skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using a lot of them and found out I had to rebuild the same thing over and over again when moving from one company to the other, like localization management, user management, account management, database connectors, etc. This is what we do different, we provide tool so developers can build a RESTful API in a few days. It actually sits on top of Silex, a micro-framework for PHP.
What do you mean Python doesn't have a standard? There is a very mature standard and process for managing that standard.
If it's not supposed to be interesting, why do so many that have found themselves running up against the limits of GC in their chosen language/platform/implementation end up writing epic blog posts that represent months or years of work and/or presenting their hard one solutions at conferences? There certainly seems to be a lot of people that end up having to be very interested in solving their GC problems once their systems grow to non-trivial size, and they all seem to be relearning and resolving the same set of problems.
You didn't answer the question though, how will tracking outbound links "bite the industry in the long run"? I assume the better content will be a net positive.
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CSGO Lotto and owners sued over ‘illegal gambling’ allegations
"as a platform" just sounds so silly in some contexts.

this is "fuzzy command line as a Human–computer interaction interface"

they should really call it an interface not a platform. a bunch of constantly moving, discrete services built by silos is not a platform, its a jagged, nonstandard mountain range. platform implies stable base.
Multi-SIM phones.

Non-SIM (Wifi-only) phones.

Multiple phone-users.

There is no universal identifier. I may absolutely insist there isn't. And I strongly suspect phone tech (number-based dialing) is on its way out. For all the reasons Mossberg states, the one app I hate most is the phone, and I don't have one. Haven't for years. There are phones by which I can occasionally be reached. There's a mobile phone which occasionally has service. Both are highly deprecated.
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Great series. As a fellow early employee I love for their stories to get told!

> That said, startups have culturally matured in the last ten years and it’s been fun to watch ... What’s really great to see is that all those people who were working 16 hours have now grown into their thirties and realized that, “Oh, sleep is really cool.”

Something I've noticed as well, though I think it is much more-so the people and not the startup culture. I know some younger people in the early stages of their companies and it seems they are still working really hard and devoting a large section of their life to their company. It does seem natural though that when people get a little older they diversify their life a little bit more.
This was specifically about other pollutants than CO2. Those have local impact, so bad air in China doesn't show up in America or Europe.
I'll be that odd person to point out that width limiting in a world of widescreens is a strange use of space. I'd personally like to see more love put into CSS3 multi-column support and gentle horizontal scrolling (a standard spec ready equivalent to -ms-scroll-translation, perhaps). I get the feeling I'm in a not very vocal minority of people that currently thinks horizontal scrolling could be a useful answer for an easier to read web on widescreen displays.

I find it strange how many sites seem to be more horizontal gutters than content space these days due their fixed width containers recreating a square virtual monitor inside my widescreen monitor. Admittedly it is good for ad space, I guess, because those gutters can be and often are filled with plenty of ads.
The question was about whether it is technically possible to create a Python as fast as JavaScript, ignoring the money needed.

So the number of features doesn't matter, only whether or not they are all possible to implement efficiently, and the lack of a standard doesn't matter, as with infinite money you could test comprehensively.
They didn't fire him. Brendan Eich stepped back himself after public backlash for that anti-gay donation.
Adding on to the emerging link-dump, here's some interesting stuff for the Source engine (TF2, CS:GO, etc.) which goes into their latency-compensation mechanics:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensatin...
John Cho’s Sulu Is Gay in Star Trek Beyond
Add Phoenix to your Rails ecosystem with session sharing
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That's very cool. I'm actually on my HOA board (but the ARC is a delegated function) and know a few people have gardens without any trouble.

Incidentally, the first comment I received was about "farmed fish."
This is probably sufficient for many angel investors, a few seed investors, and very few series A investors. No matter how much homework you've done on a company you can't responsibly deploy $5M after 20 minutes of diligence on the team.
Calculating the escape time for every single pixel isn't "sharper", just slower.
Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency – a model for male audience stimulation [pdf]
It's certainly English, but if you want quaint, this area is Quaint Central - pretty much everywhere apart from Kidlington.

Here's Benmead Road in Kidlington, one of the places the tourists are reputed to be turning up: https://goo.gl/maps/urEVsQEmRqx

Here's historic Woodstock, which is just three or four miles away: https://goo.gl/maps/M2M9dzXv2e32

Here's Charlbury, another five miles away, where I live: https://goo.gl/maps/EDgNtFERyLD2

And literally 1.5mi from Kidlington, here's Thrupp, with its amazingly quaint canal and pubs: https://goo.gl/maps/Su1Y5uxAGB22

My only guess so far is that there's some slack in a tour schedule, and some jaded tour planner said "take them to a village, any village will do".
Wow! If they received that chunk of change all at once, it could completely change the company. Imagine an endowment of that size, with the investment income being used for Mozilla's maintenance and initiatives.
It's a shame since they'd be practically impossible to miss on their landing approach and are very hesitant to take flight once on the ground. Wouldn't be hard to fill a freezer in one go.
Though it does seem to show decoding is slightly faster with LZFSE unlike your parent's local benchmark. It's not clear to me that either is always superior on those charts.
Actually, it has been tried.

