skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is SNP racist?

Some people see the SNP's strong desire to separate from Westminster as anti-English.
Why would anyone want to write a phone app that embeds Node.js?
I think the perspective some people are taking here is that if it's invisible in the UI, then how would they ever know to ask? Short of running a continuous scraper and then compiling statistics as article did.

I'd be all for tagging a generic "Downvoted by moderation" onto any article this happened to. The poster will probably still be annoyed, but I imagine most would agree with moderation most of the time. And if they like, they can contact.

What they're less likely to agree with is this happening invisibly. And if it's invisible, then how do we know whether we (as a community) agree with it or not?

PS: Side note, strongly against "toggle a non-default option" as a solution. Filter bubbles are incompatible with democracy and true, diverse community.
Maybe they are not worried about the Russians but about other "under the table" threats where someone might shoot first.
I was wondering if that's what they meant. But if they did it is an absurd statistic given that only Scotland gets to vote in their own referendum.
Pretty much same system here in .dk. I remember when I was a child back in the 1980s and my dad went through the annual ritual of filing taxes. It was a big hairy mess of papers accompanied with colourful cusswords. These days it's just a quick glance at a prefilled form (we can correct values but we usually don't need to).
I wouldn't call it an American problem. I would call it a Silicon Valley problem.
Agreed, the claimed direct correlation between strength of enforcement and strength of substance is reaching too far.

But the basic idea that there exist powerful market-forces which incentivize the production and supply of increasingly strong products when a good is prohibited seems quite logical and supported by the evidence cited in the post.
Interesting to see what might happen post Brexit if Scotland does become Independent and stays in the EU. London has been a great place for International companies to set up shop to access the EU market and labor force...I wonder if they will simply relocate to Scotland? England only business matters could also be handled from within Scotland itself.
This double-bind seems like one of the deepest problems in software management.

At high levels and large companies, managers are often trained in 'management', without any of the domain knowledge needed to understand their choices. But throughout all levels of the industry, the alternative is raising engineers to management with only a seminar (or nothing at all!) for training.

It seems fairly obvious that effective technical management involves two different skills. But I virtually never see people react to that knowledge and seek (or train) expertise in both domains. As a result, the best management seems to be from engineers who are naturally adept at management, or eager to learn on their own.

Project management is already its own skillset. Do you think people in your position would benefit from some short-and-intensive course in "software team management"?
Lol, thanks :D
I think it was removed because of the blatant linking to your site, considered spam by most of us
Who decides what is fake?
About the Creative Process in Capitalist Economies
Those banks also have access to the Bank of England as a lender of last resort and the international market's backing for the UK's current economic policy. Scotland has a fairly developed financial sector, the currency issue is a lot more complicated than "pick one".

Pegging your currency to another when you don't have the fundamentals to match it tends to be of interest to George Soros, especially when you don't have much in the way of foreign currency reserves to defend it.
My Grandma was saying this a lot. With some economic headwinds and constant (but not outsized) inflation comparing against a nostalgia currency that stopped inflating years ago, it's exceedingly easy to blame the Euro for making things more expensive.

Adopting it often makes central bank policy more challenging. An outright "Euro makes goods more expensive" statement is an oversimplification though, don't take it at face value and always ask for objective inflation data relating to the particular country in question.
I've been thinking about making a site that only takes links to text/plain and other non-mixed-media content. I haven't been able to find one if it exists. I'd also love search engines to support media type filters.
> I want to leave too!

There was a brief desire to start an independence movement for London... It might very well happen (starting a group, not independence itself - if that ever happens it'll be decades) if Brexit gets too nasty and Scotland leaves and causes rest-UK to be even more hostile to our concerns.
What are the requirements for becoming a Certified Scrum Master? Do you think someone can professionally employ Scrum without having a background in software engineering without contributing to the problems I mentioned before?

If Scrum isn't the problem, it's clearly not the solution either.
It's off-topic: the subject is Scotland independence, not the failings of the democratic processes of the EU.
I've run both the mobile and desktop version on my phone and it just drains the battery way too fast. I ended up just using an rsync cron job to sync my phone over ssh while everything else uses syncthing (and yes, I know this means I can't delete anything but I very rarely do anyway.)
> Good-spirited pranks don't warrant jail time.

Who determines what is "good-spirited"?

I've been a part of many prank wars. You know when they stopped being fun and ended up getting people in trouble? When one side stopped enjoying it. I don't think the receiving team in this case is enjoying the prank. Which just makes it mean-spirited and low class.

