skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not a postgresql feature, it's a libgit feature. That said, you might still get a review out of it, but it's certainly not the obviously correct place.
That's likely, since the profile user is from Vancouver.
Summer began weeks ago by various definitions of it.
This is such a good god damn idea.
You see links to "it" on the intial page.
“If eating wheat was so bad for us, it’s hard to imagine that populations that ate it would have tolerated it for 10,000 years,” Sarah A. Tishkoff, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies lactase persistence, told me.

Sarah, turn on your brain. What about Game Theory? What if wheat is addictive and mankind did not enslave Wheat but wheat (and possible other crops) "enslaved" mankind?

There is evidence that wheat may not be as healthy for you as you think. Also, the wheat from 60 years ago has very little to do with our current wheat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten_exorphin

http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2012/04/wheat-is-an-opiate/

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/category/toxins-and-
toxicity/wheat-grains/

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2010/09/wheat-and-obesity-more-...
This is a mostly garbage. It doesn't even mention control flow; callbacks, promises.

A big problem with JS is in part its best quality; flexibility. New and old developers need to be shown how JS has evolved to be written. I see massive code-quality and structure discrepancies in various large modules throughout the JS community and it only serves to dissuade contribution.

I'm not sure if it exists, but there should instead be a site dedicated to: "JS, done right."

It could outline actual best practices.
- Building, usage of precompilers
- Control flow
- Code structures
- Tests
- Everything in between

Usage of precompilers.
- Browserify, for modularity
- Babel, for next-gen features and code elegance

Control flow
- Bluebird, for promises

Tests
- What libraries to use
- How to build tests and how the big guys do it
- Guides for complex tests

Then you could introduce other somewhat subjective deviations, like CoffeeScript, other promise libraries, other control flow techniques.

Describing code structures is another big one.
With the use of Babel, the example-code can feature ES6 classes which would remove a nice chunk of the confusion newbs might associate with JS's prototype system (Not to say it shouldn't be introduced).

Then describe when to use each code structure.

My last thought would be to link to Github repos; for example, applications in both node.js and the client, which could describe a standardized filestructure, explain build steps, introduce tests, supply a step by step guide, etc..

Then I might say that if someone makes it through that gauntlet (and everything I missed in between), they might just be a competent JS dev.
Well, the example on the site show it can be pretty simple (I never had use for it, so I never really tried it ), and formatting could be easely added by editing a classic text file...

So the machine that would convert latex to PDF doesn't have to be the one the text files are written with.
Wow! My C knowledge is dated, but my Postgresql knowledge is good. Would be fun to attempt if I had time.
Beijinger since a year here. That's the famous "Dragon Tower" [1] where IBM China is having its offices, located north of Beijing nearby the 4th ring and Olympic Park. Franckly, it is very rarely that bad, maybe 10-15 days a year with PM2.5 levels over 400 µg/m3.

That picture might even have been taken during the impressive sand storm over Beijing in April this year [2], that's the most foggy day I've seen in the last 12 months here. Looking at the sand storm coming and swallowing the buildings from our offices on 10th floor was quite impressive. :-)

Also, if you live in a big city on any continent, you might want to check your own pollution levels using the AQI site [3], you might be surprised by the results. ;-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp7nLlaLaBg

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/16/beijing-sandstorm_n...

[3] http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/
Yeah, what harm could come of asking people interested in news aggregation to complete tasks they have little interest in and little reason to do so?

Surely the overall quality of HN won't suffer even more from people asking other hackers to write their C for them, what a great idea!

fucking /s
Tesla Is Betting on Solar, Not Just Batteries
This is a story of a person who's never been bullied.
The White House Selfie: The Visual Web’s Latest Victory
Thank you for pointing Kernel. I never heard about it but it looks powerful. Have you built something with it?
A Ruby Client Library for Telegram-Cli (Telegram API)
Have you tried https://github.com/davidbalbert/libgit2-postgresql? I know nothing about libgit2, but came across this repo while looking it up. If it's got some issues it's a great place to start from, since it also gives you somebody who could code review and you don't need to start completely from scratch.
As hard as the actual calculations may be, the main feature of a mechanics is that it is conceptually simple.

