skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised to reach real people on the other end of the line, and for the sake of brevity shortened my message to say that I was a voter and business owner in the area that wished to voice support for H.R. 1892, and would appreciate said representative's support as well.

Big ups for helping me get off my ass and pick up the phone. It feels empowering.
> If it's some opinion piece or fluff piece I just don't really get why it's here.

Perhaps because a subset of people find it interesting/enforces their opinions/serves as ammunation against what they dislike/etc etc ..

It might be hard to prevent.
Generally, I agree with everything you say here. If you're asking for feedback, then you will get feedback, and some of it will be critical.

I think you'd agree that feedback does not equal verbal abuse. So, to go back to the original question, do you feel that by asking for feedback you're consenting to be verbally abused, or do you feel that's not the case?
Laws which are not set in stone. The point is that services like Airbnb can be the impetus for changing the law to make more sense for modern times. When these laws were created, something like Airbnb was impossible, so how can you think they took the concept into account when crafting them?
Do they store card numbers?
Landkarte
I think the problem with Photography is the democratization of the form.

If you hand an unskilled photographer a good camera, they could accidentally shoot a few damn fine photos, where as with paints, you almost guaranteed you will not accidentally paint a great painting, or as a developer, accidentally code a great project. This cheapens photography as an art form.

Having dealt with many clients with poor photography, I will say, not enough people are willing to shell out for good photography and good digital dark room skills.
Young men are the only group to whom you can arbitrarily assign a negative stereotype without encountering any backlash it seems. In my opinion similarly aged female social groups are often just as excluding of people - though not, perhaps, in the same way.

I have no problem with the idea that in this community, Paul Graham is the best role model for communication. But let's not pretend that the place is flawed purely because of it's demographic.
My experience is that at least with Py 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, and 3.3, it's not all that bad. I'm helping maintain Pillow, a PIL fork, and the commit to add Python 3 support touched a lot of things, but it wasn't that complicated. We've got a py3k.h file that has some ifdefs in it, all the print statements got changed to functions, and there's a few other bits and pieces.

Prior to Pycon, I wasn't really ready for python 3, now I'm missing it in my main codebase (which is on 2.7).
It might be "groundbreaking" for the Arduino community but a BeagleBone Black is cheaper, far more powerful and seemingly (haven't seen official specs of Yun, but based on photos) not much bigger and can trivially be made wi-fi capable with a tiny USB dongle for like $5 on top of the $45 base price.

Don't get me wrong, this is cool and there is certainly a benefit to the entire Arduino "ecosystem", particularly for those new to hobby electronics -- the IDEs and vast amount of tutorials create a nice positive feedback loop for the beginner. However, there is a lot more to the overall "Maker" electronics community than the Arduino and in context this is a cool little product, but nothing particularly unexpected. If anything Arduino has been lagging a bit behind everyone else on actual hardware and needed to catch up and this is a nice step there.
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Userfox wants to make A/B testing emails effortless
My employer pays for my time and talent. Freelancing programmers are paid for their time and talent. I, however, assign copyright over my works to my employer, because that's part of the terms of my employment. If photographers want to extort $25 for a .jpg, that's fine, but let's not pretend it's anything more.

I'd rather buy my own camera and learn to take photos properly than pay $25 per digital copy, it would be more fun.
Why is it ok for the photog. to keep copyright on a work for hire?
> Do a search for just about any topic (like "kite sailing" or "Star Wars") and tell me how many pages until you get to a site that wasn't created by a corporation.

First:
That doesn't specifically identify a broadly-shared need among Google's existing user base that Google isn't meeting.

Second, when I do a search for either of those I get personal blogs and/or fan sites on the first page. So, unless your problem is that that shouldn't be the case, I think the perceived situation you were obliquely referencing isn't even accurate.
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It's interesting to see that the idea came to him while taking a shower, similar to Clifford Stoll's "Operation Showerhead" idea that took down Markus Hess. I wonder how many of the world's most important inventions were thought up in a shower...
Apparently not, I clicked it. After a long wait all I get is a corrupt PDF...uh, oh.
I don't see anything wrong with that. There are literally dozens of BETTER alternatives to Google Reader out there. Their work is done by with that space and they felt it was time to move on.
The greatest marketing scheme of all time
Source Maps With CoffeeScript and Uglify.js
If you have two windows, :q closes the current window, and most people do that all the time, for removing buffers from the view. But if you only have one window and run that, with the intention of dumping the buffer or simply by mistake, your Vim is closed...
And I am arguing it is complete hogwash.

If a ring of air magically propels a lot more air around it, do you think a fan of the same diameter might just compel the same air molecules to follow suit?

