skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not Hispanic, and don't care at all about soccer, but I imagine it would be aggravating as hell. I'm black, and when white people call me bro, or start speaking in dialect - I honestly start to hate them.

For cultural reasons, when a lot of white Americans are talking about getting fighting and getting angry, or partying and having fun, relaxing and being lazy, flirting or getting laid, or one-upping people or hustling for money, they drop into a black dialect (and an entire stereotypical affect) for a moment. Even upper-middle class black people do it sometimes - Oprah is famous for it.

I spoke like that growing up on the South Side of Chicago, my grandparents speak like that, and many of the people I love speak like that. People are dropping into dialect because, deep down, they think of black people as a bunch of violent, lazy, partying, horny grifters - and find it very amusing and black of themselves when they experience anger, laziness, joy, sexual arousal, or pride at their own craftiness. This is the reason why most pop music is delivered in black dialect. It reminds me of what they think of me, and my family, although they would never acknowledge it to me, and many wouldn't acknowledge it to themselves.

To be clear, I'm not a fan of oversensitivity and preciousness, or "microaggressions" or cultural studies departments, or theory-theory psychology in general, which I think is just secular religion. But someone dropping into dialect when they talk to you is not all that subtle.

I could see Hispanic people feeling stereotyped by soccer stuff. Soccer is English, it's called "football" in English, so what's this urge to drop into Spanish dialect all of a sudden? Do you drop into dialect when you talk to your white friends? If you do, why?

edit: And I don't mean to imply that white people don't get treated like this - I hear people drop into an Italian-American affect a lot when they're talking about being criminals, or being rapey.
Apply HN: Slate – Tech Stack for Restaurants
We are on a mission to technologically equip restaurants that will help them at each stage of interaction with customers, from acquisition to a delightful dining experience and finally customer retention & relationship management.

With the increase of internet based Food & Beverages businesses traditional restaurants are lag behind in technology and therefore lose on customers who are becoming increasingly becoming tech savvy. This is especially true in India, our target market.

We realise that needs of a club-cum-brewery can be very different from a small time pizza shop. Therefore our product is designed in a way that can easily adapt to varying needs of different businesses.

WHY YC: We have build a prototype of our product that is being used by several restaurants and are confident of our product’s market fit. We need funds to build our products faster and scale.
Curious why Avast rather than Microsoft's Defender.
Verizon’s AOL Acquires VR Specialist RYOT
>it makes no sense for a capitalistic system to use relatively inefficient humans to do work that machines can do faster and cheaper.

Unless you're selling to those relatively inefficient humans because they're your customers, and they have no disposable income - something that UBI won't fix.

Capitalism is like any other ideology - you can make up just-so stories about what it "should" do to be "efficient", but ultimately it's just a way of legitimising power differentials that would otherwise be considered shockingly immoral.

And so is UBI. Because while it may, if we're lucky, keep people from starving, what's needed isn't just UBI but free access to continuing education at all levels, access to useful social networks, and other kinds of social capital.
So remind me again who invented Football (Soccer) by the offended persons rules those of us form the UK should be offended by the appropriation of Football :-)

Sorry of course this is Association football we are talking about and not Rugby :-)
Hey hackers.. Care to help a bit?
you didn't answer the question tho. why can't they take a normal looking bmw, like an m3 and make it electric?
> if I don't respond to whatever internet/text message they sent with near immediacy- because it's always available

I have to agree with you on this one. But I believe it suffices to say that no, you're not looking at email/fb/whatsapp/whatever all the time (and acting like that)
It does seem mad doesn't it. I guess its just the madness of fashion where quality is defined more by novelty and contrast so it does not remain static.

I imagine that at the time, art-deco looked like a man dressed in lace and velvet - an eye-sore of ornamentation and in contrast, the office building was the clean modern lines of a Hugo Boss suit with the authenticity of function. Too many clean lines and you get bored and you swing into something new.

