skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't decide whether to respond to you or to bglazer above, but I particularly agree with the "any major city"/"large Southern cities" part in both of your posts. If this were 2009, I wouldn't have as many charitable things to say about anywhere outside SF (or maybe Seattle or Austin), but five years makes a world of difference.

I can speak most intelligently to Texas' large cities, as I spend a lot of time traveling between Houston, Austin and Dallas. Back in 2010 or 2011, you might find two tech (or tech startup) events going on in a particular week. Now all three places have 2-3 events happening on any given night, and you can hardly choose which you want to go to, or if you want to spend the night just hacking and getting shit done (because that matters too!).

An example: In order to help run an event for Houston's Lean Startup Circle this past Thursday, I had to skip a talk at a startup speaker series and miss the launch party of Texas Medical Center's new Healthcare Accelerator.

Austin, has a better reputation (or just visibility?) on HN, but if you're comparing for places to live long-term, I wouldn't necessarily put it above Houston or Dallas in any absolute sense. My honest take is that tech in Austin feels more visible and "Valley-like" because of how small Austin is. Technology is simply larger in terms of percentage.
How is the data "worth billions"? That may have been the original cost, but the original cost isn't the same as the value today.
Yes, that's how the GopherJS Playground (https://gopherjs.github.com/playground/) works. See my other comment.
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How do I get my app to show under specific keywords when searched in the app store?

I added keywords when I submitted the app but Apple created a different set of them for me.

Thanks in advance!
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Nightly and Aurora Firefox builds actually support the "code" field on keyboard events, which lets JS know which physical key was pressed on the keyboard. For example, when a Dvorak user presses the key that would be W on a QWERTY layout (for moving forwards in a game), you'll get a keydown event with e.key == "," and e.code == "KeyW".

I'd really like to know what the spec status on that is, and whether other browsers implement it.
> "Supporting app trials would be trivial" ... "zero additional complexity" ... "Supporting paid upgrades does not require much additional complexity, if any at all."

These remarks sound suspiciously like those software development clients who think their nephew could do the work for free in his spare time while cleaning the garage and playing Halo.

It's not about relabeling a button. Apple has enough talent to solve these, but these problems are not trivial.
Using a similar formula,

$100/match to provide a guaranteed date would mean that your rejection rate is about 83%. Estimated using this forumula: (5 = x^1 + x^2 + ... x^n) and solving for x as the probability of rejection. I used an n of 29 for the estimate.
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> How did that campaign challenge the existing power structures and stereotypes/mythology of tech?

That wasn't her goal with the campaign.
I'm getting tons of downvotes but I have karma to spare so I really don't care and will continue to express my opinion. Those two things are not remotely close to the same. The recruiter is a nuisance; someone that moves you closer to what it is that YOU WERE SOLICITING for in the first place would be a welcome response. In fact given that people are shy, someone acting as a middleman would add value to the experience.

The downvote button is to the left....fire away.
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I was really surprised they didn't discuss, or even mention, the primary issue of direct polling like this that seems top of mind to me: that no one I know wants to sit through a poll.

Aren't these just polls of the segment that is willing to suffer through the call? Doesn't that naturally make them more polar in nature, because all the pragmatic folks are busy with real life to care?
Care to explain how that is relevant to the point at hand?
Almost any major city now has some people trying to make startups happen in their town. Find a co-working space or local startup accelerator and ask/pay to work out of it.

Tangibly you experience startup culture in three ways:

1. Being at a hub where that scene happens (almost always a co-working space or accelerator), 1871 here in Chicago is such a place, and it's a co-working spot
2. Having access to an organization that hosts events and alerts you to events and dispenses local news, BuiltInChicago is our local site that has keeps an up to date event calendar and where announcements happen.
3. Working with a startup, freelancing for startups or building projects at hackathons. Where you know, "work" actually happens.

If you find those three things you'll get more startup culture than you need, and it doesn't have to happen in a big city. I'm pretty sure Kansas City fits that bill. Omaha definitely does. Nashville, pretty sure.
Cisco paid for the MPEG-LA licenses on that. Back in 2013, they probably had to, but more patents have expired since then, and it's probably out of patent now, unless they put in extra stuff like N-channel audio.
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As someone who has had a "line of business" job, I think that those jobs can be tons of fun. Sure, you might have to do some education of the business on how software can help and how software is made, but if you find forward looking businesses, you can really impact a business. Plus you can learn a different domain, which can be fun and helpful to your career (dev + biz expertise > dev).

I ended up introducing hackathons and brown bag lunches to my former employer (a real estate brokerage).
Sucker, no.

