skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't take anyone who pronounces Iran(ɪˈrɑːn) "Eye-Ran" as a serious person.
When I worked on HN we actually talked about this and specifically decided against it.

Currently, everything on HN is public, except for password (hashes), emails, and who [voted for|flagged|vouched] what. If all HN user data leaked right now, it would be a bummer, but not very scandalous.

We didn't want to be trusted with private communication. We're not perfect, and it's easier not to leak data you don't have =P
I have a lot of suggestions to make, but I am waiting for the postmortem thread that Dan has said we are going to have to discuss the experiment and how to improve the process.
Don't ignore the network visualization on the right. My understanding is that it's a slice through an ontology driven knowledgebase. Palantir provides consulting services on the ontology as well as the integration services to map customer data to that ontology. The tool provides a visualization of this knowledgebase.
Oh yeah, I figured he was telling the truth. I just find it strange that there was so much wrath for YC's questionable action about funding Pinboard but not a peep about Maciej getting the investment and then throwing it away on charity. They agreed to do it to make the situation right but his end seems to still be fraudulent.
> I'm not convinced the parametric assumptions made by the standard tests mentioned (including difference in proportions, whether a z-test or Chi-square test) would hold up well for this kind of data, it would take further examination.

I'm not sure what you mean. If all you have is binary data, there's not much you can do but a chi-squared test or binomial regression. As I understand it, a chi-squared is considered nonparametric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-squared_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher's_exact_test
There a gradation between intermittent homelessness and chronic homelessness. Intermittent is not that rare - I even experienced a bit of that my self at one time. Chronic may be due to more deep seated issues and hard to get out of. It sounds like you have the drive to eventually escape it.
Those photos are nothing compared to some of the firsthand videos:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fort+mcmurray++...

It's honestly like something straight out of an apocalypse movie. Horrifying.
Brace yourselves, folks. This is the new normal.
I clone repositories all the time to inspect/learn/debug dependencies without ever building them.
I built a community crowdfunding platform to help inventors, makers, developers, etc to find the community, resources, and feedback needed to build and share quality products, and transparent companies. Check it: Baqqer - (https://baqqer.com)

Our plans are to also turn this into equity crowdfunding, and eventually have a fund to contribute to and support popular/promising projects.

I'm building this to build some other projects down the line like Playa (http://getplaya.com)
How long has it been since you've used Turbolinks? I've been using the Turbolinks 5 beta with not a lot of issues. Of course, I used this from the get go with a new application.
My understanding is that the userfacing tool is still the ancient Java tool Palantir's been hawking since what, 2006? and that the several HTML5 rewrites haven't worked well [1].

Am I hopelessly out of date?

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cajoFN6yjB0
Despite the huge market demand for property, a lot of it is under utilised. There are some very big houses out there. Like up_and_up, I also spent some time living in a large shared house that was more of a community. Central city, a garden with chooks, nine bedrooms, usually twelve or more occupants, shared responsibilities, budget, cooking, etc. We were each spending about the same for rent, food, electricity, gas, phone, and internet combined as others in shared house situations were spending on rent alone.

Our home was a true community hub. We hosted a lot of events. It was a great way to live as a young person. In my opinion it was the cooking roster (you cooked once every two weeks for everyone else in the house) and the fact that we all sat down to a shared meal that made it work. Without that it would probably have devolved from a large family-like situation into something more like a large hostel situation.
Dan are we going to have a specific postmortem thread on this experiment? I don't want to post a lot of specific suggestions in this thread as they would be rather off topic.
I built a production app recently, Rails 5 (beta -- surprisingly stable) + Heroku + Passenger, separate React + react-router frontend. It's been fantastic so far -- has handled a decently sized production load, including some pretty heavy ActionCable usage, with no problems. There's a few tricks to getting it working on Heroku though; I've been meaning to write a blog post about it but haven't found the time.
The forerunners were created in secret for use against enemies during the World War's under Presidents voted in. The people's voted-in Congress representatives that made them official with more authority. Then people kept voting-in even more that kept them over time with no major push to vote out intelligence agencies. Just reform their bad behaviors on occasion.

So, yes, they were voted in and maintained through the elected representatives. That's how a representational democracy works. There was also no pushback strong enough to affect an election and dissolve an intelligence agency. They'd be diminished or gone had that happened.

