skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys, I have been working on this simple polls website for a few weeks and decided to share it here to get some feedback and maybe some help. The idea is to let anyone create simple beautiful polls that update in real-time. If you stay on the poll page and people vote, you will see the background move. We were on the PH home page a few weeks ago which was cool and the community really helped improve the product. Let me know if you have questions or comments that could help us push this further. Thank you!
Maybe it's worth checking their feed before writing?
I can't believe he sent out that many solicitations. With an air of smugness, I'm glad I busted my ass in high school to go to a top CS school. I've probably sent about 30 resumes in my life and gotten phone interviews for all but one, offers from 15.

Regardless, I'm glad to see that developers who go to bootcamp can get phenomenal salaries. I have a few friends going through them now.
You most probably done something against they globalist agenda or did not support Hiilary Clinto or you wore a Infowars Bill Clinton is a rapist t-shirt front of your webcam. Google watch and listen all your actions. Straight cables to NSA. Google ? - No thanks.
> There's arguably a distinction to be made between what self identified conservatives believe and the PR campaigns which seek to align themselves

I agree, but many self-identified conservatives believe these things, according to polls.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12986060
The government-enforced student loan system is the problem. Universities know they can charge whatever they want for tuition, they will get their money up-front, and the students will be on the hook for it for life (and it can't be declared in a Bankruptcy).

We need to revamp the system so universities can't charge us these ridiculous rates.
Ah, yeah, you gotta do that. Sorry for jumping to conclusions -- I shouldn't transmute the moral failings of our economic order into personal immorality so carelessly.
>Again, this is irrational from my side as you might not be even close to that group

This poster said he votes "extreme right" because he pretty much blames the feminist movement on him not having a girlfriend despite admitting he lacks confidence. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12908279

By the way, I'm not stalking him or anything, I just read that post and thought "oh man that's gotta be the same guy that posted in the Trump thread" and checked to see if I was right.
I call myself full stack and mean what you mean. I typically have to explain that when I say full stack I mean "literally full stack" as in I have a working level of knowledge with every piece of the system from hardware/kernel to networking to databases to application.

I do agree that when people use the term though they just mean "I can code in a backend and a frontend language".
"Almost immediately when you started work" is precisely too late, though. If you hire purely off GitHub and get someone who lifted their code (instead of forking it), that's a huge price.

Bad hires inflict huge costs up front, in wasted interview opportunities and startup costs and lost training time and morale hits and a dozen other things. "Fire fast" is popular advice because it's better than firing slow, not because unsuccessful hires are a sustainable event.
- Ed Baker

- Justin Rosenstein
Point Laundering: How the Rich Avoid Paying for Vacations
4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles
No, I just don't understand your question. Do you want me to make a crappy guess based on the crappy data you provided? If so, I don't understand why... Judging by subthreads, you just want to say "Ha! Your crappy guess was wrong!". If you want me to pretend that I'm somehow involved in the processing of this case, but I'm restricted to only the crappy data provided, I wouldn't "assume" anything--I would say I don't have enough information to establish any individual's guilt much less sentence them.
You might be interested in this course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0
That was exactly my point 2: Make the defaults to be one step down in security, probably most webmasters don't want to block legitimate people using VPN.
http://matrix.org/docs/guides/e2e_implementation.html

I need to tear into this later, but I really hope they're not implementing multi-party ECDH (which is perilous even if you're using X25519; if anyone thinks about going down this route, please hire a cryptographer).
Really?! I need to upgrade my browser. :)
>return to import/export taxes in addition to a small vat

thus significantly slowing B2B and B2C markets. Why would we do it? It is like Middle Ages - one can consume only what is produced in the castle's vicinity and from every bucket of grain one has to give share to the lord and share to the church (note - the example is exactly vat, not income tax, as vat is taken as share of the total volume without regard to the production cost while income tax is share of profit (i.e. of difference between total value and cost to produce)) And yes, nor the lord, nor the church were bothered with bureaucracy.
The ISP story you're talking about does not apply to the entire world. There are hundreds of ISPs who still charge for a WiFi router separately. No firmware updates coming in is a huge concern for all these routers and devices.
> Finding out exactly where in the past a proverb emerged is a tough task, akin to looking for a needle not just in a haystack

Most people are unaware that the needle in question is a six foot iron pole used to pin the haystack together when built - not the sewing needle you see depicted in the stock photos when you try and find an image of one.
I find the first example much more intuitive. It declares intent, rather than the mechanics of delivery. And that's where we need to be heading as programmers.
There is an easy method of escape. Lose all sense of shame. Then they can no longer control you. Freely share your nude body with everyone.
Not a Haskell expert, but maybe monomorphism restriction
can require you to perform an eta abstraction. Just saying.
>I notice a marked increase in energy levels of people on a dancefloor when I play tracks that I know are made with analogue synths and drum machines.

