skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there the ability to limit funding in bands to limit this 'middle ground'

ie. if we're funded between a to b we'll deliver a prototype unit, but over b we won't deliver any more until we hit c. Hitting the initial funding goal opens up a stretch goal that is independent (backers are backing the stretch goal, not the initial campaign and won't get rewarded unless it's also hit)
I love the potentially-infinite loops that are hit on "Rock the Casbah". "ROCK THE CASBAH ROCK THE CASBAH ROCK THE CASBAH ROCK THE CASBAH ROCK THE CASBAH".
Cardo looks great with a nice line-height. It's the font Leo Babauta uses for his blog Zen Habits.

https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cardo
Machine Vision Algorithm Chooses the Most Creative Paintings in History
> That leads me to conclude they're just a bunch of cowards with an inferiority complex out to hurt people to make themselves feel better. I'm sure cops exist who aren't like this but that doesn't disprove the fact that the majority are. Then you add their racism to the mix... Cowards will be cowards.

Ah yes, let's demonize a large, heterogeneous group of people because they seem to be inappropriately making generalizations about a large, heterogeneous group of people....
At least for Java, this does not look as powerful as FindBugs.
24 Option: Come Fare Soldi Online Subito?
Content aside, the article employs some really cool scrolling effects too.
JavaScript has always been a language people were uncertain how to use.

The only difference with ES6+ is that the uncertainty will come from the addition of features people have complained were missing, instead of the traditional uncertainty that came from the intersection of its flexibility and dev's desire not to learn it.
Author here - any coping skills you have used to make startups more emotionally manageable? Any in the article resonate?

Also, we launched www.7cupsoftea.com/startups to help make startups less stressful.
You have recalled correctly! That approach is precisely what we have taken with the TechEmpower benchmarks.
Well, in the same article he says "A computer is a clock with benefits." So I believe that no, he isn't serious.
Indeed, and I will talk about this to coworkers that have been nicer with me, those same coworkers have also been mistreated by the boss.

I'll say something about the boss during lunch break and I'll see how they respond, I'm not sure if some of the coworkers will gossip anything I said about the boss to the boss though.

How do you deal with that?
yeah ... trying to put it behind me. this has otherwise been a great high-level introduction to coding.
Looks like someone beat you to it Paul, more questions probably over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9700578
> The concept is that a police service is ineffective if they do not have the broad support of the local community

I suspect this has already been pre-co-opted in the United States. Journalists and community leaders and pastors and all sorts of others reflexively support, admire, and praise the police.

> A lot of other countries do this, and it works well.

They can do it because their culture(s) isn't so toxic.
As a candidate i find codility way over complex.
Are you sure?

> function isboxed() { return this instanceof Number; }
> isboxed.call(5);
true
The precision required in programming makes it hard for the right brained person who won't meet the computer at least part of the way.
All cops should be wearing cameras, but I don't think it will work out very well for the SJWs when all the interactions are clearly documented. Imagine if there was video of Michael Brown going for the officers gun, would they still riot?
The list is at http://fbinfer.com/docs/infer-bug-types.html

For Java, it's Resource leaks and Null dereferences

For C and Objective C, the list is
Resource leak
Memory leak
Null dereference
Parameter not null checked
Ivar not null checked
Premature nil termination argument
And we will always think in terms of "us vs. them" because we're monkeys, and we've evolved highly intelligent brains to, among other things, protect our bananas from the monkey tribe next door.

But we are getting better at overruling our monkey instincts with reason and compassion. So that's a good sign.
Yes, it can be used with most Java code you can build on the command line. Just run "infer -- <your_build_command>". Currently, this works with javac, Ant, Maven, and Gradle. See http://fbinfer.com/docs/hello-world.html#hello-world-android for a Gradle example.
Trademark doesn't work the way you think it does.

Just as no one is suggesting Rust the game and Rust the programming language are violating each others mark...this Trine doesn't violate other "Trine" marks. Trademark is protection for a specific mark in a specific industry, and not the exclusive right to use a word for any purpose.

Made up words are sometimes more strongly defensible... Thus "Google" would not be usable legally in the US for any product. But "googol" might be for products that don't overlap with products made by Google. But, Trine is not a made up word.
> Inflation is not only the result of printing extra money. If workers become more valuable, their salaries rise and they have extra money to spend, the merchants they trade with can raise prices as well, etc.

I don't think this part is quite right. The workers become more valuable when they produce more. (This is different from the workers command more dollars because their wages went up because the cost of living went up.)

If the workers are producing more, they can also buy more, and both supply and demand go up, and people are better off, regardless of whether they are seeing the same number of dollars, more, or fewer. (If they produce more but wages do not go up, there's more stuff for sale but only the same number of dollars chasing it, so prices go down. The workers are still better off, because they can buy more stuff with the same number of dollars.)

