skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife struggles with feeling like she's "not working" because she's a homemaker. I point out that if she was working at a job outside of the home, we'd have to pay someone else to do what she does, and we'd pay awfully handsomely for it. That seems to help her put it in perspective.
Here is my take on what he was saying. If a child has a mother and father(or mom&mom/dad&dad, there are always going to be things that one parent is better capable of handling than the other. I saw his view to align with the phrase "it take a village to raise a child", meaning that kids have many and varying needs that are best fulfilled by a group of people that love them.

I think it's certainty true that a single parent can raise a child just as well as a multi parent household, but that doesn't mean that a child doesn't also benefit from love and care from others. I think the point is that whoever are the important adults in a child's life, each of them provide benefits that others aren't as well suited for. A mom isn't a drop in replacement for a dad, a grandmother isn't a replacement for an aunt, and the next door neighbor that might as well be a child's second mom isn't a replacement for the child's biological mother.

I think the point was that gender equality isn't at all important to a child or it's needs, so we should quit making it one at all.
Just want to say, I love this post. It really shows the idea that presenting yourself professionally is much more than just looking nice. It's about respect for yourself and for others. When I read some of the comments in this thread and picture the writer, I imagine Joe Emacs (brilliant phrase btw) with his worship of anti-conformity and contrarian attitude. Not someone I enjoy working with. Certainly there are exceptions, but in my years of working in tech, especially the startup scene, I've definitely seen this trend and want no part of it.
CocktailJs v0.2 is out - Define and exports Class/Trait in NodeJS
Is this supposed to be a framework for collaborative editing and synchronization? I would expect a lot more examples around merge conflicts and locking if so. "Models are never locked" make this sound like it is just an abstraction for abstraction's sake, why would I use this instead of just binding DOM elements to JSON?
this doesn't happen in non feminist countries (ie usually 3rd world).
During the early days of LinkedIn, when the company was only 10 or 20 people, people would leave work at 5pm. Start ups don't have to be this arbitrary 24/7 grind.

You know how LinkedIn worked in that manner? They focused on work COMPLETELY for those 8 hours and were able to get shit done.

I'm sure you'd agree that they've built a very successful company.
Solomon L. Wisenberg sounds like an alias, lol.
> It's rhetoric like this that makes cops feel obligated to protect each other from other citizens.

Heh. First off, it's cops killing people, and then being squeamish about it (very contrary to how they'd deal with a civilian guilty of the same thing) that make people use these words.

Secondly, there are of course many factors that go into stuff like this; many benign like simple solidarity, some potentially sinister, like being involved in things you'd be shunned for by most of society - such as killing unarmed people and then lying about it - which is an incredibly powerful bonding agent.

> maximum legal effort

But here too, this means very different things on both sides of the "blue line", doesn't it.
Data is only as good as the interpretation of it. You've just handwaved away a police homicide rate of an order of magnitude because the general homicide rate is also much worse. Other western democracies are bunched around a homicide rate of around 1.0/100k (Germany is 0.8), and the US is a clear outlier at 4.8. Having double the proportion of this significantly higher homicide rate is not something to claim as 'proportionate' and hence not a particular concern for the issue at hand.

One wonders at what point you would consider it 'ridiculously disproportionate'? 10%? 20%?
> I could imagine a plane running off the runway into the PAPI and that would be about the end of that PAPI, or at least it'll have to be aligned.

As best I can tell from the available photos, the reason the 28L PAPI is out is because the plane took out the three rightmost ones when it slid/bounced across the blast pad area.
I'm still stumped. Isn't this an 'origin circle' then? Radius == the pt-pt distance.

http://www.sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#0A1.1A0.2A0.0L2.2L7.4L1.1...

Scratch that - the same thing works if rotated:

http://www.sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#1A0.0A1.2A0.1L5.2L0.0L9.9...
There exist some very expensive grain based foods. Trying to live off a diet of wedding cake would be very expensive. That does not prove a paleo diet is cheaper, any more than the mere existence of kobe beef proves grain based diets are cheaper.

I eat an awful lot of salads and veggies and fruits, probably less meat than a "real american"... I just eat lots more pears than wheat.
Do you really risk getting fired for a go around? I mean, I can see that happening if you do it way more than other pilots, but just doing it once?

(For the record, I have no idea how these things works, it's just very surprising)
Ask HN: what are your favorite biographies/autobiographies of a scientist?
The SCOTUS just ruled that that doesn't work anymore.
There have been incidents like the Oaksterdam raid where the DEA took up all SWAT resources for a raid of a civillian, unarmed (and legal state-wise) marijuana cooperative. Meanwhile, there was a school shooting minutes away. [1]

The reality is that crime is falling in the United States and has been for a while (Freakanomics has a decent piece about the relationship of crime and the availability of abortion, with a time lag in the former that showed a correlation with the latter) and I think this paramilitarization is an attempt to fill up budgets and give reasons so that they aren't reduced in the future.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/oakland-sc...
I think that the lack of author information in the top left is sufficiently different to not even call it gray area. And the lack of paragraph-level comments.

