skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Please don't downvote me just because you disagree with me. Instead, tell me why.

I'll do both, because you are acting like an informed person but wrong about very basic things.

> 1) You can't add housing without adding proper infrastructure (transportation, sewage, power, etc). Adding infrastructure is expensive and takes a very long time. There will be no budget for proper infrastructure increase if the population keeps rising - remember that hundreds of thousands of people work for companies that offshore their taxes.

One, you don't "offshore taxes", you offshore profits. Two, corporations don't pay local taxes based on profits, so I'm not sure what you're on about. Tech workers? They pay quite a lot in local taxes.

> 2) Most people need financial advice on what real estate investment means. If there's another bubble burst, a lot of average income people will have their life ruined. They would have bought an apartment for, say, $1M, with 200k down, only to see its value decrease by 30-35%, essentially wiping out their savings and forcing them into unsustainable debt.

It is not the purpose of an economy to coddle wealthy people with artificial market restrictions, so I don't have any sympathy here. Also, mortgage debt isn't like college debt or credit card debt; it's secured by your house alone. Banks can't go after you for it. All they can do is give you a bad credit score for seven years. Which is bad, but I'm sure people who can afford million-dollar homes can afford to face the consequences of their actions.

> 3) I wish there was an easy way to fix the housing problem in SF. There isn't. Let's be realistic about it.

This isn't saying anything.
The request is already in flight, it's too late - you can't abort those packets from getting to your server, you can only send new ones (which maybe instruct the server to disregard your search or something).

The correct way to accomplish what you want is to either throttle or debounce your searching such that you reduce the amount of requests made in the first place.
German scientists establish a 6Gbps wireless link over a distance of 37km
Dont. Its illegal and if you are caught by any reason you will be permanently black listed.
I'll take pair programming over sitting in a classroom listening to an instructor drone on any day. The one time I joined a pair-programming shop, I thought diving in and being productive on the first day on the job to be pretty great.

Usually I get neither and have to figure it out from the code. I've found that writing documentation for the next person as you figure it out to be a nice way to get started.
Dropbox Magic Pocket cloud
Sometimes I worry about a dystopian future of tech where each startup is making small incremental improvements on various minor aspects of life ("It's slightly easier than sending a text!") only to be disrupted by a newcomer with another small improvement on it ("It's even more slightly easier to send than a text than the last startup!").

The big breakthroughs never happen. We just continue to iterate and A/B test ourselves into a convenient oblivion.
Fuckedcompany founder here.

:)
That's an interesting interpretation.

I think Zuckerberg is extremely paranoid about Facebook being displaced. Facebook knocked MySpace off the throne, and everyone predicted Facebook would suffer the same fate. It hasn't happened because Zuckerberg has been strategically paranoid.

Even after getting a slow start in mobile, he threw ridiculous amounts of money at the situation until they were back on top.

I think the present-day VR hype is due to Zuckerberg being paranoid that VR would be the next mobile, and wanting to get ahead of it. Everyone followed his lead and people are betting the farm on VR being the next big thing, when that's just not clear at all. But for Facebook, spending $2B on Oculus was an ounce-of-prevention purchase.
I'm getting very long loading times and still can't see the page. Please fix because I would like to use this application.
> simply because they provide literally no benefit to society.

The value of something is typically a combination of different values, not just the intrinsic worth to society.
Did they put the tools back in the cabinet when they were done?

That's a serious question.
Re --no-ff, you can flip the behavior so that you need --ff when you really want to fast forward by adding this config:

[merge]
ff = no
It seems to be built on electron (atom?) so it shouldn't be difficult to port to other platforms.
How Frankie Manning's incredible dancing skills made him famous twice,50yr apart
I understand (though don't necessarily agree with) most of this perspective, but not the knock on code reviews. I think they're awesome - what could be more fun than reading and discussing other peoples' approaches to problems?
Ask HN: Can one make a tool that safely searches content of my browsing history?
The more time I spend on the internet, the more I wish I could have a search tool that only searches pages I've visited.

