skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been 50 years since McLuhan's "The medium is the message". It's not really an aspect of laziness, but intrinsic to all communications.

If you are an editor and you receive a 100 page treatise which starts out with 50 pages on the numerology of the Great Seal of the US, 25 pages on the quality of the author's boogers, and 24 pages tracking the lineage of David Hasselhoff back to Adam, then are you really "lazy" if you missed the elegant 1 page proof of Fermat's Last Theorem on page 78?

Odds are most editors would reject that paper after reading the first page or two and leafing through the rest to double-check that it was more of the same dreck. Yes, I would place the fault more on the author than the editor for this case. Wouldn't you?
You should not use your admin powers to disable deliverables prior to a lawyer suggesting to you that course of action. That has explosive legal and reputational risk. The only upside is that you get to squeeze a stone harder for water. Why would you prefer this over e.g. paying a lawyer ~$300 to send your client a payment demand letter?

In the future, do not do additional work when clients have tens of thousands of dollars of outstanding invoices. Favors for clients are wonderful things. You can do them when you have a contract in place that neither party is repeatedly breaching.

Talk to the board and try to work out a solution where they fire the CEO and we pursue a plan to actually get this company out of a ditch.

This is very unlikely to work, and the amount of effort is comparable to starting a new company. Why would you start a new company to collect $X0k in outstanding invoices? You can collect $X0k in invoices by working two weeks for someone who is not a bozo, then invoicing them for two weeks worked. It is faster and carries very limited execution risk.

If the above results in very little, I could try to sell the debt to a debt buyer. Anyone have experience with this? I found one that say they would buy it for 75 cents on the dollar, which I find to be pretty incredible considering it's an LLC and I don't know how to collect from an LLC.

You won't successfully sell this receivable for 75 cents on the dollar, but if someone actually offered that, why are we even having this conversation? That implies that you are improved by tens of thousands of dollars for two hours of work, and then this never troubles you again.

But having some knowledge about debt collection, I predict < 1% chance that you'd actually sell that receivable for 75 cents on the dollar. Higher quality receivables -- with known good provenance, against people who have attachable assets -- routinely are sold for 5~10 cents on the dollar if they're at that age/maturity. You have an incredibly low-quality receivable. It is old, against an entity with no assets, and (I strongly suspect) not supported by reliable paperwork which would ease the path to a default judgment and collection.
Joking aside, I'm genuinely confused as to how you survey that many of the site's users and get no one with rep above 10k. Especially considering that high rep users are much more engaged and invested in the site, and so I would expect a much higher response rate from them.
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The book, "Little Brother," is available in multiple formats under Creative Commons licensing (free):

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

Also, you might enjoy Cory Doctorow's talk:

"The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
The system still works. Women traveling alone have to exercise more caution, but that's true of most activities in life, unfortunately.

The review system on couchsurfing is good. I'm male, so I'm going to have an easier time, but I've never had a problem with couchsurfing. I've stayed with and hosted a few dozen people.

Before I take ANY guest or send a request, I go over their whole profile, their reviews, their photos. Do them seem cool? Do they seem normal, no creepy vibe? Do they have reviews? Do the reviews go beyond "Jack is a nice man. He stayed with me two days."?

If they are "yes" on all counts, not only have they been safe, but they've been among the most interesting people I've met in 28 years on this earth.

Women should heighten scrutiny on all counts, and also check for "do they only host women?". Do they have even a SINGLE negative review or sign of creepy behavior?

Suffice to say, I've met plenty of women travelers who find couchsurfing a great experience, including while traveling alone. I'm not speaking out of male ignorance.
It's not just the union as charter schools are (in general) just as mixed of a bag as public schools. There was a Stanford study back in 2009 that spanned 16 states and showed around 20 percent of charters outperformed and 35 percent of charters underperformed their peer public schools. Actually this reminds me they were supposed to have another round of outcomes last year or so. I'll have to go and see again how things have changed. (Offhand, it wouldn't surprise me if it's relatively close overall).
Funny you should ask. I spent a while a few years ago messing around with csound, synthesizing Bach chorales in a number of tuning systems. You could tell a difference, IIRC, even with kind-of-unpleasant synthesized tones. I'd have to go back and look up what I did, but I must have done both equal temperament and (some kind of) just intonation.
> Tenure for non-research faculty might make sense if it protects the right to teach unpopular ideas.

As in my other comment, there's a tradeoff here. Tenure could be used to teach Evolution, or it could be used to teach Nazism.
Apologies - I'm developing on firefox aurora and haven't had a chance to test it on older versions yet. I honestly wasn't prepared for a HN submission but some more cross browser testing and mobile testing are very high on my todo list.

