skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, absolutely no illumination provided. Within this thread, I've provided support for the idea as well as anecdotes and data as to why more bike lanes won't get the average person on a bike. I've been downvoted and refuted with no particular counter argument leading me to believe that this is a religious issue and not a factual one. Bikers believe everybody should bike, and people who give reasons why they don't are summarily dismissed.

I'm sorry if I offended your religion.
I used to justify my Amazon book purchases this way, but then I realized it wasn't worth it. Removing DRM is illegal already, and so is downloading a copy for free. I don't want to support a company that uses DRM with my money, whether its easy to crack or not. Now I only buy DRM-free books, and find the rest elsewhere.
1) The code that users write in Reflex is the code that actually runs. This means that any guarantee about a Reflex program is a guarantee about the real life implementation of that program.

2) Reflex does not use testing to verify a user's code. Instead, Reflex automatically produces fully machine checkable proofs that user-provided code satisfies user-provided specifications. Machine checkable proofs (in a proof assistant) provide the strongest possible guarantee about one's code.
You said it wasn't interesting. I disagreed. It appears others have also. My final word on this. Feel free to have the last word, if you like.
Right, while disruption is theoretically good for consumers, the major effect I've seen from Amazon over the past 15 years is that nearly every physical bookstore around me has closed. I would prefer a world without Amazon to a world without bookstores.
It initializes the Auth module with the User object. The Auth module in turn extends the User object with the property 'auth'.

The auth property is then extended with a 'logAttempt' function and a 'clearLoginAttempts' function.

The User object in the parent context can then use these properties.

Oh, and I agree that the tabbing makes it look ridiculous. Javascript should use two spaces, nothing more, nothing less (let the fight begin).
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This depends entirely on who the users are. If a fellow developer tells you something, listen to him! If someone who doesn't know what a CPU is tells you something, try to figure out what he really wants. But even then, if he tells you something simply doesn't work well for him, don't dismiss it as him not understanding your vision.

The problem with some projects (e.g. GNOME) is that they consider all feedback to be equally invalid, and the self-appointed "designers" are always right. This is the result of the Apple-inspired worship of almighty "design," and is contrary to the very idea of personal computing empowering people.
I'm actually surprised, I would have figured that by this point, there would have been a revolution, or at least mutterings. The federal government is actually circumventing the law and the justice system in order to illegally incarcerate citizens. The American government is the enemy of the American people by the governments own admission.

It turns out it wasn't Brave New World or 1984, rather it's both, each enabling the other.

I just pray America elects someone who can turn this ship around, rather than doubling down on the stupidity of it all.
You think people have as little control over their musical tastes as over the color of their eyes? If they like death metal, it is just a random variation that says nothing about their personality? Or if Gangster Rap is their thing? Musical taste says nothing about personality, is that really what you believe?

I've always enjoyed finding out what's on the playlist of the great developers I work with, because I am always surprised.
If your product or service was a person, would you like them?
There are actually quite a few github users who have ported the project to Go, Ruby, Python, etc. I believe there already exists a popular java based alternative.

Node would be awesome for a project like this. Especially with Gulp. If someone hasn't already built it, I would love to.
This is a big annoyance for me as well. I use jemalloc to make sure that my FFI allocations don't 'steal' this lower memory from my pure Lua allocations. It works great on Linux, but only so-so on OSX.

http://www.canonware.com/pipermail/jemalloc-discuss/2014-Feb...

https://gist.github.com/neomantra/9122165
Ever since the introduction of roundabouts, car-on-cyclist accidents have risen in the Netherlands. Why? Because when a car leaves the roundabout, it basically has to take an almost blind right turn, where it's very difficult to see a cyclist approaching from the side / behind. Just a few months ago I was hit by a car in this exact scenario. It happens about two to three times a week where a car will not spot me in time when it leaves the roundabout (I cross about 50 roundabouts a week). I know this, so I adjust my cycling speed at roundabouts to near-nothing.

I'm not convinced right on red doesn't pose a dangerous situation, even if cars come to a full stop first. In a right on red scenario, the bicyclist always approaches from behind, in the blind spot of the mirror. I'm not saying the right on red policy should be abolished, just as I don't want roundabouts to be abolished in the Netherlands (I love those things). Just that, as a cyclist, it's primarily your duty to ensure cars have seen you. Let's hope that as cycling increases in the U.S., motorists become more aware of cyclists in the street.
A recent commit messed up mobile. Sucks that it happened right before I posted.

