skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What problem are you trying to solve? Task management, or employee feedback?

My opinion, and it's worth every penny that I'm charging you for it, is that task management as a field is beaten to death a million times over, and your path to unicorn nirvana will be paved with the bones of the countless anonymous dead startups that walked that path before you. Of course, I would have said the same thing about chat apps before Slack came along. But my point holds... there are a million free task management apps out there, mostly lousy. There's no money in making a free app, and there's no reason to pay for one when there are free ones, except for commercial/enterprise customers - and that market is saturated with many players, big and small.

If you really want to build a task management app, you need a niche - a specific kind of worker in a specific industry (as narrowly defined as possible), who cannot be served by any existing apps. That way, you might make money without too much work.

And avoid adding Calendar, Chat, projects, etc! You know what a good feature that actual businesses might want in their task management tool? Not a calendar - they want it to integrate with the Calendar they already use. Why write your own chat, when customers will just ask for it to work with Slack or Skype or Lync or that smoke signals thing they bought and standardized on in 1997 that only talks with other apps via screen-scraping... you get the picture.

More to the point here, though... what is your problem that you want to solve? Are you scratching your own itch for a task management tool after finding the whole field lacking? Or do you just want a startup, and don't have a specific problem, so you looked for something you might do? Not judging here, just making sure you know what problem you're actually trying to solve. Because you're solving both your problem and your customer's problem, and if they're not one and the same, you should really look for a customer problem that solves your problem.
Shenzhen: A New Breed of Intellectual Property (Wired Documentary Ep. 3)
I often wonder what happens to the people in these types of photographs. Who are all these onlookers? Somebody must recognize them as their mother/father or grandmother/grandfather. Do they regret what they did or do they just remember it as something that happened "back then"?
No. We will now be free to negotiate trade deals with countries outside the EU (Which we currently are not able to do. The EU has been absolutely awful at trying to negotiate trade deals with other countries). We will negotiate a trade deal with the EU as a whole. Everyone in the UK knows those facts.
Just a few decades prior, people might have turned out jubilantly for public executions of convicted criminals, too. We've come a long way in, relative to history, a pretty short time.
> You can't write an RTOS in D.

Can't is a pretty strong word. You can write C-style code in D that compiles and behaves identically to C, including malloc/free.
Another recent skimmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll4f0Wim4pM
Benchmarking Rust JSON libraries
It's amazing how a bit of bad press can expedite such matters. :) Nice try, Comodo, better luck next time.
The longer articles can be found on https://www.buzzfeed.com/bigstories
But a hit to german trading to the UK is a small price to pay instead of the hit it would take by setting precedent that you can just willy-nilly leave with all the perks. And I can tell you, the german-language media is already full of "priority number one if to stop a cascading copycat effect".

As a snarky side remark, what will the UK do in the future instead of continuing to import cars, regardless of terms? Rely on its domestic automotive industry?
For about the same price, you can get a used Panasonic Toughbook on eBay.[1] Those are rugged even with the cover open, and faster than a BeagleBoard.

I've been buying EeePC 1001px machines on eBay for under $40 for some semi-embedded work. I put Xubuntu on them, and they get the job done. If they break, I'm out $40.

If you're going to build stuff for outdoor use, coat the electronics with a waterproof silicon conformal coat.[2] (Mask the connectors first.) This will prevent corrosion on the coated parts. Automotive and marine electronics usually get this treatment at the factory, but, annoyingly, mobile devices usually don't.

[1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/Panasonic-ToughBook-CF-30-MK3-Rugged...

[2] https://www.techspray.com/d-3-fine-l-kote.aspx
So Britain "screwed" India (how anyone in their right mind can argue that partition of India was worse than inevitable and catastrophic civil war is beyond me) and yet somehow, despite Britain, India managed to establish democracy (coincidentally the same model as Britain's), a legal system (coincidentally the same model as Britain's), infrastructure (British made roads, railways and bridges), universities, the banning of barbaric Indian practices like suttee and female infanticide, the suppression of thugs, the establishment of major important cities like Bombay (Mumbai) and Calcutta (Kolkata)... I could really go on too.

But seriously Indians have the temerity to think all that happened despite Britain, and not because of Britain?

And presumably when other British colonies developed similar infrastructure, stability, prosperity through trade, rule of law and/or democratic principles, it was also just mere coincidence; while most/all colonies of other European countries and the USA notably ended up as virtual failed states and/or dictatorships.

Yeah, what have the British ever done for us?
Follow up question:

is there a good example of an OPEN SOURCE REST API?

I would like to see how the versioning is achieved, how the versions are incremented, etc?

Bonus points if it is in the Java ecosystem.
I like where Plaid is going but it bothered me that they are coy about their pricing.

