skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because, for those projects who want a thriving userbase, the developers said "come, use our software to solve your problems." Once you do that you are making a promise to your users, whether explicit or implicit, that you'll be there when things go wrong.

If you release some script or small program which was useful to you thinking that it may help someone else down the road, I agree, you don't owe your users anything. However, when you position your solution as something people should adopt (e.g. RoR, etc) then you do owe a level of quality and support to your users (not saying RoR doesn't, just a random example.)

I love OSS, but every time it bites a user in the behind it loses mindshare.
Actually, I would argue that for the purpose of what the article was trying to convey, they used the right statistic.

Let me illustrate by running with your own suggestion of trying to find out whether there are actively managed funds that consistently produce better compound returns than indices over 5 year periods. How would you actually do that?

Certainly we agree that a fund outperforming an index over one 5 year period is irrelevant to answer that question. To check whether there is a fund that consistently outperforms an index over 5 year periods, you would look at several such periods, e.g. 5 consecutive 5 year periods (for a total of 25 years of data [1]).

This is exactly analogous to the statistic used by the article, and somebody could then make the argument (like yourself) that a misleading statistic is used, and that people should instead look at the compound return over the entire period of 25 years.

There is nothing wrong in principle with the statistic used by the article.

However, it is reasonable to argue that looking at compound return over a 1 year period is too short (because typical investment time horizons are longer), and I would agree. Unfortunately, there's [1].

[1] And obviously, using such a long timespan is itself problematic for many reasons.
I wish the experimenter had explored random distributions other than uniform. I suspect uniform distribution may be non-ideal here and other distributions may produce better results.
The very name Berkshire Hathaway came from a failing textile company that Buffet bought control of. Incidentally, he regards it as the biggest investment mistake he ever made.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway#History
I didn't grow up here in the US. And I don't have a kid yet. But I find it very odd that people cannot let their kids to walk into a store to buy something or walk and play around the neighborhood.
Here's where I pimp my side-project, which has a frequency score for words.

https://www.wordsapi.com/docs#frequency
Eh... let resources get scarce and social systems start breaking down. Then we will see if increasing non-violence and altruism is really a trend.
Gray seems to approach his criticism of Pinker from pretty much the same pro-establishment viewpoint, and struggles to make clear the problems.

This 2012 article by by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson demolishes Pinker's book far better and with fewer words: http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/12/steven-pinker-on-the-alleg...

I doubt the Guardian will be rushing to publish it though. Gray is much safer.
Does anyone have any alternatives for this type of product (ie create your own reddit, hacker news, etc...)?
15 Most Successfull Indie Games Ever Made
Sex Nerd Sandra

Terrified With Dave Ross

The Mental Illness Happy Hour

I'm fine, BTW, aside from the stress of my master thesis.
Um, here is the "outline":

A law that limits the rent increase to inflation + x.

Notes: Circumvention by "also buy this used kitchen for a ridiculous amount" would be illegal as well. Sucks for anyone trying to move into the city but doesn't force everyone who lives in the city to move out.
Do You Bite Your Nails? It Might Mean You're a Perfectionist
That makes me remember the now famous quote:

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural
resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-
-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

-- Alan Kay
Edward Snowden issues call to arms at secret SXSW meeting
I disagree.

X if Y

is a great syntax for guards at the top of a method.
Here is what I listen to:

Storytelling

This American Life - http://thisamericanlife.org/
The Moth - http://themoth.org/
Selected Shorts - http://www.selectedshorts.org/
Wiretap - http://www.cbc.ca/radio/wiretap
Serial - http://serialpodcast.org
Radio Lab - http://radiolab.org/

Politics & Econ

On The Media - http://onthemedia.org/
Common Sense - http://dancarlin.com/common-sense-home-landing-page/
Hardcore History - http://dancarlin.com/home-hh-54/
Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/127413729/podcast/
Econtalk - http://www.econtalk.org/
* Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ - mostly looks at quirky aspects of modern culture/society from an economics bent. It is very "light" economics, but the topics are usually interesting.