Will address it soon.
My friends are too valuable to lose from joining a start-up with them.
Where in HN Guidelines it says that these kind of links are acceptability? This is Redditism!
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Anyway cgranade, would you support internal career tracks for women only, to rectify the shortage of women higher up?
Do you think women should be given extra consideration for promotion at google?
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The only reason I can think of - and admittedly I can't prove it but it seems intuitive - would be the assumption that pushing rendering to the browser and breaking requests up into fine-grained AJAX requests or doing resorting in the browser, takes some burden off the server. Why should you have to reload an entire page, for instance, when a thread only contains one new comment? Browsers aren't dumb terminals so let them do some of the work.

Of course this is assuming the javascript isn't also piling on a bunch of nifty effects as well. For me, though, it seems to load really quickly.
How to reward this salesperson 
Hi HN! I'm creating a startup which targets the fashion industry. It focusses on customer relation management, discoverability and more.

I'm fashionable myself and I am known in several high end stores, but I have no real retailer/brand network. I do have contact with a salesperson who is setting up fashion brand for himself, and he wants to help me with my startup. Ofcourse, he wants some kind of reward.

I've read some articles on the internet on the topic of rewarding sales persons, and most of them suggest not hiring anyone and just do it yourself (in the beginning). But I do think the network of this guy can be valuable. How would you motivate this relationship?
Ok, I'll try and explain it in another way: it's an interesting bit of news for people like me who follow current events. It's sad to see it happening after the 'Arab Spring', and I wonder how it will affect other countries, what the US reaction to it will be, and so on.

So it's "interesting" and important from a current events/politics point of view. But not at all in a "deeper understanding of the world" way. The latter is what Hacker News should be about. There are tons of sites for the former.
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Honest questions deserve honest answers:

Even conferences aren't particularly diverse. If they were, you probably wouldn't have had things like the PyCon incident. (http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/PyCon_2013_forking_and_do...)

(Note that here the conference organizers were trying to be diversity aware, but the backlash from people who didn't want them to be was huge.)

More on the state of women's employment in the tech industry: http://aboutfeminism.me/

When I started paying attention to this, I thought there was an issue, but it wasn't that serious. The more I learn, the more serious I think it is.

I don't know as much about race and sexuality as I do gender, but I get the impression isn't all dancing through the flowers there either.
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But then you might end up shortening things like `about:blank` by accident.
Also found the coding style a bit complicated and confusing - looks like they are passing the User module to other modules(in this case the auth module) and adding methods.
The flight problem isn't really a FLIGHT problem: it's about energy. Is it possible to create a zero-carbon source of energy, or, maybe, an accumulator good enough to power the flight of commercial aircraft? We've already seen that for cars it is possible (Tesla), so now it's time for the next step.
"And the more I read krebs, the more I think I should get a $2k limit credit card and use it for all purchases that aren't on amazon."

Let me repeat my advocacy of the virtues of cash for face to face transactions. I normally carry a bit over $400 in my wallet, and almost always use cash for everything up to, say, $800, and around or above that, a check if I can.

Also rewards the retailer with the 2-3% or so in processing charges they'd otherwise have to pay.
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I know you're just joking, but...

http://www.echojs.com/

https://news.layervault.com/
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> “Well, I grabbed coffee with the founder, and I had dinner with the team last night, and then we went to a bar together.”

I'm no teetotaler, but bars can be uncomfortable to downright hostile places for the majority of people (women + people who don't drink for religious or health reasons). It's absolutely inappropriate and unprofessional to incorporate one into an interview. This is typical "old boy's club" shit, just with hipster glasses and organic carrots.
Does anyone have more information on what is going on?
OwnCloud's calendar doesn't support subscribing to changing calendars (like Facebook event feed; you have to setup an automatic import manually).
I don't know if I would call a fully working product with pricing details and everything an experiment.
"foundations of morality is going to become a central issue soon" -- for many people it has been the central issue for three thousand years.

For anyone who has studied philosophy or ethics -- even casually -- this article was terribly naive and hopelessly unaware of its own ignorance. Beyond that, the applied linear algebra was not interesting, no real game or decision theory to speak of and the whole 'eigenmoses' and 'eigenjesus' was too cute by half.

Iterated prisoner's dilemma? Not my idea of a powerful tool.

Was there more? I may have missed it.
what is the time frame usually for an unspecified distance are we talking seconds or minutes?
Google gets into 5G game via Alpental acquisition
> > The RFC does not reflect reality either (which, ironically, is what you seem to be complaining about).

> Well, or reality does not match the RFC?

Doesn’t matter – if there’s a discrepancy between what a document says and what implementors do, that document is but a work of fiction.

> And as I said above, such rejection most certainly should not happen in the parser.

This is not a parser.
There is another way: become a member of the Guild of technologists, and break away from the commoditized pop culture of programming.

In short, work somewhere where your ideas and skills matter more than LoC generated per day. There's tons of devs who are younger/faster/hungrier than you who will work for less. Actually, this whole system depresses wages for development as a whole and you should be pissed about that.

