skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on how you frame it. Personally, reviewing other people's code on exercism can be an invaluable chance to practice giving feedback on code. I've yet to find a better mechanism for practicing code reviews - and it something that even senior developers can benefit from.

Excerism is a great way to practice giving polite and thoughtful feedback to a captive newbie. I've gotten more practice at code reviews in 15 minutes a day on Exercism than I could have in several weeks at work.
Hoe je koffiezetapparaat of koffiemachine schoonmaken?
Parent probably is looking for "African-American" even though they may not be African-American.
Is it possible to make these titles just a little bit more descriptive of the content? I enjoy reading hackernews but increasing see these completely vague titles that tell nothing about the link. Some of us are pressed for time.
biometric passwords are /never/ a good idea. it baffles me why people even bother.
You're not alone in that a lot of people here are not shy about expressing that they feel more productive working in languages with GC and bounds checking. That's fine.

I happen to think that a good understanding of C has made me a much better developer. I don't think your opinions, however strong, genuine, and coming from a real place, invalidate that.

What I don't appreciate are the attitudes that C is uninteresting, that nobody is productive in C, etc. Or that it is phrased as a moral duty to avoid C. I feel like it's too common to overstate the dangers. Safe C is still possible.
They did not spend $40M to develop it. The development came from tax-payer money given to their lab at UNC through classical funding streams.

Sequoia put in $40M to make a business out of it, which is a very different goal.
At first there was batch:  Why Fast Data needs new thinking
or public transport
Vertical “Siri”: Find and Book Restaurants via SMS
> biometrics are a username, not a password.

Can you clarify what you mean by that. People like to parrot it, but few if any will explain why they feel that way.

If you simply mean that you don't find it secure enough, wouldn't that really depend on the use-case? For example, what may not be secure enough to log into a DC, may be secure enough to let the secretary log into their computer which just has access to address books and calendars. It is all relative.

Some biometric systems are fairly secure, like fingerprints. The cost and skill required to extract and reproduce a fingerprint so it is scannable make it a non-trivial affair. While the security services and a dedicated adversary could, for 80%+ of normal computer users it is a non-threat.

Android's face unlock may have been trivially beaten but it reads like Microsoft are using multi-level photography (i.e. both IR for under-the-skin and visible light for on-the-skin) to extract a layered model of a person's face and head which could (maybe) prove harder to bypass with just a photograph.
One is: http://www.sirum.org/. The third hasn't announced their YC affiliation publicly yet. You will hear more about them soon.
Ok, maybe, and definitely cool. But Java was supposed to prevent memory leaks but it's still possible :)
I looked at my wpa_supplicant.conf. None of the networks have scan_ssid set. I'm unsure how often this happens. I have a probe logger running 24/7 at my apartment with four radios, but it only logs the first probe it sees for a given SSID for each client radio MAC address. The only time related piece of data I have is one instance where I know there were about three days between the first time I connected to a network and when it showed up in my log, but that really doesn't say a whole log.
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Or buses, trams and trains.
Most integrations are contributed by the community. I must admit that KanDan is very interesting and it is good to see it is still alive. It would be awesome if someone could contribute an integration for it.

http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions... is marked accepting merge requests, we would love to see this too
> also, like I said, I make mobile apps to avoid that law, what I do is that I have a Brazil company, a Swiss company, and then I make the Swiss company, hire the Brazil company to create software for hire, then the Swiss company that "create" the completed entertainment software, and sells it

Why do it in Switzerland, instead of say, US Delaware?
The only insecure part about passwords is the human element.
Biometrics have more in common with usernames than passwords.
Biometrics are user names, not passwords.
Not sure what "city proper" means in this context, but something like 600,000 people live in the District, which is not a terribly large city. Very few of them live in grandiose buildings like you might see around the Mall. In fact, there are pretty strict height restrictions, which means there aren't any highrise apartments and vertical development is limited.
I had no idea Media Temple was now owned by GoDaddy. Makes me glad I never used them.

Random sidenote: wasn't Virb originally a side project from PureVolume?
I really would like to downvote you for your harping about "diversity" whatever you mean by that. I can guess what you mean, as I live in the United States and am exposed to other people who harp similarly thus.

I'm not going to down vote you though, just point out your weird usage of the term and mention that this is about proper information transmission, the foundation of computing and the Internet. So maybe get off your agenda regarding whatever you mean by "diversity" and start to see the people of all types as fellow humans and not actors in your own private psycho-drama.
It makes for interesting speculation for when automated cars come along and you don't need to park. Of course you don't need automation of you're willing to forgo parking via other services. Which leads to the many cities with adequate public transit/taxi service which already have areas configured with less parking. e.g. many European cities & New York city I would guess...
> Why eat people when we have chicken already? Good question.

