skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gadgets can return productivity, learning, and entertainment now and into the future. Clothes can open doors as early as the day you buy them, or weeks later.

Booze is consumed but it's an important part of many social interactions, without it things can get boring. Boredom closes doors.

A colleague once gave up coffee when he calculated the annual spend as something like a grand. Okay, congrats on the extra grand you'll have in the bank at Christmas. But sucks to be you because you miss out on coffee every single day of the year.

Wise investment advice can hurt your short term life - which does actually run out. You don't stay in your twenties forever. You don't stay in your 30s forever.
Them problems comes when all the people in those positions just got the job from their friends, are thankful for the jobs you helped get them, but just don't have any time for you.
How we created an interactive map of Europe with 100k+ areas
I'm convinced this one won't last through summer. The article shows the pile 12 feet high, and today it's smaller - https://twitter.com/brlewis/status/618443607599661056
28K minified is bloat?
> Sex-based difference is the biggest taboo of our time.

The problem is that correlating things with sex (even when such a correlation seems apparent) is just as bad as correlating things with race, ethnicity, religion, age, index finger length, eye color, and pretty much anything else.

It disadvantages those in the arbitrarily-designated outgroup, and subjects everyone to the Fallacy of Composition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition.

Which means that you're STILL ideally stuck on evaluating each person on an individual level, anyway.

Correlating things to something like blood serum testosterone level would make more sense to me, than an entire sex.
It is optimal when responsibility and control match, but they rarely do. E.g., parents have much more responsibility for children than they have control. Citizens and city governments have a responsibility to keep garbage off the streets, but they don't have perfect control of who can put garbage on the streets.

If you are doing what you can to solve the problem, then you have already taken your share responsibility for the state of the industry.
> Our findings indicate that aging processes can be quantified in people still young enough for prevention of age-related disease, opening a new door for antiaging therapies.

I have the sinking feeling that I'm going to miss out on these preventative measures by only a few decades.
> Everyone should be given an equal chance with no prejudice,

Agreed. But the way it tends to work is that if (say) 60% of all engineers are men and the rest are women, then a man more closely fits the idea of an engineer that those people who are in charge of giving the chances have in mind, and so they're more likely to prefer a man to a woman.

You sort of run into this chicken/egg problem though: are women underrepresented in engineering because of what I described above (bad), or do they actually have equal opportunities and simply aren't choosing to become engineers (okay), OR do they actually have equal opportunities and are simply not choosing to be engineers just because the profession currently comprises mostly men and they feel discouraged when they see that, even though they're otherwise interested (bad), or etc. etc.
Go astroturfing continues ...
>Docker is a cute little tool that gives people who aren't that great at Linux the illusion that they know what they're doing.

Well, that's what I personally hoped. Then you run into problems, distro specific problems, and find yourself unable to deal with it without actually becoming great at linux under a deadline. Docker can actually introduce tremendous complexity at both the Linux and application level because you have to understand how an image was prepared in order to use it, configure it, etc. (Of course, a big part of the problem is that there's no way that I know of to interactively examine the filesystem of an image without actually running the image, and accessing the FS from the tools that the image itself runs. This has to be some sort of enormous oversight either on my part or on Docker's).
"Would the numbers add up to anything above trivial?"

Initially? Probably not for those in developed countries.

The median per-capita household income (per http://www.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-household..., as of 2013) is about $3k/yr. For half the people on the planet, $100/yr would make an appreciable difference in their purchasing power (more than 1/3 their monthly income).

Is that a practical amount? $100/yr for every person on the planet is less than 5% of the GDP of the US, and less than 1% of the global GDP (GWP). If the US was going to foot the bill alone (it shouldn't), it would be about a quarter of our tax revenues. Steep, but doesn't sound financially impossible (political and infrastructural issues may well be another matter).
Have you ever heard of sex-selective abortions?
Would it have killed them to link to the paper?
I thought this was going to be a decent mainstream article calling out the software industry on its shit for calling every reuse or reapplication of decades-old methods as "innovative", but instead it's a tactless and incoherent rant that starts with a faulty premise right from the first sentence and devolves into what amounts to "Stupid Millennials, I'm better than you."
I'm currently working on creating a sidebar app similar to Honey's UI [1]. Have you made any progress implementing the sidebar look? It doesn't seem very documented and even Honey seems to do it in a hacky way.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/honey/bmnlcjabgnpn...
Why We Wrote Dusty (Docker-Powered Development Environments)
The Vice article appears to be the better source than the current link.
For me, understanding the history of computing goes hand in hand with a willingness to engage any computer programming language. It is easy not to learn that COBOL solved really hard problems of data storage and control flow and organizing teams of programmers against big big projects in the days before...well before just about everything we see in computing today. COBOL was NoSQL by necessity.
Travis moved to Docker after that [1]. And the "hosting industry" is not the thing it used to be since cloud.

