skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but feel like you're engaging in goalpost moving.

Me: "much money is used for publicity purposes"

You: "you need to prove that"

Me: here's some links talking about both megachurches AND a cross section of churches and how much they spend on publicity.

You: "well of course they have to spread the word, that's no different to secular charities!"

Charity Navigator is awesome. I was 'glad' to see that the Wounded Warrior Project finally ousted their leadership, who were happier spending money on parties to pat themselves on the back than they were to help soldiers.

Here's the thing. The initial discussion is about charity giving as it related to party affiliation, and how the conservative side was "ahead", only if you factored in religious giving.

Yes, there are many, many valid religious charities (and by this I mean organizations, as well as that component of church giving that factors into benevolence).

But by studies performed by religious organizations themselves (who if anything are likely to skew the numbers more positively), across the board, "Local and national benevolence receives 1 percent of the typical church budget", and an additional 5% goes to "church run programs" (be it after school care, social or group activities).

If a secular charity - and lets go back to Charity Navigator here - Top Ten Inefficient Fundraisers (http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=topten.detail&...) we see some of the worst charities spending 15% of their donations on "program expenses" (i.e. doing what they are being given money to do).

I'm not familiar with the monitoring of 501(c)3 groups, but I suspect if charities were to regularly spend only one per cent of their givings on what they got to enjoy tax exemption to do, they'd likely have such a status revoked.

And, if you factor in this average percentage (even the six per cent combined, which is generous, as as much fun as social and youth activities are, they're not necessarily serving a critical need), and start to question 'how much money is being spent on 'spreading the word', patting themselves on the back, competitions in Texas to see who can built the world's biggest cross just down the road from where the world's previously biggest cross was built at costs of millions, there comes more and more skepticism of just how highly you can value "giving to your church" on the scale of charitable contributions.
In a WebRTC architecture, the media (video call stream) gets sent over a TURN server. I don't see where they say that you will set up your own TURN server.
Empathizing is dumb.

Calculation ability is smart.

Surprise is where?

Empathizing is why people give $10 to a local kids soccer team but let kids die in poor countries missing vaccines.
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The FAA is a famously risk-adverse organization. But there's a huge cost to that conservatism; the FAA's foot-dragging has stalled the unmanned aircraft industry in the United States. There's a lot of commercial value in drones for things like agricultural surveys. FAA did finally take one baby step towards legitimizing commercial drone use but it's not nearly enough.
Many games approximate a reasonable thought vector already. For example, Mount & Blade: Warband is a fantastic but relatively dated game (2010) which creates a world of hundreds of characters, each of which dynamically alter their relationship with the player along a single-axis based upon complex events. When pressed for information on subjects such as who within an alliance should be allocated newly conquered lands, they will make a decision and explain themselves by virtue of their relationship with others and the player. Whilst simplistic, it's actually extremely immersive already... and that was 2010. This year a 2016 remake Mount & Blade: Bannerlord is due for release... looking forward to wasting hundreds of hours more examining improvements!
Keybase IO
> Also, what Lisp would you recommend for someone learning it, in the early stages?

I'm partial to Common Lisp and I think it fits the brain pretty easily.

But Racket is a good choice too. There is a nice, friendly development environment and plenty of libraries and learning materials.

> Do you have any other recommendations?

Sure. Check out SNOBOL: http://www.snobol4.org

Oh, and Pharo Smaltalk is definitely worth looking at, imo.
This "mandoc" naming of a project that was previously called "mdocml" is terribly confusing.

"mandoc" is the name of a newer troff/nroff macro package for writing man pages which replaced one called "man". (nroff -man versus nroff -mandoc).

The renamed "mandoc" project provides a processor which understands a "mdoc" language, a set of macros used on BSD Unixes. It's not a full processor for the roff language. The mdoc language has macros that resemble mandoc, like .SH, .TH and others.

In the TXR man-page-like reference manual, I'm using real roff macros (some of which output mandoc macros as their target, in the original sense of mandoc).

I don't think these macros could run in under the mandoc system, where you have to use a canned repertoire of macros.

For instance, I have a macro like this.

.coNP Functions @, boundp @, fboundp and @ mboundp

This parses its arguments. Any word preceded by @, is typeset in a typewriter font, immediately followed by a comma. A word preceded by @ is typeset typewriter, not followed by a comma. Other material is in the regular font.

Another complicated thing:

.mets (replace-list < list < item-sequence >> [ from <> [ to ]])

IN this syntax "< word" means typeset word as a meta-identifier. "<< word1 word2" means, typeset word as a meta-identifier, immediately juxtaposed with word2 (no whitespace) which is ordinary. >> word1 word2 reverses the relationship, and <> w1 w2 w3 means w1 and w2 are ordinary , surrounding meta-syntax w2 without space.

