skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is involved with territorial disputes with a large number of neighbors. China claims almost all of the South China Sea though it Nine-dotted line[0] map. There have been a large number of disputes that have resulted from that[1]. Examples are China's East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ECS AIDZ)[2]. China has threatened to take action against aircraft that don't identify themselves
or obey China's orders[2]. There are many more example in the in-depth The Atlantic article "China's Dangerous Game"[3].

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dotted_line
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_Sou...
[2] - http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-11/23/c_1329116...
[3] - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/chinas-d...
Show HN: Why code of conduct matters
Interview with Lawdingo (YC W13) Founder Nikhil Nirmel
Golden hat
Ask HN: Need a Reliable Cloud PBX Phone System, Not MightyCall
We've been struggling heavily with MightyCall the last few weeks. I found out last week that their entire dev team is outsourced and calls have been dropped, merged, and it's just been general chaos.

Who is a reliable Cloud PBX company that won't break the bank? They were charging us $99/month for unlimited minutes and seats. We have 12 employees.

Features that are important to us:
- The ability for anyone to call from the web or from an app and make it look like it's coming from our mainline
- Management of business hours and times when we want to go direct to voicemail
- Ability to "transfer" inbound calls to other "lines" which are really just employee mobile phones.

Thanks for your ideas!
There is a link at the bottom of the page that links to https://medium.com/@williamngan/kubist-6ed1d8025806 which appears to be an explanation on how it works.
Graduated aged 24, I'm now 27.5 - jobs since graduation:

- Brighton UK - £25,000 ($37,250)

- Birkenhead, UK - £30,000 ($44,700)

- Liverpool, UK - £27,000 ($40,230) later £32,000 ($47,680) (took a hit to work with a stack I wanted to work with)

- Toronto, Canada - £47,000 ($69,500) plus 10% bonus
Illuminati & NWO is so 2000s dude!

Now it's all about the globalists and world government!
That's interesting. This study came to the opposite conclusion. I wish it wasn't paywalled so I could read it and compare it to OkCupid's data.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2008.01135.x

>The theory of African American alienation is upheld, as African Americans are generally less willing to interracially date than other races and are especially less willing to date European Americans.
One solution to the tech manager problem is to force managers to rotate back into individual contributor roles every other year (or director to manager, VP to director, etc). That way you remove all the people that are just there to collect money and build power structures that are detrimental to the company. This of course won't go over too well with managers. I've read accounts of Zappos managers physically crying because they are forced to give up their power for "Holacracy." Similarly I read accounts of Microsoft managers physically crying in the workplace when they were forced into IC roles during the recent restructuring. These are not the people you need in your organization. If they don't see the value in IC roles, then soon your organization won't have any good IC's and your corporation becomes irrelevant.
Thank you for not registering a stand-alone domain to host this.
> The idea that boys need exposure to women before adulthood, with the exception of their mother, is a relatively modern one. The extent to which the modern west mixes the sexes through education and other social activities is unprecedented, so the Middle East is not nearly alone in this respect.

That's true, but if the prosperity and peace of the modern west also are relatively modern and unusual, perhaps the exposure to women has a positive effect.
I don't follow at all. You're blaming balkanization on integration? Sure, white flight was an unintended consequence but that surely wasn't the goal and no fault of the policy itself. And how is this connected to gangs? Gangs can't exist in segregated schools how?
The surreal world of Venezuela's queues – BBC News
How I use Google Docs as free cloud based illustrator replacement
Thanks for some fun data! Two quick things, if you don't mind.

Something feels wrong with the data. For example. Q3/12 has abnormal amount of Pushes for all languages. Curious what causes the jump?

As someone who is color-blind, I really prefer people to combine symbols with color. Like you did with the active repos, except use the symbol in the key as well. That way if a color is close, I can check my guess against the symbol. Thanks!
The overbite-utensil hypothesis is interesting. But why do overbites exist in modern human societies that eat almost entirely with their hands?
It really isn't.

There's this misconception that CSS is a display language; it's actually designed as a typesetting language that must degrade nicely.
The Photo Album is my least favorite record we’ve
ever made because it was a really difficult,
arduous process to make it. We almost broke up
during the recording of the record and then the
tour after that was horrible. I look back on that
record and I think I didn’t have enough songs —
I barely had 10 songs and two of the 10 were barely
complete thoughts.

Funny, given that The Photo Album is usually one of the top 2-3 Death Cab albums[1] of their most dedicated, long-term fans. For what it's worth, I think the second half of Kintsugi is weak, and I hope that this isn't a result of Walla's departure.

[1] Mine are probably Transatlanticism, Plans, and The Photo Album, although The Open Door EP holds a special place in my heart.
Incredible that things that, at least to me, seem rather close to the fundaments, are still discovered today.
I am replying to this comment instead of the multiple people under it.

