skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why devs hate Hansoft, but managers love it?
Will do, thanks for the feedback.
If you are confused because Safari already does this when you scroll, the meta tag enables the behaviour immediately on page load, replacing the old 1px scroll trickery.
I appreciate the care they went to in order to exclude other causes. I am not surprised that microbes are more susceptible to ionizing radiation than larger multi-cellular life given their structure. But I am surprised that they don't make up for that in fecundity.
They wouldn't be running Ada 2012 on a 777.
That is an interesting coincidence, because around the time of your post, I was having a similar problem on a couple of other sites (techmeme and recode). The pages loaded OK, but were completely blank.
Don't Ireland always wins it...?
They have already tested trackballs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfN5WK7OzU8#t=206
So that's one of those gray areas that all user generated content sites have to deal with. For now I think we're (perhaps naively) thinking that we're protected the same way youtube, facebook, or imgur is from being liable for user content.
I am an early middle-aged "obsolete", "unemployable" American programmer. In 2003, I had just come off of yet another in a long 6 years string of great paying gigs using my pre-.NET Visual C++ skill set. I was doing so well that then, in my late 30's, I saw a pathway to early retirement not soon thereafter - making 20-30% on a 6 figure nest egg in the stock market will give you that feeling.

But a few things happened in the meantime. First I had a home that was little too low in elevation a little too close to New Orleans that got wiped out in 2005. Then I found my Visual C++ skill set considered obsolete almost overnight. I learned the similar Visual C# .NET WinForms skill set, and started to work on the ASP.NET skill set. However, it seemed that the necessary complementary skill set to be an employed ASP.NET web developer was growing exponentially. By the time I realized that I had to learn JavaScript, CSS and who knows what cr@p API Micro$oft would push as its flavor of the month, I looked at my financial situation whose descent started in the loss of my home in 2005 and that hit rock bottom when the Great Recession came about, and decided to just throw in the towel, file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy (keeping my retirement accounts intact) to discharge 6 figures of credit card and other unsecured debt, take full advantage of the social welfare system (i.e., SNAP "food stamps", ObamaCare, etc.) and just be an extraordinarily cynical "bum". I now advocate for socialist redistribution.

I have gotten off track in this response, so I will get back on. I would say that the front end is for the birds - the back end database stuff is where is the action is, and where the underlying skill set remains having value. Although there is the possibility that the current k3wl data scientist will be lose its luster, I really don't what a tech oriented person should do these days.
I'm still using a N810 paired by BT to a N95.

SSH+X11vnc+WindowMaker(with settings changed)

It's old and clunky, but it still does 'real stuff' better than the pile of Android devices I have.
To use their own phrasing, I won't be tone policed, thanks. If you have something specific to say in regards to the content of my post then say it. My irreverence toward SJWism has been earned.
Doesn't appear to handle markdown GISTs on gist.github.com. Probably a fairly easy fix if you just create a gist.gitprint.com alias and rewrite the request URL to the slightly different pattern.

Otherwise excellent work.
If you were so hurt by constant harassment at your workplace that you decided to quit, how would you feel about publicly describing those experiences?

What if you want to remain friends with some of your former co-workers? What if those former co-worker friends work on the same team as former co-worker harassers? Are you willing to put those friendships in jeopardy? Are you willing to make it harder for those friends to do their jobs? If they are forced to choose sides, how would you feel about affecting their working relationship with their coworkers? Sure, it's not your fault. But it's not their fault either!

What if you misremember who was involved in a particular incident? (Do you take detailed notes every time you're harassed? Even if it's a lot of little things that all added up in the end?) What if you name the wrong person? What if the hacker community focuses on that and uses it to discredit you and destroy your reputation you spent years working to build?

Would you enjoy remembering and reliving all of the experiences that hurt you over the past few years so that you can write a blog post about it? Would that actually make you feel better?

Would you enjoy feeling like you had to write that blog post just so that people would believe you?
basically, you're soon going run into the same problem as Youtube, i.e. having to create your own ContentID system. This should be feasible through something like tineye.com, but for now, I would encourage you to not worry about it -- but do make sure you have a clear takedown policy in compliance with the DMCA.
See also http://jeffsutherland.org/oopsla98/nakamura.html
A good idea. You might want to include the names of the principles on the about page.
Worse for whom? This is actually wonderful for amazon shareholders as it demonstrates that amazon finally started to think about generating some serious cash surplus.

All that said I have no amazon stock and I am a prime user, so I feel your pain.
Probably an SEO/branding move for Algolia.
It is a common misconception among people designing compression algorithms that such a technique is possible at all in general, or feasible for specific cases (it is neither).

