skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No insult intended;

Uh... you know that there are vast VAST circles of "startup culture" that are much older than late-teens/mid-late twenties.

Where the heck do you think fucking silicon valley came from - you think all the people who built all this stuff are dead, gone and not connected to the pulse of technology?

so, I assume you're quite young - but may have a poor understanding of tech history. All the +30 people are still here.
And yet on the native browser on my (underspecced) Jolla phone, scrolling is beautifully smooth...
My thoughts as well. The previous generation I have found to have constructive criticism. The current generation cares very little about actual engineering quality and just MVP and failing fast. That's of course an over simplification but the new generation has yet to prove they can build anything reliable or that will be around for more than a few years (see: emacs, bash, etc)
I fully expect it to be an utter piece of junk, but at 89 dollars with 2GB RAM this beats a Raspberry Pi or a Cubietruck hands down on price/performance considering either of the latter require at the very least 100 bucks extra for monitor, keyboard, power supply, SD card, and cabling, after which you're also left with a rats nest of wiring and awful little plastic bits and pieces all over the place.
The company that manages the building I live in, in Copenhagen, dealt very quickly when I reported an apartment on AirBnB.

I don't know what they did, but the regular noise at weekends didn't return.

Everyone who doesn't sublet their apartment year round should be against AirBnB in their building. It can only push the rent up.
Myanmar's war on the Rohingya
Well it will only amplify values > 1.
For a really in-depth dive about the iOS class keys system he mentions I recommend this 2016 blackhat talk by Ivan Krstic (head of security at Apple): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U (relevant portion starts at 6:56)
Shake Shack Bets Against Peak Burger
This has been posted a few times before if you want to see what people though of it back then. I think the original is from 2013 or 2014.
if mix of short and long term residents is such a problem why not build condo buildings which specifically permit (basically intended for) AirBNB short terms? Why such a hard binary choice - either long term condo or crappy hotel. Why there can't be option in between - normal condo building in normal location which explicitly allows short term from the start?.
Here's a complete list of the HN front page for 2016-11-24 (so far) in 10-second intervals. The first field is UTC seconds and the subsequent 30 fields are story ids: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/7a1e8916930cfdd...

Because it uses UTC, this file contains the entire lifecycle (so far) of the story we're talking about.

cut -d' ' -f1-31 gistfile1.txt | grep 13027031 | wc -l
3866

3866 10-second intervals means the story spent almost 11 hours on the front page. I posted that we'd reduced the penalty on the story at 1479955509. So by my calculation, it spent over 9 hours on the front page after we reduced the penalty. But perhaps I've made an error and you'll find it. Also, we don't "set" things to be on the front page for a given number of hours. If I say we reduced a penalty, that's what I mean: we reduced the penalty, and the usual software mechanisms (time decay, votes and flags) resumed their usual course.

Now I need to ask you for something in return. You frequently post comments making false insinuations about the moderation here. I'm fine with answering questions and dispelling doubts, but only for people who are asking in good faith. I'm losing that feeling in your case, because these comments of yours are both common and nasty. Would you please stop doing this? Apart from it being a bummer at our end, it undermines the integrity of the community. Good-faith users have a right to know that we don't do the things you routinely accuse us of, but the cost of replying to such accusations is orders of magnitude greater than that of slinging them in the first place, so there's a huge asymmetry here.
Man, i can't tell if you're trolling me, or really can't see it. I'm actually kinda pissed because if you're serious you're being really dense, and if you're trolling you're being really good.

The article IS saying women aren't as smart as men, particularly not smart enough to handle freedom and responsibilities without being unhappy.

Then you try to bring "capable" as an example, which is ... just a superset of smart?

Then you say bb is being censured for that one article, when it's the fact that they're constantly and almost exclusively producing similar hateful stuff.

Then you start bringing up imaginary examples that are not at hand, which is honestly the purest kind of strawmanning.

And then you try to bring up articles that you claim should be deserving of the same reaction, but are very dissimilar.

I hope this helps you grok things, and if not, there's nothing left to say to you.
I think that kind of nitpicking is exactly the thing he is trying to avoid.

It may not look like it from the inside but the HN crowd is a very distinct, and very opinionated, bubble in the wider world of CompSci and Engineering. It looks like a lot of this crowd seems to enthusiastically cheer things that are not worthy of cheering (like overly-complicated solutions to problems, innovations that are really just repackaged ideas from 20/30/40 years ago, blind faith in the cloud, etc).

