skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it's not like I would read it out loud like I wrote it down here, plus I did say I also gave them an example. I did start out calling it a 'height map' for example, because well that's what it is, but there are plenty of people who don't know what that is. Damned if you do damned if you don't I guess.
I love the clash between lawyers and a CS professor at Harvard that was simply happy some of it's students were programming and working on some personal projects.
It's called continuous delivery, man. Merge to master and it goes out the door automatically, even if it's busted to hell. All the cool kids are doing it.
I think this is an interesting question, and I was curious if there was any substance to your OP's takeaway, so I went and looked again:

> shaming girls for having visible bodies and prioritizing the education of boys over girls, rather than teaching boys to pay attention and not objectify girls.

... implies that boys specifically do not pay attention to girls, and instead objectify them.

> in an industry that continues to raise up and pat the most historically powerful and privileged amongst us — white men — on the back

... constructs white men as a group who is generously risen up and patted on the back

> Instead of being recognized for the complex, multi-dimensional individuals we are — a privilege white men are afforded at birth

... constructs white men as collectively understood as complex and multidimensional.

These all strike me as somewhat accurate, to a degree. However I somewhat agree with your OP that this kind of essentialism, when used to fight sexism is counterproductive.

I would prefer we try to stop essentializing altogether. We don't need to say "men are X" in order say "I would like to make sure women are afforded opportunity Y". I think there's a path here where we can talk about the specific behaviors we want to discourage, without constructing those behaviors as typical of men.

Not because they are atypical of men, but because we are trying to construct men who are not doing those behaviors, and we need a definition of manhood that works for those men too. Unless the plan is for men to disavow manhood entirely, but I don't see a lot of feminists advocating for that yet.
This is really cool! Great work!

I wanted to download the resulting image but got a "Failed - Network" error :(
What killed Digg though, wasn't any change in look at feel, as much as a fundamental change in content policy. It went from 'users submit stuff and upvote it' to 'content publishers can automate a firehose of their stories into the system for a price' people didn't like that.
"JS-heavy" says it all. Thing is slow as hell.

It's not quite as bad UI-wise as I thought it could be, but I'm not sure why all these sites are pushing in the direction they are.

I think the interest in static site generators and brutalist design says something...

I agree with others that Reddit will be in for a rude awakening if the performance doesn't get a lot better.
A lot of this is out in the open

There are active simulations going on: http://www.sciencerecorder.com/article.php?n=scientists-cond...

There are preparedness drills: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics...

There's plenty of policy analysis: https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/social-eco...

Older .mil reports: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA080907

There are entire books taking apart what happens in specific fields: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219154/

Or you could just read disaster porn^W^W post-apocalyptic sci fi.

So, a lot depends on what kinds of info you want to find. But overall, I'd say it's not worth reading, because life's not going to be much fun. Even if you're prepared.
I understand your point, but wouldn't doing what you suggest lead to the problem of maintaining two different code bases? This doesn't seem like a good idea at all.

I think a better approach would be to commit to their new design, and do some sort of A/B testing to hone down the new UI until it replaces the old one.

I don't think reddit will die because of the changes they propose. This is just silly. For starters, there are Google Chrome plugins to make reddit more Facebook feed-like.

I myself like the way reddit works right now and would not like it to change much. That said, Reddit the company has to move towards what will make them money. I don't have this data, but their user base might have changed in the past years. People that really enjoy infinite feeds, for example.
Yet another declarative UI language. Anybody remembers Mozilla's XUL [1]. It was even available for the Internet web sites for a moment.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL
A quite good documentary has been made on the effects of plastics, and specifically micro plastics that proliferate the world's oceans. Called "A Plastic Ocean"- https://www.plasticoceans.org/a-plastic-ocean/

After seeing this, I now always think twice about single-use plastics like water bottles and grocery bags.
This is an important fact to realize for those of us with mood disorders, who see the world through the lens of our own emotions and moods, while others see our actions as unhealthy or erratic.
Oops, instructions not clear, accidentally created another suite of build tooling called "gb"
Even if there is a meltdown it will have localized environmental impact. Which will self correct in few centuries. Greenhouse gases are affecting the whole planet, same with minerals for batteries.
Well it loses much of its effectiveness when people can study for it. Plus I didn't say it was no longer open ended, just that it's no longer a great question, because everybody asks it.
Imzy was quite literally ahead of it's time, perhaps.
Within the context of redesigns I think there exists some value in looking at Facebook's failed card-based redesign back in 2013:

https://dcurt.is/facebooks-predicament

Essentially this big, beautiful design driven redesign ultimately never shipped because users spent less time on it. Certain design 'improvements' like increased padding between stories reduces density and as a result tends to reduce readership, for example. The internet as perceived by Engineers and Designers is quite different from the masses (even with Reddit's demographic differences from FB taken into account).

