skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Parks Were Radical
> I went on to design the N-Strike range of Nerf dart guns...

Maybe having a guy like this design them is why they're so awesome. Those things are accurate at a surprisingly long range, in a package the size of your palm. I was quite impressed with the one I used.
I have had previous accounts banned for stating the following:

"Homo sapiens are a sexually dimorphic species of primates, in which the Y chromosome results in differential physiological development between males and females."

So yes, HN is quite a hivemind when it comes to gender/identity politics. In fact, I have a feeling I'll get banned for this comment.
Wayland should allow for that to work well. Give it some time, it's not early stages but it's still not a production-ready environment unless you're living on the extreme bleeding edge, with a knife sticking out your head and all.
I'm not sure if you're arguing about data or personal comfort. Over half the adult human population is 5.5 feet or under if you recall that women exist and are half the people
To go fully into la-la land here: what if, after imposing the price controls, you also imposed a slow-start exponential-growth land-value tax based on how long you've held a given piece of real estate—which would start sooner the higher-aggregate-worth of property you owned—such that it was then higher-ROI for property-management companies to flip properties before the tax started applying, but not generally higher-ROI for individual homeowners to flip their homes except perhaps after ~20 years?

(In other words: a roundabout mechanism to do to "land under your mattress" what inflation does to "cash under your mattress.")
The author's description of first encountering the statue is carelessly grandiose. Do people actually have these kinds of reactions to things that are so static and overt? In order to find nuance in something like that, you either need to have extensive background context and deep insight into the mind of the artist or else your pontifications at some point say more about you than the art. Once that happens, you run the risk of sounding some combination of pretentious and disingenuous.
I got this in my email box and don't know who gave it to them. I'm not sure if I agree or not with the entirety of their platform but I'm too annoyed right now to care.
On Your Next Big Deal? Double Your Pricing
The greater the scope, the longer the name.

But: the broader the fame/notoriety of the entity, the shorter the name!

Just like in human culture.

Among your friends or family, you have a nickname. In a broader situation, you might go by your first name, and in a broader one still, by your full name.

But: if you're stinkin' famous, then you might get a nickname again, and everyone knows it.

I'm not going to give the Lisp cons function a seventeen letter name just because it is global.
If you were that tall you might just be used to angle both thighs towards the middle of the car while in the back seat. Rarely a problem (as long as the middle seat remains unoccupied)

Source: being tall.
Google Duo: cross platform one-to-one video chat
The world record marathon time, 2:02:57, works out to about 4:41 per mile. It's incredible that someone can keep that pace for 26 miles when most (including me I think) couldn't run that pace for even 200 metres.
How an Obscure, Crime-Ridden Bay Area City Became America’s Hottest Market
webOS is still my favorite mobile OS by far. It did so many things right like cards and the Touchstone charger. Cards and swiping actions were so natural. Synergy was very useful. The apps had some skeumorphism but nothing over the top. The notification system was very advanced for its time. With one-handed operation it's still easier for me to do all the swiping from the bottom of the screen instead of the top. Now the whole thing is just a slow front end for LG TV's.
REST Assured Testing Framework
As a mostly non-tech folk, nope.
We need both. Prices are rising in desirable places all over the west coast because of the same NIMBY attitudes.
I don't think you'd have to train much to get to 42k in 2 hours -- at least on a road bike. 20 kph is a pretty leisurely pace and even if you only train 3 days a week for a couple of months, I'm pretty sure you could do it.

100m in 9.6 seconds from a standing start, though... That would be pretty tough. You'd need a fixed gear bike, I think, and crazy grippy tyres :-) I've never ridden track and I often wonder what kind of acceleration those guys can get.
> Asserting a convention here feels a bit misguided.

