skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English
The inability to monitor their whole network for scam advertising might cripple facebook's dominance as their main revenue source becomes less trusting but the scale of their operations relies on that consistent revenue:

More on the ad scams:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/say-no-to-the-dress
Fantastic intro write up to read in a mobile browser. Wish many products get to what matters like these in their descriptions. Interesting enough to try immediately!
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Unless they reduced your salary by 20% when they hired you.
I'm curious about the differences between hosting a node app on zeit vs heroku.
Wizard School [Steve Yegge, 2006]
Oh my god you're so right
Ok, I'm not sure I agree with you entirely but now I can make sense of your point.

I think there is probably some truth in what you are saying, and some pure selection bias. However, I also believe that there are many modifications to ones mental models that happen through training - that a) are probably very opaque to the recipient and b) do not occur naturally/intuitively almost ever.
In order for you and your team to never rely on transient local state (either in the cloud or your own computer), we "start from scratch".

However, our process of starting from scratch is actually faster than running `npm install` on your own computer in many cases.

As an example, I've found myself getting into the habit of using `now` instead of `localhost`.
I think this is a fantastic way to do code interviews who ask us to make an app n host it in a real URL for consumption. It's just one use case that can immediately think of.
I manage hundreds on WP sites and this tool is exactly what our company needs. Im looking forward into trying it out and contributing the project.
Valid point, but there is a fairly robust open source community that provides many more packages (called cartridges in openshift lingo) than are officially supported [0]

[0] https://github.com/icflorescu/openshift-cartridge-nodejs
Hold on.......you can use smartphones to call people!?!?!
Who was the plaintiff in this case? The defendant was Wikimedia!

I was curious "who is the plaintiff here" because I didn't see that in the discussion anyplace, so I ran vilhelm_s's helpful link to the decision http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Domstolar/hogstadomstolen/Avgo...

through translate.google.com and learned to my horror that the defendant in this case was Wikimedia, not some map/app designer.

I could not tell who the plaintiff was, it translates as "Plaintiffs in the district court Image Copyright in Sweden oak. for., 769610-3121 Hornsgatan 103 117 28 Stockholm" I looked at that address on google maps and discovered that it is hard to find the front door of a building in Stockholm.
Yes. Just do `app.listen()` or pick `3000` or `8080` or `80` or…
The really hairy stuff is usually not the first-party proprietary stuff (e.g. "This stuff is so important to our business we need to keep an exclusive license.") It's usually possible to make an argument to the right business-person that the cost is not so high when compared with the extra brand goodwill and free maintenance.

Rather it's the third-party proprietary stuff. Someone else owns proprietary code you deeply rely on but doesn't share any of your business goals and needs. And when dealing with hardware, there is a whole raft of firmware and drivers that could be licensed this way.
Thanks tiplus!

And to give some additional background to dominotw's question. We didn't like the options for CI on-premises. And by integrating it directly into GitLab it is very easy set up a new project, encouraging people to use CI on more projects.

Having people use GitLab CI will mean GitLab is a less attractive platform for other CI products. We do have a good commit status API since GitLab 8.1 and there is a great Jenkins plugin that supports that http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/integration/jenkins.html
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Location is everything. You can live like a prince in Tennessee or Kentucky on $80k/yr -- not so much in the really prosperous parts of the country.
Thanks endlessvoid94 :-) (disclosure: work at Looker and totally agree)
Eratosthenes is credited with accurately predicting the circumference of the earth, but he was about a century after Plato.

But any coastal population must have known the curvature of the earth by basic empirical analysis of maritime traffic. In other words, watching the fishing boats disappear over the horizon.
I don't think SF or NYC are good proxies for other locales but it's quite different here in SF where both drivers and riders tend to favor 1 service. And Lyft appears to be competitive.
45. This is not a diversity initiative. It is a pitchfork initiative. Show the whiteman!
Indeed very interesting. I would love to see Adobe get on that. But I'm sure they still prefer people to pay the full monthly license for ever. :(
> pouring more and more money, no matter the source, into politically-connected blackhole businesses contracted to perform some government sponsored task rarely if ever works

1) The evidence is very much to the contrary: Almost all infrastructure in the country was paid for by tax dollars and built on government contracts. The entire highway system, the military, most of the health system, almost all education including public universities, most scientific research, etc. WWII was won that way. What would the country look like if there was no public investment? It would be a poor, undeveloped nation.

