skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The initial poster really does deserve some rebuke. People should not be posting messages/requests that require time to review, if they haven't even spent a small amount of time to check if their opinions/requests have any basis in reality.

This kind of OP is terrible for any community. Its one thing to not understand something ... its another thing to write messages as if you deeply understand the problems in the space. OP is making all kinds of elaborate requests about what the project should do ... based on what? What made him decide to make these requests? Think about that. Its just ridiculous that someone could sniff some little bit of scent somewhere about something, and then make sweeping prescriptions about what should be done for the project.
> It's patently obvious that it's worthless. What possible use does it serve? Morbid curiosity is the best you can say for it.

Just curious, how much time have you spent using it? How much of the source have you read? How carefully did you read this article? Because if your answers to those questions are what I think they are, then you're just a dick.
Just don't disable the telescreen. They'll notice that.
Do you think the writer of this article actually got educated? I would argue they have not been educated, nor have they matured.

And that right there is an indictment of the college system.
When you Command+Tab to it it raises the main Chrome window too which is annoying.

The positive side is the capturing of HTTP requests in Chrome.
Yes, a chromebook in windows has much better battery life, the keyboard and trackpad don't work, so it goes to sleep, and uses very little power.
i'm no accountant but i'm pretty sure sole trader would be paying personal income tax rather than company tax, which would be for registered companies.
1TB Xbox One Leaked on Amazon with New Controller
Common mistake for beginner writers. Hence the oft quoted but useful aphorism you'll commonly here in fiction writing circles: 'show don't tell'
Why cant zenefits become their own payroll provider?
Low-Contrast Text Is Not the Answer
Every contractor really is a massive security risk. If it was wartime and there was any threat to the navy, all the work would be done by navy technicians. It really shows the extent to which bureaucracy has taken over the American military.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

This line of argument is strawperson. What you are saying might be true but pointless to the issues at hand.
That article made me shiver with how right he turned out to be.
It does: https://luckymarmot.com/paw/extensions/SwaggerImporter.
i can never tell why certain comments get downvoted on hackernews. yours obviously has a sad tone, but people take everything literally here.
Like Peter Singer, I believe that preventing suffering in living beings is the most important ethical goal. On this count, human impact is ambiguous. We cause a lot of animal suffering through agriculture. But we also cause a lot of animals (especially marine life) not to exist who would have otherwise.

See http://foundational-research.org/publications/importance-of-... for more discussion.
Is the word 'humanist' used for people who study the humanities? I've only ever heard it in the context of humanism. Not saying it's wrong, I'm genuinely wondering
equal resources are given to good and bad

I already showed a simple extension incorporating this that yields the same result. You are still best served by focusing your attentions on folks who are most likely to not be a recruiter, the delta will simply be lower.

If you want to apply some diminishing marginal returns theory to connections, you'll get a concave optimization problem. You'll still need to multiply the derivatives by 1-P(recruiter), skewing your networking efforts towards men (though not 100% towards men anymore).

The model is, indeed, deliberately starving anyone deemed more likely to be a recruiter. That's the whole point.

Or, you could do the engineer's approach and find a solution that works far better...

You have not even begun to show this.

I strongly suggest you try to cook up any toy model where ignoring base rates helps. I'm dead certain you'll fail (there are theorems), but you'll learn a bit about decision theory in the process.
Elixir is so much more than syntactic sugar... but you can't deny that it's also very, very sweet.

I think it's the best language out there-- the power of erlang and OTP and the fun of, well, elixir. It's more fun than Ruby and Python.
For…of loops are an ES6 feature that iterates the values of an iterable rather than the property names of an object.
@OP Why is this post on HN?
Please stop posting just to promote your agenda. This is not Reddit.
Unfortunately I feel visiting HN is now lot of waste of time.
I wish somebody from YC or HN does something about this soon.
Haskbot-core: An easily-extensible, Haskell-based Slack chatbot
How HR “best Practices” Kill Innovation
Poe's law: "[W]ithout a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extremism are indistinguishable from sincere expressions of extremism."[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Eh, they'll just move everything to Denver and keep right on going. Cities have been covered with water many times before.
These entitled assholes and their liberal arts degrees. Why does this guy think that the State has to pay him to enjoy 4 years of reading whatever works of literature he found amusing. If he doesn't get any skills that make him employable ... then we the citizens of America have to subsidize his 4-year party?

Maybe this sir should have thought about what he was learning in school. And if he was too young to think about that at the time he went to school, maybe we shouldn't be giving him the power to make those spending decisions at that age--or maybe we should be withholding loans from students pursuing such worthless degree programs.

