skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The age of large platform libraries is over."

Boy oh boy do I wish that were the case.
I couldn't help but be distracted by the dark line behind "early stage" -- it looks like a strikethrough.
Ask HN: Do you use stars to mark messages in Gmail?
However seemingly useful, I find myself never using the star functionality in Gmail. And asking around (friends and colleagues), I have yet to find someone that regularly use it and find it indispensable.
I'm curious to find out how common this is.
I think much better question is, which self-improvement books do HN recommend? I haven't read a lot of them but I'm planning on reading 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
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There has been some interest in creating laws against insider trading for commodities, but such laws don't exist, and this case is just a class action of jewelers angry about manipulation on an obscure metal commodity. The LIBOR scandal was a price fixing operation (most or all banks that could set the rate were colluding for collective interest), and the levels of impact are different worlds. The LIBOR scandal was a blatantly criminal action of an almost incalculable scale, and it has had little impact, so what does that say about a class action for legal trading activity?
Thanks for your suggestion, I'll think about it and talk to my friend.
In what way would this be an "App Store". It sounds like a website you build for others to discover stuff other people build. In that sense it's a lot more like a Chinese product hunt with a totally different UI perhaps than it would an App Store no?
Great post, really interesting to see how they did the shots and glad to see they opted for real footage and techniques most of the time rather than just post processing everything.

I used to shoot free form lenses, it was difficult to get a still from, shooting video would be a challenge. My (old) post on free lens shooting: https://mkaz.com/2005/01/08/homemade-lenses/
What free stuff on the Internet should everyone be taking advantage of?
Some people still think of JS as a toy language.
Those of you on Mac laptop keyboards may find the following elisp helpful:

(add-hook 'paredit-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(define-key paredit-mode-map (kbd "<prior>") 'paredit-forward-slurp-sexp)
(define-key paredit-mode-map (kbd "<next>") 'paredit-backward-slurp-sexp)
(define-key paredit-mode-map (kbd "<home>") 'paredit-backward-barf-sexp)
(define-key paredit-mode-map (kbd "<end>") 'paredit-forward-barf-sexp)))

This will let your fn key (which if you're clever you've defined as 'hyper', though it doesn't matter here) + arrow keys work for the fundamental paredit commands.
http://www.fooducation.org/2011/02/6x-c-egg-or-opposite-boil...

Regarding the steak, the comparison made for steaks are often medium heat, pan cooked steaks. In that case the heat differential is high enough that it doesn't have time to somewhat equalize through the meat, but it is also low enough that it takes so long that you do end up with those really large layers. By quick searing at a high heat, and then cooking at a low heat, this layer is much smaller. Although personally I greatly prefer to have some of this layer (the disparity of textures is a big feature of it). Some people suggest doing the high heat searing on a frozen steak, of all things, and then moving to the over, but that's just unnecessary extra work in my opinion.

I appreciate where people want to pursue the science of food, but honestly it does very much seem like the nosql thing all over again -- skipping knowledge one doesn't have to do something perceived to be better.
UI UX Design (User Interface/Experience Design) probably has the lowest barrier to entry at the moment. This is a very different skill than programing but learning to program greatly enhances your value at the job and can lead to much better/faster results. I only say it has a low barrier to entry because it involves many soft skills (in addition to strong analytic skills), is one of the newer must have positions, and the position is still changing. However, don't underestimate how hard it is to excel at the position. Oh yeah, and learn Javascript no matter what.
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NYPD says they don't even have the resources to investigate fatal car crashes. They didn't bother investigating the death of a three year old girl in a crosswalk this year. The driver didn't even get so much as a ticket. If there's some cop standing around with nothing to do I'm sure they could be assigned to look into the fifty pedestrian injury collisions that happen every day in New York.
I love middleman. I'm using it (via a modified version of Slate docs [1]) for all of our documentation at Catalyze [2].

1.) https://github.com/tripit/slate
2.) https://policy.catalyze.io/
I don't thing we should stop all plea bargaining, but we do need to drastically overhaul how plea bargaining is handled. We need a judge involved, we need all the evidence available to the defendant, and we need reduce the ability for prosecutors to set 'ticking clocks' limiting the availability of plea bargain offers to allow defense attorneys time to evaluate the case..
> I think that's quite one sided.

IMO argentpyro explained the incident in a pretty neutral manner.
> Those of us that are safe cyclists but run red lights

Speaking as someone who bikes/takes transit everywhere (in Seattle, not NYC), what an oxymoron. I'm not saying that at every single stop sign you have to come to a complete, foot-on-the-ground stop, but running lights is ridiculous and will do nothing but increase the hatred for all cyclists held by drivers by antagonizing them. Every OTHER form of transportation seems to do just fine "stopping at every goddamn light". Get off your high horse - even if a bicycle running a light isn't the same threat to public safety as a multi-ton steel death machine doing so, claiming that you can do so and be a "safe cyclist" will do nothing but hurt your credibility.
What are some examples of screwing with the basic Glance setup? Not allowing custom images?
> “If filling a website submission form a lot of times is cyberstalking, about half of Twitter is going to jail,” Ekeland says.