I'm sorry, but I cannot just let you get away with that. There are so, so many other factors that would "energise" people on a dance-floor than simply whether the source of one or two elements in the track playing are voltage or digital based.

While analogue stuff does sound better (in my opinion), this, along with the inherent confirmation bias of such an observation, is utter make-believe.
It used to contain it.
AppleScript, the perfect adjunct to iTunes: An open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook
The problem is that the RFCs aren't restrictive enough, partly because the IETF doesn't have much authority over registrars. The domain name rules really ought to be something like "one script, plus numbers, in a domain name part". But this runs into such things as the tendency in Japan to mix kanjii with English words. Then there's the whole right-to-left mark business, which has to coexist with left-to-right TLDs.
Remarkable images show how learning an instrument boosts brain power
Windows 10 Cannot Protect Insecure Applications Like EMET Can
Good tips, thank you. I started in algorithmic trading with Java and Entprise-y stuff. Got bored and moved to front-end. Now looking to move to ML. Like you, no degree, but I apply anyway as long as I feel I have the right signaling.
Two counters:

1) These are bit players in the world economy, with nothing like the clout that the US derives from manipulating the world economy via seigniorage, reserve currency status, monetary policy and the ability to lock other countries out of the global economy

2) They will all change their tune if/when crytocurrencies start impeding the state's ability to make policy and collect taxes.

There's a digital currency in our future, but I guarantee that it won't be decentralized and that the government will have the signing keys.
Source? I thought that they were all open curriculum and didn't even have a paid program.

It's been a while since I looked at it, but I've recommended it to people as one of the better sources of actually free content, and not just upsells, and would like to know if that's not the case anymore.
Awesome project! Anything to get faster deployments out is a great tool.

Hate to be 'that guy', but it would be nice if you served this over HTTPS, given that you are accepting credit card details.
In addition to everything said, please don't take homeopathic drugs on the theory that "at least it's harmless." This usually happens when people try to please someone (parents, friends) by "just trying" homeopathy. I made the mistake of doing that, and it was definitely not harmless - the "medicine" contained strong allergens which not only caused hives, but resulted in the acquisition, for a few years, of allergies I never had before - apparently this can happen with sensitization caused by strong allergens.

The homeopathic "doctor" was delighted. You see, the other thing in homeopathy, apart from the belief in water memory, is the concept of most disease as a type of itch ("psora"), which can erupt through the skin ("psora miasm"). No, really, I didn't make that up, you can (with some difficulty) find this stuff with Google. Since like cures like, allergens such as poison ivy, which cause skin rashes, are thought to be curing internal disease, and some homeopathic medicines are full of them, and are used as a complement to the super-diluted ones. Stay away from that whole swamp.
True, and while Cloudflare is a great company, putting all our eggs in one basket isn't particularly wise. Not saying that this'll happen, but we've seen "great companies" that were great while there was strong competition, but eventually when they became the monopoly began to strangle out anything that they were against. Protection providers like Cloudflare would have enormous power to simply kick out a user for being "too costly to host," like Akamai did to KrebsOnSecurity, and then you'd get destroyed by attacks.
Peter Norvig illustrated that quite well: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
This is brutal but fair. I'd say it's a good counterpoint to the cynical (and good) summary above.

A founder is a fool if they don't think the clock is ticking. Fools don't focus; fools fester.

Indeed, the article isn't even talking about putting more money into a worst case scenario; it's talking about founders aggressively using the resources they've been given.
Accurate reporting in action!
This is the issue I see.

Every CodingHorror post and list of hiring tips demands a GitHub profile, with the implication that it had better contain useful, quality code. (And with a bit of a threat that you'd better not put any hacked-together, one-off project in there, even though everyone has some.)

That's good, I see the value of it, and I also understand why interviewers don't want to read it. But new devs have every right to be annoyed when the industry-standard wisdom says that you have to have a thing which is never used.

(The real answer is probably "New devs, get ready for the interview gamut. Experienced devs, call a contact and have a GitHub profile." But somehow that never comes up.)
Here's what the ID community thinks: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2016/11/alien_physics_s103300.h...
This. So much. Declaring intent (what) is much more useful than declaring the mechanics (how). I don't typically care about the "how", just the "what". And the more readable that is, the better.
How many people are actually orchestrating a fleet of containers vs. pushing simple apps to a single box or two with Capistrano, Maven, or Fabric? I don't understand the popularity of Kubernetes and Docker relative to the aforementioned simpler technologies. Certainly some organizations have use for container orchestration, but are startups beginning with that vs. just simple deployment scripts in hopes of scaling up? What's going on? Why are these in the news so much?
That and it satisfies a variety of similar traits: stories about successful proof of concepts, outsourcing work, YC, interesting write ups of business processes, transparency.
> I will point out that fair carries connotations in economics.

