skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because some people disagree that Lua is nice language. Lean-ness is questionable, e.g. BrainFuck is much more "lean", so what? MicroPython can be built to the same binary sizes as a typical Lua build, and yet offer more language features. Lua's embedability has stronghold in games, that's where it usually embedded. Embedded hardware systems are a little different beasts. For them, it's helpful to differentiate e.g. integer from float number (Lua's numbers are floats, it took Lua a long way to acquire a standard module to do bitwise operations, which some people consider just an ugly hack). Also, helpful to differentiate arrays with guaranteed O(1) access from dictionaries (Lua has some mutant container type about whose behavior you can never be sure).
Entry into the middle class is now gated by a system of indenture in which you must purchase on non-bankruptable debt a certificate to be considered for a middle class job.

(... unless your parents are rich or you're part of the small percentage who qualify for non-trivial student aid or scholarships.)
Indeed the issue that trips up many of the people I've worked with is that CLUSTER will make a table seem like the clustered index of other systems (in as much as it physically orders the table), but without an appropriately large fillfactor (and sometimes not even then), new rows and updates are not stored in indexes physical ordering.

So at first glance it's super-speedy for clustered index-like queries, but then becomes slower and slower over time as the data changes and consecutive index reads are no longer sequential on disk.
The (Still) Mysterious Physics of Riding a Bike
Yea. What's going wrong? Would just GIVING them a place to live work? It would be cheaper.

http://umanitoba.ca/outreach/evidencenetwork/archives/16127
I suggest looking at the official data on this subject[1]. The vast majority of San Francisco's homeless people are, in fact, people who were living in SF and paying rent, lost one or more jobs, and subsequently became homeless.

I would also suggest you read the literature[2] concerning "putting people in a mental institution" against their will, because that practice has a long and sordid history and there are many, many good reasons we don't do it anymore.

[1]https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San...

[2]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3392176/
We've got one: he.

When it's important that you communicate that he is male, you have to make an extra statement.

Otherwise he is just somebody and you don't know what gender he is at all. Unless someone tells you he is male, that is.

But if it doesn't matter whether he is male, female, or something else -- there's no reason to specify his gender. Basically, we don't really care who he is.

That's why we use the generic word "he".
I'd say anything to do with PHP, Drupal or WordPress almost always gets pretty much the same treatment over here.
Political Polarization in the US House of Representatives
So, how much time did it take you to get the WiFi stack working on your RasPi? Oh? You've never actually tried to get WiFi working on a Pi? Thought so. Getting WiFi to work on a Pi has historically been an exercise in very, very careful shopping for a dongle that actually works. Or getting lucky. Things may have changed recently, but many Pi users have stubbed their toe on the finding-a-Wifi-dongle-that-works rock. Have WiFi built-in that "just works" is going to be hugely beneficial.
tl;dr: A story that has almost nothing to do with the normal topics on HN, not even the geopolitical content, but still worth reading. Probably the longest story I've read about Vietnam in a long, long time. I would have been happy enough if it had focused just on the first murder, as I'm always interested in how justice (both official and vigilante) works in the more spread out areas of Vietnam, and in Vietnam in general.

My uncle used to live in Saigon...one day one of his dogs ran out because the courtyard door was left open for a bit too long and a moped-riding thief swooped it up out on the streets before they could get to it. They did manage to get the dog back by visiting a local...wherever captured dogs are dropped off before being distributed/butchered. So I guessed that if this was happening in Saigon, it was probably a not uncommon thing. Hadn't heard about the vigilante justice angle though.
Usenet never went away, entirely, but maybe it will be having a little renaissance, as well.

It sorta came back as Reddit. I was a huge Usenet junkie from the first time I saw it, but it eventually turned into 99% binaries and junk. All the interesting discussions in the areas I was involved in went to sites like HN, Metafilter, Reddit, Web-based forums, etc.
"Guess what 'rm -rf *' does? That's right, it expands
the wildcard and tries to load the gigs and gigs of names
of files into memory until it hits swap hell, but recursively."

Why not go up to the parent directory and do 'rm -rf dirname'? Then there'd be no wildcard to expand, and 'rm' would just walk the directory removing one file at a time.
Open Sourcing Mobile Libraries at 500px
We've open sourced the libraries we've been using internally for laying out a collection of photos sequentially in a full aspect ratio grid on Android and iOS. Hopefully they will be of help to you in your projects!

You can find them here:

https://github.com/500px/greedo-layout-for-android

https://github.com/500px/greedo-layout-for-ios
What's the point of inserting untranslated French text into an English article?