This is my first project where I've developed with an IE10+ only policy, which is actually really nice because of flex box, but it's easy to accidentally break other browsers if you miss a single prefix.
At first I was disappointed that the dataset wasn't analyzed for me; I wanted to see what an expert (or at least someone who had put in effort) had to say about it. The statwing tool is awesome though... I would absolutely love to use this for something useful. Hopefully I'll remember it if/when that time comes.
They're cut from the same cloth. Adam has some great stuff on YouTube now.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJtitKU0CAehsdcybehbP...
According to the article, C99 support was one of the motivations for doing this.

"As part of this work, we've completely rewritten the core implementations of the printf and scanf functions (now with no #ifdefs!). This has enabled us to implement the remaining C99 features for the stdio library, to improve correctness checks in the library, and to fix many conformance bugs and quirks"
Their company page has bios of a bunch of the key people:

http://www.skyboximaging.com/company

Lots of engineering degrees and experience at aerospace companies.
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Yep we need to be a bit more explicit about that. Currently we're only in SF, but that should be changing very soon.

That said, you can preview the prices for a listing without logging in - click the "preview your listing" button on the demo page.
Prior to capitulation, Netflix purchased access to Verizon through multiple tier 1 providers. These providers are publicly known to have private arrangements regarding interconnections.

More than one of the backbone providers in question have publicly stated that Verizon/Comcast/TWC are no longer following the tenants of their private agreements.

The bare contest here is that the established order of hierarchical internet traffic is being challenged. The reason, IMO, people on HN dislike the ground shift is that it:

a) creates communication failures where there were previously fewer

b) is based on regulatory capture and monopolistic business practices

c) is not a technology driven change

d) increases the moat for all established internet services
You're starting with a fundamental assumption that there are two classes of languages, which you are calling pragmatic languages and research languages. I disagree. Researchers study languages of all sorts (there are plenty of research papers on Java), and practitioners use languages of all sorts (there are plenty of businesses using Haskell). Furthermore, many of the characteristics that make a language worth studying also make it worth using in practice.

Haskell has been around for nearly 25 years, not 15, and the ML family has been around for nearly 40. Strong type systems are not a research curiosity, and have not been for decades. They have significant and well-understood benefits, in practice.

I wish your hypothesis that the best ideas from research would be copied by other languages were true, but the history does not bear this out. A notable recent example is Swift: though it does make progress compared to its reference class, it still does not use any research more recent than roughly the 1970s. Clearly, the "pragmatic" languages are not keeping up. In what sense is it "pragmatic" to constrain yourself to decades-old technology?

The Haskell language is not constrained by some God-given purpose to be a research language for all time. Haskellers aren't "deny[ing] the true purpose of the language", they're choosing to use a useful tool, because doing so is pragmatic.
First, -1 to Yahoo for disabling zoom on mobile devices.

On drones - I have yet to see the FAA (or anyone else) address separation between manned VFR traffic and drones. VFR traffic maintains separation by "see and be seen". In other words, you look out the window for nearby traffic. Will drones have image recognition to detect nearby traffic?, I highly doubt it. Another way of separation is using the aircraft's transponder. But this won't necessarily work as not all aircraft have transponders. Many older GA aircraft do not even have an electrical system (other than the magneto spark plug system). A transponder is not required in class D, E, G airspace below 10,000 feet and 30 NM from a primary class B airport. The majority of the US is class E airspace. I'm also curious if all these drones will have a transponder (heavy given the battery usage).

The other way around is for the manned aircraft visually see a drone. Given the size of the drones, it will be very hard. Also, will drones have anti-collision lights?

Just like any new industry, safety regulations are enacted in response to incidents. I predict we'll have a few mid-air drone to airplane collisions in the 10-15 years. Once that happens we'll see better regulation.
Some food for thought from Rich Hickey:
"Statically typed programs and programmers can certainly be as correct about the outside world as any other program/programmers can, but the type system is irrelevant in that regard. The connection between the outside world and the premises will always be outside the scope of any type system."
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lirke/simple_ma...
While I can understand that the Docker team operates in a very Go-centric environment, it’s a shame that some of these libraries don’t export a C interface to enable other languages to use them.

That being said, it’s a neat project that I’m tempted to port the ideas from.
Just remember that 15.X number is average. I know my wife's school had to call the union in twice last year as certain classes were exceeding 39 students in the classroom. I'd love to see more of statistics broken out demographically (in particular dense urban areas would be interesting).
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Hi rbonvall, thanks !
I will add this tonight, front page.
mtr

probably over time, comparing transit during and not during peak viewing times for a given isp
What do you have in mind as the alternative? It's not like the other popular west-coast startup location, San Francisco, is a cheap rental market with clean streets, great transit, and good schools...

