skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People die climbing it, that's not a justification for saying people don't belong there when what's being suggested it not climbing but riding up in an enclosed environment to tour it. Your position has no merit.
I can't sing the praises of Gitlab loud enough - we (Infoxchange) started using Gitlab and Gitlab-CI around 8 months ago or so and haven't thought twice about our decision.

It's a really solid project using great technology that's easy to support and use!
The core of the outrage about Privdog is that it's created by the founder of Comodo, and distributed with Comodo products, and therefore Comodo doesn't really seem like a company you should trust, but you don't have a choice, because they're a trusted root CA.
My favorite part is this:
"""
Ms. Pao says a married colleague pressured her into an affair and then retaliated against her when she broke it off. When she complained, she says she was discriminated against and got poor reviews, resulting ultimately in her dismissal. She accuses Kleiner of treating her “despicably, maliciously, fraudulently and oppressively” from “an improper and evil motive amounting to malice.”
"""

Sounds like classic blame-shifting to me.
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Nonsense, people fly everyday, they're called pressurized cabins; that you think anyone is suggesting otherwise is your lack of imagination, not some limitation of biology.
BBC Radio 4's fantastic "In Our Time" podcast had an episode on Bruegel just a few weeks ago. IIRC, it was more about a different but somewhat similar painting of his, but I believe there was at least a little discussion of this work as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot (search for "Bruegel")
> If anything, I'd expect it to drive rental prices down because there would be fewer owner-occupied units and more rental units as investors rent out.

There's a phenomenon which is (I think) unique to New York. Many newly-built condos are purchased by foreign owners[0] who buy them literally sight-unseen. For them, it's strictly a financial investment, as high-end New York real estate is a relatively safe investment (in the long run, not the short run). We're talking people who have the cash to buy a $10MM condo[1] (or even penthouse, for far more) from halfway across the world, so they're not interested in the hassle of renting the unit out. As a result, they literally sit vacant. You can see these unoccupied "ghost apartments" in buildings really clearly at night in buildings that have no units available for purchase or rent.

These investors go to great lengths to keep their identities concealed, but the practice itself is not secret at all. There have been a number of exposes about this recently in New York publications (New York Times, New York Magazine, etc.), so it's pretty well-known. It's a particularly hot issue because, due to loopholes, these foreign investors pay essentially no property tax (literally a few hundred dollars per year on units worth several million).

However, this has relatively little to do with the current discussion, because these are not the types of units that would be listed on AirBNB anyway (both because they would be way outside the general price range, and also because these buildings are far, far more strict about these matters than the typical rental unit). Furthermore, I don't think the number of these vacant sales is particularly high compared to the real estate market in NYC in general; they are so valuable that the missing tax revenue is incredibly large, even if the number of units is relatively small.

We also have a situation in which most rental buildings are purchased by foreign owners, who do actually rent them out through the normal legal means (through management companies), but there is nothing new about this. Almost anybody who rents in NYC pays their rent to an LLC named after the building (e.g. 100 W 21st St., LLC), and this LLC is bought and sold by (usually) foreign investors who don't want the hassle of the public eye, and use the LLC as an easy means to transfer ownership without any filing requirements[2]

[0] These days it's usually Gulf oil money, though ~10 years ago it was East Asian billionaires, and ~10 years before that... you get the picture.

[1] More likely a co-op, actually, so for the buyer, they are literally purchasing shares in a corporation. The fact that those shares are backed by some highly-valued real estate is a mere detail, the way algorithmic day-traders buy and sell futures and derivatives without thinking about the underlying assets!

[2] IIRC, property sales require certain public filings, but because the unit is owned by an LLC, and the LLC is what's being sold (not the property), these filings are avoided.
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I don't see mechanically how you'd make a system in which cars could, at 70 mph, go from one rail to another in order to pass.

Look at that ground level system it's designed for mix use in the middle of city traffic. Basically you have a sequence of metal contact plates in the ground to feed power to a passing vehicle. You can even make the plates wider to accommodate less accurate drivers. The trick is there only powered when a designated vehicle crosses over them. This might seem like an issue but we can switch power vary quickly as in it could work at 600 mph not just 60 mph. It's true that it would be unsafe to be under a vehicle, but that's more or less already true.

As to passing, I think you would want a minimum 40mile range while not connected to the system so swapping lanes would generally be a minor issue. And there is no coupling / decoupling as it's all touch contact anyway.

* The distances involved...

There are plenty of long electric runs. At most it's just a factor of traffic levels. Long runs tend to get less traffic so electrifying them is less cost effective.

"In 2006, 240,000 km (25% by length) of the world rail network was electrified and 50% of all rail transport was carried by electric traction."

