skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally I don't comment on my flags, but just to dampen some potential future conspiracy theories, the low quality comments generated by this thread are the reason I flagged it. So if it disappears from the front page, for me it will be despite my opinion about the importance of the topic or about the quality of the article itself. It will be because it is making HN worse.
His act was a sexist act. It was unintentional, but one can still help sustain an unjust system without intending to. I'm sure it sucked for him; I've found it painful enough to get called out for my mistakes in small groups. But we shouldn't let our sympathy for that overwhelm our sympathy for the many, many more people hurt by sexism in our society.

Deciding that one guy's feelings are more important than the women he harmed is one way patriarchy has sustained itself for thousands of years. Big public mistakes require big public apologies.
They've been bred for yield and shelf / transportation stability without regard for flavor. Water might be part of it, but it's more a means to an end rather than a cause in itself.
Not only that, but if the modem is compatible they can theoretically be used as actual cell phones as well. They are multi-dimensional in function. And finally, if a budget can be acquired for education, a simple Bluetooth IO device can give them micro-controller like abilities for educational purposes. And above all, the hardware is recycled for a damn good cause and not dumped in a landfill.
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Jombay's web and backend platform was built, and is being maintained by a lean team of 4 engineers (including myself). As we gear towards extending this platform to mobile, we are looking to expand our engineering team. We are looking for team mates to join a set of highly passionate product builders who are set to build the next valuable company in India.

We are looking for mobile developers who:

* Have extensively worked on native mobile platforms for at least 2 years

* Have been associated with at least one product startup in the past

* Have hands on experience on more than one native mobile development platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, RIM, etc.

* Have experience with building mobile applications which closely interact with REST APIs

* Can write quality code, are used to source code management and review using Git Pull Requests, and are comfortable working with weekly release timeline (we take this a bit too seriously)

* Live or want to live in Pune

To apply or raise any queries regarding this position, please write to nikhil@jombay.com. Links to Github/Bitbucket, StackOverflow profile, etc. would be much appreciated.
Jekyll in 3 minutes (for anyone interested in making GitHub Pages)
Costco sells huge packages of deboned chicken thighs cheap. I use them these days instead of breasts, pan fried in salted butter and rosemary. About $2.50-3.50/lb.

Probably not as good as your free range, but cheaper for a dinner party.
Emily Greer (CEO of Kongregate) has a very good presentation, not to my knowledge already linked in this discussion, about F2P whales: http://www.slideshare.net/emily_greer/dont-call-them-whales-... Partially it's an apologia for the business model, but it is dripping with useful facts and commentary.
Did he harm any women by wearing a goddamned shirt? Thank goodness he was wearing a shirt; I know I would rather see any kind of shirt rather than pasty scientist skin.
There are many laws like that, following too close comes to mind. If in doubt, wait to pass until you're sure you have room.
For the entrepreneurs here, I promise to order a $200 version of this. Ideally it'd just be a mount I'd drop my phone into so that I could, say, pair it with Bluetooth and have an app that simultaneously records video with overlaid range and GPS information. I would pretty much immediately start documenting the routes I ride.
Wait, is pork really considered white meat in the US? I've never seen white pork, but then again I think I never consciously ate pork in the US - all I know is that ham is absolutely terrible for my taste - but I think I've never had good ham outside German/Italian/Spanish- speaking countries. I'm Swiss btw.
Ask HN: How many physical/virtual servers does GitHub have?
This was once asked in Quora (http://www.quora.com/How-many-physical-virtual-servers-does-GitHub-have) but is now outdated.
There is a lot about HN's policies and the site's user-hostile features that I don't like, and occasionally complain about, but neither dang nor pg have kept the highly curated and moderated nature of Hacker News a secret. Like as not, this site just isn't supposed to be about free and open discourse, but civil, intellectually stimulating content and holding back the inevitable Eternal September effect, and many of the users here agree with that and vote in kind (and when they don't, dang stuffs the ballot.)

And to dang's credit, I follow his comments now and then and most of the times he criticizes people for their comments, they do seem to be obviously over the line.
Ask HN: Why no one uses the .travel domain?
I have been researching travel industry for quite some time and have not stumbled upon any travel website that would use the .travel domain. Do you know why no one seems to use it?
If you appreciate Swiss watchmaking and wouldn't mind spending a few thousand bucks on a mechanical timepiece that you can bequeath to your grandchildren some day, you should also look at Jaeger-LeCoultre's Master and Reverso lines. They make some of the most beautiful watches IMHO, with a focus on understated design.

If you're a man looking for a posh, classic wristwatch that doesn't shout its original price to everybody who doesn't care, the Master Control Date [1] should tempt you; the Master Ultra Thin line [2] is even more subtle; for something sporty, look at the Master Compressor line [3]. The Reverso Lady [4] is the finest women's watch that I have seen to day.