Now, software just isn't. Managing complexity requires a completely different intuition from exploring a simple space.
Intuitively it can also be answered: suppose you pinch the rope, so it is tight (you step on it and pull from between your two feet, for example). You'd have a handle for the earth that will go to about just above your knee. A cat fits!
I used to suffer from Alice In Wonderland Syndrome [1]. The first time I noticed symptoms was when I thought my CD player was broken because it was playing music slowly.

I asked other people if it sounded slow to them and they didn't think so. There was nothing wrong with the CD player.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysmetropsia
I got curious when you said they don't take themselves seriously. There are some pretty funny files in the /lib/ directory of their source tree. https://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/file/0d00dd23c9db/lib/... for example.
There is a gem called eager_group that you might find useful.
It probably isn't the most efficient way, but were an ODBC backend written for it, libgit2 would be able to use any database that has an ODBC driver - which AFAIK is almost all SQL-based ones.
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Sounds like that would devolve into a situation where people are trying to exploit others for free work. There are plenty of places on the Internet where you can go to find people asking others to write software for them for little or no money. Should this really be one of them?
After simple dental surgery, William lost his ability to form new memories
If you don't like it then don't participate. Some of these projects might be interesting. Unlike you apparently I actually like programming and do have an interest in taking part.
Uninteresting tasks won't get upvoted. Interesting tasks get upvoted, and become a story in itself.

Surely it won't have as detrimental effect as anonymous throwaway accounts rich with shallow sarcasm and curse words.
Linux containers are at most a privilege escalation away from breaking.

Also, isn't Docker people the ones talking about unikernels? Where everything run not only with superuser powers, but at kernel level?
A very serious irony that...
Did not even know Blue Shield was non-profit.
Right, countries define it differently. England's in a different part of the world, I can understand that.

My response was to your comment that having the correct laws in place is more important than giving people freedom of speech. And I'm saying having freedom of speech IS your path to enacting just laws.

As donw pointed out, civil forefeiture laws were not created as a result of free speech in America. The two are unrelated
What is questionable or illegal?

You may argue it is full-body nudity, depictions of erections, exposed female genitals or breasts... but then someone will produce some art that everyone accepts really is art and shouldn't be censored, or a photo of breast-feeding. And so you make an exception as you do not wish to censor.

Then what differentiates the porn from the art? Is it simply the context of where it appears... a porn site or a gallery? What is the context of your site?

I'm arguing here that everything is subjective when it's not obviously illegal (against the letter of a law).

Law itself struggles with these definitions and tends to rely on the concept of what a jury or judge "reasonably" determines to be against some wording of a law.

The underlying key question in determining a moderation policy is whether you, the site owner, wishes to take on the decision making for those subjective cases. And, in doing so, whether you wish to accept the liability that comes with it.

Simply: Are you willing to be liable for the content posted by third parties?

If yes, then you need to have the equivalent of editorial processes, clear definitions you can communicate to users, declared processes for handling breaches of those definitions (and repeated breaches).

If no, then you can have the equivalent of "mere conduit" or "safe harbor". Anything you're unaware of you can't be liable for, and once you're made aware you need to handle it with whatever declared process you have.

Reddit and others were the latter.

And the latter works fine until you start moving towards advertising and those paying for advertising start to say "You cannot show our brand next to this (or that) type of content". Suddenly you need to know what content is where and your ability to deny knowledge of what is on the site is reduced and you have been pushed down the path, and probably taken the first steps, towards a more editorial process.

