skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never confused me. In general, on a bigger project you'll have a bunch of approved extensions, and everything extra goes through very strict code review to see whether it helps more than it confuses.
It seems like AGPLv3 won by a slim margin, and as a donator I was unaware of the voting and would have voted Apache. Since the desire was to make the selection democratic they should have sent an email with a title along the lines of 'vote request / help us choose the mailpile license'.
It's basically the GNU Classpath wording, but I had to modify it slightly to achieve my goals [1]. Part of the wording about the objective (the first sentence) was shamelessly borrowed from the Mattermost project [2]. GNU Classpath is more permissive in that its exception applies to modified versions too [3].

[1] https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/blob/mas...

[2] https://github.com/mattermost/platform/blob/master/LICENSE.t...

[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html
As in any modern luxury car, the parts most prone to failure are the 'luxury' features like powered accessories, air suspension and electric systems. Tesla has plenty of those, if not more than a comparable competitive products like let's say a Mercedes S class or Audi A8. Even though the latter have also engines and transmissions that can fail they usually don't and it's fairly rare to have those replaced or repaired (at least in the first 5-10 years/100k miles as these cars are usually not owned for longer than that by their original owners).
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No one knows why Victoria was let go, right? Even respecting privacy of employment decisions, it was handled horribly. I honestly have no idea how/why reddit management makes any decisions anymore. Instead of transparency it's obfuscation. This is just the latest.

When she is involved in a AMA it seems to go well. Better than well, actually. When I see that she is helping out I pay more attention due to the fact there is someone helping guide the person in responses.

The AMAs are a big reason I enjoy reddit.
Doing intelligent templatized form entry seems really convenient. Having signed up with a fake name/email[1], I was expecting to get an idea of what exactly this system would do for me. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have "preview" functionality for anything, and forces the steps to accomplish something to be _very_ linearized.

I can very much imagine wanting to "jump ahead" in the process when hiring a contractor. Yes, <Person X> hasn't yet informed Ironclad of their existence, but that doesn't stop me as an employer from knowing terms of the contract like compensation. Unfortunately, the workflow here seems to be:

* Get info
* Make initial Contractor Agreement
* Allow both parties to make incremental edits via dropbox (garnered this from other comments in this thread, so it could be wrong)
* When both parties agree, move on to the contracts part and repeat the "offline negotiation".

Every contract I've ever worked has been negotiated in person, and either there has been a fully filled contract (save for my details and signature) or no contract at all. I prefer the former case by far, as the latter ends up involving a face-to-face negotiation without the fine print, and inevitably holds up work when the contract has some unsavory fine print.

Having a system provide both "checkboxes" for doing things in a normal-ish way AND long-term tracking of documents would make my life a lot easier.

[1] No privacy policy means no PII data from me. You've seen plenty of this already in the comments, though.
There is no reason for Facebook to impose their politics on their users. FB can create general tools for users to customize and share.
For some more recent good examples check out http://littlebigdetails.com/
/r/videos just went dark

Seems likely to me that the problem is now too big for the admins to fix even if they wanted too. They couldn't moderate that many large subs, they don't have the manpower. There's going to be an impressive amount of bad publicity hitting reddit tomorrow, I hope to hell they have a good explanation lined up cause they're going to need it.
Fair point. However, as someone who has (professionally) jumped from many different projects, on completely different platforms, I can attest to the fact that it is often quicker to pick up a system, than to develop it from scratch. That would certainly be the case here.

Of course the code might not match their quality expectation, nor feature set, but the sell price would reflect that (I would assume).

Perhaps I'm trying too hard to argue for something, that just doesn't exist :)?

Oh, and I personally don't agree much with the "don't re-invent the wheel" adage. In software, re-inventing the wheel has made many people, many riches.
Listen, I just want to talk about Rampart.
it's undead, I'm guessing someone fixed it :)
Making an Armature, Layout Grid and Foam Core
>This "apparent randomness" of measurement results is equally true of chaotic classical systems; it's not something that only appears in QM.

