skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also important to note that there were a number of factors playing into the Civil War. Slavery was but only one of the factors, albeit the highest profile one (and likely the one with the longest and nastiest shadow when all is said and done).

I do agree your thoughts and want to push further - it is critical to not exoticize the Confederates into an 'other', unknowable, evil, "literally Hitler". The Confederates were as human as us all - they fought for similar reasons as people do today, with the common shared fate of soldiers everywhere: death, destruction of family, trauma stemming for years afterward, vast distortions of the previous culture from the scars of war.

We "simply" disagree today on certain key beliefs.

This immediately leads to the question: What beliefs today that we hold will be considered as bad as what the Confederates held?
Is Gravity Time’s Archer?
Thankfully this isn't the situation everywhere. I've been with VMware for about a year and a few months ago I made a comment/joke to my tech lead how I was extremely surprised (given my fairly nontraditional background) that I even got an interview...he then told me any application that includes a link to a github profile must get passed along (thus engineers on the relevant team are the ones that determine if the applicant should be interviewed or not).

[N.B. I have no clue if this is applicable for all of VMware of just my location]
You might like a safety razor. You can buy much sharper blades for less money.
I'll make sure to sample the field. I'm kinda drawn to how OHRRPGCE works and looks. I guess it kinda scares some people, though. :) I'll definitely put a lot of work into doing research for the UI. I'll give Unity another try. Though, I'm not quite at the GUI/editor phase, yet.
His criticism of Gruber (and others) is apt, and important. Even when these guys are being honest about the flaws in the things Apple makes, they offer very little structural critique of what has become the most profitable company in the world and a major driving force in the tech industry.
Ask HN: How long does it take you to deploy?
And how often do you deploy? Would love to hear about different stacks, stages of product/company, how often you push to prod, and especially how long it takes from start to finish

I'll start- right now our large but fairly vanilla Rails app takes about 15 minutes: 5 minutes for tests on CI to pass, then 10 minutes for deploy (mostly because of asset compilation time).
Mapping tool Mapme finds $1M to expand globally
I wrote this case study to analyze how Mayvenn built up to 10s of millions in revenue and 30,000 hair stylsits across the United States. It was great to talk to Taylor Wang (COO of Mayvenn) and get his thoughts on it all. Esp on Email vs. SMS. Let me know if anyone has any questions!
Been an iHeartRadio fan for a few months now. Love the fact that they normal only play an ad when you first load it and thats it (and usually its an AllState ad with Dean Winters who was AWESOME in Oz).

Never really gave Google Play Music a shot since, quite honestly, no one every talks about it. I've tried Pandora and Spotify and they weren't all that great. Well Pandora was only good because if you install AdBlock you never got ads. I'll have to try it out and see if maybe a switch is in my future.
As a Credit Karma user, this sounds like bad news. I was happy with the service I was getting at the price I was getting (free but with the knowledge they were probably selling my info to their partners). But I'm now worried what exactly they are going to have to do to justify $3.5 billion. Can you really earn that kind of valuation peddling new credit cards and refinanced loans?
The Copyright Office does suggest that it could still be a good idea, even though it's no longer required:

> Use of the notice may be important because it informs
the public that the work is protected by copyright, identifies the copyright owner, and shows the year of first publication. Furthermore, in the event that a work is infringed, if a proper notice of copyright appears on the published copy or copies to which a defendant in a copyright infringement suit had access, then no weight shall be given to such a defendant’s interposi­ tion of a defense based on innocent infringement in mitigation of actual or statutory damages, except as provided in section 504(c)(2) of the copyright law. Innocent infringement occurs when the infringer did not realize that the work was protected.

(http://copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf)
I was being facetious :) These generalizations aren't terribly useful. It doesn't matter if all power comes from the sun/wherever if you can't put that thing in your car and drive somewhere, or use it to make your light bulbs work.
Just don't fake the test data. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/639023.stm
You can make any website a webwrapper "desktop app" using Chrome/Chromium's "Create application shortcuts..." in its More Tools menu. It just opens the website without any browser chrome, and prompts you to create a desktop shortcut for it. For a while, this was what Slack was recommending to Windows users for a "native" application, and it is still what they recommend to Linux users (see the bottom of the page here: https://slack.com/getting-started).

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95710?hl=en
I've had just the opposite experience, and the multi-blade razors really irritate my skin.
How in the hell did I forget about Bolt Thrower?

Shame on me!
Unless the center of your argument is based on race, every country would have to ban Netflix, McDonalds and Hollywood movies.
P2P networking lib for Android/iPhone
You are right, it is a pity that you are downvoted.

It is a pity unconditionally. I expressed a subjective impression related to the topic at hand and asked constructively for explanation. There was simply no reason to downvote.

