skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a good response, but I'd suggest adding some listening and learning to it. The Internet is accelerating some important cultural changes.

For example, look at the speed with which gay rights have happened, and how quickly society changed. In my view, that's because the Internet has drastically increased the ability of people with minority viewpoints to be heard.

What does that feel like for somebody with the old opinions? It has to be hard. For their whole lives, something they didn't like was actively hidden from them out of fear. They just never had to accept that gay people were real humans. So now they have a whole reservoir of views and habits and comments that are no longer appropriate. Many surely feel uncomfortable enough that they just shut up in public.

And I think that's fine. Their views and habits and comments were part of the social structure that oppressed gay people. Nobody wants to hear them anymore. I think it's best for everybody if they say nothing in public. They should instead take some time listening to the gay people whose voices they previously ignored. To the extent that they need help working through their opinions, they should do that privately, with people already sympathetic to them, rather than demanding that the world help them process things.
I ordinarily do avoid spouting off opinions when I should be listening. Also, most feminists I talk to are considerate and do not bully people in this way. Still, it is important to have an open dialogue, and this article is advocating for that, so I felt the need to express my agreement.
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It isn't private though, but corporate. You're communication is generally not protected as an employee (expectation of privacy etc. depending on jurisdiction) and a lot of things people considers personal (gossip, health, locations) generally isn't protected either.
Ask and you shall receive. Hooktheory's Trends tool lets you see and hear all the chord progressions of the individual songs used here. As mentioned in the article, this analysis actually used our free API for accessing our chord progression database (I'm one of the creators of the site).

http://www.hooktheory.com/trends
Expanding access to open source hardware
I'm open to constructive criticism, but I'm not seeing much here. Would you care to try again? I think I said some very specific things.
I love the sony PR damage control in this topic. Keep up the good work.

There has been no invasion of privacy. These are all work emails. And if some corporation that is member of MPAA and RIAA gets destroyed - the better.
Amazon should clearly buy this company and mount an attack on the PBMs; automatic delivery of this sort of product would fit well with their core competencies. They could also come out with their own versions of store-brand generic over-the-counter medications. There's gotta be a lot of juice to be squeezed out of this market given the fact that new pharmacies are sprouting up like weeds everywhere.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=popular+curves
as a reasonably seasoned non-scala programmer who was fairly new to scala, I think that it's a combination of 3 things combined together. Implicits combined with non-alphabetic dsls (somewhat combined with the removing the dots from the method calls)

.. additionally, I always found the scala equivalent of the javadocs harder to read.

The end result (for me) was that I'd download, say an HTTP library, all the method names would be things like '/' and '?' - and you couldn't actually see what a minimally functioning code should look like due to all of the implicits flying around.

If you compare this to java, which was undoubtably more verbose, but was easier to take and unfamiliar library, squint a bit, and see how the building blocks roughly fit together, using a combination of reading the docs, and looking at the intellisense in your IDE.
I think you are spot on here.

Ironically Buddhism has now come very far from original teaching of Buddha.
I don't mind people believing that men have no right to speak on gender issues - it's a free country, people can believe anything they want to believe, and even say it out loud. But if that person is white and has a lot to say on race issues anyway, or went to a $40,000/year liberal arts college and majored in something with no vocational application, and speaks about poverty, then I think they maybe don't have an entirely logically consistent philosophy behind them.
The problem is that the internet won't "get off" reality. It is no longer true that what happens on the internet mostly stays on the internet. If a bunch of tumblr people start denouncing you, you could get fired.

We saw that happen to a hackernews poster a few years ago.

College campuses are capitulating to these people's demands.

I think this movement will let off some steam and people will stop taking it seriously, but I don't think it is unfair to worry that they will take real positions of power in the future.
I love coding in Go, it's much more fun for me than PHP or node.js.

According to half the comments here and on every other Go-related HN post that makes me a hipster, fashionista, hype-driven sheepdev.

If this had been a post about Arduino.cc being unhappy about performance and refactoring their code in an attempt to improve that, nobody would be batting an eye. But since they decided to refactor with Go, suddenly everyone is asking "why?"
I think generally the point is that "forgetting to a generic" is a dangerous operation because recovering that forgotten information is risky. It's inconvenient, but the alternatives are worse. Reflection, especially universally, blows up the amount you can trust your types very significantly.

Your Frobnicate example is interesting since you want an extra level of polymorphism in there, but getting this can be bad for inference (see MultiParamTypeClasses without functional dependencies). In any case, it's not clear why you ought to expect it to work.
How many corporations have the GDP of a small country? What if corporations could fight wars themselves? They could with drones.

I read somewhere that in Mexico, there's a big oil reserve. However corporations are unwilling to tap it because of the cartels, and the dangers they provide. Imagine the slippery slope if BP decided they'd take care of the cartels themselves.
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>The reality... you're a feminist.

