skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a cloud service? I'm probably missing something, but it looks like a smallish git linter script? I guess I'm not seeing where all the work went to make this something more than an OSS script one could write in two hours.
Traveling through Germany, any grocer I bought a glass bottle from required a deposit that was returned when the bottle was. Shipped back to original producer, then cleaned and refiled.
All About Census Geography and Summary Levels
You are correct from what I read and understand. My concern is that one day something will stop working with desktop picasa and the Google Photos backend.

I'd like to find something to move to so when the inevitable happens I am don't have to worry.
You don't get a passport, you get a Permanent Resident Card.
Study suggests consciousness isn't all-or-nothing. Partial awareness is possible
Yeah, and they'll push for four months total at a meeting a month into the project, while simultaneously changing their mind on a half dozen requirements.
I understand that, but they broke the web by killing it.
You don't.

The thing is, the balance here is tipped to the "you probably shouldn't try it" side, and with good reason. Maybe you miss the only chance in your lifetime of hitting it off with the cute Tech Support gal who actually was receptive to your advances. However, this is not a party or a pub, this is her job, a situation where she likely isn't looking for a hookup, and she receives tons of inappropriate comments, and is tired of being considered by her customers and male coworkers as merely a pretty thing instead of as a professional. So what do you think is the chance YOU are the one customer who she is actually interested in, after wading through dozens of similarly lame flirting?

To put it another way, if she is terribly upset about flirting, she can choose not to go to parties and pubs. But this is her job!
...here in the USA
I have found that base R graphics were a quick way to get a snapshot of things qplot always frustrated me in their syntax. I have replaced that with ggvis. I can do a 3 seconds of code and get a decent plot. I can then add a drop down menu and explore my data, but ggvis is guilty of Jeff Leek's criticism currently with a limit of the plot you can perform. Also ggvis exported to png is more a hassle then it is worth for me.
That would be interesting. It's not free though, KSM can use considerable CPU time.
Reminds me of the quote from the game Deus Ex:

The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, an industrial-age machine.

Without the use of computing machines our ancestors had to arrange themselves in crude structures that formalized decision-making.

Now are merely developing a decision-making system that does not involve organic beings.
Your github pages breaks the back button.
It's irrelevant as long as parents take care of their part to ensure the kids are studying and behaving. That's the missing link. Sweden doesn't have that. You've relied to much on the government and that affects new immigrants to behave the same way but in areas where the government (schools, cops) has actually given up.
If I am understanding your question correctly, these are virtual groups in that we do not all live in the same place and we hold our meetings via Google Hangouts. However I will be physically meeting with the people in my group in April. We are all within 1 time-zone of each other so that helps. I suppose you could make whatever arrangements you want with your group once you know what everyone is up for.
grain of salt

Or a heap of FUD thrown at a very serious and pervasive problem.
Wanting to respond and being able to respond, which has the effect of making you an unofficial spokesperson, are two different things.
I think the key difference is whether the distortion is intentional or just incidental. All things being equal, we'd prefer fewer incidental distortions of smaller impact.

As for intentional distortions, I think the idea goes that they're all harmful in some way (some more than others) but that the benefit of behavioural change can outweigh the cost. I don't think that would be a terribly controversial statement among economists.
>>> Tech is only a small part, and fixing it for one small sector isn't going to do much on a macro scale.

Very convenient. Not attempting to fix a problem until everyone else is onboard is a great way of not doing anything. If tech companies want to retain talent, pay for it. Don't lambaste the city or the economy. There is nothing more hypocritical than a CEO of a profitable company complaining about retention. If you are profitable then you can afford to pay your people more. Complain about the city when you cannot find the people needed to make ends meet, not when they are inconveniently expensive.
Thank you! There's a fork for mruby JIT compiler. Any plans to merge it into the core? As far as I recall, the only issue with the JIT compiler is that it's 32-bit only.
Talkdesk is hiring engineers
Look at the products you buy at the store (supermarket, Walmart, Target, etc) - the barcode is almost always EAN (now IAN)¹ There are exceptions for smaller items like packs of gum, which use UPC-E² encoding (if the manufacturer portion ends in zeros). Hundreds of thousands of products being purchased by billions of people mean they're the dominant barcode system.

So far as attacks via UPC/EAN/IAN, they're not really possible as it only encodes digits, and only 13 of them.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Article_Number_(...

² http://www.barcodeisland.com/upce.phtml
Here is the stereotypical example of how too many non-programmers ruin the group:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/uploads/2004/02/...

Funny but true. If you have three people making decisions for one programmer, things are going to go bad.
That's an interesting explanation, and it's an astute way of describing tactics that are sometimes employed in political debates. But as applied to this case, I think it fails to address some key issues.

