skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about the largest, most complex codebase you've ever worked on. Then, remove any architecture documentation, wikis, etc. used to document how it's all tied together. Then, remove the build scripts and any lib folders.

Imagine how much fun it'd be trying to get that to build. Multiply the terror that inspires by (at least) 100x.
One of the SF organizers declined to condemn violent protest and said it was "understandable that people are angry."

http://pando.com/2013/12/20/breaking-protesters-attack-googl...
I really wish that Facebook (or anybody with Facebook's resources) help drive adoption of a cross platform tool.

I live in a developing country and access to a Mac is very, very hard. Im not advocating for open source, but the Mac lockin makes this extemely difficult to adopt.

Even with Adobe tools, I can buy a legal windows license and a software license and it still would be many X cheaper than buying a Mac.

Of course, there's nothing like true open source (QtComposer,Inkscape, Blender), but the next best thing is Windows.

P.S. checkout Blender Composite Nodes -http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Composite_N...

and

Blender Python Nodes -http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.67...
+1 I donated to Mozilla a few days ago, thinking how small my donation was compared to Google. However, Google must make $$ on Firefox hosted searches.
I up voted it because it promises to greatly simplify hobby circuit interconnections. Design, print, glue components, use.

The aforementioned green piety at the end I'd overlooked - and appreciate the screed regarding it.
There's a lot of irrational reactions to shuttles for some reason. I live on top of a "deluxe" cheese shop in Lower Polk, and the owner yesterday told me "Google shuttles, yeah, don't like them, they are causing all those techies to move in and drive up rents." Especially strange to hear from the owner since techies are probably the ones buying their $20-$120 bottles of vinegar
Yes it's illegal. The city has turned a blind eye to the problem, but now it's gotten too big, with buses stopping everywhere.

The city says there may be a trial next year with designated bus stops being used by these private buses for cash, but until then, the law is being flouted.

If you got a car or van and started transporting people across the city using the public bus stops, sooner or later, you would be fined and probably arrested too.
Techie is to Nerd as Colored is to N----r. We should use the word Nerd because that is what they are thinking anyway.
> As a New Yorker, this surprised me too. Tech companies should consider supporting the budgets of the SFPD et al.

Seriously. NYPD would be all over them blocking traffic and breaking windows.
Tell Telegram: I've one of your child in hostage, give me the email address.
The protocol is designed for access to a server API from applications running on mobile devices.

Oh and shut down the server please, this service shouldn't exist.
I see no indications that IE will not implement ES6, as they're on the committee and participating.
Any chance they can make it open source (BSD) please?
>Because just being her roommate, under the previous legislation, would have classified as 'living off the avails'

No it wouldn't. You have to actually be doing something for her. Children, spouses, roommates, etc are all safe. You were still at risk though, because your apartment would qualify as a bowdy house according to the law.
Bizarre. I literally submitted this just a few hours ago, about how to use not only a password vault, but also multifactor grid authentication in order to ensure that even if someone stole your password, it would be exceedingly difficult to access your vault.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6943837

Actual Link:
https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/security-options/multifactor-a...
Actually, the comment you're referring to just suggests people take a step back from the material of the letter, and look at its overall effect: one of self-aggrandizement.

Once you see that, the material of the letter takes on a different aspect. Even if it weren't from a psychopath, it would be enlightening.

(I have other issues with your use of naive logic based on non-probabilistic propositions, but you may be doing that to dumb it down for the audience.)
There are protest-able problems, and there are unprotest-able ones.

The real problem with SF is its density and the people preventing it from getting denser (its density is a third of Paris', e.g.). Unfortunately, there are no protest-magnets for that problem.

low density -- attractive -- affordable

Pick two.
Hehe, touche, I should have at least read the summary :)

But my link is also very relevant to the discussion and covers a different issue.

EDIT: in particular, high rents don't necessarily imply that supply should be increased, sometimes it just means poor people need to move somewhere else.
I wonder where did that claim originate. Maybe there's some grain of truth behind it? Or maybe it's just people remembering news like this http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23753946/12-child-prostitutes-...
There is no reason to believe that SRS will "cure" your depression. Suicide rates stay just as high post-op. Many people undergo the procedure only to find it did not help them at all.
KeePass also makes a global keyboard shortcut available (Ctrl+Alt+A by default) that will complete login fields based on the active window title. (The mechanics of the text entry and the window title matching are all configurable, though the defaults are usually fine.) Not as slick as auto-filling without user interaction, but better than manually searching for each entry every time.
Google and other companies are violating traffic laws repeatedly by illegally parking in a public bus stop. How could you forget to mention this important fact?

