skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An insider can make any comments they like about an outsider (up to the point where the comments themselves become problematic to other insiders), but an outsider cannot say anything negative about the group or any of its members without being perceived as attacking the group and all of its members.

Basic in-group/out-group dynamics.
Let's make a deal unique tool in fantasy basketball
How do you propose we fix the education system?

The largest predictor of educational success, like you said, is money. You can try to equalize, but the rich will always find ways to spend more money on their children's education.

I don't think there is a solution as long as America's rising inequality continues.
At least from my perspective, the problem is that Google sometimes releases into already-existing fields at a price point no one can compete with, absorbs the entire market, then pivots away. This is pretty destructive behavior, and I think fundamentally different from entering a field in which you intend to try to run a business (as opposed to subsidizing your entry into the field with profits from elsewhere in the company in order to undercut current players).
Eurocom makes a 12-core xeon mobile server. Theres a battery but its used as a UPS rather than how a normal laptop works.
http://www.eurocom.com/ec/productsg(6)ec
I'm concerned about the implications of these license terms:

[...] you do hereby grant Algorithmia, in its capacity as the provider of the
Services, a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid-up and
royalty free license to use and permit others to use the Software (including
the source code if made viewable) in any manner and without restriction of any
kind or accounting to you, including, without limitation, the right to make,
have made, sell, offer for sale, use, rent, lease, import, copy, prepare
derivative works, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute all or any
part of the Software and any modifications, derivatives and combinations
thereof and to sublicense (directly or indirectly through multiple tiers) or
transfer any and all such rights; provided, however, that if your Software
includes any FOSS, in the event of a conflict between the applicable FOSS
license terms and the license terms set forth in this paragraph, the applicable
FOSS license terms will control, but only to the extent required by the FOSS
that you use.

https://algorithmia.com/api_dev_terms

(edited to add line breaks)
Developer here. I'd like to receive some feedback on this side project I put together over a weekend. Any kind and not so kind words would be greatly appreciated.

The app is built using Meteor and it's very rough around the edges, but should work in most modern browsers. Firefox users will see some design issues but it should work.

Cheers!
-Jg
FForde is a good recommendation. The Thursday Next books are absolutely wonderful.

(And my daughter has been reading Chris Riddell's Goth Girl books, which are like Fforde for younger readers.)
Thanks for the suggestion. The first question anyone asks us is how we compare with GitHub, so we figured we answered it right on the homepage. Awesome that you'll give it a spin, I hope you like it.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
If you implement one of the bounty algorithms you get the bounty, but you also get a payment when your algorithm is used. It's not going to make you a millionaire, but if you work in $FIELD_OF_STUDY and want to make a couple bucks in your spare time it might be worth it.

It's also likely that someone who wants to enter $FIELD_OF_STUDY might use one of these as a portfolio piece. You learn-and-implement one of these algorithms to get an introduction to the field, you get a bullet point for your resume and you make a few bucks.
I agree with your point that a lot of current STEM education focuses on things that don't really have any practical value. I think its more of a tradition for engineering students to be learning about this stuff, a legacy of the time when knowledge was not available at your fingertips.

There are a lot of programs that are experimenting with different approaches though, and I think this will only get better with time.
It depends on the context but generally less meaningful and sometimes less relevant. One hasn't really had time to fully absorb certain "life lessons" until they've had the benefit of years and therefore other additional experiences to provide more contextually relevant information. Consequently advice derived from such immaturity isn't necessarily as meaningful or relevant.

I think the parent's glibness is a bit much, though.
I have no evidence for this, but I think that your chances of funding a violent group with your purchase would be significantly lower on a dark net market than if you made the purchase on the street.
Haven't seen the talk, but having just finished his Influx novel I'll have to check it out. REALLY scary how...possible...his story seemed with regards to how powerless a well-equipped/funded government entity can make someone in this day and age if you happen to piss them off. Terrifying.

That said, drone murder is an interesting concept. Given the size of drones and the many discrete ways of killing someone, you don't even need a gun at this point. Ram a small drone tipped with a poisoned needle into someone, land a drone on their roof and start a fire, etc. The reality is someone with the time and energy can get really creative and the technology is only improving.

It will be fascinating and probably not fun to watch how our police forces and government evolve to combat this as soon as it becomes high-profile enough.
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Yes, I've installed a gitlab for my company and I'm extremely happy with it, I feel like I've much more control: authentication, authorization, how our projects are organised, etc. We are currently using both private repos on github and gitlab on aws.

Regarding mercurial, I used it a lot and hosted lot of things on bitbucket 4 years ago, but now I use git a lot more, just because it is what most of the libraries and opensource projects I use are using.
I think the key takeaways that I take from it are (of course, I wrote it, so ymmv):

If the system doesn't work for you, it doesn't mean you're not capable.

