skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be noble, if he wasn't also calling for gay people to be put in prison while incorporating his fetish into his stories. Either one alone would be problematic; both at once is pretty damn creepy.

I got a lot of downvotes on the last post--do people think I'm making up or exaggerating Card's homophobia? Here's a few quotes. These are his own words, publicly published; look it up if you don't believe me:

"Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society’s regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society."

"If we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves."

"Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down."

(You'll note I'm not calling for him to be censored. Disagreeing with someone's opinions is the same as saying that they should be outlawed.)
The difference may have more to do with whether you like a particular instance of it or not. "Censorship" is a pejorative and "curation" is an honorific and "moderation" is either that or neutral.
Something like rpgmaker maybe?: https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/
I thought that an attacker's JS code can't read the response from a GET request in a CSRF attack. Or are you saying it's possible for the attacker to read the HTTP status code of the response?
Uber is building out their own map system so that they are no longer dependent upon a third party. It's already in production on a limited basis.

Isn't Google Ventures pretty isolated from Google?
i know of people doing this in vermont and oregon.
Hi guys, it's me, Sonja Trauss, AMA.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11510918
The technique is even older than that -- most graphics modes on the 8-bit Ataris only supported a 4-color palette. To get more colors on the screen, you had to take an interrupt partway through the frame to swap out some of the colors and then put them back during the vertical blank to be ready for the next frame.
Nothing of value to add other than I adore this comment!
With Prop 13 in place, cities and towns can't adjust taxes to cover their budgets. It behooves a Bay Area municipality to seek out commercial investment and drive away residential.
I definitely have to agree with this. It has lead to "it works in my sandbox" but breaks in our staging enviromemnt issues at work since everything in staging goes through a proxy.
Madoko Reference: A Fast Scholarly Markdown Processor
There are over 100 F-35 aircraft in existence right now. You might not like the program, but calling it "vaporware" is just flat out wrong.
> he didn't mention anything that you can't find on the first page of a cliffs notes on quantum physics

ummm, i think the idea was to give a "cliff's notes/ELI5" explanation of the subject

If you watched the video[0], a reporter asked a question about a political issue but prefaced his question with a sarcastic question along the lines of "I was going to ask you to explain quantum computing < chuckle, chuckle > When do think Canada's ISIS mission will ...."

When Trudeau answered the question, I think many were somewhat surprised.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRmv4uD2RQ4
And that's great, I wouldn't argue with any of the choices you've made for yourself. For you, the social benefits of urban life are apparently worth the costs, and that's fine. You and your friends probably aren't the ones who are doing most of the complaining.

But if it's that important to someone that they live in that particular city, to the exclusion of all other possibilities available on the planet, then they shouldn't complain when it turns out that real estate and transportation are limited resources that somebody has to pay for. It's the whining about the costs and downsides that bothers me the most about these articles.

People who act like they don't have a choice, when they do have a near-infinite variety of choices compared to most people on Earth, annoy me.
I guess it depends on how actually random it is.

Genuinely random? Well, yeah, that would be crap, assuming most of the github accounts have pretty much nothing public other than maybe a hello world or something equivalent.

Something recommended instead of actually random? That might be interesting, just maybe repositories other than users (in other profile you have to click on something to discover, while in repo just scroll for readme).

For example, I like the idea of Github explore newsletter, offered by Github. A few trending repositories every morning. Sometimes something useful, sometimes inspirational.

Unfortunately, it's not implemented well :( a lot of the repos are JS and couldn't find where to change the option, also I often get the same repos (e.g. I get this https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp pretty much every day for the past half a year).
No foreign money is good! They are not sending their kids to local schools, or driving down on 101 every day to cause traffic. They also pay way way more property tax compared to someone bought a house 20 years ago..
You can certainly say that Ender's Game makes a poor case for empathy, and you can make a case that it was inspired by The Forever War. But that's very different from saying it's a "photocopy".
The End of Scale
Las Vegas: a place to get rich, but where the poor die younger
Yes, it's somewhat a matter of perspective.

