skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That you think fear of appearing racist is stopping people telling the truth here is telling.

I don't get this. My impression that the fear of being labeled racists makes people censor themselves is not something I only hear others saying but also the press specifically censors the ethnicity of wrongdoers because it might appear to be justification for racism.

> We know why terrorism happens. We've known this for an awfully long time.

I'm not so sure about that one. In any case, the fact that we still suffer from terrorism speaks its own language.

> We don't need unscientific nonsense about how brown people are magically terrorists.

I totally agree on that we don't need unscientific explanations. I call for the opposite. Ridiculing a point I never made doesn't help.

> Science frequently comes up with inconvenient answers. But you might find that the science here is inconvenient towards your position, not others'.

My position on this topic is in many parts neutral, because I'm happy to admit that I don't know all the facts nor do I understand the whole picture thoroughly. Thats why I wish for more investigation.

Your last sentence baffles me.
There is always a coward willing to sell out their freedom and yours for their own profit & "security".
After spending two minutes clicking around my free account, I couldn't see either how I'd upgrade to a paid account or why I'd want to. Seems like an important usability issue.
I completely agree, the ongoing publicity would be enormous. There's even a very close precedent! https://twitter.com/Hants_fire/status/711962085320728576
To be fair to European salaries, you need to convert them to pre-tax numbers. There is a 33% employer's tax that is not counted in the numbers shown here. So 50% should be added to the salaries in the spreadsheet for Scandinavia at least to more accurately reflect the pre-tax numbers.
For the rest of the world: 4 inch = 10.16 cm
So a city that runs on oil revenue and has literally no natural attractions becomes the equivalent of death valley. Meh. Let's pick a different worst case scenario...
I think the conclusion we can draw from this discussion is that dismissing Microsoft-stack developers is a terrible generalization.
A simple spreadsheet of freelance rates
Slight tangent here but is it me or has the experience in social networks taken a hit? Feels like it was better with low complexity hack technology than with technology solutions focused on scaling the experience. I sometimes wonder if we are changing experience too much for technology optimization.

- LinkedIn has been terrible for about 2-3 years since things stopped updating real time and the timeline started getting random

- Facebook randomly suggesting things from your graph based on what it thinks you like

- Twitter I heard soon will be no longer in chronological order?!?

I think there is something to be said for low complexity MySQL and memcached.
The tests were run with TCP, they do not include non stored metrics.
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There was a similar situation a few years back - some local Hungarian government were running an online poll to decide the name of a new local bridge and more importantly you were able to submit your own proposal. Some internet community got wind of this and mobilised to vote the name "Stephen Colbert Bridge" until it was at the top of the standings.

Even though they never went with the name (they elected to use "Megyeri Bridge") Hungary got a bit of a PR boost when the Hungarian Ambassador appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss the issue. Sadly I cannot find a video clip, but the wikipedia description captures the moment nicely:

"
On September 14, 2006, András Simonyi—the ambassador of Hungary to the United States—announced on The Colbert Report that Stephen Colbert had won the vote. Unfortunately for Colbert, Ambassador Simonyi declared that under Hungarian law, Colbert would have to be fluent in Hungarian, and would have to be deceased in order to have the bridge named for him. However, after saying the rules could most likely be bent, he invited Colbert to visit Hungary and view the construction in person and gave him a Hungarian passport and a 10,000 HUF Bill, with an approximate value of, as the ambassador put it, 'fifty dollars, fifty good US dollars'. Colbert promptly tried to bribe him with said money.
"

Edit: yikes, Hungary has had a rough few years - I just checked the fx rates and 10000 forint is worth only $36 nowadays.
It seems silly to bicker over whether a company is all good or all bad. Do you know any people who are all good or bad? Are you?

Hate or support the game, not the player. Stand up for ideas, not people.
Similar thing happened in Iceland a few years ago.
Before starting work to review the constitution, they ran a facebook poll to get input from the population.
Top suggestions were "Free Ice Cream"and "More Volcanoes":
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/31/icelands-crowdsourced-con...
I've created a similar crowd-sourced spreadsheet for the hourly rates freelancers charge.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335661
When you travel to some relatively remote places like Nepal, where it takes a couple of hours for kids to get to their school (if they have a school nearby at all), you very quickly understand that anyone who was born or lives in western countries has a hope for the future.
This isn't about whats legal though. Its about you taking advantage of someone else's hard work. Its theft in the moral sense, and its that what makes you a bad person.

That said, its still a grey area moralistically.

I do not see a small indie developer and a large corporation in the same light as the corporation is taking advantage of the hard work of its employees to make a profit.
That's part of the reason I switched to Android. I spend $250, get a micro sd slot and pretty much all the features I want or would use. The camera is the only thing I miss from the iphone but it's not the end of the world as the camera in the Android isn't exactly terrible.

