skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's impossible for me to believe she wrote this article on her own based on her public Twitter timeline

It's quite easy for me to believe it based on her Guardian columns (she's started as a contributing writer for Guardian US in 2015, and wrote some op-eds before that.) I'm not sure why you'd expect to be able to judge someone's newspaper column writing style from their Twitter style; while some writers might show similar styles between the two, I'd expect most would radically differ.
I was thinking recently about idea cross-pollination, and that kind of hits the same gap. Most of the time, it doesn't really lead anywhere interesting. But every once in a while, you get that perfect combination of a few different domains that just explodes.
I know this may be a shock, but the writing style people practice on a highly constrained platform like Twitter may have ever so slight differences from the one they use in forums that actually allow for more than one and a half complete sentences.
first generation rich people tend to be different than later ones. SV bosses who are owners of successful startups would fall in the former category imho.

that explains most traits attributed by OP to the SV people.
I mean we saw the same thing with "hoverboards" right? There was never a "branded" one, just a bunch of Chinese manufacturer brands.
You don't want any 'rare' cases at all. That's the point.

Stop using "punctuation" when you are attempting to "delimit" text. Use a character that is not punctuation, specifically designed for "field delimiter" purposes.

Trying to do two things at once is ridiculous.
Actually, ASCII have mechanism for solving the problem that you describe, with control codes FS, GS, RS and US.
I do pretty much the same but using mosh instead of ssh. It's really stable even on low bandwidth of crappy mobile connection.
The system Apple is using is leaps and bounds better than whatever 2d sensor was in that old Android phone
This is a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15241557
A little late to the party, but I'm glad to see folding code doesn't happen at a new line.

Although there is still no blinking block caret. The size can be changed but it's a solid color, not transparent.

Also I wonder if I could change the background color of the brace matching highlight.
> And you're totally right that homemaker/stay-at-home-parent should be represented in the workforce... developing software is cake compared to that workload.

I don't have kids, so I don't know just how tough the job is, but I'm always reminded of this funny clip when someone does mention it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoJrMaFlxOk
>Then just let your system learn to play AND run Mega Metroid Brothers.

One of the many games on the triangle with vertices Mega Man, Super Metroid, and Mario Brothers?
These are all public news reports which I'm sure Reuters' Russian desk is aware of. And it's all just entertainment to me, so I have no interest in verifying. But I don't see how it qualifies as big.

The NSA was tapping calls from the personal cellphone of the Chancellor of Germany. The CIA created a Twitter clone that Congress funded just so they could destabilize the Cuban government. There's many more examples of our infiltrating foreign entities with men in sunglasses who all claim to work for the state department.

Asking a non-US company to spy for the US government, and then retaliating against them when they balk, seems minor on the average scale of geopolitical intrigue.
It's flawed, for sure, but given the short history of supranational institutions that seems like something you'd expect to struggle with.
In the late 80s or early 90s there was a stress reliever squishy thing that was pink and had some odd shape.. I want to say like a brain or something.
And of course stress balls have been trade show junk for decades.
Big Oil Companies Linked to Big Chunk of Climate Change Effects
Info like this should be automatically added as a flair right next to each submission on HN. Time to first interactive, download sizes, number of ads, ...

This would actually be a nice side project. Throw each link which was submitted to HN at a headless Chrome/Firefox, do performance/ads/size analysis, save everything to a database and then make it available to the HN user through a browser plugin which adds this info next to each submission. And then you can even display badges of shame for the worst offender or block links and other stuff. Any takers?
The character palette built into Windows uses too small a font, I find it almost useless. And the size is not adjustable. I've been tempted on more than one occasion to write my own.
more AI theater. there will be a moment in about five years when people are like "what happened to all that stuff about auto-driving cars, evil AI, etc.?"
The grit and glamour of L.A.’s cinematic streets
their categories are broad enough to arrive at any result they wanted. still I never ever considered any of the SV bosses to anything close to libertarians.
> Look at the wheels. The wheels will always tell you what the vehicle is going to do.

This is exactly what I do, it's really obvious when the rim are rotating, even at very low speeds.

Can't say I look people in the eyes much while driving.
> It makes me feel like we're treated like dumb children by our governments.

Bingo.
Job search apps around here need an |_| Exclude Amazon checkbox
Parallelising things is the easy part. Making them run faster than the single threaded version is often the harder part because the overhead will eat all your gains if your workload isn't large enough.

