skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We apply a scorched maybe tactic.".

First we strong arm current implementations, forcing them into a Private API that we 'intend' to make public. Sort of how we intend to go to the gym, intend to drink less and intend to think about how our actions affect others in order to be better people this year.

Wait. Why would we believe this statement? Why would the people who willingly implement your private API care about it going public?

This "intend" is as much worth as the intent to build a comprehensive test suite and intent to document the code later.
Why did you assume the OC meant the regulators was bad rather than their capture?
I think it is a myth that all companies want is light regulation and the evil guvmint comes in an cover them in red tape. A lot of the regulations have been lobbied for by companies to keep out competition. Just look at the recent Tesla cases.

You can go hundreds of years back and companies and businesses were already then busy at pushing through special privileges to keep their profits high.

It isn't a matter of whether you regulate or not, but about the quality of regulation and who it is aimed at regulating. When politics can be bought by power business interests you can bet there will be ever more regulations piled on which don't actually help consumers much.
It's annoy-o-ware.
Divide and conquer.
why is it that the schools have to learn and not the parents? It is not the job of the schools to make these decisions, its is the job of the parents.

This is just an article trying to shift the responsibility of the parents back onto the state. If you change the school day to accommodate the parents/students who are slacking, you screw over the ones who aren't.

If you push the start time later, students will just stay up later, and their parents will let them.
Consumer Reports survives purely on subscriptions without any advertising, no? (Certainly the equivalent in my country, Which?, does - accepting any kind of advertising would compromise their independence, since by their very nature they review everything - and as a result they're significantly more expensive than comparable magazines, but enough people are willing to pay that to make it viable)
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You can compile pwsafe QT GUI for OS X very easily. However, the GUI feels out of place because of QT.
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> 1) JS is unique in that it is delivered over the wire

Oh, that's unique? What are these magical languages where code is solely delivered via sneakernet or snailmail?
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> default nil for unspecified arguments

Isn't this what most scripting languages do? I know it's the case with Python and PHP.

And I disagree about the 1-based array indexing. With algorithms that require a lot of 1-off values, it can be a huge pain in the ass, particularly if you're trying to integrate it with C (and its 0-based array indexing). Still not sure why the creators chose it, given that Lua was designed for easy and close C interop.
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The NAND is encapsulated in a desolderable memory chip that supports reading out state. There's an anti-replay counter, but supposedly that's just stored in another external NOR flash chip with the Secure Element having no onboard flash storage at all - the process Apple builds their chips on doesn't support on-chip flash memory even if they wanted it.
Yes. We start to see a pattern of articles mentioning how folks switch from Node to Go and how wonderful it is.

Same articles were popular in 2012, but how they switched from Ruby to Node.
Has anybody here had any success with applying Alexander Technique for treating depression and/or anxiety? I'm asking this because I suspect that many technology workers are using wrong posture while sitting behind the computer (and most start this bad practice at a young age, including myself). I have recently started forcing myself into a better posture and I must say that I'm feeling much better. Of course, perhaps this is just a coincidence, so I'm wondering about any other experiences.
working on the iSeries (AS/400) currently and to be honest, I don't know of an easier to maintain system. DB2 is nearly automatic in maintenance and the only time we suffer an outage is paranoia when a multiple level redundant system went out and they wanted to replace the backup units with the failed. The size of these machines range from barely seeming bigger than a PC to 64 way and hundreds of terabytes. IBM was smart in that pSeries and iSeries share hardware, though running a Linux VM/partition/etc is more for sheer fun of it than work.
Nope. Commercial software that cost $70. However they don't disable or cripple the software after your 30 day trial is up, they just pop up regular reminders.
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I'm assuming it's a reference to http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
"You" constantly threaten, pressure and influence politics and sponsor lackeys in Venezuela. You did the same to Panama, and countless other latin "Banana Republics".

The west has meddled in Nigeria since forever -- search for Shell (the oil company) and Nigeria. (Hint: on the mainstream media you'll find 1/10 of the stuff reported on independent ones without big oil corps as advertisers).

Russia? Are you kidding me? You had a full blown cold war, and tons of "proxy" peripheral wars with Russia for half a century. And the US still tries to influence Russian policy, replace their government with some friendly clown like the early Yeltsin, etc. Countless money are spent in campaigns to influence local policies there (imagine the outburst if Russia sponsored this or that US candidate, and had NGOs and groups report on the elections, gun laws, etc).

