skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I follow a few 100 users for news but it's overwhelming to keep up if you aren't checking every half an hour. To scratch an itch, I use a chrome extension (shameless plug [1]) to sort them by popularity and I can also tune down chatty users without blocking them.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackybird/ddlhmpom...
Would love to see this for detecting which markup language was used for `README`.
D3 is more declarative than jQuery, but not so much as React.

selection.enter().append("div").attr("class", "bar")
.style("height", function(d){
return d + "px";
})
.style(“margin-top”, function(d){
return (100 — d) + "px";
});

enter is not imperative, but what you write just afterwards is.
Toyota throws weight behind Linux patent protection group
Okay, that was a bad example. I've never carried comprehensive/collision insurance, so I mistakenly thought there was coverage for mechanical failures. As you stated, this is not common.
>that will permanently separate, in my opinion, engineers at the top of the curve from the rest.

Precisely. The engineers at the top will understand cost benefit analysis and be okay with sub-optimal solutions while the rest sit and rant about how slow something is.
Paris Hilton has also outperformed Trump's returns [1]. Granted, this story has mostly been reported by second- and third-tier outlets, but would anyone take Hilton seriously as a presidential candidate based on her business record?

[1] http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/10/paris-hilton-is-better-a...
The naps don't look particularly comfortable: http://img2.izismile.com/img/img3/20100419/640/chinese_facto...

But you know, when someone gives you a 30 minute break, you take it!
Actually Iran and Turkey would be on my list for close but not yet "Tiger States"-
Israel falls under "displaced, but Europe", even in the DVD-Release market.

I know some pretty awesome Pakistani programmers- but they all left there home-country to live somewhere else. They had some "doing well" family background though.

If poverty eats it all, via corruption, would it help to help founders in these states to hide there (relative) "wealth", and the existence of there company/products? Could IP be protected from illegal seezing of governments, by market pressure?
Is that even possible - a stealth startup?
Are people in Venezuela allowed to leave. Can you explain ?

> 30% did not cross back.

Not surprisingly. It can easily become a humanitarian problem for Colombia. What is the political sentiment in Colombia about this ?
He is a clown because the media says so. I've asked DOZENS of people why they disapprove of Trump's policies and none of them could describe any factual reason.

Trump might be [insert something], but we should be worried by the control the media retain over mass opinion. People are genuinely angry at him, people feel a visceral disgust. But they can't grasp why and outsource fact checking and decision making to their favorite tv channel.

If you want to know more about candidates' policies, check out to their website:

Donald Trump https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions

Hillary Clinton https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/

Unfortunately, third party candidates are never taken that seriously. There are alternatives: http://www.bealibertarian.com/
An Island like Cuba is just small enough to make actual communism possibly work - it has just slightly less people that the Los Angeles Metro area does - it also has a very homogeneous cultural background. Cuba however isn't quite rich enough in natural resources to actually reach autarky however, if it was, Cuba might be a very different story.

I'm not a proponent of anything Authoritarian, but communism on a small scale does fascinate me.
Please share this with your interviewers. It's stupid to reject senior engineers just because they didn't implement algorithm optimization towards the end of an interview...ignoring everything else they are capable of.
The Dust Bowl claimed millions of lives? You're link doesn't support that in the least. It doesn't even mention any famine.
Startup founders who "end up like Parker Conrad" are doing relatively well...in the context where "startup" doesn't mean any old new business but instead means a company structured so as to allow exponential growth. On the other hand, a local business probably depends more on reputation.

In any case, where reputation counts is among customers and reputation among customers closely trails product and service and less closely trails things that the customer doesn't care about. Of course if this weapon thingy isn't actually the product then spending time on it is a bit of a distraction. If it is part of the product but not part of making users love it, it's also a bit of a distraction because it puts a technology that scales in the middle of trying to find product market fit.

Good luck.
This series is geeky and great.
>It would be fairly strange to do this now over that incident.

It wouldn't be strange if you thought the accusations were bullshit.
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Now that it has a name, it can develop a hierarchy of experts, annual conferences, and a consultancy bonanza for a few years.
Wrong- the generally accepted term is "welfare state".
Ha! In fact all you would need is a sales team!
Nothing to do with Unix, it's an Emacs thing.

In Emacs, what you nowadays call "cutting and pasting" is instead called "killing and yanking". It was called that way even before "cut" and "paste" got popularized, I think.

And the "Kill Ring" name makes sense, as it a) contains snippets of text you killed and b) when yanking (pasting) lets you cycle through all the killed snippets. You can view your kill ring in its entirety via a menu or with a plugin (kill-ring-browser or similar, I forget).

