skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Functions, arguments, classes, methods, objects, threads, locks, all these are reassuring everyday words, and yet their meaning in programming (and math) bears no relation to their everyday meaning. (from http://akkartik.name/post/mu)

I can see how the use of the term "arguments" could be confusing ("parameters" or "inputs" would make more sense), and "threads" is a rather tenuous metaphor for how scheduling works within a kernel, but all of the others mirror their real-world meaning pretty well. I'd be more worried about students needing to unlearn "containers", "ingredients", and "reagents" when they start reading material from outside of Mu, talking to other developers, or learning calculus (which uses functions, sets, and arrays).
It paints a bulls-eye on her back and its use of the term "piracy" to "free knowledge" doesn't flow well in western sentiments. While I get that the "booty" she is stealing are the fees that the journals would like you to charge, the acts she are creating are more like a librarian letting people check out books without a library card because she has an infinite supply of said books.

I am hoping that the rent-seeking behavior of the science journals can be used as the canonical example of how copyright can harm the common good.

By endorsing and upholding this egregious use of copyright, our elected officials are clearly causing more harm than good, and the perversion of the spirit of copyright, that an author is granted a temporary monopoly so that they might recover some of their investment, portrays this use as indentured servitude at best, and outright theft at its worst.

So while I don't think anyone is really "harmed" because Disney won't release the original Cinderella or employs measures to keep it from being copied. It is very much the case that by creating this barrier to scientific research, a person or group who might change the world in a positive way if they had access, is perhaps even unaware that there is relevant work that they cannot get access to. That is definitely a harm in my opinion.

So I hope that the narrative here, which has been dominated by big media for so long, might get some interjection of a more nuanced understanding of why copyright exists, and how to craft laws that embrace that spirit, rather then the rent-seeking interests of the people who live off the work of others.
Personal experience: While I have DuckDuckGo as the default search engine on my notebook, I end up taking multiple-word queries to Google most of the time because the results are much better there.

In fact, DuckDuckGo is only better for one-word queries for me because of its promoted results (e.g. when I'm searching for the name of an OSS project and it highlights the official website at the top of the results page).
I don't think that's feasible -- scihub requests articles directly from publishers (using legit accounts). Each requested article is cached by libnet.io, so articles are not re-requested twice
We have a lot of branches on our remote, so navigating that page is pretty much pointless. This may be more of an issue with our repo being dirty with undeleted branches, but where is a typeahead find feature on that branches page? It just seems dirt cheap to implement, yet it's nowhere to be found.
Just use DOI of the article, then it's instant and bypasses Google search
I feel the same guilt, I'm a student - I'm excluded from scholarships, meetups and career events because of my gender, that plus the regular criticism aimed at the industry - I feel ashamed every time I'm asked to fill out an equality form. I don't know what to do about it.
What’s New in Python 3.6
Love the framing in this article.

Letting someone keep an extra portion of their own income, but only if used for savings or healthcare, is referred to as "tax expenditure". This person - again we're only talking about them being allowed to keep a slightly larger fraction of his/her own income - is a "welfare queen".

Audacious!
What the world really needs is more dudes taking the devil's advocate position on sexism issues.
I know her and don't believe she's after a role as a developer. But there are a lot of roles where those skills can come in quite handy even if that's not the primary job.
Reddit. Well, certain subreddits anyway. Mostly gaming ones.

Various gaming sites, most of which aren't relevant to people here (GoNintendo, Nintendo Life, Gamnesia, etc).

Many, many different forums. Some tech related, some gaming related, some just about anything and everything. At the moment, mostly my secondary Wario Forums site, as well as The Admin Zone and a few others).

CSS Tricks.

Smashing Magazine (and a few other web development news sites like Sitepoint and A List Apart).

