skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN?
Specifically, sites where you can post links and comment on them, but with a focus on technical topics.

EDIT: it's okay if it's not a popular (yet) site, just looking for all the options

EDIT2: this isn't a complaint about HN, just asking

EDIT3: please post them in auto-link format, thanks a ton
The thing that I could use most is a way to automate setting up a reverse-proxy on a given path. I've figured out the steps to make it happen in the GUI. But that is tedious and error prone.

Where would you suggest I go to find the best way to handle this?
No. That is not what I am suggesting. I am stating two facts and offering one opinion about one feature of Android.
Laying Down The Hammer
There are at least 5 separate build tools referenced in these comments.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
I don't understand why a badge is necessary in the first place. Won't NFC on a phone suffice?
Flappy bird tutorial: how to create your own game for mobile and browser
Seems like that could be handled by your API, if you throttle requests by request domain. But, no worries, just curious.
This points to weaknesses in the concept of ownership.
Someone commented below (but their comment is dead, so I can't respond directly):

The Rails asset pipeline requires a JS runtime, so Broccoli doesn't have any more dependencies than asset pipeline in my mind.

Technically they're right that the Rails asset pipeline does require a JS runtime by default. But it's important to note that the Rails asset pipeline doesn't strictly require the JS runtime; it's only required for the coffee-script gem, which happens to be included by default for new Rails apps. If you're not using coffee-script for any of your assets, then no, it doesn't require a JS runtime.
Bill Gates' "bullshit" is backed by research which you could rebut if you cared to do so.

The world currently produces enough food for 11 bn people. World population is expected to expand to about 9 bn in the middle of this century. This is using current production techniques.
Then there are guys like me. I have a /24 routed to my home (pre-ARIN legacy space registered in the early 90's!)
Nowadays you use Github with SVN, too, if you like.
Other microwave tricks:

1) When using timed cook, it's often faster to repeat the same digit (e.g., 2:22) than to type different digits (2:30). And it yields pretty much the same result.

2) The "+ 30 seconds" button usually will also start the microwave if it's off and set the timer for 30 seconds. (It's not just for adding time to an existing timer.)

3) Turn off the beeping alarm. It's annoying. Most microwaves have an option for this.
WA also puts the mass-energy of two solar masses at 3.574 x 10^47 J. So the initial calculation seems about right. My very-amateur-physicist guess is that the difference is because a supernova only converts a small fraction of the star's mass into energy - the remaining mass is thrown outwards to form planets and such.

[1] - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass-energy+of+two+sola...
I'm right where you are, brother. I was more or less content until last year when I taught a beginners robotics and electronics class to local kids. I decided then that this was something I had to do and not just on a "free-time" basis. I'm trying to figure out how to make the jump myself.

I'll be watching your adventure with great (and also selfish) interest. Very best of luck.
Looks like a good plan. Only slightly off topic I LOLed at the electronics / milling machine connection. In our generation those two go together just like ham radio and amateur film photographer went together in my dad's generation. Sherline mill with Geckodrive powered steppers here.

This is probably some kind of trend or whatever that a startup could bounce off of.
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For Apple this isn't really new, they reject apps all the time and certainly many with more merit than Flappy Bird clones.

For Google, however, this is new and it frightens me. One of the biggest benefits of being an Android developer is being able to release whatever you want, whenever you want to. Apps go live within an hour and without being reviewed, you can release an app that doesn't work at all. I do think that Google should remove apps that blatantly break the law or are defrauding users of money (like an app called Dropbox by a fake company that costs $0.99) but simple game clones should be left to preserve the wonderful openness of Google Play.
Ceol-Tec Trad remix of Martin Solveig and Dragonette 'Hello'
the "sufficiently smart compiler" is kind of like "world peace"; something to work towards, but i doubt we'll have it this lifetime.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler
I want this for elisp/emacs!
I think it'd be awesome if Jessica wrote another one, but it'd be even better if she did the anti-Founders at Work. It'd be about all the different kinds of flameouts, from spectacular to silent, from bad luck to bad calls, from goodie two-shoes to unethical (but Zynga-sleazy, not mob-boss unethical). The title: "Founders at Fail."
nice write up. have you tried this in production environment? How does it feel with real world usage?
So on a local machine, in virtualization, you are running an IDE, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, IIS, TFS. If you aren't running it from a separate SSD drive then the problem has nothing to do with the IDE. You have an IO bottleneck.
This was my experience about a year ago in Ft Lauderdale, FL. In my case, it meant doubling the expense to get a hotel since by the time they cancelled, most hotels were already booked.

I'd say AirBNB is to be avoided for anything remotely critical (conference, wedding, etc.) If it's just a leisure trip with friends, it might be OK.
- The photo is the most important feature of the badge; for security reasons, it should be as large as possible.

