skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say what you will about the relative dangers of autos vs. cyclists, but my closest call to death in SF traffic (as a pedestrian) was due to a cyclist, not a car: I was about to cross an otherwise-empty intersection legally, when a bicyclist shot through against the light at high speed, missing me by centimeters. Had I been hit by the guy I'd have been severely injured, if not killed.

Moreover, riders around here don't seem to pay much attention to pedestrians -- they're so focused on cars that they routinely do things to endanger the rest of us (I can't even begin to tell you the number of times I've had to dodge bikes on crowded sidewalks, even though it's illegal to ride on sidewalks here.)

There's a certain type of "activist" rider here who has made flaunting the law a badge of honor. I don't own a car and I do ride a bike, but at this point, I have a lot of sympathy for the people who criticize cyclists -- the entitlement is a little out of control.

(edit: thanks for the downvotes, folks. you're definitely changing my mind on this issue.)
You can manufacture as many straw-man examples as you like, but it won't matter. My comment did not say that I said anything specific or anything that could or should be construed as offensive.

Is it really so hard to believe that I did not say something offensive? Is it impossible to think that the person doing the call-out can be in the wrong, that they might be imagining or even willfully manufacturing an emotional distress?

Are we all now to be beholden to the whims and fancies of those that continually reshape the landscape of political correctness in an effort to exercise a modicum of control or power over their peers?

My proposed solution is simple: if someone tries the call-out method and they are in the wrong, you reply in a manner that is just as direct and non-confrontational. "No, it wasn't."
The right to accuse someone without giving the accused the right to self defense is most certainly not a subtle -ism.

It's fascism.
Can Europe create billion dollar tech companies? The Facts. [pdf]
> A lot of Harper's comments ( and many PL theorists ) seem to completely casually gloss over the gritty compiler engineering as if it's just beneath them, and that guys like SPJ and Simon Marlow are just wasting their time working on faster runtime systems and optimizations when he thinks they should be working on foundational "Holy Trinity" problems.

That's a tempting view to take regarding theory vs. practice but I don't think it holds up when you consider Harper's whole body of work and the substance of his criticisms of Haskell: He has published extensively on ML implementation and, as far as I know, has offered criticism of (GHC) Haskell's type system where it is unsound, never the (really cool) work being done on the RTS.
> There's no excuse for technological illiteracy or ignorance, and if you don't want to bother to be in charge of your online presence, you had better hire someone for the job.

I hate to disagree with this because I sympathize strongly with the underlying sentiment, but I have to disagree anyway in this case. If you had just said that business owners who don't have an online presence could benefit from having one, I would certainly agree. But if, for whatever reason, a business owner does not have an online presence, that does not give online entities like Google an excuse to publish false factual information about them. The operating hours of a business are factual information, and if Google is going to let such information appear on its site, it has a responsibility to verify its accuracy with the actual business owner.
Propellant, in the form of liquid oxygen and kerosene, is about as expensive as milk. For a vehicle with 2% mass fraction, and assuming that the entire vehicle is fuel in order to place an upper bound on fuel costs, that's 49 parts fuel to 1 part payload, by mass. If fuel and oxidizer are roughly the density of water, then each gallon weighs less than 8 lbs. (Closer to 5 or 6 for kerosene, and about 9 or 10 for oxygen.) This gives us about 6 gallons of propellant for each pound of mass, for a cost of about $22.

The fuel cost to launch something into orbit is about $22/lb. The rest of the $1e3 to $1e4 per pound is engineering and paperwork. A typical aerospace part that has, for example, $700-$800 worth of actual materials and labor will have a verification and paper trail that costs about $30e3 to produce, due to the mission-critical nature of all the highly stressed and low-factor-of-safety parts. (Car parts have an FS in excess of 2.5, for example, and aerospace parts are typically 1.1-1.2.)
Also I understand that it will be possible to set DuckDuckGo as the search engine in Safari.
According to the article, 80% of motorists and 95% of bicyclists do not come to a complete stop at stop signs.

In Idaho, bicyclists are not required to stop at stop signs.