So increases in productivity are not inflationary. They tend to be deflationary, because they drive the cost of goods down.
But de-escalation training is expensive, whereas equipment is often given almost for free from ex-military surplus or paid for from "anti-terrorism" federal funds.

Police in other Western countries receive significantly longer training courses than US police do. This is an issue rarely discussed in this topic. If people want de-escalation, they need to fund the longer training regime and more importantly pay for it.
Resizing my browser window (Firefox 38) in the middle of reading causes a section of the story to loop infinitely.
For me it's when you can start reading and understanding the code that other people wrote. This does not mean that you have to understand the "why?"(which can be a bit hard without context) behind the code just the "how?".

I think it is a good indicator of how comfortable you are in your chosen language.
Dash to Implement Decentralized Governance System
If you're a new college grad or just new to the industry, Google rocks. But, if you have "a very particular set of skills. Skills I^Hyou have acquired over a very long career" then Google will most likely arbitrarily assign you* to whatever arbitrary team needs seatwarmers at the moment. And FWIW, my skills were considered irrelevant to Google the year I joined, but suddenly very relevant barely a year after I left.

*Unless you're an acqui-hire, and then Google once again rocks because you get both the perks and the interesting work.
you have "change the world", "python ninja", "rock star", etc.. in software engineering. Cops are people too, and what you see is just similar notions in their professional area. Cool Tazer instead of cool MacBook. Agile law enforcement with multiple refactoring... It is just bad luck if you happen to be the one being "refactored".
When you back a Kickstarter project, you accept the (diclosed) risk that you will not get anything for your money if the project fails. This is the nature of Kickstarter. Otherwise people would just do Amazon preorders like everyone else.

If you don't like this, don't back Kickstarter projects. It doesn't matter that you believe Kickstarter is a shop - you are wrong and the expectations you invent and project onto an organization do not and should not give it legal obligations.
A lot of people who blog on these ideas maintain pseudonyms to prevent Strangeloop-like witch hunts ruining their professional lives.

Neoreactionary ideas have been picked up and directly cited by cultural influencers like Ross Douthat, Ed West, and William Gibson, however. They see themselves as a right wing Frankfurt School - not noteworthy for their identities, but for their subtle cultural impact.
Send it to California then?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/North_Pac...
The gist was updated.
You can check by trying to visit their user page. If it 404s, they're shadowbanned. The shadowbanning system is terrible. It's not transparent, it just randomly censors people, some of whom happen to be spam, does not notify the people involved and offers no recourse to those who have been shadowbanned. I was shadowbanned a few years ago, I spent about 3 months spamming different reddit contacts, then one day noticed I was unshadowbanned.
Hiring Protocol
The phrases "decentralized" and "require social login" are mutually exclusive.
"the conflict over Google maps was because Google wanted too much personal information about he users and Apple wasn't comfortable with that. "

Please tell us more of your insider information about the negotiations between Google and Apple regarding maps apps for iOS.
Yeah, it doesn't break my heart that some gamblers guessed wrong and will get burned by it. I'm more concerned if they manage to wreck the regular (non-financial-sector) economy again.
It seems like a no-brainer to me. Training police officers to think like warriors indicates that they're fighting in a war. We already have enough issues with gangs turning our streets into battlegrounds[1]. Why do we need police officers to compound the issue?

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/22/how-chicago...
I'm glad I came here to read the comments that urged me to read on, because I stopped at the point where the VP was whining that his job was on the line and the software guy's wasn't. Made me a little sick to my stomach. In what company is that ever the case? Even if the VP's job is lost (rare occurrence in my experience), the severance package is more than the software person's salary for a year is.
This isn't insider information, it was widely published at the time in mainstream media.
Studied in what sense? It's one of the best studied block ciphers in the world.

I wouldn't go out of my way to use it, but I flinched a little when this report suggested its use was a vulnerability. I don't think 32 byte blocks are much better than 16 byte blocks, but 16 byte blocks are much, much better than 8 byte blocks, and so I feel like I should be consistent.
Segmented Code Cache has nothing to do with JIT caching. Or rather, it has as much to do with it as the existing homogenous code cache.
Your single example means nothing. There are (at conservative estimate) around 750,000 law officers w/ arrest powers in the USA. 114 were killed in 2014. This is a 0.016% mortality rate -- and this number includes accidental deaths while on duty. This is about the same percentage as murders only in Chicago -- meaning the population of Chicago is, on average, in more danger just existing than any given police officer is while armed and on duty.
looking at it, should be fixed in a few minutes
These crowdfunding platforms heavily rely on trust between backers and creators. I wonder how many failed projects, scams, etc. it will take before that trust is eroded? If fraud isn't policed better, Kickstarter will permanently lose many of its best backers.

