skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey HN, I actually made this site as a companion to my RailsConf talk yesterday (I'm sure it was humorously confusing out of context).

The talk's slides are up here:
https://speakerdeck.com/searls/sometimes-a-controller-is-jus...

And video here (better versions coming soon):
https://youtu.be/LdWMcs9EEOE?t=2h56m

Humorously I joked about it hitting HN during the talk, and then it actually did. We as developers can't resist something that'll quantify for us whether we're good at writing software, even when we know it's flawed.
Is he suggesting we use Zerocash instead?

http://zerocash-project.org/
Another one here, same editor:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7194117,73.1391458,19z
MapR and Hortonworks Have Words Over Open Data Platform
After 25 Years, the Hubble Space Telescope Still Wows Humanity
How?

"I cannot hear you, could you use the headset instead of the speaker phone mode?"

How does this make it seem the interviewee wasn't interested? He couldn't hear and asked the interviewer if he could use the headset which would have taken no effort and made the whole process a lot better.
I'm pretty sure this is common (the same happened to me).
Cloud security reaches silicon
And what makes the model of haskell any more superior to models developed in any other field like accounting, physics or chemistry ?

- Type-safety. Correctness. Speed.

I am sorry, haskell is just a huge roadblock to get things done in the real world.

In the real world proffesional need to juggle all sorts of models. Haskell just says "Fcuk you ! its my way or the gonadway !".

- I don't know what this even means.

I need to juggle between json, matrix, html, etc. Each of them have hundreds of expections.

- Haskell has great libraries for each of these.

You can say my model is imperfect but guess what buddy, every model is. The only models that will work for all cases is prolly einstein's equations but even that has exceptions when dealing with blackholes !

- models?

I tried writing a music library in haskell and haskell makes it really hard to create rules that are expections to the model. Apparently the models developed by 1000s years of music theory is not good enough for haskell !

- It just doesn't let you do it incorrectly.

I cannot even image what it must to be code chemical rules using hakell that have hundreds of expections, or biologial models ! Oh My !

- The more complex, the better Haskell is suited.

I am sorry haskell just gets makes computation much more difficult. Apparently mutation is a crime even though god himself thought it was okay as a rule for everything in the universe.

- Immutability doesn't make computation harder.

my anecdotal experience.

((

btw i really like the concepts in haskell. I read two of its famous books - LYAGH and RWH. And use all haskell concepts almost daily in production. However the implementation of haskell is not really ready for production or useful enough for the average developer. Its also not easy for the average developer to put food on the table using haskell

- You say you like these concepts, but it doesn't sound like you have the slightest idea what those concepts are useful for.
For a while, a local park here was labeled "Dog Poop Park".

http://i.imgur.com/3AMb6X5.png
You mean this kind of bias? http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/04/22/396672571/could-it-be...

Seriously, people have to stop blindly buying into the feminist narrative.
CSS files must be in the head element. JS files can be in either the head or the body.
Hackers wanted
I submitted a fix to google maps, where they were forcing people to detour around a perfectly straight section of rural highway because it was marked as impassable.

Imagine my surprise when I got an email ONE YEAR LATER saying "your revision has been accepted!"
What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?
Comcast Confirms That Its Merger with Time Warner Cable Is Dead
America is an equally valid name for either the USA or the Americas.

Citizens of the USA are Americans.

We're happy this bit of reality made you smile.
This could be very helpful. I used to have a private tuition company back in my uni days. Keeping parents updated was rewarding but often took a long time.

Having something like this would have been great for all - parents, teachers/tutors and most of all student.
Confluence is awesome, we use it in our company and every user can edit every page (that's how it's set out of the box!). This works great for us and our size.

To bash on Confluence just because your management has set restrictive policies seems a bit unfair.
The thin-client revolution is finally here, and what an awful pile of shit it is. Whatever happened to software that just works?

Answer: Microsoft. Their legal team started the browser-as-OS delusion with their 1990s freakout about Netscape; this was an anti-consumer, anti-competitive lock-in strategy which now masquerades as a fundamental principle of Good Clean Living for people who give speeches about their startup's Beautiful, Human Responsive Javascript Libraries or their genius-revealing reimplementations of Emacs that can only edit one language (namely Javascript.)

Hence today instead of having a computer, we have DMCA-hardened thin clients, and with each click we download what amounts to a freshly-coded never-debugged malware-infected EULA-wrapped software update; and when you enter a subway tunnel the whole universe stops working.

