skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair. Sorry for misrepresenting you.
The Taliban didn't rise out of the mujahideen. The Taliban started essentially as a grassroots movement by students. There's even mujihadeen who later fought the Taliban.
...then another problem is treating headlines as if they are all the same. They're not.

What you indicated was that headlines are written in different circumstances. But it doesn't mean that they're not all, roughly, similar.

I betting there exists a strong correlation between clickbait-y-ness and pageviews.

So,

1. Gather all articles with a lot of pageviews

2. Do some NLP to get the really bad ones, i.e. "Look at what this <noun> did after <predicate>"

3. Remove outliers

And bang, you mark all of the sucky articles. That could be included in a Chrome extension, much like uBlock. Hell, why not just have it in uBlock?
> Oh, and make sure that your brakes are able to stop your 1000W+ motor if the throttle gets stuck wide open.

Fortunately, a lot of custom sinusoidal controllers have a voltage gap between 0-1V and 4-5V (or whatever full throttle is for a build) to prevent full throttle or full braking with any electrical component in the case of wiring failure.
What happens if nearly all retail stores had this and you got caught shoplifting. Are you no longer allowed to shop in public? Is thee a time limit, say 1 year, after which they should let you shop again?
I thought you shouldn't be running ZFS inside a virtualized environment?
New Years Traditions and Superstitions
It's not the case that no one is like that (and honestly, most of your so-called "hipster rubyists" aren't like that either). This is just an excuse put up by companies that want people to eat a 55% pay cut to work there. Like most critiques of "the next generation", it's bullshit.
I prefer a slightly more general line in the sand: we'll pay for what you need§, you pay for what you want.

Needless to say our kids pine for neither paid games nor in-app purchases - they've chosen (mostly) better ways to invest their time and their hard-earned savings.

§Birthdays, christmas and rewards aside.
Salary can't and shouldn't be compared accross the globe.
Being paid 170k€ in san francisco is maybe the "normal" but few company can afford it in europe or just about anywhere else. And salary is missleading because way of life is way more expensive there.

For me the claim is right, there is not enough engineers and they are all going abroad aka there is a shortage.
From my perspective (paris, france) even if you would pay engineers double from now on to match US salary, there will still be a shortage for the next 10years at least.
Which is why I wouldn't trust any of the traditional car makers with their "self-driving cars" over the next decade...or two.
Postal REDUX and Postal 2 are great games, but I strongly suggest you do not buy Postal 3. From the developers of Postal 1 & 2:

> Okay, I’m going to level with you – don’t buy Postal III. You’d regret it. Hell, you’d regret playing it for free. It’s a sometimes boring, other times frustrating, unfinished, borderline-broken mess, and we can’t do anything about it.

source: http://runningwithscissors.com/?page_id=853

edit: for fun, click on the "(Don't) buy on Steam" link on that page.
I don't think problem with ebikes is power. Safety becomes a huge issue above 20 MPH both for the rider and bystanders. Instead, ebike adoption seems to be limited by style, weight, and affordability.

Riide[1] is one company I've seen trying to tackle these problems. It was started by a fellow Hoya (so I'm biased). I find their unique pricing model to be very interesting/attractive as a first time eBike owner. Instead of shelling out thousands of dollars up front, you pay $79 per month for the bike, unlimited maintenance, insurance, and accessories. After 24 months you either own the bike outright or opt-in to upgrade to the latest model.

http://www.riide.com/
Untangling Your Homebrew Dependencies
This reminds me, I actually had some contact with the guys behind RWS many years ago, I was a young man and very excited about HTML/CSS and design in general, I ended up designing their forum (it was running on IPB): http://tinyimg.io/i/5GTDNgx.jpg

Postal 2 is one of my favourite games ever. Had a blast in both single player and online. Me and my friends still talk about it after all these years!
Ask HN: What API do you wish for?
There are tons of APIs out there. Is there a specific API that you really want but does not exist or exists in poor form ? I am learning how to build a good API and wonder if there are ideas to explore. I will open source it of course :)

One idea I have is to build a simple read only API for Sales Tax Rates. I will start with USA but can expand to Europe for VAT etc. It will be something like:

usefulapi.com/salestax?country=usa&city=chicago

{
"rate" : "0.10"
}
2017 Budget Planning for Technology Startups: Authentication Is Key
Possibly. I was thinking along the lines of "look at idea, see if easily, reliably, and cheaply implemented, assess market & competition, decide accordingly".