So, voters wanted the situation and it's here. They can make it go away but it's still here. So much for your hypothesis.
You should look at Elixir/Phoenix - I think it's the next rails and will be the new hotness in a year or so :)

I'm personally a fan of Clojure which is an excellent language with excellent tooling and a smart and friendly community
Reading this thread has been an interesting opportunity for introspection. A number of people on both sides have made very valid points. In particular, your description of the atmosphere on the inside makes the whole thing quite a lot easier to accept, and even get behind.

With this said, I think I've also come to understand more about why instinctively I feel a little uncomfortable. It is because as a foreigner who would love to work for SpaceX, I don't feel I can - because it is nigh impossible in this day and age to become American without some decent amount of wealth. If it wasn't for ITAR, I think the chant would be less uncomfortable, because it would be less exclusionary.

That said, I don't think you or other Americans should give a rats about what randoms on HN think. We're just jealous of your opportunity to be part of history. Don't feel guilty about having an opportunity, but instead do your best with it. And if that means chanting USA, then do it without any second thoughts!
Top 5 schools according to LinkedIn are Stanford, Cornell, Berkeley, MIT, and CMU. See https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=20708&trk=rr_connect...
Hmmm! When you enquired about the intimate link to Electron, I assumed that it was because you'd prefer a native interface (GTK+, ncurses, etc.), not because you wanted it in the browser.

I can confidently say that I hope that I never have to use a text editor inside my browser.
Looks like the web-based client work has finally started to produce a client. Nice work!
Excellent article!
"Those anxieties come amid a wave of staff departures. A chart from Palantir’s internal wiki said the departures through mid-April amounted to 5.8% of all staff, or an annualized rate of 20%. That compares to a departure rate of 13.6% in 2015, 12.2% in 2014, and 9.2% in 2013. Palantir paid annual bonuses in March...."

Many companies have waves of departures in the spring. Bonuses are paid (as at Palantir), holidays are over, kids are about to finish
school. A 5.8% departure rate in the beginning of the year cannot be "annualized" any more than fruitcake sales from December. And if it does end up that 20% of Palantir quits in 2016, that'd be totally normal attrition for a large company. Where I used to work it was 30% among software engineers, and even this was not a problem.

I imagine that a number of ex-employees go on to work in the industry whose data they analyzed at Palantir. This may help to explain why employees are willing to work for less than elsewhere. It's because three years later they will work for much more elsewhere. Especially the hedge fund analysts.
Elm Tutorial
I like that FreeBSD dedicates a man page, HIER(7), on this topic - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier - "layout of file systems"
I think Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul wants to rein them in. I actually gave Rand Paul some money for this T-shirt:

https://store.randpaul.com/index.php/the-nsa-knows-contest-w...

Rand Paul had to drop out for lack of interest.
I really can't recommend Hartl's Rails Tutorial highly enough. https://www.railstutorial.org/book

It not only teaches you Rails, it teaches Github and Heroku and gets your first first web app deployed at the end of the first chapter. And, it's free!

There is also enormous hiring market for Rails developers.
If you'd pay more taxes, would you also simply donate more toward such efforts? If not, would you donate under some Kickstarter-like scheme in which pledges of donation were only enforced in the event that some threshold were met?

Congratulations on your income!
I am concerned that .NET Core has put .NET on a very dark path.

It feels like the developers have built this from a theoretical programming paradise point of view: Everything's "just" a handler in a pipeline. All dependencies are now "micro". Nothing has a hard dependency on anything else.

The result of all this is a framework that might be beautiful at it's core, but becomes gradually more prickly as you get closer to the development surface. It feels like their answer to usability is "Oh, we'll just throw together a metapackage for that." It scares me that they think they can wrap up all the complexity they've created in a way that won't lead to the developer having to dig through the .NET source to make stuff work.

It's worrisome to see how brittle the system is at this late stage. It shows that this has been built from the inside-out rather than outside-in with a focus on usability. All the ugly stuff that should be buried inside the framework has been pushed out to the edge of the system for the developer to deal with. Watch any of the recent ASP.NET streams to see numerous illustrations of this whenever they open up a Core project.

ASP.NET used to be a reprieve from all the hideousness of other tools like NPM and Node. Now I'm seeing all the same problems in ASP.NET. Have you tried deploying a DNX / Core app? Good luck if any file path is longer than 255 characters. Tried pulling in the dependencies from a project.json behind a corporate firewall? Good luck. It might work half the time, but it needs to work 100% of the time to be practical.

