skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's with the judgement? A lot of people work in IT in places where the pay is good but not that good that many situations can lead to little or no savings. Having many dependants doesn't help either (kids, sick family members, elders you need to support and what not).

It reminds me of the bubble some of us live on thinking everyone has it good and that it's just a matter of being disciplined to save money.
This is obviously just some people flagging it, I think a conversation about the algorithm might be interesting but this obviously isn't some purposeful censorship.
Also not everyone is working in the valley, or even the US for that matter. My German income would allow for a nice life in Thailand, but by no means indefinitely and not to a much higher standard than I have here.

Still, I'm going to be travelling a lot next year since I a) just did get laid off and b) get 80% of my last wage as unemployment bonus for a year.

Anyway, thanks Jason for this blog. I've recently turned thirty and feel like you have listed all the right reasons to just go for it.
'scam developers'? A bit harsh isn't it?
Chef Nancy is caching on Route 53
Personal happiness. Don't you sometimes wish you were stupid enough to be religious?
Help me understand where I went wrong.

As I see it, I did not ignore everything GP said. I read all of their original statements, over half of the evidence, and their 2 additional comments. I admitted that I did not have 30 minutes to watch the videos at first. I explained why my reading of the rest of their comments made me less inclined to spend 30 minutes watching videos. GP seemed confused about HN's reaction, so I attempted to explain my thought process.

Which part of my comment is in bad faith? If I did not disregard all of GP, why should all of my comment be disregarded?

P.S. I did end up watching most of the videos when I had time. I'm still not totally convinced, and since they are entirely about D's, it doesn't help GP seem less partisan.

There's a lot of editing, and I tend to be skeptical of what was edited out (like when ACORN was 'exposed'). Were these people led in a certain direction? Are some of the comments made by someone other than who they're attributed to? A lot of the time you can't see the person speaking.

But, a lot of the commentary in the videos is quite troubling, infuriating even. Given that there appears to be admission of crimes across multiple jurisdictions, why has there not been further prosecution? Especially since some of the allegations occur in majority R states, I'd think they'd jump at the chance to prove D's are cheats.

Both parties are cheats. I think GP agrees, it just didn't come across that way at first.
To put it in a different perspective, if I were driving around with empty beer cans in my car, I would expect problems if I got pulled over by the police. Nobody in their right mind would accept the "I didn't know it was there" excuse in that case, and I don't see why pills would be any different.

I agree 100% that the truth should have come out in court and that the end result (if true) was ridiculous. All I'm saying is that from the cop's perspective the evidence on the scene looked sketchy and he did his job.
I'm not pro-gun but I recognize the effective "right" to own them (not going to debate the Second Amendment with you). That said, I think there's a lot of unhealthy gun fetishization and lots of tragic deaths from irresponsible gun owners.

I believe in personal freedom up to the point where that freedom impedes on that of another. What you put in your body is your own god damn business.

One more argument in my favor: obesity is reaching epidemic levels in America and has a great societal cost. Do you think we should make junk food illegal to protect those that can't control themselves.

Every one of your arguments has been inadequate. Ignore the hurt of me calling you out and think about my point. The War on Drugs has done far more harm than good. It's bad policy and if you research it, did not have any good intentions behind it.
HDFS biggest problem is its SPOF master-slave architecture, not JVM nor GC. With a truly distributed shared nothing system Java Gc would not be a problem, because servers can now run with no major Gc for hours or days. So two servers or clients doing Gc at the same time are very unlikely. And even if some of them do, the pauses from Gc are much more predictable than the pauses from I/O which on a loaded system can take seconds, not milliseconds.

Also if GC was such a huge problem, exchanges or HFT companies wouldn't use Java for their low latency stuff, and there definitely are companies which do.
Better than MongoDB, how? The article says nothing about MongoDB.
Not related to the article, but I couldn't help but chuckle at this part from the "Why Ruby" post:

> It is just not a native part of the Microsoft .NET culture to make things open source
The irony is that liberal today means the government takes more money, and gives it to "the people". Which is not remotely classical liberal.
Issue any voter as many ballots linking candidate to random serial number as they want for either candidate. Publish the complete mapping of ballot-serial before the election. Make up like ten times as many as you want. Maybe a million times.

Give up to ten ballots to each voter. They get to deposit exactly one. They legally have to shred at least one receipt no exceptions (could be the one they voted, could be one they didn't)

Publish the full list of votes complete with receipt and name mapping.

If I'm coerced I eat my receipt for the vote I actually submitted.

If I kept my vote, it should show up in the list of Trump serial numbered voters or maybe I printed a fake receipt, they'll be handing out fake receipts because the mapping was published before the election. In fact I can falsely claim I voted for any one or take the identity of any voter. The receipts are not going to be elaborate, by intention, the secret is the number on it not the paper.

