skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I had missed that part. That's fucked up.
I wonder if there are people that thing this is bad but plea bargaining is good.
When I worked at Burger King a few years back, they used something very similar for stock control and daily takings.
I can see this amplifying the epidemic of shoplifting by the wealthy:

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/02/18/why-do-the-wealthy-sh...
Have a couple of clarifications about the problem. Who should I contact about that?
Wrong. You don't have to guess if it was for my job, I'm here!

I don't know anyone who gets paid to write elisp.

I'd just used AWK or Perl if it were for my job. It's a 1 liner.

perl -ane '...'
thats strange .. it should work using either of them. Can you please check if you get any error messages in the console
India's PhD students on hunger strike over delayed pay rise
Reminds me of Facebook Beacon (2007): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon
Ask HN: Since CitizenFour, have you changed the way you conduct yourself online?
Ask HN: Since watching CitizenFour, or previously reading about the widespread surveillance conducted by governments - what changes have you made to how you conduct your life online? Have you adopted any new practices, or stopped or started using any new services?

It would be interesting to see what effect this has had on how people, especially technically included people behave and conduct themselves online. This could include technical solutions you have adopted or might include how you use, or view services which you previously trusted with your data.

Myself, I have switched my email provider away from one of the 'big three'. I have started taking an interest in more 'usable' applications of encryption and have started talking to people about the ramifications of the information brought to light by Snowden and others.
Inspecting program behaviour via the debugger has always been an uphill battle in C/C++. Sometimes you're working on something where the bug only surfaces in release builds (because the debug build isn't optimised enough and the program runs too slowly to trigger it). Good luck debugging when half the function arguments read "optimised out" and program execution jumps around randomly because the compiler reordered your code for efficiency.

One thing I've always dreamed of is having the compiler emit source for the assembly it generated. So you can attach the debugger and see the code as it actually is, rather than as it was when you wrote it. I love how in Java my code gets optimised by the JIT, but once I start debugging all the optimisations come off (but only once I need to see the source) and what I see is what is running.
Foxconn expects robots to take over more factory work
am glad you liked it :) definitely this is on my to-do list. I am already getting back the urls but i am brainstorming on how to present them nicely on the same UI. Also to make it better i am thinking of making the filtering smarter by doing a fuzzy search instead of just (:contains).
Apparently. That's a pretty sick move. In other words, you can't talk even about stackoverflow on another forum without stackoverflow moderators trying to take control of the discussion.

Whoever did this on SO should have their moderator privileges removed pronto, that's a very bad piece of advertising for SO and hurts its image much more than the rest of this discussion and the original article combined.
In addition to this obvious point is the fact that most people who shoplift something do it because they can't afford to buy it.

Is that actually the case? It seems intuitively obvious, but I expect there are actually quite a few other reasons people end up shoplifting.
i disabled chrome sync for my bookmarks because as you said it keeps making duplicates. I use xmarks instead, but for sure this can very well be a nice feature to have
Not related to the topic but this reminded how much I loved the film named wings of desire.
Arduino against Arduino: Founders argue about the company
A novel written entirely in emoji-like pictograms
In that future world, body attributes would matter much less than they do today. So I advocate paying as little attention to them as possible today.

You realize that your first sentence does not imply your second sentence is a good policy automatically, right? It might, but there is no automatic relationship there.

If you are prepared to have an open mind on this, I'd strongly encourage you to watch https://www.gv.com/lib/unconscious-bias-at-work.

