skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are government run lotteries also unethical? What about government run investment schemes?
A 9y.o kid explains net neutrality in a way that you can finally understand
This maybe related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712703
CTRL + F "Ajit Nazre" shows 42 results on his website.

This dude really likes his name.
It might be a reference to Dart?
with this gadget my hipster level will reach over 9000!
Digitizing Healthcare in Rural Nepal
This is every hipster's dream
edit: the comment this was a reply to was deleted....

I don't assume you harass people, sexually or otherwise, and never stated that you did. And from my experience, nerds tend to be less "harassy" than the general male population. But just because you want to ignore that sexual harassment is a problem even among the nerd population doesn't mean I will.
From the release notes:

> React.addons.classSet is now deprecated. This functionality can be replaced with several freely available modules. classnames is one such module.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/classnames
That's untrue read the spec. Typescript doesn't support ES6 modules , nor quasi literals. Typescript has its own module system which is incompatible with ES6 modules.
LTE is a packet switching solution, so without traffic prioritization regular cellular voice calls could easily be trumped by a few heavy torrenters.
I don't understand how people would want to invest in this. But that's just me.
Data is useless for art because art is expected to explore the boundaries of what's acceptable and what's conventional. There is no data for things that haven't even been done yet.

Historical data on sales of paintings would've never told Picasso to pursue Cubism, or for Salinger to write 'Catcher in the Rye'.

It was data that causes so many publishing houses to reject future bestsellers. Sales figures for past children's books told publishers that "Harry Potter" would never work.

We all know how that played out.

As for business, existing data would have never told Jobs to build an iPhone - simply because there really was no data on touchscreen devices.
"What do we need HR for? We're all adults here"...
Who doesn't want NoSQL with ACID properties? Can anyone tell me what is superior on MongoDB compared to PostgreSQL?

If anybody is going to talk about scalability, there are many good alternatives to scale PostgreSQL too.
Scala for Machine Learning: A Review
That's a little bit out of date, the main repo is on BitBucket - I copied it over to Github a few days ago. I'll try to keep it in sync with the main one every few days.
Some scumbag got a guy fired by publicly shaming him on twitter for making a joke to his friend in a private conversation. That is one of the most hostile, weird, and hateful ways I've ever seen someone behave.

It's a perfect example of counter-productive, oppressive behavior that was outlined in this article. Do you think getting that guy fired is going to suddenly change his sense of humor? Not likely. If anything, it's going to poison his view of feminists in the field by coloring them all as psychopaths willing to do anything to push an agenda rather than focus on the actual technology the community was originally built around.
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> But that safe space shouldn't be at the expense of diversity in the workplace (hired on merit)

What's your opinion on affirmative action?

> or online public spaces (where everyone should be treated with respect regardless of the merit metric).

This is bullshit. I have told one person on this site that I hoped that they died in terrible pain and that it took years because I meant it. Their opinion was vile and I would have said it to their face if they had been in front of me when they said it. Social opprobrium is a tool. There are people whose views I find abhorrent, who I hate and detest, personally. For a feminist perspective on this see the below link.

http://geekfeminism.org/2013/09/05/tone-policing-a-tool-for-...
Same here, I enjoy A/B testing often, along with analyzing numbers and data. When I opened this article and saw the A/B/C image at the top, I was excited to see the results. Then... nothing.
CrossCode Retro-inspired 2D Action RPG (using html5 canvas)
Are you really saying you can't write? Or just that you're trying to write more beautifully?
I think this is what the EU ruling is taking into account as well, this doesn't seem to be about breaking down protections so that some corporations can screw over their customers - as it is in the U.S - but about proper regulation.
Nobody cares about the art scene in SF vs NYC and LA. Take that discussion elsewhere.
Only with naive optimization algorithms, of course. There's a whole academic field of study devoted to optimization, and avoiding local maxima is a big issue of course. Hundreds if not thousands of papers are published on it, every year.
Quite nice live gadget!
Any word on 500 Startups, because I'm seriously considering applying to them.
Now you have to be aware of SQL escaping to prevent SQL injection attacks.
It's not that people don't understand. It's that they don't want to alter their views and would rather have tiny cognitive seizures than admit that they were wrong about something. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal has resorted to outright lying about the issue, selectively editing or misattributing statements from the EFF and Netflix executives to make it seem as if they've changed their mind about the whole thing and are now opposed to the FCC's regulatory proposals.
We need a meetup group dedicated to strategies for writing parsers. There is nothing 'hip' about that so it should flush out the standard meetup cruft (e.g. "my name is X, i'm a non-technical person looking for a technical cofounder").
Then there's those of us who can do that for a limited amount of time before it overloads them - it's something that requires a lot of brain effort, and doesn't come natural.