When you render this with a man reader, the macro puts out angle-bracket notation, exactly like this:

(replace-list <list> <item-sequence> [<from> [<to>]])

in the paragraphs which describe this, this notation is consistently used. In HTML and PDF output, these angle-bracket notation is replaced by italics.
"Is it fellow academics? Or university administrators? Or government agencies that control grants?"

Yes.

Fellow Academics: The people who will be discussing your tenure case, writing letters of support, nominating you for prizes, etc.

University Administrators: The people who are the final word in your tenure case, and who do things like evaluate how well your department/college/etc. is performing.

Grants: Be they your fellow academics in the form of reviewers, program officers, etc., the prestige of your publications will likely matter to them.

Publications are the unit of currency in academia at the moment, and the incentive and evaluation structures at almost every step are oriented around that. Going your own way is a laudable step, perhaps, but largely the luxury of established researchers who have already had their prestige publications, or those willing to take the potential hit to their careers for the principled stand.
Interesting. I applied to DO about ten weeks ago. I had an initial phone screen, and they sent me a code challenge. I completed and turned in the challenge. Then I heard nothing for two weeks. I reached out to my contact there, and she got back to me a week later saying, "I've been waiting on feedback - sorry it's taking so long! I just pinged the manager again this morning." That was the last I heard from DO.

I feel like I wasted the half-day I spent on their code challenge. I don't expect a job, but a simple "Thanks but no thanks," would be nice.
entitlement — an unearned privilege

Hm that's the exact opposite of what my dictionary said. Now who's acting entitled?
Off-topic: your site, fynd.me completely breaks on android tablets running firefox.
There is also I think an issue with enough content for free. At some point there is enough free games in a genre or enough free information on a topic that only people very passionate about the genre or topic will be willing to pay.
"The questionnaire was designed to be parent-report in order to avoid variance associated with children’s reading and comprehension abilities.”

That seems to be as removing smaller variables by introducing a bigger one, which seems counter to current standards. When a child is being diagnosed, the physiologist always talk with the child, as its very easy to get the wrong conclusion by hearing the child being described. Its not uncommon for a diagnose to be first suspected from the descriptions that the parents gives, and then be reverted after just a short interview with the child.

After reading the article, I also wonder what correlation there is with high math achievements and being a victim of bullying, and how bullying effects the perceived social and empathy skills of a child.
For those like me who were curious about the contents of the Empathy/Systemizing Quotient test itself I believe I found it as well as the scoring key for both the child and adult version (in case you want to know where you yourself fall on the scale)

These links are to Google Docs previews of .doc files listed at http://www.autismresearchcentre.com/arc_tests

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Combined Empathy/Systemizing Quotient - Child

https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=http://docs...

Scoring Key

https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=http://docs...

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Empathy Quotient - Adult

https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=http://docs...

Scoring Key

https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=http://docs...

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Systemizing Quotient - Adult

https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=http://docs...

Scoring Key

https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=http://docs...
Idiomatic Python: comprehensions
I've attempted to use StackOverflow, but by the time I have questions difficult enough to go there they're well above the level that SO is capable of answering. (At least, not without bribing people with rep, which I don't have because I don't use StackOverflow.) So it's pretty useless to me.

As for GitHub, I've downloaded libraries from it, but I have a pretty healthy dislike of Git, which is awful, and refuse to use it for any personal projects. (I only use it at work because I have to-- in any case, work repos are of course private.) I used to have a few projects publicly available on Google Code, but now that's shut down, so there's really just nothing. I do have private repos for my hobby work.

In case it matters, most of my development is in C#.NET.
Rust uses markdown (with some extensions) for its documentation. This has some limitations, and there was a discussion [1] about changing this to RST a while ago, but it never happened.

[1]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rustdoc-restructuredtext-v...
I really tried to write in ReST but there is nothing intuitive about the syntax and I kept forgetting how to do things, it also makes the plain text unnecessarily verbose and does not support simple things like combining styles (i.e. good luck if you want something be monospaced AND bold without terrible kludges).

In the end I converted to Asciidoc, it does all I need, is readable and is not as python-centric as docutils (I use the python implementation but asciidoctor is ruby and there's even a chrome extension for live preview in the browser).
I'm curious as well. My understanding is that WebRTC and group chat is a pain when done strictly p2p. I could see perhaps sending a small compressed version of the stream and increasing that when requested (like clicking on someone's feed and making it larger) but even in that scenario it seems like bandwidth could become a problem quickly. Maybe it elects a leader with the most bandwidth and they act as a relay or mux the streams?
Overcast[1] has an index. At least for the incredibly small subset of podcasts I looked at, Overcast is a more complete index.

Podcat does not seem to get the names of podcasters correct. For example, searching for Marco Arment links to only some episodes of 'Build and Analyze', which is Arment's old podcast where he appeared in 100% of episodes.