But if your idea is such that you have to pay to "pitch" it, then either your idea just isn't so hot... or you need to find the right community to pitch it to.
> 2. Brain drain is a real phenomenon. You'll be leaving the bible belt a worse place.

A word of caution - not everyone considers this a bug.
I've sent the author the following email:

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Hi Radhika,

I was reading your article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11158863/Snapch...

... and was surprised to see the photo used was of Matt Lee. Matt is a supporter of the Free Software Foundation, and a hacker in the sense that he is a programmer, not a criminal who breaks into computer systems.

He's certainly not one of the people responsible for the crimes enumerated in your article, and you've done him a grave injustice by
using his likeness in this way. You're also impugning the FSF, as their stickers appear prominently on Matt's computer in the photo.

Could you please have the photo removed as soon as possible?

To avoid mistakes like this in the future, I suggest you have a read of this article, which explains the hacker vs. cracker nuance:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/hacker-vs-crack...

Also, the jargon file definition of the term might be of use:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

I see from your profile that you're a trainee journalist. I hope this will turn out to be a good learning experience (even if it's your editor who picked the photo!), and that you haven't summoned too large an Internet Pitchfork Mob with this article :)

=====
Absolutely. The media access to the Vietnam War taught the American military to keep journalists away from the business end of things.
I'll throw in Pittsburgh. There is some type of tech meetup pretty much every night.
Impressive. This service based on ARM Physical Servers can change everything. The performance is there! Thanks for the invitation!
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+1 Can also confirm the ease of development for us (Playbook HR) and the joy of working with Jonathan and Daniel
About a year ago the Avaneya project released software that can decode the Viking Lander tapes. A few tapes conatain images that were (as far as I know) never released.

Samples:
https://gist.github.com/jakeogh/fa995a3277d500ab59b1

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Avaneya:_Viking_Lander_Remast...
Our site is being updated this week with a new design (focusing on our dev tools). — There will be plenty of retina goodness there.

But I agree. Non-retina bugs me too. Not for much longer!

(And thanks for the kind words.) :)
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Linkbait title.

From the end:

"The original cost to American taxpayers to gather the images was in the billions (in today’s dollars). “For a few hundred thousand dollars I could get it all back,” he says."
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When I read the title, I did not interpret "worth billions" as referring to the cost of producing them. I took it as its potential value to current science. In fact, the blurb below the title says, "pushing back the modern satellite record of sea ice extent by 17 years". This, indeed, may be worth billions to us now. Imagine having to deduce that data by other means available to us now.
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I'm aware of those studies, but skeptical of some of their methods and claims. I'm especially skeptical that when they claim causation and not correlation.

In any case, there's a big difference between 'spammer' and 'bad-boy' as well as a big difference between demonstrating the success of a strategy and demonstrating it's prevalence.

Edit: There may be some good studies demonstrating causation but I am not familiar with them.
So, you did it in Go instead of Java, right?

I think this is exactly what people mean when they say Go is more of a replacement for Java than it is a replacement for C++: In the sense that when Ruby and Python become too slow, people normally reach for Java, but now they have Go as an alternative option, with a better concurrency model than Java's.
I teach medical students and residents this method, and use it in my practice. There are some important caveats that make it more complicated than it looks at first glance. The primary one is that the NNT is tied to a very specific outcome; for example: How many patients do I need to treat with a statin to lower cholesterol? That's a lower number than the number I need to treat go get the outcome I actually care about: How many patients do I need to treat with a statin to prevent one heart attack or stroke? And even then, the answer I actually get is: How many patients do I need to treat with a statin to prevent a heart attack or stroke in a one year period?

So, I would respectfully submit that it's not so simple as the article makes it sound, but it adds much-needed empiricism to prior standards for clinical decision-making.
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I refuse to participate in these wastes of my time (I have far more entertaining things to waste my time with).

I do, however, make every effort to exercise my right to vote so that I earn the privilege of 'complaining' about results I dislike (what I voted for didn't win, what I voted for sold us out, the thing I wanted to vote for wasn't an option because of gerrymandering (which is what any form of distracting is)).
I'd guess he's talking about virtualenv + pip moving into the Python core with 3.3.

...I don't remember reaction to that really qualifying as a fiasco, but I could just not have been paying attention at the time.
The lack of tabs drives me crazy. A few other letdowns on the user side:

6. No wishlist and no way to gift apps to friends (textbook example of leaving money on the table).

7. No way to rollback to old versions (particularly relevant when crashing bugs are introduced).

8. No way to transition from a non-MAS customer to an MAS customer. If I have equity in an existing program I purchased, possibly at great expense, I have no way to get the features of the App Store (updates, iCloud, etc) without paying again. And the developer can't do anything about this, even if they want to.
Tcl_cephes: Tcl wrapper for cephes library
I'm trying to remain calm about this, but its growing increasingly difficult.

