skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The third issue is an opinion. That people need to be paid for the content they produce. This isn't true. There are plenty of people that are happy to contribute purely for the common good or for fame.

It is true that some people will produce art without compensation. That's one of the really cool things about human nature. Given the freedom to do so, we just seem to love making and sharing stuff.

However, there is a scary downside. The culture of a people is defined and propagated in part by the content and art they produce. If that content is only produced by the people who have the financial freedom to do so for free, then you miss out on the voices of the people who can't afford that.

I don't think that's healthy for a community.
I think that will be such an unbillionairly thing to do. I see billionaires like to push personal motivations as public agenda all so often.
Hyper-fast and perfect fixed point math using giant look-up tables
Gevent is nice. AsyncIO is terrible[0].

[0]http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/10/30/i-dont-understand-asyncio...
It's good enough for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxfield_Parrish

Just because it's accessible doesn't make it inferior. Pre-Raphaelite art is also pretty heavy on the eye candy and nobody complains about that. Conversely it's not like you can't find any cheese in the De Young or other local museums - indeed my favorite painting there is rather conventional, an important factor in the heist I'm planning.
Enterprise-shaped

Well played.
Slack invests in 11 new startups
Ripping from Netflix and sharing is hard.

Total idiots can copy/paste articles.

I see full paywalled articles copy/pasted into Reddit threads every day, and in hacker news threads about every week.
Yes this is exactly it. They don't care / already know foreigner's politics.
A case study describing how I built a web app following a Command Query Responsibility Segregation and event sourcing (CQRS/ES) pattern. In Elixir using the Phoenix Framework.

It uses two open-source Elixir libraries I've authored to provide the building blocks for such applications:

* EventStore: A CQRS event store that uses PostgreSQL (v9.5 or later) as the underlying storage engine. [1]

* Commanded: Provides support for command registration and dispatch; hosting and delegation to aggregate roots; event handling; and long running process managers. [2]

It's an unorthodox approach to building Phoenix web apps. The article details why you might consider applying it.

[1] https://github.com/slashdotdash/eventstore

[2] https://github.com/slashdotdash/commanded
> Every person has the same capacity, the same brain, the same capability to become an Einstein

God, I wish this were true, but it definitely isn't. We're trained to think it is, by virtue of (first) our belief in meritocracy (it's value, and that we're in one), and (second) by RPGs and other games.

Our baseline cultural assumption is that things are, in the end, fairly balanced... but this just isn't the case.

I think it's demonstrable via the existing of evolution: There have to be differences between individuals on an inheritable level in order for evolution to occur, and if there are such differences, the playing field is NOT even.
> Your demonstration is one incident.

Are you telling me that if the equivalent of /The Patriot Act/ was created in China, or Russia, or take-your-pick-enemy-dujour, and passed unread by the legislature of that nation The New York Times would not skewer them in print and run multipage spreads in the Sunday Magazine detailing every questionable aspect?

Remind me: How did The New York Times cover that event.
There's an Elo rating table on this Wikipedia page which pretty much corroborates/agrees with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings
> My I ask why you are a Christian?

Sure, I believe that man is essentially fallen and we were redeemed by the grace of God through his son Jesus. If the question "why" is meant to be more analytical, I can't be of much help. I profoundly believe that believing in God is by definition non-analytical. That is, you can't "prove" it, nor can you "logic" your way into it.

I have some arguments I find convincing and that I like, but when push comes to shove, it's a personal (and wholly non-rational) choice someone makes.

> But the question of the christian god, with the bible and traits like loving, good. That is easily disproven. Killing 100,000 innocent Egyptian kids? Genocide and more promise of genocide? Stoning? Hating homosexuals? Sending good people to hell? None of these things are loving or good. Or just try Mark 16:17-18, a simple test, but I have never seen it demonstrated.