Ironically lace and velvet was back-in fashion for men in the 50's... briefly.
I was going to ask the same thing, this is worse than throwing in dump where it will decompose and hundreds of years.
I don't think I wrote that the only place conservatives are found is in business schools.

My point was that arguing that there is a lack of diversity in political thought is just plain wrong.

The author does not want diversity at all. He is a conservative is wants more conservatives.
I like to write my commits in the Angular conventional-changelog format [0].

In particular, it looks like this:

<type>(<scope>): <subject>
<BLANK LINE>
<body>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>

Where `<type>` is the type of change (e.g. `feat` for a feature or `docs` for doc updates), `<scope>` is the scope of a change, `<subject>` is the subject line, with the first letter uncapitalized, `<body>` being an explanation of the change in imperative, present tense, and the `<footer>` containing information about breaking changes and any issues the commit closes.

I like it because I find that adhering to this style lets me have a nice seat of easy to read commits which explain their purpose and scope clearly.

Also, it lets me use a tool like `clog-cli` [1] to generate pretty changelogs [2] automatically!

The only nitpick I have with this style is the fact that they recommend not capitalizing the first letter of the subject line. This means that, for example, in emails or when creating a PR, I have to capitalize the summary so that it looks correct. Minor, but annoying.

[0]: https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-chang...

[1]: https://github.com/clog-tool/clog-cli

[2]: https://github.com/clog-tool/clog-cli/blob/master/changelog....
No, I've travelled extensively, and the general reaction to obvious foreigners is either overfriendliness, fascinated stares or complete and utter disinterest. Fearful avoidance is something I have yet to experience.

Where have you travelled?
Relevant to the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fgkK1J3Cs
Lyoness+Scam+UpDate:+Found+Guilty+Deceptive+Trade+Practices+Austrian+Court
My #1 git tip to anyone who will listen: use magit. Having the options for each command within easy reach makes getting git to do the right thing so much easier, and the UI feels very emacs.

https://github.com/magit/magit
>On the internet, how do you know who's who. you download a package from npm. Who wrote it, what's their background, where do they work? What are their security practices like, what are the security practices of the hosting company?

Check the npm package's ratings, and the github repository watchers and stars.

Try to find and read a few posts (and their comments) on the package. The more respected the source (e.g. HN comments vs comments on Digg), the better.
All you are saying is that due to bad luck during upbringing, some people have less merit than others. Furthermore this bad luck is not statistically independent of various other characteristics.

Why does this imply that meritocracy is not great?
Remembering Bill Campbell – Apple
Especially for GitHub, I don't want to iteratively push commit after commit to README.md just to get the correct syntax for their GitHub-Flavored-Markdown. When editing on GitHub directly, I appreciate the preview to spot mistakes.

However, there are many downsides of using the website for editing (like you can't combine changes to multiple files in a single commit). I prefer using a real editor locally, but using any other Markdown processor might give slightly different results. Therefore I use flavor [1] to filter the Markdown document through the GitHub API for reviewing it locally before pushing.

[1] http://brettterpstra.com/2012/09/16/easy-command-line-github...
Maybe that's what modern buildings are lacking? Are we to surmise that architecture is dead if the proposed positive effects of architecture are better accomplished with decoration? The issue with architecture (edit: as practiced) is the resulting abundance of boring, dull or plain ugly buildings. If all it takes is some decoration, away we go, problem solved.
On-site search design patterns for e-commerce: schema structure, ranking and more
Change the email address to a random uuid-like hash @example.com, then change your password to a random hash. Do not allow your browser or password manager to save these values.

