skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> rough and tumble no-nonsense language

This is an inaccurate and dismissive description. This document is actively hostile, and revels in its hostility. It's propagating a perspective that it's acceptable to deride and denigrate newbies, that it's acceptable to be hostile and toxic and unwelcoming, and so on. It gleefully celebrates, or at the very least excuses, people who throw around "RTFM" and "STFU noob" and "UTSL". Propagating this document encourages people to think such behavior is a good idea.

We can, and should, build better hacker communities, and this document has no place in those.

> personally. I'd like to think most folks attempting to build/repair/maintain systems built by other people can too.

You might like to think that, but that assumption excludes many people from the community, in a self-perpetuating vicious cycle (where "vicious" is a particularly appropriate word). It creates communities that exclude people who are not like you. And even those who can should not have to. I can cope with such people, but it's painful and draining, so I spend more time in communities where such hostility is not accepted.

You might find if you spend time in such communities that you may enjoy them more as well. Or perhaps not, but either way don't make things worse for others.

The right response to such hostility is "we don't do that here".
Modern men are not "privileged". This is corruption-of-blood level stuff. Men alive today unless perhaps very old have not benefited from discrimination against women and have no reason to accept being discriminated against as a result.

Trying to blame bad things done by historical figures for bad actions taken today is the result of much wrongness in the world. Please don't try to justify it.

Oh, and your analogy to the rich dude is deeply flawed. Rich people can become poor and poor can become rich; it happens all the time. Putting gender re-assignment surgery to one side, gender is generally fixed. If you get discriminated against because you're a man, you aren't going to be mollified by an argument of the form "one day you might be a woman and it may work in your favour". Whereas "one day you may be rich" or "one day you may be poor" is used as a reasonable justification for all sorts of things, like progressive taxation and a social safety net.
If someone really wants access to your home can't they just pick the lock or forcibly enter through other means? It doesn't seem very hard to access most homes.
How about this objection:

With attention enabled, how is it any easier for police to force you to look at your phone to unlock it than it would be to grab your finger and force you to unlock your device with your fingerprint? Or beat you until you give up your passcode?

They all require restraining you and applying force, or threatening you until you comply. This is honestly the most ridiculous point.

All biometrics trade a little security for convenience. This is a known fact, it's not new, and it's no different with FaceID than it is with any other biometrics solution ever made.
You have to swipe up on the screen to get out of the lock screen when unlocked...so I doubt it'd stop that use case.
The inability to read minds, is a "huge, huge problem"
List of most user-friendly doc management software
sometimes (if there are not mixed spaces and tabs) tr -s ' ' < input | cut -f1 helps
There are two parts to this:

* For the theories to be correct, the difference in arrival time between the gravity waves and the light waves would need to be more like 3 years. 1.7 seconds from 130 million LY is a very small difference.

* The gravity waves peak as the stars are just approaching each other, the gamma pulse happens when they collide.
> books (text) are still the main medium

Geometry books don't use text as the only form of communication. Neither do books about architecture, mechanical engineering, anatomy, circuit design, etc. Imagine a world where you used only text to convey all these ideas and their relationships. Computer programming today a bit like that. Why should we assume that pure text is the best and only suitable form for representing automatic computation?
A quick reference guide to Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence
Not rude but there’s a difference between forcing your way through a door and having a door unlocked for you (and via a legal means outside of the physical jurisdiction of the door).

It shouldn’t matter how ‘tough’ the door lock is either way. 4 digit ATM codes are easy to break too - we still expect them to provide a level of protection
It's hard to miniaturize nuclear power. But if you're going to mars, you don't want miniature, you want economies of scale (both for descent/landing and for cruise). And this is what nuclear power provides in spades.
Lack of awareness? This argument is brought up a lot. Here's one article debunking one of the complaints about it:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/news/a2...

It's getting to the point that it's almost silly how recurring a fallacy that somehow battery production emissions are absurd or battery mining conditions abhorrent.

Compared to say oil rigs and oil derricks and refineries, it's so very hard for battery mining and battery production to be any worse.

