skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not specifically, more just the occasional paper you see posted where they've found a way to recover missing data from surrounding context. I.e. something like reverse engineering redaction boxes from JPEGs by reversing a non-lossless algorithm twice, once to get the lossy image in raw form with redactoin boxes, and at that point again to determine what was likely under those boxes from the surrounding lossy compression as it existed before.
How to Actually Become Jason Bourne. Seriously
"Let the banishment of money from the election component of political activity exist as an iron law in any new democracy which is established."

I think this is incredibly short sighted. Money is a means to access a political voice for the dispossessed as much as the wealthy. What will happen without money is that policy will be crafted by and for solely the politically privileged. Backroom deals and dark access will be even more important than otherwise. A tighter, more difficult to disrupt oligarchy will emerge. I doubt this is what you would want.
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I think both of you are way out of line. If you spent more than 10 seconds thinking about what the guy wrote then you'd see that there actually is a point to it.

Calling him a troll and a douchebag is exactly the opposite of what HN is all about. Attack the idea, not the man or downvote and let it go.
90% died from diseases. That's why it was so easy to settle North America. The socities collapsed before settlers even expanded westward. The diseases traveled much faster than European contact. That's why Europeans thought much of North America was wilderness.

There were certainly acts of genocide (like Trail of Tears) and Indian Removal was a form of ethnic cleansing.

But there was never an attempt or policy to kill Native Americans off.

Plus a lot just blended into society. Intermarrying has always been common. Both on and off the reservations. Most native americans aren't full blooded anymore, but a mix of white and black too.
I think this is a fair critique, if a bit hyperbolic.

One point overlooked is that the predominant form of science fiction was, for some decades, short stories. Salvor Hardin was as richly imagined a character as Bayta Darell, but he only appeared in short stories (or novellas); he was the hero for about half of Foundation. The sequels were novels; the women were accordingly more memorable; and by the way, I found grandaughter more memorable than grandmother anyway.

Another point overlooked is the happy introduction of the vivid, lovable rogue. Nicholas van Rijn is an excellent example, even if by profession he is a tycoon. Lazarus Long is another; I found him a lot more vivid than the article's author evidently did. Fafryd and the Grey Mouser are Exhibits 3A and 3B, although that's fantasy, and even Lord of the Rings had vivid characters, so perhaps the criticism never applied to fantasy at all.

On the other hand -- as much as I adore Zelazny, his heroes are pretty much all the same. They're jaded and cynical, witty in their cynicism, and usually very altruistic even so. Usually they're quasi-immortal demigods too, with the most important counterexample that part probably being the poet in A Rose For Ecclesiastes.

Dune deserves a mention as being fairly early in the genre for having great characterization. Also Ann McCaffrey's Pern books, but those are really fantasies with a thin SF veneer.

Getting more modern yet, I agree that characterization is the norm rather than the exception. My favorite is probably Miles Vorkosigan. I have no idea how that series could win so many Hugos and Nebulas and still seem to be relatively unknown.
Writing BDD Tests with Cucumber JVM
We have a fairly large-ish JS codebase at work and from what I saw so far is that Edge's JS was never a problem. SVG rendering on the other hand is horribly broken currently for some cases.

That being said, since our JS is generated, it's purely ES5 since it still has to run on IE9. So maybe the weird cases are in the more modern JS parts we don't use.
> Incorrect. If your company were to pay you the same amount as they profit off of you, you wouldn't be sticking around for very long at that company. That's the basic requirement of your company's mode of production.

Why is this a basic requirement?
Assuming by "amount they profit off" an employee, you refer to the economic profit (that is to say the profit after taking into account of all economic costs, including opportunity costs) rather than the nominal value, then I really don't see why this is a basic requirement.

This really perplexes me especially since the amount the company pays should be exactly equals the amount of economic profit you generate for the company, in a perfectly competitive labour market.
Of course, reality is not always perfect, but for the average programmer it's pretty close (skills are quite homogeneous and programming jobs are less constrained by geography).
Why are you frying steak?

If it's cut that can stand the heat of a grill/bbq, it will have enough fat in it to keep itself moist and to prevent it from sticking, as the fat will start to melt.
Arguing with the hot female lead is rarely productive.
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Horrifyingly, drones are already being used as nuclear weapons. The Russians recently 'leaked' a new torpedo design with all the characteristics of a drone, being able to find its way through thousands of miles of ocean, finding a target and if this target is acceptable destroying a whole harbor zone.
Doomsday drones --or machines if you will-- are likely already in place and able to decide to blow up the world in an instant.
I don't like thinking about the capability of these superpower nations.
You're right, I think I understand. OP is laying out the metrics dependent on social relations by which one may estimate a sort of "fair" wage.