Mexico? Heck, California, Texas, etc were part of Mexico. And you don't need to bomb it, since you've controlled the place, and had friendly lackeys in power for decades.
This is the stuff revolutions are made of. Andela is awesome!
It was partly about pointing out the lack of competition in the US. The airline business was mentioned as an example. European airline industry e.g. experience much harder competition and that shows in American relation to opening up the American airline markets. American airlines are terrified of European carriers because they know they are far more competitive.

As a European I must say I have always been puzzled by American airlines. Why is e.g. the services and standards so terrible on American airlines when it is a country which in all other aspects seems so service obsessed. Even Air France has way friendlier and helpful staff than American airlines :-D

I guess this article explains some of the discrepancy. American airlines simply don't face much competition.
No, over land, and other strategic interests at the time.
Their subscription pop up at the bottom of the page with a close button that does nothing only makes me sure I don't want to work for them.
>there is an apparent lack of valuable, human-doable work to go around

No, there's a lack of immediately profitable human-doable work to go around, and markets don't have the rationality or intelligence to invent mechanisms that guarantee it gets done as it should.

US infrastructure is falling apart. Health insurance is run by vampires. [1] Care for seniors has huge growth potential. Defence spending is one big F-35. Education at almost all levels is far behind where it should be. There are many areas where housing is unaffordable, and a housing program could fix that. Climate change mitigation is definitely going to need to become a thing.

Etc.

There's no lack of work that could be done. The problem is that the standard markets-ra-ra-ra ideology is too stupid and myopically self-interested to understand that sometimes lower profits and higher taxes in the short term can lead to much bigger profits in the longer term.

[1] Possibly literally.
Do you know any Continous Integrations which fits well with Gogs?

Something small, easy to setup, easy to use. Just as Gogs is.

All I want - integration with git/gogs (webhook?), status page (with detailed build/test info, especialy for fails), status image (for readme in gogs).
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I find it odd that economists generally ignore the field of human psychology / behavior in their assessments.

Things like mental and physical health, addictions and substance use, thought manipulation and mind control, the fears and desires, sexual fantasies, even popular movies and music affect the economy greatly.

Not just a little bit, but greatly. A CEO's addiction to cocaine or promiscuity will have an impact on his company's bottom line. A young man starts a disrupting startup because he got inspired by a sci-fi movie a couple of years earlier.

Adam Smith's "invisible hand" is "invisible" because those forces can't be explained by the mechanistic rules of economics or mathematics.
We just need to look elsewhere for a comprehensive picture.

What makes customers choose a product over the other ? Why do some companies retain great talent better than others - and hence reap greater profits ? How does pop music affect industrial design ?

Of course, human behavior and psychology is hard to quantify, that is why it's being left out, but I think we can start to make these connections now that we have the tools and information available.

Take Google and Facebook - these companies make their profits from advertising.
Tens of billions. Add the profits of the media market - print, tv, radio.

Now consider how all that advertising affects the demand curve in all the other industries.

And it's not just the quantity, it's also the quality of advertising - today's ads are scientifically designed to drill their way into our subconsciousness. The colors, the sounds, the motions, the emotions - all of these are carefully weighted so as just to make you want a certain brand over the other.

And now my favorite part - is there a connection between advertising, corporate profits, pollution and climate change ?

I think there is and it's a great one. To conclude, I think regulators should look at all these factors much deeper, determine the connection between mind and economy and exercise their influence by tuning other parts of society, not just traditional economic levers.

Of course this is a monumental task for humans, but AI might just be perfectly suited for this type of analyses.
Isn't the largest science project in US the Superconducting Super Collider? Yes, it was cancelled, but JWST was almost cancelled as well.
In Java 8, collisions in Maps are stored in a tree structure so worst case is O(log n)
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> Clarke and Asimov were great frenemies

Leading to the Clarke-Asimov pact [0], which stated that stated that Asimov was required to insist that Clarke was the best science fiction writer in the world (reserving second-best for himself), while Clarke was required to insist that Asimov was the best science writer in the world (reserving second-best for himself).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
>Let's get specific, so that our terms can be better defined, and we can make sure that we're not just arguing about definitions of terms. Instead of "unit", let's say "C++ class". Now: By my definitions, my unit test should test the behavior of the public API of that class, not the private implementation. So the API is an implementation detail of the project, but not of the class. I will agree that the unit test definitely couples to the interface of the class. Done right, though, it doesn't couple to the implementation of the class.