* EconTalk - http://www.econtalk.org/ - Still pop-economics oriented, but definitely deeper than Planet Money. The people Russ interviews have changed my opinion on controversial issues many times.

* Writing Excuses - http://www.writingexcuses.com/ - I don't currently write fiction and it is very low on my priority list, but hearing authors describe how they deal with all aspects of writing is interesting to me. They cover different kinds of plots, common plot/character issues, and plenty of meta topics about writing/publishing.

* Behind the News with Doug Henwood - http://www.kpfa.org/all-programs/behind-news-doug-henwood - The stuff that Doug thinks are important are usually not the things that I feel are important which is why I like listening to his shows. It's nice to hear different takes on the world.

* Skeptic's Guide to the Universe - http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ - I often listen to this for light half-zoned-out entertainment, but they often talk about science news/history that I wouldn't hear otherwise and are usually entertaining.

* 99% Invisible - http://99percentinvisible.org/ - I think of this as Planet Money for Design. It has introduced me to new ways of looking at cities.

* Quirks and Quarks - http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks - Probably my favorite Science news story podcast. I find it has less fluff than Science Friday.

* Brain Science Podcast - http://brainsciencepodcast.com/ - Has some interesting interviews with experts in the current understanding of the brain.
I used to listen to heaps of podcasts. These days I'm time poor, so I've culled them all except my favourites:

* TechZing (http://techzinglive.com)

* The Rocketship Podcast (http://rocketship.fm/)

* 2600's Off The Hook (http://www.2600.com/offthehook/archive_ra.html)
Worth noting for folks who think that supply is the only problem. Similarly in my home of Vancouver the construction of towers has been constant for decades and prices have only skyrocketed in response.

Orangecat's comment is appropriate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207631 but I'll note too that Vancouver, like other cities, is probably substantially still underbuilding the market—which high prices reflect. Houston, on the other hand, is not doing that: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/hou... :

Unlike most other big cities in America, Houston has no zoning code, so it is quick to respond to demand for housing and office space. Last year authorities in the Houston metropolitan area, with a population of 6.2m, issued permits to build 64,000 homes. The entire state of California, with a population of 39m, issued just 83,000.

Which is why so many people are moving to Texas. http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2014/12/23/big-tex-in... is one link.
Very nice. What did you base the data on? Some 3rd party source or did you compile stats from a corpus of random texts?
I've compiled a list from this page: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BAZjQHZdSrxB0AxxGy-S...

Feel free to edit it.
What protocol does org-mode use for syncing with mobile devices, can it be adapted to use WebDAV?

An open ecosystem of human-signal-capture apps will improve security of the future, i.e. events that have not yet happened. The past is already well monitored and recorded. See "The Adjustment Bureau" for exploration of the topic.

If apps use a mature sync protocol (e.g. WebDAV, CalDAV), they can collectively debug interoperability and cross-platform issues related to that protocol, leaving them free to innovate on UX for mass or vertical audiences. Some examples:

http://www.2doapp.com - CalDAV - iOS, Android and Mac

https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus - WebDAV - iOS and Mac

http://www.notebooksapp.com - WebDAV - iOS, Mac, Win
Iraq war. A million casualties, another half-million children from sanctions beforehand.
Vietnam was even more bloody.

The problem isn't really the definition of "major", you can draw the line wherever you want. The problem is that you compare wars to the worst in human history and then use relativism to make other wars insignificant, thereby normalizing state violence.

