skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you a liar? Ignorance or malevolence? Or are you willingly a propaganda sock-puppet?

Because if you aren't, you have a duty to educate yourself before you speak about things of this importance.

[Re: Downvotes] - Is being called out upsetting? Imagine someone being put in jail by your lies. That's a lot more upsetting.

[Re: Re: Downvotes] - Seriously. This isn't Uber vs Lyft, this is knowingly repeating false information to justify keeping someone in jail for treason. That's just steps under lying about someone to drum up support to get them killed. Does asking if a sock-puppet is a sock-puppet hurt HN more than allowing sock-puppets like that to use HN as a platform for hate? If it was Russia's propaganda machine, or a beloved hero like Nelson Mandela, we'd react strongly, but when it's our propaganda machine we give it a pass.

> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/01/bradley-manning-wikileaks
...
A dispute had arisen concerning 15 Iraqi detainees held by the national
Iraqi police force on the grounds that they had been printing "anti-Iraqi
literature".

The police were refusing to work with the US forces over the matter,
and Manning's job was to investigate and find out who the "bad guys"
were. He got hold of the leaflet that the detained men were distributing
and had it translated into English. He was astonished to find that it
was in fact a scholarly critique against the Iraqi prime minister,
Nouri al-Maliki, that tracked the corruption rife within his cabinet.

"I immediately took that information and ran to the officer to explain
what was going on," Manning later explained. "He didn't want to hear
any of it … he told me to shut up and explain how we could assist
the [Iraqi] police in finding MORE detainees."
...

The USA was cooperating in arresting innocent Iraqi civilians (and subjecting them to brutal torture when arrested). This is illegal. Under civilian and military law, illegal orders must be refused and reported. Manning had a legal duty to report the illegal orders. If Manning had not reported this, it would be a crime. Being told to ignore it doesn't change that.

If you're pissed off about criminals ruining the reputation and effectiveness of the USA Armed Forces, and you should be, you need to be mad at the officers and soldiers and leaders who committed the crimes not the messenger who told you about it.
Pebble iOS App Stuck “in review” for 43 days, Pebble Time app for 12 days
This simple message sends Skype into an infinite death loop
I might host a server.
After months of talking up the BofA files, "oops, they're all gone."
As a mathematician, not a computer scientist or programmer, I think that one of the common mistakes that people make is to think of category theory as an end in itself. For me, the point of category theory is not its study on its own (though there are people who do that!), but rather its capability to serve as a unifying language for a broad class of examples.

This is why, I think, many textbooks suggest prerequisites (not that you argued that they shouldn't!); not so much that category theory can't be learnt without them, for it certainly can (it is actually very simple), but rather that it can't be understood. Studying it on its own seems to me very much like trying to learn a programming language without having any problem that you want to use it to solve.
Yep, aware of it, I happen to have 3 apps on Mac / iOS App Stores already using this model :)
- https://github.com/swisspol/ComicFlow (quite popular)
- https://github.com/swisspol/MP3CDMaker
- https://github.com/swisspol/CompareFolders
Okay, fair enough. Sorry for misunderstanding you.

But I'm still not clear about what the turnoff is supposed to be. Marketing something as an "aid for increasing diversity" to teachers seems likely to be appealing to them. Teachers are interested in reaching all their students, particularly in a place like NYC.

Maybe it's not great for reaching kids directly, but that's a different marketing campaign. (Snap doesn't seem to be designed to let kids jump right in like they would with a game.)

Technical segregation seems unlikely; assuming the kids become genuinely interested in programming, they will move on to other languages like they did from Logo.
When trying to fetch, I get: "Unsupported url protocol."
that would be true for any public-facing text, which relates to financial advice. a good CFA (RIA) knows what to ask and how to ask, it's not really that complicated.
Awesome. Now 13% of people that would like to use it can [0]. Cool idea. Just wish it wasn't tied to Mac.

0 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
The US is extremely large and extremely varied. I used to deal with these sorts of existential threats every day, but by moving to a city with more than double the cost of living I was able to escape most of it. Some folks are luckier and are born in more peaceful societies, you should be thankful!
I think that starting with a microservice architecure in a small team will incur high initial costs, especially if the team follows modern development approaches like continuous integration/deployment. Moving a monolith through a testing pipeline can be challenging, but moving a microservice architecture is even more challenging, especially in the beginning, until you learn how to manage a distributed system. Thats not to say its wrong to do so, but the initial costs should be taken into account.
We tried that. It didn't stick.

You have to remember that in the early days Twitter and a log of competition. Jaiku, Pownce, Google Buzz, FriendFeed, etc.. Then you had the open source versions: Laconi.ca, Status.net, Friendi.ca, GNU Social, Twister, etc..