The easy cases are already covered by things like OpenMP and the difficult problems also usually benefit from being written in a language that allows you to tweak your memory layout and allocation patterns manually.

I just wish that higher level languages would give me this freedom without sacrificing productiviy or safety. I'm not even asking for completely unreasonable things. At the bare minimum all I really need are off gc heap allocation (with reasonable safety via reference counting or whatever rust does), value types and a way to launch threads that bypass the garbage collector stop the world pause. It's just a checkbox of features and the latter is not that important because you already can sort of do that by calling into C and launching an OS thread. For some reason though nobody is checking those boxes.

I still stick to C++ and C but it gets old to spend hours fixing memory leaks and other possibly security related bugs from other developers.

I feel like I'm writing too much semi-offtopic things just because I have no other place to express them.
I've seen this point being brought up a lot, but I'm wondering how many of those people that actually lack good internet connection and live in developing world may be your target anyway?
You don't have me convinced with your comment...
Yup, and as usual, a few folks were winners in the beanie baby craze, and the same goes for the travel industry. I can't see a single thing these "middlemen" create in the travel industry that's desirable for the consumer. I'm sorry, I don't need a travel agent to tell me how to find a cool, hip destination overrun with everyone else the travel industry is sending there.
They probably sell fidget spinners at the arrivals area, anyway.
I think more simplistically: when you take this group of people and average them out what you get are beliefs that benefit the large companies they represent. That's the signal that is correlated with running a big tech company, and the rest is probably mostly noise. That's all really, they aren't for or against free trade in aggregate, they are for their company trading profitably, on average.
Powershell: "This is a string with an 'embedded quote'."

It's helpful to remember that quotes will interpret the variables inside, while apostrophes will not. Very useful for scripting the creation of scripts. Example:

"It is $time" > It is 15:22

'It is $time' > It is $time

"'$time' is $time" > '$time' is 15:22
"the unhealthy expectation in the FOSS community"

Nobody is "expecting" you to make good software, we're just saying that now that you've turned a formally mostly decent piece of software into adware with an untrustworthy author there's no reason to not just use better software. Software that doesn't molest your traffic. I wish you luck with your business but don't know why anybody would pay for software written by you two ever again.
I'm not surprised, because get things lost to history all the time, but do you have a source?
It's a stretch to argue that someone with an unprofessional personal Twitter is incapable of writing professionally, especially as this isn't the first thing she's written professionally.
I just made a blog post on this: http://www.gkayaalp.com/deb.html
Ye gods! uBlock Origin had a whopping 29 items blocked here here. I know mainstream corporate news sites with less garbage in them!
> The writing style is just completely textbook NYT commentator style.

She's been writing op-eds for the Guardian US since 2014 (as an official “contributing writer” since 2015.)

That she is, in 2017, able to write an op-ed like a practiced writer of major media op-eds is unsurprising, since, you know, she is exactly that.
Functional Programming and Category Theroy are great, there's a strong level of robustness in the whole approach to programming.

The author slams imperative programming, it isn't backboned on a robust compositional system, as is often done by FPers

BUT :)

there's lots of good programs in both styles....to me, this implies that there are more important things that matter to programming, the design to achieve a purpose. It's nice to express your designs in a robust system ( and be influenced by it), but what matters most is the design choices you make. When I look at well programmed things it's always the design choices that impress me.
I'm sorry you felt I was being confrontational. But I stand by it. Telling someone there is a reason for what they are going through, then saying, "now find it and fix it" is NOT helpful.

I sincerely believe that anyone that thinks pointing out the obvious to an addict will help has not actually done it. And I consider "It's something in your environment" to be obvious, true, and totally not actionable.

Furthermore, the idea that addiction is necessarily filling a void is, to be blunt, bullshit.

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If it isn't in the installable list, you may have it installed already.

Package Control is open source and contributions are welcome! We finally get to rip out support for ST2 and Python 2.6 now also!
I assume the store will still work on the web (including the purchase by fingerprint if you have a recent MBP); after buying your app you would then download it from your phone.
It does the opposite.

An always lit in vehicle display and DRLs that are just always on headlights makes people forget to turn their lights on when it's dark. This isn't a problem for them since they have their headlights on but drivers behind them don't see them from a distance at night because their tail lights are not lit up. This is particularly dangerous in traffic where everyone else has their lights on.

Making DRLs mandatory is tripping over a quarter to pick up a penny because it enables this behavior.
Sure.