I think that your goal of a world where ethnicity, sex, and other body attributes do not matter very much is admirable. However, in an imperfect world - especially one in which some people explicitly disavow that goal - it is worth considering what a policy like yours will actually achieve. What that video linked above to find out.
Show HN: Multiplayer VR in the browser using websockets
When I was in 12, I volunteered to help feed the poor at a soup kitchen. When I was in high school, there was a mandatory volunteer requirement of 40 hours just to graduate. Volunteering isn't disgusting, it's valuable experience. It's no different than putting volunteer experience on a resume to get a job. Volunteers are in short demand; it'd be much more disgusting to deny help just because their intents aren't purely altruistic. Heaven forbid you help someone and help yourself at the same time.
There's nothing wrong in hiring immigrants. There is however something wrong where virtually every other profession has protection, but programmers don't. So wages will be lower compared to other professions, making it a job where skilled people might want to avoid even though they enjoy it.

You either immigration for every profession or non at all. Not screwing one profession in particular.
Document Storage Gymnastics with Postgres
Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2015 Edition
There's a site selling floppy disks/drives, and their "gold standard" is the modular Dell laptop floppy drive (which has USB, and is recent). And disks aren't in short supply.
After we were acquired, I designed an extensive timeline of our company history, people and apps released. It sometimes looks bad on mobile, but in general works pretty well, loading data from JSON.

http://lemonlabs.co/timeline.html
“I don't want to be racist or anything,” Lawrence said. “Everyone works hard and struggles. But there's this feeling that it's going to be harder for us.”

No, it's going to be harder for someone who's parents can't afford tutoring academies named "Little Harvard", tennis lessons, violin lessons or 4 hours of extracurriculars a day.

This sounds like someone who has been given every advantage in life complaining about not being given more advantages. Maybe more of them should do volunteer programs in poor communities so they can think about how difficult it would be for those kids to get into Harvard. After seeing what a life of poverty is like, having your SAT score adjusted down by a couple of points will seem like quite a bargain.
What are some great examples of coincidence?
Everything you need to know about recursion
I never heard of a pastry called "montagnard". What does it look like?

I think a reference to a political group of a bygone age would be way too obscure (not sure why you mention 1848, the Revolution was long over by then). The primary sense of the noun "montagnard" is "somebody living in the mountains".
If by British you mean Indian, then definitely yes.
I don't really see the advantage of a physical beacon. How is it better than serving relevant information based on phone's native location capabilities?
Thoughts after attending Gophercon India
Could you clarify a couple of things about the problem for me?
To put it bluntly, it would have been much more educational for you if you had actually tried to code it yourself. If you during this had encountered a concrete problem or question which you couldn't solve on your own, you could have posted it on SO.
I don't know, the number displayed that way is wrong. With Lithuania for example you don't display +370 86 instead of +370 6 although locally the number would be 86 like an austrian local number would be 0676...
It's interesting. The "Single layer neural network" question has -75 but its accepted answer has 157
Radical Idea: Forbid Advertising to Fix the World Climate Change
I clicked this with the expectation that Elon Musk's Tesla is entering the aircraft industry.
Code Execution in Spite of BitLocker (2014)
According to you, it's even more racist then. Because, what about the asian students that come from poverty? Why is the adjustment (still can't believe they do this) based on ethnicity and not on the parents income or bank account?
Factors that cause people to shoplift: peer pressure to possess an item they can't afford (teenagers need brand 'x' stuff to fit in), thrill seeking, mental issues (kleptomania), simple poverty.
What it's like to be a 65-year startup CEO in Valley's youth-loving culture
Maybe you just know PHP in and out so much you don't even need output. Like people using ed.
I think I am definitely going to start using the '-->' operator, it is awesome! If I mix in with a few 'Yoda conditionals' then the world is really going to love my code.
Classic racism. Say that the target group (Jews, Asians, whatever) is wealthier/smarter/more powerful than average, then use that to penalise all members of the group.