Emacs is old and brittle, but its basic editing model is very good. It does lack (without plugins) some features I learned in Vim (the most irritating thing at the beginning was a lack of "textobjects"; I still occasionally miss them, despite expand-region and other plugins), but is basically the only editor that I feel is worth learning.
You should play up the Stockholm factor! Sweden is really cool!
Probably almost all of the samples are syntactically valid, but it probably works OK for invalid code. Adding or removing symbols can have an impact on the results though, as those may occur more frequently in other languages.
This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals
You're missing the point in that _you_ don't have servers. Just as cloud is "someone else's computer" -- serverless is someone else's server.
Sphere Maps
I think it's something like a big monolithic app is less complex than a n-tier client server app which is less complex than a microservices distributed app which could be less complex than a purely FaaS implemented app, yet to be determined.
Show HN: Chrome Extension to find a line number on GitHub files/diffs
It doesn't happen overnight. It is a slow and sustained process.
Is anyone using Promotheus for monitoring micro-services deployed with Kubernetes? Any feedbacks?
You keep citing that statistic, but that's just one city. The very same section of the wiki article you linked to points out that immigrants have a lower incarceration rate overall. Cherry-picking much?
> There's no such thing as Socialism in a free market

There's no such thing as a free market, either.

> Socialism means non-free market

Laissez-faire Capitalism ignores that the ideal efficiency of a free market requires the absence of externalities, which are present in the real world.

Socialism attempts to address the existence of externalities (though socialist theory often won't frame it in those terms) through compensatory mechanisms (which may involve outright government control and planned economy, or may, especially in many current strands of socialism, instead include mechanisms to internalize externalities so that the behavior of the imperfectly free market better approaches the efficiency of the ideal free market than an actually unregulated market would without effort to address externalities.)

> and uses extreme violence to accomplish its ends of nationalizing wealth and production (which are inherently linked).

Nationalizing means of production is not an end of socialism, though its a means of some forms of socialism in assuring that the means of production are harnessed to serve the common good of society. Other forms of socialism change (compared to capitalism) the balance of power in firms between labor and capital as a means of harnessing production to serve the common good, others adopt market regulations which serve to internalize externalities so that forces in the regulated market will naturally direct the means of production to serve the general good.

> Socialism requires at a minimum the nationalization of the means of production.

No, it doesn't, if you are referring to "socialism", the political philosophy. If you are referring to "socialism", a particular the phase on the road to communism in Marx's Communism (and thus the "socialism" of Leninsm and its descendants which, while abandoning much of Marx's theory, kept this part), then, yes, socialism does involve that, but note that Marx's Communism was one of many kinds of socialist philosophies of its time, and that the "socialism" phase in Marx's Communism (and, for that matter, Marx's Communism as a whole) is not representative of (though it may be one example of) socialism as a political viewpoint.

I think most socialists would agree that more democratic control of the means of production in general, as compared to laissez-faire capitalism, is a distinguishing feature of socialism. I do not think most socialists would agree that state ownership of the means of production is essential (and, indeed, many would argue that significantly revising the capitalist concept of ownership and property rights in the means of production are necessary to socialism, and that the nature of that revision of what ownership means is more important to socialism than where ownership is located. Socialism as simply state-ownership is a minimally challenging way for capitalists to approach socialism, because it avoids even discussion of the essential difference between socialism and capitalism, which is the challenge to the capitalist understanding of property and ownership.)
I didn't say the technology is DOA. Just the current offers which seem locked in to specific vendor implementations. The current BaaS offers are too intrusive and just not good enough to worth the switch from a PaaS to a BaaS.
> Nobody knows what it takes to relaunch a rocket

Well, apart from Blue Origin, I guess. They've done four sub-orbital missions now, with their production hardware. I know there are differences, but it's a similar problem-space, so they are an existence proof that it's possible.
Some Thoughts on Steem
Great idea! Will think about this when I am going to add languages.
And even then nobody would be able to stop a truck aimed into a crowd in time for it not to do any damage at all.
Futuristic Cyberattack Scenario
Arguably the social policies of Nazi Germany likely would have kept the birthrate high for another 2-3 generations, after that.. its hard to say. Alternative histories of Germany winning the war are many, and interesting (and scary) though experiments.
Nobody non-technical knows what an engineer is really doing while he is sitting at his desk. He might be at his desk 50+ hours a week, earning time-and-a-half on top of his already lucrative salary, but he won't actually be contributing anything that the company actually needs. The senior engineers certainly won't be working more than 40 hours a week. That's for the younger fellas.

If you got handed a bunch of bullshit tasks by your senior engineer with or without a generous amount of winking and subtle sarcasm, you'd pick up on it pretty quick. You'd have all sorts of questions about why X needs to be done and would be getting no straight answers. Eventually you'd either get the picture or someone will take you aside and delicately let you in on it. Think that scene in Silicon Valley where Big Head is having his new "role" described to him, only done by the engineers rather than an HR manager.