You're severely oversimplifying here. I think if you work towards understanding the fundamental difference between the Old and New Testament (e.g. Judaism and Christianity), it should become obvious why the OT seems violent and filled with a "just" and "vengeful" God, whereas in the NT, we find a more "merciful" and "forgiving" God. This, theologically speaking, happens because we believe Jesus Christ was kind of a big deal that changed the moral workings of the universe.

As far as the homosexual issue, etc., these are very complicated and are hotly debated both in a political and social context, as well as in theological circles. I'm not sure if homosexuality is a sin or not (to me, it doesn't seem that way), but I just do my best to treat everyone as Jesus would: with love and respect.

> Would you mind expanding on what convinces you? If not the cosmological argument?

As I mentioned, nothing truly "convinces" me -- I think the belief is at its very essence not a rational one. It's sort of like appreciating a beautiful piece of art or listening to Beethoven's 5th; there's no science or math here. However, I will say my favorite argument is the moral one:

I think that there are some cases where we can trivially say "X is morally good" or "X is morally bad". Let's focus on the latter for now. For example, I think most people can agree that it's trivially morally bad to cause pain for no good reason.

I think this intuition points to some sort of "realness" of the idea of good, e.g. some "ideal" of good. I think that this is, in some sense, a whiff of God. We "get" that there's good things and bad things (irrespective of laws), so I think that's indicative that God is a real thing. Now, some people are complete moral relativists. I think that's wrong and it throws out the baby with the bathwater.
Very true. A Jar Jar museum!
Humans and non-humans.
I have. Formulas for both have of course changed over the years, but the way in which they work has not.

Both have also become more tailored for their use case. For example, shampoos sell better if they create a pleasant lather, and soaps if they also moisturize your skin. Those additives are why a modern bar of soap might not work well in your hair. But pure soap does, and so do some modern soap bars.
> (even though I tried in basic French)

That's important. The French tend to be happy to accommodate, but there's something about making it clear that communication is a mutual effort. If you try in French first, it indicates that you want to work with them rather than assuming that they should kowtow to your preferences.
If it's worth visiting, people will go even if it is in the middle of nowhere. Lots of places in the middle of nowhere off highways get visitors--think of outlet malls and theme parks. If it's filled with Star Wars stuff, those fans will trek out to see it. Lucas's issue is that he wants to build a monument to himself in a prominent place. This isn't about making his art available. It's about him building an edifice to glorify himself.

Some folks have to do great things to get monuments built (Lincoln). Others donate money and let others have a say in what edifice gets built (Smithson, Carnegie, Mellon). Still others build their own edifices but buy the land on the open market (Trump, the Sears Tower). Lucas wants to build his own edifice on prominent public land, all while retaining complete control for himself. That's his problem.
You said "I don't know ANYONE...", and I gave a counter example of how SOMEONE might choose to take a pay cut in return for fewer hours. While our household income didn't go down by 20%, her own disposable income did go down by 20% (actually more than that since she kept her 401k contribution the same, she pays a fixed amount for health care so that ended up being a higher percentage of her income, and her transit pass was not any cheaper even though she only needed it 4 days a week instead of 5).

Our needs are pretty modest compared to our income, we try to live below our means... if a law were passed that no one could work more than 6 hours/day, we'd get along just fine.

I took a 15% pay cut just to move to a job closer to home - I gave up a 60 - 90 minute commute in exchange for a 10 minute bike commute.
> Craigslist hasn't changed their UX since launch

You say that like it's a bad thing.
"...If he had picked a smaller city, or a major university, or a less valuable site in the cities he's targeted..."

He also could have picked the site that was counteroffered by Friends of the Park. It was 600 feet away from the original site proposal.
Recently listened to DHH's Software Engineering Radio interview, and his statement about teams of 3 developers bragging about their 4 microservices really stuck out to me.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of web standards and best practices?
I was working on setting up my own personal website (nothing terribly complicated, just GH Pages - no DNS stuff, no JS) and, since I read HN pretty regularly, thought it'd be a nice way to apply some of the stuff I've seen crop up about best practices and new standards and so on.