Is that a fair comparison? Yes, in either case, the experimenter is limited in his predictive capability by the information available to him. But in a chaotic system, your predictive power can be improved arbitrarily by surveying more information with greater precision. As I understand it-- and hopefully you can clarify if this is accurate-- decoherence forbids a measurement from receiving information from a branched outcome, so even if you take a measurement with arbitrary access to information now and repeat the same measurement in the future, there becomes a set of information that is fundamentally off limits to the observer in a given branch.
I'd be surprised if it was about that (at least only) and not more about reddit wanting to bring AMA's back to a team at their SF office rather than NY... but your guess is as good as mine
Chaperone lean process manager for Docker containers
These look nice for consumer applications, but Big Enterprise Companies typically aren't looking for something thrown together using a RPi, and some of them are going to use a LOT of drones. The hobbyist market doesn't really seem significant compared to the number that will be used by utility, mining, telecom, and other companies with sprawling physical networks of assets.
Interesting to hear they were so dissatisfied with Celery/RabbitMQ that chose to write their own queuing system. I'm looking in to implementing a queue for background tasks right now, and was down to choosing between Celery/RabbitMQ and beanstalkd. Perhaps I'll check out their new "Taskworker" ("Kale"?) app that they have open sourced. (https://github.com/Nextdoor/ndkale)
I'm the former director of innovation for IEEE. I actually recruited many members of my team from HN. We were developing some great stuff to address many of the comments here. Unfortunately they just didn't have the stomach for it - and hardly none of it hit users (and the stuff that did was so watered down to protect current revenue streams that it's completely different (and in some cases silly).

There were a handful of folks in this thread who said they'd be interested in building some new stuff to solve the era problems in how scientific knowledge is created and shared. If anyone wants to contact me directly, I'd be happy to organize those interested, capture ideas, and see if there's something common we all want to work on. I'm at tom@thegrif.net or www.linkedin.com/in/tomgriffin.
Keep in mind the custom wording will make it harder for some companies to use your code, since accepting additional licenses can require lawyer approval. This adds value to choosing one of the common licenses over crafting a similar fork.
A Trip To The Moon - http://imgur.com/a/EkAkv
Lazy Recursion in Java with Streams
The slightly-shorter 0.60000000000000000, 0.60000000000000001, 0.60000000000000002 will break it too, for what it's worth. If you punch those in to a Javascript console, you can see that the FP representation of all three is 0.6.
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Oh dear god. Lotus Notes. I just twitched a bit.
Why you consider it is a huge security hole? Just because of the OLE Packager bug?

COM/DCOM, where OLE rests, can be very secure if they are properly used.

By the way, OLE is used widely mainly in Microsoft products.
I asked the question about BIID to see if we'd ever be able to see eye to eye. I'll save us from further discourse over the matter: we won't.

I see benefits in identifying the source or cause of [__] rather than merely treating the symptoms of [__]. I find it more beneficial to see if low sodium intake is the root cause of a persons continual headaches rather than have them take Aspirin every day they have a headache. This is something we differ in ideologically and thus we will not see eye to eye.

Your (1) only holds true when we can research alternative methods openly and decide there are no better alternatives. Loud and threatening advocacy groups, social pressures, and current popular political standings do not allow such research to be done. It also requires there to be a medical consensus and currently, there isn't one.

There is a lot of criticism over the more 'positive' results of TS studies. They are often poorly conducted, lose track of many participants, or are not set up in meaningful ways [0]. To me, that says we can do better. But we can't look into better solutions because advocate groups and TS activists shut attempts down with threats and public backlash.

This is something that personally affects me. So I feel very strongly about supporting research that goes against advocate groups and what people want others to believe.

I'm in a particularly shitty situation: I'm a minority among a minority group. I'm forced to live in their world view, even if I disagree with it. Doubly so because in the current "PC Era" I can't even oppose the popular opinion of a minority group even if I belong to the same group. I'm still trying to fathom how I can be a transexual transphobe, but many people have asserted that I am. Or worse: I'm a fraud!

I ask that you see my viewpoint: I don't think SRS is beneficial. I'm not alone in these beliefs as someone with gender dysphoria. I want alternative methods researched, for my benefit. TS activist groups actively threaten, riot, condemn, ridicule, etc. any attempts at doing so and squash them. All because this research goes against their world view and hurts their feelings. To even suggest to these people that they could be wrong is blasphemy to the highest degree. This leaves me in the dust. It leaves me and others like me behind. We aren't allowed a voice - and are increasingly silenced. It's actively harming me, and I won't stand for that.

[0] http://library.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=1895
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You've picked the wrong example here though. /r/science has hosted many AMAs in the past, so they are directly impacted.
/r/Science also does AMAs.
I haven't really formulated an opinion on pull vs. push models for metrics. For us, we're aiming to be more than just a DevOps platform. Those kinds of metrics are just one of the use cases we're trying to hit, which means that pull won't work for us. In the case of sensor data, which we want to be useful for, they need to be able to push. They also need to be able to push things that are time delayed by potentially many hours due to spotty network connectivity.

I think that push also makes it easier if you're sending metrics from an application. That is, push makes more sense if you're talking about event driven metrics, vs. sampling metrics (like from your system).

However, overall I think Prometheus is a great project. I'm hoping that as we advance the storage engine in InfluxDB, it'll become a preferred method to store long term metrics from Prometheus.

