skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many books have you read? Have you ever watched a film that significantly affected your life? Seen a presentation? Heard a story?
Alright, what are best 5 books from 2014 written by non-white men or women?
Do you have some more diverse recommendations?
Does `setTimeout` have a default value for the time?
This article is 5 hours old, has 314 points is one rank behind an article that's six hours hold with 23 points right now. HN users certainly love to flag anything that's critical of Uber.
Let's say it's 2011 and you want to port your Flash game to iPhone. You can try packaging your Flash game using Adobe's tools, but it'll probably be very slow, and Apple might change their mind again about allowing Flash apps on the platform. There aren't very many well-supported C/C++ frameworks for iPhone yet -- you search the forums for each and only find unanswered questions. You're worried about it working well on the new iPad.

So you do the safe thing everyone else is doing, Cocos2D and Objective C. You'll worry about porting later, if the game does well. Maybe you'll just pay someone else to do it.
0 recommendations for a great book by a non-white author. sigh
Maybe get out of your books, away from the computer, and experience life yourself in some way that challenges your comfort zone. Start your own adventure.
That wasn't a personal attack. It was a statement of fact based on the obvious misinformation within their post (which was worse pre-edit, by the way).

If someone said "the moon is made of cheese" and someone replies "you don't understand what the moon is made of" that isn't a person attack, since it was directed at their argument not their character.

If I had called them names, broadly questioned their intelligence, accused them of bias, and so on those are all personal attacks. Poking their argument with "you don't understand the topic" is none of the above and not even in the same ballpark.
> I'm guessing you can't go giving out concrete legal advice for free, but could you point us towards languages that are fixing this?

Please note that kibwen is not part of the core Rust team.
Show HN: Kerstman, a secret santa app built using rails
This is now the second secret santa matching app I've built to fill a problem I've had with many groups over the years.
Loads of secret santas I've organised or been involved with have had couples who you don't really want to end up matched. As a result I've built a web app that allows you to specify a partner who you don't want that person to be giving to.

There's a few bugs wherein it won't successfully match everyone but I've made sure it won't bomb out or send an email to some people before everyone has a giftee and gifter. I'm mainly looking for feedback before I take it outside of testing at work and with friends so hopefully someone finds it of use.

https://github.com/RyanMacG/kerstman/tree/master
Sure, my .bind was a little insensitive to those who had to suffer through ES3, but honestly I thought we were pretty much ignoring the 90s.
That's not really surprising. The American southern accent is, afaik, widely believed to be much closer to the accent spoken by the British who first colonized the US. This accent would have been something on the cusp of early modern english (which Shakespeare's work is an example of) turning into modern english.
Y Combinator hires first black partner to recruit more minorities
this looks exactly the same as https://hacksummit.org/. is this like part of the same program or from the same people or something?
cydia download for iOS 8.1.1- iOS 8.0 with TaiG 1.1 jailbreak –
Hi, I'm Mike, one of the founders of Bettir. I'm available to answer questions if you have any.
"Almost all my friends are cultural mutts — people with hybrid backgrounds, for whom nationality isn't the most important part of their identity."

I do identify with my birth country to an extent, but definitely no more or no less than any of the other places I've lived in since I left. I'm afraid this might upset some people, but the piece of paper in my pocket has value only insofar as I can't get a better deal somewhere else.

I've grown pretty tired of "ownership through urination" and I know my multi-cultural friends all feel the same. I know this is mostly down to historical baggage but I really, really wish we could do something about it.

I'm genuinely curious, are there any recognized countries without actual land/borders?
Looks like a distant relative of the American Fuzzy Lop.

I remember the go-go years of the early 1990s, when shadow passwords weren't the norm and cracking was easy.

Back then I'd consistently find machines in academic environments had a password same as username or an empty password. In fact, in non-technical areas, this could be the account of the "person in charge". I'd see 50% as many with a password involving things seen in the /etc/passwd line and then maybe 10% as many of that by running a word list I got out of PHRACK.
Having to do tax preparation is unusual period.

I've filed a total of zero tax forms with the UK government in my lifetime. I've filed several hundred with the US government in a couple of years (and paid third parties money to file "for me" because filing directly is insanely difficult).
No, I heard the fundamental argument being made. I'm saying that when you apply it to most real-world applications, it doesn't matter, just like the article says. If you are an employee of a tech company, you use whatever language your employer is using, and you don't get a choice in the matter. If you are a founder, the only thing that matters is product/market fit, and so you use whatever language will get you there fastest, which is usually the language that you know best. If you are a consultant, then either the client will specify a language (in which case you use that) or you will use whatever will let you finish the job fastest (which is usually the one you know best).
Production budgets for AAA content are higher precisely because small players can now compete on quality with the old acceptable quality levels for AAA, so the spectacle has to grow along a non-linear curve (twice as amazing costs more than twice as much).