Expecting GitHub to spend real money to cater to a tiny minority of users of their web service is misguided. The business models behind public internet services are simply not structured to cater to anything but the lowest/simplest common denominator users.
I agree. The transition was made from Brilliant Educators to Experienced Educational Administrator. Needed to happen for them to scale.
Seems like it was quite "better" than the alternative (basically anonymous user logins making comments) for my home towns recent transition to fb comments, for what it's worth...

The one place I've actually found awesome comments was "the economist" (well, HN isn't bad either), and the ny times is kind of OK. Everywhere else feels pretty iffy...
The better (and well hidden) way to plot rows in Google Analytics
The Secret Lives of Cadavers
Your thinking Saudi Arabia UNILATERALLY caused the oil glut. IF that were the case, Saudi Arabia would be more powerful than OPEC, etc. They are not. The thing is most of the world's oil producers were pumping oil at ever increasing quantities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Top_Oil_Producing_Countie...

As oil prices went down, they had to pump MORE to maintain operating costs.

http://econbrowser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/us_oil_jan...

http://econbrowser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/crude_oil_...

http://econbrowser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/saudi_prod...

http://econbrowser.com/archives/2016/01/world-oil-supply-and...
Don't conflate the webdev world with the rest of the tech industry. Most programming jobs are controlled by companies who do care what credentials you have, and the companies you describe are in such high demand by applicants that they have more qualified applicants than slots to fill.
I wrote a proof of concept that does multicast using the file system and inotify. A bit hacky and there are drawbacks, but it works.
Prices will rise anywhere demand is concentrated. There is simply not enough land in most of the Bay Area for reasonable rents, as additional supply will be quickly soaked up (just as building additional road capacity is futile, and is quickly swamped with more traffic).

You can use either the carrot or the stick to promote tech companies to either deploy satellite offices across the country or enable remote work, but this is not a planning problem, its a tech sector externality.

With apologies to Sam Kinison, "Move where the land is cheap."
Transfer of Internet Governance to ICANN
I wouldn't be surprised if it feels random because it is loaded after a network request with variable timing checks to see if you have the pro version or not.
He wrote "For locals and lambdas", which includes more than just tiny scopes (where I agree that short variable names can be appropriate and improve readability e.g. `xmlNodes.Select(x => x.Value)`)
> you also imposed a slow-start exponential-growth land-value tax based on how long you've held a given piece of real estate

Since the growth is exponential, if the pain becomes too great after N years, then everyone is forced to sell after N years. Looks suspiciously like a fixed-term lease, no?

So instead of price controls on real estate, now we've gotten rid of real estate altogether and just have price controls on rental rates.

This is one reason why mixing a command economy with markets is tricky, btw. Once you start down the rabbit hole of using coercion instead of price signals to get people to do things, you'll find you need to use more and more coercion (whether strange taxes or more draconian measures) to make things work.
you're right and wrong. :-) (which is the best kind of right/wrong? haha)

what I mean is... I tried to make a subtle point, but it didn't come across. what I was trying to say was this is one of the most toxic sites I've seen for a certain mix of toxic behaviors: mostly passive-aggressive, hyper-nerdy/autism-spectrum types of comments, humblebragging, etc. I agree with you wholeheartedly, from my own experience that yes there are other sites where there is more direct abuse, more direct trolling and harassment, which doesn't happen (or nearly as much) here on HN. what I'm saying is, on the flip side, I see a lot more of a certain kind of... there needs to be a word for it... the slang terms I learned for it were douchebags, pinheads, compulsives, booksmart-yet-streetdumb, etc. I just have never encountered that as much over on Reddit (itself a broad category because so much variance between subreddits there, and front page vs not) as I have here on HN.

again, I wasn't saying there's no signal here, and no politeness. I see lots of politeness and maturity here. also lots of muck. thus my slang term "shit salad" -- mix of good and bad. my point was that there's a different assortment of bad behavior I see here than on Reddit, CNN etc.

it does appear to me to have improved a lot, especially over the last several months. we'll see. YMMV.
I have no problem with construction, but you're equivocating.

