skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jconsole is a very old, discontinued program, but it looks alright to me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ji9hahszxttpetx/jconsole.png?dl=0

The newer bundled jvisualvm also looks fine: https://www.dropbox.com/s/549exowkau3ry3t/jvisualvm.png?dl=0
While I mostly agree with you, I can speak from experience with how we handled the first point:

We were interviewing a new admin for the sysadmin/maintenance team and her answers to "how would you solve this problem?" were "Open that file and check that these variables are set and, if not, set them". One of the more jerkish people there went down the rabbit hole of "How are you going to edit that file? What if you don't have vim? Okay, what if you don't have emacs? Nano is gone too" leading to the response that made us hire her: "Well, in that case the system is probably completely hosed and we need to stop configuring things and focus on recovery. But I think you are looking for me to tell you a sequence of commands that involve cat. If you give me five minutes I can check stack overflow and get back to you with those"

Which I personally think should be the response for stuff like that. Understand there is an alternative and a way to resolve the corner cases and know how to get that info if needed.
Show HN: Ava – an app to make conversations accessible for the deaf/hoh
> since he had a super majority.

That doesn't explain the other 6 years pure obstruction.
I'm sorry: you would hesitate to extend marriage rights to post-menopausal women.
Electric car maker Tesla eyes UK base after making first European foray
So, when you step off the accelerator on a car with an automatic transmission, the ECU has to decide whether it will switch to the tallest ratio to let the car coast and save on gas, or keep the same ratio and engine brake using the intake vacuum. On a traditional automatic, you either use the paddles to keep in the required gear, or on older transmissions use the 3 or 2 position on the column lever.

CVTs have no fixed ratios, and do not need to in order to engine brake. My preferred control would be a small column-mounted stick with 2 or 3 positions that would enable automatic engine braking at varying strengths, kinda like the controls for an electric retarder on big trucks or buses.
If the Go maintainers change metrics, you can still distribute the old version, or even modify the new version back to the metrics you want and distribute the result. That's the advantage to friendly licensing.
Great example. HN is the perfect place to find people right? I mean, I should know.

HN who's hiring, like most online job advertising, is a crapshoot. It's a once-a-month post where you are drowning in noise. Finding a very large group of potentially relevant people for the roles you are hiring for isn't as straightforward as it sounds. Engaging said group and convincing folk from said group to come work for you is exponentially more difficult.
From the article... Nice

"I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me".

I'm skeptical... then this

"Speaking of Clinton — did you target fake news at her supporters? Or Gary Johnson’s, for that matter? (Horner’s Facebook picture shows him at a rally for Johnson.)"

"No. I hate Trump."

To be fair the next question somewhat addresses this with some anecdotal info. However at this point I can't take the authors credibility seriously. He sounds like a troll with way too much time on his hands.

"Is that it? You posted on Facebook a couple weeks ago that you had a lot of ideas for satirizing Clinton and other figures, but that “no joke . . . in doing this for six years, the people who clicked ads the most, like it’s the cure for cancer, is right-wing Republicans.” That makes it sound like you’ve found targeting conservatives is more profitable."

"Yeah, it is. They don’t fact-check."

I think it's fair to say that older people tend to be both
a) more conservative on average than younger voters
b) more susceptible to click bait and fake news. ie "Forwards from Grandma"

This guy could do so much more with his life.
I've always wondered about this.

In my head, using the engine/transmission to "brake" when in gear going down hills or slowing down seems like a bad idea. Something is getting stressed in order to slow the car down.

Having to replace my brakes makes sense, they get worn out, and its relatively inexpensive (especially if I do it myself). I have always been wary of staying in gear to brake. And, as it so happens, my manual has 130k miles on it, stock engine, transmission, and clutch. Never had any problems.

I would love to understand the science behind why using the engine/transmission/clutch to brake is better for the car than just using the brakes.
Why having a separate application with these features instead of adding them to Firefox for iOS ?

Is it planned to have content blockers support in Firefox for iOS ?
+1

Seems like Duck Duck Go would fit well with what seems to be your mission with this project.
Besides the points addressed by my colleague, we _absolutely_ want to make hosted project easier to discover and developer pages more attractive.

Right now, GitLab.com is slow [0] and the interface is a little bland [1]. The features to support open source projects are there (I'd say, but please let me know what we miss), it's a matter of iteration before we should really be the preferred option.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/59

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/24304
Our company runs an SaaS shopping cart and we had to work in similar algorithms to estimate the size of the package when two or more products are packaged together, we would then send the sizes and weight of the total package to the different shipping carrier to get shipping estimates.
"Blaming the "fake news on the internet" for the loss to Trump is just the Left's way to divert attention to their own failures to report fairly or even try to understand his popularity without dismissing or smearing everyone as racists, homo-phobes and misogynists."