I can prove I shredded 9 hillary votes so if they show up in the list of YES then shennanigans

I can tell a corrupt mass media employer I voted for Hillary merely by turning in any published "Hillary-serial number" combination. All valid ballots were published after the election.

You can make it more elaborate and maybe better or worse by assigning two serial numbers to each ballot, a public serial and a private serial and playing public key crypto style games with which is published.
It's not constant reports, but it's happened several times. But a land invasion gets many more killed. So do regular aerial bombardment.

What is the better tactic?
It is unclear if the ESC key is now a virtual key on the touch strip. That might take some getting used to.
Ask HN: How have you implemented employee evaluations at your startup?
Swift has "if case let" for that use case. (Admittedly, the syntax is a bit esoteric.)
What you tweet could cost you
Yeah, they are using the transistors near their highest gain point. It's impressive that they got this to work- If you try this with through-hole transistors, you will definitely be picking up your local AM station.
two laptops next to each other will work fine for a presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaD0BX9yZM&t=16m53s
Read a lot, study history, and program whatever I wish existed when possible.
macOS Sierra Leaks Image of MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar
> it incentivizes hoarding over spending, especially in the face of an expanding economy.

That kind of macroeconomic analysis assumes that everybody already owns some amount of the currency.

However in the new currency markets that are developing, you have to consider the incentive to even start accepting a currency.

One that loses value over time is not attractive to the recipient.
Or lower-middle-class, or otherwise downwardly mobile, and looking to move up; or ideologically motivated.

Read Albion's Seed -- the Borderers/Scotch-Irish were poor and exiled, following the model you describe, but the Cavaliers were both downwardly-mobile and eager to create ideological utopias, and the Puritans and Quakers were just looking for places to build utopia -- they were doing well enough economically back in England.
They need to stop saying "real-time". Real-time does not mean "fast", it means "guaranteed performance". This is nothing of the sort.
Well, this only holds so far as you live like someone who doesn't have millions hidden away. It would be difficult to turn this hidden currency into an appreciable lifestyle improvement in a way that wouldn't be observable and result in an audit that could prove that your observed expenditures exceed your claimed resources.
At best, you could make a bunch of minor improvements that aren't easily observed.
Oh. Well, that explains it. I don't do a whole lot of drawing, and even in FPS the loss of accuracy is negligable, IMHO.
Ask HN: Hackernews US Election poll?
Could we have a poll at the top of the site that allows users to vote on a Presidential Candidate

It would be cool to get an idea on what HackerNews thinks about the US election. It could run until election day and be updated once a day or so.
Some of these comparisons aren't great. The "Variable Number Of Arguments" example is better expressed in Swift with "reduce", and it's really comparing "summing an array", the varargs aspect is a minor detail of the example. The "Idiomatic Scala" example doesn't even declare a function with varargs! (yes, it uses one, but that's not really the point)

The Swift function in the protocols example doesn't need to be generic, as the protocol doesn't have any associated types, and really ought to be a protocol extension regardless.
Ah, I see. According to you, the world needs laws on the books to keep dunces from harming themselves in all the different ways possible. Ythl, I don't mean to scare you, but did you know you can die from drinking too much water? And can you believe there aren't yet any laws preventing this?! Scary, right?

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/CHICO-Fraternity-pledg...
1000s of times every month,we give governments information about Apple customers
from

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/30593

I wanted to reach out to say thanks for the principled and nuanced stance the Secretary [Hillary Clinton] took last night on encryption and the tech sector. Leadership at Apple certainly noticed and I am sure that is true though out the Valley.

Please know that Apple will continue its work with law enforcement. We share law enforcement's concerns about the threat to citizens and we work closely with authorities to comply with legal requests for data that have helped solve complex crimes. Thousands of times every month, we give governments information about Apple customers and devices, in response to warrants and other forms of legal process. We have a team that responds to those requests 24 hours a day. Strong encryption does not eliminate Apple’s ability to give law enforcement meta-data or any of a number of other very useful categories of data.
That market exploded dramatically because of "you're holding it wrong". Before then, it wasn't so common to see phones in bumpers.
Not had that happen to me as yet.

Anyway, the register [0] mentions that a magsafe type C adaptor may be introduced either by Apple or 3rd Party.

Personally, I like the magsafe design. It has been useful the past 4 years.

[0] http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2475007/macbook-pro...
You have done an incredible job with your site.Keep it up.I wish I could do the same with my site www.mobijobs.net which I created for app developers.Why do you keep changing the price?
The Unix team created Plan 9 to supercede it, so that's the logical choice. BeOS had a lot of fans, too.

(Completely unrelated, I just discovered that the Plan 9 logo bears a striking resemblance to the Go logo [see the Wikipedia link]. Given Rob Pike's influence, I'm sure that is not a coincidence.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
IMO, it makes it harder for humans to learn, but not to read once they have.

