skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knox appears to be a privacy nightmare on it's own
sudo dpkg -i cudatext_1.7.1.0-1_gtk2_amd64.deb
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cudatext .
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cudatext --help
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sudo apt remove cudatext
When does the flag label appear though?

Here's an example of a submission that does not include the [flagged] label, but which has a moderator saying it got flagged, and that the flags are the reason it's not on the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741276
Block the nagging modal element. If you can't. Don't view them. Then talk shit about the page in the comments.
Any input from a user should be validated and sanitized. Plain and simple.
I accept your comment about 'supporting the poor' was probably flippant but still, I find the idea that the best way to support the poor is to make taxis cheaper, rather than increasing the/enforcing a minimum wage absolutely bizarre.

I also wonder whether having these artificially low prices for things like Uber, reduces the incentive to improve more efficient modes of transportation like trains/buses.
I'm happy to hear this because I've made huge experience related advancements in how I perceive programming, jumping on new trends, and so on since I became at least 30. History has a tendency to repeat itself and at some point you start to identify telltale signs, risks, and opportunities much better than when you were just hatched. And it does not (should not) need to be said how valuable such qualities can be at work.
It's paid but seedboxes sometimes support syncthing. Seedhost.eu i know for example supports it.
If programmers at NASA make a serious mistake on say the space stations's code, people will die and billions of dollars of equipment will be lost. The same cannot be said for a social website which serves a bunch of content. NASA has way more on the line than Facebook.

Here's a great article on how NASA did development on the space shuttles code and the importance of process and quality:
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp13/hand-outs/They-Wri...
That's how I do it. My use case is a large number of nodes (>200) need read-only access to data I provide from my node. So my node is set as "introducer" and gives the host list to everyone joining the swarm.
Buggy resolution center page with no transactions. Calls from unknown number. No follow up emails. No notes on the account. No effort to resolve your issue. It sounds a little strange to me.

I apologize but I haven't seen anybody else ask these questions:

How did you find out that your account had been frozen?

Did you find out after logging in or were you reacting to an email?

Did you click a link in an email to get to the resolution center?

When you "contacted PayPal" to tell them about the buggy form, did you email or call?

If you called, what number did you call? Did you find it in an email or did you Google it?

When you called the following day and the rep said there were no notes, did you call the same number as before?

Did the rep on the second day confirm that your account had been suspended because of transaction disputes?

Have you logged into PayPal from your another machine (like your cell phone)?

Even intelligent, tech savy people fall victim to scams. I just want to make sure you weren't too trusting of emails and phone calls you received because they seemed consistent with the history of your PayPal account.
This post has me worried this morning. I don't have any long term goals. Curious to see what other people have.
Well there are many programming opportunities out there for people of all age. You just need to broaden your horizons if not your choices of languages, tools, and even platforms.

at fifty plus the only thing I note with difficulty in moving to a new job is that it is harder to change. learning something new, language, etc, isn't that difficult but I do have to fit in. It is the idea of changing environments that I do not care for.

Many people I know in the placement of developers look not only as skills but how long you have been where you are, because apparently I am not alone in being reluctant to leave even if I say I am willing
Until they throw you on the pager after years off it, and wonder why you might mind.

Sorry, still a bit bitter.
On the flip side, I remember arguments twenty years ago about how the owner of a mail server had a fundamental human right to read all the mail that passed through her server. That the processor and hard drive were her property and that any government intervention that stopped that sysadmin from reading, saving, and distributing any of the messages that passed through was the first step to an Orwellian dystopia.
In addition to what jasode said, Ask HNs/self-posts have an additional penalty. (which is something I disagree with)
There are no things called “Feely Science” or “'real' science”. What you call “'real' science” is called “science”. What you call “Feely science” isn’t science, and is called, variously, “superstition”, “woo”, and “bullshit”.
The problem with that is that they have various tools like adjusting things off the frontpage or banning comment threads to the bottom of the list; but the UI itself does not provide information on those. If the mods do any of these things but don't also leave a human comment on them, then it's unlikely people will notice.
Four Steps for Developing and Retaining the Future Leaders of Your Organization
The problem with GTD is that it explicitly discourages you to schedule tasks at a specific time unless strictly necessary : you're always supposed to do whatever is "next" in the "context" you're in. You're never done, and this can be taxing and make you want to give up.

Newer research (Dan Ariely's IIRC) has shown that having tasks on the calendar improves the chances of actually doing a realistic number of them.
Afaik there is a mechanism to remove flame bait articles. If a link gets too many comments too quickly, it gets removed.
I used Habitica for a few months. It's an RPG but you progress your character by meeting self-defined goals. It's much better if you have a group to do it with.
Thanks for the reply.

