skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started out using Apache and now I am on Nginx. I like the simplicity of the configuration of Nginx along with the great documentation and modules.

It would be a hard sell for me to switch to Lwan. My sites are not getting 300k connections all at once.
But it did go away - "away" meaning stuck where it will not be spent. We could theoretically get it back if it moves again, but if things keep going the way they are now, that money will never move.
He claims to be a white nationalist not a supremacist. He's helped the daily stormer site before like when somebody jacked their domain.
I would agree if it was just me. But Googling around for some of the stuff that's happened, like with Michael O. Church, some blog posts about alleged anti-semitism in HN moderator actions, I think it's hardly just me.

I also don't think that bad moderator actions are common either. Most users probably don't even notice it. It's arguable that this makes it even worse, since it's harder to get the community to care about healthy community-approved policies if they are only protecting a handful of people who are sometimes outside of the HN group-think.
I think the bigger problem with these generic names is that they are hard to search for and crowd the search space. Go is a common enough word that you'll need to search for `"SoundCloud Go"`, since `SoundCloud Go` will bring up a bunch of unrelated stuff about SoundCloud, e.g. "go to your SoundCloud account panel and..." But using quotes will miss sentences like, "SoundCloud has released a new service, Go."
Usually it's not my code :/
I agree that big, deep stuff like architecture and abstractions can be daunting, but I wouldn't be quick to dismiss style and formatting as mere nitpicks. Code clutter can have an outsize effect downwind of those who create it.

A codebase is like a home. We all have to live in it. Architecture and abstractions are like the furniture and appliances. Code formatting and syntax are the nicknacks, paper bills, decorations, cat toys, board games etc.

Does the toaster really belong on top of that highly flammable mattress? This is a big, deep question about the overall functioning of the home. But throw a pile of ratty blankets on top, put some boxes of moldy half-eaten pizza around the floor, and maybe wind that kite string over the doorknob and around the teetering bookcase. Can you still see the toaster? How do you plan to get in there to move it to a proper place?

Small issues can block, conceal, misrepresent, and make big issues even more dangerous. Which why I say: fix all the small things first and stop new clutter from appearing (lint your code), then talk about rearranging the furniture.
Start firing people for screwing up and their peers will learn not to screw up.
It's not true. The user didn't accuse them of being culturally insensitive. Rather, he argued that that automating the conversion was fool's errand, partly due to the differences between the various RTL languages. He suggested that the Bootstrap team point users to quality RTL themes instead of releasing a shoddy built-in RTL implementation.

Perhaps this should be added to the list of instances of people dismissing valid arguments by labeling them polical correctness.
A fashionable framework on your CV will get you an interview, while claiming that the code was simple won't. It's as immoral as objective reality is.
That would likely cost much more than this extortion, and still wouldn't save them.
I saw that movie! Totally natural and non-dystopic.
Thanks for the corrections. I've been switching a lot between Lua and Python for the past year and have clearly gotten some things mixed up.
Capitalism isn't inherently short-term oriented.

No, but people do tend to be. We seem to be wired to value near-term gains much more strongly than long-term gains -- http://www.behavioraleconomics.com/mini-encyclopedia-of-be/t...

This then drives us to create the systems that focus on near-term rewards – like the quarterly reporting and equities that can be traded at a moment's notice, etc. etc.
Wow, that was quite the read. If all is true then hats off to the reporter. That was some seriously impressive reporting.
Another article over on Billboard points out that Apple Music and Dubset just announced a system for remixes and DJ sets that actually pays the remixer and DJ a portion of funds while also compensating the original content owners, and about a week before this SoundCloud announcement.

I know about it because I'm already signed up and have an account. SoundCloud has provided nothing in the way of notification, tools, or access to a similar platform. Sure, they're getting in better position with the RIAA/Merlin groups but that's not traditionally the value proposition with SoundCloud for listeners/creators. Maybe in time we'll learn more about why SoundCloud and Dubset both have competing systems for license revenue (apparently?!), and which one might be the better of the two.
>Media is just helping Weev spread his message

I feel like more attention should be brought to this, and a greater onus put on the media for "enabling" such behavior.

This thought first occurred to me when The Rolling Stone put a glamor shot of Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon terrorist bomber, on its cover.