There's a good case to be made that rising amateur quality drives larger and larger mega-blockbusters.
Option and null in dynamic languages
OK, I get that you have the risk of your bank account being closed due to citizenship (which I imagine, is something that can only happen after the fact?) but I just don't see what the possibility of closing of your foreign bank account has to do with obtaining your citizenship.

Not trying to be pedantic, just genuinely curious (I'm a GC holder myself): Why should the USCIS care about your foreign bank account?
I'm going to paraphrase a friend of mine who is a great mobile developer.

They could have used AIR on mobile to re-use the AS3 codebase. Alternately, they could have done c++ on cocos2d-x instead of objective c, so that would have been pc portable.

They would just have to write it twice, in that case. However, if you are a group of AS3 devs jumping to mobile, they probably picked the best sounding thing at the time - which was cocos2d.

Keep in mind android wasn't really a game platform in 2011, so choosing cocos2d in obj-c over c++ wasn't really a bad call.
I think standard Java library API doesn't know what algorithms are supported on particular platform, additionally you can implement your own messagedigest.
Oooh... Irish taxes are like that too! I miss it.

German taxes, on the other hand...
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Everyone except white men cares about it. Without seeing different points of view, empathy, diversity and understanding of people is not possible. Which is, plainly, ridiculously simple to see unless you are trying really hard to stay ignorant in privilege.
Thanks, I hadn't seen those pronouns before.
Agreed! If anything, the law and the enforcement agencies should be questioned on how the accused was let loose if he was guilty of rape earlier. Here's a screenshot doing rounds of the clean record certificate given by the Delhi police to the accused for Uber, though not confirmed by the police themselves:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4UpufJCAAEDCqC.jpg
It is part of hacksummit.org
Classic Lemonade
Yeah. When I learned Ruby I read the Rails code base, which comes with its own set of issues, but which was more modern and was a better representation of the current state of Ruby.
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Where ௸ is my own large number notation, beats your example in only 1 symbol with about 3 ↑↑ 4 times as many digits.
So this addresses a 'need' but that 'need' doesn't have a market. In fact, that shadow-market is merely a consequence of the failure other markets. The need for this service is completely dependent upon the failure of the local restaurant industry to properly manage its demand, which in turn is likely due to the failure of a real estate market to provide profitable space for restaurants.

If EITHER of these two markets are disrupted, your market evaporates. Considering how popular food blogs and food trucks are becoming, I would not bank on this.
I haven't read the Black Swan. I skimmed a few places and know a Taleb fan who has read both Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan. With moderate confidence I'd say FbR is the better book - Black Swan seems to be much of the same material presented for a wider audience. I thought FbR was excellently written, regardless of the content.
It's obviously racist to include only books from white authors. This isn't about each book, it's about the collection.
Yes, but $200 is alot smaller than $5000 stated in the parent comment.
Great move to address the historically paltry and inconsistent profit margins of restaurants. Looking forward to seeing what this does for the industry - I'm hoping it helps push forward other big-kitchen / small-dining-room places like Achatz's restaurants.
Right. But a ticketing system doesn't solve this problem either.

A pre-paid ticketing system could make this problem worse because there is no "cue" as it were. At least a bill being placed on the table, paid, and then picked up later by the server. Having the bill picked up by the server is, ostensibly, the last interaction aside from refilling the water.

Of course, tickets could get handled in some special way like being redeemed at the end of the meal, or the ticket pays for the core meal, and a separate bill is given for drinks and extras not handled by the ticket.
I do wonder how Aurora will stack up with Marathon in the long term with all of the Mesos traction and development seemingly headed up from Mesosphere.
> In my experiemce, Go is a breath of fresh air.

Let's see where Go will be in 20 years.
Indeed, just a concerned rando to whom the core team foolishly granted some modicum of influence. :)
Haskell and Rust are adapted for very different problem domains than Python and Ruby. The reason someone choosing between Python and Ruby doesn't include Haskell and Rust is because Haskell and Rust would be very bad choices for the types of software that are typically built with Python and Ruby.

(I say this as someone who wrote one of the top Haskell tutorials on the net, and am currently using Python for my startup.)
> I just became a US citizen after living in the country for 23 years.

Why? For what benefit? I haven't seen a reason yet to even consider doing that.
Hey, I'm the founder of Transcriptic. We're pretty excited about this. Happy to answer any questions!
YouTube Now Tells You How Copyrighted Music Affects Your Video Before You Upload
> If you believe that f(x) = |x| is a "formula" giving the distance of a real number from zero, it's just as conditionally defined as (but less infinite than) the infinite lookup table you hypothesize.

