skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for this answer. The answers from OP were not convincing me.
Learn both and decide for yourself.
From Bloomberg terminal, ICAP Singapore is the only exchange that has updated rate at 23:44. Other exchanges haven't updated since the 12/05 date.
YouTube already has comment voting. So does Reddit. Doesn't seem to be a trend in regulating comment quality. OTOH a decade ago I found the lack of comment voting on FARK to be refreshing.
Is Hunger for Poké Ruining the Environment?
I think Julia will eventually eclipse both R and Python as a math/science language - and possibly even a general purpose language.
Well, Paul actually did change the ranking algorithm to penalize anything Snowden or NSA-related. He also adjusted the ranking to penalize discussions of TSA policies which directly affect entrepreneurs who have to travel in and to the US. And the discussions at the time were much the same as now - people (including me) saying "hey wait a second these are very much on topic" and others saying "but it makes us uncomfortable to discuss the political aspects of technology, let's pretend it that an arbitrarily-enforced rule of 'no politics' is apolitical"
I agree with a lot of what you said. I do a lot of maths and development, and for me it boils down to using R when doing analysis, anything statistics based, and general prototyping, then I switch to python when I have to build an app, even though for some problem domains i.e. Image Processing or NLP I will just start out in python because I prefer the libs.

As a side note on julia. The only reasons I haven't started using it on the daily - and I've tried it and liked much of what I've seen - is that the module system doesn't let you build modular production code and apps like Python does and R is just so good for what I use it for there's no reason to look for a replacement.
Philosophy, “Ancient Artes” and a Modern Tool Chest
Censorin' Dang, back at it again!
Most of the brilliant scientists and engineers behind that technology were trained before the Nazis came to power.
I appreciate that. Thanks!
It's already gaining adoption outside of the BSDs. OS X/iOS seem to have it as part of their libmalloc. Android Bionic libc has it as part of the code they sync from upstream OpenBSD.

Many open source projects include their own, or simply bundle the OpenBSD implementation:

* mandoc
* flex
* unbound and nsd
* tor
* tmux
* libbsd
* libressl
* xorg-xserver
* ...

The list only continues to grow, several more examples to be found on GitHub.
So then you're gonna have people looking at you and saying "ugh, Angular is old and outdated, you should be using ng-not-angular-but-newer-and-shiner!" and everyones gonna be upset that they didn't find out what the new versions name is so that they can upgrade to that.
And I don't envy the admin's job!

I know I could just be very sensitive to anything that smells like censorship right now, and that could be coloring my visceral reaction here.

Still, I afraid of this becoming a thing. One week is a while and while I don't think the mods would ever dream of intentionally doing this, it could happen during important events.

It is really hard for me to imagine what metrics after the fact would justify this. How do you measure the effect of self censorship has on influencing people's beliefs here?

I am worried that this will generate some numbers that seem to justify the practice and it becomes a regular practice around politically charged events.
Another great list from billg.

I consider Bill Gates to be a modern eugenicist, and quite possibly one of the most damaging influences on technology, vaccines (I'm pro-vax), and education. But here I am, reading another list of his favorite books of the year. They're always interesting.
Look at Bloomberg Terminal and the exchange rate update times. ICAP Singapore is the only one with an update today. Other exchanges are reporting updated times from yesterday.
> Facebook is going to be managing/filtering/curating/policing the site to some extent and yes, they want to show ads, as that's how they make money

Right up until they're spending more time and money on policing that they're benefitting from increased revenue.

> And some of the site management is about maintaining some level of decency or decorum

Yes, in a world where they link everything to everyone's feed, that need that.

But if they didn't do that, instead only linking when specifically mentioned, they wouldn't need to censor anything because you'd just unfollow people who link annoying things.

> Facebook the company is made up of people, and assuming that everything they're doing is purely to maximize profit at the cost of all else.

Right, they have lunch hours, etc. But how do you suppose their work is evaluated if they don't have concrete goals such as 'increase readership', etc?

You think they're all paid just to fiddle with stuff for their own individual desires?

> To make such an assumption would be similar to me assuming everything you're posting has some ulterior motive, something beyond having a civil constructive discussion. I don't think that's a fair assumption to make. Is it?

I'm not a for-profit company. If I was I think it'd be a fair assumption.

> Perhaps you're arguing that Facebook shouldn't exist? If that's the case, just say so.

Nope. I'm arguing that they're making their own problems and could stop if they wanted to. I don't feel like making excuses for them.
I had to take an IQ test when I was interviewing for ThoughtWorks.