Of course, things can be nicer here in Europe on some of those axes, but I imagine most people starting startups in LA are not really choosing between LA and Copenhagen as serious alternatives.
Devs can 'Handoff' iOS apps to browser-based UIs on Macs
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Hi mrfusion, we unfortunately have strict licensing restrictions on our data. Sorry!
For any interested, I wrote up a Haskell version[1]. Initially, it was immensely slow (~ 2 minutes); however, switching over to unboxed vectors brought it to be on par with OCaml. There are still opportunities for improvement.

[1] http://lpaste.net/105413
these days == for years
Sonalarm is the first sleep cycle alarm clock app that works from your bedside table with no additional hardware. https://appsto.re/us/HEtC0.i

Take a look at the GIF demonstrating the detection: http://imgur.com/zTBWFx8
Pyne offers a simple way to poll everyone (or just your friends)
Perfect! Thanks for the tip! I will add UTAUloids to the collection of vocaloids I bought in Kyoto! Composing music with Hatsune Miku or Megpoid vocaloids was fun, can't wait to try UTAU as well ;-)
XFS-on-Linux worked fine until you had a kernel panic or power outage, and would always shit the bed on reboot.

I've always preferred XFS over ext4 on ephemeral cloud instances, because you don't expect it to come back if it crashes.
While the theory works fine for static objects, how can it work for people? Did they have to precisely repeat their position while posing? Wouldn't it ruin the copying aspect?
https://github.com/firebug/firebug/tree/master/extension/ski...

Look for firebugBig.png and firebugSmall.svg. I _think_ those are the files.
You obviously don't understand what Haxl is for.
Write captions on other peoples pictures
Hi andrewcross,
Unfortunately managing alternative rule sets would have very important impacts on our architecture, we reasonnably cannot provide it for the world cup... But I hear the feedback for possible future versions ! Thks.
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IANAL but I agree that there does seem to be a conflict with http://www.theladders.com/
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No one mentioned ie dev tools. I had to use them in ie 11, and I was very impressed. Firebug ftw though
This is content-free. Major infrastructure construction projects are always behind schedule. Also, Verizon isn't a monopoly in NYC. RCN, TWC, and Cablevision all operate there too. Verizon isn't even the incumbent broadband ISP--it's being brought in to create competition for TWC and Cablevision.

Also, NYC folks can't complain when they elect people like de Blasio, who has turned FIOS into a civil rights issue, complete with hiring a demagogic civil rights lawyer: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140219/TECHNOLOGY/140....

The irony of complaining about the "monopoly" here is that it's precisely behavior like NYC's that has led to these problems in the first place. Look at the NYC cable franchise map: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/images/photos/NYC_Cable_Territ.... Why don't TWC and Cablevision overlap? It's because the city originally granted exclusive franchises to these companies, in the name of "universal access." In many places, the de-facto monopoly status is perpetuated by policies like build-out requirements, again imposed in the name of universal access.

There is no free lunch. Infrastructure is expensive and time-consuming to build. Cities like New York turn infrastructure development into a proxy war on race/class/economic issues, and investors unsurprisingly stay away. There's a reason why Google is building Google Fiber in places like Provo and Atlanta, not places like San Francisco and New York City.
Doh, good call.
You are right, feedback should contain constructive comments, but I couldn't be bothered to go into further details when I wrote my response. Here is a short video that I made showing what it really sounds like on my machine:

https://vimeo.com/97857232

I can't affort to "nerd into" the actual problem right now. Hence the whitty and non constructive comment. Apologies.
Design convergence?

Perhaps it's what is commonly understood as "what users want" on a windowed desktop OS... perhaps we need to look to new UI inputs/frameworks (mobile, voice) to break out of the current mold?
It is following that definition, but the issue is that it's built on iterators, which are of unknown length. Haskell would have effectively the same checks if built on lists because of the way lazy thunks work.
I'm sure I say the first of these well over 10 years ago. They never catch on because they never catch on - insufficient users.

Any thoughts on how you're going to pump-prime adoption?
We let people search by specific school and we are considering adding school district ranking soon. We've had a bunch of users requesting it.
Aaaargh.
This really frustrates me. I would rather have a bunch of text files and a link to the R manual.

Really, this is Stack Overflows annual "OK Cupid" moment and instead of a really linkable blog post with two gee-whiz insights I get "here you go, find an insight by spending two hours learning a UI you will never need again"

Did I miss the blog where they had already looked at the data themselves?
Traceroutes from a single source are poor tools for positively determining a source of latency. A traceroute only tells a unidirectional story, and an incomplete one at that.

