skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be awesome if not for the fact that it displays the extension info in a column on the left for every new tab. Why does it do that? Why isn't there an option to hide that? I added the extension to see the startup pages, not to see the damn column.
Would it be fair to say a marketplace for services which software is poor (relative to humans) at providing? I can't see how else to create 1M jobs while still having the jobs, individually, produce value.
Also their interface for tracking plays has gotten significantly worse. And you have to pay extra to get most of the same information you get for free from youtube.
The human clinician would (hopefully) be operating the machine.
The free piston engine that is essentially a linear electric power generator in the OP is interesting and maybe promising for practice. And such a car with a battery for capturing energy from braking, operating accessories without the engine, and some extra power for a few seconds could be fine. Fine. I like it. Good OP.

You wrote:

> Nothing in the grandparent comment invites your first rant.

Wrong. From the OP I was responding to:

> Electrically driven cars are the future. But until we have cheap, 1000-mile batteries, we still need range-extending fossil-fuel engines.

This quote is the "rant" -- the writer hates "fossil-fuel engines" and is dreaming of "1000 mile batteries" presumably to be charged from the electric grid. Wacko nonsense. Smoking funny stuff nonsense.

Uh, just where would the energy to charge a "1000 mile battery" come from? Sure, now, heavily from the electric grid from fossil fuels. Wind, solar? Nope, not for the grid because those sources will need to store electric energy, and that's too darned expensive.

Some people just HATE a 15 gallon tank of gasoline or Diesel and just dream of "1000 mile batteries" and threaten to increase my costs of car travel and seriously weaken the US, and I don't like attacks on either me or the US.

This wacko, 'green worship' with humans and carbon as 'evil', etc. is going too darned far. I don't care about people worshiping the moon, but this wacko stuff is trying to hurt my car transportation, and I don't like it.
Even with a cynical reading, that would seem to be permitted but not required.
No.

But I found a pretty good approach to making a satisfying life without having to "make it rich". In my twenties, I moved to the part of the world where I most enjoyed vacationing, and built my life there. Now every day on my way to work, I look around and couldn't be happier with where I am. Even on the hard days, I have almost everything I really want in life pretty close by, and that pretty consistently helps me keep things in perspective.

Life isn't perfect here, and I did have to move pretty far from most of my family, but place is as important to me as people. If I lived in the wrong part of the world, I'd be pretty miserable and I wouldn't be very good to be around anyway.

I still hope to make enough money to not have to work, but in the mean time, and if it never happens, I will be plenty happy all my life.
Dump the #node.js log frameworks eh ?
If you're a naturally competitive sort of person, you should try doing TopCoder and Google Code Jam. I also skipped formal CS education and when I was roughly at your level of ability I found that doing TopCoder SRMs in particular taught me a nice toolbox of common approaches to algorithmic problems.
Why the Feds are Singling Out T-Mobile for SMS Fraud
Maybe redesign it to start some thread early, and put them in a pool.. then dispatch to them.. i think i've saw a thread pool already backed in rust std or in servo.. dont recall right.. i think servo even have a fancy work stealing thread pool..

Also the design of Nginx is sophisticated, because it uses the event io + a thread dispatch design.. (at least it was like this last time i've hacked it) and worth being copyied
By using SWT instead of Swing, it would seem.
There's a difference between writing a book and formatting one. For writing you can use anything as long as you can export it to txt/rtf - rtf being the standard in the print world - even vi/vim is usable for this purpose.

For formatting the standard in the print world is InDesign, nothing else comes close. I used to work in the "print" trade, and that is what everyone uses.
The Fed makes the rules. The banks/people perform the actions under those rules that create economic activity in the US.

The Developers make the rules. The miners perform the actions under those rules that create economic activity in the Bitcoin markets.

Say the Fed is corrupt/stupid and enacts a bad policy. The banks/people have no choice but to accept the decision of the Fed. Theoretically you could emigrate, but that is neither desirable nor feasible for the majority of the population.

Say the developers are corrupt/stupid and decide to raise the Bitcoin cap to 30 billion and lower the difficulty, effectively hyperinflating the currency. The mining community has the choice to either a) not accept the changes to the client or b) to vote with their digital feet by moving to another cryptocurrency. They are more likely to choose a) assuming they've been mining for a while/have a reserve of Bitcoin.

The key is that the miners "rely [on the developers] for tools" as you put it. The tools = the client = the rules of the game. So the developers make the rules and the miners decide whether or not to play by them.
If the police have become 10 times more scoundrelly after decriminalization, isn't that something other states should consider when passing similar laws?
"Why is fortran so fast" reminded me of this [1]

[1] http://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/06/fast-functional-go...
I would suggest more bridges to other programs. One could argue this exists ad-hoc with double majors, and minors, and similar, but it could be done better with more proactive thought and combined classes.