The thing that I realized though, is that I have no idea what best practices and standards are and I have no idea where to even go to figure that stuff out.

Yes, places like MDN and CSS-Tricks are godsends, but I'm talking about stuff like favicons[0], service workers[1], meta tags for Google/FB/Twitter, and more stuff that I don't know about (or know about and forgot already).

I recognize that HTML5, CSS3, JS5/ECMA2016 are only the latest standards and that this stuff is always in flux, but surely there's got to be some better way to find this than Googling and hoping for an article or blog post in the past few months (or years, in which case hopefully the state of <blank> is still sort of the same[2]).

Hence the question: how do you keep track of what the latest standards and best practices are?

[0] From 2014: https://css-tricks.com/favicon-quiz/
[1] https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/primers/service-workers
[2] And then what if it's out of date? Like kangax's article on named function expressions?
It's not the land, it's the planning permission. It's not like you can do anything you want on your own piece of land in a city. Cities also want amenities that bring tourism and set aside lands for projects like this.
Any tip on how I should host this site as cheap as possible? It's just html,css,javascript
>No they didn't.

I'm with this guy. Blogger if anything, brutally assassinated LiveJournal. Unless you're in Russia.
This is the main reason I'm considering my Pro subscription. As a power user not using the collaboration or business features, having a very easy way to get a public, no web takeover link via the public folder was worth the cost (in addition to symlink syncing folders across computers). It truly was a killer feature.
Seems that the people who are concerned about fake news aren't advocating your strategy, but rather are advocating filtration. To keep out pernicious foreign lies, just like China.
The issue is that he was trying to lock in a 99 year lease on lakefront land for only $10. If Chicago wants to incentivize high value property improvements and minimize flat \ single-story parking facilities, they would get rid of sales, earning, and real estate tax and charge a location-rate property tax on the unimproved value of land reassessed at a floating rate annually.
This is one of the more compelling arguments I've seen for allowing sideloading apart from the obvious philosophical point about users having ultimate control over devices they own.
I think OneSignal will benefit immensely once Hyper lands async support in an upcoming release. I know this is an immature side of Rust but there is a lot of inertia behind async libraries right now.
«“It’s an epic act of generosity and altruism,” says Don Bacigalupi, the museum effort’s president. “George Lucas, as with any person of great resources and great success, could choose to do whatever he wants to do with his resources, and he has chosen to give an extraordinary gift to the people of a city and the world.”»

There's an attitude here that's a bit... off-putting.
This business doesn't scale as well as their streaming business due to fixed costs with physical media and transporting DVDs back and forth. Still, for the consumer, this is a great service as you get access to high quality media without needing high speed internet (e.g. rural America). You also get access to movies sooner and access indie flicks that never get released as a streamable movie.
Why doesn't he just build it at his ranch?
Segmented stacks in Go went away in Go 1.3 (https://golang.org/doc/go1.3#stacks; June 2014).

The alternate stack structure is indeed one issue. The bigger one is the GC, though; the Go runtime needs to know which pointers it is responsible for freeing, and which are the responsibility of the C code.
Except I didn't start with money. I'm not working to get money, I'm working to be able to afford things. Money is just a convenient exchange tool. It doesn't have any utility to me aside from being pretty much the only way to trade.

It has the exact same utility to me. Unless somebody is running an operation to get total control of what I'm looking to buy, I'm pretty guaranteed to be able to get it if I have the money. It is nothing more than an convenient way of exchange
He's probably thinking that past sleazy behavior was driven by a need for revenue. The Microsoft purchase changes that. MS needs to protect it's reputation more than it needs revenue from Linkedin.
Does this mean I can expect improvements in the mobile web app? It has so many issues that I won't click the links on my phone.

No, I don't want the android app. Stop asking me.

Stop directing me to my home page when I clicked a link to go deep into the site.

And please stop showing that spinner for unlimited time.

