skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason why people (I put myself into this camp as well) prefer directories for organization is because there is an entire ecosystem built around them. Backing up, recursive search, exploring via ui, programmable access, programmatic access using language of ones choice are all choices available to the user. Code organization isnt the only place this shows up, organizing music and photos has similar semantics - apps which try to do the organization via higher level metadata rarely put in the engineering effort to come up with robust solutions for all the above use cases I cited abode.
One of the things I dislike about social networks is that people carry over short snarky commenting style to places on the net where you expect people to post more thoughtful comments. Or technical forums where your trying to have a detailed conversation and solve problems. It can really add unnecessary noise to otherwise productive boards.

I really wish people would take a breather and slow down before posting outside of those services.

They also seem to be more of a time sink then anything else where people can procrastinate from doing more productive or important things.

I suppose I'm guilty of doing the same thing on HN on occasion.
You like Monty Python but not Spaceballs? I find that pretty weird.
"You are a terrible person" or "he is a terrible person" is the internet buzzphrase, in the same category as "you are bad and you should feel bad".

I mean, I don't collect data on how often these things appear, but that's the one I was reacting to.
> Must she then pay back her share of the loan?

The husband always ends up paying in the case of divorce (with 2 minor exceptions).

What will happen is that the wife's divorce lawyer will ask for an extra $10,000 (or whatever amount) because she has this extra obligation. So if she's taking $250,000 of his money (or "their" money), the lawyer will demand it be upped to $260,000 so she can pay back her share of the loan.

Exceptions:

1. The rare situation in which the husband got an ironclad prenuptial agreement.

2. The rare situation in which the wife has much greater income and assets than the husband.
They also decided when they gave Republicans control of the senate.
Should we consider HN as social media and should we quit it?
I put all of the social media apps into a folder on my iPhone and dragged it to a few home screens away. I don't use them much anymore.
If you consider the recount abstracted from all other phenomena, then this may be a reasonable point of view.

But voter suppression by Republicans in the South is well-known and widespread, because the GOP wins more elections when the turnout, particularly black turnout, decreases. Florida has a long history of voter suppression, which has been documented on numerous occasions: http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/florida-ho...

So, in the Supreme Court vote, we have a majority conservative court that includes Scalia, a Reagan/Bush era appointee, who happens to favor the side of the coin that puts another Bush in the White House.

Scalia admitted that a recount was potentially prejudicial to Bush, and decided it was best to quash it. His action takes place in a sequence of many actions designed to bolster the GOP. Coincidentally, Scalia helped roll back the Voting Rights Act, once a milestone for Civil Rights.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/25/local/la-me-ln-scali...

Every single one of his positions may be impeccably argued, but it's a striking coincidence that he toed a clear ideological line on abortion, gun control, affirmative action and gay marriage, among many other issues.

I do not believe his stance on Bush v. Gore was neutral. He had a horse in the race; his horse won; and America was the worse for it. Good riddance.
Pawn faster.

http://codeplea.com/game-scripting-languages
Avoid specifity in CSS by adding bits of complexity in your HTML markup. Your style sheet foot print will be so small you'll never need any of these tricky patterns.
This comment needs to be better supported. It is intuitive that votes for POTUS would be a federal matter, and Wikipedia does not mention a jurisdictional issue for that case, nor any other federal interference conflict whatsoever.

Also, singling out Scalia when four other justices voted with him is biased. It is also an incredible stretch to cast responsibility for an incompetence in handling an unanticipated war on any individual (especially in the judiciary!).
From what I understand, that's not his argument. His position was that torture was only unconstitutional when used as punishment (and not for extracting information or other purposes).
> I encourage everyone to not just read the opinions, but to be vigilante of this when doing so.

Vigilantism, particularly against judges and justices for written opinions, is not the way to deal with laws and interpretations you find unjust. We must not fight the unjust with injustice.
Be careful of getting drawn in to "newer is better".
I don't do FB. The problem is, at least the community here at campus seems so saturated with it that about every interaction I have with new people begins with inquiry about it or some other social media thing.

I decide to look into some new club or political group or about anything? Primary communication method: FB. This monopoly over our communication they have, I think it sucks for non-users.

edit.addendum. I realized monopoly is poor choice of word because it is not total: Instagram and Snapchat and whatever is the social media thing du jour exist. However, as alternatives they are quite similar. I wonder how young adults used to socialise, say, a decade or two ago?
Where ballots aren't sufficiently clear to voters, they should be made so.

Well there's the problem. What do you do when you have ballots that are objectively unclear, like the infamous butterfly ballot? You can't invalidate the election and have a new one--apart from the logistical problems, the turnout is going to differ significantly based on the media attention and the knowledge that the cancelled ballots were so close.