Hell, even that could probably be automated. Hmm. ;-)
From my impression, they'll be working with the stable compiler in a few weeks.
> You can urinate at will

Just don't do it while looking straight up - unless you're on fire, that is.
Might just be another instance of everyone living at the center of their own universe - their skillset is the most valuable, their viewpoint the most legitimate, etc. While I do love me a good anti-MBA circlejerk from time to time, this is probably not the best target. If Mr Business didn't try to optimize and pay his engineers as little as possible, for instance, The Market would be broken in another way.
And of course, your face will be run through this database and many others when you apply for a job, or a credit card.
Most systems accept pure-decimal IP addresses. So probably you could have a modem emulator that takes such an IP address as a phone number ala ATDT2130706433 - try "ping 2130706433" and see for yourself :)
> If you don't put the request in the context of a specific action you're screwing yourself over.

Very, very true; perfect example being iOS's trend towards 'soft-onboarding' privacy controls such as mic/camera/location.
Like a video?
Thanks. So in terms of actual "programming," it's just a visual programming environment, right?

Do you have any examples of anything "complex" being written with this?
RAMLing Around with Mule
> the argument is that they can cause interference.

UDP ignores everything else and always expect resources to be available for itself.

We could say that UDP interferes with everything, we could say that everything interferes with UDP, it's both ways.
Yes, and technical engineers are like designing in bits of platinum to the engine, its more expensive but that it what it takes to get the performance out of the product.

They (the MBA types), of all people, should understand that. And I think they do, what they don't like is that given the expense and what they expect they can charge for the service, they can't figure out how to get the profit margin they want/need.

It has been my experience that nothing is more frustrating to an MBA than a really killer market winning idea that happens to be unimplementable because the humans involved need to be paid to build or operate it.
Ah, that was my understanding.
London Rolls Out the Blood-Red Carpet for Kleptocrats
ggvis works similarly, creating interactive web graphics in html output from Rmd

http://ggvis.rstudio.com/
>It's also incredibly Euro-centric to be thinking that other countries ought to be following the path Europe and the US took to capitalism

Other countries like Soviet Union or Maoist China have tried other paths with not exactly stellar results.
You understood what I am saying and have also summarized it.

"child mortality is going down only because women are having fewer children and not because of improvements in healthcare"

There might be improvements in healthcare, antibiotics and vaccinations. But I believe that contraception is a major factor in improving child mortality rate. Obviously I cannot cite anything, as it's my belief.

So I started looking for examples to see if I am correct. Looks like my belief is wrong.

Despite a higher prevalence of several risk factors for perinatal and infant death among the Amish, neonatal and infant death rates for Geauga Settlement Amish have been very similar to the corresponding rates for white children in rural Ohio and the state as a whole.

--Perinatal, Infant, and Child Death Rates among the Old Order Amish
Hi, please drop me an email on rume.gbenedio@yahoo.com

Thanks
Wow. Now I can play it on my Linux system. Thanks, RWS.

This, as well as being a fantastic gesture, makes it seem as though RWS understands something that many of its contemporaries don't: Games, or rather, their engines, must be open-sourced for those games to continue to be playable and relevant. You can't update your games forever, and sooner or later, they will be rendered unplayable by the inexorable march of technology. If you open source your engine, that doesn't have to happen.