We can only hope!
A question: Do you have your apt sources pointed at 'testing' or at 'jessie'.

If the former, you may find stability takes a big hit after jessie becomes stable and all the new packages from unstable get pushed down.

If the latter, you should be good.
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You should be directing your criticism at the NYPD, which is the group that put forward the claim that there was a 115% increase in bicycle accidents in the 5th precinct.
Erdős was one of the greats, but emphasis on "one of". Again, it's easy to romanticize someone who's different, like a microcosm of orientalism. Erdős may even have been the best mathematician of his generation, but he wasn't head and shoulders above everyone else the way people sometimes seem to imply, and he wasn't (IMO, if the question even makes sense) the best of all time.
Yeah, but they're trying to make racketeering something you're guilty of by being in violation of the CFAA - see https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130324/14342822435/rathe... .

"if you are found to violate the CFAA as part of an activity that involves a variety of other crimes, you can now also be charged with racketeering. More specifically, if you look at that long list of related statutes in the definition to 18 USC 1961 (1), it will also include: "‘section 1030 (relating to fraud and related activity in connection with computers)."
Ah! Josh, your name was familiar to some of my coworkers!

A couple of points to answer your questions:

- We do centralize our product strategy and portfolio planning, but we decentralize our release and iteration planning.

- We focus on building strong teams of diverse talent sets that are becoming more self managing. Teamwork is big for us, flying solo on any task is rare-r than in other places I've worked.

- Our management (and everyone else) are really accessible for a medium sized company. I have faith that if I sent a calendar invite to our C*O for a 15 min chat on a free timeslot, they'd show up. Of course, respect goes both ways and I wouldn't book their time unless I really needed them specifically and it couldn't be handled asynchronously.

Thanks for the questions!
Agreed with everything except the first sentence.

OP is the author of Redis, the cache everybody and their mother loves. I'm sure he knows quite a bit about programming!
Thumbor-toy – Test and generate thumbor URLs graphically
> It is possible to build extremely dynamic websites that are not SPAs

Possible, but not easier.
It's my understanding that insider trading is basically not illegal in commodities, even on paper.

The above sounds a little bit like front-running[1], though, which is far more likely to be illegal if the banks were serving as broker.

[1]: That is, accepting an order and then trading for yourself based on the fact that you received the order before you fill the order.
That's extraordinarily hypocritical when you compare it to his blog post. That joke was completely inappropriate.

http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun
The enforcement tactic in NYC w/r/t cyclist infractions is to have at least two cops sitting around ticketing every biker who goes by committing a minor infraction. The opportunity cost is everything else those officers could've been doing for those several hours (perhaps ticketing the numerous cars blowing through red lights at the very same intersection.)

I live in NYC, I have seen this happen.

Of course, it is much more difficult and disruptive to ticket a car that has just blown a red light at high speed, than a biker who has blown a red light. Unfortunately, the city isn't allowed to install red light cams in most places because of Albany. Red light cams would be a safe, fair counterpart to increased red light enforcement for bikes. That being said, very very very few people are injured and none are killed because of bikes running reds (neither collision in Central Park this year was at an intersection). Likely hundreds are injured and at least dozens are killed from cars running red lights every year.
I'm sure you weren't googling answers when you first started and were probably asking your questions on bbs. I would also imagine you are using SO and other "forums" like that which are a form of networking (look as the profiles of some of the top people answering questions). I consider having a public GitHub repo networking because you can invite and share your projects so people can evaluate your work and collab. To me these are the default things that good devs are already doing.

Beyond that though I would suggest attending meetups in your area for all kinds of different things - for example there is a Ruby meetup in our area, there are node meetups, meetups for ML and NLP etc... These are cool places to show off your work, get help on projects and meet other people who would have links into jobs.
to me, WONTFIX is just a signal that personal conversations with Mozilla devs as humans--or at least a more subtle understanding of why Mozilla's not budging--are that much more important as next steps.

and i don't necessarily disagree with the technical merits of EFF's position, either. but what does it say about EFF if they don't feel the same way about PrivacyBadger being available through AMO? seems inconsistent, if we're to take the given rationale at face value.

and more broadly, it seems clear that if EFF's goal is to maximize the number of people using HTTPSEverywhere, the status quo for providing access to their code is not optimal.

i hope Mozilla/EFF will be able to work out a solution that increases the availability of HTTPSEverywhere's functionality.
And why would I want to store in my head a terrible solution to a problem that I'm literally only had to think about once every eight years or so in a random interview and the first time I was taught it 14 years ago in college? It's something I've never had to use at work, and I've put together dozens of full applications over the years.

