skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you assume that it's easier in other countries? The Netherlands has about the same safeguards for its constitution:

It provides that an amendment can be proposed either by a two-thirds majority in both the House and the Senate or by a convention, called into being by Congress, after a request from two-thirds of the states.

In NL: it requires a simple majority in both houses, but we don't have the escape hatch of initiating such a change from lower government tiers.

then comes step two: ratification by three-quarters of the states.

In NL, step two is harder: the proposal must wait until the next parliament term (or parliament can dissolve itself and trigger early elections). Now it requires a supermajority (of 2/3rds) in both houses to pass.
That's not progressive enhancement, it's lazy loading.

Progressive enhancement would be making all of the content visible and accessible, then adding functionality on top after the base page load is complete. If JS is required to simply view the text on a page, you're doing it wrong.
Made it visible on my profile.
If you're wiling to say something like that loud enough that others can hear you, then it's not really a joke anymore.

You sure have a strange concept of joke. I define a joke by its contents, not the number of people who hear it.
That's an excellent policy. I hope more women follow in the example of your friends. I'm tired of hypocritical and self-serving redefinitions of words like "oppression" that allow certain groups to engage in otherwise-unacceptable behaviors just because of their group identity.

We need to emphasize our common identity as technologists, not atomize ourselves into mutually acrimonious groups based on personal characteristics having nothing to do with technology.
When did she actually confront anyone in person?
I swear they didn't say that a few minutes ago...anyway, ebook is what I wanted, so I'm happy.
Machine Learning over 1M hotel reviews finds interesting insights
I went to a recent tech conference and a few things came back when I read this article. In particular that the conf had a lot more female talkers than male ones (It was curated and invitation based).

Most talks were good but a handful were nuggets where clearly the deciding factor why that person got the talk was because she was a woman and not her expertise in the area.

Your typical dose of women who code talks were im there too but one that stood our from the rest was a woman who thought she kept having to tell people things like "use your slackbot to tell people to stop using 'guys' and 'team' instead." or "women need remote work so they can cry silently when their male colleagues steal their ideas".

I am not denying that there are gender issues in tech (though in my career path I have yet to encounter them), but I paid good money out of my own pocket for that conference.

I am not going there to see you speak. I am going there to learn and get value for my money.
I made it clear why I banned him: repeated creation of accounts to violate the HN guidelines with, a.k.a. serial trolling.
putting colons in your filenames are almost as weird as alternate data streams.
As I see it, the big problem is separating the worthwhile apps from the useless (and sometimes semi- or fully malicious) ones. User reviews aren't necessarily trustworthy, and unscrupulous publishers often game the system.

Then there is (at least on typical Android handsets) the undeletable bloatware. It doesn't seem to be quite the problem that it used to be, but it's still annoying. Though I have root, I'm wary of just deleting things.

I have about 85 MB of disabled apps on my current phone, and about 6 GB free out of 16 GB main storage. A 64 GB MicroSD stores my media, so 16 GB is less of a problem here than it is on a Nexus or an iPhone. It's too bad there's such a ridiculous markup on built-in storage, SD slot or no.

I already occasionally purge apps that I don't use, though - and when I install something new, I watch battery life like a hawk. If it shows any sign of misbehaving, away it goes. If it needs ridiculous permissions (like location information for a flashlight or a metronome) it doesn't get installed in the first place.

In-app ads aren't a huge problem to me, but they annoy me anyway just because of so many deceptive "Clean your phone of viruses!" ads (often with fake "close" buttons) that bamboozle less-savvy users.

I'd like to see the FTC give the deceivers a good stomping, but in today's political environment that's unlikely to happen anytime soon.
> This year tuition fees at these boot-camps will reach around $200m in America alone.

Jeez, I'm in the wrong business...

> as awkward to watch as an engineer trying to do stand-up comedy for the first time

See above. I thank you :-D
Artificially restricting filenames is an antipattern that makes things harder to read.

I use software that sometimes (but mostly not) needs files in dos 8.3. Because of this people seem to think it a good idea to use really short acronymed file names as a matter of course. If it makes sense to use a special character then people should be able to.
Good. They're going slow, starting with fingerprinting and supercookies, which is nice for users. I welcome the end of Flash.

