skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if the author was raised in a very different culture, either because he or his family was of foreign origin, or he was simply brought up with an atypical set of cultural cues and values. These can be very difficult to uproot, and may explain the sense of bumbling through professional situations that the article conveys.

This is what I thought as well. The author's perceptions of reality seem a bit "off" and even naive in some cases.
It would be really helpful if I could filter for tags, like "image resize", sound, etc.
Those things aren't exclusive to the US.
15 robot portraits taken with an 1880s camera
Or to put it this way, 'validation follows true achievements'. 'Seeking validation always results in fake achievements'.
Gone launches marketplace for verified, used electronics
The trend has been towards locked down hardware and software, and that trend is starting to encroach on even desktop systems.
Talking just about just "discretionary" spending is not an accurate way to talk about where our tax money goes.
it use the public key of the other user, not whatsapp. in effect, whatsapp is just acting as a key server. now they could have that users private key, but that's another matter
MDM Policies Could Make You Feel Like a 5th Grader on iOS
> Ok, which personal interactions should not be taken personally? Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds definitionally?

If you honestly don't understand how to apply this kind of nuance that is concerning and could indicate an undiagnosed psychological condition (e.g. autism spectrum) -- consider talking to a professional. But I'll try to elaborate:

Try giving people the benefit of doubt. The vast majority of people are not intentionally being obnoxious. There is a multitude of reasons someone might come across as hostile without it being something you should take personal, for example:

* sleep deprivation

* hunger (e.g. skipped a meal)

* bad posture (causing discomfort they may not even be aware of)

* physical illness (e.g. a simple cold)

* physical conditions (e.g. menstruation, indigestion)

* stress (e.g. close deadlines, financial problems, relationship issues)

* other psychological conditions (e.g. grief)

* mental disorders (e.g. depression)

* bad social skills (some people genuinely can't communicate well)

* non-native speakers (may be unaware of subtleties in tone and voice)

* language disabilities (e.g. stuttering may make them anxious when they have to talk)

Instead of judging people by singular interactions, try to recognize patterns in their behaviour.
Wikimedia Sweden art map 'violated copyright'
I still relish this true story of progress: my father, who started programming with punch cards in high school that he had to send off to the nearest university and wait a week for results, now has a computer in his pocket with orders of magnitude more computing power and capacity, plus it's connected to a storehouse of information that one could not exhaust in a lifetime. Sure, optimists will predict more favorable outcomes, but as XKCD (rightly) says to those asking "where's my flying car?", the answer is: we have helicopters.
Bug or feature?
Meh, its a country of 330,000 people with some pretty oddball politics as its norm. This PM is 41 years old and has only been in government 7 years. Its not like he represents the old guard, the banking industry, CEOs, the wealthy, or somesuch. He's kinda a nobody, even by Icelandic standards. He didn't have the political capital to cushion his fall so he took the easy way out.

I'll be impressed when there's some reform or change in a powerful country or against a powerful and corrupt leader like Russia's Putin, who is clearly fleecing the Russian people to enrich himself and his friends. So far the only good news of note is that the US and the IRS will be cracking down harder on these characters now that they have all this ammo against them.

Sadly, this will get a lot of people thinking "our side won" when this is pretty much the lowest prize we could have. Where's the real reform? Where's the big leaders being taken down? Iceland is pretty much a suburban Danish city on an island. Its not a world power. My city's dog catcher got more votes than this guy. Lets demand more than trivial wins.

That said, bravo to the Icelandic people. Their example of a more direct form of democracy is pretty inspiring.
Do you think the Ruby Hero awards should continue to be part of RailsConf?
Gogs will always use less memory and cpu. We are working to make GitLab page loads very fast.
Who said I'm passing judgment? I a lot of people prefer that workflow so I'm guessing there is some merit. I just don't understand it (I've never gotten an explanation that satisfies me).
I think it's unfortunate that Paramount is going after the defendants, but I think this is a pretty tough case for the Axanar folks to make in most cases. I can't imagine Lucas or Disney taking too kindly to claims that they don't own the rights to the Jedi and the word 'lightsaber'. That stuff is brand names and trade dress, certainly within the realms of copyright.