Take a look at Doom. New content for Doom 1 and Doom 2 is still being released by the community, long after competitors like Duke3D have stopped. Why? Because Doom has a passionate community, and many modern, open source engines that make running the game on new systems a piece of cake.
Thank you for the suggestion :)
There are already make-up patterns that obfuscate the face causing face detection tofail, but no one wears that on a daily basis, because it looks rather weird.
Experience in the late 90's, early 2000's, porting C code between multiple systems.
In general, this is less true than in other languages though; for example, assert! is still in release builds in Rust. If you want that semantic, you need debug_assert!
That's why I love Emacs' tramp mode. Run Emacs on my laptop; access any file I can ssh to. Though also keep in mind that if you have an X11 server running on your laptop you can run any X11 client application (say, your favorite editor) on a remote machine and just have it display on your laptop.
shit, that was true as recently as 15 years ago, from personal experience. You can't just drive down 101 from SF and buy shit at Greybar anymore?
>After taking care of rent/bills there's not much left to go around for actually living.

Are you implying rent/bills in Romania are $1k/mo?
Is a small touristy island comparable to a country like China?
A Digression on Divergence
Do you believe it to be that easy to get a remote job, such that all Romanians can simply just "get" one?
But your husband and friends are at fault for sharing your information, not FB.

Take Facebook out of the equation and you still have friends showing your picture around, perhaps to people you don't want them to. In a Facebookless world, you would simply tell them to stop. My point is that it isn't Facebook's fault that your friends share too much about you.
Just out of curiosity: how would you feel if I answered this question by using existing function [1] in stdlib? Would you consider that as (good) sign of knowing the tools or would you prefer a fresh implementation?

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html#itertools.c...
>Currently it has to be, "if you don't want any service collecting any of your data, don't use their service, and don't interact with other people or companies who use their service."

Not sure you have any other option. Most of the time, you can't restrain what other people choose to do with images they've taken that contain your likeness, and you can't stop them from posting content that mentions their spouses. That person is willfully disclosing this data under the terms they've accepted. If the person is disclosing data about you that you don't want disclosed, that's an issue between you and that person, not that person and the entity who receives their willful, free, and unprompted disclosures.

Facebook can't know a priori that the user intends to disclose information on a person who doesn't want Facebook to know about them, and thus can't do anything about it until it's too late. Allowing people to delete other peoples' content because they don't want to be mentioned/included in it is an obvious non-starter (and Facebook already includes this to a reasonable extent with untagging features).

The privacy threat could be partially, not totally, mitigated by radically changing the way we approach online services, but I don't see how that could be pushed through. It wouldn't benefit any commercial entity, so no one with private motive would bankroll it to a height that could reasonably challenge FB, and it surely wouldn't be fair to use police/military force to dismantle Facebook et al and force users into a hypothetical somewhat-more-private decentralized, self-hosted, encrypted Facebook replacement, so we're basically stuck.

The reality is that this is the world we live in now. I don't think there's really a way to avoid it. Legal solutions that prevent vendors from referencing some data points may limit some effects here and there, but I think it's going to be difficult to craft something that really accomplishes anything big, and the tech and data is still going to be out there and used by some people regardless of the legal status.
I don't mind paying for DLC content but spending money on in-game consumables is a no-no. With games designed to maximize spending of gems, it's hard to find games worth playing these days.
No its just the comapny behind those steel tops is advertising very heavily. I must have seen those ads like at least 100 times last few weeks.
Try McMaster-Carr. Virtually everything is available in US and metric units. There is less variety of things like metric fasteners, because designs have improved to use fewer weird parts.