(Obviously, if you want your coworkers to know how much money you spent on your wristwatch, Rolex or Omega are better choices. They make excellent watches too, no doubt.)

[1] http://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/US/en/watches/master-control...

[2] http://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/US/en/collections/master#mas...

[3] http://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/US/en/collections/master-ext...

[4] http://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/US/en/watches/reverso-dame/2...
It's so an age thing. Older people don't have the motor skills to use touchpads.
Should we treat speed limits the same way, so everyone drives around at a crawling pace?
Anyone who openly agrees with you will likely have their account hellbanned, so I wouldn't expect too many supportive comments.
I doubt a single person at the Game Developer Conference, watching a talk constantly referring to StarCraft, was at all struggling to understand that the technique was for game development.

Even if they somehow managed to avoid that tidbit of knowledge, the memory and runtime costs were fully explained in the talk, so any reasoned developer would be able to consider the applicability to their situation.
He wasn't a contractor at all points in his career, and he moved jobs in-part to gain access to more material; he was often operating with a high level of access. He had several years of planning for his leak. He isn't that great of an example case.
If you believe you have a right to throw Muslims out of Europe, which is the only way to stop increasing Muslim populations in Europe (short of genocide), then that is only possible by believing in racist assumptions (often disguised by calling them "facts").

Under democratic values, everyone is the same before the law. Therefore there have to be serious reasons to prosecute, hunt down, imprison and deport someone (and en passant destroying his livelihood, potentially his family, and causing misery and death). You essentially say that Muslims are in general not "useful", so they shouldn't have this protection.

First of all, this is deeply anti-democratic and anti-freedom. But secondly, in this argumentation there is almost always a tendency to attach negative value to certain ethnicities. To deny human rights to an ethnically distinct group means to devalue them as human beings, and this is racism.

And please don't say you don't want to get rid of Muslims... If that were really true, why are you complaining about them?
Check the iPhone's accessibility settings. There's a zoom you can turn on by triple-clicking the home button (with the right setting) that goes farther than usual and cannot be disabled by the page.
While I'm personally in favor of the Idaho Stop, the traffic laws are definitely enforced on cyclists in my locale. As I understand it, the police follow the same "logic" for bikes and cars, regarding where and when to direct actual enforcement efforts.
While I will buy this argument with regard to the web, the internet also includes bitorrent, which is quit a bit more difficult to censor (e.g. the celeb nude photos from the icloud leak).
Having run my own servers for almost 20 years, I think you're orders of magnitude safer with your own box collocated with some ISP. Commercial ISPs have very few fucks to give for people who are upset about content. Other than spam, network abuse, and crime, which are direct threats to their business, or properly filed DCMA notices, which incur legal liability, I just don't see any concern. In fact, I see a studious and practice avoidance of interest. Large ISPs just aren't very whimsical.

For the really paranoid, you can get yourself bandwidth from multiple providers; then you're only worried about synchronized whimsy. Which, I suppose is definitionally not whim at all.
You could do that. But most cars come with a handy dashboard-mounted speed indicator device, often in plain view of the driver - so you could use that to determine your car's speed instead.
When you say "they to me" it makes it sound like you want a peer-to-peer connection. Unless your internet service allows unsolicited incoming connections, then you will need to do NAT piercing. And if you are behind the same NAT (e.g., same ISP) then you will have to forward traffic through some third host who is not behind the NAT.

But when you mention "wall(1)" it makes it sound like you want to connect to some internet accessible UNIX host via ssh and chat to others who are also connected to that host.

Option 2 would be less complex.

Depending on what software is installed on the host you connect to, there are many possibilities. Back in the old days, talk(1) could be used for split screen chats. Today, tmux(1) would be my choice. Anything that uses UNIX domain sockets could work.

Proof of concept:

Does Darwin have logger(1), syslogd(8) and /etc/syslog.conf(5)?

Decide where to log the messages, e.g., /var/log/messages

Edit /etc/syslog.conf

Start syslogd

logger "your message"

less /var/log/messages

less -F /var/log/messages

tail -f /var/log/messages

Messages have date, time, priority (if any) and hostname.

You said "something basic"; this is about as basic as it gets.
"Big effect on suburb" does not become "Influence on European Culture". If these immigrants have their own culture, just by living it, they don't necessarily constitute an influence. Just like there being Millions of French in France doesn't necessarily influence German cultures...
They should. If you choose to pass a motor vehicle that is driving in front of you, and it's legal, you would cross the center line to do it. In Maryland, bicycles are considered vehicles so they should be accorded all the rights and responsibilities that go along with that designation. If the law says to give them three feet, you give them three feet even if you have to wait for the clearance to do it. I agree that bikes should have their own dedicated lanes but in the interim we have to deal with the law as it is. I used to drive a truck; I'm kind of a stickler for the rules.

