skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone else get bulk-invited to several Slack teams?
I got added to the Slack communties #testing [1] and EmberJS without signing up on purpose, and I know at least one other person who also got a #testing invite. There was some speculation that this was caused by Slackin [2]

[1] http://hashtagtesting.com/
[2] https://github.com/rauchg/slackin

Discussion in #testing:

Ted Han [8:07 PM]
Yeah hi, i'm not sure how i got invited, or even what this slack is about

[8:07]
Testing i presume?

[8:08]
I'm a little curious what data source my email is being scraped from

Jia Qing Yap [8:12 PM]
joined #testing. Also, @sonya joined.

Sonya Mann [8:40 PM]
@knowtheory same, a random invite just showed up in my email inbox

Nihal Mirpuri [8:40 PM]
joined #testing

Sonya Mann [8:40 PM]
@beau same thing happened to me -- I also got an invite to EmberJS, which makes no sense

sam kreter [8:43 PM]
joined #testing

Sonya Mann [8:43 PM]
@timhordern why / how did you bulk invite a bunch of people?

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Ted Han [8:45 PM]
sonya: yep i got the Emberjs Slack invitation as well as one for another slack called Dev4Slack

[8:46]
Seems like the invitations are through the Slackin' form, not actually from Tim Hordern

[8:47]
sonya: looks like we're both in the BotWiki slack

[8:47]
i'm guessing that's where our email addies are being scraped from

Sonya Mann [8:48 PM]
but... why?

Ted Han [8:48 PM]
Beats me.
Hmmm... Not sure it's worth it
Further reading http://blog.reverberate.org/2011/04/eintr-and-pc-loser-ing-i...
You can make something that doesn't require tons of frameworks and loads fast while NOT looking like a relic of the days of Kazaa. The fact that so many developers are too lazy to do so does not mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater and go back to times new roman black-on-white.
Notes on 'Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard'
Beans really stand out from rice and tortillas in terms of nutrition. They have much higher protein content, and I believe they have some other good stuff going for them besides macro nutrients.
I think you have a very fundamental misunderstanding about each of these networks and how they're used.

Your conclusions don't match with how people use these products and I say this as an avid user of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit.

For example, to describe Reddit as the new Craigslist is completely off base. Reddit is the new Vbulletin forum software. Reddit is where vast and varying communities form around different topics and they all happen to have the same format but that's all that they share in common.
Yeah but what design principles make the most money?
That looks pretty cool, little bug: modals are halfway off the screen to the left on mobile safari, also desktop key combinations are still being shown in the save flow!
yes... but it does possibly direct us to where the improvements need to happen.
No surprising, for the most part it is bad design, and have 0 thing to do with brutalism. And good design doesn't require any framework or even loading a third party font aside from the "websafe" ones.
I would love to know what fundamental design flaws are there for Python in your opinion...GIL? No problem with Cython. Unicode? It is ugly but it could be done. Other stuff like static type system, is about language itself, and I don't think it needs to be addressed as flaw to be fixed or rather just being different preference.

For me, there is not something I can think of being such a deal breaker for me to switch to a another language. More likely it might not be ideal but could addressed by the ecosystem of Python itself.
Is this funded by tuitions?
If they hadn't sold it, there'd be more money and power flowing to other oil-producing countries, many of whom have had a considerably worse impact on the world than originating Barbie Girl.
this sounds interesting - can you provide some more details?
Lazy but also inexperienced. What percentage of developers can set up a site behind Nginx? What percentage behind varnish and Nginx etc. etc.

(I know Nginx can cache things, this is just an example)
Amazon launches monthly video streaming service to rival Netflix
Also, your post will get weighted down if it contains certain words or is from a certain domain. I believe at one point 'NSA' got you penalised (due to the high number of NSA links coming in at one point in time), and Medium posts have a tougher time getting onto the front page (due to the lower signal:noise ratio I guess).
> "That reduction in size is due to a radical internal reorganization which makes it far easier to build and define custom filters and other processing operations."

Swift code is clearly more concise than Objective-C, as everyone who's worked with both knows, but this statement shouldn't be taken as a point for Objective-C vs Swift on its own.
News aggregators don't play well with tongue-in-cheek article titles. Coming via HN or Reddit or whatever, we aren't familiar with the post author and have nothing to go on except the title, which we must take at face value.
New Milestone: Earth Sees 11 Record Hot Months in a Row
Interfaces to HDFS how? PyObject has to get translated somewhere.

Arrays of custom element types is a good first start, but boy is dynd a seriously overengineered way to accomplish that. I'm referring to array structure, sparsity, symmetry, linear algebraic properties that should be reflected in the type system. Python's type system is lousy for this, and C++ isn't extensible.