Someone also submitted a PR to Telegraf that would make it respond to metric pull requests from Prometheus, which is something we're totally up for. We just need to figure out the right structure.
Google's Tricorder
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43322.html
Ask HN: Any open-source webapp RSS reader?
Anything that can match the reading experience of feedly.com.
Show HN: Truncations of a polygon
> EDIT: disabled zoom?

Hah, the OP article does disable zoom. Disabled zoom is one of the frustrating things lately about iOS apps. Every time I try to show someone older than me something in a Skype chat, or (speaking of google) in a hangouts chat on the iPad... they cant read it - "Hang on... let me find my glasses."
I'm actually surprised that reddit allows default subreddits to go private or disable themselves in any way. Each community should absolutely be able to moderate themselves, but at the same time being a default subreddit carries extra responsibilities.
There is no reason why it would be any more difficult to certify then Airware. The 3DR stuff is already more then capable todo the task and 3DR sells in the commercial space. Source: I've personally done multiple long range (many miles) autonomous missions and landed within 3ft of the target landing zone, I have hundreds of hours of flight time with many different platforms (Naze32, APM, Pixhawk, DJI).
Shouldn't. But see this exchange in the archive (https://archive.is/jouWQ#selection-17025.0-17025.134)

'Have you felt regretful for rushing to judgement after condemning the "perpetrators" of the Duke lacrosse rape scandal during 2006-07?'

'No, the pattern is consistent. And we never want injustice to occur. But the pattern is fairly obvious, and a very obvious pattern that must be ended.'

The Reverend isn't interested in fairness to individuals, he's interested in "patterns". If he feels himself subjected to a pattern he feels unfair, well, fairness to any individual is less important than ending that pattern.

The Reverend is not the guy you'd want arguing with Yahweh to spare Sodom and Gomorrah lest He unjustly punish the innocent with the guilty.
Our goal is to release a point release in the 0.9 line every 3 weeks for the next 3-5 months. Once we've reached a good level of stability and implemented some of the key features on our roadmap, we'll start the 1.0 release cycle.

The goal is that 1.0 won't make any breaking API changes from 0.9 and its release cycle will be 4-6 weeks after whatever the last 0.9 point release is.

Basically, 1.0 will simply be the marker that the 0.9 line has reached maturity and we're locking the API there for a longer portion of time. We're trying to avoid any breaking changes between 0.9 and 1.0.
Any tax revenue increase would remain if Uncle Sam had equity as well.

Look at this way: It's your money. Literally. Would you, as a VC, or as a kickstarter-type group, give $500M to a company, with no equity stake, but Elon telling you, "Hey, it's risky I know, but it's a great investment because it will kick off all this other economic activity that will benefit you in the long run, so you don't really need equity; you will reap the benefits indirectly in greater magnitude." Of course not. It's only acceptable because it's a cause many HNers believe in, and the money does not seem "real" since it's abstracted out through tax collection and distribution.

How much of a pay cut would you accept being forced on you to pursue these dreams? Might be the next dream, you don't agree with (like a trillion dollar war).
> Are you AGAINST seeing what data he actually has?

Wow, now you're straight in the face advancing a pure and explicit strawman; he didn't at any point say he's against seeing the data. Just - wow.
Can't articulate your issues with CL, but can click the downvote button. Pretty much sums up HN these days.
No. This is the reddit community wondering WTF is going on lately in the exec board room.
They could have handled a relocation related dismissal with less disruption and more notice.
Yes I'm shocked by how UIs dealing with very precise things sometimes use imprecise dating like "tomorrow".

On the DHL website, if I am ordering a collection for a certain time, I have to choose if I want it for "tomorrow". If it's 23:00 BST from where I am accessing the website and I'm ordering the collection from a country in EEST, am I ordering the collection for one or two days from now?

This kind of sloppy UI from a company that does logistics (which is supposedly quite a precise thing) is utterly unacceptable.

The DHL website is a cornucopia of bad UI patterns.
That's not right either, but at least it's less wrong, as Ford had a far greater chance of repayment.

Government just should not be making loans like this to private entities at all.
I worked on multiple projects where the front end work was out sourced. The kind of work you get back is generally quite detached from modern standards. In the end I have spent a lot of time trying to fix what an outsourcing agency made and would say that any time saved in the short run was lost in the long run. Just remember you spend more time reading code then writing it.
Doesn't Mars have clouds, though?
It's kindof astonishing what is happening over at reddit right now.

"The internet" has it's own culture, and the people running reddit right now (one of the places where this culture is the strongest, imo), seem to have no idea how to interface with it.

It honestly feels like it got taken over by silicon valley middle management marketing types or something, and now they just can't seem to figure out why the users keep getting pissed off at them.