My rant was tangential to that bullet point but relevant to the second bullet I quoted... so I probably should just remove the accusatory word "incorrect" from my post ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_World_(novel)
It's never too late to learn book binding ;)

I'll probably try and make a book of this some day, but first I'm going to make a copy of R. Hammings' The Art of Science and Engineering.
I think the point the article was making is there is no evidence that stereotypes are inaccurate and all the evidence we have is they are accurate. Of course it might be that all the studies are wrong, but the evidence to date doesn't point that way.
> there must be a way to turn it off

Sure. Use a browser whose creator isn't an Ad serving company with a business model built entirely around capturing and analysing massive amounts of product (you. you are the product) data.
A neo4j back end storage for gorilla/sessions [Golang]
https://github.com/nathandao/neo4jstore

A Neo4j session store that I created a while back for a project. The project was using Neo4j as the database layer, so I figured why not use it as a session store as well. Unfortunately, I ended up not using sessions, and went for JWT authentication instead, so this package was never used at the end.

I hope some may find it useful and would love to hear feedbacks from everyone.
Because it's convenient and can still taste really good.
So they don't fully understand the repercussions I assume. Why else would there not be a straightforward answer to the inevitability of economics.
> I'm not sure why people pay me so much

Why is this sentiment in the community common? I can't really find an explanation for it so far.
Not trying to be offensive, but did you feel the need to add the statement abut self-fulfilling prophecies because making a bare claim like "I believe in some stereotypes" is so politically sensitive that you're afraid of being judged as a racist or sexist? This is similar to the sort of complains the author has about older research into stereotypes assuming they were inaccurate without testing them - no doubt they made that assumption to protect themselves from allegations of racism/sexism/etc.

The self-fulfilling prophecy argument is a way to say "OK, they might be true, but the blame lies with some other group of oppressors and it's still not an innate quality of the subjects themselves, so it's still not really fundamentally true.". Why shouldn't it be an innate quality? Maybe women really do earn less than men because of something different in how men and women earn money, not because men oppress women with their stereotypes.

Without research, I don't think it's any more reasonable to say "stereotypes are mainly accurate because they're self-fulfilling prophecies" than to say "stereotypes are mainly accurate because groups of people are naturally different.".
1stQuest, Future of Traveling
It's incredibly pervasive—it's essentially one way of imposer syndrome manifesting itself.
One in my old town of 2,500. It was quite successful until the smoking ban gave all of its patrons more choice of poison dispensaries. (Although the non-smokers weren't enough to keep all of the other bars in business).
Certainly the situation as a whole was quite complex, but when you get down to the details, dctoedt specifically asserts that there were people who thought the US would roll over and cower if attacked once, and if that is true, then those people were bloody great idiots.

If it's not literally true, then perhaps they were something else.
Geograpical district should be on their way out. Why think I share terribly much with people that live around me? This may be a bit true in some cases (historic city centers, good suburbia) and wrong in other cases (outskirts of large cities where everybody is a stranger).

Let people create districts themself, vote in those. Occupation-defined, lifestyle-defined, not just geography-defined. Let everybody vote in, say, three districts.

This way I'll be voting in software developers' "district" and choose between five awesome candidates, not between girl I loathe and guy I merely find acceptable. Also will vote in independent music "district" and finally my city district.
Apple Rescued, by Microsoft (1997)
Wow, I guess there's something to be said for being aware of your own biases at least.
The capitalist would not be making any money off of the capitalist endeavor if their workers were not being paid less than 100% of their work's value. Incidentally, the economic system is set up in a way to obscure this basic fact. Example:

Say a TV is priced at $100, the raw materials to produce the TV costed $24, and all of the depreciated tools in building the TV costed $1 (the tools wear down, eventually requiring replacement). The labor performed by the worker produced $75 of market value.

If the capitalist pays the worker the fair $75, the capitalist makes nothing off of this whole coordination. Why in the world would the capitalist do that? Not only can the capitalist not take some of the money for themselves, they don't have any money to expand their business. A company that doesn't expand is a company that is eaten alive by companies that do expand. If the worker gets the $75, the capitalist isn't happy, and the capital isn't happy.

$30 goes to investment capital, $20 goes to the capitalist's wallet. The capitalist pays the worker $25.

Software is no exception to this reliable, yet simplified model.
It would, but the x86 doesn't trap on signed overflow. There is an INTO instruction (interrupt on signed overflow) but you have to include it after every signed instruction, and when I tested that, it was apparent that INTO is not a "fast instruction".

