skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a C艹 beginner from Python and C. I feel that the handling of trade-offs between performance and safety/explicitly is passed to programmers and not the language itself, which made it difficult for beginners to capture what is the best practice. Choices may be good for experienced programmers, but they are not very friendly for beginners.
I agree.

However a counter-point is that its quite possible that they are trying to pivot reddit into a mainstream site, and thus are more than willing to burn most of the current user base.

They don't need/want hard-hitting questions during AMA's, nor do they want freaky fetish subreddits, nor long winded post describing the intricacies of the Federal Reserve.

They want cat pictures, pictures of freshly baked cakes, celebrity soundbites, and lots of comments that go "that cake looks delish!" and "Love you Miley!"

In short, an internet version of "The View".

Regardless, I think it will fail, if thats even the case. However, ideas such as these are the exact type that tone-deaf MBA types think up lots of times.
As I am generally interested in reading raw data about issues like this, care to provide a source?
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Assuming I'm not misunderstanding your question, it appears to cover that right above the snippet:

"Why? This ensures that you can't reassign your references (mutation), which can lead to bugs and difficult to comprehend code."

So it's not about working by reference but avoiding inadvertent reassignment and resulting unpredictability.
In the flat FL interior during hot summer days with no wind it's common to observe distinct long wide columns of clouds form anvil tops over the space of a few hours in the early afternoon. Sometimes, if you're lucky, a cauldron shape will form which puts on an impressive light show at night. Rather than risking a light Cessna it might be interesting to view formation in exaggerated 3D from the ground.
I have zero trouble believing that VCs are biased, but this is a terrible terrible study.

First, their study collected literally zero data about venture capitalists. Their first experiment looked at "pitch competitions", where people give speeches and/or submit business plans to a set of judges, and the judges pick a winner. This is distinct from events like Demo Day because there is no follow-up or due diligence: choices are made solely based on the speech/written plan. For obvious reasons, these "competitions" usually don't involve serious money. Picking three at random from Google, the first prizes were $1,000, $3,000, and "a meeting with Andreesen Horowitz", plus a bunch of discounts from Rackspace and so on.

The second and third experiments were even sillier. They literally recruited a bunch of random people on Mechanical Turk, asked them to watch a pitch video, and then asked them to judge which company they thought was more likely to succeed.

And even if you did a study showing that VCs invested in men more often, that wouldn't mean VCs are biased: you have to control for a bunch of other factors too. If, eg. startup employees preferred to work for companies run by attractive men, a perfectly unbiased VC would invest in attractive men more often, just because their companies were objectively doing better.

Here's a link to the original paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Brooks%20Huan...
wow what's crazy to me is that I was on reddit today, but didn't know about this till I saw this thread.

And even after going back to reddit I couldn't see any information on this until I cilcked /r/all.. looks like reddit censorship scandal is going out of hand :/
It is easy to make something like that.

It is less than easy to interface something like that with a full game engine. Things like requiring collision culling (not doing the whole O(n^2) "check if A is colliding with B" thing), doing proper shadows, being properly deterministic, being alright with variable framerates, that sort of thing.

Also, I don't know what simulators you've seen, but the ones I've seen take an absurd amount of CPU time. Or occasionally GPU time. Works well for a proof-of-concept. But for a full game... Their priorities are elsewhere. Not worth the cycles.

That being said, I fully agree that game focus should be shifted slightly away from straight graphics and more into gameplay.
I have yet to even see what Voat looks like because every time there's a Reddit event and someone mentions it, Voat is completely unresponsive.
Love this guide. Adhere to it as tightly as possible for most new projects, saves a lot of mental overhead. Use the ES5 version for team frontend projects. :)
Fake JCPenney gift cards circulating – MailShark
My fuzzing went:

8 4 2 (no)
1 2 3 (yes)
1 1 1 (no)
1 100 123 (yes)
1.0 1.1 1.2 (yes)

answer: incrementing numbers
Like many things, the answer is "it depends". How old are you? Do you already have an emergency fund? 401(k) and/or Roth IRA? Are you max'ing them out?