We're not far off pandemic territory. 10k new cases per week?

Very very alarming.
How about you have your employees contact their clients saying that they have found a good match on OKC and send the profile with that message. Then if the client is interested, that client can reach out on OKC personally, making an OKC account if necessary.
So, uh, why is the go-supported option encouraging me to download it from github at compile time without so much as crude versioning support?

Lots of people run internal Maven repos, they have every dependency vendored, but they also want the ability to choose between versions of that dependency.
Will Go ever get an interactive debugger that is comparable to Java?
Some people look for friends on OKC. While I wouldn't say they have no businesses being there - they definitely shouldn't spam users.
I do think, though, that as lake99 pointed out there could be TREMENDOUS value in this. Extending our image record a full 17 years is has enormous scientific value. It gave examples of imagery of the Aral Sea, which allows for significant study there, and 17 years more of full polar ice records. All of that has pretty big implications for a number of fields.
This was really funny up until the prolonged domestic violence joke at the end, which kinda threw me off. Product of its times, I guess.
At JJ, it was more about operational secrets that can't be protected by law. However, I mentioned in my original post that I don't necessarily think it's right or wrong, it's just why JJ does it.

I generally agree with you that limiting future employment is generally not a good thing, although I'm not convinced getting rid of non-competes in minimum wage jobs would materially affect wages. At most, it might prevent someone from taking a manager position at Subway, but I don't think it is going to raise the overall wages of restaurant workers.
Technically, they let you learn a lot more because it allows for mimicry.
Works fine even in Opera 12
iirc it is based on whatever the irc considers fair market value for the service. I couldn't find the spot on irs.gov where I read that in the past but there is this link that gives an example and mentions FMV

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...

edit actually the info is in the first paragraph of that other tc420 link.
Massive data leak in South Korea affects 70% of 15-65 demographic
Actually I would suggest the LGPL Qt if you can use that license. And it should be about 1500 EUR per year nowadays.
I think this might be better understood in terms of "workarounds" rather than "solutions", because while "solutions" are important in the long term, "workarounds" are what get users interacting with your app again. Symptom-based alerting lets you apply symptom-based workarounds much sooner than cause-based alerting will let you solve the problem.

If your DB's disk is bad, your real problem isn't that the disk is bad; your real problem is that, for example, customers can't buy products from your site. Fixing the symptoms means making your customers able to buy products from your site, not replacing the DB's disk. If you had, say, a failover slave DB, the point of the alert is to tell you to activate the failover process. Replacing the disk is important, but not urgent in the same way activating the failover is.

(Note the interesting fact that all alerts will then end up being for things the system could do something in response to on its own. Failing over to a slave can be automatic. Alerts are, in effect, the system saying "I need a human to come help me stop this from happening, because I don't know how to stop it myself.")
Easy there, tiger. I'm just trying to point out the conflation of imagination and reality that's cheerfully running rampant both here and in the article which spawned this discussion.
BART will go to San Jose in 2018 paid for by Santa Clara County tax payers and federal funding. You would still have to take VTA's LRT to the 49ers stadium from the future Milpitas Station.
In the account creation settings you don't necessarily cover all options with your drop downs.

For instance the "It is very important that my partner: "
you have 4 options:
No Preference,
Wants kids now,
Wants kids in the future, and
Doesn't ever want kids

As someone who absolutely does not does not want kids 'now' but is indifferent to them in the future I really wish there was a an option called.
'Doesn't want kids now'
Sidecar to operate at San Francisco airport, beats Lyft and Uber to it
You should have received an email containing what you need to know to login!
So what was the goal then? It seemed like a legit campaign that was raising actual money. How does one reconcile their company as feminist with how that campaigned operated?
For extra fun, compare and contrast with his simultaneous $100M purchase of a 700-acre waterfront estate in Kauai:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454885
You wouldn't have made this comment if you actually looked at the article and saw what the app does.
I fail to see how any of the things I suggested put them at a disadvantage to Google, other than maybe lowering the 30% (and given that that the vast majority of Apple's revenue comes from hardware, I strongly doubt that it would be significant.)
hack -> buzz, hacking -> buzzing
Domestic violence joke? Could you explain that, please?
Hello,

I can speak to you as someone who is doing something similar - an app about people's feelings, emotions and thoughts (http://journeyapp.net/). I really like the idea :) I also like the design of the app and for example the feel meter is great. I a, not sure about the sharing feelings with friends feature - me personally, I would use it more like a diary just to myself. Anyway, I wish you best luck.
I've been asking for a proper debugger for years! But the Go author keeps on saying that we don't need one... sigh...
> Groovy reached 10,000 questions on Stack Overflow

Groovy's shame considering it's a language with so few users, except in the case of Gradle's DSL, which has so few lines in build scripts.
Yes I understand that, I said it isn't qualitatively different. If the web page somehow distributed javascript that would do the same thing client side, the website would appear exactly the same, yet would be perfectly legal.