Some areas that could be combined: CS & Linguistics, CS & Physics, CS & Math, CS & Biology, CS & Chemistry, CS & Philosophy, CS & Psychology, CS & Business, CS & Geography...

These are done a little here and there, but I would like CS to cross the disciplinary divide more. Technology is eating everything, so why not teach it that way?
That's the basic, economics 101 goal of a simplistic capitalist. Until a few years ago, the only people really pushing this notion were people in the resource extraction business.

Efficiency at all costs is something that's great for you to make other people do. Do you take the bus and walk to work? Do you have an padded chair in your office?

Henry Ford was uniquely smart among the "captains of industry" of the past in that he got that his ability to manufacture cars exceeded the economy's ability to consume them.

One of his business objectives was for his workers to be able to purchase his cars.
What happens if you get stuck on a task? Should you keep at it until its fixed or should you skip it and work on other tasks?

This is what happens: Fix bug. Something I am lacking understanding of. Ask Stackoverflow, wait for answer, question gets closed for being vague. Go to IRC, ask around, no one is answering. Rage hard. Look at bug again, very small detail I overlooked.

Whenever I get to a time sink bug, I find it completely drains me of my energy. I have a hard time moving on to the next bug because I am very bothered by leaving a loose end.
Right, but if the delay in obtaining the luggage is deliberate, so that the poor travelers can absorb more glorious brand identity, then it's a crappy way to treat them, isn't it?
A walkthrough video would be nice. I've never had a "technical interview" and don't know what it entails, for example. Should there maybe be a pre-testing phase to weed out those who could simply not approach the level that could pass the technical interview?
I can easily see the benefit it provides for the interviewees, but what's in it for the interviewers?
I really really do not like this. Who needs government to create an Orwellian future when we are more than willing to do it to ourselves.

I am especially distressed that people can remove all the wrong they do from sight. What is next? Deny the holocaust? (yes hyperbole)
A comparison of programming languages in economics
This is actually a very good outcome. It will end up with those things where people do not mind something being forgotten actually being forgotten, while the decision to revive the content is still a perfectly viable option.
It's a blog title. They probably didn't expect the title to get posted on HN (considering it's 4 years old.)
The EU really is a joke.

I think if people want to hide stuff like revenge porn, or obvious slander, then fair enough. But unindexing legitimate journalism is stupid.
And has created/expanded jobs in SEO, SEM, android development, etc. How many, do you think?
It hasn't annoyed me. Clarity of language is crucial in discussing the law.

How can you offer legal advice without even writing correct English?
Here's a compiled app (Mac): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3784302/OldLand.app.zip
There's no threat at all to either freedom of speech or the press.

If the guardian publishes something, it will have its day in the sun.

It just will eventually get removed, years afterwards. No press freedoms impinged, years after you've had your expressive speech.

Whatever freedom that is, freedom of historical reports?, it's nothing to do with speech or press. If you want to re-report the information, you could, but it then would likely no longer be for the public good or interest, it would merely be vindictive.

Unless, of course, you don't believe in redemption or rehabilitation.
> The person who asks to have results expunged?

Yes.

> The law that requires Google to comply?

Yes.

> Google for complying?

No! How can you blame a company for doing something they are legally compelled to do?

> Or no one—is the right thing being done, the "pen" of the Internet being dulled back into a pencil?

The Internet has always been written in pencil. Pages stop being served all the time. The only difference is that now the index of the Internet is written in pencil, and every EU citizen has been given an eraser.
Dropbox: Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries
What's up with the cold storage? That is absolutely no security, it is purely an operational detail on Coinbase's side. You are still trusting them with all your coins. Once they get multi-sig, that might actually be something interesting. For all we know, the "Vault" might just be a new menu item and some css.
So you're unwilling to learn something potentially better because you're were offended by a (surely) tiny portion of its userbase? Lose the childish attitude. You owe it to your craft and users to keep learning and using better tools.
No, Functional Reactive Programming is not about events.
He's just got a big case of bias that he can't see in himself. He is the one who picks young, attractive girls who can by virtue of their looks get along quite nicely in life without having to learn how the rest of the world works. How many men would choose to not be particularly interested in intellectual pursuits if they could live comfortably being taken care of by rich women?

I have found that it's harder to meet intellectually curious women than men. I don't know if that's because there are fewer of them than men on a percentage basis, or because they are more willing or effective hiding their intellectual curiosity than men.

Disclaimer: I am well outside of SF. I spent "adult" years in Florida and Texas. This is my observation of the demographics I have experienced.
Thanks. We changed the url from http://www.dancingastronaut.com/2014/07/soundcloud-continues....