Now you’ve locked yourself out with no way back in.
FreeCAD development have really picked up the pace lately. There is also a major overhaul of the partdesign workbench merged and underway for release 0.17. It brings user created datum points, axis and planes. It also brings advanced modeling features such as draft angles, shell and swept profile cut! Much to get excited about! :)
Prions are fucking scary. They survive all regular decontamination procedures - alcohol, boiling, even autoclave. Patients had been infected through the sterilized scalpels and endoscopes.
Yes, because we had to come up with something quickly (this project was part of an experiment to learn React.js), it is simple and it seems to work.
You can easily adjust the font size by zooming in your browser.
Yahoo CEO Mayer: Sale chatter is “a distraction”
You're right that it's biased, but perhaps not in the way you think it is: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract

> The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty evaluated hypothetical female and male applicants, using systematically varied profiles disguising identical scholarship, for assistant professorships in biology, engineering, economics, and psychology. Contrary to prevailing assumptions, men and women faculty members from all four fields preferred female applicants 2:1 over identically qualified males with matching lifestyles (single, married, divorced), with the exception of male economists, who showed no gender preference.

Encouraging everyone equally is great, but the problem is that many of these advocates seem to operate under the unsubstantiated hypothesis that there are no correlations between gender and career choice except those caused by upbringing. This leads to the idea that an unequal representation is necessarily a sign of a problem that needs to be fixed. I don't think this is supported by the data. We know from biology and other fields that there are natural differences. We also know that in more emancipated societies where people have more opportunity to choose what they want, there is a greater gender imbalance in universities (example: highest % of women earning science degrees is Iran; no western european country nor the US nor Canada is even in the top 20). Perhaps a gender imbalance is a sign of a society where individuals can do what they really want.
A golang+termbox clone of this would be great...

(Of course, parsing text is a joy with Emacs/Lisp and a PITA in Go).
I'm hoping to find some workshop that would share the tools and space (for a fee), but I have no idea where to look.

Making stuff out of garbage would make me feel like Tony Stark.
'Deadliest Catch' show subsidies negatively impact Bering Sea crabbing
That is why initiatives like Commonmark (http://commonmark.org/) exists.
I saw this link elsewhere on HN today: "is curl|bash insecure?" [1]

[1] https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-09-24-is-curl-bash-insecure-p...
I very recently saw this building for the first time from the hills overlooking Vienna. I didn't know what it was but thought an interesting looking building that fit in with the relatively progressive feel of the city.
Making instanr noodles in just 3min
I think the author's idea is that he is representative of the 47% of Americans that don't have even a $400 dollar emergency fund. And that "We" is the people in that 47%.

If survey is accurate, that large of a percentage of the population means that society has a problem. That does not just impact the individuals that don't follow good financial practices when they could. So it ends up being your (people that make wise financial decisions) problem to a degree.
I've tried getting in touch with HN a few times to delete my account. Well, I actually understand the value of keeping the content I've contributed so I really just wanted a name change so my presence was anonymous. Never heard back though.
The Racial Gap in Entrepreneurship Is Costing the U.S. Economy Billions
Yep - first thing I thought too - maybe even googly xeyes following the mouse.
Principle of Reasonable Expectations
Veganism could save the world
Making Waves
> all those knowledge is generated normally in universities, placed in big cities, after years of painfully slow research done by experts in zoology, chemistry, genetics...

IIRC, so are the ideas that wolves, an animal capable of eating sheep or even moose would not eat children if they happened to walk unprotected.

Not saying we should get rid of wolves only that some realism need to be applied.
The author repeatedly expresses regret at having made poor financial decisions using the savings or debt as a metric. But it seems to me he has done quite well in fact: his daughters went to private schools, elite universities, had a nice wedding. What family, poor or well off, wouldn't sacrifice as much for their kids? Then he managed to stay true to his calling of a writer without compromising or cutting corners (this is a big one!). Look at the many quintessential immigrant families who used to be doctors or lawyers in their native countries who take up menial jobs to scrape by and still do a lot worse than the author. Or others who swallow their pride and go into more well-paid professions that they don't necessarily have passion for.