The two most "exotic" elements in a Lithium Ion battery, both of which are actually a tiny fraction of the mass, lithium and cobalt, are both still primarily "brine mined" sorting through easy to access pools rather than the mine shaft mining that comes to mind for most people (we're roughly still at the stage of "gold prospecting" and just pulling lithium and cobalt from salts in water, rather than "gold mining" deep into the earth).

ETA: Not to mention that this very article and its 50% claim is yet another that includes the carbon emissions of battery production but seemingly none of oil production.
The Frank McCourt? Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt?
I don't see how Face ID is inherently an "epic pain"

The fact that the phone only allows one face is a deal-breaker for me. My wife needs access to my phone (and vice versa). I'd prefer we don't have to memorize each others long/complex passcodes. With TouchId, this scenario is handled. With a single FaceId, it's a loss of functionality.
Sometimes the truth is an inconvenient barrier to making money.
CryptoCribs – A decentralized Airbnb for the crypto community
No it's preempting going broke. Especially since Elon is one of the combined companies biggest creditors and has his own personal finances deeply entwined with that of the company. (See also Sears / Eddie Lampert)
I found the writing in this article cutesy and incomprehensible, but the subject matter sounds very interesting. Are there any more lucidly written descriptions of this work? The actual paper is hard to understand.
How accessible? "I Ain't Been Shot, Mum" by Too Fat Lardies and "ColdWar Commander" are fun, quickish, and just a step above beer & pretzel rules. The TFL guys in general are big fans of the original Kriegspiel style. There's also a whole series called "Two Hour Wargames".
Why does a waiter get tips? You're already paying for the service.
AI based Strager Things image generator
"Query whitelists" sounds like sending to the server something like `{"query_id": 4, "variables": ...}` instead of `{"query": ..., "variables": ...}` which are straightforward to implement using any kind of server side key-value store and a middleware that maps the `query_id` back to the corresponding `query`, a tool that can help you with this is Apollo's PersistGraphQL [1]

I have no idea how I would go about implementing complexity caps though, but I guess I would do something like what GitHub has done for their own GraphQL API [2], which they explain better than I can.

[1]: https://github.com/apollographql/persistgraphql
[2]: https://developer.github.com/v4/guides/resource-limitations/
I wonder where you live. I have heard many reported family courts cases over the years and they have always been resolved in favour of the woman, sometimes grossly so.

For instance, I have one friend whose wife went literally mad (post-partum psychosis). Total psycho breakdown level mad when she was off her meds, which happened a lot. Fortunately the courts awarded him custody of the kids. Unfortunately they are still, years later, dragging their heels over the divorce and he his still not yet divorced. There is no reason for this beyond the fact that family law in his (western) country is designed to benefit the woman to the cost of the man, to a nearly absurd degree.

Re: opportunity. Yes, opportunity is very often zero sum. Most obviously hiring and firing at the company level are zero sum games - if a woman got the job because she's a woman, it means you didn't. Whilst the economy in general may not be zero sum over the long run, it sure is at the moment you're applying for a job. Likewise for cases like this:

https://sites.google.com/site/codejamtoioforwomen/

where tickets to a very expensive conference were reserved only for women. Limited number of places at the conference = zero sum game and therefore, very much unequal opportunity. Note that there's a female only version of Code Jam because women couldn't compete with the men in the mixed gender version.
Why not have a nuclear battery/generator powering an array of ion thrusters?
The point isn't that the area can't supply its own water, nor that upstate NY can't supply enough water for NYC. The point is that even in a water-rich region, a city like NYC (or even one the size of Albany) cannot support its population off well water. Thus the existence of modern economic centers is dependent on piping in water. Telling city dwellers that they should get their water from wells so as to avoid dependence on their neighbors for their water is an absurdity.
There is a set of amazon lockers at my local Whole Foods. They're one step ahead of you every time!
Probably not on quinoa, I have no idea. But something like Kernza needs a jumpstart to market, and if it is easy to grow in the backyard or in a community plot, that could be a jumpstart.
Which is a shame, because I doubt I'll be loading modules from CPAN for awk any time soon, and I routinely use modules from CPAN or that I myself have written in my perl one liners. In fact, I have a specialized project-perl.sh in my project's PATH that loads a few modules (Try::Tiny, Path::Tiny, Data::Dumper, etc), sets a local::lib, and loads the main project module, allowing access to most the functions I've written for the current project, and passes all the extra params through to the underlying perl command.

