skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not only that. I am have took for the other messages that Torvalds has said the mists of "I have no idea what you said, but cool." spam in the comment section.
So it's popular :)
Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea?
Do you interview potential users to see if they'll actually use your product? If yes, how or where do you find them?
Ask HN: Where to look for QA engineers?
Hey guys,

Where do people look for QA engineers as opposed to standard software engineers? A company that I'm friends with asked me about this, but I have zero clue where to start.
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This is why there are so many religions.

Nobody really know what's going on. The official narrative doesn't explain everything, it's more like a comfortable half-truth. We're trained from birth to buy into a completely rational scientific viewpoint of the world, which is clearly accurate- but it's actually more like measuring objects inside of World of Warcraft when it's obvious that there's something bigger going on outside of the game. It just doesn't matter that much and isn't as interesting as the realization that we have no idea what we're in.

We are rewarded for buying into the official narrative with social credits by an organization we have created to control our minds (govern-ment). People want to be comforted and feel like they have control over what's going on, and society pays us to sell them these comfortable reassurances. This is social control and it makes us productive.

Most cultures become more spiritual and religion plays a more significant role as we age. Psychotic shock from emotional damage (this is not necessary schizophrenia or "insanity") is actually a necessary part of the human growth process. It's pretty much impossible to explain this to younger people, the only thing one can do as an adult is to program our children with the metaphors of choice (religion) to give them something to cling to when their bubble bursts.

Please see my website for my full story if you appreciate my explanation here.
Note: You may still use `call` and `apply` on them to supply arguments, but you may not change the this-object. (So, they are still subject to these calls. But this does not affect the use-case given above, where an object would be applied to a callback.)
About 50% of the bullet points on the site are great too:

Under "Actively Developed":

- Most patches make it better.

- Only some break it.

- Written in PHP so literally anyone can contribute, even if they have no idea how to program.

- Even babies and dogs can contribute.

Or under "Track bugs":

- Keeps track of bugs.

- You can assign them to people.

- Maybe you could fix them eventually. (optional)
It's a guy: http://www.math.univ-paris13.fr/~matei

->> Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications
Sounds `real`.

Source: https://twitter.com/model500/status/461978031578701824

Edit: also this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682360 seems to confirm it.
http://stolksdorf.github.io/JsonGen/ Enjoy.

Eerily similar syntax to submitted one. I could roll this into a npm module rather quickly.
Nope, nothing with Angular. Always good to broaden your horizons, though.
Yeah, but this happens with any change. It's the same with the minimum wage, for example. The argument is, "Well, if my business is required to pay a living wage, I'll go out of business because people won't pay more for my product or service." Yep. If your business can't follow the law, you will likely go out of business trying to. And laws change, and that can affect your business. This is the same as it's always been.

If your business goes away, some other business that can sustain itself under the law will pop up there (possibly in the same area of business, possibly a completely different one), or the economy will start tanking because no business can sustain themselves due to the new laws.

Sometimes it's not a good idea to leave the choice up to the consumer. (for example: If you stop allowing us to keep slaves, we'll have to pay workers and prices will rise!) Sometimes there are bigger considerations. I feel that privacy is one of those, personally, but it's valid to disagree with me.
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On the off chance you are one, I'm chris.barber@alumni.stanford.edu :)
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/

An oldie, but still useful.

Alternatively, use e.g. Web Developer extension to disable all CSS on the loaded page.

Things like this are a good part of why I insist that the browser do, first and foremost, what the user wants, rather than the designer or whoever.
The elevator community is actually huge with hundreds if not thousands of channels like that.
other people can see it and flag if you make inaccurate claims

A glance at LinkedIn would indicate that that rarely if ever happens.
At the risk of engaging in a futile argument, I feel like I have to interject.

> Apes have more in common with mice than they do with humans

No, apes are social, tribal creatures that inter-communicate vocally and via body language. They use tools and manipulate their environment to make their quality of life better. They have territory and fight to the death to protect that territory. If you were to ask me what species this describes, the first thing that would pop into my head is "human."

