skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York does have a great arts scene; but unless you're an artist, it'll always be peripheral to your day to day life.

Day to day life in New York is dreary. By American standards it's a filthy city. It smells and will always smell because trash is collected on the sidewalk. It manages to be both too hot and too cold. On summer days, a blanket of pollution hangs in the city air. The waterways are toxic after rainfall because NYC expels raw sewage into them. Most any place of business worth visiting will have a long wait. There are lots of delightful people in the right areas, but the many wrong areas are filled with throngs of really awful people. The amount of cat-calling, homophobia, and racism I experienced on the train or just walking around was an order of magnitude more than I've witnessed anywhere on the West Coast. The cost for living this privilege are some of the nation's highest taxes.

I don't regret my time in New York, but I do think it's one of the worst cities in the US in terms of livability.

From Joan Didion:

> All I mean is that I was very young in New York, and that at some point the golden rhythm was broken, and I am not that young anymore. The last time I was in New York was in a cold January, and everyone was ill and tired. Many of the people I used to know there had moved to Dallas or had gone on Antabuse or had bought a farm in New Hampshire. We stayed ten days, and then we took an afternoon flight back to Los Angeles, and on the way home from the airport that night I could see the moon on the Pacific and smell jasmine all around and we both knew that there was no longer any point in keeping the apartment we still kept in New York. There were years when I called Los Angeles “the Coast,” but they seem a long time ago.
Minnesotan here, everyone in my office takes their laptops home if we think it'll snow. If it snows during the commute then things slow down, but there's armies of plow trucks and things get cleared quickly.
> Also likely delivering a much higher-quality work.

Unless something more important steps in. If someone is only being paid $3,500 for 14 weeks of work, if a $10,000 in a week contract pops up, they're going to blow off the class, I assure you.
Wow that is great! I had no idea. Definitely going to try it out.
those are all sugary replacements for sugar. That's not going to affect your brain chemistry at all. The 'difficulty' was a nocebo.
Om also stores all app state in a single object, but lets you give components a window into that state ('cursors') in order to maintain modularity. If there turns out to be a problem with this general approach, it won't be a data-hiding one.
Except that Johnny can barely read, while Shigeru can write 1500 kanji with his eyes closed. :)
That's because they lost. The winners get to write history.
You know that Japan was preparing for intense defense fight in case the main island gets invaded, right? Here is from War Journal of the Imperial Headquarters:

"We can no longer direct the war with any hope of success. The only course left is for Japan's one hundred million people to sacrifice their lives by charging the enemy to make them lose the will to fight."

In light of this, what do you suggest US should have done?
My phone number is valid but your app says "phone number is invalid" whenever I try to register.
I'm wondering if it has been considered to buffer the metrics into a memory table so they can participate in queries, and then let MySQL flush them to durable tables at regular intervals?
Japan lost too, but, as much as i love the country, its people and its ideas, they have largely chosen to not teach their citizens that war did happen.
If you hire someone and they can't code then you're the first person who should lose their job. Sorry to say.
Are computers actually writing things? Or filling in a template covering an event that produces data that is expected?

I could write an app that fills out this template:

"Wow, did you see that post on Hacker News? Got X number of views within Y minutes!"

That's not writing. The guy who made the template wrote most of it. The rest is plug and play.
Wait, are you sure that's how to interpret "threat of force"? I would assume that a threat of beating someone up and then leaving would qualify. You disagree?
During the whole Real Names debate, VG's standard example of a name he didn't want on G+ was "dogfart". That example was named repeatedly, becoming a trope. Google's top many results for that term are ALL for a porn company.
Wow. This is such a good piece. Seriously, this is incredibly well-thought out and well-written, in a very intentional way. Thanks to the author.

I am pleased that it's on the HN front page. And I was at first pleased to see such a long comments thread, that people were interested in discussing it.

But man, this discussion is depressing me. Arguing about the legal definition of rape, really, that's what HN feels like talking about in response to this piece?
Totally on track, but as a tiny nit: "do"-notation is syntax sugar, but the IO monad is the rail and the rail-building operations themselves!
I can't see how honey, fruit, or maple syrup would be much different from any other simple carbs. As far as I've seen there's not been much difference determined between sucrose and fructose metabolism, for example. The big difference would be in cutting out all simple carbs, I would think, and then in cutting out carbs in general and going full ketogenic.
Ask HN: Good calendaring + inventory management software
Looking for software, preferably with an external API, that will let us set up a calendar with associated inventory that we can then pull into our platform. Ideally, our clients would calendar "sessions," or equivalent, for a series of events, with associated inventory slots, and then we could pull in these in on our side.
I've been looking for this for months, I wanted to link this to my friend who said he prefers C to Java for his CS classes.
Your March weather photos
The atomic bomb was not available until AFTER the war was over in Italy or Germany.