Is it supposed to just be window-dressing? Is it supposed to promote the (outdated and highly dubious) notion that all educated people speak French? Is it just for the author to show off? Whatever the reason, it's a highly obnoxious practice and it doesn't improve the article.
This has been debunked, the dude was wanted for not showing up for the court multiple times for a loan he took at a later date. This is being overly exaggerated.

edit: I cannot find the link right now, but chron or some houston based tv channel had an article about it.
This looks pretty cool! Are there any plans for having polymorphic interfaces? I bet that could lead to some really neat code.
Alternatively, a keyboard shortcut would be great.
"You can't separate form and content." -- as the author, but you should think about the reader.

They may not be on the device you chose to support.
>Although my opinion is "not a strong correlation between the two", and that certainly seems to be supported by the supplied data.

That position is supported by the first analysis, but not the other two. The three analyses provide three different conclusions: no correlation, correlation with increased homicide, correlation with decreased homicide.
The thing is that any computable complexity measure allows one to algorithmically produce an infinite which seems to have a complexity which goes to infinite as it get longer but since it is the product of a finite length computer program has finite complexity.

On the other hand, you can prove that for "nearly all" finite sequences of symbols, the algorithmic complexity is within a constant of naive statistical measures.
I know of one akin, in my home town: http://www.koamtv.com/story/13749977/joplin-teen-dead-after-...

TL;DR and details probably left out of that article:

14 year old had some "friends" over for a slumber party. Father had left a gun outside of the safe while working on getting a holster to fit, in an area of the house where they weren't allowed to be in.

Of course they ventured there, one "friend" saw the gun, picked it up and pointed it at her head, and pulled the trigger.

It was ruled a "tragic" accident when it was at minimum manslaughter.
Will Shortz: Everything You Wanted to Know About Crossword Puzzles
A lot of people say this to mean that object types can't be set to nil. The classic fix is to implement parametrized types (which Go has resisted), although since Go is rabid about simplicity and puts a low priority on generality (generic maps but no other containers, automatic JSON but no other serializations, actor model keywords but no other concurrency primitives, type switch but no real pattern matching), it might better fit the Go philosophy to define only one kind of fallible type, like maybe[T], which is always either T or an error.
Maybe my part of the world is somehow different from Patrick's but I find some of the points in his talk simply untrue, and others true only with some fairly big caveats. Like:

"Sending in resumes is not how people get hired for most jobs" - simply untrue. Where I work, most successful hires simply sent their resume via the form on the website. Or recruiters pinged them via linkedin or some such site. No behind-the-scenes hobnobbing was necessary. Boring, I know.

"every company that has more than 10 engineers is going to hire engineers this quarter" - simply untrue. Hiring freezes are a real thing. Of course if the candidate is really experienced or a perfect skills fit for that particular company then something usually can be done but if you are a junior or a merely "ok" developer then tough luck for you.

"you ask them are they team leader or higher in their company. If they say yes, they either are a hiring manager or they know who is the hiring manager." - team leaders trade in this funny currency called "vacancies". And if a team leader is short on those he or she has very little incentive to bring you into the company. Of course if you meet a team leader at the developer conference then they are usually hiring (and often explicitly say so during their talks!)
What is HBD?
>> So only physical characteristics are heritable?

See my point above - physical characteristics are directly observable, and therefore, measurable. Mental, emotional etc psychological characteristics are not directly observable, so are only measurable through a proxy.

In the case of intelligence, the proxy is an IQ test and we don't even have a good definition of what it is we're proxying, so it might not even be a single characteristic, but rather the combination of many traits.

So yeah, we can say very safely that you can get your eyes or your height from your parents, but not so about your IQ.

Corollary, maybe you can inherit your _intelligence_ but since we don't have a good definition of that and no way to measure it directly, there's no solid ground to stand on arguing that this or that "race" has more or less of it. And the same goes for any other group, really.

Full disclosure: I'm interested in this discussion too, mostly because I believe the whole idea of IQ measurements is bogus to begin with.
Could be, I only eyeballed the pretty graph.
Congress has failed us. In the absence of explicit legislation governing these activities, the executive is free to give and take privacy per its own whim. I am furious that these decisions are being made by arbitrary bureaucratic edicts rather than the will of the people as manifest in legislation.

The worst part is that whatever system is publicly described, it can simply be secretly subverted by classified presidential directive.[1]

[1]: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/24/presi...
Can you give us relevant links to the debunking?
Sure thing, so do me a favor, point to one of these under funded minority students - because from what I read, the dept of education figures point to more money per pupil spending on black and hispanice students vs white across the united states regionally and in total - http://www.heritage.org/~/media/images/reports/2011/04/bg254...