The SF housing crunch is an acute, hyper-local problem, obviously caused by a tech bubble. Rents were declining in SF as recently as 2009. Rents decline rapidly as you get further from the city.

The long-term price trends of homes in (say) San Luis Obispo, while interesting, is of little relevance to the discussion. The markets are so different that you can't draw any conclusions (except, perhaps, that Prop 13 is a horrible law, and that mortgage interest deduction is a disastrous public policy choice).
Update on the IANA Transition
New framework defaults in Rails 5 to make upgrade easier
I wish that were true, but I think MS is more interested in tricking users into being locked in to their software and selling their data than caring about power users/developers.

I think it will bite them in the ass eventually. Non-techie people will follow the recommendations of power users, and they are really doing a good job of pissing off all the power users.
Even if you opt out, you're still sending telemetry. Unless your telling me your buying a smart phone and never installing an app. It takes telemetry for apple store to check your system and see if your apps need updating. it takes telemetry to check if your icloud is backed up. it takes telemetry to say "it will take you 20 minutes to drive home" notifications that popup..
Is that all you can say? It does exist, but it isn't much better than it was in v4. A few more canned tags; big deal. I wonder why the minor syntactic differences were so important though. Is it that hard to close a tag? And why no empty tags, they're certainly more concise? These are probably rhetorical questions. Sure HTML is superb; you still have to specify the time of your upcoming webinar as plain text so the users from other side of the world would have to look up what the WTF timezone is, but I'm sure there's a tiny half-megabyte JS library with a clever regex to fix this.

XML is the only sane format to deal with marked up texts written in natural languages, and this is precisely because it is extensible, so you can describe the structure in terms that make sense to the subject matter and still be able to process it with standard tools. It's also a perfect format for parsing results, because XML is essentially a frozen syntax tree. HTML is just a single fixed language; it's widespread and popular but not because it's technically superior (same as JS and CSS).
I believe the above poster was saying that you can have your cake and eat it too by making sure that the type is passed at the time of the DAO construction so to avoid the need of specifying the type at every method. You can still use a common interface and you don't need to follow a 'bloated active record' style for just doing this.
Meesho makes it easy to sell on Facebook, WhatsApp
I just checked the 10,000m race in the Olympics, and they're coming in at 27 minutes, or 22km/h. It would definitely be a close race on my mountain bike with knobby tires. Very impressive.
The animation is deceiving simply because it doesn't show acceleration. Those starting blocks you mention will have a big impact on the initial acceleration, but ultimately, the data isn't there; we don't know what meter splits any of those medalists ran.

Regarding running shoes though, there really are no "running shoes" to speak of in sprinting. I doubt that changes in sprinting spikes have made any difference in many decades. There are only so many ways to make a toe spike plate with a negligible heel, sewn up into a room slipper.

I'm going to google for images and surrounding info about historic sprinting spikes now. [...] Hmm, one obvious difference is that the pre-1960's spikes were looong due to the track surfaces before tartan. Those nails look like what is used for cross-country today, wow. They would not even be allowed on a modern track.
In 1988, Ben Johnson was stripped of his Gold. His time was 9.79, which would not have been beaten until Bolt in 2008 - 20 years later. Johnson admits to doping, but also is adamant that Carl Lewis was also not racing clean.
I end up doing this because I'm either using Eclipse or Vim + YouCompleteMe. Every programmer should get their autocomplete story in order so we can all hop on the long variable name train :)
How is it different from Michael Nielsen's book?
The only solution is for trusted commenters to rate cryptographically signed comments. And they would only do so if they felt like doing so.
Although, notice these are just the finishing times in the Olympic final, not the world records at the time. So it's dependent on things like weather conditions and altitude.
"They imply a message that human runners have improved constantly since 1896"

But they have! World population increased from one billion to 7.4. Also I imagine that the proportion of people who have the opportunity to train for the Olympics has increased. Already you'd expect a vastly improved pool of talent. Additionally though diet and training techniques have improved steadily. Do you really think Bolt couldn't beat Thomas Burke (12s 100m 1896)?