This idea that the world must mold itself to the interests of liberal arts students or the hysterical theories of liberal arts professors--oh reading the classics will expand your mind!--is a bunch of bullshit.

Of course the liberal arts faculty want you to keep buying into the failed state that is their department. That's the only way they keep chugging along. But employers have long ago figured out that they want to hire smart kids. And smart kids were smart before they entered these programs.
Repeated manual testing of APIs at work across different environments. I used to just keep a scratch pad but with paw we were able to set it up and distribute a save file over Dropbox for the team to share. Variables for different environments were a nice touch, I guess you could bash script to your hearts content but this was a little less cumbersome.
FYI, there is already a free cross-platform implementation of Swift called RemObjects Silver. It works with .NET, Java and Android.
Oh, didn't know that. That means 0/10 for 2014 then.
My take on Freemium (2014)
How to learn Swift?
ha, if they filter that, it will be the ultimate red flag. i read an article on prisonplanet.com that said they removed them, and cnet.com from search listings on the front page because they published some critical articles involving google and the 'see aye lmao' (three letters)
I like to take an interest in what other folks of a similar mind are involved in, even outside of programming/computers. There are more than a few (semi)well-known programmers who are actually involved in or otherwise support the VHEMT.
It's time to retire the disputes about Terry's mental health and his use of racist language that perennially dominate these threads. These arguments are always the same, they lead nowhere of value, and it's wrong to gossip about a human being as a case specimen as if he weren't here.

We've had years of this already and it's enough. If someone wants to do the work of making a list of threads we've had about it in the past, we can all point to that the next time someone inevitably starts this controversy up again.

I'm not talking about Terry's technical work, of course. That is as on topic as anyone else's.
what do you mean by 'tracking radicalization'?
I have an old white Macbook running SL, but it won't run modern XCode. It's great for doing things like Python dev, though.
My most recent major git crisis wasn't reversable by git.

A little while ago, I accidentally did a `git clean -xdf` on my home directory (wrong tmux tab). I index my home directory: just the most important config files, among other notes and text files. That `git clean` call wiped half my home directory before I realized what was happening and frantically tried to ^C and ^\ it. I had to find other ways to recover my files.

The deleted files weren't essentially important, which is why I didn't back them up frequently or index them, but they were moderately important. That was a bad day.

I realize it's probably better to dump everything in ~/.config and index that instead, while maintaining symlinks in ~/. It was just the way I had it set up.
That's a far more difficult prediction: what technology will be developed in the next several hundred years. What sticks out as some problems with building a planet are where do you get all of the material, and how would you manage its rotational and revolutional speeds as it grew larger? Propelling a space ship seems fairly simple compared with propelling a planet.

Douglas Adams had some things to say about designing planets.
Zero to One - Awesome book by Peter Thiel encouraging a future of innovative start ups
You're right, I was wrong; leaving the grandparent post just for context for your response, otherwise I'd delete it.
I think he may have been misusing the term, and simply trying to ask how they could possibly guarantee to provide that "for life", instead of "for however long the company still exists".

That being said, Ooma tends to sound terrible anyway.
Obsession by one person doesn't always work out for that person, but it does so often provide insights that are instructive to a level that would have been unfathomable to an outside observer at the start of the project/obsession. Not surprised TempleOS seems to have similar qualities, even though even now it seems to be a pretty bizarre project.
This is a great tip. My main laptop is a 2009 white MacBook with an SSD I cannibalised from another old laptop. The only thing I miss is Civilization V, everything else is fine.
Forget about RoR clones. I want Swift/OTP or Akka.Swift!
How to let users know more about your product, and retain users?
Anecdotally, I have to agree with the post above. Been to dozens of malls in the past couple years, and they do in fact seem to be thriving.

Perhaps the indoor mall is more preferred in the northeast where I've explored most, as the cold winters and humid summers make it a preferable destination.

Then again, outdoor Santana row clones are also popping up everywhere, both in the northeast and in more temperate locales. Personally I think they're all doing quite well.
Firefox OS on Android Devices
"Despite Zenefits serving less than 0.25% of the clients on our system, they had been responsible for
up to 25.0% of the total user traffic (in other words, a hundred-fold times ordinary user traffic)." Wow that's crazy. What are they doing over there?
NBA 2K16: le jeu vidéo écrit et réalisé par Spike Lee
Ironically, the actual Jewish temple was layered architecturally. The holy of holies in the center, where God resides, would be ring-0 I suppose.
Re: JSON: You can: just use the text section. And you can go back and forth: you can type some text, then edit specific fields in the JSON window.
This is the kind of discussion that doesn't end anywhere productive, but I don't have any reason to believe that those two groups have substantively different inclinations for playing chess. As others have said, the individual variations drown out the group differences.

