skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See here for the actual questions.

http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV6.jsp
If you come from a C# background I really enjoy the book Real World Functional Programming [1]. The way it lays out samples side by side with C# and F# is pretty great and really helped me start to understand functional programming and F#.

[1] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh314518.aspx
It is a number that conveys that it is hardly noticeable, but compounds into big losses.

It's a personal assessment.
But the angle of the story here isn't about that at all. It's about how Google decimated a legitimate website focused on this issue.
I think a good way to tell if you're in an echo-chamber is to express an opinion that is counter to the group and see if the community engages in active debate or just tries to shun you. Not to the point of trolling, but just expressing an ordinary or commonly-held belief that is in contrast to the accepted group belief. Every group has them - aside from politics, consider e.g. expressing the idea that "Uber as an organisation is not immoral even if it has some bad employees" on HN right now. For the record, I think HN's actually pretty good at debating contrary opinions, a lot more so than most subreddits.
The latter. No substantial improvement and lots of regressions.
The most interesting part of the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, for those of whom have not visited, is not the Apple I or any of the 1970s/1980s PCs. What's more interesting is the big room in the back full of supercomputers, the CDC6500 - the amount of work to bring that back to life far, far outweighs the amount of work to bring the Apple 1 back to life. So they connected a new power converter to the Apple 1? Big whoop. The CDC6500 weighs more than 10,000 lbs, has liquid coolant, custom cabling that they had to set up new manufacturing lines for, everything is wired by hand, etc.

In my opinion, supercomputing is a more relevant metaphor for the type of age we're living in, involving neural networks, brute force type machine learning on a big server that we all share, in a sense...the 60's are alive again man!
> Steve Wosniak and Paul Allen met — for the first time, amazingly — and chatted over an Apple II.

That's crazy to me. All this time and they just now meet!
Any other advice you'd give? I need to get testing up to snuff in a shop i recently joined and part of that involves frontend tests (something i've not done before). I fear making unstable Selenium tests.

Skipping anything you feel is obvious/etc, do you think there are any noteworthy gotchas i should know?

Appreciate your input!
Man wants Google to deindex articles – about both his accusation and exoneration
_Disclaimer: I work for Open Knowledge International and have worked on OpenSpending in the past_

If you're interested in public spending data, take a look at OpenSpending (https://openspending.org/). It's a project that aims to make exploring, visualizing, and searching spending data easier. It's all free software (https://github.com/openspending) and you can upload your own datasets or explore others. It also provides you with an API, so you can use it to build finance-related projects (e.g. http://orcamento.inesc.org.br)
Yak. Effortless Dropbox blogs
When I studied cello performance in college, my professor would joke that the 40 David Popper etudes were my new bible. However, I think a copy of Bach's six cello suites is a better match.

In my work in math education, there are many possibilities, but I think Polya's "How to Solve It" is a strong contender.
It's not bitching, I just think as a professional I'd be required to launch products with requisite browser support and I don't have the resources of Google. The whole point of Web Standards and the Open Web have been made numerous times and if this was Microsoft requiring Internet Explorer in 2017 I'm sure they'd get pilloried.

I'm not seeing how this is different than an Intranet site requiring Internet Explorer or a video site requiring Flash. Unless you believe that Internet Explorer and Flash are "Bad" and Chrome is "Good"?
If you like tinkering with computers, and happen to be in or visiting Seattle, the Living Computer Museum is really fun. Anyone can pound away on any of the computers they have set up.
Universally useful link:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B020'05.2%22N+122%C2...
A year is a long time. Why not 6 months? Or 3? I know a couple who traveled for a year. There were diminishing returns after the first few months of going city to city. Maybe pick a place and try to set up a life there for a little while?
It's in their manifesto and they've campaigned for it for years.
Fortunately yes, it is.

> Of course, you can still access and download Google Earth 7 for desktop

https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-e...
AMD launches 500-series graphics cards: RX 580 and RX 570 available now
Theoretically yes, but in practice many "business" customers don't have a VAT-ID (eg. businesses with less than 20000€ revenue, universities, non-profits). If you want to sell to them, you need to charge VAT.
My apprehension comes from lack of seeing it in the wild (i.e. scaled businesses).