Why eat cattle, horses, fish and fruit when we have chicken already? Your original argument is nothing but a slippery slope fallacy.
See LeonRobrotsky's suggestion with AbeBooks.

Another suggestion is Barnes & Noble. (Yes, really.)

I myself had borrowed a copy through interlibrary loan back in November after checking Amazon for <$50 dollar copies, only to be blown away that they were more like $160-$190. If you've used ILL, though, you probably know how tedious it can be.

A couple of weeks ago, I had to kill some time, so I meandered into a Barnes & Noble for the first time in years and on a whim tried to look up Operating Systems: Design and Implementation on bn.com. Turns out, bn.com operates not just to sell B&N wares, but also apparently as a sort of hub for third-party sellers, (just?) like Amazon. I was surprised to see the market rate for used copies was $34.50, so I snagged one.

Meanwhile, the AbeBooks link above has a shrink-wrapped copy for $16.52.

Takeaway: don't assume that Amazon is the end-all-be-all, even for books.
Linux Performance Analysis: New Tools and Old Secrets
What I find most interesting is that I'm quite eager and happy to believe that Samsung is spying on us, while you seem to be eager and happy to assert that they wouldn't do such an evil thing.

What's different about you and me? Why do you want to trust Samsung, but I don't?
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You could, but it is an IR camera, so you better have the IR characteristics of your 3D face match also. If you combine IR and visible light photography you actually get a layered face-scan which is VERY hard to fake (not impossible, hard).

e.g. http://produceconsumerobot.com/biosensing/content/Face%20fev...
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Please supply the missing information then. I want to be as accurate as possible! I'm not cherry picking, just pointing to actual points being raised in these articles.
I did that :)

I've set my work address to home. The following morning it tells me I have a 23 minute commute to McDonalds again.

I'm going to reset the device tonight.
The argument you reject social norms and have no responsibility to communicate effectively with people who embrace social norms is absurd.
My son is six and I take him to school each day (its about 25 minutes). He started asking me to tell him stories on the way to school, so I told him stories about how I was a spy and the missions I went on.

Eventually I put him in my stories too -- he was member of the Omega Force. At some point he didn't like how his character was acting in the story, so he began to tell me what his character should do. Well over the course of about a month we now do a full on role-playing game on the way to school. The level of role playing matches nearly anything I did when I played D&D. He now leads the Omega Force and I lead the Alpha Force. His squad is larger, but mine is more specialized.

That 25 minutes of rather sophisticated verbal interaction is pretty incredible. I can weave in interesting scenarios and discussions, and the level of engagement is great. I have no data to support it, but I feel like its something that almost every kindergartner could benefit from.
You can make an exact replica with the same script http://codecanyon.net/item/website-value-calculator-script/9...
DTLA has a less than 3% vacancy rate for apartments, and for 11 months out of last year there were fewer than 5 condos for sale downtown, so occupancy is not a problem.

My point was that foreign investment can help solve the problem, which supplements the post that I was replying to.

Also, I'm not sure what the point of your link was. London's housing market has little in common with SF's; housing-wise London's market is most like Manhattan. Wealthy foreigners frequently acquire London flats without the intention to live in them beyond a few weeks or days each year and primarily use the real estate as a way to store their wealth. London allows, and even encourages, uber-expensive housing developments that displace impoverished communities precisely to attract this type of foreign wealth. In DTLA, foreign investment under the EB-5 Visa program has been used to increase the supply of housing and non-industrial commercial usage in a space that historically had limited amounts of both.
"Tracy DiNunzio, chief executive officer of Tradesy, an online fashion site in which Kleiner Perkins has invested, says she was recently told by a male chief executive officer that he doesn’t know how to talk to female colleagues any more and that it’s become too easy to say the wrong thing. The case "may make it harder for men to feel free to give women the kinds of constructive criticism that men receive regularly and that they benefit from," she says."