Typically when a company refuses to say their price or says "Contact Us", that means "Prepare your wallets".

With that said, very economical. I think it was something like $0.10 per account you add. I am looking forward to Plaid expanding what banks are offered since currently they only work with 10 or so (although if they pick you, they give you access to a few thousand more. Not sure the criteria)
I would happily do so. I do not have any health conditions that require testing, however, so I would not be exposing myself to risk by doing so.
Amazon Web Services is poaching engineers from itself
For iced coffee at home, I’m a fan of aeropress coffee over ice. The aeropress gives a lot of control over water temperature, steep time, coffee/water proportion, and grind size, and you can effectively brew the coffee pretty strong, which leaves you room for the dilution with ice.
Seems like that should read 'speak up for the innocent'.

I only say that because the word 'hate' gets thrown around a lot where it's neither accurate nor appropriate. Hate is an obsession level feeling that consumes a person. When people throw around the word, they lessen its meaning which causes people to dismiss it (and the person using it) when they hear it.

Certainly, in the case of a lynching, using the word would be more appropriate so don't take my comment as direct at you in particular but more at just the overall internet's use of the word.
I'm not sure if he's completely blind or self-deluded. I hope to believe that he's not saying these things just to line his own pockets. Being delusional isn't malicious.

That said, it makes me wonder how it is possible for someone to live so far outside a reasonable view of the world. We should critically examine the press, but these days conspiracy theories are running rampant and we can't seem to agree on a common set of facts to examine anymore.

The facts here are clear, Theranos has sold a product that doesn't work irresponsibly, and done so without proper science.
Certainly. It was a part of the Roman Empire, state language is French, and most money flows from France. Its apity, that geographically its Africa. I propose to rename Northern Africa the Special European Economical Interest Area.
> Strange how the claim of 'rape' apparently is what set off the crowd to lynch, but the murder apparently was not nearly seen as being as heavy.

It's not that strange - people in the US are much less tolerant of sexual violence than other forms. Rape is just more abhorred than murder.

Consider how there is a sex offender registry, but not a registry for those committing attempted murder or assault.

Also note how shows like Game of Thrones have 100x more murders than rapes, but the rapes invariably cause a public outcry. The murders on the other hand are just business as usual.

Not just in the US, either. Accusations of rape are a major factor in the migrant crisis in Europe, after the apparent mass sexual assaults on New Year's Eve and other instances.
JSON API spec is really good http://jsonapi.org
Atlassian has a great process around developing their REST APIs. It was a bit random in earlier iterations but that team has come into its own.
It's because people want to see politicians as idealists — while usually, cynics who just want to get elected actually make the best politicians in a functioning democracy while idealists tend to become bloody tyrants.
Polls strongly suggest that the referendum was about immigration. I'm sure some of that has to do with racism, but a lot is probably just plain old isolationism and xenophobia.
The working class of the UK have been screwed since forever, and it's remarkable that no party is able to represent them. Real wage growth stagnated in the early 2000's even though GDP/Capita kept rising (much like in the US). I find it amazing when talking to UK colleagues that they still talk of "the recession" (meaning the 2008 one) as being an ongoing and current event. The fact that the economy grew somehow hasn't helped small business and regular workers in the UK.
The rise of populism is just a response to this middle class squeeze.

There is a lot of talk about Camerons failure, but really what has happened is that the Labour party has been too dysfunctional for too long, and populists like Farage took the opportunity to fill the void.
The friction that comes from having borders that restrict the free flow of workers, goods, and services will be a large cost to both the British and EU economies. The uncertainty about how this will all play out will also have a dampening effect.
This is what baffles me about the Brexit.

If ten equal partners get together to negotiate on a collective agreement, then the results will probably be fair to all parties.

If nine of those partners negotiate collectively with one partner, then the results will probably heavily favor the collective.

But, I guess it's better to have the freedom to be screwed than to be forced to take a good deal.
The Self-Driving Dilemma: Should Your Car Kill You to Save Others?
One day those people will be old and vulnerable and frankly I don't understand what they're counting on by pissing us like this.
> We will now be free to negotiate trade deals with countries outside the EU (Which we currently are not able to do. The EU has been absolutely awful at trying to negotiate trade deals with other countries). We will negotiate a trade deal with the EU as a whole.

The second sentence of the parenthetical, if taken to be true, casts significant doubt on the claim in the final sentence.

I don't doubt that the requirement for consensus in the EU makes EU-to-outside trade deals difficult to negotiate. OTOH, that same fact makes successful negotiation of an EU-Britain trade deal (either as part of or subsequent to an exit agreement) uncertain.
Switzerland is not part of the EU. Why do you think that the UK have more freedom in this case?
I mostly agree but I think you have it backwards when you say a devalued GBP buys more euros. A weak pound makes it more expensive for me to buy an imported car.
You are kind-of making my point. It's clearer to use "function" fore pure, mathematical functions, and otherwise "procedure"/"object"/"proxy"/"closure" whatever. Even if some popular languages misuse the term "function".