Ageism is unique in that it's a game you're guaranteed to lose eventually.
I don't think electing any one person is going to have an effect. The problem is that at this point, it's systemic corruption at nearly all levels of government.
Energy definitely solves water (thanks to desalination). Food is a (wealth) distribution problem. Very different.

Clean energy would also obviously solve the polluting airplane problem...
What are the security benefits gained by using FastMail over Google (in the context of a state-level eavesdropper)? Is it that FastMail is a smaller target? If you take all your centralized information from Google and move it over to FastMail, it's still centralized - what am I missing?
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History shows through numerous examples that people are willing to put up with significantly more egregious activity from their governments before they do anything about it. And in many cases, they still never do.
That's the great thing about software: it can be configured to meet different needs at the same time. So tired of the "it can appeal to new users or power users" false dichotomy that drives all software toward the lowest common denominator. It's like the mindless, constant-growth dogma has spread from the stock market to software developers who care more about "market share" and mass appeal than craftsmanship and usefulness.
Where'd you end up?
Why would performance be a concern for a bitcoin API? I think this projects main goal is tot provide an easily auditable typesafe implementation.
"Correlation doesn't equal causation" I've noticed that people tend to misinterpret this sentence. In a lot of discussions it shows that people think that there can be correlation while the things don't have _ANY_ relationship between eachother, as in the correlation would arise purely trough random chance.

That is blatantly false. Correlation implies at very minimum a causal link trough a third effect. The traditional example of drownings and ice cream consumption has that third link. Nice summer days. So those two are linked.

I think one should say "Correlation doesn't imply direct causation". That's closer to the truth.
I went comparing forum software the other day, last time I did was 10 years ago. Wanted to get a nice and simple forum up 'n running in a couple of hours. PhpBB is still the top hit when searching. But come on, we can do better than that?

So tried Discourse, but the Docker-only installation turned me off (a magic black box). After getting it to run for a bit, apparently something crashed and got a gateway timeout. No Docker experience, so couldn't easily get in and get some log data. Hard to debug. After killing the container and restarted it worked again... not wanting to learn docker for setting up a simple forum (trying to avoid the rabbit hole). And how am I gonna update this box?

Then a look at NodeBB. Too immature, a little bit funky UI and also relatively hard to deploy. Don't have NodeJS running on one of our production servers.

Ended up with VanillaForums: untar... welcome screen... db credentials... go! Much cleaner than PhpBB and simple to setup. Styling was a breeze too. A couple of hours later I had a forum matching our identity up 'n running. Don't want setup and maintenance hell for something as simple as a forum...
You've made ~10% of the comments for this article and you are dismissing things other people say by accusing them of caring too much about the issue. I'm also not sure repeatedly dismissing the same minor points does much for the conversation (of course repeatedly raising them doesn't do much good either).

I think you are probably right that bike lanes alone aren't going to get a lot of people biking, but I think you are wrong that they don't matter. It's a situation where each piece of the puzzle needs to exist, so safe routes probably matter just as much as sensible city planning and shower availability and so on. The existence of safe routes could even impact planning some (because if there is significant interest in using them to commute, it should show up in housing decisions).
Just reviewing my notes from that book now. Great read. "Anyone not busy learning is busy dying."
The American people is the enemy of the American people.

By that I mean there are plenty of people who are happy to support this kind of thing so long as they believe it's only being used against people unlike them in skin color, socioeconomic background, religious or political beliefs. America is not strong on solidarity.

On the other hand, the ship is turning, slowly. The war on drugs is being de-escalated, which may provide an opportunity to de-escalate the relationship between the public and the police.
Not reproducible on my main machine with the following OS and specs:
1GHz Pentium 3
Windows 2000
512MB RAM
32GB SSD

Hoax report? I'm beginning to think so...
Please advise.
I think it matters what time you do the lookup. For Cloudflare it says the current response time is less than 2ms.

A couple of hours later the response time is anywhere from 40ms to 250ms. I guess that's what the monthly average is so important.
I switched around a year ago. Another reason is that the interface is faster than google.

Also the features are different, Google has some FM lacks vice versa. Depending on the features you need that might be an advantage or a disadvantage. Personally I only miss "Send & Archive" from Google.
As someone who works in dementia research (...), I can't help but notice the total absence of any well defined target for the challenge, which makes it, for a goal-oriented objective process, a poor choice.

"If Dementia wins the vote, the challenge for Longitude Prize 2014 will be to develop intelligent, yet affordable technologies that revolutionise care for people with dementia enabling them to live truly independent lives."

This reflects the fact that there's not an obvious solution to the dementia problem - yes, there are good big picture targets like this, I'm not sure how well this translates into day-to-day operations.