- First and last names are not as important as one's email address

- The logo is a security risk; should a badge go missing, it's a clue as to where to (mis)use the badge.
Mono is quite practical. However, C# is one thing, and the .NET Memory Model is quite another.

The memory model is, IMHO, where Microsoft is pushing the limits of the existing C# language.
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Good point, but for me right now this is a more useful question.

2-3% is incorrect - it's 2-3% + $.30 a transaction. Keep that in mind - for anything under $30 the $.30 is a bigger deal than the 2-3%, anything over $200 the $.30 has largely ceased to matter and the % is what is relevant.
I don't like it. Its look is too reminiscent of Google's design language, especially their 'circles' in Google+. The look is very soft, while Microsoft's design language (formerly metro) is much more modern.
> The current state of the art puts the precomputation step at complexity L_n(1/3, 1.923)§, and additional individual discrete logs at L_n(1/3, 1.232).

Could you cite that? Not skeptical, just interested.
Make a set schedule. Then they know when you will be working and you know when you should be with them. Balance is key. You might have to get up early or go to bed late if you want to put in extra hours.
There's a substantive difference between wanting great service, and simply wanting what you were promised.

AirBNB fails on both accounts.
Want to start a Hedge Fund that uses tech to trade?
NYC people, contact ricky@dynofuz.com. I'm looking for a cofounder who's a good at web dev, machine learning, and statistics. As a cofounder you should be excited to also dig into the legal / business side of a company. I'm about 4 months to launching this fund which over the last year grew around 3x. I'm looking for people who want to change the way funds and banking works. Checkout dynofuz.com for some more info on the start I've made so far.
"...but also naive."

That's silly. You need someone who values the startup experience in some way to balance out the salary hit. That's all. They may love small teams, might be seeking early experience, might want to build cred so they can raise money someday themselves, etc.

"the first employees work almost as hard as the founders, but receive 1/50 the ownership of the company."

The founders take considerably more risk working for free, raising money (time consuming for 99% of startups), and greater opportunity cost... Working 6-9 months or more on an unproven/unfunded startup is WAY RISKIER than joining a funded startup for a slightly reduced salary.

"In the age of the acqhire founders' risk is very small."

This is just plain wrong. What % of failing teams are acqhirable? Stanford grads will have no problems, but many/most teams are too small or too weak from a resume point of view to get a deal done. I've watched very solid teams fail to find a suitor a LOT (including MOST failing YC companies).
True, they haven't really helped much in the economic crisis but if I compare the European Parliament to our Bundestag here in Germany, I can tell you that things could be worse.

A lot.

Maybe you heared some things about how the German Bundesbank is using its position in the ECB governing council to push its hard-Euro no-default there-is-no-problem stance. The Bundestag is a Parliament in which three quarter of representatives believe every word (well most words) that the Bundesbank says.

So the European Parliament is not that bad by comparison.
Allowing users to put custom photos on their badge is also a huge security risk.
Not really -- I suspect it's a coincidence. Consider that different microwaves have different magnetrons with different power levels, kitchens have different available line voltages, a big microwave in a modest kitchen is likely to drag down the line voltage while running, and even the food put into the microwave is likely to vary in its mass and density (for a given portion size). That's a lot of uncontrolled variables.

It's likely that, if you cook the same thing every day, you may unconsciously adjust the portion size to match up with your microwave's traits.

> A great deal of thought must have gone into the power settings?

Believe me, users are expected to decide which settings work for them. Microwave power levels typically fall in the range between 600 and 1200 watts, so obviously a power setting of 10 on the small unit should equal 5 on the large one -- or, to put it a different way, one minute on the 600 watt unit should equal 30 seconds on the large unit.
double plus ungood!
Using JWT Tokens for Customer Support Chat Rooms
Last time we used Airbnb was for an apartment in Copenhagen. We found out when we arrived that instead of the "Whole apartment" as it was listed, we would be in one room and sharing the rest of the place with the owner and her daughter. Airbnb didn't do anything to help us; we just stuck with it and vowed to be more careful next time.
When it comes to kids cyber-bullying kids, could something like this help?
Nihililogophobia...or nihiliscentiphobia...??
how much is 4 or 8 or even 16 instructions compared to the amount of time to actually draw the cursor graphic into the frame buffer?
12.7% over 16km sounds like quite a lot to me. Especially since we're talking about time.
I'm a fan of the colors and typeface, but doesn't Microsoft's design style push for more of a rectangular/angular look all around?
Yep! Exactly - I'm just curious how many of each are here on HN. I know the industry as a whole rather well, but I'd like to know what HN is more doing. Interesting results both here on the poll and by people hitting me up privately so far - big spectrum.
"on account of the runtime not being amenable to real-time constraints"

What are basing that on?