Julia can fix performance on heterogeneous data with gradual compiler improvements, and the string representation is due for a major rework. Python can't fix the fact that the language and libraries were not designed to be efficiently JITted, and extension interfaces are closely coupled to the CPython interpreter's API.
Drone Hits British Airways Plane Approaching Heathrow Airport
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I'm in Boston, pretty much the epicenter. I can't think of many redeeming qualities.

My sense of the genre is that it was an attempt to copy Eastern Bloc architecture by architects who were warmly disposed to the Eastern Bloc, and had either disabused themselves or wanted to disabuse us of bourgeois notions of aesthetics and good taste.

IMO, although it has definitely improved over the last 40-50 years, architecture peaked aesthetically circa the turn of the 20th century (Art Nouveau[0], Gaudí).

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=art+nouveau+architecture&tbm...
> Almost all media deals are location-based.

So? How does it justify xenophobic behavior?
> I'm starting to get tired of seeing the same "minimalistic" landing pages

I can't take enough minimalism. I hate complex websites from 10 years ago. I do have a little problem with all the new sites that make you scroll down forever but I'll take that over a site with a hundred graphics on the front page.
One thing that helped me was getting and using glasses when I'm working at the computer - eye strain can really mess you up.
Same here. Another big one is the stimulus he's released with the new budget. I'm not sure how he's doing on the Syrian refugee count, but just his attitude to the problem is such a relief compared to Harper.
Practically, the way to go here is: make your data structures strict (with "!") and make your control structures lazy.

So, don't create a list of numbers if you intend to sum it, use a non- lazy data structure.

The trick is that Haskell's common default structures are lazy.
Yeah I agree. Anytime I see a bitly or goo.gl I check the stats just for fun. I've seen some other shorteners that track other stuff, one even had ip addresses!
Indeed it's more like "it does not fit in the typical buckets so let me create a catch-all exception called brutalism".
We were building a price comparison company. I was trying to figure out ways to make money after we were turned down by YC and unsatisfied with 4 months of fundraising. Thought we'd try and sell our price lists to businesses who wanted to be competitive.

I tracked down the biggest in the region, found someone there who had upvoted a couple answers of mine on Quora, pinged him there, and he replied. Said it was interesting, but he had no idea what price comparison was, so forwarded me on to the COO.

I met the COO at Starbucks, we talked for a couple hours. Initially, he said it was a very interesting concept, but he didn't understand how to integrate our information into his product. I said it would be easy to integrate it in his data warehouse. He asked me what that was. I explained, he asked me how much we'd want to build it for them part time. The contract was signed the next day after a 30 second meeting with the CEO, and so we were in the data business.

I didn't get on well with the CEO, in great part because I was still inexperienced at the political side of sales and would say what I thought in emails, particularly about their existing BI efforts. So we parted ways after 6 months, but they had a data warehouse and automated reports by that point, which afaik are still running there under a new team.

To this day it is my only cold pitch conversion. Every other client I ever had came through connections (making me wonder the value of spending time on pitching). Sometimes as random as - I met a guy in a conference I talked at, he invites me to his next government event, he introduces me to his friend who left the civil service for a VC, the VC likes what I'm saying and introduces me to her portfolio companies, one of them signs.
We have low expectations, and politicians know it, so they don't try to elevate debate. That's how the Donald Trump's of the world gain power - through apathy.
Clearly extension on Firefox also grabs the text from 'next' page(s) content into the readable view. The built-in reader in Firefox can not do that. It is a very useful feature to have.

edit: While looking for the addon at addons.mozilla, I find that it has been discontinued by Evernote: 'This add-on has been removed by its author.' https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearly/

Anyone know of another addon that works similarly?
F U N
Did that really worked ?
Starve the beast is about forcing spending cuts by passing tax cuts first. People hate taxes. Plenty of people also use the opposite strategy of forcing tax increases by passing spending increases first. People love spending.

It has absolutely nothing to do with sabotaging the execution of public works project. You can't seriously think that Republicans are the cause of the graft, waste, and mismanagement associated with government infrastructure projects.
Encryption is about 2 orders of magnitude more computing intensive than non-encryption.

It's expensive. That's why we aren't using Encryption for everything.
This has little to do with architectural brutalism, which was a 1960-70s thing. Characteristics include concrete cast with rough forms, producing a rough surface, a lack of decoration, and fortress-like architecture. Examples include the Boston City Hall[1] and other monumental projects [2], plus a huge number of Soviet and Third World housing blocks built that way because it's cheap. Also most of the world's parking structures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/jonathan...
Thanks for sharing the story. I just bought a copy. I love cats and enjoyed my automata class in school, but I would have never thought to take such a nerdy topic and turn it into a puzzle game.
And split the revenue.
For Google's "trend" purposes, I'm fairly certain this counts as interest in the service, no? Why would it not?