In almost all cases (the exception being if the class is the core of a library's externally facing API), the class itself is an implementation detail.

>A bigger source of technical debt than the bugs you can't find that are buried in the implementation of some class?

Yes, obviously. Bugs are not technical debt.

>And good tests mean that those bugs don't make it very far before getting exposed.

And integration tests are generally better at finding said bugs than unit tests since they test more realistically.

>A bigger source of technical debt than that API that you don't know how to use, and so you call it wrong?

Is again, a bug - not technical debt.

Unit tests are horrible for this since they require you to mock APIs that you're calling. The test which mocks the API wrongly won't catch that bug but the integration test that uses the real API will.

>Tests can actually serve as documentation for how to use an API.

Yes they can. Integration tests can double as a specification for an entire application which is even better than a documentation for a (potentially) badly architected API.
>This "wars for oil" stuff is something a lot of people repeat to themselves without really thinking about it.

And then you bring Venezuela, Russia, Nigeria etc as examples where these things didn't happen...

Not only forgetting all the places where those wars DID happen (all over the wider middle east for one), but also the numerous ways the west intervened in those places, from constant pressure with tons of ways (sponsoring political opponents, arming guerilla groups, helping their border states invade them, manipulating their economy, down to toppling governments).

Maybe get 2-3 good books about the subject?

Or an article to start:

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-i...

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=852

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/18/u-s-interventions-in-...

http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/latest-wikileaks-show-f...

http://www.amazon.com/Crude-Interventions-United-States-Worl...

http://williamblum.org/chapters/freeing-the-world-to-death/u...
Semantic UI looks the best, but once you start to do your own things, you end up fighting it. I'd love to see some of the stuff Semantic UI does just as an add-in/theme for Bootstrap (Forms are beautifull).

I created an app for a customer in it, and while it looks shiny, it would have been more cost-effective to just have used bootstrap.
have attorneys that are always state allocated to each side, not privately chosen.
Nope. More insecure Ciphers are marginally slower than modern ones.
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"Putting an astronomical telescope in space was a natural solution, and it followed directly—and, according to some, very directly—from the spy satellite program."

Can anyone expand upon this? I know the NRO has recently donated some of its old gear to NASA, but is there much cross-pollination between the space-operating agencies?
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Dude, that ship sailed some time ago. And I say this as someone who agrees with the HN "mob" on most things. The hardcore libertarian-randist opinions you'd see relatively often around here have all but disappeared.
SAT II's are more predictive of college performance on their own than 4 years of high school grades, but standardized tests like these take a fraction of the time, as opposed to years of intimate teacher evaluations.

The compromised operational security of these exams don't stop them from being more predictive than teachers. So if we want to retire these tests, then we need something better. What we should really be talking about is improving these tests and beefing up operational security.
At the risk of sounding snarky or disrespectful, I can't fail to notice how often people suffering from depression become all passionate and fiery when discussing the cause of (their) depression.
The way I remember it dart was released to replace javascript as an actual viable sane language for apps, which means it could double as a longterm replacement for smartphone apps as well.

Mozilla resisted dart in the browser and focused heavily on improving javascript which left dart dead in the water.
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> What's wrong with allowing the Sherpas to make that choice, instead of us moralizers

This point is exactly why I'm ok with sweatshops. Choosing assembling piececes for an iPhone instead of receiving an education is a perfectly valid option.
>I think he's dated way less badly than Asimov has.

Well, that comes from a person who uses the word "juvenilia" though.

More sci-fi and less literary types will disagree.
Doctors, nurses and lawyers often have to think quickly, on the spot, in life or death (or at least life-altering) situations.

A developer (in a non-pathological work environment) has time to discuss and research a solution.

FWIW I don't remember the last time I had to implement a binary tree since my C++ course in college; I'm not a fan of pop quizzes in interviews, but if you're going to do them then at least make it relevant to the work you do on a daily basis.
> The AI has been built to respond to a product or message with the optimal commercial direction, based off historical data. The AI has also been built to then learn from the results of the campaigns its directed, in theory creating an increasingly more effective AI creative director.

So its "creativity" lies in doing what already worked well but based on a more exhaustive knowledge of former results. It is then reinforced by adding its own results to the set of historical data. I am not sure McCann and I have the same definition of "creativity"...
Why not ask questions or ask for solution about that in the hiring and interviewer process? You might just find folks who love/know how to solved that kind of problems to work for you.