2) What alternative is there? Not invest in anything until we live in a perfect world? Again, it would impoverish the country. Blocking investment is a very unwise method of saving money for any institution; imagine a business which refused to invest in anything - it would be insane.

3) I agree there is corruption, and I agree more transparency would help, but every human institution has corruption (go ahead, name a large one that doesn't). If we're going to live with humans, we have no choices other than to move forward as we are or retire to caves.
I bet if Broadcom had offered the right amount of money or benefits their employees wouldn't have left them.
The same as I would when conversing with anyone else; it's generally obvious when someone you're talking to is putting on their political filter, no? I don't come out and ask things like "has either Uber or Lyft screwed you over?" (or any other inquiry of that nature), but plenty of peripherals come up in conversation.

Granted, neither company is a paradise for a would-be driver. I'm sure they all have their complaints. It's essentially a customer-service position, and their have been plenty of threads on here discussing the downsides of either company.

Regardless, again, many of them are content with their job, and the lifestyle it incurs. Most drivers I've spoken to are animated when talking about setting their own hours, "being their own boss", and many even are animated in discussing company politics or current events regarding them. Don't take my word for it, though, actually talk and get to know your drivers; an abstracted analysis or a news article isn't the best way to get an impression of the situation.
I'm somewhat worried about this upcoming wave of bots replacing jobs. There seem to be 2 paths forward:

1. Star Trek outcome: People will have time to pursue interests outside of their job.

2. Mad Max outcome: Money and resources are hoarded by the people who own the bot industry, everyone else suffers.

3. ??
It doesn't seem to be doing a particularly good job of ensuring it at the moment.
The is the CSS only option from Primer (GitHub design guideline). If you use in your project is the tiniest that i've ever seen and it's easy to customize via SASS. (the time that is default it's not good in my opinion, but you can change, it's a SASS variable.

http://primercss.io/tooltips/
I wouldn't think so. Either cynicism or skepticism in this case would lead one to doubt one's own code.
That's conventional wisdom but I don't think really accurate. While drivers may be set up for both, they typically favor one.
I like that sort of discount. Could easily be setup to just be a 10% discount for every year you've been a paying customer. Encourages loyalty longterm as competitors pop up.
The Polynesians managed to sail and colonize Hawaii at least as early as 1000, as well as colonizing places like Rapa Nui or New Zealand from a starting point of Fiji (and themselves descended from the Melanesians who started from Indonesia). They also probably managed to make it to South America and back, given their use of the South American sweet potato as a major staple.

Hawaii, it should be noted, is a clear contender for "most remote place on the planet", given the lack of even small islands outside of the Hawaiian island channels for thousands of miles.
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Triplebyte explicitly states that they don't work with remote engineers. Starfighter could differentiate in this aspect. And well, they should offer bit more than just first contact in case you complete the game.
Anecdotal, but I am not exagerrating when I say about a quarter of the developers I'm friends with (i.e. hang out with outside of work) make substantially more than a new partner at a big firm.

Source: They discussed their negotiations with me so I know their compensation, and I used to work as a CPA at one of the big 4
Wind and solar are attracting the most funding
Ah cool. Kind of like a Heroku build pack. Still more effort than 'just deploy' though.
This is the absolute best take on HCL I've seen yet! This is definitely going to be my go-to tool from now on.
Ranking by upvotes/comments seems highly problematic, even with HN's antibrigade features.

A) There are many external factors that can implicitly cap the number of upvotes/comments. (time submitted, amount of competition, etc.) HN has repost rules to alleviate this problem: would Apply HN posts be able to repost too?

B) Not to mention that it encourages sockpuppet voting/commenting, especially since there is a high reward for doing so.

Product Hunt, for example, thrives on "how can I get exposure for my startup submission outside of the intrinsic quality of the startup itself?" and it would be an improper fit for HN.
I've been working for Cybersoft for the last 20 years, and I know we have not developed that system, whatever system is in question. We never had contracted work for either the NVI - Nufus Vatandaslik Isleri (General Directorate of Civil Registration and Nationality http://www.nvi.gov.tr/English,En_Html.html), the owner of the data on Turkish citizens, or the YSK - Yuksek Secim Kurulu (Directorate of Elections http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ - they lack content on the English page) the state organizer for elections, and a client of NVI for voter information.