1. What reason would HG have to distract from the substantive content in the OP's comment?

2. HG was not the only person who found OP's comment objectionable. Do we all have ulterior motivess?

3. There are, I think, objective reasons for finding parts of OP's comment objectionable, which HG, myself, and others, have thoroughly expressed elsewhere in this thread. Do you have a response to these substantive points, or are you merely concerned about HG's reasons for raising them (and, perhaps, his./her tone in doing so)?

I for one think that OP's comment is interesting, and I have no interest in distracting from its substance. But I do hope to point out how some unfortunate, casual choice of words may have inadvertently caused harm to other members of our community.

I'd also point out that, like the dictionary attack that you describe, baselessly impugning an opponent's motivations is also a tried and true tactic for distracting others from the substance of what they have to say, without meaningfully engaging with it.
That contrasts with recent findings that some of the happiest workers are hairdressers. Guess what hairdressers do all day, while cutting hair? Chat about random stuff their customers bring up. And yes, a lot of it will be saucy, so to speak, because that's what most people are interested in. Is that customers forcing their sexuality on hairdressers? No, that's just being social "old school". Like you learn to find boundaries, you learn how to actually talk of the stuff. In tech, that is simply frowned upon.

The tech world, for all our declarations of being so progressive, is extremely prurient and repressed.
Because he's a loner @of, a rebel. You don't want to get mixed up with a guy like him. :)
I like twitter because I can follow people smarter or more informed than me.

My facebook feed, on the other hand, is utterly inane. My thoughtful/smart friends almost never post, and if I unfollow the idiots, I'm left with only ads.
My eyes! https://imgur.com/pYHAp3Y
Picasa web albums has hardly disappeared. It was replaced by Google Photos (then Google+ photos) a couple years ago. They left the old interface around for years to allow people to transition over at their own pace, you can't really expect a better migration path than that.
Who knows. May be it's because the next aging generation is more mentally and physically active. Maybe is for the leaded gasoline.
Fair enough. I agree that the comment could have been more carefully worded. Note, though, that this does not (I hope!) explain the cool reception (to put it mildly) to my own comments in the same vein.
Advertising. If it doesn't relate to advertising or have some ad revenue channel, don't expect it to stick around for long.
A somewhat off topic note: that gganimate GIF is 3.5 MB, which is a very large file for a image that is not central to the argument!

That's one of the reasons I was dissuaded from making GIFs from my ggplot2 charts, and it's why I created a Convert Frames to GIF tool (https://github.com/minimaxir/frames-to-gif-osx) to create higher-quality GIFs at manageable file sizes. (the first example GIF in my repo is about the same number of frames and resolution as the OP's GIF, but 1/7th of the filesize, of course due to the nature of GIFs this is not a straight comparison) That said, gganimate does sound like an interesting tool, and certainly much better than the animation package alone.

The killer feature of ggplot2 that cannot easily be replicated in any GUI program is indeed faceting. There are also other geoms that are hard to do in base R/excel are things, like contour maps and native smoothed regression lines (with confidence intervals!)
Yes, the conclusion of the link says so.
Or at least use `replaceState` not `pushState`. I scrolled from the top of the page down one section and when I hit back it just went right back to the top of the page.
>I don't understand that.

Introducing state into programs makes them harder to reason about, thus Scheme programmers generally discourage the use of mutable data structures when a persistent data structure would have worked.

>Those look like like they could be useful, but I don't see how they can replace hashmaps --- for one thing, they allow duplicate "keys" (the first element of each pair).

The way alists are used, only the first pair to contain the desired key is considered. Thus, you can "overwrite" a key/value pair by consing a new pair onto the head of the list.

>I'd use a lisp, and don't mind the lisp/parens syntax, but to be useful for me it must provide easy access to and use of hashmaps and sets.

I had the same initial complaints about the lack of reader syntax for hash table. It's a common complaint, actually. However, I found that as I learned more about how to write Scheme, I stopped using hash tables in any place where I used to want literal syntax for them. I learned that people reach for mutable hash tables far too frequently when there are better options available.

What languages even have literal syntax for sets? I can't think of any, but I'd like to know.

Reader syntax varies in each language, but I hope you can see that this really isn't a big problem at all.
Anyone can compare this to Boost.Nowide?
Mobile, mobile, mobile. If only phones wouldn't be so crappy, barely usable to do anything other than scrolling some primitive "content" with finger. And you are required to buy a new phone every half a year, thanks to Google too.
Steve Wozniak brings a comic con to Silicon Valley
> Right now today if you're mining on a block and find out that there is a longer chain, the node switches.

Not if the longer chain is invalid under your node's consensus rules. The rule is "most-work valid chain."
While I understand that everyone has their own idea of what should and should not be on Hacker News, must everything be regulated down to the gnat's whiskers?