Since they have separate entries for Twitter and the others, listed as "Social network" vs. just simply "search term" this has to imply some difference in what they include as searches.

So perhaps all permutations of searching for things on Twitter, and others, are lumped into the main search term.
One of the amazing things about the US is that poorest 15% of the population (by gross household income) is also the FATTEST segment of the population.

In developing countries where the poorest 15% are truly living a bare existence lifestyle (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh) you would never see a poor obese person.
Job Ad Promises 'Meaningless Repetitive Work on the .NET Stack'
Ask HN: I want to create my own web gateway, where should I start?
I'm having a hard time finding resources on creating my own web gateway. It feels like I'm googling the wrong terms? I'm talking about the website that limits connectivity until a username/password is provided, usually found in Free WiFi Access Points.

I'm a C# Developer, specializing on ASP.Net Web Api, if it makes any difference. Any help is appreciated, just point me in the right direction :) Thanks in advance.
The first two in your list are quite good. The rest is really just eccentric and unusable.
Tipu's Tiger
Depends on your definition of extra large, I suppose. I've gone as big as about 10 megapixels in my implementations with it and it's held up.

The big problem with iOS image handling has always been the pitiful amount of RAM on the devices. It wasn't until relatively recently (iPad 4) that the iPads even had enough to reliably handle images in the 10-15 megapixel range without being killed by the memory watchdog.
OP link is not a coherent statement of anything.
The more sad part is people posting links from outside Facebook less. I have always been against Facebook for the simple reason that it is a way to coral the Web. And it is slowly but surely happening. Yes some people will hold out for privacy or other reasons but I fear soon most will soon will move inside Facebook and no longer be accessible outside it.
It's possible. See Volume Mixer (http://volumemixer-app.com).
I won't give too many details as negotiations have only just closed, but we are product development engineers building a physical hardware/software system and selling to operators to whom product development is a completely foreign concept.

We knew who our target customers were, and made contact with one who came to us at a trade-show. This went through a few rounds of talks, but although the initial contact and his manager were dead keen, the decision maker stalled and we gave up.

Simultaneously, we found a contact in our network who got us to near the top of the hierarchy of a second much bigger customer. They sent a single manager to have a demo, and we must have blown him away because they brought the CEO, CFO, some VPs and even a board member around for the same demo a few days later. They proposed a partnership that day and left us to iron out the details. Direct access to the decision makers was a HUGE part of making this happen.

It took about four weeks of meetings and emails to get alignment, but we're now preparing for a paid trial with an MOU for a much longer partnership assuming all goes well. The biggest challenge was withholding their desired exclusivity in different ways until we reached alignment on the upside to us, at which point we gave them the lockouts and distribution rights they wanted.

Fortunately this deal went well for us, but had it not we'd be talking about how much time we wasted preparing models and spreadsheets and refining terms of agreement. We had other paths we could have gone down, and the interest from this customer was validation that the product was valuable so we weren't short of options. I think that gave us good negotiating leverage, and we were ready to walk away at one point. The biggest irritation was probably the translation from verbal discussions to written form, as it seemed like terms we'd talked through and removed were being re-added in different flavours each round. Careless (or perhaps deliberate...) wording could have cost us half our upside, but we spotted that and resolved it.

I don't believe any other companies were in the mix. I suspect they saw that our product was a distinct improvement over their existing capability on so many counts that they just jumped at the prospect of getting it exclusively before their competitors did.
Safari's reader view is actually a modified version of readability. At one point I believe Apple even mentioned this in some about screen or article.

There are extensions/bookmarklets available for other browsers at https://www.readability.com.

Personally, I've been reading long form and paginated content using the readability Send to Kindle bookmarklet which works great.
Of the 0.2% of the population that is homeless, few are fat. Their level of poverty is closer to the poverty in developing countries.
The title is a weak joke -- it's a famous quotation that has one word that is a homonym of the topic of the article.
I don't browse Reddit unless I was linked there, so I might not have seen all it has to offer, but my impression is that it's far more "fluffy" than HN.
The reddit spike in 2014 September. Was that that the leaked celebs photos?
A woman on the $20 bill
Yup ... I was trying to be an indie dev in the old J2ME days .. the insane fees from carriers killed the dream for me. I ended up missing the entire app store revolution since I had preconceived notions of what carriers would allow. Too early to mobile I guess :p Curious .. how did you fare?
I'm a big fan of taking advantage of laziness and think it's drastically underrated. It's incredibly expressive and it's what really makes Haskell more than just an ML variant.

I gave a slightly rough talk about "Thinking with Laziness"[1] which tries to capture how expressive it can be. I'm a big fan and sad that so many people are willing to categorically dismiss it as a wart in Haskell.