Btw, stories can't have both urls and text, so your submission text was lost. We're going to fix that so a message comes up when users do it.
No, it is indeed stateless. The fact that it represents state is proof of that. FP uses representations for things instead of the real things. For instance, OO purposefully causes changes in RAM to make things happen, where in FP changes in RAM are incidental and the programmer need not manage them. So it is stateless because you program indirectly by using these conceptual representations that are free of implementation.
What do you mean by "putting the genie back into the bottle"?
Silly question, why not chat (which can be saved for review etc) instead of audio?
this is where docker and the ecosystem around it starts filling in the pieces.

also, it makes failures hurt less, and rollbacks much easier.
Yep, I know about pascal (my 2d language after foxpro) but not the ADA 2012.

The Dynamic_Predicate is on runtime or compile time? If assign a:Int = Even, I need to be explicit and do a convert (I imagine is yes, that is the pascal style but not have experience with ADA)
You just described Fiverr
Temp agencies employ 2.6 million people a year in the US. It's fragmented and inefficient in a way that is mildly predatory to workers. My guess is that software could replace the temp agency middleman and help "employ" 1 million+ folks.
"I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work." Bertrand Russell http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
We will! There are however a couple of really nasty issues that we don't feel comfortable to release to the public yet.
Google Location History might have something (even if you don't expect it to) [1]

[1] : https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/
This is incredibly important. For all the really impassioned conversation about the broken state of US politics (on HN and elsewhere), the Mayday PAC is one of the very few legitimate plans-of-action. It's no silver bullet, but 1000% a needed step toward reform and worth your support.
Virginia's New Law: "BAD FAITH ASSERTIONS OF PATENT INFRINGEMENT"
I also fundamentally disagree with this post. My goal as an entrepreneur is to eliminate a million jobs. I am reading a book about the Shipping container, and it massively reduced the number of jobs for longshoremen and merchant marines.

I can also say that working at a big company that is people's mentality. They want to manage a lot of people. That's their goal. Not to create value. And imho the results are often poor.

I think it would be great for society if there were less jobs and people were able to pursue more creative endeavors than menial jobs. imho the goal should be to find a way for people to meet their basic needs without needing a job. NOT to create tons of jobs.
Living the dream man. You basically just described my ideal life. Hopefully I'll get there someday.
I think it's an accurate description. The OS code that reads a file involves changing variables outside function scope, eg pointer writes to memory mapped hardware. Simply forcing all variables to be final, all the way down, really does eliminate all side effects.
I dislike the new, hyper-ambitious side of YC (also in the other new RFSs: AI, HealthCare...). Have any of the truly revolutionary inventions (like steam engine, automobile, microcomputer, internet) started out as something developed to have such an incredibly big scale, or did they merely turn out to have big implications? It's the latter, and I think it's not just a correlation, but a causation: To make something truly disruptive, it needs to be new, and it is very unlikely to come up with something that is new while at the same time aiming to solve a problem that everybody can agree on (like let's build one million jobs, let's build AI, let's fix healthcare etc). That's usually the reason government projects fail, and the reason startups succeed, and having YC now focusing on stuff with the "could-this-be-a-big-company"-shaded glasses is a 180° turn from their original heritage.
exactly what I do :)
Yeah, it's a silly portmanteau of his actual kids' names: Daniel and Spagwood.
If you're interested in learning FP but struggling and would like to beta test didactic material for beginners, I urge you to get in touch with me. I'm making a series of videos explaining the concepts and abstractions of functional programming in a socratic way and from scratch (so not assuming even that numbers exist). I'm 'uploaded' at google's email service.
Maybe the ability to have a seed post to go along with the link might be a feature worth evaluating?
Which is why I'm doing this now that I can :)
I once thought that I could tell my children that I was born in a world without the internet. But if governments and corporations keep on this path, my children won't have one either.
Unrelated to fonts specifically, but the white text on the image is extremely difficult to read, I suspect due to being over a fairly busy background. The entire thing is simply fuzzy.
Everyone hates Washington Special Interests, unless of course it is their special interest. Then it is righteous.
True waterfall mode.
Reconcile your impression with what they say here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7977031

They also don't actually say the words you have put in quotation marks, or anything especially dreamy about electric cars. Maybe they said it somewhere else?

(I suppose 'less carbon' could be characterized as dreamy, but electric miles are often cheaper to operate, so I guess I don't like that characterization)

Anyway, I don't mind if you agree with me about whether the comment invites your response or not, I just wanted you to consider that maybe the people who inspired your second rant did understand your comment and downvoted for other reasons.
"Pretty bad time" is a euphemism for "could have serious negative health consequences." Yes, people can and do have very negative reactions to marijuana. Been there, done that.
More please! Have you thought of going freemium?
Nope. The point was a snark which does more to embarrass the poster than myself.