The downvotes and the first-generation replies to my comment show that this is not the place for a discussion about the worthiness of SSD's for games.
From the article:

> So even as people rise from poverty to middle class faster than ever, BNEF predicts that global electricity consumption will remain relatively flat. In the next 25 years, global demand will grow about 1.8 percent a year, compared with 3 percent a year from 1990 to 2012. In wealthy OECD countries, power demand will actually decline.

The doubling time at 1.8% per year is 39 years.

This must be some alternate definition of the term 'flat' I was previously unaware of.
A simple approach to segment trees
'cheaper' is a comparison. 'hard' is not.

I don't think anyone wants salaries to go into free-fall but that's not a necessary result of easing immigration.
I wish more French companies did the same after the recently passed surveillance law. But even those that promised they would do it like OVH, changed their minds after the law passed.
I imagine in this case, some of the recruiters may only have a cursory understanding of the job requirements. Evaluators may know you need to mention Python, but not what a pull request is, or how to look at what you've contributed on GitHub. They may be asking the question to simply provide whatever answer you give to someone more qualified to evaluate it. (Also, even if they look at your GitHub, they may want to see how you answer in person. I've definitely been asked questions that were answered on my resume, but it's also sometimes a conversation starter to a deeper topic.)
Besides ready to use packages, main advantage of Emacs - its extensibility - I'm writing a lot of custom code in ELisp that helps me analyze files with results, interactively work with data in multiple databases (using some Clojure code executing via CIDER), etc.
Profitably has never been the most pressing concern for these growth companies. Amazon went 20 years before turning a consistent profit, so it's not like there is a well-defined upper-limit where profitability is mandatory. Amazon made a trade-off choosing revenue over profitability, and that's what investors want.

Investors care less about actual profits than the ability to prove profits can be generated. Once it's demonstrated/proven that profits can be attained, investors become extremely patient. As long as potential profits keep rising, the enterprise value will rise, and investors will be happy. This is not the Warren Buffett approach, obviously, but that doesn't make it necessarily wrong or invalid. It's consistent within the theory of rational expectations.
Driverless cars will reshape the economy, but these hurdles will make it slow
Show HN: Plaidchat – A Slack client for Linux
No way! I read that book in Junior High. Very well written, and very enjoyable. Didn't realize this was the same guy! Love it.
Reminds me of an old joke. A man sees a $1 book describing how to become a millionaire and buys it instantly. Upon reading it, however, he finds that the recommendation is to sell a million $1 items.

Instead of reading this crap we could actually read something interesting. How's that for advice on how to rank on the first page: do or say something interesting.
The original title was much more linkbaity.
Yay , more micro dollars for artists ...
Being able to upload your own music has been the only reason why I use this. I have a lot of mixes that aren't commercially available so this is basically the only way I can listen to them without having the actual MP3s on whatever device I happen to be using.
It's not "hidden" per se, it's the first SO result for googling "ruby generators".
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A 30 second spot after each song is simply too obnoxious - you'd lose users faster than you can say "monetizing advertising" (even in that annoying sped-up commercial voice).
Investigating code deltas tells you nothing about HOW the code got there. It's there. Someone committed it. But WHY? Hence, the commit message.

"new feature. fix it. fixed. lol. WIP. COMPILES NOW"

None of these tell you how the commits came to be other than that they are already there.
Is your argument that we aren't in a bubble really "it hasn't popped yet"?
This is a nice additional option, but I won't be cancelling my subscription. I hate ads.

What I want to see from Google Play Music (aside from a name change) is:

- Keep improving music discoverability. It has become better, but could be further improved.

- Family plan. I want to pay $15/month and give it to my wife and kid.

- Fix the strange YouTube bug, where if I hit pause on Play Music, and then start a YouTube video within a few seconds I get an error telling me I am already playing media on that device (or similar). What does YouTube have to do with Google Play Music anyway? YouTube is ad supported, Google Play isn't. There is no cross-over. This issue shouldn't be a "thing." Plus I might be watching a YouTube video muted and listening to music (yes, people do that!).

- The new interface is arguably a step backwards (just like every Google Maps update). You keep "simplifying" away functionality.

- The offline playback stuff continues to be pretty clunky to set up. If I know I am going on a road trip and will be driving out of range, actually adding that music to the device is a huge pain, and often the easiest way is just to leave the device playing music for days and let it build up a cache. Horrible.
>> 20,000 all-male metal bands...

20,000 all-male bands who don't kill as hard as Kylesa or Thorrs Hammer maybe.

It's starting to sound like you've got a pre-existing conclusion, that girls can't rock, and you're trying to find something to support that conclusion regardless of what other evidence is presented.