Example: I once invested in a small Indiegogo art project. The creator was supposed to produce and ship a small book of comic strips to the backers. This was a very doable project but the creator never delivered and has to this day never refunded the backers. I haven't funded anything since and probably never will.
I agree, but closures and bine are expensive--present in both cases. It's better to avoid it. Granted, this is a contrived example and sometimes closures are the more elegant solution.

function Person() {
this.age = 0;
setInterval(this.incAge, 1000, this);
}
Person.prototype.incAge = function personIncAge(that) {
that.age += 1;
};

http://jsperf.com/bind-vs-closure-vs-param
> KS also claims to not be a store. It is disingenuous to try to have it both ways.

Well, maybe they're both not a store and not an investment platform?
> Anti-racist and anti-fascist organizing happens under the mantle of a thousand different groups all over the world.

And yet we are asked to believe that an obscure blogger flirting with monarchist political thought would introduce a dangerous authoritarian element if allowed to present on a technical topic. Thanks for putting this into context.
I find it worrying that Go is seemingly entirely stewarded by a company whose technical workflow is so different, to the extent that it curtails technical decisions. It's designing for the lowest common denominator in an equation that emphasizes Google.

Even if your company doesn't need or want Bundler/Cargo-style dependency management doesn't mean that you are intellectually unfit to design out a good solution together with the community. Dogfooding is great and all, but it's actually possible to design technical solutions that you won't personally use.
Warriors go to war.

If the police are warriors, if they are going to war, who are their enemies?

The answer no one speaks aloud is "We are".
I have to agree. It's not like shitty stuff doesn't get posted here all the time, but on average, HN is definitely better than reddit.
IMO, the warrior problem leads to the no accountability problem you speak of. If you program officers to think and act a certain way, then you can't really punish them when they act on their training.
A grown man chases a bikini-clad 14 year old girl. He grabs her by the hair and hurls her to the ground. He pins her down, with his knee bearing his full weight down on her bare back. He draws his gun.

Does this make you uncomfortable? Can you picture this girl as your sister, or your daughter?

Think about the real world consequences of warrior policing. This doesn't sound like keeping the peace. It sounds like a child molester's rape fantasy. That girl will be scarred for life. She will fear the police. She will fear men. Is that what we want, as a society? Is this what liberty and pursuit of happiness are supposed to be?

Do we want to be the kind of people who make excuses about how she deserved it?
I believe one area of improvement for the excessive need for precision (most of us can agree that it is excessive) is that our current tools don't use context information enough. Humans deal a lot in uncertain areas and context is what helps us.
Common Design Omissions That Wreck UX
Has it really come to vilifying a haircut? The haircut is not to blame for anything here, it is all the people who may happen to wear it.

Short hair is pragmatic, but more importantly, it is a personal preference. Nobody should be criticized for wearing short hair. Doing that makes you no better than people who talk about "long-haired hippies" disparagingly.
Show HN: pm2-webshell – Expose a fully capable terminal within your browser
Thunderbird 38 Release Notes
"this" inside the setInterval in the 2nd example points to the global object in the browser case it's the window. So, he had to cache/alias the value prior to execution to avoid the confusion.
The article also states this: "Apple stated, "Contributions from the community will be accepted -- and encouraged."

The question is what does that really mean?
Lee also has nice things to say about his performance as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man, which I recommend you watch back to back, later movie first, with the Nicholas Cage remake they're in my eyes oh god the bees. Both are very easy to stream online.

The original Wicker Man actually holds up surprisingly well; I'm surprised it got made when it did.

Edward Woodward's performance in it is so bad that it elevates Lee, so it's a pretty good showcase for non-Saruman non-Dracula Lee.
> Am I correct in thinking that this proposal only lays the foundation for other tools to actually manage the vendor folder?

Yes.

> I don't understand why Go is so insistent that dependency management is something for the community to solve

Well, they solved it, and now we are beginning to adopt their solution. Seems to be working.
You must not fly major legs or something.

Every hub-to-hub flight on United, particularly in the northeast corridor (e.g., ORD<->PHL or EWR, which I find myself on pretty regularly), not only do they run out of bin space, they pre-warn folks in boarding groups 4 or 5 to just check their bags ahead of time 'cuz odds are very good they ain't gettin' them onboard.