Follow your passions, not external dictates.

Try to get as many different perspectives on life as you can.

Coding is making credentialing and "proving" you can do something much easier.

As for luck, I have a bad habit of framing things as lucky, and to some extent they are, but there was also hard work behind them.

You have an interesting story, thanks for sharing it.
Creating the open world “Kite” real-time demo in Unreal Engine 4
Most GCHQ snooping ‘essential’, parliament report concludes
>"I floated through life and got a few lucky breaks which led me into a relatively comfortable career that I enjoy".

Show HN: I Am A Dull And Replaceable Administrative Cog In A Bureacratic Machine
> I debated whether or not to write this because, as I mentioned, I have a large degree of impostor syndrome because of my experiences.

I don't know if you need to feel like an imposter considering you sound like a typical programmer type.

Just keep flaunting your stuff. It's the modern hacker way.
Thanks, people hosting their own servers currently are the majority of GitLab users. But we also want to be a valid hosted alternative with GitLab.com and we think free (private) repos with extensive functionality is a pretty sweet deal.
ATLQ slows down throughput and ads CPU overhead, that's why is disabled by default... Because most users don't need it anyway.
> Gitlab is not a place for open source projects.

What reasons do you have to you believe this statement? I'm curious.

> The projects with the most stars on gitlab s gitlab itself with 221 stars right now. Even the smallest nodejs project achieves that popularity on github.

Really? I'm surprised. I started coding a forum platform and I only amassed 3 stars. On my non-furry personas, I've capped out at about 13.

I don't think popularity in github projects is fairly distributed enough to use that as a refutation of the quality GitLab has to offer. It's a bigger bandwagon, sure, but that's all.

While a big bandwagon can be attractive (it is for me), I don't think it's fair to disqualify a competitor based on this metric alone.
Most of my downvotes so far, both here and on reddit, have been earned by writing things that are true but unpopular.

The weird thing is that I can't predict which things are going to be sufficiently unpopular amongst people impolite enough to downvote instead of coming up with a good counterargument (or even better: fact). I had /never/ expected something like this to get a single downvote (and I was down at -3).
Consumption (sales tax or VAT) taxes are regressive, so that's a non starter.

Inheritance taxes are trivial to circumvent with careful estate planning and vehicles such as trusts.
Yeah, the possibility to front run every order by 3 nano seconds because your server is a few miles closer to the exchange is really making the world a better place
This step gives a foundation to curb many aspects of monopoly broadband providers. There needs to be another related but separate fight on competition in the last mile.
That take away oozes with survivor bias. Being a successful coder because you have passion for it still requires a lucky break somewhere along the way to discover that passion and/or have someone else recognize that passion.

In my opinion, if a story distills down to a lucky moment, you should probably refrain from taking too much away from it.
about:blank does its job!
Building user interfaces with React
> At the time it seemed like the safest place to leave something.

Google is never the safest place to store anything, unless it's your personal data. Google sunsets products constantly.
React Reflux Workflow Boilerplate
"React Reflux Workflow Boilerplate" is a workflow framework that make life easier for React / Reflux developers by providing a development and production ready build process framework out of the box. It used many other technologies as well, so whether if you are just curious on learning new technologies or looking to boost your workflow and build system, feel free to look into that.

Github: https://github.com/iroy2000/react-reflux-boilerplate-with-webpack
Isn't this an argument for developing bespoke applications using lighter/more rapid technology for each customer?

At some point, a programing language is more convenient than your configuration system.
Possibly the worst font of all time. Now that I've said, I can read :P

edit : (font of the title)
I hope they will do something about merged commits in history logs though
> how seemingly good intentions created the market we have today.

It's been a bit since I read Flash Boys [edit: didn't realize you were talking about a different book], but from memory dark pools were never created with good intentions. At best, they were created with the intention of enabling cheaper trades by not having to route orders to the broader public market (just like a colo CDN)?

And dark pool owners had all the information needed to gather real-time reporting on the prices predatory dark pools were trading normal investors' orders at vs. the broader market price.

Which is to say, they absolutely knew they were screwing someone.
Great job! This is valuable content.
The Curse of the Black Lotus – How MtG Avoided Becoming Beanie Babies
Depends upon what it is about. For example, listening to 30 year olds about college is probably more relevant than listening to 50 year olds, because things changed in that 20 years between when they went to college and many of the lessons and struggles are fresher in the minds of the 30 year olds. On the other hand, I'd give more weight to marriage advice from a 50 year old who has been married for 25 years compared to a 30 year old married for 5.
I made much more money when working for large companies, on site or as an employee. I don't charge much when working remotely unless a customer wants me to be always available during working hours in which case I charge onsite rates. Working onsite at Google in 2013 paid well but cost of living in Silicon Valley is very expensive. Where I live in Arizona, life is much less expensive than in California. BTW, I just came back from a 2 1/2 hour hike in the local mountains with five friends. Having this freedom is worth so much more to me than extra income.
I think there has been some talk about reconciling the two projects though...

http://readwrite.com/2015/02/27/node-js-io-js-reconciliation...
Interesting article. Although, I'm pretty sure he's mistaken about Belize being the farthest South that still speaks English officially. Guyana's official language is English, and it's on the South American continent.
Setting up Helmet for Node.js
The inside story of Yik Yak
In my opinion there shouldn't be anything 'wrong' with a BATS front-run; but if you don't want to play in that pond, then you should get out. Thus the volume of trades for something like IEX would go up.... Let the market decide if people don't like how BATS operates.