> if you use a regular fan, you air speed is going to be dictated by the blade speed

On the Dyson air speed IS dictated by blade speed. They have a damn fan at the base pushing air through the system and they use that air to accelerate some more air around it. Again, I am not going to waste my time doing any math. My educated guess is that the efficiency, when compared to a properly designed fan of the same diameter is atrocious.

One other point, air speed coming out of a fan is not solely dependent on blade speed. Blade shape, diameter, angle of attack, duct length and even airfoil come into play.

You also have centrifugal, fans which operate under slightly different principles and can deliver airflow at greater pressure than axial fans.

More importantly, if you are trying to cool something air speed isn't always the most important criteria. The volume of air moved per unit time is extremely important. It has to be matched to the thermodynamics of the heat exchange that will happen with whatever it is you want to cool Delivering air faster and with greater volume than necessary is a waste of energy.
See Github's setup tip on configuring a fake email address: https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-...
I'm not totally sure, but I think it's helpful if the call comes from a local area code. But, many of us have legacy area codes from places we lived 10-15 years ago, so it may not matter too much.
Reminds me of:

"In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down."

-- James Wolcott

People will read whatever they want into whatever there is.
Why? Calling members of Congress is incredibly effective, especially in large volumes. Organizing politically has always been the way to create real, durable change in the law. It's how the U.S. got labor, civil rights, and environmental protections enshrined in the law despite well-funded opposition.

I know it's very cool these days in Internet-land to consider the system too broken to engage, but that seems to me to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
aleyan, If you hire a programmer to do some work for you, that programmer will own the copyright to what he/she wrote. That is why it is a good idea to stipulate in a contract that the work will be done as "work for hire" so you own the copyright. The default is the writer owns the copyright.
> I personally am a fan of DDG and use it as my primary search engine. I do wish they'd change their name as it makes it difficult to recommend to non-technical people.

They should really just rename it to Duck Duck Gray Duck.
"This is because the website uses a badly-written redirect."

Maybe I'm cynical but I don't think it's badly-written, I think it's deliberate. I agree that FF is at fault but I'm suspicious of these websites and believe they likely do it on purpose to improve their analytics for page retention. That probably also improves their SEO ranking since (as I understand it) Google will see the person is on their page for longer and will credit the page as having good content.
I know typography is a very touchy issue, but I'd suggest a different font for the terminal... the 1 (one) and l (ell) are almost identical. Looks like typing 'he1p'.

I'd suggest DejaVu Sans Mono - the only monospaced font I've ever seen that has such visible distinctions between 1li, 00o, [{(, )}], and %#.
Microsoft reveals the new Xbox One console
Learning Git Branching
Xbox One has 3 pieces
> So for me, charge what ever you want to charge for the session, but for goodness sakes, give people their photos. That is what they are paying you for.

Absolutely! This is a communication issue. There would be no confusion if every single photographer / studio spelled this out explicitly to you before hand. The reason they don't spell it out explicitly is that once they take the photos, you have no choice but to pay them for the photos. After you are burned by this, you realize it is always this bait and switch.

Every single person in the universe is hiring people to take pictures so they can have the pictures. They don't hire photographers, so the photographers can build up a library of prints to sell back to them.

That being said, I negotiated heavily with my wedding photographer for the rights to my photos. This was an incredibly hard process and I almost dumped my expensive photographer. It wasn't the money issue, but they could not grok giving up or sharing the copyright (sublicensing). Eventually, they gave me a full sub-license, with equivalent full rights after 5 years (i could do anything except sell them for a profit until 5 years later). As if i wanted to try and make professional quality prints to sell to all of my guests.

My argument was that those images are priceless to me -- even in 30 years, but they might move on in 30 years or lose the images. Without an ability to reprint them, I would be limited to decaying physical prints.
Yeah but it's not $200k of their own money...
Well, those are federal issues, so it sounds like his problem is the fact that Obama's president rather than anything to do with new york state. I'd also hypothesize that he was much less upset about these issues in December 2008 than he became starting in late January 2009.
Loadtests for the Real World
I kind of find myself being more sympathetic to landlords in this case. Yes, if everyone did that there wouldn't be any space to live, but looking for short-term subleasers is also a lot more risky. They need to be found, first of all - you're competing with every other of their residence choices - and after that, they have a greater risk of damaging your property. But if after this pro/con analysis, it is economically better for you to do short-term leasing - I think you should be able to.