In the meantime, I have checked Syncthing forums and I have found this topic: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/why-im-moving-back-to-btsync-r... It is exactly complaining about the ease of use on Windows and Android, saying there is no native GUI, etc. From this description it seems, that Syncthing is not there, yet.
But seriously (i.e., ref to my previous comment). All the tools. All the talent. All the leadership and management. All the money. And still even the mighty FB struggles.

Point being: This shit might not be rocket scientist hard, but it ain't easy either. And when you don't have the war chest of the likes of FB you're in for an ongoing and never ending (quality) battle.
If it's ignorance, then it's not pretense :)

In any case, I don't necessarily disagree, but I've yet to see good evidence of the shadowy cabal, rather than user-directed flagging. I mean, just look at the list in the article: does it point to any kind of "beating down stuff that doesn't fit the narrative"?
The point is that prohibition increases the mean or median strength, not the maximum available.

One argument I've heard in favour of legalizing cannabis that it would increase the supply of weaker strains, reducing the potential harm to users.
> The web doesn't give me this (it doesn't matter if it _could_).

If it was important then the web would cater to it. It's simple economics.

We could create protocols for all the sub needs and desires that people may have but that would be restrictive.
It completely relied on the server, which has been shut down.
But if you look at the article you'll see what I think is a salient point -- looking at code and figuring out how it works often looks more like an "investigation" (like, set some breakpoints and step through it, for instance). It's nothing like sitting in front of a fireplace with a novel.
Oh boy can I ever.

We used Resilio Sync (aka Bittorrent Sync aka BT Sync) for a while for the Tron project ( https://reddit.com/r/TronScript ). It worked great for our use-case: distributing a large number of files to a large number of nodes who required read-only access. Anytime I changed a file on the master node it would blast out to everyone else while simultaneously preventing any other node in the swarm from propagating changes.

Unfortunately with all the restrictions they introduced, it stopped working reliably. Internally they introduced a hard-coded peer cap of something like 32, while our swarm was already over 500.

We switched to Syncthing and it's been working well. There is still one major issue and that's that anyone can mark their copy of the folder as "read-only" (formerly called "Master"), and then they will attempt to propagate changes out to the rest of the swarm. So, there's that. But strictly on a distributed file syncing level, it works great.
Flags seem to apply downward pressure before they build enough to get the "flagged" label.
Yes, the challenge with infrastructure is usually, "how do we document the runbook for this?" & "how do we set up the paging schedule?"
Viber Secret Chat: Yet Another App to Replicate Snapchat Feature
Cold War politics entered into the picture, too, since many labor activists were left of center and accusing them of being a communist beachfront was an easy political attack.

One other complication: as with most parts of U.S. history, racism shows up at key points. Some unions have a history of racial discrimination – not least because factory owners tried to use African American workers to break strikes – but others, especially the government unions, were actually attacking race or sex-based discrimination, which didn't win them support among the more conservative workers. One thing I've noticed is a trend in who is portrayed as the “lazy union worker” in attacks, where they never show e.g. a white police officer in a negative context but routinely depict a public school teacher as someone unqualified who got the job by virtue of being female, minority, etc. One thing we're not short on are people who will act against their own personal interests if they think it'll hurt an undeserving other.
A lot of my long term goals involve daily engagement, so I use a recurring reminder service(http://coach.me) to stay on top of them. The app reminds me to check off items and promotes streaks.
Except that what led him to this point was interviewing multiple world-renowned programmers for his book "Coders at Work" and finding essentially none of them read code regularly either.
I've found the google/leveldb[1] source code to be immensely educational, authored by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. A relatively tiny codebase at that, used virtually everywhere and the basis for facebook/rocksdb[2].

[1]: https://github.com/google/leveldb

[2]: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb
Thats not true. Scotland would have to apply but Brexit negotiators said the application could even be fast tracked and wouldn't be a big problem for Scotland to rejoin.

>Jacqueline Minor, the European commission’s head of representation in the UK, said Scotland would need to formally apply after leaving the UK, although it could be fast-tracked because it already complies with EU rules and regulations.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/10/independent...

Spain are concerned that it might a set a precedent for Catalonia to get independence but if the Scottish independence came about because of the UK leaving the EU Spain will be conformable in allowing Scotland to join.
Doh. Thanks, I've edited the comment accordingly.
In the comments you link to, dang is the moderator, so he isn't theorizing when he says:

> It is the usual tug of war between upvotes and flags
Simple macros, powerful macros
Yeah, that's a reaction of a lot of people, even when they're going and committing stuff like unused parameters an IDE could have easily caught.
See also, a discussion a couple weeks ago about how people can "buy" upvotes on HN and how HN takes steps against that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676362
Does your product address both the learning and "feedforward" stages of deep-learning?