The best option you have is to mandate judicial review of ballots well before the election. But even that doesn't save you in the situation Florida actually found itself in.
I would also recommend a perfect present for the new couple - a smart bedroom IoT CO2 meter that would help to keep the nasty CO2 levels in the bedroom inside comfortable levels such that the new couple can enjoy healthier and happier future together.
While working on large code bases I have often (in half jest) wished for the concept of a runtime performance tax on code that is engineered poorly. Some variants of this could be
a. Imposing an exponentially increasing programmatic sleep on functions based on their length.
b. Repeated database / filesystem / network requests for identical resources multiple times in a program should again incur a slowdown.
I find the requirement of "civility" over "truth" to be rather off-putting. The direct line here is Scalia's belief that justice is trumped by tradition, and therefore an innocent person has no right to be declared so by new evidence.

This makes him a terrible person, because he is directly standing between an innocent person (or people) and their freedom and the justice this country promises.

It's calling a spade a spade. Civility doesn't (edit: shouldn't) trump that.
Ha, from the title I took this as a very dark take on the lifestyle involved to get a startup off the ground... not the case.
Why should the death of a Supreme Court Justice matter this much, let alone be a cause for celebration (as it clearly is for some in this thread)?

That unelected, life-tenured judges exercise this much authority over us, that they routinely subvert our collective democratic will as expressed through elections and referendums, that people even defend their votes for President on the basis of what kind of Supreme Court nominations they will likely make, does not suggest a healthy democracy.
What are those interesting articles?
Go for first to market + dedicate team time to go back and fix problems. What you want to avoid is getting excited post-launch and building new features before having fixed the big problems.

It would be good if you have system tests (a.k.a end-to-end tests) to make sure the app works from the point of view of the end users, and this will also help you refactor in the future. That being said, don't be a perfectionist: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--bxOVAmf8...
At this point I think "pull request" is part of the developer's terminology but "merge request" is just as likely to be clearly understood.

BTW, sytse, what's the best address to contact you about gitlab? There's something I'd like your thoughts on.
Except that, as sibling comment has pointed out, nicotine patches and vaping do not really help with quitting.
Did you deliberately reverse the quote?
I mean they do have to vote on a recess appointment. IIRC
> I believe that something like TDD should be something that's taught to us from the beginning. In my mind it should essentially be a foundation skill that becomes a platform from which you can grow from.

You see, it's a common misconception. You believe tests are one of the most
important things, while they are mostly for ensuring regressions don't occur
(or for basic checking if a very complicated component has some chance to
work). What is really important is to have good architecture so the components
are composable, and operations of different abstraction levels not mixed up.
Tests are far, far after those.

This is why TDD should not be taught as a universal basic block: TDD induces
only bunch of supplementary code (called tests), which is not even a remote
proxy for good software, while good architecture is one of the few properties
that are exactly what makes good software.
An interview with a co-inventor of the ENIAC http://www.computerworld.com/article/2561813/computer-hardwa...
> and see if the "ticking" of the clocks changes with respect to each other

Maybe a stupid question. These clocks are so accurate wouldn't the time they measure vary by changes in the earth's mass and/or rotation speed?
It's probably just like vancouver, lots of money, no place for it to go, you can launder foreign money basically legally into a house in the US. You should search for vancouver and see the ycomb story on it earlier this week.
Perhaps a nighttime version intended to work with starlight would work. It could be aimed at Polaris and combine the light from all the stars swirling around it to project the digits.
> Too much politics, too much inane nonsense. Yet I feel compelled to go there.

A valid criticism of facebook, but that's not at all what he's talking about. He's saying that to the extent that he uses facebook for his career (ie: marketing his books), he feels that he's giving away the contents of his book and that is ultimately hurting sales:

Professionally, I’m thinking it may be good for one’s career and business to be off social media altogether. Chris Anderson was wrong. “Free” doesn’t lead to anything but more free. Working for free isn’t leverage to do a talk for loads of money; now they even want you to talk for free. What am I supposed to do? Join YouTube and get three cents for every 100,000 views of my video? That is crap; that is insane!

It's a completely ridiculous notion that's contrary to what anyone who is making money in the digital economy has figured out: digital content is marketing for stuff you can charge for. The fact that Rushkoff can't find stuff to charge for is indicative of a painful truth that he should consider: he's actually not creating that much value.

He complains about getting 3c for every 100k youtube views, but never at all considers justifying why people should listen to him, simply that it costs him time to create this content.

It's actually a pretty marxist philosophy (the labor theory of value), and it has huge limitations in terms of describing our economy.
"you appear to be offline. please reconnect and try again"

I'm pretty sure I'm online. Anyone else getting this error?
You shouldn't if your commenting and getting information on programming. But unfortunately HN is overrun with mostly popular mainstream news nowadays. So its hard to justify unless you check maybe once or twice a day and only read the useful bits.
I think it was meant "vigilant" in the Latin sense, ie.: watchful, attentive. Otherwise, the statement ("vigilant of") doesn't seem to make much sense.
Many, many years :-) it wasn't a true criticism
Unsung hero of the net (1999)
I'm starting to just read the comments on HN and I don't even look at articles anymore. I suppose this behaviour is similar to what I do on social media.

