skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I don't know Kelly Ellis, I believe this is in reference to this: https://plus.google.com/+KellyEllis/posts/L4wawXpNt25 -- I am not actually trying to express an opinion on this, but that's the context from yesterday.
A good article about young kids and gaming
Waterloo is also quite notable for their extensive 'co-op' program, which places students in internships at a really high rate.
Are you this guy http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Spider_of_Doom? Or http://craigandera.blogspot.com/2004/04/beware-googlebot_12....? (They seem like the same story but have different names.)
Mapillary Is Building a Crowdsourced Street View with User Submitted Photos
This will probably dissappear from the front page too. HN is biased strongly against meta posts.

If that happens, that would tragically mirror the tech world's distaste for open and honest discussion of the issues women face in tech.
It does have to be that way because that's what happens when there is competition. Check out Alfie Kohn's "No Contest: The Case Against Competition" if you want to understand why.
Why We Need Poetry Technology
Doesn't this thread highlight how useful specific examples can be though? Discussions about a nebulous sexist atmosphere at tech companies don't generate the type of attention that specific examples like this one does.

I'm not implying that women have been derelict in calling things out. I'm just saying that we should continue to encourage women to come forward with these types of abuses.
After further reflection, in some sick perverted way, I can see how some people might interpret all forms of flattery / compliment as having some ulterior motive or inextricably linked to a man's desire to conquer or take advantage of females.

I just see compliments and flattery (if done right) as an attempt by one human to bring a little joy to another human's day by saying something nice to them. Why does it have to be more than that? Even if you're not family or close friends. If you're with a group of people and you think someone has gone above and beyond to put themselves together for the evening, I see no harm in that.
That's solving a different problem. Mozilla is building a runtime, which is great... but what Unity and Unreal bring to the table isn't the runtime, it's the productivity tools and framework.
This needs a 2001 tag, particular since it is no longer the case as others have pointed out.
Performance Enhancing Thoughts: My Unfair Advantage
Saying 'strength in a social construct' as that article does shows a massive ignorance of strength and is an insult to female strength athletes who work much harder than men for gains.
There's some interesting IR research that's going into stuff like this. See TREC's new Dynamic Domain challenge: http://trec-dd.org
There are graduate students doing what a data scientist does for $10-15 an hour.
N dimensions, linear algebra, linear functions and closed-form solutions
The story was on the front page for many hours yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163309.

It was reposted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165261. We would normally demote that as a duplicate, but we didn't. Users flagged it.
Name is a bit confusing. Ringio is also the name of a virtual phone system/pbx we use.
Here you go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtland_%28micronation%29
http://wirtland.com/
Good point. I wonder if meta tags were updated later or did archive.org ignore them - https://web.archive.org/web/20150213152238/http://eep40h.her...
I'm paying ~ $7,000 for an online degree from a top 10 CS masters program (Georgia Tech). The degree is identical to the on-campus one. If this doesn't disrupt the system then I don't know what will. This is as "real" as it gets. I really wish more universities will follow. In the meantime UC Berkley and Stanford both offer CS master degrees for $60K and $50K respectively. I rather pay about 10th of that and get "just" a 9th ranked program than a 1st ranked one and use all of my kids college fund to pay for it.
The brain, interrupted – Lasting consequences of premature birth
Talking about porn in the presence of people who's attitudes towards porn you are not sure of, yeah, that makes you a creepy greaseball. Talking about porn socially with people who's attitudes you know? That's not creepy at all. Talking about porn with a subordinate of <appropriate gender>? Never OK.

The thing here is understanding context and the way other people's feelings need to be respected.
On this, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) got through the FDA on special humanitarian permission. The effects of continuously electrically stimulating nuclei (the substansia nigra for Parkinson's DBS patients) are not known, but there is some evidence that the patients have to up the amperage and voltage over time. The reason is unknown, it could be due to death of neurons, or downregulation of the ion pumps in the cells, we just don't know. What we do know, is that for DBS patients, it is better than the alternative of the tremors and stress. Really, that is most of medicine in the end. It's kinda ritual. For a long time, we didn't know that silver or copper was antibacterial, but we knew that if you ate with it, you would get less sick, same with pewter pots leaching out lead with acidic compounds in the food.
The unix perms bit made me understand it. Thanks.
Authentication should happen server side, but authentication need not happen at the time of delete. When deleting, you should be authorizing and validating, which can safely be done client side... but, if you are doing something server-side (e.g., a delete) you should also be doing it server side.
36 year old long time HN lurker, born and raised in Lisbon.