3rd rail systems are just one path, they work well in subways that don't have to worry about people. I don't think an actual 3rd rail would work for cars. But, inductive coupling or 2nd generation ground level system would be safe for people to walk on or even touch and not an eye sore. The downside would be increased cost vs the cheaper wire systems.

At to cost and scale. Gas costs more than 10x what electricity costs right now so there is ~368.51 million gallons / day * ~(pre tax 1.5$ per gallon) * .9 = ~1/2 billion per day wasted right now. Just charge 75c/kwh for in road electricity and you can fund rapid expansion while saving drivers money. Remember, just electrifying things for a city wide buss system generally saves money so break even is ~100 trips per day. Add more traffic and the savings would be ridiculously huge.
The article begins by introducing Ana Redmond, who "launched into a technology career ... well-equipped to succeed ... In 2011, after 15 years, she left before achieving a management position."

The article ends by telling us "Redmond now runs her own business making educational apps for children."

I'm sorry, but how does founding a company that builds apps count as "leaving the tech industry"?

I'm sure women face many subtle and not-so-subtle issues working in tech, because it is very much a boys' club, but I'm not so sure about the analytical merits of this article.
Ah yes, I always forget that rsync does basically everything!
Hey, thank you for the feedback, I'm the author of this thread but I'm actually the customer, not the support rep.

I get behind every single point of your list. I felt like he just didn't care, and when I proceeded to point out I was disappointed and thought it was terrible of them to just slam the door in my face like that, I received an endless series of condescending remarks which made even angrier and caused my reactions.

I'm somewhat surprised by some of the answers in the thread but I did want other people's opinions in order to figure out where the real balance is.

I guess I still feel like I'm the one who's right, especially being the paying customer, but from everyone's feedback I should have kept the tone down.

I admit I really don't work well with condescension.
Why do we test drugs on mice when it is their effect on humans that we actually care about (almost no one actually cares about lowering high blood pressure or addressing erectile dysfunction in mice)?

Answer: because understanding what happens in mice might give us some insight into similar mechanisms in humans, and it is easier to do many tests and experiments on mice.

Same goes for media tastes. Factors that lead to gender difference in media preferences might also lead to gender differences in employment (either by affecting what jobs women seek, or affecting how employers perceive candidates), and it might be easier to gather data on media preferences.
Edit: Ignore this, sorry for posting the link.
Javascript, or V8 and Chrome's devtools? Firefox has had sane error reporting in this situation for quite a long while....
"An atom that normally emits light will cease emitting when its surroundings become incapable of absorbing that light. Thus one event (emission) depends on something that does or doesn't happen in the future (absorption)."

What role does relativity play in this discussion?

From the point of view of a photon, there is no lapse in time between emission and absorption. Emission and absorption happens instantaneously, since time never "ticks" for the photon as it traverses space. So, at least from the photon's point of view, there is no need to evoke the past/future causality in this situation.
At this point, no. GitLab runs very well on Unix machines and is easy to install. It is literally three commands and doesn't require some arcane unix magic to setup and keep running.

Starting a VM is easier than ever nowadays and installing GitLab no harder.

I'm so comfortable saying this, that if you have any problems getting it setup, email me at job [at] gitlab dot com and I'll help you get rolling.
Exactly, it's remote but it's not inaccessible. The same is true of Yosemite, Death Valley, Yellowstone, Arches, etc.
You don't think availability is driven by supply?
Right, they don't, and they shouldn't. If I'm not mistaken, we already agree completely.

I'm saying that functions should return either primitives or objects that have properties (or keys, since in JS all objects are just hashmaps) that uphold some appropriate abstraction, completely separate from whatever the variables might have been called inside the function body.

For example, the return object from some function `getDate()` might have a .year property, or .toUnix method, etc.

If all I'm given is an array of arbitrarily typed values, I have solely the array indexes and values (or to go to the docs or implementation) to clue me into the semantic meaning of what was returned.
That's awesome to hear.

It's great to have a community of people using and building GitLab, that contributes new features, critizes decisions and helps everyone else stay sharp.
Assuming you mean friend in the standard cpp way, that's not exactly correct.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/495021/why-can-templates-...
The thing I found interesting about Tracy Chou's anecdote was the role that good old "NIH Syndrome" played. I've felt much as she did, and I'm about as un-female or un-feminine as they get. Even now, on a project where I have a senior role, I often feel excluded from most important conversations or decisions because I'm in the wrong country, wrong organization, wrong social group. It has made me feel like telling them all to shove their cliquishness up their collective asses while I go do this stuff right. Then I try to imagine how it would feel if I also had to put up with the additional slights that come from being on the "wrong" side of yet another divide, and knew practically for certain that the story would repeat no matter where I went in this industry. I'd want to get out too.