The question of the Klingon language is a more nuanced and interesting one to me, though. I doubt that there's a precedent for a corporation owning a spoken language.
Hey everyone, I'm around for a bit to answer any questions you might have :)
Easily support different themes in iOS -– DKNightVersion 2.1.0
Totalitarian states do just fine as it is. They use money to maintain their power. This might make totalitarian states impossible.
> discretionary spending

"Discretionary spending" is a term the left made up to lie about how much of the budget is things they want. Things they want are non-discretionary, other things are discretionary. It's political newspeak, not a comprehensible way to measure the government budget.
I'm biased, but I also like http://www.cocoacontrols.com :)
> depending on the language itself

Are there any languages or language families that you find easier to use? (inb4 COBOL is the easiest)
I'm working on a consumer social messaging app in the UK based on sharing just one thing a day...... need to find quality dev support to join the movement.
Yes, that's my understanding as well (IANATA)! And it's still not double-taxation: if us_tax>foreign_tax, then you pay foreign_tax + us_tax-foreign_tax == us_tax. (Or foreign_tax, if it's greater.) The citizenship taxation system means you can't move away and legally pay LESS taxes than if you'd stayed in the US. But you're welcome to pay more and not have to remit anything extra to the US. ;)
If your life gets off the well beaten track, (your deviation from) people's expectations will fuck you.
Interesting. Perhaps the focus should there by be on the service and not merely the content. Good feedback - thanks.
The difficulty is the financiers; they want visual bang for their buck, and they want to be told "yes, I'll make it happen" even if the person talking doesn't yet know how. If that means a bunch of young people looking busy and working themselves into the ground, versus a small team of professionals that will calmly and realistically tell the financiers what can't be done in a given time frame and budget... Realistic with older professional is boring; fantasy with young people is exciting! Guess what happens every time?
Saying something is overrated isn't necessarily saying it's inferior to alternatives, just that it has too much importance placed on it relatively speaking.

Seems like his ego got hurt and he's out for revenge. He also seems to be blind to the fact that ageism works both ways. Some of his comments, and those on the linkedin post in question, are far more worrying than those of HubSpot's CEO.
No. fglrx does not work with the latest version of X.org that 16.04 ships.
Yes in Bangalore, having the option to use Uber is a bargaining chip.

Also in some parts of the city it is hard to find any non-Uber form of taxi very late at night.
I wonder if the law will be as harsh on him as it was on the bankers they jailed.
Earlier today the prime minister actually first tried to get the president to dissolve the parliament (as some kind of retaliation?), but apparently the president refused. As I understand it, this is the first time in Icelandic history that the president refuses to dissolve the parliament when asked to by the prime minister. Maybe someone here from Iceland knows...
I disagree in two ways.

First, being rude can mean pushing someone's buttons. People have easy buttons to push regarding their gender, orientation, race, etc. So even if your primary motivation wasn't to express hate for their whole category, you can contribute to * ism that way.

Second, a more frequent expression of rude behavior to people of a class that you don't like is *ism even if you aren't using the forbidden slurs normally associated with whatever prejudice you're expressing.
Disclosure: I am a male computer science researcher and software developer. I have years of experience as a TA, and I have taught a CS intro course to college students.

> I think it's great that this lady is going into this field, but I feel really weird about this characterization that CS is supposed to be so super scary and women need special hand-holding and encouragement to attempt it.

I don't think that is what the author is trying to convey. Rather the opposite, actually. She's trying to get across the notion that computer science is a topic like any other.

The problem is that many CS students (you included, it sounds like) come into CS intro classes with significant prior experience. To those without that experience, and not realizing that their peers have a significant head-start, they may feel dumb when they don't get concepts their peers instantly get. Many people will hesitate to ask for help in such a circumstance. I think members of a minority group are then even less likely to ask for help, because they already feel different and perhaps wondering if they belong.

Not many people come into microbiology programs with years of experience in the topic. So while CS is a topic like any other, it tends to have students unlike any other.

I do not think it is enough to just talk about how cool it is in programming. I think that the culture in our courses needs to change, and some of that is on the instructional staff.
Holy shit. That's some of the most egregiously racist things I've seen and I'm not white! No business from me, ever!

Elaboration : I feel like apologising for the knee jerk reaction. A tweet I would forgive, but that corporate slide in a corporation that aggressively claims to be social, inclusive, community etc. is simply terrible hypocrisy.

But anyway I checked with my PM and my team uses self hosted gitlab and the decision was purely technical :)
As a long-term OpenPandora user, I have to say that the final release of the Pyra really excites me. Its truly the device that you describe that you want .. built to be open, by open-source enthusiasts, who just want to have a great machine.

It really is the sole point of light in a sea of darkness. Like, we can actually know the people making the hardware: this is something not achieved often in the open-source space.
All morality aside, this is a pretty fascinating glimpse into american/human personal culture. Adding morality back in and it is hard not to consider this a serious breach of trust and worthy of countless criminal charges.
eric001... Perfect, just perfect logic
I believe you are correct. Where I work, basic webapp crud and ui-type stuff are handled by younger, inexperienced people because these are easy things. For the more complicated problems, ones that tend to require deep knowledge of eg service provider networks, the teams are almost uniformly 35-50+.
I work on eukaryotes, so I am not very familiar with bacteria. Is it really this simple in bacteria where you can modify it according to a planned circuit and get the results you expect? I can understand maybe generating simple behaviors like upregulating a gene or superficially influencing some aspect of its metabolism, but is it possible to get a specific tightly controlled response? Do we know enough about bacteria for this to work now?
> Proprietary software enslaves users by making them helpless against a developer that may mistreat the user (and the user can't do anything about it).