You guys are right that FPGAs are not quite ready, or maybe will never be ready to be the primary radio for a phone because of the static power consumption. You could still have one available for certain burst operations that need to be highly accelerated.
Good point about the timing attacks on crypto, but hardware crypto can be updated within an FPGA. This can be seen as a pro and a con to security.
Well, I would like to oppose two things to this:

- this may be exceedingly US centered, as in my country it is not quite as obvious. In fact, the word "race" does not even exist in my language (at least in the American meaning, the equivalent is only used for animals).

- I think questioning assumptions allows one to better discern what is inherited prejudice and what is a universal fact. As you may guess, I think this is an instance of the former and certainly not a permanent/immutable state of things. Furthermore, I think when one claims something is "substantiated", one should come with strong evidence.
You don't have to believe in the illuminati to believe that large global entities (including both corporationsand nations) will work to protect their interests. Many large nations (including China) and most large corporations have a vested interest in seeing the US do well, so their investments and interests that are tied to the US do well.

A world where the US faces sudden economic problems is a world that sees economic problems on their own horizon.
China isn't the only country engaging in cyber-espionage operations against their "peaceful" trading partners

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/18/new-zealand-ch...
based on my experience with language detection on my own repos i'm very skeptical of this kind of statistics. for example, i know i don't know any perl6, yet github thinks (and claims) otherwise.
The best stuff on how people think, work, and organize is thousands of years old, why would an article from twenty-five years old not "actually" be interesting?

Noophilia is a disease. You would be well-advised to excise it from your...you.
I talk to the driver if (s)he is in the mood.
“Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation Act” Targets Many of DMCA's Problems
> I know people were making fun of his smug (in his slides he is like raise your hand if you use CL without Quicklisp, no hands?, ah that's right)

But let's be honest here. When it first launched, Quicklisp went from 0 to 80% of the market basically overnight, and 100% within the first year or so. This is in part because the previous "state of the art" was so terrible that anything would have been an improvement, but it was not as if there hadn't been other efforts. Quicklisp addressed the workflows that CL implementation and library hackers wanted to use, and therefore quickly commanded a lot of respect. Everything that had existed previously had seemed like a toy for beginners (e.g. the different variations on Lisp-in-a-box). It really was a night and day difference.
Except that doesn't happen with recent immigrants who do very well, some of them Africans.
In china where men outnumber women due to family preference for a male heir, it has resulted in straight men having to compete with each other on an economic status basis to attract women, what happens in north Dakota is not a universal phenomenon.
AT&T and some of the CLECs like Windstream offer a product called Centrex that might be what you're looking for. In terms of reliability and call quality, it's pretty much at the top of the stack. Generally speaking, you have to call for pricing, though.
Yes.

I apparently lost my ability to vote on comments because i voted on something too soon after it appeared on /comments, but as far as i'm concerned it's a net positive for me, so not catastrophic.

Nevertheless, the vote buttons are too small and too close together, and clearly weren't designed by someone who actually cared about the UI.
I didn't see any specification for the size of graphs you can display/layout - what's the max number of vertexes and edges you support?
Yes: https://github.com/derekparker/delve#breakpoints
Twitter allows anyone to send you a direct message: This is an upgrade?
Ask HN: What tools are currently in demand in London?
I may have to move from NYC to London soon and need to find a job. I'm currently a data analyst using Python and R, but would like to jump into web development. I know Python (flask/django), Javascript (Meteor/Node) and can hack together a Rails app if necessary. Which of these technologies is most in demand?
well that and slavery
Now I just need something like this for vim :D
Sell, Build, and Hire
Fun stuff. I definitely spent far too much time playing Revenge of the Jedi throughout high school and college it is a wonder I still graduated.

While I learned how to type faster in general by playing, my wpm for stuff like 'k boba' was off the charts.
There's codebuddies.org, which hosts free study sessions on Google Hangouts for a variety of programming topics.
With Fizz, Google hopes to bring new power to mobile Web
I hear at Berkeley some of the intro classes can reach 1,200. More students registered then there are seats. Students are forced to skip class and watch recorded lectures online.
> China is involved with territorial disputes with a large number of neighbors

To clarify, China is militarizing long-standing territorial disputes.

Also note that there is no risk of military conflict between any of the neighbors or between the neighbors and the U.S., despite territorial or other disputes. Vietnam and the Philippines aren't threatening each other, nor are Japan and South Korea, Japan and Vietnam, or any of those countries and the U.S. But almost everyone seems to be in a militarized dispute with China.
The kinds of projects and organizations that will suffer the most from forcing HTTPS are ones like those under government research umbrellas which require vast amounts of paperwork to do something as simple as setup an SSH key so rsync can be used. That pales in comparison to the amount of paperwork required to do something like install a new piece of software or setup a new server. On top of that, such changes are not budgeted for, so you end up with highly educated and trained people, who ought to be doing their research or actually making progress in their work, spending time fixing artificial problems that ought to be handled by dedicated staff. This wastes taxpayer dollars and leads to personnel burnout.