If my codebase wasn't already in perl I wouldn't necessarily be able to benefit from a large library of my own functions relevant to the problem, but at least I would still have CPAN to fall back on. I'm not sure awk will ever be able to compete with that.
LiteIDE: A simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE
I emailed you, from a yahoo address.
I was talking to someone 3 days ago about how his company has been hoarding Kinects because they knew this day was coming.

I think robotics research is probably a reason why they're discontinuing it. Why support something that only exists outside the walled garden? Maybe not the only reason, but a reason. The device probably isn't generating profits, and the value gain on top of that is missing because the gaming community has abandoned it.
"Is this pre-empting a union push?"

Honest clarification request: Do you to suggest/worry that they are classifying "agitating for a union" as problematic "conduct with peers"?

(If so, I expect we'll hear if that's the case soon, with a chance of hearing that even if it's not the case. That is a storyline the media would be salivating to run.)
Does Bitcoin pay dividends?
Tragic. Another legend bites the dust.
Catalonia follows Estonia steps, creates e-residency program
From my understanding a delivery person cannot get into your house at any time--you are not giving them any code to your door. They are scanning a barcode on your package via the camera, and that will be their "key". No package, no key. Good consideration about the alarm code, though even with it they couldn't get in unless they have a verified delivery.
A PostCSS plugin to keep CSS grids stupidly simple
Overstock.com Stock Has Rallied 130% Since Announcing Crypto Exchange and ICO
Hopefully this motivates Google to make a more competitive, low end offering of Nest.
This [skeleton data being proprietary] is one of the nails in the coffin for sure.

I get that MS would like to keep developers into it's little Windows / XBOX box, but forcing me to keep a Windows installation for the sole purpose of using your hardware is a great way to get developers looking for an alternative.
Give the Pixel 2's touch scanner a try. It's incredibly fast. I'm amazed every time I use it.
Keymaster: Usable Short-Term Credentials with Multi-Factor Authentication
> Why would anybody use a programming language with zero documentation for anything?

What alternative do you suggest? Not putting it out there until it's production ready?
Clipping your screenshots to stock photos of Apple devices doesn't advertise your product, it advertises Apple's.

I've gotten reluctant to use any hosted services because so many of them have such short lifespans. Warehousing a bunch of data on someone else's platform, and coming to rely on it, only to have it disappear (or "pivot", or get acqui-hired and thrown away) a short time later isn't something I have any patience left for.
Ask HN: Where to find Financial programming / Financial coding jobs
TL;DR: Looking for employment resources in Finance Programming / Trading algorithms?

I'm in a rock and hard place...

I have the ability to write stock trading algorithms. Also Cryptocurrencies, options, and if need be futures and FX.

I call myself a depression coder, meaning that during the great recession I couldn't find a job, so I took off my MBA in Finance on my resume and started teaching myself php and Mysql. So I don't have the Computer Science Degree or do I have the Statistic PHD, but I'm right in the middle. Currently, I'm a full employed programmer.

What is clear is that market is clearing moving to complete automation.

In Addition, I have made my home in Denver, with no desire to move to co-location alley (NJ,NY).

With all the list of my demands, I was wondering if any can point me to a website/recruiters/firms that specialize in algorithmic trading.