A stateless side-effect free language would be significantly more amenable to real-time constraints b/c you can guarantee run-times for your functions.
Except they didn't refund the stay. They should have refunded them, at minimum, pro rata for the lack of sleeping arrangements that they paid for (they paid for 4 people, were giving space for 3). So 25% refund, at minimum. These are the types of things that have the potential to destroy peoples' vacations and one of the many reasons I would never use AirBNB in its current state.
I notice a trend here in HN, the first comment will most of the times be opposite to the article (this thread is just another example).
You can see round the back of a neutron star:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#Properties
Great job putting together a prototype. Although I'm going to list specific complaints, I appreciate the effort in creating and risk in sharing, so good job and thanks.

- I don't follow the circle photo fad. It seems like an unnecessary complication (implementation and design element)

- By moving information to the back, you're assuming that the facilities which create these badges have the ability to do double-sided prints on the badges, and if they have the technical ability that it won't increase the time or work required to print a badge.

- You're assuming that the badge printer can print completely to the edge.

- Removing the "Employee" text and relying on the blue color is an accessibility problem (color-blind people need this information)

- Customizing your badge photo adds security policy complications.
Not everyone has a phone, or a phone supporting NFC. (Microsoft employs >100,000 people) Badges are a low cost solution which don't require charging and can be easily issued or replaced. Additionally, badges display pictures, so people wandering around the office can be visually checked by security. (No need to scan their badge)
From my original post:

> nationalize the ISP portion of the business that is utility-like; the content-production ... business can be preserved

I believe I was rather precise in my original post. Access to the internet is the utility; any other part of the business - such as the production and selling of TV shows - can be left as-is.

And while they are an important consideration, of course, the concern is NOT about "the poor". An ISP should not be an artificial roadblock to necessary personal, business, or governmental communication regardless of class.

Also, "jobs" - while important - are not the only essential activity. More and more human interaction requires the internet. These various activities (many of which have not even been invented yet!) should not be contingent upon some local monopoly's whim.

As for the "concern" about watching some stupid TV episode (despite Netflix being a 3rd-party and off-topic), who are you to say what is and is not "essential" for other people? What is "essential" can vary wildly:

http://tressiemc.com/2013/10/29/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-people/
I always have the same problems when moving from linux over to a Microsoft shop. You really do have to approach VS differently than you would any other dev environment.
Did you pay with a credit card? When companies try to blow me off like this and I used a credit card, the next email usually goes as follows:

> I'm sorry that we have been unable to resolve this issue. If {demand for refunded amount} is not processed by {date one week from now} I will begin the chargeback process with my credit card issuer {bankname} as I did not receive what I paid for. Please keep me updated if anything changes.

This puts the pinch on both the vendor that processed the transaction (since they're going to be the ones getting their merchant account dinged, and since they're going to lose whatever money was charged to the card + a fee for the chargeback) and the party ultimately responsible (wanna bet that AirBnB isn't going to be happy with your host for causing them to lose several hundred dollars on a transaction they only stood to gain $54 from in the first place?) Things should get resolved pretty quickly once you step outside of the box & assert whatever rights you have under your credit card agreement.

I've had to do this with Agoda over a reservation made in Thailand. And I used to sell stuff on Ebay - no one pulled this on me, but I know firsthand how much companies like PayPal hate it when their merchants get chargebacks.
What ever happened to IRC?
Well I'll be the constructive voice. I like it.

You should be able to find email address in the corporate directory services, it's not like people are going to memorize them from looking at a badge. We already have business cards or mobile devices w/ NFC if it's necessary to transfer the email address in a persistent form.

Plus having names instead of email serves the more-important purpose of allowing people to more easily socially interact in meetings, social gatherings, etc.

Since it would almost be impossible to completely anonymize the purpose of the badge (especially with the request to return to Microsoft) using the current visual branding certainly beats using the 1988 visual branding.

I can't speak to "Former Metro" branding but it certainly looks pleasing enough.
North and South are in the same dimension.
This sounds really cool, but I didn't see where the original post talks about this hybrid setup with the Linux kernel (reading the first part and skimming through the rest, which I had already read back when it came out).

Do you know of other resources for this approach? I have seen cpusets but not used them.
Actually that's what Google has done with Courgette: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software...

> Courgette transforms the input into an alternate form where binary diffing is more effective, does the differential compression in the transformed space, and inverts the transform to get the patched output in the original format. With careful choice of the alternate format we can get substantially smaller updates.
First names aren't necessarily the 'most important' -- especially for names that aren't of European origin.

Employee number isn't sensitive information.
Okay I totally get that. The way it was stated didn't read as clearly as the statement you just made. I saw in another comment that you said you're fixing it. Thanks!