[1] http://blog.travis-ci.com/2014-12-17-faster-builds-with-cont...
> The OP's complaint was that most history stops at Turing and everything in Hackers is about MIT post-Turing.

Before Turing, it was a handful of people obsessed with computing things efficiently. That history is difficult to extract from the hardware pre-Turing.
BBC reveals Micro:bit, a programmable PC that fits in your pocket
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/

A mountain of original docs, including memos of old design meetings at DEC, lots of brochures and manuals, and copies of relics like the first edition of the Unix Programmers' Manual.

Not much overview, but still a fascinating resource.
Yes, short term benefits. Clothes can open doors, gadgets can be productive or increase learning/happiness/entertainment. Booze... well, a bit of a stretch, but booze can assist in unwinding and/or celebrating which has benefits.

Neglecting the short term is very risky personal business.
Arguably, UploadToS3 should not be a method of *Payload.

Suggestion: Make an S3-uploader package with _internal_ connection pooling, upload queueing and concurrency handling.
When I was in secondary school, we had a plain grey, all-in-one keyboard and system desktop case that had a microdrive and was connected to a hacked colour TV via a massive umbilical cord. It turned out to be a BBC Micro prototype.
Thanks, yes I remember the package now.
> They think they can legislate anything they want

For Americans at least, that mentality has evolved over time as we further distance ourselves from the Constitution and its Amendments; trying our best to ignore their very clear limits on the capabilities of each branch of government. In today's American society, a diverse (and often mutually disagreeing) set of groups see the limits set in the Constitution as quaint and outdated, too inflexible for the modern world. Some see the Fourth Amendment as unreasonably limiting the effectiveness of national security and law enforcement. Some see the Second Amendment as a relic of a more violent world. Some see the First Amendment as intolerant of intolerance. Some see the Ninth and Tenth Amendments as needlessly frustrating the federal government's ability to quickly "fix" problems.

Today, I find the Constitution—and more importantly, those who bring it up in polite political conversation—to as often as not be marginalized as "extreme" or, worse, comedic. There is a rough equivalence of "Constitution" with "Murica" (or similar slang insults depending on the point of view of the person who sees the Constitution as an irksome trump-card used to roadblock their agenda).

As someone who believes the Constitution was a work of genius that facilitated this country's ascent, I also feel that for all our modern failings, the Constitution is one of the remaining bulwarks helping keep us afloat. I am sad when I see it attacked so successfully and relentlessly by myriad disagreeing groups. Those who seek facile, overreaching, and quick government solutions to complex problems routinely want to ignore the limitations set by the Constitution, not realizing that deliberation and careful thought were and should remain a cornerstone of our governmental model.
I'll check it out. Thanks a lot!
I did a post a while back on this topic, which might be of interest: http://www.elegantcoding.com/2014/08/a-brief-and-incomplete-...
Vertical space is not really at a premium when it comes to viewing static documents under access to a scroll wheel.

Why does the developer console open on the bottom, constraining your vertical space? Because there is such a dearth of horizontal space that that it would be uncomfortable to do otherwise. The reason things keep eating up vertical space is because that's the only space that's not at a premium.
You should have MIDI music on an endless loop too, and that rotating globe GIF... Ooh, ooh, and a guestbook! ;)
Multi-threading in Ruby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Sadino
Whereas my favourite memory of this icon is the Art of Noise's Paranomia track, featuring Max Headroom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWZseVWxN4
Apple Watch sales down 90% since the opening week
It's harder to blast the NRA when you're actually talking about millions of law-abiding, rights-exercising citizens.

The big, bad, evil gun companies are a much easier target to lambast. Never mind the fact that many of those boogieman companies turn a profit by arming those same millions of citizens.