If you have both tax-advantaged and tax-free accounts, you also need to determine the best place to hold the investments that you do purchase.

I'd recommend reading through the "Managing a windfall" article [0] on the Bogleheads wiki. You'd probably be well-served by browsing through the wiki and perusing the forums as well. There are plenty of inquiries there by people in similar situations -- and there are some top-notch experts on those forums.

[0]: http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall
I have heard a lot of people here and in reddit say, "well we should just make something better and leave!" Maybe a lot of that talk is just anger or discontent coming out right now. The community is up in arms. The moderators are frustrated at both corporate reddit and the website/tools available to them. Users are mortified. But in all seriousness, I want to explore the question, why don't we? What is stopping us from replacing it?

-- Technical challenges? No that doesn't seem right. Many of us build and scale applications far larger than this. The tools and technology are there.

-- Building a community is hard? This seems more in line with reality. Building another community like this is high risk and low reward maybe?

-- Sites like this aren't the solution any more? This could be it. But if this isn't the solution, what is?

I haven't thought of all possibilities. But really, why not just replace it?

*edit: fixed typos, typing on phones is hard.
I really like the design on Hubski. I'll have to try that out.
This is the exact reason why we started PushdUp. As a long time reddit user I was getting sick of the drama that was happening and decided to take it upon myself to create something different. We are still in VERY early alpha so there are bound to be some bugs. Come join the revolution. http://www.pushdup.com , feedback is welcome and encouraged.
In email clients with either more permissive or even proprietary licenses, where those Mailpile most wants not to use their source (evesdropper backend email services like gmail) can then use their work to enhance their user experience without providing their users the software freedoms they enjoyed when modifying mailpile or a permissive fork of a permissive piece of it.
It also becomes a sacred cow. The bread dole was a huge issue for Rome once it got started because they really had no choice but to keep it up.
The fact that `typeof` is no longer safe [1][2] is news to me - it feels like they put in air bags and removed the seat belts.

[1]: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript#14.1
[2]: http://es-discourse.com/t/why-typeof-is-no-longer-safe/15
I don't understand the reasoning behind this.

The math section...

"The mobile team is completely blocked while the backend API team implements the API spec given by the mobile team.
Each week the mobile team is blocked costs your company: 5 engineers * $100 * 40 hours a week = $20,000 a week."

So you are offering an API prototype for $5000 how does that solve the issue for the mobile team? (also it doesn't stop me from losing $20,000 for the week you are working?)

Also if you are company with $20,000 to throw in the trash for a week I'm pretty sure you could hire a few more backend developers.
This causes me no end of grief. Credit card fields where you can't enter spaces, phone number fields where you can't format the numbers like a phone number. It's literally a few lines of code to pull out just the numbers! So infuriating.
except for medical care apparently

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150213-the-downsides-of-be...
This is an edge case that probably nobody thought about until today. I imagine the ability to take a default sub private will not last through tomorrow.
Is the multihoming of SCTP useful in comparison to IPv6 multihoming?

Has anyone implemented multihoming IPv6 capable of creating a continuous SSH session when switching networks?
We reached an agreement:

- you proved to me that AGPL is not usable in any professional system that runs in the cloud

- also proved that it does things forcefully so I am right not using it

Thank you!
Working with large excel files in Python (using pandas)
I'd like to see the justifications for some of these, particularly 3.5 which I see as only obscuring that the current context is a function.
Who wants to tackle this with me? Contact info in profile.
Balding is the most depressing thing. Wish I had started taking Finasteride years ago when I decided the risks weren't worth it.
The mobile team would integrate with the prototype API while the real one is being implemented.

Also, companies can't just hire more developers. Developers aren't as elastic and on demand as EC2.

