skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I shouldn't have to read a book in order to understand a "simple" build tool. And I'm for damn sure not paying for it. Make something overly complex and sells a book for it. Great business model!!!
btw the lecture part starts around 12:30 in video.
Ok, well if you are in a city you are most likely already surrounded by concrete and steel. The idea of these structures is to displace some of that concrete with a green area. What's a better solution for you?
This. As someone who hires interns, it takes a lot of time and effort to train them to be effective. It takes away our resources, and we're essentially PAYING them to train them. (I have not done unpaid internships). To have a bunch of know-it-alls think they will come in and make business decisions rather that focusing on learning and becoming effective speaks volumes of those people and they need to be removed. It's not about teaching a lesson. There's just no room for that if you want to be a well-oiled ship.
I'm typically not a fan of ad hominem dismissals, but I think there are exceptions for climatologists that say;

"We believe Earth and its ecosystems—created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence —are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth’s climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history."

Or;

"I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world. [...] Science has startled us with its many discoveries and advances, but it has hit a brick wall in its attempt to rid itself of the need for a creator and designer."

Dude's a quack. A well-trained quack to be sure, but still a quack.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/02/time-to-push-back-agains...
In response to 1)

The phenomenon you're viewing is usually the opposite of what you're suggesting. Amazon is trying to let you opportunistically buy things at a lower price by allowing prices to change frequently.

Part of the appeal of Amazon is being able to get something on your doorstep in two days at the click of a button -- if this isn't something that interests you then services like Ebay might be better -- but the sheer convenience of being able to not plan out bulk orders and having a near 100% reliability with no hassle is great.

When I was purchasing things on Ebay, shipping was frequently late, or entire items would be fraudulent, which I've heard has gotten better, but I'd prefer to offload that stress for a few dollars a year.
Liddiard Wheels
Kudos to the author. It takes a lot to write about something in a way that makes it accessible to folks not skilled in the art.

He's written some other interesting posts on PulseAudio features too, but this is more well-written and approachable:

https://arunraghavan.net/2016/05/improvements-to-pulseaudios...

https://arunraghavan.net/2011/08/hello-hello-hello/
That makes no sense at all to me. How does that make them efficient?
Please note if you are wondering where your project is, we only archived to bigquery open source projects. So add an open source license for reals?
Though I don't have a whole lot of confidence in this project...I do appreciate the Borges reference in the company's name. Truly a wonderful story, and highly relevant to the project they are attempting to undertake.

http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/0066/borges.pdf

I'll never forget the first time I read the opening few sentences. I don't think i've ever had a literary experience like it before or since:

> I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an
encyclopedia. The mirror troubled the depths of a corridor in a country
house on Gaona Street in Ramos Mejia; the encyclopedia is fallaciously
called The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia (New York, 1917) and is a
literal but delinquent reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1902.
The event took place some five years ago. Bioy Casares had had dinner
with me that evening and we became lengthily engaged in a vast
polemic concerning the composition of a novel in the first person, whose
narrator would omit or disfigure the facts and indulge in various
contradictions which would permit a few readers - very few readers - to
perceive an atrocious or banal reality. From the remote depths of the
corridor, the mirror spied upon us. We discovered (such a discovery is
inevitable in the late hours of the night) that mirrors have something
monstrous about them. Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the
heresiarchs of Uqbar had declared that mirrors and copulation are
abominable, because they increase the number of men.
The thing that particularly strikes me is that as far as I understand, any specialized group will have disproportionate representation of non specialized groups from the general population. Sufficiently small samples from a larger group will not represent the larger group unless the samples are deliberately chosen for a given property. However, let's be honest: your company is not hiring the absolute, top 0.1% best programmers and totally doesn't need to (and you don't know how to find that SS tier programmer anyway), so deliberately biasing a small group towards gender/race/whatever balanced representation isn't going to hurt your competitiveness. But if the goal is to solve misogyny or other problems within a particular microculture, it's not clear to me that proportional representation will actually change that microculture instead of just ending up with weird shit like #leanin.
Neat, though I fear you've created an easy way for spammers to "connect" with people anonymously. How do you plan on dealing with bots using your bot?
>I'd love to see a product/social network that confront their users with opposite point of views.

I'm with you, but I'm still looking for reliably high-quality reading suggestions. My Pocket feed is abysmal.

I mention this because confronting someone with a poorly-reasoned argument is not good UX, especially when one disagrees with the content.
> Would it be valid for me to say that python shouldn't be a part of linux? That people should stop using python on their linux command line tools because linux is really about C.

Somewhat fair point, but at least it would cut out the number of language runtimes one has to have on a Linux computer. For simple command-line tools, besides C/C++, you end up needing Perl, Python, Ruby, and now probably also Go and Rust.