Now if you can refute the source, I think that's great because I have a hard time believing it myself given the common narrative. One argument might be that somehow the amounts of money given somehow are squandered other ways, but that doesn't discount the amount given, it would point to the system where it's squandered not the funding itself.
I meant lowercase core, not uppercase Core. His most recent contribution is to the "Bitcoin Classic" fork rather than the "Core" fork. He's still a key developer in the Bitcoin community. I wasn't trying to wade into the Bitcoin political issues. It's all "Bitcoin"

Whats relevant to first post is that Bitcoin Foundation is a non profit aimed at bettering the Bitcoin ecosystem, similar to EthDEV, not some corporate owner of Ethereum IP, and they help move forward development of "Bitcoin"
This has nothing to do with technology. A movie can't be accurately summarized textually. A book of poetry is profoundly coloured by the typeface chosen. A corporate logo is a visual artifact that cannot be communicated any other way.
Could we get some context?
That's fine, Express is moving under the NodeJS organization and will get regular releases and maintenance from NodeJS itself. It is in capable hands.

Edit: here's the announcement https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/foundation-express-...
I love that they're trying to pin this on Venmo, like it's somehow their problem and not a completely misleading article built on misinformation.

> Venmo seems to be confused. According to statement below from Venmo and the message on the developer site, the API is no longer available. But now Venmo tells me the API is still available to existing developers, but not to new ones, which can be a sign of an impending shut down. We’ll update with more info soon once Venmo figures itself out. Parts of this article have been changed for accuracy.
Maybe it's changed by now, but I was caught badly off guard by my first technical "interview" (exam) out of college. I thought it would be more or less a normal "interview", the tell me about yourself, your interests, your coursework kind of thing. I was completely unprepared for the whiteboard exam part of the interview, which was in C++ (Java was a brand new thing back then) and involved algorithms and data structures (just a linked list, mainly, but with pointers and so forth thrown in).

I failed it miserably. Honestly, the experience left me kind of embarrassed and metaphorically beaten up for a while. Kind of like I'd claimed to be a programmer and had been revealed to be a fraud.

By this point (almost 20 years later), I've been through this wringer so many times that it seems like common knowledge. It doesn't really bother me at this point. But now that I think of it, yeah, I was unprepared for this and unaware of it.

I'm used to this sort of thing now, but I still think it's an usual and really unpleasant part of our industry. Most knowledge based fields really don't have anything like this sort of interview/exam (seriously, it's almost a pure exam, I think that describing it as an interview is simply misleading to people who aren't aware of what goes on in our field) - though most fields have a more standardized set of credentialing and degree programs.

I do think that the mysterious, unpredictable, and stressful nature of tech exam interviews deters a lot of people from entering or remaining in this field.
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OK, I hadn't realised that.

So, how do you implement Pax's resolution if one party refuses to accept it?
This is a good article, and an important topic, but it mischaracterizes the discipline of mathematics:

> the principle that mathematical truth is black or white and provides absolute certainty.

> Pure mathematicians like to think that they have absolute truth

Formal mathematics has no concept of absolute truth; this is left for philosophy. It's just concerned with axioms and theorems (and their proofs). Whether an axiom reflects reality or not is out of scope, which is the whole point of their invention. As a philosopher you're welcome to debate them, and as a pragmatist you're welcome to choose them (and be compelled to accept their consequent theorems).

> Because it is easy for mathematicians to ignore Gödel’s proof. What lurks in their heart of hearts is a commitment to absolute truth, and a universal formal axiomatic theory for all of mathematics.

In one sense it's disheartening that we cannot prove or disprove every proposition in every axiomatic system. This is an unreasonable expectation as Gödel proved, but it doesn't invalidate the theorems we have proven and disproven. It also doesn't invalidate all of the programs we have written, even though there are non-terminating programs and uncomputable numbers.
You consider the US a success?
I live close to the area (I'm on 8th and Howard) and the situation for the homeless there is horrible. We walked past the tent camp while going to the local spca to see if they had a cat we could adopt. The spca has a great facility and it is great that their animals are treated so well. But the contrast between the animals and humans on the street made my heart sink. I hope that we can keep the great facilities for the animals but we find a better solution for the people living on the street. As mentioned in the article many are mentally ill and it is sad to see them scream and yell at ghosts. I've never heard someone say something about throwing feces so this doesn't seem frequent. I'm sure many of the homeless want to keep their place clean but there is a lack of public sanitation to do so. Reports say many went to this area after being told to do so during the super bowl http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-mayor-...
"Hadn't heard about the vigilante justice angle though."

On the one hand, to me, say, a dog is a friend, and ally. I'm almost certain to think that your dog is a better person than you are.

On the other, a dog is livestock. And stealing livestock has always been a good way to get dead.
The supposed 95% literacy is a lie. Most people can't really read. They can usually identify individual words, but they can't do this fast enough and reliably enough to actually understand non-trivial sentences.
> why not send them emails 3 months in advance?