In reality in is essential to use multiple provider/observer based tools to determine point(s) of congestion. However, it is entirely possible to empirically determine who the congested peers are between, which, and when specific geographical connections are overloaded.
To each his own. I rarely hear fluent Haskellers say they don't care for the syntax though; if you haven't really gotten far enough to write production code in Haskell that leverages Haskell's powerful abstraction features, then you should and you might find the syntax growing on you.

The syntax is nice because it enables the programmer to express software in a terse way, generally favoring the types as documentation and a strong mental model to understand the abstraction.
Experiences Over Things
> if you want your project to truly treat Windows as first class, you have to recruit people who know, love, and use Windows.

HN rumor has it that these creatures are mythical ;)
You can do "kind of" dependent types in Haskell too but it's an ugly mess (like trying to do it in Scala). Idris handles it really well for general programming tasks.
Effectively, yes.

We're in a country where we pay $50/month for 150GB quota on ADSL2+ which connects at 5Mbps.

There's a $10/50GB overage charge. So if we were to hit the quota you have, we'd be paying roughly the same ($70/month). Note that the price listed does not include taxes and fees, which bump it up to within a few dollars of your $79 price point.

http://www.att.com/shop/en/internet/internet-service.html
Nor in Opera 12.
My self-esteem just took a serious hit. I guess I should blame my bluntness and my ability to recall old stories.

Seriously though, is there some type of algorithm on HN which 'discourages' posting the same story within an allotted time period (say 2-6 months)?
Quite difficult unless you have a substantial amount of money to invest. May have better luck getting a work visa.
> this makes no sense to me, therefore it makes no sense.

This is my main problem with the tech community, especially HN. Most of the commenters here are intelligent and knowledgable, but many of them seem to be, for lack of a better word, arrogant. I see comments all the time that point out an undressed issue in a post and then go on to assume that they are the first people to think of issue and that it's unaddressable and/or unaddressed. It's not that hard to look past that tone and assumptions to get to the meat of the comment, but it gets old after a while. I don't think this means that all of the commenters on HN are cynical assholes (hell, I do it myself sometimes), but sometimes it seems that way.
Yes, I have HTTPS Everywhere installed. I will disable SSL Observatory and see if that helps. Thanks for the tip.
The real problem with making buses free is that they basically become homeless shelters on wheels, especially in winter. This then means people don't take the bus, which means routes get cut back, which means yet more people for take the bus.

The best solution is to have cashless buses. In London, you can only use Oyster card or visa/MasterCard/Amex contact less payment cards to ride. It seems to have smoothed things considerably.
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I could see autonomous UAVs being handled separately; you're right that I'm assuming that "drones" today have pilots ultimately responsible for them, which I think is in reality true.

I wouldn't mean for a certification pathway for UAV operators to exclude autonomous operation, but it's certainly a harder problem. It will probably be similar to current aircraft certification. Small companies have long histories of building and certifying airframes, so I don't buy your argument that it would "seriously stunt" drones. A company that can raise money can go through airframe and type certification. The costs come down in proportion to airframe fabrication and fuel costs.

It's one thing to let cities set their own rules for local flights below 400 ft. What happens when a software bug sends you up to 1,000 ft? Accidentally busts Class B airspace? These are similar issues as being seen with autonomous cars and can't be easily waved away.
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I think the Expo line will be a key factor. It will link SM with DTLA and there's plenty of cheap housing in between. And linking to DTLA (Union Station) is important because it's the link to the rest of SoCal through Metrolink. The LA rail system used to be a joke, but it's rapidly becoming useful.
One thing that i would love to see the callback on event listeners. And one feature that i was missing a couple weeks ago in the firefox dev tool was the ability to preserve network logs when changing page.
I am looking for the right word to describe this rather unpleasant strategy that seemed to start with YouTube and now is Über and AirBnb. AirBnB is explicitly or implicitly encouraging people to sublet rooms in breach of their contracts, similar to how YouTube rode on the back of old music videos.

It feels vaguely like the Pikkety rumpus - like a right wing think tank would approve of the "destroy the red tape holdin us back" when mostly it's not red tape, it's someone else's property.

I don't have the right words for the approach - it's hoping we get too big before we get caught.
That's not about how much the code might be optimized. I could always step out of Python and do a C module if I needed speed.

Instead, what's valuable in terms of the perceived performance delta is the speed of standard code as one would write intuitively and conventionally. With a reasonable understanding of how CPython compiles and interprets code, and a reasonable understanding of how the standard Go compiler suite generates binary code, one can make ballpark-style statements of performance for such code without lying too much.

Sure, there's PyPy, and there's gccgo, but that's not what most of the respective communities are using today, and it's not what we use in the projects I'm part of either.