I personally killed flash from Chrome about a year ago. I've seen a few sites that use it, which I just leave, but I haven't seen anything I can't live without.
Running Node.js on the JVM
I'd like to see somebody express this in front of lawmakers:
> The encryption was not a factor in their successful evasion. Rather, it was the content of the messages, controlled and dictated by the security rules, which protected their secrets.
Well you're not wrong for liking it, but you also are (presumably) a techie of some form, be that programming, electronics or whatever. That implies a pretty strong aesthetic bias that does not represent the average person.
I assume any files I make should be usable by any major operating system, so to be sure I avoid any special characters in file names.
Some government functions are intentionally poorly run. See the recent FOIA debacle, for instance.
Haven't bought it yet, but Sandi's writing and speaking style is very principles driven.
The important thing (which no fork can really change) is that the assumed likelihood of contracts having bugs went way, way up as a result of finding one critical bug so quickly in a large contract. You may not be able to steal a massive pot like theDAO again - but this shows that you can make a killing using exploits against smaller players. They either have to hard fork each time an individual gets their savings wiped out, or accept that there is risk of death by 1000 cuts when investing in ETH. Others may see things differently of course.
Why do you think packaging is a pain?

It is possible to do things in a background thread, it may not use all cpus, but it won't block:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37502084/download-file-wi...

https://github.com/kivy/kivy/wiki/Working-with-Python-thread...
ECMAScript Proposal for Silent Property Access on Null/undefined
Ask HN: Workable arrangements for long-distance co-founders?
I am looking for concrete examples of successful arrangements for startups where one or more of the founders were based in different locations.

Let's say that long-distance is any distance more a 3-hour drive away. As for what counts as successful, let's say that success is any time one of the pitfalls of long-distance is avoided. For example, if it's commonly said that investors are scared of investing in long-distance founders, then a success would be a case where they happily invested despite, or even because of, the long-distance issue.

INVESTORS

- What special qualities made investors supportive?
- If they had concern, what solved it? Did they require special terms?
- Did the funding round, or category, make any difference? Angels vs VCs?
- What extra legwork was needed to find/convince investors?

YC

- Is there any example of a YC company with long-distance founders?
- If so, did they come in person for the duration of YC itself?
- If so, what special qualities made YC OK with it?
- Would changing the people XOR the pitch have made a difference?

RELATIONSHIPS

- How were communication barriers overcome?
- How was anger/frustration dealt with?
- Was regular travel a positive factor in making it work?
- Was a certain location considered HQ? How were 'second class' issues solved?
- Were missed social outings made up for in some way?

WORK / PRODUCTIVITY

- What processes helped overcome productivity issues?

OTHER

- For speaking engagements, conferences, parties, trade shows, etc., was anything special done to include the remote person?
- Did the compensation arrangement or contract require any special provisions for payment, equity, benefits, roles/titles, etc.?
- Looking back on the experience, other than a blanket statement of "don't do long-distance co-founders", what would you go back and change?
My comment didn't specify effectiveness, I suppose, but I can handle that too: Google's approach isn't effective at curbing the use of Flash in the top ten websites. For instance, curbing Google's use of Flash.
> What OP described is just heckling

Nah, heckling takes volume. You don't heckle sotto voce for just your buddies to hear. You do it at the top of your lungs for everyone in the room to hear. Say what you like about heckling, it takes a certain degree of grit.
>If women are disadvantaged

Except they're not. In fact, in tech, they're advantaged. Female names on resumes get more callback than male names. This has been studied.

The reason there are fewer of them is because fewer of them are interested.
Mac OS 9 and earlier used colons as path separators and some support for that made it into OS X, although it might be gone by now. Apple's guidelines https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202808 recommend not using colons.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681
It is pretty much assumed by almost everyone out there that Skype is fully under surveillance and intercepted. If you care in the slightest bit about security, don't use Skype. Other than that I find it useful for keeping in contact with friends and family. For gossip and inane chatter it works well.
The best thing you can do to master the Java-only world is to peek outside of it. (And that is true for almost every X-only world, whatever the X value.)
Also at https://deepmind.com/blog
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it still seems to...not do this correctly? I have it configured thus but still have to delete 1GB+ of old episodes manually on a regular basis.
> result of a lifetime of societal biases.

Not just societal biases, but simple demographic realities that are not controlled for at all looking solely at scores on a test.
Young people are mobile, few obligations, and can easily live 4-6 in a rental townhouse in DC for two years while making below market rates.
It's not clear to me, I would not be at all surprised to see someone make that claim here.
Yes, as long as you're using a shared storage adapter (like Redis), then for the most part, duplicate registration or renewal requests should be handled.

The approach to locking we're using is somewhat simplistic (and the specifics depend on the storage adapter you're using), so there might be some rare edge-cases in which 2 requests to Let's Encrypt slip through. However, that shouldn't actually affect the functionality (the last response simply wins). Here's a bit more detail in the code: https://github.com/GUI/lua-resty-auto-ssl/blob/v0.8.2/lib/re...
The PATH should be a list of strings not a string where : means something special.
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I'm quite surprised there's been so little focus on the shaving experience. I really wanted to like Dollar Shave Club. I went with them early. Their prices were great and I really enjoyed their marketing.