The comment I was replying to wasn't arguing that it was illegal, but actually wrong and "lacking respect". I was just pointing out that he should have the same opinion towards things like readability.

Also I think readability did do it server side, and so do other things like RSS readers.
French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
Rails queries with Arel – for beginners
I just played the nice little game on about:home. But shooting is extremely tricky since I need to keep suppressing my hjkl muscle memory.

Update: that game seems to be a demo of Voxatron in the bundle.
This looks really neat! Here's some unsolicited feedback:

> "Scientifically proven to measure you 20% more accurately than a professional tailor."

This probably isn't a priority for you guys, but it would be cool to see the data on this. You could easily make a white paper without releasing your actual ML process - how big is your sample set, were your control groups "blind" when they reported which shirt they like more, were the tailored shirts the same fabric, how did you pick your "average" tailor, etc.

The biggest reason on why I don't try a new clothing store is A) I don't know how well it'll fit me and B) returning things, even with prepaid slips, is still a hassle. For me, any little thing that convinces me I don't have to worry about returning goes a long way for trying a new store.
So he's talking about system testing and not end-to-end testing. I suppose if your application is really simple, system testing is fine. But if your QA group ever starts automating tests, it's time to re-evaluate.

Blackbox monitoring is (imho) only appropriate for 3rd parties. If it's part of your company, it shouldn't be a black box; that means someone got lazy and didn't demand the devs provide an API.

Also, i'm sorry but this really gets to me: at what point are we talking about 'at scale' ? I think it's whenever tons of money is riding on your site's availability and an unexpected failure causes customers to complain. Immediately VPs start screaming "WE NEED TO SCALE UP!!" and then they mandate some half-assed implementation of the comprehensive monitoring solution they claimed was unnecessary just a month before. But maybe i'm just jaded.
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"but where did Chan find her stash of money"

The indignation of the form of your question is remarkable.

But to answer your question: It's probably funneled through their foundation, which they would, of course, name and manage together. Because, ya know, they're married.
Where's the Detroit startup scene?
I'm really interested to see if the r-naught is sustainable in developed countries. This paper (http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=2...) projects it as between 1.0 and 2.0 -- the nurse in Dallas makes it at least 1 for the first US case, but it could be a few more weeks to know if she was the only one.
This is the feeling I get. I don't write much Go (I'm just now getting into it) but all of the major features I hear about seem to be directed at creating code and projects that are tractable at "Google Scale". Everything has been designed for massive teams, from fast compile times, or having a standard formatting scheme, to choosing syntactically insignificant whitespace (specifically the podcast mentioned finding instances where python snippets were embedded in another language somewhere which would shoot the whitespace to crap).

The language being dead simple also seems to be to that end, with things like removing ternary operators or not having the pre-increment being smaller sacrifices, and no generics being a larger one.

All in all it seems like the underlying philosophy of Go is focused on Google specific context and engineering goals, and it's a happy accident when they work out well for programmers in the general case, whereas something like C++ or Rust isn't catering to those specific parameters (though they're obviously capable of working in that role, perhaps just not in the "ideal" way that the Go language maintainers would prefer).
In the Bitcoin world there are multiple exchanges and multiple ASIC vendors. Any healthy ecosystem should have multiple exchanges.
The only thing is the familiarity. If you've heard the song or watched the video a few times, it no longer interrupts focus and actually helps improve it.
I'm worried about the coming flu season. Many people will have the early symptoms shared by both flu and ebola (a fever and a headache). The medical establishment will need to find needles in the haystack.

Don't skip the flu shot this (or any) year, folks.
All of those things make the average price of software go up. I realize that's desirable to developers (me included), but it would also tilt the overall market towards platforms where software is cheaper.
C++ is infamously slow to build. I've seen the results of profiling Clang (known as a particularly fast C++ compiler) and the preprocessor takes a big chunk of time. C compiles a fair bit faster.

Try out the Mono compiler for C# some time. It is so fast that you might as well recompile your entire project every time you change one line of code. I'd pay serious money to get that kind of performance from a C++ compiler. Tons of other compilers are really fast. JIT is fast all modern browsers. Go compiles in a snap. Python starts running immediately.

The only other language I use with a compile time comparable to C++ is Haskell.