skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476

Which maybe was not on the lines OP intended. :)
Then use jake. It's a port of rake to js: http://jakejs.com/
I created Rabbit[0] which allows me to stream h.264/mp3 encoded videos and synchronize the video with a partner. I recently added a feature that overlays a video chat using some simple WebRTC code.

[0] https://github.com/marvelm/rabbit-ex
2015 Best Nine: Your best nine Instagram pics from 2015
I use the Oxford comma. Otherwise you end up with ambiguous sentences like:

"This book is dedicated to my Parents, God and Ayn Rand."
Startup with Bitcoin in Its DNA Stumbles on Fund-Raising Trail
Sidecar, once an Uber and Lyft competitor, is shutting down on December 31
Bad product design = conceptual debt. It's a nice way to be able to say the costs you incur from making bad design choices early on, that now need to be dealt with and can be fixed.

But the concepts are not only in the product design, but also reflected in the software system architecture, since that will reflect the design.

One weird thing that happens is that developers insist that there is some sort of technical constraint, and then the product design reflects the software system architecture, rather than the software system architecture reflecting a product design well suited to users' mental models.
Very simple ‘git push’ workflow to deploy code on your own server
It is illegal but most large companies encourage these small illegal companies that take the legal liability while providing cheap labor. If the small company shuts down does not matter it will come up again with a different name. It does not matter how hard government hits them, there is a legit need they are serving and hence will continue to exist irrespective of law.
I agree that things not part of the quoted material should not be inside the quotes.

However, I don't see why that means they have to be outside the quotes. There's a cozy and quaint area below the quote that could serve as a wonderful place for a period or comma to settle in and set up shop to ply its trade.

I'd like to see quote-period and quote-comma get ligatures.
What do you think about our onboarding experience?
Hi,
We are a social network for active and aspiring traders and investors.
We recently revamped our onboarding process to make it more simple and informative, but it's not quite there yet: many new users are not using our features correctly ($ ticker sign for stocks, bull/bear signal to signify sentiment...) and we feel the reason may well be that the onboarding may still be too complex..
Also, we are struggling to get people to invite their friends, one of the steps of the on boarding experience... Somehow it's not incentivizing enough..
Could you please take a look and let us know what you think about it? Is it simple enough, well explained, and does it have enough personality? Is there too many/not enough steps? How could we make it better?
Thank you so much for your help! Here is the link: https://beta.investfeed.com
See I didn't grow up thinking I was using commas to separate list items, I grew up thinking I was contracting a bunch "and"s. That is:

A red one and a blue one and a green one and a purple one.
became
A red one, a blue one, a green one and a purple one.

Notably kids seem to do the first one naturally.

If commas were list separators and not just a short hand why would we end them with "and" at all.
Quite helpful. I think a part of note is "...and enforce the terms of the Agreement" as it might relate to content that is not permitted. Would be helpful to compare/contrast with any statements regarding uploading of copyright material not copyright of the account owner, which seems like the typical pretext for basic overview? Just musing here.
for us music geeks in the US, too! Shakti, particularly the first album, was a great gateway for me in getting into Indian music.
Check out his collaboration called Sangam, with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland, if you are into Jazz. There is an excellent video recording on Youtube as well as a CD (which is quite different and worth checking out separately).

https://youtu.be/0-OSqHAeLBU?t=1m41s
Well to be fair, I don't see anywhere in the page itself indicating that this is a new launch, just the HN title.
I would only consider it debt if it's something that's likely to cost significant time later if not fixed. That sort of thing adds up after a while.
>Privilege is referring to the difficulty slider.

It is more often used to try to stereotype and discriminate against someone, insisting their setting as being higher than others. And when this brought up, the general response is to then say the issue is really a bunch of different sliders, such as one for race, one of gender, one for sex, one for sexuality (and all of these are still simplified to stereotypes). It is often accompanied by an insistence that we pay extra attention to some sliders are more important than others, with the side bringing it up tending to shift focus to the sliders that minimize the view point of the one being told they are privileged.

Privilege is an attempt to simplify complex issues in a manner that benefits certain positions and it can be used as a thought terminating cliche.

For example, privilege being brought up here to detail how it is privilege for some to have turned to computer as a coping mechanism for the abuse and exclusion of their peer groups; that they had free time to focus on computers because their peers didn't want to spend time with them is a privilege.
Indeed. It seems that dupes are allowed after a few hours, provided the earlier submission didn't get any traction. If something is re-submitted then clearly people think it's relevant, so it's allowed a second chance.