Edit:
As an aside, I'd rather have a bicyclist ride in the center of the lane as opposed to the side. I've had too many close calls where cyclists swerved out of the way of an opening door and closed the gap quickly.
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well, yes. i'm mostly a pedestrian, not on either side here.
Yeah it wasn't meant as a put-down. Those meatheads know more about their own nutrition, with respect to their focus on muscle formation, than anyone else does. "Meathead" is a literal term for that.
Now if only they'd come up with a device to make sure drivers stop at stop signs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GneVKDI_bEc
Why Startups Love Moleskines
Rather than go back and forth, the main thing I was trying to convey is that I enjoy free speech on the internet. I have become accustom to expressing myself on reddit within the particular subcommunities I visit. I think that deletion of content, censorship and capitulating to groups that feel marginalized will ultimately destroy the site. Communities form all over the internet, reddit isn't "good" or "bad", but it will stop existing if they continue to capitulate like this.
Few upvotes? No comments?

This is an interesting article about the poor quality of snack food being sent here from India. I also learned something that contradicted some of my prejudices about China:

more than half of all the snack products that
were tested and then blocked from sale in the U.S.
this year were from India.
...
Mexico, a much larger trading partner of the U.S.,
was second in terms of rejections this year,
followed by South Korea. China — whose exports to
the U.S. are worth ten times as much as India’s —
was a distant eighth.
This tool is not arbitrary.

> If you decide to ride in the middle of a lane while on a bike, should the car drive in the other side of the road to pass you?

Where I live, bicycles are vehicles. They are vehicles, and vehicles have the right to use the entire lane; Especially when there are no bicycle lanes.
That used to be true. It isn't anymore, because people are working on decentralizing the web. This makes the web uncensorable and permanent.

The two most promising projects in this area are IPFS[1] and Ethereum's Swarm[2]. When we rebuild social networking and publishing on top of protocols like these, the problem this post illustrates will go away. Anyone who wants to help build these systems can email me (address in profile) and I'll try to send you to the right people and resources.

[1] http://ipfs.io/

[2] https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Swarm-Contract, https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/URL-Scheme
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> We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

http://www.beliefnet.com/Quotes/Christian/M/Mother-Teresa-Of...
1. Your certificate is only valid for https://worldself.com but you link to https://www.worldself.com - everyone is getting a certificate error.

2. After going to https://worldself.com I am greeted with a "login page" and a note that this is available on stores. But what does the app actually do? I'm not going to download it to just find out.
When I was in college we turned in papers via "Turnitin" which checked for plagiarism and uniqueness etc.

There's an interesting research paper about their algorithms here: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci725s2c/archive/...

And if you search for "Turnitin Plagiarism Algorithm" I'm sure you'll find a few more resources.
Facebook has a huge team in the Philippines doing manual gore removal. There was an article on how the people doing that work can't do it very long as it's mentally taxing. Since this was a picture of a dead person, I bet this was just removed by that team.

Edit: Link to the article: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
I'm immensely skeptical that Facebook would delete this from his personal Facebook account.

It's not that I don't think Facebook is capable of censorship. It's that I doubt they'd extend their hand over such a small matter. What possible crazy conspiracy theory connects duck boats and Facebook headquarters (beyond "all corporations are evil and regularly meet to decide how to suppress the evidence")?
Only people who think and express themselves within HN's borg-like ideological parameters can coexist here. If you say or believe something not in harmony with The Borg, you'll soon be talking to yourself only.

I fully expect to be hellbanned (or downvoted into oblivion and then hellbanned) for expressing this view.
Ask HN: What can I do to make my web activity private?
As a British citizen, I'm quite worried about the Snooper’s Charter act becoming law so I want to start protecting my data.

Can HN recommend any resources that will help me accomplish this?
Why not make your own...

https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=ultrasonic
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Bosch-130-ft-Laser-Distance-Measu...
I don't think that "personal curation" is a longterm workable solution. It's too much of a burden for most users. We need audit-able personal algorithmic filters.
How do you tell the difference between cars breaking the 3 foot rule, and cyclists breaking the 3 foot rule?
Yes, yes he did. Which many of the articles on this topic will explain to you in detail. Not that I expect a literal anonymous douche to have done the work to understand the problem.

If you would like to do some reading and still have actual questions, feel free to ask me, preferably by email. As I state in my profile, anonymous posters get a lot less leeway from me, and I'm not really interested in doing Sexism 101 for somebody who can't be bothered to spend 15 minutes with Google.
Here's a project idea you are free to steal: write a browser plugin that analyzes HN comments and shows up something on the screen. Like "honest", "deceptive", "gratuitously negative".

