skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to live in a world where women were just equally represented at these things as a matter of course without making a big deal about it but until that world actually exists we need things like this.
Would you feel better if you were taking from a robot rather than a human? Because that's going to be the reality in about 10-15 years.
> Again, according to whom?

Go compare the traffic numbers on YouTube with, say, Gimlet Media, Earwolf, or any of the other top podcasting networks.
Looks great! I'm looking forward to exception handling support.
Just to be clear — most VCs are also getting universal basic income from LPs.

Warren Buffet once said most hedge funds were compensation schemes disguised as investment vehicles.

The same can be said for the average VC.
Here's a radical solution. Instead of becoming a scala pro akka stream 200k engineer with a cluster of kafka nodes that costs your company over $100,000 of engineering time, technical debt, opportunity cost, and server costs, just put it all in bigtable, with deduping by id....

Enough of resume-driven-engineering, why does every need to reinvent the wheel?
This sounds more like you have a chip on your shoulder for the people you defined as elites than a legitimate argument. It sounds like you're doing what you accuse them of: creating a set of myths to justify this imagined scapegoat; creating a conspiracy theory to attempt to neutralize a perceived threat by the defined group.

Do you have actual numbers to demonstrate this large group of people are heavily in the top 10% of income earners? Journalism isn't that lucrative. Public school teaching isn't that lucrative. Unions overall have shrunk and continue to do so.

It sounds like a veiled communist/socialist conspiracy by journalists and public sector workers, yet this is a group that you claim is in the top 10% and is therefore thriving even though they exist in a capitalist system. That's confused (unless you think we're knee-deep in socialism).

I'd argue this post doesn't belong here as it's so far outside any evidence-based perspective that it becomes pure partisan spin representing what sounds like an Ayn Randian inspired ideology.

To throw you a bone, I'm not a fan of all the power public sector unions wield, and there could be some reforms, but this isn't the way to persuade people.
ask/follow this guy: http://blog.minethatdata.com/
Is there any startup focusing on the healthcare insurance industry?
Who were the speakers?
Which is why they targeted tech investors for money... people that know what they're doing wouldn't touch it.
Why Do Jeans Have a Tiny Pocket?
From Python to Go and Back Again https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402307
Yes, I do like the fact that Prolog infix operators are just optional sugar for standard prefix definitions.

In talking against separators, in "Prolog-derived" languages like Erlang (and other custom derivations I've dealt with), separators are used even between clauses. Most other languages use separators just for fields, and use straight terminators for statements. Prolog itself gets a pass because these separators are literally ANDs and ORs which flow as logical expressions through the backtracking search.

Even toplevel expressions defining different match parameters for the same head require differentiating separators from a final terminator for that head in Erlang, whereas Prolog just deals with independently terminated head matches just fine. The Erlang code is much more removed from a logical AND/OR flow into more standard programming models, yet is still separator-based. Instead of thinking of the logical, partial evaluation possibilities of

x AND y AND z

it's a more traditional

statement 1,
statement 2,
statement 3.

with inconsistent characters at the end of each statement, when looking at it from a statement-centric point of view. Editing such code always requires a scan of the context of inter-statement relationship (especially when nesting) instead of just treating & terminating statements independently.
Ensure that resources hosted on third-party servers have not been tampered
we can make transport robots from dna.. http://www.nature.com/news/dna-robot-could-kill-cancer-cells...

this lecture from 2014 goes into more detail: hhttps://youtu.be/aA-H0L3eEo0?t=453 ; talking about using essentially biological logic gates

then they announced human trial on a patient with late stage leukemia(o) ..the announcement with sobering top comment referencing protein built robots mentioned elsewhere in this thread(i)

then a partnership with pfizer(ii)

then crickets(iii)

(o) https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2014/12/ido-bachelet-announces...

(i) https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/05/pfizer-partnering-with...

(ii) https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2qkjgc/short_cl...

(iii) https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/3czhpx/any_info...
Caveat emptor all around.

An interview goes both ways.
Its funny how giant douchebags who are trying to "mitigate their risks" never seem to perceive the risk of everyone realizing they are giant douchebags.

For those who don't know the history of the EFF, it is detailed in Bruce Sterling's "The Hacker Crackdown" which is available here http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html and on Amazon. The guy behind Lotus 1-2-3, Mitch Kapor, spent a sizable portion of his spreadsheet fortune setting it up. The events that Kapor and other founders were responding to make quite the riveting tale.
Hmm, I'm not so sure about your assertions. The anti-mainland sentiment fuels the DPP in spite of the disastrous end of the Chen presidency and the mounting dissatisfaction with Tsai and their current legislative majority. Ma met with Xi despite of that anti-mainland sentiment; it's not a huge leap for me to imagine he would have done more if China didn't alienate the Taiwanese public so much.