>I have to share with non-programmer humans

Non-programmers read your code?
How exactly? There are plentiful examples of people burning alive in gasoline fire explosion, yet LPG ones merely manage to burn hair.
Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away – the Escape key
Thanks for the upvote.

I basically agree entirely with you. However, I think almost everyone would. If you asked Obama or any of the generals running these drone ops to sign off on what you just said, I think they'd gladly do so. They'd then likely go on to say that the war they're waging is one of these unfortunate necessities. Further, that the civilian casualties horrify them, but they're doing what they can do stop them while still accomplishing the (in their minds) paramount goal of eliminating terrorist threats.

What it seems to me to come down to ultimately is that it's ok to use drones when you come down on the right side of that moral calculation and not when you don't. Which, of course makes the drones an irrelevant part of the equation in the first place, since that is the fundamental moral question of all use of force.

Maybe the answer is to un-depersonalize the nature of drone strikes. Maybe their video feeds should be publicly available after X amount of time when they've used their weapons?
The hardware is great, especially given the price, but I've never seen so many weird bugs and glitches (it's my first Android phone, funny enough). I've repeatedly had photos not saved, or corrupted, or otherwise other stuff fail randomly (my favorite is "Unfortunately, Android System has stopped"). The karate chop motion for the flashlight is brilliant, but triggers very randomly. Overall you just get an annoying feeling that you can't rely on this phone. My next phone will most likely be running iOS again.
They have greater time over target which allows greater time to accurately pick a target. Sure, a hellfire is a hellfire, but a hellfire is a small missile. Traditional strike fighters and bombers use larger munitions. You could send in Apaches but they are vulnerable to anti-air attacks.

People always say the layer of abstraction is a problem, but I've never heard a good reason articulated.

Look at the carnage that Russian and Saudi air campaigns are doing in Syria and Yemen. Drone campaigns are much less dangerous.
Huh. Well, mame is similarly better. I guess it's worth a shot.
Unlocking the bootloader means loosing the DRM keys forever which results in worse camera. Also binaries are the issue for custom ROM support - as usual for Android.
TensorFlow Windows GPU Support
No it's not fine, I've watched a few of those videos and there is nothing there that should be restricted for young children, there wasn't anything even that controversial just a different political view.

Since restricted videos can be managed as part of the G-Suite (can be either done via account or more commonly network level blocking) organizations such as workplaces and schools can and often do block them this isn't some parental control that is rarely used.

This type of restriction where YouTube is redirected to restrict.youtube.com (https://support.google.com/a/answer/6214622) is actually fairly common in many places, and it can be done transparently so you don't even notice it.

So yeah this is not fine, and this is a big problem.
I wonder if the lack of the Escape button will force Vim users to start using Control-[ instead.
Instead of buying Slack for $8B, Microsoft will launch a Slack-killer
YC is seed stage - they invest 120k. That's what seed stages have traditionally been. We just see so many $1-4 million "seed stage" investments nowadays that we're all used to it.
Appears to have started with 21 videos and then YT reexamined them and cleared 6 and kept 15 restricted so maybe more than just the algorithm.
Yeah old java6 TLS stacks have problems with SHA256, amoung other legacy systems used by the old guard
We will eventually go full server rendering and just stream every frame to a thin client. We have good enough network now with gbe consumer bandwith and less then 1ms latency up to 50km. But we need more powerful, smaller and cheaper servers.
Apple is said to develop augmented reality based car navigation system
I'm not sure 'components declaring the data they need' is a necessary React idiom especially if you're using Flux. But I do understand that any large application will need 'partial' state and you can't fill out the entire app data for every request like I do in my smaller demo apps.
How about your front end Web stack? I've read a lot about the Stack Exhchange backend, but not much about the front end. How quickly does development move on the front end? How do you test the front end? How subjectively maintainable does it seem to be? Any pressure or temptation to use one of the hip JS frameworks (if you're not already)?
The comparison should be updated to Swift 3. Swift syntax is more intuitive and readable than Scala. A common mistake in language design is to depart from C syntax, without substantial gain. For example, replacing {}, &&, || with other things. Swift strikes a great balance between intuition and innovation.
But that's not specific to Windows servers. Have fun guiding the non-IT guy at the other end of the line to install that important OpenSSL update on a Linux terminal.
ARTFINDER:+Love+Me+More+Hold+me+tighter.+Kiss+me+Longer.+Love+me+with+p
My favorite is if I try to login to my Office 365 account from https://products.office.com and "sucessfully" login then every page on that subdomain starts giving Runtime Error.
You touch type on an iPhone?
That’s because Knuth at some time thought he had it from Hoare. See https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimi...