> Having something that's not perfect is better than not having anything at all.

Arguable. The Internet is a perfect example of having a lot of things that would be better off not existing in the first place. Like, e.g., most of the sites for which ads are the only viable business model. But that's a longer discussion.

I think the important point is that, while the individual choices of a software engineer in a particular time and moment can be excused, the trend as a whole is pushing us towards increasingly batshit insane pseudo-engineering.

A static list like that should not need anything more than plain HTML/CSS and a little bit of JavaScript sprinkled on top to do the click effects. That people end up using shit ton of frameworks and external services for simple sites (this one is far from the only case) suggests that there's something very wrong with the industry as a whole. It's worth identifying it and figuring out how to fix it.
Loving the creepy Boards of Canada vibe in the video.
Unfortunately that's how the real world is when you ask people to spend their time to look at what you've done. They are going to look at it for exactly 10 seconds and tell you it sucks or that they have no use for it.

If HN (or any other website) turns into a "Its OK, you're among friends here" type of auto-fawning community, it would delude people into thinking they're actually doing something worth showing to people as opposed to hacking on a hobby project for their own enjoyment. (This isn't specific to the linked project)
Compared to other Tom Douglas restaurants that's a bit cheaper than usual. Brave Horse is also worse. You can expect to pay $4-9 for a beer depending on what you're getting. Not exactly cheap, but not expensive either, especially for food around a business area.
Reasoned argument from the Leave camp definitely existed, but was drowned out by other voices. I'm not a Conservative voter, and I don't agree with his position on the NHS, but I thought Daniel Hannan was one of the more reasonable voices in the public debates.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tzNj-hH8LkY
If your opinion is too far from the median, it usually gets you hellbanned unfortunatley.
I'm very confused why the name of the company is LiquidPiston, when their primary product appears to be a rotary engine, not an actual liquid piston engine. Was there a pivot or a previous product? Does anyone know?

For examples of actual liquid piston engines, see:

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

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

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

http://www.google.com/patents/US5127369
Of course completely dehumanizing the interviewer & interviewee expressly prevents any degree of culture fit selection, which could be bad for all parties.
I dunno, a giant green park within the city like SF's golden gate park or NYC's central park sounds really incredible.
That's weird. Chrome is only using 31 MB for both tabs for me.
$TWLO up over 200%
Bitcoin Divided [audio]
I visited PARC a couple times in the 90s. It was unusual in sitting atop a hill with a nice view and (iirc) no immediate neighbors. In the group I visited, researchers had their own offices, plus communal area. I vaguely remember some long corridors which might've increased the frequency of bumping into people.

(Having an office was not so freaking unusual 20 years ago.)
Are you two disagreeing about something, by any chance? :)
Unfortunately, Intel giveth no more :(

I've been hearing discouraging things from both architecture and silicon people at Intel. It seems like they lost direction, probably because of the recent explosion of mobile/ARM.
It was guessing pairs of keys. But anyway.
The warranted response is obviously a mix of technical and product-based critique. But you would be foolish to expect every comment to convey this mix.
What it looks like when file sharing, analytics, and termination gets married
I think Brigade (https://www.brigade.com/) has the potential to be a social network that gives you both opposing views and your own views. However this will probably never be a mass-market social network, so it's impact on the democratic will probably be minimal.
The article is called "Amazon Has Swallowed Downtown Seattle" do you really think there's a bias towards Amazon here? Your evidence is basically that the passages detailing the downsides of Amazon's expansion include silver linings.

I mean, the article could have been called "Amazon Turns Blighted Blocks Into Shining Urbanity."
I posted this elsewhere, but since a lot of people seem genuinely confused about why someone would want a project like this, I'll say it again.

I use `chromium --kiosk-mode` as my daily browser. Chromium has features I value highly (e.g. great devtools, doesn't constantly crash like webkit), but I'd rather have a more minimalistic user interface (less space devoted to chrome I don't want to waste screen real estate on).

Note that this preference is completely orthogonal to the desire to have a lighter weight, more minimalistic browser in terms of codebase, memory usage, etc.
No, you own it in the cryptographic sense. As in, even math proves you right.

Comparisons to Bitcoin are bound to fall apart upon closer examination. For instance, Urbit has no blockchain, and Bitcoin's ownership structure is based on computer power, not federated cryptography.