I wasn't trying to compare to animism. I included the Wikipedia link because I said that there were hundreds of creation stories and thought that if I didn't give some link to a bunch of them someone might get testy over the number. (I'm kind of surprised that hasn't happened anyway, as the Wikipedia list only has 40 or so).
With “Bodega,” Ex-Googlers Launch Attack on Beloved Feature of City Life
Better coverage of the kidnapping case mentioned at the beginning from Die Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/putin-wages-hybri...

The genius of the creation of FUD in this particular case is that cases of cover up for PC purposes did happen in some other European countries, e.g. in England (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_child_sex_abuse_ring, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...).
No, a chatbot can’t automatically sue Equifax for $25,000
Do they not call it CentOS 7.4? I thought they did for the 6-series releases.
Yes, this usually gets stated as if it were a fact, but never with any proof. In fact, proponents of the idea often claim that qualia's existence can't be detected or proven (the debate here even mentions it).

When a line of argument is based upon the existence of an invisible element that can't be shown or detected, it starts to veer into the territory of religion. If there's no evidence beyond "I feel it must be true," its important to acknowledge that others might feel differently.
But the software in that image will still be written by untrustworthy adware developers. _That_ is the issue.
> If it's not neurons that produce consciousness then there must be some other physical phenomena that generates experience.

Assuming physicalism is the case and not idealism, dualism, or some other metaphysics. If consciousness isn't the result of neuronal activity, then that would be a good reason to suspect that physicalism is somehow false.
I dunno fella bombing the shit out of people on the basis of their data trails seems pretty dystopian to me
They must have improved testing then, or improved their processes, because the last time I evaluated testing it was properly "half unstable, half unusable"

Admittedly that was a while ago! Testing, depending on what part of the release cycle you are in, can be a few weeks behind Sid or significantly more, though. Most upstream release managers probably pay some attention to the release cycles nowadays so, with luck you wouldn't notice this too much.

(The start date of the testing freeze is well publicized in advance and known, so competent release managers should avoid potentially breaking/broken updates immediately before that date, if I remember correctly how this works.)
"Negative distractive behavior" can also include things like "spending so much money on drugs you can't afford basic living expenses," "destroying relationships with your friends/family," "being unable to take care of your children," "getting fired from your job," "not being able to take care of your basic commitment," "'lying down' while driving," etc., etc.
This is not true in the general sense. If I take a pill that my doctor prescribes, I run the risk of becoming addicted.

Now you put it on me and my happiness? Not helpful either.
No, let's. Organizing for the murder of a large number of people is as bad as or even even worse than calling for the deaths of individuals.
I've always longed for a browser plugin that would let me use my browser history from a certain time window and save it as a playlist (use case - friends come over and DJ Youtube videos off your computer).

Maybe this will make it easier for me to recapture those nights.
Martin Shkreli is headed to jail
Threats of violence are already illegal. If speech crosses into threat/violence, we should punish that vigorously so as to deter further violence and to assure would-be victims. In fact, this is already policy and it's working out pretty well; Nazism lags even Islamic terrorism (at least in the US) in deaths. Surely if we tell people not to worry about Islamic terrorism, no one should be chilled by Nazism. The fear isn't rational; it's only propped up by leftist FUD (as fear of terrorists was largely propped up by the right in the aughts).
How the NYTimes showed it is "one of the most powerful information weapons" by convincing some large percentage of people that the propaganda power that began with media and the public relations industry (in the US) has somehow just been created and only exists in Putin's Russia[1].

Crime scares? Oh no, American media certainly doesn't thrive on getting it's message across through that. And it doesn't thrive on the way the average reader can forget everything they read even a day beforehand. At least I don't recall it ever exploiting that...

I'm far past the liberal end of the spectrum and I'd put it this way - if the NYTimes is worried about Russia so easily discrediting American democracy, they could perhaps work on making it more credible rather than painting RT as the sinister manipulators effortlessly destroying everything - not that Putin is anything but a murderous dictator but I'd read the article as "Damn it, Vladamir, those minds were ours to manipulate"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations
Hans Rosling said the the washing machine was one of the most transformative inventions ever.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing...
She was an intelligence analyst. Communication skills were part of her job.
The Saturn System Through the Eyes of Cassini (e-Book)
Wow, so many ideas. Thanks a lot.

