skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As native English-speaking, but part-non-white, foreigner from another Western country very similar to America, I notice that one is more likely to get a friendly conversation out of a bartender or barista if you are white and American.

That a racial judgement is involved in the openness of a service staff member to "small-talk" is one thing that makes it appear fake and insincere.
Said differently:

Software == Farm

Value == Milk
> Why would a barista (/waitress/waiter/any other serving staff) be interested in you?

This is part of it for me. It seems so arrogant and intrusive. Asking for a food recommendation (or whatever) at the place you're at, fine. Even asking a local for other suggestions in the area (restaurant, club, sights, etc.) is okay if you keep it simple. Asking where they're from and why they're there? None of your business.

You can be polite, even friendly, without all the questions and blah blah blah.
Show HN: I built my wedding website using Polymer
Open source at: https://github.com/caleblloyd/polymer-wedding
I know it's not, it's why my wife can't get there :) That's why I said that's how it was even _before_ Schengen, ie French and German didn't need a visa to go to the UK even before the EU.
To speakers of Standard English, AAVE is broken in that it is (whether by accident or deliberately) hard to understand. That makes it an intrinsically lesser form of your own language, same as other extreme dialects like Scots, Geordie or Mid-Ulster. It is not racist to say that it is a hassle to deal with it.

Obviously if a dialect or language is the primary or only means of interaction with a population group (as Persian is with Persians) it is not inferior - it is what it is. But if a borderline unintelligible dialect coexists with the understandable main language, its inferiority is not a moral judgement by evil racists, but a straightforward utilitarian rejection.

It also doesn't matter how high-prestige the group speaking a hard-to-understand dialect is. Swiss German is mocked and looked down upon by non-native-speakers, as is speaking the Swabian German dialect - though you likely won't find any population groups with higher social status (+wealth/prestige) in Germany.
Dot me and dot TV are actually local domains, not ccTLD. The first one is from Montenegro and the second one is from the Island of Tuvalu. Although common sense has made a lot to make them look global, they're fairly local because they're not too much used for their intended purpose.
To show that Android stock browser/Chrome versions are hell
Email privacy crash course
i don't think it's worth naming a product based on available domain names. It helps in the branding sure, but it doesn't make up for diastarous names.
Right. Strictly speaking, based on an unbiased ethical consideration of the whole mess, I think you raise a good point.

But I think that money motivation proves quite powerful.

The cover story for, or rhetorical face of, the CA politician's defense of these companies will look something like: high tech companies are the future. They're clean and green. And CA is leading the way. And CA is superior to everywhere else because those tech giants are mostly here (as opposed to one of our competitors: TX, MA, NY or even WA).

And if we let this kind of misguided regulatory regime get started, we'll endanger not just CA's economy, but that of the entire US tech industry...
>Do you know what most "felons" did to be called that? It's not for what they said and wrote that should be constitutionally protected.

Exercised journalistic integrity and protected an anonymous sources?

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part...

The press is free, as long as it doesn't protect sources that have leaked embarrassing information about the armed forces.
Keep it up, great work!
That's some comfort then. I never saw any indication of it; across multiple projects I never saw any drive to refactor, or any of the signs I associate with developers taking pride in one's work (documentation above what is asked for, root cause analysis even when a surface issue has been taken care of, or really, any addressing of non-functional requirements that were obvious, but which had not been demanded in the contract). Perhaps because they were mostly long running projects that had already been bidden on, and just having the domain knowledge meant that they'd continue to have the advantage on any future bids to extend it.

Also, while I've seen bid wins/losses talked about from the perspective of the quality of the solution, I've not seen them talked about having been won/loss due to past performance. I hope you're right that that's a consideration, but the lack of controls around quality, and the obvious apathy I saw, lends me to think that if that's a consideration, it's not one the government knows how to actually judge.
The article is a very nice intro to object pascal which as far as I am ware does not have problems in the areas you specify.
I immediately know what you mean since I was born and raised in the US, but most people will be left scratching their heads unless they're really well versed in the historical legislation of other countries. (I consider myself fairly well versed in international relations, but if someone made an app referring to a specific UK Act of Parliament I'd be confused.) But I agree, Felony isn't the best name.
Is Rust's borrow system also a form of garbage collection?
The real takeaway lesson from this research should be the vital importance of Open Data to the modern scientific enterprise:

> "lamentable archiving and data-sharing practices" that prevent most of the discipline's body of work being re-analysed.