Edit: the deleted comment this was in reply to was claiming that the US could have dropped the bomb on Italy or Germany, but picked Japan for racist reasons. Namely, they wanted to see what atomic bombs did to people and Japanese people would be more acceptable to the public for such experimentation.
Heroku and App Deployment
I've been pressured into sexual favors, and I said no, because my dignity was worth more than a job. Been assaulted before by someone with much more power, fought back too. When life shits on you, you have a decision to make, and that decision lies squarely with you the victim.

Every question you've asked is based on fear. Doing nothing because of that fear is cowardice. You are defending it. Stop it. Nothing can be borne from it.
How does sugar affect acne? And how are those sugary substances any better than other sugary substances?
Note: The following is written from the perspective of an individual who accepts that states are necessary, and that war is justifiable. This isn't something I personally believe, but something that the vast majority of people do - not just Americans.

I don't remember any talking points being taught to me as a child, but I guess that would be the case with any good brainwashing. I am familiar with the justifications for targeting Japanese civilians for conventional and nuclear bombing though, something along the lines of Japan being prepared for total war - down to child combatants with sharpened sticks. In war you have two options for ending hostilities, complete annihilation or political resolution (surrender, cease fire, etc). If Japan went into total war mode, and they made it clear that they would if necessary, then they remove the political resolution option. So with that in mind, it is not a stretch to say that firebombing and nuking hundreds of thousands saved millions of Japanese lives.

Consider the fact that this firebombing occurred 1945-03-09, and the Japanese were still wanting to fight for another five months, until the second atomic bomb drop on 1945-08-09. The only thing that brought them to the table was the idea that their enemy possessed a weapon where a single bomb could level a city, they had no idea how many atomic bombs existed.
I attended a cloud training at my office recently for basic understandings of cloud & the training was really an eye opener for me in the cloud world. Further, I am involved in a POC project where we are deploying our node-express application in Heroku. So I thought of penning down my learnings in this article.
Ellis's new employer doesn't think the way you do, and is a hot startup.
Complementary idea: REMOTE (http://37signals.com/remote/)
Where the hell did you get that. rayiner is only comparing punching vs. firing. They're making a point entirely about coercion, not directly about rape.

If those guys were talking about getting punched in the face vs. paternity, then you might have a good comparison.
I don't mean to split hairs but legally it looks like many or most states draw a distinction between sexual extortion and rape.[1] The difference being that sextortion is a lesser felony.

I wonder if that is the case here. Certainly sextortion among engineers/scientists would be an extraordinarily troubling state of affairs. But based on the OP's comments here[2] she is referring to rape and that the enabling factor had something to do with social life being mixed up with professional life. So, not exactly extortion but it would have been costly to avoid the person.

This may be pie in the sky but I wonder if a concrete step that startups can take to reduce problems like this is to make a conscious effort to not penalize employees for not attending off-hours social events. Aside from acquaintance rape, obviously, there's also things like not penalizing older employees with kids to go home to or alcoholics who need to avoid enabling environments.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9168365
Do what I do to stay safe: don't goto cons
Many drug convictions, outside of pure merchants (non-patients) are medical conditions and thus should be protected from discrimination.
I grew up in Kentucky, and have lived in many other states in the east and southeast. I've also lived in Washington and LA. There are some things that I really miss about LA, such as the constant activity and drive, but those are also the things that I found I could never acclimate to living with (the traffic, the constant hustle).

I live in Kansas City now and am hoping to see big things start to happen more often in the technical start-up world. The city is embracing start-up culture it seems and it's just so damn cheap that I believe it to be inevitable.
> Current P/Book values for oil companies now seem to reflect that the market is pricing them with oil reserves at current prices, not reported prices.

One would hope so. The efficient market hypothesis may not be 100% true, but I'd be surprised if it were that far from true.
> What's the issue?

There are many things to consider.

1. I don't believe in giving people what they ask for. People don't know what they want. If you give people what they need, they will eventually want it.

2. It is not possible for software that's designed with a user in mind to cover the needs of everyone. Even with 1000 different to-do list applications, nobody will truly feel it's perfect for them. We need generic and dynamic software that can adapt to users needs and context.

Don't you think it's sad that we have to endure HN's horrible UI/UX to access its community and content? Shouldn't we be able to have this discussion through a client that's made for us and respect our individual needs?

The current paradigm is full of unecessary trade-offs. If we stopped assuming and accepting that every user interaction should be manually designed by some UI person, and embraced a framework that automates that process, we would be a lot more advanced as a society.
I think you might have a useful point in there somewhere, but using overly emotive terms ('the socialists', fascism, communism and freedom) isn't useful.