I fly on average once a month (though it's been roughly every other week for the last couple) and it's been getting worse and worse with every trip. Makes me glad I've at least maintained silver status... in the past I used to wait until the last minute to board, but these days, being in a priority boarding group is the difference between gate checking or not gate checking...
And the people the info came from were certainly not biased or trying to use the press to influence the negotiations.
Go Paul and Todd! Go!
tldr; watch the video: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-10/invisible-co...
I don't know if we'll ever achieve that here in the U.S. Most of these issues arise in heavily black and Hispanic neighborhoods with high crime. These folks have very little faith in the police and for good reason. The understanding that police are there to protect rich white people from poor black and Hispanic people has gotten less overt and less official since the 1960's, but it's still there to a degree, especially in the widespread practice of focusing resources on keeping violence in poor minority neighborhoods from spilling into higher income white neighborhoods.[1] And in any case historical practice has wiped out any trust that might exist between those communities and the police.

Here is the real question: how do you do community policing in the low-income black neighborhoods of Baltimore? How do you rebuild trust?

[1] As well as the practice of ignoring the deaths of gang members. Maybe they got themselves into their predicament, but you're not going to build trust among their friends and family by treating their deaths as inconsequential, especially given the prevalence of gang membership along a wide spectrum of involvement.
I signed up regardless, but am really untrusting of terms like this.

>We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will provide at least 30 days notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

So Spoken determines that no change is material and therefore never needs to provide a 30 days notice and can update their Terms of Service at any time without your knowledge. This is of course, assuming bad faith and bad conduct. This would be harmful to them if any users discovered the material change that wasn't given notice. But it's still a possibility, and that makes me uncomfortable.

>INDEMNIFICATION

This entire section. It's becoming increasingly popular in ToS of web-based services and I dislike that. Also, and correct me if I'm mistaken, but with how it is phrased they do not need to follow their ToS because you agree to defend them if they breach the Terms. This should specify the user breaching the Terms as it reads, currently, it seems to include if Spoken breaches their own Terms.

>b) a breach of these Terms

>If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using the Service.

This should be removed or reworded because that does not constitute terminating the account - as the account still exists. This implies the account is deleted if one stops using the service. I find that very misleading.

>However, by posting Content using the Service you grant us the right to publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content on and through the Service. You agree that this license includes the right for us to make your Content available to other users of the Service, who may also use your Content subject to these Terms.

Doesn't this allow other users to "reproduce" through the Service, your content? As you are waiving your rights on the content so long as it is shared on or through the Service for public display, reproduction, and distribution.

eg. I submit a spoken word piece. User Thief steals my work for their profile. Since I waived my rights for distribution through the Service, they are not breaching ToS and I cannot file copyright claims as I've waived my rights. So long as they are sharing on the Service and not a 3rd-party site of course.

Final note: IANAL
> Imagine if there was video of Michael Brown going for the officers gun, would they still riot?

That's what causes the problem. Police apologists imagine circumstances that justify their abuse, and are absolutely certain that's what actually happened.

If there was a video, I wouldn't imagine. I'd watch and see what happened.
The article cites such examples as Darwin, Webkit, and CUP--and what Apple has, and hasn't, done with them.
That's fair. I feel the same way about Android. I've got too much in my life to care about my phone freezing constantly, bugs with calls dropping because Google won't fix said bugs, etc. I needed something that "just works" like my Macbook Air, hence an iPhone.
Great point. Additional note- even with heavy US regulation, US still has its share of engineering disasters. Building code is written in response to such disasters albeit more frequently from non-catastrophic failures. For example, we might see high-strength steel requirements evolve in response to the new Bay Bridge's faulty steel rods.

The US has had its share of disasters too. We studied these in-depth in civil engineering school, including the design decisions and cost compromises made along the way. Look up Citicorp Tower's tuned mass damper in NYC (disaster pre-empted), Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway collapse (killed 114), as well as Berkman Plaza parking garage collapse during construction in Jacksonville, FL (killed 1).

Back to OP, A general rule of thumb in engineering, there's cost, quality, and schedule: pick two. I always scratch my head at celebrating at some huge engineering feat completed in a small fraction of the typical timeframe, because it surely leaves out either value engineering/cost) or quality/safety. Schedule should be optimized, but prioritized?

It's also possible that the Broad's schedule is merely a byproduct of the modular technique. The article doesn't mention cost beyond saying its a problem, and I assume that modular, industrialized construction requires factoring costs in a method similar to airplane accounting, a function of the quantity built.

To be sure, there's room for huge innovation in the construction industry, and I'm excited to see how Broad develops their methods.
The google example is bad, but I think it applies to reddit and facebook. There are no real alternatives to speak of. Now, if they really adopted policies that harsh, people would leave anyway and the competitors would experience a massive burst of growth. However, milder forms of biased content filtering could probably get through.
hah, I already saw this happening in Vietnam. People don;t give a damn about lanes.