Also, under Linux, when INTO fires, it is interpreted as a SIGSEGV. Not what I was expecting.
Looks neat, but underwater, it seems more than a big awkward in maneuvering. Makes me curious if a tiltrotor design would be better here in terms of efficiency and speed.
Why would a country like the US with plenty of money get rid of train tracks when other countries are building or upgrading theirs? It seems like a really strange thing to do when you have a large metropolitan area which clearly has a need for mass transit?
It's really tricky. I don't want people to be forced to self-incriminate and give up their password. I don't want encryption to be banned. I don't want people to only be permitted to use government-approved encryption with escrow. I don't even want intelligence agencies to research vulnerabilities in existing cryptographic algorithms and implementations, because they have no reason to not use that for dragnet surveillance.

But obviously, I don't want CP or terrorism subjects to evade detection and prosecution because of encrypted drives or communications.
"In the best case the programmer and the company will both think they are getting a good deal" is not the same as "if both the programmer and the company both think they are getting a good deal it is the best case." TFA says the former but your post is really about the latter.
We never stopped being mass killers. And I doubt we ever will stop being mass killers. One direct consequence of say establishing a permanent colony on some other planet is that eventually we'll have interplanetary war, it's pretty much inevitable that such a colony would sooner or later decide to become autonomous rather than be ruled from earth.

The Dutch have the questionable honor of inventing mass murder (we once flooded a large area of land to drown many thousands of invaders) and we're normally speaking pretty meek. There's a killer in all of us and we exist in large numbers, some of us are more pre-disposed to killing than others and some of us are more than willing to follow orders, no matter how wrong. So, yes, we can and we probably will.

> Hitler described humans as members of races doomed to eternal and bloody struggle among themselves for finite resources.

Hitler was self referential in that sense, he described himself and as long as we have 'little Hitlers' walking around this will continue.
Reasoning with one's feelings is not so scientific as it might seem, though.
Reality check! There is no ladder.
I'm not sure, to be honest.

That would be an interesting Ask HN question. I think a lot of people would like to know.

One reason the financial sector might be easier for H1B visas is that they sometimes treat their employees very poorly. But I know of good companies as well, so it depends entirely on the company.
oh, so you have good competition, low prices, high speeds and no data caps in big dense cities, right?
Schmidt actually is a programmer, he re-wrote a good chunk of lex.
That's really interesting, especially with respect to the personality trait recovery. I'm particularly amazed given that I've never been able to replicate the Big5 model in its entirety against particular datasets.

Only commenting on that portion, as it's what I know. The author doesn't appear to give any indication of which test was used, and where the sample was taken from. This makes me a little suspicious, but its probably just a disciplinary thing.

Additionally, many tests reduce the pool of available questions for a scale after testing it against against other scales + theory. This means that what the author is recovering, is the scale imposed on the items by the original authors.

Nonetheless, this has forced me to reinvestigate the Big5 model, so it's not all bad :).

Massive appreciation for the links.
Have to say, this reads like he's self-deriving micro-economics for the first time. My very simplistic way of looking at this (not having hired anyone myself) is as follows. If the company has a good strategy and is being run well, than Kent should probably not worry about value created by his new hire because it will dwarf any employee salary. Just make sure you hire the best one you can find and offer him/her a market-beating proposition (which comprises salary, culture, etc.)
Chennai floods death toll rises to 280
I use Time Machine for general system backups, but I also push a few select things like ~/Documents and ~/Pictures offsite with Tarsnap. I want to find a way to integrate Syncthing into my workflow too.
Because it's one of the most obvious questions to ask about Silicon Valley? You have to pay a hefty premium for programmers that may leave at any time for a better offer.

The rest of the US is a cheaper, Western Europe is cheaper still, and by the time you look at Eastern Europe you'll see that not only can you find programmers that stay on longer, you can actually find experienced ones.

There are literally thousands of blog posts on why or why not Silicon Valley, and the cost of living and hiring are brought up every time.
This is dangerous through, because sending a Unicode string through Twitter subjects it to NFC normalization which can alter its structure. If you want guarantees that this won't happen, your choices of code point are far more constrained, and the unassigned code points, which is most of them, can't even be used. I think this is the purpose of base65536gen.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/base65536gen
to be read in conjunction with http://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-the-lies-the-day-that-micr...
> Base65536 that isn't actually 65536? Odd.

Well, Base64 isn't actually 64 either.
I've had issues on (10.10 and 10.11) where FileVault 2 (FDE) irrevocably corrupts some metadata and it cannot be fixed by Disk Utility. (It "works", but performance is terrible and free space is wrong.) Reinstalling by rsyncing latest backup to recreating volumes fixes it.