The elephant in the room is speeding. Speeding is responsible for ~30% of all road fatalities, yet is universally condoned on American roads. Drivers do not understand how hypocritical they are when they complain about bicyclists disobeying road rules while they themselves are speeding.
There is a strong argument to be made that software profession does have some resemblance to pop music culture. "[Pop culture] it has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it's living in the present." Alan Kay 'made this rather salient observation a while back and the more I think about it the more truth I find in it.
With Revenue Roaring, Twitter’s Advertising Team Is Untouched by Turmoil
I went to Hacker School, and I need to clarify: The 'no debate' really should read 'no public debate'. I have been on both sides of the subtle -ism 'violation', and when I was the one called out, I had a lengthy private discussion with the person who called me out on it. I believe that was fine: The goal of not having public debate is to remove the defensiveness as well as to keep innocent bystanders from being drawn in and making a big issue out of something small.
Fair enough. Then libraries shouldn't count

Excel spreadsheet in 1 line of code:

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Engineering is not kind to large rockets
> If these rules actually created the environment you're imagining

Of course they don't, for the people you think are high status. Male losers like me get hosed, but who cares what kulaks think?
Maybe I'm missing something, but:

Flipping through the documentation, the RESTful API seems to only allow for polling for new messages (deltas via the sync protocol[1]).

While I'm glad that there is a delta-API, I'm concerned that this doesn't support proper "push" notifications for new messages. This is a valuable feature of Exchange and IMAP[-IDLE](where supported).

I understand that the heterogeneity of these push protocols makes it difficult to expose a push API, but it seems an important feature of mail clients.

Similarly, it seems that REST is not quite the best protocol for the "push" piece of modern email. I suppose long-polling support on the Sync API would work fine, however.

[1]: https://www.inboxapp.com/docs/api#sync-protocol
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> Anyways, I would just say "sorry" on the spot

Would you?

Let's test it.

Your whole comment is a subtle -ism because I say so.

Apologize for it and retract it immediately.
The "no debate" thing seems really odd and control-freakish on their part, I'll give you that. But if you look at people trying to make tech a more inclusive community and call it an "invasion," you're reflecting the exact view that made movements like this pop up.

If "the good old days" were really that good, why have women been almost intentionally excluded from IT until relatively recently? Do you mean "good" for people in general, or "good" for you?

When you say "we are being invaded," who is "we"? White men? People who are already "in"? More importantly, who is doing the invading? If women say "hey, these are small, tacitly accepted things in tech culture that make people uncomfortable," do you seriously think that statement is persecuting you? They're not trying to control your thoughts, they're trying to get you to be less of an asshole.
The Death of Dogecoin
If I invest in to the business as a business expense, I don't have to pay taxes on their income. They have to pay taxes on their income. 75k is less than a good dev should cost, but the advantage of being old and experienced in product management is that you can offshore a great deal more than you can when you are young. $75k will get a you lot of dev in Russia, or Israel.
French police dismantle Bitcoin exchange
Certainly! Here is video proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ZkJd4u0Us&feature=kp
Is there a chance you said something that others would consider homophobic or sexist when that's not what you intended? Is there a chance others could have a different interpretation of your casual remarks?
"(1) did it derail the conversation, (2) did my correcting someone make it less acceptable to not know something, and (3) was my motivation to do something like show off?"

Hallelujah! Someone who understands! :-) [1]

I've done it as well, and I hate it when I realize I am.

I suspect the worse part of HS' policies is exactly that "adjusting to the real world, where [it was very much ok to not know something] is subtly untrue, is a trial." In the typical business environment, appearing not to know something is a very unsubtle weakness.

[1] I'm completely unrelated to Hacker School.
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Worth pointing out that this type of experiment has been playing out for years already. The most popular type, usually called an "adventure comic," borrows from interactive fiction[1] to present itself as a dialogue between the author and the audience, complete with narration in second person. Among these, the most influential/notorious is Homestuck[2], which goes completely off the rails incorporating animation, music, and different types of gameplay into its narrative. Less ambitious uses of the same format, like Prequel[3], have followed in its wake.

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[1]: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ

[2]: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ (NB. Homestuck is the fourth adventure comic by this particular author. It's on hiatus while he writes and animates the last few chapters.)

[3]: http://www.prequeladventure.com/
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Glad you liked it! This is my first serious attempt at "literate programming" style writing; it did take many attempts re-arranging the functions in logical order for the prose to make sense.

In my previous writeups such as http://g0v.asia/tw/ , I've followed SPJ's "writing a paper" guidelines ( HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6989806 ) — almost to the letter — which was immensely helpful as well.
Um, I think you left off a zero. :)

If you use that Corcoran link you provided and restrict your searches to townhouses in the $2.3-$2.7M range with 5br, you get only Harlem, not Manhattan:
http://tinyurl.com/nvftwqm
This was a poorly written article. He moved the goal posts. Do cyclists break the law? Yes, constantly. My neighborhood has a lot of bike lanes, but all that means is I know where to look for a cyclist that's about to run a red light or be moving opposite the flow of traffic. Scott Simon is not wrong. The author's point about the frequency of serious injuries is well-taken, but it doesn't prove Simon wrong. He's just using it as a segue to make a related argument.
http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/
We originally setup HTTPS on the Wordpress blog just to demonstrate how it could be done without mixed content warnings. However, we never setup an SSL CDN so all the content is served directly for HTTPS but uses a CDN for some content over HTTP.