Or third.

Or more.

The question is this: What should be done other than just allowing re-submissions?
I should add that he gets into very practical details, like how much should one charge for a fixed amount of computational capacity, in 1998 (before AWS etc. :P).
Seems to be based on some pretty arbitrary assumptions.

It does not really sound like nonsense. Sounds like some form of information theory.
Not 100% sure but I think the last time around it was announced as free with prime - https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/primephotos ? This time around it looks like a standalone product.
The inevitable consequence will be either the abolition of the FDA; or a chasm between advanced medical therapy readily available in some places outside of the US and sclerotic, bureaucratic "healthcare" in the US.

Long-term, where I live will depend on the above outcome.
I suspect it really depends on the person. Two books a week doesn't seem all that difficult _for me_ ... but my wife would have a lot of trouble with it, though she makes up for that by reading for longer periods of time than I do.

I enjoy reading to a ridiculous degree and do so quite often. As a result, I can typically finish a 400-page book in 2-3 days, averaging a couple hours each day. I'm at the faster end of the scale among people I know, though. A free weekend (which is extremely rare with two young kids) usually gives me the time to finish 3 or 4 books on my ever-growing list of fiction to read.
ZF2015-10: Padding Oracle Vulnerability in Zend\Crypt (CVE-2015-7503)
I don't think that spending in attempts of gaming the system really amount to much: http://freakonomics.com/2012/01/17/how-much-does-campaign-sp....

I think we have exactly the government one would expect from taking account of the demographics of voters. 2/3 of voters in midterm federal elections are 45+ and the median voter in municipal elections is pushing 60: https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2015/07/tracking-tur....

Given the demographics, I have a hard time seeing what exactly would be different if the rich had less power. I mean, are we going to raise taxes to make health care free for younger people, when the median voter is going to be eligible for Medicare in a few years anyway? And is it really rich people lobbying for more surveillance and resisting decriminalization of drugs, or is it my mother?
I'm going to ask these here because I don't know where to ask them. Because HNers are smart. Please don't think this is off-topic!

1) What would a database system look like that had an advanced type system that could specify user defined data types? Is this what an object-oriented db is? Is this possible with graph databases? Relational databases? Hierarchical databases?

2) What would type reusability look like? Not code reusability, not object reusability, but type reusability. Does this even make sense?

3) Would it be possible for multiple different languages to share a type system?

4) Would it be possible for the one language to have multiple type systems? (Pluggable, modular, if you see what I mean)

Thanks!
There is no irony here. We've beefed up our security state and when asked why, the reason has been 1) Everyone else is doing it 2) National security.

I don't agree with it.
> For me anything fictional gets pushed so far to the bottom of the list compared to everything else that's on my to read list

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

I thought it was more fun than Snow Crash.
It does seem like this should satisfy people on both sides of the argument.
Pascal's calculator
There's always a trade-off. A little extra space (which is cheap) for less developer time accounting for all the distro/library/arch combinations. I think it's a very fair trade since space gets cheaper by the year and time does the opposite.

One working example of this type of system is RacherOS[1] which I think could do what I'm proposing. I'm excited to see it mature. People can just package their app in a minimally sized container and be done with it. I think it's what the linux community really wants anyway (modularity and options) but adds the ability to switch without re-installation from scratch.

[1]http://rancher.com/rancher-os/
On one hand the author thinks 2016 is the year of concurrency on the web, on the other hand half the article explains the problems with concurrency on the web.
She's making bicycle helmets, not electric cars.
Definitely what you're saying. Thanks for adding even more deeper context. Accepting that back and forth: code, learn, code process.

And to your point too about first thinking about the conceptual model, agree that you should spend at least a bit of time before doing anything else. Thinking through your modeling is something that doesn't take that much time and has such huge payoffs in terms of avoiding pitfalls. But often times it's just funner to start writing code so people do that.

It's always saddening to see programmers just dive in and start coding without planning / thinking about the problem first.
Bingo. And in years gone by Bitcasa did the same, starting with an unlimited plan and once people were locked in, increasing prices 10x (from $99 to $999):

http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/19/bitcasa-infinite-cloud-st...
Mainstream news completely failed on this one.

I guess it is not as "sexy" as the BP spill since it is not very visual and you can't transmit "stink".