The same effect is apparent among classical musicians. I can't figure out how to Google this, but my understanding is that pieces once considered nearly impossible to play are routinely played at music schools now.
Wary of non-https page.
Is there a reason this couldn't be done as a new socket type (initialized by socket()) instead of either a dedicated new system call and/or the device node they're doing now? I'm not sure it'd be important to do that instead, I'm just curious if there's an obvious rationale I'm missing.
"You'll be a conservative once you're older" was a great comment 30 years ago. :)
> "as one kind of comparison (not definitive by any means, just one that we have the #s to do..): box did around 300m in revenue last year (so less than DB), but Box market cap was around 1.5B at that point, so 5X revenue. if you did the same math to DB, we're looking at around 2B market cap for DB...1/5 of their last raise at 10B =/"

This math drives me nuts!

The logic of directly tying valuations of a private company to the only public direct competitor in the space is flawed (analysis don't use GOOG,MSFT for this). Using the current logic; if Dropbox (private) beats the crap out of Box (public), this would result in reduced growth and reduced quarterly numbers for Box. However, Box's numbers are then used as indicators/benchmarks for the cloud storage space, and then used to price Dropbox.

When you look at Box's valuation, you should be aware that the price is partially because of risk/competition from Dropbox. How much of the price? I have no idea.

To borrow a comment from @barleyworth from another thread:

here are things that actually matter for valuing these sorts of companies:

* cost to acquire a customer (Box's S-1 notoriously had sales+marketing which was greater than their revenue)

* customer churn, or relatedly, lifetime value per customer

* subscriber growth

* margins (i.e. storage costs)

- Full disclosure I am an ex-Dropbox employee.
I think it's the least bad of a set of various bad solutions. Healthcare seems so essential that we can't let poor people go without it. And it seems like demand is totally inelastic. So maybe it's better to have no market than to have one where government is excessively entangled with insurance companies.

But I admit that I'm not super well educated on the issue.
Spot on. At this point Soundcloud's biggest advantage is the fact that it has every tastemaker / DJ on there - some time ago the same thing could be said about MySpace and bands / artists.

My use case for Soundcloud is mostly listening to sets, often featuring rare material, well done by crate diggers as well as keeping up with some smaller labels I enjoy. Frankly, these days I'd prefer to do that on Mixcloud, which isn't flawless but at least gets the basics right, like remembering my play queue and current position.

Sidenote: When speaking about Soundcloud's mobile app one has to mention the fact that there is a seperate app, Pulse, just to handle comments and notifications which seems insane to me. As a content creator I use it, but don't see how this couldn't be integrated into the already existing app which apparently is for consumption only.
Keep an eye on Colfax - they've had some nice deals in the past:

http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/
>BTW, the upgrade stuff was pretty hoaky

Hoaky? I'd go with deceptive, misleading, shady or dishonest instead of hoaky.

So you really think it's even in the ballpark of ok to force an update on people?

Personally, I don't have a need to update just so my OS is called Win 10 instead of Win 7. Plus I hate the Win 10 interface. I don't need touch enabled interfaces for my desktop OS.

There are many reasons why not to upgrade. Compatibility is a major one, unsupported hardware is another. The forced tracking is another. Need I go on? That's enough reasons for me.
What we are talking about is whether or not you should rewrite public history. The technical reason is based on the fact if others have access to this history or not.

It does not matter if you pushed it to a private repository where some other people still have access to; they might have fetched that history and committed on, which causes unexpected results when you rewrite such a branch.

I tend to use published history / commits for this reason to make it less confusing.
How to create a React component to publish on NPM?
Since Intel's product is just a bunch of CPUs it should work with OpenCL out of the box.
Meanwhile, this guy worked 120 real productive hours (albeit just for one week) and he has a video to prove it: http://blog.nickwinter.net/the-120-hour-workweek-epic-coding...
I interpret it like so: there are careers which require a very particular training path and careers which do not. Additionally, many training paths are widely applicable to several distinct industries.