> Even then, it's a somewhat loose definition -- is allocating memory a side effect?

This is leading nowhere. Is loading a value into a register a side effect? If you care.
So, let me understand what you are saying: you are saying that, while the markets are in turmoil, the policical functioning of the EU is blocked, and the very existence of the EU is in question, the EU is politely going to wait until the british politians sort their internal affairs?

We can not legally trigger article 50, but we can LEGALLY do lots of things, including putting huge amount of political and economic pressure on the UK to STAND for your decissions.

You have voted leave, so please leave. You have two years to negotiate a deal, so start now.
The entire reason for the exclusivity is to drive sales of their hardware.

If they need to sell 500 units of hardware or 5000 games to break even on a given investment, and selling that hardware also increases the odds that you'll purchase other exclusives from their store once you've sunk the cost, there's plenty of motivation to do it, even if you don't end up buying most of the exclusive games.

(Note that I am not weighing in on the ethics of this, just remarking that there is a legitimate business reason to do it.)
You can be member without a Ph.D, but if you have one you qualify.
I'm not sure why anyone uses a big-name browser on tor anymore. It's trivial to lock something like wget or lynx/links into using the tor connection and getting the same kind of results.
Are you talking about Versor? It's what came up when I Googled it.

http://versor.mat.ucsb.edu/
Something similar happened a few months ago in a Dutch company that I was sent to have a look at. Utterly disgusting, to cause people to uproot their lives knowing full well that there is no intention to follow through.
A nice thing about this is that it keeps the collections happening while no users are waiting. Before seeing this I figured what they'd do for throughput might be more of a Java/C#-like compacting young gen collection, which still introduces (short!) pauses.

Also, fun wrinkle: seems like occasionally, wrapping a slowish, mostly-self-contained, garbage-heavy function call in a goroutine could be a useful hint to this collector. It seems like it's only useful when 1) a transactional GC on the calling thread or full GC would really be slower (e.g. calling thread keeps lots of live data so GC on it takes more work), and 2) the launch/communication costs (expect at least µsecs) are small enough relative to gains. But interesting it's even possible for it to work out that way.
It's scary how close we are as a society to this kind of a thing.
After Brexit, what? US secessionists hankering for 'Texit'
Currently in the USA we are seeing a wave of racist nationalist isolationism, so we tend to see these concepts as going together. It's always tempting to draw parallels between USA politics and UK politics since the two nations have been close allies for many years. So, forgive us this misunderstanding.

Why did the UK vote to leave the EU?
The New Nationalism
In the Clinton case, she doesn't own her flip flops, she tries to rewrite history. Instead of discussing in depth how and what changed her mind (which would be really powerful), she will just claim to have always been a tireless campaigner for the issue. Its evident her flip flops are not from a change of personal philosophy but only because its now politically expedient to adopt a position.

Similarly with Oculus. Have they changed their philosophy on openness? Probably not. We will just see them attempt their goal in a different way e.g. all sorts of incompatible features in their v2.
A reasonable strategy, so long as one accepts from the outset that no human could be a sufficiently competent dictator, and even if occasionally someone was 'close enough' then succession crises would de-stabilise the system.

We need to design and build our own benevolent dictator, and then keep it running and upgraded as needed :-)
I love his song though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTrz6lMQGAs :)
JSON API seems overly verbose to me. It feels like like a direct descendant of the SOAP / WSDL era -- or maybe I'm just scarred from having written and consumed SOAP webservices.
Legacy software is the code you wrote before lunch.[0]

0: http://www.russmiles.com/essais/dont-think-legacy-software-t...
[Rust] Announcing Overflower
We keep punishing because we're still not satisfied, and because we can't catch their wrong doing all the time so we punish them to detract from their aggregate gains from wrong-doing.
It's not just the storefront, Oculus sells headsets too. But even more than making money right now on software and hardware, they want to capture the emerging VR market, dominate it for years, and make even bigger profits when the market has grown up.
You have this backwards; California sends the federal government $1.00 and receives 90 cents in return:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-st...
Very helpful!

Most of the companies would ask something along the lines of are you allowed to work in America. For this question, am I allowed to say, "yes I am". Given, I do not have a TN visa yet?
I work, remotely, for a private US software firm, and about a year from now, I'd like to move to Toronto to live with my partner. (Yay for long-distance relationships.)

