skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of extremist hyper-libertarian hiveminds like you find on certain threads on HN, saying "I'm here to disrupt" aka destroy lives and take as much money for yourself as possible or "the government is by definition socialist" (a silly and false claim -- government in the United States is generally wholly owned by wealthy capitalists who provide no value to society other than 'currently having money' and is in the business of socializing risk and privatizing rewards) and demanding that noone ever hold you responsible for the consequences of your actions because "thinking about how my actions effect people isn't in my personal self-interest"... well, it won't endear you or your position to anyone and it isn't convincing, it's just childish and entitled (a rather succinct description of general Libertarian political philosophy in fact). Sure you might not be legally required to be a good person, but if you choose not to be, then you're a bad person, but you've chosen to be so don't whine when people call you on it.
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Your rationale is certainly a strong one - salary is but only one consideration in the end.

What was your experience with the former white panther like?
You're cutting your own throat when you dismiss freedom of speech.
The only real use case for this is if you drive somewhere, get drunk unintentionally, and need to get home with your vehicle.

Planning ahead and using Uber is obviously the more economical solution.
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I prefer Atom, although I never was quite a ST3 super-user.

The speed issues are all but gone imho (start-up is a bit slow, but I have it open almost all the time so I hardly notice).

The main reason I switched was because Atom is FOSS, and that always bothered me about ST3. It's also very easy to hack on, which is nice as well.
Nothing surprising here, Wikipedia has long been used as a personal soapbox by some of the more opinionated editors.
>The Confederate flag represents and evil institution

The US flag represents slavery as well. We changed it to something more socially acceptable, but we moved it to the prisons, stocked it with racist laws, and to this day continue to profit off of forced labor. To say nothing of the slavery American countries profit off of by outsourcing.

Of course, prison slavery isn't as bad. Instead of being born a slave if your parents are, you just have a much higher chance of ending up in prison. Instead of being for life, it is for only a portion of your life with strong incentives to bring you back once you are out. But it is still quite horrible.
Because gun control is pretty much dead in the US. If 20 children being killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting wasn't enough to pass new legislation, 9 adults certainly wouldn't be. The flag has become an issue so politicians can be seen "doing something."
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Licensing of syndicated content. When an OTA station buys programming, they buy the right to air it in the specific geographical area that station is licensed to broadcast it, so the production firm can sell it in the next city as well.

If the station streams that programming online, there's no clear way to limit the broadcast to the same (or any) geographical area and that means the price would be a lot higher. Basically, the only content they could stream would be their own stuff, like news. And even then, TV production is a myriad of sub-contractors and small production firms and the contracting in place might only release the right to broadcast in the specific area (so, if they get a story of wider regional or national interest, they can license that content to other stations).

On the other hand, if the production firm streams it online (or licenses it to Netflix or to someone else with streaming rights), the content isn't exclusive and can't be relied on in the same way to drive eyeballs to the TV station that might license it, and the content would command a lower price - so the production firm is only interested in that if they can command a price from streaming that makes up for this.

It seems that production firms are increasingly finding that last possibility to be viable, and given the fast migration of viewers online, it's only going to go that way.
i have been using it for 3-4 months now and its getting there each month. Sometimes the plugins fail but this could be because of the rapid development cycle of atom.
On the positive side, its a good text editor, easy interaction, plugin install super easy.
A downside is that its not easy on your ram though. Consumes more than what vim would do. But overall, if you need a modern editor, this is the way forward.
No, recent patch increased the limit to blazing 4 MEGABYTES!
It's not really a big deal on this case.

But either case, there are so many things, unless you are competing or there is a big player with such name, I think it's fine. Also, in these cases you usually say Atom editor or Atom feed.
"Move fast and break things" worked when valuations were sky-high and stock options could have been worth something. With interest rates going up and valuations coming down as a result, we are definitely going to start regretting what's been broken.
No. See these release notes: https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/tag/v0.208.0
"whether today's Confederacy enthusiasts agree or not, the Confederate flag surely sends that message to many of those who see it being flows -- particularly, of course, African Americans."

If today's confederacy enthusiasts disagree, then it means the culture doesn't represent slavery. Many in the south had relatives that fought and died for the confederacy. It means something to them, but this doesn't seem to matter to anyone.

"surely does not exist for the express purpose of cultivating terrorism"

The confederate flag doesn't exist for the sole purpose of slavery. Just like Islam representing terrorism, it's just one of the many facets. I would also like to point out that Islam does represent the subjugation of women (even if the the people part of the religion don't see it this way). Any woman involved in the religion has to keep their head covered (some, their entire body) and in pretty much all Islamic countries, the laws are heavily biased toward men. Homosexuality is also illegal and can mean jail time.