Why? All because some memo-writer in Washington said, "There's no such thing as insensitive web traffic!"

It's easy to make these proclamations when you have no part in fixing the fallout.
I'd like a TV receiver in my phone, along with FM radio.
I tried my best to address of [1] the causes of extremism and [2] the effects of male-female relationships on extremism.

I study economics and am facing unemployment upon graduation. I'm thinking of travelling, teaching, and/or working for an NGO or a non-profit.

I don't find QE evil. I find it to be an ineffective solution to a problem caused by the corruption and negligence of a select cohort of my elders who hold positions of power in this country. These individuals are not evil; we are all susceptible to greed and selfish interests. They are the product of whatever environment they were raised in.

I'm not crying and wringing my hands without offering a solution. I'm proposing that a New Deal-style investment in infrastructure, education, R&D, and the introduction of virtual currencies could help the economy in the long run.

What do you think?
Meteor.js – A Server Side Developer’s Experience
Market to Mondays – Part 6
It is a bit more interesting than that - the diagram in the image gives quite a bit away about what it supports; notice that there is both on prem and azure, windows and linux.

It does talk about MS's stack, BTW (which includes .NET): "this first version of Service Fabric will focus on Microsoft’s own technologies and Java applications"
I stopped worrying about those users years ago. Don't even bother with <noscript> anymore. It's 2015 and all browsers support JS these days. If you disable browser features then you really shouldn't be surprised when functionality breaks. The same would happen if you disabled CSS or images.
Thanks for posting that, it's interesting and instructive to see examples of f# code 'out in the wild'. Much appreciated!
This is actually similar to the work of a company here in the Netherlands, Eindhoven (http://www.synerscope.com). Infovis on big data. From what I know is that they spent a lot of time on performance in the financial scenarios. The amount of data is huge, they process in (under a) second(s) using gpu but they ran into trouble some year ago when a customer used a different type of DB (different order of joins, unions and selects I believe). What is the performance on linkurio? When talking multi-million or billions of transactions, will it scale? How long for a query to complete?
Wow you are really brave
In the demo there's also a second mode called "Cell" that seems reminiscent of sampling via Poisson Disc, which you can read more about in Mike Bostock's excellent "Visualizing Algorithms" post.[0]

[0] - http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
>the Chinese engage in cyber-espionage operations against their "peaceful" trading partners

Thankfully, the US and other "good" countries are above such things.
I think you and your parent comment may be using two different definitions of "nuclear" though. One definition is the traditional mom-dad-2.3 kids arrangement, but a broader and equally valid definition can include polygamy, gay parents with a surrogate, lesbian parents with a sperm donor, couples where the mom and dad have split and started new families but still have kids in common, and a million other combinations. The most important positive factor seems to be stability, which is easier to maintain when your peer group is accepting of whatever weird arrangement you have. That acceptance is a strengthening factor for the traditional nuclear family as well as the non-traditional combinations.
How about something like RingCentral or Packet8 on the higher end or there is something like Grasshopper, but I am not sure they will have what you are looking for. Or you could get really creative and build your own using Twilio.
Both of those requests are already done. They're just not popular, particularly in the US.
As a programmer, I want to believe I'm a writer, a poet, a sculptor.

But the truth is programmers are dancers, mimes, ventriloquists. We're performance artists, and the systems we program really only have meaning as long as we keep programming them (or, if we're really lucky, someone else takes up the dance when we grow tired of it). Once we take our final bows, the programs will fade away and die and all that will be left is a memory of the performance.

Nah, it doesn't have to be that way, although it often is.

We're like artists or architects, but most of what we build isn't lasting because there's little demand for that, just as many architects will never get paid to work on anything that might last. The Sistene Chapel lasted; the slums of Rome from almost any era haven't. For every artist whose work makes it into a museum, there are thousands hawking cheap prints on the streets of Paris.

Programmers can build software that will last for a long time. I know people whose programs are still running, untouched, after 30 years. We can solve problems and keep them solved. It doesn't have to be just code; papers and new algorithms can advance the state of the field. Since we're a progressive sort who really believe in the ability of our "magic power" to blow away drudgery, we love when we're able to do that: to solve a problem and keep it solved. If this is applied to code, you can get exponential growth in codebase or library or ecosystem value for a long time.