Is it practical to work remotely for a US firm in Canada?
Back when the first anti-Theranos article was published, VC Dave Morin argued that it was the duty of Millennials to dig deeper and investigate the press for the possibility of a smear campaign: https://twitter.com/williamalden/status/658705178523258880

After Theranos admitted fault, he retracted those comments.
And it's entirely fair for me, and others, to be outraged at this tactic.
"In reality, most significant European trading partners with UK just want to keep on trading with them mostly as they have been, and will work out deals that allow such trading to mostly continue."

Do you know what you're talking about? That's a sincere question. My understanding is that the UK's significant trading partners are members of the EU, and that it's the EU, not the individual partners, who will have to decide on any new trade deals with the UK. As others have said, what sort of precedent would the EU be setting if they gave a withdrawing member the same benefits it had as an actual member? The EU does not want more members withdrawing.
I'm pretty sure that "angelic voice" was 100% ok with lynching the other two innocent black men. Not exactly a voice of love speaking against hate.
Let me simplify: taxes are critical for basic infrastructure that makes you successful at all levels. If you want zero taxes, go build a business in a jurisdiction that doesn't have them and see how you fare.
After I learned more that was probably the right thing to do, but I'm not a python dev. I just want to use sklearn, pandas, and associated tools. I'm not sure what the smooth path to doing that is. At various times people recommend macports, brew, anaconda, and so on... Note that compiling numpy from source sucks, and I'd much rather someone else do so.
Also the idiotic "Right to be forgotten".
> Long term, we now have control of our future.

Not really. Your future is just as bound up with the future of Europe as it was before. The only real difference is that instead of negotiating with the EU as a member, you will have to negotiate as an outsider who has considerably less leverage, and who has recently pissed everyone off.

And when you negotiate with non-EU countries, it will be even worse for you. As a member of the EU, you had international clout and represented the world's largest free-trade market. Now all you have to offer is your own domestic market. You overestimate your importance in the world economy if you think you can now get trade deals with non-EU countries that are as good as the deals you could have got as a member of the EU.

It's also been interesting to watch the Leave campaigners rapidly begin backtracking on their promises to reduce immigration. You simply can't afford to reduce immigration at this point -- it would shrink your economy. Immigration is a response to the demand for workers, and if that demand goes unfilled because of restrictive immigration policies, all of you will suffer. So, don't expect the government to impose significant reduction in immigration. Immigration will only decrease when your demand for workers decreases.

As a non-EU country, I suppose you will avoid the "html link tax" and some other bureaucratic EU regulations you don't like, but in the areas that really matter for your future, e.g. the economy, you will be worse off. In the area that energized many leave voters, immigration, you cannot realistically expect much to change, and whatever changes will happen in the future because of decreased demand for workers probably would have happened anyway.
> We can not legally trigger article 50, but we can LEGALLY do lots of things, including putting huge amount of political and economic pressure on the UK to STAND for your decissions.

The UK government -- the entity that would leave the EU -- has not made a decision to stand by (except a decision to hold a legal nonbinding referendum.) The only thing that was absolutely contingent on the referendum was the package of new arrangements for Britain the EU had approved.

No doubt, Britain will have a government soon that will invoke Article 50, but it is in the interest of Britain, the rest of the EU, and the long-term health of the markets for that to be a government with a clear policy and vision for an exit that can work with the EU on a minimally disruptive exit agreement, and the Cameron government absolutely is not that government.
Raw and Cooked
> Many OOP programmers today spend the bulk of their time thinking about how their objects should work rather than how they should communicate.

Which is the "proof" that OOP was oversold. This is called "structured programming". It's not evil :-)

http://www.yegor256.com/2014/05/05/oop-alternative-to-utilit...
This is so wrong. See, it did not matter whether or not the person was innocent. What mattered was that you don't take the law into your own hands.

And that person did speak up, but only after two people were already killed without any form of due process.
I'd like to ask a complementary question!

What resources (books/blogs) are you guys/gals looking at that talks about best practices for creating/implementing great REST API endpoints?
You make a good point with your last paragraph: given the circumstances, if we held a vote on who should get to vote, the answer would not be one millenials would relish. Those calling for disenfranchisement of the elderly are not only morally wrong but would bring down the very system which protects young people.

I do think that it is possible for a reasonable person to call certain decisions bad, even if it's not entirely objective. The vast majority of the credentialed economic establishment believes that Brexit was a tragedy, so does the stock market, and so do most of those educated on international political relations who study the subject.

Of course, the rejection of the establishment by voters who are tired of having their will systematically ignored, mocked, and thwarted is the reason for Brexit, so for the Leave crowd that isn't much of a point.
Well first you need to identify the problem you're trying to solve. "something is wrong with capitalism and the way current governments operate" is completely arbitrary and meaningless.
Thanks for the links :) I've saved them and hope to eventually make my way through them
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And yes, what? Do explain!