skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi,

I am the creator of gut/gutenberg.

The generators are searched and downloaded from github (like yeoman) so that anybody can create a generator and use it with gut.

Version 1 will be released this week after I get some input and comments from the community.

Please test it and let me know what you think! Obviously this tool is meant for erlang newcomers or people like me that like the tools available in the nodejs, clojure, ruby and python communities.

Thanks in advance!

roadmap:
Present - v0.8: Basic functionality
12 November - v0.9: Better logs
15 November - v1.0: Support many variables in generators. Better documentation for example on how to create your own generators. Odds and ends.
Or you can install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policeman/ and get HTTPSwitchboard-like control over all the requests made by the browser. It's still a bit green, but it's definitively the right wa to go.
I always find the forceful use of female gender pronouns to be very odd. If you are conscious of and disagree with the general use of male gender pronouns, wouldn't you wan't to push the use of gender neutral pronouns?

Personally, I'd rather see the use of some of the new made up neutral pronouns than thinking swapping male to female pronouns is a viable long-term solution.
There are a lot of products and techniques that help people look more beautiful. However, at its core beauty relates to both age and heath and as such it's less superficial than is generally portrayed.

Taking this back to buying experiences. IMO, there is basic expenses like buying gas or shampoo which don’t cheapen things. But the further extremes you go like plastic surgery or renting out a hotel not just a room you’re inherently worse off.
Depends on scale of your product.

For example, let's say you have a company which does school scoreboards, you might install 3x a month, 36/year. You can do a custom Pi solution for $35 (+software), or buy the commercial solution for $150+/board.

For that type of operation you likely wouldn't make your money back having someone else produce a bespoke board for your 36/year installations. Even at three times that number it likely wouldn't be cost effective.

You see this a lot in niche installations. Up until somewhat recently many POS terminals in small stores were just standard desktop PCs wrapped in a custom case and with some custom software (sometimes written in VB6(!)).
JWZ wrote a great article about choosing between flat files and a database for Netscape Mail:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html

In Netscape 4.0, the new team went both C++ and Database happy, threw away the tightly-tuned mail summary files I had designed, and generally screwed the pooch raw.

My code had summary files that were on the order of 2% of the size of the folder they were summarizing, and was blazingly fast in all respects. The 4.0 code had an overhead closer to 30% (last time I checked) and was insanely slow, not to mention extremely fragile: their summary files got corrupted all the time.
At a minimum you should listen to the song "Alexa" by Billy Joel to get a feel for what real deep sea fishermen have to endure. This sort of thing definitely is not a hobby that you love to indulge in.
Yes, all holds need testing but it's reduces the maintenance cost if the holds don't need tightening all the time, surely? Also if the expectation value for loosening is lower per unit time it means there is less likelihood (other values being constant) that the hold has loosened since testing, with the same testing regime that makes it safer so far as I can see.
Business lesson from a bacon maker
Can you switch it to the normal OS theme? I'm really not a fan of the non-standard UI... :[
What a wonderful example.

Never seen or heard of anything like that happen.

I lost my phone two years ago on a railway station in the city of Frankfurt (Germany). Two guys forced it from me with one pointing a knife at me and ran away. Three levels up through hallways full of cameras. I waited for an additional ~20mins (collecting information from bystanders). Nobody appeared. Not even the police one of the bystanders called...

The situation we have here is exactly what the CCC and all the anti-surveillance movements said when the hype for cameras all over began. They said back than that we'll have less police and security on the streets and we'll lose the control of the data recorded there.

Today even the smallest bus company has cameras in their bus. Even if they can't afford to clean the bus properly. Open drug market places have been moved to shady side roads where crime rose. Videos of people being beat up in front of cameras became popular and seem to become popular until media stopped reporting and playing the videos. And so on.

I don't see the whole thing work out. Cameras create a false security hole that allows to cut down money where it would have been better invested: in police officers on the streets. What happens to all the collected data, I don't even want to know anymore. Btw I've heard a polish city is recording audio also. Isn't it nice? They even prevented some crime with it...

Btw. the Police was unable to get the videos from my robbery. "Technical reasons".
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It's researched enough for 99% of the people to not call them out on their BS.
I don't think that's true.

In my experience, development experience is relatively easy for students to obtain while in school. Internships are abundant (obviously not everyone is going to come out of school having worked for Google or Microsoft but most people who want to get development experience during college can find it). Personal projects are another way of doing something "useful" that have effectively zero barrier to entry.

It isn't too hard to do something "useful" as developer in college, if one has the motivation...
Pro-neutrality libertarian here. I used to think my philosophy precluded net neutrality, then I looked into how these companies became entrenched- and it was by government support. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
More money leads to less financial worries and woes and more freedom of choice. It's about not living hand-to-mouth or worrying that an unexpected expense will put you into a bank overdraft hole that'll take months to crawl out of.