I find your propensity for double standards amazing. These so called "enslaved users" made a choice to buy into the developers proprietary software. It's the same exact thing as developers buying into the GPL.

So, if proprietary software is enslaving users, then the GPL is most definitely enslaving developers.

You can argue semantics all day long....but you'd still be wrong. But anyway, I'm glad that next to nobody releases new software under GPL anymore and that the vast majority of developers prefer a license like MIT that doesn't enslave developers at all.

Good luck to you!
> 2) It's a shame to see key words be killed off by internationalisation concerns. 12 words seems so much more friendly, at least to English speakers, than a 50 digit number. In practice I doubt any non-trivial numbers of people will ever compare codes by reading out such a number. I hope further research here can develop better replacements for encoding short binary strings in i18n friendly ways (perhaps with icons instead of specific words? if you don't speak a common language with your chat partner then the app is useless anyway).

There's a QR code representation as well that can be scanned to verify.
It's common for people today to think of ancient Greeks as being very unsophisticated and primitive, but then when you start to read what ancient philosophers wrote you think "Wow, these guys really had things figured out, maybe better than we do now." I kind of feel the same way comparing modern GUI applications to ancient editors like ed.
Driving the speed limit, on the highway. If you ever hear the turbo, back out of it. IP timing was tweaked just a bit, but other than that it is a bone stock 1996 Dodge 3500. And, yeah, it's a clapped out just rolled 300,000 mile truck.
Can you change your username please. HN isn't Reddit.
In London about 95% of my Uber drivers were named Mohammed whereas most of the black cab drivers I've encountered seemed to be white.

Uber is just as popular in London than in the US so at least here that does not seem to play a role.
I think this stereotype comes from an earlier (and slower moving) era where programmers expected to learn COBOL or 4/GL and retire doing the same sort of work they learned in the beginning.

I grew up when the Internet became a thing. I've never had that expectation. I'm still learning new languages and frameworks at 34 and have no intention of slowing down.

Oh and pro tip to founders out there: if your competitors aren't recruiting middle age or older people (or black people or women), that's an untapped market! Take advantage of the things your less hungry competitors won't!
> Because I've yet to find a git graphlog tool which made viewing pretty nonlinear git history (as precise a historical record as they are) anything but a pain in the ass, some of them barely even manage to display a dozen concurrent "branches".

I'm not following this at all... what is it you need from this tool and why?

> Does it matter that you had to implement 12 fixups at various points and rewrite the whole feature thrice after requirements changed? Probably not.

Yes, code review is an invaluable part of the git history. It explains why you made the decisions you made. And having many small commits rather than 1 massive one makes it much easier to revert bad commits.
On a protocol level, probably yes. On a practical level, probably hell no. Connecting to one another must be very nontrivial, given how different the actual wire protocols are.
Fully agree. Your semantics of "expounder" and "expounded" spans is much more coherent.

It's a new modality, but I think it has a lot of potential: I love explanations with "multiple levels" in general...
FWIW, most of my lance corporals when I was a platoon commander in the Marines (average age ~20) were more inquisitive and freer thinkers than the engineers at the tech unicorn where I used to work (average age ~25).

That's just one data point though. YMMV.
#3 is the most problematic in my mind. Personal security is absolutely essential and it is the personal responsibility of everyone.

This one most clearly shows his utter lack of empathy, nuance, understanding what a leadership role means, disrespect for basic humanity. This is the one that finally made me quit. He confiscated a guy's PERSONAl laptop that he had express permission to use.

I mean, this stuff is currently in the courts being decided, but (to use a not so subtle metaphor) he's gonna fall squarely on the side of, "Its my office bathroom I'll take upskirt shots if I want!" ?
The idea was just great akras14...sadly you're not interested in effecting that again. Would've loved the outcome.
BTW, what is the best Git GUI on Mac? I don't care about price. I have always used the command line, but many operations would be faster with a mouse.
Data journalism is changing the balance of power #PanamaPapers
Meh? This affects those of us that live in this country quite a lot. What is it that you find so odd or different about our politics from the rest of the world?
That's not truly end-to-end encrypted though, right? The server -> CloudFlare goes over HTTP.
I agree that "begs the question" is an awkward way of saying "assumes the conclusion", but it is also an awkward way of saying "raises the question". As the Mad Hatter sagely observed, one should say what one means.
The CIA are required to lie, by law. Therefore they are extremely good at it.
For this sort of thing, I've had great success sticking arbitrary services behind an nginx reverse proxy on the same network and terminating the SSL at the proxy.
Maybe that's a Firefox bug? Not having to redraw a section of the screen should consume less CPU, not more.
I should try this
I think Sublime Text, Atom and now also VS Code use Oniguruma as their regex engine. Atom and code even use the same implementation (node-oniguruma) and the syntax highlighting definitions for the languages are often also the same - because they were ported from TextMate to Sublime and then to Atom and Code. So even if the engine is not perfect and the defined regexes might not be optimal for some languages - it still would not explain why Atom is slower than Code.