I say that in the Metal scene it's widely acknowledged that women can rock just as hard as their male peers. We stamped out a lot of that sexist shit a while ago.
To be fair, I did _just_ see them this past weekend.
It still helps them to look better against already established Spotify.
Not only is that false, but no country would have to ban tourism or immigration. (Not having "open borders" doesn't add up to such bans).
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That's not an answer to the point above. Having people who live in our society but are ineligible for our social benefits is harmful and destabilizing to us.
If you have iOS, then wait 7 more days until Apple Music is coming out. My Spotify premium thing expired after 1 year now, so I have tried out all music services out there this month. My conclusion is that if Apple Music does not provide the integration I am seeking for (since I have an iPhone), I will just go back to Spotify. I am currently on the Google Play Music trial. It is pretty good, but I do not like the "Android" app on my iPhone. If you have an Android, I'd go with Google Play Music.
Yeah, same here. It's closer to other phonemes, whereas "Alexa" sounds like fewer things.
There are two specific issues that come up regularly, and two background issues with the whole concept of free trade agreements.

Specific issue #1: the TPP, like a bunch of other trade agreements, includes semi-binding arbitration. Enact a system of regulated free trade and you generate disputes. But there's no meaningful international legal system (a "world trade court" that can resolve those disputes. Trade dispute resolution is therefore extrajudicial. (TPP's arbitration is "semi-binding" in that TPP arbitrators have authority only to impose fines; they can't change our laws).

Specific issue #2: a key goal of TPP is to harmonize worldwide IP laws with those of the US. But much of the world has lax IP laws compared to the US, specifically for drugs. Dean Baker at CEPR --- a credible and fiercely liberal economist --- believes drug regulation will increase prices in the US (by how much, I haven't really seen estimates). Pretty much everyone believes that if TPP is actually enforced for pharma, it will increase drug prices in the rest of the world, and also squeeze out companies that have carved niches for themselves by arbitraging the different patent regimes to manufacture drugs that are still on-patent in the US.

Background issue #1: modern free trade agreements always involve IP regulations, and IP is a valence issue on Internet forums: most vocal Internet commenters ambiently oppose all IP regulation. TPP doesn't significantly alter IP law in the US, but it does further ratify that law, taking us steps away from reforming them. If you think IP reform was in the cards, you don't like TPP.

Background issue #2: the US economy is, by design, owned by large companies; those companies are in turn mostly owned by large investment firms. A plurality of the stakeholders in those firms are "wealthy elites" (not scare quoting). Free trade agreements that the US supports are designed to juice the economy, and thus improve outcomes for big companies. "Wealthy elites" have far more direct exposure to investment upside than "workers". So there's a natural concern about conflict-of-interest: TPP will benefit the wealthy more than it will the working class.

There are reasonable rebuttals to all these points, but you asked for the liberal brief against TPP, and I think that's a solid summary of it.
finally some data... the chinese firewall does not appear to be a big issue
I use Credit Karma, very much enjoy the service.
That, and it's really good as an editor.

A lot of commercial IDEs are very well integrated with language and toolset, but often they're really not very good text editors (Visual Studio, I'm looking at you)
Yes, a big disappointment.

As the silence of the ISPs.
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I use Gear Player which works quite well: http://www.gearmusicplayer.com/
It's okay hopefully all this gets merged into atom when these projects don't get the userbase they are looking for.
My Google play killer feature happened other day and wasn't even announced. They increased the amount of music you can store from 20.000 to 50.000. I have a very large collection of independent Brazilian music. You can't find these kind of music in any streaming service. Now I can have a cloud backup of all my music for free! And I also can here it anywhere. I even bought a new CD reader and resumed to rip my music collection.

My great fear of these services is that you will have a less diverse music ecosystem. Sure the average Anglo-American listener has a lot more options, but if you want to learn about other cultures, you are toast.
As a recent Emacs convert I was able to develop happily for Android/Java, Ruby, Rails, Web, WordPress and ChucK, Octave music language, a lot of CSV/Data import tasks, and minor C/C++ edits. For each one I had used a lot of IDEs earlier.
The system absolutely screws people all the time. But in this case I don't feel like it happened here. This appears to be a case of "I'll just be a good person and things will work out in the end" hopeful wishing.

Never leave things that matter to you up to other people.
Shining Light on Refugees' Energy Needs
I don't really understand why this article is here. The most interesting thing here is that the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychology is resorting to clickbait.