Lisbon in some sense is like a tourism start-up.
The number of visitors has exploded in the past few years and like other mass tourism capitals in Europe (ie: Barcelona) the flood of tourism is bringing with it a loss of identity.

Eventually, like most successful start-ups its culture will be ruined by its own success.

Regarding the low-cost aspect, it's purely related to the low salaries that derive from the way we were fucked over on the Euro deal. Simple as that.
Damn, now honestthrowaway looks even more foolish. I can understand why he used a throwaway now.
Yes, in my experience, this is the most likely reason that this article disappeared.

I have a hard time deciding if this is a good policy or not.

On the one hand, it does tend to mean that there are fewer flamewars showing up on the front page, and getting people sucked into endless debates that go nowhere.

On the other hand, I feel like this works to sweep under the rug real problems that occur in this community. Rather than being able to expose and deal with such problems, once things become contentious they just disappear, leaving only the things that the community has more consensus on.
True. I'm just a lazy relativist though ;)
Gone Phishing (For Teslas)
>Why would you do such a thing? My full explanation was in the content of the site. (edit: ...which is now gone)

So anyone really understood why he did this?
(Actually) True War Stories at NBC News
Shipment containing lithium ion batteries not screened before loading on MH370
Why exactly? How would this differ from using python?
I don't think working for a Portuguese company is a good idea but I have a few software engineer friends (Portuguese and British) living in Lisbon working remotely.

It's a wonderful place to live if you can do remote work.
The best of both worlds is living in Lisbon while working remote for at least a European company and even better an American one. Since I arrived here in 2004 I've worked for British, French and now Swiss-based companies. I have only worked for one Portuguese company (the somewhat well-known one from Coimbra) and I'd never do it again.

fmsf's comment about the sweatshop environment is accurate, but only because the skills of Portuguese management are spectacularly bad. All management decisions are based on a single variable: cost and cheaper always means better. Having said that there are some spectacularly awesome, world-class, engineers here.

If there was more money floating around, Lisbon would be an awesome center for startups (there are quite a few already) - great beaches, decent night-life, plenty of culture and awesome weather (though a little too warm for my tastes).
Note that the date on this posting was Dec 20, 2001, which would place these events shortly after the anthrax attacks[1] in the wake of 9/11. The government was probably at the height of its paranoia about bio-weapons back then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
You forgot step four of The System :-)
Time-Series Database Requirements
Not really - unless you are wealthy enough to ignore the price when buying jewellery, you are buying by weight. Except for the high end jewellery, the price has a direct relationship with weight in gold, not the volume of the piece.
The Internet as Heaven (2014)
I accidentally deleted about half of the database at a startup where I’d recently started working by approximately the same method. I was running a copy of the web interface on my laptop, connecting over the internet to our MySQL server, and also running ht://dig’s spider on localhost from cron. It started spidering the delete links. Fortunately, I’d also started running daily MySQL backups from cron (there were no backups before I started working there), so we only lost a few hours of everyone’s work. As you can imagine, though, they weren’t super happy with me that day.
Basically do the exact opposite of everything they did. Doing authentication in client-side JavaScript is an absolute no-no. Using GET requests for things that have side effects (like deleting content) is another.
Stephen Few's books are the right answer for designing practical, actionable visualizations that a user will learn and use literally all the time. Edward Tufte is the right answer for designing deep, data-filled visualizations in print, and learning the principles to design new things in digital.

Given that you've "come across" the two best resources in the field, I wonder if your lack of an "Aha!" moment is because you're not answering real questions with it.

Stephen Few lists several requirements for a dashboard to be a dashboard, and two of them are timely information and the need to look at it constantly.

Even were this not a side project, I can't imagine "car hire price data" changes minute to minute, nor that you would need to be looking at this data many times an hour and make split-second decisions based on it.

That means you're not designing a dashboard: you're designing a report. And since you don't have a real use case, you're imagining things that might be useful for an unknown user with unknown needs, and that's not how reports or dashboards work. You design a chart to answer a question, not come up with questions to ask based on a chart (we're not talking about ad-hoc visualization for exploration, here).

There isn't going to be one good way to represent all the data at once. Instead, take this to be a report, and produce a chart, graph, trend, etc. for each interesting combination. Start simple, with individual numbers, and work up to complicated contrasts. It's a side project; the only user is yourself. Let that be enough and just learn about data visualization generally.
On Secretly Terrible Engineers
>The article makes it sound as if UE4 was closed source

It is. It's proprietary software. Just because you can look at the source code doesn't mean it meets the definition of "open source".
Downvoted? Is there some sort of policy?
> Your wording suggests there's a universally accepted standard of what exactly constitutes harassment.