Then again, I do stuff like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnRSu9LjV7E
Including the name is a great idea. I feel like stock photos of business offices and people are a turn off. Anytime I see them on a site, I figure it's a basement operation being run by amateurs. Why are they posting a photo of a random boardroom and not their own? My only conclusion, they have no office. Why are they showing a photo of a random woman with a headset? They must have no dedicated support in house.

Real photos always stand out. If I'm looking for a webhost, and they show an actual photo of their datacenter, with one of their staff members standing inside, that's a huge plus. They actually have physical access to the datacenter. If I need something, they can get it done. They're not just reselling someone else's service.
It would be super helpful if this comment was followed by a list of some good ones...
Are you a PM? Love your project
I've said similar because of this, so your comment is included in my statement. That doesn't change much
6 mistakes to avoid when collecting design feedback
They still lock feature versions in with windows releases so they don't get many brownie points for being able to auto update security patches.
Got it. Thanks for the link to the guidelines.
Generally speaking your two choices are democratic process and revolution.

Democratic process despite its flaws has had some moderate successes. Revolution is a much more mixed bag, and while I believe that there may well be a time when it's necessary it's not something to enter into lightly, and almost certainly modern day USA is not remotely in need of a revolution.

Happy to hear of other options, but enough people being negative about the possibility of democratic change (again, despite its flaws), will reduce its possibility, playing into the hands of the status quo and the revolutionaries.

As Kennedy said "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable". Unless you actually want violent revolution you should be doing all you can to keep people engaged in the democratic process.
To be fair, PT has never said that dropping out of college was for everyone. If you take a closer look at the past and current Thiel Fellow, you will notice that they often come from the same top schools (i.e Stanford, Harvard, MIT, CMU, Waterloo).

The one that are given the opportunity to receive funding + support from the Thiel Foundation are incredibly smart and will (probably) succeed in whatever endeavour they end up choosing whether or not they get a full college education.

As a freshman in college, it is incredibly exciting to know that there is such structure existing.
Nootropics user here. I would love for this field to go from amateur hobbyists to something more organized. The difficult part remains quantifying results
>Your users don't give two craps about the syntax.

Of course not, but your developers yes. Use a complex syntax and more bugs will appear. Do you care about bugs? No, but your users will.

> If you chose Mongo over e.g. a SQL DB because you like your code to look pretty then I have to admit that I wouldn't trust your software at all.

This is not my only reason.
Do the machines' operator in the UK need to be competitive? How about in Oregon? I am sure question 1 is Yes. Just from reading the article, I guess only the State Lottery can run machines in Oregon.
Call future colleagues and ask about the work environment, will definitely tell you more than all the bullshit you hear at interviews and job postings.
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> The future holds more use cases. Remote surgery, autonomous vehicles etc etc.

Do you really think it would be a good idea to perform something as critical as remote surgery over the internet, where every script kiddy with a botnet might literally be able to kill you by DoSing the hospital?
Except that in the case of live poker, they're getting theirs via the rake.

I assume you're talking about blackjack: unless there is a CSM at the table or an absurd 6:5 blackjack payout (you shouldn't be there in either event, period) you can absolutely play to your advantage.
[Physics] Can water falling from a tap follow a spiral path?
Use an IDE like JetBrain's IDEA that checks the SQL syntax against the database.
Apple’s contribution to the smartwatch: An app-centric approach and Wi-Fi
Anyone read the Crunchbase profile of the company the author is the CTO for?

"Bipsync provides a research automation platform to maximize the productivity of professional investors. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2012 by experienced investors and software developers at Stanford University, the company uses modern technologies and user-centered design to speed up data capture, automate research maintenance and identify insights that drive better decisions for investors and funds." [1]

I mean, maybe I shouldn't be looking for patterns, because, y'know, data. But it seems oddly conflicting to be pitching a product that encourages the use of data to drive decisions and then publicly condemning... the use of data to drive decisions.

Aside from that contradiction, the company just got seed funding four months ago. It's probably far too early to make decisions about the efficacy of being "data-driven." From personal experience, trying to manage people by telling them, "I'm right, let's do it my way," is terribly demotivating (and very prone to error). Conversely, trying to weigh everyone's input equally and sift out good ideas is an organizational nightmare that creates a ton of complexity. Complexity slows down execution. And who decides on the best ideas?

Creating a mental framework for hypothesis testing and building a product based on optimizing for specific metrics is, in my mind, what being data-driven actually means. There are no inconsistencies or personal biases. It's scalable. You can teach the entire team how to approach the design of a feature as a problem with a testable hypothesis. Politics go out the window as execution strategy is determined by return on investment of engineering resources. Being data-driven doesn't discourage creativity, it just allows you to reframe problems.