I agree that it's not very kind to have the cancellation policy so asymmetric. According to this link (https://www.airbnb.com/help/question/63) AirBnB charges the host 3% to book, probably no matter what.

So it sounds like what they're doing is taking the money that they charged the host and giving it to you. That's nice of them, really. But as you've said it in no way deters a host from accepting a better offer.

I'd be interested to know how you would split the balance instead. Charge hosts a 15% cancellation fee? 50%? I get where you're coming from but I always understood AirBnB to be a part of the "surplus" economy; I can sell a bit of my surplus space for a bit of extra cash. Not a big serious hotel business.

I suppose one option might be to set the cancellation fee equal to what you'll end up having to pay in addition to find accommodations. Of course that'd quickly become a total eff-job trying to figure out what could reasonably be called "equivalent quality" so that people don't get cancelled on and stay at the Ritz.
The quoted example admits that it ignores strong fields and non-relativistic matter, which we have already established to be dealing with. The angular momentum of an element of volume in the neutron star likely contains enough kinetic energy to affect the Einstein field equations in a significant way. General relativity can't be ignored, but the Newtonian approximations has this habit of being nearly right more often than not.

I know that for rotating black holes the Kerr solution to the Einstein equations offers the best way to test these metric-based questions but I'm not sure if that's what you'd use for a Neutron Star.
Whoa, didn't know about this. I'll check it out.
It's also hard to find legal and moral justification for constructing a botnet in the first place.
It's common that good ideas exist for a very long time before technology enables them, yet I feel that we are at that point /now/ and have been for a while, yet there is little-to-no activity in this area.
The best cameramen at the Olympics are drones
Not at all. Ownership as a concept is useful specifically for non-violent resolution of conflict over scarce resources. If something is neither scarce nor a resource, then some other construct needs to be used. (For example, in intellectual property law, the term "copyright infringement" is used instead of theft.)
I work in a .NET C# environment and I get all of these issues. Sorted in order of most annoying to least annoying, they would be: #2, #1, #5, #3, #4. I don't really mind 3 and 4. I'm just saying this to affirm that your experience is not unique to you.
As someone who has recently been hiring .NET engineers, I have to admit that this inspires mixed feelings. On the one hand, I can see huge power from combining AI and search with the structured context of programming. On the other hand, a disappointing number of the people we interviewed weren't software engineers, they were IntelliSync engineers. We'd give them a problem, and their first instinct was to hit a period and start hunting through the method options that IntelliSync gave them to see if one got them closer to their goal. Instead of stepping back and thinking about the problem generally, they'd try to solve it by stringing together IntelliSync suggestions, like stepping stones across a pond.
Yes, I have had this same exact experience and worse. One host started insulting my girlfriend and kept suggesting I cancel if I didn't like the place. Total bull. I lost the whole payment and STILL couldn't leave review.
No, that indicates that you're not renting just a couch in someone's apartment (a la couchsurfing). In the vacation rental world, that max accommodation figure almost always includes the couches (especially if it's a pullout couch).
Reddit subreddits are great.

http://reddit.com/r/programming

http://reddit.com/r/linux

http://reddit.com/r/python

http://reddit.com/r/django

etc...
> The general skills you learn as a frontend engineer will not be [obsolete]

To play devil's advocate: What if the next mainstream computing interface has next-to-no need for any visuals? In other words, do you think point-and-click and/or touch interfaces will be as prominent in 10 years as they are now? I can't imagine that computing applications will always interface visually - seems inefficient.
This is amazing. As others have said I really wish this kind of insane performance would be a goal for sites like this. After trying this demo I found it difficult to go back to the same pages on the normal site. Also I imagine even with server costs this would save them a lot of bandwidth.
http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/whisperpush-secure-messaging...

It's going to allow secured messaging over the air regardless of medium. Transparently. :)
Most recently, 3 "nos" in New Orleans (non mardi-gras season). All had time in their calendars.

Also had some difficulties in Spain.

I always have had great experiences when I successfully book, but it was aggravating in places with slow internet to have to cycle through the "request" process rather than being able to predictably just book something (or at least 95% of the time).

I'd much rather just blast an "are you really available" note to a shortlist of 5-10 properties and then 1-click book something.
Quickly create data sandboxes to accelerate your analysis
But from close-up, it's the think-tank and test-bed of potential Perl 5 upgrades.

I question this claim. Perhaps it's true of some syntactic features (`say` comes to mind as do some proposals for function signatures), but the semantics rarely translate over well (consider smartmatch). If you squint and tilt your head you can claim that Moose is an example of a feature designed in one language and implemented in another, but Moose is more an exercise in language/feature syncretism than it is porting something complete in implementation or design to Perl 5.
Yeah, I've always loved it when it works, but the back-and-forth can be frustrating on near term bookings... Especially when you are traveling with semi-shakey internet connections.