Anon is just being a bag of dicks in this case, which means they either stop, or should get in legal trouble.
What are you using right now to handle this load?
I've always thought of the "how to write grammatically correct code" style guides as being relevant to writing high quality code in the context of a team that may onboard a new person or an internal transfer: they provide some baseline guarantee (insofar as the team honors them, of course) of the structure and formatting of the code. This reduces some amount of friction in a team. The benefits provided are largely context dependent (e.g. they'll benefit teams that expect to have a couple of senior engineers and many juniors on a relatively constant basis more than a team of experienced engineers in general), but I think having a style guide is important for any "large enough" engineering organization.

I've also always insisted on including at least some loose guides to cover the "how do I structure a paragraph" cases. These generally are going to vary on a project by project basis, though, so they're going to be more vague as a rule.
>You don't get to decide what other people's interests are,

I absolutely can,there are far too many voters who are now upset that obamacare & the aca are the same thing and they're going to lose their health insurance.
On the same subject, here are some tips I gleamed from Heather at SalesFolk:

One email, one focus. Send 8 different emails to every prospect. Four days apart. 30% responses come from email 5-8.

Keep it conversational, in first person.

Create benefit driven messages. How your product can help solve their problems?

Cold emails should be 2-5 sentences.

Again keep it conversational.

Keep words and sentences bare minimum.

Prove your worth. Show social proof or case study.

A/B test your message. Different value propositions. Different time/day.

Thursday Friday better than Monday.
TLABs and Heap Parsability
There just isn't enough documentation/articles out there on implementing AOT compilation. A lot of people are not using the CLI, since it wasn't mature enough when they started their Angular applications - Webpack is quite common these days. There is a nice plugin for Webpack maintained by the Angular team, @ngtools/webpack, but when trying to wire it in, the error messages are cryptic.

I was fortunate to have some key help at times from Rob Wormald of the Angular team, giving me some key insights about making sure my classes, interfaces, etc. are all exported publicly so they can be statically analyzed, and making sure to split my webpack configs & tsconfigs for dev & prod builds since AOT compilation is too slow for typical dev workflows (although you also want to be able to do it on dev to debug AOT compilation related errors) - I ended up with 4 different webpack configs for sanity's sake.

That said, the CLI does support AOT compilation and has that support built into it now - if I were starting an application now, I would probably just use the CLI.
Input: arr = [7, 4, 6, 3, 9, 1]
k = 2

Output: k’th smallest element in the array is 4

Am I missing something... shouldn't the k'th smallest element in this array be 3, given that k=2?
Doesn't the stability & growth pack only apply to Euro membership? Most EU countries aren't within that 3% anyway.
Japan to showcase Pascal GPU designed supercomputer
But FB is a public company. If shareholders thought that was the case, they could vote with their dollars. Looking at the stock price, they seem to have no problem with the way FB is hiring engineers. The market is okay with it.

There's no reasonable way to say FB should have less engineers without being a high level director of the company.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ruth-davidson-overtake...

From mid-september 2016. Couldn't find a more recent poll.
CIA wanted a way to copy 3.5“ floppy disks ”in a covert manner“  in 2013
Give me a try:

Apple - using an iMac in work. My phone is an iPhone and I use an iPad for all my non-work and most of my non-games computer use. However, I only converted to Apple products 1.5 years ago and while I would miss the iPad experience, wouldn't have any great problem switching away again. I also pay for additional cloud storage space for my phone and photo backups (0.99/month I think)

Google - I use Chrome. I've already migrated away from gmail and other google services other than search (I do use DuckDuckGo, but Google still works better). While I prefer Chrome to other browsers, I do use Safari on my iPad and could switch without too much trouble.

Amazon - I have a kindle and use their cloud storage thing for my books. Other than that, I occasionally buy from them and have always loved their store and support. However, lately the store quality has been getting worse and worse (impossible to know if you're buying from amazon or a third party, lots of fake reviews and scores etc). I could live without Amazon. I've also used AWS (but don't use it for any personal projects right now). While I quite like AWS, I'd be able to get by just fine using their competitors.

Facebook - I use it but don't enjoy it. Mainly on it because I use it to talk to a few friends. I have an Instagram account but barely use it. I use WhatsApp, but only because its convenient for the few people who use it and refuse to use something else. I could move away from Facebook, but it would cause a bit of a social disruption in my life. I'd survive it just fine, but it wouldn't be fun, at least, for a while. After that, I'd probably be happier and waste less time. Hmm.

Microsoft - don't currently use any Microsoft products or services.
Anybody who read "Disrupted" by Dan Lyons knows that not only software engineers suffer from this ignorance.
It is amazing that nowadays startup companies can become successful even if the ignorance level of their employees is quite high.
I used to have a similar problem. One thing that helped me (which I won't take credit for): I categorize my todo list into four groups.