If it looks like you need a lesson in savviness yourself, they won't let you in on it and let you flounder around just like the manager.
Pokemon Go T&Cs strip users of legal rights
Government backed monopolies like Bell created the transistor, and government purchases from Fairchild kickstarted transistors.

Also you attribute statements to me that I did not make, then say these statements you made up and attribute to me are wrong.
Yes, and Web Store only has problems if you want to keep stuff internal ('enterprise' distribution).

This does seem like a total mess.
I think you will have a hard time generating conclusive evidence for this argument. Doing so will force you to argue that well-known people who describe themselves as philosophically socialist are wrong about that.
> As a result Trump has more votes than any candidate in Republican history.

Without context, that doesn't mean much.

Did he receive more votes than any primaries candidate in Republican history? Yes. But given the fact that these primaries received more votes than any other primaries, that loses significant power.

When you look at numbers, it's easy to pick the result that makes a specific case. That's what the author is doing here.

In fact, as an exercise, it's easy to make the opposite case - that he had extremely low support compared to previous primaries - by using the same numbers.

Look at the table right under that quote. In 2012, Romney had 10,048,134 votes, compared to Trump's 13,406,108. Advantage Trump? Well, if you take a look at the total numbers - 19,272,346 vs 30,335,825, respectively - it means Trump had 44% of the votes, while Romney had 52%.

Similar lower percentage numbers repeat when you compare him to other candidates from that table. He ended up winning by getting the right delegates, but not the number of votes.

So while saying "Trump has more votes than any candidate in Republican history" is correct, saying "Trump received the lowest winning percentage of votes from any Republican candidate since 2000" is also correct (the table stops at 2000 so not sure about other years).
Your first paragraph is "the Nazis didn't have enough coal to burn 6M Jews"-level dishonesty. They would have found a way to populate all that sweet, sweet land, like any colonizer in the past or present.

I agree with the second one. The "spoils" claimed weren't much compared to the destruction inflicted on their country and people. That has nothing to do with my original comment though.
Time spent at work is easy to measure. Productivity is difficult to measure.
I have been using Perl for the last 3.5 years (for work). Before that I used Python for 8 years. For the vast majority of things Python is better. Perl programmers tend to say that the language is more powerful and allow for shorter programs, but in my experience, when writing the same program in Perl and Python, the later is more concise. There are some Perl features that save you keystrokes, for example, autovivification, but in the long run those are a lot of trouble. Also, it's really hard to learn to use Perl properly, it's full of inconsistencies and antipatterns, it's so easy to write bad code with it. Python is much simpler, consistent and with less corner cases. Python features (e.g. iteration protocol) seem more elegant to me. Perl features feel really hacky, they work, but they're rarely orthogonal and usually have surprising side effects.

One aspect where Perl still kickass is for writing shell scripts. Running commands, interacting with the filesystem and other tools is so easy. Once you know Perl, you rarely use bash, sed, grep or awk.
There's a few, here's a recent talk by Weave for example: http://www.slideshare.net/weaveworks/kubernetes-and-promethe...
Obamacare is socialist in the sense that it enabled a great deal of government control over the healthcare market, which is a rather large sector of the economy, almost indisputably one of the 'commanding heights'.
Hah, I've found that on my development machine I have to set `http_proxy`, `HTTP_PROXY`, `https_proxy` and `HTTPS_PROXY` for everything to work right.

This issue is pretty bad though.
IANAL either, but filing a DMCA takedown request to claim copyright infringement where there is none is always perjury. You don't have to claim you own something someone else does, you merely have to claim infringement where there is none -- that's far easier to mess up.

So using a DMCA takedown request because of a trademark infringement if there isn't also a copyright infringement would be perjury because you're making a bogus claim. AFAICT this would only matter if both sides ended up pursuing legal action (i.e. the DMCA counter-claim is resisted).

The only example of DMCA abuse being punished I've seen so far is the infamous YouTube drama between thunderf00t and VenomFangX (who ended up reading a prepared statement as part of an out-of-court settlement with tf00t to avoid facing legal consequences).

I think most people aren't willing to actually sue DMCA trolls or are unsure about their actual legal position. It's certainly understandable why a company like Google might be more likely to just follow the rules instead of taking a stand as long as they're not affected directly. And tools like YouTube's automated content claims completely circumvent the need for "content owners" to invoke DMCA and risk legal consequences.
I don't think this would be that big of an issue really, because Flash is built into the Google build of Chrome. It's the one "extension" that would be really easy to give a free pass on this policy. This would probably be more of a nuisance on Chromium builds.
Many people, especially shopkeepers and associates, sleep right at work! More than once I headed down to the cellphone store to recharge my minutes, only to remember the time when I found folks sleeping at the counter. Nothing for it but to return a little later.