By your logic, every single person who pays local taxes should just go on a bender and do whatever they want to the city, to hell with the rules eh?

Why is it okay for corporations but not individuals to disrupt and fuck things up?
Yes, but it's only indirectly that it happens as a result of the buyers. The property owners are perfectly free to lease their properties for less than the market will bear.

I don't necessarily agree that there's a "bad guy" at all, as I believe the market will eventually correct for this, but if there is a bad guy, it isn't the buyers paying above fair market wages for a place to live, it's the landowners evicting (presumably) perfectly good tenants to capitalize on those above-market rates.

Either way, if people truly can't afford to live and work in San Francisco, then they won't, and businesses that need to hire for positions will necessarily increase wages to compensate. If the disparity is as bad as "Eviction Free SF" makes it out to be, then Googlers won't have any complaints about paying $30 for a hamburger to justify the necessary increase in employee wages.
I still think much of what he said in Silicon Snake Oil is right on the mark, particularly the part about computers in the classroom.
The container analogy does break down in some instances. For example, using monads to model a workflow. I've come to accept 'Computational Context' as the best descriptor so far.
> They literally give themselves an out if you have given your card number "to someone else". It's mighty hard to use a card without giving your number to someone else, so the protection policy could be interpreted to be utterly meaningless and it will be up to an arbitrator what "or ... someone else" means if you have a disagreement about this with your bank.

Do you have any record of any credit card company trying to take that perceived out, ever?

It would be a strange thing for them to do, since they don't eat the costs of fraud anyway (the merchants do).
I don't know about prostitutes, but one of my good friends works at an upscale strip club here and her clientele does primarily consist of tech workers, especially whenever a conference rolls around.
Berksfile Magic
Economic apartheid... Not sure how to digest that one. That's a tad hyperbolic.

The article clearly states that the tech companies pay the city for the right to use the bus stops. Elected officials made a decision to sell public bus stops to publicly traded corporations.
Be careful when you oppose tptacek. He's a highly karmic figure on HN and has an army of ardent followers who can downvote you to oblivion fairly quickly :)
How about drastically liberalizing zoning regs? How about taking a sledgehammer to restrictions on increased density? How about letting very tall skyscrapers be built with minimal delays and log rolling?
Never forget the SUPPLY part in supply and demand. It's a complex problem of course, but none of this is even being considered.
Ask HN: Is there any product (or api) for Inviting email contacts
I am looking for some api or plugin (preferably free) which I can readily use on my custom coded website so that users can invite their email contacts or even connections from fb & linkedin.
I'm generally curious about this. I have no idea how to judge Nacchio's career. Can you point some facts proving this point of view?

Or maybe: How was his position any different than yours, if you had a request from the NSA that you wouldn't want to fulfil, knowing that rejecting it could destroy your company, what would you do?
They don't have permission, and the cops haven't done anything. Again, that's the main point of the main protest. They don't have permission- again, something that's been brought up at the protests, and is on the signs themselves. Yes, they are actually violating the law.

Maybe you should like, educate yourself on the issues because picking a side? That way you can actually be informed, instead of spouting reactions that really don't make sense in the context.
>Since the distress is solely caused by the the culture being "less supportive of those lifestyles,"

But it isn't. Mental illness, depression and suicide are disproportionately high among transsexsuals, both pre and post op. Even in societies where they are fully accepted. It is not unreasonable to think that the differences that have been found in their brains predispose them to certain mental illnesses. You can't just blame it on society.
Yes, root access is system-level root access

A user that does not know what the security implications of root access are will most likely just click "allow" when presented with a dialog
Given the number of people here who say have have met or interacted w/ a psychopath, one would think that every other person out there is one.
> The article clearly states that the tech companies pay the city for the right to use the bus stops. Elected officials made a decision to sell public bus stops to publicly traded corporations.

What you are saying is factually incorrect. They are not paying anything at the moment. They are in talks to start paying next year, but the reasons those talks happened is because people started protesting this.
Although actively lethal seems like a bit of a stretch, I agree with the rest of your post. It seems that Bucky Fuller's greatest accomplishment was the geodesic dome, and even that was a result of his popularization of the dome, rather than its invention. A pity really, as I was somewhat excited be able to read a work entitled "everything I know" by someone whom I assumed was worth reading.
Too bad he didn't work for a Chase.
probably because 'mappend' was defined while thinking about usage for lists, but is hardly appropriate for the general case. So, 'Appending' 5 to 3 gives 8; it could be better.
> for some reason having a tech company behind you means you're above the law.