"And, more to the point, the public reaction simply reflects, I think, widespread agreement that this is the case."

A small, vocal, minority of people agree (like in most things). We have had the confederate flag around for many, many years. I don't ever remember even hearing a peep about people even giving a shit that it was for sale or flown. Not one person in government trying to get it removed or one article online (before this incident)
wanting it removed.

If it was really a huge issue, why the outcry now? And why are we blaming an entire culture for the actions of one person?
> Remember the age of Fogbugz. It was initially released in 2000.

God, don't I half remember it. I was a junior ASP dev at the time, for my sins. Java was hot like the sun and PHP was the default choice for the young and penniless. Perl was mainstream. Python and Ruby were new and rough (they were crap for webdev on shared hosts, with zero support by ISPs, but alpha geeks were already flocking to their ecosystems, Python in particular).

I'm sure part of the reasoning was that FogBugz did not start as a product -- the product back then was CityDesk, which was even more tied in the MS world -- but still, the "server scene" back then was already unix-y, which is why they were pretty soon forced to consider Linux support. I still think it was a shortsighted approach but hey, FogCreek is still alive 15 years later, so I guess it wasn't all that bad.
Both are good editors, I haven't tried Atom in about a year. Try it and then report back.
Cool little graph, hat-tip to your designer for using each platform's respective branding where applicable.

It would be interesting to see how they waterfall into one another with the services that are built/extended from IRC or XMPP.

Related great read by David Auerbach [0] where he talks about the heated back and forth battle of reverse engineering and obfuscation between them and AOL.

[0] https://nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/
Is anyone really going to be confusing a text editor and an outdated rss format
I only keep using ST because of:

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/5344
https://github.com/atom/fuzzy-finder/issues/57
Atom is nice but much slower than ST3. It takes 30 seconds to open a file while ST3 almost instantly loads.
It's not worth switching from Sublime.
Like the original Google ads? Before they bought DoubleClick, they were just plain text and people actually liked them.

Or, better yet, reddit ads. Honestly, I feel like I'm missing out when I turn reddit ads off, so I don't do that anymore: they make an excellent subreddit discovery engine, so they're actually useful to me.
I don't see the problem, they aren't even in the same domain.
And that's why companies don't provide a lot of training. Turnover is incredibly high in SV. Most people stay at jobs for 2 years, so if it takes a year to get them to the equivalent level you're making a large investment for little return.

To answer the question of "why not just pay them more to keep them?", it isn't always that simple. Two years is a long time in startup land, meaning the equity component offered by a much smaller company can be really compelling and unreasonable for the parent company to match.

It may make sense for the employee to take that job, but it also therefore makes sense for the employer to not train them if they think they're going to leave.
I switched from Atom back to ST3 a month ago.
The site is severely hammered right now. I'd like to try it again to see if the performance issues have improved.
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This has been improved and no longer has this limit.
However, I still find Brackets more responsive in general and is what I still use mostly.

I think the future has a lot of potential though, as Visual Studio Code has demonstrated you can indeed have a very responsive editor built on javascript.
Why do roads exist from door to door?

Especially in european cities with a historic core, this is just not the case - even in my city, it's common knowledge to NEVER take a car into the city, as the roads are just always fully congested.

Public Transport is the only long term solution. Especially when one takes the cost for building roads into account. And if one considers that with public transport 100% of the fare goes back into the infrastructure, while with self-driving cars operated by for-profit businesses most of your fare ends up in the pockets of a rich investor overseas. Which is just not desireable.
If you have a setup that works for you, probably not. Atom's main advantage is that it's in a DOM environment and people could do neat things with it but at the moment the efforts have gone into putting it roughly at feature parity with ST3.
Yes, it was a well known fact back then. I'm sure I heard talks or articles from Gosling, Guy Steele, and others that explicitly said this as well.
> It's always struck me as extremely bizarre that a company that regularly advertises that it's at the bleeding edge of software engineering practices (...) made such a colossal error as writing their own language

Just like ... Rust.
The major broadcast networks are who you compare yourself to if you want to talk about your reach. It only stands to reason that the free, over the air TV channels will have more viewers than a channel you have to pay to have the ability to view (cable), then pay more before you actually get to see their content (HBO). Two different metrics.