In the click/eyes-driven world we live in, the line between fame and infamy is increasingly blurred

IMHO, more accountability needs to be placed on the media. Of course, a story needs to be "sold" to keep publications alive - so I wouldn't be opposed to putting a pseudonym attributed to the criminal that doesn't use his/her actual name in the print.
At least in the technology industry many investments are astronomically expensive. See the acquisitions of Instagram, Whatsapp, et al. Having huge amounts of cash allows companies to suddenly expand into new fields (robotics, self driving cars, etc) without having to borrow anew from banks or investors.
The "take some responsibility" line is actually very close to what I hear real people say all the time in discussions on poverty. Many people seem to firmly believe the idea that poor people are only poor because they're lazy. It is not hard for me to believe there are developers out there who would actually say something like this.
Also searching for "Go" in google will probably not bring up good results.
Which one? Gattaca?
Think of segregation/separate but equal. Nothing can really stop someone from choosing not to associate with another person because of their race or gender. And that's generally okay. But the second it becomes law of the land, through government, it's a problem. IP is no different.
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That quote in the parent is not from Weev, but from a member of the Black Justice League, an activist group active at Princeton.
I'm all for free speech. People should be able to offer their thoughts as odious as they might be, so long as they are not threatening, or harming anyone in doing so.

So I'm a bit baffled how people could find it offensive for urban Congo to perform in loincloths. It's a university. I know I saw really strange behavior, and loincloths seem mild. What makes students so sensitive? It's incredible.
Thanks!

That was my entire point — people who are saying that US was funding future Al Quaeda in the 80s are just as wrong in the nuance but are just as right in general. Bolsheviks were the logical conclusion of radicalization of the left. Revolutions devour their own children, after all; just like Mensheviks, just like the _real_ democracy-loving anti-Assad protesters. All of them either die, or become the radicalised, grotesque and horrible plagiat of the original.
Keynes vs Hayek (well Keynes didn't get a Nobel, but is nevertheless regarded as a seminal thinker in the field) - their views on the role the state can and should play in shaping the economy are totally opposite. The debate is unresolved to this day, with Keynesians taking an upper hand post-2008.
What sort of innovation are you talking about? I always felt like Soundcloud got it right way before everyone else and it makes sense they spent the last few years getting the business right.
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The premise that server-side HTML generation is faster than client-side HTML generation is simply false. See here for experimental confirmation: http://www.onebigfluke.com/2015/01/experimentally-verified-w...

Why would offloading computation to a heavily-taxed central server speed anything up? It doesn't make much sense. Nor is HTML generation a bottleneck in most realistic applications.
Brainfuck probably has an equal chance of being selected as C#. The problem is more that the APIs and all of the existing apps. Google can't just wake up one morning and decide that everything will be now in language XYZ because there are literally millions of apps for Android which have been written in Java against Java APIs. C# would also be an unusual choice for a company that does zero(?) C# work.
API to find a device's manufacturer by it's MAC Address
There is a tool for literate coffeescript that formats the output in a similar way - you have the english text in a pane on the left and the code in a pane on the right. I quite like the effect -- especially since there are potentially no comments in the code at all, which I often want if I'm just trying to read it quickly.

Unfortunately, literate coffeescript is not really mature enough to be used in a large project, IMHO. However, I hope that more people think about separating human language commentary from computer code. I think the idea behind literate programming is a good one and I hope that it gains some traction some day.
It reads like a good script for Hollywood blockbuster!
>>"He was particularly protective of Le Roux’s birth mother, making me promise not to reveal her name. “Sad and interesting story,” he said. “His real mom’s mom is married to a U.S. Senator.” When I asked him who the Senator was, he said, “That I can’t say, mate. That’ll get me shot.”"

This is probably a bigger story.
weev would love nothing more than for some moron federal prosecutor to try that. They would surely lose, which would give him the lead, weev: 2, feds: 1. (Since he did go to prison, I count the first trial for the feds, even though the charges were ridiculous and the appeals court threw the whole thing out. The appeal, of course, counts for weev.)
It's funny how the guy assumes the reader must know Clojure
Not until they can grow it in a bottle.
Then you are running into problems with the commercial journals, and you need their peer-review.
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I'm guessing this is a troll account, but just in case anyone believes you. http://www.snopes.com/emory-students-trump-graffiti/
Corrupt doesn't mean illegal, it means dishonest, disloyal, lacking in integrity, etc.
NIH has a Public Access Policy already[1], so anything NIH funded is public. Lots of stuff is already available (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov).
Other agencies have public data to AHRQ, CDC, FDA, HHMI, NIST, VA (see link for acronym clarification)[2]

This FASTR proposal shouldn't be a big deal, since a lot of funding sources already have that requirement. I'm not sure why some funding gets not to be public.

(part of my job is uploading data to pubchem)

[1]http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
[2]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/public-access/
Very nicely said!

Sad is also being at the mercy of Apple to do "upgrades" of software, being at the mercy of Apple for security fixes.. the list goes on.
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I totally agree, the only new thing here is that it involves paper, rather than online comment boxes and web page defacing and such. The paper aspect seems to get stronger reactions, since it sounds like people are assuming that something coming out of a printer must be from a local person. Or maybe it's just that paper is more tangible.
It's entertaining for the same reason code golf is entertaining. It's fun, educational, and clever.
Housing, education and healthcare are strange markets. The argument against nationalization is huge, monopolistic bureaucracies eliminate efficiencies that markets naturally create.