Uh as for Trump being misogynist, the fact he's okay with groping women without consent that's pretty much a classic case of it if I ever heard it. As for racism, you'll have to admit him declining to rent his properties to African Americans comes with racial bias either or not you like it (this doesn't make him literally KKK/Hitler/Red-Skull but it still makes him a jerk). And as for homophobia, it's misdirected at the man himself but his VP is clearly a homophobe that should've been ejected from the ticket if he was serious about supporting LGBT rights (and he would oppose FADA and support the Equal Rights Amendment). So, he has much to answer for on that front.

As for the rest of your statement, Snowden pointing out the issue of the lack of veracity in online news is a huge problem. Overtly fake news is just the tip of the iceberg since many "factual" news outlets have sloppy or no fact checking of articles and often depend on clickbaity headlines to generate views for ad revenue. Oddly enough, this comes part and parcel with the business model these outlets have chosen to operate under rather finding one which could alleviate the need to become Fox News on steroids.

"Private companies cannot practice censorship so Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Breitbart, etc. are all free to establish their own policies on what to carry on their properties."

This is patently false. Private censorship by definition is still censorship. It just legal censorship.

"Keep a close eye on any FCC proposals because now that they have regulatory control over the internet[1] the legal authority is already in place to censor the internet. If they start floating regulations or even "suggestions" that claim we have to vet the "news" for the "public-good" look out[2]. You have been warned."

I doubt anyone is going to propose such a system on the FCC board since they're busy with the open set box and zero rating regulations at this moment. Plus, SCOTUS already nuked that option decades ago in a series of cases related to the Fairness Doctrine, so there's no going back even with the most liberal of justices. They'd have to make a good argument for it to stick beyond "cause I said so."
Ask HN: How do you stay focused while it's compiling?
Nowadays, every time I need to compile and run my code, it takes about 3 minutes to complete, before it finally starts running.

These three minutes are usually enough for me to open hackernews, reddit or some other news website, and... voilà, just lost 20 more minutes.

So...

What do you do during long compiles? Can you stay focused?
From what I can see this app lets you scan an AR marker (that you apparently have to buy) and then it plays back a movie. End of functionality.

I'm sure the actual movies are decent enough, but as an app there's hardly any functionality and it does look like it violates Apple's policy.

This has nothing to do with 'digital colonisation' and everything with rejecting shitty money-grab made-in-an-afternoon apps.
Corejs-typeahead v1.0.1 Released – A maintained fork of Twitter-typeahead
Works really well! First I joked about how it's the perfect browser for watching adult content on the go (which it is :P) but it's rather impressive. The execution is really smooth, there's just enough options and it's really fast; there's even an option for blocking web fonts.

Great work!
There's a difference between applying rights and inventing them. The latter is certainly worth doing when it's warranted, but it also strikes me as worth setting a very high standard for doing so, because in a state constituted as ours is, to create a new right instantly overrides broad swaths of existing law and precedent. Such potentially dangerous actions should not be contemplated except in a case where their absence perpetuates a harm so grievous and unjust that nothing less will do.

As I've argued at length in this thread and the comments I've linked therein, I don't think it's reasonable to consider that standard met here.
Regrettably, HN is the only public resource that I'm able to recommend anymore. AngelList had promise, but never really delivered.
Just stumbled upon exactly this:

"Equality

Twitter demonstrates the SJW commitment to one of the five fundamental pillars of their social justice ideology.

I fucking hate white people and their inconsiderate asses for voting for Trump. Fuck you!
1:57 AM 9 Nov 2016

Twitter, in response to a complaint about the above tweet:

Thank you for reporting this issue to us. Our goal is to create a safe environment for everyone on Twitter to express themselves freely. We reviewed your report carefully and found that there was no violation of Twitter's Rules regarding abusive behavior.

I fucking hate black people and their inconsiderate asses for voting for Clinton. Fuck you!
4:08 AM 16 Nov 2016

Twitter, in response to a complaint about the above tweet:

We've investigated and suspended the account you reported as it was found to be participating in abusive behavior."

from http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/11/equality.html?m=1
I learned to drive manual when I bought a manual transmission car and had to drive it home from the previous owner's house. It's really not a difficult skill. But people look at me as though I'm a wizard when I'm driving my own car. It's kind of crazy.
As a followup I don't seem to be the only one thinking like this [1].
[2] comes close to what I'd like, but the last update is from 2012 and the author doesn't seem to have done a lot lately.

[1]: https://allinthehead.com/retro/367/why-is-progressive-enhanc...
[2]: https://github.com/jamesallardice/Progressive.js
Don't get me wrong, it's entirely possible if you do it right. I've hired quite a lot of folk as a result of interacting with them on HN alone. My point is that it's a significantly more difficult problem than screening those people.
I agree. It's also incredibly difficult for those who haven't practiced as you have. The few times I have tried it (in safe conditions) I have ended up braking far too hard. My left foot somehow doesn't have the "feeling" of my right foot on the pedal.