As an illustration, consider a shuffled deck of playing cards, and you want to find a seed for your random number generator so you can just store the seed instead of the entire deck. If your seed is a 64-bit number, then the chance that you can represent the deck using a seed is about 1 in 4x10^48, or basically zero. Or phrased the opposite way, if you use a random number generator with a 64-bit state to shuffle a deck, then the vast majority of possible decks will never be output by your shuffling program.
I didn't see any mention of inflation. $79 in 2005 when prime was launched is equivalent to $96 today.
But then the question is, why was she speaking out in favour of github in the first place?

She's either currently faced with an unusual situation that doesn't reflect githubs normal behaviour, or she had no credibility in the first place.

At this point, she seems disgruntled about a single issue and is using it as a platform to stir up wider controversy.
Why does git use fast-forward merging by default?
Depending on how much your time is worth to you, the $800 may not be a lot to reinstate the LLC than to waste time and energy trying to get around it.
I think that's what I meant or maybe you mean something else; what kind of thing are you talking about? People want the Google services apps but which apps people want which are not Google apps require Google services?
> and that the only harrasment at github was this women harrasing [SIC] others.

How do you know this? Do you work at GitHub?
Great article. I love how it breaks down how companies successfully created communities through sharing, curation, and help.
Pregnancy is not a disease, but it does prevent you from working at least part of the time. Just saying - I don't know anything about that Italian story.
A good thing about imgur is that images load very quickly. I am not getting the same experience from your website.

http://imgur.com/99kuTjE took 3000ms to load, https://surfer.io/t1Uft took 7000ms.

The same image direct-linked from imgur took 300ms.
> or she has no credibility in the first place.

Are you like... going back in time and revising your opinion?
"Soon"? It's already happening. There's dozens already open to the public.
Going to HR, wether by choice or not, is the last, optional step before one needs to leave a company, regardless of fault. HR isn's some magical department that can fix such issues, and they're not likely to help. That's not their job. Their job is to minimize the impact of anything that might or might not have gone on the company, especially the legal impact. Sure, in theory, one could go to HR and work things out, but in practice, one will not be welcome at a company after doing so. HR does not work for the workers, it works to protect the company and executives. In a situation where one is up against more established employees, it's guaranteed to backfire. HR looks to minimize the damage, and that will usually not be in favor of the person claiming harassment.
Why Can’t A Startup Build A Self-Driving Car?
Do not use XHTML period.
On a related note, the branch browser feature of the Download Page [1] is completely broken, displaying only "Branch list" in place of what I assume should be an actual branch list.

[1] https://dolphin-emu.org/download/branches/
I'm OK with moderator's reverting it, as long as that is communicated through the UX that it was reverted and the original title is still accessible.
They don't need more ammo.
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Or why can I not use Amazon Video on any Android device other than their off-brand Kindle tablets? I'm already a paying customer, but they won't let me use their service.
Yeah, the first time it loads at a certain size it makes a resized copy so that's probably the lag you're seeing. I'll update so it does the resizing on image upload and see how fast we can make it.

Thanks for trying it out!
> Voters aren't rational

Huh? Voters are quite rational. If you mean they don't pay attention to everything that's happening in Washington, D.C. or state capitols, that's perfectly rational. (Remember you're more likely to win the lottery than to have your vote changing the outcome of an election.) Economics call this, correctly, "rational ignorance"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance

Politicians and bureaucrats are also rational. Unfortunately this rationality means they put their private interests above the public interest (whatever that means). The influence of special interest groups, the revolving door between .gov and lobbying, these are all elements of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
How secure is it to connect an Arduino to the internet? Does it support any secure protocols?
I was looking for the text on the site. It's been up-and-down for me today. Currently down.
This is one of the older stories in business.

Right. This strategy can be traced back at least as far as Andrew Carnegie in the 19th Century.[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertically_integrated
Some in the tech community enjoy watching sport. As well, for those who are in the tech community who do not follow sport, it is good for them to be tangentially aware of major sporting events, so they can engage with co-workers and colleagues at more social level.

For instance I enjoy building Ardiuno and Raspberry Pi gadgets on the weekends, but most of my co-workers would rather be watching rugby. Knowing the outcome of the tournament is a social norm at my office, and not knowing the outcome would, while not a taboo, would make me seem socially awkward.
This is just speculation, but given the absence of sightings or new leads, and with the information at hand, it will probably turn out that the pilot, the copilot, or another person having access to the flight deck and with a lot of knowledge of aircraft, took over the aircraft and ordered it to be flown to a point far SW of the last detected position, then crashed it into the ocean.