The logo and typography seem very similar, even to my untrained eye, though.
I don't know the applicable state law, but from the story he was betting 50 dollars on games every Sunday. The cop spent several months pretending to be his friend and convincing him to bet more and more.

It seems to me that he would never have bet anywhere near that much without several months of persuasion by the police.

Therefore, if it weren't for the cop pressuring him it is very unlikely he would have ever broken that particular law.

Granted it's a moot point, because as you say entrapment is a legal defense and the would-be defendant is dead.
Yes. Coworkers definitely drag you down - especially those who game the benefits system or who play politics. If you don't see this, wake up and look around your cubicle.

And yes, if having a kid grants you 4 months of paid leave... it will definitely feel like punishment for the rest of the single guys stuck in the office. I have a dog and cat I need to take care of. If you get to leave to take care of your kid, I should get to leave to take care of my pets.
10 Business Lessons From Jeff Bezos
So I guess this is one mark on the "failed Turing Test" side.
Don't try and blame police corruption on people complaining about police corruption and hating corrupt police, its obviously neither the cause nor a contributing factor. Just deflecting blame to the victims.
Feyman was too young for the really fundamental work on quantum mechanics. He won his Nobel prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. However, he created the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, which can be thought of as another way of describing quantum mechanics.
Never give up
Bringing $ and growth can occur other ways. You have done so much so far, but there are so many avenues to explore. The start up story of qonqr is so inspiring. I wish I could write code as beautiful as you all have. Stay strong. Nothing worth having comes easy.
I never claimed for GorillaScript to be a C-like language, because at its core, stripped of syntax, JavaScript is not a C-like language.

It more resembles LISP with its macros and closures with nice syntax built around those concepts.

I tried to make all the operators match their closest arithmetic, mathematical equivalents. Thus using `^` for exponent and `+` for addition. Since JavaScript does not support bitwise operators cleanly, needing to cast to int32 and generally being disued, I felt they could be better aliased with `bit`, freeing up those operators. Since string concatenation needed some operator as a building block for string interpolation, the freed-up `&` was a ripe candidate for it.

That all said, string interpolation is the typical use case for creating strings, so feel free to just use that if possible. Anything more than that and you might need a templating engine.
It's also about lack of control, no different than the fear of airplanes over cars.
This is so narrow minded, sexist and untrue, it burns.
Agree.

If the guy did try to contribute to work during his paternity leave, I'd respect that. But he didn't. He just kicked back and read "Lean In" in his spare time. His coworkers probably didn't even have the luxury of having enough spare time to read that book.
This doesn't really work, as your SSN will be the same, and your credit reports will show your name change and full address history.
I'm pretty sure I didn't recommend eating unrestricted amounts of veggies, I did laugh about the idea. After all, I would have to eat a walmart/target size bag FULL of brussel sprouts to get my daily allowance of calories from brussel sprouts. That is a huge volume of food! I'm not sure if would be possible.

I was responding to someone talking about eating "raw celery". Vegetables in general are low in calories (before as you and I mentioned, oil sugar etc are added), BUT raw celery is well known to have a net negative impact.
There seems to me something terribly dysfunctional about the fact that I, and most of the people who are in charge of deciding if my senator or congresscritter should keep their job do not actually have a good sense of how they spend their time or what the product of their work looks like. I think I'm a more disinterested boss or client than most employees or contractors work for.
Only occasionally do I read the text of bills. Yet I suspect that makes me more informed than most Americans.
An update on our Beachmint story
How often is there a crash landing at an airport? Video would probably be more useful in automobiles. There are lots of accidents every day. At some point video at airports or on planes be be useful for collision warnings. Camera on the plane could warn the tower and pilot.
in the "Groups" example, there is an <li/> nested inside an <li/> with no list element in between. is this valid markup?

<ul class="main">
<li class="main">
<details>
<summary>File</summary>
<div class="options">
<fieldset>
<li class="sub"><a href="/open">Open</a></li>
</fieldset>
</div>
</details>
</li>
</ul>

i would think that an <li/> must be the direct child of an ol, ul, or menu.
I have two immediate thoughts. Forming a company and then taking time off of work to raise a child for 4 month is indicative of non-ideal planning, more than anything. That said, in this case the gentleman in question is an employee of an established company, not the cofounder to a startup.