That being said, I could probably still come up with it, but I encounter this problem when I interview sometimes.

People will ask me to recall something we covered for ten minutes back in college that I've never used since and could easily Google in five minutes if I ever did need to use it, and then they go... "ooooh, he must not be very good..." when I can't instantly spout out the solution from memory in thirty seconds, and might not be able to picture it clearly in my head without writing it out or spending a few minutes thinking about it, possibly even writing some quick code to see what happens, like I get to do whenever I'm actually working and on the job.

Most recently I got that with a combinatorial function (write a function to come up with all possible combinations for blah). I was having a hard time picturing how it would show every combination in my head, including in a jumbled order. I could figure it out if I could hack away at the code for an hour, and I remembered going over it briefly in college, but I've never needed to do it in my personal or professional projects since, and so it wasn't fresh in my head. The feedback I got was they were passing on me because I got that one question wrong. I'm perfectly competent and could easily handle the job, but because I didn't study every possible algorithmic and non-algorithmic question I could possibly be asked in the three days notice I had before the interview, tough.

I'm more a fan of seeing the results of people's work than asking them trivia over a field whose sphere of knowledge keeps doubling every five years that they can't possibly store every single thing in their heads at all times.
What would be a reason for leaving out the parameter names? Genuinely curious.
I work at a company that's a FbStart partner. I've never heard anything about FB asking program participants for any IP rights (or equity). Just double checked the ToS and there's no mention of IP either.
You are probably right about the market being not that liquid, but it's not like illiquidity is a requirement, just take a look at the lawsuits for rigging the interest rate and FX benchmarks.
The saying is almost 2000 years old [1], so I think if somebody wanted to modernize it they've had the chance :P

[1] First writing appears in a text from AD 49
Dude, the entire post is crammed with interesting technical details and tricks (like how to make a custom bokeh filter? Very nicely done).

The article has nothing to do with the content of SNL itself. If you're gonna just ignore that and get back on that tired old "SNL hasn't been cool since Eddie Murphy" horse then
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Isn't that argument bad for erlang? That you need to pay an atrocious price for erlang know how.

That erlang know-how commands a high price on the market is a good argument for developers to invest in developing that know how, and for organizations to work on fostering it in their staff.

Its only "bad for erlang" if you assume the only way to adopt erlang is for an organization to wake up out of the blue one day and decide "from this day forth, all our work will be in Erlang, and we're going to go out on the market today and hire up Erlang talent to enable that to occur."
Monty Hall, Erdos, and Our Limited Minds
Yeah yeah, that rule of thumb is in the racist area but you can discount it and he's still obviously 'black' as much as the term 'black' has any meaning.
"Javascript with all the ES6 enhancements is really not a bad language."

File under "damning with faint praise", methinks. Not sure what it means if the "not all that bad" version is one that doesn't run natively anywhere yet...
> The runtime performance is already very good and continually getting better

Have you checked out the Computer Benchmarks Game? Here are some benchmarks they provide, comparing the JavaScript V8 to Python [1], Ruby [2], and PHP [3].

Looking at statistics such as these, I'm left thinking, "1. This is awesome! 2. Is there something about these other languages that prevents V8-like performance, or is this more a matter of browser performance being highly invested in by Google, Mozilla, etc.?"

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

[2] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

[3] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
Understood.

But the premise of the article asks if the 5th Precinct plans to "start ticketing more cyclists". The tweet didn't say that. It said they'll be enforcing violations, which is what you expect police officers to do with laws that are on the books.

You're right - maybe the stats are bad, and the post is right to ask for clarification. But the post assumes the tweet means they'll change their enforcement tactics, and I don't read that in this tweet.
Rockets of the human space
If you want to commit crimes with impunity, become a banker. Otherwise, you're just needed fodder for the corporate prison system.
Are you kidding? I can't remember the last time a node.js or javascript related article on the HN homepage didn't have a barrage of highly up-voted "javascript sucks" themed comments. I'm beginning to wonder the opposite - is there anyone like me in the community that doesn't have a problem liking javascript?
My understanding is that the traditional U.S. "Thanksgiving meal" isn't historically accurate either.
Any company is in the position to do it (or pay to have it done)...

Wrong.

In order to be in a position to do it, you need to start with a sample of many thousands of people being hired into a specific kind of job, all of whom have been given the test in question, and all of whom are then judged by standardized metrics. ONLY THEN can you collect enough data to make strong statistical inferences on this issue.

The military can meet this threshold. Very, very few private employers can. And claiming otherwise is wrong.