Also hotel safety laws do not exist in a vacuum. AirBnb renters should be properly informed that the building they are entering has passed building inspection codes, but cannot guarantee hotel-level hygiene and fire code safety. Once fully informed, if the renter still chooses AirBnb, it's their call. People can sleep over at their friends' houses, or at strangers' houses without exchange of money anyway - the fact that money does change hands doesn't change the facts about the parties involved.
I'm pretty excited about the type inference and the simple syntax for doing normal things.

I really like the package management of npm and Node and the amount of packages (~30000).

So this may just annoy you, but is anyone planning to make a way to run Node.js modules, or a way to convert Node.js code?

Or is there at least a package manager like npm planned?

edit Oh I see there is a JS back end.

How does the performance of a nimrod dict-like type compare with V8's object properties?
Exactly.

Otherwise, include a license with your work, state that it is copyrighted, and still expect people to say whatever they want about you or it... Or, put it on your own private network, known as Not-The-Internet.
It's installed under a different name: firefox-trunk. It does not replace the existing firefox.
While I think that Dave's complaint in this case is hypocritical and entirely without merit, I agree that there is a problem in general. I'm not sure it is really about "programmer-types" though so much as it is a few bad leaders combined with hero worship. Linus is an asshole, plain and simple. And people worship him, so they will justify, excuse, and emulate his behaviour.

There's plenty of examples of programming communities that are the exact opposite, haskell being an oft cited example. The haskell community is very patient, calm, and avoids fighting/drama. Is it because haskell has some magic power that soothes the savage "programmer-type"? Or is it because the community standards are set by emulating the behaviour of the leaders? Compare how SPJ behaves to how Linus behaves. I think the only negative things I've ever heard from SPJ have been mild criticisms of his own work. Even in his role as an advocate for not just a language, but for entire fields (functional programming, static typing) he is consistently calm, respectful and pleasant.
What do you think about the Xbox One?
I'm always happy for other coders who are successful but comparing David to Steve Jobs is a wee bit grandiose.
AirBnB will need to evolve their service to deal with this. They are going to face this problem many times more I'm sure.

The only way I can see around it would be working with individual cities and adapting the service within those cities so that it works better for everyone.

There are many negative externalities caused by AirBnB (personally I wouldn't want my neighbours changing weekly and having access to my building and mailbox) but there are also positive ones (filling vacant properties, boosting the local economy).

When it comes to big cities like New York, Paris, London etc. AirBnb should spend the money to carry out analysis of how the service could work best for everyone and work with local authorities.
I'm always impressed how such obvious tools (e.g. memcached, junit) can change the face of software development.

Do you have similar other obvious ones in mind? (please no rails :-)
I agree it is hard to imagine in the US right now. Here in Germany, the idea of a guaranteed basic income is still kind of 'out there', but not as much as one might think, and ithas supporters across the political spectrum, so if it keeps up its momentum, it might actually happen one day.

This is of course just one side of the story. The much harder part will be changing the attitude people have towards this. How do you stop people from thinking people who do not produce anything are parasites? Thats a tough one...
Architects and ALM - Managing a product from the cradle to the grave
Maybe they should use the eta kwarg to bill the customers in the future
Looks huge.
So the $200,000 is going, ostensibly, to help the miscreant videographers get the duck out of Fodge, which, let's face it, is a pretty sensible concern after you've exposed a mayor with drug trade connections. Paying sources is not a widely accepted practice in journalism, but if the video is legit, it's hard to argue that this isn't worthwhile journalism...besides the associated health risks, a mayor who thinks he can flout laws that he would have no problem punishing his own citizens with is not a tenable situation for one of North America's most major cities.

The self-righteousness of the OP is also just a bit much:

> Do you - gawker editors, managers, owners - have ANY IDEA what I could do with $200K? Do you know what kind of lifesaving research that could pay for? Do you know how much fresh fruit that could put in elementary schools in our impoverished neighborhoods?

Well, considering the OP works in public policy...he/she should know the answers to both: not very much. There's 250,000 students in the Toronto system...even if the target population here is just a few thousand students...$200K would barely buy a year's supply of fresh fruit.

The school board is, I'm assuming, outside the jurisdiction of the Mayor's office...and yet mayoral policy could have a great effect, beneficial or detrimental, to the citizenry. Will deposing a ostensibly corrupt mayor fix things? Probably not. But to say such an outcome is not at all relevant to what the OP cares about seems a little short-sighted.
Definitely made me laugh at myself, as I certainly hadn't thought about this... after the initial "oh crap" moment, further analysis revealed that I don't particularly care.

Today's new thing has been learned.
Thanks for the feedback and suggestion! Will definitely check that font out
Always remember that no amount of specialist skill by itself gets things done. Healthcare, and everything else, depends on the vast capital structure of our global economy.