Also, these may be back end issues but both the desktop and mobile web sites fail to update the notification indicators after you've responded to friend requests or read your feed.
Eh, maybe - I just remember being wrong myself about things like the iPad, for example. There was a ton of "it's just an oversized iPhone" speak everywhere but it turned out to be a pretty successful product (not better than iPhone but still successful by most standards). Right now there's a ton of "dongle catastrophe" speak.

Not saying that we should not demand more and better from Apple but I think many of the complaints are not very warranted.

For example, I don't know why people are complaining that MacOS has "suffered" compared to iOS. In my opinion, the latest Sierra version is way better than Lion for example.
That's not true with liquidation preferences? The reported valuations in the press that come out after some random funding round are calculated with simple arithmetic but don't take into account the preferences...
Have you seen this page? https://medium.com/me/following/tags
> is pair programming better, compared to doing the design in pair, going to work on your own, then reviewing each other's code?

The literature is, I believe, pretty thin and equivocal. However the suspicion is that pair programming is pretty much the core loop of bouncing back and forth, reduced to the smallest possible size.

It also avoids some of the antipatterns I've seen with code reviews -- widely distributed patches, reviews getting stale because they were too hard for a Monday, then a Tuesday... then a Friday ...

> As an introvert I don't think I could handle the "pair all day" approach.

You can take a break if you need one. Lunchtime is fixed at an hour. I typically go and spend it alone with a book.

There is sometimes a confusion between intro/extraversion and sociability. I'm quite sociable, I genuinely like talking to people, but it drains me because I lean towards introverted. So the lunchtime recharge is very helpful.

Each pair finds their own balance.
The Brexit-1 Fiber Cable – NYC to Marseilles
How to solve anything in VCL: authentication and feature flags at the edge
I built a service with a buddy of mine (so 2 engineers total) that achieved a scale comparable to Medium circa-2014/2015 (given baseless guesses about Medium's scale), with a similar featureset (perhaps more sophisticated, apples to oranges somewhat). It's definitely possible to achieve scale on a small team.
Show HN: EQCSS – a plugin for scoped CSS and element queries
In that case, I'll just fall back on "it's awesome, and the people who come back say so too".
We're definitely looking forward to the tokio-based version of Hyper async. In case it wasn't clear from the post, we are actually using the unreleased async version of Hyper (powered by mio/rotor) today.
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/12/news-feed-fyi-addressing...
Hi there! ScalaPy is heavily influenced by Scala.js, especially features like static facades which have a similar purpose in both places. I'm hoping to bring even more features inspired by Scala.js, such as a py.native for facade method implementations that uses a macro to generate the underlying code.

I also just added an MIT license to the core and facade repositories.
Not sure it is a good idea to depend on a language with only one implementation.
For those in the London area, there is a Star Wars exhibition which features 200 original costumes, props, models, and pieces of artwork from Lucasfilm Archives.

http://www.starwarsidentities.com/
Been there done that myself. My early works are masterpieces of kapton-tape strain relief because the joints were so bad.
Not exactly a surprise. There's not much of a market for long-winded hot-takes from internet nobodies.
His suggestions at the end for how to structure such a thing are glaringly similar to DnD. This is maybe why DnD remains so popular yet small and intimate.
It's a parking lot now. But look at the architectural drawing:

http://www.trbimg.com/img-576d64a5/turbine/ct-lucas-museum-m...

That's some of the most valuable real estate in the country. It's directly on the lakefront, right behind the convention center, a short walk from Soldier Field, and from there the museum campuses.
Good insight, I think there are implications for the Cynefin framework model that offers four possible state spaces: simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic. This classification may have as much to do with our state of information (or depth of understanding) as an objectively "chaotic state."
Apple has de-facto allowed sideloading via enterprise accounts since Crashlytics Beta launched (never heard of a company being capped for having too many users downloading their beta app)
Yes. Treasure Island should be a non-controversial choice assuming Lucas can make it work. Of course, this being San Francisco, nothing is uncontroversial.
Tracker is very, very opinionated and it's not necessarily immediately clear what that opinion is.