Digging a bit deeper, Urbit is actually more free than Bitcoin, because the latter is easily eaten by the biggest fish in the sea. Urbit, on the other hand, could only ever de-decentralize if all 255 galaxies were owned by a single person, which is about as likely as all of the Eastern Hemisphere being owned by a single person.
One good nugget in there:

"Remember: if you’re having phone calls, the deal is still on. Phone calls are yesses, emails are nos."
Is Google really that hard to use? Did you think maybe you might look at the jury nullification wiki page?
The other bit I know, besides this one, is to write comments stating what you're trying to achieve, and why. The how is redundant, but sample data right there may help.

(Someone famously pleaded for documenting the data structures, and leaving aside the processing mechanics.)
You all should record the audio from the original modulated interviews, then play them in both male and female versions to sample sets of separate observer groups that rank the performance of the person being interviewed.

That way, you would be isolating the thing you are testing to just the voice, and you would be able to establish controls and a baseline for the exact same interview.

The way your test is described right now, there are still way too many factors that could explain the results. Your controls are far too loose.
I don't think people are being deceptive arguing for the non-existence of a gender pay gap since controlling for reasonable variables wiped away 80% of the discrepancy.

I would say that the numbers very strongly show there is a 6% pay gap. If we assume the job market is efficient, then either there is some bias against women or women slightly under-perform men or women are worse at negotiating salaries or they are receiving some renumeration in the form of greater flexibility.

There's no strong explanation for the remaining 20%

Yet. I don't find it intellectually satisfying to say something doesn't exist just because we don't have a theory that covers it well. The disparity is smaller, but it does exist. I also observe how hectic the schedules of professional women with children appear to be. I'm not sure we completely understand what's going on there, but I don't think the sentiments of women around this issue are entirely disconnected from objective reality. From what I can see, women are "squeezed" in terms of the resource of time.
Iran has tried to suppress a video game about their Islamic revolution
>someone who believes an adult behaving in such a way is acceptable

How is he behaving that is unacceptable and to whom is it unacceptable?
Global Terrorism, Crime, and Sanctions Database World-Check Leaked Online
Frankly, a lot of websites would be infinitely more useful if they were curl | grep friendly. It's like current generation doesn't realize that it is technically possible to fetch valuable information you need efficiently from the Internet - one just has to not make it insanely difficult on purpose.
I also just signed up, would love to try this out.
I think it helps that HN has a common factor to bind us together. Professional Techies may be able to disagree in a less flamboyant style in most situations because at the end of the day politics is mainly seen in the light of how it affects the tech industry as a whole.

While there are also some folks that are undoubtedly passionate about their particular political views, they mainly get well thought out replies as to the argument they are presenting for and against... even if some people get a bit passive aggressive with the down voting.
First, your link is broken, the correct link is: http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Franc...

Second, while 71% did have homes previously in San Francisco, it does not follow that the remaining 29% "were bussed in by the homeless service industry from other areas". SF is known for having stronger support for the homeless, so homeless might well actively seek to travel to SF from other areas -- that's especially unsurprising for those from other Bay Area counties, which make up nearly half of the 29%. Second, there've been recurring cases of cities shipping out the homeless (either in general, or indigent mentally ill, in particular) to other jurisdictions -- including, often, SF. (This is them being bussed by someone, but not the homeless service industry.)
You could add articles against drug legalization, articles from a conservative (i.e. not libertarian or liberal) basis, articles against increasing city density, articles in favor of cars and suburban living, articles in favor of strong intellectual property laws, articles on the religious ideas and uses of technology, etc.

There's a definite demographic that posts here, and it is very much an echo chamber.
My experience, having locked a thread exactly once after triaging several thousand reports on TypeScript, is that you immediately get another bug from the same person complaining about how dare you lock an issue.
Do you have an example where this has happened? (in Bitcoin that is, not Ethereum).
I first saw it reported in SFGate, they've since retracted the story:

Editor's note: SFGATE has removed this story after reviewing Zynga's company valuation.
The initial report was based on the enterprise value of Zynga compared to its cash reserves and property value. The latest company financial data as of May 6th, 2016, however, indicates an overall market valuation of $2.2 billion, with cash reserves of $987 million, putting its enterprise value at $1.21 billion, which is significantly more than the projected value of the company's real estate holdings at 8th and Townsend Streets in San Francisco.
If you were building a company, would you recruit your colleagues from Berkeley, GS, or FB, and why?
Fellow self-funded biz here, definitely agree with this. Go with a small local/regional bank. Start small and grow with the LOC. Depending on how involved the loan officer group is, you may get some great CFO-type advise / dashboard review out of it. Even if they're not typically doing hot SaaS businesses, they know the fundamentals and growth stages of small businesses inside and out, regardless of industry.
MS16-039 – Windows 10 64 bits Integer Overflow exploitation by using GDI objects
JuliaCon 2016 videos
Why Are Happy Tech Employees Leaving?
Ethereum, if Solidity were Haskell
How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin’s Civil War
I believe that this has shifted over time. It used to be that people had to put up with opinions that they didn't like from neutral sources. Now more people live in media bubbles, so honest disagreement is extremely jarring.
LibreOffice RTF Vulnerability
That's false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union). The EU has the power to enact laws that are immediately binding on citizens of member states. Not only that, EU regulations preempt national laws, just like U.S. federal laws preempt state laws.
Perhaps a better name would be "meta computation" or "abstract computation".
https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve...
The Void opens its first public virtual reality experience
I've been buying stuff on Ebay since 1996, and I only once ran into a fraudulent seller, and that was in 1998; I managed to track down his home address and phone number, and called and talked to his parents, who promptly straightened it all out. (It was some stupid teenager "selling" stuff and never shipping it.)