Nope, egalitarian here. I actively choose not to use the term "feminism" because the only encounters I've had with "feminists" have shown that they aren't accepting of anyone who disagrees with them in the slightest. (yes now tell me I need to "get out more", I have.)

Not only that, but in my experience with feminism, to not be a feminist is to be a racist (according to them), and that's kind of how you sound.

There are good people who believe in equality that don't want to wear the moniker of feminism, believe it or don't.
For over a decade, the most important question for any enterprise data tool was:

Does it import/export to Excel?

The potential value of Slack is to ask that same question about any B2B software an exec is considering. Slack's a "king-maker", not a king.
Sweet! Good luck with it. I just followed you. Looking forward to skating with some people in NYC.
It probably depends on what group you work with. I interviewed there a few years ago following a who's hiring post by you (thanks!), and the interviewers seemed to know what they were doing. Didn't work out for me, but it was the group owning the feed, IIRC.

However, since then I've interviewed many candidates from Bloomberg, and while they were all very smart, their description of the work they did indicated systems that were at varying levels of WTF. In their defense this was most likely due to legacy reasons.

Also, it's funny how Bloomberg candidates inevitably use multicast in their system design interviews, which throws most "web company" interviewers off balance :-)
I stopped hating my generation (born 1983, so I'm just barely a Millennial rather than an Xer) when I stepped back and looked at the picture in its totality and realized that we looked bad because (except in athletics, where objective genetic talent rules the day and rich parents or producers alone can't make a career) most of the prominent Millennials were produced by the worst of the Baby Boom generation.

First of all, authoritarian leftism isn't new. The ex-leftist neoconservatives of 2003 who got us into the Iraq War? They weren't the civil rights activists or the hippies. They weren't the ones fighting for desegreation or womens' or gay rights activists. Rather, those people were the communists, Stalin-defenders in the 60s, the left-wing authoritarians who swung right when they were older and richer. It's not really a loss that they went from left to right in the Reagan Era, as they were assholes the whole time.

Anyway, someone being a jerk on Twitter is not the same thing as what the Weather Underground was up to. For good and bad, we're pretty moderate in comparison to the Baby Boomers.

I stopped hating Millennials when I realized that the worst of us are products created by the worst of the exiting generations. You can find anything in any generation, so one bad apple (or few) says little about the generation and much more about those who endeavored to find it. And a young generation will be defined, when it is young, based on the uses that older generations find for it. Evan Spiegel? Lucas Duplan? Miley Cyrus? Justin Bieber? Lena Dunham? They're detestable, but they reflect on their producers, the ones who made their careers, and not on "our generation" in any meaningful way. If you look at the currently small-- and it's small not because we suck but because we're still young and most of us haven't had a chance to get started yet-- percentage (in the arts and business) of prominent Millennials who are actually self-made, the picture is a lot more flattering.
Slack on Rails
Solar powered Blue Cell provides cellular backhaul without wires
Those small village insurgents visit a lot of rape, pillage and murder on the other occupants of those villages.
It's a dangerous solution as well given that it relies on user land extensible code to be correct in order to ensure type safety. Generally this is true whenever you have coercion, but type tokens done wrong give an (invalid!) excuse to coerce.
Wow, my school on Hacker News.

I went to Sudbury Valley School from when I was 13-18. The school is not without its problems, but I'm really grateful I got to go. For me it was an opportunity to focus on the important things -- communication, identity, relationships, sexuality -- The things that a more traditional education is likely to try to distract you from.

It was difficult to make the transition back in to the traditional education system, but I'm finishing my Master's and I'm about to start my PhD (Both at MIT) so it can totally be done!
That's a straw-man response to parent that you could have pasted out of any SJW handbook. We need to stop having these privilege olympics, talking in circles, and applying offensive stereotypes to white men ("calm down ladies") any time they ask that their voice be heard and treated with the same respect as anyone else's.

The parent didn't call ladies hysterical or misuse his power - you accusing him of such is disingenuous and derailing the conversation.
That book looks really interesting - thanks for the recommendation.

What still twists my melon about harmony is the Pythagorean Comma.

Harmony equating to integer ratios seems so right... But the fact that a perfect 5th on a piano isn't really a perfect 5th troubles me at some existential level.
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone's used an Open Pandora for on-call support.

Not sure about on-call support, but I know a few folks in the Pandora community who use it in their work to access servers and modify settings/configs through ssh when needed. It's pretty versatile and having a keyboard with you is incredibly useful.
> had a couple inky experiences with bics.

Well, there's your problem right there. You melt the cap clip, not the pen, silly! The offset cap gives you some nice leverage.
For HTTP monitoring, check out https://www.runscope.com/docs/radar (disclosure: I'm a founder)
I think the central question - what is it to be a man (or human) - is a question worth trying to answer.