Although I'd point out that it's not just rich people who appreciate San Francisco's aesthetic.
For future discussions: I advocate Approval because it's both "good enough" and easy to administrate, tabulate. Balancing concerns from the election integrity viewpoint.
Read the book Bebop to the Boolean Boogie. It's a fun, well explained introduction to computer engineering fundamentals. Also, the Art of Electeonics is a great resource.
Whatever happened to the 'celebrity' game developer? In the 90s it seemed like the lead developers were lionized (or vilified). John Carmack, Richard Garriot, John Romero, Roberta Williams, Derek Smart. The personalities of the leads really shown through back then. I can't even tell you who the lead dev on Destiny or Dark Souls 3 or whatever are.
I think the real extreme is a guy flip flops on an issue and someone assumes it's all sincere. Much more extreme than arguing which was the time when he wasn't. I guess I'm jealous as I never found a politician or a movement I liked enough to see no fault in them, in fact I've never even got to vote for someone who didn't make me a bit sick, nor heard about a politician in any of the countries far, far away who'd give me such an opportunity as a voter had I been a citizen there.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11510341 and marked it off-topic.
Watch the Swedish Prime Minister answer The Swedish Number.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S087OHdCG8I
How to remove breathing sounds from your audio recordings
Raymonds's hacker guide
> Because the underlying design of Windows OS does not create a separation between OS and apps.

This is not the problem. In Linux you don't have this distinction either, but
somehow it's not PITA.
Indeed, because this isn't the subject matter of CS, it's the subject matter of EE.

Learning Verilog isn't like learning another programming language - it's an entirely different (though related) field of endeavor.
Because those things can't usually be predicted in advance. There's no way that Shuddle thought everything was fine until they suddenly realized they had to shut down in two days. They knew this was coming, and they kept it from their customers, who now have to scramble to get their kids to school.
>> "The Amiga is probably the last 32-bit personal computer that is fully understood, documented and hackable."

So, compare to the Pi, what information is present, anyone know?
> It behooves a Bay Area municipality to seek out commercial investment and drive away residential.

AIUI, (and I might not understand correctly) that's not quite right.

If you make significant improvements [0] to a piece of land the value of just those improvements are assessed and added to the assessed value of that land. So -IIRC- if the owner of a two-story multi-family dwelling demolishes the building and builds a fifty-story building in its place, his assessed property value would be the same as it would if he had purchased that property with the new construction on it.

[0] Like -for instance- adding on a new room to a house.
I'm concluding that you haven't any interest in not abusing HN, so your account is banned.

Your view of how HN moderation has changed is quite wrong. PG would have banned you many times over (and IIRC actually did).
> "When someone else break rules, it's cheating. When I break rules, it's innovation"

IIRC pg wrote an essay defending that concept, more-or-less (and where by "I", he meant "startups").
Uber bought Bing Maps for $1.
It's one of my favorite recent (say, >=2013) movies actually, perhaps even my favorite.

I would ask why you call it a 'horror' but I suppose opinions just differ and there might be a great many things one could list about it being bad. Instead, I would like to know why do you say it scares you that it received awards. Like, would you rather contentless movies like Divergent or The Hunger Games got all the awards?
"techies/hippies/yuppies/homeless people/Republicans"?

Let me guess you write poems for a living?
I'm not defending her view but in my limited experience (Houston) developers build for profitablility and not aesthetics, and actively fight any laws designed to constrain their aesthetic choices again due to profitablility.

So I think it's perfectly fine to build a Paris-like building if you must build something. It'll just never happen without legal action.
Show HN: An unnecesary 7-lines BSD's true port in JavaScript
Absolutely. If you can't prepare a new server (install system dependencies, sync system configuration, etc) and deploy the latest version with one or two commands, you will have bad bad time.
BeagleCore: an industrial SOM based on BeagleBone
Why is the bay area important? In the software industry, in theory, where you are should be irrelevant as long as you have decent internet.
Why not just choose a city that has the requirements your business needs and set up there.
One example I can think of is Id deciding to set up Austin.
Maybe the industrialization of video game making has obscured individual personalities -- it's impossible to imagine there just being one driving persona behind the GTA or console AAA games, as huge as they are. But that's been made up for by the access to social media and the rise of indie game making.

- Cliff Bleszinski (Unreal, Gears of War)

- Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness)

- Toby Fox (Undertale)

- Chris Roberts (Wing Commander, Star Citizen)

- Hideo Kojima
Cities are, much as CPUs or memory, networking systems. With provision of resources and removal of waste, as well as selection of components (here largely self-selection of residents), you end up with a nexus of high productivity.

For all its faults (and the SF-OAK-SJ Bay Area has many), the place is incredibly vibrant, has a density of venture support unlike any elsewhere (even NYC plays second-fiddle), and, assuming you can afford the housing costs and survive the commutes, has an immensely appealing physical environment. There are other places which offer some of that, but none quite matches on all.

And Poisson / Power distributions give a very rapidly falling marginal benefit to being located elsewhere. After SF, NYC, Seattle, Washington D.C. / NoVA, and then more or less heaped: London, Tel Aviv, Austin, RTP, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and any number of third-tier silicon-wannabees. The fact that LA and Chicago, vastly larger urban areas than SF, can't show a candle to it, is sobering.