Buzzfeed clickbait titles are but a small (and, well, effective) subset of a vast array of largely positive things that come from being "data-driven." Attempting to demonize patterns of logical, rational decision-making because you (personally) don't like one outcome is... well, an anti-pattern. (It happens all of the time. See: The history of the scientific method. ;))

Sure, it's not sexy. But it doesn't need to be. It just needs to work.

1. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bipsync
It's not efficient. The word "Brogrammer" means "something something men I don't like for reasons I believe are their fault". It doesn't communicate anything, it just invites the reader to invent their own meaning, which has little to do with what the write was thinking.

The actual word was invented as a joke in a parody video, as a portmonteau of "bro" and "programmer". It then got picked up as an slur for "disliked man in the tech world".
Another round of image bugs: PNG and JPEG XR
I find this more readable. In fact, the code here looks more like this:

.FilterByEvensOnly()
.FilterByMinimum()
.FilterByMaximum()

Obviously the example is trivialised and the real filters are more complex, requiring joins, but the pattern gives a very readable way of writing an efficient query.

Unfortunately EF produces an unreadable query when there are a few dozen filters, but the LINQ code is readable, so there hasn't been any difficulty debugging.
Some people can write, but illegibly. So they want to improve their writing so that other people can read their writing, or so they're not embarresed by it. Pen and paper is a powerful tool and there's not much in software that matches it.
re: barry-cotter

affirmative action: I believe is a necessary evil as white society has refused to correct the wrongs of the past. After 400+ years of systemic physical and economic oppression you can't just expect to say "we're now going to treat you as equals" and everything is ok. That is not to say improvements haven't been made but when power structures are designed to suck the economic and physical power from one group of people still today (i.e. Ferguson, MO), then drastic measures are necessary. I'd prefer a merit based system, but a true merit based system should provide equally safe and secure environments for all citizens to thrive.

> or online public spaces (where everyone should be treated with respect regardless of the merit metric).
This is bullshit.

Yeah, I agree. It is more wishful than true. I would say everyone should be treated with respect up and until, but then it is always a question of who is measuring. But it doesn't take much for some real vile shit to bubble up unfortunately. Sometimes it's just the edge cases (usually blamed on a small minority of the group), but often it comes from the middle as well or is representative of the groups mindspace.

(If all that makes sense. It's 5am and I'm still up working so I may just be rambling).
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>The proposals did not go unopposed. More than 100 MEPs signed a letter to the Telecoms council that accused it of "lacking ambition". "Weakened proposals on net neutrality go against the European Parliament's repeated calls for clear definitions," it read. "We call on you to have clearly defined net neutrality rules for Europe."

I think this is the important part, yes some services probably should be considered special, many people here mention VoIP as an example, but it must be clearly defined in the law, we must not give ISPs the power to decide what is special because the law would be become effectively worthless.
How do you eliminate stuff that is slow just for the sake of being slow? For example, a find_in_list function that iterates through the list N! times to 'protect against cosmic rays' or something along those lines.
There will always be bullies, it does not end at high school. Only thing nerd can do is to keep his cool, and not feed any trolls :-)
> Well, as above, he did say "choose an idea that avoids competition at all costs" and joined YC thus avoiding competition by joining.

Following your reasoning there should be no tech startups and everyone should join Google, Facebook regardless of the particularly of each business/industry. Not all incubators/accelerators are targeting the same demographics. Thiel could create one that is completely orthogonal to what YC is doing as of today.
Everyone who works with SQL should be aware of SQL escaping. There's nothing wrong using a library to do it for you, but what you should have an understanding of what the library is actually doing. Otherwise how could you possibly test it? Just by hoping it's right?
Restrictions based on traffic type (as long as they're clearly indicated to the customer buying the service) are much less pernicious than restrictions based on origin or destination.

I think reasonable arrangements can be made that don't destroy some of the best things about the open internet.
Hello,

It looks good as a style. I like that. I think the style fits the audience. But I am a sucky graphic designer.

However it's not immediately known that what you offer is a book (at least in the medium of a book).

If people visit the page without a context, they might not expect a book at the end of the page. You prepared us here that the page is about a book, but will that be the case with everyone visiting it?

You can do a little quick research to see if random people get what is this about.

https://usabilityhub.com/ provides 5 seconds tests - people see the page for 5 sec and they answer a simple question, for example - "what is this page about" or something like that. The 5 sec tests are pretty cheap. Last time used that site you could trade making 1 test for someone else for 1 participant for your test.

10 people should be enough to spot patterns.
> If there's a problem employee, deal with that employee. Don't send blanket emails to everyone.

It's a delicate thing for sure. Certainly not everything can be handled this way. And I am sure that you and I would agree: if the net effect is that the entire team feels that it's being blamed or lectured then it is a failure.

However: it doesn't have to be that way at all.