Which tech company is behind Academy of Art[1] and UCSF[2]? When I lived in San Francisco half a year ago, I saw far more of these than the tech company shuttles.

1. http://www.academyart.edu/news/articles/transportation-syste...

2. http://campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu/transportation/services/s...
How about this: if you are rich and move to a place where this gentrification stuff probably applies to you, help out the local residents in whatever they do to work for sane rents and for building more housing where needed. Don't be a stranger, you know? Even better if you can inform yourself what "normal" rents are in the area, and try to spot offers that look like they have been recently modernized just to raise rents a lot. Or other ways that involve caring about the people being displaced, instead of just saying "it's all in the game tho", just because technically every step is correct and sanctified, and we are all just very small parts of the end result, doesn't mean we don't have responsibility.

I'm not trying to "you have to do that, yesterday, or you're a bad person and I'm not".. I'm mostly asking, can we consider if it would make for a nicer world to live in if everybody did that? If that was "the thing to do", instead of "fuck you got mine" being the norm?

I think where people live is kinda integral and important to their whole quality of life. Like, a human right. So I would argue that "being kicked out" is worse than not having found a super nice place and instead just an okay one.

If people with money wanted to move somewhere in droves, and couldn't, because they refuse to take part in raising rent for others, how long would it take for new stuff to get build? The poor have no lobby, and if they don't even have solidarity, they are fucked.
It's about implementing * as a wildcard character:

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

I haven't figured out how to solve this with the parts of ERE and PCRE that I know. (I definitely don't know the entirety of PCRE.)

It's straightforward for me to write a substitution using regular expressions to create a pattern-matcher for a given glob (just anchor the ends and replace literal ? with . and literal * with .*) but here we have to do it inside a single regular expression.

I don't think there's a BRE solution if the number of stars is unbounded because I don't think this is a regular language.
Deploy the canaries!
The golf part is that you can only get the most points by writing the shortest regex possible. However, I think the game avoids just giving a score based on the number of characters. To do that, you would be required to match all on the left and none on the right (the equivalent of actually getting the golf ball in the hole). This game lets you pick up your ball whenever you want and scores you based on distance to the hole. For the golfers, think of it more like a closest-to-the-hole competition than the more common stroke play.
She makes no significant case that the guy got what he wanted because he was white, because he was a man or because he was rich. At most, he used his employer's name to bend the truth. That makes him a liar, nothing more.

The fact is, rules can be bent, and if you do so with charm and wit, you can often get away with it. It takes insight into how people and organizations work, and what those people find important.

But just because others in the line don't speak up, doesn't mean they don't feel miffed too. They just don't write incoherent medium posts about it.

If you go through life feeling like everything bad happens to you because of your gender and skin color, it's easy to see ghosts everywhere. And it's easy to think of one asshole as representative for the plight of white men everywhere, no matter how ridiculous that actually is.
> very tall skyscrapers be built with minimal delays

Coming from HK, it is indeed a way to make housing more affordable in 5-10 years, until big cash invest in them and then the entry price just goes straight up.

The ways to prevent that to happen quickly are limit how many skyscrapers apartments can be built in the next decade and how many must be reserved as affordable housing, plus restricting foreign money. But I am sure there will be resistance.

As I said, coming from HK, I was used to living in a city surrounded by walls and bricks. Then NY felt a lot different. Then this summer I went to MV for an internship and when I came back NY was strange to me. I say we can't build a lot of skyscrapers. I don't want to be surrounded by walls again.
Going as far as "the market can bear" with something like housing to me is a pathological aspect of society. You simply take for granted that it's okay to shuffle people around like that.

Also, the market adopts to money, not people. Only if people spend to reflect their peopledom, it indirectly does.
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I've written papers where the raw data was small enough that it could be put into tables and included within the online supplements. This is pretty much ideal. Unfortunately, a lot of experiments generate enough data that no publisher will store it for you. Given what a racket the scientific journal business is and that scientists pay thousands for each publication, it really should be expected that journals will store and curate any data pertinent to a paper they are paid to publish.
exactly! React helped me realize this point. another practical side effect of style as a property is being able to (sanely and safely) manipulate style based on state.
s/arrested/arrested and thrown in jail/
Isaac Asimov, in one of his essays, gave an analogy for those unfamiliar with, or perhaps frightened by the scary name of, the "complex" numbers: street addresses. Should programming languages get rid of that scary name and refer to complex numbers as "addressable"?
Why isn't it used more in haskell?
Startups and toy boats
Ah, ok, so it is not about the rent prices?
I know it's a running joke how many monad tutorials and analogies there are. And I get the humor and very much enjoy the joke.