I found this paragraph to be the most interesting. We're clearly moving from a sexist world to a less sexist world. The transition involves moving norms of what's acceptable and that's creating a lot of angst for both men and women. The above paragraph (and the one before it in the article) represent one common response "Why can't it just be like it was before?" but there's no going backward. Eventually we'll settle at a new equilibrium but Sandy's book and this trial and some other events will be viewed as pivotal moments when they write the textbooks in 20 to 30 years.
Don't forget the quality of the work. Frankly, if I'm administering servers I'm not going to do as good a job of it as someone whose whole job is that and I'm not going to do as good a job as Azure or AWS or whoever else either. Platform as a service is the way to go.
'Mars One' finalist breaks silence, claims organization is a total scam
I don't even make friendships at work anymore, given the ugly fallout that can result from something negative in the friendship impacting a professional relationship. It is wise to completely disconnect your professional life and private one in this climate, as this Pao case demonstrates in some ways.

Drinks with the team? Sure, but I leave after one. Gifts to a coworker and an invitation to dinner? Not a chance. It's just too unpredictable no matter what you mean by it. I respect my coworkers enough not to force them into ambiguity with me as a person. Personal relationships have so many opportunities to go south. Why would I complicate my workplace?

Is that unfair? Maybe. I'm not there to make friends. Silicon Valley is pretty bad at this in general. The last thing I want to do on a weekend anyway is see the same people I see all week and do something social, and have to pretend that business stays at the office.

You should try it. I haven't been burnt out for years, like I was when I left work only to go socialize with the same people. It was like living in Groundhog Day. The startups that force this culture on its employees are part of the problem. I do not devote my life to a company. I'm sorry.
Ask HN: There was one Aerospace company in W15. Who is it or what do they do?
For anyone else who was wondering:

Pareto principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
(also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes

Parkinson's Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion".
A counterexample: Las Vegas. All the casinos on the Strip have big parking garages that are free and don't fill up.

Perhaps it's possible only when the margins of a business are as spectacularly high as those of Vegas casinos, so that the parking facility as a loss leader is still net profitable overall. There's also the invisible hand of capitalism, as casinos compete in the market of convenience: a casino without such a facility will lose market share to those that do.
I always wonder how big a staff they would need to review so many apps uploaded every day.
I read that book and I've gotta say fans of it have really oversold it. It has some good advice but I found some tactics questionable due to appearing as insincere to me.

I also find it weird that you characterize your wife's introversion as a struggle like introversion is some sort of abnormal condition. Some people just don't enjoy random conversations about random topics because randomness is usually not a great way to select for quality.
http://defensivepatentlicense.org/ - if you license all of your patents under the DPL you then get free licenses to all other DPL patents. Your membership and licenses are revoked if you sue any other member for patent infringement.
Apache 2 is important to avoid things like the situation with LLVM where aggressive patent holders like Apple and Qualcomm feed the project with patent encumbered contributions, so that sorting out what parts of it that you're patent exposed on or not is basically impossible (meaning, you'll take a blanket license at your expense if you depend on it).

If you're not using a more modern license with an explicit patent grant you should at least have some agreement from contributors to make any of their own patents required for their contributions available to all other users of the software and its derivatives. Otherwise you may find that your permissive licensing isn't.
> It's possible but it's not logical!
If one supports the level of power that current copyright law provides for authors, then you must support the fact that any particular author wields it.

No, if one supports the level of power that current copyright law provides for authors, then you must support the fact that it is legal for any particular author to wield that power within those bounds.

That doesn't mean you have to support every particular choice about how it is wielded, just as one's support for the freedom of speech from government censorship doesn't mean one supports every utterance that is outside the scope of what government may prohibit given that freedom.

If one's support for the government policy is on a utilitarian basis (as one example of a framework of support that might apply), one can support the government policy while opposing an action it allows simply because one believes any policy which would effectively constrain the action which one does not prefer would have other harms which outweigh the benefits of preventing the action at issue.
An old one but this is more of a worry:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4396831.stm

Plus it's pretty difficult to reissue a biometric ID if it is compromised.
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Bitbucket has NPS of ~42
Nice list. Wakemate (S09) is definitely dead.
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> "why can't I add a String to a List[_ <: String]" is a common newcomer question

Can you explain this, or point to a source that does?
Fingerprint and iris scanners have been compromised with nothing more than a high resolution image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVivA0eoNGM
It sounds like the glyph is in unicode already, but expressed using combining characters?
Or just require devs to use --harmony. I think there are a couple modules that do so... like koa. :)

Of course, since that's basically "experimental" I guess people would think your module is also "experimental". But I think let and const are pretty darn stable.
Han unification makes things really hard for programmers. You end up with code that tries to guess what language a string is in to pick out which character set should be used!

It is an absolute nightmare and a horrid idea.
> The vast, vast, vast majority of people are not able to find a person at Google to have that discussion with in the first place.