Now the HN crowd has its reasons -- things are the way they are because of team constrains and ever-present Business Decisions -- but I think a lot of the crowd has become very disconnected from the wider world of computers and engineering in their quest to churn out cloud businesses ad nauseam. There are entirely different communities rocking entirely different paradigms, and frankly they don't usually inflate the pace of change for innovations' sake.
The later need to show their work in detailed logic way, e. g, a book. That's real idea with execution.
There are still a few places selling the Motorola Atrix lapdock. I got a brand new (old stock) one for 50€!
"my job involved juggling a lot of balls". Looks like he's still doing that job
Venezuela’s Currency Has Had its Biggest Monthly Collapse
>This industry sucks, and largely because of the abusive previous generation of programmers.

Sorry to inform you Zed, but the previous generation of programmers are not the ones on HackerNews and (especially) Reddit. Considering the average age of redditors, I doubt most /r/programming readers are <25, with many (maybe even a majority) <20.
The Ramp Down to Real
It's not particularly easier to physically rupture than a normal battery. You would have to smash it hard enough to break apart the device.
There's another option. You could consider teaming up with the folks on kickstarter.

If I were trying to build a thing, and somebody told me: "hey, I've had the same idea as you did, and worked half a year on it", I'd be intrigued to learn from their experience, and maybe even consider some form of collaboration.
Interesting discussion. Not sure about the breakdown between ridge regression and LASSO though. The difference is not in the error term but in the regularization term.
For Gaussian uncertainty. Which still makes it a much more natural assumption than any other I know.
I've used http://www.smartcardfocus.us/shop/ilp/se~any/so~5/p/index.sh... without any trouble - the Yubico GPG applet runs on them happily, and we're using https://github.com/philipWendland/IsoApplet for PKCS#11 based signing.
That is not even close to being a summary of the story. Sorry. It's not just about mentioning pizza in an email. Your comment was once again completely pointless, I have already told you that what you are doing is only virtue signalling. You just call other people dumb and then link to people agreeing with you with 0 information or content.
Not sure what I'm missing. Ruby? Python?
I think that Zed often offers good criticism for many issues... but sometimes is unable to accept the fact that a lot of people will yell at him. That's life, don't get angry, man. I've criticized Python many times as a speaker at Europython, and people looked strangely at me ever after... but in the end, such things happen. They never kicked me.
Short term (especially weekend) tenants don't care about the neighbours or the building.

They'll have noisy parties, not know where the bins are and leave rubbish in the hallways, and clatter their suitcase up or down the stairs at 4:30 to take a cheap flight home.

> I think best strategy would be for AirBnb and building-owners to work together

I'd like to see a way for building owners, or local government, to get a feed of every listing on AirBnB. They can then terminate leases, or whatever.
A great suggestion. We've received quite a few suggestions for improvement. As the MVP/First beta we aimed for absolute simplicity in the design and implementation as it's easier to add things than take them away. The homepage and informational sections of the site will receive some improvements over time as we get more feedback like this.
Justin Kan has this great quote: "Startups mostly don't compete against each other, they compete against no one giving a shit."

https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/614904706624720896
Why Deep Learning Matters and What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
Simply awesome dude - I'm betting this will get a lot of love from Redis users.
Pretty sure i've been attacked by Zed Shaw on HN before. He dismissed me as a person rather than bother with the argument I was making.

Smart guy, sure, but it is difficult to pay attention to what he's saying at times.
> If he were spending his time actually trying to fix the problems

Let's assume he doesn't have the time or energy to dive into the Python 3 source and then learn the rules for contributions.

Then all he can do is list the problems he has with Python 3. Which he has done.

It seems like the Python 3 community is too defensive. Bad string error message seem to be a longstanding grip. They should focus on improving that instead of complaining about Zed's opinions.
In your last two comments you've managed to introduce “white nationalists” and “climate change deniers” out of Everest-thin air. This is an abuse of the site and we have to ban accounts that post like this. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13027894 and marked it off-topic.
Do you support any type of debugging in foxx, can I somehow set breakpoints and inspect the state?

We're currently using Arango and it gets tedious to call foxx-manager replace every time I'm doing a change on the db
Indeed it does. Might often makes right, and contracts are only as good insofar as they can be enforced. Seen from that angle, IP law is just a tool that you use once you have IP and ignore until then.
There is. First posts, high user id's on web forums, what's your slashdot ID? karma scores on HN or reddit, number of followers on social media. Some of these are hard to fake, some are not. Just 2 days ago, I saw a "stolen tweet", someone in another country took a funny tweet from someone else in a different country, changed the details to match his locale and got lots of likes. We see this in reddit, where people are called out for reposts and posting as if it was their own experience. What is real, what is fake?
Is an MSP430 really cheaper than a low end STM32?