Just yesterday the Senate Armed Services Committee voted for allowing the Navy to dock at Kaohsiung again[1]. It'll be interesting to see how all sides react.

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-panel-votes-to-allow-nav...
Valleywag was all over this guy:

Shingy's Book of Nonsense Prophecies

Shingy Just Spent 20 Minutes Yelling Insane Gibberish on a Stage

SXSW In One Photo: Shingy on a Wrecking Ball

http://valleywag.gawker.com/tag/shingy
Two software engineers and a manager enter a bike shed
Maintenance simply isn't glamorous. No politician wants to stand up and say "I did 4 years and the roads are still working"
He was solving a wrong problem using a wrong set of tools. He clearly stated that what he wanted was a walking womb however what he offered in his profile was something else. No engineering optimization would make someone who wants a steak happy in a place offering omakase.
Insurance works when people have risk aversion.
"But for me, TDD, is just the state of the art. I've yet to see someone suggest a better process or practice that alleviates their concerns with TDD."

Design by Contract specifying key properties at interfaces with tests for stuff not easy to specify was state of the art in the 90's. In the 2000's, there's tools to automatically generate tests from such properties or apply formal proofs to code if it's simple enough. I don't see TDD as either strongest method or state of the art. DbC, assertion/property-driven testing, some fuzzing, and proving /model-checking for most important components collectively seem state-of-the-art for realistic software. Most of which is just automated versions of manual methods invented in the 50's-60's. Most being 60's with fuzzing going back to 50's.

One from later time I like since it consistently got low defect rate was Cleanroom. Here's a good explanation of it.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~al/cseet-paper.html
Instead of being long on sweeping generalizations and insinuations, but sorry on relevant details.
I can't read WSJ, so I don't know if they address this, but I wouldn't be surprised if people find favorite recipes over time and then just go to the store and buy the ingredients. I've never tried Blue Apron, but that seems pretty likely given their business model.
Which rights of Kate Wagner did they protect? She could have achieved the same thing by losing in court.
That can't be true. They are not required to accept Medicare or Medicaid. If it was a losing offer they just wouldn't accept it.
The official FAQ specifically states the opposite of the second bullet point.

Web Assembly is not meant to be a replacement for JavaScript. And although the blog doesn't explicitly say it, it's alluding to it being easy to create entire applications without using JavaScript at all.

JavaScript is going to continue to be used as "glue code" at the very least, and UI code in the majority of cases. I think it's really important to make this distinction.

Trying to use web assembly as a solution to problems it's explicitly not meant to solve is only going to lead to pain and frustration.

Furthermore, things like "static type checking", easy functional programming, and making application coding "less painful" aren't really goals as the post seems to make them out to be as well.
Oh no ... here come the ancient-astronaut conspiracy theorists.
I'm sure you do know more, but I'm afraid this comment violates the HN guidelines in two ways: (1) it's a personal and national attack ("you probably the typical American") and (2) it contains no helpful information.

We ban accounts that attack other users, so please don't do that, even when someone's comment is annoying or wrong. When you know more about a topic than others, the thing to do is teach them. On HN that means posting something neutral and factual that other users can learn from.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14664772 and marked it off-topic.
Ask HN: How to recognize fingerprints?
I have a project of student attendance and I want to store their fingerprint in server.
When the student to be present he need to use the fingerprint sensor put his finger , it will be sent to server that will compare his fingerprint.
How can I make my server recognize fingerprint I searched a lot and there is really few to no code about fingerprint recognition.
is there more sophisticated solution for this problem.
The crazy thing about this is that if Zillow had sent a nice email to the McMansion Hell author and buttered her up a little, maybe offered her some paid guest blogging opportunities- They probably could have convinced her to stop using Zillow-sourced photos for a tiny fraction of what they paid their lawyers (not to mention the damaged brand capitol).

I could imagine a different version of this where they sponsored an artist/illustrator so she doesn't have to use photos of real houses if that's what they were worried about. It would have been a great fit for their brand, a weekly "what to look for in your next house, sponsored by Zillow" feature or something. Instead they just stuck their finger in their eye for no reason.
Yup. Databases, whether relational or not, have been designed to solve all these problems in a much more "bulletproof" way than your piddly [1] several-dozen-engineer team could ever manage, no matter how genius they are.

[1] No disrespect meant - just a description of size. Source: running a piddly 2-person engineering team.
When that happens you can press "text-only" on the header, and you'll get an embed-less version. Sometimes you may have to press esc first.
I've enjoyed some comments you've made elsewhere, and don't want you to run afoul of HN rules and culture. I believe that discussing the fact of the downvotes is strongly discouraged on HN.
Serious question, if you do most logic in the frontend then where do you do the server side input validation and where do you do the business logic? If I fumble around with your client side code and you don't check that then I could theoretically do whatever I want in your database.
Don't forget another big differentiator of FB from a bunch of others at the same time was having a few (accidental? intentional?) very dark psychological patterns.