If I were to say to someone "You're ugly and your mother's a whore" most people would have a sudden increase in adrenaline, followed by a wave of uncontrollable anger. Many times, this anger would drive us to do something like lash out physically or verbally. The emotions and feelings we experience throughout the day control us and shape our experience, just like they do an ape or a dog. Our difference from other mammals is really only defined by our ego, or our very basic awareness of self. Our awareness of self is rudimentary at best, yet our egos over-inflate it's abilities and importance.

We've created the environment around us as does a rabbit burrows into the ground. While the materials we fabricate and build with are unique, all we are doing is constructing shelters to feel safe.

Your example of nuclear bombs and having them for logical reasons is, in my opinion, incorrect. Our logical reasons for having weapons that could wipe out all of humanity can be reduced to little more than an alpha ape beating its chest at another. Rationalize it however you want. Most of our behavior, even on the macro level, is controlled by our inherently tribal instinct.

We have not transcended our animal nature, not in the slightest. We've only fooled ourselves into thinking we have. Language, technology, government; take these away and you've got apes. Even then, language and government are not unique to humans.
What about: "Who's looking for a co-founder?"

I think a lot of YC applicants (myself included) are having problems with finding co-founders and HN is a great place to find one.
Look at it from their point of view:

They get a significant portion(10% or more) of your first years salary if you get hired. It's a numbers game and the more people they call the more money they make. They have a thick skin and the only thing stopping them from that money is a brief no from you. They will definitely try.
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The main issue with non-nullable types in OOP, in my mind, seems to be defaults. Quite simply, when you don't initialize an primitive, you get a 0, and when you don't initialize an object, you get a null. Not all fields must be initialized by the time the constructor ends, so some kind of valid default exists.

Enforcing non-nullability would involve somehow enforcing that the variable is always valid before use some other way, like how "final" is enforced in the constructor, but it should be possible.

Unless you make it default, though, it won't be as "elegant" as the haskell Maybe, and doing so would net you a very very different language.
I would recommend Play Framework if you want a modern Java stack. If you want the functional programming niceties of Ruby or Python, you can use Scala wherever you'd like. You can intermix both Java and Scala.

I'm using it within my company and for my personal projects. It's very easy to get started.
I just found out about CoreOS a couple days ago. I don't think it's necessarily what you're talking about, but seems a little similar https://coreos.com/
Ancient Egyptians transported pyramid stones over wet sand?
At a former work place, we were gathering data about where entrances, lifts, passageways were in different transit stations. These videos (or someone on the same kick) helped us get an inside view of many of these stations.
Challenging stat that people only read news on their phones 70 seconds a day
For windows, I have been using python(x,y)--it's huge, but it works :-)
There's always Windows.
Serendipity doesn't mean you're crazy, some people experience it more than others. Just relax. If you think that every time you experience one it means you're going mad then maybe you really will :)

All the existence of serendipity points to is that mainstream science doesn't fully understand how the universe works, it doesn't mean that you're crazy.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
- Philip K. Dick
I think part of the reason is that the story is being positioned incorrectly. Yahoo owns 24% of Alibaba, so it's not China vs. Silicon Valley, or any such nonsense.

It's definitely news worthy that they're going to IPO here in the US and they have a HUGE market in China/Asia... Even so, will they be able to crack the US consumer market? Time will tell, but so far, their efforts haven't born fruit.

They have a stealth 'target vertical' shopping experience that's developing right now in the Bay Area, however, they're significantly behind schedule, having trouble integrating teams from several locals and their product is dubiously "useful" at this stage of the game.

All of that being said, eventually they'll find some combination to get a foothold of the US market and it will be interesting to see what happens then as competition heats up.
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First, the $10,000 doesn't apply to "closed-loop" gift cards, like Visa or MasterCard gift cards, which is likely what the OP may have been looking to buy (although it's possible she was looking for Amazon gift cards). In the case of closed-loop cards, the limit is $2000 a day, not $10,000.