Beyond this, should we be focussing resources/time/money on conditions which, fundamentally, are a byproduct of a high quality of life for a minority of the worlds population, or should we, perhaps, be focussing on ensuring clean drinking water for everyone, or developing antibiotics. I feel like dementia is somewhat incongruous with the other problems presented, but I suspect it might do well because it's so prevalent in the lives of the specific population voting for this.
Since this would never pass Apple's approval, why not take another approach: create an app that checks in automatically on a pre-set interval. If the phone ever gets turned off and a check-in is missed, the dead man's switch will flip. When you're in danger, just turn the phone off. This also has the added benefit of triggering the alert if the captor/aggressor turns off or destroys the phone. Just enable it when you know you're going to be entering a dicey situation.
Couldn't you just not attach anything to the line?
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Worldwide, but you link to the US page?
I have noticed it right now, so I posted it, expecting, that somebody will examine it a little deeper. It may be a bug, but it may also be an unsuccessful (not properly hidden) attempt of Microsoft to gather some data about you.
I just finished a Skype video call last night around 10pm and the light went off immediately after I ended the call. Perhaps it's your hardware/drivers.

Does HN allow original research/idle speculation in text submissions without any evidence backing it up?
Nice. Panic App meet signal jammer.

Perhaps a combination with some form of dead-man's-switch could be useful? A basic design might be: record gps coordinates at an interval, encrypt to chosen gpg/pgp keys and store on a server. Additionally have a heart-beat, and pre-recorded message. When the heart-beat signal is interrupted for a configurable length of time, send email(s) with encrypted message and gps trail?

The reason for encrypting the data, would be an effort to minimize the risk associated with a compromise of the server account(s) (could really just be smart remailers - allowing the server interface to be via smtp).

Perhaps combined with a panic-button for signalling immediate distress along with destroying the signing gpg sub-key (so that, when authorities get help from the vendor to unlock the phone, they can't send a signed "I'm ok, never mind"-message).

Would require the usual mess of administrating keys, of course.
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Let me take you round the streets of Shoreditch.

Although it's more full beards at the moment than moustaches. Which I, for one, consider an improvement.
Author here: actually the article talks about this- you're unable to cancel the My Website (their most popular service) using that website.
> Curiosity: if somebody can give me a good reason why they don't like Joel, OK. But if they have never heard of him, it seems likely they are not curious about programming.

You are conflating with what you are interested in with what everybody should be interested in. Some people just don't care about Spolsky or aren't big fans of his writing. That doesn't mean anything about those people's interest in programming or computers.

The whole point of this article is that companies and teams are creating cliques out of cultural preferences and setting up those that fall outside of their preferences as inferior for not liking what they like. The last several posts you had in this thread reenforced this idea: well gee I found this thing interesting/useful, anyone who doesn't clearly isn't any good.
You have to add up both directions.

The average speed of a bike commuter is under 10 mph. 32 miles thus takes more than 3.2 hours, * 2 = 6.4 hours per day biking the same distance as the average American commuter currently drives in 1/3 the time. Toss in a couple hills and you could easily hit 8 hours total biking time.
Limited competition will always be more dangerous than the means we focus on.
Hit flag.
What if it's, you know, a bug
This could pretty easily be setup on a jailbroken device also.
ouch. but when you hang your sh*t way out there, on systems you have no physical control over, how can you act like this is not a likely eventual outcome?
I don't trust Skype but I think this post is a hoax
Did you ever consider that it's most likely a bug between Skype and your webcam driver?

Here's my thinking. Even if Skype _did_ want to continue recording you after you quit the application, I'd imagine that they'd have the software and hardware know how to turn off the LED on your webcam.
> So what is a good/correct hiring criterion? I was under the impression that nobody really knows.

Actually I can't believe you can say this with a straight face. It is well known what a good hiring criterion is (e.g. productive, smart, not an asshole, can work with different people etc). All these things can be sussed out during the interview process quite professionally without resorting to questioning people's musical tastes and what they do in their free time.

> And I am not convinced that it is a bad idea to look for "cultural fit".

You just might be young and inexperienced but it is also possible you are socially inept and can't get along with professionals whose character and background don't match yours - and don't get me wrong - this is just the read I'm getting from your posts, it's not meant to be an insult.

If anything terrifies me in this world it's intolerant, prejudiced, xenophobic people who can't get along with anyone who is not exactly like them. Absolutely detestable stuff.

And I for one don't really care about having dinners with my coworkers, going clubbing together and similar nonsense. You're paying me to do a job for you and I will deliver my end of the deal. Beyond that I owe you nothing, especially not things like entertaining you and inflating your ego in your free time.