Keeping data private before publication is (at this point in time) understandable. Once results are published, however, there is no excuse for not depositing the raw data in an open repository for later re-evaluation.
To be brutally honest, you may have illustrated your own problem. I'm in my mid 50s and have always, always studied hard for my next job. I strongly suggest you either work diligently on someone else's project on GitHub or you create and publish something important to you, even if you might not get paid for it. The simple fact is, we old guys are like women or blacks--we have to be better than the average candidate to get the same consideration. Not a nice situation, but it's always been true. I have known this for 30 years and have been preparing ever since.
>"Can you explain what those assumptions are then, even roughly?"

I have not looked at the code myself. I only read their description of it. As I quoted earlier:

"assumed activity paradigm can have a large impact on the degree of false positives"

If the assumed activity paradigm affects (what they are calling) the false positive rate, it is obviously part of the model. If they are arbitrarily varying it because they don't know which one is "best", it is clearly wrong.

The t-tests will pick up this wrong assumption if there is enough data to do so (even without knowing the details, remember they say it affects the "false positive" rate). The t-test is doing it's job correctly, however, they are plugging in a known to be incorrect null hypothesis, rendering this testing procedure pointless.
I myself find "sorrow" doesn't do the latter justice, but YMMV. In general I think specific meanings are better especially for complicated concepts like PTSD. I think separate terms would be better for the effects of long term psychological abuse experienced as a child, and the psycho/physical life-threatening experiences of combat soldiers. To use the same term for both just muddies the waters.
'Wicked' is in transition.
It's Peter-Paul Koch. He's well known for providing painstakingly detailed tests and compatibility tables on browser capabilities and web standards support, particularly js.

I'm not sure what stats are like for users of the specific devices he's looking at here, but India's a big market: I'm guessing browser compatibility here is going to be of some interest to more than one or two folks.
I actually create an error ( throw new Exception("Go further on this") where i want to continue the next day.

When i begin, i run the project and i remember where i was and the ball is rolling again :)
> I've told people to shut up in meetings when they start going off in tangents. Clearly, it was not good for my career.

It's an awkward situation, I usually just ask "is this relevant to everyone in this room?"

Sometimes a manager says "yes" (it's not) and I just sit there and die quietly inside, otherwise they just say "yeah let's take this offline". Whatever that means. As long as it's not fucking with the meeting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A year ago I posted my side project for cheap email marketing, EmailOctopus (https://emailoctopus.com)

Thousands of customers later and I'll going full time on it. Good times ahead!
The Victorians had the same concerns about technology as we do
Claiming to "know" what another person is thinking is presumptuous and silly.

This attitude is predicated on the idea that people working in retail or service jobs are doing so because they've failed to achieve some other thing, and must therefore be miserable. The truth is far more varied and complicated - for many young people, they're probably just doing it while they study, or actors waiting tables until the next role, and are picking up some great people skills in the process. Even if they're not studying towards something more academic, if they're good at what they do, they'll end picking up good skills, building a relationship with the owner, and taking over the business one day, starting a competing business, or getting recruited by a customer or supplier.

Of course, some people probably really don't want to be at their retail or service job, but it's not like every programmer, doctor, or pilot loves every minute of their job either.

I think the American custom of being nice to people working in service jobs is goes hand in hand with the prospect of social mobility. Retail and service workers are not from an inferior underclass destined to do that their whole lives - since they might end up owning the place or being your boss, or hiring your children one day, it's best to start building a cordial relationship today.
You wrote a very beautiful post and created value (at least for me). Thanks for taking the time to write this. It was thought provoking.

(I've been reading HN for years. I know agreeing or appreciating something is handled via upvoting. Sometimes it's just not enough and a human connection is more important than the HN guidelines).
Which in turns makes them a ridiculous waste of precious resources. We're literally letting expensive materials burn up in the atmosphere, and I don't like the idea of scaling this process up significantly.

I think the future may not lie in satellites - most of the tasks could be done by fleets of solar-powered high-altitude drones. With the added benefits of a) being hugely cheaper to launch, and b) much easier to fix and relaunch. I wonder what's the state of tech in that area?
Note to securiteam: ns2.beyondsecurity.com 209.40.99.8 appears to be dead

Edit: Ignore this. I was blocking AWS.
Fair enough, that's a reasonable position. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that every step is a hard step, because it's not just a matter of time elapsed to the next one, but of each step having to be taken in just such a way as to set the right preconditions for all the subsequent ones.
Uh, where would you store it though? IIRC from the time a relative was going through a chemistry PHD, they produced several GBs of raw data every half hour. Storage is cheap but it's not that cheap...
A double crock even - I'm a slacker member of Generation X.

I'm used to being ignored by Boomers, who think our arts and culture were nothing like the glory of the 1960s. But this article doesn't even acknowledge we exist!

It characterizes Millennials as: "entitlement, dependency, nonstop complaining, laziness, Kardashians"

Except for the last, those are our stereotypes.