And I'm not saying you have to be in SF, or that what SF VC are doing makes sense (IMO SF's overrated and VC are to a large extent rent-seeking irrelevantists). But for what it does, it does it better than any other spot on the planet, and has for decades, burying numerous other pretenders.

Eventually the living costs, congetstion, possibly physical limits (lack of fresh water, rising seas), or other factors may end its reign. But it's not happened yet.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11508746 and marked it off-topic.
Pricing and the Psychology of Consumption [pdf]
> If you live in a rural area, then the government is required to send a bus miles out of it's way to get your kids to school.

As one of those kids who got up at 04:00 to catch the 04:30 bus that arrived at school at ~07:45, (and repeated the trip -but in reverse- starting at ~15:00) I can confirm the truth of this statement. [0]

[0] I was literally the first child on and last child off of that particular bus. :/
> But that's been made up for by the access to social media and the rise of indie game making.

That's a great point. I was definitely referring to AAA games, above. We are certainly in the midst of an indie renaissance (goes back to playing Hyper Light Drifter).
Their tech journalists, the lowest of the low. I wouldn't trust these people to be able to push a mop.
I believe we're seeing the lever that the Internet provides produce results, in cases like this. Smart kids before the Internet had to dig up information in widely disparate sources; some of these skills and knowledge were the exclusive purview of universities and research institutions. You simply couldn't do some of this stuff if you didn't have access to a lab and someone to show you how to do it. The Internet has caused an increase in access to knowledge comparable to, and maybe even surpassing, the leap from the pre-Gutenberg printing press world.

In other words, the Internet is a multiplier that applies to the incredible curiosity and enthusiasm and intelligence of bright kids. So, multiply your 10x (or whatever #x) nerd by the 10x (or probably much greater multiplier) of the Internet, and you get the world we're living in now. Amazingly, the multiplier will likely continue to increase over time. I don't know if it will accelerate in a way comparable to the Internet coming along (I mean, we had centuries between early really big knowledge multiplier leaps), but it might.

We live in amazing times is what I'm trying to say, and I'm genuinely jealous of kids coming up today, despite some minor caveats. I was bright and curious, and lucky enough to have access to a computer (C64 first, later C128 and Amiga 2000), but the access to knowledge was still quite limited. Internet didn't come for me until I was an adult. Internet and a boundless curiosity and practically unlimited free time is heady stuff.
Many large(and small) subreddits are highly censored.
r/worldnews
r/news
r/europe
to name a few.

Here's a recent example, not even the most egregious, just a recent one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4ew68z/half_of_a...

Noticed how many xx deep comment threads voted high up in the comment stack have been excised from the discussion.

It's disgusting. It's very often the case that the top voted contributions have been 'disappeared.'

Again, just disgusting. What exactly is the point of a 'democratic' news site, if there is this constant intervention from unaccountable authorities, constantly policing what information and opinions are allowed to be discussed.

Any information outside the scope of a narrow ideological agenda is summarily terminated. Is this the public square of the future that we want?

kn0thing, spez, What are your thoughts?
Personally, no, other than citizenship and age (a one year old does not need the same subsidy/income as an adult). The rest, I think would make it more acceptable to the rest of working people who put in more than they take out in BI.
Since you conveniently decided to not show violent acts against Indian Hindus, here are some links on Anti-Hindu violence for sake of completeness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism#India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Islamic_terrorism_in_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_violence_in_India#Re...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_of_Kashmiri_H...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hindus

Mostly Islamic terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Violence_against_Hind...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hinduism
That's a new favorite of mine.
But of course it's rich people who are prioritizing it above affordable housing.
I'd be interested to see how threading support was implemented, seems difficult to do in a browser environment.
Also, San Francisco is already ugly. It's not like you'd be razing historically important beaux arts buildings to build more.
These articles always pit “newcomers” like Sonja Trauss (2012, originally from Philadelphia) against “long-time residents” like Jennifer Fieber (1990 from wherever).

What about my generation: Kids born in San Francisco, who are growing up in a city where either we stay with our parents indefinitely, we move into tech, or we move out of the area. In terms of the economy, we are newcomers, but in terms of community, we’re losing our friends and family. We need more room so we can move out of our parents’ houses.

So, when I see people like Fieber campaigning against more housing, I find it quite upsetting. This is the past stealing from the future.
Be careful when running your tests from a single source as some people are advising. Some security measures might kick in when seeing too much traffic (pps, cps, ...) from a single source, so you might get throttled and think there's something wrong with your server.