Coincidentally it's also why I went off contract. Much cheaper to buy phone outright and buy 3gb of pay as you go data a month than get locked into an absurd and useless contract.
Ask HN: Help Main open-source maintainer gone AWOL. What do I do?
The main maintainer of a popular Ruby gem, hosted on Github, is not responding to mentions in Issues (I have no other means of getting hold of them.) It's been over 8 months since I've heard from them.

I am another maintainer, but was given maintainer rights specifically to support a new feature that I added.

What should I do? People are still raising new issues and Pull Requests, but I’ve been reluctant to make major changes as I’m not comfortable just forging ahead making changes without the main maintainer's approval because 1. it's his repo and 2. he asked me to support the feature I added, not to be responsible for, and sweeping changes to the whole gem.

I've already emailed the original creator of the gem, and someone else listed as a maintainer for the project that I've never interacted with, and doesn't seem to have been involved recently either.

I really need some advice or suggestions. What do you think I should do?

Some options I can think of:
1. do nothing and let the project languish
2. make the changes I see fit to his official repo, including merging Pull Requests etc
3. make a fork and make the changes there, accepting that most people won't get the new changes
4. as 3, but update the Rubygems.org listing for the project to point to my new fork
5. something else???
Better than paying a group of "naming experts" some huge amount of money, only for them to come up with a generic-sounding name.

The Internet can be very silly but also a great source of creativity.
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> Is it not allowable to hurt others in self defense? Is it not allowable to hurt animals for food?

I fail to see how such general and silly questions foster a debate. No one said or implied those.

> has no bearing on the utilitarian calculus

That's why we need to (wait for it) debate!

> no categorical imperative against the thing

You know what's the problem of the categorical imperative? It's very subjective.

You know how we overcome such subjectivity? (wait for it) debate!

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My point is simply that in one the harm is direct (designed to) and the other is indirect (can be used to). Due to that the debate between those should be different.

I made no "quantifiable" comparison pal.
video: http://indavideo.hu/video/A_Stephen_Colbert_hid_sztori_vege
He was a refugee from Communist and Nazi oppression; he was neither a Communist nor a Nazi. That's a big difference from a typical Syrian refugee, who is fleeing Islamic violence but still believes in Islam (and thus its exhortations to violence).

I'm only posting this to note that the situations aren't as parallel as you posit; this posting about the death of Andy Grove is not the right place to discuss the refugee crisis.
Terrorists must have been really pissed off by Apple's yesterday annoucements.
Can These FinTech Startups Disrupt Financial Services (Legacy) Incumbents?
I'll wait for GNU/Windows.
Books. Cartoons. T-shirts. Educational materials. They're short-sighted if they don't see the opportunity to leverage this for good.
Well they asked internet for suggestions and got some good ones and some bad ones. Plus some extra publicity. So it worked
In my view it would have been OK if force touch had been equivalent to a long hold. The problem is that force touch and long hold do different things.
>Huh? Okay - think Cygwin, except:

Oh boy, another one of these. Cygwin is useful because it provides a POSIX C API on Windows. It is not useful because of its shell and coreutils. And saying it uses "pure ES6" is stretching it - it's using the plain ES5 Node.js require/export patterns instead of ES6 modules.

>1/15th of the size [of Cygwin]

Haha, and 1/100th the functionality
how cli tools implemented in node is "without suck" is beyond me. fucken hipsters
Have you checked out the Fonts and Colors panel in the Preferences? You can choose both font color and background color and other items.
Back in the 90's, People magazine ran an internet competition for the most beautiful person alive. Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf won by a mile.
I'll believe that when I see xcode running on ios.
How to Soft Launch in the Most Successful Way Possible
Java is declining in mobile but rising on the cloud- 57% of mobile devs use Java
I always take issue with the "become terrorist" line of thinking. What's saying there's a personal progression with an associated change of state? It might be more helpful to view these as events, brought upon by a continuous influence; the specifics of who acts out or why matter little when you consider the consequences, what matters could be to identify what environmental conditions are exploited to influence people towards these positions and affect that.

This isn't intended as a defense for the choices or judgements of any party involved, I just wonder why we collectively cling to the notion of 'turning evil'.

Pretty much any form of social-building construct is/has been construed as a fascist authoritarian political ideology, so how about abstracting that part of the debate and focusing on who's using which of these ideological tools? Your argument could be made about the US, does that mean you equate both organisations?
Their differences may lie more in the intentions of the deciders than in the methods each use to advance their agendas.
All parties have different means and unkown goals in so making informed guesses as to the why of it all seems a bit futile.
HAL - Hypertext Application Language

"HAL is a simple format that gives a consistent and easy way to hyperlink between resources in your API.
Adopting HAL will make your API explorable, and its documentation easily discoverable from within the API itself. In short, it will make your API easier to work with and therefore more attractive to client developers.
APIs that adopt HAL can be easily served and consumed using open source libraries available for most major programming languages. It's also simple enough that you can just deal with it as you would any other JSON."

http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
The key difference is that drugs are something one does to oneself, whereas prostitution includes at least one other person. How to ensure that person is willingly participating and profiting is the question. Although I suppose legalization and licensing would help with that too.
How is this the lowest common denominator? I'd say "Shackleton" or "Falcon" are lowest common denominators. They're basic ones that nearly everyone can accept. Isn't that the definition of lowest common denominator when it comes to people?