Reddit needs to be really careful with a redesign: data should lead the rollout efforts, not design. I think they are due for some UX improvements, perhaps around a gradual UI refresh; however, I have little faith in the product leadership at Reddit to pull this off. Huffman and crew need to be willing to can the entire redesign if user research and data come back negative.
If you are wrong then there is no sanity left in the world.
They already did -- the official reddit mobile app, and default mobile skin of the site, are already close to what's being described, and mobile use of reddit is pretty heavy. If it were going to cause a mass exodus, it would've already.
A stray character in the comment field (cols 1--7)?

Tell us!
Agreed. If there's any migration it will likely be towards more actively moderated forums - if you just want to talk about slow cooker recipes you're probably not hoping that it comes with a side of genocide advocacy.

Reddit has been an interesting exercise in shaping online communities, and the zeitgeist has changed in response. Where extremist views were originally approached on the basis of maximum tolerance, the resulting loss of more mainstream users (and the extremist domination of even unrelated subreddits), has shifted away from it. My suspicion is that mainstream users will gravitate towards forums that have a heavier moderating hand.

An interesting question is if this will cause a general return to more independent, freestanding online communities (as opposed to Reddit's model of centralizing a vast number of topics under one roof).
While (potentially) impressive, it's not clear to me that this will really replace production. I mean, it's faster than other printers, but still far away from regular production speeds.
Would be great to port YOLO on your library; always an impressive visual demonstration
Flying used to much more dangerous than it is now. But we improved the technology and now it's safe enough that most don't think twice before getting on a plane.

Discussions of nuclear power somehow ignore the fact that, like any other technology, current reactor designs are not the final iteration. They can be improved upon.

Look the Chinese Pebble Bed reactor: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600757/china-could-have-a...

If everyone aside from the Chinese ignore nuclear power, then the Chinese may be the ones making a fortune selling their advanced reactor designs to everyone else.
Forgings and castings all shrink as well, because metal shrinks substantially when it cools. The dies and molds are made oversized.

I corresponded with a guy who was making his own intake manifold for his mopar. (A very cool project.) He made his own molds. I did some calculation, and said he had to make the mold about 10% oversized. He told me I didn't know what I was talking about, he couldn't believe it would shrink that much. His cast manifold wound up 10% undersized :-)

Anyhow, dimensions that require tight tolerances get machined to spec after the forging/casting.
Your post lead me to some research, and I found:

https://ryzeapp.co/quora/
https://friendie.net
It broke on my first try.

Https://www.airbnb.com
Any Chinese resources to learn web development?
I'm asking for my dad who would prefer to learn in Chinese. I've seen some classes on Coursera, but wondering if there's anything else that's more basic (HTML, CSS, JS) like codecademy.
I foresee a Wallmart/Amazon race between banks and online wallets in the future (each trying to become the other first). Paypal nearly got there a while back. They were actually paying more interest on your Paypal balance than banks were paying on your savings, since they didn't need all the infrastructure involved in being a bank. Not sure what happened to kill that.
* That being said, I hate LinkedIn as a company and I fully support anyone trying to mess with them

So it's fine to mess with them, even illegally, just because you don't like them?

* convinces people to willingly provide personal information

Convincing is not forcing, and in fact, you say "willingly" yourself. Any business convinces you to willingly give them money or other value.

* sell at ridiculously high prices

To respect to what? Prices are determined by the market. We are not talking about a life-saving medicine or health care, on which there could be some debate.

We are talking about a company selling information, which has value and which it acquires through an infrastructure that takes a lot of money to run. Value that customers are willing to pay for.

* Even if you are legitimately using LinkedIn as an end-user, it’s easy to get blocked

For what definition of legitimately? Yours? Since it's their business, they can define what is a legitimate free use and what can be a paid one.

* They are not a social network

So based on what I pointed out, they are not a social network only because they are not free? Do all social network have to be free and give your data for advertisers to be social networks?
Again, I don't think that's scarier, since step 0 is a) pretty meaningless and b) completely unnecessary. Our technology is capable of so much destruction (intensional or inadvertent) that it doesn't make much difference whether a human pushes the button or the button pushes itself; least of all whether the self-pushing button is "aware" that it's pushing itself.
Perhaps. Had they handled the redesign correctly, things may have turned out differently. It was a perfect storm of design, technology and technology failure...
It is dual license, and Digia is the only one that release the specifications (they own them), unleast it liberate its under a commite it is a no go.
> Am I wrong?