If I were to set up an exchange, to discourage HFT-type shenanigans, I would set up "clearance windows". You put in your bid/asks and they are held for one second while the previous bid/asks clear, and if your quote is still available in the next second, then the trade is executed.
I'm not knocking on your achievements, my point is more as a warning to many of the younger more impressionable readers of HN. They may read into this as an alternate path when in reality it will likely lead many astray.

Following passion is great, it's not great career advice.

P.S. I'm glad that you're comfortable enough in your career to share these insecurities. It sounds like that is a big milestone for you. Congrats on that.
American Mystery: Consumers Aren't Spending Despite Booming Job Market
In addition to BitBucket there's also Unfuddle which is pretty great.
I had a very nice write-up about how Git can efficiently handle much larger repositories than people think, but it sounds like it doesn't apply in your case.

Something that might be worth trying: If you have a bunch of files that will very rarely ever change, you might try just putting them in a tar file and modify your build system to unpack them on demand. This may sound crazy, but in my experience it's not raw file size that gives Git problems, it's simply the file count. I don't know about the latest Git versions, but back in the 1.8 era when I was doing extensive testing, Git was notorious for doing a file-stat on every single checked out file every time you ran "git status". If you've got fewer files, regardless of size, your performance will likely be better. (The initial git clone is of course an exception.)
seems overkill, wouldn't just putty do in your case?
Yeah, I've run in to that gem too.

If my system requirements are that something run in 100ms, dismissing options that have a min 2s latency (however useful they are) is not "premature optimization". It's a system requirement, and options B, C and D don't make the cut. Simple as that.
But that's the point. This process is "faster" on a higher salary if and only if your final target income isn't also higher. For many people this will not be the case, e.g. the person with a 100k/yr salary has a higher retirement cost of living targeted than the person with 50k/yr salary does.

Of course, if you are happy living a 50k/yr lifestyle and retirement but happen to make 100k/yr, yes, you should be able to retire much faster.
I'm genuinely curious, what do you like better about bitbucket?
Looks like it was being accidentally filtered out. You should now see it in the topics list.
As a mid-20s middle class guy, it's the only airline I fly. No-nonsense, good price, friendly people. No, it's not luxury seating, but I really like flying with them. They also haven't screwed up connections or held up my baggage, which US Airways and United have.
If you mean directly from an IC then there is a long way to go on that. They are still trying to figure out how to make lasers on an IC in the same CMOS process as normal ICs.
BTW, One of your testimonials on your landing page bashes Gitorious (which no longer exists and is part of your company):

> “Gitlab is an excellent option….. not only more user friendly than Gitorious but also easier to install.”
The most noticeable thing to me is, before I started using Soylent as meal replacement, I noticed my brain would shift attention and in a way interrupt me to say "you need to go eat now, you're hungry". These days I don't notice the interruptions as often and when they do happen they're not as significant. Instead it's more like "Ok, I'm done with that task, what should I do now. Oh yeah, I haven't eaten lunch yet..."
http status codes are so web 1.1
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I wasn't aware that was the issue. I was under the impression it was a business decision by Comcast.
How Pivotal Performs Continuous Delivery of Mobile Services
That motto links to an excellent explanation https://about.gitlab.com/better-than-github/

IMO not mentioning competitors and not providing a detailed comparison to competitors means that marketing is winning and the market is failing.

Kudos to gitlab for providing info which helps the market work. Opposite of petty! :)
They were probably angling for the conviction to be overturned on appeal. There was almost no chance of getting a "not guilty" verdict in this situation.
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> innocent people are getting hurt - however we try really hard to minimize their numbers

From the article:

> Sensor: Maybe just a warm spot from where he’s been sitting.

> Pilot: I was hoping we could make a rifle out. Never mind.
Mort is Death in french. Mort says goodbye in english, while death prefers goodbye in french.
make a gh_pages branch and build a descriptive jekyll page.

Or just have a good Readme.md and hope people scroll down.
Caltrain already runs all the way to Gilroy. You can't really extend it much. But you can run it more frequently; and that's where you run into union issues. It's not propaganda that public employee unions are quite resistant to change; just look at MUNI's Union (in SF) for example.