Say what you will about Twitter, but it's the only thing that ever got traction or had any sticking power.
Is it possible that it could be related to change needing to be weighed to be determined legitimate, or simply as a way of measuring the amount? (like paying with gold dust in the Yukon or what have you)

Beyond that I can see it being a result of extreme cultural stratification, as the article touches on - that it would be seen as demeaning for a higher-class person to put money directly into the lower-class person's hand.

It's quite interesting that no one has any clear idea! I love little mysteries like this.
Current is Docker 1.6.2, released about 20 days ago. There also was a 1.6.1. That makes it two versions. Also, v1.6.0 was released almost two months ago. [0]

[0] https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
The purpose of a trade deal is to lower protectionism. Like corn subsidies. Corn subsidies are a blatant manifestation of American protectionism. Imagine U.S. trade negotiators trying to cut corn subsidies in exchange for something. The same forces that created the subsidies – a motivated minority mobilising against a dis-interested, harmed majority – will defeat any attempt to kill them. Repeat this process by interest groups across every country and you may see why Doha failed.

Secrecy is annoying, and our present government gives us reason to distrust it. But if you believe in free trade and are realistic about how negotiations (and interest groups) work, you understand why they must be secret.
There's already an addon for git that makes git very painless:

git up https://github.com/aanand/git-up

Pick another name!
I would love to buy hardcover book for my future child.
The vote happens after you're allowed to see it.
Absolutely.

The consumerization of higher education affects all aspects of collegiate life. Proper discourse is seen as inefficient, prone to upsetting the "workforce", or disagreeable to funding sources. Issues that would be considering opportunities to teach, discuss, or research are now discussed in terms of student gains, funding gains, dropout rates, etc.

> This is a matter of public policy and society should be regulating this stuff. Now try doing that in a partisan political climate, where we can't even agree that creationism should not be on any curriculum.

You're right there really isn't much of a chance of changing this any time soon. As the author puts it, "[right] now, there's nothing much to do other than sit on our hands and wait for the ascension of conservative political backlash...", so we're just gonna have to wait/hope for the tide to turn.
The more people use the phrases 'paradigm shift', 'culture change' and 'I feel like" and the less people give actual hard-nosed technical justification for this new architectural mold, the more convinced I become that it is a transient fashion that needs to die already.
They were trustworthy at one point. I was a SF.net developer a long time ago and I can assure you that the number one consideration was the Open Source community. Sure there were ads but never once were we asked to compromise any project to increase ad sales.

Honestly, in hindsight I wish we had gone to a model more like Github.
Can anyone say how long a typical Apple app review takes? Even ballpark. I just want to know if 43 days is unusually high or pretty normal for them. Seems high to me, but I've never submitted an app to Apple so...
Community College Offers Coding Bootcamp [pdf]
It's interesting to compare this with the Facebook stack, drawn by the same author:

http://malteschwarzkopf.de/research/assets/facebook-stack.pd...

…and it would be doubly interesting to see the "related work" arrows between the different companies' infrastructure platforms. We'd need a 3D visualization for that though.
The Hardware Startup Job Board
If they were a little faster I wouldn't mind them. It's funny that the scroll bar shows up before the menu is drawn over to it, but is that the only problem?

Edit: On a phone, the scroll bar doesn't show up, but the whole page scrolls while I'm trying to scroll in the menu. That's a problem.
"In aerospace if you launch a vehicle, you can’t go fix it,” James says. “It’s 10,000 miles in the air by the time you realize something’s wrong!" - And I think that I get nervous during deployments...
Chakra nerp – Prevent your code from being run in the Chakra JavaScript engine
Another site-comparison datapoint: Metafilter, a small but significant forum, reported about 12,000 daily actives as of a year ago.

That from a HN post, by way of comments at Ello:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7770243
What do you do when the interface between those components was wrong and you have to refactor multiple services at once?
From reading about how Lake City does it, I got the strong impression that making reliable, military grade primers was pretty easy, albeit with access to the right chemicals. And there are several generations of chemicals that can be used, e.g. from corrosive to the newest lead free formulations.

On the other hand, I'll point out that single base smokeless powder is made from nitrocellulose (the explosive also known as guncotton), and double base adds nitroglycerin to the fun.
For me, the biggest problem with Twitter are their Draconian rules concerning third-party apps. I had several ideas for cool apps built on top of the Twitter API (e.g. a Twitter-based news aggregator, an online volunteering app, ...), but each time I gave up on the idea after reading the terms of their developer program:

No showing of tweets with content from other social networks, no altering in the presentation of tweets, very severe rate limits, ....

I think if Twitter wad a little less paranoid about protecting their content they could actually become a viable and useful communication tool for a large part of the Internet (even more than today).
I can usually stay engaged and interested in static documents consisting of black text on a white background for many hours in a row. Some of the people in my life need more mental stimulation than that can provide, and spontaneously tell me as much. (Their main source of mental stimulation is social interaction.)