Joking aside, there's indeed nothing novel. People in the 1940s make the same complaint about the youth of their time; who expected everything to be given to them on a silver platter.
You have clearly never come to Britain, or France for that matter. Surly, unhelpful customer service is practically a national institution. We take a perverse pride in it. The expectation that service workers should smile is a relatively recent import by American multinationals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX6hMhL1YsQ

Also, welfare is below a service industry job. Some workers will (quite justifiably) tell their boss to stick it, because they'd rather sign on than put up with their bullshit.
From my network ns2.beyondsecurity.com is up and running as ec2-50-18-152-199.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
>I think the American custom of being nice to people working in service jobs is goes hand in hand with the prospect of social mobility.

Unless social mobility is a reality, then that's just a cruel trick on the working class. "Temporarily embarrassed millionaires" and all that.
Information leaks are indeed the number one challenge when evaluating this type of approach. Our evaluation procedure does not rigorously guarantee against information leaks, but it does allow for an apples-to-apples comparison with previous methods (which had the same potential issue). And showing an advantage over these methods is what we were trying to achieve.

So in summary: it's hard to prevent, but we're doing our best.
That's a little bit of a stretch. Being a native speaker of Catalan and Spanish and having never studied Italian, I can tell you that if I listen to a conversation in Italian I don't understand more that 60-90 percent of what is being said. Portuguese is harder to grasp than Italian and much harder to speak. When I was in Italy I was amazed that I could speak simple sentences in made-up Italian that turned out to be correct Italian.
It is not, unless you count some library types that add reference counting, but those are rarely used. Ownership and borrowing are calculated at compile time, not runtime.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds ;-)
Knowing what you know now, do you think using a different one would have made a difference?
As a kid I played in these areas while my dad was cutting wood. It was rather exciting to find a shell as these were rare compared to other pieces of metal. We were just told not to play with them.

I remember that one day we found a shell buried not that far from a fire that my dad had lit.

I was young so I can't certify that we were in a "red zone" but it was in the woods around Verdun so there's a high chance.
Interesting. I'm originally British (almost true Scotsman) but lived in a metro US area for years then moved to a small town.

I find that in the small town scenario, where I actually know the waiters, store checkers, bar tenders etc, the small talk is much the same as in Britain: "How's your day?"; "Can't complain, could be worse".

Conclusion is that the fakey US small talk is fake even for natives.
Ask HN: What is your current side project?
I came across the "What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"[1] thread today and was blown away by how many projects were able to launch and become successful just from posting here on HN. I imagine a lot of us are looking forward to the day we can post our own Show HN thread about a project we are launching, but maybe we're a ways off, need a little inspiration, or could use some feedback.

What are you currently working on?

Who is the target audience?

What technology are you utilizing?

Are you working on this full time? Part time?

Do you have funding? Bootstrapping?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030863

My colleague and I have been working on https://armoredbits.com a little over a year now.

To describe it as simply as possible: Armored Bits is a realtime multiplayer mech game, except as the player rather than control your mech via standard gaming controls, you write a predefined AI "player" which you upload to our service, and in turn when you start a game talks to our server over a protobuf API.

Our target audience is anyone interested in games and programming, be they beginners or advanced users. A longer term goal is to slowly build it up into a recruiting service for programmers.

Our tech stack is a bit broad. The core game server is written in Haskell. We use Unity3d for the visual client. Our first SDK is in JavaScript (node.js), although we're looking forward to the community making SDKs for their favorite languages. Our web and game coordination services are being written in Elixir. Everything, including the user code wrapped in containers, runs on top of a kubernetes cluster.

We work on this part time while juggling our $DAY_JOBs, although I took a few months off earlier this year to hack on the core game server and push us forward.

We are effectively bootstrapping, although a handful of gracious donations via our web page have helped offset some of our minor development costs.
Holy shit, you can stand up! When I lie down on the couch, I have a tough time being motivated to get up. Even to go to bed. I've fallen asleep on the couch so many times.
The previous post was saying that Spotify could implement their own voice recognition once launched.
Because they are human beings and not automatons. If you've ever done a service industry job you would know that there's a certain monotony to it and its also pretty demanding and a little engagement on both parts actually helps sucky days suck just a little less.

I don't understand your comment, are you saying that Americans are the rudest people? It's a pretty big place where all have you been?

Perhaps if you don't understand the concept of smalltalk you might also not be versed enough in the culture to actually judge what constitutes being rude vs polite behavior.
There's a split between industry and academia here. Reference counting is traditionally considered GC in the literature, but not by working programmers, who usually say "garbage collection" and mean "tracing garbage collection."