At the time, real names were not commonly used online. That coupled with very real 'stalkability' of how FB was used at universities made it much stickier than others. Embedding a "relationship" function into the same software as your "class schedule" was bizarre - but apparently very effective social manipulation. Having in-class life so closely linked with social-life as well as daily preferences and even vacation pictures really embedded itself into a social nerve in a way any network designed with a more singular goal in mind really would not have.
MIT Researchers Offer Algorithm for Picking Winning Startups
We've banned this account. Inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric is not welcome on Hacker News. (The irony of doing that while criticizing nationalism in others is also worth noting.)

We understand the temptation, but please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with. Doing that will eventually get your main account banned as well.
This review [1] compared the results of 6 sleep trackers with sleeping laboratorium measurements. It concludes that the trackers were able to track the lenght of the sleep quite accurately. OTOH all trackers displayed large errors in measuring the type of sleep e.g. deep sleep, light sleep & REM.

They conclude that sleep trackers are good for creating awareness of your sleepquota.

[1] https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2015-25-Schlaftracker-vs-Sch...
Tesla/SolarCity will be raising by the end of the year. It happens, a lot. But how/why is a big deal.
That's a soft way to excuse the charge of computer fraud.
Well then, Google is just being Google and indexing everything. You might have to delete it or check your account settings to see if you can make it private.
There's a few things abut training and so on here - but the problem is that plutonium rods should never be somewhere they are not meant to be imho. So to remove the risk when a rod is put somewhere it must be in a special stand that holds plutonium rods, the stand has little holes spaced the correct distance apart so criticality can't occur. The rule then is easier - plutonium rods will always be somewhere they should be. Also maybe paint them blue or something.

Edit: upon thought if I was anywhere that had a rod laying on a table I'd get the hell out of there as soon as possible, cause it's just a recipe for disaster
Millions would be unusual, but I could see it happening. An old domain that used to be an image host, for example.
Exactly.

Vaccines: good science

Cold fusion: bad science

PTSD: good science

Aryan Race: bad science

All or nothing is indeed the wrong way to look at it.
I agree. Lots of ISPs block outbound port 25 on their residential connections which I applaud.
I'm somewhat flattered that you think that the man on the street might count economics among the "sciences", because from my experience laymen are already pretty skeptic when it comes to economics. Psychology too, though to a lesser degree. In fact, it seems that so long as the subject in question isn't completely opaque to them, they might be tempted to generalize from limited experiences and will start holding strong opinions of their own despite whatever it is that experts say.

Which I think can be fine, specially if the experts don't have a great track record (e.g. economics and psychology). But it can also get absurd pretty quickly, like when people point out some huge snowstorm in their town in response to "global warming", as if that proves anything.
She doesn't have to change her old photos. She's just not going to use any more. Which -- well, I can imagine not wanting to have anything to do with Zillow in the future. Or to give them free advertising by referring to them for each photo caption. I quite like the idea that her future posts will say "Images from Redfin, a pretty awesome site that isn't threatening to sue me for using images for purposes of education, commentary, and parody." :)

But seriously, she won the most important thing: Her entire existing body of work is going to remain available.
I started reading three body but never could get into it. I stopped midway. I need more accessible in terms ease of reading.
I like the idea of WebAssembly too; it is another kind of VM code. However, is there a C API to WebAssembly? Having a JavaScript API that is usable in both HTML and Node.js (and could easily be added to any other JavaScript too) is good, but a C API can also help (and I have written on some file on my computer what are some ideas for making a C API).

(I did not read the linked document much though, but only the official FAQ. However I do think you would not use WebAssembly all the time, but it can be helpful in some cases, including wanting VM codes.)
I've already read Dune
Weighing the universe's most elusive particle
"Payment rates for Medicare and Medicaid, with the exception of managed care plans, are set by
law rather than through a negotiation process, as with private insurers. These payment rates are
currently set below the costs of providing care, resulting in underpayment. Payments made by
managed care plans contracting with the Medicare and Medicaid programs are generally
negotiated with the hospital.

Hospital participation in Medicare and Medicaid is voluntary. However, as a condition for
receiving federal tax exemption for providing health care to the community, not-for-profit
hospitals are required to care for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Also, Medicare and
Medicaid account for more than 60 percent of all care provided by hospitals. Consequently, very
few hospitals can elect not to participate in Medicare and Medicaid."