Kind of like how Apple touts how much money they're making from iOS and the App Store, while Google talks about how many devices are running Android. Android has a lower barrier to entry, while the iPhone has a greater profit margin. Two different metrics for two different demographics.
Fair enough. It seems that most timeshare deals have figured out the balance of pitch to product though. The internet, however, is filled with hack jobs that make your page take 11 seconds to load. It's like the timeshare guy that keeps grabbing your shirt when he wants your attention.
Just about everyone agrees with the preexisting conditions aspect of the law. The problem with the law is much bigger than that however. I'll try to break down some of the issues to clarify.

1. The law institutionalizes a broken insurance and pharmaceuticals system that puts profits about health outcomes.

2. Because of high deductibles, the employed poor are paying for care they cannot afford to use, in effect subsidizing the upper classes who can.

3. Dependents become a burden to tax payers b/c they are now responsible for their health coverage. (Think unemployed granddaughter who lives with, but also helps take care of, her grandmother.)

4. Administrative requirements are out-of control. And digital record systems are proving to be a complete disaster (thanks to lousy regulations).

5. The system continues to perpetuate employee provided care.

6. It unfairly burdens the young to placate the old.

I am sure others can add to this list.
I think this fits in very well with Apple's recent push on its pro-privacy stance.

The WWDC session for this feature specifically highlights a major privacy issue this can help solve: blocking privacy-invading tracking scripts.

It's completely possible to show ads without tracking every move the user makes across the web.
I tried a few things myself, like fpm[1], rpmvenv[2] and lately pex[3] - but so far, I haven't found something, that I would call solid and simple. We have constrained deployment environments that do not allow most of the tools, that would ease the process on a development machine. Basically, I need a deb or rpm.

I have some hopes to wrap a pex into deb/rpm, but I would not call this approach simple.

That's unfortunate since Python is a wonderful language for many data-sciency tasks - Python makes things possible and pleasant, that would be a pain in other languages.

* [1] https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

* [2] https://github.com/kevinconway/rpmvenv

* [3] https://pex.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

* Another tool: https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv
This ruling is actually very good for individual freedom. I'm happy to see that the supreme court made an intelligent ruling. I'm 54 and semi-retired. I have pre-existing conditions and if we went back to the way things used to work, I'd have to become employed full time again.

I hate everything American employment stands for. Age discrimination, employment-at-will, invention agreements, covenants not to compete, and binding arbitration to name a few.

At least now, I can continue to live off my investments and rental income, and contribute to the open source community in the areas of hardware and software design.

The taste of freedom is exhilarating!!
I would say that it's at 90+ percent feature parity with ST3; the only real downside is that the package/extension ecosystem is nowhere near as mature as with ST3 right now, but that looks like it is changing very quickly. In addition, ST3 is closed source vs. Atom is open source, and that alone could be a good reason for a number of people to switch.

My recommendation is to give Atom a chance, see if it fits into your workflow (whether it has native support for the languages/frameworks you work in, or if packages exist). If it works out, then you have a viable alternative to ST3 :)
Ditto. Strong types, bounds checking, and after Java 1.1, recursive nesting of program components.

More than Microsoft, I think Java killed Borland. Java had no IDE back in 95/96, but the compiler was free and it also ran on Linux, which Borland was late to adopt.

... then Anders went to work for Microsoft, and the rest is tragedy.
I'd be interested to know if they allow some of these (unmodified) games back on.

I suspect this is a poorly handled auto ban of anything with the flag and not the intended result.
It's actually more of a legal question. Uber only manages to work through lots of questionable tactics of which many are illegal:

- Most of the uber drivers don't actually pay taxes

- Most of the uber drivers only work for uber which makes the self-employment fictitious. This allows to disregard things like minimum wage and payments for social security.

- Most of uber drivers don't have a permission for transporting people. This puts customers at risk.

- Most of uber drivers don't have an insurance that covers transporting people commercially.