Both Swift and Rust muddy this traditional ontology a bit. Swift's ARC has both a compile time and runtime component, and while the Rust language itself doesn't know anything about reference counting, we do provide such types in the standard library.
What statistics? Nobody's provided any at this point in the conversation. If you have some, feel free to share. Otherwise, I'm going to downvote your comment as unproductive.
Create casualties, not necessarily kill people.

Injuries are expensive to a military power.
Thanks a lot! Bookmarking and downloading your reply. I'll most certainly use the following months to try and find the perfect balance between usable and secure app.

Sadly, on the topic of the Turing Phone, I suspected as much. I really like to believe but yes, they're quite new to the market and are still closed in terms of what they use for this alleged "more secure" phone/OS. I'm still interested but my enthusiasm is not so high compared to the time of the original announcement...

I wanted to use Signal several times but I have to admit, it's use-case and convenience points aren't looking well. I'll take a more serious look, though.
No. The Model S is pretty bad too. If you compare it to other cars in its price range it simply isn't that competitive. The interior is more comparable to a Hyundai or Mazda than a BMW, Mercedes or Range Rover. And of course the notable quality issues. They do get a lot of things right e.g. exterior design, EV, performance so I wouldn't call it a crap car. But I also would never purchase one.
That's what I thought too, but if you read the page they're talking about the number of nonterminal symbols in the same sentence...
Ask HN: Online Project Management with Document Editing
I'm looking for a online project management application for a small team (~10 people) which also can be used as a text editor.

Document editing is important because it is needed to editing motions and press releases in a team, which are currently send back and forth via email and it is hard to keep the text current.

One last thing, it must have a German localisation. Therefore Basecamp 3, even though it looks nice, can't be used.
Have US Customs Declared War on TV Boxes (and Mini PCs)?
That.

Kids at special schools, and even some 'home schooled' kids - have parents who obviously care a lot about their kids education. Compare that to parents who don't care at all - or worse - are toxic.

I suggest having a 'positive and balanced home life' with parents who take an active interest in their child's life is 2x as important as the school they go to.
If the batteries are so expensive they can't have a proper interior it is odd that Tesla ships some models with extra battery capacity for future purchase options:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11597508/tesla-model-s-70-b...

I think the interior is shit because it's hard to do at scale and Tesla hasn't been doing it for very long.
I've been shelled with 155mm shells. There is (or used to be) a bunker on Salisbury Plain where trainee artillery officers could experience it for themselves. It has very thick concrete, four foot thick windows and so on.

Even with all the protection it's terrifying. They drop the rounds a few yards in front of you. The noise is unbelievable, the shockwaves actually bend the concrete inward a little and the dummy target vehicles you can see get instantly shredded with shrapnel. Delay the fuse a little and the shell penetrates a few yards before exploding, leading to a strange effect where all the dust and stones jump off the ground as the shockwave traverses it. Make the fuse go early and you get an airburst that sprays red hot metal down in a 100 yard radius and rattles those windows with waves of shrapnel.

We were all jumpy for days. It just does that to you.
Why does everyone need to adopt a new method? There can be multiple approaches run side-by-side, the results are publicly available, parents can make an informed decision.

At least, that's the situation in Germany: There are Montessori schools, Waldorf (Rudolf Steiner) schools and various others. The thing is, most of these schools have a foundation in bullshit theories or religion. I think the fact that children have to start each day with prayer at the school in question needs to be highlighted more.

The comparably good results could equally-well be explained with the fact that the pupils at these schools are predominantly from well-to-do or at least education-oriented families. Neither the teachers nor the pupils face the same socio-economic pressures as they would in the public school system.
Well, there's your problem.
If I sign up, what tools will I need? Looks cool? But I've never soldered before.
> There's just something gladiator-exploitative about the whole mess.

In what way?

> It's a distraction.

From what? That's the weirdest sort of reasoning I've ever heard.
Some people love the interior. In any case, that's a different sort of "quality" than the mechanical reliability being discussed here.
Pseudonymity vs. Anonymity
"Nobody is going to turn education upside down. Ever."

It's arguable that there really isn't that-that much difference between the programs.

Teacher -> classroom -> students -> core subjects.

Yada yada.

Motivated students, good family life, supportive parents and peers are just as important as anything.
I tried to answer this here: http://boldport.club/faq

It's not a great answer, but it's the best I can do without much information ;)
I had a NULL result :)

400+ upvotes, 50k+ traffic and lots of comments. Tool posted: http://gradient.quasi.ink/

Zero freelancing request, few twitter followers and many adrenalin rushes :) At least I can cross out the 'get to front page of HN' from my bucket list.
My long journey to find a job as a fresh graduate student in computer science
Thanks, that is a very good advice. Quoting Louis Pasteur Chance favors only the prepared mind. I wish you the best with your auction enterprise.