Saying it can only lead to a superficial happiness and degradation of the soul is a pompous first-year philosophy student's masturbatory pretension.
I started putting an abbreviated education section at the very bottom (instead of a full section at the top, as is common) and it significantly improved response rates. I especially recommend this strategy if your field of study isn't traditional.

I made the change to education at the bottom after watching a recruiter read my resume in person--I could actually see the moment she got to the education section and tuned out completely. It turns out people in tech tend to be turned off by my chemistry degrees. (Aside: It would be cool to have some sort of service that allowed you to A/B test resumes against a certain hiring demographic.)
> But the masses will probably never get to hold that controller.

That's really sad.
Changing the DevTools theme changes the whole browser's theme too.

http://i.imgur.com/NJzTpG9.png
Coming from the hood, I wanted to say that I could not disagree with this article more.

Life is fair. Just like the late poet said, "More money, more problems." Life always finds a way of balancing itself out.
bet you could get better service using an offshore (or not) online personal assistant (i.e. a real human)
Yes this.

My total computing outlay this year is £70 so far. That's £52 for the Samsung SSD (840 Evo) which was new, some rubber feet and a couple of keytops for an X201 I intercepted on the way to the recyclers and £8 for a wireless mouse.

So for that, I got an industrial grade laptop with an i5 CPU, 4Gb of RAM and a 120Gb SSD...

That's less than a Pi with a suitable monitor/TV to attach to it.

(I haven't included the MSDN account copy of Windows 8.1 Pro because I didn't pay for that ;-)
Careful -- That's 65 without the necessary eMMC you must buy to boot it. Makes it at least $80 + shipping for the small 8GB eMMC module.

These things look nice, but I've read some stories about being difficult to get a custom distro to boot (ie. one other than the default distro downloadable on their site.). If the default spin of ubuntu is good enough for you, that's great, but you probably wont get fedora arm booting or anything.

http://www.wandboard.org/

Wandboard is nice -- quad core, 2gb ddr3, 2 mSD slots, SATA, etc. It's a bit more expensive, but from what I've seen creeping the hardware forums, it has better compatibility.
First, I believe we are all on the same team here.

Second, in-action on the part of any president is unacceptable. Presidencies are measured by the amount of positive change they can bring.
In reality, is this different from a site like Kayak other than interacting with it via email message as opposed to web browser UI?

What exactly is a "personal travel profile" ?
>What I would say is that there is a difference between hobby code where you get to do what you want and code where you didn't control requirements and had to deliver to unreasonable people in unreasonable timeframes (aka commercial software development). Obviously it would depend on the projects but generally someone who has commercial experience would probably be viewed more favourably as it's more directly comparable to what I need you to do.

Yeah, the difference is that hobby code means that you can take the time to do it right and "commercial contexts" (aka coding in a rush) means that you can't so you never learn how to do it properly.
He lives outside the bay area! ;)
I'd love it if the Responsive Design Mode had multiple viewport support so you could have the same page visible at multiple breakpoints simultaneously
Why would an ISP bother building out the infrastructure if
they can't extract a higher value from those that it most
benefits (Netflix)?

It's not only Netflix that benefits. It's also the consumer. Our family for instance watches almost all of their Video via Netflix, Amazon, and Youtube. We don't pay for a cable package. Saying it most benefits Netflix does a disservice to my family. I don't want Cable TV. I want Netflix. Comcast wants to deny me Netflix unless Netflix agrees to pay them more money.

Looking at it from my perspective. I'm paying Comcast for the ability to stream Netflix. They advertise to me as having the fastest speeds for streaming video. And yet when I request Netflix they refuse to do what's necessary to allow me to stream Netflix.

Consumers that don't use broadband extensive services: Why
should those consumers be subsidizing those that use
broadband heavy services?

Why Indeed? If Comcast want's to offer less broadband intensive plans they have every right to. If they want to charge me higher prices for a more broadband intensive plan then more power to them. The issue is that they degrade my service so they can extract a price from Netflix when I purchased the right to stream from Netflix from them.

I think a better solution to very little competition in
ISPs would be to decrease the barriers it takes to
compete. Further regulation would only increase the
barriers.

It's almost impossible to decrease those barriers without regulation. Running wires to every home is expensive and the first one there almost always wins. The reasons why broadband is a natural monopoly have been discussed in depth on this site. Those reasons have not changed.