Trello is a good tool. I've seen it used on several teams in roles that Tracker doesn't neatly fill.
Creating believable crowds in Planet Coaster
Tracking the U.S. government's progress on moving to HTTPS
I would be more interested in your solution as I was also thinking this kind of implementation. But, mine is more related with meta-data and video file thumbnail generating.
I think you missed the implied "as of 1949" in the claim you attempted to rebut.
Active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321322
> When something is nonsense it isn't hostile to call it nonsense. Why waste paragraphs?

Correct, that part's fine.

The part that comes off as hostile is equating everyone who would be fine with a 25% paycut to being a "single hippie who wants to smoke dope all day and have no responsibilities" - certain implications of lawlessness ("dope" being illegal in various parts of the world, and frowned upon by many) and sloth (a vice or sin in various religions.)

Perhaps that wasn't your intent, but that's how you're coming across to me - and perhaps others. And as it doesn't actually help your argument in any way, I must ask you the same: Why waste paragraphs?

> That's part of the problem these days. You can't call bullshit bullshit because people get offended.

Bullshit.
> Mr. Sainz declined to comment on what local regulations the Times apps were said to have violated

I'll take "What's the punishment for criticizing Chinese political figures in China?" for $100, Alex.
140 char limit is innovation.
FirePhish is a phishing framework to manage all phishing engagements
You could switch to the tokio branch of hyper, my understanding is that it's pretty much stable, just waiting on the final tweaks before the impending release of tokio 0.1. We're so close...
I still enjoy Netflix, especially on my other devices. I cancelled HBO Go because it wasn't a good service.
Software Should Be Easier to Build, Not Harder
I actually have a much simpler heuristic for knowing when something originates with Russian intelligence.

Just follow the chain of reasoning being proposed to its eventual conclusion, and then check what that conclusion is. If the conclusion amounts to, "And therefore, the only political actors you can trust are the reactionary nationalists", it very likely originates with Russian intelligence.

Why the Russians? Well, because Russian intelligence has been disseminating propaganda along exactly those lines for the past century, starting, if not earlier, with the world's most famous propagandistic literary forgery[1]. The content, at this point, can be mad-libbed, and usually is mad-libbed with little reference to facts or actual circumstances. All it has to do is sow paranoia, point to every democratic or revolutionary faction as destroying the nation, and then conclude, "Therefore the only people you can trust are the reactionary nationalists, ie: the Tsarists/Fascists/Stalinists/Arabists/Duginists/Trumpists/National Front/Neo-Nazis."

Once you detect the mad-libbing, you can skip the argument, jump to the conclusion, and know what you're looking at.

[1] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of...
Hardware isn't enough?
HDMI 2.1 – 8K60Hz, 4K120Hz, Dynamic HDR, Variable RefreshRate,48Gbps Bandwidth
I will never say OK Google (except when saying I will never say OK Google). Gross
Yes, that's exactly what I saw and used!
There is a lot of "best intentions" here. "Default" applications almost work, but really only exist because we have well agreed upon url schemes for specifying a few things. Mainly "mailto:" and "https:". The rest falls into the hell that is default application for file type. Which is the largest source of malware and other nonsense in consumer computers.

Seriously, let that settle for a minute. "Default" behavior for executable applications is the most preyed upon phishing vulnerability there is. I do not want that introduced to a home automation device. I hope we do better than that.
Agreed, but why do that when the paywall is designed only to make a set amount of money in total and then make it public for everyone?

My assumption is that people release paywalled content free as as a form of protest, I would think that with the proper model piracy would be reduced to negligible harm.

A twist on this model could also be to put a secondary release for the content that is time-based. So the content is going to be freely available no matter what, why pay even $1 to be Robin Hood when everyone is just going to need to wait a few days - week to get it?
Databricks and Apache Spark 2016 Year in Review