But what happens when the market creates an environment where a huge, monopolistic bureaucracy makes the purchasing decisions regarding homes and education (commercial lenders) and healthcare (insurance companies)? What's the practical difference between your insurance company/mortgage lender forcing life-changing decisions on you, and the government doing the same?

Only a small percentage of people can afford to pay 100% cash for housing, higher education, and healthcare. In a natural market, industries like this shouldn't be able to exist. So what's wrong with these markets?

Why does the median house cost ~$200k[0], but the median net worth is below $150k[1]? How can a market survive if most people can't afford what its selling, but they're buying it anyway?

You could also argue that over-regulation is part of the reason these costs are driven so high (nobody should have to pay $50 for an aspirin), but it's equally clear that market forces also gave overwhelming influence to these monopolistic bureaucracies.

It seems to me that the answer is either to nationalize the middle-man bureaucracies, giving everyone equal access to the services they pay for, or make the middle-man bureaucracies illegal - forcing the actual providers (hospitals, colleges, home builders/sellers) to subject their prices to real market forces.

I'd be fine with either, but none of the middling solutions so far have been effective.

[0]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/median-home-price-2...
[1]https://www.creditdonkey.com/average-american-savings-statis...
I think they said they were moving to OpenJDK for Android.
more like holy fuck. This is so huge. It's huger than huge. This will surely rock the crypto scene for years to come.
I suspect 99% of the readers stopped after the Clojure example.
> One hope of mine, an actual capitalist solution to this problem of capitalism, is that companies start investing in their service employees more as an asset, not as a disposable automaton (eg, using higher quality service as a differentiation, which I think is even possible in the low margin / low price areas of business).

A sentiment I agree with, but if the recent Yelp call center fiasco is any evidence, I don't find it terribly likely.
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A linter is also a great way to jump start learning a new language. If you encounter a warning that doesn't make sense to you, look it up. You'll start to get familiar with common language pitfalls without actually getting burned by any of them.
I'm a mere user of IFTTT. And the more I read this train-wreck of a thread, along with what you're putting developers through, I'm done.

All of my further work will be done purely with local instances of Node-Red and Apache NiFi. It may not support everything IFTTT does (and I know that), but what I will have will just work.

And in all honesty, all "* as a Service" companies give me the heebie-jeebies, because I know you (collectively) can do the stunts shown here.

Edit: account deleted on IFTTT as well. The less I am a serf on anothers' system and the master on my own (Node-Red), the better. Enough of lock-me-in closed APIs.
That's what came to me instantly.
I'll take your word for it. I guess I conflate them because they're both utterly abhorrent worldviews.
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Those who haven't seen it, should definitely see Gattaca. Good movie, but aside from that, posits a premise that I think will resonate with virtually everyone. That we are more than the sum of our parts. That there are unquantifiable attributes like willpower, perseverance, honor, compassion, etc. that arise out of adversity and overcoming our shortcomings. Is a genetically perfect human inferior because they were never subjected to the travails of imperfection?

Those are the questions that will bounce around in the heads of parents ... and they may lead them to have kids the old-fashioned way.
According to the thread, He spends 9-5 on his clients and the rest on his own projects
Related repository: https://github.com/sspies8684/dataformat
We'll still have the traditionalists and we'll have the ones who have "accidents" and we'll have "increasing disparity" between the have techs and the don't have techs.

Wonder what this will do for demographics?
Interesting to see if people choose to avoid diseases or developments that aren't necessarily crippling but for many people would be undesirable, like the various autisms or mental oddities. Maybe it will end up being just like buying a car, you pick the race, eye color, gender, etc. down a list of options and then take delivery in 9 months?
Uhm.. yes... thanks. I have a pretty solid understanding of volumes. And a youtube-video of "100 l/min" does not qualify as scientific argument for me.

The relevant questions for me are:

a) What's the actual active surface of the gills?

b) Is the device actively sucking in water or does it rely on immersion alone?

It is pretty easy to fork through thousands of liters per minute (ever cleaned a pool?).

Yes, I am still very skeptical, but I do give people who put their name behind something at least the benefit of the doubt.
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So he dropped TrueCrypt and told everybody it was insecure when he was picked up by the feds, fearing that they would try and force him to open a security hole? Wow.
This doesn't seem like it'd be incredibly hard to prove if true. Senator's wives are a pretty limited group of people to look into for a connection.
Some good tips in this article but for me the problems usually start when I have to tie two or three APIs with different coding conventions together.
You almost confirm his point:

> Well, I’ve got a pretty good setup for starters: Fibre, 16GB RAM.