If a serial killer murders 10 people it's absurd to say that is no big deal because others have killed hundreds and, moreover, he killed 20 people the year before so things are on the right track to improving.
But reddit isn't a single thing, it's a place for communities. Surely, it can't all be messy, let alone equally messy.
Introduction to modStack
"I get it that when you own the house, you own the rules," Rubin says. "You can say, I’m about to launch my own app, and I don’t want you to have the graph. But I think the two hours was a little aggressive and not working toward building a community." A little bit spot on. This is some kind of bullying.
Hopefully they give all the documents required for tax on time. If they don't, you can always patch it together through your account statements (more work, of course).

There are a few things like ability to see dividends immediately (as opposed to seeing them on monthly statements) that are not yet added. However, you can trade all stocks for free, which is hard to beat.
This may not be completely acceptable, but I swear by Mempad (http://www.horstmuc.de/wmem.htm). It's not open source, but that isn't a huge deal breaker for me, since it can import/export human readable text files very easily, and its file format is really simple. If I ever needed to convert my thousands upon thousands of notes to a different format, I could probably write a program to do it an hour, and most of my work would be writing the new format. Most of the open-source programs I looked at didn't make getting to my data that easy. (Plus, since I use speech recognition for everything, I can't get picky about source availability. Anything that uses non-native widgets is almost entirely unusable for me, so I can't use anything that uses GTK or Qt. That rules out like 80% of open-source.)

It only supports plaintext, which might be a deal breaker, but I've gotten used to it. I rarely find myself needing formatting, and it has some functions to get around that, like the ability to drag arbitrary URLs and files into the text box and have them turn into clickable links. If I ever need to have images in my stuff, I usually just have links like that in my text.

That might make working with the notes a bit awkward on Android, though. Honestly, I wouldn't know. I rarely edit my notes on the go. If I need to look at my notes when I'm not using my computer, I usually export a small section of my file and physically print it out.

The program's so small I just keep it and all the files it generates in my Dropbox. With that setup, I pretty much get all the benefits of Evernote I'd need without worrying about losing notes or proprietary file formats or whatever. It's kind of weird, but I would really recommend giving it a shot.

(Among other things, I wrote this entire post in it. :p )
It seems that you've aren't aware of many useful IntelliJ features.

> extensibility, if I don't like something in emacs I can always change it, less so in IDEA.

IntelliJ has extensive plugin API.

> IDEA has problems with key shortcuts on the dvorak (and other non-querty) keyboard layout, and the devs have no intention of fixing them.

You can tune keymap for you. For example, I don't use default shortcuts.

> plugins. In my experience, language-specific plugins in IDEA tend to either suck or not work so well. Emacs, by comparison has support for damn-near any language, and many of those packages include tasty features which make working in each language a joy. (see the various lisp modes, ensime, and so forth)

In my experience, emacs works well only with basic language support. If you want something more advanced, for example, completion, error checking, you have much worse experience. In case of rarely used languages, for example, Idris, Agda, etc, they often just don't work.

> speed, IDEA is slow, too slow.

If you don't need smart features, you can turn them off, and IntelliJ will be at least as fast as emacs (google power save mode).

> IDEA is too "mouse driven" for my liking. In emacs, absolutely everything can be controlled via keyboard shortcuts, less so with IDEA.

It's definitely not mouse driven. AFAIK, everything can be done via keyboard.

> ultimately, I don't think an IDE actually brings much to the table. I don't get any value from having the project build tied to a green triangle graphic, and I generally find the usual IDE workflow to be slow and clumsy. Emacs works perfectly, it does exactly what I ask of it and then gets out of the way.

I look at IntelliJ not as IDE but as a code navigation/refactoring tool. I can work in emacs if I have about 10s of KLOC, but after this, I need an effective tool to navigate code.
In Russia there is a popular family of conspiracy theories where UK is the driving force behind most events of the last 100 years, including rise and fall of the USSR.