The real crux of the problem here is that large ISP's like comcast are selling one thing to their consumers: a certain amount of bandwidth to any site on the internet and then purposely failing to deliver that bandwidth to the customer and blaming it on someone else.
Microsoft Technical Support Phone Scams
I'm not sure comparing the size of the filing cabinets of the Stasi and the NSA is particularly helpful in understanding the differences between those two organizations.
It's not something that began under Obama.
When CALEA passed, people like me were complaining that it would be abused.
When The USAPATRIOT ACT passed, people like me were complaining that it would be abused.
Now, that there is undeniable proof that they are being abused, the retort is that it's been going on for decades.

I'm sorry but that's not good enough for me.

I am an ideologue, not a partisan. I'll complain about it when a Democrat steps over the line just as quickly as I'll complain about it when a Republican steps over the line.
Shen programming language to go BSD given sufficent funding
Are you really saying that not much was gained in the punishment of someone who, unprovoked, assaulted a complete stranger? Do you not think their experience will cause them to think twice next time they have an impulse to act like this? Nor that it's a net positive when society sends them a message that this is NOT acceptable behaviour?

All I can say is that I'm very glad you're not in charge.
The developer tools are the only thing stopping me from switching back to FF from Chrome.

The tooling in Firefox does seem to be improving rapidly (kudos to the devs for that, I'm not trying to trivialise the hard work that they've been putting in, by any means), but there are still several basic(?) features missing from the script debugger. Calling this a "developer edition" is IMO a misnomer until you can reasonably use it to develop pages/sites/applications - currently every other major "not-for-developer edition" browser already gives you almost everything this does, and in some areas quite a bit more.

What would make it a developer browser to me:

* Folder grouping on resources

* Allowing webide or the script web tools tab to work with local folders (Chrome workspace equivalent)

* Dynamic updates to scripts (Chrome workspace/dev tools equivalent)

* The ability to open and/or display more than 1 script at a time. Tabs in developer tools should operate like browser tabs (orderable, poppable etc)

I hope that this isn't just a re-branding exercise - the video, site and fanfare make it sound like Mozilla's aiming to make something great for developers (not to mention that the FF tools are headed in the right direction), but the first release and associated posts/comments seem to indicate that it's essentially a nicer packaging of what used to be aurora.
Monkey Dust's take on mainstream 'historical' films is pretty good. Here's their version of 'The Diary of Ann Frank' - http://www.vidivodo.com/video/monkey-dust-ann-frank/166592

I am with you completely over British propaganda about the war. Also I think our simplified portrayal of the conflict feeds the existence of groups like UKIP as you cannot venerate the British armed forces in the world wars and at the same time denigrate immigrants, unless you have absolutely no idea of history.

For instance, if you look at lists of fighter aces and check the nationality of those who are counted as having flown in the RAF, over half of them are not from the UK. Polish pilots make up a huge chunk of them and the highest ranking RAF ace was Belgian.
The fact that they haven't upgraded the SoC is a huge advantage.
It's not necessarily bad advice. Brevity is appreciated in all things -- especially by an HR worker or hiring manager, who has to sift through a stack of 300 resumes in a week or so. But it's not a hard-and-fast rule. Also, the one-page advice originated on the non-technical side of the job market. Technical resumes are usually longer than non-technical resumes.

Three pages is pushing it, though, unless you've been around for more than 10 years, or if you have something unique about your history that doesn't quite fit into your Experience section. If you've been granted 20 patents, or if you've been published 20 times in the Harvard Business Review, then by all means, include a section on these things. (But only if you feel they're relevant).
> But it is only the Senate that approves appointments and his party has controlled it the entire time he has been President.

This is irrelevant, since the minority party can filibuster any nominations, and they have used done so extensively throughout Obama's tenure. In this regard, the party with the majority simply does not matter.

> The President is the Commander in Chief of the military. He exercises complete authority over them.

Again, I believe that this is an overly simplistic view of the Presidency. There are political realities around what Presidents can and cannot realistically do that contradict the "ultimate power" view of the Executive branch.

> All the heads of the other agencies you listed are appointed by the President including the Federal Reserve.

With Senate approval, and where no filibusters have been threatened or executed. And remember, there have been more filibusters during Obama's tenure than at any other time in history.

> The fact is the President does have substantial power and saying otherwise is merely attempting to excuse the performance of Obama that so many people are disappointed with.

Not at all. I am disappointed in the American government itself. I have never voted for Obama, and am merely stating my thoughts as an amateur observer. But if there is ever going to be any positive change in limiting Federal power viz. the military, intelligence agencies, or LEO, then clarity of causality is important.
> The President is the Commander in Chief of the military. He exercises complete authority over them.

No, he doesn't. The Constitution specifically limits the President's ability to make war and wage military campaigns. He has a great deal of authority but even the US' current adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq are backed by Congress' approval through passed laws.

> At that time, his Democratic party controlled both houses of Congress decisively.