Another popular way to sleep is to stretch out atop the seat and handlebars of one's e-bike (electric moped). Must be more comfortable than it looks.
Agreed, but small critique: i hesitate telling more junior devs things that sound like "less code is better". It is a message that can easily be misunderstood as "if i write this in a more clever way the code gets shorter" instead of the intended lesson.
This is logic that suggests that any regulation of any major market is intrinsically "socialist".

Perhaps that's true, but if it's true it's only true in the sense that it illustrates how treacherous the word "socialism" is.
That link returns a 500 error for me.
From my testing, it seems this classifier is heavily influenced by the choice of identifiers used in the program, which is not necessarily a hallmark of the language, but of the particular programs trained with. Here's a made-up C function that uses Python's colon + whitespace for the body instead of braces:

int main(int* x):
return *x + ((int)x);

This program is classified as being C (84% confidence), but if I change 'main' to 'elephant' it drops to 49% C, 41% Python. If I change the name to 'snake' it suddenly becomes Python code with 80% confidence. I guess Python programmers like really like talking about animals? :)

This would be more interesting if it were able to accurately classify programs by what family of syntax they're most similar to (Lisp, ML, C, etc). Otherwise, at first glance this seems like another needless application of something complicated like neural networks, since languages already have a formal grammar describing their structure and reserved tokens/symbols that you could take advantage of.
yeah but there was no stable Perl 6 in 2012. Perhaps `dead on arrival` would have been better said than `too late`.
ARM to be acquired by Softbank
With all due respect to Larry Wall he shouldn't be a source of info or inspiration when it comes to Perl6.

Watch this instead, it's pretty damn great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq2HkAYbG5o&feature=youtu.be...
Until very recently plan B was prescription only, so that's not a strong counter example.

The question is, does something about visiting a doctor to get a prescription for birth control mitigate the risk of a blood clot? Something that there would be no way to replicate with say better women's health education or a nice info-graphic next to the birth control section?
> I find it humorous that they are telling me I am
> AT LEAST 25 IQ points dumber

They are not telling "you". Statistics != "everybody". No idea why you feel personally insulted. I heard x % of people are sociopaths (or insert something else bad here) - should I now complain "hey, I'm not a sociopath (or whatever)"?
Eventually wasm will provide GC.

Edit: It's on the roadmap just after MVP so I wouldn't say it's that far. Also based on the latest talks from Luke at City Hall(I can't find the link) the access to DOM could arrive even sooner than the GC. My point is that wasm is worth investing it because it's the future. Once language X compiles to wasm and perl compiles to JS you can see a double digits performance difference. I don't need to tell you which language looks more appealing. WASM has nothing to do with applets/flash etc. It was already clarified in various posts.
He's not missing the point. He might have a preference that technical terms have semantically useful meanings.
This is why, in spite of generally being happy that the recent coup attempt failed, I am deeply concerned about what happens next. Six thousand arrested within a day or so of the failed coup? When we don't even really know what happened, yet? Erdogan and company are using it as an excuse to clean house. No investigation has been done, and I fear nothing resembling justice will occur. Turkey, meanwhile, edges closer to a dictatorship.
I remain baffled that alerts in modern browsers are still handled with an OS-level modal dialog that prevents interaction with the browser's interface elements.

Couldn't the alert instead be rendered as an overlay to the page itself, be modal to just that tab, and not disable the browser Chrome? This would make it much harder for pages to "trap" users with alert spam. The existing policies (don't allow this page to create more dialogs -> page instantly redirects to itself to reset the flag) aren't doing a good enough job.
Actually it's 60k feet or 18km, which you can check, since phone GPS will still work on a commercial airliner during cruise.
What’s new for designers, July 2016
I really want to make something like this. I wonder if that would need a little agitator, or some temperature control, or valves, or what?

And then once you have the piping, you can get some automatic control, and some management software. . .
I'm not sure I'd consider this apathy. My guess is that everyone who considered fixing this over those 8 years instinctively knew it was going to be a leaky fix. And that "fixing" it would likely lead to more bugs.
Wow, I've worked with "that guy" before as well. Like you said, it's a retreat to the status quo, and conservatism is a common response to feeling overwhelmed or like an imposter.

I now recognize it as a very accurate warning sign, this person has moved from trying whatever they can to help the business succeed to trying whatever they can to cover their ass and put on the appearance that they did all they could.
We used it at uni a lot but these days I tend to use it as a last mile language. Get the data, format it etc in python/f# then bring in the big R guns.

Things like BMA or survival analysis barely exist in python.

I have a great R stats book that I'll post when I get home (can't remember the name off the top of my head)

Edit: to be clear I wouldn't recommend that pipeline! Most of my professional work has been in the above so I'm just more comfortable with it
It's far more than the first 10%. Most engineers don't stay in the engineering track for long, and there are almost no lifelong engineers. 5 years of experience is probably closer to 50%+ of the journey.