skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, can you shoot me an email at contact @ statwing? I'd love to hop on a screenshare for 10 minutes.

Agreed that the gigantic help screen thing upon close is dumb. But a couple of the things you mention sound more like browser-related issues/bugs, we'd love to see them live for a second.
I think a more detailed writeup on the issues you had, and the rationale behind the choices for libchan, would be fascinating, if you ever have the chance. :-)
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If you read my posting, I said that it's not cheating unless you claim you don't use technology. As someone who teaches and researches teaching, I find it it incredibly disingenuous to teach people that painting is some mystical talent from the wellspring of the soul and at the same time use tons of tricks and techniques to make the image.

So yes, people should discount the credibility of outright liars as nothing but con artists if they're going around claiming they can paint "naturally" but end up using tons of tech to do what they do. Especially if those people are teaching art, music, anything.

Edit: And yes, I do get a little tingle when I find out someone figured out how to hack something. That's why I'm a hacker, and so were all those painters who figured this shit out 500+ years ago.
Lots of people have offered you specific and constructive advice, both in this thread and in a similar one from a couple of months ago [1]. You could have incorporated most of the suggestions in only a couple of hours. Yet as of this writing, your resume remains just as sloppy and unprofessional as before. Your personal website still broadcasts blatant dishonesty to anyone who cares to look.

Unless you're fortunate enough to stumble upon a web development shop with no internet connection, it's unlikely that you're going to be hired in the role you're hoping for. Since panhandling doesn't quite seem to be working out either [2], you may want to start thinking about taking any honest work you can find. Your opportunities will surely improve once you have grown up a bit. Good luck.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7588059
[2] https://twitter.com/patrickcurl
It happens for me more like five times a day. I am holding the rest of my machines on Firefox 28 till this is fixed. It is easier to cancel update message than to terminate the zombie process.
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.unwrap() is checked, if it goes wrong, it will safely cause task failure and stack unwinding. There won't be any memory unsafety.
The statement that all ISP's over-sell is oversimplified.

All ISPs statistically multiplex the bandwidth requirements for off-net connectivity. Over-selling a peering relationship is impossible, as the ISP is selling only a speed-rated connection to it's own network. The assumption (or contractual service level) is generally that the ISP will augment either transit or peering as the resource becomes saturated.

The issue on hand is not the local or last mile bandwidth between the (retail) ISP and the customer, but the interconnection between the retail and the wholesale bandwidth providers. Two of the wholesale providers in question have publicly stated that their interconnections with specific retail providers are congested, and are not being augmented per their private contracts with the retail networks.

The above explanation is also a simplification, because for example Verizon is also a premium wholesale network in North America and several MSOs have also been building national transport networks.
I was referring to the "mirror on the end of it" part and just quoted the preceding line.

Compared to the hands of the girl in the picture, the color and the shape of his own hand looked odd. It's too round and looked kind of brassy.
Except a Creationist school district would be a violation of Church/State separation and the trial relating to that would stop the teacher from being fired...

> Why not just mandate that all employees in all businesses can't be fired for two years after being hired?

Last time I checked 'all businesses' did not change ownership on the basis of opinion and did not require the person to speak publicly about sensitive subjects.

> why should teachers have more job security than anyone else?

Because otherwise a number of them would get fired every time someone from the opposing party gets elected.
Ask HN: how do you keep track of web services?
Hey,
I run a small business involving a lot of different web services, accounts and e-mail addresses. Do you guys know any good way to keep track of them all? That is, let every teammate know all the web apps she has at her disposal, the different accounts & passwords for them, etc?
Thanks!
Pre-analyzed results are available here, also downloadable: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/02/2013-stack-overflow-us...
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/01/2012-stack-overflow-us...

This was just us at Statwing grabbing their data (with permission) and sticking it into our software with the goals of making it easy to explore and exposing folks to Statwing.
Hello,

Thanks for seeing the feedback! I'm sorry, screenshare will not work out, but the platform I used is Firefox on Linux. The misaligned tables happen when the data is wide, so there is a thin horizontal scrollbar at the bottom that only appears on hover (which my personal taste doesn't like, sorry about that). When using that scrollbar to go all the way to the right, the top labels of the table are misaligned.