However, I was able to gain a solid understanding of monads by working through a number of those tutorials. Over that period of time, I came to suspect, and then eventually confirm, that I had previously created my own monad for a particular purpose in C# (my case was checking the value of something in an XML tree, an attribute of an element of an element of an element, where the attribute might be missing, or its parent element might be missing, or its parent, and so on. So it was much like Bracha's ".?" sugar example).

So, monad tutorials actually (eventually) made the concept clear to me. It's fun to make fun of them, and they deserve to take a little heat, but we have to give them credit where credit is due too.
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A private corporation pumping money into police department.

What could possibly go wrong?
I haven't looked at the source but I did try the online demo and I too do not understand how upgrades/bug fixes would be so problematic. Or why specific branching for individual customers would be required.

Since LogicPull was conceived to be a SAAS, I can see how certain design decisions may have been overlooked that would make supporting a self hosted solution a lot easier. I also think a lot of people who have never worked in an enterprise environment, do not fully understand how customizable a solution has to be. Politics, quality control standards, etc. all play a role and your solution has to be able to adapt. Unless you are in a position like IBM, Microsoft, etc., where you can advocate certain ways of working, your solution really has to be insanely flexible. And if you take this into consideration, you'll design your solution accordingly.
Coming from San Francisco, but not living there right now, I continue to be dismayed about the city government. They're about average for a local government in most respects, very good in some, and abysmal in a couple of important ways. The one that I see most often lately is about the most basic fundamentals of economics. The city, very broadly, would like to see the price of housing flat or falling - "affordable." Leaving aside the many possible negative side effects, the only way to get to a falling cost of housing is for less of it to be demanded or more of it to be supplied. The city government can't much affect the former, and has resolutely, bullheadedly, stubbornly refused to improve the latter. It's disastrous. It is is fine and worthy to say - hey let's keep the character of our neighborhoods. Great! But in pursuit of that, they've basically given existing residents a veto on anything new, nearly down to the single-block level in some cases. There are many aspects of the current issues with San Francisco. One aspect that is fully under San Francisco's control is, "shall we build more housing or not?" - and the city government is working as hard as possible to make the situation worse in that aspect. Drives me to tears.
I'm surprised you're so confident considering how many experts were shocked to discover how far the US govt had been able to go.
The core problem seems to be that we just don't (yet) have good words for this particular space of abstractions. Many programmers have thought about or solved the same problem monads address, but they haven't mentally labelled the concept, and we certainly have agreed as an industry on these labels. So we're all struggling to try to talk about some things we don't have terms for.
I like the look of your http://help.logicpull.com docs.

Is it all styled via Bootstrap?

It seems way too responsive and clean for it.
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Sure, I don't think there are many either. But this instance should remove the attraction and 'cool' factor of SJWs in SV.
It's difficult to cite specific examples because the zeitgeist (the defining spirit, not the bar) was completely different at that time. The Mission and SOMA used to be neighborhoods where you could live relatively inexpensively and still have space to make art or music or raise a family, so most of us who lived there had a vested interest in seeing the neighborhood thrive culturally.

Of course parts of those neighborhoods were terrible -- it's difficult to argue that 6th and Mission isn't better now than it was 10 or 15 years ago -- but to define entire neighborhoods by those types of intersections would be wrong. 16th and Mission was -- and honestly, still is -- often overrun with drug dealers and prostitutes, but if you were to have walked two blocks in any direction back then you would have passed countless independent art galleries, rehearsal spaces, and performance studios, not to mention an even greater number of family owned restaurants, grocery stores and shops.

And the best thing about all of these places was their accessibility: nearly anyone could afford to go out to dinner or an art opening, see a band play, or just have a couple drinks down the street from their house. It's that accessibility that's missing now: working class families, artists, and musicians can't afford the neighborhoods they helped build, so slowly, through Ellis Act evictions or sheer frustration, they start to trickle out of the city, taking with them what made the area desirable in the first place.
I really enjoyed the rest of the article but that part about Meteor was definitely crap.

I think the general points of the article (and my primary feelings as well) is that there are a significant amount of very well paid software engineers who think income inequality is a very bad thing and the best way to tackle it is to increase taxes on the wealthy (including themselves). And that we need to come back together as a society where "we're in it together" instead of a society of private fire departments and schools.

That isn't "hating libertarians", its just a disagreement.

No one is scoffing at your Freedom, we just have different ideas as to what freedom should consist of. Personal and individual freedoms- very good. Economic freedom to plunder and horde- very bad.
Bro, you've been drinking before commenting on this. Fwiw, I have read your comments for a few years and this comment is perfectly coherent and sensible.
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