Then again, they also asked me about my cultural and religious views, like my thoughts on immigration and refugees.

"I don't have strong feelings about this issue either way" was not the right answer to whatever it was they were asking.
> Many things, like getting a job as a software developer or talking to my boss ....

Note the "most". Pointing out one counter example where discussion barely shows up isn't a counterpoint. I would also argue that those experiences are shared but that is its own political discussion.

> Such an "apolitical" world, such an "unbiased" world, may not exist for, say, women or African-Americans or trans folks. And sweeping that realization under the rug is, by itself, a political act in favor of the continuation of the incentives and the policies that create that situation that lets me be comfortable and "apolitical" and ensures that other folks cannot be either.

I don't think it is reasonable to feel uncomfortable about not being able to discuss two sided issues on one board out of millions on the internet.

Political discussion is inherently caustic and damaging to discussion boards. Only small, heavily moderated boards can produce productive discussions. It is in the nature of simple user registration and no posting restrictions.
Change your npm log info to just errors. Warnings don't mean your build broke, just that the version of a dep you installed is no longer supported and if you want bug fixes to upgrade.
Much needed tech. This will cut down on all the various font files on my site.

From the other linked article, this is different from Multiple Master fonts in that Multiple Masters needed multiple sets of glyphs and was an interpolation between them, while this is fully parameterized.

https://medium.com/@tiro/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_master_fonts
Historically, not quite true.

No version of Research UNIX V1 through V7, nor any of BSD 1, 2, 3, 4, or 4.4 did overflow checking. They all just did `m * n` or `m *= n`.
In my experience, differences of degree matters far more than differences of kind.
"Honorable mention: The Grid, by Gretchen Bakke. This book, about our aging electrical grid, fits in one of my favorite genres: “Books About Mundane Stuff That Are Actually Fascinating.” "

The author of this book was on NPR/Fresh Air in August. It was a great listen/read if you are interested in the subject.

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/22/490932307/aging-and-unstable-t...

I heard it a couple of days after a weather related power cut and ended up in the rabbit hole of the risk from cyber warfare/terrorism and solar flares. I'm not sure I would recommend that rabbit hole if you have any concerns about the reliance of society on technology and just in time shipping!
> He is going home for the holidays however and may now have to go to an embassy to have his passport done before returning to the US. Will know in the new year if this is the case.

Yes. If you leave the US without a valid (and appropriate) entry visa stamp in your passport, you will need to go to a US embassy to get one.
I just wanted to say that I'm incredibly disappointed in this decision and even more so by its rationale.

The idea that Hacker News or tech in general is a 'garden' which should exist separately from politics is simply naive and very privileged. Taking no position, or worse suppressing opposition is itself a position. This is a critical time of political organization and resistance in the days before the Trump administration takes control.

Even 7 days lost in this process, allowing the readers of this site to ignore the reality outside their doorstep is a concrete injury to the disadvantaged communities which will be targeted in the first weeks of the Trump administration.
Big Nerd Ranch | iOS Developer | Atlanta,GA | Onsite | Remote

Big Nerd Ranch specializes in developing business-building mobile and web apps for our clients. We also teach students what we've learned through our signature immersive bootcamps, and every year we release new books in our best-selling series of Big Nerd Ranch Guides.

We are looking for a mid-level full-time iOS engineer to join the team. Must be well versed in architecture, design, configuration, the Xcode environment, Objective-C and Swift. Learn more here https://www.bignerdranch.com/about-us/careers/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxbw0YQ8zDU
Here is my list:

- Endurance: The story about an expedition to Antartica... gone wrong (http://amzn.to/2g26L5i)

- Crucial conversations: Learn how to argue with people without starting fights. Allowed me to look at the situation more objectively (http://amzn.to/2h8w4yN)

- Making of the atomic bomb (http://amzn.to/2gJF6VU)

- Relentless: the personal coach of Michael Jordan talks about how you can become a cleaner. Great if you want to understand how great athletes think (http://amzn.to/2gJCerW)

- Make: rockets. Some cool stuff to do with the kids (http://amzn.to/2gZyQaQ)

- How to make a spaceship: The history of the Ansari XPRIZE. Interesting read about how hard it was to build this spaceship. (http://amzn.to/2h8xMzY)
In a digital world, the analog voltmeter is a nice touch
ForeignPolicy.com just published:

"Did China’s Currency Just Drop Off a Cliff?"

