skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd fund you on Kickstarter...
To a close approximation, San Francisco won't let anyone build anything.
as if every Democrats brain is connected to one thought center and the same with Republicans.

For most Americans, this may as well be the case (or is the case already... Fox News vs. MSNBC)

From my earliest awareness of politics, I always found it totally bizarre that a person's opinion on, say, gay marriage bore such a strong correlation to their opinions on foreign policy, the economy, social programs, etc. It's absolute insanity, and yet a very small number of people seem to see through it.
Rackspace CEO retires as web hosting firm shifts focus
Ah, that makes sense.

I looked at Whidbey Island before (and visited; it's nice!), but didn't realize you could actually drive there (even if it's super out of the way).
Two founders ditched US for Jakarta to create a dream customer support software
Ubuntu mobile takes two steps forward, one step backward
Bitburg Baron checking in. Didn't expect to see Bitburg mentioned in this thread. True that many an Airman bought cars and shipped them
5 of America’s biggest tech companies wouldn’t survive without Asia
Comcast will reportedly buy Time Warner Cable
Cool Bart, look forward to seeing it! In our experience internal systems can't compare with the product a dedicated team can build. I've had many conversations with companies moving away from a poor internal solution.

That being said, huge fan of open source and there's plenty of room for products and tools in this space :)
So an outreach program for women speakers can't address systematic discrimination -- you have to fix the conferences themselves for that.

You can reach out to more women, and invite them to apply, but it is sexist discrimination to offer women only training in public speaking on the basis that a certain group of conferences is under-represented.

You would reach the same outcome, more qualified women speakers, if you offer that training to anyone who wants it.

Same outcome, but one approach is sexist, and one approach is inclusive of everyone.

What you are trying to do is guarantee an outcome. Some ratio of women speakers at conferences that satisfies your requirement. Approaches like that usually lead to sexism and discrimination.

A better approach is to a) ensure there is an ample supply of well qualified people for your conferences and then b) encourage conferences to perform better outreach to the kinds of speakers they are seeking. Approaches like that are non-sexist and inclusive.

As I said, github, an employer, should not be seen directly giving women, even non-employees, preferential treatment. If they want to donate to a women's group putting on such a workshop, that would be a different matter.

Edit to add: chc, we have run out of thread reply. What is HN etiquette on that?

I will say I disagree with your reply that somehow women are disadvantaged in public speaking. Having fewer women at conferences is not evidence of any disadvantage that merits a discrimination based remedy. And even if so, such a disadvantage! We're not talking job discrimination, income equality, firing policies, etc., we're talking about public speaking something that applies to very very few people across the IT world. A remedy to that does not require sexist discriminatory approaches.
Same with me, though you can "Keep me signed in". I prefer the small amount of security that having to enter my password offers.
I dont see how that matters.

Please tell that to anyone thinking of hiring you for security.
Your version reminds me of "easy reader" editions of normal text -- or of an essay written by someone that's just learned how to write (a 6-7 year old?). It's fascinating how a few changes can change the "voice" of even such a short paragraph.

Anyway, great illustration both on how tweaking text can create contrasting changes, and how following "best practices" can be a bad thing. I suppose the original paragraph could actually be (slightly) improved by following some of the suggestions from the site, though. There's always room for improvement in any text.
Actually, I was thinking in terms of personal expected value (namely a sense of satisfaction and good doing), however, I can see the argument that uploading it is also net positive globally.
Comcast Said to Agree to Pay $159 a Share for Time Warner Cable
Reminds me of an old PhD comic, http://i.imgur.com/uLYImfg.jpg
Nice - does this work for unconstrained speech - as in would this work for use-cases like transcription? What's the maximum audio length supported? Is accent an issue? Sensitivity to background noise? A FAQ would be nice to have.
Fusion is and always has been a PR excuse for NIF.

Their purpose never been anything but "Stockpile Stewardship". Anyone who has been paying attention has known this for decades.
There were some discussion earlier, on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6904717

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7128978

Yes, ISRO (India's space agency) sent an orbiter and impactor to Moon called Chandrayaan-1, back in 2008. NASA and ISRO's instruments on-board Chandrayaan-1 had detected water on Moon.

It's good to see rekindled interest in science missions to satellites and planets. I'm eagerly waiting for ISRO's next Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, which will have a soft lander and a rover. Probably in 2016 :)
Some atheis are more irrational than fundamental christians.
Hellish hours and a hellish boss led me to quit my job at Apple
I think the issue is how long it takes to get in "the zone" or have the problem in working memory. If you go to sleep you know you'll have to go through that process again tomorrow before you can start being as productive again.
> they don't seem that concerned with stability/security

Security of what?

This was the right call. Students should absolutely be able to do what they want with their machines. These aren't servers where users' sudo access would let them interfere with other tenants.