All these apply even in the case where private taxi companies are allowed. Uber's business model is based on exploiting the drivers, disregarding safety regulations and dodging taxes.
At least worth trying. I like atom a lot but it's still noticeably slower than ST3 on my late 2011 Macbook, even with SSD.
A friend of mine develops in Swift, we're doing a project together involving audio processing... there are a lot of audio and Swift related questions. You have no idea how much people talk about Taylor Swift on the internet.
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Did you try conda?
You can't buy it, but as you amass karma you do get access to additional HN features.
Safety precautions are in fact codified by law. Uber is in the business of breaking the law and ignoring all regulations. The fact that they have a substitute that follows the spirit of the regulations if not the letter and provides safety is the only reason governments have chosen to allow Uber to exist. The safety precautions Uber has ARE required by regulation, though implicitly; they act as a substitute which makes Uber's lawbreaking far less egregious.
You seriously need to cite some sources if you're going to make a claim like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law
They've removed the hard limit on this, but the app will still lag or freeze on large files. Sublime is much, much smoother on a 10mb file for example.
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Actually, the insurance problem is more complex: Normal drivers insurance does not pay if you were transporting a stranger for-profit. That’s why you need a special insurance for that, which most uber X drivers do not have
That is pretty much the same way that I remember it as well. The interesting dichotomy is that the NeXT 'cabal' as it were, primarily, the code/library developers as was I, and James was primarily language design. But the group was small enough that everyone had an opinion, and it often came up "well Objective C does it this way..." or "C++ does it this way ...". James was always a minimalist and Bill Joy (who was in Aspen working on the 'self' language) was always pushing the edge of what you could express in a language.
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The flag, flying on a statehouse, sends a message that racial hatred is acceptable to society. It doesn't make someone kill (and there are many more problems with racism than murders or that one incident), but it creates an environment where hate appears to be acceptable.
I think the stronger similarities came much later when generics were introduced. Both languages were then on a path of horrific type-nazism at that point. Strong static typing + a weak type system = rubbish. Sprinkle in design pattern-itis you have the mess both languages are currently in.

Before then java wasn't so bad.
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This is a nice, simple solution to segregating python package environments. I personally prefer virtualenv, as I can navigate around the filesystem and open ipython from anywhere within the venv. I guess I don't see the usefulness of it so much because I have no problem using virtualenv.

The relative path is an interesting trick, I'll have to keep that in mind in the future.
But the in-house language was basically a variant of Visual Basic. They basically created their own DSL because they didn't feel like any other tool satisfied their needs. Joel's not an idiot -- I'm sure he weighed the cost of doing his own language vs. the alternatives and found that the direction he took was the better way for the time.

It would have been more of a mistake if Fogbugz turned out to be a load of crap, but it's pretty good. I prefer it to JIRA.
How well does it support other languages other than JavaScript? Will I be able to do mobile Android and iOS development at some point, or Haskell, Go, etc?
I started using pip -t ever since I started coding for AppEngine. I prefer it to a virtualenv becaus it works out a lot neater with the dev server. App engine's earlier approach was to use either virtualenv or pull all the dependencies' code down into the project directory but lately, the App Engine team have started recommending using pip -t instead.
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Congrats!

I started using Atom a year ago, but at that time it was very unstable and the performance sucks so I switched back to Vim.

This 1.0 still has something to pine for: some of the essential packages are still not updated for the 1.0 API (vim-mode, etc), and when processing large files it still slows down significantly, but as they say, it's now a good foundation to build upon.
They might as well ban the Turkish flag too as that is a symbol of the genocide against Armenians --or the Soviet flag as it symbolizes the oppression of many nations and peoples by the soviet regime.

And apple would cede, if the people affected made enough of a fuss, so this whole thing is more about perception and PR more than actual beliefs in justice, etc.
dlib's face detection is the best of the open-source libs, in my experience.

http://blog.dlib.net/2014/02/dlib-186-released-make-your-own...

It's a brilliant piece of software for a number of things.
"It's not Muslims or Southern white conservatives that are the problem, it's the bigoted and hateful minorities in all groups -- think what a wonderful world it would be without their anger, discrimination and violence."

An entire culture should not be blamed for the actions of one. In Islam or with the confederate flag. But when it comes to the confederate flag, we are blaming the entire culture and removing the flag.

This is my point.

"That's not true:"

Since we are comparing the entire culture of people, this includes attacks worldwide..not just in the US. Also, do we know that all of the "Homegrown Extremists" had confederate flags? It seems you are lumping all racists into this group.
You've very eloquently argued why voting with your wallet to provide a market-solution to stop abuse and exploitation of workers will never work and why we need government regulations if there is any hope to live in anything but a capitalist dystopia with a tiny sliver of ultra-wealthy owning class, and the rest de-facto slaves.
I think there are at least two ways in which Uber is intrinsically better: One, Uber Pool, which uses network effects and a computerized super-dispatcher to let riders share cabs. Two, the concentration of capital in Uber compared to taxi companies allows investment and research in driverless cars. These result purely from Uber's size and the infrastructure which enables and is enabled by that size.
I'd really, really like to read _Wasabi – The ??? parts_.