Researchers from the GEOMAR Institute of Marine Biology have seeded the oceans in the southpolar sea with iron in large amounts.

Yes, a huge algae bloom happened – but also a huge growth of animals eating the algae, etc.

The end result was no CO2 being trapped, but fishers in South Africa had a good year.
The C-compatbility story works both ways. I usually roll my eyes when people talk about making dynamic lanuages fast -- what's the point? In those cases where speed matters - use static language. As a result there is little incentive to use something like PyPy (although PyPy does have other nice features in addition to raw speed).

But on the web there is a point. Unless you can use HTML alone, you have to use JavaScript -- and you can't just plug in a module that you wrote in C.
There isn't a document describing the semantics of Python is there?

That's what people mean by a 'standard'. Something at least trying to be somewhat semi-formal. If you mean that the implementation of CPython is a standard, well then I suppose that's arguable, but it's really not what anyone means.
> they're armed to the teeth and usually in full armour, and usually sat in an armoured and armed vehicle

This is absurd hyperbole.

Have you ever been to the US? Your use of British spellings suggests you are not from here.

I have lived in the US for decades. I have personally seen hundreds, perhaps thousands, of police officers in socioeconomic contexts ranging from high crime inner city ghettoes to wealthy suburbs. 99%+ were walking around in an ordinary uniform, not sitting in a vehicle (much less an "armoured and armed" tank), were not wearing any kind of armor (much less "full armour"), and were not "armed to the teeth" in any sense, unless you consider carrying a handgun to be "armed to the teeth."

Are you deliberately trying to mislead foreigners who haven't ever been here into thinking that the US is some sort of militarized police state, or merely repeating secondhand reports from far-leftist news sources that are politically motivated into making foreigners think that about the US?
Nice, another thing, if you have a modal-like input (date/time picker), then capture the full screen, don't fly it over the form. Also, only one modal at a time, never launch a modal from a modal.
Speculation that FitBit will be introducing 2 new devices this fall
The way google does it is really sneaky, they show you the url when you hover over it but copy the URL and it is something unusable.

Even more annoying when the destination url is a PDF which you now can't copy the link to but only download.
We do have a lot of context on investors that can help founders when choosing who to meet with. In addition, we're going to let investors specify a reason why they want to meet with each company (optionally). This should give less well known investors who are highly suited to particular companies a chance to get noticed.
A centralised messaging tool provides a centralised messaging policy. You can enforce filters, access rules, quiet times, etc., among these.

A centralised messaging tool provides a centralised messaging archive. If you want to find something, you can search one place, one time, with consistent syntax. You don't have to scramble through a half-dozen or more services to find crap.

A centralised messaging tool offers a standard interface. Even if it's dealing with systems which have their own capabilities, your editors, shortcuts, contacts, etc., are in one place.

A centralised messaging tool offers you central control over your contact lists. Fuck any app that wants my contacts list. Just completely, totally, 100% fuck it. For starters, that's not my information to give. You can pile on any number of privacy-and-security based arguments on top of that.

In the IM days, there was a set of autonomous systems that evolved: ICQ, YIM, AIM, MSM, Jabber, etc., etc., etc. And eventually, single unified clients which could speak all of them. Or turn all of them the fuck off in one go.

We're moving backward.
Corp was established to accept business contracts and pay taxes under business tax laws, rather than non-profit tax laws (the famous anecdote of IRS at one point in the early days tried to convince Mozilla don't worry about paying as non-profit). But as Mozilla continued to grow, they hired more people and formed a whole corporation where people are paid to work on Mozilla's core projects like FireFox and keeping Mozilla secured. The confusion often occurs at figuring out the outreach programs. Foundation does some outreach, but Mozilla Corps as a whole also do outreach program. For example, I think people who manage ambassadors are Mozilla Corp employees, but correct me if I am wrong. Furthermore, there are developers hired specifically to work on Foundation applications last. My info could be wrong by now...
I'm curious about going above 32GB of heap size, heard that compressed pointers kill performance?
Fair enough. I clearly violated the guidelines since the "don't do this" example is exactly what I did. I can't say that's my mistake, but it is my fault.
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There are not that many city's in any given country so N^2 is probably not a big deal. However, you can get approximate results by drawing a line at every angle through a country and then moving that line up and down. Then just look for city's near any good candidate lines.
and do native american countries/territories count too?
No, because TV was never meant to simulate reality, and simulating reality is what VR is and that naturally includes all the senses.
S.F. has a condo glut, with massive supply and dwindling demand, report says
Money Quote: "The Internet has a long memory!"
Future Technologies to Address the Operational Needs of Law Enforcement [pdf]
Oh man this brings me back (and I'm probably not old enough to be allowed to say that)! My first real start with game development, and well serious coding, was using the Torque Game Engine, which is the Tribes II engine. I saved up my money to buy a license for Torque 1.5 (it was $150 I believe and I was in high school), because at the time it was the only game engine which 1) Had source code access, 2) Wasn't insanely expensive for a hobbyist, 3) Was fully functional by itself.