As far as I know, development of the NVI system for "Central Population Management System (MERNİS), Identity Share System and Address Registration System" was contracted to and is still maintained by Kale Yazilim (http://www.kaleyazilim.com.tr/EN/Pages/Haberler.aspx). Likewise the development of the YSK system was contracted to and still maintained by HAVELSAN (http://www.havelsan.com.tr/ENG/Main/urun/2321/the-supreme-el...). Both projects were contracted when AKP was ruling, though I'm not sure why we are discussing this aspect. If the software leaked information, it is the usual suspect: the Turkish government awards contracts on price-point and the easy way to build cheap software is to forgo testing and quality assurance. As Murphy's law states: "Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder." You get what you payed for.

As a reference system we developed, check out the General Directorate of Revenues' automation for its 1000+ tax offices and the 2003 ComputerWorld Honors winning Internet Tax Office.

Last, we have English content at http://www.cybersoft.com.tr/ENG/?q=node, where you can check our references.
You can just give uber drivers a cash tip if you feel so inclined.
I think a mini application with a few questions from the normal YC app as a comment would be helpful. I see a ton of Show HNs in which I have no idea what the product does (either because the website copy is vague/confusing or because I don't know the market). Having a comment template or something reviewers can look at without have to ask the same questions in every thread would be great.
Nope, the opposite. Lyft's basic take rate is lower. And active Lyft drivers can have their fees cut in half or even eliminated.

Tipping on Lyft is not awkward. Defaults to 0.00, tip if you want. Driver doesn't find out immediately.
Surely must be done something for this problem. But Popper.js wants just to position your popper in the page. The rest is up to the developer.
https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

edit:
Wow, OK. I made the mistake of going to Urban Dictionary after posting that.
Mortgages are usually cheaper than rents on comparable units. The issue is that they require a big upfront chunk of cash to get into.

And, as a sibling comment stated, it depends on location. I think $80k is right for most areas of the country. If you live in NYC, SF, LA, or another place with really high cost of living, adjust accordingly (which is probably like 2.3x).
What about 1861, when the mutual agreement of the Constitution was reinterpreted as an inescapable suicide pact? I don't think there's necessarily a specific turning point - it seems a long line of gradual erosion.
I think the Polynesians have the best claim on discovering the Americas, at this point.
I don't really agree. I mean, yeah, comprehensiveness is great, and it sounds like Segment is working towards it. But every integration they build is one less custom integration that your data engineers have to build.
Our current US government wields powerful weapons called: Justice, Democracy and Law

Actually, this is part of the point I was trying to make -- democracy and law are weapons of the people, not of the government. The whole "murrica is the only free country because we have guns" mantra is getting more than a bit tiresome. Not just because it's old and untrue, but also because it's a race to the bottom: because of gun laws, your government now uses grenades and body armour to maintain order. That's not peace nor freedom.

What I was trying to point out was the innate fear and distrust between American citizens and the state. It's become so ingrained that "I won't move to another country because they won't allow me my guns" is apparently valid reasoning among the thinking 1% of the population.

I could have phrased it a lot less bitter than I did though, and your response made me put in the effort. So thank you for that.
Suggestion for the next word would be cool. Since there aren't so many.
Can one apply to Apply HN if one applied to S16?
I'd love to use CSS for all my poppers needs.. unluckily this is not possible yet due to CSS limitations :(
Smile is doing this because they have to

100% agree. I feel that a lot of the commentary on this (mine included) has left out the fact that Smile is a classy company owned by a classy bunch of developers that have always done well by the community. They sponsor podcasts, they provide top-notch Mac/iOS apps, and they do excellent customer service. If they've changed their cost structure to $50/yr/customer, it doesn't reflect well on the App Store's monetization model.
Nvidia  demonstrates 1,700Hz display for “zero latency” VR
How to Troll Your Friends with a Snapchat Geofilter
The first thing I thought was, "I wonder how this will work with memes."
World’s First Robotic Motor Sports Competition
One thing to keep in mind about the Bay Area 100k+ starting salary, is its also going to increase your cost of living by a pretty high factor.
Aside from that, speaking as somebody who has spent the last 4 years at a startup, you're going to get a much better opportunity to wear multiple hats and learn new things in the smaller setting. You'll also get the experience to witness & participate in a growing company, which will be invaluable to future employers. Experience isn't just about the years you put in, its about what you're exposed to and learn.
Eh, you'd be surprised how much value a company can get just by marrying a few data sources (e.g., marketing automation + google analytics + CRM).