They are too busy covering whatever nonsense Trump is spewing each week.
I have visited India a few times and one of those times I found myself in Bangalore and visited the famous Higginbotham's bookstore and bought $100 worth of math and computer textbooks that would likely would have set me back at least several hundred dollars if not over a thousand.
Replace HN/Facebook/Reddit time with reading.
If anyone would like to try Wagon, just email us at hello at wagonhq dot com, we're currently previewing Wagon at 100 companies and happy to have some new folks give feedback.
If the hash is reversible then it's not a hash!
really? I found the rule for petals around the rose surprisingly simple (not to find it but once you know it)
That doesn't follow at all. A sufficiently smart AI could do all sorts of obtuse things to achieve its aims. It could speculate on the stock market or go on an identity theft spree to pay for more servers. It could start a business and hire employees to run a robot factory. It could start a propaganda campaign to persuade humans to do its bidding. It could lobby politicians to remove legal impediments.

The fundamental principle of the paperclip argument is that the motivations of an AI will not necessarily align with our interests. An AI may do all sorts of things that seem nonsensical or morally repugnant to human beings if it does not share our moral intuitions.

If the intelligence of that AI significantly exceeds the range of human intelligence, we may be powerless to stop it or even to comprehend what it is doing. A rogue AI could become a catastrophically nasty Stuxnet, distributing itself across the billions of Turing machines we have networked together. Our only effective response may amount to "erase every data storage device in the world and start from scratch".

Related: http://blog.figuringshitout.com/nov-12th-day-30-no-evil-geni...
> My objection to the universal application of the Oxford comma (whether it adds clarity or not) is that a comma in written English essentially always take the place of a short pause in spoken English.

But exactly that's how I parse things in lists.

For example: "Life (short pause) Liberty (short pause) and the pursuit of happiness".
> This all makes me believe that the biggest danger to our civilization are we ourselves - and our massive overreactions to media-manufactured non-problems.

Completely agree with this point, but it's irrelevant to the subject of unaccountable police (although it's quite relevant to the media's derailing the issue into racist tripe)

Any single case where police and prosecutors harm someone who is neither subsequently found guilty nor compensated for the harm suffered is an injustice. It doesn't matter if its 10% of cases, 0.01%, or a single innocent person who was detained for a mere 2 hours of their life. The relative frequency isn't important - these cases simply shouldn't exist, the same way a hypothetical mayor's brother not being investigated for murder shouldn't exist.

Better top-down policies and training won't fix the police or justice system - they need better incentives to change behavior at the lowest levels. The kind of incentives where they can no longer push the damage from their moral hazard onto unlucky victims, and are instead bound by the laws they purport to uphold.
Yeah within 48 hours I feel like allowing dupes is silly, just allow them to become votes so the original gets some attention.
Completely tangential, but: what's the deal with those people shots? I can't tell if it's my mind playing tricks but they look heavily photoshopped (the second one, with the couple on the street even looks like it was green-screened.)
From what I understand, the gas is not flowing out of a pipe at ground level; the leak is deep underground and it is diffusing into rock and coming up over a wide area. It's not clear that combustion could be sustained in that configuration. I have as much oil/gas industry experience as rube goldberg, but I suppose if they put a huge upside-down funnel over the area maybe they could collect it and light the top, but I have no idea whether the radius of that funnel would have to be 10m or 10km.

I feel a good solution would be to implement a carbon tax, and an unburnt methane tax at the greenhouse equivalent, and start charging the company the estimated leak. I imagine their engineers would become more motivated.
The typical pattern for photo users will be a large amount of upload at the start as they upload their collection, then occasional browsing of photos on the amazon website, which will be mostly smaller thumbnails. Rarely once in awhile users will request large originals. You will have an even smaller amount of people download their entire collection of originals.

With these patterns, you can make a system that puts everything on S3 at first, makes thumbnails and starts moving most things to glacier based on access patterns.
A problem with LLVM's undef
Open source in 2015: A year of growth
>Indians does not care about anything other than price (durability/quality)

"do not care"

That's a solid point :-) and largely true, though a generalization. Changing some at least among the younger generation in cities, though.
I tend to agree with you, but I'd like to understand better the mental process that leads him to penalize students for an approach that he concedes is logically preferable. My guess is that he thinks he's doing them a service by showing them how their writing will be judged "in the real world".

Perhaps someone who agrees with the author's approach can offer better insight?
It takes me less than 30 seconds to read the page. Let's be generous and make it 60 seconds. So in an hour you can read 60 pages. 300 pages book in five hours. Two books will take 10 hours. So reading for one hour each week day and 2.5 on weekend will take you through two books a week.
There are books however which you just cannot put down and go through them in one or two sittings.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=protonmail&sort=byPopularity&p...
re:GoogleUnlimited, That's really interesting. Are you aware of any downside? Ie, Why a user might choose Google's normal $120/y over Google Apps Unlimited?
It's the reason given to the public for having given the reins of our communication and technology infrastructure to intelligence and security agencies.