You're using a fairly decent desktop setup, and a top-of-the-line mobile setup, and there's no talk about server-side specs. So yes, it's true that "The premise that server-side HTML generation is faster than client-side HTML generation is simply false." -- in your one particular, very specific use case.
App developers tend to not write unit tests, it requires some extra setup in the beginning, but if you will be working on the app for some time, they are invaluable. Just like with any other serious engineering effort.
The narrative is quite, eh.. tentative. Nevertheless a entertaining read, start at the beginning here: https://mastermind.atavist.com/an-arrogant-way-of-killing
Does runnable.com has a full Android environment setup? I wrote unit test and functional/ui tests for my android app, but im too lazy configuring my jenkins setup.
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> when you hoard wealth as numbers on a balance sheet rather than spending it, you are actually destroying that wealth

They aren't hiding it in their mattress, they're investing it.

Invested dollars absolutely do circulate through the economy.
I'm a huge Spotify fan and if you've found Discover weekly useful you might like the following other resources for discovering new music:

http://furia.com/newparticles/current.html

http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/3rgsDhGHZxZ9s...

There's more, of course but I agree that many of the curated playlists lean towards popular music. I also follow /r/spotify on reddit and every now and then there's a good playlist on there.
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You mean to tell me a subject still in its infancy, studying some of the most complex and dynamic systems, has some bad findings? Shocking

As someone who studied psychology, I've always recognized a lot of it is a bunch of wankery (as everyone should). That doesn't mean you toss it out, it means you think critically about any findings. This is the same reason I'm wary of a lot of economic talk: it's another social science studying something possibly even more complex. People seem to often carry a definitive tone
You're sure they are not obvious?
This may be true. If you look at the timeline of his arrest and when TrueCrypt ceased development, they are around the same time.

Matthew Green also tweeted about this correlation on twitter: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/71481367667133644...
How much is the department paying for those journal subscriptions?

Just redirect that cut journal subscription money that GP suggested into the open-access submission fee.
To be honest, I don't know or care enough about him to really research if he truly feels that way. From my semi informed viewpoint, I see where he could see it as a sort of Andy Kaufman style of trolling. He could be just picking a topic that he knows most "normal" people would be outraged about because if he wants to know how well his printer hack worked, a penis enlargement pill or public service announcement would get ignored by the recipients. The dude is toying with people's emotions for his own amusement, just narcissistic behavior.
> Lulu told me that when Le Roux was 15 or 16, in the late 1980s, the local police raided the family home and arrested Paul for selling pornography online.

This seems a bit odd to me, having lived in South Africa at that time. There's almost no way a guy at home would have had that kind of access in Apartheid South Africa to the internet back then. There was access, but it was through big companies or academia and on a very controlled level.

Here's a quick rundown of internet access in South Africa during that time period from Wikipedia. From experience, it is accurate.

> The first South African IP address was granted to Rhodes University in 1988.[1] On 12 November 1991, the first IP connection was made between Rhodes' computing centre and the home of Randy Bush in Portland, Oregon.[2] By November 1991, South African universities were connected through UNINET to the Internet. Commercial Internet access for businesses and private use began in June 1992[3] with the registration of the first .co.za subdomain.

You might bring up stuff like BBS, but that was not around in South Africa until after 1990 also. You could technically have imported hardware and connected to a BBS in USA, but the costs involved and control of the only Telecoms operator allowed in Apartheid South Africa (Telkom) would have been unaffordable. Especially for Krugersdorp. I doubt you'd get some kind of USA led local police raid for pornography in Apartheid South Africa either. The whole thing would need some serious evidence.
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It's the difference between, say, length(foo) and foo.length() - any difference in cognitive load should be lost in the noise next to "this variable can be null".

And given most languages in use today use = to mean assignment instead of equality, it's hardly "no reason".
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Good on them! Competition is great as long as the artists don't suffer. I will be sticking to band camp however
The server has to do it for everybody, right? If it scales at all, no server is powerful enough. But mobile makes it more complex.
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The last update promises they will post a longer demo video soon. Maybe the whole 45 minutes?

If the device in the old video (https://youtu.be/obqxzmmv7uM) is fake, how did it work? Where did the air bubbles come from?
I was thinking demolition man.
Well that's lame. You got my hopes up for nothing! Not to mention, some Trump fans might not like your using him for rhetorical purposes. They think he is a genuine American patriot, not some automatic do-the-transgressive-thing fake persona.
Counterpoint: traits arise through neural networks established in the brain. What's to say that we won't reach a point where such traits can be artificially engineered?

Likely not in the near future, but I see it happening hundreds of years from now.