If something gets broken, IT can just reimage.
> Bottom line: who can stop Google getting what it wants?

Why would they want to? They want to lease airport space, not poison babies.

People overreact to Google all the time. They've in a really weird PR place. People kinda love them, but are also terrified of them, and they cant really put a finger on why.
Hey man, I feel ya. Some jobs are fucking thankless. I'm in one myself and I think it comes from being lead by people who don't respect and acknowledge how positively you are impacting your company. My guess is that you don't respect your company leaders either. But look around. I think you'll see that a lot of your coworkers are in the same place. I blame bad management.

My advice, either demand respect or go find people who you respect and who respect what you do. Then find a way to work with them.
I put down a sketch pad and collection view for memo taking app. It didn't get rejected.
Full Circle Magazine – Python Special Edition
For less than a billionth of a second. Please.. It could easily be measurement error they are using as a last ditch effort to continue funding.
why is uneven roasting bad? if you want complexity in the coffee wouldn't a variety of roasts give variety / depth of flavours? is there some technical reason while all beans should be roasted the same?
Politics is the mind-killer: http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/

It takes a concerted effort to think of political issues purely consequentially.
Every time the NIF PR folks make a new overindulgent claim, the press always falls for it, and I don't know why.

Every. Fucking. Time.
When you say linode 'blamed you' do you mean that your customers were directly attacked (their ips) or that the platform was attacked? Does linode have an anti ddos product that the sell?
You could have picked a Cray T94 full of it when it was for sale on Ebay.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4560173
No, it is not sexist. Helping the disadvantaged does not constitute discrimination against the advantaged. By this odd logic, homeless shelters reek of elitism because they don't let people with homes there.
The Presentation Mistake You Don't Know You're Making
Should use Launchkey.co and logging in is not only easy but secure!!
US seeing its lead in R&D slipping against other nations
I wanted to take a minute to just say that this thread has moved me to tears.

Firstly, people sharing their story. This is exactly what Steve wanted, to share his story, his ideas. Sharing the story is so important to removing the stigma around mental health. It warms my heart to see people with the courage to tell others about their struggles (and then it double-warms my heart to see other people supporting them!!)

Secondly, the sheer support for him. He was a quiet person but a mental giant. Just to have so many people acknowledge him is truly beautiful for me and my family.
Probably towards the end (not that it's necessarily the goal). Make a normal Rails app, and see that grow and the joys and pains that follow. Then see if something like this would make the next one better.
With Time Running Short, Steve Jobs Managed His Farewells (2011)
My tax dollars (well, not dollars) didn't pay for this research. Should I be able to read it?
> Comparing an encrypted protocol with an unencrypted one is just lame

Still, that doesn't explain the chart "Goodput as connection speed increases". Something must be capped in QUIC (or perhaps the benchmark setup)

If you think their methodology is flawed you can take a look at the source code maybe fork and improve it.

https://github.com/Connectify/benchmarking/
Comcast Acquiring Time Warner Cable In All Stock Deal Worth $45.2 Billion
That makes for a rather large "content and subscriber" stick to wave around.
The complaint[1] also names the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the NSA, and the director of the FBI. Presumably it can go forward against those three, and the president is only named because it makes for better headlines?

[1] http://s3.amazonaws.com/freedomworks.org/files/nsa_complaint...
Let me be the first to reject this website for being "too shitty".
Somewhat unrelated, but does anyone know of a good javascript/HTML5 framework for creating multiplayer games? I posted a similar question on the Godot Engine thread the other day, but there weren't any obvious candidates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7209149
Show HN: My girlfriend made her first Unity Game: Flappy Pipes
Quite right, there were 6.1e15 fusions.
Inline Visualization with D3.js
If you've ever hiked up the trails at Lands End in SF and looked out at the Pacific towards Marin, you'll see an excellent example of what about this area makes even the most apathetic person a conservationist.
It isn't selfish of someone to have had a mental illness that drove them to commit suicide. I'm sorry for your loss, but I disagree with your assessment of suicide being a selfish act.
What he's trying to say is that if you toss a rock into liquid helium or a 4 Kelvin zero g vacuum it's going to get colder faster via direct contact with the helium than via radiation in the vacuum.
SYMMETRY – A Palindromic Film
I wonder if it was partially rejected due to the use of 'webviews'.
At the same time, I think it is inescapable, when studying how different cultures look at mental health and mental illness to see this as something which culturally constructed. Personality disorders for example, or ODD, or the like can only be thought of as disorders of inconvenient personality traits and therefore the way mental illness has always been used, and in the historical context, there is a very dark side to coerced therapy (which btw is no less dark when we convince parents to give their kids antipsychotic drugs because their kids are defiant).

my problem with Szasz though is different. He seems to accept the basic assumptions of mental illness that our society does, and therefore never frees himself from the problems of those assumptions. There is no scientific basis for these assumptions, as they form, effectively, the threshold questions under which one can try to make neurochemical inquiry into mental health. These assumptions are:

1. Mental illness, to the extent it exists, is objective and quantifiable.

2. Social context is irrelevant to mental health.

3. Therefore mental health is an individual issue.

Of course a libertarian will accept these assumptions because they are based on the assumptions of personhood behind that movement. But what if both of the first two are wrong? What if mental health is very much subjective and what if social context is an important factor in mental health? If so, then, not only is the science based on bad assumptions but so is Szasz's rebuttal to it, and mental health becomes more an art than a science.