Some of my work is on my profile link.
* it is a natural location for your finger when holding the phone*

Really? When I'm holding my phone (right hand), my fingers wrap around the left edge and my thumb rests along the right edge. Moving my thumb to the TouchId is easy. Moving my index finder to the center of the back panel is awkward.
You got a point, sorry about that, I should have paid proper attention.
People only watch porn because it is anonymous. This is no different from piracy. People steal only because they think they think they won't get caught (or give some arguments about DRM to convince themselves stealing is OK which is completely beside the point). Most people won't pay for porn if it was non-anonymous. So, I don't agree that it has no moral downsides. I so agree with your comments on icecreams and fidget spinners. They are terrible too.
Nice. Does anyone know their policy about following major new versions of Postgres?

I want to launch an app using the new partitioning features of Postgres 10. I hope Aurora Postgres won't be indefinitely tied to a specific major version, as is the case with Redshift.
The Earth would in fact be the same radioactive as today, assuming we had used stockpiled Pu.

It's the distribution that matters. A little bit of ocean floor over Florida would be much more radioactive than today if it was scattered with Pu-238.
We're stuffing people into cracks and making new cracks to stuff them in.
The Hub lockers (i would say Amazon lockers as well? i've always seen UPS people filling them...) can accept deliveries from all delivery services, not just AMZL.
I've always been fascinated by Islamic Art and curious how such complex shapes could be drawn from simple tools. The video looks really cool.

edit: Link to the actual game site, hard to find on the article page - http://www.engare.design/
Sound composer for trailer: https://soundcloud.com/mimrasouli
Systems Analysis and Programming: Thoughts from the Attic (2011)
Linear algebra is equivalent to geometric algebra so you wouldn't find columns less likely in GA.

Also, GA is usually hyped by non-mathematicians -- people who don't understand that it's just an alternative notation that doesn't add much to linear algebra.

> Clifford Algebra, a.k.a. Geometric Algebra, is a most extraordinary synergistic confluence of a diverse range of specialized mathematical fields

> It is the very simplicity and generality of Clifford Algebra that confirms its “truth”

kook alarms ringing
> (IIRC OLED was a problem too)

Well yes, since the FaceID component is small, and yield issues happen at assembly stage i can see this is easily fixable.

But OLED? There is one, and precisely one manufacturer making it, with limited capacity from the start and no quick fix to it. This manufacture also happens to be making OLED for their own phone.

If the demand of iPhone X is anywhere near as close as other new iPhone, we are easily looking at shortage of phones well past Xmas.
The problem with running a nonstandard display server is you either need to support Xorg (or Wayland) else face near zero application support.
WW2 more likely given the time scale
Keith Douglass Sums it up well I think

The noble horse with courage in his eye,

clean in the bone, looks up at a shellburst:

away fly the images of the shires

but he puts the pipe back in his mouth.

Peter was unfortunately killed by an 88;

it took his leg away, he died in the ambulance.

I saw him crawling on the sand, he said

It's most unfair, they've shot my foot off.

How can I live among this gentle

obsolescent breed of heroes, and not weep?

Unicorns, almost,

for they are fading into two legends

in which their stupidity and chivalry

are celebrated. Each, fool and hero, will be an immortal.

These plains were their cricket pitch

and in the mountains the tremendous drop fences

brought down some of the runners. Here then

under the stones and earth they dispose themselves,

I think with their famous unconcern.

It is not gunfire I hear, but a hunting horn.
So, getting up to 25.5 km/s with a rocket with an exhaust velocity of 30 km/s means you need the wet weight to be 2.33 times the dry weight. Last I checked [1] you can get 77 W/kg with photovoltaics so you need you'll need 1402 kg of those in addition to the 226 kg of engine for a total of 1626 kg. Round that up to 2200 kg for structure and tankage and so on for a total we mass of 5126 kg where 2926 kg of that is fuel. You're using that at 5.4/30000=.00018 kg/s for a total of 16255555 seconds of acceleration or about six months. So six months instead of one but basically yes.

[1]http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2015/03/rockets-elec...

EDIT: Of course, as it accelerates it'll get further away from the sun leading to less power from the solar panels and a slower acceleration.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4698&q=tail%...