The good part is that I have become a significantly better programmer from the articles and comments on HN. Although, most of the improvements came from the first year of using HN and then it's started to taper off since.

I should probably use HN less, but I think it has genuinely improved my life more than any other social media website.
This is how you get hellbanned.
Even given a divorce they would see no interest or payments for most of the life of the loan - probably 5-10 years on average at least. And these are unsecured loans with the money probably going towards a wedding so there aren't going to be any assets there. The interest rate will have to be insane and even then they're going to have a hard time raising money.
Show HN: Windbg extension for debugging 64-bit dumps of 32-bit .NET processes
Thanks for sharing. I'll try it. The idea to use gopherjs to run on browser is great.
Note: Article about Jim Clark from 1999.
I'm glad to hear that. It's a cool idea, but only works if they synchronise frequently.
Good on you :-)
That's not really an apt analogy; if a hangman refuses to tie a knot, they'll find another hangman. The Supreme Court Justice specifically gets to choose one way or the other.
No no no. This thinking is sideways. The injustice of the removal of freedom from an innocent person trumps tradition.

The Founding Fathers et al so disliked the injustice of tradition they started a new country.

To your other point about being unaccountable, the Supreme Court is checked by the balance of power between the three branches as much as the other two are. They aren't all-powerful beings, and I've seen it around this discussion that they hold unmatched power - which just isn't true.
I wish Jobs were alive to respond with something like, "then don't do that--problem solved."
I have no facebook or linkedin or twitter accounts or instagram or tinder or snapchat.

I can never go back after 2 years.
Thanks. I know what a parliamentarian is and in any case could've found the dictionary definition. I was hoping for suggestions as to what kind of sneaky tricks and shenanigans we could expect if the opportunity presented itself.
Yeah, @pfarnsworth is stuck on some weird point. Wages in the tech industry went down during the dotcom crash for those that had jobs. And some people lost their jobs and couldn't get new ones. And there were some people who did not have their salaries change, like me. I was not in the bay area, that's probably why mine didn't go down. My stock went did go down in value :-)
Ignoring the fact that every recount had Bush winning and at some point a winner had to be declared since we needed a president.
Not exactly. That's like saying the App Store will help your app be seen millions of times.
Leave Me Alone Chester Funny Video
Shouldn't someone officially end their marriage because of abuse if it is in fact caused by abuse? I don't see how this is an issue. I'm probably overlooking something, but the incentives seem to align.
You're right - newer is not necessarily better. But active development and recent releases are usually a good proxy for at least a chance of further improvements.
Oops, fixed. I'm not sure if that was a typo or a freudian slip.

Kidding.

...kind of.
This is so wrong on so many levels that I feel helpless of writing an
exhaustive comment. Suffice to say, the guy says that Debian Security team
"probably can't deliver the quality" necessary to trust packages shipped by
Debian because they're doing it in their free time. Instead he proposes
rolling release in Arch Linux fashion, which is an OS-level equivalent of
infinite free-fall.
Scalia's appointment was a major point of pride for us Italian-Americans. Even today, if you're wealthy with an Italian last name, people joke about mafia connections. Representation on the highest court has been a great counter to that.
Glad you shared that with us.
I don't know of a good threshold, but you should generally favor small messages -> big computations. If a 1mb message isn't handled properly, it could be retransmitted, etc. In the case of a 1mb message, it sounds like that data should be serialized into a database and the id or whatever is needed to access it is passed along in the message instead.

It's like emailing a 10mb powerpoint instead of throwing it on Dropbox and sending a link to it.
One of my pet peeves on Twitter is people posting sarcastic posts about an upcoming news event like the results of a primary. Sorry, but it's not funny and I don't care - I just want to hear the real news not your lame attempt at a joke.
Yes, I'm aware. I was knocking on prenups ;)
A common use case for these high performance message passing libraries (not sure if that applies to the ones tested here) is in something like autonomous cars, where you have many sensors and many systems interconnected through a bus, and ethernet comes in handy here. It's natural to broadcast grayscale images and larger stuff to the bus.

If you have slow ass VMs passing data from Zurich to NYC, yeah, maybe don't send 1MB messages.
Senators leave Washington, there are time limits on debate, they may not be able to return in time. Or, if a potential recess appointment is suspected, the Republicans will be spending their holidays in DC.
> Specifically, he said of lawyers like me (the not-harvard crowd) "You cannot make a purse out of a sow's ear".