That's the issue I ran into on projects I've worked on. It's when you have a team that's split horizontally on a product and one is blocking the other from making any progress.
I'd personally have jumped straight to PyPy.

And let me get this straight. He can use C, but cannot use PyPy? How does that make sense? If he's able to use C, he's able to run binaries anyways, at which point he should be able to use PyPy. Unless I'm missing something?
If that is what is happening, is that what the owners want? Or is that what leadership wants? The leadership has very little money sunk into reedit, but the owners have a lot more.

I'm sure leadership is willing to gamble that they can disrupt the hive without killing it. But will the owners continue to go down that road?
Bad seems a little strong. But I think your point is valid, if rephrased as "potentially problematic". If you consider the common kind of scenario where a company wants or needs to integrate back end systems with one another, and the viral nature of copyleft licenses, you could quickly end up with your external contractor having the right to ask for code to completely unrelated internal systems that have nothing to do with Mailpile. I am sure that is not the intent of Mailpile authors, and I wonder if they fully understand that this might well put Mailpile straight onto a blacklist for a lot of companies.
The tide changed with Pao. All of those were roadblocks, but never had the community turned so swiftly against the admins until Pao arrived. There's an entire subreddit dedicated to denigrating Pao. kn0thing has had missteps but generally has had the respect of the community. The community largely does not respect Pao.
To complete the blindness trifecta, now all they need is for an admin to "seize" control of a subreddit(maybe /r/iama, since they apparently have devoted an entire department to it)
I'm a big fan of javascript.
Maybe attractive people (that is, clean cut, white attractive people) are more likely to come from upper middle class backgrounds, which means they already have substantial money supporting them their entire lives, so they not only fit in better, but are in much better positions to be starting companies & pitching VCs.
The dual-installation issue the grandparent mentioned also exists for DEB, which is what prompted my PR. Any way you can help with https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/23? I really want to install InfluxDB and Telegraf on the same system, but I don't want to maintain a fork.
Maybe. But if so, this mythical "open space makes things easier to grasp" unicorn has failed to show its face to me even once.

And, one other thing. Layouts that have too much delineation degrade much more gracefully than layouts that have too little.
People will continue to deal with GS, despite (maybe even because of) their ever worsening reputation, as long as they can convince themselves that they are the ones who are going to get rich while the other idiots are going to get ripped off. The incentive scheme is similar to that of a slot machine.
Another important contributors of reddit: Aaron Swartz A documentary about him - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06QO3UkQ
> Can't /r/science keep on functioning

Clearly the people best suited to answer this question do not think they will be able to do what they have been doing.
Strange to choose between two such starkly different options. AGPL is about the most commercially hostile license you can find, while Apache is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Given the results are so polarised, I wonder if they could not have achieved a better outcome by offering something in the middle (regular GPL, or LGPL, etc.).
I get that Reddit is a business, but I don't get how they are handling their business right now.

They are pissing off the user base while not making any money.

Did they think a "lose/lose" solution was the direction to go in?

Regardless, they are just really fucking things up.

They can't seem to figure out what they are doing.

Do they even have a plan?
You're right. Excuse me while I go order a set scalpels and a surgical mask off eBay. Where can I pickup those big cylinders of anesthesia?

edit - actually the comment you were responding to was pretty asinine re: reporting them to the CA bar, but I think there is a reasonable basis for requiring licensing of certain professions.
If you have a publicly addressable IPv4 address, why would NAT be involved? Every VPS provider I've used assigns your instance a non-RFC1918 address. That's on the host, not on a NAT device. With v6, there's no NAT.

I don't run a VPS/hosting company, so I can't say how many firewalls exist between the edge and customer equipment. I can't imagine that many even offer the service. Today's thought seems to be that's up to the server to filter traffic.