It's just another avenue for hoplophobes to attack something they don't like.
Well-Aimed and Powerful
An assault rifle is a select-fire (having the option of more than one shot per trigger pull) rifle shooting an intermediate cartridge. An AR-15 is not an assault rifle because it isn't a select-fire. The M16, which the AR-15 is based on, is an select-fire weapon and is thus is an assault rifle.

The main difference between an AR-15 and a hunting rifle is that the hunting rifle tends to use a more powerful cartridge. The rest is cosmetic.
That's a misleading trope. The semantics of "programmer" now and then are not a fair comparison. There is now and was then a disparity in the gender distribution of "technically hard" jobs.
Thanks for presenting this so clearly. However, note that, as you show in this scenario, males are, on a relative basis, 50% more likely than females to be good engineers, knowing nothing else about them other than gender (P(B|~A) = 1.5 * P(B|A)). While the absolute probabilities (and difference in probabilities) are small, the relative improvement in classification error rate attributable to knowing the person's gender could very well mean that gender is still a useful feature to include (among many others! it's not so useful on its own, as you note) in a classifier for good engineers.
I wish I could up vote this more!

For those who don't have the three minutes, the "punchline" is: "I know those forces are real, and I had to survive them in order to get where I am today. So before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity, then we can have that conversation."
Ask HN: Do you use the GO continuous delivery tool?
How has your experience been? Is it robust? Is it better than Jenkins, Travis CI or Hudson? What are some of the other alternatives?
As an aside, you can also see how the self-hosted site is doing via https://mirage.io/stats/gc :)
And people with sexist and racist tendencies have those telescopes glued to their face.
It's not like they get to vote. The point is friends and family are more likely to contain informed opinions than randoms.
Other than the worker/concurrency mechanism being part of the language, what's the difference to a RabbitMQ-Worker architecture? You might even argue that the lack of persistence (in the given example) is a potential source for data loss.
The Unconscious Executive
That's an interesting take... It's like the perfect storm of our collective tendency to shirk responsibility, our tendency to generalize in search of a single unifying class, AND the tendency for powerful bodies (governments, corporations, or individuals) to re-contextualize any issue in a manner that validates their operations.
The article is not about hacking;

How does this qualify as "hacker news"?

It would be a fit for reddit's /r/Boston but I have trouble accepting the presence of this on "hacker news".
Agile 101 – Agile explained for the Layman
FWIW: The two companies that contributed the most to the namespace code in the upstream Linux kernel (that Docker uses) were Parallels and Google, both of which know a lot about containers at Scale. For those that don't know, Parallels wrote virtuozzo.

(from linux.git):

$ git log --pretty=oneline --no-merges --author='@parallels.com' | wc -l
695

I also suspect that it won't take super long for container technologies like Docker to take over OpenVZ/Virtuozzo if not only for projects like Kubernetes, which is backed by Google, and is the basis for commercial PaaS offerings such as Openshift v3 from Redhat. Virtuozzo is great tech, but using it for a new buildout seems like a bad idea for the forseeable future. Docker is not as good, but will be soon, and is supported out of the box on every modern distribution.
Python at Spotify, PSF, and PyLadies with Lynn Root
Occam's razor vs. hickam's dictum
This is the same video from the article itself.
Traditionally at newspapers, the 'graphics desk' handled any charts or data viz.

Many journalism organizations (including bloomberg and NYT) have kept the nomenclature for their special feature and 'interactives' groups who do pieces like this in non-traditional layouts with custom art and interactivity.
You know if this thing were an everyday occurrence (not that I even watch TV) it would probably be annoying, but the nature of the Max Headroom broadcast intrusion was more comical than anything, and it's almost a shame that no one has done anything like it since. So long as the broadcast intrusion isn't violent, overly crude, or exceedingly long/disruptive I think it would really be interesting to witness something like this again (it's kind of amusing to think you might even make a sport of it, in very limited doses). Most of the time I understand why the FCC cracks down so hard on misuse of RF, but it's hard not to have a soft spot for this sort of gag.
In the context of getting completely compromised, I'm not sure the cost of another computer really adds a lot.
"Universal background check" is code for registration:
http://cqrcengage.com/azcdl/UBC

Hand your rifle to a friend in Washington state? That's a (unconstitutional) felony.
> Unfortunately there isn't much room for this middle ground. People who want to acknowledge sex difference want to use sex as a filter, e.g. "no women in combat roles." People who want to give everybody a chance also want to even things out, e.g. "Allow women in combat roles, and lower the standards for women so they have just as much of a chance as men have."