All these tiny metapackages will lead to dozens of projects all in intermediate undefined states whereas in the past we had a clear distinction - that repository from 2010? It's MVC3. Ok, we know how to upgrade that because the process is well-defined. I expect ASP.NET core will be more a case of deleting out all your semver numbers from project.json, executing the update command and holding your breath. I dread this the way I dread opening any Javascript/NPM project that's more than a year old.

Given the rise of Javascript clients with REST servers I question whether it's even worth sticking with Core when other languages can do the same thing with fewer pain points. I really want to see Core succeed but I'm just not sure about it given what we've seen so far.
Michael Hartl's tutorial!

https://www.railstutorial.org/
As opposed to American hackers hacking American companies? Nationality has nothing to do with it, other than with jingoistic profiteers and/or morons who want a vaguely defined distant target to blame.
It is insane that this is getting praise.

They were ridiculously shitty. Somebody called them on their shit and they decided to be okay normal people.

Fuck the notion that being a non awful person after being awful is praiseworthy. It's better than remaining awful but it deserves zero props.

Dang was a dickhead because he wanted a different outcome and he is still so dishonest that he pretends it's just a misunderstanding.

fuck dang. He's a garbage human.
For reference when you say "pretty good-sized load" what are you referring to?
There must be something I am missing here...
I'm not sure how long this has been around, but I've seen it posted here and/or reddit before. It's one my favorites.
I think you should post your suggestions here. Others are doing so, and I don't know if I have the stamina for another thread about this. It would probably end up much like this one anyhow.
I think it's just an unexpectedly amusing 404 page considering the source.
> I'm not sure how you can say that.

Because available historical records are quite informative.

> Who knows if this is how it actually happened...

Given the available historical record, we do. Sure, we cannot identify every possible reason behind every religious prescription, but we can at least identify the point in history that certain moral aversions were drafted, and the reasons given for them by those who created them.

> It is completely conceivable that...

That some creative scenario is conceivable has nothing to do with its place in history or its likelihood of being true.

Just because some religious notion happened to centuries later be found to have a grain of sensibility doesn't in any way counter that, historically speaking, the known moral aversion predated any known danger. Many religious prescriptions are part of carving out an identity and social rules for its adherents. Hence casting them in a moral dimension, to add the weight of divine approval/disapproval to the weight of the religious source of obligation. They established and perpetuated power structures in human relationships.
live example: http://www.cartercenter.org/syria-conflict-map/
You can already do this using BITSET -- I tracked 100 million objects with incremental integer keys during a migration process and it worked great.

From what I read, BITFIELD behaves differently -- it treats your data as a series of "packed" bits. So while with BITSET you operate on each bit individually, with BITFIELD you operate on a series of bits with a starting offset, and you have to be mindful of the length.
not directed at you, but more a frustration with human nature.
Not at all, it was an observation that bodies of fresh water exist that don't require huge effort to make massive floating ponds on the sea.
According to Wikipedia, "it is the world's largest building by physical area and the second-largest building by usable space, smaller than only the Boeing Everett Factory."
I guess this is it then... the end :'(
this is ridiculous... at what point do we have to just water down everything so much that we walk on egg shells 24/7 so we don't misconstrue our actions or unintentionally disturb the 7billion people of the world. Give me a break.
The /bin vs /usr/bin split makes perfect sense but I always thought /sbin was superflous to happy to see it being deprecated by many distros.

I expect with the increasing moves towards app stores and sandboxing on all platforms that the days of installing packages contents all over the filesystem are limited and things like xdg-app are probably going to take over with an app being mounted into the filesystem in a sandbox as it is run.
I have a very much subjective theory that the richer you are than you are smart, the more conservative you are. And likewise, the smarter you are than you are rich, the more liberal you are. This assumes that someone who is ridiculously wealthy but fairly unintelligent would be strongly conservative (true in practice, mostly), and that someone with many degrees and a very high IQ who is not financially successful is strongly liberal (also mostly true in practice). Obviously exceptions on both sides of the fence, but this has held true better than other predictors for me. So the fact that there are tons of world-aware, well educated people with minimal financial growth would be a recipe for liberalism.
"Going native" meant salvaging Vista's low performance by rewriting everything in C++ that was written in .NET -- .NET was the "wave" here, but it's also the culprit for Vista eating memory like cheap sushi.
What I've heard is that they pay well for incoming grads, but then no pay raises...ever...and by year 5 you're clawing at the walls for a liquidity event so you can shed your options and get out.
"Where does the line go for who is to be considered "other"? As someone living in Stockholm, why should I care more about companies in Gothenburg doing well than a company in Oslo? Or am I an outsider as well, since I have a mother from Copenhagen?"