What part of that or my other comment implies that I think I have superior taste?
James, Roost designer, here. Happy to chat modulus, moments of inertia, design/analysis tools, best 3D printed materials, MIL-Specs, slip fits, molding shrinkage/theory, etc.

3D printing is an absolute game changer, but I've found to make it work to your best advantage in validating and removing uncertainty from your design, it takes a thought-thru approach. The good thing is prints are relatively cheap, and you do always learn by breaking things :)
Docker Security tools
We've been heads down, and we fixed it
Fair question. It's not decided yet. The easiest code-wise was to put the Map editing features in that bucket, so that's what I did for now. Everything else (browsing, committing, stashes, repo config, undo / redo, cloning...) is free and no registration needed.
There's nothing in your link to suggest the treaty will remain secret even after ratification.
I think calling a DE "a fact about the derivative of a function" and then speaking about "solving it" in the same sentence is a big source for confusion, since we don't usually "solve facts".

EDIT: reading the whole thing, there's quite a bit of sloppiness and stuff that's flat-out wrong, like " the faster the cart goes, the faster it stops", or the statement at the end claiming that nonlinear DEs don't have solutions. In short: this needs a major cleanup.
"alien" more correctly captures the connotation. "gaijin" is very much a derogatory word. "gaikokujin" (person from a different country) is more neutral.
The new breed of Twitch streams
Ask HN: What are the alternatives to Vcorp Services?
What other agents exist or companies file paperwork for the annual franchise tax with Delaware to maintain my good standing? How does your company deal with this?
The biggest problem with Cygwin is that programs linked with Cygwin inherit global state from from a Cygwin installation on the system they're running on. If you want to produce a Windows program that just runs on any system you install it on using Cygwin, it will work right for most users, but if a power user who has Cygwin installed and has their own custom mounts, options (like different binary/text mode settings), etc. tries to run your program, it might break spectacularly. This makes Cygwin a really poor choice for making binaries you want to distribute as standalone programs.

Aside from that, Cygwin tries to hard to be a complete Unix environment on Windows, whereas midipix just gives you enough to use interfaces that were standardized in POSIX as a reasonable, uniform API for all operating systems to provide. Some functions go beyond that, but you don't have to use them. And even some things that are mandatory in POSIX are optional in midipix; as I understand it, you can choose at build time whether you want the overhead of being able to support tty devices (and the associated semantics like job control, signals from the controlling tty, etc.).
> Some of them don't even really have solutions (non-linear differential equations).

There certainly are differential equations without solutions, but I'm almost positive that's not what's meant here. Rather, it is very likely that one can't find an explicit solution to a non-linear equation (EDIT: although there are non-linear equations that one can solve, such as $\dot y = 1/y$, whose solutions have graphs lying on straight lines through the origin); but there is a huge difference between an equation that doesn't have a solution and one whose solution we can't find.

For example, away from singularities, one can approximate the solution of a differential equation, even a non-linear one, numerically to an arbitrarily high degree of accuracy, almost exactly as the author does for linear equations.

EDIT: TheLoneWolfling (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9654767 )'s point that this numerical simulation can get hard very quickly is well taken, and probably more important in applications than abstract existence results. Non-linear equations really are hard!
definitely not.

but whenever you implement any financial software, you go through the same audits. whether you paid $1M for it or got it for free.

you do realize that most banks run on open source platforms (linux). and there are countless magento installations out there?
to debate whether an open source alternative is viable to a closed-sourced model we'd have to travel back 20 years, when this debate was relevant.

and bashing free stuff, is like bashing free samples at the super market... feel free to move along.

cheers.
Which makes it really weird that your video shows you doing this to master, a branch very likely to be shared.
How Our Urge to Play Invented the Future
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015

If StackOverflow surveys are any indication, more like 21.5%. I completely agree that I wish it wasn't tied to Mac (Linux please and thank you), but the proportion of developers is higher on OS X than in the consumer market. I have no data to support this, but I suspect that many of those devs on Mac are also front-end, which (again, no data) makes me think that they might care a lot more about a nice GUI tool than devs on other OSes.
Kinetic Sand Drawing Machines
Sweet! Value judgments on the internet!
HTTP/HTTPS, Git and SSH are supported. What's your remote URL?

It'd be very helpful if you could take a minute to post a topic at http://forums.gitup.co so I can have a look. Thanks!
I confirm that it's common in bakeries and many takeout places in Germany and many western european countries.
Weighed as in with a scale? Possibly historically this might have been a concern or a mechanism to check for counterfeits, but currently the change and bills are placed in the same, non-measured, tray. It's just a generic plastic tray, and it varies from shop to shop.
Sure, I observe that it has succeeded. I'm just not willing to invest any time or attention in it, since I've learned my lesson with proprietary communication platforms!
Although the GPL allows authors to charge for software, it disposes of all legal copyright protections that make such charges practical. Charging for GPL software doesn't mean anyone will pay you, it just means that everyone will get the free builds from someone else, which is even less desirable than releasing free builds since you lose control of distribution. Look at Red Hat and CentOS for case in point.
Personally, I don't want movies to be gratis or libre, I just want the MPAA to stop clinging to its antiquated business model by hook or crook.