Does your product allow to run generic frameworks like Theano or TensorFlow?

By the way, I'd love to read more hardware-startup-related news on HN.
There is, however, a guarantee that a non-independent Scotland will be part of neither as a result of Brexit.

There's no small irony to the fact that scaremongering around Europe was such a big focus of the Better Together campaign in the run up to the first referendum.
They do, but code completion is only the tip of the iceberg as far as IDE features go.
Map, a moderately better dictionary data type for JavaScript
That looks clear and concise to me.

It's a part of a performance sensitive mission critical infrastructure. The parts you posted are some of the core data structures that make it fast by squeezing every bit and byte that reasonably can. There are no points awarded for being pretty.

A quick browse around Redis source code looks very clean and elegant to me. There are "hard" low level parts like the stuff you quoted (out of context) and then there are "easy" parts that implement the higher level functionality. It has a decent amount of comments.

Taking one of the "nasty" bits out of context is disingenuous. Every computer program has nasty bits and they're usually there for a reason.
Interesting theory.

HN autokills the youtu.be stories. Try submitting again using the youtube.com version of the link.
The thing is, you're trying to be ironic but it's not really working. You're probably thinking of a new project, with minimal pre-existing code, where taking shortcuts can get you places faster.
But in most real world cases, and certainly in companies the size of Facebook, the fact is that if your competitors keep on collecting technical debt, they will, naturally, slow down enough for you to more than catch up.

Code quality isn't some sort of nerd/techie fetish. Personally I, and I believe a lot of other people, care about code quality because I enjoy going home without a headache and I enjoy being able to deliver the things I commit to within the estimated timeframe. Apart from that, I don't really love coding, I don't read code for fun as I would poetry, I don't consider myself a craftsman and my code a work of art.
Delivering something when you're struggling with an already existing codebase of low quality takes multiple times longer than it would otherwise. And this does slow you down, enough to make you slower than organizations that did things better.
They're buying a story for their stock. "our stock is our product" and all that.
It can still be spam, but we care so much of spam largely because of the volume and lack of targetting. If everything I received was carefully manually targetted and researched, you could call it spam all you'd like - I would still be perfeclty fine with receiving it to my busness accounts. Less so to my personal accounts, but even then I'd be far less annoyed.
Does HN actually suffer this? I know its done on Reddit and by who in one case; just having a family member active in politics gets you good insight how many sites they try to manipulate.

I was hoping that HN's flag system would sufficient for the community to self censor. Perhaps we need a flag on comments too, something you can't see. I would also prefer that posts don't transition through the lighter grays as they get down voted but disappear completely once the dead threshold is met. That would prevent some piling on that does happen
This is perfectly fine and readable. No need to pity anyone, especially not C programmers. :)
Including this very comment.
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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13845573
Goxel internals: how to store voxel data
Except for Reagan and Clinton's welfare cuts - and productivity has far outpaced the wages which workers have earned since the 70's.
I don't really understand why the idea of union shops bothers people.

Freedom also means you can strike, walk-out, or quit your job if you want. Union shops exist because unions have the power to have everyone else walk out if someone is hired who isn't in the union. That's how the concept was originally created. (I think the formalism around modern elections, created by Taft-Hartley, is actually strongly anti-union but that's another matter) it therefore seems odd to argue that you should be free to work in a union shop without joining the union, with all of your union co-workers forced to not walk out in response.

Or just speaking practically- a good union is democratic, and the democracy is much smaller - you can have more impact if you speak up- than the big democracy of the federal or state governments. So shouldn't taxes be a larger gripe than union dues? A portion of my taxes goes to fund all sorts of things I don't support.
President Trump says buy American, but Ivanka's fashion line made in China
Was it critical of Google or one of the other mega corps? I've noticed oftentimes info that is disappears quickly on here.
If the rule is wrong then it's really good news! At least for my mental state, as I've spent countless hours practicing music in a span of 15 years and still play worse than some of the self-taught beginners with 3-4 years of experience. It's depressing and is already becoming an obstacle in motivating to practice further.

If the rule stands, it means it's my fault: I'm not motivated enough, not passionate enough, not smart enough to organize my practice routine. It's what I'm thinking today and what hurts my self-esteem. If the rule's wrong that would be a relief, as it means it's not completely my fault.
>And no, I do not think that the NASA domain is in any way more difficult than Facebook's.

You might not think it, but you'd be wrong. Facebook was for several first years just a set of PHP crud pages and heaps of servers to run them well.

Since then they added their own compiler and such, but the core of what they do is serving web pages at scale.