Its worth pointing out that 'the end of the road' is an implication that the extreme end of a political system is a goal. It's not, and it is rare anyone would argue that a hybrid economic system isn't the most sensible.
It seems that in chess, the (current) "best" way to figure out whether a move was legal is through retrograde analysis (1). As you can imagine, this becomes very expensive, very fast. Not only that, but the current position may be legal in chess given some previous conditions, but illegal given others (consider Castling). Therefore, given no extra information, you may not be able to tell whether a given chessboard is legal without being given the entire history of the board as well.

Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about, just googled retrograde analysis

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_analysis
Which military are you talking about? The US military has a longstanding sexual assault problem.
I stopped reading after the explanations about return ((1 - sizeof(int)) >> 32);

Unless size_t is wider than 32 bits, it has undefined behavior. That's why it returns 0; it could as well be 42, or the program could terminate with or without a diagnostic message, etc.
Meanwhile Japan has a mere 22 nobel prizes since 1940.

America has 330.

Japan has seen zero economic growth for over 20 years.

America's GDP has doubled in that time.

America has the best universities, by far. Japan does not.

America has the most productive, technologically advanced, large economy on earth. Japan has been stagnant for decades.

Writing 1500 kanji with your eyes closed doesn't appear to be very useful in the real world.
A position is valid iff there is a squence of legal moves that leads to it. In go, a legal turn consists of putting a stone on nearly any vacant point (some rule sets prohibit suicide moves, and all prohibit exactly repeating the position at the end of your previous turn) or passing (not putting a stone, which normally happens only near the end of the game), so the only illegal board configurations are those that have groups with no adjacent vacant points ("liberties"). In chess, these moves are more constrained: each piece may move only certain directions, sometimes depending on the locations of opposing pieces.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?Liberty

http://senseis.xmp.net/?Suicide
I do not believe that any gender, race or creed has a "monopoly" on sanity. As far as wars go, as mentioned in the article insinuating that men have a penchant for it, Margaret Thatcher had no problem sending war ships to "defend" the Falkland islands or sending troops into harms way into the Iraq/Kuwait war.
Next time, get your legal advice from lawyer friends, not "feminist friends".
My attitude isn't shitty, it's an honest observation. I know people from four different places in germany who can speak in hilariously heavy dialects (frisian, bavarian, saxonian, swabian), in northern uk (scotland), and various parts of the usa (people from 'redneck' states are amazing for online play), and they're able to switch to the standard version of their country's language at the drop of a hat.

Also, you are comparing apples and oranges. I am talking about people in their own country with dialects, you're talking about people in other countries speaking differently from the country where their language originated in.

Frankly, i would appreciate it if you wouldn't constantly assume that i am lying for the sake of my "internet cred".
Precisely, and I think that is the point the author should have concentrated on. New approaches there are needed.
One involves sexual coercion, the other does not, that's the clear principle 'separating' the two, since rape means coercing someone to have sex. I'm surprised that's not clear.

I understand that criminal law appropriately distinguishes between different levels of severity in harmful and socially undesirable behavior, one way or another. But when people start trying to finely parse what kinds of sexual coercion are 'really rape' and what kinds aren't... it's awfully creepy, and sounds like they're looking for an excuse to justify some kinds of sexual coercion. Why would you want to support, justify, or perpetrate (even accidentally), any kind of sexual coercion? Wouldn't you want to try and prevent it from ever happening? You're sounding kind of creepy, friend.
If you're interested in the context of this type of "strategic" bombing, and how it played into the U.S. decision to use the atomic bombs in WWII, listen to the "Logical Insanity" episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-l...

It's long, but quite informative.
The "best" university I could get into was my last choice, a certain, large public uni in Ohio, and I was upset but I chose it anyway.

However, Columbus is freaking awesome, I was so happy I decided to come here just because of the place and the friendly people (in fact, I have met one or two people who frequent this very site there!), not to mention the variety of great food and great coffee!

I have since starting planning leaving uni, but I probably want to stay in Columbus, if possible. How ironic, isn't it?
I do not believe that any gender, race or creed has a "monopoly" on sanity. As far as wars go, as mentioned in the article insinuating that men have a penchant for them, Margaret Thatcher had no problem sending warships to "defend" the Falkland islands or sending troops into harms way during the Iraq/Kuwait war.
Or maybe you just don't care for modern city culture. I find a long walk in the woods more enriching than a world class art museum, though the latter has better bragging rights.