I mean the MSP430 was great, 10 years ago, but the industry hasn't stood still.
Any solution which requires rewriting existing software is impractical. There's nothing wrong with an application having the illusion of full control of the system that sandboxing provides. I'd like to see an OS where all applications are run in a sandbox (e.g. LXC containers). Each application should have metadata which describes what special access it needs (e.g. Android's permissions) but the user is free to enable or disable these permissions at will. Applications can work as they were originally written because any access they expect to have that was denied by the user can be faked. For example, say an application requires access to a database containing your personal contacts. Instead of blocking the application's access completely and requiring the application to correctly handle the case when accesses was denied, the OS can provide a dummy contacts DB instead. The application then proceeds as normal without knowing access was denied. Firewalling in both directions like SubgraphOS is doing is also essential.
You're welcome. Thanks to Stripe there was no extra work required on our end to accept Credit card, bitcoin and alipay. We hope to keep all these options around. There are concerns about having a bitcoin option leading to more abuse so we'll be gathering data over the coming weeks and hopefully the measures we're taking to prevent abuse will allow us to continue to offer the Bitcoin option.
I also have, and would keep on using Java, Qt, wxWidgets than bothering with Electron, and I do have my share of web projects.

Also for all the kids out there, Electron is the second coming of the MSHTML ActiveX engine.

I didn't like it then, surely don't like it now.
I was merely comparing an Electron app (VSCode, not at all an "online messenger") to average apps running on the desktop because your original comment implied "200Mb for the smallest apps" which isn't true.
Passing his work off as that of more famous painters?
There is a native vertical tab feature in Test Pilot, the downside is that it doesn't support nesting (yet?).
People in the mainstream media and online do defend pedophilia though [1-4]. If both aren't crimes, I see no meaningful difference in the accusations.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disor...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/2...

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sex-between-students...

4. https://reddit.com/r/pedofriends
Anyone can think of ideas. I'm sure we've all got entire documents with lists of ideas we never followed up on.

The hard part is finding opportunities to create value for others (making stuff people actually want). Generally speaking, people already have the stuff they want that they can have. Now, I'm sure Paul Graham would say people's desires are infinite and there's still many unmet needs and wants. For All the stuff they don't have but want: well, there are major barriers to entry for those business ideas (flying cars), the exception being those ideas that were just recently enabled by another innovation (a Rare treat indeed). I think we've had this conversation before....

And, as he said in another post: you've got to be at the forefront of any industry. Live in the future. Meaning, use the latest tools and gizmos of any particular industry in order to help understand where things are and get a feel for them.
Would you have any recommendations for resources that an engineer who has no idea about marketing can use to learn how go about marketing a product?
I did C, C++, Java, PHP, VBA and JS and can't tell why so many people have constant beef with JS. I mean especially after all major platforms have adopted ES2015.
It's kind of interesting, you are the second person recently to tell me that I am espousing Wittgenstein's ideas. I never read the man's works or know much of his philosophy, though I know others.

Interesting. It's probably that most people who consider the question "what do words really mean?" hit on a very small set of possible answers. There's also the fact that his ideas have influenced many other intellectuals in many fields, and you many have absorbed his way of thinking by osmosis.

can only legitimately convince each other, ie change someone': beliefs, through exposing a double standard in beliefs

The primary legitimate way to convince another person is to point to reality -- the simplest way to do so is to point to something observable. If I want to convince you that eggs break when dropped, I drop a bunch of eggs in front of you.

Knowledge is another word for bias.

I can't really make sense of this statement, but it seems you're implying that all of our knowledge is untrustworthy. I definitely dispute this -- we have to have some certain knowledge or we don't have any knowledge at all. Put it this way -- do you know that "knowledge is another word for bias"? Are you certain? How?

"Also I say that the word 'exists' is meaningless unless it is relative to a conscious observer."

But does the conscious observer then exist? Do they have to exist relative to another conscious observer? Existence has to be absolute or you end up in such paradoxes. Otherwise, I agree that asserting the existence of parallel universes is arbitrary.

"I also think morality is relative to someone with a "sense of morality". Absolute morality is like absolute humor. Humor requires a human with a "sense of humor"."

Rand's view is that morality is objective, which she distinguishes from intrinsic. Intrinsic morality would be what you call absolute morality -- things are inherently good or evil, regardless of their relation to other things. In contrast, Rand says things are good or evil in relation some agent. However, this relationship is an objective fact of reality. (E.g., "sunlight is good for lizards", or "friendships are good for human beings").
Good question! Based upon my own research and experiences, I know that most companies don't have an onboarding system at all. Some HR tools don't even have it. The onboarding process is a part that is overlooked a lot of times.