Also, the usual popular, secure rsync-like service: tarsnap ( https://www.tarsnap.com/ )

brew install tarsnap

https://github.com/pieter/Tarsnap-OS-X-GUI

https://github.com/BTBurke/tarsnap-backup-osx

Generally: Probably want to validate exclusion of big files for remote backups like VMs, caches, tmp dirs, swap/hibernate files to cut costs, unless they're important / service (&& internet) is cheap (BackBlaze).
Stop the lies the day that Microsoft 'saved' Apple (1997)
I needed this for my projects. Thank you.
I've backed the campaign as soon as I found out about it a couple weeks ago. The ergonomics, full customizability and repairability is a perfect match for what I'm looking for in a keyboard. Let's hope the final product is well executed; in the meantime I'm super excited and can't wait to receive it.
Also, using 'rdisk' instead of the 'disk' dev-file is much faster: http://superuser.com/questions/631592/why-is-dev-rdisk-about...
You could not be more wrong.

At least without any further elaboration, your assertion that it's not a job sounds dowright doltish and the following analogy irrelevant.
HTTP/2 2015 Retrospective
Common Lisp Recipes(2015)
These tracks could have been spurs off of a main line, back when the areas in question were more industrial. Once the need for the spur no longer exists, it would make sense to reclaim the land for better use.

There's also this, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is useful in those cases where for a reason or another you can't remove timestamps.
Initially we wanted to remove everything, but we also noticed it's easier to convince people/upstream to accept the support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH than remove the timestamp entirely.
Can you read Japanese? The problem might not be the characters themselves, but the fact that you can understand what's being written. I was working at a cafe in a foreign country a while ago, and I really enjoyed the background noise because I couldn't understand anything anybody was saying. It wasn't distracting at all. If somebody was speaking English though, I'd be unintentionally using some of my brain to process whatever they were saying.
> you assume [conservative] people are necessarily 90 IQ rednecks.

I don't; I assume that the "90 IQ redneck" subset of conservative voters are the ones worth trying to seduce, according to GOP candidates. Because that's whom their political speeches and positions seem targeted towards.

I guess that's because there are many of them, and until recently they've been easier to influence. I must admit there's a bit of shadenfreude in seeing Trump out-rednecking the GOP elite at the game they invented for themselves.
Well, null, to start with. Other ASCII control characters. Consecutive line breaks, too.
Totally different situations. All of these removed rail spurs are from when these neighborhoods would have been industrial/shipping and not residential/light commerce.

They wouldn't have very much use in a commuter transit scenario.
It'd be really interesting if a Japanese person can confirm this!
If screen area is your metric, and combining code points are free, I bet you could use [1] to add an arbitrary amount of data to a single character.

[1] http://www.eeemo.net/
Cybertrolls increasingly target women
Projectmooc.com: Learning Path for Students
Designing forms for your website: The good, the bad and the ugly of web forms
Europe needs an investment culture similar to the Capitalist American culture. Without that there is no hope for anyone. There need to be investors and technical people in one hub that feed off each other, network with each other, and empower each other.

How many American startups are a result of a pissed off employee working at a successful company going off and creating the same thing his or her employer did but better? And this cycle feeding on itself.

Or university students with an idea getting all the financial, technical, and managerial support necessary to create the next big thing.

You have to understand the process and then try to replicate the process. And each component of the process is as important as the other. You need the whole pie. Not a piece for it to succeed.

You can seed this with massive capital expenditure, tens of billions basically poured into private coffers of Caplists, but the process has to be very similar for it to actually work.
Ask HN: Any Swift web frameworks ready to become as strong as Rails/Django?
Are we likely to see a viable Rails/Django type framework for Swift, now its been made available for Linux?
I actually think your first sentence is an interesting thesis that bears examination, but your second sentence is an unnuanced non-sequitur.
tl;dr: No API needed. In a link to create a new issue you can URL encode the title and body to pre-fill the form:

https://github.com/archetyped/winning-user-support/issues/ne...
How to price a programmer is a legitimate subject of discussion on a website where a large portion of the audience derives their bread-and-butter from being exactly that, programmers.

What 'hacker news' is or is not supposed to be upvoting is only fragmentary up to you, the value of your one vote which you may withhold as you please.

There isn't a day that goes by without some relative newcomer here saying with great authority what HN should or should not be. Hint: HN existed long before you arrived and the charter is broad enough that it is probably not possible for any single individual to pontificate on what HN should or should not be without considerable care about representing viewpoints different than their own. Your comment fails that particular test.

HN is made up from individuals from all walks of life, and some of us are currently in the job cycle where an article that gives information on how to improve their lives is important enough to share with others.

Making billions, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have nothing to do with the subject at hand, and if you recognize that the battlefield is the marketplace then maybe you can also recognize that programmers are active on that marketplace and that tools to help determine their value are in fact useful and worthy of discussion.
Yup; the problem here is that while most people probably prefer smoke-free environments, heavy smokers are likely to be the heaviest drinkers, too. So the bar owners are incentivized to reward their best customers rather than the majority of their customers.
This is an interesting point of view on the endless debate about procedural versus functional programming. My personal opinion on this topic is that a cooking recipe is easier to read (and write) in a procedural style, than in a functional style :-)