The thing is, the data would be easier to view if it would simply be wider and the browser could arrange the scrolling of the whole screen(e.g. left/right arrow keys would do it).
Questioning corporate involvement in Gnome development
You would only choose Scala over Haskell if the pros (having the java library and running under the jvm) outweigh the cons (having the java library and running under the jvm) :-)
Still high, but at least saner.
Assuming the Church/State separation vanishes, yes.
The interesting part of AirBnB, though (imo, of course), has typically been sort of a couchsurfing where you cover some of the offering party's rent in exchange for the accommodation. That occupies a kind of awkward niche between fully-free and fully-commercial accommodations, where there is (or was) some kind of expectation of a relationship to cost: you don't stay free like with Couchsurfing, but the other party isn't trying to run a profit-maximizing hotel, either.

It's true that it's increasingly converging towards becoming a competitor to standard vacation-rental sites like booking.com and HomeAway, though, which come with different expectations.
Somehow I think this should have been upvoted to the top.
The "passive seekers" you refer to are what I like to call window shoppers.

Recruiting platforms like this one almost always appeal to window shoppers. Many window shoppers are folks who simply want find out if the grass is greener on the other side. In most cases they're window shopping because they don't really know what they want and they're not motivated enough to figure it out. For example, many of these folks are not looking to work in a particular vertical, or to solve a particular type of technical challenge. Instead, they're looking to see if they can earn $xx,xxx more per year or get into a hotter startup.

I wouldn't say that there are no good window shoppers, but they're rarely as attractive as the folks who are happily employed but open-minded enough to explore a great opportunity if they encounter one. Non-window shoppers are more likely to be people you meet in person. You pique their interest by telling a compelling story about your business or the technical challenges you're trying to solve, not by leading with compensation and your fridge's awesome collection of imported beers.

It's amusing that so many companies don't see these networks of window shoppers for what they are.
Higher prices make room for competition.
We're talking about Macs and, last time I checked, Steam won't even install on a case sensitive filesystem on the Mac (or Windows). They have to on Linux—there's no other choice.
Lot of this is historical. When .Net first came out Microsoft projected it as enterprise platform specifically designed for Windows developers. This immediately ticks off any academics who want to use it for classroom or anyone who wants to do cross platform open source projects.

Even as Mono came out later, backing for it has been lacking and nobody knew if it would just die out in long run or would get killed if it ever became too popular.

The result is that most people who come out of college have been using Python/Java/Ruby for class work and then use it to build open source eco-system. This feeds on to itself and before you know now most important open source libraries are built using non-Microsoft platform.

Even though on technical (and now even political) merit C# is richer language miles ahead of Java and .Net CLR is fantastically advanced than almost anything else, there are simply many more people churning out of colleges familiar with Java instead of C#.

Over time, this accumulates and produces laughable outcome where people seem to prefer something as despising as Oracle owned product rather than much-lesser-evil Microsoft.

For languages other than Java, such as Python or Ruby, C# is actually too verbose and even lacked functional features initially. When functional features arrived, they were incremental and more as after-thought. So there was reasonable basis to reject it on that ground. I would say Go has fan base but is more comparable to C# 2.0 than C# 6.0. Some cling to few innovative features in Go and less verbousness while confusing its lack of features as "simplicity" but overall it still has miles to go.
I dread the day someone figures out a way to weaponize this in practical fashion. I'd be astounded to learn that not-very-practical attacks don't already exist.
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"we all believe 'we’ll stay in touch' but the horrible irony is how we still believe that lie"
Lastpass works great for this. Roboform and secretserver have good products also.
Actually the exact phrase I usually use is "I don't know, but ...". Tends to work pretty well in these situations.
See also: http://theslowweb.com (used to be at .org but I forgot to do some renewals last year)
Any examples of the algorithms these kind of service uses? Or in any other area in which automatic pricing is used.

Thank you very much.
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Most of the other marketplaces people have mentioned in this thread charge 2-4X more than us. If we can connect companies with great talent it'll be worth it.
Honestly, for what you are trying to do, I would go bootstrap or foundation framework, HTML5 and CSS3. Not even JavaScript. That's it.

Skip the SASS, LESS, Python, WordPress, Flask or other stuff everyone here is talking about. You don't need it.