I hate to be the bearer of bad new but...maybe. A reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could make robots.txt legally enforceable. And given the government's approach to CFAA cases a very aggressive interpretation, under the right circumstances (for example, when it provides evidence that the scraper knew that scrapint was not authorized), seems like a real possibility.

Among the many other things CFAA criminalizes, it makes it a crime to "intentionally access[] a computer without authorization or exceed[] authorized access . . and thereby obtain[] information from any protected computer;"

A "protected computer" is, among other things, a computer "which is used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication." That would probably cover just about any server on the Internet.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
The UK had 26 of these Magnox reactors for electricity production. These nuclear reactors were coming out of military technology and some of them were built and operated for dual use: Plutonium production and energy production.

The UK now sits on around 140 tons of plutonium from fuel reprocessing...
HBO Hacked: Game of Thrones data reportedly stolen
Yes, staingate.
> still reading TC articles

That's debatable (albeit for reasons other than design)
I do not use Postgress, I use Firebird SQL and I had no problems installing it in WSL.
I guess for LinkedIn it could matter most, because their only livelihood is CV and employer companies Data, if you steal a poor man's bread they are gonna be upset. It was dead as a social network long ago if it ever was, now their only asset is the data, so I guess their right to protect their only asset is legit.
I'd talk to a lawyer. There are presumably some legal arguments that might apply. There definitely have been cases revolving around it, but I have no idea what the outcomes were.

From a moral point of view: robots.txt states an intent, and intentionally ignoring that is not a nice thing.

And often, "not a nice thing" translates into legal action. So, if this matters to you, you should find an expert :)
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it is incredible how many global companies are successfully scraping LI as part of their core business. you would be suprised
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Thanks for this. Based on the headline I assumed there was a massive floating landfill-"like island. Im assuming many others did as well.
> ... it will still be a runtime exception ...

No.

> The only difference in your example probably is that Elm will force you to handle the case where your interface doesn't match the response object

Which means that no exception have been thrown. You've handled it, however poorly, and so you've made a conscious decision about how to deal with it.

In TypeScript, this is much easier to forget, because you don't have a compiler that forces you to deal with it. If you're lucky, this causes a runtime exception at the place the error occurs. More likely, however, no exception is raised, and you get an error down the line which is hard to notice and hard to debug.

Like, there's nothing in TypeScript that forces the developer to use the correct types. A lazy developer could just use "any" everywhere. So if the programmer doesn't handle this well in JavaScript, they will do the same in TypeScript, and the end result will be the exact same: a runtime failure. This, however, doesn't mean that TypeScript isn't a great tool that helps developers avoid runtime errors, it just means that this particular programmer doesn't take advantage of the tools at his/her disposal.
"Micro-particles" might also be misleading. The article spells it out:

The pieces of plastic are not necessarily floating bottles, bags, and buoys, but teeny-tiny pieces of plastic resembling confetti, making them almost impossible to clean up.
I am not sure discussion sites like Slashdot, Reddit can run or scale as businesses. And retain credibility with the majority of their users.

As founder run sites with income to sustain the site it works but the moment founders become 'distant' and obsessed with commercial objectives the site sort of loses its focus and there is a slow decline.

Reddit only took off because it as seen an low key non-commercial alternative to the 'over commercial' Digg. Now it doesn't have that feel anymore and this can only end badly.

Even HN is not a profit making site, but delivers value to ycombinator outside of that.
It's sad we never got a better animated image format. Animated PNGs are vastly superior but Chrome wouldn't adopt them.
They have published post-mortems before, but the previous bout of downtime went unacknowledged. Maybe it's a new policy.

Here's a postmortem they did several years ago: https://github.com/blog/1261-github-availability-this-week
Same.

But I think there are variations on this that work/make money.

`/giphy football` could return some relevant superbowl sponsored gif as one of the first N gifs. Kinda like how google gives you 3 "relevant" ads before showing you the actual search content. Start subtle, get more and more brash as time goes and people won't notice. I guess making it work without people leaving is the $600M question.
When you let the other guy piss you off you have lost.
Just be amused in general + skilled and have some trust in your abilities and intelligence and don't trust anyone but your people.

If you sucked you will suck forever to the people who
knew it. Know thyself and move on.
Intentionally leaving your child in the car, knowingly or wrecklessly putting them at risk of harm, is already criminal. People have gotten life sentences for it, even when their defense was absent mindedness. See, e.g., http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/us/justin-ross-harris-trial-ve...

But any criminal law that punished unintentionally leaving your child in the car would be unconstitutional in the U.S., and likely in most other developed nations. There's a mens rea component to criminal liability that requires a degree intention of the act plus knowledge of the possible consequences. That component is especially strong for felony offenses or anything that comes with serious punishment, which is presumably what we're talking about. (I doubt a misdemeanor fine is going deter a brazen sociopath, given the existing criminal liability risks.)