I know everyone's afraid of the conversations deteriorating to the point that they no longer want to come here, but you can go the other direction with that too. You can regulate it so much that no one wants to come post or read.

I think there's a reasonable balance between the two (where that balance lies is something that many will surely disagree about also -- :-D ).

And, for the record, I could have lived without the Pee Wee Herman story also.
There is a price to pay for a better programming language. C++ is fast and crashes fast. Its data structures are at the same time complex and inflexible. Many Lisp dialects are tuned for flexibility and some add a bit of performance to it. C++ comes from a different angle. It provides more performance, but it is fully inflexible.

Still people can do interesting stuff. For example the Crash Bandicoot games for the early Playstation were written in a low-level Lisp dialect with an external compiler implemented in Common Lisp. It ran on a tiny Playstation with cute graphics and sold very well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Bandicoot
When I hear "scrum master who isn't also programming" a red warning flag goes up.

My favorite way is to take turns being scrum master, cycling through and switching on each sprint. That way everyone gets experience and understands better how the company operates.
The first two lines of the article are that you currently don't pay any, and with something that recently passed you'll never have to worry about it.
It's really painful.

Having average home price of $1.8m while the median salary is at $60k. Something really needs to be done to help out Vancouverites.
Such a depiction makes it easier to argue for more regulation.

Or for existing regulations to be enforced.

(There's no need to depict Airbnb skeptics as inherently "pro"-regulation, and instinctively wanting more of it).
I just made the arrow a little larger, might not be enough but it's a start. Later I would like to move to a more traditional site.
On the other hand, a hairdresser can usually fire their customer if they're creepy - at least in my country, they're independent workers. A tech support worker can't.
You apparently didn't need unprivileged containers and/or a guest os that uses systemd. And it sounds like you didn't need lxd.

Edit: Or you did, and you figured out how to replicate all the needed changes back to Deb.
I agree that teaching mathematics too formally prevents students from making concrete connections. I like how the OP made the abstractions intuitive. And made the jargon less intimidating.

As far as the 'mathematician's lament' goes though, I think all that is needed is for our culture to foster greater respect (and potentially payment) for teachers. If someone can put passion into their work, these successes tend to arise naturally.
I really hate it when Google does this and it's not the first time, as mentioned by others. Of course it's a free service and I should be grateful for even having it so far, but at least (with so much money to burn anyway), they could keep it going indefinitely.
Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?
The matching itself is not a problem. Arguably it's required for portability, but it's very straightforward. Obvious implementation, all in one place, practically no maintenance cost, very unlikely to break.

But think about all the callers of these functions. There are usually more callers, at disparate places, and context will be less narrow there. It's important not to conceal what is intended to happen at the call side. If these functions are overloaded and at some point due to unexpected integer promotion or a crazy typedef the wrong overload is picked, you will have a hard time debugging.
There is nothing to eat up. You don't pay taxes on Internet access now. Internet access taxes have been banned through a series of time limited bills since 1998. Unlike previous bills the ban in this bill doesn't have an expiration date.
When in Doubt, Write It Out
Rails: MVP vs. prototype
>Canadian PR status is permanent.... and can never be revoked

That is incorrect. It can be revoked if the PR does not remain in Canada for at least 2 years of a 5 year period after it was issued. After the 5 year mark, most PRs have already transitioned to citizenship.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=727&...
Maybe the trick isn't to do process-per-tab or 1 content process and 1 UI process but to instead do some kind of "intelligent" number of content processes based on CPU and tab count? Like if you had 50 tabs on a quad core processor you could have 1 UI process and say five content processes?

Or another idea, have some kind of upper limit of memory a tab can use before it gets its own process.
But... That would require you to read somebody else's code. /s

Classic case of NIH syndrome.
I think the closing down is normal in this case. If you were google, how would you motivate any SDE or ops to devote any time to it, given that a newer replacement is already in place?
Today's Apps Gone Free
Tree Kernels: Quantifying Similarity Among Tree-Structured Data
> For example, blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs.

indeed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Hmm, which arrow? I don't see one.
This has the one thing I really want in a case: removable panels. I bought a corsair obsidian 800d for 275$ back in the day. The top panel only has support for up to 3x120mm radiator mounting. I wound up with a 2x140mm radiator that has a super gross zip-tie mounting because I wasn't going to part with the radiator or the case. So now looking for a quality case that has replaceable panels to prevent this from ever happening again. Unfortunately, not looking in the mATX range though.
Technically, macro was a crack. Not a hack. Hack should make things; Not break things.