Your wishes don't matter at all. You're not a competing nation referred to in my comment.

"No, that just shows that they're not actual democracies either"

Or that you don't know what a representational democracy is or think they all think like you. Look up KSI where you live to find something even less transparent than our NSA. (shocking really)

"Okay, this is getting far into Poe's law territory."

Nah, it's just a prerequisite for existence of a thing you're pretending to know about. Successful democracy and active citizenry go hand-in-hand. Without it, problems emerge.
FWIW these pages are not "free" - they cost a bit of $ depending on how many 404s you serve in a day (a site this large and old probably serves several thousand per day) which, over time adds up. And so when I see things like this I just love it - someone made a decision to roll with it anyway. And this one is super weird. Go Bloomberg.
Their 500 page is pretty great too: http://www.bloomberg.com/500
Swiftification: Drop NS Prefix in Swift Foundation
Thus far, peak at about 3000 REST requests per minute and 400 simultaneous ActionCable (websocket) connections. We're still scaling up the app, as we just launched it about a week ago, but we haven't yet hit the limits of the platform.
A lot of what you described is in the new MVC Core. It would be interesting to see a comparison with Core.
Entrepreneurial Habits Toward a Profitable Business
Introduce moderate inflation. Make it a losing proposition to hoard wealth.

Tax estates at a level that breaks dynastic wealth building. Cap retirement generational tax-exempt IRA rollovers.

Require more transparency for LLCs and other corporate structures to use the banking system. Corporate ownership should be conpetely transparent.

Reduce the ability of large real estate holders to harvest losses.
I meant a caching proxy that functioned as a mini Crates.io in the absence of actual crates.io being up. Depending on the crates.io protocol, just caching HTTP requests might not be enough, but also acting as a (offline-able) middle man that knows the protocol gives rise to other knobs and such (e.g. a configurable blacklist of packages).
You must not use atom. That or you must really hate url bars and back buttons. Otherwise I don't understand this comment.
Apathetic democracy in action. I dropped much of my activism for the same reason. Even when in their perspective, getting Americans to act on protecting their rights is like slogging uphill through molasses.

Nice shirt, though. :)
That's outside the scope of NSA's mandate. The NSA should not be using their resources to target American hackers or companies.

We should deal with such hackers too, using agencies like the FBI. I guess the NSA could provide some technical advice, but no more than that.

No evidence on American hackers should be classified or secret, unless they target government or military(and even then, the only thing that should be supressed from the public court record is the actual classified records that they stole, or details about the vulnerability they used). However, evidence the NSA gathers on foreigners and techniques they use could be classified.

The President should not intervene with diplomats if an American hacker hacks an American company.

I think these make the two situations very different in practice.
I wonder if people even know what those restrictions are and how exactly the anti-tivoisation clause works. It does not forbid anyone from running software on tivoised devices, which is what some people seem to think it does. All that it requires is that if you distribute the software primarily to be used on a User Product (as GPLv3 calls it), then as part of the installation information (which in GPLv2 used to just mean install and build scripts), you must also provide the signing keys for the hardware.

This also does not mean that GPLv3 makes software signing impossible and that you must forbid users from rejecting unsigned software if they so wish. It doesn't mean that you have to distribute every secret key that you use for signing software. It merely means that you have to give your users a way to install software on the User Product as they see fit, if they see fit. It's up to the user to decide to override any signing feature or not. It's very much in spirit with GPLv2 that required installation scripts. As far as GPLv3, hardware signing keys are just another part of installation scripts (the actual term used in GPLv3 is "Installation Information").

http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/03/gplv3-user-products-clause....

https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech10.html#...
I understood it as a game you could change the rules until you posted the poll, already vetting some uneligible applications and keeping Pinboard, and stating that the two most upvoted would pass.
Then you messed up because you decided Pinboard was not elegible anymore. Personally I find this final decision and mea culpa correct and honorable. Congrats.

My suggestion: Next time ask a private application for YCF with the sole purpose of considering an application eligible on whatever (transparent) criteria you choose. And dont take it lightly. Be 100% sure that you would give the 20k and mentoring to any of the eligible applicants.

Then create detailed rules and guidelines that allow removing an elegible applicant from the poll and publish it.

Then, only then, publish the poll and state that the 2 most upvoted will be selected.