The possibility exists that we will never find the plane, because of the great number of possible crash sites and the absence of radar or other kinds of coverage in the South Indian Ocean region.

If the plane were flown to a land location and landed, it's very likely that someone would have revealed its whereabouts by now. A plane that size can't remain a secret for very long. This is why I think it was ditched in the water, and that implies that the plane and its passengers are lost.
Through education and one on one interaction. Accusing "leadership" of harassment puts them on the defensive and less likely to change their actions.

No one has ever been convinced of an argument by someone holding a megaphone.
No, not since 2009 apparently.
They did that on the "I'm not famous but dying of cancer at 35" post.
Or because the expected cost-benefit of a protracted legal battle might be negative.

The legal system is not the only possible recourse for settling disputes or grievances.
Don't conflate "female" and "radical feminist".
What application did you use to post that comment? Is it Open Source?
I was just answering that the language is not old. I'm really not sure what they would be running (83 probably, since its first flight was before 95).
I can see two basic solutions to these issues:

1. Purge every company of assholes

2. Allow complete freedom of association

#1 is hard to implement because assholes are everywhere. #2 is the obvious solution, and in fact it is so obvious that Julie Ann Horvath's actions implicitly endorse it—don't work for companies filled with assholes.

Alas, the obvious solution is illegal under US federal law. Asshole-filled companies are required by law to hire the kind of people assholes love to harass. In other words, the very laws designed to promote the interests of asshole-targets guarantee that they will come into contact with assholes. (Medical geeks might recognize this as iatrogenesis.)

Of course, there's always:

3. Convert all assholes to non-assholes

This can be considered a special case of #1, and would be the best of all possible worlds. Indeed, a great deal of energy goes into achieving it. But it essentially reduces to "eliminate the existence of assholes". It doesn't take a particularly subtle grasp of human nature to understand why this doesn't appear to be working.

In sum, the obvious solution is illegal and the desirable solution doesn't work. Is it any wonder this conflict seems never-ending?
This is something Surfer is going to have to state clearly during the sign-up process to avoid being villified by the Reddit and Imgur crowd.
So if you were a woman considering taking a job at GitHub, this would have no influence on your decision? Really?

All it would take for me personally to reverse my stance on an employer being a good place for women is a single case in which I reported being sexually harassed and management then took the side of the harasser over me. Because one case is not acceptable, and it's all it takes to turn a workplace into a hostile and unpleasant environment.

That's not to say "oh, if she says something, she must be telling the truth", but the possibility that she is telling the truth is a huge red flag.
So why do people go along with Amazon's claim they are free?
Which makes them both worse!
You've got an extra dot. Here https://github.com/algolia/hn-search
Also doesn't work for Japanese text. It shows pretty much a whole paragraph at a time.
This is really funny. Hope he's on board.
Ask HN: App Removed from Google Play
Has anyone had experience with Google taking their app down from the Play store?

We were told via email: "REASON FOR REMOVAL: Alleged trademark infringement."

I thought it was odd that we were not given the opportunity to represent ourselves prior to the app being taken down.

This happen to anyone else?
Because they are using the word "free" in a different (but obvious) way than you are: their meaning is "no extra cost, once you've paid the yearly fee". That's reasonable.
NYPD counsel rules freedom of information manual is confidential
https://github.com/chadillac/MoshPit.js
You may want to do a little research into that. I know Youtube pays licensing fees for this sort of thing.
If you were that hurt, I don't think posting a string of accusatory but unspecific tweets would help your cause better. You'd best be served by writing a thoughtful, accurate summary of the events that occurred, and let the reader decide for themselves how to respond.

I understand if she's just angry in response to other comments like the "Queen" one -- that's actually totally understandable. I don't blame her for reacting on Twitter like this. All that I said was if she did that, that would be one example of how I could understand what this kind of harassment is like and why it's harmful.
Once the child is born, it can prevent you from working. That much is true, although there are ways to deal with that too given some money and drive (see: Marissa Mayer). But if you're an ordinary office worker, and aren't doing heavy labor, no, pregnancy is not generally an obstacle to doing work. My wife worked in a laboratory on her feet most of the time pretty much up until the end. She went for a 10 km walk a few days before our daughter was born.
Than Netflix? No, it doesn't. Netflix doesn't offer a paid catalog at all, which sucks. If Netflix did do that, they might have trouble with both Amazon and Apple.
Support for Surfer on Reddit Enhancement Suite will be crucial for this to do well on Reddit. Gfycat did this and it has paid off for them.
The readme barely says what it is and what it does.
I had an app that used the json output from HNSearch. Are you guys going to enable that?
It sounds like maybe you're describing AirPlay mirroring instead of passing the video stream straight to the Apple TV via AirPlay from an iPad or iPhone. Mirroring has to re-encode the on-screen video on the fly, so I've seen the stuttering you mean when mirroring, but I've never experienced that using the built-in video player method to send a video straight to the Apple TV from within the Amazon instant video app, or the Netflix app for that matter.
What really scares my about this concept is corporations having control over device in my head, as they do now with phones.
Agree completely. It was a joke that referenced a company value not some guarantee about how the world works. Despite the unfortunate origins of the word meritocracy, the concept is ancient[1] and was always more of a goal than a practical system.