I guess we’ll never know whether he was right, but all we know is that he used it at least twice in print, while we don’t know any time Hoare used it.
Or start remapping caps lock to escape, which is now possible in the keyboard preferences as of MacOS 10.12.1, which the leaked images are from.
I'm kind of confused by the tenor of the comments in here. I'll admit I haven't been following cryptocurrencies closely, but there seem to be a large number of comments suggesting that ZCash is a scam and that Monero is better (without any concrete arguments).

Could someone enlighten me as to why that's the case? I know of ZCash via the academic papers on it, and because the people involved – Zooko Wilcox, Matthew Green, etc. – are extremely well known and trusted in the security community. I've heard basically nothing about Monero.
I'm sure one of the sauces I tried has habaneros in it (probably the Tapatio, possibly the Valentina). I think the effect should generalize well.
I prefer to go with Rich Hickey's definition of "simple" (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy).

That's why I chose Elixir for our product, and am so glad I did; it may be shiny and new, but it's dead simple.

The "boring" familiar choice would have been Ruby / Node, etc.

I think the problem is when people jump on shiny new bandwagons just because of the shiny factor. When instead they should ask: "Does this shiny new technology radically simplify something that is currently complex and is at the core of my application?" (again, going with the above talk's definition of "simple")
I don't think Medium put that there, I think the author did... You can embed tweets directly into Medium posts.
Every Macbook that's entered my house over the last ~6 years (4 work, 2 personal) has had its adapter abused horribly, and none of them have frayed. Meanwhile they've saved all of them from multiple rapidly-getting-friendly-with-the-floor events (kids).

One thing I don't do is wrap the Magsafe end around those little prongs when I pack it. I just bunch it up roughly and toss it in the bag. Maybe that's what frays it?
I hope that bezel-less-ness race will result in irrelevance of hardware form. What I care the most is the software. Hardware now is mostly good enough. Than maybe they would go die and it would be just like PC-s. I just want to have something good enough with reasonably supported software.

Is it wishful thinking? Or are we close?

I know that they still can push crapware.
Since you're interested in getting attention from recruiters, let me tell you my best tip that will get your email flooded with recruiter spam: open a linkedin account and fill it with bullshit skills that sound trendy.

You'll start getting emails from recruiters within the week with the canned text:

"I stumbled upon your resume..."

Never fails brah!!
Don't know about US domestic, but world-wide both the bin sizes and the seats vary a lot. My travel suitcase usually fits in both, but sometimes it's just too big for one of them. Without standard sizes it's just going to happen.
Thanks for the tips and help. I just get down I guess. I didn't know about the guru's not getting along. I guess I have that going for me as I generally get along with everyone.

I will try harder. I'm wrapping g up my current project/client and I'll fix up my portfolio/redo my CV. I'll see if I can find an equivalent to a hiring agency too.
DNS Load Balancing: How to Improve Web Site Performance
Came here to say the same thing. Programming in Scala feels elegant and exciting and all of the projects (Akka, Spark, etc) means that there are always new things to learn. Thanks Martin!
Is that accurate? The USA has been willing to use regular manned aircraft for bombing in plenty of situations that are more dangerous than Pakistan and Yemen.

There is basically zero chance the taliban can shoot down an F15. Drones are used because they are cheaper and the better tool for the job.

In fact, Drones only work in areas where the opposing forces have virtually no ability to shoot down aircraft. Because drones are sitting ducks. In a shooting war against any country with anti-air capabilities, drones wouldn't stay in the air for long.
I don't think he was going to purchase the license for the customer. The point is that the license cost contributes to the quote, no matter who purchases it in the end.
Design Localization and the New Web
This shouldn't be surprising to anyone envolved with social media. This type of thing has been going on for the last couple of years. The most recent high profile event was when Twitter banned Milo Yiannopoulos for bigoted comments which his followers posted. [1] But it is often the case that this type of thing occurs because of a flagging algorithm.

However, I would still defend Youtube's right as a company to act as it chooses. If people dislike Youtube's behaviour they can leave the platform, and if enough so choose Youtube will feel the free market forces acting just like any other company would.

This does highlight an overal issue I've noticed recently, namely, a growing tendency for people to not be capable of rational discussion. And if someone presents a differing viewpoint, many people and companies alike respond in an outraged and overblown PC manner.

To see something along these lines that is actually going on in Canada right now check out Jordan B Petersons videos on youtube. [2] I really could not believe what's happening to this very intelligent man is real until I saw it for myself.

Anyway, I wish people could just calm down with the emotional outbursts and have rational debate to come to conclusions about specific issues or even agreements to disagree.

1. https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-just-permanen...

2. https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos/videos
Empirically, that's probably true, but probably only because functional programming is usually more popular with fiddlers and academics than with get-shit-done developers, so there's simply less time spent on improving developer experience. I can't think of any inherent reason why functional languages would have worse error messages. Elm prides itself in its (compiler) error messages, for instance:

http://elm-lang.org/blog/compilers-as-assistants