* Urgent/Important (Fill out the kids' immunization forms for school)

* Not Urgent/Important (Call old friend)

* Urgent/Not Important (Pick up package from post office)

* Not Urgent/Not Important (Wrap up loose coins for bank)

It works surprisingly well, so long as you follow these rules:

1) You have to constantly re-evaluate. Urgent and important are two adjectives that are extremely subjective and change over time.

2) You absolutely must tackle tasks in the order above.

3) Spend a lot of attention on group two (not urgent/important). You'll be tempted to put gigantic, overwhelming tasks on there ("Learn a new skill") as opposed to something actually accomplishable ("Go through React tutorial part 1").

You really have to be honest about what "important" means to you. Especially group two (not urgent/important). Group one is usually pretty easy.

I'll deal with the hassle of my package being returned by the post office if it means I can talk to an old friend instead. You may feel differently. Be honest about it. If you find you're not accomplishing group two tasks and procrastinating on them, maybe they're not that important to you. "Call an old friend" sounds like something important, but maybe you've both moved on and the friendship really isn't that important to you anymore.
Ask HN: If you had to make $5M in 10 years, how would you do it?
This question is an extension of one posted on reddit[0], which was featured on the I Will Teach You To Be Rich[1] website.

How would you do it?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/41wvul/if_you_had_to_make_a_lot_of_money_say_5000000/

[1] http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/fascinating-question-about-making-5-million-in-10-years/
>Why can't there be both perfect competition and one company that serves most of the market?

This model is called "dominant firm with competitive fringe."
I am saying that identifying as Christian does not actually mean much. It's basically an ethnic affiliation that includes Mormon missionary's, Atheists, monks and mass murders. You can sub divide that into various groups where it actually means something. From some of those groups you can find the people where it means a lot. And from those sub groups you can find 100,000 people making a lot of noise that can very much punch up and have a significant impact.

Now, I am not saying only those 100,000 people have faith, or that all 100,000 share the same beliefs. Just, that they get a lot more attention than normal.
I use a similar application AltDrag. I can't live without it. I of course set it to the Win Key instead of Alt, as Alt key is used heavily in Blender and some other of the software that I use.

https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/
The Growth of Legal Cannabis Products
That's for sure. I rarely visit SEO websites or forums, but the few times I did I saw lots of complaints from people who seemed to think that Google owed them something after tweaking their page ranking algorithms.
Autopilot is floundering in the absence of Mobileye. It will take Tesla a while before their much more expensive hardware suite with 8 cameras and a Px drive chip (just the chip is worth a few thousand dollars) can match the performance of Mobileye's EyeQ3 and single camera.
Entrepreneurial journalists have new ideas for licensing photos
Why would it be abuse if people flag it as being off-topic for HN? The article is about some community code of conduct text which the article author comments on by adding their own interpretations to it. It look political and it uses inflammatory language.

The tug of war between upvotes and flags, as commented by dang, seems a strong sign that the article is very much political in nature. The question is if it also gratifies one's intellectual curiosity, but personally, in this case it did not do that for me.
Sorry if I didn't make this clear enough in the article but all of the stories in "Suppressed Story Trajectories" either drop off by hundreds of positions or disappear completely after their plotted line ends. They all match the criteria laid out in the previous paragraph. I used a larger y-scale on the last figure to show the full trajectory because that was a special case where the story didn't disappear completely and the trajectory after the jump was relevant.
I see this as a lose-lose scenario. If Scotland votes to split - it is effectively the end of UK as we've come to know it for a very long time. Fracturing is almost always a bad idea and bigger countries almost always do better than the smaller ones. If they vote to remain that will be bad as well, because it will embolden the politicians (tories in this specific case) that they can get away with anything (breaking up the country with their disastrous Brexit in this particular case). I am a european living in UK.
Well, yeah, I kind of get it, but still smells fishy somehow.
You still can be anonymous and say "I did something" now it just sounds like you are washing your hands and avoid being responsible.
OTOH, I was never a moderator of any kind, so I have no idea what problems they have to deal with.
You could add any title that's formulated as an imperative.
"You won't believe..."
"Guess which..."
"You should..."

Also titles that are formulated as a simple subject - predicate - object sentence:
"XY considered anti-pattern"
"Trump is right"
"Hitler did nothing wrong"
"Drunk girl shows tits"
"Homeopathy is the future of medicine"

Same works if formulated as a question:
"Is Trump right?"
"Has Hitler done nothing wrong?"
"Is homeopathy the future of medicine?"

Bonus points for exclamation marks, pound signs and uppercase words.
I used to think about Facebook the same way you do, but then I got into competitive card gaming. The local community for my game of choice is organized entirely via Facebook. We organize tournaments, carpooling, and so on, and invite each other to related social events.