Trying to encapsulate processes in a set of rules, as you've done in the Ask HN, will fail if the rules themselves are against the nature of the site. The nature of a site that survives on advertising is that the processes and user terms and conditions need to create content acceptable and favourable to advertisers.

For most of what you've outlined above, I've had lawyers create terms and conditions for sites I run that does encapsulate a distributed and hands-off moderation policy that complies with European law. You can see those docs over here: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/legal
Are you sure it's not Central City?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtDw06d-R0
Yes and no.

Do startups accept self-taught programmers - definitely yes.

Do companies in general accept self-taught programmers - yes.

Do large fortune 500 companies accept self-taught programmers - generally no.

There are exceptions to this rule. If you're self-taught and have done something amazing, like created your own programming language used by thousands of programmers, or you've got years of experience in some area thats hard to find experts in, like realtime systems programming then they'll make exceptions and you can get in.

If you want to work in R&D you're going to need a PHD, the only exception here might be in startups.

But aside from the big players, you can almost always substitute experience over education. Given two programmers, one with 3-4 years experience and the other with a bachelors degree and no experience, its actually the case that exp will trump education just about every time, especially on general programming positions and in the startup community, where all that matters is what you can do and have already done.

Overall though, do yourself a favor and finish up your degree, you'll always have the advantage over candidates that don't have one.
I believe the same trend like in any (most) other non-news submissions will follow - intellectually stimulating tasks get upvoted.
Upvoting/downvoting should, at least in theory, prevent that from happening.
People who manage social media for companies are trained to filter out the shit before it reaches the managing director. This tubby bitch decided to try and boost his self importance because he THOUGHT he found a vulnerability by slagging them off to their customers and then has the gall to whinge about someone being unprofessional. The mind boggles!
> Manhattan is about 40

That's insane. Copenhagen is at 80.
You really can feel it in your lungs. People hocking up lougies everywhere in public (sometimes on your shoes if they don't see you walking by). It's a desperate state of affairs IMO.
How to stream your own game collection
If the result is open source I don't see that as a huge problem.
Seeing the same problem solved in different ways is one of the best ways to learn. Cynicism is intellectual junk food.
Time for this good project to get off of sourceforge as well.
I was recently at the Auckland Museum and they have an exhibit showing a recreation of the Gallipoli Peninsula as it was for the ANZAC campaign that had been built by local school students - https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/education/activities-and-comp...
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The truth hurts, but lies kill.

The large majority of HN readers are lurkers, who don't vote at all, the next largest group are those who aren't able to downvote, followed by the smallest group, the downvote-capable.

I've got a few accounts that have downvote and dozens without, but it's not enough to stop the constant barrage of stupidity that floods what is supposed to be a news aggregation list. I don't mind seeing SHOW HN:'s, I like seeing what hackers are working on. On the other hand, a bunch of posts TASK HN: Write a C wrapper because I can't do it, that's gonna get old real fuckin' quick.

I will shill as hard as I can, but I fear that it won't be enough.
Yes, all the time. I have a few most-used apps on my home screen and the rest (including some like Mint, which I use frequently but don't want obvious to someone picking up the phone) I open by searching.
Have you looked at these?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9641832

https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling

http://blog.pclewis.com/2010/03/tip-using-gdb-as-an-interact...
More than a third of Americans are ready to move abroad
From another perspective...FBI tries to trick Neij and Sunde into identifying the new TPB admins.

FTA: Neither Neij and Sunde could help with the request, since they no longer run the site. The officers also asked about just who is running the Pirate Bay these days, so it's not clear what the real motive of the questioning was. Both men were interviewed by Swedish police, but the Swedish officers said they were "sent on behalf of the FBI."
Teenager’s jailing brings a call to fix sex offender registries
It is still spring here, even if not officially. Today was nice and cool, the air is clean, in a couple of weeks it won't be this nice.
Ther s a powertoy for the windows version that does this. Why it wasn't mad part of the core ribbon UI I'll never know.
> I'm inviting you to level up. It's time.