Additionally, leaving work at 5pm every day sounds great and, I suspect, may actually result in a more productive work week with happier employees. All parties win in such instances.
Our society is built to promote fear. We're heavily, heavily individualistic and isolationist. Our cultural prime directive is, "Never again!"
People would be more forgiving to individual departments and officers if ever there was fair punishment and contrition for crimes committed by law enforcement. There is always an excuse or a legal loophole, with no admittance of guilt or evidence of self-reflection.
I know there are solutions to the problem. I don't particularly care for going to a tailor, so I wear belts (which are also hard to get in my size, but using kid's belts is viable, and I change belts a lot less than I change pants). But I'm still annoyed whenever I have to shop for clothes; it's an extra effort I don't care for.
> May I? Is there anything social that is not debated?

What does this even mean? Gender equality and LGBT rights are debated, you chose to comment on the former and not on the latter.

> I just learned today about a gay couple that adopted a child and used him for child-porn and pedophile sex. Would I bring that up as an argument? No. Have I? No. It's not.

And so what? You've shown yourself to be above using specific incidents to condemn a whole group of people? If you have information that pertains to the claim that a child needs both a mother and a father, you can use that even if it does not include homosexual parents, since you can extrapolate from that information. After all, you said yourself that "I am certain", so this rock-hard belief is most likely backed by something other than your own experiences.

And if you don't have anything to back it up, just say so instead of just saying that "they exist, and are kind of hotly debated". I mean, what kind of answer or insight is that? It's just a platitude.

> People DO have different views on what harming a child means. It's not a platitude at all.

Oh come on, having a substandard childhood is definitely harmful compared to having a normal one. There's no need to conjure up images of violence or something traumatic when it comes to the word "harm". You were simply dodging the question.
How is being a cofounder analogous to being an employee of a 4,000 person company?
Safety Video for 777 Airliner with Hobbit Theme by Air New Zealand
There are a lot of societal differences between first and third world countries and they exist for a lot of reasons. I really don't see why you would pin this particular one, if it even exists, on feminism.
No, but they do have a legal obligation to not shoot me for no reason, or to not lie on the stand under oath, et c.
yeah, I was thinking, uh, the path-integral formulation?? Which IIRC is still kind of mathematically ill-defined, but still.

making a fundamental discovery is not necessary to be a 'great mind', I think. As the man himself said, 'what I cannot create, I do not understand'.
Wow, this is almost exactly what I did last year, and I had the same results -- went from ~260 lbs to 180 lbs.

Cut out wheat, cut out sugar except whole fruits (no fruit juice because as Lustig pointed out, "you get all the fructose and none of the fiber" to counter balance), cut out diet soda and caffine and now only drink water (spring, filtered, or distilled), cut out peanuts (they were causing inflammation -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4344167), eat protein in the morning and make sure I consume enough nutrients throughout the day to keep my system in balance.

For me, cutting out wheat was one of the key factors (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5693679) because I suspect the wheat/yeast was throwing my intestinal microbes out of balance (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/health/studies-focus-on-gu...) and causing inflamation so when I cut it out, things returned to homeostasis.
The Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts is 95%
Stapler is an alternative to pdftk with much lighter dependencies.

https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler
Why I Donated My Stool
Not the same thing. Once you're in a US college, you can pick your major, whether that's English or STEM. But for Medicine or MBA, you need to be admitted to a postgraduate program. I remained a STEM because I didn't have the grades for medicine. Didn't "choose".
Sure, I'll create one tomorrow.
> How is this different from indentured servitude?

If the state raised a 2% income tax on everyone to pay for free college education, instead of a 3% income tax on students getting a free college education, would that also be indentured servitude? Are all taxpayers indentured servants of the state?
Cross-browser stylesheet creation and rule creation/deletion (IE6 compatible)
> I make a big show out of interacting with my boys and obviously being their father, but it's really grating that it's even necessary at all.

I wanted to disagree with you, but when I read that, I realized that I do the same thing. And as much as I want to play with my boys, I'm also consciously doing it for the reasons you mentioned.

I also realize that my interaction with other children is tempered by the realities that I'm a guy. And those thoughts are always lurking there.
> The fact of the matter is that there are no technological barriers to making aircraft completely autonomous, but pilots want the world to remain in denial about this for as long as possible for the sake of their job security.

Two words: anomalous conditions.

As we both know, pilots aren't needed in the vast majority of commercial flights. The plane is perfectly capable of taking off, navigating, avoiding collisions, and landing with minimal, mostly unskilled supervision.

We don't need pilots on planes... until something unexpected goes wrong, and we do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
Nice, it should however display what the next exercise is during the rest timer countdown so you can get ready for it. For the ab crunches it takes a bit of time to get on the ground if you don't see it coming.
/cc shithackernewssays
The original goal of the project was to examine elements of web sites and find a single style of markup that would be flexible enough to be styled like any of them. I started with menus because they vary so much.

