skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience you are wrong. Two examples, one on security the other on quality and recalls.
On security, we were building an Home Gateway, the modem you have at home to access Internet. Before releasing it we realized the web page was vulnerable to a CSS attack. Since through the attack was possible to change the WiFi or the Firewall configuration we released the first version without these functionalities despite they were required by the users. The next release went through a two week pen test (consider that many of the competitors had the same CSS issue and were available on the market). Just a couple of day before releasing the new version, after the pen test was ok, I notice a phrase in the release note, I investigated a little bit and I discovered that the CSS issue was still there, it was just more difficult to reproduce (and a 2 week penetration test failed to spot it). What do I mean? That also the best security practice aren't enough to protect from all the possible issues.
On product recall, same product, but on the hardware. Our hardware vendor was Chinese but we inserted in the contract strict clause on tests, product performance etc etc... After around a year we discovered that a huge product lot used a capacitor with problems and we have to recall all of them. The capacitor was produced by a reputable company and matched all the production standard when new. Lesson learned? Even if we obsessed over quality, you could have problems.
The difference between a mediocre company and a good one is not that it doesn't make error, but that it is quick to solve its mistake and learn the lesson for the future.
I find it encouraging that someone hates the idea so strongly. This idea has potential.
I'm not sure we read the same interview. Piketty called for debt relief across the board in Europe. Debt jubilees are a thing throughout history. Similar to the ending of Fight Club, but voluntary and without the bombs.
No its not, but how do you account for feeling about something that goes against your logic? Ie quitting a job without finding another. How is emotion guiding logic in every case?
Graph does not appear to be inflation-adjusted.
Would you guys be interested in an open magazine that curates content from several blogs to give you a general overview of hardware/software technology industry? Anyone interested in collaborating on that?
I asked an anesthesiologist this question and am transcribing from memory (hehe), so I may have screwed some things up.

The answer to your question in is no, you aren't suffering enduring horrible pain while under general anesthesia. That doesn't mean you won't experience things you would rather not remember. Some examples:
1) patient may experience burning sensation from propofol (induction agent) entering the body
2) patient may see something disturbing before general has kicked in (e.g. a big saw before an orthopedic procedure)
3) in certain cases (e.g. emergencies) or due to human error, patient may not be fully under pre-surgery, e.g. patient may remember breathing tube being inserted.

The high level answer for why you are given midazolam (at least in the US) is because anesthesia is a "patient satisfaction" service and giving it increases patient satisfaction.
Great idea. A contract growing scheme on a small scale. Community groups (churches, neighbors etc) might even want to get involved. Prepayment for at least some of the growing cost would be nice for the growers (CSA style). I suppose a rating system on growers would be needed also.
Back on my first job, a small company wanted to use our software, but only if we copied their competitor's database (Their competitor was already our client)
Puerto Rico: The Greece of the Caribbean?
It's disingenuous to compare shootings purely by a per-capita basis. It should be per-capita among gun owners.

The data as shown indicates the US has a cultural mass shooting phenomenon, but it's simply not accurate. The US just has more guns, and mass shootings happen at extremely rare rates among gun owners everywhere.

This approach would be like comparing drunk driving fatalities in Los Angeles vs Venice, Italy.

Edit: I was curious and just ran the numbers with the full OCED countries. The US had 0.136 rampage shootings per gun (compared to 0.120 rampage shootings per capita), and non-US countries had 0.177 rampage shootings per-gun (compared to 0.246 rampage shootings per capita). I used the author's numbers and the Wikipedia page data for guns/100 residents.
While it may not make sense, there are quite a few counties where there are restrictions to buying land and real estate.

Not sure about the reasoning, some are well off countries, others middling to low achieving countries. Still, it's not out of the ordinary to have restrictions.[1]

Greece, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, China and others.

I don't think it's racism. I do think it has to do with nationalism. Perhaps misguided. In some cases it's ideological (China, Vietnam, for example.)

[1]http://internationalliving.com/global-property-ownershi/
to be fair, he's actually a trained nurse.
Re [0]: TunsmosPetroleum.com is a weird, weird website.
I really want to like that show, and Jason Turner is a really good host, but Rob Irving always sounds so confused. :(
Unfortunately, google fonts is far too small a font set to be useful for a hardcore graphic designer.

It would be useful for "Here is a free font on google fonts that looks similar to whatever you are looking at".
First, a minor point: The biggest holders of Greek debt were French banks by far, followed by UK banks and only then German banks. So when you say "Deutschebank, Goldman Sachs, etc." what you mean is BNP Paribas. But if you don't even know which banks—or countries—were involved, it raises questions. And I have no idea why you tossed Goldman Sachs in there; they never held significant amounts of Greek debt. They helped sell the debt; they were much too smart to buy it, much less keep it. The suckers here were, overwhelmingly, the French banks.