The engine overall was pretty amazing, of course it had it's warts. I still remember the networking code pretty well. I played with the physics part of the engine quite a lot and rewrote and modded it a few times. I usually wanted networking in my experiments, so I learned a lot about that part of the engine as well. I don't play with gamedev anymore, and probably wouldn't use Torque if I did, but I really miss it and the community it had. I still check in on it once a year or so, and there was a blog post recently thanking many community members from the past, and my old username was on the list :') I'm looking through my old forum posts now, wow was I annoying for a few years!

For anyone who wants to look, the latest version of the engine is now MIT licensed [0]. It's been through 2 major versions, and seems like they've simplified the inheritance, so I'm not sure how much is still intact, but netObject looks a lot like I remember. I would recommend redding the comments in the header file for a good overview of how it works. [1]

[0] https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D

[1] https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D/blob/bacf0cde2af17ab...
Ask HN: Designing interview questions
I find designing good in person interview challenges non-trivial. It is hard to know, until it is too late if your question is appropriate. Many challenges have I come up with have clever solutions, that bias my expectations.

What process do you go through to develop appropriate challenges for interviews? (I'm especially interested with in person challenges)
I've actually thought about Tribes a lot recently, what with the kerfuffle over hitboxes/tickrate in Overwatch, the architectural issues with The Division (bad game), and general netcode angst these days. I remember the Tribes experience being buttery smooth and precise, even with the high speeds, long distances, and general reliance on physical projectiles rather than hitscan weapons.
All heat engines lose coolant, no seal is perfect. Even if your primary coolant loop is perfect, you still have to evaporate a heck of a lot of water in the secondary loop just to get rid of the heat. This pdf[1] quotes 600-800 US gallons per MWh. Even shut down the core is producing megawatts of heat.

If an operating helium-cooled reactor loses all its coolant, you're going to have a bad day, but the same thing can be said about a water-cooled reactor.

1: http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/docu...
.. unless you've been doing the "10-minute fix" for some years ..
Worst case scenario, Google, FB, and the US Gov have access to that kind of data. Google/FB both say they don't record that, or destroy/change it before giving advertisers access to it.

I see your point, but realistically I don't think any organization could/would ever do this. Outside of NSA vs. Snowden type cases, but I guess that is where it really counts.
That is certainly crazy compensation for someone who was fired after 15 months. It was so crazy that shareholders actually sued the company for authorizing it.

> PS: I know it seems crazy but CXX jobs other than CEO can really make ~85million per year. Often because they could be the CEO of another company.

$85m a year would be top 5 CEO and that top 5 typically changes based on who got a big grant that year. It's certainly not typical compensation. In fact he was the highest paid COO in the country.
Ok I don't know, I wasn't there. But on the face of it, somebody sneaking in through the roof, and somebody violent at the front door who doesn't care if he's seen or heard, seem different things entirely.
Allergen immunotherapy requires long-term small-dose exposures which cause an immunoglobulin class switching resulting, in effect, a "masking" of the allergen with the non-allergy-inducing globulin. It requires small doses over an extended period of time: no bolus infusion (e.g., "I'm having my big cup of pollen tea now") is going to do it, and it's not going manifest over a short period of time ("and 20 minutes later I feel better.")

Additionally, a general fault of immunotherapy for allergy is that we tend to present the allergen in a manner distinct from its biological presentation - e.g., oral presentation of inhaled allergens. Since we have different mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues throughout the body, and since they do react differently, generally you're not going to get a great response to oral administration of a non-oral allergen (e.g., something you'd normally inhale, like pollen).
He says that by virtue of that fact that his audience is mostly using Chrome and macOS, they are privileged. Therefore anyone who isn't is therefore underprivileged.