What is strange to me it the feminist philosophy has rather recently turned against the concept[2]. As best I can tell this seems to be to discount "merit" as a defense against sexism.

I'm fascinated by the ability of political identity to shape understanding. It seems almost impossible to resist arguments that advance our goals or grok those that undermine them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy

[2] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Meritocracy
> I suspect the more pressing motivation is that Musk wants to have complete freedom to do things his way without filtering by a middleman who would likely be strongly influenced by the way that auto dealers have historically operated.

Ding ding ding. In this respect, the HN hive-mind is pretty schizo. Are you a phone company and trying to protect your profits? Burn them at the stake!

Are you a popular technologist who builds rocket ships on the side and are trying to protect your profits? Cheer him on!

> I suspect a lot of folks are underestimating the degree to which Tesla will have to provide local services that look a lot like a dealership as it scales up and certainly as it introduces cars at more mainstream price points. For example, you need service centers--as they are building out today.

That's also true. I'm not sure what the ratio of service center employees per Tesla vs. traditional automobiles. My guess is that you'll have to bring your Tesla back to the dealer for most maintenance needs, while I can bring my regular old family sedan to whatever gas station/service center is down the street.

We don't even know what the used car ecosystem for Tesla's will look like. Will anybody really want to buy a car they have to put a few grand of new batteries into? Will there be a used car service center ecosystem in place? When can I walk into the local Pepboys and buy a new sprocket or cog set for my Tesla? Never? Then bye bye Pepboys.

The network effects which contribute to the overall size of the auto industry, which is far more than just the manufacturers, is a pretty significant part of the overall economy in a given area. What will this ecosystem look like in 25 years with hyper sophisticated self-driving Tesla-likes all over the road? My guess is that it will be devastating to the system that's there even if an all new ecosystem replaces it. It's not a 1-to-1 map. People won't make the transition and that's a problem governments care about.
Prime's prepaid shipping deal is more and more a shell game these days, since the price of an object sold with Prime is often (usually?) as much as, or more expensive than, an identical one including 2-day shipping.
If you value your time, you'll realize github is very cheap. I also particularly like how everyone knows it so adding new contributors is painless.
>My prediction is that before long he'll have a post at the top of Hacker News titled "And" where he ends it with "And that's what I think."

I would laugh so hard at that.
Thanks for the tip, we'll look into it.
What about this sort of thing though? Seems to be extremely popular amongst the target audience.

http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Get-Curves-Geometry-Takes/dp/045...

http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Algebra-Exposed-Danica-McKellar/dp...
Well this is clearly aimed at people who are frustrated with Chef, above and beyond the frustrations of figuring out how to install ruby (just install from source, rvm sucks).

If someone doesn't already have Chef installed, why would they even have clicked on this link?
I'm assuming this is just one of many different efforts to cryptographically protect gems, right? It's phrased as if this was the de facto standard way to do it, but this is the first I've heard of it. Or does waxseal just automate something RubyGems already does?
According to my HN commenter bingo card, what this top-level thread needs next is either complaining about TFA's background colour, or a heated debate about the actual definition of ad-hominem.
adsense or any ad server can block your account/domain because of a single inappropriate picture. How will you deal with that?
She was responsible for organizing the pretty awesome "Passion Talks" series at Github. So she was definitely more famous than the average developer working at Github. She did not invent Map/Reduce, but we are talking about Github here, not Google/Amazon/etc..
Amazing catch, glad you could add to the discussion.
1. Most of the images posted to the front page of reddit are stolen.

2. Your site will be banned from most of reddit once it becomes clear that you're paying posters.
Do you seriously not know the difference between a professional and a personal context?
The search results for stories show both the long (and useless) news.ycombinator URL and a link to the comments. Both links lead to the same location. The news.ycombinator URL displayed is redundant and adds visual noise. I've highlighted both links in the image linked to below.

I'd like it if the results showed "link", "parent", and "on $News_Story", like the old site did.

http://imgur.com/asHzSb1