If you graduate with a degree in math or computer science, you can work in just about any division of tech, you can work in just about any division of finance (maybe not traditional investment banking, but most analyst/trading/quant roles), you can work in certain applications of biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, genetics or other sciences, you can work in many areas of advertising, you can work in many areas of marketing...you could start your own company, you could publish a novel...frankly you could do just about everything other than be a lawyer or a doctor.

Writing all this out, it actually sounds like the optimal career path is to get formal education and training in the most difficult or restricted fields, because you'll still have so many options anyway. Then you can cross-pollinate your knowledge in other fields.
This is very much like Collective Intelligence book but targets deep learning. I am really excited. The draft seems pretty good.
Show HN: Npmcdn – A CDN for stuff you publish to npm
ReactOS 0.4.2 released
Why remove downvoting directly? I'm not against the idea, I just want to understand the thinking.

I wonder if the problem is the binary nature of so many things. 5 star/1 star reviews are the most common, we have up and down votes, but no real context for that. I wonder if the problem that needs to be solved isn't context, rather than directional.

This is me spitballing, so feel free to IGNORE everything below.

I was listening to the Freakonomics podcast on proper voting (e.g. elections) the other day - this one: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/idea-must-die-election-editi... - and there was an idea called quadratic voting. http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/

Anyway, the idea is that we all get X votes, and we can vote more on some things, e.g. if we REALLY want marijuana legal, I can vote 4 votes. The twist is that the cost of extra votes is the square of the number of votes, 2 costs 4, 3 costs 9 (we all get maths works).

The theory is this lets people vote on what they care about, much less than simply voting equally.

I was wondering there isn't some way to create a system where you earn votes, that you can spend in some similar way, e.g. you "earn" upvotes from others, and can spend them elsewhere. If everyone got a single vote, but you earned extra votes you could spend in interesting ways at increasing cost, e.g. you could heavily downvote an idea at an exponential rate, it might make people less a victim of common denominator views, give fringe views more airtime, and make people consider a vote more deeply. Not just yes/no but how much do I hate/love this idea? Enough to blow 100 points on 10 down/up votes?

Anyway, just some random braincrack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8) I needed to get out.
> Treating homes as investments is what leads to most NIMBY ways of thinking, which while harmful to the region at large, make perfect sense on a homeowner level. Many SF land owners have bought in at overvalued levels and continue to pay or receive overvalued rents.

This is something that puzzle me. If areas are upzoned and higher-density redevelopment becomes possible, then housing prices will drop. But housing prices aren't the same thing at all as land value. If I owned a small low-density unit on a small plot of land, I wouldn't be able to sell the house as such to someone who wanted to live in it for as much money, but I think the value if the property could redeveloped as-of-right at higher density would increase.

So at least some plots of land should increase in value.
You make it seem like forcing a company to serve an unprofitable market is the same as regular market competition. It's not. It's extremely distortionary. And it hurts competition--it basically means only huge insurance companies that make big profits on group plans they can use to offset losses on exchange plans can afford to enter the market.
A lot of the audience went away because of Google Reader - Reader drove out newsfeed competitors, then when it shut down people went to non-RSS alternatives that they were already using like Facebook. Basically Reader killed all momentum for RSS and Atom.
In a few years, perhaps a 10,000.00$ used Tesla.
Any insights into what the YIMBY position is on rent-control? They don't even mention it in their platform, which seems like a big omission (and obviously not accidental).

While I fully support this movement, I do believe rent control has been an effective way of slowing down gentrification and forcing residents out of the area (although there are exceptions to this, of course). As an engineer who should not have rent control but still does I do recognize the system does have its limitations.
...until the day MS makes its Tracking pseudo-malware - or whatever they're trying to force on you that week - a "security update".