I would even like to be able to search through Facebook content I've viewed. And, of course, I'd want this to be done locally to increase privacy and speed.

Does anyone have a hack for this?

I see a plugin on Chrome called "Full History Search" [1]. I do not trust anything other than a fully open source tool

I understand that there are privacy concerns with this, since you could be storing data locally that is otherwise not public on the internet.

I wonder if it could be done in a safe way. Thoughts?

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-history-search/finikongkpikdjdhfofcinijoidlikej?hl=en
I don't know why you're getting downvoted but you are absolutely right.
When are these educated job creators going to create jobs in the Rust Belt?

The people living there have been waiting for that for decades, now.
We're not hidden, I just failed to create "About" page somewhere.
I am guilty of that. But what can I do? I use dropbox as a sort of backup (in case of a lost laptop or HDD failure), which doesn't work with git. When pushing to personal & private projects that's fine, but I need a better backup soln when pushing to a public repo..
Adding a YouTube integration, AmpMe raises $8M for its app syncing phones
seems like a better fit to transmit output to a mobile phone hotspot instead of an oled output?
Realization of a timescale with an accurate optical lattice clock
I like the idea of this a lot, but not working with Firefox is a dealbreaker. If only 100% of my time spent in Firefox was actually productive....
> I don't get why everyone acts like Snapchat is unable to monetize the platform — they just don't want to if they don't need to yet.

I'm not convinced that's true. Reportedly, in 2014 they made 3.1 million in revenue and -128 million in net income [0]. I don't think a difference that's two orders of magnitude is a function of "not wanting" to monetize the platform. I'm convinced they're a <100 million/yr in profit product.

[0]: http://gawker.com/snapchat-lost-a-ton-of-money-last-year-170...
Or just an idea of how the herd mentality can so utterly overwhelm common sense.
> #2 if Hulk Hogan is claiming injury and embarrassment from a sex tape, why did he make a sex tape?

Hulk Hogan said he did not know the tape was being made so could not consent to it. He was not consulted about it's release and would not have authorized it. The jury agreed with him.
I find any lack of imprint or about page off-putting as well. I'd never buy from such a website, because it doesn't seem legitimate.
Generally speaking, you think... well that's nice. Meanwhile, in the world of the scientific method, the issue is that everyone needs to know that you didn't just write something down for fun or profit. If your results can't be replicated... thbbpt.
Whenever compilers come up, this Steve Yegge article comes to mind -> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food... that starts: "Gentle, yet insistent executive summary: If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work. If you're not 100% sure whether you know how compilers work, then you don't know how they work."
Haha, I certainly was not walking uphill both ways, and the bookstore was only about a 20 minute drive away :)

But I do think older people have a certain appreciation for the internet and the likes of Google moreso than younger people. There was a time not long ago when every piece of information was not immediately accessible in my pocket. My grandparents had an actual encyclopedia set that was treasured along with their 100s of issues of National Geographic.

Of course not everything is rainbows and butterflies today, but the world as a whole is better than what it was. People have access to opportunities that were never thought possible before. Pretty amazing really.
That's why it's "stainless" steel. Don't wanna gather up a bunch of oxygen molecules.
Standard disclaimer: not a lawyer, consult someone familiar with immigration law but…

…please dear g–d don’t do this. If you are caught you can be deported and banned from re–entry to the US for anywhere from 5-10 years (on any visa).
There's a chance then that more people will be using it for that purpose targeting wider audience.
I lot of these cases end up with a workaround like "you need to bind this temp value to a local variable before you use it" or "you need to put this section in curly braces". These things are annoying, and there's lots of room for the compiler to infer more of them, but they don't really get in the way of writing useful programs. In the cases where I've seen the compiler really get in the way, it's because the program wants to do something actually unsound (by Rust's standards), like taking a mutable reference to a list while something else is iterating over it.
> He's a self interested huckster.