This makes me think that we won't fix the gender issue in tech until we fix a whole cluster of bad behaviors that actually affect everyone, and of which hostility to women is only one facet. The "work hard play hard" culture of spending every waking moment (and too many of those) either working or "socializing" with the same people in the same few stereotypical ways - drinking, video games, cycling - is near the top of the list. So are the OS/language/editor religious wars, and the glorification of trollish behavior on mailing lists or Twitter or Reddit or . . . well, here. Women aren't the only ones driven out of the industry by all that BS, but they are an important part of that exodus.

The first step toward solving a more general problem is admitting that it is a more general problem. Don't just try to fix the superficial appearance of the bug; try to fix the design flaw that led to the bug.
Mark Cuban Inflames the Internet (Again)
>As one example, Vancouver, notorious for huge amounts of international money buying up property, has relatively cheap AirBnb units

Genuinely curious - is this something that someone has proven (i.e. is there data somewhere to support this)? Or is it more of a personal observation? Thanks.
>There is no excess

...yet. But solar and wind power are becoming the cheapest way to generate electricity. Their naturally variable production will mean that there will be periods of excess power available, and finding a good use for that excess would be nice.

But I agree that batteries, not hydrogen, are the way to go.
Here's the dirty little secret of the "hydrogen economy": it's a fossil fuel bait-and-switch.

Renewable hydrogen from water is 2-3x as expensive as making it from natural gas†. It simply can't compete at the pump. People won't pay $9/gal equivalent when $3/gal is available right across the street (or across town, for that matter).

† releasing just as much CO2 and fugitive methane, and still being wholly unsustainable
Yeah but you don't expect shady software from a company that's supposed to be protecting us.
I think the worst aspect of all these bad actors is how they use misleading language to hide what they are doing.

Consider PrivDog's sales pitch:

PrivDog® protects your privacy while browsing the web and more! Get safer, faster and more private web browsing today!

In fact, the point of the software from PrivDog's perspective is to replace web ads from third-party ad networks with web ads from PrivDog's own third-party ad network -- i.e. AdTrustMedia.

Similar language is used in Lenovo's ex-post-facto sales pitch for Silverfish:

The goal was to improve the shopping experience using their visual discovery techniques.

No, the goal from your point of view was to insert your own advertising network links into user's webpages. And it's installed by default (no need to worry... you can trust your new Lenovo machine!) as a self-encrypted subsystem (which underscores the tricky intentions).

Perhaps the use of misleading language is what primarily leads people to regard these sorts of things as inappropriate bait-and-switch badware installs? The problem is, of course, that these sales techniques work, or at least the offending companies seem to believe that they will work for enough unsophisticated users.
PrivDog's functionality is to replace advertising in web pages with it's own advertising "from trusted sources".

So it's an ad-replacer, not an ad-blocker, but works in a similar way to other ad-blocking proxies like Proxomitron. The main problem here is in bad certificate verification, which seems to be a common trend with these bugs (Apple's "goto fail" was another much-publicised one.)

As I mentioned before about Superfish, I really hope these discoveries aren't used as an excuse to take away the right of the user to choose what he/she trusts, in a similar way to how "terrorism" is being used as an excuse to further surveillance. In contrast, it used to be really easy to enable/disable certificate verification completely - browsers had configuration options to do that. (Why? So I can use a proxy that doesn't resign certificates. It means that instead of trusting the browser, I can trust the proxy to do the certificate verification instead; and I should absolutely have the right to do that and inspect what data my traffic contains via that proxy.)
Note for readers on mobile: if you see a dark overly and cannot find what to click to make it go away, try rotating your device. That sometimes will reveal the blocking ad that they are incompetently trying to display.
SimpleNote - I started using it because it's lightweight. It lacks s lot of features of Evernote, but it seems to work after 1year plus of heavy use. Feel your pain.
I seem to be describing Haskell because Haskell is the epitome of an FP language. If FP is truly a self-contained practical, versatile paradigm by itself, then Haskell would exemplify this.
The changes you're hoping for sound like turning js into a java/c# kind of language
You're right that Toyota's stance on this issue raises a big question about the viability of hydrogen.

On the other hand, the fact that Toyota has such a long and successful history with alternative powertrains, and they still are not selling a hydrogen car makes me think it really doesn't work. If they of all companies haven't done it yet, what chance is there?

To me, the only argument you need is the infrastructure argument. I can go out and buy an electric car today and charge it in my garage and drive it all over the place without having any trouble finding places to charge. In the world of hydrogen, I can probably still count the number of filling stations on this continent on my fingers and toes, and that's not going to change any time soon.
I'm not sure why you think local variable names are mattering here...

What's happening is that this expresion:

const { error, value } = obj;

where obj is an object will assign obj.error to error and obj.value to value.