Podcat appears to index names if the given name is name-checked in a podcast's episode text. That's going to be a spam target.

Potentially Podcat could be a great thing. Interesting work.

[1] https://overcast.fm
I use this everyday to browse HN
Looking into what's going on in Google Maps now! It works in the Google Earth view, but only after moving the view a bit.

Thank you for pointing that out!
Show HN: Basket- Pocket meets Evernote
Ignition! has been out of print for decades now, it was a short run and close to self-published (Rutgers University Press isn't exactly mass-market). It's possible that you'd find it at a bookstore but really doubtful, more likely to be found rummaging at book fairs or during estate sales.
Of course, i mean an easy way for researchers to write them.
"If a startup is to compete with them there is no way for them to make much money." Selling overpriced drinks? If a startup is in an area where "there is no way for them to make much money" then what the hell are they doing there?
AlphaGo Is Not the Solution to AI
The context switching argument is BS. That's just like complaining about 'context switching' when you have to use an hash/map/dict/object literal or a comment.
Volksverschlüsselung: an open initiative for end-to-end security
I didn't know about this and I love it.
My "dream" VC tool is basically just a stable version of google hangouts.
Considering that Blockai's offices are located in the United States, I think it was a pretty good question!

You're correct that the bigger picture is a solution that, like the Internet itself, crosses international borders, which is why we chose to build on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. Blockchain technology has the ability to work seamlessly within existing legal systems. At Blockai we're having to explore the nuances of a good deal of those existing legal systems and we're starting with our own home turf. It's a good time to be an IP lawyer, that's for sure!
And unfortunately if you ask Rutgers University Press about the status of Copyright on the work, they don't actually know who owns it, or so I read the last time Ignition! came up in discussion on HN.
They hypothesized this, tested for it in the experiment, and found no effect. Math anxiety was correlated with calculation skills (i.e. people who were bad at calculating were more anxious about math), but uncorrelated with empathy.

The hypothesis they brought up in the conclusion was that stereotype threat may be transmitted socially, and higher-empathy individuals are more susceptible. Stereotype threat is a known psychological effect where if people are members of a group that is believed to be bad at something, then their performance on tests of that will suffer, particularly if they are made aware of either the stereotype or their membership in this group before the task. It makes sense that higher empathy would make your more susceptible to this, but like the conclusion says, this requires further research to establish definitively.
Hah. Not joking, didn't know. Thanks for pointing this out.
My understanding is that STUN only coordinates connections between peers. A TURN server is required if that fails. So presumably they don't have a TURN server and only support clients that can peer with each other.
From my reading it sounds like this blockchain-based proof-of-copyright is a solution looking for a problem.

IANAL, but from what I understand damages for copyright infringement are high. Today if an individual has their copyright infringed by a corporation, and that infringement is big enough to get a significant award, I think a plausible outcome is a lawyer helps them on contingency and arrives at some reasonable settlement. I don't think it's super hard to prove you created something around the time you say you did, and even if that fact is murky, corporations usually know what they did and didn't create and nobody wants a drawn-out legal battle; so a settlement is not an unlikely outcome.

In the reverse case, as we all know corporations are not shy about suing individuals for infringing on copyright. In that case the corporation, with its huge legal power and ostensibly better documentation, typically extracts whatever they wish from the infringer (anyone remember the ruinous "settlements" for the RIAA file sharing lawsuits of the early 2000's?). If the corporation for some reason can't win, then it can consider the loss a cost of doing business.

In cases where the infringer is unreachable (anonymous website hosted in Sealand), proof of ownership wouldn't be helpful anyway.

What we need isn't some kind of super fancy digital copyright registry, what we need is copyright reform to bring balance back to the public good, away from megacorporations and the rent-seeking grandchildren of the grandchildren of the original creators; and a push back to requiring registration of copyright to be granted protection.
Microsoft announces cross-platform XBox multiplayer gameplay
I'm a big drone enthousiast. I'm all for some form of regulation in the form of registration or a license, provided that the cost won't prohibit getting into the hobby too much.

However, I'm afraid it's not going to work. The people that do crazy stupid things with their drones are the same people that buy their RTF drone at Walmart, thinking it's just a toy. Or import it from China. You can't regulate that. There have been adequate rules for decades, for instance that you can't fly near airfields with your RC plane.

Until a couple of years ago, flying RC planes was both rather expensive to get into, but there was also a steep learning curve. Nowadays you can buy a drone for under 200 bucks and it will practically fly itself. Anyone with half a brain can fly it. I'm torn about this. I love the fact that the entry point for getting into the hobby is lowered so more people can enjoy flying. OTOH, the entry point is now so low that there is a large group of people who are hurting the hobby with their thoughtless behaviour.