There are obvious reasons why the government would want to implement such a program, many of them having little to do with national security. Based on previous propaganda that's been fed to us over the past few years, this is the likely conclusion to be drawn.
I think you're right that there are certain characters where drawing it the "correct" way leads to a better result, and that there's a reason for the rules (i.e. that the rules are rationally derived). Using the correct order is also probably faster. I think the spelling metaphor is a good one.

I doubt your last claim in the general case, and I think the GP comment in particular is taking things too far -- there's no way that the average Japanese reader is going to be able to tell the stroke order used to write ぉ (in handwriting scenarios, not calligraphy), so long as you don't mess up the form of the thing.
Come on. Every project has to start somewhere.
So let's have all government employed agents with body worn video cameras.
Ian Murdock, founder of Debian, is ranting incoherently on Twitter right now
From Postgres to Cassandra
I hope that by concurrency, the author also means "shared address space". Because that is what concurrent programs need (especially for the immutable-data structures, that need to be passed cheaply from one thread to another).
The gov cherry picked whole family refugees from Jordan, who left the fighting early in the civil war. They screened them for health problems, criminal records, education, ect. It's not masses of N African migrants flooding in through lawless Libya.
This is a pretty effective guide for the custom features that ggplot2 excels at, namely faceting. That being said, optimizing the chart requires a few more steps in each case, especially when working with real world data.

For those who want a step-by-step guide on plotting with ggplot2, I wrote a tutorial that has been well-liked with an emphasis on making pretty charts: http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot-tutorial/

Yesterday, I also pushed a screencast working explicitly with R and ggplot2, with an emphasis on processing/organizing data for charting in ggplot2: http://minimaxir.com/2015/12/lets-code-1/

TL;DR R/ggplot2 can be very fussy, but when it isn't, it's magical.
The time window for that to work is far less than 48 hours—it's more like 1 hour.

We're working on this; it's harder than it sounds, there isn't a trivial solution, and there are tradeoffs.
The article, which I liked, is very end user-oriented, but I think that the ability of other programmers to interact with your conceptual models is just as important. Other people have to work with your code, and their ability to develop new features will very much depend on how easily they can work with your conceptual models. Onboarding programming hires into a poorly organized conceptual model will be a mess, and disheartening to the new person.

Good conceptual models can be extended, interacted with, and built upon, and that which an end user may regard as a "feature," including features not yet thought of, flow naturally from the best models. So there are some knock-on benefits to the end user from good conceptual models under the hood, even if the end user doesn't see them or have an opinion about how intuitive they are.
I was also an "explorer", and the whole thing left a sour taste in my mouth. Did they ever explain why they didn't open source the whole thing after they pulled back? I also expected that some custom ROMs would eventually appear. Not sure why it didn't happen.
Visual map of the money markets
http://money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-an...

The history of the Federal Reserve:
http://www.jekyllislandhistory.com/federalreserve.shtml

An implication from the power of private banks to create money out of nothing is that people will have to borrow money for their homes essentially part of their future income to the banks and its bond holders.
PHP Laravel 5.2 released
Thanks!

As someone with FRP experience, what do you think is the minumum viable set of functional transformers (like map, filter etc.) that should be implemented for a library like this?
The factor of 25 accounts for this - over a 100-year timespan, methane is 25x worse than the equivalent weight of CO2.

Over a shorter 20-year timespan, it is 86x worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global-warming_potential#Value...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801597.
I'm on the East Coast, and I've interviewed with a fair number of East Coast and West Coast companies and the West Coast ones were by far the worst. Google and Amazon have been fair to middling, but there's been some that were probably so inept it has to fall under some kind of criminal law somewhere.
i also can't read w/o the little voice in my head, but it is an interesting idea.

is there a website to test reading speed + comprehension? i'm thinking something w/ like an auto-generated story of fixed elements ("a pig and a horse visit the blue house on the hill", "a donkey and an ostrich cross the bridge over a river"), or maybe just a sampling of a large corpus of real text of similar level. you get timed on how long it takes you to read it + given a basic test to see if you actually absorbed it.

would be interesting to get some numbers, and also see if these (mythical?) non-subvocalizers really are faster.

i think i could see it maybe working, but i also feel like the words would be taking a whole new path through my brain. almost like a new language.