So quite a few things really.
I'm not speaking specifically on recruiters, whom I also believe play a valuable role (possibly second most valuable to actual engineers, given their importance on bringing in talent), more on middle managers, marketing and sales orgs. I had a general sense of ennui with the way they shaped self-obsessed materialism in SF, and their insistence on packing 5 at a time in apartments they couldn't afford, driving out families with fewer income earners per head just to be part of something they didn't help make. To me, that brand of person gives Baby Boomers a run for their money.
First off, I would really like to commend you for caring and responding to everyone on here. You deserve a lot of kudos for this!

'Test the merge' is something that we already get from GitHub. Travis CI tests both the merge and the branch itself. I think it only makes sense to test both, in fact, if I were to choose one way for a Merge Request, I would just test the merge result.

We have IoT Platform SDKs (See https://github.com/IOT-DSA/sdk-dslink-dart and https://github.com/IOT-DSA/sdk-dslink-java for examples) that at somepoint I would like to pitch the idea to move from GitHub to GitLab fully. We currently utilize GitLab for only a portion of our projects. We find it really helpful that Travis CI tests both the merge result and the branch, and even though I could look over it to switch GitLab (because let's face it, GitLab > GitHub), I would love to be able to tell the other developers that they will only be gaining functionality.

As for the code analytics, I have second guessed myself, and I completely agree with you now. This is definitely something that I see most useful in the enterprise setting.
Private Eye (subscriber to the print version), The Guardian (online, although am losing interest as it's becoming increasingly click bait as it tries to stop its massive financial losses, for many years I was a print subscriber), The Register (online), books (kindle and print)
Arxiv is a place to host scientific articles for free. Journals are institutions that scientists submit articles to, get them reviewed, published, and then charge a fee to access them. Sci hub takes the papers in the closed access journals and distributes them online for free.

Hope that made it clear.
Women being harsher on other women is a common phenomenon. Even famous feminists like Gloria Steinem have addressed it.
Thanks a lot! Guess I might try.
As someone who keeps getting comments about my "weird" toolkit for doing scientific research (Jupyter/Julia), this made my day.
Many people reading this would bristle at the idea that tax breaks can be equated to welfare. The former reduces the tax bill that you need to give the government, while the latter gives you free money/services that you never had to pay for yourself. Depending on your perception, the 2 can seem wildly different and to say they are equivalent would be a hard sell.

However, the article does touch on 2 very important ideas:

1) Redistribution of wealth is an innate part of government. The term has such a bad connotation, but so many immensely popular government programs basically come down to redistribution of wealth. An increase in welfare redistributes wealth from the rich to the poor. The 401k tax subsidy redistributes wealth from the middle-class to the rich. The mortgage-interest-deduction redistributes wealth from renters to home-owners, and especially, multiple-home-owners. People associated "redistribution of wealth" with robbing the rich, but in reality, a huge number of tax deductions have the opposite effect of redistributing money from those with less money, to those with more money.

2) Instead of boldly owning up to the above, politicians try to get around the "redistribution" stigma by sticking in tax deductions/expenditures instead. These tax expenditures seem more politically palatable, but in reality, have the effect of distorting the market and picking coincidental winners and losers. HSA plans? You just rewarded people with predictable medical expenditures over those with unpredictable medical expenditures. Mortgage interest deductions? You just rewarded people who prefer to invest in real-estate, and not those who prefer to invest in stocks. What you end up with are certain people, who undeservedly benefit greatly from these tax programs, and others who are just as deserving, but don't get the benefits.

Using tax deductions to enforce "fairness" is simply not a good idea. Issues of fairness should be managed at a macro scale, by adjusting the overall tax rates, and through the public safety net. Tax deductions should be used as a very specifically targeted tool, aimed at discouraging negative externalities, and encouraging positive externalities. For everything else, we would be better off scrapping them entirely, and adjusting the overall tax rates downward instead.
Well "Turps" is coming from Turpentine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpentine they distill them in a very similar fashion alpha-pinene, nerolidol and beta-caryophyllene are known to have some adverse health effects alpha-pinene is especially nasty.