Second: "There was a haircut by the private debt holders at one point in time, but interest on that debt has basically made up for it." That's utterly wrong. It's so wrong, I'm not even sure how you could make that sort of error in good faith. Private banks lost 75%+ of the value of their Greek debt, in large part due to a forced reduction in interest rates. It's almost worthless because they have no ability to make it up via interest.

As a result, the private sector has basically written the entire thing off as a bad idea and walked away; the only real holders of Greek debt left are the troika and domestic Greek institutions.

We're discussing matters of public record. BNP Paribas loss on it's greek debt holdings is in their accounts in black and white. Who owns the debt, what the terms are, what the yield is; all of that is readily available, and none of it is what you imply.

If you want an example of publicizing private debts, look at the Irish bailout, not the Greek haircut.
The now defunct Edge Cases [1] podcast was great -- Wolf Rentzsch is one smart dude.

[1] http://edgecasesshow.com
One of Japan's most unfortunate characters in the war, Prince Fumimaro Konoe (Konoye), tried in vain to get the military to avoid attacking America in the first place; he then tried to convince him to negotiate peace in early 1945, but the emperor refused, believing that Japan would get divine assistance again.

After the war, he refused to play along with the occupation's kangaroo court and killed himself.
The justices, as aptly demonstrated recently (viz scalia, whose textualism has no meaning besides whatever his personal politics prefer) are politicians, no more. Or one could ask why gay rights have done better than reproductive rights, and the answer comes down solely to Kennedy is more sympathetic.

At this point, we are so inured to gun violence that my SO was at a community college a couple years ago while it had a lockdown because of a shooter on campus. She was ushered into a classroom by swat with them standing outside the door and it didn't even make the tv news that night. I grew up shooting guns with my father and have treasured memories of going to gun shows. I'd vote for an amendment for Japanese gun laws.

ps: in 2008, the us had 12k+ firearm related homicides while japan had 11. The population ratio was 2.39, so the US would have experienced (rounding up) 27.
One must note, that this interview was given to the German newspaper "Die Zeit". So its important to note, what he did not mention:

The repayment of Germans debt is only delayed till Germany has a peace treaty. The 2+4 contract is not a peace treaty, but deliberate "instead a peace treaty" just allows the Russian occupied part to join the US, UK and French occupied parts.

The Euro-Zone is facing a dilemma. A debt cut, followed by inflation and taxing of private assets, would require that Greece still has monetary sovereignty. But all Euro states, even Germany and France, gave up their monetary sovereignty. None of them is a complete sovereign state anymore. An obscure bureaucracy in Brüssel is creating laws, that national governments just have to sign. And entering EU is like a roman Catholic marriage. A nation can join, but not leave EU.
Definitely true. That's why you'd have to print out the top N fonts it thinks it's similar to.

Something like

1. Foo Bar Lite Italic - 99.1%
2. Foo Bar Italic - 97.2%
3. Baz Bar Lite Italic - 97.0%
4. Foo Baz Italic - 95.4%
... etc maybe give the top 10 or so ...

Another problem is many logos and whatnot have been hand-tweaked from their original font.
Yep. Banning guns will reduce mass shootings, and gang shootings (somewhat - well organised criminals will still have guns, but the stupid ones who cause the most damage won't). It can also reduce suicide rates (since guns don't give people time to change their mind).

However, a crazy relative can still kill you without a handgun. In countries that introduce gun laws, they get more murders with knives, blunt objects, etc.

US murder rates may be partly driven by guns. But they're mostly the result of education, prison sentences, and other social factors. The US is a developed country with the welfare system of a developing country (and a bunch of very expensive bandaids to catch the people who have fallen too far to really recover).
> Also, I'd love to hear people that weren't so overtly progressive.

Uhhhh, what? The only remotely political topic they touch on is women in technology. Casey Liss went to bloody Virginia Tech, hardly Reed College level progressivism.
>when a user upvotes content, that sends a small amount of bitcoin to the author of that content

Doesn't this lead to a problem where money = votes? What would be other mechanisms to combat vote fraud?

>In order to download content, the user pays a very, very small amount of bitcoin to the peers on the network. This incentivizes people to keep the app open so as to keep servicing the other users

I don't think this is necessary. The bitcoin network shows that alturism alone is enough to sustain over 5000 nodes.
> The majority who are running to her defense and ready to fight each other to the death to prove they are worthy of women?