I'm amazed the American left falls for this stuff.
Timesheet.js is indirectly inspired by my work. I tweeted it last year https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/502308306732343298

Attribution was added https://github.com/sbstjn/timesheet.js/commit/47871522dc9477... and later removed https://github.com/sbstjn/timesheet.js/commit/40a964d32ec04d...
One thing I'll always miss with CSD is window snapping. Now it's shadow-snapping.
Not having managed to get past 30 sec on level 6, I applaud this bot. Using DLL injection was a very good idea too, but I wish the algorithm could play the post-finish level for a bit longer.
I can't stand Stack Overflow. Quite obviously it is dominated by people who would much rather show you who's the boss by competing, not for who can provide you with the most useful answer, but by who can be first to find a reason why your question doesn't deserve an answer (and then to block anyone willing to answer from being able to do so).

Yes, of course, I understand the assertion: that by attacking questioners instead of helping them, the alpha dogs are laboring selflessly to defend the quality of Stack Overflow. You should thank them for biting you.

What nonsense. Imagine if Google took the SO approach to quality and prioritized making you jump through hoops with your question over trying to find the best answer it can: "your phrasing is ambiguous; if you think otherwise, you can try rephrasing your query properly and try again", or "you have misspelled one of the search terms; you should figure out which one and look up the correct spelling before submitting a search; this is, you'll agree, in everyone's best interest". Or, "not a constructive search query; might lead to pages that include opinions". Or how about, "some of the words in your query resemble those in another query made several years ago; here are their results; if their results aren't helpful to you, you should have asked a better question."

Of course SO, unlike Google, stores the questions, but SO could still learn from Google's example. Google is so useful, because instead of improving quality by strictly limiting what it will index and what you can ask ("no pages expressing opinions", "index no new pages discussing any aspect of a topic if some aspect of that topic was discussed on another page already in the index", "the answer to your query has been found but will not be displayed, because it was not of interest to our moderators"), it includes as much real (not fake) content as it can and uses technology to lead any question to the most relevant answer it can.

How ironic that when you use Google to find a programming answer, it so often judges some Stack Overflow entry most relevant. Then, if you follow the link, you find that someone was trying to provide exactly the answer you were looking for, but the mods spotted him, ruled that what Google had correctly deemed most relevant to be "Not Constructive!" and had forbidden anyone else from answering.

I'd love to see an alternative to SO that optimized for answering questions instead of controlling them. One that allowed almost any programming question, allowed anyone who wanted to answer to freely answer, that collected reams of overlapping explanations and answers to multiple variations of programming questions, and that used state of the art technology to lead questioners to those answers that were likely to be most successful at answering your specific question, while leaving the question open to anyone who wanted to volunteer new answers, even if they are repeats or opinions, or provide their own best-guess links to previous answers.
You are free to move on a H1B as long as you find a new employer willing to sponsor it - Bonus: you don't even need to go through the procedure again with USCIS
Couple of things here:

1. The site and the courses look great but, why can't I sign up without a Facebook or Twitter account? This one issue was enough for me to leave the site. I compartmentalize my web affairs for many reasons and keeping my online accounts separate is very important for me. I'm writing this to encourage you (and others) to reconsider this practice.

2. I can see the icon that says "Beginner," but that doesn't tell me much. In your FAQ, I would recommend expounding on this. Beginner is too ambiguous.
...which can compile a(n older, preprocessed, but none the less) Linux kernel "on the fly", while booting:

http://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
It's really cool, but why are there hover over effect, and curser change when it is not clickable anywhere?
Is it true that non-jewish whites are more underrepresented than even hispanics or african americans, while at the same time needing higher scores to be accepted?
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Sylph: the programming language I want
Uhh its not volunteering if its mandatory...
We could always propose it as the phonetics for a Jackie Chan emoji.

Weirder things have happened, and it's not like we're running out of glyph space.
Apparently, the page is no longer deleted.
Pint - a small, asynchronous, dependency aware wrapper around Grunt
Depends who is asking.
So throwing away meritocracy for vote appeasement? Nice
Let me get this straight... I rent a number from you in another country. I can give this number out as my own so that others can send me a text. The text gets forwarded from the rented number to my email. Is this correct?

If so, I can already think of a couple of ways that it could come in handy.
It is arguably more specific.