I disagree with the author when he states the West doesn't really have an answer - sure, the answer isn't in the back of a textbook. One might even reasonably conclude there exists a multitude of answers - some of which probably conflict.

Here are some examples -

Pedestrian - acquire a skill, get a real job, marry, have kids.
Clearly serving the profit motives of others - cultivate expensive tastes.
Macho - pursue dangerous hobbies, enter a risky profession - which for some reason excludes cab drivers and convenience store clerks.

If I had to offer a guess, I might say, "Assume responsibility for yourself."
Really don't see an ala carte solution being worth it for most firms unless they're really trying to cut down on cost. Integrating and maintaining separate services alone is going to require additional developers. Cost associated with that coupled with quality of service and reliability (outside of this situation) of Bloomberg's current offering makes it a very tough sale. Also, guys who have been using terminals for years are really not going to want to switch.
We could have made it more clear where we got our inspiration. We went through the most requested Bitbucket features and compiled the list from there.

Regarding your second comment, you do not need to host your own instance if you don't want that.

You can host all your repos, public and private, for free at Gitlab.com. There are no limits, besides a 10GB limit for git annex and no restrictions to its usage.
I'm a bit surprised that one of my favorite "poppy" progressions -- bVI bVII I -- isn't more common. Or, is it that the database isn't very exhaustive yet?

http://www.hooktheory.com/trends#node=b6.b7.1&key=rel
Historically barely was always considered animal fodder, not human food.
interesting view - what makes Bloomberg brilliant (aside from the support) is that i have, for example, an array of my portfolios that i can access from every function. So if you could create a service that took all of the information that was relevant to you (portfolios, news feeds, models etc) and normalize it to make it interoperable with a whole host of 3rd party systems, you could be on to something!
This article appears to have fallen off the front page rather precipitously. It was at position 5 last I looked, and now that I refresh the page, it's not even there anymore - older posts with fewer votes are now far above it.

Would any staff care to chime in? It seems as if this posting was penalized.
The biggest problem with Vista for most people was that it was sold on computers without enough RAM. We have a couple in our office (thankfully not used regularly) where it's 1 GB and the integrated GPU borrows a quarter of it for VRAM.

Windows Vista on 768 MB of memory is not a happy thing.
To make this really work involves special hardware and driver support; user-space networking, AFAIK, doesn't help for conventional hardware, for those reasons. I also don't know if they're currently doing anything with TLS; the guys working on it next to me are just doing lower-level routing now and deliberately not peeking into the streams at all, let alone doing TLS.

What's particularly nervewracking in security terms for the user-space networking stuff is really the fact that right now, you're probably only using it if you want to push 10Gbps, therefore you're working in an environment where you have merely hundreds of cycles to figure out what to do with a packet (maybe low single-digit thousands if your multicore support is working perfectly), and therefore everything is written in raw C. Ack. We needed Rust 1.0 about five years ago.
This is quite unsurprising, since the political system in the United States is very authoritarian.

The entire political discourse lies between the authoritarian center (Democrats) or the authoritarian far right (Republican). There are no real libertarians. There were a few fringe candidates in the past (e.g. Ralph Nader, Ron Paul) who were basically unelectable, and there are a few fringe candidates now (e.g. Rand Paul) who have begun singing the tune of authoritarian government to get elected.
There is a lot of reasons to choose Go over PHP for new project (static typing, better scaling because of smaller memory footprint of each request and so on). But for existing project all is not so simple. But after reading their post I understand it as they just got tired because of code mess, so rewrite was only way to clean things up. Only thing I don't understand is why they didn't remove PHP at all.
They've just redefined what it means to be feminist, liberal, or whatever the opposite of racist is, and taken it to a left-wing extremist position. It's their Nietzsche's Übermensch, just anything but white, male, straight, etc - which in effect makes the murder advocates just as bad as the nazi's or any entity that advocated ethnic cleansings. At least they're still at just words now.
Whoever is doing the marketing lately is brilliant.
‘Doctor Who’ Set to Become Film, Reveals WikiLeaks Trove of Hacked Sony Emails
Sure: http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20131118-lattice/

But you're right - when programmability isn't important you'd rather have an ASIC.
Yeah. I thought down votes was for things that was factually wrong, trolling or ruining a discussion not for disagreement.

Which is why I really wished down votes came with a requirement to quality why you are being down voted.
Only works in Chrome.
In the Sudbury School I work at, this does not happen. Occasionally there can be anger, but people get over it fairly quickly. It is not considered about winning or losing. It is a completely different frame of mind.
Police crack down over Bt10-bn 'pyramid scam'
The Next Web's Hackbattle – Reference to APIs and More
Show HN: Pong game for Android built in Cocos2d-X
No matter which side of the fence you're on, it inspires debate about legal process... and that can only be a good thing. While everyone's scrutinizing the legal process and poring over it with a fine toothed comb trying to find a "side" to be on, there's less opportunity for the legal process to be subverted/perverted and corruption to rule [not to say that doesn't still happen, but it's more likely not to be allowed to go unnoticed].