Appeal to authority noted. You think you know better than csvan, but without any real arguments, you resort to using moral platitudes that you think speak to the crowd.

csvan said "a field which is traditionally male-dominated.". You agreed with this yourself by stating that Software is 80-90% male in your experience. Then he followed up with an opinion, stating "I don't think gender matters at all". This was followed by more opinions about what he thinks people should do.

So we've established that what you consider "flat wrong" is actually more like "Your one fact is correct, but I disagree with your opinion". Let's bask in the sunlight of agreement for just a moment before moving onto the statement that ultimately drew your ire.

Personally I don't think gender matters at all

I wonder if you'd have gone on this rant if csvan had said "Personally, gender doesn't matter to me at all..." or "Personally, I don't think gender should matter at all..." because I'm 90% positive that the latter is what he meant to convey.

And he's correct. And you agree with him. Gender shouldn't matter at all and people should be valued for their skills instead of their genitalia. Perhaps you would have learned that by having a conversation or thinking about it some more, but you chose to attack instead of giving someone the benefit of the doubt.

So, have a downvote. You deserve it.
>he wakes up every morning believing he is still in Germany in 2005, waiting to visit the dentist. Without a record of new experiences, the passing of time means nothing to him. Today, he only knows that there is a problem because he and his wife have written detailed notes on his smartphone, in a file labelled “First thing – read this”.

Literally 50 First Dates...
Hiring CS grads to create CRUD apps is like hiring EE grads to wire your house. Even if the EE grad could figure it out, odds are it wouldn't be up to code.
An encrypted email server thats as easy to setup as apt-get install. Managing your own email is still a huge headache, and it really shouldn't be this bad in 2015. I'm talking some service with a reasonable config file format (json?), and high quality built-in anti-spam utils, so you don't have to deal with that. Ideally, it would take the Elasticsearch route and make everything manageable over a REST-API so anyone could build clients for it. I really wish this existed.
https://github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare
No. As you say there are enough places where that shit happens.

Should hacker news be the place where interesting suggestions for stimulating open source tasks were shared? I think yes, more so than all the politics that creeps up here.

And if the requirement is that it must be open source and not directly something the asker will make money of then it stands very little chance of being abused and if it does, is it any worse than all the other spam we downvote/report?
The reason we're eating wheat even though we're not made for it is because we could support larger populations on that versus hunting and gathering. Farming societies eventually won, even though hunters and gatherers were more healthy, because farming societies have a food surplus (which it can store), and can then afford to wage war and expand. If you look at skeletons from before and after farming, you see that hunter and gatherers were taller, had bigger brains than we have today, and were overall healthier.
I read the WheatBelly book, which you cite. That is one of the most heavily cited book I've read about health. It was a bit extreme in how aggressive that book cited. I'd strongly encourage people to get the book from your local library and give it a read. (edited to add a thought) Wheat isn't a problem, even spoken of within the book. It's unsprouted wheat, which is currently the norm. We've sprouted wheat for most of human's civilization, minus the last 40 or so years.
Interesting link... some world cities compared (current Air Quality Index at time of writing before link):

VERY UNHEALTHY

298: http://aqicn.org/city/chicago/

UNHEALTHY

170: http://aqicn.org/city/usa/washington/seattle/beacon-hill/

UNHEALTHY FOR SENSITIVE GROUPS

122: http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/

MODERATE

96: http://aqicn.org/city/usa/oregon/portland/

70: http://aqicn.org/city/tokyo/

66: http://aqicn.org/city/berlin/

65: http://aqicn.org/city/london/

61: http://aqicn.org/city/hongkong/

54: http://aqicn.org/city/newyork/

GOOD

33: http://aqicn.org/city/zurich/

31: http://aqicn.org/city/stockholm/

24: http://aqicn.org/city/paris/

13: http://aqicn.org/city/california/san-francisco/san-francisco...
Oh yes, we should: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=76927
Only taxes on produced factors can distort the incentive to produce.