Do you honestly think people on HN--where the majority of users are anonymous--are saying things in order to "prove themselves worthy" of women? Like, is that actually something you believe, or just a reflexive thing you say? It's dumb enough that you have to go mansplain 4chan to people (because "for the lulz" is just so complex that I'm sure no one here could figure it out on his or her own), presume to understand how you would react to emails like those Jessie has received when you've never had to, and posit vague conspiracy theories without further explanation ("you're likely being manipulated towards some further end-goal that is more harmful").

Sorry, I realize this isn't exactly the worst post here, but it's frustrating to me because I think your attitude is highly typical of software engineers and is a large part of the reason why shit like this keeps happening. Women do not feel comfortable talking about the things they have to deal with because of posts like this, and it helps normalize harassment.
Shop Talk Show http://shoptalkshow.com/

Codepen Radio http://blog.codepen.io/radio/

Software Engineering Radio is in my podcast software but I don't find myself listening to it much.

I have a variety of others more oriented to productivity and freelancing, but they're less technical. I do highly recommend the Home Work podcast by Aaron Mahnke and Dave Caolo - one of the few I have set to auto download.
"Banning guns" would likely lead to a massive spike in shootings due to armed resistance to said ban.
I've worked and talked with various dev/IT consultants over the years, and the advice I've gotten boils down to this: specialize in a niche or product. Don't just be a web development consultant, for example. Be a web development consultant with a focus on X.

That X can be anything. Things like Wordpress or Joomla, or product companies like SAP, MS CRM, verticals like finance/banking or energy, or even your own open source project on GitHub.
Show HN: Phases, Scala macros for multiphase classes
In adopting a functional style, I've found that I'm most tempted to break discipline when representing a single conceptual object that transitions between phases (usually before and after initialization).

An arbitrary state diagram can be represented with a collection of immutable objects, but usually with a lot of boilerplate code, especially if most fields stay the same and have to be copied from object to object. I've often wondered why programming languages don't have a facility for generating, e.g. "five classes that differ in these five ways, with the following transitions between them." Beamer, a LaTeX package for making presentations, has such a thing for making a sequence of slides that differ in only one new bullet point.

This is a hard question to ask a search engine because if such a thing existed, I wouldn't know what it's called. So I made it:

https://github.com/jpivarski/phases

is a Scala implementation of the idea using compile-time macros. I'm in the process of making it more easily deployable, but it can be tested by checking it out and changing/adding to its unit tests.

This is also my first HN post. Let me know what you think!
Not really. They'd ban them. Then they'd spend the next 10 years gradually enforcing it. People who really wanted to keep the guns would just hide them, and say they sold them in a private sale.
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The emotion doesn't tell you 'quit without finding another job' it says "I don't like this" which prompts you to use your logic to change your environment.
The Aquihire model works with the curent "micro-VC" (translation: angel). Just don't think of them as investors in companies; think of them as agents: the team produces a demonstration project which is good enough to get them hired. The investor funded the project, so gets a cut. Oh, and the early adopters who validated the team's execution? Sorry, the product is EOLed.

Apart from nomenclature these aren't really startups and their funders aren't really VCs.
Right. That's sort of what I mean by "reliable data"; to commission an independent study or something similar.
> I’ve gotten hundreds of private messages on IRC and emails about sex, rape, and death threats.

Is this actually true, or are you over-exaggerating? I know of other girls in tech that are pretty decently well-known and don't get nearly that much harassment.

But then again, they don't post their faces, so idk.
Would you mind posting your finding after you dig more into this stuff?
This is only insightful if you do the same thing for other countries as headline subjects and then compare the relative rates of negativity to see if China is an outlier.

News headlines tend toward the negative in general, because it's not newsworthy when things work like everyone expects them to.
Emotions motivate you to act to improve your situation instead of do nothing. They may be illogical, but they kickstart the thinking process. Logic is useless if you don't wake up and use it. Emotions are the first past filter to bring issues to your attention.
I think it's a different thing for women who are publicly visible and eg talk at conferences, or have popular blogs or have some level of leadership etc.

The women coders, designers and testers I've worked with and known well personally have never mentioned experiencing any online abuse either. But they have all been private nine to fivers* who don't have any visibility or online presence beyond their immediate family, friends and colleagues.

It would probably be a completely different story if any of them felt like sticking their heads up above the parapet and identifiably participating in online tech 'culture'. Especially if they dared to state an opinion on anything.

I think there's a difference in exposure between being a tech worker and being a public geek/hacker etc. Colleagues or bosses are more accountable for their actions than semi anonymous bullies on the net.