I know there are still people like kn0thing over there, but...what else is going on? Is there anybody over there without a business degree? Because it really doesn't feel like it.
I think a lot of the reddit administration tools, subreddit settings etc is still is catching up to its popularity
I know it's early days, but I'm excited about Salvatore's new project, Disque. He certainly knows how to find a technical niche with a big need.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818403
> The fact that the interest of the journal is now naturally aligned with that of the writer, instead of with that of the reader.

Thank you. Good observation. I didn't get that from your original comment.
> Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well. Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful.

I think anyone could have seen that coming. Anonymous accounts with community voting and an API to boot? This is only asking for trouble - especially if the AMA was done by an individual who wasn't familiar with the personality of the community or internet etiquette in general. Assuming every other AMA was respectful/successful - they were just playing a game of russian roulette.

I'm surprised that celebrities even want to go on reddit - don't get wrong I love the idea of an exchange of comments between the common person and famous people but I certainly wouldn't want to do it on an anonymous posting site.

Edit: To the downvoters - I should point out that assuming that reddit has automated systems in place to detect fraudulent voting - someone with a botnet could easily defeat it. It's easy to detect when the same guy is upvotting posts from the same IP or same block of IPs - how do you detect that when the voting are coming from all over the world? It doesn't even have to be a botnet - how do you know that the android/ios game you just downloaded isn't making web service calls in the background to a site like reddit? If I was a bad guy - I would definitely outsource development of some useful app or game and embed my upvoting code into that once it becomes popular.
Scientists Discover Another Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star
I think you make a bunch of valid points. I agree for example that politics make it hard to study this area. And I agree it is sad that there is silencing.

But I just don't see how you can say that SRS is bad for other people. Let them decide for themselves, given the evidence, much of which supports that it does help.

I agree that some people might be led by hurt feelings to jump to conclusions on this topic, as you say. But I don't think that explains the APA's position as mentioned earlier. There is substantial medical establishment support for SRS being helpful.
UK Officials Discussed Resettling 5.5M Hong Kong Chinese in Northern Ireland
Many years ago, in my first tech support job, I was helping a bright young student submit an online assignment. It was clear very early in the conversation that she was bright, so I –very unconsciously– made some assumptions. After much frustration at my inability to diagnose why she wasn't able to submit her assignment, I broke down and told her to tell me exactly what she was doing, step-by-step. It turned out she was successfully navigating to the webpage and filling out all but one of the text fields by tabbing to the field and typing in her response. But when it came to pasting her essay into the webform (from the word processor), she assumed that by selecting the browser's edit-paste menu, it would put the essay in the essay field.

It genuinely would have never occurred to me that a browser's edit-paste functionality would _know_ which textfield to paste text into. Likewise, it genuinely never occurred to her that a copied essay would be pasted into anything other than the only text field large enough for an essay, and the only text field which was labeled "essay".
Just a nitpick, but how could one see the tops of clouds when the two cameras are only negligibly above ground level?
Carries extra responsibilities with no actual rewards.

Reddit is run by volunteers, remember...
I don't think the questions were overly disrespectful. It's an Ask Me Anything, not an Ask Me Respectful Things. And it's not the first time someone has called him a shakedown artist or mentioned his out-of-wedlock child.
Recent stupidity: UI asked for postal code (knowing the address being entered was Canadian.) Without thinking, the user (not me) put it in as L6A 3Z3. When the form was submitted, it was rejected with the field flagged in Red. the error message said like "please enter the Canadian postal code in the correct format, AnAnAn with no spaces." (AnAnAn? Cryptic to non-coders; the user was baffled.)

Postal codes are written with the space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada

If you're already validating the format, how much effort would it take to recognize and accept the common variant which has the space in it? A [ ]? in the regex, and a strip spaces function call.
Plenty of AMAs go really well, so you definitely need to look for a cause other than the fact that reddit has anonymous accounts and community voting.
Some keen observations here. I think many of these idiosyncrasies in computer systems that encourage ritualistic user behavior also contribute to subconscious expectations of how systems should behave, and lead to an implicit inference of architecture from observed behavior that may or may not be proper. In turn, programmers propagate these expectations into their own work and continue the cycle. It's not about knowing what you want, it's about wanting what you know.

Speaking of frequent rebooting, I always thought the lack of support for orthogonal persistent state, seamless application checkpointing and built-in dynamic software upgrade facilities represented a failure in modern mainstream computing.
People don't give a shit about 'reddit' as a thing, what they care about is the content people submit and the subreddits that foster the communities.

They seem to be going through their own Digg v4 moment here, completely disregarding users because they think they're big enough to survive without them.
Stellar parallax is virtually unnoticeable even when the Earth is on opposite sides of the Sun (~300M km apart), so I don't think the stars would look much differet even if you doubled or tripled that distance.

Objects inside of our own solar system, on the other hand, would be really interesting to look at through such a setup.