All known problems, solved by tens of teams all over the world, even at larger scales (Google for one).

NASA's problem on the other hand is quite unique, any errors can cost lives, and their tasks frequently include totally novel solutions for totally novel problems related to space travel, guidance, simulations, materials science, and so on.

Not the same difficulty at all.
Popularity =/= Economic Viability =/= Importance.

The market is NOT a mechanism for delivering what is important.
Set a short-term goal (a month) and set aside some time (weekly?) to spend focusing on the task of discovering your long-term goals? :)
Tunnel decorators: encapsulating the work with a badly designed library
On the point of internal colonialism: it might have been true once, but certainly not true today.

All of the countries in the union have seats in Westminster, dedicate ministers and committees, as well as their own devolved parliaments. I'd say things are much worse for counties in the North of England, than for the other countries in the UK.

The nature of democracy means the majority rules, which will always be problematic for minority communities. The only solutions I can see are to be more cohesive and unified in opinion, divorce completely, or accept differences as the cost of peace and stability and continue working to improve the balance.
I think you captured it with "1. Certain political parties have their base in rural areas and want to subsidize their life style."

The suburbs are politically very important in the U.S. because a lot of people live there. The question of most national elections is whether the suburbs will ally with the urban core or the rural areas, and the answer is usually the rural areas.
Nobody is claiming that they're forced to work for Uber.
Why are they even using a vendor? The work is just integrating webkit in their build pipeline! How can using a vendor not be more hassle, money, time and troubles?
I agree to some extent, but think of it as more of this is how the sausage is made type of thing. As engineers we like to opine about perfect code, functional this, and monad that. It pains us to see that business success requires very little of even good code much less perfect. The reality is that the code rarely matters as long as it can be held together long enough for the next user or investor check to clear the bank.
https://github.com/RunestoneInteractive
My point is you don't notice every post that gets removed and there is currently no transparancy on the reason why.

HN doesn't have to be transparent, it's just a site with it's own agenda (by that I don't mean evil agenda, but it is there for a reason) but if you want to grow the community, I think clearly identifying why things were removed is a reasonable thing to ask. If every one it marked "flagged by users" I'd worry that there is no manual intervention.
Instagram photo prediction challenge
A proven platform to compete with NVIDIA in the autonomous car market.
"Google's removal of the discussions filter was a big blow to the openness of the web"

This!

With that filter I could name a product and find common people talking about it, now all I find is companies selling the product.
This is getting even worse when searching political topics because from mixed people discussing the topic I now find only news sites or biased sources promoting their point.
When people say "timing the market", they mean short term timing. Holding for almost a decade is not market timing.
That is actually remarkable given that women entered the workforce en-masse during that time. Rapidly increasing the work-force with the same basic needs being serviced and still having any per-worker productivity growth.

Couldn't also have to do with the phase out of Bretton-Woods and the recovery of Europe from WWII during that time?

And with all that social redistribution marginal-utility-wise productivity must be off the charts. $1 in additional purchased products for consumption sure provides a lot more utility to someone at the bottom than $1 in additional products does for a billionaire.
Intel to Buy Mobileye for $15.3B
I think it's the same in-group elitist mentality that drives so many people away from the industry. Luckily focused study in college can level these two groups you describe, and non-"hackers" can get very good.

If we slightly re-write parent's argument to remove the elitism and focus on the people it's possible to see the same message without the baggage.

Focused study can level the groups, but regardless of how people get there, the quality of any graduating class has a roughly bi-modal distribution. One group is the students who kept up in class, knew what they were doing, and learned a lot. It doesn't matter if they had experience going in, or worked hard to make up for lost time. And the other group half-assed it just well enough to make it over the finish line. Or to rephrase again - you had people who wanted (for whatever reason) a skillset that is marketable, and a group that thought they could buy a ticket to a good jobs.
HN has flags for comments. Click the timestamp of the comment and the flag option will appear.

I think there's a small karma threshold for flagging - something like 30 or 50 karma.
You could use a stripped-down client. There are currently compatibility problems (with using Lynx, elinks, dillo, etc), but most of those are probably surmountable. I can easily imagine a browser that guarantees either a reader-mode/AMP-like experience or a graceful failure.
> Does HN actually suffer this?

Oh yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749685
WiFi as a universal ‘Satnav’ for virtual reality frameworks
>Facebook itself is an industry leader in open source innovation

In the sense that they gave us React and couple JS tools? What are their other "industry leading open source innovations"?

That's hardly a major "open source innovation". Heck, Google itself has produces 2-3 similar JS pieces (Angular, GWT, Closure compiler, Dart, etc).
Fuck you. I am not on anyone's payroll.
A user can see those things by turning on "Show Dead" in their profile.