None of this reaches the question of coercive therapy. The fundamental questions are who, when, and how (both regarding the coercion and the therapy). Obviously there are times when this is needed. But we should not ignore the dark side this has had throughout history.
Wow — very in depth article by Tom Coleman. As we get more growing Meteor apps out in the wild, scaling become a larger concern. Good to see Meteor Development Group focusing so much attention on it, and great tools from the community too.
Given the app consists of two web views and a bit of background code I'm not surprised. Perhaps if they'd utilised the GUI elements Apple provides to give a native experience it would actually warrant being an app.

tbh this seems like it would be better implemented as a HTML5 mobile site that utilises the new local storage APIs. You can still promote web apps through App Store, and it seems like a more obvious route to me.
What's your favorite WWDC video?
I found `Introduction to Sprite Kit` rather enjoyable. https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/videos/
Transfers.

Unless your endpoints are directly at quayside, a ferry boat service is going to involve at least one, and quite possibly two transfer points at either terminal.

Commuter buses, by contrast, are particularly efficient as they allow passengers to be collected close to their homes, often within feet, or at most a few blocks (in a dense urban setting, as is the case with the San Francisco executive shuttles). Where there's a reasonably direct land route between locations (note that this isn't the case for, say, a Bainbridge Island - Seattle commute, buses are often faster than ferries.

Fuel cost is another factor -- on a per-passenger basis, boats use a considerable amount of fuel, I believe bus service is generally more efficient (low vehicle:passenger weight ratio).

On the positive side: boats generally don't suffer from congestion issues (though weather and fog may slow them down), and often afford more space per passenger with a greater ability to work en route, as well as the option to get out in the fresh air (though a brisk 20-50 kt breeze is rather more bracing than you might be prepared for -- the after-decks are generally quite pleasant though).

As for public-sector ferry services, there are numerous ferry services on the San Francisco Bay, many resurrected following the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake which took out a major bridge crossing (the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge), including service between San Francisco and Sausalito, Tiburon, Larkspur, Vallejo, Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda. I've heard rumors of a public Redwood City service but don't believe it's been restarted. Oddly, there seems to be no good one-stop shopping site for information on ferry transit, including http://511.org which is otherwise a transit / traffic information hub. Wikipedia seems to have one of the better compendia, though I'm not sure it's complete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferries_of_San_Francisco_Bay#F...
Aren't there antitrust laws to protect against this exact sort of thing?
I doubt it. The Maple Syrup Mafia has control over that.
I don't get what is brother suffered of, how it's linked to his death and what's the call to action is.
But I'm sorry someone died.
There is no such thing as deserve, especially in cases like this. There is no ice cream for failure.

Well I mean you can go out and buy ice cream if you're at mission control and not dead. And I guess you can eat some astronaut ice cream as your air runs out or you freeze to death if you are in space.

But this isn't some deserve type thing.
Let's not bury Yutu alive in our haste to eulogize it. The rover is awake and transmitting. Lot of news sites have been reporting on news from many many hours ago. My guess is the mechanical error interfered with the solar intake and delayed the power-on process.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2014-02/13/c_133111283...
it not always possible to have any sense of what the prior probability is

And in those cases, frequentist statistics is no better off, because you have no sense of what the sample space is.

However, there are cases where there is no well-defined sample space, but you can still assign reasonable priors; so Bayesian statistics covers a range of cases that is a superset of the range of cases that frequentist statistics covers. E. T. Jaynes goes into this in some detail in his book Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.
It makes it all at once, and that's the issue.
Upvoted for the sentiment.
The actual paper marks just another incremental step in a triple marathon that we seem to be running veeeery slowly.

Also, if you do "pull an Aaron Schwartz" please change the ending - we need a very public Supreme court administered kick-in-the-teeth for all the out of control copyright regime and its criminal sentencing farce.
Man, the mood swing part rings true for me. In my case they're usually 1-2 weeks. There's some anxiety/depression on my mother's side of the family but I wouldn't say that I've got any issues with it.