As an aside, from what I know about rhabdomyolysis, it's a condition that can appear when people who are very much sedentary perform very rigorous exercise. Though I don't know anything about this individual, I would suspect that the primary cause for this person was the fact that they helped the family member move for several hours, and that the skinny jeans part is really more of an aside.
Just out of curiosity, can you sketch out some back-of-napkin numbers that would actually show how it's unsustainable?
Well if you don't work you can't get money. So if there are still other economic activities for which you need money, not supplied by the machine then you are out of luck.
How does one "ignore" illegitimate trade agreements? By not trading with Asia?
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NSA Has Reverse-Engineered Popular Anti-Virus Software in Order to Track Users
> propagate itself on its own merits

You're right that not all traditions are worth preserving, but Darwinism isn't the best way to choose which traditions are worth preserving. The problem is that ability to propagate does not imply merit. If you put a bad guy and a good guy in a room together, sometimes the bad guy just beats up the good guy, and you realize that you shouldn't have put them together. This is the same kind of fallacy as "if a company went out of business, it must've been a bad company", and also "the invisible hand of gravity means it's good that the vase broke".

For example, there's tons of cultures that think murder for personal grievances is okay and praise-worthy. I've seen first hand what happens when such a culture meets a gentle Western culture, when the latter doesn't have an overwhelming force advantage. It's not pretty.
>It is not unreasonable for people to want to preserve culture.

It has sentimental and historical value, but I don't think it's particularly important. We can argue cultural identity, but that's only important so long as there are various cultures. In a monoculture world, the idea of cultural identity would be a lost concept.

Cultural anthropology, which while highly interesting and informative of human relations, isn't very highly valued by most people. The jobs are in such low demand (and with such low salary) that I decided not to try and get a job as a cultural and linguistic anthropologist. Which, while I'd have loved the work and have found it interesting, I can't exactly say it has much "meaningful" merit.

As for CanCon laws, I've yet to speak to a Canadian that was supportive of them. I'm sure they exist - or the laws wouldn't. A large number of Canadian Netflix users mask their IP to be from America to get "better content" [0]. It seems that Canadian nationalism is mostly a 60's/70's generation thing.

[0] http://o.canada.com/technology/internet/thousands-of-canadia...
You can't --- it has no inside.

yes it does, you just pour in/out from the bottom.
> What does YouTube have to do with Google Play Music anyway? YouTube is ad supported, Google Play isn't. There is no cross-over.

There is actually cross-over, whether you like it or not (most people don't). Youtube Music Key: https://www.youtube.com/musickey

http://lifehacker.com/whats-the-point-of-youtube-music-key-1...
>Because feeding back to the grid is only a sustainable solution when a minimal number of entities are doing it. What happens when the majority of entities are feeding back to the grid? Where is all that energy supposed to go? The answer, of course, is storage.

I was talking about solar and it's benefits at shaving peak demand. I'm not talking about moving all of our power generation to solar and storing it in batteries. That would be silly. However, that you mention the huge slack in power demand at night helps illustrate my point. Solar matches up quite well with our needs for when electricity is consumed. No, the sun doesn't always shine, but yes, it can be a great tool in managing our power needs.

See the post you replied to--I'm not one that thinks all of our power should be coming from renewables at this point--but we could use a lot more solar (and also other renewables in different scales) than we already do. Is Germany's grid in shambles because they use so much solar? Are they doing widescale battery storage of extra energy? Of course not.

If there does end up being some sort of HUGE central energy storage happening, I doubt it would be in batteries. Talk about being difficult/expensive to scale...
How is this different from using the tel: URI scheme and making a cross-platform app to handle that? Sure, I don't need to know your phone number anymore, but now I have to know your Toky URL and to download their app.
This is what happens when you try to make art as games instead of games as art. Art doesn't have to be fun. Games do.
I believe they are trying to copy my methodology I used to analyze BuzzFeed headlines: http://minimaxir.com/2015/01/linkbait/

It's not a great methodology for Hacker News-esque services since there is no central editing authority for submission titles, so comparisons are apples-to-oranges.
Why not? It's the same one that's trotted out every time.
To be fair, Yahoo's iOS weather app is beautiful.
It's more like 10 years if you include Facebook - that's an entire business cycle, or about the same duration as the 1990-2000 internet boom. But in siding with Andreessen and others, I think this one has further to run.

But I am pessimistic about the hardware unicorns (fitbit, skullcandy, jawbone) as opposed to the app/website ones, so It's not like I am emphatically bullish about everything. http://greyenlightenment.com/billion-dollar-startup-club-pic...
It's strange to have a demo for a voice chat system with no audio track.
For Go (the meetup), we will always create the events here: http://www.meetup.com/Go-London-User-Group/

For the conferences... you can expect a Golang conf next year :) But I don't really see any centralised place. I usually keep up to date about them with my twitter feed.
I know, but if one has Prolog on his/her toolbox, Erlang becomes more approachable than knowing only Algol style languages.
We'll create a thread at 9 am PDT, and interested companies (or people)
can submit a top-level comment

Don't forget to add it to the open-office thread on friday.