Second, that's a 10,000 limit per day, not per purchase.

Third, as someone else indicated, no clerk said anything to the OP. She just noticed the sign saying that large gift card purchases would be reported to the authorities, which would make me uneasy as well (how much is "large"? to what authorities?).
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I've looked many times but haven't bought yet, mostly because they're across the Pacific and shipping times would be annoying.
I have been following this thread with interest (accidental pun). Where I am (New Zealand) the term apartment doesn't mean anything in relationship to ownership either. It could be leased, owned, rented or whatever.
Edit: using everyone's favourite source the world apartment has different meaning in different regions - broadly the term 'flat' is a better fit with British (maybe even non-US?) readers, though with NZ being an exception, despite our usual English centric approach to language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment
Page faults that don't happen are free. If the OS can find ways of reducing the number of them, that's a way of speeding up the average "time there would have been a page fault"... you're right that the title is misleading, though.
I am skeptical that they will be able to crack the US markets. On the other hand, Chinese companies will probably be big competitors in emerging markets since they might also control the infrastructure.
I don't follow your reasoning here, but let me expand my observation further: Linus can A. improve his build system (low-hanging fruit which the Chrome numbers suggest could yield an order of magnitude better performance), or B. he can search among a variety of difficult unlikely-to-yield-major improvements (like yelling at Intel engineers 'make it go faster!') which will improve his build system and also other hypothetical loads (which are unlikely to be large gains if any at all; what, is Intel too ignorant to try to make the TLB fast?). He is claiming B is better in part because of the hypothetical loads makes it better in total.

Most people would consider A a more reasonable reaction, especially after hearing that Linus's best idea for doing B is apparently going all the way down to the hardware level in search of some improvement. We can see this by intuitively asking what people's reactions would be to a proposal to induce B if the equilibrium were already at A.
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Nothing "happened". Using "hacker ethic" as an excuse for piratism has always been stupid. That is why Stallman began writing GNU instead distributing illegitimate copies of UNIX.
Well back when I was a teenager nobody even implanted the idea that "Hey, you can sell this stuff you know?" in my head. I just did it because it was fun and everyone else was doing it for free, so I did as well.

It took me ages to realise that you don't have to just give your software away for free and that is fine too.
He got high enough to realize that all humans are capable of being like Christ- This is in fact what Christ preached.

You don't have to smoke weed to realize this, you only need to get off the computer (which is in fact a mind control/social control device, like any other form of entertainment) and exercise. Both methods will "get you high" and give you the proper perspective.

Unfortunately, it seems like the abrupt realization of his spiritual power combined with the anxiety and paranoia associated with pot made him jump to some rash conclusions.

He was not the reincarnation of Christ- he realized his spiritual power, something that society has made taboo to believe in, yet is latent and quite obvious in all of us once realized.

His coworkers weren't FBI agents- they were, however, "agents" in that they were programmed through entertainment and other forms of social control to explicitly deny something that is obviously quite true: Humans are creatures with psychic/spiritual power, like all other pack animals in nature. This is the foundation for all emotional bonds, politics, and social influence.

It's completely understandable how someone who realizes they have "magic powers" would react with confusion and paranoia to those around them who have been trained to deny such a thing can exist. Spiritual power is very real.
> Maven also suffers from XML hell, but at least it has dependency management.

I don't find it that bad. The nice thing about it is how my IDE will auto complete almost everything and it should be possible to validate it without even using an IDE, as it has a schema. I agree with your complaints about Ant.

The thing I was hoping gradle would give me is the ability to write tests for my build. EG: I want to have more confidence that my maven filtering is working the way I want it to. But it sounds like gradle isn't built with that in mind.

Considering that groovy is dynamically typed, if my IDE doesn't auto complete (maybe it does) I think it's possible to make the argument that Maven is the least awful of the 3. At least the maven XML has a schema. I don't need yet another way to make a mistake in my build script (ie: typing issues).

> Java devs do many things manually that a Ruby/Python dev would be horrified at....