...the expected utility of general intelligence testing, even where any such benefit is rationally expected to be born out, is pretty low compared to more specific job-focused alternatives that are also easier to demonstrate are job related if they have a disparate impact.

I do not believe this to be the case for most entry-level jobs. Can you cite specific research indicating otherwise?
Eh, I'm a cyclist in NYC and when i come to a red light i slow way down and if there are any pedestrians or cars, I stop. But if it's completely clear, I'll roll through slowly and carefully. It feels pretty safe and I make sure that I always come to complete stops far back if there are pedestrians because they have the right away.

I've heard that some states legally treat red lights and stop signs as yield signs for bicyclists, and I think that's reasonable. I view what I do as the same as jay walking... Technically illegal, but no one is going to stand and wait at a cross walk for 30 seconds for a light to change when it's clear there's no one coming.
Well, for many protocols it easy. I had written (a useful subset of) mysql protocol parser in a weekend. Sure, this is in Python, so reimplement it in C is much harder, still not years or so. Many protocols: mongodb, redis, memcached, beanstalk, etc, are much simpler.

There are protocols that take months and years, but they are not so ubiquitous (with the obvious exception of HTTP, which is really complex and ubiquitous). So they may be developed after basic tools are in place.
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As a motorcyclist, I think cyclists should be held to the same rules of the law as other vehicles to make driving predictable and safe. As it stands right now, I have to assume cyclists (via heuristics/profiling) as a wildcard--will they run a red light? Will they weave in and out of traffic unsafely (this is an acceptable practice, when done with ample buffer given their size and speed)?

I think cycling is great (I'm also a cyclist as well). But the fact they don't carry a vehicle registration shouldn't exempt them the rules of the public road to make them predictable users (and unpredictable users, such as those erratically lane splitting, jaywalking, reckless driving, under the influence, speeding, etc, should be penalized to encourage predictable use).
I have used it, but it is too limited. If they had made it a variable scale (i.e. 0-5 stars) that would have made it vastly more practical and functional.

The way that it is presented as a "remember this item" or "note this for later reference", is completely redundant when you consider that everything you archive is "save this for later".

So to actually answer your question: No. I tried and gave up.
It can increase hatred towards you, but that does not make you an unsafe cyclist.
The folks who think that the US is one of the best places to live in the world are usually folks who've never stepped outside of the US.

I've lived in several US states, a variety of European and Asian countries, and have travelled broadly - and the US, I put on a par with post-soviet Russia in terms of standards of living - and in terms of cultural attitudes.

It's amazing how similar the two are, to someone external to both worlds.
Facebook Flow or TypeScript - still weak.

On require/modules, that's a freaking mess.

Ambiguous/unexpected behavior... nothing fixes it.

To make matters worse, there's always the promise of some magical library or tool that's going to fix your problems, until you discover that it sucks, or that it is unmaintained, or that it doesn't interoperate with another library and then you're back to search between thousands of pieces of crap that do the same thing.

I remember the days when people were having boners over CoffeeScript. Boy, that was a bad move.
Flow is awesome
Most manufacturing does not involve copyright

Microchip layouts and printed circuit board designs are usually copyrighted. And you could easily mould some copyrightable text onto a pair of headphones or a sandwich box if you wanted to.
When the pool was originally coded, MySQL had one thread per open connection. That made the auto-sizing MRU pool a pretty big win, because it kept the connection counts as low as possible while using the warmest database threads. MySQL has matured since then, so this optimization is no longer important.

Out-of-order delivery causes TCP to shrink the congestion windows, which cuts throughput. Connection pools help here (in addition to their reduction in setup and teardown work), because they let the windows widen and stay open. We disable tcp_slow_start_after_idle to take advantage of this.
The explanation of bokeh alone is worth being here.
Theres a little bit of a annoyance/bug during the sign up process. I signed in with Google so you populated the email field for me (awesome) and the username field (also awesome). However, since you copied my email name for the username I have a "." in the username which the form didn't like when I actually went to submit.
> What's your basis for saying this? Do you have any way of verifying this claim?

A leader always emerges.

If you know of a counter-example, I'd love to hear it. But even in the smallest experiments I've run (group of friends trying to agree on where to have dinner), a leader always emerges and then consensus is reached.
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Every OTHER form of transportation...

Certainly does not stop at every red light. Specifically pedestrians. Bikes are more maneuverable and faster than pedestrians while decreasing safety only by the slightest margin if even any. I honestly don't see the problem.

Also I think it's important to note that there is no term for "safely crossing an intersection even though the light is red." That and blowing through indiscriminately are both referred to as "running" which I think contributes to a large problem in perception.
Archived version: https://archive.today/jRf2l

UPD1 Now "Minor Service Outage": https://archive.today/dzwu5

UPD2 Ok, seems to be over: "All Systems Operational"