It'd be interesting if they would just register something like shitpile.com, set up an instance of Stack Exchange on it, turn off the moderation game, and push closed and deleted questions there instead of disappearing them.

That would at least sort of be an experiment on whether all of the decisions they have made about what Stack Exchange sites are 'supposed to be' actually matter or not.
The internet world changes rather fast here in china.
The day before the day before yesterday, my WECHAT feed were full of the word 'duang'.
When it came to the day before yesterday, the trend changed. People were discussing about the mysterious color of this skirt: http://qz.com/352479/this-dress-of-disputed-colors-is-drivin...
Yet yesterday, a documentary talking about pollution in china occupied all my sights: http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/news/newsmaker...
The discussion on this documentary persists today and im not quite sure what the internet will bring to me on tomorrow.
Interestingly, from my hotel room in Shanghai right now, the article appears to be blocked.
This is awesome. I used SimpleCV in Python to detect the walls, much like you did. But I used it to transform the screen to make the platforms fall vertically:

https://github.com/shaunlebron/super-hexagon-unwrapper
Chinese here. Instead of youku, the fake ad video actually got viral on bilibili (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilibili http://www.bilibili.com/), a video sharing site with user-generated subtitles, where such spoofs are very, very common. If you are interested in memes of the Chinese Internet, bilibili and acfun (another earlier similiar site, but it also features articles) are very interesting (and important!) subjects to study.
Is not racial discrimination illegal in US?
Intuitive Rift Explorer: Oculus Rift and Robot with Head-Tracking Cameras
Have you ever used Alfred (on OSX)?
Maybe take some inspiration from there?

It let's you access a lot of different features by using one-key-modifiers in the search box, like:

- Just type something: will search applications

- Hit Space before typing: will search all files

- If you just hit enter on a file it will open it, CMD+Enter will open the containing folder

..etc etc.

I could picture something like this:

- Selecting a folder via fuzzy search + arrow keys and hitting enter to add a bookmark

- Hitting space before typing to search and open existing bookmarks

- ":" in the beginning to only search folders

- "." in the beginning to create a folder

.. as crude examples.

I might look into your project next week and maybe work on a fork for functions like this. With a bit of work I think this could become a wonderful extension!
And this exactly is the problem with SO. There is no good question for that site, the classification seems arbitrary and totally random. I don't participate in this site for a very simple reason - I have no idea how to ask a question that will be OK by SO rules.

(the fact that you can't be in any way contributing to the site until you asked enough questions to bump up your karma is another blocker)
Bottom of the page now has
"Timesheet.js is licensed under MIT License
Cheers to Cheeaun and Ilya"
And the prize for the best go code is... A bunch of books about learning go!
>I don't say this to blow my own horn or anything but I feel like programmers who truly, truly love it - it's almost irrelevant what project they are working on.

I think that's only partly true. I absolute love programming, and as a result, yes, I have been able to find enjoyment in even the most pointless projects.

And yet, over time, that's not enough for me. For some reason I just cannot help but feel worse and worse eventually when I get the impression that my work has no 'higher' purpose (by whatever definition of 'higher' I employ).

Perhaps this is because I grew up with parents and in environments that were very idealism-driven. Perhaps it's personality. I'm not sure. But with any 'pointless' work I always reach a point where I can fully enjoy much of my day, but I feel drained and a bit depressed at the end of it.

I could see how a programmer who truly loves programming, and nothing else, might feel the way you describe though.
Careful. ₄Be compounds are not your friend. Do not breathe or touch ANY beryllium dust - ever - at all.

If you're doing anything with it wear gloves; if you even might snap or machine it, you need to work in a fume chamber.
Cold Pacific Ocean is offsetting global warming
I started using Twister over Twitter.
haha!!!
Of course it's been already happening for quite some time, and to be honest quality can be good (but of course can't really compete against the best ingredients cooked by qualified artisan).