Actually, I would say the vast majority of people not currently writing a post on an internet forum fall in some middle ground there. Like, the vast, vast majority.
> Regarding the second, it could be that the women were studying more, and thus not represent a genetic trait. In order to settle whether differences are genetic, you would have to compare performance from the same amount of effort.

I think this is an important objection, but you stop far shy of its true implication. If just studying more would skew the results, then you cannot reasonably say that the method used has any significant power to detect the influence genetic traits.

What is tested in a standardised test is arguably the combined effect of societal environment and genes, and considering that the field of the interaction between gene expression and the host environment (Epigenetics) is only just starting, even the genetic component might not be some static contribution.
This is actually very cool! It's interesting to play around with strategies for using your retirement income, e.g.

0.02 * [Savings]

with the idea of making your overall income path as stable as possible.
@Law

Law experience never gets outdated because law is moving slow. OTOH, experience matters. The more the better.

@Management

'I headed a department of xx people for nn years.' Sounds good. Experience matters - for managers.
Indeed, think the solution probably did most of the work here, although Go's channels would have made it a little easier to implement.
>> But since the beginning, our team knew that we should do this in Go because during the discussion phases we saw this could be potentially a very large traffic system

I don't get this reasoning.
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> Politicians think encryption is in the first category.

Not necessarily; I don't think they're quite stupid enough to think that encryption is not needed. (Perhaps once upon a time that was the case, when encryption was a munition regulated by ITAR.)

Rather, politicians are under the impression that it is, or should be, possible to have encryption that protects against anyone except their own government, that that's something they should get to ask for in the first place, and that that's just as good as un-broken encryption. None of those things are true, but good luck telling a politician that something necessarily needs to be beyond their control in order to function correctly.
The counter is this happened a few decades ago and these forces are no longer present or diminished.

I agree things are better but they are still a factor. Someone just called Asians robotic in front of me the other day. Had to educate him on stereotypes. :/
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I had immediate association of Lucerne with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and for some odd reason CERN's LHC, the particle collider, in Geneva, Switzerland. Funny how associations bubble up. Why uncomfortable? Not a nitpick, just trying to grok what you wrote.
I am very happy to see a CL framework along the lines of flask. I prefer CL to python, although, I use python too, and appreciate its ubiquity - in Blender3D, FreeCad, Vectorworks, etc... I am in the middle of the 1990 book, The Architecture of Symbolic Computers, by Peter M. Kogge. Amazing book. All about non-Von Neumann architectures, Lisp and functional programming.
How+to+add+element+below+another+in+relative+layout+in+android
Static Analysis in Clojure: Java Interoperability
From a musician's point of view this sounds like a dangerous idea. Training your hands on random sequences of notes which do not make sense musically and relying on visual feedback feels like it will do nothing to build the skill which you actually need which is the ability to associate hand movements to musical patterns.

But then it is probably just what you need if you want to play crazy atonal music. What do i know?
Yeah, I find the pressure sensitive API in Android is good enough, it just uses the diameter of the touch. It's good enough for varying my pen strokes in a sketching app.

I haven't tried a Note with a true pressure sensitive pen though.
This is the thread that the article mentions.
Exploring Microservices Architecture on Heroku
Elon Musk Admits Satellite Internet Plan Could 'Over-Extend' SpaceX
Limiting your statement to the American populace is a bit ignorant. This is a universal reaction by people, not just those born west of the Atlantic Ocean.
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A metaphor that I am fond of is that there are Wolves, Sheep and Sheepdogs. Wolves avoid Sheepdogs. Even thought the Wolf is stronger than the Sheepdog; even though the Wolf will most likely prevail in the end; it's easier for the Wolf to just go and find unguarded Sheep because sometimes the Sheepdog wins.
thank god. I've been asking for this a long time and its finally making
> This -- until people realise that their online banking is not secure without encryption.

For some time, only online banking was allowed to use strong encryption on the web. There was a special kind of certificate, which could be issued only to financial organizations, which told browsers they were allowed to use strong cipher suites.
(It's my experience that people are more worried about their money than their dick pics.)

For one thing, most people have at least some money, while the desire to photograph one's genitals (and especially, after having done so, to keep the results private) is relatively rare.
I think "enamored" is a strange word to use here. I would classify nine submissions in five years to HN as barely a passing interest.