My wording was "considered harassment". How does "considered" imply a universal standard?

> Personally, I believe that one radfem with agenda and no real proof should not be able to ruin careers and lives by twitter.

And I think you are discrediting her based on her professed beliefs and background.

I totally agree that no one should be able to ruin other people's lives based on their word alone. They should be able to show some proof.
I highly recommend this radiolab episode about it: http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirvana/

for the story-telling if nothing else. :)
It's important to know the basics of git from the command line but git's output can be so rich that it's pretty futile to try and capture this from the command line.

Even if you ssh a lot, the odds of having these extra layers installed are pretty low so you might as well get as comfortable as you can with the basic commands.

But for local usage, do yourself a favor and install a graphical client. Color terminals will never give you as much information as a graphical tool will.
Such negativity here. I wonder why it still surprises me.

@qw3rtman: This is a great idea for a project. Making Git's UI more accessible and attractive is a worthy goal. Keep at it, I'm sure many people will use this.
Banana eating – TUTORIAL
> Not to argue the basic concept, but in this specific case, AFAIK, it's very arguable whether "people are innately evil" might have been proven.

I definitely was not implying that a statement like that was (let alone ever could be) proven; only that for the subjects that participated in the experiment, who were exposed to that perhaps popular interpretation of the results - could be expected have a significantly different perception of the experiment on account of this.
Motorola Moto E (Gen 2) India Launch Set for March 10
How to DRINK MILK
Vivaldi is free. It's just not open source.
FWIW, virtually every small project post discussed on HN has a variety of people arguing that the name conflicts with some other small project. Maybe projects should be named using UUIDs or something.
Yes, sadly I have to agree with you.

I am living abroad since the first .com crash.
The importance of packaging
> However you are right of course that it doesn't protect you against a malicious agent who has access to the server over a period of time.

Or against starting with a malicious server.
Instead of reading and jumping to conclusions, come here and take a look. I'm gonna borrow some french and say there's a certain je ne sais quois in Lisbon. If any HN'ers want to come here and visit, I'll be happy to show you around. Lisbon really shines, specially in the summer

Oh, and if you want to hire tech people, we have some good people over here who are wasting talent on sweatshops and the like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card#Uses_for_ident...

Apparently it is not used anymore?

Web commentary columns of some Estonian newspapers, most notably Eesti Päevaleht, used to support ID-card based authentication for comments. This approach caused some controversy in the internet community.[3]
Probably got flagged to oblivion since:

- She shamed her employer on social media with loose allegations

- Judging by her Twitter history, she's a professional feminist troll

Women do face issues in tech and every other industry, but incidents like Adria Richards or this just hurt womens' causes, and makes them riskier hires...
Lisbon is not affordable to live in for the locals
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I make 800 EUR a month in a Business Intelligence role at a growing multinational company in Lisbon.
My rent for a 1 bedroom flat in a very modest part of the inner suburbs comes out at 380 EUR.

Combine that with an unemployed wife and you have a pretty standard picture of what the average young couple with 1 child is faced with here. (not to speak about the thousands educated and younger than me who are being forced out of the country because they can't afford to start a family or even leave their parent's houses)

Just for comparison I lived for 5 years in London UK, made 3000 EUR a month and could save enough to travel frequently . While renting a 2 bedroom house with a small garden.
That's a terrible analogy. Firstly, that analogy is ridiculous: Alice doesn't necessarily see that Bob is on his cell phone, she's concentrating on the road and cars around her - not looking intently into the car next to her! In fact, being in a blind spot means that it's literally impossible for Alice to see that Bob is on his phone. So the answer is no, she doesn't bear any responsibility at all.

Secondly, you should be able to congratulate your daughter on Twitter regardless of your status as a public person.

I can't be held responsible for your actions. Making an innocent tweet about your daughter is not something you should have to be worried about. That's chilling freedom of expression! So you can't be a proud dad because some arsehole might threaten to rape your daughter? Give me a break.
The problem there is that there is a fierce competition from off-shore paradises, which have even lower salaries.
I don't think this is state of the art. It's impressive, maybe, from a technical point of view given the massive constraints it runs under. It may compete with Unity or, to a lesser extent, Unreal on the low end. But there's lots of things you can do in Unity (which isn't really state of the art -- it lags behind the AAA engines in a lot of respects, although I don't know how much Unity 5 moved the ball forward there. This isn't to denigrate PlayCanvas, but it's not an open-source replacement for Unreal in the most typical Unreal Engine use-cases.
I'm working on a client project right now. Their corporate firewall MITMs all SSL traffic. Their standard OS images all have SSL and root CA certificates installed to make this happen invisibly.