If so, it doesn't look like UK is able to extract much for its own citizens from said world domination.
• Philosophy

• - Partially Examined Life: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/

• - Philosophy Bites: http://www.philosophybites.com/

• Comedy

• - Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast: http://www.billburr.com/podcast

• - The Bugle Podcast: http://thebuglepodcast.com/

All you need is philosophy and comedy, anything else is superfluous.
I think the ideal argument parser allows you basically to write a spec for your program, and then automatically generates a parser that will both turn options specified by the user into a map, as well as print the relevant parts of the spec when invalid input is given.

Could you elaborate on why you believe flag is preferable to something like what I've described? (I'm coming from Ruby-land where Trollop basically does that.) I'm struggling to understand what's preferable about needing to roll your own parser and write documentation when you could just describe your program and have the parser/documentation auto-generated.
Hm... No.
> If that's text, why do some of the letter shapes have jaggies?

Probably because the site author isn't taking the window.devicePixelRatio and backingStoreRatio when creating the 2D context.

> this "text" isn't in the DOM, it's not real text

The text is not in the DOM, but that doesn't mean it is not real text. It is text, literally strings, written with `context.fillText()` which could certainly be wrapped by screenreader software.

Doing so would make the world a better place for the bling by providing a more consistent experience - since 100% of people using canvas will never get extra budget to modify their logic, but 100% of canvas fillText() calls could be handled by a screen reader.

Unfortunately a great deal of engineers seem to have invested time and reputation in the unlikely change-the-world scenario, so I suspect blind people will continue to have a poor experience on the internet while a11y engineers who don't actually care for workable solutions continue to dominate the discussion.
If a political party outlined how they'd fix spiralling house prices they'd get my vote.

It's really not that hard: remove height limits and parking minimums, per Yglesias in The Rent Is Too Damn High: http://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B0.... Glaeser's The Triumph of the City is also good on this subject and discusses the UK more: http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Health.... This is a simple issue of supply and demand: rising demand in the face of limited supply means higher prices. Want lower prices? You need more housing or fewer people who want it. The former is easy to accomplish with century-old technologies, like steel and elevators.
Wrap `context.fillText()` - ie, as the text is written to the canvas.
Man In The Moonbase (Part 1): Death and Life of the Best Game You Never Played
It was just a matter of luck, try using [citation needed] with an argument the HN Community usually disagrees with (for ex. one which favors C or C++ over Rust or Go), and the results will be completely different.
Guardian call for censorship, with primary source being SRS mod which goes by moniker Dworkin, which happens to be a nod to Andrea Dworkin - very radical and men-hating person.

Good job, Guardian!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728084
http://typetheorypodcast.com
“That’s more than double the population of the entire UK, so it makes about as much sense as generalising every single person in the UK, if the UK had twice as many people.”

Great quote.

One thing I have noticed with subreddits is that whenever a subreddit passes a threshold of subscribers and gets more frontpage exposure, the quality gets worse and worse until everyone starts hating it, unless moderators take serious action. It happened to many of them, from /r/atheism to /r/gaming, to /r/adviceanimals. As you get more people into any community, it needs more policing and moderation. AskReddit and some others have stricter rules and seem to be doing better.
Schwab forces you to keep at least 6% of it in cash, which is an incredibly bad idea and does do significant damage to your long-term returns.

The rumor mill is that this is how Schwab makes profit instead of advisory fees.
Sucks for anyone trying to move from one apartment to another. Sucks for anyone trying to move out from their parents' apartment. Sucks for anyone whose landlord invests as little as possible into maintaining the building.

(Obviously sucks for anyone who's invested in real estate but we don't care for these folks, do we?.. Well, it sucks for everyone else as well.)
Looks like a well designed library. I'll try it out soon.
Hardcore History is all finished narrative. Where Dan Carlin really shines is taking facts from history, like body counts from ancient battles and making them visceral so that you can really feel how terrified people would have been if there city was being besieged by Mongols, or if you were a soldier in Stalin's army and were used as so much cannon fodder against the nazis.