Given that this is no economics site and that no parent gave reference to FMV you should probably be more explicit if that's your definition of fair.

Excluding that, that quote is so far from reality that it's pointless to even consider - you even quote the important part. Surely you should be able to put that part into the context of a worker?

> why are places like Walmart so afraid of them?

Ehm, profits?

> But what do you take away from it?

Why does this matter to you?
> If you read my and other responses in this thread, the arts/humanities are far from useless (they just have a less direct economic effect).

I never said arts/humanities are useless. I said they are luxuries, and the fact that people are bemoaning that it costs so much money to enter a non-lucrative profession is the very definition of a first world problem.

> Historically important art/music has often been ignored, ridiculed, censored, etc. To suggest that it only has social/cultural value if it appeals to a popular/paying audience is overly simplistic.

It might very well have social/cultural value. If you're not independently wealthy, you'll want it to appeal to a popular and paying audience if you like having food and shelter and toys.

> I'm not saying there's no overlap between capitalism and art in general, but if they're perfectly aligned then we miss the challenging, obscure, alternative, upsetting, disruptive, etc.

They're not perfectly aligned. However, if your "art" doesn't align with a paying audience, be prepared to be a starving artist with huge student loans. Society is not beholden to you to help you self-actualize your life. Get a job that pays money, and then do your obscure art in your spare time.
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So this is apparently offensive in HN-land. Since I have no idea why, how about if you also leave a comment with your next downvote, deal? I'm honestly really curious.
I'd imagine that since lavabit NSLs make that harder if not illegal.
And the main reason they don't consider it currency is to impose a tax that discourages its use.

Without capital gains, if Bitcoin had ~0% inflation and the US got back up to 5%-10% inflation, then Bitcoin would become a better store of value.

However, with capital gains, the US would have to have significant inflation, around 20% or more, before Bitcoin would really be competitive. (I'm assuming there are significant transaction costs related to the low acceptance of Bitcoin)

In this manner, the US can (1) gain some additional tax revenue, and (2) prevent Bitcoin from becoming a competitor to the national currency, which every nation wants complete control over.
It seems we're very far from each other and you have clearly made your mind up already.

That BBC article is fairly correct on what you claim false. A group solving problems in 169ms is better than another one doing it in 177ms. On average. But you seem to want to dismiss some things to support your agenda.

I don't know mate. I'm a male and I see almost daily situations where women can't feel comfortable. You might not want to consider them oppressed, but holy smokes they have to go through leaps of shit.

Again, I'm not trying to convince you. It's just my anecdotal experience, which seems supported by studies. Of course you might have the opposite experience and can dig up supporting studies.
Not only your government but also your fellow citizens. Especially them, as this makes it harder to distinguish you from the tribe. It is even more regretful that it only takes few of them to spoil the impression.
"Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development" : http://www.svt.ntnu.no/iss/Indra.de.Soysa/POL3503H05/olson.p...
It's funny, a long time ago, my brother and I were debating what would be a good definition that draws a line between a real "computer", as opposed to a calculator/controller/toy/etc. I was advocating running a real OS kernel as a heuristic (but then you'd have to define what a "real kernel" would be), and him, being a Doom fan, came up with:

"It counts as a real computer if it runs Doom."
I've had this issue many times over the years on and off with a late 2011 mbp and a late 2009 mbp. After trying all of the suggestions on the thousands of threads out there about this (google: "osx kernal_task") there was one comment I finally found after all these years (https://discussions.apple.com/message/27901055#message279010...) that has so far been my fix for the past year or so on both. I used to always keep them plugged in to an outlet but now I only use them un-plugged until ~30% then charge back to 100% and un-plug again. I haven't seen the issue since so I figured I'd put this here since it's not a common solution posted to the "osx kernal_task" term.

Relevant bit from the comment "Eventually I realized that the issue seemed to be related to heat. The kernel task spins up CPU cycles to stop heat generating processes from maxing out the CPU and overheating the macbook. About the same time I also realized that the problems seemed to start happening about the time my battery reached 1000 cycles. I have still not replaced the battery so I am not sure it will fix the issue completely. I do know that when the power is not plugged in the kernel_task seems to stay relatively low on the CPU usage list. My battery only lasts about 30 minutes now on low usage so I keep it plugged in all the time. When the kernel_task process pegs my CPU I unplug the power and the process drops back down to normal."
I'd imagine most people would probably love to live in Switzerland, but isn't it also stupidly hard to get a work visa if you're not already an EU citizen? IIRC the company has to prove to the government that nobody in Switzerland or the EU could do your job
I dunno, you can buy 3X diluted poison ivy oil here, which would be 1 part in 1000. I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that if you chugged a bottle of this then you'd probably die:

http://abchomeopathy.com/avpot.php/Rhus-t?defaultpotency=3X
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You'll know exactly how to start your business and you'll have lots of software around you that makes it very easy to not do things that will make nearby people want to kill you.