Linode offers IPv6 addresses to each instance. I'm sure there are lots of others that do, too. I can't speak for AWS; I don't work for Amazon.
Are you accepting applications from outside the EU (I am in Canada)?
sad that reddit turned out this way, completely opposite of what Aaron Swartz's vision

documentary about him - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06QO3UkQ
How do you explain the Greek crisis to a layman? What is the crisis all about?
Amen! Though I am partial to idiomatic.js' whitespace suggestions:

https://github.com/rwaldron/idiomatic.js#spacing

Much easier to skim/parse quickly, at least for me.
Well, I didn't take it for being snarky. I also don't want to engage in any kind of argument, I just want to hear about the point you were trying to make. You even said it was "something us Internet commenters don't often realize", so this would be a great forum to share the viewpoint, since it is almost by definition filled with internetters
Time to start a fund that only invests in ugly people. "ButterFace Ventures' investment thesis entails value generation through arbitraging network effects across the lower end of the visual anthropomorphic spectrum"
> I get that Victoria getting fired was bad for /r/IAMA

And a number of other subreddits, all fairly large, and all now without a way to fulfill promises made because of this. You don't get it, because if you did, you'd realize why it was more than just /r/IAMA.

So, you should do some reading until you do understand it, because right now, everything you just said screams ignorance.
You could have your temps and employees waive their rights under the AGPLv3 as a condition of their employment, contract, etc.

Most legit AGPL projects I've seen by the way don't really try to trap you like that anyhow... for instance, you can re-theme mediagoblin etc. And if you're going to hack on the core... would it really be so bad to upstream the code?
Well its sorta self apparent.

I mean, if she had signed away control of her streaming rights, how would she ever been able to "pull her songs" off of iTunes (or Spotify as she did the previous year).

She would've been in violation of a contract otherwise, and would've need to seek remedy via the courts.
Well, I guess that's not really fair. Obviously you can implement prototype-style OO, more or less, using the metatable and metamethod facilities. But as an old NewtonScript developer, I rather find

foo = { x = 1, y = 2 }
mt = { __index = bar }
setmetatable(foo, mt)

to be crazy compared to

foo := { _proto: bar, x: 1, y: 2 }

The uncleanliness of function declarations in Lua compared to NewtonScript also gets to me in this way. At any rate, to me, the metatable facility feels like a hack. That's not to denigrate it: it's a very flexible and clever gizmo which can be used for a variety of cool things. But to me proto-style OO languages are notable for their elegance and simplicity, and metatables expose a fair bit of wiring and boilerplate. [It also wasn't a good sign that the whole OO section in "Programming in Lua" was about "classes" :-( ]
This article has several glaring errors, and the title to the post came from outer space.

Falconers with appropriate licenses and wildlife rehabilitators are also allowed to possess eagles and eagle parts.

The article is inconsistent -- at the beginning the author says only Native Americans can possess eagles/parts, then at the end he says "Go ahead and pick up a dead eagle." You can't have it both ways. It is absolutely illegal for a regular citizen to disturb an eagle, dead or otherwise. Picking it up is "possession."

Same goes for all migratory, non-game birds, technically speaking; they are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

If you find one and want it sent to the Repository, please call your state Fish & Game office to send someone out.
There's good arguements for and against a complete conversion to open access research. Ruining all the free fun of open access are charlatans from around the world creating open access journals from nothing and picking up free money and prestige. I'd like to abring up this website:
http://scholarlyoa.com/

It's run by a librarian in Colorado, and he has a set of criteria to determine whether a given open access journal qualifies as a "predatory" journal. Sometimes you see stuff like this gem:

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/11/20/bogus-journal-accepts-prof...

I can't find the link, but I once read a story where they published a paper titled, "Enter paper title". That's how reputable some of these outfits are.

Open access won't be perfect.
Ha. That's only because nobody (rationaly) wants to negotiate with a beautiful woman.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/11707591/Why-me...
I'm not sure if there's any quicker and more effective way to draw a metric ton of scrutiny and skepticism on a study than to have the two words "mechanical turk" somewhere in your paper. Classic.
Tips for New Product Managers
> Assuming I'm not misunderstanding your question

Numbers are not passed by reference.