Looks like this will have to change now that all traffic from Google searches is going to come in over HTTPS.
CodeNow (W14) Steps in Where High Schools Are Lacking
We definitely can! I'll make this a priority. Thanks for the feedback!
The guy calling "let's strive for inclusive language" an invasion by thought police probably doesn't get to drive the hypocrisy bus.
OP forgot that the main ingredient for a code review is TRUST. He should have simply told the dev that he forgot his glasses. Then asked if the dev would help a little.

And yes, ckdarby's comment of getting a redundancy plan in place for your glasses is spot on.
Airbus patents windowless cockpit that would increase pilots' field of view
After the first 7 predictions I made I ran into a series of many people where I was the first one making the prediction and didn't get to test my prediction against the crowd. It would have been a better experience to stagger the new profiles in with established ones because after 5-6 profiles in a row where I was the first one predicting I grew bored and clicked away.
In my opinion, the reason no one add "features" to an email client because it is just as fine as is. Please tell me one thing that a user (power or just every day user) really needs that is not supported by a reasonably recent email client? And no, every few people use emails as a todo list.
My understanding in the US is that riding on the sidewalks is illegal, and that cyclists must ride in the road to follow the law (I am not a cyclist).
Probably I'm hung up on "Firely's engines are actually self-pressurized". If they actually mean that, it's some sort of novel system. If they actually mean self-pressurizing tanks then that's a bit more normal--though I still would want to know if it's a blowdown system or if they are using some sort of gas generator (perhaps using heat from the cooling system) for regulated pressure. Either one requires a reasonably strong tank, but maybe that's not a problem for a small rocket due to minimum gauge issues.

It's a nice cheap way to go, but still somewhat unusual in launch systems. More common in upper stages and manuevering thrusters.
The employees--of which there are 7 or 8, I believe--are 90% white. Hardly a decent sample size. The attendees are much more diverse.
The role of the dollar is not simply a function of the size of the U.S banking system. It has many historical and structural reasons. But be that as it may, my point is that the U.S has that special role and shouldn't abuse it for political purposes.

And about genocide: I think we both know that the set of countries against which the U.S has imposed sanctions is not equivalent to the set of countries that have committed genocide. It's a list of political enemies of the U.S.

Not all countries on the list have comitted genocide and there are quite a few U.S allies and trading partners that have committed genocide or other brutal human rights violations. They are not on the list because it's politically convenient or very lucrative.
Is there a chance? Certainly.

Should we let everyone's internalized emotional damage be projected onto society at large? Certainly not.

If we're going to let everyone interpret our words however they wish, then the entire concept of language becomes meaningless.
I think zaccus and OmarIsmail are on the right track.

Re: zaccus - Google the "Idaho stop." The folks in Idaho got it right: cyclists should slow down at stop sign intersections and come to a full stop (with foot on ground) if a car got there first; otherwise proceed through with caution. As far as red lights in a crowded city like SF -- sorry you gotta stop like everyone else.

Re: OmarIsmail - We cyclists can do a better job. It's all about showing respect to everyone, ESPECIALLY pedestrians. Get off your bike and walk if necessary to not spook them.

Overall I would say that Scott Simon got a raw deal. There ARE a lot of jerks on bicycles and it is just plain honesty to say so.
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I'm not entirely sure yet, but glancing around the docs, it seems like the way to do this is via their webhooks[1].

Agreed, that push is one of the more important components to a service like this.

[1]: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox/blob/master/inbox/docs/api...
I suspect that to get the most out of Hacker School one has to act with positive intent and otherwise entirely ignore the rules, but be prepared to admit that one's behavior is not already perfect.
>I really enjoy editing/contributing to Gmaps, but the seemingly random/poisonous moderation process in that ecosystem is a huge turn off.

Sounds exactly what has happened to Wikipedia and Reddit--a small number of power users finding ways to exploit platforms for personal gain.
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I mostly use HN, Facebook, Twitter.
Or in the case of "you guys", the mistake is perfectly clear, but it's 1) in no way intended to be sexist and 2) deeply ingrained in the culture I grew up in. I can understand why someone might object, but the fact is it is the standard gender-neutral second person plural pronoun around here. If my wife was going into town with her best friend, I would not hesitate to ask her "How long will you guys be gone?" nor would she give me an odd look if I did.