Doing this right now manually piping data into PostgreSQL via Heroku and using Chartio to visualize and query.
Just an obvious heads up, this is NSFW.
Software that becomes "bloated" is software that is successful and in use. Typically, the users want more and more functionality, because they use the system for more and more. This is not bad.

Software that is not used (for what ever reason) is abandoned, and therefore does not grow.

So there is selection bias too - the most notable software is the successful cases, and they become "bloated" because they are successful.

(what the author talks about is not bloat, it's clever hacks that also make it much harder to understand the program)
It's an interesting piece, but I'd be more interested in analysis looking at the why behind that. What is it about the audience on the site, and the way the sites are presenting their content that is driving the non-FB sharing? Obviously this would need to be done with more sites than just those here. However, for a quick analysis, I nosed around three...

Billboard have Facebook and Twitter sharing buttons on their articles, but not G+, so it's fair to assume that the G+ sharing is going on on the G+ platform, not from the site itself.

Similarly, hovering over any image on TipHero presents share buttons for Facebook and Pinterest, and the bottom of their articles present a huge Share on Facebook button. However, no Twitter share button means they're getting nothing from that, and presumably not interacting in any way on G+ either.

There's a similar story again with Bleacher Report, which has Facebook and Twitter buttons (but interestingly no Twitter shares - possibly the wrong audience?), the same for every image, and Facebook, Twitter and G+ share buttons at the base of each article.

I think the takeaways from this are, Facebook is massive and cannot be ignored if you're publishing content, whilst everything else is dependent on whether or not your audience is there. But even if they are, the numbers in terms of engagement is going to be vastly lower, so can't be a priority.

My concern with this would be that, given that that's the case, this becomes a dynamo for Facebook, as the more they become the dominant platform, the less time anyone will spend working to build an audience anywhere else. Possibly Twitter is an exception to this, depending on the publication, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.
Oh, with the likely classifications of the word, such as verb, adverb, noun, etc, this could be really useful.
> software bloat almost always comes from smart, often the smartest, devs who are technically the most competent.

Which is reason #36 why wisdom is more important than knowledge.
That's kind of a broad question, but in theory, for sure. Once you've got the raw data in your own warehouse, you can roll up at any level of specificity. So that could be per salesperson, per product, per date, per office, whatever. The key is first getting the raw data out of the vendors' control and into your own warehouse.
3. Kafka outcome: we all get bureaucratic meaningless jobs digging holes for others to fill.
I like the idea. This could be enhanced with a thesaurus that would offer alternatives to difficult words. It could be a useful tool not only for writing clearer explanations, but also to compose easy readers for English learners.
Or any other time in the past?
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I don't understand how this is relevant to my comment. Please explain
I do hate the fact that they use yet-another-markdown-flavour.

I wish they'd move over to CommonMark, which actually attempts to standardize Markdown once and for all.
That was what I was pointing out...
Made me snigger. Incidentally, you can't use that word on many forums: snigger.

I live near a town called Scunthorpe. Scunthorpe residents tend to use the nickname Scunny when they're on-line, because the full name gets blocked so often.
That's a minor exception not worth adding a footnote for.
I respect your sentiments in this thread, but I would've felt mocked at if I were at the receiving end of your comments.
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You might want to be careful with your conclusions.

We don't know from this study whether the second group was more or less likely to get trapped in the Expert Beginner phase of development.

You definitely don't get anywhere without practice, but you are likely to get nowhere fast without theory.
Well, given that the api does this:

var popper = new Popper(referenceElement, onBottomPopper, {
placement: 'bottom'
});

Popper.js already knows that referenceElement is the association, so it seems reasonable to consider if it should (maybe optionally) create the <label> or aria association between the two.

Similar for default keybindings that make sense.