If you allow a formula to be an infinite look-up table, then the statement "every [always halting] algorithm is a fixed formula" becomes true, but, I think, almost meaningless—it just says that the algorithm produces an output for every input. This is what I meant by saying:

This is probably true for some very weak definition of the terms, but not, I think, in any sense that a random person would recognise as a 'formula'.

> On a more fun-fact note, there was a result some years ago expressing pi as an infinite series in powers of 16, with the headlining implication being "it may be possible to calculate the nth digit of pi (in base 16, or other powers of 2) directly, without needing to know the preceding digits" (I don't know the state of things since then, and details may have been jumbled in my memory). I suspect that there are implications for the puzzle you pose.

No 'may' about it—it is possible to find the hexadecimal (and thus binary, 'quaternary', or octal, but not higher) digits using this algorithm. However, the discoverers explicitly disclaim its utility for finding decimal digits of pi in this way, and, indeed, say that no such 'look-ahead' algorithm is known (see p. 55 of http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF03024340).
India is not banning cars or taxis on the road. They are saying that Uber shall not operate until they get permits and comply with the law.

If the law requires you to go through a background check and obtain a license to buy a gun; but you don't get a license, you buy a gun and then shoot someone. Clearly, you would be liable for the crime.
Here's what I personally see:

Pencil on Paper vs Vector Pen Tool on Computer. The difference between these tools doesn't matter. Neither will teach you about the importance of proportion of characters bodies, or how the illusion of depth can be achieved.

Sure making a curve with a pen tool is very hard, and sometimes a very simple thing you can do with a pencil will utterly flummox you with the pen tool but the end result is worth it. The beauty and scalability of the resulting curve is unparalleled.

http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

"A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of."
It's more complex than that. If we have words on the street, and I punch you and break your nose, you won't have any problems getting your complaint taken seriously. Nobody gets their nose broken for pleasure; even boxing clubs and so on have rules of conduct and activities are generally supervised to ensure conduct remains within those boundaries.

On the other hand, people have sex for pleasure a lot, and sexual activity is strongly linked to emotion, so if you come to the police with a tale of an unwelcome sexual encounter you have to answer all these extra questions about consent and secondary motive to get taken seriously. If a complainant doesn't show obvious signs of physical trauma indicating a violent struggle, then it can often be a problem to get the complaint of rape to be taken seriously and investigated urgently.
Work on open source full time at InfluxDB (YC W13)
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Additionally, we're looking for front-end developers that love to write single page applications and data visualization tools.

Finally, if you want to help us support customers in the field, we're also hiring support engineers!

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The problem is not that the Flash game is so tightly coupled to the hardware, it's that it is tightly coupled to the Flash runtime. (Mainly because Flash forces a certain structure on your code, but also because Flash's idiosyncracies are so bad that you have to bend over backwards to get good performance from it.)
YawnDb: Time Series Database Written in Erlang
Ditto. One of my first dialup accounts I used was from a hacked passwd file, it was oreo:cookie :P
Family of Boy Killed by Cleveland Officer to Pursue Criminal Case
I'm not arguing about the scapegoating or anything. I'm just saying that Uber markets itself as "we don't hire those creeps" - but it sounds like they ARE hiring those creeps. So what's the point of using Uber in Delhi when you are as unsafe as you would be in a regular taxicab?

What's the value proposition of Uber in that case? Just the convenience of using the app?
The base functionality is free. In app purchases enable annotations and other more specialized features.

Would you say most people prefer paying for an app upfront rather than pay per feature?
DNA Sequencer the Size of a USB Memory Stick
Eh, it's not nothing, but $200/yr is hardly even among the most important monetary considerations when it comes to being an expat. It'd be better if it were $0, but it's not really a factor in my decision-making, considering all the other costs and complications involved. I certainly wouldn't choose where to live or what citizenships to have over an amount of money that adds up to $2k per decade.
Sound nice except for the being frozen part :-)

The IRS could do our taxes as well if there weren't 500,000 special interest exceptions to everything.
Wonderful book. Try "The Wisdom of Insecurity" next. And to anyone considering either of these, I think TWoI is a slightly better intro to Watts' work.
TomTom gives the, admittedly less informative, but similarly reassuring message, "You're still on the fastest route." My level of trust has grown toward not needing this reassurance. I will further admit that this learning process was a bit jarring, realizing what I thought was the quickest (or even "straightest") route was often mistaken. It's apparently quite easy to confuse "good enough" with "optimum".
I still think it's archaic to discriminate that way against citizens of other countries. (the best part being Americans calling them "non-citizen", exposing either some prejudice or some ignorance or both)
Why should we applaud an obvious ionic ripoff? Add a few bells and whistles and try to claim credit for the great performance of ionic? Hide it all in the cloud? Big deal.
@sp322 it's racist to care about the race of the author imho.
I've never, ever had the urge to check race, gender or sexual orientation of any author, director, screenwriter, photographer etc. Why would anyone waste their time doing something like that? It's just stupid.
There's already some of that... there are packages/tooling built aroud co/koa with features that you need the latest 0.11.x and --harmony to use.