Source (American Hospital Association, December 2016): http://www.aha.org/content/16/medicaremedicaidunderpmt.pdf
(Sorry it's a PDF)

Edit: updated from 2010 reference to 2016 reference
Right. In that, you still write all of the tests before the code. If you are objecting only to the rhetoric of "wall" of tests. That just depends on your size of units. Think of it more as hurdles of tests. :)
My paranoid brain often thought that Microsoft not only acquired their stake in Nokia for Windows phones but also to control some aspects of Qt as it was quickly unloaded from Nokia after Microsoft entered the picture. A sort of power play which we all saw later on with Xamarin without the feel-good outcome that Xamarin eventually had. Qt Creator is a joy to work with for open source software in my opinion for even just non-Qt projects. Back then I was using it on my BSD desktop before switching to XCode for vanilla C++ projects. Anyhow, it was extremely portable I could code with MinGW on Windows and then move the same project to BSD and then move it into XCode with minor changes. I would imagine Nokia at that time would seem extremely unique to Microsoft for just Qt alone. Just some food for thought...I still have Qt built ANGLE libs in my GH repo I think. Yeah, it was also an OpenGL ES 2 emulator that ran on DirectX which you could optionally run Qt Creator on top of and I remember Nokia's name was all over it. It was possible to do cross-platform Windows and Android code this way with just a JNI wrapper. It was a hot mess and I loved it! Here are a couple links that back up this strange tale:

https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5_on_Windows_ANGLE_and_OpenGL

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)
In this case, the mentors for these projects are also the ones making some of the most significant technical contributions to Rust.
And, in my observations, similar toxic conversations and people acting in bad faith are downvoted on reddit.

Who cares? My point was more that "at least we're better than reddit" is tacky. I don't think either of us are likely to objective make an assessment here either way on "toxicity of a topic on HN vs reddit".
Zuckerburg's genius was realizing he could be famous off a better implementation of someone else's idea. He eventually started making money on it, too. This is a recurring pattern in technology.
Most developers are bad at refactoring because most of the tools for it are terrible. Even at Google, something as trivial as renaming a function can be a monumental task.
No worries dude. It's cool to discuss, even if we don't agree. Markets may not be "free", but they can still function as we'd expect markets to function if there are multiple sellers and buyers. The market for utility bonds is like that, but the market for electricity often is not.
This kind of regulatory response to natural monopolies can (and does) result in 'gold-plating'. It incentivises profit-maximising monopolists to over-invest in qualifying capital: even though their ROI remains the same, their absolute profit grows larger.

However, there's no easy solution here: natural monopolies are a genuinely tricky public policy issue. Alternative solutions that come to mind are more direct price controls or public ownership. I'm not suggesting these are superior alternatives; just throwing them in there to provide more grist for the conversational mill.
This can generate elevator music that will never repeat. I am up for that ! (Just getting into ML with Udacity, Coursera courses. This is just fascinating)
Benefits of named return values in Go
I was more interested in the claim of having more solar negating the need for storage.

Oil and gas are horrifyingly inefficient storage mechanisms. Round trip will be less than 50%, best case. That said, power to gas may be worthwhile if there's a ton of excess electrical power certain times of the year and the capital costs of power to gas is low enough.
A Tech Executive’s Latest Startup Has Cleats, Jerseys and Goals
This article confused me on the reality of today's 'Nokia' phones. The recently released and 'back to basics' phones are not legitimate Nokia in my estimation, they are some generic OEM phones with a Nokia label slapped on them.

I am not sure why this badge engineering bugs me, to make me think they are not real Nokia. More generally, why is it that badge engineering sometimes is seen as okay and sometimes not?

To take an automotive analogy, in the VW group there are various high end brands, e.g. Bentley and Bugatti. Both these marques are seen as having heritage even if the engines are 'glorified Golf engines' to a certain extent, even if built in heritage locations (e.g. Crewe, UK) rather than straight out of Wolfsburg. Same with the BMW brands - the Mini and Rolls Royce cars aren't seen as badly styled BMWs, but with heritage intact.

Perhaps the reason that these auto brands are okay is that there really has been innovation, the product line has evolved and the reputation survives. Getting back to the Nokia 'phones', there is no innovation in bringing out a ten-year-old product, OEM made by some randoms. This product makes 'Nokia' one of those fake brands in my estimation and obfuscates the real Nokia that is innovating with the backend hardware.

Imagine if IBM, when they sold their PC hardware, decided to let Lenovo use not just 'ThinkPad' but 'IBM' on the products. You would have no idea as a casual observer that 'IBM were still going'. Nokia just had numbers for their product line, no household name for that, as per 'ThinkPad'.

I am most amazed that Microsoft could not make this work and I think it was the death of the evil Microsoft that cowards used to love and the rest of us used to hate. The once fearsome Microsoft were humbled by it. Even today there is definite scope for being able to carry your office PC around in mini-form in a phone in some seamless way, as hinted at with 'Continuum' and so forth. But whatever happens on the Microsoft Phone platform is negated by things like 'not being able to play YouTube' on it.
Racket
http://cufp.org/2011/functional-mzscheme-dsls-game-developme...
Once in a great while, unicorns are found.I