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/05/did-chinas-currency-just...
How do people even claim that?
http://www.lacsd.org/waterreuse/

Yes, there is no potable reuse at the moment because their initial plant opened during an election year & valley secession movement, but a pilot plant for indirect potable reuse is in the works and current reclamation efforts still yielded 35.4% of total county sanitation districts effluent per FY 2014-2015.
I sympathize with the sentiment you express here. In some ideal world where people are purely rational beings this might be the case. However, that's not the world we live in, and empirically has not been the case here on HN. You can see that on any climate change thread (at least any I've seen here). You mention in another comment that anything can be eventually connected to politics. I agree. And unfortunately some members will always make that connection rather than fighting against it to have a civil, constructive discussion. There are plenty of interesting topics that don't slip as easily into inflammatory political back-and-forth. Avoiding those that do seems prudent and which is what the HN guidelines explicitly state. And that's what the detox week is trying to reinforce.
I really like the way he limits his list to 4 books. Most other thought leaders/influencers/CEOs do lists of 10, 20 "hot topic" books that you know they probably haven't read. I find the volume also diminishes the individual importance of each book on the list.

I'll have to pick up String Theory (I love that Bill Gates reads DFW) and The Grid per his recommendations.
If you need political discourse in your week with something just like HN, feel free to go http://swintonreport.com

Sister site to HN the way it looks.
Thiel is not actually a partner or employee of Y Combinator. http://www.ycombinator.com/people/
This is slightly off topic, but I think what would be interesting if someone would build a website with news that are actually _actionable_ by readers. So no politicians saying this or that, no crimes or disasters, no gossip. On the other hand, they would carry things like events that you can attend, petitions you can sign, rallies that you can participate in, items/services you can actually buy (as opposed to things you can buy next week), and so on.
I went through coding bootcamp and this is correct. We had former lawyers, bankers, accountants, IT personnel, database administrators, architects, and on more recent graduate front, physics majors, math majors, econ majors... We also had people from totally out of the left fields like designers and bartenders (both were better coders than practically anyone else). They were all looking to break into programming. They had spent a long time learning on their own and decided to do the bootcamp as a finishing school. It was a good experience for me.
I completely sympathize. The hate is real -- I myself often have to take a personal "detox break" from HN simply in order to feel human again.

It would be nice to be able to consider HN a welcoming, warm community but, on the other hand, I don't want it to be a fake sense of community -- I'm glad when people vilify me for my beliefs so that I can mark and avoid those people.
This moratorium will only last a week. I think our discourse will survive. Though political discussion is essential, I think you'd agree it has downsides when there's too much of it or when everyone considers it high-stakes.

The way I see it, the mods are asking us all to hold our political tongues and see what the comments feel like. They're very clear that it's an experiment. Maybe when politics resume seven days from now, people will remember what quality discourse looks like. This is mods trying to keep the conversation good.
I won't participate and here is why... I want to delay my disintermediation and assimilation a little longer. At some point, soon, Amazon will displace commerce and the merchant class as we know it and I am not ready to let go yet.
Politics is about the distribution of power, in that way it's much broader than government. It goes all the way from UN, WHO through nation-states down to the community, home and even bedroom. The personal is indeed political as they say [0].

Speech is a form of power. Decisions about which speech is allowed affect the distributions of power and it's easy to see how the decision to ban politics is itself political.

In this sense it's not possible to ban politics from HN, only to change the distribution of politics.

We should examine the ways that a ban like this might change the distributions of politics and power among the HN community. I suspect we'd find it reduces the power among marginalized communities. Even if you're not from one of those communities you can really benefit by reading their writings. In that case to cut off those voices is a shame. It's a loss.

Who's deciding what counts as political and not? Moderators. We should examine that. "Banning politics" essentially becomes "Moderators politics."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_personal_is_political
Please share with me your thoughts, feedback and suggestions :)
Foreign Policy: Did China’s Currency Just Drop Off a Cliff?
I am always amazed when I work in R, how some ideas are just effortless, and you can ignored the syntax and just think about the concept. I really enjoy that.
Make School | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | Full-time

Make School was founded in 2012 to empower students to build and ship products that impact their communities. Our core products include:

- Product Academy - an accelerated 2 year college replacement program

- Summer Academy - an 8 week program for students of all ages to build and ship their own app

- Swift CSP - a free CS curriculum that teaches iOS development designed for AP Computer Science

Our talented and diverse team is working hard to change education and we could use more players. We're currently hiring for several positions, including a Ruby on Rails Engineer, iOS Instructor and Curriculum Engineer, Growth Hacker, and more.

Make School offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, lots of networking opportunities, and a work environment where every employee has an impact.

Apply here and mention Hacker News: https://www.makeschool.com/jobs

Reach out to sarah@makeschool.com with questions.