But after trying most of their razor models for months, they were far worse than even the Mach 3 razors I had. It was painful to shave with them, the handles had a bad design, the lubrication strips weren't working, etc. Maybe they're better now, but I get several months (or more) out of Mach 3 razor cartridges. I don't pay much at all for them and have little incentive to switch.
> Today we can rarely if ever agree on any kind of protocol or standard, and if we do, it's usually a huge bloated mess.

So the question becomes, how do you know whether you're going to get a huge bloated mess or the Internet, and how do you influence the outcome?

As the number of potential 'experts' increases and the number of people involved in choosing them increases, you get something that looks more and more like a market, but without price transparency...
You don't have to be nice to people, or show empathy, or refrain from saying hateful things; however, we are equally free to avoid associating with you.
Are you seriously claiming that random innocent men deserve to be ruined because of their gender? Are you really claiming that this state of ruin is "living like a woman"? I like to think that women can amount to something.

When you're approving of driving innocent people out of work because of their chromosomal makeup, maybe you need to step back and reconsider your principles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Elliott
I don't care if it is supposed to have been reclaimed. To me 'nerd' is a nasty, derogatory word that I don't use myself and I take offense when other people use.
It's a shame because if people like him actually got behind the Libertarian party this year Johnson actually has a real chance to win. I know there are a lot of people here who will say a third party can never win but this is a perfect storm of opportunity if the party can raise enough to stay in the public eye.
> Are there immune-boosting workshops where children are exposed to allergens of all kinds (perhaps gradually increasing the exposure)?

Yes. They're called "the outside world", and hard as this is to believe, you can sometimes even find your child a spot in one free of charge!
Yes, they do. Tall people make more money and are more successful in the workplace [1]. Wearing higher-class clothing elicits more responsiveness and lowers the perceived social status of others [2]. And of course, leadership is associated with being white and male, which leads to better responsiveness in work-type environments to white males [3]. I also seem to recall a talk by a professor at Berkeley showing that having some gray hair and wearing glasses commands more respect as well, though I can't find the research to back that up at the moment.

[1] http://timothy-judge.com/Height%20paper--JAP%20published.pdf

[2] http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/xge0...

[3] http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/conferences/2013-w50-research-sym...
Tiny text messages, profile images, avatars, inline linked media, etc.

Start caching the stuff you obviously don't want to re-fetch over HTTP every single time the user scrolls around in their timeline, and 100MB is a pretty reasonable footprint.
If any browser were to act against and "disincentivized equally across the board" by doing something like blocking it entirely that would simply be a browser people who wanted flash content would use less.

Some people want flash, probably because they are oblivious to security concerns or simply don't care about standards and progress. These are the people we must convince. Letting them have what they "must" have while chipping away at the problem is something that might work here and now. Likely these people wouldn't even realized the browser was doing it in this case and would blame the sites for having broken flash. Despite seeming morally grey or deceptive, it could work and might not punish the browser doing it.
Please don't pour internet vitriol on HN. Rushing to denounce others as "bad people" is not compatible with the civil, substantive discourse we're hoping for.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12129958 and marked it off-topic.
How the Computer Got Its Revenge on the Soviet Union (2015)
Having never raised a seed round, I'm not the right person to ask. However I'm sure there are plenty of blog posts/articles about this out there.
Of course it has people squirming and for good reasons but it is not surprising given Thiel's previous rhetoric.

Like Trump, Mr Thiel is in it for naked self-interest.

If the Donald gets in he has a "bat phone" to the white House. How many SV venture capitalists got one of those? I have the feeling that Thiel is one of those people who don't give a damn and are willing to win "ugly" as long as they win.

Any Rand enthusiasts... There's always something not-quite-right about them.
I've started writing my resume in a more prosaic form, and dropping the stilted language of resumes past. I talk about not just what I bring to the table, but also what I'm not looking for in an employer. Check it out if you'd like to get a better sense of what I mean.

(It's also worth noting that I have ~12.5 years of experience in the software industry, Seattle—the city where I live—has a hot tech market, and I have focused mainly on iOS software development for the past six years. Relatedly, I never apply for jobs through websites, only through people, meaning that I manage to skip buzzword-skimming front-line recruiters. So YMMV.)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0tntyr8isf2l47k/Aaron%20Brethorst%...