One racing driver technique that can be useful in normal conditions (in a manual) is heel-and-toe braking. I use it to avoid excessive engine braking while downshifting, and sometimes for hill starts without using the handbrake.
> History

History is the past as it is described in written documents. In other words, a narrative.
I think we must have lived in two different countries following Obama's election.

The financial world was crumbling, and both parties recognized that drastic economic action was required.

Later, when Obama undertook healthcare reform - a project he had won both EC and popular support for - Republicans initially supported him. The Tea Party and the coming midterm elections pulled them to the right, and their success in 2010 left us with the obstructionism that we continue to see.

Related to the 'political showmanship' - if you recall the Boehner-Obama negotiations, I could hardly characterize that as showmanship. Representative Boehner risked his position as leader to try to demonstrate Republican cooperation but was ultimately drawn back by his party.

Overall, I read your comment as one that is supporting the 'Republican party line' without the context of following the events occurring during the Obama presidency. I would be keen to read any evidence you have in contradiction to the points I have raised.

[1] Here's an article describing the orchestrated obstructionism from the lens of 2012:

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/biden-mcconnell-decided-to-withhold-all-cooperation-even-before-we-took-office/2012/08/10/64e9a138-e302-11e1-98e7-89d659f9c106_blog.html

[2] First, I should say that the individual mandate in Obamacare is fundamentally a 'Republican' (vs conservative) idea, having been implemented in Massachusetts and appeared in 'Republican'-leaning journals.

Second, there was Republican support for the ACA. You'll say 'no one' voted for the bill but the bill's signing was delayed as additions were continually made to appease Republicans who were on, the fence but eventually decided not to vote for the ACA. One Republican Representative did support the bill after it was clear it would pass. Indeed, there had been bipartisan efforts to create an ACA-like bill before the Tea Party pulled the Republicans to the right; see the third link.

- http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/health-bill-earns-one-republican-vote/

- http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml [See Rep. A J Cao's vote]

- http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/12/george-will/george-will-pegs-sen-bennetts-loss-votes-tarp-stim/
zyptonite.com has some great features. Group messaging, group voice calls and group video calls are hard to come by in the "paranoid encrypt everything" world that we seem to find ourselves. That being said, one of their most recent updates hosed my account so badly that I just switched to Signal.

I've also used Wire and I really liked it, but I had the same problem. The update to the new technology broke it in such a way that I can't actually message anyone anymore. If Wire can get their ducks in a row, I might switch back.
This is interesting if true, and a little strange.

As an example, I have a Computer Science degree, however I can't imagine anyone taking what I have to say about Computer Science to be reflective of the greater industry. I'm just a schmuck with a degree.
The original title did show the product but apparently it was moderated?
I always just buy or cook my own food prior to departing for the airport and bring it onto the plane. Considering how heinous many in-flight options are I'm surprised I don't see more people do it.
Apple Keeps Constant Log of iPhone Calls in iCloud, Warns Cop Contractor
A car doesn't drag along the road. The tyres are in relatively static contact (unless you're drifting etc.). Static and dynamic friction are quite different.
Emissions per mile, miles per gallon, capital cost. You can only optimize two of them.
Agree 100% with this.

At the past companies I've worked in finding the talent is the real issue. At my previous company it wasn't so bad as we had an in house recruitment team who generally dealt with sourcing, and generally we had a bigger budget for these kind of things.

However now I'm working in a smaller startup and we're having a lot of difficulty finding the right candidates without bowing to the extortionate cost of recruiters. We've tried the monthly who's hiring, angel.co and other such sites but it's a very slow process, and it's a lot of work to trawl through profiles.

Could do with some disruption in this space!
Why physicians might want to learn computer programming (2013)
Excerpts from the article:

1."What it suggests is that the statistical information was used at the microlevel for surveillance of civilian populations, ...

(appears suspiciously similar to what is occurring now)

2. "At the time, available evidence (and Bureau lore) held that there had been no … release of microdata,"

(Hahaha)

3. The Census Bureau has improved its confidentiality practices considerably in the last six decades, former director Prewitt says.

(How could this be? The government requested and the govenment got the information. It happened then, it could happen now.)

The more things change the more they remain the same.

To be fair anyway, the picture is not black and white. The government had a real and valid fear (proven wrong by events) that the japanese population could be used to foment trouble in the states during the war. However the action still does leave a bad impression
What he said.

I came expecting to be disappointed in the feature set or performance (hello, Brave I'm talking to you), and instead it's got everything I can think of and it all seems to work perfectly.