Since almost everything is designed in CAD and manufactured by CNC these days, the real distinction between US and metric units has practically vanished. A dimension is a floating point number.
His entire rant seems to boil down to this:
"
Legally if an ebike in the US has more than 750W it must be registered and insured as a ‘motor vehicle’ and have turn signals, mirrors and lights. That’s just not gonna happen with any of my ebikes.
"
It's not that what he wants in terms of power isn't available without building it yourself, it's that it isn't available without safety features. And maybe it shouldn't be (and I say that as an avid rider with two bicycles, street and racing, and two scooters, 50cc and 250cc).
Here's the full statement from the White House, via NPR: https://twitter.com/NPR/status/814551976935559168
It's bullet proof on Solaris and FreeBSD.
It's like asking what tool should I use for my construction project. Well, are you pouring concrete? Are you doing electrical wiring? Are you working with wood? Are you painting?

Want to build an operating system in Ruby? Ok, good luck trying to pour concrete with your tablesaw.

Admittedly, that analogy is a little extreme since programming languages are Turing complete, etc etc. However, if that's your perspective, you may want to have a gander at Cobol on Cogs: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
Do you trust btrfs? Suse has been having it as the default since 2014...
The ad even says memorable, could be a savvy marketer content matching VR or some other phrase in the article.
FinTech Made in Switzerland – The First Documentary about Swiss FinTech
Multi-threaded and Async PHP (yup it exists) support on Platform.sh
I meant web devs stop caring about standard compliance ("already works in Chrome, moving on to next interesting feature").

Does this clarify?
Very good read, and resonated with me because I had read the same new agey books at the time, went to study physics with the same "I'll find the grail" philosophy and had felt the painful blow of disillusionment, together with other blows that convinced me to leave the path much earlier than the author of the article.

Many years later, I feel that "the grail" is still the driving force behind most of my thoughts, but frankly, I doubt it is reachable by thought. Suppose someone will solve quantum gravity. I'd be very excited and curious - it would be wonderful and fascinating, but I believe any claim that "Physics is solved" that might be stated after that would be as misguided as lord Kelvin's claim at the time. Any solution would eventually just set the stage for the next grail chase, with more food for the mind to chew on from an infinite supply and no answer will really make a dent in the armour surrounding the question of what is the essence of this food supply or it's relation to the thoughts that contemplate it. I can't prove any of this of course...
Heh, at my previous employer the only coding question we asked during interviews was: "Find the largest element in an array of integers." Some of the ways people found to not solve that simple problem were amazing.

Now, I'm generally against asking hard-core CS questions in a live interview... but a simple bozo filter is probably a good idea.
Analysis of vim usage
Sure thing. I also keep a collection of Hacker News clients on Pinboard.

https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news/
People seem to have an instinct for it, but maybe it was something that helped us a million years ago but isn't compatible with modern human life.
You can replace "Facebook" with thousands of other companies. Everyone is doing this because the cost is low, its easy, and the return is massive. The sole service my roommate's company does is match your customer with data about them from countless other sources.

If you want a peek into a small section of this type of data, go build a facebook ad. You can see all the targeting options. You can upload a list of email and build a "look a like" audience of people who are similar to your customers.

A company called cartalytics will let a brand purchase lists of people who have bought a specific product in the past 6 months and show them ads. Ex. If you've bought a big mac (with a credit or debit card) in the last month, I can show you McDonalds ads.. but they are super expensive.
Not only that, Mr. Business from Business Factory LLC is what gives bad name to consulting with fixed size projects and zero expectations about quality, as long as, it kind of works.
The point of the article is that objectively the world, as a whole, is getting better, and in some cases improving quite dramatically. Personally, I don't think the survey quoted in the opening paragraph is really that interesting - it's not the least bit surprising that people replied subjectively rather than objectively.

My point about the Chinese experience being more pertinent was regarding these objective measures not how people replied subjectively to a survey question. It's not that the Chinese experience is pertinent to someone in US or France, but that recent Chinese economic development has been more pertinent to whether or not the world has objectively gotten better.