What's wrong with a comedy name? Google managed OK being called Google. DuckDuckGo isn't doing too badly either. But SpoonRocket recently shut down, so I guess it doesn't guarantee success.
For the remote workers among you, the similar freelancing spreadsheet might be interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335661
the actually geometric thing, that exists w/o resorting to some arbitrary choice of units, is causality

I can agree with that in principle, but continuing in that line of reasoning: what remains is that the effects of an event ripple outward at a certain speed (ignoring quantum entanglement for a moment). It is my impression that c represents the upper limit of event propagation speed, and as such I would classify it a physical property.

I'm a bit hazy about the exact physical implications of h-bar, but I thought it represented the absolute lower bound of energy quantization. Whether that is a real fundamental property or a consequence of underlying structure is yet to be determined, I believe.
I think it was "Pillar of Autumn"
Merchandise! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNZove4OTtI
I don't think any of those things are caused by optimisations or needing to scale.

Saying that Facebook is recommending things simultaneously at random, based on a reccomendation algorithm, and also as an optimisation which wouldn't be needed if they used MySQL, is obviously nonsense.
How Do You Say “Life” in Physics?
I don't think that's to do with stack complexity, more like:

"Crap how do we make money"

"Crap how do we retain users/keep them here longer"

The stack is to do with providing a fast performance to vast numbers + making it easier to work on for engineers than it might be at that complexity.
I was not aware it is possible with Python; but now I see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33658355/piping-output-fr...
> it's merely knowing what my free time is worth

This is a sound-bite, not something that holds up to scrutiny.

If you decide not to interview with possibly great places based on this, you're essentially saying that all future expected gain isn't worth some set hourly rate for 2-8 hours of your time.

Also, what's your free time worth? For me, sometimes it's worthless, and sometimes I feel like I'd sell my soul for 10 minutes to myself.
I can't imagine Google would have done so well if they'd stuck with BackRub.
I think Pillar of Autumn is the coolest name ever given to something fictional. Followed by Shadow Moses island.
"Winston wanted to send us away to a Chinese island called Hainan for a few days during the slow part of production."
Of course he didn't want foreigners snooping around in his factory. It must have been cheaper to pay their holidays than run the factory at Western standards for "a few days" to please naive visitors.
Ponzi scheme?
At Least 23 Dead as Multiple Blasts Hit Brussels Airport, Metro Station
Be aware that U.S. and French citizens are NOT permitted to apply for the 5-day Shenzhen port visa. [1]

It's also not guaranteed for other citizens so probably best to get a regular China visa rather than risk being turned back at the border.

[1] http://www.travelchina.gov.cn/art/2015/1/30/art_15_45566.htm...
I dislike the NYT more and more these days. I knew as I read that the title the article was from NYT. They are becoming very predictable in their biases.
Banks' father was in the Royal Navy and he grew up in North Queensferry right next to the Forth Bridge and the Rosyth naval base - pretty sure that influenced his love of really big things and Ships With Cool Names - the RN being rather good at the latter and there are few bridges with the visual impact of the former.
This happened in New Zealand a couple of years ago. It was the only way to close the Pandora's box of synthetic cannabis. Every time a substance was banned, a process taking months, a new, slightly altered one was on the shelves within literally days. If your intent is to ban psychoactive drugs, a whitelist is the only way it seems.
Which is another mistake, since it's "Lucozade", as you can see in the photo right above. Plus, at one point they say "it costed us X".
> One of the amicus briefs in this case was submitted by 32 law professors, who pointed out that this violates due process.

The mentioned brief is a very important read, and it's on the Apple's site here:

https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/32_Law_Professors.pdf

From the INTRODUCTION:

"First, there is a jurisdictional problem. There is no basis in the record for this Court
to assert Article III jurisdiction to issue or enforce the February 16, 2016 Order (“the
Apple Order”). The search warrant’s authority is already exhausted and the government’s
motion to compel recognizes that CALEA (“Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act”) does not provide sufficient authority to support the Apple Order.
Rather, the government’s request rests solely on the All Writs Act. However, the All
Writs Act is not an original source of federal jurisdiction and cannot support the
government’s motion or this Court’s order. The All Writs Act merely provides a source
of residual authority where such jurisdiction independently exists.