That's the main reason why a SaaS offering might be a good idea here.
I would refer to them as a subject podcast vs. a personality podcast. A site could provide a determination on the type by allowing listeners to review the composition of a podcast (eg: this podcast is 20% subject, 80% personality).
...and yet when anyone talks about a good subreddit it's almost always a sub that has strict rules and vigorous moderation, or a tiny sub that has a tiny number of users.
> there are datapoints that the authors didn't consider

In fairness, 1) we don't know what the authors considered; they apparently have done a lot of research on the subject, and 2) what you list aren't data
This is kinda old now, 2013, but I found it a useful quick read that's related to some of these issues, at least on Linux. Many of the comments are also interesting. Atomic I/O operations in Linux
https://lwn.net/Articles/552095/
> Therefore they didn't know generics could be simple.
I wouldn't call Hindley-Milner type inference simple, though. I think you underestimate what has to be available in the language for a ML-like parametric polymorphism to be implemented in the language. For instance, can an interface be generic? Can a non-generic type implement a generic interface? How do you say your type is generic, but "only numeric types allowed" ? Does it mean the language must implement a type hierarchy of some kind ? How well does it play with pointers? Is `*int` a numeric type?

Once you introduce generics, you have no choice but to make a more complex language overall. You say generics would have simplified the language, I find it hard to believe. Care to mention a language that is easier to grasp than go (i.e I can be productive in less than a week) and that also offers efficient generics?
As a woman, I like to send several messages to make sure the guy seems safe to meet. Sometimes in the course of those messages, I find the guy creepy and don't meet him. Also even if it's only ten minutes, there's the time involved in getting to the location to meet, etc.
Trees don't pollute the public space; a view of inaccessible trees pollutes the public viewscape.
Please Can We Not Try to Rationalize Emoji
I'm sorry, but I do believe you misunderstood the article and perhaps my comments on it as well.

The article clearly describes moderators watching videos flagged as offensive, and these videos included "amateur and profession pornography" and many that contained "child abuse, beatings, and animal cruelty". Furthermore the article discusses moderators having to deal with videos shot during the Iranian revolution in 2009, including the murder of a young woman, "a shaky cell-phone video captured her horrific last moments: in it, blood pours from her eyes, pooling beneath her."

The article presents many more examples of the enormously disturbing tasks assigned to moderators. Based on tens of years in clinical practice I'd consider it likely that viewing such material, especially seeing it frequently, can precipitate acute and chronic stress disorders in vulnerable individuals. I understand the point this is only hypothetical in the absence of systematically collected data, call it a clinician's hunch if you want, but still I'd put money on it.

Rereading the article confirms for me that it is an excellent piece of journalism, perhaps even exceptional in the current era. Moderators were exposed to far more than words, in a way similar to 911 operators suffering exposure to trauma without being at the scene. Forum moderation has very little in common with the subject of the article.

You are severely underestimating the effects of this kind of experience on people in such positions. You should learn more about stress disorders, the complexity of which is bound up with the unique and highly variable attributes of individuals. Some people are much more resilient than others making it misleading to generalize about how people will respond to given situations.

Most of all, I strong suggest you (re)read the story and if capable, allow yourself to empathize with the plight of the moderators.
Re Distributed Debugging / Centralized Monitoring, Logging and Alerting, this is exactly the kind of problems that our team at Takipi (www.takipi.com) tackles. It's a new way to get all of the information you need (source, stack, and state) to understand what's going on in a large distributed deployment in production - without relying on logs
Yuppies being pushed out?

'Yuppy' mean young urban professional. If you live in SF, working in the tech profession, you're likely some value of 'young,' and therefore a yuppy.
Beautiful and ugly architecture can be pretty subjective. But, yeah, SFists have an above average tendency towards preservation. Not even sure why when in most other senses SFists believe in change.
Well, or new residential assessed at new rates. I'm not sure how free cities are to change their tax rates, my understanding is the major problem with Prop 13 is that existing owner's taxes can't go up very fast. But if a new resident displaces an older one, the tax value resets and the tax receipts go up. Same for building new residential, you get a bunch of taxpayers at the 'current' rate.

But I'm guessing there are also limits on overall rates because otherwise property tax rates would have gone up to make up for the 'lost' revenue from owners who are grandfathered in.
I assume Houston is a top 20 market at least.
Yet Lyft doesn't operate there.
I think it is more important that you really want to do it, it's not terribly complicated.
It's funny you mention the TMS9918. I was looking for a good place to link my friend's drop in replacement for the 9918 he made for his TI 99/4A.

http://codehackcreate.com/archives/30

"F18A stands for “FPGA TMS9918A” (hence the project’s title) and will be 100% hardware and pin compatible replacement for a TMS9918A VDP (video display processor)."
Hi Sonja. How can San Francisco locals like me can help encourage building? Are there ways to engage that you've found particularly effective? What can my friends who live in the Bay Area but outside of San Francisco do?