We've met some great people through HN and would love to meet more!
from 2010
Send me an email at address in my profile. Ill send them to you as I dig them out.
I'm having a GitLab instance on DigitalOcean, more than enough for all my code. Probably 30+ repos in there, most of them inactive for quite a long time.

No special organisation. Just git repos.
Maybe we should be addressing just that, the larger issue here, in addition to political comments.

Yep. I feel like my first mistake on this site was to argue with every comment I disagreed with. Unless the comment leads to an instructive discussion, it's OK to just downvote it.
Abortion can be categorized as a medical issue, I suppose. And perhaps even polling data or accuracy can be thrown in as statistics. This is a fuzzy line, which is compounded by the notion that members of political parties generally argue that their view is fact rather than opinion.

When you consider HN submission rules, it does indicate "more than just hacking or startups" and things that "gratify intellectual curiosity" are in, but also that politics is generally off-topic. On a topic like this that toes the line, you probably should assume it's further off-topic than on.

The very nature of an article that is about how to talk to someone with an opposing viewpoint isn't satisfying an intellectual curiosity, but positioning someone to persuade others. Whether you phrase it as "connecting with an audience" or not, it's inherently about an argument, and how to win it.

I would argue that a discussion of new facts or research uncovered about climate change is a submission about science, and anything specifically about "climate change deniers" is politics, or at best, "argument".
HyperDrive dongle is the answer to MacBook Pro's biggest problem
R (specially w/ R Studio) is effectively a better Excel.

The problem it creates is that someone, somewhere, will eventually present some projection they put together quickly in R, and that will set expectations on stakeholders that know nothing about software to start demanding that solution to scale indefinitely, compute in realtime, or be used inside any kind of production system really.

It doesn't mean the same can't happen w/ Python, but it at least offers some migration path to more scalable / hardened solutions if you're careful.
All Cetaceans have blowholes. I think it's one of the original evolutionary traits.

"The trachea only connects to the blowhole, and the animal cannot breathe through its mouth." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowhole_(anatomy)
Is a 1960's Formula 1 still a Formula 1 car?
Nothing to do with supplements, that is nonsense but we're talking about very low levels of certain nutrients including vitamins and various minerals.

Low levels of vitamin D have been directly linked to increased death rates from cardiovascular conditions that doesn't mean the swallowing pills would help.

Vitamin A deficiency is one of the leading causes of blindness amongst children and pregnancy related mortality in the world, this also happens in western countries by not as much.

And so on and so on, eventually you can tie a lot of medical causes to poor diet, not getting enough X which causes or makes condition Y worse leading to death.

Dying to starvation proper (excluding famines and other natural disasters) is kinda hard in the west, and in many other places unless it's enforced starvation, you simply tend to die to exposure way before that.
I think the existence of $15k coding bootcamps is not a good sign for our industry. It means that without a doubt there is a huge bubble forming. Why? Because in 2002 I graduated with an undergraduate degree in CS with "only" $16k in debt. I know college is a lot more expensive these days, but $15k for a mere month of education, from which is supposed to follow a $100k+/y job? Get real, market. That seems like both a ripoff and a steal at the same time. Either way I think our industry is not in a good shape with so many highly inexperienced people commanding high salaries. A crash is soon to follow.
How would you feel if one of the certification point consisted of:

Able to read, manipulate, and emit the contents of a file.

And the test point given by one proctor consisted of:

Write a program which accepts this file and translates all 'c' characters to 'C' characters, and puts the modified contents of the file to stdout.

Nothing too fancy, but a useful starting point (feel free to come up with a better test question than the one I devised in under 15 seconds).

Could it be gamed? Of course. But then so can a University course. As can an interview. As can a coding school.

> memorizing rote knowledge is nigh-useless

I used to think this, but accessing data in your brain is faster than accessing it on Stack Overflow. And sometimes it's impossible to find the right answer without at least having the right terminology.

"remove an item from a list where each item in the list has a reference to the next item in that list" doesn't return a meaningful Stack Overflow result, and the notes from a CS course show up below the fold in a google search; yet the use of the rote-learned phrase "linked list" yields not only a page full of meaningful google results, but the suggestions include every language which uses linked lists.
Yeah, I was looking at it in the context of PKI -- where the public key is already tied to an identity.

(It is also a zkp in case of a scheme with a challenge nonce)
Where there are people, there is politics.
Track up and down votes separately. To compute the effective score, square the number of up votes and then subtract the number of down votes.
I don't believe reddit banned any subreddits. Did they?