My personal guess is that is because Code might use a more stream-like processing of the source files and does not have the whole files in memory (it also works with really big files - which Atom does not support) and that this does work better
Didn't get a response to my email from almost a month ago :/
A quote from C. S. Lewis seems apropos: "We laugh at honor, and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
> My argument is that if you need a fat framework - this does not mean it has to be in some specific language. You have something like a counter argument? Please share.

I can't fathom how you can't think of counter arguments.

- Because a company invested in Go?

- Because they wouldn't want to have to maintain a lot of different technologies/languages, unless it's really necessary?

- Because a fat framework in Go is going to be lighter than a fat framework in python/ruby? (memory reqs, cpu, servers, etc)

- Because Go is easier to reason with/maintain in large codebases?

And still, right now I'd choose python, but I can't understand how someone would hold such strong opinions in such matters. Maybe I've seen too little in my career? Or have I seen too much, so as to not jump in such strong positions so easily? Genuinely curious and that's why I started this thread.
It's a country of 330.000 highly intelligent, civilized and self-reliant people, with a manageable size and a coherence which allows them room for experimentation.
Revolv and the problem with closed IoT systems [We need an abstraction layer]
Can you elaborate a bit more? Because you are able to restrict builds to certain branches.

Why not have multiple projects in your case?
> How would you do that without handing over your private keys?

CloudFlare has that figured out https://www.cloudflare.com/keyless-ssl/
Jon here - also worked on Data USA.

Several of the visualizations use data from ACS summary tables and the axis in several of the visualizations reflect the underlying buckets provided by the Census Bureau.
karagarga is great in that regard. I have a netflix account and also hulu for a while, but torrents are truly the best of all.
Portland resident here. What this article doesn't cover, is now locals are victim of gentrification. Rent prices are almost 2x, out of state buyers are throwing all cash offers on houses, and overall housing supply is low... I'm sure the commercial market is just as bad.

Interesting times.
Job training by employers doesn't work great, because the worker can get training at an employer that gives training and then switch to one who pays more because that employer doesn't have to do training.

Though possibly that could be fixed with proper regulation.
I came here apprehensive because you need UI support for this to work, but reading the article I was pleasantly surprised to see that they implemented all the verification and other bits to make this reasonably visibly secure.

Great job from everyone, I'm glad WhatsApp has done this. I look forward to these features on my device.
Came across gitup today, looks interesting

http://gitup.co/
How Human Sacrifice Propped Up the Social Order
I think the stereotypical thinking is that younger people tend to buy into the culture. Older people tend to not drink the kool-aid. Does the expertise/experience of older people win over younger people who are willing to work 80 hour weeks? I don't know if there are really any data to say one way or another. But I think the expectation that hiring younger people mean you can get more productivity out of them due to their non-jaded enthusiasm is awful.
It is still a country, and despite how small it may be, it is leading the way in fighting the corruption that the Panama leak exposed. This event will also influence how other involved countries will deal with their members of government now too.
Good article with some great demos but man, I'm reminded that I stopped reading Ars gaming because Kyle brings massive bias against nintendo to the table to such an extent that it shows poor journalistic integrity IMO.

It's pervasive in his articles, and he casually drops statements like:

>Nintendo’s Wii Remotes aren’t precise enough for much more than undifferentiated shaking.

Which is SO factually incorrect it's borderline disingenuous.
I loaded up my truck with the books a couple of years ago and took them to the dump (no recycling of bound paper here).

I still have my Vax though, and copies of Knuth, K&R, ...
>Negative reviews because of transgender Character

If you think that's why there are negative reviews, then I have a bridge to sell you.
I suggest talking to prospective users rather than people whose larger passions include typing text into boxes. No matter how much I project my mental model of my sister and brother-in-law [they are into the physical culture] into my response, it's just my mental model.
>“The encryption genie is out of the bottle”
...
> There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech. If anything, we’re bringing that back to individuals.

I think on the contrary, the surveillance demon is out of the bottle. It's impossible to hide metadata (ip addresses) in communications, we depend on auto-updated operating systems that might be backdoored in the future or are already backdoored and even if we have an "untraceable" system, we can't possibly use our old accounts were we logged in with our real name, or which can be traced to our IP address.