Yet on the linked essay he likens turning off Javascript to removing the steering wheel from your car, which I find to be both idiotic and revealing: Your steering wheel doesn't stop working when your car goes into a tunnel. But you can see why a Googler thinks like this: Google makes a car with no steering wheel, which really might stop working properly when it loses signal in a tunnel. The real benefit of Thin Client is to the employment prospects of Javascript programmers, to the Google whose Android and browser and Javascript VM you will need to do anything useful or performant on Googlephones, and to the war criminals in technology, finance, and intelligence who carry out the destruction of human culture via airdrop of free surveillance-gathering Javascript phones, where Responsive Javascript libraries conspire with distant servers to jack up the valuations of this or that group of ten HN-darling companies, and hire three or four guys to make sure the top comment always defends Apple's weekly anti-competitive "this is what's best for consumers" move, or reminds users that There Is No Way To Prove This Isn't Another Tech Bubble.

The whole concept of browser-as-OS has turned out to serve the permanent security state and other old-money beneficiaries of the Bronze Age kulturkampf. Thanks to the thin-client revolution and DMCA, secure software that actually WORKS is mostly illegal.
From my experience, I'm absolutely sure that large NYC companies are far more cautious about it. Both cities are full of young people, but CA doesn't even try.

E.g. the YC application always has directly asked for age. Try that in NYC.
> Implementing curl app server-side would require double work which is against principles of progressive enhancement (or programming in general).

That's exactly the use-case of server-side JavaScript! Write a small library to build curl commands; use it in both the web page's JS and on the server, with a small shim on each. 1¼ times the work.
I suffered from depression for many years and took several medications (a half-dozen SSRIs) with varying degrees of success for five years or so. The medications would get me energized to make some life changes that were helpful, but would not themselves serve as a permanent fix; each one would crap out after months or a year and the side effects could be unpleasant. Counseling helped me as well, but it is very important to find a counselor that you click with. Eventually I put together some life changes that helped with this -- I got married to a very supportive person -- and also begin to change a lot of habits having to do with diet and exercise. Specifically, I was raised on a very low-fat diet, and I have come to believe that consumption of healthy fats is absolutely critical to maintain a healthy mood and resilience in people who are prone to depression. Now I would say I see myself as "depressive" in that my lifelong tendency is still towards anxiety and depression, but none of my recent experiences have brought me to the dark and suicidal points I was at fifteen years ago. I would urge you to seek out a counselor and consider hacking your own lifestyle with improvements in diet and exercise, assuming you are basically physically healthy otherwise -- and you should rule out somatic problems like thyroid or other chronic issues that might be causing this.
JavaScript Quirks That Java/C Developers Should Know
I started out using Ancestry's web-only approach but once I really got going on my family history (i.e. < 1800AD) I quickly hit the limits of what the web UI was offering. Many others hit this wall as well, and that is why there is cheap desktop software, Family Tree Maker, that integrates seamlessly with the online web UI. My entire tree (~4.5gb) lives offline on my Mac, is backed up with Arq and is two-way sync'd to Ancestry's online version. Of all the providers out there that have "data lock-in", I really don't consider Ancestry one of them. If you really care about your data, keep the copy-of-record on your computer. If Ancestry's online service ever folds, your official copy will keep working perfectly.

This isn't the same thing as replacing a social network service, but the actual trees do capture comments, stories, submissions, etc. from other users.
If you destroy cash the idea is to motivate people to invest their cash to get the economy moving. Punish the cash hoarders.

Quantitative easing has not resulted in increasing credit, and therefore the velocity of cash in the economy. If you make it painful to keep cash in one place they hope it is like a game of hot potato and the economy will move again.

The countering strategy is that there is nothing to invest in so it is better to create alternates to cash to preserve value
It was, but I think "double-talk" is in the mix too.

(OED: meaning 1 is "Deliberately unintelligible speech; speech that is a mixture of real and invented words; gibberish" and meaning 2 is "Verbal expression intended to be, or which may be, construed in more than one sense; deliberately ambiguous or imprecise language; used esp. of political language that is subject to arbitrary national or party interpretation". Meaning 1 is pre-1984, meaning 2 maybe not. Oh, and OED actually knows of "double-speak" too, with the same meaning as "double-talk" #2. I suspect stegosaurus wasn't explicitly intending a 1984 reference when s/he mentioned "doublespeak".)
Cybercriminals hit 5 of 6 big companies in 2014 phishing more accurate
(Though IIRC all linked resources in the head are retrieved and processed prior to rendering so unless your JS is crucial to correct display of the page your preference should be to load JS as late as possible.)
I think definitely state machine parsers should be on the way out. I'm not all that sure what exactly replaces them though.
He apparently got a "skype" logo through too:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lahore+District,+Pakistan/...
So it's like programming?
Possibly, the content is system recognizes actual owner and add revenue share is going to him/her and not there uploader
Voices.com Launches Apple Watch App
No, you are completely wrong. Assigning a class on each li is indeed best practice. You should never select an element on tag.
>Wikipedia is no substitute for a real subject encyclopedia.