BTW, that is very trivial problem to solve for those who has done it.
Ask HN: What Rails-style web frameworks are there?
I've looked for a reasonably complete list of full-featured MVC web frameworks that are similar to or influenced by Rails (I want to compare their design) but I couldn't find one. Here is the list I have compiled myself so far. Please suggest additions (or, in fact, deletions) if any come to mind. (Or, if you know of an existing list like that, please link to it in a comment.)

┌──────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│ Primary Language │ Framework Name(s) │
├──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ C# │ ASP.NET MVC │
│ Elixir │ Phoenix │
│ Erlang │ Chicago Boss │
│ Groovy │ Grails │
│ Haskell │ Yesod │
│ Java │ Ninja, Play, Spring MVC │
│ JavaScript (Node.js) │ Sails.js │
│ Python │ Django │
│ Scala │ Play │
│ Perl │ Catalyst │
│ PHP │ CakePHP, Laravel, Symfony │
│ Ruby │ Hanami │
│ Tcl │ Woof! │
└──────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
Funny how this is pretty much the exact opposite of Zuck's "move fast and break things" mantra.
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Ben Thompson from Stratechery was pushing this thesis for quite a while now.
Not at all, actually.

The Crusades started off when the Patriarch of Constantinople wrote a letter to the Pope wanting money, basically. He talked about how the Holy Land was in jeopardy and pilgrims couldn't make their pilgrimages anymore.

So the Pope preaches a sermon about how bad things are in the Holy Land. Tons of regular people decided to go over there and fight to "take it back" The nobles saw what was happening and ended up more joining in than anything else. (They did not lead it)

So here you have this ragtag army of regular citizens making a huge land journey. It must have been like locusts for the poor villages in the way. The nobles that participated, meanwhile, did what they could to try to turn this disorganized mob into some kind of organized fighting force.

When they showed up, they simply overwhelmed the Islamic forces that were there. Ended up taking a huge swath of territory.

Does any of this sound familiar? Sermons, unintended consequences, common-man-as-warrior, huge victory because nobody was prepared, etc?

That's ISIS.

It took over a hundred years for the effects of the First Crusade to wear off, and yes, in that time there were many more. But in the end the Crusaders turned out to be really good at being true believers and fighting and dying for their cause. Maintaining a complex series of alliances in a land that was hostile? Not so much. Wonder if ISIS will manage to last that long. Doubtful.
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> If there's a morality question with, as you describe it, offering opportunities at gunpoint; how can there not be morality questions with taking tax money from others, actually at gunpoint?

Non-taxation is also at gunpoint. Particularly in the case of land/property ownership (possibly the biggest factor in inequality), the thing that makes a wealthy person's land and buildings "theirs" is ultimately their ability to expel other people from them by force.

Ultimately you can frame anything as a negative or positive right. We as humans need to decide what sits best with our own consciences. Personally, I feel a visceral sense of injustice at the gross inequality of today's world - a sense that I don't feel when we talk about taking a fraction of the incomes of the wealthiest (provided we do so from all equally) and redistributing it to those less well off. It's possible that I'm peculiar in this regard, but I suspect not.
> The language itself precludes it.

It really doesn't, and you could write the exact same thing. Java code doesn't look like that, either (certainly not modern code).
Absolutely. As I noted.

The Crusades were full of ironies. One of the most prominent was that they ended up sacking Constantinople, which was exactly the opposite intent of how it all started.
Everyone has the right to share opinions.

Unfortunately the diagnosis of depression has been down to opinion also. Not an opinion informed by understanding, but by criteria of a disease no one yet fully understands, concocted by a bunch of cocaine snorting pompous bullshit artists (too far?).

Being diagnosed means a doctor listened to you describing a bunch of feelings and looked up a checklist, and matched some of those words you said to the checklist, and presto! Depression! Have a pill, be on your way.

And if you speak out against psychology then it's all explained by anti authoritarianism, and they put you in with the jews, and the gays, and the anarchists. Yes, homosexuality, and anti-authoritarianism were once recently on the checklist. You can't win. Complete gaslight tactics.

Please understand, I'm not having an argument here, I'm venting some rage, big time. Nothing personal. Some of us have been through the ringer by bastards like the writer of that article. Well meaning bastards. True nurse ratchett evil bastard ..... has aneurysm
> that the reason people move to heroin is because of the paranoia about addiction which causes their prescriptions to be cut off in the first place

Well it seems they are right, if people will move to an illegal substance right after they get cut from it