It's a lazy example, that has the potential to confuse. I would agree with the downvoters I'm being petty, but c'mon... it's the very first thing you read in your JavaScript guide & it's flawed.
So much fucking drama. Can they not keep their site clean of this shit?
Cool. I think there is some real potential in this area. Just be careful and get a lawyer on board to guide you through the sticky issues.
They didn't go private to protest. That action simply cascaded into a large protest.
You're in luck! They published this in GitHub so you can suggest changes you think might make things better.
I'm not sure by which objective measure that would be true besides potentially being the most visited by consumers and having the most cultural-currency. From a business perspective, they are far from being the most successful and I'm guessing the last round of funding came with quite a bit of goals that needed to be met including getting the community under control and sanitizing it for mainstream America.
Good job. The project is darn cool. And it's exactly the tech stack I want to use for my upcoming projects. Just want to know are you planning to open source it? That will be awesome for the followers to learn about it especially for such rich dashboard projects.
This dynamic would make an awesome, kick-ass tv series offshoot of HBO's silicon valley. Real shit.
Just shave it off. Bald heads have actually been shown to be a positive status indicator, probably because it takes serious confidence to pre-emptively shave off all your hair. Besides, I've always thought bald heads look way better than a head with patches of hair on it.
Not related to SO, but FindBugs and PMD for Java are designed to identify potential bugs, based on accumulated knowledge of "gotchas" (e.g. calling "multiply()" on a BigDecimal without assigning it to a new variable - BigDecimal is immutable).
we get store survey codes on receipts from a local store. "please go fill this out online". OK.

On the receipt: 9873-435-289-6372-9983

Go to their survey page

"Please enter the survey code without the dashes".

WTF? Left hand, please meet the right hand.
IIRC was basically 'I don't want my doctor to be knowing nothing about my condition!' followed up with 'I don't want my doctor saying anything in the least bit figurative.'
Not sure I trust them to produce a computer free of crapware.
Reddit has gone from someone who understood 'The Internet' :

“We will not ban questionable subreddits,” Reddit’s CEO, Yishan Wong, wrote in the aftermath of that catastrophe. “You choose what to post. You choose what to read. You choose what kind of subreddit to create and what kind of rules you will enforce. We will try not to interfere — not because we don’t care, but because we care that you make your choices between right and wrong.”

To the current CEO, Ellen Pao:

It's not our site's goal to be a completely free-speech platform. We want to be a safe platform and we want to be a platform that also protects privacy at the same time.
> I'd go further and say their users don't provide content, but instead act as evaluators and filters for others' content.

my post was a bit unclear, i meant they literally provide it to the site by finding it and posting it. They act as the first tier of the filtering mechanism(votes being secondary).

> The community built up around shared interest and that is itself hard to replicate in a way that achieves critical mass.

reddit itself, and many other companies/communities are caught in the trap of placating a vocal minority and exercising to broad of a control on the culture. The Y-Combinator ethos is basically this. Make something that enough people love, rather than a lot of people really like.

This revolt is backlash against changing a well-ingrained culture to try an please discrete sub-groups. Whether these sub-groups are "right" or "wrong" was largely a question of the communities sentiment expressed in posts and votes. When reddit altered the culture here they lost critical mass.

It is happening on 4chan right now as well with people moving to various cloned image boards. Reddit needs it's users a lot more than users need reddit, so we will see what will happen. I am short on reddit and bullish on community choice though.
Even in this discussion thread people value the headline more than they value the legitmacy of the study or the truth.
I am fundraising for a new VC fund called FUBU. For ugly by ugly.
Which is why it's a big deal that this has spread into the mainstream subs.
Doomed to fail from an evolutionary standpoint.
Sounds like a startup opportunity then, if for nothing else than the preservation and forwarding of human knowledge.