Google primarily uses C++/Java. Facebook: Hack. Twitter tried Scala and as far as I know, abandon it and went to Java. LinkedIn definitely tried Scala, failed, and went to Java. Square is Ruby/Java.

I'd like to have something to point to as a success story of a company at scale with functional programming. Anyone know of one?
The current approach to science is pretty much screwed. In addition to the things you mention, everyone in academic science is silo'd and hyperspecialized, so there is very little cross pollination and new thought in a given domain. As a result, we're getting very good at picking apart the details of established domains, but very bad at coming up with big new hypotheses or different approaches.

I really think industrial R&D is the way to go, we just have to shift grant money there in the form of tax breaks in exchange for open access/patents that permit non-commercial use.
your quote seemed to imply that it should come as a surprise that there are non-racist Brexit voters. As a pro-Brexit voter myself I'm used to being on the receiving end of that kind of inflammatory rhetoric so if that wasn't your intention then I apologise.
You mean have stories by Chris Lattner and Linus???

Man, I would pay 10x as much for that!
Indeed. Now that I can agree is a phenomenal accomplishment.
Ask HN: What musical instruments (if any) do you play?
I play drums & percussion
Trump to Push 'Buy American, Hire American' Policy at Wisconsin Visit
Checklist of security precautions for Ruby on Rails applications
I'm trying to break away from commodity software dev roles for research positions. Is a MS/PhD advisable? Is this a better shot than trying to get people's attention via a neat project (is that even a thing)?

Currently I'm working toward getting into an MS program for my own curiosity.
Ask HN: What are some really good landing pages?
I've heard that when the user lands on a product's landing page, they will spend at most 30 seconds there. So we're supposed to sell them on our product in that short duration.

So I'm wondering: what are some really good landing pages you've seen?

PS: my previous question didn't receive much traction.
if you read all the igg page, it says they work with displayport, superbook works with displaylink. That makes a huge diference, displaylink uses a percentage of the CPU of the phone, displayport doesn't. and the new samsung s8 is compatible displayport. this mirabook also works with many types of displays, superbook offers just the andromium display...well i think mirabook is quite nice...thats just me.
This does not mean you will get the same quality out of the box. Microsoft hand-calibrates the Surface screens indiviually before they ship, just some thing to take into account.
Research as taught in my Masters has generally broken away from the big general quantitative research in values. It is seen as banal results from banal questions. Trust is an important part of culture and therefore has to be interpreted in a rich context which is taken away. It makes just sense to evaluate trust if one takes into account the other values in a cultural system as its value is just given by the other concurring parts, e.g. honor, privacy.
I have founded two worker co-ops; both in the tech sector.

Whenever one of these posts hits reddit or this website, there is a surge of interest - and then nothing. Our rate of growth (400 or so worker co-ops in the US) is abysmally slow; if anything I've seen more co-ops fold than start anew! Our conferences seem to bring more and more each year, though - just not workers; instead we get specialists, folks from social justice and non-profits... Just very few workers. At the East coast conference two years ago, 75% of the speakers were non-owners, just co-op specialists; do-gooders and SJWs.

The only new co-ops I seem to see are those that get created by top-down institutions; non-profits and the like. I'm talking Evergreen, WAGES, etc. Once in a while we get web co-ops (like the one liked here); more often than not, they too have a political bent (beyond worker-ownership).

Not sure why I'm saying all this here; I suppose I just wanted to offer a different perspective on all this. I love worker co-ops, and think they should be everywhere. But I'm not sure culture in the US is yet compatible!

Checkout http://reddit.com/r/cooperatives it you want to know more.
Well, that's the challenge, right ?