You could name your locals something else if you wanted, of course:

const { error: myError, value: myValue } = obj;

will assign obj.error to myError and obj.value to myValue. There just happens to be a shorter syntax for the common

const { error: error, value: value } = obj;

case.
You can do that with Mandoc too, although the quality of the PDF output is not as nice. What makes Mandoc less of a typesetting system than Groff is that it supports fewer macro sets (mdoc, man, eqn, and tbl, the macro sets commonly used in manpages); Groff supports more (ms, me, mom…) because it’s a more general typesetting system.
Which therefore calls for a deep, deep look at who we do trust and who we should trust.
> What the hell are open enrolment periods for?

That's to keep people from waiting till they are sick, and quickly buying insurance on the spot. They need it because they can no longer exclude pre-existing conditions. Even before that law they still needed it because they can't actually tell if someone has a pre-existing condition they did not tell a Dr about.

A one or two month waiting period would annoy people, and wouldn't help anyway - the really expensive things to treat can last for years.

> the 10 days allotted

Open enrollment lasts for 2-3 months, not 10 days.
I use Revelation (http://revelation.olasagasti.info/). It is available on Ubuntu.

Nothing too fancy but works very well. Have been using it for many years now.
C is the best language we have for this sort of stuff. Nobody has been able to show otherwise.
Fascinating. Note to potential commenters: the same article just had a discussion thread which was flagkilled. Don't invest any energy or thought in your comment, as it's likely at risk of removal again.
Zuckerberg builds toytown for Facebook staff
Well, they are a company you'd trust, given they're a CA. If I saw something made by Comodo, before today, I'd probably assume it was safe...
Apparently security software giants have motives other than security these days.

This really makes me put more faith into microsofts own defender.
I don't understand your comment about how home charging still takes four hours. Who cares how long it takes as long as it can be completed overnight?
The better question to ask of Michael Church would be what hasn't happened to him, from his perspective. (Then disregard his answer.)
Flagkilled was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9091810
Can anyone explain the forwards compatibility plan for es6? I get we can transpile, but that's not a gradual strategy for converting code. Since you can't polyfill syntax, are we just supposed to all transpile until some far flung day when browsers without es6 support finally reach some tiny percentage?

Is the assumption now that browsers largely auto-update that it won't be so long before that happens? Why are breaking syntax changes not a big deal, whereas "use strict" was done as a string so older browsers would ignore it?

Edit: backwards compatibility -> forwards
It's quite a fascinating angle. In addition to all the financial fraud he's been accused of, before marrying Ms. Pao in 2007, Fletcher was in a gay relationship for at least 10 years: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/nyregion/50-million-gift-a...

To me, that's interesting. We've all heard of the straight married man who comes out of the closet in mid-life and realizes he is gay, but is it at all common for the opposite to happen? Maybe I just don't know enough people.
Comparison Between TypeScript and Facebook Flow
Customer service exists to help customers. At no point in the conversation I felt like the rep was making any effort to understand why I even opened a ticket with them.

Given the kind of products they sell I'd be surprised if requests like mine weren't surging.

I posted this here to figure out if my impression of the conversation was too biased, and it turns out that's actually the case. I guess in your book that's as self absorbed as it gets.
They do some top-notch reporting occasionally. They got the reputation for their listicles and click-bait, but they have recruited some excellent journalists and have released some high-quality work. Some other examples;

An article from a foreign correspondent about Kurdish Iraqis fighting ISIS: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikegiglio/kurdish-forces-show-the-s...

Or their rather large investigation into abuse and corruption inside the foster system: http://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/fostering-profits#.lhYnKY...
The question is, do you trust Comodo's Privdog ad-networks more or less than all the others out there? If you are already trusting Comodo as a CA, wouldn't you think that Privdog's ad networks have been through some sort of approval process by Comodo and therefore, more trustworthy somehow? Thus, wouldn't it be better if those were the only ads you saw? That seems to be their sales pitch.

The implementation lacking any cert verification is a total fail (it might not be intentional at all), and I personally trust http://localhost:8080/blocked.gif more than any ad network... but I can see the reasoning behind the product.
He didn't go unpunished. Despite what the headline suggest, he went to prison for 6 months (instead of 4 years).

For stealing $130 worth of pot from a drug dealer with a fake BB gun. I don't see how that warrants 6 months (even less 4 years) in jail, but that's secondary.
Any car will last for as long as you're willing to pour money into it. There becomes a breakeven point where maintenance costs increase such that it's cheaper to buy a new car than to keep the old one running. There's a good deal of variety in where that point occurs, due to different models having different reliability and different maintenance costs. Whether you're willing and able to do your own work on the car is also a big factor.

It may not have happened yet for that Patrol, but most cars are at that point by then, and it will probably happen soon on that one.

Lots of cars are kept beyond that breakeven point too, either for reasons of nostalgia, or because it's more palatable to spend your money in a continuous stream of small maintenance costs than to put down a big chunk up front.