The client staff we're working with had no idea this was happening.
I usually only get it with really fresh beans. I normally use it for coffee though instead of espresso so if the crema is what you really enjoy an Aeropress is probably not for you.
The way to figure out that you are your mind and are in control of it is to look at people who cannot do so. Are feelings a part of your mind? Are intrusive thoughts your fault or your brains? When you do something that you do not want to, who is doing that? Is that you?

The mind body problem is not really a problem, we are our bodies and minds at the same time. Any patient with an aphasia or neural defect will tell you they just cannot think in a way that they used to. Stoke victims are the same, or people that grew up mute and deaf and now use sign language. The mind is so very complicated, quite the understatement.

In the end, you are your mind, there can be not other definition, you are the person in it, who it is. Therefore, you are in control, or you lack the control to use it, you are the driver of the car and the car itself.
Very good question, sorry I don't have a good enough answer for that right now. I only needed this setup for testing and not really a production environment, so data persistence wasn't a requirement.

Once I have a satisfactory approach, I'll post a solution.
According to you it isn't. And that's the fundamental problem here... opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and yours certainly isn't worth more than mine.
Augmented reality apps for education win top prize in Philippine hackaton
Thanks! This is exactly what I'm looking for.
Limited Edition Prints of BYTE Covers
This looks nice although personally I'm a happy user of scm_breeze[0]. My favourite is the shortcuts which allow you to interactively enter a commit message in the shell without needing to open an editor.

[0] https://github.com/ndbroadbent/scm_breeze
Agree, the article says more about the writer than about the city.
Vivaldi doesn't cost money. That is not the same thing as being free. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/conflating-petraeus-snowden/
Pewpew: your very own IP attack map with d3js
Let's see, Twitter shaming and a Twitter history of feminist trolling...

From the article, more disclosure of the possible events:

> She then added "full disclosure. I'm not proud, I poured a drink on him. It became about that."

Seems to me when you combine beaches and alcohol while on a staff getaway, things may get slightly out of hand. Not exactly sexual harassment in the office kind of stuff...
I've been using the bookmarklet from here for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8583275

Basically when there is an article I get to from elsewhere and I want to check if there are HN comments I simply click it and it takes me straight there.
It makes her uncomfortable and it has nothing to do with her job. In the workplace, you don't blurt out everything that comes to mind even if you feel a certain way or even if you mean it with good intentions. She wasn't hired by Google to look good, she was hired to be a good developer. Vic G telling her that she looks good in a bathing suit makes her question why she's there and what her bosses motivations are. Everyone has a right to feel comfortable in the workplace.
Identical is a strong word. Can you give an overview of how group projects are structured?
Sony's SmartEyeglass goes on sale for selected countries
Yes, I agree there are outstanding issues with my method.
I was having trouble locating an article that 'connected the dots'.

The main goal last night was was fast, quick and dirty. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to write about more complex approaches in-depth going forward.
Will you let your school to decide your life?
> Can you help me to understand victim blaming? Is it victim blaming to say someone was exercising poor risk management?

Er, yeah, it is. The victim always knows they exercised "poor risk management", to some degree. You don't need to reinforce that point. It's not what the takeaway lesson should ever be. It detracts attention (and implicitly averts blame) from the perpetrator.

We don't aspire to live in a world where "risk management" becomes the takeaway lesson from events perpetrated by conscious actors (i.e. you should always exercise risk management when it comes to things like hurricanes).

Because then you start saying things like:

"She shouldn't have been walking alone at night."

"She shouldn't have been wearing that dress."

"If he didn't want to get raped he shouldn't have gone to prison."
I'm surprised there are so many people on Hacker News asking "why?".

Hackers don't need a reason, other than it being clever, novel, fun, etc. But if you want a reason there are plenty:

* art: there are numerous interpretations of this

* fun: this is sort of the digital equivalent of a "useless box" http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ef0b/

* science: experiment to see how widespread a URL can be shared without Google becoming aware of it

* security: embed unique tokens in your content to detect if it has leaked to the public
I don't think the register is justifiable at all, to be honest. We don't have it where I live (Australia) and we don't have higher levels of sexual assault than the U.S. (our rates are still too high).

If that was the point you were making, I apologise as I misunderstood you.
Those are two different stories. IMO, the second one is much preferable, as it's an actual story, instead of just a 50-or-so-word G+ and Twitter post. I don't see why it should be considered a duplicate, though I guess if users flagged it, most of them disagreed.