Not making an AI that has perfect response, but a "human-like" one.
Mapping WiFi Signals in 3 Dimensions: http://hackaday.com/2015/02/17/mapping-wifi-signals-in-3-dim...
Facial recognition is coming to US airports, fast-tracked by Trump
If you want to make a program that runs another program, i.e. forkexecs a process, how would you do it? You would want to drop privileges before exec, set resource limits, maybe chroot, maybe even seccomp, maybe pass sockets created in a privileged parent process, watch SIGCHLD in case it dies to restart it or start some sort of failover procedure, maybe also read its logs from stdout/stderr and do something with them. And what if you want to monitor a remote process like that and start it on another node if it stops responding? Would you use Bash for all of that? Perl - sure, but you would still have to write an extension in C to handle all of the OS specific things. I wouldn't use Go for that as it's going to be too much work, but its static binaries make it attractive for at least some of the infrastructural things.
>I've known managers who inject chaos into their group just to figure out who gets frightened by it and who doesn't.

That's roughly one of main goals of basic training in the military. Inject unsolvable manufactured problems, see who doesn't figure out how to cope.

Not recommending it either, but the key to recognize when the goal isn't really to solve the intractable issue.
Universally useful link (ctrl+click to rotate): https://www.google.de/maps/place/53%C2%B044'43.4%22N+0%C2%B0...

This has been around for years.
That's how iPhone's Do not Disturb works by default (default interval is 3 mins IIRC).
Scaleway workload intensive servers now available in Amsterdam
Wikipedia has Indonesia as one.

"As of 2012, Indonesia is the only Muslim-majority nation acknowledged as fully democratic by both Freedom House and Economist democracy indexes."
Just incase there isn't already enough other links. This one is for the US / UK / Czech Republic

I liked the style.

https://www.wikibudgets.org/
Is there some place anonymous where we can list the H1B abusing sweat shops ?
Gut feelings: the future of psychiatry may be inside your stomach
Hand calibrates the screen? Does that mean someone does it by eye each time? I worked as a color matcher the human eye isn't all that sensitive I'd think you'd want to use a colorimeter and use that data to automatically match the desired colorimetry (most people won't even notice 1.5 delta e off in yellows, 3 delta e in blues) but then "by hand" wouldn't really make sense as that process would likely be automated.
Mobile Payments in Kenya
ITA Software - lisp. Acquired by Google for 700 million.
The irony is kind of delicious... ;-)
How to successfully manage a remote team?
I just meant straight up using the scripting language described in the article to hand-code an AI.
It's possibly worth mentioning for those not closely following UK news that "soft Brexit" now usually seems to mean "remaining a member of the Single Market", and "hard Brexit" usually seems to mean "anything less than that".

I don't personally think this is a very useful distinction. By this definition, a soft Brexit is what for example the Lib Dems are advocating at the moment. However, I think it is also highly unlikely to happen, because to a first approximation it is leaving-in-name-only and thus probably an untenable position for the government to adopt politically. The entire spectrum of other possibilities, from retaining relatively close ties in some respects up to completely walking away with no deal at all, then fall under the single banner of hard Brexit, but treating such widely different possible outcomes as equivalent doesn't seem to be very useful (unless for political reasons you want to try to equate them anyway, I suppose).
jet.com https://tech.jet.com/blog/2016/02-05-jet-engine-built-2015/ . F# on Azure. Acquired by Walmart for 3 billion in cash.

From the article "in this case for massive distributed systems Functional Languages are the right tool
...

Immutability at scale is really important because it allows you to go from 30k members to a staggering 2.5 Million+ and not even feel blip within 3 months, like we did here at Jet from the end of July to October. That’s powerful!"
That not what oversampling means.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/25/oversampling...
French magazine L’Obs is using Facebook Messenger to follow undecided voters
I'm on Ubuntu with Google Chrome.
Funny thing is that third parties provided the equivalent of multireddits back in the day, by parsing the stream and sorting them into columns, and Twitter eventually introduced lists.

But all this has since languished, as neither their site nor their official apps makes it easy to show lists.
Only in part. Journalism today is a clickbait title to get you to see ads. Nothing that follows the title is actually relevant.
if you follow more than 100 accounts you have to use lists, you can even build lists without following the underlying accounts.
Brains of gambling addicts: High stakes, high risk, and a bad bet
>Why compose classes, abstract base classes, etc. when you can compose simple functions!