The problem isn't the synthesis there shouldn't be a difference in the effects of a compounds such as aldehydes based on if you distill them or synthesize them , if anything synthesized compounds have much higher purity levels than distilled ones.

The problem is understanding the effects of individual compounds the cumulative effect of multiple compounds (in any given combination and ratio) as well as their long and short term effects.

Add to that added complexity of different delivery mechanisms not all vaporizers are the same they operate on different principals, power levels and use different materials.

All this can make accurate measurement very difficult and a very long term project, this is now compounded by the fact that "vaping" is a multi-dollar industry and behind it there is even a bigger industry which is the food flavoring one which for a long time has enjoyed the "GRAS" classification of it's products which barely holds water at the common ways of ingestion and amounts and most likely will utterly fall apart if you look at it too deeply.

There's also some insane negative feedback from the vaping community it self calling it a conspiracy funded by big tobacco (which is funny considering that big tobacco owns all the big ecig brands).

I always stated before that vaping is most likely "safer" especially on short term than smoking 1-2 packs a day, but I always suspected that it can be just as bad if not worse due to completely different mechanisms.

If you vape for say 6-12 months just to help yourself quit smoking it's probably "worth" the risk, if you going to end up chugging 30ml of juice a day you are not going to enjoy the results.

Heck even if you breath water vapor all day it won't be good for you, there is no way in hell that breathing in "hot" vapor can be good, may types of cancer especially throat and mouth cancer have been connected just to that the intake of hot or warm air rather than the actual chemical compounds in it.
But people are keep buying some crazy 200 watt's ecigs and sucking on them like it's their mum's tit when you are spending 200W of energy it has to go some where at least some of that energy is deposited into the soft tissue of your mouth, throat and lungs and that can't be good no matter what else is in there.
Please don't let things like "Apple makes $1.8MM per employee" get to you. It leads to stupid decision-making. Yes, the company is making more money on your efforts than it is paying you. It's called business, you take inputs and add value to them and sell them to other people who will turn around and do the same thing. If you had capital to throw into a business venture then you'd do it too.

I met a guy a few weeks ago who'd moved over from California. He wanted to learn how to code, and told me his story. He was a business sort who went into business with a software developer. The dev did good work, and the business guy managed to get it funded. Just when things started picking up, the dev decided he wasn't getting enough of the pie and bailed, destroying the entire enterprise. He wanted to learn how to code so that this wouldn't happen to him again.

So I'm giving him an hour or so a week to show him how web development works so that he can code a prototype himself. Then he can get funded and hire employees rather than deal with the emotional vagaries of software developers. I don't blame him at all.

Business guys are typically going to make more money than the coders are, it's pointless to fight this. The better route is to go into business yourself and capture the value yourself. The reason is that the business side is the human side, and humans are harder to deal with, ultimately, than computers are. Also, humans have money and computers do not.
The same thing could in some way be said about Denmark a country who have free healthcare, free education (including university), free roads, free almost everything (but high taxes)

Denmark have more people hired in the public sector than China relatively to their size and many of these people have long education and function as managers and is part of the problematic New Public Management philosophy which has spread throughout the western countries as their legislation and society in general apparently becomes harder and harder to understand.

Now how can a country with free healthcare, free education etc. be a wellfare state for the wealthy?

It can because those who are highly educated knows how the system works, can speak the "language" and are able to be treated better than the rest. Heck you don't even have to be wealthy to be treated better you just need to be higher educated.

Of course the US is more extreme but still the underlying patterns are still there. That the welfare system is built by those who need it the least. But how to fix it, now thats a discussion in itself.
Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose
Sorry, didn't mean just visited links. I want unvisited (but seen) links to be treated differently.

Example: I visit once, scan 30 links, click 2, and leave. Come back 2 hours later, there are 5 new links, 5 have dropped off, and my attention is drawn to just the five new links, regardless of whether I visited the other 25 or not.
They're fringe extremists who are nevertheless the appointed representatives of vast numbers of artists, producers, and heavily-monied interests.