So I just don't see the point in trying to crack down. It would be superfluous for many reasons. That kind of logic is how the U.S. has accumulated so many criminal laws that prosecutors can bully people without fear of any sort of reprisal. Throw enough charges at someone and one of them is bound to stick, just because the justice system (any justice system) is imperfect and innocent people are always at risk of a false positive verdict.
Yes, this is my problem. It's slightly unpleasant to look at, but at the moment I depend on the laptop too much to be without it for even a day.

I may just go into the store and ask them what the situation is for me.
Forging costs a ton. The die has to be machined by (you guessed it!) a tool and die maker. Those guys are expensive. Once the die is made, however, bashing out the parts with it is fairly cheap per item.

Back when I worked in the aviation industry, sinking a die for a part cost a cool quarter million.
It depends. The table will reside in memory and it will just be a scan over a few bytes. Possibly cheaper than firing up the PL/pgSQL interpreter.
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Literably (IK12 W13) is hiring engineer #1 to help children learn to read
Literably (https://literably.com) is an education technology company that provides early literacy assessment services to elementary schools. We're automating a time-consuming set of manual assessment procedures that have changed little since the 1970s, despite touching the majority of children in the U.S. Our early customers include some of America's largest school districts, and we're backed by top education investors, including Alan Louie, Mike Greenfield, WebAssign founder Brian Marks, and Higher One founder Miles Lasater.

We're looking for engineer #1. This position is located in San Francisco. We mostly work in Python/Django (though previous Python experience is unnecessary). You'll have huge levels of product ownership, highly competitive compensation, and the opportunity to positively affect outcomes for children.

If this appeals to you, we'd love to be in touch. Shoot us an email at jobs@literably.com.
After digging into Graal and Truffle I was really impressed to learn what its vision is and what it is capable of. Then I discovered the Eclipse OMR project, and while the later is written in C++, they sounded like they have similar goals. I'd love to hear someone with more information compare and contrast these projects.
XUL, XAML (Microsoft .net), FXML (Java FX), ...
"I think the disclaimer would have been appropriate here just for transparency sake."

I'm very strongly against disclaimers for my personal opinions on random discussion forums , and will continue not to do so right up until i'm forced to (at which point, i'll probably just stop contributing). When I write or post articles in a public news setting or something, or get paid to write them, i'll be happy to.

When i'm just writing crap on HN, sorry, but no.

"presumably people will be worried you have an ulterior motive in trying to get people to think of Google in a positive light."

Which, again, should and does contribute literally nothing to a real discussion, much in the same way knowing a guy owns a 50 million dollar house does not make their opinions or viewpoints, or arguments, less valid on NIMBYism. Engage on the merits.

"but more about being transparent so people can form their own opinions".

People should not form opinions based on who other people work for, when they aren't speaking for their companies.
This is precisely a type of bias we should be seeking to prevent. It adds no value to an intellectual discussion. It just gives a mechanism for smug self satisfaction by saying "hey, i don't have to care if he has a good point, he works for X so i can just pretend it's not a real argument"

"I also work for Google and am pretty sure they also recommend being transparent when commenting on things related to the company although I admit it's been a while since I read the guidelines.'

I'm very very very familiar with the guidelines google issues.
I love the joke comments and puns. It makes me sad when they are down voted.
> A failed nuclear power plant can indeed explode like a nuclear bomb and it is generally believed that explosion #2 (there were two major explosions) at chernobyl was the result of a criticality and analogous to "the explosion of a fizzled nuclear weapon."

Your statement seems to oppose itself. Fizzled would not be like a nuclear bomb so I don't quite understand what you're trying to refer to here. There is a reason the paper uses the word "fizzled". A nuclear power plant does not contain the necessary materials or force to create a nuclear fission explosion.

Remember, the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 13,000t to 18,000t TNT but the explosion at Chernobyl released some radiation and exploded with 10t TNT.

There are a few orders of magnitude between "fizzled nuclear weapon" and a "nuclear bomb".
The shareholders who in this case are represented by the board members. In a public company, an activist investor can bring the votes and force a change in the board. Similarly, a majority investor could technically sway board members to vote out another member (as long as it's allowed in the bylaws)
I am talking about mobile, not desktop. On desktop I also use RES, but on mobile I am fine with the old mobile website.
Xaml is the least pleasurable framework I've ever used. I have two reasons: MVVM seems like an anti-pattern and the .Net API is builds on is too complicated.

I went from a project using xaml requiring massive system resources to another built in qt running speedily on an intel atom. I wasn't too familiar with either frameworks when I started. Qt was also way easier to maintain despite being built on top of c++ template magic