Now I'm curious as to whether the mood swings are more common, or whether that's actually something I should look into. If there is an underlying issue I need to resolve then it might have been masked by my relatively good run of things.
> You can still promote web apps through App Store

Really? I haven't heard about this.
As a TWC customer I've been long certain based on conversations with others that I have the second worst cable company in the country. So my reaction to this announcement is approximately "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK."
It's a common enough rejection; I've gotten it before and know other people who have too. You can respond to them and clarify why this set of functionality is right, that it's a new app and will have features added in the future, etc. Worked for me, anyway.
They need a login to read the post? That's ridiculous.
At a high level this reads like a description of a real time media server (e.g. for streaming video). I suppose if you swap data for pixels, and avoid lossy compression, it's essentially the same problem.
That really depends on the route and traffic. So long as your endpoints are close to terminals, they can be faster (and much more reliable) than ground transport. There's very, very, very rarely a major traffic tie-up on the water.

The worst case might be an accident at one of the terminals or a specific boat being disabled.
Thanks for that tip! I wandered in here hoping someone had already asked and answered and got my reward.

I mostly use emacs for the past 15 years, but I learned vi about 20 years ago and use it regularly at something approximating level 4, but only for vi (not vim) commands -- having no real knowledge of visual mode or some of the extended commands. One of the hard things about learning vim is figuring out how to search for help -- because "enable dot command in visual mode" (and variants) doesn't turn up anything useful right away. I know I've got the right idea (esp. when seen in a tutorial like this one) but there's some setting or plugin or subtle nuance that I'm missing.
Oceanfront property in and immediately around San Francisco is not the expensive property: it's far away from downtown and way too foggy! Also, as long as we're talking ferries, you don't send your ferry all the way around the peninsula, through the Golden Gate, and out the other side to a non-existent dock to pick people up from some of the lower population-density / lowest computer-programmer density zones of San Francisco. If anything, you send the people a bus that point, and even with traffic it's a better plan.

Now. Bayfront property, on the other hand, is different.
Can you provide a link to the place where you consider it IS appropriate to protest IP laws with civil disobedience then?
Facebook graph search bug
An obscure gas improves athletes’ performance
I was proud of the DOJ Antitrust division when they objected to the ATT/T-Mobile merger. I can only hope they do the same here.
FWIW we are a Go shop (well, mostly) and are hiring. Check out cbinsights.com/jobs if you're interested.
>>Python is very flexible

As a design goal Python aims to be as little flexible as possible to enforce its design goal of making code readable at any and every cost.

In fact its so brittle merely small time changes to a print statement has caused nearly a 8 year backward incompatible ecosystem which is still catching up.

I can't image what would happen when some new ideas have to bought in the language to keep pace. Keep going through migration cycle every 6-7 years to handle backward incompatible changes.

The story till now was some how okayish. Basically Python was playing a catch up game with Perl to get the popular features Perl has. It still hasn't succeeded completely, and yet has a heavily fragmented ecosystem between 2.x and 3.x dev branches. I don't see anything new going into Python any time sooner.

Python is as little flexible as it gets.
Wrong on both counts. Guitarists are douchebags who frequently grab guitars out of the hands of other people and proceed to show them how it should be done while they blast out blazing idiotic riffs. People who don't play guitar also frequently have an opinion on how you play, how to play it "right".

When it comes to software development there is a huge amount of opinion based decision making on what's good vs. bad code despite whether it actually solves a problem or not. Frequently programmers will pick languages and solutions or write code that is awful but then promote it like it's the best thing ever. Even supposedly "perfect" systems for software development end up being horribly unusable and based on basically the equivalent of mathematical fantasy and marketing.

So no, you are pretty wrong on both assertions, and I found that the article had a significant insight I hadn't considered before.
> I personally think mental health and mental illness are socially constructed.

> This being said, the experiences relating to mental illness are very real.

What's the logical basis for this pair of assertions? How can the "experience" be real while the illness is not?
Does the person behind Xenophanes consider each of their online identities to be a "person"? Nice dodge with that choice of word. It's easier to claim that a fake online identity is a person than it is to claim that a fake online identity is a human.

> Want a discussion where you won't be punished if you say "What You Can't Say"[0], as xenophanes dared do today?

I smell astroturf.
Interesting timing, considering Charter's been preparing a hostile takeover attempt and was trying to push for a shakeup on TWC's board:

http://www.fiercecable.com/story/charter-recruits-time-warne...
Fire everyone. Keep the coders.
Who benefits from large corporate mergers like this? What does an all stock deal mean at that kind of magnitude?

It certainly feels like little else than a handshake deal to create a monopoly.
Probably both this and homogenization. Homogenized milk doesn't taste as good as non-homogenized, in part because homogenized milk is often made of older batches blended into new. Depending on the store, sometimes it's hard to find non-homogenized milk.