A couple of months ago I saw an ad for the Lily drone, I'm sure you saw it too. In the ad they launch and land BY HAND. If you value your fingers I wouldn't recommend this, it's really dangerous.

It's a bit like gun control in a fictional state where you can buy guns without a permit. You can regulate and registrate all you want, but that won't stop loonies from doing stupid things.
You can do code blocks::

like this

:)
kinda looks like the onion
Years ago (1989?) there was a push for a "data super-highway" (pushed mainly by Al Gore, leading to the myth that he said he invented the internet). I was at a conference on the subject. There were a lot of talks on possible alternatives. The audience had a lot of telco people, who assumed it would be based on the phone infrastructure.

To make a long story shorter, at one point a neckbeard stood up and said "we already have it. It's called the internet". Most of the audience laughed and the speaker pointed out that something so fragile and unreliable could never scale out.
>I think FAA trying to make _some_ regulations for this is okay...

YES! I recently built an acro/FPV hexacopter and am all for my right to fly, however, I understand I have some responsibilities when doing so and the FAA spelling out those responsibilities isn't a bad thing. Unfortunately others don't quite "get it" in quite the same way and pose a serious risk without rules and the threat of law. As an example, someone I'm associated with decided he'd take his new DJI out of the box on Christmas, toss in a newly charged battery (the most likely to fail in my experience) and have it follow his car from his house to town in a small community via the autonomous flight option. Along the way of course it flew within a mile of an airport, directly across the flight-path for the takeoff runway, without him even having eyes on his craft. He got excited and shared the video and of course everyone who knew anything about RC flight freaked out. He never understood any of the concern and thinks everyone was overblowing the situation and it was absolutely okay because DJI has an airport database. The problem is of course, that airport database doesn't contain listings for every airport. That and you should never toss a multi-rotor in the air without direct line of sight or a spotter for the entire flight and expect things will go as planned.
I'd take take-home over whiteboard interviews.

Even with whiteboard interviews, you still need to prepare for them. I would say I probably spend at least 8 hours preparing for them mainly because of its arbitrary nature. I have no idea what they will be asking.

With a take-home programming challenge, there is less uncertainty. By looking at the exercise, you can make a good estimate on how many hours it would take and see if it's worth doing.
>could be bias where parents feel a need to pick a strength for their low-performing child

Agreed. Even a small skew in that direction could cause most of this effect.
Sony's PSVR Official, Undercuts Rift and Vive at $399
Ask HN: What book/links would you recommend about Sales in the tech industry?
As a personal effort to understand better Sales strategies in the tech industry (in both cloud or on-premise environments), what book or resource would you personally recommend?
> Its something we're still working on, but it still helps to vocalize your support for wanting improved force push support. :D

YES! I wish for that feature everyday. Gerrit does it exactly right.

Related to this, I really, really hope that you will consider displaying commits
in a PR in the correct order, suppose that I have three commits on top
of master:

a->b->c->master

If I git rebase -i master and reorder my commits so that they look like this:

c->a->b->master

Then the commit list in the PR will still be displayed in chronological order
instead of DAG order, this is very confusing! The only workaround I've found is
to amend every commit in my PR so that the timestamp order match the DAG order,
this isn't very fun to do.

By the way, the post explicitly says:

> Some teams choose to use a commit-by-commit workflow where each commit is treated as the unit of change and is isolated for review.

I'm glad that you're acknowledging that. But then why do comments on commits
still get hidden when they correspond to an outdated diff? I would love to be
able to comment on individual commits, but if half my comments are hidden
because they correspond to lines that don't match the current diff, then I'm not
going to do it for fear of my comments being missed. You should not hide
important information that I'm trying to communicate!
Here's a better way to do it: Add a "Done" button like Rietveld/Gerrit for every
comment (this is a very useful feature on its own) and hide comments _if and
only if_ the "Done" button has been clicked.

Anyway, I'm glad that people are working on this stuff and that they're
listening to the community, thank you!
new demo page for DOM99
http://rawgit.com/GrosSacASac/DOM99/master/index.html
(Works with Firefox)

Proper template engine API and more system improvement coming next.
Great devs never apply for any job using the traditional job application (except maybe as an after-the-fact HR formality); they are always recommended and hand picked by their network.

As a intermediate (after so many years, should I just replace that with 'mediocre') dev I think a test like this would be a fantastic way both for a company to judge me and for me to judge what a company would expect from me.

There's a huge variety in dev roles ranging from challenging to code monkey and it's sometimes hard to figure out from a job posting or even conventional conversational interview where along the spectrum the expectations are, but establishing those expectations on both sides is critical.
Chipotle went public 13 years after it was founded at half a billion dollars in market cap. While not as flashy as some of the unicorns, that would still have been a pretty decent showing.