Next to that, we are constantly working on a faster and easier way to onboard the new hires. For example: you only need to create a task once and you can add it to every new hire. If you have checked out the demo (it's free and doesn't require any information) you will probably notice that there is a very smooth workflow. And last, but not least, business can upload their own logo and chose their own color. There won't be any branding visible from us to the new hires. That way it looks like it is part of their own system.

If you have any feedback, please let me know. It is highly appreciated!
Teenage boys like to talk about teenage girls in a sexual way. News at 11.

Is this really a surprise to anyone? What's more ridiculous to me is all of these movements to change laws about sexism on the Internet, when in most cases, it involves a 12 year old boy trolling everyone, rather than an adult.

Are adults incapable of fending off a verbal attack from a young teenager? If so, we have serious problems.
Animals with Language-Like Communication: Avian Edition
> And responding to that emphasis: so what?!

Presumably he's talking about web features when he says "Chrome landed that change a few months ago". This isn't copying Chrome, this is web compatability. You need that for websites to work.
It's something that will change with experience.
I dont mind that you reply to multi-with-one....

Sure, I am agitated - but given that if anyone who has ever worked for me on any system who had root access to a publicly used (by many millions of people) changed content from the ACTUAL USERBASE based on their ego being hurt, they would be fired on the spot. A statement would be made saying that we are assessing our data-access policies and auditing who has access to what.

You state I am "over reacting" but are you not aware that the entire premise of credibility in data driven companies is based on access to data? Have you ever been through ANY audits ever?

I am going to make a simple foundational audit question to you:

"Who has access to the financial information of the company"

"Well, our VP of IT, the CFO, the CEO are the only three"

So... this CEO of reddit has been known to abuse his power in his own companies product to edit the contents of that product (userbase comments with interests in various topics which is a sellable marketing package)....

So... whos to say if he reacts like this that he wont edit the financials/user-base counts/whatever he has access to if he isnt happy with the data?????

THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL trust issue with him... to blow it off as a prank is abhorrent.

Does this not make sense?
It's not the same APIs as chrome though. It's the same base. The Firefox APIs are planned to be a superset of the Chrome ones (so you have some compatibility there), but will provide the functionality exposed by many of the older APIs.
In general abuse is anything that is illegal under US law, causes a disruption of service or is otherwise disruptive to our ability to run the service. As far as our TOS goes, if we say it's abuse, it is. We will be very strict in our enforcement. We're hoping that backend procedures and processes we have in place will help us to profile abusers and prevent them from using the services as our goal is to prevent abuse while making the barrier to getting started as low as possible for legitimate users.

A tor bridge/relay might not be an issue but TOR exit nodes will almost certainly result in abuse complaints and action being taken.
How Satya Nadella is taking on Apple and Amazon
RogueBots
We usually post something to that effect, but not always. For one thing, not all the moderators are public. For another, posting that we made a punctuation change, or some such, is tedious.

But the important point is that on HN, titles do not belong to the submitter—they're shared—so submitters don't have any special rights over them. On the contrary, the site guidelines specifically ask them not to change an article's title unless it is misleading or linkbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Comments are very different, and we don't edit them without saying so, unless a user asks us to. (Though a few times I've broken down and corrected an obvious typo.)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13018721 and marked it off-topic.
I couldn't agree more with this. Just the fact that functions are a first class type in JS already makes it better than many other languages.

Another thing that JS is great at is the flexibility it provides: objects are very general and you can do almost anything with them.

Anyone would care to explain why does JS take so much hate?
1. This happens all the time, the market is very efficient. If your idea has any merit there's almost always going to be a competitor near you.

But, as your business evolves, you'll move closer to some competitors and further from others. I think of it like ships sailing in the sea: you might be close to a competitor right now, but have very different trajectories (moving up vs. down on the pricing curve, expanding your product assortment horizontally versus vertically, focusing on different segments of the market, improving on different aspects of the product, etc).

2. One of your jobs is going to be to navigate that competitive landscape. It shouldn't necessarily keep you up at night, you need to focus on the problems in front of you instead of being constantly paranoid about competitors, but you do need to be strategic about where you steer your ship to stay differentiated.

Is the other product exactly the same? Could you differentiate on brand, focus on a different market niche, do it cheaper/better, have better design?

3. It depends on #2. If I could think of a way to differentiate and leap frog the first product, I would try that. If not, I'd probably launch it anyway if I've spent 6 months on it. What do you have to lose?

4. You can't avoid it altogether. There will always be competitors if you're creating something valuable, if not now then later. One of my friends runs a company that builds SaaS for janitorial quality control (a relatively niche market) and even he has competitors. Navigating the competitive landscape is just something you have to continuously do as a founder.
What is a cloud framework?