I'm probably lowering the standard of living target reasoning like this, which is not fair to the article which focuses on what middle class should be like, or was in the post-war boom decades. But still it could be a lot worse.
Softlayer vs. AWS
> Either women statistically have common goals or they don't (they do)

Like what?
Police Train Eagles to Take Out Rogue Drones
> either 64GB iPhone is overpriced or the 32GB is underpriced, or both

The problem is that there isn't a 32GB iPhone 6s, though it would only cost Apple a few pennies per unit to offer one. Instead, it has a 16GB version (too little storage) and then jumps to a 64GB version (which is comparatively overpriced).

Either way, purely in terms of manufacturing costs, it's a choice between "overpriced" and "even more overpriced" -- or, if it makes you feel better, "premium priced" and "even more premium priced". I don't think "subsidising" comes into it.
There's too much sunlight coming in. Your options are to cook/blind everyone inside, put something opaque (and visible to the street) inside the windows while blocking the view, or dim the windows and let the occupants see the street.
In the cities I've lived in, there have been quite a few hackathons put together with other industries such as Hacks & Hackers (Journalists and devs) and Music-related hackathons. Take a look on meetup.com, there are probably tons of other types.
Stack Overflow TOS – prohibited for users to scrape dev profiles to spam them
Taiwan Rejected from OECD Meeting Due to Chinese Pressure
As an EU consumer I'd be delighted if they did that, even if I was paying for my own DEF and it took a chunk of my cargo space. I'm sure there will be class action lawsuits in both the US and the EU regardless.

The reason they are only doing the cheap software changes in the EU is likely because they think they will either win any legal processes OR it's much cheaper to lose them than to fix cars (both of which are probably true).
I could see hacker spaces doing this, there is almost always room and a budget for new machines.
>I'd favour a more direct approach of simply banning UK nationals from having anything to do with companies in tax havens at all

Which would make things very awkward, because the United Kingdom is commonly thought of as a tax haven in EU.

(Companies in other EU countries are conducting business in London. Obviously they are doing it for tax avoidance purposes!)
>They have been given, willy nilly, demographic tags like ‘millennial’, ‘post-millennial’, ‘Generation Z’, ‘i-Gen’ — not out of anybody’s acute cultural observation, sympathy or understanding but either to bulk up a HuffPo article or to delineate convenient advertising categories, within which many sub-categories can be established. You are not a person, you are an algorithmic assumption, a mould into which hot selling-jelly may be poured.

Well, obviously, and for every generalization concerning a whole generation, you're not, and you're not supposed to be, a person. There's a time to talk of people individually and as persons (e.g. in personal relationships, workplace, etc.) and times to generalize and talk about their collective patterns of behavior.

And those names are not always coming from journalist hacks without "acute cultural observation, sympathy or understanding" either. E.g. "Generation X" came from a member of said generation itself, Douglas Copland, trying to describe how it is for him and his friends.

In any case, "Generation ___" is just a convenient handle to talk about many people together -- its usefulness comes from whether it describes something statistically useful, not from whether it caters to the individuality of each unique snowflake person (and of course most just delude themselves that they are that, while following very similar paths with their generation for most things).

>my proudest boast would be: ‘My friends and I, we disappeared ourselves. No social media, no email, no chat, no wifi, no selfies, no SMS, no smartphones. We did it. We did this thing. We Got Off The Grid.

I'd say this again underestimates how many people are "off the grid" (even if they have internet at home) and don't participate in the whole social media/chat/selfies/etc thing.
At my old job I had to do a major cleanup of a git repo with dozens of old branches. I got really good with the `git log` command. Here my alias form my ~/.gitconfig that shows author, branches, and remotes in a colorful manner:

[alias]
ll = log --graph --oneline --decorate --date=short --all --pretty=format:'%ad %h %Cgreen%an %Cred%d %Creset%s'

With this you have a pretty good picture of what's going on accross all branches.
This would have been a pretty interesting story if he'd explained his decisions in detail (other options considered, what specifically he thought would happen, how much research he did then, etc) and taken responsibility for the option he chose.