This displays a lack of insight around the Democratic party. Senator Lieberman was nominally a Democrat but he voted more often with the Republicans in the last few years of his career in the Senate. So-called "blue dog Democrats" are more conservative than you might think; that's why we got such grand bargains as the "Cornhusker Kickback" during the PPACA debates.

In reality, the President's party firmly controlled roughly 51-54 votes in the Senate with the remainder of the "majority" part of the coalition as a result of them simply not being as good a fit with the Republicans. That has arguably been one of the Democrats' greatest weaknesses: the Republican party has demonstrated its ability to move in lockstep even when some members disagree. The Democrats have not.
So I used a service called CareerCup and got great results. I highly recommend them.
I agree that they need to get rid of the freeloaders like me. My issue with Evernote is that I don't think I'd get 5 bucks a month of value from it. I would get 1 dollar a month value. I'd even be willing to pay 12 bucks up front for the year. I wonder if they could move to a model like that. They'd give away the server for a 1 month trial, afterwards have a 12 dollar, non-refundable yearly rent fee.
Somerset Maugham has a nice quote in Of Human Bondage: "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." Although he does have a point I don't quite agree with that POV.

What I think money should be viewed as (we're talking about a good amount of money here, let's say 2-3x your living expenses) a super power. Like all super powers it can be used for good or evil (or, more probably, wasted). You can do a lot of good with a relatively small amount of money. You really cannot do this or think about such things if you don't know where your next lunch is coming from or if you will be able to afford to send your kids to college.
That might be the opposition position, but from his own side, I think the prevailing mood is generally disappointment. Look at the context. Nominating a former telecom lobbyist to run the FCC in the first place is not a sign of sincerity about reform.
So even if I do the bare minimum at work, I should be rewarded the same as someone who worked his pants off? Sure, that's fine. Just one thing, that guy who was working his pants off no longer has the incentive to work hard because his reward is tied to how the company as a whole does. He will begin to do the bare minimum, and the company suffers.

He will eventually become jaded with this and leave to some place that will recognise and reward his extra output.
It's the same reason why fictional commandos like Rambo and buddies have less kills and not so daring achievements as some historically documented cases.

Fiction writers try to push the limits of what readers will [try to] believe, while reality simply ignores those limits.
Everything you just said about controlling policy, society, public discourse - applies to governments that show authoritarian tendencies, exactly as the US Government does these days.

Except with the government it's radically worse. They have the guns, and the legal 'right' (might) to spy on you and criminalize what you do if they see fit - or you know, use your porn habits to blackmail you as the NSA chief suggested doing. They also already substantially control education in countless ways.

So a violent central government that likes to murder innocent people by the thousands overseas, with a rising police state domestically with military weapons given to them by the Feds, and a mentality to wage perpetual war, and spy on all citizens and acquire all information they can in any way they can without any regard for the Constitution or privacy ... and you want to give them more power over the biggest free speech platform in world history - oh yeah, this is going to end real well.
Their anti-DDOS system is mostly designed to protect against external attacks. It works at the network level, probably at the connection between their network and the outside world. Because that's the most efficient way: detect them and block them where you have the most bandwidth available.

This is an internal attack, which requires different mitigation measures, and is seen less often in the wild (compromising 500 servers from a specific provider is more difficult than 500 random servers on the internet, and you're pretty much guaranteed that the provider will deactivate most of them after the first attack), so I guess their protection systems aren't as developped against it.
Any time any user data is stored in an environment variable and bash is called somewhere down the line, you've got a problem.

This means any CGI script is affected if bash is the default shell, for example.
Not to mention the policing of content, which this legislation permits.
Regulation is the beginning of the end of the open internet.
I'm the founder of https://www.voyando.com , this does exactly what you've mentioned: asking real humans to search for you.
This is a truly interesting concept. By shortening the learning time like this, things seem a lot more doable, particularly on the first levels. I think one of the things that make it so hard for people not to drop out is the fact that just starting seems like this insurmountable task. I wonder how this would work on more complex levels, though. Great job, in any case!

I'd love to see a flappy bird-like game being developed.
In that case, the presence of the cameras gave a sense of security that was unwarranted. It didn't prevent the crime from happening, but did let the citizens think that that their presence would detract criminals, which it didn't, at least in their case, and that if there was a crime, the culprits would have a higher chance of being convicted.
Which especially makes it better that he finally has done it.

He deserves criticism and his motives deserve criticism, but I'm just happy that he decided to support it after all.
Erm, this is the guy who brought us all those horrible things Snowden exposed. This is also the guy is notorious for reneging on all his promises. I do _not_ want him anywhere near the internet.
I'm not sure where that commenter (Qzukk) got the info. It sounds simply false. So I wouldn't really get his word for it.