Second, the underlying Order is invalid because it deprives Apple of liberty and
property without due process of law. The government initially took the time to seek
Apple’s help outside the judicial process. Only after Apple declined did the government
file its ex parte application, which did not allow Apple an opportunity to respond. Even
though Apple has now had an opportunity to respond to the government’s motion to
compel, the underlying Apple Order itself was issued in violation of due process and must
be vacated.

Third, CALEA and ECPA (“Electronic Communications Privacy Act”) govern the
substantive validity of the Order and set out telecommunications carriers’ obligations to
assist law enforcement. Significantly, when Congress enacted CALEA, it exempted
“information services,” which includes certain services that Apple provides, from that
requirement. The Supreme Court has instructed that where a statutory scheme governs a
particular subject matter, the All Writs Act’s residual power does not.

Finally, no court has ever issued a valid order that imposes an equivalent burden on
a non-party. Our research has not found any case that uses the All Writs Act to require a
third-party private entity to design and create new software. Some courts have compelled
disclosure of already-existing information in cases where the All Writs Act is found
applicable. In contrast, the order the government demands in this case would require
substantial expenditures of time and talent above and beyond what is appropriate under
the All Writs Act. This point is particularly alarming where Apple has made a deliberate
decision to exclude the features that the government now demands."
Ask HN: What's with the black bar?
I've seen it a couple of times but can't find any information about it. Has it got anything to do with Brussels or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11333402?
We just had a young applicant who apparently had technical chops (I wasn't interviewing), but everything as "boring". This tech is "boring", that tech is "boring".
This reads less like a thoughtful consideration of what happens when you let the Internet decide than a naked attempt by NYTimes to grab a quick hit of local search traffic around 'Boaty McBoatface.'
Related:

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/13j3hs/laughed_my_as...

and

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10506482
How would they run *nix binaries in a node.js environment if they call it "Cross-platform Linux without the suck"? You are talking about Cygwin here which is what these guys hate for some reason.
Youtube decided based on my music preferences that I must be black, and I must be also stupid and/or very poor and desperate as I was targeted with "get rich fast" ads for the American black population.

Not long after that I installed an ad blocker.
It's also a thing not a woman so I don't think maritime types really have much credibility when it comes to word choice.
Sleep faster startup culture puts mental health at risk
"More developers now use OS X than Linux, says ‘most comprehensive survey ever conducted [by StackOverflow]’" http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/18/os-x-versus-linux-developers/
Actually let me put that paragraph fully in context with the reality.

UDP is no longer used (this is outdated sorry for that), the connection is TCP now as it turned out over all the performance was better.

Dataloss can still occur since DalmatinerDB keeps a cache (which other metric stores might also do). A lot of that can be mitigated by using N=2 (or 3) to store data in multiple nodes that will reduce the chance of dataloss significantly. Keeping caches isn't uncommon however, to ensure full consistency it requires a kind of transaction from that goes from client to server to client, which is 'really' costly and I am convinced not worth it for metrics, a few seconds of lost metrics doesn't warrant the cost of that.
Specific vs. General Foragers and Farmers
JavaScript’s heyday as the only browser language is over
Well, they should have known better. When they were searching a name for a bridge close to the new Wembley Stadium, german fans hijacked the Poll and voted for "Dietmar Hamann Bridge", a german national soccer player.

Also, in a small town in germany, people voted for a "Bud Spencer Tunnel". As a concession, the city council named the local swimming pool for him, after they found out he had been training there when a olympic swimmer prior to his acting career.
Hi everyone - I've been posting on HN about mental health in startups semi-regularly.

Today I got a write up in The Guardian which I hope gives the topic some well needed coverage.

Hope you enjoy the read and would love to kick off a discussion on the points raised.

James
> that people don't actually care about the actual act of child abuse as much as they care about the... 'othering' of the perpetrator.
It's the idea of a child abuser as being an animal, a strange alien, a completely non-understandable beast, that really riles us up.

I disagree, that is how the media sells papers and gets page clicks, but is that what the man-in-the-street thinks? I'm also from the UK, and to me the vilest part of it is that children have little understanding of these adult things; sex, relationships, normality, an inability to protect themselves from adults. They have a right to be a child during childhood (it is a humanitarian right in many countries 1). It isn't about demonizing a person, it is about being saddened by the loss of a child (within a child's body) and the loss of faith in humanity within myself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_th...
Ask HN: Would you pay $30/month for EpiServer like CMS as a service
I'm about to start working on something like this. It is going to be a long journey, but I just want to know whether you are going to pay. This won't be a blog CMS, but enterprise CMS.

http://www.episerver.com/
Technical jargon failure modes
The latter (it's been there for many hours). See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5990015, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11333686.
Mocking API endpoints
RapidSSL does it too.