What do you think of the recent rise of 'hybrid' languages like scala?
The UK (which is a EU member for the next ~22 months) has co-ops, and basically invented the modern legal co-op.
No one has suggested duration yet. Some activities have a fixed length of life. Take for example CB radio which also peaked around 1/10th of all cars, interesting how twitter similarly peaked around 1/10th of internet users.

Perhaps twitter is exactly like Fondue pots. Until it exists demand accumulates for decades perhaps. It bursts on the scene and for awhile the stockpiled demand results in exponential fad like growth until virtually all weddings in the 70s received at least one fondue pot as a wedding gift. Eventually the centuries of stockpiled demand for crusty bread and delicious hot cheesy sauce subside to normal business as usual demand levels, in other words use of fondue pots dropped from absolutely everyone because they were the hot new gadget to perhaps less than 1%. Most of the demand for fondue went into the nacho sector, arguably modern loaded nachos are a superior form of cheez sauce delivery over fondue. Or perhaps the loaded baked potatoe is the descendant of the 70s fondue. Or what little 2010s fondue exists today is the descendant of 1970s fondue.

The point being that nothing existed like Fondue, I mean twitter, before, so its going to burn the underbrush of society like a forest fire very brightly for a short amount of time before declining back into normal obscurity much like telephone modem BBSes of the 80s, perhaps.

I'd postulate that "Television" is a long term bubble. The viewership numbers are horrible looks like newspapers. Everyone over 65 watches like 16 hours per day and no one under 20 watches TV. My kids don't watch TV other than streaming a couple series they learned about online or from friends. Its kind of funny that when I was a little younger it was a holiness signalling fad to declare my kids will not watch TV all day like me and my parents generation and we're gonna not own a TV blah blah blah like most social signalling no one did it or believed it but just enjoyed basking in the hype. However now that I have kids, kids don't watch TV anymore once they get past babysitter era stuff like animated PBS stuff. I can't get my kids to watch TV so I can get the social status from claiming to cut them off, LOL.

Social media is dead now except for middle aged women sharing pix of cats if they're left wing or kids if they're right wing. We live today in the era of interruption where being interrupted by your phone and watch proves you're important and well informed. The content interrupting you is unimportant, what matters is being seen in public being very active online, constantly being interrupted and posting stuff. VLM's law is all social media interaction eventually devolves to Tamagotchi.

Twitter is more than a fad in that a fad has nothing to perpetuate it beyond social signalling. But its less than a major change in society like "cars" or "suburbs" or "industrialization".
Jane Street use OCaml https://www.janestreet.com/technology/

Erlang was developed for Ericsson phone switches with a large proportion of uptime.

Whatsapp also use Erlang.
well in 50 years they can speak about it that way.

besides, im talking about the content.
You can make most pulmonic voiced consonants, except laterals, trills, dentals, and retroflexes, so /m n ɲ ŋ ɴ b d ɟ g ɢ ʡ ʔ ɣ z ʒ ʑ β ʋ ɹ j ɰ ʁ ʕ ɦ ⱱ ɾ/ are all possible, as well as all vowels. If you're really quick with your mouse you can then make pretty decent sounding words using any of these sounds. Some relatively easy ones I managed to do are "man", "no", "guy", "me", and "why".

Some require co-articulation and diphthongs. For example, "why" requires putting the tongue to the top left, /ɯ/, rounding the lips, making it /u/, then quickly releasing the lips and moving the tongue to the bottom/bottom-right, /a/, then sliding it to the top right, /i/, so that you end up with /uai/ which is pretty close to the correct English /waɪ/.
Meet your microbes
[random advice from the internet]

I'm going to parrot my interpretation of patio11's [1] advice since I don't have direct experience: Pay for the service and focus on building a product people will pay for. That's what those services that handle VAT did and why you are considering using them.