Well, I mean... it doesn't integrate with my password manager... yet. (=
This is presented as if it is a new problem. It stems back to the 1940s with the adoption of NHST (with its arbitrary "statistical significance" metric) first by educational researchers, then by psychologists, followed by spreading like a cancer throughout the research community from there.

Things have only been getting worse and worse as the "old guard" in each field retires/dies leaving behind only people trained to think rejecting a strawman hypothesis according to an arbitrary metric, then concluding something about your hypothesis, counts as science.
It can be picked up rather easily in a modern car, sure, but I'd like to note that not all manual transmissions are the same. As in, to drive many of them well, it does take a patient instructor and diligent student to understand the fundamentals, timing, muscle coordination, etc. To your point, yes, everybody can probably do it, but can they do it well?

The test I grew up with was a 1991 Ford Ranger, V6, 5 speed manual. The clutch engagement was extremely narrow and the V6 was kind of underpowered, especially with the A/C on in Texas, so learning how to make smooth take-offs was very difficult. I wasn't allowed to take that truck out on my own until I could drive around a passenger with a cup of coffee, not to the brim but definitely there, and not be rough to cause a spill. It was a high bar in my opinion.

Years later, my VW GTi 5 speed and clutch felt like an absolute dream, buttery, easy. Learning on the much harder transmission, in my opinion, was beneficial.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.
A long, but good read if you have 30 minutes to spare. There's an interesting bit of context at the end of the post that put the whole thing in a new light, for me[1]. The careless presentation of misinformation has very real impact, regardless of political POV.

1. >Why am I harping on this?

>I work in mental health. So far I have had two patients express Trump-related suicidal ideation. One of them ended up in the emergency room, although luckily both of them are now safe and well. I have heard secondhand of several more.
Beautiful Chemistry Project
Sure, the "racist" that took barrack Obama voters from Hillary. White people who voted for Obama voted for trump. More latinos and blacks voted for trump than any other republican in the last 2 decades.
I wonder if they'll do the same for Muslim Americans for the upcoming presidential term.
> Recruiters filter resumes with a keyword based search

Although true, this is is somewhat shooting the messenger. If as a client of the recruiter I ask for COBOL developers and all I get are Clojure resumes because the recruiter thinks it's cooler, then the recruiter won't be my recruiter for very long.

Surely where there's an issue it's that the recruiters are being asked for developers with those attributes. They're presumably being asked because the employer, for good or ill is seeking developers with those attributes.

Now, I've personally seen 4 reasons for hiring devs with cutting edge knowledge: because it's cool, because it's the only way to attract good talent, because we checked and we absolutely need that technology and because we run a research lab looking into cutting edge tech we may or may not use.

The latter two are very good reasons to seek hotness. They're also the least likely to be the reason, in my experience. Using shiny, shiny to attract talent is often a successful approach. And who doesn't like cool stuff (though it's a terrible justification)?
Not if you can get access twice. A variety of "evil maid" style attacks exist. For example, imagine I replace your FDE's bootloader with a version that appears identical, except it also logs your passphrase. Then I come back, read the passphrase, decrypt, and win.

For scarier thoughts, imagine I know how to control the Intel Management Engine, and attack that instead. That's not covered by FDE.
Store in whatever format your scheduler uses, which is probably UTC or crontab format, no? For an MVP it doesn't matter as long as it works.

After you outgrow your MVP the standard way to store datetimes for scheduling and rendering is:

1. Always store datetimes as UTC. You keep seeing this because it's correct. Yes you can store in UTC and display or schedule in another timezone. Scheduling is easy when everything is in UTC.

2. Keep an Olson timezone string (America/Los_Angeles) for each user server-side. Create a template filter for django/flask to render your datetimes for the given user's timezone. This is trivial for pytz and the built-in Python datetime library.

3. Use Moment.js and Moment-Timezone to render utc datetimes in the user's current browser timezone. You can choose to use the server-side timezone or the browser's timezone when rendering. I personally always use the server-side timezone.

Always do 1 and 2. 3 is optional if you prefer rendering datetimes server-side.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Anyone care to comment on why you think this way is wrong? It's been working great for https://wakatime.com
I'm white and I call things white as an insult when they offend me for cultural reasons. There are some behaviors I associate with white people that are unpalatable to me, and I call them out, when I might avoid the cultural call-out to other cultures because a) they are relatively more oppressed than my (white) culture and b) I do not see the interior of that culture all day every day, as an outsider to it; I decline to arrogate myself that way.
Did the status quo not already include such a right, this would be a meaningful point to raise. As it does, and we are in fact discussing heterosexual vs. homosexual marriage, I don't really see what you're getting at with it.
Is this targeted at Brendan Eich's https://brave.com?