avoids tax does not conceal or misrepresent. He shapes events to
reduce or eliminate tax liability and upon the happening of the events,
makes a complete disclosure. Evasion, on the other hand, involves
deceit, subterfuge, camouflage, concealment, some attempt to color or
obscure events, or making things seem other than what they are.

Did this Dutch company purchase product/services from this Irish company?

Did these two companies merge and the surviving company was the non-US company?

Did this executive receive stock options on such-and-such date?

Those are all relatively easy questions of fact.

Should the surviving entity of the merger have been the US company? (According to whom? Or on what basis? To what end? Which benefits the investors the most? What did the shareholders vote to do with their company? Why should someone else judge that what they did was "legal but improper"?)

The real issue is simply that the US is relatively uncompetitive as a corporate domicile (on a rates and particularly on a "worldwide income basis") Attempts to patch the system without addressing this root issue are unlikely to succeed in a clean and sustainable fashion, IMO.
This is arguably the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
This is explosive. The white supremacist implications here are undeniable. Director of AL homeland security? Good god

This is LITERALLY as bad as it looks.

The evidence is astounding.
Sure I am not saying their implementation is good, just that the reason why they use it is most probably because it's much less painful to layout.
While it has declined, it is still almost a billion dollar industry on its own just on Facebook. You asked for "examples of games making heaps of money" and I included links to a bunch of them.
Ask HN: Website that maps addresses to unique tiles, for different zoom levels
There is something I remember seeing on HN a couple of years ago, and that was a website that, if I recall correctly, maps your address to unique tiles, and does this for different zoom levels.

Each tile gets a unique, relatively straightforward name/ID, and then you can map this name/ID to a specific lat/long (with the accuracy being determined by the zoom level you use)

I know there are tiling schemes used by Google Maps, Bing Maps, etc, but I seem to recall there was something unique in the approach of this website.

Unfortunately, my web search has been fruitless and I'm not able to find the relevant HN thread.

Do any of you remember this?
You should not accept such a blatant PR stunt at face value.

Why the Rich Give to Charity[1]

Some give out of vanity. Some out of guilt. Some for the tax breaks. Some give out of conviction that their success in business makes them equally expert in solving the world’s problems.
Yet perhaps the most powerful and common reason why the rich give is the idea most commonly referred to as “legacy.”

would you rather be remembered as that guy who build the biggest and meanest personal data collection machine, tracking people, extending global surveillance, pushing to destroy the foundation of the internet and made a fortune out of it (and a little stock trickery), or as the guy who gave most of his billions of money to charity ?

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I understand the concepts here in outline terms but the math and the really deep details are a bit beyond me. Does this mean there is effectively an information to energy equivalence like there is for mass and energy (E=mc^2)?

If so that seems rather profound, and seems like it would trivially let you complete the triangle by deriving mass-information equivalence from information-energy equivalence by substituting mc^2 and solving for m.

Has anyone ever tried to do that? I'd be really curious to see those equations!
Reminder: in 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $45 billion, and Jerry Yang turned them down. Whatever they get for the core business (which, as jonkee says, the street thinks is worth nothing), I'm guessing it's going to be a lot less than $45 billion. something something looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Ask HN: How much $ did you have when you started your first business?
Curious - how much did you have? Did you save up a ton of cash? Not much at all and take the plunge? Somewhere in the middle? Would be great to know the type of business as well.
What do you envision the solution looking like? A list of projects, with their updated runway, yearly budget, technology category and subcategory? Maybe create a watch list too and send notifications when the combination of their runway, yearly budget, and rate of donations reaches a critical point of becoming unsustainable. You can also have people give a range of what they'd be comfortable donating. When the project comes to a critical point, the first line of defense is to send notifications to larger businesses and as a project becomes more in danger the notifications get sent down the line to the people whom have smaller budgets.
Wow, I think I finally get flexbox now.