Something that is libre but not gratis looks like many things today, like websites, services, etc that don't change you directly. Patreon is a good example of such a business model.
I think it would be helpful to define a derivative first.
You're getting at the difference between top-down and bottom-up. Evolution is bottom up, starting with what exists and looking to improve. Top-down is starting with what you want to exist and moving things in that direction.

You need both. If all you do is evolutionary, then you lose the sense of why you're even there in the first place. If all you do is top-down, then you'll get deep into yak-shaving territory before you know it.
I think what you're imagining is pretty much what we've been building for a year or so, but I could be wrong.

It seems obvious - a lot of "news reports" nowadays are pretty much a couple lines of text with a bunch of tweets dropped down beneath them. But making that scalable is actually pretty difficult.

The first difficulty (and we've confirmed this and talked about the problem multiple times with directors of product at Twitter) is finding what the "best" stuff is.

We tried some time ago doing that for news - can we just algorithmically find the best tweets with regard to topic x? Even given full API access, the answer is either "not really" or "yes, but austenallred and his team aren't good enough programmers to figure it out."

There simply aren't enough inputs - it's the same reason Google has always struggled at real-time news. There are favorites and retweets, but those are largely a function of how big someone's following is. Some guy walking on the street taking amazing photos will never have as many retweets as CNN, even if you try to control for the number of followers, or measure retweets as a function of the number of followers somehow.

Then even if you could get that, the tweets aren't always analyzed in the right context. Run that type of analysis and the top tweet is likely to be a joke tweet or something like "OMG I'm praying for Boston."

The best solution that we can come up with is crowdsourcing the finding and curation of tweets. It's working OK, but there's a long way to go. Basically we let everyone find and submit tweets, tag them with specific topics, and then upvote/downvote and fact-check for accuracy. (for details on how it works, see https://grasswire.com/about)

Once you add a couple lines of text, you can turn the raw firehose of Twitter into something that can be consumed by somebody like my mom. That, I think, it a really big deal. It's working fairly well for news right now, and as more people join and submit it gets better. Our hopes are that we can expand into different verticals, and create daily digests of the best stuff with regard to topic x that you can consume in 30 seconds.
Nothing in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 seems to require the discussions take place in public.
Oh wow. What do people supposed happened?
Facebook on “Embracing Open Source Security” and Osquery
I realize this is a pretty broad question, but what is it about Git that people find painful? Could be Stockholm Syndrome on my part, but I have a pretty hard time understanding why someone can't spend a week getting up to speed with a tool they intend to use for years to come.
A related project, flinux - https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux - allows you to run unmodified linux binaries on Windows. It is in the process of implementing all the linux syscalls...
> What the fuck? This is not democracy. "Well you know a bunch of people would probably be unhappy about this massive global policy we're enacting so let's just not tell them about it."

That reminds me of this quote found on a Metafilter discussion (http://www.metafilter.com/150141/Its-not-paranoia-if-they-ar...) about the FBI's use of fake companies to hide its operation of a 'civilian air force':

> The FBI asked the AP not to disclose the names of the fake companies it uncovered, saying that would saddle taxpayers with the expense of creating new cover companies to shield the government's involvement ….

EDIT: To be clear, the quote comes not from Metafilter itself, but from the article being discussed on Metafilter. However, I think that the discussion itself is worth reading, particularly for comments by jjwiseman, who was involved in related research (http://www.metafilter.com/150141/Its-not-paranoia-if-they-ar...).
I am not sure based on reading your post whether or not I am providing new information to you:

Keep an eye on the AMD APUs moving forward and their HSA progress.
Actually MSFT does not support C in original Visual Studio either.( they just support C++ , and they compile C code with c89 standard ), So I think it is going to another huge change if they support Standard C.
I hope they will rewrite awscli with it. Today it's quite painful to run it on coreos (python/pip ran in a container)
Understood, I was referring to major point releases vs minor. Thanks for clarifying.
I like the elevated trays in a lot of the German supermarkets and department stores that have the built-in scoop for holding change. Wish I could find a picture of it.
It's worth noting that most of the open source software that self hosts becomes an ad page or malware site within a few years once it's abandoned. One advantage to hosting on a shared site is that the project can live on. Or, at least, the binaries and source are still available for interested parties years after the developers moved on, lost interest, or passed away.
The author of the article is Chris Sacca.