We're a bunch of angry people.

I have no problem with people expressing the outrage of the situation in strong language.

(That being said, I too am an artist and sympathize with their plight. I wouldn't like some of you do away with copyright outright. But these laws as written are shackles and chains on our artists and culture as well.)
http://aurelia.io/

https://babeljs.io/

https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/

https://karma-runner.github.io/0.13/index.html

http://www.protractortest.org/

https://cucumber.io/

http://es6-features.org/

http://webcomponents.org/

https://www.jetbrains.com/ [the most amazing IDEs]
Reddit's Javascript sub

Github/Explore/Trending
Harmful bacterial molecules discovered in processed foods
Face Swap (tech is real)
Loomio has been picking up development, they recently launched their new Angular UI and will soon add a powerful plugin architecture [1]

[1] https://github.com/loomio/loomio/pull/2863
How come all papers i have come across at the arXiv are readily downloadable as PDF?
But AFAIK they can block the whole domain, when you access an https site any proxy or firewall you have can see the domain but nothing more.

For example a firewall would see that you entered Google.com but not what you searched
1) Tax breaks do not distribute income. Not up, not down, not at all. Thus tax breaks to not redistribute income either.

2) Agreed.

3) The line between fairness and positive/negative externalities is fuzzy.
A little bit of both. A US citizen can sue foreign nationals in US courts, but a judgement can't be enforced unless the foreign national steps foot in the US or has a US based asset. In this case, the .org domain is controlled on US soil, so that's about all the court can do unless some crazy extradition arrangement is made or she accidentally forgets and comes to the US for a conference or something.
Well, the big TrackPoint patents are going to be expiring before too long so maybe someone else will be able to make good laptops for use without the touch pad?
Maybe I'm just using git wrong, but it seems to highly encourage spinning off little repos for each project you might have so I have a ton of repos. E.g., each of my old school projects is its own repo. My usage would put me past their largest personal plan. Granted most of these projects are in "archive" mode, but I'd rather not have to pick which projects to host based on their current activity -- I just want everything in the same place.

I guess I could make some public, but not open source, but that seems like an odd solution too. And I don't want to be publishing homework assignments for others.
Your premise is that it's their income to begin with which is based on the assumption that the entire value of whatever they get is 100% based on their own work.

Thats not how salaries works. There are a lot of factors involved in a salary not just your own work. For instance the protection of your property rights, the borders, against criminals and so on.

We can discuss how much we should pay in taxes, but this false premise that your income is a one to one reflection of your work is simply false.
HN thread on lobste.rs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452384

Invites are supposedly via irc chat https://lobste.rs/chat
The worst part is we do need regulation and testing of this stuff for public safety, but there's propaganda machines on both sides thrown into such high gear we may never get it.

We need it because in a fly-by-night environment of small producers, there's no accountability or detectability if some idiot decides that melamine makes a good inert buffer material.

What we need is simple: Bonded, enforced labeling requirements. Safety could be nearly a solved problem with an ingredient list showing me how many milligrams of what precisely is going into the fluid (recipes left up to the producer), a license for distributing this precise formulation with money held as a security deposit, and an FDA mandate to randomly test one unit in every thousand.

What we'll probably get instead is that some US corporate power with interests in a fluid company will negotiate some deal that bans all their competitors for being unsafe, and things will be made stable and expensive once more.
> In 2015, the federal government spent over $1 trillion via tax breaks and the majority of that money went to social welfare programs.

> Q: So because I have an employer-sponsored 401K and health care plan, take the home mortgage interest deduction on my tax return, and save money for my kids’ college education in 529 accounts... Yes, you are a welfare queen

Just wow. I would expect this sort of stuff from Marxist professor, not from Washington Post.
I reject the metaphor. Just because a tool does not gain new followers (heh) anymore, doesn't mean it should be killed. It would be interesting to know if Twitter would be profitable if it is just put into maintenance mode.