I don't always agree with Wikileaks stance, however I do believe that for the larger good, releasing information about the corrupt and unjust can only be a good thing. However, that shouldn't be done at the cost of all that is right and just... so it's a bit grey. I believe in the principle for which they stand, I just find it hard to agree with the process they follow. They're kind of like the Boondock Saints for information... except they don't appear to care so much about the innocent that get hurt by the fallout - making them more like the U.S. Government in their "war on [enter trending reason of the day for going to war]"
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Do you have to be signed in to see this feature? I can't find it. Neat site!
How Developers Built a Product That Sold to More Than 4K Customers Without Mkt
RxJS authoer here. Instead, here are the reasons you may want to consider RxJS instead of Highland https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/blob/master/doc/...
- a Windows application for the open lab at my school (to replace the sign in/sign out clipboard.)

- building Space Invaders in C++ using an entity component system that i'm also writing.

- random Unity, Corona SDK and SDL tutorials.

- a HNlike clone in PHP, off and on when I get bored with everything else.

No repos, sorry. Nothing is worth sharing yet.
Dutch prosecutors launch criminal investigation against Uber for flouting ban
You write three things:

1) "Company in foreign country does not really mean lower taxes."
It does in my case, and in plenty of others. 15% instead of 33.99% corporate income tax for example. Legally.

2) "You still tax your income in country of residence."
One's personal income is indeed taxed in one's country of fiscal residence (except for the exotic regime US citizens are subject to). My company's income is taxed in its country of residence.

3) "But it often means lower administration."
Not always. Luckily true in my case.
Thinking about it, it'll be interesting to see if the new movies stick to the pre-Disney EU idea of Luke's new Jedi Order being one that allows marriage and families.
That's a ridiculous statement.

Any sort of Group of people X is Y statement is very unlikely to be true, but this is more so than most. Western Journalists regularly risk life and limb for what they believe in. In many ways it's like saying the clergy are atheists sure some of them are, but there is strong !atheist selection pressure going on.

EX: Let's cover an Ebola outbreak!
While I share your sentiment, I just finished Randall Stross's Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know, which I found outside Strand Books in NYC.

One of the things I learned from the book, published in 2008, is that Google is a company with a [long view][1], which is a very good thing. We need more companies with long-term views to better our chances of survival as a species.

From the [Longnow Foundation's about page][2], parentheses mine:

> The term (Longnow) was coined by one of our founding board members, Brian Eno. Upon moving to New York City, Brian found that "here" and "now" meant "this room" and "this five minutes" as opposed to the larger here and longer now that he was used to in England. We have since adopted the term as the title of our foundation as we try to stretch out what people consider as now.

[1]: https://investor.google.com/corporate/2004/ipo-founders-lett... "See the 'LONG TERM FOCUS' section. They've done a good job up to now, and hope they continue."

[2]: http://longnow.org/about/
I don't have that, but all notifications come in twice
Adobe Photoshop and Logic Pro X are the "pro" apps I use often and I can tell you it's relatively to them that Audacity feels like a poorly designed 1990-ish piece of software. Again we can't blame anyone for this, except I could just reiterate my question: why isn't the user experience a primary focus in the FOSS world? And it's not a rhetorical one.
As someone else looking for the same thing, I'd pay a monthly subscription on a per number of tiers. I'd likely pay around $10-15 for every 1,000 users, probably a little more. I wouldn't ever do a "% of revenue" or a fee on top of existing transactions.
Limitations of web scrapers with j/s
The limitations of some of the scrapers discussed are, at least partly, overcome with CL Searcher (http://thing2.ws/clsearcher/) which emulates human browsing and interacts with a page's j/s to extract contact info such as emails and phone numbers behind ''click here to show contact info'' buttons.

Apparently the regex can sniff out obfuscated numbers and emails as well -- eg. donnybgood[at]gmail.c0m
My experience for failing in a developing country: it might take you to a different industry.

I was the technical founder in the startup and finding a technical job afterward became harder. However, I did get a job in VC and then PE because of my failed experience.

May not be the same experience as coding, but the pay is outrageously good + you get to know awesome people. In the end, you broaden your network to find even more opportunites to found ventures.
Works perfectly in Firefox 36.0.1 on Ubuntu
Which, to me, raises an interesting question:

If someone can direct the wrath of the lunatic fringe at you with utmost impunity, can it really be claimed that they have no voice?

Because they're claiming they don't, while still exercising that exclusive privilege.