I can easily imagine people making a fuss about this leading to a state of near constant self-monitoring, and I'd probably get excited and slip up on a regular basis...
Michael from Inbox here.

Short answer: we're working on it.

Any pushing-based API really needs to gracefully degrade to polling in case messages are lost. So we decided to first make sure the semantics of the delta sync API were great.

Under the hood we actually use features like IDLE or MS Exchange Ping, so our push updates will also be immediate. The benefit of the delta sync API is that you can query deltas (obviously), which isn't supported by IMAP.
As a beginner, I second that praise.. . Putting those details, often stumbling blocks, in context and with explanatory links, means that even if I don't get everything the first time, I have a big picture to refer to and feel secure that I will eventually get it, and the effort isn't wasted.
I'm a straight, white, upper-middle class guy. Do you honestly believe I've dedicated the past four years of my life to making an environment that's terrible for myself and others like me?
Now we watch as the debate happens here by throwaway proxy.

I'm certainly not going to attend HS, so do what you want, I suppose. I probably won't be hiring anyone who comes out of the program, either. I can't imagine interacting with a product of this environment. So conditioned to avoid not just confrontation but plain discourse.

This is a social lobotomy.
Is SMART Brain Training for Kids and Adults the same?
What I would really love for someone to fix is how slow email is. Why is it so much slower to send an email than an SMS or FB message with the same contents?
According to one researcher who reports malware to hosts, the bad guys keep adding hundreds of new subdomains every hour.

http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2009/09/11/dynamic-dns-and-b...

>However since hackers add new domain names every hour, 100+ new hostnames need to be blocked. I’ve sent a few updates to both services, but they haven’t yet responded and I guess we’ll need to wait until Monday when they get back to work.
What do you have against teenagers?

That whole spiel is most unsubtly ageist.
I'm guessing the default browser is IE7 (maybe even IE6?) for Windows XP.

The stats that matter are what browser they are using, which is less than 1% for IE7, and possibly near zero depending on your target market.

Edit: I see, it's a Windows XP issue rather than an IE issue.

http://serverfault.com/questions/389806/redirect-to-ssl-only...
I agree,

pixels, and their limited colors where the result of limited technology,
As technology has advanced past those limits, pixels are now an aesthetic used to create art.

Much the same way plastic and metal models don't make origami obsolete, these things have their place.
You do have a point - I did succumb to the temptation to hyperbolize, which made my argument weaker. But the point still stands.
Yep, you can set up a webhook with `*` filter criteria, but I think OP was talking about a more specific notification system for the delta sync endpoint.
Somehow I doubt that python based software will be efficient enough to deal with thousands of connections transferring gigabytes of data.
Because limited funding is not kind to large rockets.
Is that unique to tech? Seems like nearly every industry is biased towards rich people from elite schools.

If anything, tech is better because the barrier to entry is low and you can relatively easily prove yourself with your code. Like... have a great idea for a most types of businesses? Great, you just need millions in funding and then you can start. Have a great idea that for a business that can be done mostly in software? Great, get to work.
The idea is that no single company or entity will be able to predict in the future what users need. Email is old, but it's far from perfect. I think a platform that lets developers today leverage their expertise on modern protocol technologies and practices is an excellent idea.
Similar to the Sandi Metz talk, All the Little Things, from rails conf. She talks about the "squint test" around the 5 minute mark.

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3358-railsconf-all-the-littl...
Sounds like a worthy addition to the awesome-go list then. Would you mind making a PR that adds it?
Big Data - a modern pythagorean dream?
Seemed to work at Dropbox ;)
>In Idaho, bicyclists are not required to stop at stop signs.

Which, personally, I think is completely reasonable. Constantly stopping and pushing off again adds a huge amount of effort to a ride, and a cyclist has plenty of incentive to look before rolling through an intersection.
I can only speak for my state (South Carolina) but that is absolutely true, but rarely enforced. I've had several accidents and near misses pulling out of my driveway and bumping into people biking down the sidewalk. They were always at fault, but at the same time the street they should have been riding on is a major thoroughfare downtown and has speeds of 25-35 MPH with no bike lane. You really cannot expect everyone to be able to bike anywhere near that fast, but then you wind up with folks going a few MPH on a bike and holding up traffic. It's just a terrible situation all around.
Moved to SF in 2008 - stayed with a friend in Berkeley over a long weekend and found a place to rent on craigslist by the time I left. Was 'expensive' compared to my midwestern rents - but still within reason. Literally impossible now.