[1]: https://begriffs.com/posts/2015-06-17-thinking-with-laziness...
Sat down with my son and Minetest a few weeks ago. The look on his face when he first succeeded in writing up a Lua mod that gave him super powers that worked in the game? Priceless.
The Drudge report is used by several million people every day. It happens to be one of a handful of sites on the Internet my mother in law can actually parse and use reliably.

I aspire to make something as unusable as the Drudge Report someday.
Whether "millennial hipster game developers" are actually lazy or not seems to be besides the point. Hasn't it already been consistently proven that working more than 45 hours is much less productive than a steady 40-45 hour work week? What's the actual business justification for that besides massaging egos or trying to enforce some masochistic culture?
Men May Be Able to Avoid Dementia by Marrying Intelligent Women
You can fake multiple hierarchies with hard links. The only problem is you can't delete every hardlink easily.
FreeBSD and PFSense do currently have ECN. I should have limited my comments to them.

You're right, OpenBSD no longer has ECN, and my comments regarding OpenBSD were out of date.

And yes, ECN is far more effective because it provides feedback to the sender.
http://drudgereport.com/ reminds me of http://stallman.org/
It's typically funded by university budgets, so in part by tuition. Sometimes universities will claim it's funded out of non-tuition money, but money is fungible so it's hard to really say that credibly, unless you can demonstrate that it's funded by entirely separate money that wouldn't have existed had it not been for the commencement speaker. For example claiming it's funded entirely by a major donor is misleading if it's money the major donor would have donated anyway.
Actually https authentication does work like ssh (at least in Mozilla Firefox), just with the extra CA-signature option. You are warned that the certificate is not signed by CA nor been whitelisted yet. So, you can whitelist it and then all future connections can be authenticated just fine.
Also Bostonian here. I think the other problem with Brutalism in urban contexts is that is very non-contextual and very imposing structurally. It really announces itself much to the detriment of everything around it.

On the other hand I find Brutalism architecture that sits in contrast to wide open fields or a hillside to work very well.
tired.com is my favourite of this kind
Whoever is oncall rotation for that week does.
> Mathematica has had notebooks for quite a while

Since 1988, I believe.
That depends on what year it is.
Certainly using Julia with Jupyter gets you much closer to having a reasonable IDE, though you'll have to be comfortable with cell-mode debugging instead of breakpoints and single stepping. I don't personally use it but I'm intrigued and would love to switch away from Matlab if there were reasonable feature parity or an alternate model that seemed reasonable for most basic tasks.

I'd really like to have a replacement for cell arrays and struct arrays, that have some of the convenient features of those structures. I know you can get this with lists of dictionaries in python, for example, but it's not the same.
Apps that save you up to $30 on every trip...
OK, if you don't want to engage with the company, no need to engage. No need to make it a principles battle. Not every business is concerned about entertaining your itch for reading.
Exactly so. What's the point of moving dot files / configuration files away from $HOME, but only end up having a complex directory structure that stores what you can already do with dot files?

It may be subjective. I don't like the XDG specs. Have you peeked in to OS X $HOME/Library? That's what you end up having. (Let's not talk about windows registries, but I guess systemd people like it.) Is that any better than dot files under $HOME? Hardly so.
I took a business analytics class which taught SQL and basic machine learning. We exclusively used an excel plugin, and it was exceptionally easy to get great results. This sounds like something that would help that 50%.
I mean, I think Le Corbusier's work is sort of awful :) I'm not an architect, just a casual fan of architecture. For my personal taste the whole brutalist movement was a long series of boring, intimidating, and repressive buildings that scar the primarily urban environments they were built in even to this day. Especially University Campuses where the style was so popular for so long (Christopher Alexander is a hero of mine).

Interestingly, OP's list of sites are largely ones I dislike as well.
IBM Disrupts the Tour de France with IoT
The fact that it's a parody doesn't preclude it being annoying. Also, it's not actually that good a parody in my opinion. It's a click-bait title which links to an article with a really obvious message (lose weight:eat less::shrink binary:packer)
Ok, but let's not forget that half of internet is not there. E.g. Chinese people do not use Google. If we could agregate data qq.com could very well be above them all.
Be very careful maximizing 401k. If you live in a crazy expensive area, make sure you have enough for a down payment on a house (if u aspire for one). You can get a loan from your 401k for home purchases but the amount is pathetically low .. like 50k or something. I kinda got screwed with this since I need 200k for a down payment on my first home :(
Is there a breakdown based on the rough IP location of the people who submits articles?

I suspect that HN is also biased towards users in the western hemisphere; so much so that when people from East Asia (like me) post or comment, it is comparatively harder to accumulate points as our posting time is out of sync with when the majority of HN users will see them.

I suppose one way out of this is to post when my local time is past midnight but I haven't reached the point where I value my HN points that highly compared to daily life...<grin>.
The platform companies hire salespeople to promote and facilitate the "paid install" advertising business, it's part of their monetization strategy.