What Patio11 doesn't say is if you build it, you have to maintain it and maintaining it means keeping up with changes to tax law and tax forms and tax policy. Odds are you're not a tax expert (if you were, you'd probably be standing up a tax calculation service like the one's you've found).

http://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/

[1]: AKA Patrick Mackenzie. My understanding is that he often chats with people who contact him.
I don't understand what's happening with Nylas. They make N1 pay-for. Then they announce a free Mail. Then they can N1, in favour of v2 of Mail, which doesn't have the feature of N1 (esp proper Exchange support).

There's pivoting and then there's flailing.
I think the point is that Chinese products are getting progressively less crappy. Rapidly, even. Just like what happened to every other up and coming industrial power.

Perhaps another 4-5 years and the same will be true across a lot more product categories.

Made in USA/Germany will simply become what Made in the UK became long ago. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ?t=54s
I've tried starting a few companies and it eventually became clear that without significant revenue coming in, the cofounders need to be either particularly motivated by the vision and capable of putting aside personal politics to achieve it, the former being easier to achieve than the latter, immediate personal goals are going to slowly take priority and your startup will die a sad death.

Once revenue is there, everybody can buy in. The enterprise does not need to actually be profitable or even have a workable plan to profit or exit or anything like that. What it needs is revenue.

Someone has to be the pig that gets the enterprise from zero to revenue. Smart pigs become politically-adroit capitalist "pigs", dumb pigs get slaughtered. But someone has to take the lead, and the rest have to follow.

Uniting collectively behind a vision seems to be one of those things humans just can't do very well. They can unite behind a person with a vision, but not the vision by itself.

Workers cooperatives were a big thing back in the heady days of the early 1800s. Most died out fairly quickly but a few caught on and lasted for a good while. The story was the same throughout, the cooperative eventually ossified and could not retain the magic in the face of broader economic change.
The SVP Engineering departure, though, didn't appear to be planned at all.

Uber found themselves in a scandal, then a previously undisclosed scandal of the same nature came to light. They had to act, or find themselves in a deeper hole.
Hi, would someone mind commenting which model of laptop is mentioned behind the paywall? thanks.
Thanks a lot for the subreddit!
Thing to keep in mind about Twitter is that it started out as a SMS "broadcast" service.

the web accessible log was virtually an afterthought that only in hindsight became their main feature.
There seems to be alot of ideas in VLIW that is used by GPUs to get high degrees of parallelism and a hiding of the cost of conditionals.
They had tons of handy features in Google Maps before it was redesigned using Material Design. We used the route elevation data often to plan hiking trips with our parents to determine if they would be able to make a trek. The map scale was absent from the first couple releases and when they reintroduced it, it would only appear on zoom and then vanish. It took 3 or 4 more releases for them to finally add an option buried in the settings to make it always on.

I'd like to say they did this to present a clean minimalist app but the recent incarnations of it are more cluttered than the pre Material Design version. Sure you can tap on the map to minimize the clutter and then tap again to make it go away completely but tapping also drops a pin if you hold it for a sixteenth of a second longer. And I hope your touchscreen isn't super sensitive because it'll detect that flutter as a double tap and then you're just zooming.
The fact that it was designed to be used only with Chrome is troubling. Of course it was the right of Google to decide on whatever platform they wanted.

Anyone knows if there is a parallel "open" version in the works (in WebAssembly or similar)?
Bulletproof Will Open New York Cafe to Spread Butter-Drink Craze
I seriously considered it for my organization a little over a year ago, and while ultimately it wasn't the right fit I think a clear document and explanation of how someone else would do it would have been very useful to think about.

I think part of the reason that they haven't succeeded is the necessary capital and scale of technology organizations these days. It seems there's a hollowing out of the mid-tier of bootstrapped organizations where a co-op would be feasible, and if you're a founder who is going to put in years of unpaid or low paid work and funding, giving up ownership is a tough sell.
Yeah that's fine too. But for those with development work that entails Xcode usage, constant OS switching & time spent managing files & using (some great) apps is better served with macOS.