* No disrespect intended by that label at all (for men or women). Just that they weren't geeky hobbyists and didn't indulge in tech stuff outside work. In fact I kinda envy that these days, but I still can't let it go.
No, not dualism. I meant this abstraction in the same sense as moving from the level of transistors when talking about a computer, to the level of, say, C++ objects in the software that runs on that computer.
I'm not sure I understand your reference to thermodynamics. Information is created when a certain meaning is assigned to a pattern. Who assigns that meaning? As you said - an intelligent agent. This intelligent agent is the abstraction I'm talking about. It can be implemented with electrons flowing between neurons, or with photons in some kind of an optical computer - the physical implementation is not important. The high level structure and operation are important, that's why I think that simulating a human consciousness on a computer will result in a real consciousness, unlike simulating a rain. It might not be exactly the same consciousness as the original one, but it can be arbitrary close. For example, we can simulate Atari 2600 console on a modern computer in sufficient detail to play games exactly the same as we would play them on the real, physical console. We don't need to simulate every transistor in the original console for that.
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I see. Not sure what the best practice is for the losing scope in then chains issue with promises. I ended up creating something along the lines of a message object designed for each chain, which felt like a smell.
What's the need for a true p2p network? Why not just do a federated network of servers like Usenet? That's more efficient, cheaper, and it had been done before.

In your model how are unique identities assigned? Do they tie directly to addresses on the blockchain?

Could you write a more concrete proposal? I know that's asking a lot, but you said ask anything. I've been thinking about this for some time and a decentralized reddit sounds really great but the devil is in the details.
Ha. Is that a joke?
Yes, you should tell her.
"Upvoting" on such a system would be a little less like voting and a little more like tipping - think Changetip. There are some real problems here. What if a user pays theirself, thus voting their own content up? One way to solve this is for funds to be locked in some sense before they can be used. A user would have to lock up a significant amount of funds for a while before being able to vote, so it would be really annoying and expensive to commit fraud. There are also bitcoin transaction fees for putting bitcoin into and out of the system, so there is always that disencentive to fund a bunch of separate accounts for the purpose of committing fraud.
Much weirder things are bound to show up in in these files… :)
Yes, a lot of the new features are very "about time" but that doesn't remove the excitement to now have them as a part of JavaScript.

'this' without arrow functions is currently a huge source of confusion. I feel like the arrow functions will help to alleviate a lot of that confusion.
Hey, don't worry about it. Tinnitus fucking sucks, but over time you get used to it. It's hard to believe at the beginning, but gradually it bothers you less and less. Eventually you can focus on whatever you are doing and not notice it anymore.

For now try not to freak out or get depressed about it, turn on air conditioner or running water to mask the noise.

Try taking ginko, try taking melatonin for sleep.

Listen to music or audiobooks when it's too annoying(not too loud to not cause any more damage).

Visit a doctor and get some advice from him. Go to a support forum or subreddit if it gets bad.

If you are lucky enough to be living in US - check out what trials you can enroll in. Some of them can probably help. People are workong on a cure and making some progress.
Huh. There's a blast from the past.

I get occasional reminder spam of my email address used for k5 having been harvested at some point, but looking at those diaries doesn't fill me with a desire to return there.

Maybe to HuSi at some point.
There is a difference between having tax loopholes and being a state that doesn't collect taxes properly and where tax avoidance and black work is everywhere.

Greece is the latter. Having been in Greece several times, it is very unsettling to being issued fake bills all the time for everything.

A famous example is the swimming pool tax avoidance:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/greek-tax-avoidance-101-cov...

Some more information:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-real-reason-greece...
No, it returns a new Promise that's already been resolved to the value you returned previously.
It also leaves houses empty and available for vandalism and squatters. In the end it kills the community. So stop being a greedy fuck, people in the U.S. Still have to live. I make damn near $200k and I can't even afford a damned house anymore because there all being bought by Chinese and there starting at $900k
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> I'm sorry, no matter how bad 2008 was, it was no World War. His inability to grasp this just boggles the mind.

Ss far as I could understand, that's not the point he's making, at all. He's saying that financially punishing countries is shortsighted and counterproductive and that we have recent examples of doing just that (1918), and doing the opposite (1945/1953), and clearly different outcomes.

The rest of your points are irrelevant - he's not discussing post WW2 recovery in Germany in a void or for fun, like we are, he's trying to steer a super important debate about a Greek exit, which has so far been very simplistic and populist (the greek are lazy and must learn their lesson, even if it means they'll be in debt for 40 years). So he's also pointing out that it just so happens that the same countries are involved, then and now, and calling for a bit of a look at _recent_ history.

Also, points for dropping 100% unsubstantiated nationalism accusations right at the end, great!
> F# - Functional language where you can cheat more than haskell if you need to. Can use all the .net ecosystem and works everywhere (linux, windows, mobile, can compile to js.)

How can you cheat more than Haskell? Couldn't you just put everything in IO in Haskell to get the same (or at least similar effect)?