Additionally he refers to it as macOS which pedantic and yet incorrect unless the majority of his users are running a beta OS.
Reactrb: use ruby to build reactive user interfaces
An Introduction to Scientific Python – Matplotlib
I'm reluctant to admit it, but I did find this book really helpful. I'm generally a person that doesn't get sentimental about possessions and had already been doing regularly purge cleaning sessions pretty frequently, and I was still able to part with several large garbage bags full of stuff after reading her book.
Interestingly, I was under the impression that on HN down voting was supposed to be for when comments are (provably) erroneous, disrespectful, harmful or just plain don't really contribute constructively, but not when I disagree about something that isn't definitive. Looking at the guidelines, they actually say little about what down votes are supposed to be used for. I wonder how I got that impression? Was it learned through the culture here, or is it wishful thinking on my part, or a bit of both?

In any case, I'm much more hesitant to down vote here just because I disagree with an opinion than on Reddit, and I think a lot of people do the same. To me, that higher standard for what's both considered a good comment and what's acceptable are what makes HN more useful for interesting discussion. There are probably 5-8 aspects of comments that could be voted on, but what we see with these singular rating systems is that the community forms around what is acceptable and what is not, and people generally fall in line with the community norms (both in submissions and in their own rating of others). Reddit is interesting in that I've noticed that this community norm is somewhat malleable based on the subreddit. /r/gifs and /r/programming have a distinctly different feel in the comments.
Peter Doig sued for disavowing 40-year-old painting
I hear good things about HEPA filters.

http://www.achooallergy.com/3m-6291-hepa-masks/

I'd recommend getting cheap disposable surgical masks as a backup strategy. They won't prevent the air being polluted but they will still filter the tiny particulates in the air that cause so many problems.
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I have to agree that there are ambitious projects did not turn out well (like FireFox OS, Persona and a few others) and there are ones still thriving but the community is not quite as impacting as the authors intended. There are also ones did make good impact with very little noise like django-secure got merged into Django 1.6.

Rust is probably the most notable project built by Mozilla after Firefox at this current stage.
My family is involved in exporting Manuka from NZ at the moment - would you like to know more? PM me your email ..
How long would you want?
They're not starving because they can't get to the birds. There are different reasons for that.
Aid would have been called by the dispatcher when the officer radios in that there was a shooting.
There was a discussion about the culture of secrecy among CRISPR scientists on NPR's On The Media. The show host interviewed a scientist from MIT Media Lab, Kevin Esvelt. Kevin is taking an ethical stand in his field, demanding that the scientific community conduct itself in a transparent, inclusive way. It's one of the reasons why he interviewed.

"I want people who ideologically object to the very notion of altering nature in any way-- I would love for those people to take a close look at exactly what my group is working on and proposing to do and try to find anything they can think of that might go wrong. And if they succeed, if they find something we can't invent a way around, and we can't make it safe, then the project has to halt -- and that's as it should be. Right now, scientists do not tell anyone what they are currently doing and planning to do in the laboratory. I think the system would be better if all research was done in the open. Gene drive is the place where we must start. Everyone should have an opportunity to share their concerns and criticism when it comes to technologies that will impact all of us, and we would be foolish to dismiss concerns simply because someone doesn't have a degree."

http://www.wnyc.org/story/editing-culture-science-crispr
> "Why aren't they in jail?"

In my honest opinion, if you are using a website that I built, you've given implied consent that I can record your actions while on my site. As long as I can't trace it back to an individual, and can only view it in aggregate, I don't see the problem.
You also have to take into account the average reddit user.

The ones against any kind of monetization at all are already vocal enough, let alone the people who would balk at anything that monetizes user data.

If you look at their change where they introduced affiliate link rewriting it's really surprising. They did it in a way that made sure they wouldn't affect any 3rd party apps, they gave everyone 2 ways to opt out, and didn't rewrite links that already had an affiliate code. And yet even with all of that, there was a ton of outcry and anger at the change.

Reddit as we know it won't be massively profitable, because the vocal users of reddit are so completely against any form of monetization.
I don't think so. I still cannot watch a 720p Twitch stream on Chrome without lots of frame loss. I can watch those same streams just fine in Safari. In my opinion, Safari might be a bit behind on some of the standards but Chrome and Firefox are behind on performance. IE is bad at both of those things.
In general, fermented products have more bioavailable products, due to pre-digestion by bacteria.

How much this actually matters, I'm personally skeptical of, but it's a boon touted loudly and widely by all fans of fermented products who feel their food choices need to be justified by more than "it tastes good."
Ah, ShifterV1 was the best mod ever. My friends and I used to say that Tribes 2 would be an easy ptoject: just grab the features from ShifterV1 and put on a fresh coat of graphics paint.

Too bad the real Tribes 2 turned out to be such a disappointment.
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