Depending on the severity of what's going on, it's possible to nudge a team towards better behavior without blaming anybody. Secondly, negative feedback has to be a part of an overall message in which team members are also given positive feedback on what they are doing right.

It sounds like at your job, you guys just get a bunch of blame thrown at the whole team and I'm guessing it's not balanced out by positive feedback on the stuff you do right.
GCHQ creates industry-standard cloud with world’s largest Raspberry Pis cluster
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Meet the companies destroying business software suites as we know it
Engineering: a first run experience
The model Apple used was that Jobs and Ive got all the credit for the whole company -- that was a much worse apportionment.
> She makes all her decisions based on the heart, rather than the mind

Maybe I reading the wrong thing into that. I make decisions with my heart and mind.

Heart = I care about my kids and want them to be healthy

Mind = To care for them I vaccinate them and don't use homeopathy

Maybe I'm misinterpreting this but my general experience is someone who "makes all decisions based on the heart, rather than the mind" generally makes some very poor decisions that actually don't lead to the results they want.
Uau! 2s is considered ages to run?!
That's not even art. HN appreciates art.
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Vince Buffalo is author of the best book on bioinformatics: Bioinformatics Data Skills (O'Reilly). It's worth a read for learning unix/bash style data science of any flavour.

Or even if you think you know unix/bash and data there are new and unexpected snippets every few pages that surprise you.
Hello Peter!
No kidding. I looked for it and couldn't find it for several minutes despite knowing it had to be somewhere!
Break Up with Internet Explorer 8
Thought you may say that.

How is something in medicine proven? It's not with deduction, it's with induction! So nothing in medicine is proven with 100% certainty. What's left is probability! Even as an anonymous nobody, I'm able to point to hints of life extension in humans today, or 100% increase in lifespan of mammals! Or the work being done on various vectors; ranging from the slowing of ageing, via metabolism, to the reversal of ageing!

Then there's something like SENS which has enumerated seven types of ageing. If those seven types of ageing are reversed, then ageing will be reversed. I believe those seven categories are yet to be disproved.

So your statement hints at the science of philosophy, and what constitutes proof. As I've said above, I say probability!
That's what I was wondering. Would allow for some fun games.
The main response for 'why' is because politicians want to control the power by pretending to have democracy.
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I may be a sentimental old fool, but 8088 Domination genuinely brings a tear to my eye. The perfect timing of the "I WAS WRONG" reveal (i.e. "Oh look, this IS graphics mode") and the familiar breakdancer appearing - greatest callback in demo history. I really hope the room erupted into applause at that moment - just perfect.
Nissan Shows Off Glow-In-the-Dark Eelectric Vehicle
I agree that the article wasn't very clear on this.
It does, however, say that Oregon law requires the lottery to tell players the win chance.

The state lottery knew that the win chance they told players (0.9), was actually higher than the win chance when using 'auto-hold' (~0.85).

That doesn't mean that Curzi will win, of course.
The average voter feels a burger/taco/burrito is tastier and 'American'.

The average voter probably has also not had /good/ experiences with salads that are actually tasty for reasons other than bacon. (Can we PLEASE stop adding bacon to /everything/ (at least as a default?); some of us just don't like the smokey taste.)
I could write, but yes -- I wanted to write beautifully like my grandparents. Even their mundane documentation (grocery lists, etc) were stunning.
How easily we tell other people to martyr themselves for our ideals.
How will a code-checking engine get past infinite loops?

while(earth_has_not_blown_up) {}

"Hey, I need the earth to blow up to solve this problem!"
Diversity is good. When people start flocking together confirmation bias changes, so I'd assume this is not such a good thing TBH.
At least until things are a heck of a lot more equal than they are today, men have a crucial role to play here.

1. The men who struggle with this the most are also tend to be men who are dismissive to women or have other communication issues with women. Extreme example: if a man thinks it's okay to smack a female coworker on the ass, do you actually think that man is going to listen to a woman's opinion? He'll think she's being a "bitch" or "uptight" or whatever. Of course 99.99% of incidents aren't that extreme but there is a big need for men to guide other men in the right direction.

2. Women still face a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" dilemma when it comes to asserting themselves. If they don't, they're seen as meek or unable to compete. If they do they're often branded as "bossy" or "bitchy."

3. Not generally an issue in white collar work but there are situations where a woman may not feel physically safe confronting a male coworker. This can obviously be an issue for anybody, male or female, but men do tend to be physically larger and stronger.

4. Power imbalance. Men still hold a majority of management positions and make more money on average. Take any random male worker and any random female worker and more often than not the man will be above the woman in the corporate structure. I am sure you can agree that confronting somebody above you in the power structure is a lot harder.

When we have real gender equality, most of these issues will fade away. In the meantime there is work for men to do.
...so you could say it was a bit of a Maverick? A real Lion of a server?