As written, when he finally gets to his own story, the negative outcomes all seem to be described as inevitable or circumstance. The alternative choices are so simplistic ("I knew how easily my girls could be marginalized in a society where nearly all the rewards go to a small, well-educated elite," "and cutting corners to turn them out faster, I knew, would be cutting off my career") that I think his argument would have been stronger with no explanations at all.
Jose Mourinho masih menargetkan pekerjaan
You can use spectrometers to identify different types of plastic, e.g.

http://www.thermoscientific.com/content/tfs/en/product/micro...

Deep learning isn't required.

The main challenge is in sorting. I'm not sure how you could do this efficiently with machines that are as affordable as the Precious Plastic designs.
""Objective architecture", assessed by measurable effects instead of subjective whimsy, would revolutionise the profession."

Agreed. It could also put money back to architecture. Let's say your company revenue of 70k$ per year per employee, there is 300 of them in a factory. You move your company to new factory, but you meet architect who can promise you 5% increase in employee productivity. That's 70X300X0,05= 1050k$/year more in revenue. You can probably spend some money to hire that archi-rainmaker.
Using a Braun Shaver to Bypass XSS Audit and WAF
Am I the only one struck by the irony of an advert for his book in the middle of this post?
>second largest city (population 18,000)

Could a SMALL population increase bonding / a sense of belonging amongst countrymen thereby creating happiness?
Minuteman: A Distributed HA Load Balancer
If you use a quality mail client (such as Thunderbird) it doesn't rely on subject for threading and fixes these problems. As well as displaying the replies in a proper tree rather then as a giant list.
There are extensive previous discussions of this - click on the "past" link to find some of them. Or here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Eagles%20Drone&sort=byDate&dat...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Dutch%20Drone&sort=byDate&date...

Actually, those searches show very little discussion, so obviously my "Search-Fu" is failing me. But I'm on a train with patchy-to-poor wifi, so I'll leave others to find the previous discussions.
Hah. Similarly, I made a Firefox extension back in the day that replaced people's faces in photos with this face: http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/borderlands/images/5/59/...

My implementation was pretty hackathon-worthy, too, if I say so myself. The shoop face would be scaled and placed only while on Facebook, using FB's own facial recognition metadata on each page.
Hadn't heard of Fleep before, but thought immediately that it might solve one use case for me.

After checking the pricing (good), if there was a self-hosted version (no, but maybe not a deal breaker) I looked for the Android app installer. Only available from Google Play Store. Unfortunately, that kills Fleep for me.

Please consider making your app directly downloadable and not reliant on Google Play Services.
As someone who barely ever picks up a call or reads an SMS in less than an hour, and often a full day, people are annoyed at first but soon get used to it.
It's not surprising he'd want to turn his back on social media after the (justifiable) kicking he took over this: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/14/stephen-fry-s...
Where’s Susi? Airborne Orangutan Tracking with Python and React.js
For anyone who may want to know, prion diseases are sciencetific possible causes of a Zombie Apocalypse. That's why this new called my attention.
Deep Learning for Chatbots, Part 1
What I'm missing is a list of things that Google has to fix, that is in the benefit of the "consumer". It seems that most things that would be in the benefit of the consumer have nothing to do with Google, but with the shitty manufacturers that don't provide (security) updates and stuff their phones with crap. Things that would help:

- force manufacturers to have an AOSP build without Google Apps or any of their customizations, updated when needed (security, new major/minor releases etc.);

- force manufacturers to allow users to exercise the 4 freedoms (FSF) with the above AOSP build up to and including the baseband/firmware/drivers;

- allow manufacturers to do whatever they want for their default OS installed when the user buys it (possibly signing a deal with Google for Google Apps etc.)

I keep on dreaming :-)
HN is not the right forum for this, but that's definitely not why he was banned.