But, I think you are right. Hacks have gone through the hype cycle. When every programmer wants to "hack" to be in the elite circle, they tend to push the boundaries that are grey -> unethical -> unlawful. It's like those greedy bankers - except that they want to look cool; instead of money.
Wiretaps were really questioned in court. Maybe there was less public debate about them at the time or less awareness of how widespread wiretapping could become; I'm not sure.
Which then allows you to get a passport....
What You’re Really Saying When You Talk About Lowering the Bar in Hiring
Such deposits could be expanded to other products. Car batteries are a big success here, they are almost all recycled and typically involve a small deposit you get back ($5 or so) when recycling.

Hard to recycle materials could just be taxed to provide an incentive to use other materials. The city I live in banned free plastic bags and it has significantly cut down on their use. There's no reason why that couldn't be the standard.
"Correction | The article originally stated that the brain had been recovered. It has been updated to clarify that the rabbit brain has so far only been preserved, not recovered."

This is a far ways away from "returns successfully". The research just states that they can preserve the physical structure of neurons.
Yes, I will look into how to make that a bit more clear :) This is integrating with GitHubs build checks and web hooks and we want it to be very easy to get started. A script could do local validation but that would require the contributor to actually run the script :P
I saw this comment and then started looking for a link to a second page. It turns out I was able to "swipe up" on my magic mouse to scroll down to the second page.

I'd strongly recommend that the developer stop hiding the scrollbar.
gitlab doesn't have the same appeal to me for browsing projects... at least not on the surface.

the amazing thing about github is that you can go to github.com without signing up and search a multitude of projects and their forks. that's awesome. it's a level playing field.
I just got what you are saying. Yes you would be setting the value in that case instead of checking it. Very dangerous territory.
Monoco s a ghosttown...
>TRP... "strong opinions"

You spelled misogyny weird.

TRP is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
I also would like to know if others have suggestions. I've tired Apple Photo/iPhoto/Aperture and Capture One. I find they have severe performance or usability issues.
You also need to look at fuel costs of transportation. I compost all my food waste, and use the compost to grow vegetables. The council could also take my food waste, but the nearest municipal composter is apparently about 20 miles away.
I will grant you that. At the same time, it is a horrible benchmark and it is even more deadly when you compare github, a company, among many, that offers hosting to a monopoly that you can't easily move away from.
Around 80% of Package Control users are running ST3, averaged over the past six months. The percentage for the past month is approximately the same.
Not sure why they did this on a Friday. I know the standard PR playbook says to release bad news on Friday but I wouldn't call a response to this bad news.
I agree with your first paragraph but not your second. I imagine you've got a pretty strict standard of what would be "fair" but I don't think it's inherently difficult to come up with a technical solution to determining costs or allocating them among different people.

I think you're absolutely right tho that taxes like this are unlikely. They're certainly rare now.
Requests for Startups
I need to say it this way. It's digestible.
you have oil-powered electricity

There's not a lot of that about (1%): https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3

I agree that we should rehabilitate incineration where it's more efficient than recycling and doesn't produce anything bad (dioxins were a problem at one point). It's certainly better than it ending up in the sea.
I regularly complain about politics or current news articles here, but this is the kind of random, in-depth stuff that often times works well even if it's not directly startup/tech related.
Yes, for example this startup is doing something interesting in latam. http://algramo.com/en/
Beside the point, but isn't the self-driving car project under Alphabet and not Google?
Discussion on whether eradicating an entire species would be good or bad assumes we actually can eradicate an entire species. How easy it is to do that? I mean, can we be so sure this is possible?
1 Jan 1970 is zero in the Unix calendar.
An experiment to improve the quality of maker time
so you're talking about 2 kinds of "voting" here:
1. Decision by the miners on what version of protocol to support;
2. Consensus on the bitcoin network where nodes vote to determine which chain is valid.

"voting" I'm referring to (which there's none) is telling the core team which changes to implement. who's to tell them not to implement segwit for example?
One of the main reasons of the housing crisis in the Bay Area is Prop 13 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...) Prop 13 basically keeps the property taxes constant (or 1% increase) as the value of your house increases (doubles or triples). Your tax gets re-calculated only if you sell your house and the new owner starts paying potentially multiples of what the previous owner has been paying in taxes. This works great for older people who own property they can basically stay at their home forever, but it creates an unfair situation for new comers in the area and the newer generations.

How are property taxes calculated in other places in the world? Vancouver? London? Tokyo?

This is such a hard problem to solve, no one wants to force elderly people to move because of a bull real estate market, but you also need young hard working people in your city for economic growth. My solution would be to jack up the real estate inheritance tax and allocate that money for public transportation and affordable housing.
What to say to someone who has lost a dog?
Our plans is to begin with GitHub support only, since it is (at the moment at least...) the most popular service. But later we plan to support both GitLab and Bitbucket too.