If you are spending any significant time/resources developing apps, then you should invest a bit of time in networking. Go to conferences, and meet these people. They aren't that hard to find.
Ha! Thanks for actually creating another thread about this :D

I was quite surprised to know this because I constantly do the mistake of writing `var $x = // stuff` in PHP because of my JavaScript-fu :P
I mean, memory leaks are possible in Rust assuming the person explicitly uses unsafe code. However, most code does not use these unsafe blocks...

and it should not be possible. Rust has a sound type system that uses linear affine typing. While their implementation is not "proven correct", in practice if the Rust compiler is working properly, leaks will not happen.
Being friendly to incumbents has always seemed to be the highest priority.
" Erlang might be the only object oriented
language because the 3 tenets of object
oriented programming are that it's based
on message passing, that you have
isolation between objects and have
polymorphism."

- Joe Armstrong

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop
What about password website leaks? Surely that is not my fault.

Technically that is also the human element but I think you are talking specifically about users.
Or just make the programs automatically send error reports.
> the SSID is unique among all Access Points

I believe this would be more clearly understood as 'the SSID is identical across all access points'.
Not directly related but one of the happiest days of my life was the day I transferred my last domain away from GoDaddy.
Biometrics is identification, not authentication.

It identifies who you are talking to, which is not the same as confirming who you are talking to (verifying authenticity of identity.)
So what I told you was true... from a certain point of view.
Do you have historical data? It seems as if the number of minority founders is growing (which is awesome!)
From the context, it sounds like he was asked to join a linux distro security mailer, which wouldn't make sense. Isn't there an OpenSSL mailer for this stuff?
For HN folks who don't recognize the name - Bjorn Lynne used to be part of the demoscene and wrote MOD song files under the name Dr Awesome. He worked for Team17 Software and wrote the soundtrack to Worms and many other games.
> strawperson

First time I've seen it put like that but Google seems to indicate this is a common synonym for "strawman" in this sense.

Is there actually a separate usage between "strawman" and "strawperson" or is it just political correctness? I'm genuinely interested.
That's the point I was trying to make. The ratio between the available street space for parking and the people who need to park in the District is much higher than the in Philadelphia.
Brilliantly said, I never had anyone explain GPL to me in such a beautiful way.
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So blame the indian government for any problems with ISCII.

The problems with Unicode support for global languages are indeed to be blamed on the Unicord Consortium. Nothing the indian governemnt did prevents the UC from availing themselves of the global knowledge needed to create a good global standard.
This is a terrible excuse: the Unicode Consortium should always seek out at least one (if not a group of) native speakers of a language before defining code points for that language. These speakers really should be both native speakers of and experts in the language.

There are countless ways to reach out to Bengali speakers, only one of which is the Indian government - whatever politics governments may play, a technocratic institution should be focused on getting things correct.
Kind of related. This week in Medellín, people got fed up of car dealerships parking in sidewalks and made fun interventions like practicing yoga and setting up beach furniture (article in spanish).

http://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/en-medellin-se-cansaro...
Starbucks, and most other 'portal' WiFi, is unencrypted. It would be nice if there were some (automated) method of 'upgrading' the connection (i.e. providing encryption without requiring the user to acquire and input a password). Maybe providing it over an SSL connection after you've agreed to the ToS?
3d camera!!..next what? Kinect inside may phone/laptop..wow..!!
I've been every year. By far, the biggest value is in having the largest concentration of Googlers you'll likely ever encounter as an outsider. For instance, if you're a web developer, you can ask deep questions from people on App Engine, Chrome, and Material Design all within 50 feet of one another. The ability to ask in-person about the internals of an App Engine Pipeline, or get a Chromie to pull up a secret profiling screen to help kill some jank on your Chrome Experiment is why you pay $900 to show up.

(It used to be a lot more affordable, but when people started presuming that they'd seed expensive hardware every year, demand went through the roof.)

If you can get your company to pay for it, go. If you can't, but you are heavily reliant on Google APIs (Android, Chrome, AppEngine, Geo, etc.), you should probably still go. If you work with primarily open tech and are just curious about attending (or if you just want random free shit), it probably isn't worth it.
Bengali is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world, with more native speakers than Russian. That's hardly a "niche language".

And, as pg has pointed out, making the computer industry English-centric and America-centric is greatly limiting us. Intelligence and will to power are equally distributed across the globe. But institutional barriers to success are not. This is a classic example of an institutional barrier, and it makes all of us poorer.
I love the New Yorker, but the whole "goings on about town" section is obviously useless if you don't live in New York.