While adjusting the markup to fit examples, I found it was easier to translate it from an intermediate description. Small changes in the JSON domain specific language can cause bulky changes in the markup. If you add a "description" attribute to a menu item it transforms into a definition list. If you remove the "url" attribute it erases the anchor and replaces it with raw text.

While the translation has proved to be useful, I think it's not as important as simply identifying a markup standard for menus and other page elements. If developers can stick to such a standard their job gets easier because it will be easy to reuse CSS.

It's kind of like an anti-twitter-bootstrap because the meaning and flexibility of the markup is treated as most important, and styles can be applied à la carte.

You make a good point that pages are often built from repeated server-side partials, and that the looped block needs most attention. I'm curious about the table scenario. Can you send me a link to a table which is populated by JSON?
We had to talk to the actual chip designers to get questions answered. After weeks of asking stuff that just got echo-chambered back.

Us: "We want to know the delay period between freezing the timer and reading it. The documentation says 'three clocks', but we have strong evidence this is not accurate."

Marvell: "We are happy to help with your question. You need to wait three clock cycles."

Us: "That doesn't work. (insert mountain of evidence here)."

Marvell: "Let us get back to you."

(much later)

Us: "Remember that question about the clock register?"

Marvell: "What question?"

(repeat above, several times)

Much later, we get a phone session together.

Obviously new Marvell chip designer: "It says three clock cycles here."

Us: (lots more evidence that that is not the case)

Slightly terrified (but still new) Marvell chip designer: "Let us get back to you."

(much, much later ...)

Marvell Chip designer, who clearly has his act together, but designed the circuit four years ago and can't remember, so he digs into the design files: "Oh yeah. Three clocks, but they're internal, so you can't see them. Use this clock over /here/ and write this, then read that, and you should be good."

Repeat for each major chip feature, and don't get me started on DRAM controllers or USB PHY registers.
>comparing a dog that needs nothing more than a walk and a bowl of food and water to a human being whose first years will be an extrapolation on his or her societal impact for years to come

Surely you must be having a laugh.
I assume rayiner's point was that, as far as we know, nobody has been killed as a result of NSA surveillance of Americans' communication. Maybe a few people have been killed, but surely it's vastly less than the number of bathtub deaths. So by the logic of this inane post, nobody should get too upset about NSA surveillance.
These are great points.

Most developers I know find that the most difficult part of product development is sales. Design is also difficult but I'd recommend treating it as a process rather than a project when it comes to new products in new businesses. Design will never be done and it can always be improved, copycats will always be two steps behind or they'll fork into a different direction.

I know of financially successful products where the teams behind them don't know why the design they have works. They've even had situations where they've improved the design in their view and it's been well received in user testing. But when they release it, it has a negative impact on sales, retention or some other core metric. Imagine trying to copy a counter intuitive system like that?

If you have something where the core value is obvious and can be copied with ease you've probably released too late. Even in that case it would be pretty impressive if your marketing was so good that it found someone who could copy it. After removing the design part there are still very few people in the world with the time and resources to focus on building a copy right now. I'd guess that most people who think about copying will more likely become very good customers of yours, they can then have more time to work on their own ideas.
There have been several calls in recent weeks for a nice UX wrapping GPG. I'm thinking of what Cryptocat aims to be, but with a sound implementation resting on GPG. The crypto community seems supportive of this idea.

I'm not saying I'd be the one to implement this, but at the vert least, I'd like to start collecting ideas. Maybe I or someone else could realize them eventually. So let's talk. Please post your thoughts on what would make for a good, user-friendly, and secure wrapper around GPG. Thoughts from security specialists would be especially appreciated.

I'll get the ball rolling with a few basic requirements:

* No roll-your-own crypto. Absolutely none. All algorithms must be provided by a mature, universally trusted library. (And those algorithms must of course be GPG, since that's the whole point of the project.)

* Don't use any libraries that, while sound, expose a low-level API such that we could unwittingly call the API in unsound ways. An example of this would be OpenSSL. (Just an example; obviously OpenSSL != GPG.) See this for a discussion of the library misuse problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4779015

* Users should have to understand as little as possible about the inner workings of PGP/GPG. However, in any instance where hiding details would compromise security, details must not be hidden. For example, people need to understand the implications of signing someone's key. We don't hide that part from them. But they shouldn't have to fiddle with text files and command lines. We do hide that part.

* A "good user experience" is more than just a GUI. We already have GPG GUIs. User experience doesn't start when the user first boots the program. It starts at the moment a person first hears about GPG and wants to learn more. Thus, good UX is as much about documentation (including the product homepage) as it is about software.
OMG, some small percentage of the time they send back the wrong form letter. Stop the presses!