Proper tail calls is the last ES6 feature not implemented by Chrome. Can anyone shed more light on the backstory for the hold up? I've read the challenges with debugging without a stack, but Safari's implementation of tail calls seems pretty sound and was shipped about a year ago.

The last V8 blog post on the topic is almost 18 months old:

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/04/es6-es7-and-beyond.ht...

The TC39 topic they site hasn't been touched in two years:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-ptc-syntax
A bit off topic but true. You don't deserve down votes in my book.
Margolus–Levitin theorem
I have to commend China for taking drastic action in response to their drastic problem.

As I understand it, it's actually very feasible to apply a carbon filter to the smokestack of a factory itself.
But how do we know that light and gravitational wave were emitted exactly at one moment? It is not obvious for me.
Could've been (so much) better, had it not been for the agenda.
Do you have sources for this? That's a pretty big accusation.
Perhaps something like a old-fashioned padlock? Anyone can click it shut and then you need the key to unlock it again.
For us AirDrop only works sometimes. It cannot be trusted to work.

We have two ipads, two iphones, two Macs. Some new, some old. In general AirDrop only works between some devices, depending on device ages and (I guess ;-) the moon in conjugation with Apple's stock index.

If it works, its only after waiting a while, switching BT off and on (maybe repeat that), meanwhile doing some praying...
I remember a while back some .com company laid off a bunch of their employees (more than 40%? 50%?). Firing that many people at once triggered a set of 'lay off' laws, which required certain behavior from the company (such as giving the employees X days notice, etc, etc).

This is pure speculation, but I wonder if Telsa is trying to do last-minute layoffs while avoiding whatever 'lay off laws' there are by claiming that each individual is totally being fired for totally legit individual reasons, for sure, yep.
Microsoft has always lumped the Xbox in with other divisions so you can't tell from the financial reports whether it is or has been profitable. The only indication from Microsoft that it is profitable is this statement from Nadella, which is at least a little ambiguous.

Our gaming business now is more than $9 billion and growing profitably.
Someone is leaving dog shit on your neighbor's lawn. It's not you, you pick up after your dog, but your neighbor is convinced it's you.

Late one night, your neighbor saunters up to your drop box and empties a bag full of dog shit into it.
Day 7 of 100 Days of VR: Creating a VERY Simple First Person Shooter
You mean like this? https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71sMIACL1bL...
Amazon launches security camera and lock that lets deliveries inside your home
I discussed the current state of things as well as hypotheticals, so I don't think we're talking past each other. I am having a damned difficult time getting a straight answer out of you, though. You keep saying that putting bombers on alert is helpful because it makes a preemptive strike more difficult, but have yet to explain how it would do so in any substantial way. When I asked, twice, if it was just a matter of requiring the enemy to use 1-2% more warheads or if it was something else, you didn't answer....

"I[t] doesn't seem particularly useful to discuss an alternate world unconstrained by such treaties...." You literally did just that only a few messages ago! "If New START is not renewed, and we see a build up in nuclear arms again...."

I don't get how bombers are useful either the way things are now or in a post-treaty era. As things stand now, you're only adding maybe a half-dozen targets to a preemptive strike target list which is already 400+ entries long. That doesn't seem significant. In a post-treaty world, it's far cheaper to lengthen the target list by building more ICBMs and silos than by building more bombers and bomber bases. (And we're currently about 200 launchers below our limits under New START, so we could build quite a few more. And bombers and ICBMs are lumped together under the same limit, so you can't use bombers as a way to get around a ceiling on ICBMs.)

I'm open to learning how alert bombers help. And if it's just a matter of using existing resources to expand the enemy's target list by 1-2%, that's fair enough. But so far you just keep telling me that it somehow makes a first strike much harder and that I should do more research.
Before doing more estimates, it's probably worth adding in the mass of a plausible payload i.e. the scientific instruments that are the purpose of the spacecraft.
For me, the benefit of a trailing uniq instead of a sort -u is that I'm invariably building towards a "sort | uniq -c | sort -n" anyways.
Xbox One never relied on Kinect.