You won't be able to just do things using your internal assumptions of "how normal people work". That way of thinking will end, outside of some traditionalist preserves. Social norms were necessary for basic economic and legal coordination before we had communications networks. They're being replaced for those functions. They'll be kept on for more limit use in actual social interactions.
There is even parody film, how Federation is totalitarian state. It is filmed in Finland, Federation are Russians:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wreck:_In_the_Pirkinning
Hi, my name is William Dahlheim from Stockholm, Sweden, and it's me and my team that are behind Thing. You're spot on - the basic idea is much like IFTTT but we allow for more steps and more triggers.

Triggers, for example, can be time, location, wifi and/or weather based. These will cause one or more actions to fire. We call them Agents and an Agent can look like this:

When I arrive at Grand Central Terminal play "Hotline Bling" in Spotify and request an UberLUX from 70 E 42nd St to Aquavit if it's snowing.

Here, the triggers are location and weather, of course. Actions are play a track in Spotify and request an Uber. Thing is a way of using building blocks such as Spotify, Uber, Philips Hue, weather, bluetooth, wifi and more to connect yourself seamlessly to services on your terms. The idea is that apps themselves are "just" containers for the service they connect to, so why not combine them in a coherent and seamless way? We chose to do this as a launcher as then Thing will be front row center between the user and the device and not an app like all other.

Anecdotally, as an example, a dear friend of mine was on a date recently that was going quite well. He set up an agent that got him an Uber form the restaurant and took him home. Another agent that he created in the Uber turned on his Bluetooth speaker at home and played some Barry White and dimmed his Philips Hue lamps to a reddish color. A bit of everyday magic.

There's more of course, but I think you get the idea. Thing also curates your apps based on your behaviour and presents you with the apps you're most likely to use at any given time of day. We're big fans of app discovery and grew tired of the wall of apps most phones are today. Rethinking mobile UX!

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. We're super excited about it and hope you'll like it! Feel free to reach out at william@thing.se to me personally or join our Google Group at https://plus.google.com/communities/100847411380430672830 - we'll post some tips and trick and discuss upcoming features and suggestions. Of course, for more info check out https://thing.se

Thanks!
That's not how it works. The universities have a software system [1] that employers can (and do) check to verify the degree. All they have to do is return "Not a Valid Degree-Holder", just like criminal background checks will return nothing for convictions that have since been pardoned.

[1] https://www.auradata.com/Default.aspx
To be honest the issues with rubyspec in the past were sociological more than anything else. It was a right pain making contributions, and certainly not a welcoming community.

Specs have been part of ruby core for quite a while now, thanks to the efforts of other members of the community.
Hi folks, author here. I wrote this for myself for a docs site I'm building, and didn't want to ship a markdown parser to the browser. It's mostly for aesthetics, without sacrificing performance. Custom components for primitives are a nice addition, especially for styling.

I don't know whether it's a good idea, but I like it so far.
Legitmix has shut down: A sad day
I feel alone in thinking I don't want the government regulating any of this. What's next? A prayer disclaimer as you walk into a church?

The people who buy this are probably the ones who can't afford real medicine, and now regulation is going to make this even more expensive. If you think this is the government trying to protect us against ourselves: it's not, and that's not the role of government anyway. This is just an alternative medicine attack to remove competition and keep the price of real drugs high.
> They did release new Macbooks, finally, but doesn't it kind of seem like they'd rather their customers just use iPhones and iPads?

That's true. Phil Schiller said the following in "The Inside Story of Apple’s New iMacs" [1]:

>> Schiller, in fact, has a grand philosophical theory of the Apple product line that puts all products on a continuum. Ideally, you should be using the smallest possible gadget to do as much as possible before going to the next largest gizmo in line.

>> “They are all computers,” he says. “Each one is offering computers something unique and each is made with a simple form that is pretty eternal. The job of the watch is to do more and more things on your wrist so that you don’t need to pick up your phone as often. The job of the phone is to do more and more things such that maybe you don’t need your iPad, and it should be always trying and striving to do that. The job of the iPad should be to be so powerful and capable that you never need a notebook. Like, Why do I need a notebook? I can add a keyboard! I can do all these things! The job of the notebook is to make it so you never need a desktop, right? It’s been doing this for a decade. So that leaves the poor desktop at the end of the line, What’s its job?”

[1]: https://backchannel.com/exclusive-why-apple-is-still-sweatin...
also to note.. they print on canvas..then paint over it.