Not sure if you speak French and if it's accessible from overseas but watch Chapter 2 of this show : http://www.6play.fr/m6/capital/11463938-patisserie-et-chocol...

At 44:00, 16 000 éclairs in two hours.
The code is potentially vulnerable to XSS injections[1].

[1] https://github.com/sbstjn/timesheet.js/blob/master/source/ja...

edit: Thanks for the downvotes, lesson learned! Never talk about vulnerabilities of a code which is #1 on HN and people will blindly put in production.

edit 2: So here is my new comment: "Awesome library! The fact that users can easily enhance its behaviour by using <script> tags in labels is a great feature!"
Sounds just like that time they threw away a rug. Something something meritocracy.
It's not "please write this code for me" question. Rather, it's "please, grep your ~/.emacs.d and paste defun that you wrote (or borrowed from someone) years ago". Elisp code lifecycle is different than usual code and it's reusability is much higher than other kinds of code. I have bits of Elisp in my config which were written in the '80ies, obtained very much in the same manner: by asking for it on mailing lists. The code is there, its discoverability sucks, which is why questions such as this are legitimate in case of Emacs, even if it would be different in case of other languages adn environments.

Not taking into account specifics of a particular domain - along with questions being judged by people who have no idea what is being asked, but feel the need to judge - was the very thing which made me leave SO.
You can't go wrong with Ubuntu, or just plain old Debian.
No. It's perfectly legal to discriminate against white and East Asian men, thanks to our Humpty Dumpty court system.
The sorry state of Indian IT industry
samesies in Zhejiang
But it's perfectly acceptable to ask how to split a string in C#? That's not covered many other places? It's a duplicate, yet highly up voted question.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8928601/how-can-i-split-a...

There's probably 100x more C# information than elisp on the internet.
I changed my habits long before CitizenFour when I discovered hadoop/big data and zeroday exploits
Bash Process Substitution
Your text search skills or tools are lacking, then. In an IDE, "go to definition" solves this problem. In an editor, incremental text search over the entire project solves this problem (I normally use helm-git-grep in emacs).

I'm a fan of bigger and fewer files. Atomized bits of functionality are tedious to read, when you have to read lots of code to understand the gestalt.
Saudi ministry of education adopts Python for use in state high-schools
Of course people shouldn't be rejected by their race.

But according to the article, "all" asians have the same profile. If this is true, I can understand why some of the similar profiles are rejected in the name of diversity.

Once an SAT score is sufficiently high, it makes sense to look at other things. I can see why a college would want 50/50 gender, and a wide spread of social backgrounds.

If I was teaching a class and I had to choose between 2 students for the last seat, I might choose the one with the (insignificantly) lower score if that student seemed more fun to be around.
Cops, not justice. Important distinction for non-American readers to understand what actual bargain is offered.
> How is it better than [...] phone's native location capabilities?

That's what it is. The beacon doesn't transmit any data, only a serial number. This serial is used to get the relevant data over the internet.

The beacons work indoors, and have a potentially better accuracy than wifi geolocation. It is also simple to tie to a speciffic service.
Well, it's a client side library. By that reasoning, jQuery can be said to be vulnerable to XSS if you call .html() with untrusted user input. It seems reasonable to me that the label of each bubble can contain HTML code, it's up to the user to ensure any user input is escaped.
Makes me really glad that I do not use the Facebook app.
Thanks, Hacker News – Hello, World
I've started to despair a bit more about both technological and political solutions. I'm trying to adjust to the idea that nothing that happens online is private, and real privacy requires something more like tradecraft than mass adoption of encryption technologies.
Yes, but that would only work if you were forced by technological limitations and law to hire an expensive programmer locally.
I though you were joking until I searched it:

http://twister.net.co/

Do you know anything about the number of users?
If it is - that shoots down affirmative actions ... it is complicated.
Way of the future. Way of the future.