My point is, Twitter has value for me the way it is. I don't personally see any reason for changing it. Of course, that's not a reasoning that Wall Street would agree with.
Drudge is a great aggregator but my goodness it has strong political biases. I used to pair Salon.com visits with drudge to get contrasting spins, but a year or two ago Salon went all link-baity fluff. For a while qz.com was amazing until they re-designed their home page and removed 50 IQ points from the content (ditto for fivethirtyeight.com). At this point my news sources are mainly reduced to the great-but-comically-biased drudge and the once-great-now-dumbed-down-but-still-analytically-unbiased fivethirtyeight.com

If anyone knows of a good US-moderate or left of US-center news aggregator that acts like its readers are intelligent, I'm all ears (I also like right of US-center news but I get plenty of that from drudge)
I think you mean "Brainfuck", I can't find a programming language called "Brain".
http://www.datatau.com/

http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/automaton

http://highscalability.com/

A selection of subreddits, among which: r/apachespark/, r/java/, r/programming/, r/InternetIsBeautiful/, r/dataisbeautiful/, r/MachineLearning/

I'd like to follow a bunch of people on twitter, on the subjects they are experts in; but find the signal to noise ratio is not high enough.

Also, I stalk a few people on various forums because I really like their way of thinking or expertise. If you say something clever, I'm going to go through your post history.

On top of that, some youtube channels, and about 400 blogs of individuals. Best ones: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks, http://colah.github.io/, https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/, http://acko.net/, http://karpathy.github.io/.
while I flagged the article; it is after all more election year drivel; the primary reason people take offense at equating tax breaks with welfare is that welfare requires no effort on the receiver to contribute to the system whereas a tax break is relief from the taking by government of your work.

Or worded another way, welfare is assumed to be given to those who are not productive members of society while a tax break is considered to be a reduction in taking from a productive member.
I assume you mean seen but not visited, since as the other reply says, the browser tracks :visited for you.

I have a more aggressive greasemonkey script that hides lots of non-technical links on HN

var links = document.links;

var boring = [ "adage.com", "arstechnica", "bbc", "discovermagazine", "bloomberg",
"bloombergview", "buzzfeed", "businessinsider",
"californiasunday","cnn","csmonitor","dailymail",
"digg", "economist","esquire", "fastcompany",
"forbes", "ft.com", "fortune", "fusion", "geekwire",
"gizmodo", "harvard.edu", "huffingtonpost", "inc.com",
"longreads", "medium", "mondaynote",
"nature", "nautil.us", "newscientist", "newstatesman",
"newyorker", "npr.org", "nybooks", "nymag", "nytimes", "pando",
"psychologytoday", "qz.com", "reddit", "reuters", "sciencedaily",
"scientificamerican", "slate", "techcrunch", "telegraph",
"theatlantic", "theguardian", "thenation","theparisreview",
"theverge", "theregister", "time", "usatoday", "vancouversun",
"vice", "vimeo",
"vogue", "washingtonpost", "wired", "wsj", "yahoo",
"youtube", "zdnet" ];
matcher = new RegExp("\\b("+(boring.join("|").replace(/\./g,"\\."))+")\\b");
for (i=0; i<links.length; i++) {
hostname = links[i].hostname.replace(/^www\./,"");
if (hostname.match(matcher)) {
links[i].style.setProperty("display", "none");

links[i].parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode("[removed]"), links[i]);

}
}

Just to be clear, I read a lot of those sites - I'm just not interested in seeing them on HN, where I'm looking for technical news.

Anyway, you could adapt this by parsing the age field and making judgements based on how old the article is and your time of day (ie you'll have seen a 6 hour old article at the end of the day, but at the start of the day, it first appeared overnight)
for front-end news https://frontendfront.com/

for designer news https://www.designernews.co/

and Twitter