Coming at this from the other side of the table, my first reaction to reading most resumes is "so what?" Tell me why I should care that you increased Flibbet production by 22%, or that you decreased bug volume by 19%. What does that translate into in terms that someone who doesn't work at that company would care about?
If they are trying to peck you, how is it not self defense?!
> yokels

A yokel is, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, "an uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside". Do you have any reason to actually believe they were from the countryside, or do you just assume that if someone is a dipshit they obviously must be country people?
Will Google index a site built with this?
I'm sure the lawyers looked over everything very carefully.
Trying to get back in the government's good books by being one of very few voices in tech saying this? I'd like to know this position in more detail, as he seems to be pro weaker iOS but anti backdoor. It feels too much of a theoretical position that isn't possible.

Also the reference to the other fruit company reminded me of this sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIaXSBSQ0W0
14 Year Old Advay Ramesh from Chennai Wins Google Community Impact Award
Likewise, I have a hard time buying this. Azure is better than what I would expect from MS in many ways, but it's still Microsoft. Granted, you can run Linux VM's with no problem, but why would you go to Microsoft to run a Linux server given the other options? Unless they do something really amazing in the near-term, color me skeptical.
Normally I have a severe allergic reaction to anyone trying to do anything serious with Javascript, but this looks like a legitimately good idea and a decent innovation on how shells work.

I'm beginning to think that it isn't Javascript that I hate, it's the way people use it (i.e. to build bloated, slow, terrible webapps). But this is actually pretty cool. JS is shockingly decent at text processing so repurposing it as a shell language kinda makes sense.
I took a class with Sandi, where this material was covered. I paired with one developer who did mostly Java and he seemed to get a lot of the class even though he hadn't really programmed in Ruby.

Might be worth reconsidering,FWIW.
No, what he did was reinforce what is acceptable social behavior in that situation. While the specifics of the situation may have spurred him to act quicker or in a case he wouldn't have, that's irrelevant. The behavior being called out is unacceptable no matter who is giving the talk. People did not attend the talk to hear people heckle the talker, there are other forums for that (stand-up, and there are some talks which might be more comical and some light heckling might be acceptable).

Rude behavior was called out. It's rude regardless of the people in each position in this scenario.
Google launches new API to help you parse natural language
If you don't let it finish (say you don't care about that last ad or the outro music and you jump to another episode), it'll keep the file.

Similarly, when you transfer to a new phone or restore, it won't take those files with the backup, and if you have a bunch of files still around, it'll re-download those, taking several hours or days.
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And here's the google link:

https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/
It is certainly interesting to see the different assumptions people make. Thanks for the details.
thiel, trump, silicon valley ... plenty to talk about, and yet, all you've got are some unfounded opinions to share with us.
I can provide an anecdote. When my parents where shopping for their first house ~5 years ago it was a common occurrence for a house to go on the market to be immediately purchased in cash. By circumventing the usual mortgage process with the bank the houses could be snatched up before regular buyers even have a chance.
Are you sure the episode finished, or did you start another at the end of the episode when it was essentially dead air?
Lively is now avail on iOS
Apparently there are a lot of rogue forces that can completely ruin a town. See Centralia, Peshtigo, Dust Bowl, Lake Peigneur, etc.
It's strongly advised to be nice to people in general, but I agree that "Chances are you may end up working for them" :-)
https://copepodo.wordpress.com/

For the combination of nerdy humour and botany
For the same reason people don't write every program in binary using a magnetized needle straight to their hard disk. People like abstractions, and this guy happened to like CoffeeScript as his abstraction du jour.
Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API and New Data Center
I had a related problem with Dropbox. Some files uploaded from my Linux machine were not synced to my Windows machine. Later I narrowed down this problem to images being saved from Twitter, which have URLs ending with ":orig". On Linux, Firefox happily saves such images as "blahblah:orig.jpg", whereas on Windows it uses space instead of a colon. And of course Dropbox on Windows would completely ignore filenames that contain colons and tell that the directories are synced, when they obviously aren't.
Heh, this is true, definitely the cheapest and probably the most fun for the children. But, what about a process that takes less time and can introduce allergens from around the world?
Aren't most expandable via SD?
I have no idea what NDT has to do with anything but this seems like a level-headed, fair reply that is indeed on-topic. What is off-topic about it?
Maybe unrelated but I think that the Music app used with Apple Music uses up a lot of storage with caching that isn't surfaced in the app-by-app storage usage. I have a 16GB iPhone (mistake) that I'm constantly deleting photos from, deleting and reinstalling apps to bust caches, etc., just to find the space I free evaporate when I listen to music.
Gatecoin got robbed of over 185k ETH and they asked if they could get those back when Vitalik first mentioned they were going to hardfork in the hours after the attack.

They were obviously denied. It's my understanding they know what account holds most of there coins too.

There have been numerous other small hacks on eth users as well.

Unfortunately, this hardfork did nothing for those people.