Who says it is? It's for quick pointers.
Rough Draft Ventures offers student startups backing from their peers
You look for studies about women going to school ending up in high paying jobs.
They are fewer than men but have a greater percentage of graduating.
If women end up in low paying positions it is because they do not attend to the right classes, just as men but at higher rate.
I think that Dominic works at Apple?
1. A photo on your cv. Or it goes in the bin.

I've never understood why this isn't outright illegal. There's literally no reason for it but to discriminate.
The way I read the results Java is basically faster only on the regex benchmark and it is known fact that today go has a slow regex library. Everything else the results show Java to be slower with larger code and larger memory footprint.

Why are all the Java fans psyched by these results?
Did you just add this? Or found it / kwew it was there?

Either way, whoever did made a point.
> Not taking photos is equal to deleting them.

I get that my post was long so it makes sense that you didn't read it, but maybe don't respond to posts you didn't read?

Taking photos and then deleting them is not equivalent to not taking them. It takes time and storage, exchanges a present experience for a mediocre potential future experience. I already explained this in my previous post.

> When I bring my photos from a distant country people are interested to look at them. And different people find different pictures interesting. Some people want to see all the pictures of penguins, while others like to see architecture. Others still happy to see tens of different motorbikes from a trade fare.

Are any of these things photos you have to take? Or could you find better versions of these photos, taken by professional photogs, online, and send it to people with a "I saw this"?

> Often the ones I thought were worth deleting are the interesting ones for the people.

Often when I'm taking a photo, I think, "<X friend> would really like to see this." These make up a small fraction of my photos and after I send them to the person I delete them. But the difference here is that on a trip I take 15 photos instead of 10.

All this says about you is that you're not approaching your photo-taking intentionally. None of the objections you've brought up couldn't be solved with 15 seconds of thought.

> Also as usual - telling people stop doing things they like is hardly helpful.

I'm not telling you to do anything. If you want to spend money and time viewing your life through a small screen so that a few people might find some of your photos interesting, go ahead.

People like all sorts of things. Some people like cocaine. But it's easy to get caught up in short-term dopamine-releasing behaviors and sometimes those behaviors do more harm than good even though they feel good. It makes sense to take a step back occasionally and look at the effect of you behaviors you enjoy on your overall happiness.
>Take that ability away and I'll start using gold or silver. Your move...

I imagine that this type of scenario would provide a strong incentive for people to start using digital currencies like Bitcoin - they have a finite supply and are much easier to transact and store than physical items like gold or silver.
I submitted a fix to google maps where a bus stop in my neighborhood was missing. About 6 months later I got an email saying "for technical reasons we cannot fix this."

All the other apps that show bus stops have the stop.

I just don't use google maps for transportation stuff. City Mapper is my goto app for that.
citation needed...
Visual C++ Cross-Platform Mobile
Because it would push people to spend money and not hold on to it, therefore it would increase consumption which induce economic growth?
"Back in the days many SSD vendors were only focusing on high peak performance, which unfortunately came at the cost of sustained performance. In other words, the drives would push high IOPS in certain synthetic scenarios to provide nice marketing numbers, but as soon as you pushed the drive for more than a few minutes you could easily run into hiccups caused by poor performance consistency. Once we started exploring IO consistency, nearly all SSD manufacturers made a move to improve consistency."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9144/crucial-bx100-120gb-250gb...
and there is a Skype logo too http://goo.gl/jOk19o and a happy face http://goo.gl/Z4AHB6
It looks like a user had enough reputation to add things without review.
I thought the point of putting it in Pakistan was to hide it
This would add another 30+ minutes every single day to a teacher's workload.

No teacher will ever use this voluntarily.
I'm not arguing against providing a decent notice to people who's browser set up is not compatible with the technology being used by the application. I believe that, where possible, elements should provide support for people who's interaction with the web may be limited whether by physical disability or some other limitation. I'm not advocating dropping semantic tags and serving all text by inserting it into the dom, I just believe that the web is moving beyond being simply a platform for disseminating static content and while that remains important we should not let it hamper efforts to evolve the web as a platform for new technologies and uses.

I suppose I should have more verbosely indicated the facetiousness of the first few rhetorical questions but they do serve a point.
disco.io lets us stream and collect music from youtube, soundcloud and more for free and without ads.
On number (2), you forgot the other major (and very probable) option: the regulators were told, by the legislature, to shut up and stop doing their jobs like competent professionals, because Congress's friends don't need no regulation (♫ they don't need no bank control ♫). They were probably also defunded by Congress, leaving them with too small a staff to do their job well.

"Starve the beast", remember?
For those who don't: https://www.google.com/settings/takeout
Image link: http://i.imgur.com/EgWWMVR.png
Everyone is in a protected class. Everyone. Even white male Christan Americans. Sure they are less likely to be discriminated against but it surely can and does happen. And lawsuits can and have been filed. There was one the other day here on HN, a company was accused of favoring SE Asians over Americans.