If you sent a great doctor back in time to the 15th century, she could do somewhat better than the locals (hand-washing helps a lot). But she would come nowhere near her capabilities when backed by a modern economy.

If you can make one little piece of the economy 50% more efficient, you're freeing up capital for the next highest use. In this sense, it doesn't matter that you're not directly contributing to the next cure. You're helping create a wealthier world, and a wealthier world can afford more cures.

Medicine depends on myriad materials and technologies that are affordable precisely because they're widely used in many other applications. If microprocessors were only used in IV pumps and pacemakers, they would be impractically expensive.

Even something as seemingly superficial as consumer mobile electronics is having major impact on medicine right now.
For $29 you get a PDF and the mobi/epub formats for your iPad, kindle or whatever else
Did you read the thread the OP is responding to? The top comment is a personal insult that doesn't respond to the content posted and basically says "the feature you had a meeting with Google about is unimportant, so get over it" [1].

The comment itself is completely in contrary to the relentlessly critical attitude that believes every detail is important.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738455
I had a really sketchy experience as a guest this winter that made me worry about AirBnB.

I spent a few months living in the Haight with a delightful German woman who supported her photography career by renting her spare rooms in a gorgeous clean apartment.

For a while, the arrangement worked out pretty well. That is, until I ran into one of her neighbours in the stairwell. I made friendly conversation with him and he asked if I was staying at her place through AirBnB. I thought nothing of it at the time.

That night, while greeting my "landlady", I told her I met the neighbour. Her heart sank and she chastised me for talking to her neighbours (I had been living at her place for a month or so!). Turns out that many renters agreements in SF prevent the tenant from earning a profit on their rental.

Long story short, the neighbour I spoke to ended up not being so nice to her and is causing significant problems for her. She may lose her rent-controlled apartment (and thus her livelihood) all because I chatted with a neighbour in the stairwell.
I seem to recall an article announcing this service incurring some developer ire a while ago due to choosing a name that clearly conflicts with an existing (and reasonably popular) service. Same confusion here, initially.
I would say every single thing I said to Dave's face. It's not name-calling to point out he's whining. That post was a cheap shot to get attention and if we're going to hold people to higher standards, let's start with the guy whose posturing would suggest he should know better.
how big deal is this?

(serious question)
Because it's not a work for hire when an independent contractor makes the work, unless there's a written agreement that it will be a work for hire.
Alarm Clock using the Ada language on Arduino
"I do think the meanness of programming communities is a the biggest problem we have."

It depends. I generally try to be reasonably civil online, but I also think there are valid reasons to be less so. A good example is when people are giving advice to newcomers that has a good chance of putting them in imminent danger. E.g. someone goes to an online mushroom identification forum and posts a picture of some random mushroom they found and asks if it's edible, and someone else replies with something along the lines of, "Don't worry, anything you find in your back yard is edible," especially when the mushroom in question is a destroying angel or something. You see similar things happening all the time, with medical advice or otherwise.

Another less extreme example is when people know they're wrong, but they keep repeating whatever they're wrong about because they're being intellectually dishonest to promote whatever agenda they have. A good example of this is my comment the other day on the 'class of 2013: you've been scammed' story, where I tell the guy and his editors he's wrong but he still doesn't correct the article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728788

In these cases a lot of times I find that I correct someone once, but then they actually try to use my civility against me in one way or another, so sooner or later you kind of have to drop the hammer.

If someone is wrong about something because they're just unaware of some fact then by all means be civil. But sometimes there can be underlying issues that are fairly toxic and in order to preserve the community you need to find some sort of way to quash them, whether that's through a technological solution or through some form of social condemnation. In the real world when someone commits a crime like rape we generally don't just gently tell them it was wrong, because we accept that civility is a tool that allows reasonable people to have productive conversations, but at some point people forfeit their right to civility if they're being blatantly unreasonable. The same should apply online.
I tried to run vim. Easter egg?
I'm not sure if I can do any better than "troubleshooting can be hard", frankly. The actual details are all tangled together in a way that resists summary.
Or, to quote Heinlein:

'Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naïve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.'
How many stories on Tumblr have their been the past few days? Never mind the articles on Jobs and Swartz when they passed. Take something and repurpose it for our own benefit .. hey, isn't that the basis of AirBnB's business model? :-)
Oh yes, PLEASE add tab completion, would please my inner shell-mage.

Tried 'sudo apt-get install bash-completion', didn't work :(
Paul Graham's opinion matters inasmuch as Winer is appealing to Graham's authority to insulate him from criticism that makes him uncomfortable.