Brownie points for HN admins if they add text analysis as feedback when we press submit.

I'm tired of signing up with a brand new HN account every few months to cover my tracks after embarrassing myself with less than noble posts.
Huh. I was pretty sure Gerv spent a while hunting down contributors, but maybe I'm misremembering something. Clearly I must be!
The D in WWDC doesn't stand for Designers...
Salts are almost never secret, in fact; typically the salt is stored in plaintext alongside the hashed password. As you note, that's because the salt is supposed to defeat pre-computed rainbow tables, not be a shared secret.
Micro project funding
Thanks, but it doesn't really match what either I or the article described. I'm not trying to measure a distance. I'm trying to prove to my city planners and my elected representatives that many drivers on particular routes are unsafe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9716496
Startups are chipping into the big banks
What kind of blades does the company make? Are they multi-blade?

Harry's is a great idea, but I've been happy with double edge razors for a while now: http://baus.net/shave-kit
IMHO: If your plan is to outsource these projects, the most important factor is your level of comfort with the code. Outsourcing is tricky, and you might need to be very hands on (for code reviews, bug fixes, project planning, etc). You don't want to be building prototypes that you couldn't maintain/troubleshoot yourself.

I say that all to say: go with what you know.

Sure, the differences between certain platforms and technologies do matter (especially at scale)... But if your only present-concern is getting products out the door, then your comfort-level should trump all other concerns.
I like the thought of it, but I have a lot of fun hobby project ideas already. Realistically the amount of work it would take to make something good is a lot more than $200 of my time. But if one person makes 100 of these, maybe it's worth $20,000 of their time.
Actually measure yourself and get back to us.
Tech Startups Woo Investors with Unconventional Financial Metrics
Why Apple Music Is Going to Beat Spotify
Conditional Blocks Support for LINQ Reporting Engine and Floating Shape Rendering
Magna Carta, Still Posing a Challenge at 800
You check to see which one was doing the passing.
Its still taken care of by your hosting company, it's just that Facebook, twitter, etc. are currently popular content hosts.
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not at all an expert but one of the first step might be getting a good VPN and TOR Browser.
It's just kerberos/hesiod/afs/moira/etc. plus zephyr, third-party client, config files, etc. That doesn't even count as "installing other software", really. Oh, and cross-realm keys with any site you want, etc.

(I guess you could run Zephyr with somewhat less than that, and maybe it has improved in the past 15y for small deployments, but, when I tried in 2001 it was insane)
I think the point was that they are uncharacteristically bad (not to belittle those killed in car accidents).
While linux x86_64 only, this is precisely why I built sshtalk -- https://2ton.com.au/sshtalk, or just ssh 2ton.com.au to see for yourself, I leave it open as a public/free service
"Will this law prohibit a bicyclist from passing a car closely?

No."

https://bikeeastbay.org/GiveMeThree
[deleted] means the submitter deleted it or asked us to. We never do that unilaterally.
Late but does that now work in all applications?

3years ago this worked in some applications, in others you had to use the old ctrl-a/ctrl-e (which couldn't be combined with shift) or cmd or control-left/right/up/down.

Can't remember the details anymore, but I think I figured I needed at least three different combos for home/end back then.
Well red light cameras can capture license plates, so all we need to achieve parity is legally require front and back license plates on bicycles. Seems reasonable, eventually inspection stickers too. Want to make sure brakes work, has working lights. More like motorcycle requirements perhaps?

Edit: just to frame, I did not watch the youtube video you linked to, I was just brainstorming out loud and I don't think anyone should run red lights
I suspect a lot of this data that's commercially collected, directly by services and indirectly by advertising and analytics networks, will eventually end up in the digital storage closet, forgotten and eventually discovered by criminals just rooting around. Especially after acquisitions.
Don't waste your money hiring contractors to build your product, especially off of oDesk.

Personally, what I'd recommend is find someone local (yes it'll cost more), and say that what you want to do is pair program with them with the intention of bringing up your skill and comfort level with programming.
It's not just "cute", that's the whole point.

Somewhat surprisingly, it was found that similarity of word representations goes beyond simple
syntactic regularities. Using a word offset technique where simple algebraic operations are performed on the word vectors, it was shown for example that

vector(”King”) - vector(”Man”) + vector(”Woman”)

results in a vector that is closest to the vector representation of the word
Queen.
In this paper, we try to maximize accuracy of these vector operations by developing new model
architectures that preserve the linear regularities among words. We design a new comprehensive test
set for measuring both syntactic and semantic regularities, and show that many such regularities
can be learned with high accuracy.
At least he didn't put out another update that opens a new tab and starts typing out more of his thoughts automatically.