Some plain static webpages. Period.
Thanks. I'm pretty sure I'm in a small minority, and got sign-up using my laptop.
You don't have to sell me on the idea, brother, I've been supporting vouchers since I heard of them. I think you're overly optimistic that there are "lawmakers" on our side, though. Even those from the ostensibly free-market party, when they get into power, rarely support programs that would reduce their own sphere of influence. It's hard to get re-elected by saying "Look what I didn't do for you."
"we all believe 'we’ll stay in touch' but the horrible irony is how we still believe that lie..."
Get into the graduate program at Cornell or CMU.
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This is a hack to patch a bug produced by optimization on the browser side.

I get that it's a neat hack. I really do. But this should never become standard. It just shouldn't.

I guess it beats having a videocard optimized for rendering webpages, which is probably the alternative.

Can we just clean slate reboot HTML/CSS/JavaScript to something that's quite like it but has reinvented seperation of concerns? Symantics/Syntax/Dynamics was kinda neat. Right now it's "State/Looks/Processing", and it's backwards compatible in a messy way.

I seriously think that HTML5 is just too cluttered, with no cleaning up going on. Compiling towards HTML5 is not improving the problem, and if we go down that road I suggest making languages better for compiling towards web-compatible(Hey, c, how are you? What's that? You're in browsers now?).
First, at the security line, there's no benefit for hanging around outside. And you can go later - I usually show up an hour before boarding, even for international. Skipping security lines means unlikely to miss boarding.

Being able to skip boarding line means a: I can hang out in the lounge until a bit later, or b: get on the plane earlier so I can order drinks, get comfy and start sleeping or reading or whatever.

Being up front also means getting in before a ton of people at customs, sometimes. So that might be another 30-40 minutes of standing around in some cases (or worse).
On the other side of this argument, from what I've seen on AirBNB, a significant percentage of owners have dramatically overpriced their accommodations. Consequently, widespread adoption of a yield management system like this would lower the prices of many places on many days (while increasing the occupancy rate).
I wrote it up; http://huonw.github.io/2014/06/11/error-handling-in-rust-knn...
The unwraps are not memory unsafe, unlike avoiding bounds checks. In any case, rewriting to avoid them isn't so hard: http://huonw.github.io/2014/06/11/error-handling-in-rust-knn...

(Notably, since it's all in the types, you're guaranteed to not ignore any errors.)
Point taken about the scrollbar only showing on hover, definitely an issue.

For context, there's some tricky issues that come up in building a way to view tables that can scale to 10,000s by 10,000s (e.g., you can't just plop down the html, even though that would suit this particular dataset well). Definitely still got some kinks to work out.

And thanks for reporting the misaligned tables on Firefox/Linux thing.

Cheers, and thanks for the feedback.
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When will google learn that asking users to create "circles", "groups" etc. for the purpose of sharing content doesn't work. People are too lazy. In the statement below the only way I could share a document with multiple people would be to create an icon that represents a group of people. That means I would have to create icons for all possible combinations of people that I would ever want to share any document or piece of content with rather than selecting the group of people on the fly for that specific piece of content like current sharing mechanisms do.

"For example, a user may select a file from his or her documents and drag the file to an icon representing a user's contact," the patent application states. "The user may drop the file onto the icon, which may cause the file to automatically be shared to the contact represented by the icon. The icon may represent a single contact or a group of contacts."
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GoRazor is the Go port of the razor view engine originated from asp.net in 2011.
I'm on Android, so I can't try it out but I'd love to see how it differs from Jelly etc.
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Erm... this entire thread is about 30 hitting release... no need to wait 6 weeks.
If you have the money to buy the commercial splitting/tapping products, and the resources to go find and attack the fibre lines, then I think it's as trivial as it's going to be. Certainly within range of corporate budgets.
I love the term and I love the idea.

I consider the Slow Food movement to be one of the most important movements for true quality of life (at least as far as first-world problems go), and with the sort of always-on environment that typical white-collar workers experience in today's post-Twitter mobile world, I think tech can just as readily destroy people's lives as fast food does. This makes me sad because I've been instinctively drawn to tech for my entire life and I don't want to believe that we need to somehow forcibly detach from tech to lead balanced and sane lives. There is a way for tech to be enriching without stress or compulsion inducing. I'm totally behind The Slow Web and look forward to my own contributions in years to come.
Can you go into your algorithm? Statistical Method?
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I almost exclusively live in AirBnBs these days, and when I'm looking for a new place to stay it will usually take me a few days or possibly a week to check out what's available, message a few people and then choose the one I want. If the prices are changing daily then that would really confuse my way of using the site.