Here's the problem, though: no one is willing to pay for code that lasts. Just as most architects are building clapboard houses in the suburbs, most of us get stuck writing throwaway code because The Business won't pay for good code by giving us the autonomy and timeframes that'd enable it to exist. Of course, bad code and failed software projeects are far more costly in the long term, but executives are not a tribe known for thinking long term; most corporate climbers have the political skill to get promoted away from their externalized costs before anything can be linked to them.
Are there multiple tech leads per one people manager? I can't imagine someone who can act as a tech lead for a team of 50 engineers and still manage to write code. I have a reservation with tech leads who stop writing code as in my experience they'll stagnate (the time frame is maybe 2,3 years).

A manager manages people mostly by process: a lot of things they look at can be quantified as metrics. So it's alright to have 50 reports (one hour on each a week seems reasonable). A tech lead needs to be able to get to details while still need to have an overview of everything. And then there is the need to keep up with the industry and that means a few hours of paper reading at least every week.
On the one hand you can argue there are "systemic" forces which are apparently unquantifiable driving blacks to elevated rates of criminality even after controlling for socio-economic factors. Presumably large, racially discriminatory social programs and cultural programming such as have been tried for the last 40 years are called for to remedy the problem.

On the other hand you can take at face value the reams of data spanning over 80 years showing that across all categories of crime blacks have well over double the white rate. And this pattern holds up internationally, not just in America. We can just accept it as a fact of life and deal with it in a sane way that doesn't waste too much money or wrongly penalize innocent individuals.
Stop jerk tech

We don't want more slaves to increase inequality
Thinking about this topic some more, it seems hard to gain the critical-mass of contributors for such an open-source tool.

Place-and-route for example, requires a very specific set of knowledge in both optimization (comp-sci), and hardware (electrical). Most of the people who have these skill sets are probably already employed by the major FPGA vendors and under NDA to not contribute to such an open-source tool. I've seen this first-hand having been in the academic space of FPGA research. New masters and phd grads typically go straight to Xilinx or Altera. And without really really good place-and-route, you won't have a competitive tool.

I'm not sure how you would solve this problem.
Read the GitHub bug. We're talking about missions started decades ago. There is no budget and no staff to maintain the existing code, much less rewrite parts of it.

But because some wonk thousands of miles away in Washington made a "HTTPS only from now on!" proclamation, all these existing projects which are working fine should be canceled? Or the staff should put in hours of unpaid overtime to learn and rewrite and test decades-old codebases?

How about you volunteer to do some of that work, and then you can criticize "priorities" and "people trying to do technical things and doing them poorly."
Make sure to select memory foam rather than just foam. Big difference there. And also the cheapest ones are rather thin.
In the future if my tool for loading the chips works and is adopted, I hope to define an interface for using FPGAs directly in the computer similar to how OpenCL defines an interface for GPUs. Hopefully I would not follow the shit show that occasionally is the Chronos Group.

Some people will say that there are already pcie cards with fpgas on them and that this is not a new idea. But the issue is that existing cards like Digilent make are there for building pcie card designs. The FPGA (usually one) on the board has to implement the pcie fabric plus whatever it wants to do. Imagine if when you write an OpenGL/CL program you had to deal with all the DMA work and quirks of the underlying setup.
Instead the grid of fpgas should have standard ways to access certain mapped regions of memory through a different chip that handles the PCIe transport layer stuff. If this was available then adding FPGA support into POSTGRES would not require bypassing the HAL of your kernel or worrying about timing details of something fundamental to modern computers (and thus software engineers) like PCIe.

Obviously the FPGA is still something that is hardware specific, but who knows what could be done with that. Even if we had to Synthesize from raw HDL every time, at least loading the chips would WORK. We could start using these chips to solve problems instead of thing slike a one off project by an EE major to build a grid of FPGAs that process bitcoin. The bitcoin work was impressive but it bothers me SO MUCH that they used reconfigurable devices to build a solid card with a fixed function.
Year 11 high school dropout. Currently 34 living in Tasmania, Australia. Laser cutter operator (some CAD work, self taught), metal fabricator (boiler-maker / welder) by trade. Also accredited in Clinical Nutrition. Previous experience running physical infrastructure in a data centre.

AU$60,000 + overtime up to around AU$75,000 total

Purchasing power comparison: where I live the following prices are typical. meat pie $5.10; can of Coke over the counter $2.30 ($1.60 - $1.80 from vending machine); apples are $3 - $6 / kg; whole cauliflower $6 - $8; petrol is $1.35 / litre; three bedroom home in ok suburb $230,000 or $280 / week to rent.

Edit: I also have access to over 1000 rock climbs within 1 hour drive of my city, 300 within 20-30 minutes walk of the city centre.
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Not a bad idea, but it has some other issues that come with it. One being a lack of continuity on longer term projects; switching several managers midway through a project can have some pretty negative effects. The other might be with people feeling that there isn't much permanence in their job, or feeling that there is no real potential for promotion or career growth in the company if they're going to switch roles every so often.
There is an obvious solution to that.