What I do see these days is counterfeit stuff. It's really easy to avoid this stuff though: there's a checkbox on the left that lets you filter results to show only US sellers or North American sellers. Filter out the Chinese sellers and the counterfeit stuff goes away. I've never had a big problem with late shipping, but if you're the type who demands stuff ASAP I can see how you'd be unhappy. The big thing you can do on Ebay is be careful who you buy from and look at the feedbacks. Huge-volume sellers with good feedback are usually pretty safe, and ship quickly. Low-volume occasional sellers with 100% feedback are safe. Foreign sellers with spotty feedback are to be avoided unless it's something really cheap and you're willing to take a gamble on it being junk (if it doesn't show up at all, Ebay will refund your money). It's really not that different from Amazon in this regard, since so much stuff on Amazon is sold by "affiliates", a bunch of whom are Chinese sellers, or otherwise independent companies that ship themselves rather than outsourcing that to Amazon.
This is a silly analysis in that it ignores investment costs. You can't invest in the S&P 500. You have to either buy an index mutual fund, or buy the individual component stocks. Either way the investment costs will significantly cut into long term returns, even with a fund like VFINX.
Show HN: Tool for executing scripts using webhooks
"strange hagiography of the book" ... amen. Besides neutral guidelines, this document also helps librarians say "this is normal for public libraries--we aren't expected to keep every book that's in every state of disrepair or disuse for ever."
I haven't, though I've thought about it. Most of the logic behind git2-rs (as far as I know) is written in C. While it's possible to run afl.rs on a Rust project that uses C code behind the scenes, I haven't ever attempted to get AFL instrumentation working on the underlying C code. I don't think it should be that difficult, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

EDIT: I forgot to mention: It's possible to run AFL on uninstrumented code, it just won't be that smart about finding new code paths.
We already know there is a disparity in the amount of housekeeping between men and women, even in couples where both men and women are working.
From watching various youtube channels made by people sailing around the world, such as the excellent S/V Delos channel, I've learned that if you want to be a sailor you have to really enjoy boat maintenance. If you're one of those people who would fix crap on a boat and do small engine maintenance for fun in your spare time and even go down to the local machine shop and learn how to custom make parts just cause you liked it -- if hauling your boat out of the water to sand it and paint it while wearing protective gear makes you feel proud -- then sailing is definitely for you.
Planet Money did a recent episode on this with the guy who bet against Buffet. Really interesting.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/04/469247400/episo...
So you're not supposed to tell people where errors occur in Scala? Is that like Inigo Montoya fighting with his left hand, because otherwise it's too easy?
I'd love to have the leverage to do that, but I don't. The vast majority of companies see nothing wrong with this, and I'm not so in demand that I can filter based on office space.
Well then in that case there have still been 2 new headquarters buildings :)
> If you have a belief that can't survive HN downvotes, to the point where you'll hide it simply to avoid those votes, you should consider how sincerely you hold those beliefs.

I'm pretty sure that's not it at all[1]. I can see (and personally do these days) avoid[2] certain types of conversations because of all the down votes. It has nothing to do with not sincerely holding the belief, and it has everything to do with not wanting to expend the energy on comments that aren't actually going to be seen[3]. As you know, as a comment is down voted it turn grayer and grayer. Plus, if you're not as articulate as you wish you were, you are just going to feel frustrated that you couldn't get your point across.

This board, for most, takes up free time, and people tend to want to enjoy their free time.

1) in fact, that statement does rankle the feathers a bit - I've heard a variation that was meant to silence people

2) not very successfully at times
> electricity

Since we're going there - bloating your website for no reason whatsoever wastes electricity. Not just for the mobile users who may be annoyed by fast-draining battery; also in general, you're literally wasting coal.

It's worth at least keeping in mind when deciding to include that another JS framework to save yourself 10 minutes of typing.
Detecting DNS Data Exfiltration