Such as?
Guice and SiteBricks [1] work very well together.

[1] http://sitebricks.org/
My reply to another poster about the SPECIFICITY and UNIVERSALITY of these experiences sums up my interest.

If I am crazy now, I am quite happy about it. Quite relaxed, if you will.
This reminds me a lot of 'Volksmarching' in Germany ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksmarching ). It's still a popular past-time there from what I can tell.

There's even an American organization for it, though I'd hadn't heard of it before today: http://www2.ava.org/
It should actually be used as a justification to persuade: you can usually write x86 assembly in any way that comes to mind and as long as data access (load/store) is the same across these variants the CPU will take the same number of cycles to execute them due to the crazy amount of optimization in the modern architectures.
A Designer's Dilemma
Wow..... this thing is fast......
I would benefit from many things for which I consider the asked price to be unreasonable. I still do not expect to get them for free.
Thanks guys for sharing these pearls. I though I have seen "everything" but yep, I'm so pleased to be so wrong.
More accurate title: Yahoo now ignoring explicitly declared preferences because it's better for revenue.

Newspeak is unbecoming, Yahoo.
SmartStack vs. Consul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu maybe.
I did write a little bit about this in the comparisons page on the Mithril site ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html ) and I am actually writing an article about this topic (specifically, about lessons I learned from using Angular that apply to Mithril) that I'm planning on publishing this weekend over at the blog ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog ). There's a feed you can subscribe to if you're interested.

There's also a reasonable amount of docs on the main site about the approaches that I do propose for various aspects of the MVC stack (e.g. see templating, components, etc).

I'm not saying more code is always necessarily bloat, but the correlation between code size and bloatedness does exist, whether you like it or not. I think what is ludicrous is to assume that all of the organically grown code over the years is somehow made up of only useful harmonious features.

Off the top of my head, I could immediately think of angular's directive system, and $scope as things that are probably far more complex than they should be, but these aren't exactly things you can "file an issue" for. So I did the next best thing and scratched my own itch.
My main question is: why is there an insanity checklist?

In the same way that many people experience a "white light" during near-death experiences, why do so many people:

-think they're jesus

-think aliens communicate through radio stations

-think everyone around them are "agents"

It's a very SPECIFIC checklist. To me at this point, this is the most interesting part of this phenomenon.
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Or you could teach your children something like Zen buddhism or Theravada vipassana meditation so they can learn to slowly and methodologically take their bubble apart and put it back together with each session of sitting practice. This way they don't get whacked over the head with it all at once and run screaming and crying to some form of fundamentalism, an extremist cult, or end up committed to some state institution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassana
lol, try living in Australia.
I don't understand how Simpson's paradox is different from missing an explanatory variable and confusing correlation vs. partial correlation.

In Wikipedia's article header chart, what I see is the projection on a plane of a 3D problem, where the 3rd dimension has been overlooked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox

In Bob vs. Alice, I see also that the night/day flight dummy wasn't accounted for hence resulting in the so-called paradox.
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Every time I see a prediction like this, it seems like people are forgetting how much we are diversifying, not unifying, our computers. Almost every home appliance can be bought with a computer in it.

At the moment, most of these appliances are missing a central controller, one big home computer to coordinate all your smart devices, smart walls, etc. Once we move into 8K wall displays in every room, a smartphone will not be able to drive most of what people do with computers. They will need a big home PC to handle their homes, but it will probably not have a desktop interface. Maybe it won't be called a PC, but rather a home server or something like that, but it will be a big bulky box installed in the home for personal computing.

The mobile phone is currently moving to replace the primary interface to the many computers we all use, but it also has wearable candidates to replace it in the near future. However, if you define the PC as a Windows desktop/laptop, I definitely agree with the premise, but let's not forget about all the upcoming power-hungry applications for home computing like AR and VR.
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Yep, the thing is that Date is immutable.
I think that this public final immutable rule is ok, but one has to ensure the fields themself are really not modifiable.
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