Also despite what crazy MRAs claim the courts have been working to correct gender imbalance that favor females. I can think of a couple off the top of my head - a case that involved male military spouses having to prove they were financially dependent on their spouse in order to receive military benefits and one that involved social security surviving widows getting survivors benefits but not widowers. Both were successfully argued and ruled unconstitutional.

Besides your logic makes absolutely no sense - "I'm going to discriminate against a protected class to avoid lawsuits accusing me of discriminating against a protected class."
http://tinyurl.com/63byd

Its a real town in Austria. I'm just pretty sure I'd be flagged as offensive if I posted the Wikipedia link directly :-)

But the above link is to Wikipedia.
ARM details its new high-end CPU core, Cortex A72
This one seems to be just from an anonymous user:
https://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&uid=204099722752622045...

Also, this edit was already marked as spam it seems.
Child malaria vaccine: Final trials bring hope
Drinking during pregnancy is actually a good microcosm of parenting as a whole. The effect of light to moderate drinking during pregnancy on child IQ and attention is pretty much nonexistent: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fasd/key-findings-alcohol-use.html. And even among alcoholics, the probability of FAS is around 5%. Even pre-natal cocaine exposure isn't all its cracked up to be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_cocaine_exposure.

Kids are surprisingly resilient, and the weight of the scientific evidence we have suggests that once confounding factors like socioeconomic status are accounted for, parenting choices don't have a large impact on at least the objectively measurable aspects of outcomes (e.g. IQ, test scores, attention span).
> 2. Military was told to destroy crops used to feed guerrillas.

> 3. Later discovered nearly all of the food they destroyed were being used to support the local civilian population.

To be fair, there is no distinction between the food guerillas eat and the food everyone else eats. Destroying the crops that feed the guerillas means destroying all the crops, period.
"We’ve tried every black program available. BlackLink was the easiest to setup & the most effective."

-- Thomas Jefferson
Speaking personally, yes I am very excited about .NET on *nix platforms. I am currently working on architecting a decent sized cloud application using .NET, Django and ElasticSearch. The entire platform will be built on Linux (CentOS or Ubuntu) to control costs.

Why are we using .NET? My company's experience is primarily in .NET and we need to carefully manage discovery costs across all the platforms we are going to working on. I am going to blog about the experience when the project is set to get underway later this year, so stay tuned.
One thing I find good about Microsoft's libraries is that for the most part they do a good job of working as magic and working with someone with understanding.

XNA is the example I always use. You can use XNA and make games without understanding anything about the graphics card but you can also dig in and write your own shaders and basically go however deep you want to/need to.

There are some things in .NET that do seem kinda magic, and razor is one of them. Not because it's a templating engine but just in how lightweight it is and how surprisingly decent intellisense can be with it. Most templating engines feel so verbose and ugly after working with razor.
It's about 8km west of this "easter egg":
https://www.google.pt/maps/place/Takht+Pari+Forest/@33.51409...

So it seems likely that somebody found this one while browsing the immediate area around the first easter egg.
Very interesting. One could, though, have a fair multiplayer game where each player picks a random number, commits to it (e.g. by hashing it and publishing the hash), then all players reveal their numbers, XOR them all together and use that as a seed for a CSPRNG. With a good CSPRNG, they could even mix player actions into the generator over time, resulting in a truly random game.
There are post-scarcity examples in human history (see gift economies and potlach societies - common among native americans and in the pacific islands) where social pressure caused any accumulation of wealth to be shared with the entire society (this is a bit similar to Andrew Carnegie's dictum that to die rich is to die disgraced, now leading to the billionaire's pledge). Of course, this only worked because the societies were individual tribes/villages and fit within Dunbar's number, where every individual knew every other individual in the society.

If post-scarcity is brought about by automation, then there will be no need for most people to work, and socialism won't be the appropriate economic model (since people will not be directly involved in production). At this point we'll probably need to return to a gift-like economy.
More like, it died and a twin sibling took its place. Nowadays, Microsoft looks nothing like the old Microsoft.
Extensions have access to browser APIs not available to webpages and run on your every request. Thus they are inherently more dangerous. So installing unsigned extensions from questionable sources makes you clueless, yes.

Vanilla js running on webpages should be considered relatively safe. It's sandboxed and not able to do anything - malicious of not - outside it's restricted environment. It can't even get your location or lock a cursor without asking for permission first.

If you could somehow disable all logic from executing in your OS native apps, would you do this by default?
I care, how do I get in on a gig like that? :-)
Perhaps he'll become the CHO - Chief Holacracy Officer.
> But these are public records that Ancestry has bought the exclusive rights to digitize.

What exclusive rights are you referring to? I'm trying to learn more about Ancestry.com.