It's a really nice way to handle a loose network of acquaintances like this. You don't have to give out your phone number, you get Event pages, it's pretty resistant to Spam, etc.
But aren't the people who are relying on that value precisely the people you want to keep out?
Looks like India's recent growth have edged them out, but I just want to point out that's why, not because the UK is falling. Its just India is, finally, catching up to the rest of the world. This is good news for India and doesn't take away from the UK. Also, remember we're talking about an economy of merely 65m people that chimes in at 6th.

UK GDP growth fits in at almost 2% which is where the USA sits at as well and typical of later-stage capitalist countries. EU darling and once economic powerhouse France is at .3%. Spain is only recently getting out of negative growth, for comparison.
You're talking pegging, but my earlier comment was about keeping GBP as the official currency. The two are separate options.
How sailing aliens could have caused fast radio bursts
Many, many, many years of the wealthy telling working folks that unions are bad.
Pushing Physical Limits with AWS Snowball Edge [video]
Marissa Mayer to step down as Yahoo CEO after Verizon deal closes
There was an IPSOSmori survey to that tune in mid-September. It was contradicted by a following YouGov poll in November where Sturgeon was seen as doing better.

And of course "doing well in her job" doesn't matter much if 38% of Scots vote SNP vs 16% Tory voters (from the Yougov survey).
"This is where engineering sense comes into play. I'd personally rather not pay for things I don't need, particularly if an undue focus on performance, etc. means my cost overruns my budget. Perfect is the enemy of the good, and all that..."

I agree, however, making at least an effort is preferable than not caring.

What I had in mind was the developer of a legacy system at my previous work. He couldn't understand why I was fussing over performance metrics and I told him I couldn't understand how he could not. The reply was that they had enough trouble "making the bloody thing working", so anything else was peripheral.
here, numbering starts from 0
same as std::nth_element
I loved the concept and hated the battery consumption on Android devices. Well it works totally different than a normal cloud storage so there is nobody really to blame but I cannot afford that much battery on my small 5" phone. Also did not liked that dates are not correctly on Android (but again this is not Syncthing fault). Why we cannot have date correction on external storage (without root) like on desktop file systems on Android? :(
Syncthing is sorely missing iOS support. I know they have their reasons not to implement it[0], but I feel that feature might be worth the hassle.

Photo sync on iOS without iCloud is a huge pain atm.

My backup strategy involves a NAS folder that stays up to date (i.e. also deletes photos that I delete on my phone), and which I occasionally sort into final location. After that I can free the space on my phone.

All other options (including Resilio Sync) are a add-only "sync"[1], which makes it annoying to sift through all the photos including those I already weeded out a week ago.

[0] https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#why-is-there-no-io...

[1] In theory, Resilio has a real sync, but for some reason, not for the iOS camera roll.
>I think an industry being owned by a small number of successful companies represents a signal that a local maximum has been reached.

Why do you think that?
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On the other hand Free Trade is a global race to the bottom of labor exploitation and unregulated ruination of natural resources.

High import tariffs or equivalent border tax distributes labor and manufacturing so that stuff is made in the jurisdictions in which it is consumed.

Global companies can deploy best practices in local factories.

Free trade within the US States is why all the great paying programming jobs are in NYC and Silicon Valley.
> Those banks also have access to the Bank of England as a lender of last resort

Can you imagine a future where the independent Scottish government could arrange a similar deal with another financial institution, to cover them until ECB took on the role?

> Pegging your currency to another when you don't have the fundamentals to match it tends to be of interest to George Soros

When was Black Wednesday for Montenegro?
Even if someone is 10X better in the abstract, real world problems may not show much of a difference. It doesn't matter who is 10X better if you're playing football against toddlers. And most programming falls into this category.

It sort of shows through all the complaints about interviews, most programming work is just not difficult enough to separate people, so anything that does needs to be scorned.
Hacker News encourages original content as long as it is high quality/people aren't spamming it every other day.
The attitude of this content explains some of the bias against older workers. There is a good point about getting engineers that are happy to work long hours but dismissing something like WhatsApp as a "glorified CRUD app" is just wrong and will result in poor engineering.
I have a trello board with the following columns:

"Good intentions" :- Things I think I'm going to do. I investigate then put in other columns.

"Next Up" :- Need to have a go at next.

"Working On" :- Actively doing.

"Done/Dead" :- Things that I did as well as things I failed at or discarded.

"Follow Up" :- Something happened, so need to wait on something/someone to then allow me to continue.

"Asleep" :- Sometimes things are not 'Dead' they are just really not worth looking at for another year or so. I evaluate these projects once a year or and move them into Next Up if viable again.

It's my home page when I fire up my browser. ;)
The difference is that Team A can leave and a project is delayed. If Team B all left the company would fold.
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