You are describing candidates for office in general. Sanders may be an outlier, but the only one.
From the sounds, it seemed to detect it at the last moment. Can Model S owners confirm?

Also, there are variable settings for breaking, right? Has anyone tested what happens if they're intentionally set too low to prevent accidents?

So many experiments I'd run with a Model S and an EM mocked up crash pad...
Pumba – Chaos Testing for Docker
Sorry, right now it's not possible. I would like to add synchronization some day but it's a bit far on the todo list.
Sometimes I message friends with it.

Mainly, I use it to follow sexy Instagram "models". I also add vacation photos to my story to make my life look more exciting than it typically is.

It's kind of depressing.
Yes, and revenue based in online advertising, which is itself mostly fraud and lies bound to collapse on itself sooner or later.
In my almost 40 years of living, I've learned one thing about women, they love attention, and you better learn when is necessary to give it to them and when is better for both if you ignore them.
Big Tech Is Headed for Regulation, Whether It Likes It or Not
When are these educated job creators going to create jobs in the Rust Belt?

The people living there have been waiting for that for decades, now. Giving all of them PHDs in chemistry and medicine won't do a damned thing.

Only a few industries in the US are actually short on qualified people - and they can't absorb 20 million retrained people.
It actually sounds like old research was either reproduced or simply read at a forum for stopping internet abuse (#ReclaimTheInternet) by this researcher (http://www.demos.co.uk/people/alex-krasodomski-jones-2/).

Another research paper, by a different author from the same think-tank, from 2013-14 had the same result: http://www.demos.co.uk/project/misogyny-on-twitter/
This is a known issue. Bottom right of page 64:

https://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/Model-S-Owne...

> Warning: Traffic-aware cruise control may not brake/decelerate for stationary vehicles, especially in situations when you are driving over 50 mph (80 km/h) and a vehicle you are following moves out of your driving path and a stationary vehicle or object is in front of you instead. Always pay attention to the road ahead and stay prepared to take immediate corrective action. Depending on TrafficAware Cruise Control to avoid a collision can result in serious injury or death.
Disappointing that out of 8 hires there's only a single woman, and of course she was hired for a role that's less deep-researchy than the other new guys.
Make it clearer WHY so called 'homework questions' are not allowed and maybe come up with a different terminology. I see so many questioners get annoyed and say "But it's not homeowrk!!!" - it may not literally be homework, but it's a trivial question that you are just asking someone else to churn through for you.

On the other hand, more and more lazy questioners are just hiding the fact that it's a homework question. Confusingly, of course, there is the help-vampire/point chaser feedback that encourages this whole mess.

Furthermore, the rules that require MVC (minimal, verifiable, complete) examples don't work in all areas. The [algorithm] tag, for example tends to attract speculative questions where the questioner naturally hasn't written any code because they don't have an algorithm yet!

Finally, it might be nice to be able to combine answers to make one comprehensive one where two different answerers have different parts of the answer.
Astronomers confirm faintest early-universe galaxy ever seen
It's still a great track record, but I can't shake my misgivings about automotive autopilot beta testing being an open-road thing. This seems like begging for trouble, with the biggest issue being the occasional ambiguity about a momentary brake-tap turning a system off.
> they are the only independent online media outlet left in the world. [citation needed]
How to vet a cloud service provider
How I got WWDC Scholarship
Reminds me of a presentation I saw last year on a mathematically unhackable web server. It was essentially a giant lookup table (no RAM), and making the slightest change required re-synthesis. But it was unhackable.
Just like MySpace users are very valuable now. Oh, wait.
> Am I just burnt out or should I find a new career?

When the work and long days are no longer enjoyable, and your role is perceived as low-value-- yes, that's an obvious signal for change in status quo.

> Is it feasible to find a decent job?

Yes, of course-- Can you now find a way to leverage your experience into something more rewarding? Where do you belong?