Look at how superior Americans are to Europeans economically. Americans invented the iPhone, Google, and could best all of Europe combined in a military battle. Does that mean that Americans are genetically superior to Europeans? No, it's that they had access to more resources on a bare continent, which led to a positive feedback loop of wealth and creation.

You can perhaps make fuzzy statements about averages or extremes, but what matters is how you act on those beliefs. Are black people better at basketball than whites or Asians? Hard to say on average, but maybe at the extremes? Does that say anything about which races should play in the NBA? No. It's not like Larry Bird or Jeremy Lin don't exist. There might be some differences there, but they're not substantive.

The minute you start using this to justify slavery, that's when it becomes racism. If you are white, would you accept an Asian person's claim to enslave you based on the fact that their IQs are higher on average?

Even if you accept that intelligence implies a right to rule, there are plenty of dumb Asians that don't deserve to rule over a smart white person, and likewise for whites and blacks. This is a simple consequence of the fact that individual variation is greater than group variation.
There's nothing to keep track of, all reference counting is handled through ARC which is built in to the compiler.
Now it looks like a perfectly sane and predictably off-putting piece of self-aggrandization. "I have a degree that is in a superior discipline relative to computer science." "Unlike most other programmers, I know my differential equations." "My ideas and approaches are better than those of all these other idiots." "I am a genius compares to those who invent complex solutions."

Of course people hate this, even without the random sprinkling of "nigger".

And the choice of that word reveals obvious racism. It says, I dislike blacks to the point that a word denoting them serves me as metaphor for other groups of people or concepts I revile.
The Google cache of the link still works.
I don't think the OP was talking about the quality of the product.
does anyone know why he'd have one of these:
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/anpi-kakunin-jouho...

on his site?
I too am hoping to access the PDF.
Destructive Things School Taught You Without You Even Realizing It
Online Process to Register Company in India
And this is something that never gets discussed by the hipsters -- the solidity built into the very foundations of the JVM platform.

No, they just wanna write quick Fibonnaci generators in Node and put it up as a Gist.
Of course TempleOS has little practical value; even Terry would admit that. However, it is inspirational on a number of levels:

It's the preservation and extension of an archaic, dying style of computing: the single-user, programming-oriented, low-level and transparently-abstracted environment once common amongst micros.

It's going against the grain and doing something different in a time when (for very good practical reason) popular environments are approaching monoculture.

It's a tremendous achievement for a single person.

It's proof that not only can people create amazing things in spite of mental illnesses, but also because of them.

It's sad that even on Hacker News, there are people that can't accept that programs themselves can be art (more than simply the "engine" behind a work of art).
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Wildcard SSL

$149.95
/ year

This is incredible prohibitive to me considering it. :-(
Can you elaborate on this? Why? And why many years?
i cant upvote you enough. people blaming corporations for controlling everything is lame. the politicians who are elected have the free will to choose, the electorate can easily review the politician's record if they like. just because huge numbers of them are corrupt isn't the fault of the corporations...
After trying to figure out why Postman was doing a double GET this morning on a coworker's computer, I finally told him to just install httpie. Took a little while but it's much easier to be explicit about a request. Bash command history does a lot of what these GUIs do.
by anyone with children.
The earth and the universe will cease to exist eventually so we might as well make the most of them.
"Web is winning."

If you mean "everything but HTML-based web sites", that's accurate. If you mean the actual Web sites, I really don't see it. The Web is huge, so isn't exactly dying, but it certainly isn't winning.

Native mobile is "winning", in terms of being usually a far superior UX, and by sheer numerical demand. Native still often (thankfully) uses architectural elements of the web (URIs and HTTP) and the UX of Hyperlinking. But the HTML web as we know it hasn't kept up well with the native experience. With the massive investments in IoT being laid down along with VR/AR experiences coming out of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, this trend will likely only continue, unless someone releases a new innovative hypermedia format & client that catches on.

"They're giving you new languages and development environments because they are holding on for dear life, and I'm not willing to accept being charmed into closed development environments."

I applaud your commitment to openness, truly, but I suggest you need to look at the global market little harder. These companies are not holding on for dear life. They're growing in power. I watched the WWDC Keynote. The crowd just about had kittens when they announced Swift will be open sourced. Twitter nearly exploded. These are anecdotes yes, but the numbers are backing Swift's meteoric rise.