However, a lot of pricing on there does seems to be guesswork, wildly varying, sometimes really cheap and sometimes really expensive. So if this helps enough people to price their property better then that's something I can get behind.
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This is (one of the reasons) why it should not be legal for government workers to go on strike.
The engine isn't as polished as Vocaloid's is.
SkyBox was not the only or best player on the block - they just happened to be based in Mountain View. Meanwhile DG is fat happy and slow. It's a market ripe for disruption so expect it.
The 84.4% statistic is cited in the census report (linked in this article, along with other census reports effectively showing the number is unchanged over the years). And where are you pulling the 4% number from? Sounds like a completely made-up number, similar to the rest of your claims.

Proof from a authoritative source would be useful to validate your claims, don't you think?
I was more convinced by someone who replied to that post (psnively). He seems to be saying that type systems can't model the world as we know it perfectly, in which case it sounds like a Nirvana fallacy - we can model a lot of things that we care about as programmers, so even though we can't model all of it, it still has merit. If what he is referring to is that type systems are somehow "separate" from the outside world, then it seems somewhat like saying that mathematics is a wholly abstract field. Still, though, applied mathematics has been incredibly successful.

After psnively's reply, Rich decides to throw a tantrum (read: "bow out").
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I tried once earlier, but the Captcha was too crazy. Seriously. It was insane. I couldn't do it.

It does look a bit funny. I agree.

I'm quite serious though. He said "Having my girlfriend over, and being male". It's a deep-rooted sexism issue. Having his girlfriend over without prior approval of there being two people could be the issue. But he states "and being male". Obviously that wouldn't be an issue, unless either his host went full retard (in which case no policecar would take him, I'm guessing) or he's using it as an excuse.

Either way, it probably is the host forcing him+her out of the property because he didn't want his bedroom soiled or God offended under his/her roof or something. But for a BNB that previously consented it's pretty weird, to say the least.

Would prefer if he just explained what happened instead of this interesting sounding story. I just thought it was funny that "being male" could be construed as "thus unable to control myself". And then it's really unfunny that it could be constructed that way. And that's sexism in a nutshell!
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Somewhat related: the Voder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo .
I have the enabled, however it only shows the URL accessed.

To see the actual response, you have to click the URL, which takes you to the Network panel. Then you have to find the request on the Network panel (no clue why it doesn't deep link to the correct tab), then click Response.
I'm not sure sure about the lenses point. I read a book once about how William Herschel (1738-1822) spent an inordinate amount of time making lenses for his home-made telescopes, polishing them for hours and hours. These were probably far bigger and more precise than the kind of thing that an artist would need, but it gives the impression that lenses may not have been as readily available in the 17th century as you think. (The book was called 'The Age of Wonder' by Richard Holmes, if you're interested)
How much work is it to get "proper" pronunciation like this song?
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It currently consists of a bunch of single purpose modules, some output (light switch and door lock via GPIO, music player, notification sender, etc.), some input (SMS via Twilio, Github webhooks, web interface, etc.), and a central broker. They're all communicating by sending JSON messages over ZeroMQ sockets. Each module connects to and registers with the broker, which keeps track of module health with heartbeats, and routes and schedules commands based on the modules' registered handlers.

It's less complicated than it might sound, I've got some (unorganized, undocumented) code up at https://github.com/spro/drsproboto if you want to take a peek.
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From paragraph #10:

Could corals and humans have evolved our TNF
families independently? It’s unlikely, given
how compatible the two proteins are.

But no further detail is given.
I would choose OCaml, but you made a good point. 10 internets for you, sir.
The fact that there exists such a type system, does not mean that we have constructed it. Having said that, the theoretical existence of such a theory seems highly plausible, but without a proof, it would not surprise me to learn that such is impossible. Without a constructivist proof, it would not suprise me to learn that the existence of such a system is irrelevent (to applied computer science).
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Why is .NET "weird Windows stuff"? Apart from obviously Windows-specific libraries like WMI, WinForms, etc. Even Microsoft released an example of the CLI that'd compile for FreeBSD among other OSes. So the cross-platform part of the runtime and much of the basic libraries is truly built-in.

Or did I miss your point?