You are probably right, that it's not focused enough. I was making it mainly as a music player for my parents initially. So I tried to make it as simple as possible. Then, while playing with the site, I was adding features that looked useful to me.

I totally understand login dilemma (and the site already was blamed as suspicious/fishing on the YT forum). The funny thing is that initial version allowed anonymous editing, saving everything locally, but my kids told me that everyone is fine nowadays using their social login. Maybe I need to re-evaluate the assumption. But that will be a lot of work.

Mashup player, while sounds cool, it seems to deviate too far from the playlist handling and I'm not even sure that it's doable with the embedded YT player.

The spinning thing apparently does not even click with the young generation, they never used anything spinning really. Go figure.

Folders vs playlists. Well, former are rectangular, while latter are round - looks different to me.

So you are probably right and it's all over the map. I will wait a bit collecting feedback and fixing immediate problems and we'll see what could be the direction.

Thank you very much for the feedback.

Edit: trying to format properly.
Yes, he gave you free stuff and then reduced how much free stuff he gave you. That must be very hard on you.
A FastTracker 2 player was discussed on HN quite some time ago (spoiler: uses ScriptProcessorNode): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10538791
Yeah I like the last part of your answer, I don't think I would do something directly social with it but it would probably not make money.
Maybe something sentimental, because I think we all had a MySpace back then - heck I still remember my URL - I bet MySpace still has all my saved conversations and profile visits over the years...maybe make a time-travel experience for MySpace users who haven't used it anymore in 10ish years?!
Nice, reminds me of the equivalent OCaml implementation:

let fizzbuzz n =
match n mod 3, n mod 5 with
| 0, 0 -> "fizzbuzz"
| 0, _ -> "fizz"
| _, 0 -> "buzz"
| _ -> string_of_int n
Bullshit. You're committing the fallacy that comes from Marxist thought--- that one's position/class/socio-economic-factors are the determining factors in their values and beliefs. People are not so simple, their thoughts can come from elsewhere. You're wildly underestimating the sentience of these people.

I think a better model is that: People who understand economics tend to both be entrepreneurs (they understand the rules of the game they're playing) and they are in favor of free trade and less regulation.

Free trade _does not_ benefit large companies. Large companies want, and generally get, favorable regulations and tariffs that make it hard for outsiders or for small guys.
>I'm sort of intentionally being abrasive there though, as I think people drive too aggressively given the surroundings.

This kind of passive aggressive behavior creates more problems than it solves.
I've been trying to push TSV (tab separated values) as a standard response/implementation when they ask for CSV. "Yes but its comma separated!", sure is, but text can contain commas...
I have seen issues with Google Spreadsheets not recognizing the tabs however... Excel doesnt know what to do with a TSV either. But both have a complete wizard for parsing CSV...
The same motion? Really? I hold the middle and spin it. Usually it just hurts my nail lol. Guess I am doing it wrong.
A company can go to a bank and ask for a few thousand dollars to be repaid in 30, 60, or ninety days. The bank will charge fees in return for the providing the money. That is the bank's business and how it turns a profit.

On the other hand, there are no fees if the company does not pay me for 30, 60 or ninety days and so it is economically rational for a company to improve cash flow by not paying me rather than using a bank. Worse, collecting delayed payment takes my time and energy and does not produce additional profit for me. Just additional work. Even worse, holding my payment creates cash flow problems for me that provide the company leverage to renegotiate for pennies on the dollar.

At worst, I have learned in one of the harder ways that I don't want to loan money in the form of delayed payment to businesses with cash flow problems. A company that cannot write me a check before the project starts does not have sufficient funds to complete the project. Better I forego fantasy profits and play the odds.
I have updated the documentation on __slots__, and those changes have made it into the dev version of the Python docs.[0]

I have also written up __slots__ in great detail on Stack Overflow.[1]

I'm at a meetup right now, but I can try to answer any quick questions here tonight.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3.7/reference/datamodel.html#object....

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/472000/541136
Even if she could have afforded to renew it back then, it still would have run out before they took off since the article you point to said she invented it 20 years ago.
> The issue is that _many_ people see full gender parity as equality

No. This is a massive strawman that is often repeated to justify the following counter-argument: "well, why aren't you complaining about all the other industries that don't have gender parity?", but it is not actually representative of the opposing viewpoint.
This week on Hackernews: criticizing big companies for turning toy crazes into huge profits.

Last week on Hackernews: a paean to Wham-O, manufacturers of the hula hoop.