Apple has a vested interest to promote Swift far and wide, perhaps even going so far as Sun did with Java, with the hindsight of their mistakes. Whereas Google could have done this with Golang but seem to be keeping a lid on it for unknown reasons. Best theory I have is that Apple is a product company and Google is a technology company. Golang is making good headway as a server-side language mainly by several companies that aren't Google.
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It's a relatively uncommon usage but yes, it can just mean people who work in humanities fields. After all, the modern fields of history, literature, etc. trace their genealogies directly back to Renaissance humanism so it makes sense. Sometimes it's used in a self-aware way to refer to both at the same time, as in this profile of Anthony Grafton of Princeton, so far as I know the sole contemporary owner of a Renaissance book wheel:

http://www.princeton.edu/paw/archive_new/PAW06-07/11-0404/fe...
"Commander's intent" and the idea of familiarization courses were two ideas I found in the Army that I think apply to Development/operations.
And thus they should not tweak things they don't understand.

If you don't know what javascript is, don't disable it and complain things aren't working...
>Brandon Eich

I'd take HolyC over Javascript any day.
"... on the other hand, having PhD in CS is a red-ish flag to me per se. "

I would be interested in hearing your reasons for that.
Yeah I heard that Apple considered buying Parse before deciding to build CloudKit instead. It's a direct competitor, although Parse is still much further ahead. CloudKit is a lot cheaper though.
i think we have a winner. notice the uncontrolled mass influx of non citizens into the country of late and the preferential treatment they get, especially regarding privacy issues?
What I learned is that some teachers can make a profoundly positive difference in the lives of many students, whereas other teachers can commit felony child abuse and get away with it.
Although https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9650438 had significant attention recently, this post seems different enough that I think we can not count it as a dupe.
The Étoile OS folks have been working on top of GNUStep for a while: http://etoileos.com/

Here's a recent thing that came out of that group, which I'm interested to see in a server-side project: http://coreobject.org/
I wrote a Julia Set viewer in HolyC about 6 months ago. It was a very interesting experience to say the least.

Terry seemed to think it was pretty cool, so he made a 3rd Party Software page and linked to the GitHub repo.

https://github.com/pcorey/julia-templeos/blob/master/julia.C...
Apple takes on Google Now with iOS 9's proactive assistance
Apple Music is so underwhelming. I see nothing which differentiates it from so many other music products. It was a little sad to see the word "Revolutionary" projected above the stage. snore
I realized that the other day when I was reading about TempleOS and laughed at how puntastic it was.
Here's the battlecard: http://cloudoru.com/battlecard.html
>it's not right to gossip about a human being as a case specimen as if he weren't here.

Well said. Its infuriating the lack of common courtesy and sensitivity that people show in threads about his work.

It seems to me that he would, like most of us would in his situation, want to be judged on the merits of his work, without other people constantly framing in the context of his mental illness.
The claim to be regularly spoken to by God is extremely rare among the religious; I know of no modern Pope or other comparable mainstream religious figure who has publicly made such a claim.
yeah, i'm going to have to disagree with this one. far more likely they had outside help, i.e. someone broke in and got them.
I don't see any agenda here. It looks like an offbeat and interesting post of the kind that has always been on topic for HN [1]. We're grateful when people dig up these things!

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
Drchrono needs a few good hackers to change healthcare
"Of course the liberal arts faculty want you to keep buying into the failed state that is their department"

I think you hit the nail on the head here. I distinctly remember almost every intro class I took the professor would try to sell me on the fact that it would be the greatest degree ever. Unfortunately, while some areas of study may be interesting, they are not always a good ROI and I think that is what alot of college kids don't understand.
Implementing an easy-to-use, on-demand DaaS type solution!
Use both. Have GitHub for your public work, and stick your privates in the 'bucket.
STYLEBEE (YC S15) Is Hiring a Growth Lead
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Hmm, as a frequent flyer once a week. I have gotten a cold maybe once so far that may be related to travel within last 12 months.

All I mainly do is wash my hands before and right after flights.
Studying Law Studying Surveillance
It's a little slow on my Nexus 6, but really surprisingly usable.

The fact that this is even possible is pretty great. I've been getting more and more frustrated with Android lately, but being able to do things like this is still a really great feature.

Very neat way to get a feel for Firefox OS without the need for new hardware.
> One of the main ways computers are changing the textual humanities is by mediating new connections to social science

How good do you need to be at reading to make sense of sentences like this?
Every post you find a way to bash Amazon with half truths. It's really tiresome and inaccurate.
> Leave the candidate with a positive impression of the company

I feel like I haven't experienced this enough in interviews. Mostly I assumed that if I'm applying then interviewer already thinks that I have a good view of the company (or otherwise I wouldn't want to work there right?), but it would be nice to get a better outlook of the company. Maybe I'm just asking the wrong questions.
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Its not an anti pattern unless you are writing a libray. Just remember that your application is recompiled by babel every single time you run it and on every process restart (if any), which may or may not be unacceptably slow.