On this subject, Peter Drucker offers excellent food--for-thought > http://academic.udayton.edu/lawrenceulrich/LeaderArticles/Dr...
Did you test it thoroughly for websites tracking? I made a Firefox plugin[1] to track how long I would spend on facebook but it never had really accurate results.

Do you track only the current tab? Do you still track it if it's not foreground? Even if Firefox has many windows?

How do you track tabs in the browser from the OS by the way?

[1]: https://github.com/mimoo/FirefoxTimeTracker
I use snapchat for texting primarily because I can tell the message was read. Can't do that with text messages.

Also being able to send a quick video or picture, or do a live video call is nice too...

Most people complaining haven't even used snapchat or know of all its features.

As someone mentioned earlier, it's less intrusive than a call, and gets information across more efficiently.
Docker Security Testing: (bench+Bats)
"These are Farnswoth Fusors[1], first developed by Philo T Farnsworth, one of the inventors of television."

Wow, I've been a Futurama fan since the show first came out and just now got that reference. Well done, Matt and David.
I thought I'd look those up to see who got the scoop.

Hillary Clinton’s secret email account: New York Times
Bill Cosby’s history with women: National Enquirer
The mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker: Gawker
Tom Cruise’s role within Scientology: Gawker
N.F.L. cover-up of domestic abuse: ESPN
Hidden power of Facebook to determine the news: Gawker
An easy way to convert Swift structs to JSON
Gawker is a company with $45 million in revenue. They have plenty of money to defend themselves from a single lawsuit. If anything, Thiel just leveled the playing field.
This looks awesome - even has pretty documentation!

Have run the tutorial without issue, took only a couple of minutes.

There seems to be only a small number of Components available out the box, with new ones accepted via PR.

This works fine for now, but it would be great if I could import my own Components or even build new ones within the UI.

I'd like to be able to "View Source" on a Component, it's obviously available via GitHub, but that's a few more clicks away.

Does anyone know of any similar IDE for desktop React?
Seems like for a non-GPS tracker that these would be pretty effective based on their footprint.
> When an article makes a politically correct claim:

"Yeah I totally feel this is true, this one time [insert anecdote here]"

> When an article makes a not-so politically correct claim:

"Well it's not peer reviewed / look at the paper that's publishing it / this is the wrong definition / headline is misleading / [insert criticism not related to the claim]"
What Happens When You Combine Artificial Intelligence and Satellite Imagery
>so we're deliberately importing students who aren't

Except most, if not all, of these universities have strict English requirements and fluency testing. If they're cheating to get past those, which is a known issue, why are you indicting the US educational system? How can you stop English fluency cheating when the students don't see anything wrong with it? Perceiving them as the victim at this point is ridiculous.
I've built a fusor[1], and in its simplified form, it's just a large, negatively charged grid in a vacuum chamber with some hydrogen sitting around. Nothing to be afraid of!

You're absolutely right that these devices don't produce net energy. I built mine because I wanted to learn more about all the tech involved (high vacuum, high voltage, some nuclear physics). They're really good teaching projects for folks going into experimental physics, since there's a neat outcome without too much danger.

I assembled a coffee table book with some pretty pictures about it, PDF copy here:
http://shia.wsyntax.com/stuff/fusion/fusor_book_web.pdf

[1] http://fusion.wsyntax.com/ , http://fusion.wsyntax.com/setup/
Thanks for posting! That is a very interesting interior haha
> I'm just finishing up an sms messaging water detector.

Sounds interesting. I'd love to know more about it; if you could share the details with us, it would be highly appreciated.
iOS now forces point release updates as of version 9. Not sure about major versions, I guess we will see. I'm betting they will.

To be clear, by "force" I mean the update is downloaded automatically in the background to your device regardless of whether you have system updates turned off. Then you are continually hounded with reminders to install that update, with no option to stop the reminders. It's actually worse than Windows because at least with Windows we can disable the notifications and prevent the update.
Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel
Sure, but the point here is, that is relies on a young user base. They are widely known as having zero loyalty, and will drop and move on to the next big thing on a whim.
Yes, but the marginal gains add up to equal the big breakthroughs!