But that's a topic for another day. :-)
Nazis had state sponsored scientific research and a national healthcare system (with certain, obvious exclusions).

It just seems nonsensically reductive to go 'the nazis did it! therefore its bad!'
Nice to see Typesafe slowly rounding up their offering.
Windows Update causing reboot loop
Ask HN: Eliminating Impostor Syndrome?
I recently had a long conversation with my friends, in which they accused me of not appreciating my own accomplishments.

Some background: I'm the only one of my friends who has a real career. While I'm making $70k/year as a web programmer, they're making $10/hr or less working at restaurants. And yet, I'm usually the one who's complaining about suffering from self-doubt. Mostly because of a lack of relationship experience (at age 25, it starts to feel like failure).

As much as I know about Impostor Syndrome from reading about it online, I'm not sure what I can do about it.

Sure, I could do the opposite and go around boasting about how skilled/knowledgeable I am, but I really detest arrogance and I outright hate hypocrisy. I'm not sure that would help me any.

I know this is a common problem. I don't know what the solution is.

(In case it wasn't clear: My friends want me to be happy with myself, because when I'm not it brings everyone else down too.)
Sure, services like GitLab and BitBucket are cool, but GitHub is the superior option. Take away the fact that they are open source/have unlimited free repos, and there isn't much else.

GitHub has a superior UI, a waaaaaay bigger community, a great API, offers student discounts (5 free repos), and other goodies.
That blog has a surreal intersection with the issues people talk about on HN.

Put aside the politics of pornography. She's a content creator trying to make a living, trying to have a reasoned discussion about how to make that happen.

But she can't get paid because we don't have easy, secure, anonymous payment systems, and her customers won't trust small time studios with credit card or personally identifying information because they don't want to get double charged by unscrupulous bastards or end up in a database.

So customers don't have a good way to pay her which means her work is inevitably going to get pirated more often than bought. At that point she wants the rational next best thing, which is to distribute her work for free to as many people as possible, because the only way to make money when only a small percentage of people pay is to grow your fan base so that it's a small percentage of many people. Which means that what she wants is a platform for community engagement -- something like BitTorrent and The Pirate Bay which is open to everyone and doesn't censor anything or divert your viewers to your direct competitors. But those platforms and their users are under attack by the aforementioned unscrupulous bastards and their extortionate "settlement letters" that push users to their own streaming sites.

So she writes a very reasoned explanation of this, only to have her entirely-not-inappropriate reasoned discussion blocked by overzealous corporate proxy servers.

Which can only lead to the conclusion that this content creator would be better off if the likes of Bitcoin, BitTorrent and Tor were more widely used.

Yet people keep saying that stuff is only useful to criminals.
No problem, it is not that obvious, any suggestions how to make it more findable without messing up the other options are welcome.
Not specifically video-adapter-related, but on a tangential note this teardown by Ken Shirriff of an Apple charger and imitation Apple charger is interesting: http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pr...
"[Godwin's law is] an endlessly tiresome way of feigning moral indignation" -- Kevin Drum
Apple will allow MacBook battery packs and 3rd party chargers with USB-C
Funny; they're still my favorite. Fitted so well in my hands.
Ugh.

No, not that Google Code is shutting down, per se. The alternatives are better and for active projects there is plenty of time to migrate.

What I object to is that the site will only be preserved in read-only mode for 5 months, despite its popularity and the resulting large number of deep links into it on the Web. Why not forever? git, hg, and I believe svn can all provide read-only access (with some bandwidth overhead) by publishing static files over HTTP. With the addition of a static export of the Google Code pages (mostly doable by crawling; some pagination issues would need to be worked out), Google could host the site going forward on a simple HTTP server without needing to maintain its server-side codebase. And Google is lacking in neither HTTP servers or bandwidth... Belated abuse complaints would remain a problem, but it's easy enough to delete things on request.

Google is obviously not legally obligated to keep the site up, and under current mores I suppose it's not socially obligated either. But I think that when the owning company continues to be highly financially successful and maintenance is easy enough, there should be a social obligation for some kind of archival.

Or at least redirect the subdomain to whatever Archive Team comes up with...
Linear Algebra is also important in Finance too. Stats are useful in almost every field, as well as for developing a probability-based state of mind.

I wonder why the imbalance exists. Too much focus on preparing people for careers in Engineering? Or preparing them for more abstract concepts like Analysis and Analytic Geometry?
Ah yes, thanks for the correction
Oracle prohibits double encryption
I consider it keeping things professional to sit in the back. They are being paid to performing a service for me; it's not like it's slavery. I don't find myself feeling guilty about not standing when a waiter comes to my table.
How to Clean Your Hacked OpenX/Revive Adserver
But you can't do that in 2 countries at once.