In the future we are also going to see far more reductions in poverty and child mortality in countries like India and China than in the USA, because the USA is so much wealthier. Additionally, if we want to understand how to improve the world in the future, I believe it's more important to look at countries that have recently improved standards of living, like China, rather than countries like the USA that experienced their most significant improvements in standards of living before the 1960s.
The Philosophy of Extensible Software
To turn it off in Firefox' about:config, switch both to False:

dom.webnotifications.serviceworker.enabled
dom.webnotifications.enabled
> Partly, this is mandated by the business model of apps. In the home video games of the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sulaitis explains, a player might pay $60 for a DVD that could provide hundreds of hours of game play, and that consummated the economic relationship; game companies had no economic stake in the playing outcome.
> By contrast, the “freemium” model popularized by Apple’s App store effectively requires game companies to give the initial product away for free.

The biggest problem is that there is virtually no piracy possible on the iOS platforms, and even on Android people don't install shady cracks because they've been bitten by premium-calling trojans.

On a PC, I can try out a cracked game on which I'll spend 50 € or something, but I sure as hell won't spend so much money on a tablet game when I can't test it for at least a day instead the joke 15min that Google offers. The worst offenders need half an hour alone to download ingame assets (Real Racing!).

Also, with a PC or console game I feel I have something valuable - not just the look and feel, where no tablet game can ever beat a real console, but also a physical medium where I know that I can reinstall the game even a decade in the future... in contrast to a mobile platform where I have to trust:

- the platform operator to stick around for the next decade (I'm looking at MS and Google). I can always go to a junkshop and assemble a 1995 PC, or grab an old console, but no way to do so with mobile devices.

- the vendor not disappearing or pulling their apps from the store, thus rendering my purchase worthless if the device where the game is installed breaks

- the vendor keeping their apps up to date - I can still, on W7 x64, play EarthSiege 2 from early W95 days. Try this with an iOS game last updated 2012...
Awesome! Now just give me Diablo 2, and I will be content for life.
Boxing things is the way to get arbitrarily-sized things in Rust. I've worked with vectors of closures - it works quite nicely.
This is a silly off-topic request, but any chance someone knows of a theme (ideally Wordpress) that looks like this page? I actually really like it and could use it for my next project.
Red Solo cups are too expensive to play pong with. Pong, (at least played properly, none of this ball tossing nonsense), is very cup-intensive. Some of the more interesting variations require upwards of 100 cups to lay out. And you don't tend to reuse cups, unless you are really desperate.

$152 https://www.amazon.com/SLOP16RLRCT-Solo-Plastic-Party-Cold/d...

$25 https://www.amazon.com/oz-Plastic-Cups-Bulk-Packs/dp/B0098MR...
> Is thee a time limit, say 1 year, after which they should let you shop again?

This implies a functioning government, and regulations.

Excluding is a decision made by each retailer individually, and the vast majority will not even have a policy for removing people from the list.

You could dynamically raise retail prices based on whether someone has bad credit, or is on one or more bad customers lists. Shouldn't the shoplifter be expected to pay extra for the risk that retailers willing to sell to them bear? Or you could just open stores that don't exclude with high prices and terrible quality products.
You would expect more. There's no chance at more happening when for the last 8 years the republicans have allowed nothing and they benefitted from the hacks.
We've been in production with Rust almost six months already. Couldn't be happier with the language. Works like a charm with our consumers.
> Clearly they don't understand the market, if the other parts of the market are paying 20Million Yen for this position then that is where it "should be" and you have to figure out how to cover that cost.

Or figure out how to get along without it, or with less of it.

As I was reading this article, I kept wondering if cars really need all the IT/SW tech being poured into them.

Maybe people wouldn't buy cars without it. Or maybe people who currently don't buy or otherwise use cars would be attracted to a simpler and cheaper solution.

A safe frame, seatbelts and airbags, reliability, reasonable gas mileage and honest pollution controls, plus a good enough radio/stored music player, and a warranty. We already have all that, to a mostly excellent degree. No additional IT talent required.

It seems that car manufacturers have trapped themselves into being feature whores.