Eventually we increase the ease of texting to the point where we're reading minds and the user never has to touch their phone.

I may be serious, I can't tell.
I personally feel that people are most open on snapchat since you only have friends that you regularly interact with.

On facebook you only upload posts/pictures that matter, on Instagram you only upload pictures where you look really good or a picture of food (I personally hate it, unless it's something unique) whereas on snapchat you'll send pictures to friends where it doesn't matter how you look.
> If a book is published online, it's still a book.
reply

Not really arguing the medium of actual books (which is why I specified in my previous post). More a comparison between topic-specific books and blog posts / StackOverflow.
True but trivial, in that what you say is also true for men.

It might still be useful to say, since some men occasionally need reminding that women are humans with human behavior.
If anyone wants to get involved with an open source Ruby JIT compiler you can join us in #jruby or https://gitter.im/jruby/jruby. Happy to tutor beginners.
Out of interest, I assume most of these are then mapped back to planar geometry for rendering. Does anyone have any links for the math / current frameworks for this?
A Two Month Debugging Story
Generally there is not even a computer involved, just a whiteboard.
Some living startups are listed dead (Pinboard, bad URL), but some dead startups are listed alive as well.

For instance, L'Usine à Design is dead since 2013. They were a French company that made furniture, I bought a couch from them. Their office was on the same floor as Moodstocks, where I was working at the time, and after it closed a few angry customers came banging at our door to complain.

(The reason why the website thinks they are not dead is that the URL they used for the check is the URL of a news article announcing that they were dying!)
A woman calling another a whore is misogyny? Being against promiscuity is misogyny?
I agree with the statement that Rust has a steeper learning curve, and I love Rust and would choose it for every programming challenge I have from now on.

A strategy that I have reverted to in Rust is to use #[test]'s to mark my progress... I might only write one short function, verify it works with a #[test] then move on. It's almost TDD, but not quite. I started this practice back in my Java days, but have found it particularly beneficial with Rust.
Amazon WYSINWYG: Buy Luggage Scale but Get a Cake Knife
He's a salesman not a technology guy.

(Currently. Obviously in the past he came from tech. But most of his fame is from blogging and salesman, not tech).
Comparing BigQuery/Hadoop/Elastic/Presto/Redshift/Spark/AWS/Dataproc
How Newegg is Winning the Battle Against Patent Trolls [video]
There's plenty of evidence over the past couple of decades that trans people are, in a specific way, intersex - specifically that trans people's brains often have characteristics closer to those of their identified gender than what they were assigned at birth.

There's certainly lots of anecdotal evidence that many people's brains just seem to "work better" once on the correct hormones, and generally speaking transition has very good outcomes - people who have transitioned are generally doing better on key indicators, though still not as well as cis people. The people behind the studies believe that this might be down to how prejudice and discrimination affects trans people even after transition, though there's no further studies in that direction yet. (For a comparison, I believe gay people were doing worse than the general population on the same key indicators before general acceptance, and it's been gradually getting better.)

Here's a question, though: if we're not who we are in our own minds, who are we? Are you and I really only what others can see?
It does work though, unfortunately. I do the occasional social media post on my company's FB and LI pages, and the ones that with click-bait titles consistently do 2-3x better in view count -- all of my top performing posts have click-bait titles.

At least for now we can recognize/detect that our psyches are being preyed upon (soon we will not, as the art of clickbait evolves and starts using machines)...

It's a sad world we live in.
Did CoTap really die? This site says yes, but their site is up, their app is available in the App Store and their Twitter account is still active..walking dead or not dead yet?
So, every answer about Facebook's API? I like this proposal.
tl;dr: article on linux news site criticizes bsd
>But don't expect to make a lot of money.

What do you consider a lot of money?