If you are more interested in the primary sources, he's probably not for you, but if you want to feel history rather than just hear about it, then I highly recommend.
Another vote for ShopTalk[1]. Also Jen Simmons' The Web Ahead[2] is fantastic, and gets into some higher-level trends and concepts in tech, art and design. For my Chris Coyier overdose, I tack on Codepen Radio[3]. On the UX and design side, I love The Dirt[4] and Hustle[5]. Finally, The Businessology Show[6] does a great job covering management and leadership (focused on the agency/service world).

[1]: http://shoptalkshow.com

[2]: http://thewebahead.net

[3]: http://blog.codepen.io/radio/

[4]: http://freshtilledsoil.com/thedirt

[5]: http://funsize.co/hustle/

[6]: http://www.businessology.biz
There are some downsides to Schwab's zero fee robo, from Wealthfront CEO's perspective: https://medium.com/@adamnash/broken-values-bottom-lines-3d55...
This is a great idea :) thanks
The changing relationship between investors and entrepreneurs
The mainstream subreddits can be, but get into hobby subreddits and it is a great community. /r/startups, /r/homebrewing, /r/malefashionadvice. Even /r/personalfinance got front paged is still going strong.
Pinner safety is a top priority for us, and so earlier this year we joined the growing list of websites that are fully HTTPS.

You had one job.

https://i.imgur.com/7RCusOi.png

(MTNL is an ISP in Delhi that I'm currently using to access the net. They are pretty shameless about running MITM attacks on virtually every webpage which is not fully HTTPS, such as engineering.pinterest.com.)
Came here to say this. go-flags is an excellent package, and makes great use of struct-tags. An extra bonus is that it can parse .ini files and command-line flags into the same underlying config struct, allowing one to override the other.
I submit that being a good designer (of software or hardware or 2d or 3d images) demands a well rounded education, a diverse set of interests, and a morbid sense of humor. To that end I submit these following podcasts to excite the weak connections in our brains:

www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss

www.maximumfun.org/subscribe

and bonus, the excellent but extinct Word Nerds podcast:

http://thewordnerds.libsyn.com/

(you might need to add/dL them one at a time)
Thanks! Does it have live preview? (It's not listed in the features page.)

Also the UI looks really complex compared to ReText. It looks good for people who write complex documents (e.g. math textbooks) though.
Couldn't a perfectly adequate parser have been written in about the same time as the blog post?
"We are not naïve, we knew it was coming," Rubin tells Fast Company. "We thought that we would at least get a week notice—a fair game"

He knew it was coming, he knew it was wrong. Why would he need more warning than two hours? Why even a warning?
Oh good, more research without the tools necessary (code) to reproduce the results. Thanks, modern scientists.
Yeah. A side benefit of this is that I'm extending my vocabulary!
I think the OP's mindset is flawed and perhaps had some bad experiences/coaches with Scrum and possibly only one go at it?

I'm not sure why anyone would say "Scrum doesn't want to solve this". When I've worked with teams new to Scrum and the question "how does this fit into Scrum?" comes up, I'll discuss with the team and we come to a pragmatic agreement that is right for the situation and context. Similar to TDD, I think it's great but it's not always the right approach in 100% of situations; adapt it to your needs.

All methodologies have their flaws and Scrum can sometimes frustrate me (I'm not a purist) but I definitely prefer it to waterfall. Mature teams take the bits that work for them and improve on the ones that don't. It seems the OP is taking the methodology too literally which implies a lack of experience in trying to apply it.

I've tried (and failed) to get a team to work on a feature as a team, refactoring as they go. This didn't work, not because of the methodology, but because the team just couldn't get their heads round it. We decided this was fine and worked on UX a sprint ahead (and built this into the definition of ready). A methodology should not have to cater for every personality and set of skills - that's down to you as a team to figure that out.

Teams at first won't organise themselves but once they start taking true accountability for their work (and not keep looking to a project manager for direction) I've seen teams start to get more efficient and more motivated because they get to take control of their work and define the process.