According to the NYT source, he actually said, "you can’t make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse", referring to the Harvard crowd as silk purses but not to non-Harvard lawyers as sow's ears. He seems to be referring to his disdain for the quality of the education at the most selective law schools while complementing their qualifications of their students.
Don't you think a person is likely to make better decisions when their beliefs more accurately reflect reality?

I would much prefer an atheist president but that's not likely to happen any time soon.
A recess appointment would make it an ironclad certainty that a Republican would be elected president. It would make enough voters, including moderates, angry enough that a Democrat would stand no chance.
Small, medium and large, that might do it, maybe with X-Large and XX-Large for the American market. Works for pants and plenty of fast moving consumer goods. Cuts out having to have detailed specs, plus it is not exactly as if a computer is something that has to be sized to a person's anatomy. The same could be applied to screen sizes, instead of clumsy acronyms like 'CGA', 'SVGA' etc.

I am actually a traditionalist, for me, bytes matter, as to megabytes and gigabytes, not forgetting terabytes. I like the consistency of Base 2, Base 10 for disk sizes always makes me feel short changed. But I am on HN, I cut my teeth on 6502 and I know my two times table. But my uncle, with his top of the range iPhone whatever? He takes lots of photos and has a huge iTunes collection, for him 'large' might be the thing that informs his choice. My auntie? She doesn't do music but she plays those Angry Birds games, 'medium' will do nicely for her. My nephew? Small should do him fine (he always loses his phone so never has much on it).

Of course people in-between 'developer' and 'techno-phobic' might need a little guidance in choosing size, but right now these megabyte and gigabyte things are just plain confusing. 'Best for photos - medium' might be the strap line to sell the product.

Of course, like clothing sizes could be on a per-brand basis. Much like how you can be a 'Large' in Nike jacket sizes, you could be an 'X-Large' in some equivalent Italian leisure-sports-wear brand. In the world of gadgets you could therefore be 'Large' in Apple device-land and 'X-Large' in Samsung gadget-land. Even bicycles that were once measured in distance from bottom-bracket to top-tube are now simply sold as 'Small/Medium/Large'.

This simple sizing could make things a lot simpler for all involved, side-stepping this Base 2/10 nonsense.
Huh, yup: John Marshall served jointly as Secretary of State and Chief Justice, for a few months at the end of the Adams administration.

source: the sidebar here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall
> I don't use a Macintosh. Is their OS system not built out of binaries or libraries? How are those managed, if not by a package manager? I was under the impression that Apple called their package manager "the App Store".

App Store isn't a package manager, this is a store where end users download applications like Google Play, has a lot of restrictions regarding what can be published and distributed. One certainly cannot distribute libraries through the App Store or register alternative repositories. And the App Store doesn't resolve dependencies or stuff like that.
It's an expression he has used more than once. I first heard it when a law student asked him whether she should bother applying for a clerkship given she hadn't gone to harvard. In that instance the sows ear was the asking law student.
Indeed:

> In 2012, when the average wedding cost was $27,427, the median was $18,086. In 2011, when the average was $27,021, the median was $16,886. In Manhattan, where the widely reported average is $76,687, the median is $55,104. And in Alaska, where the average is $15,504, the median is a mere $8,440.

Luckily, these are not national figures, merely numbers reported by visitors of a particular website. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any more representative numbers, especially with expenses measured against income level.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/weddings/2013/06/average_...
Your tldr is too long. Tizen isn't android btw.
I don't know. I used to think I was a moderate, and I'd vote for almost any Democrat to keep Republicans from getting two SCOTUS appointments. It's an excellent point though, it would give Republicans a huge issue propaganda win.
Can I bet this startup will fail? Seriously there's no way the SEC and government will allow this. You can't just create any financial instrument you want and expect the government to just twiddle their thumbs and be ok with it. Otherwise we'd have eBay futures a long time ago.
StatusPage.io (YC S13) Is Hiring a Lead Designer (Denver, CO)
Well, at oral argument, Scalia made it clear that only legal votes should be counted. To be honest, since the question was "what is a legal vote?" that seemed like circular reasoning. The underlying idea, though, is that if I walk into a polling place, and proudly yell my vote, and walk out, my vote isn't counted regardless of how clear the intent was.

Scalia's suggestion was that if a vote couldn't be read by a machine, it wasn't a legitimate vote regardless of any extenuating details. That may have been influenced by the fact that Florida law only mentioned recounts that were performed by running the ballots through the machines a second time.
SourceForge started out as a 20% time type project at VA Linux/Research. It was originally open source but went closed source when they pivoted from hardware to SourceForge. Savannah was a fork from before it was closed up.
As someone for whom English is not the first language, I have only ever heard the latter form. Thank you for sharing this information.
Perhaps it would have better been described as 'The longest single confirmation process in history'. In terms of the whole replacement process, where it included candidates that were rejected, there have been times over 125 days ( as you mentioned ).

Raw data is available at http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nomin...