Seriously, humans lived in societies for thousands of years without the billion forms of stimulation that we have today. I refuse to believe their lives were in any way deprived because of this. The demand for an urban lifestyle is completely artificial and only serves to create a steady supply of desperate workers filled with envy of movie star lives. Humans in primitive societies today still manage to live happy lives. What would aid us all is to realize our desires are not our own but implanted by marketing to benefit the power elite.
> Comparing the crimes of Germany and Japan during WWII is beyond ridiculous.

I am not, i am talking about the difference of treatment of the entire event decades afterwards.

> The entirety of Germany society turned into the KKK

Saying this as a german: Haha, fuck you too buddy, you and the horse you rode in on.

You are so unbelievably ignorant, or so harshly trolling, that you are a prime example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Neo Geo System
> Realistically, only bad things happen to the whistleblower. So when someone tries to discredit one, ask yourself — what could the whistleblower’s motive possibly be? They’re knowingly ruining their own lives.

Whistle blowers become folk heroes to a lot of people. No one cared what Edward Snowden, the NSA analyst had to say. Everyone cares what Edward Snowden, the whistleblower has to say. If you want that kind of popularity and respect, be a whistleblower. I'm by no means saying that's the motivation for all whistleblowers, but I'd be dumbfounded if it wasn't the motivation for some, and separating the two is frequently difficult.
I like everything about this article (especially the careful research and evidence-gathering), except for this bit at the end:

The lack of girl characters implies that girls are not equal to boys and they don’t deserve characters that look like them.

I would ask the author (and readers) to consider more possible explanations.
That's great, if it's running in an extension that is only downloaded once and firewalled off from the DOM. Otherwise, every single HTTP request your browser makes can potentially override it.
Always a chance but probably not in the next year ;)
Everyone should watch Grave of the Fireflies. And then cry for a week.
I read a really good comment by I think Nolan Bushnell about engineers. He said said he got asked all the time about how to avoid hiring unproductive engineers. And he said he found that baffling. Because an unproductive engineer just costs the company their salary. More important is ferreting out and eliminating negatively productive managers, engineers, and technicians in that order.

Algorithms? Why would you care if a programmer knows the details unless that's the job. More important is how they approach and attack a problem. Sometimes a half broken shell script is fine. Or leveraging a database because even though slow an inefficient it will do it right. Half the secret to success is... Um.. seriously just watch this video and you'll know it's truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5LiQcY0bqk
Offered terms short of unconditional surrender.
The key to unraveling Alzheimer's may not lie in the brain, but rather in space
Sure, that would be fucked up, wouldn't it?

Fortunately, we don't have too much of a problem with some people forcing other people to eat feces, in the workplace or elsewhere. Or with people scared to complain about their bosses making them eat shit, for fear of ruining their career.

We do have a pretty big problem with sexual violence, sexual coercion, and gender-based discrimination, in the workplace and elsewhere.

A whole bunch of this thread is people wanting to have abstract philosophical arguments, instead of dealing with what's really going on. Abstract philosophical arguments can be fun, when stoned in a dorm room, under-taken between people who find them fun (usually because they're about things that do not have life-or-death consequences... at least for the people in the room).

But they're no substitute for discussion (and action) focused on what's actually going on in the world, people who are being hurt (and I don't mean their 'feelings are hurt'), people who are hurting them (sometimes, but not always, without realizing it), and what to do about it.

I think the OP was pretty masterful in keeping a focus on what's actually going on, and what to do about it, practically, in the real world we live in. HN is showing a masterful ability to turn it into diversionary irrelevant mental masturbation instead, which is depressing me, I actually expected better for some reason.
Come on, the Japanese were already about to surrender when they learnt that the Russians, having dealt with the German side of the front, would land in Japan. Japan was already utterly destroyed by that time, it was only a matter of time for total capitulation.
Yet the KKK still exists in America, doesnt seem to be considered as evil?
> and would move back to Cleveland in a heartbeat, if the salaries and opportunities were even remotely comparable to Seattle.

At some point you might decide you don't need to jump from company to company, or from job to job. You'll realize you really only need a good job at a decent company. And there's a good chance that such a job exists in Cleveland, or Dallas, or Charlotte, or wherever.

At times, you might feel like you're missing out on the action. But then you'll look at your bank account or your house or your kid's college fund, which hasn't been being sucked dry by a ridiculously inflated cost-of-living, and you'll come back to your senses.
The theoreticians usually figure out what exactly to look at. The experimentalists figure out how to do it, and then carry it out.

A common joke is that you don't let the theorists anywhere near the apparatus, because they'll break things.
The complex sugars in fruits and honey are different from table sugars because of the way they are metabolized by your body. They don't spike your insulin as much, and can also add essential nutrients to your diet. Nothing in dieting (and life for that matter) needs to be done on the extremes, oftentimes common sense and moderation prevail.