As Land by definition is all that is not produced by human effort, a 100% tax on its rental value cannot therefore lower aggregate wealth and welfare.

Indeed, by putting owner occupiers on the same economic footing as renters, Land is only ever occupied by the Capitalist able to put it to its highest productive use.

So, unlike damaging taxes on income and capital, a LVT actually raises economic output.

Fundamentally, this is because shared land rent is the only fair way of paying for the services we share.

Not only is taxation of income/capital theft, but so is occupation of valuable Land without compensating those excluded.

Also, occupying valuable land is by choice. So, a LVT aligns incentives because it is paid by choice, unlike taxes on income/capital which distort incentives because they are based on coercion.

Any changes to the tax system produces one off winners and losers. This is not legitimate argument against change . Else we'd still suffer institutions like slavery.

Hope this helps.
> So their "best practices" end up being questionable at
> best. Basically, who are you to claim that whatever
> you're doing is a "best practice"? It seems like a pretty
> bold claim, so I'd argue that it's not unreasonable to
> expect someone to back up their claims.

This is why IMHO the best advice comes with a list of pros and cons. It tells me that the author has thought deeply enough about the subject to understand not only the solution, but the contexts where the solution isn't a good fit. (Two books that spring to mind that do this: Patterns of Enterprise Applications by Fowler, and Design Patterns by Gemma et al.)
We should start paying teenagers to attend educational programs over the summer in math, science, or tech.
Uber is completely off the radar right now, I think they only service some parts of chaoyang even, I do most of my travel from haidian to chaoyang. Didi zhuanche offers better cars, but not Audi (maybe you are thinking of Shanghai?)...at best a VW or Buick.

Taxi is quite ok when the air is really bad. You can only filter so much air in a car, and it's not like they are putting in giant HEPA filters. The main problem I have is sleeping with the window closed when the air is bad...even with the air filter going, it is very hard to sleep soundly.
Because every entrepreneur must learn to cook
Um... The whole point here is that unscientific nonsense needs to be killed. And specifically that non-Celiac gluten sensitivity has no real evidence for it.

So your response is to trot out an equally unfounded (AFAIK) hippie-inspired pseudo-theory. Seriously?
> The correlation between gluten intolerance and the rise of late-crop RoundUp raises some big questions.

Does it? Does it really? Half the point of the article is that genuine gluten intolerance is not that common, for starters, so there probably isn't a simple causal relationship that "X = bad, X is on wheat, therefore wheat is bad for us now".

Secondly: Is wheat the only crop we spray RoundUp on? If not, why is it only causing issues with wheat?
> Are the gluten haters correct that modern wheat varietals contain more gluten than past cultivars, making them more toxic? Unlikely, according to recent analysis by Donald D. Kasarda, a scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture. He analyzed records of protein content in wheat harvests going back nearly a century. It hasn’t changed.
The term has a specific meaning in the context: letting the user drive the order of interaction instead of following a set sequence. Many early character based interfaces forced the user follow a specific process (think filling in a form field-by-field). We are now taking the paint/word processor/window manager interaction where we can click on anything we want any time for granted.
Vim plugin Fugitive [1] effectively allows editing files in index.

[1] http://vimcasts.org/episodes/fugitive-vim-working-with-the-g...
My Trello setup for managing job applications
It's sort of telling that you refuse to put any effort into showing anyone you can at least put together a crappy implementation to demonstrate understanding and contribute back to the same knowledge space (beginner knowledge is knowledge) you wish to extract from.

The demand for the highest quality code for what is essentially begging is also not becoming. Even contributing a terrible implementation would tickle people's motivation button (so they can teach someone without building your entire project, show they are measurable better than someone, etc)

"Beggars can't be choosers"
I think you're calling Aristotelian physics "Galilean mechanics."