Sounds like that's basically what they did.

https://twitter.com/williamready/status/703349746992197632

> The @Venmo API is still available to existing users
Medicine is a bad example. But AA hiring is a (non-illusory) systematic occurrence, and it's perfectly rational for high IQ blacks (who will get snapped up by any large corp) to aim for high-status, high-visibility roles such as administration, rather than squinting at a laptop for decades.

Of course, this is against the narrative, just as is pointing out that lots of people one generation away from medieval levels of poverty in Asia seem to be doing better than USA blacks.

At any rate, if a lack of diversity is prima facie racism, then here's a scoop:

http://www.nytco.com/board-of-directors/
If guns made people safer, the United States would be the safest place in the world. Unfortunately, it's actually safer to live in any other country thats not currently at war.
This follows on the heels of some other issues [0] last month, around Doug's involvement in the project.

[0] https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2844

Edit: To be clear, this is in no way meant to impugn Doug's extensive contributions to Express.
What's "TC" as in "Express TC" mean?
The US? Australia? Canada? New Zealand? The line between "skilled migrants" and "colonists" is blurred in the earlier part of their histories, but all those countries seem to be doing well in the grand scheme of things.
singapore is the example in asia that is probably most germane to this discussion.

see also: taiwan, hong kong.
> FUCK THE WORLD

Um, can someone closer to this maintainer make sure he is OK? Can't take things like this lightly.

edit: I cannot reach out because I don't know him, but someone who DOES should.
Why doesn't Google et al provide a shim for web servers to proxy ads off their own domains, with the same URI routes as the actual content? That way, an adblocker would also prevent the content from being served. (Why waste your networking load on non-paying customers?)

The main obstacle is that this introduces a middleman---so Google et al should only offer this service to the BIG money-makers (like nytimes.com) until they can ship something secure. Adblocking "problem" solved.

WHY don't Ad companies do this? I can see this as an Apache/nginx module or middleware libraries for whatever web server is used, without having to change anything else. How long would this take for the army of 140 IQ Google codemonkeys…like 1 day lol?
Serious question: Do you want to go to Africa, where there are a lot more people who look like you? Or do you want to stay in the States, where there are (unfortunately) a number of people who are overtly racist, and a larger number who are more unconsciously assuming that it's a white person's world? I can't speak for you, but I suspect your answer is that there's enough good in the States that it's worth staying, problems and all.

Tech is like that. There are jerks, and there are racists, and there are abusive personalities. There are real, definite problems. It's still closer to a meritocracy than almost anywhere else. It's good enough that (to me) it's worth going into, problems and all. (Any individual situation may become toxic enough that you need to leave. But overall, I don't think it's bad enough to avoid, especially if that's where you would like to be.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Aker+%22debunked%22
University of California notifies 80,000 of cyber attack
Thanks for the link, I'll take a look
You're actually saying there's something "systemic" that causes ME to behave a certain way when in the presense of a black guy in a hoodie? OKAY. Methinks you don't have a grasp of the word "systemic" Like I said before, you're throwing out ghosts that you can't fight against specifically, to reinforce a claim of what causes entire ethnicities to have interest and aptitude in coding and IT work.
Absolutely. People doing that are traitors not only to the animals but to millenia of their own human ancestors; no pity.
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Technical committee - they overlook and govern a project
That makes sense, any time period is probably less valuable than looking at it relative to commits or issue resolution rate.
Evidence of this?
Or for that matter, that not letting the FBI ransack consumer privacy doesn't "bring shareholder value"?

I'm an Apple shareholder, and I'm the opposite of angry.
> unless someone complains about something expressly

Would cover your case.
This seems like a kind of unfortunate place to start a Hacker News conversation and likely to exacerbate the issue.

Seems like Doug had a bad day and overreacted - we've all been there. It's the weekend, hopefully in time cooler heads will prevail and all will be fine.
I believe this is a problem of the signaling as well. Even the new Thunderbolt 3's display mode is still stuck with DisplayPort 1.2 signaling.
> You do what most countries do

What country with a declining population did this and succeeded ?
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What do you think about the animal shelters in Western countries in which millions of dogs and cats are killed [1]? Sure, it's not the same as killing and then eating them, but it sure speaks to an implicit understanding that dogs and cats -- or rather, someone else's dog/cat -- is not viewed by civilized societies the same as humans. I don't support dog thievery, but I do sympathize for someone and their families for being beaten to death for stealing dogs, as I would for any kind of theft. Not just for the murder itself, but that things have escalated in that way.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2014/12/31/374218425/no-kill-shelters-sav...
Presumably 'technical committee'.

https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2895
Wow, true. The first thing that I read was how to set up emacs to run gofmt every time you save a src file. After that, I never questioned it.
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Why Russia should not attack Sweden?
I don't read the top result as a debunking. If they can arrest you for failing to show up in court related to a unpaid student debt, that seems equivalent to being able to arrest you for an unpaid student debt.