I like a lot of the ES6 features... to ES7, if await/async can be introduced with thenables sooner than later, it will mean that co will become irrelevant for the most part, and a lot of tooling around a koa2 will be awesome. There's a lot to be excited about.
I'm a little confused, do they provide any way in which to give an hour of programming help? I don't know anybody who's interested in programming IRL but I would happily help someone having a trouble with something programming related
Completely off topic, but I always figured that you'd get better mileage out of "blessed" rather than "privilege".
TJ can provide examples from his perspective; my personal examples are all from keeping the node.js production debugging facilities[1][2] operating properly. We have tried hard to make these facilities independent from V8, but the reality is that they encode how V8 operates and that changes to V8 can break them. Fortunately, the node.js DTrace ustack helper[3] -- by far the more intricate piece -- hasn't needed major maintenance, but the facilities for iterating over all JavaScript objects from a core dump (for example) have been broken quite a few times. I'm afraid the war stories from debugging these aren't terribly heroic -- they boil down to one of the node.js debugging tests failing and Dave Pacheco or me (exactly which one frequently being adjudicated by fingers-on-noses) sitting down for several intense hours to learn how V8 has changed and modify our debugging support accordingly. If you want to see the details of the changes needed to accommodate V8, you can look at some of the specific commits for the debugging support.[4]

[1] http://www.joyent.com/developers/node/debug

[2] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/goto2012

[3] http://dtrace.org/blogs/dap/2013/11/20/understanding-dtrace-...

[4] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/tree/master/usr/src...
I can't speak for him, but I haven't watched the video and this all seems extremely obvious to me.
> I'm genuinely curious, are there any recognized countries without actual land/borders?

I think the closest you can get is SMOM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Mal...
I don't really get it either, but I think the idea is that you're supposed to somehow optimize on the assumption that your opponent is equally likely to be using any strategy. (To my mind this makes the problem very confusing because it's such an unrealistic assumption.) If you assume that the only possible strategies are "rethrow if my first throw is <= x", then you can define a function f(x,y) giving the EV where x is the threshold for your rethrow and y is the threshold for your opponent's. I guess you then integrate with respect to y (to get the EV for any given x assuming a uniform distribution for the opponent's choice of y) and then differentiate the result with respect to x to find the maximum? If the solution is along those lines that would explain the problem's supposed accessibility to good high school students.
Or maybe, according to the laws of statistics, maybe, just maybe, (let me add in another maybe here,) The dude just happened to like 5 books that HAPPENED to be by white men?

Possibly he most likely didn't even care who wrote them as quality knows not race, sex or orientation?

I mean we should TOTALLY believe the dude trying to rid the third world of malaria is TOTALLY a racist, right?

God, tumblr is leaking over into hacker news now.
Decrypting Rita, the graphic novel I've been working on since April 2011.
http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/

I made a major mistake in the prepress process and had to eat it, losing all profits from the Kickstarter from the second volume. It has also gotten kind words from more than one Hugo winner. On a productive month, its Patreon is starting to pay about half of my rent; I feel like the push of publicity for the final volume (somewhere around April 2014 if all goes well) will do some pretty interesting things to my career as a comics creator, with my bills quite possibly being paid entirely by the fraction of my fan base that chooses to support me on Patreon somewhere around next winter. Assuming they don't vanish en masse when I start the next project, which will be very different in tone and subject matter...

I know you were mostly looking for books to read. But none of the fiction or non-fiction I've read this year has really done much of anything to my worldview. I think the last one that did that was probably Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising, which basically turned me into an occasional magician.
I'm more interested in the impact on sale numbers of these books — Seems like his lists are getting more buzz than NYT's bestsellers in recent months.
In this case, more opportunity to do paperwork and apply for special interest tax breaks :)
The 'need' is that there are open seats at restaurants that don't have any open reservations, due to people showing up late or not showing up at all. This inefficiency can be looked at as unavoidable friction, or as opportunity for innovation.

Other industries in the hospitality world have their own ways around this. Most hotels have 24-hour cancellation policies and airlines have dynamic pricing. This is a new one for the (fine) dining industry, and one that will likely spawn different models for different types of restaurants.