I posted a link to someone else's legal disclaimer as an example of how legal advisory services protect themselves. They used it to try and paraphrase my own comment back to me, unsuccessfully.

You could subpoena HN but it would display a startling lack of understanding about ISPs, legal process, HN and the Internet.

One, a subpoena has to be delivered in person...
I think this site is ignoring the value add for the interviewers as well. Interviewing others is a skill and takes practice and dedication. Many people just take some coding question and ask a candidate without thinking it through much and what they're actually analyzing. It would be good practice for interviewers as well.
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I believe Javascript Allonge takes the same approach w/r/t the call pattern: http://allong.es/

The book is also very good: https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge
Ability to hide the column coming soon.
I'd rather not share publicly (maybe it's just my european mindset, I know americans are supposed to be more open about this) but feel free to email me if you want
It is most definitely censorship, even if delayed. For example, book burning is pretty hard to defend, and the books burned were likely written many months and years before they were burned.
>Unfortunately for soundcloud, aren't they killing their main userbase?

It is possible that it was an "offer you can't refuse" type thing. I doubt they'd do it voluntarily.
Trumbowyg : a lightweight WYSIWYG editor
This article is pretty terrible. I think it's great that it's drawing attention to the problem, but it spends most of the time rallying an angry mob and pointing the pitchforks in the wrong direction:

> Guardian articles have been hidden by Google

> Editorial decisions belong with them, not Google

> But such editorial calls surely belong with publishers, not Google.

Google has done absolutely nothing wrong here. It is making zero editorial calls. It's removing links that were flagged for removal by someone outside of the company, and it is compelled to do so by EU law.

In fact, if you ignore the finger-pointing at Google, you'll see that Google actually tries really really hard to get around this: It informs you when results were blocked, notifies when results are blocked, blocks only the narrowest possible search terms, and helpfully points you to google.com which doesn't filter.

> Publishers can and should do more to fight back. One route may be legal action.

No, legal action is the only route. This is a matter of law.
Any concrete example of issues with Swing, or just general discomfort?
Not sure how you define "improving the welfare", but it's certainly not the function of the USA govt to provide anything but what's defined in the constitution. You may disagree on a philosophical basis, but that's what the constitution is designed to do.
How about a company that figures out how to provide _very_ affordable high-quality health care to large numbers of people, so they aren't dependent on an employer for their healthcare? That would allow many more people to become free-lancers, or to work for companies too small to get good health insurance prices. Such affordable healthcare might make it possible for a million more people to work for startups.

Such a company might not be feasible in the current regulatory climate, but some people say the same about Uber.
Coincidentally the very person who was sentenced here operates the hosting company you're with (edis.at)
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http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/72663/1/cesifo_wp4222...

Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is there any Evidence of Satiation?

"Many scholars have argued that once 'basic needs' have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple datasets, multiple definitions of 'basic needs' and multiple questions about well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear-log and does not diminish as incomes rise. If there is a satiation point, we are yet to reach it."
Looks like the Rails 3.2 update drags along a few other unrelated changes, although they appear to be fairly minor:
https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/v3.2.18...v3.2.19

as compared to:
https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/v4.1.2...v4.1.3 and https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/v4.0.6...v4.0.7
I really wish this had existed a year ago when I panicked during an interview. Having this type of practice is ideal in my mind for any type of technical role.

I, too, am curious about sustaining this service though. Have you considered offering tiers for participants?
MobileWorks is an example of an existing YC (S11) company that has the potential to do this.
As minor feedback, it would be great if the "How it works" section actually contained how it works info.

I only see 3 steps that look more like facts than actual "how's". Totally free fully anonymous and interviewers from top companies. How does that explain how it works?

I would prefer something like:

1) Signup
2) List all available interviewers (or interviews, or subjects or something)
3) Select one, schedule it
4) Have an interview
5) See results!

Or something like that.

I have found that when you use a question as a webpage, blog or other text, it's really good when you actually answer said question instead of not. Or don't use a question as a section title perhaps?

I would be much more interested in this neat idea if I had a better way of evaluating it I had more info.

Edit: For example, can I select interviews by subject? or by interviewer ex-employer, or by level (basic, advanced, etc) or is it random? Can I rate the interviewer as well?
That is a lame excuse in some contexts.

However, if Superman leaps over an entire building, then is asked to jump off a curb and declines, I think you can safely assume he could do it, but doesn't feel like it.

If I jump off a curb and say I could jump over that yonder building (if I felt like it, but I don't). Then, yes, that would be lame.