skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Admitting you were wrong makes you look incompetent.

It certainly makes you feel like you look incompetent. I wonder how much it makes others judge you as incompetent. Perhaps this issue has been researched? (I'm guessing that it might matter a great deal how one was wrong; there are different ways to be wrong, and different levels of wrongness.)
> Someone could probably commandeer it at that point.

How exactly would that happen and what fail-safes could google put into place to prevent those?
An spf record only helps preventing emails sent from phishing servers. It is inherently meaningless to spam filters if the trust with the domain owner itself is misplaced.
Much better examples!

I wasn't trying to imply this sort of sexism doesn't happen. Woman being asked which man they are attending a Hackathon with happens frequently! The assumption being they aren't attending on their own or aren't hackers, etc.

I was more worried about cases where genuine mistakes being clumped with sexism when they really shouldn't be.
At first, I thought this was a suggestion for a basic income (ala Utrecht - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9817209). I was looking forward to another financial experiment/attempt, and from the UK, no less...
FBI Director Says Agents Need Access to Encrypted Data to Preserve Public Safety
That's not true. There are many websites today that have identical or less functionality than in the past, and they're just SLOW. So many sites I visit do an inane amount of work to load up a static site. And they scroll poorly, they feel laggy. There's no new functionality, except as far as the developer goes - they're now doing databinding on the client, loading content at runtime (vs sending back rendered HTML), etc.

Edit: I'd also add "on the web" continues to be an excuse for slow, unresponsive software. Even in ~96 or so, I remember folks getting excited. "Look at this online frog dissection thing!" ... It was crappier than what you could do with even a small download. But it was on the web so it was hot. Same thing now.
Do you really think Lisp is rigid, and not expressive?
Amazon SES or Mandrill would probably be helpful. Both have generous free tiers.

But you are still sending all your outgoing email through an external 3rd party. Not ideal. Also, these days every email is a top-reply orgy of all correspondence ever sent, so your SMTP relay essentially gets a copy of your entire conversational inbox (via "QUOTE ALL THE THINGS" reply garbage) as well as your outbox.
Google puts resources into reducing spam and does reduce spam, so it would be even worse than it is if Google didn't do anything. The author's troubles may be side effects of some of the things Google does at scale to filter out spam.
You could use Logstash and Kibana to make a similar looking map from actual logs, but i don't think you'd be able to do the shooting animation, but I'm not too well versed in Kibana. Maybe with a plugin?
One more and a planet to go (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_short_story_..., https://www.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/nightfall.pdf)
No. For permanent genomic changes you have to select what you want. For precise edits, there's usually a counterselection (so it takes two hits). The efficiency of the process is still low. You have to be willing to throw away a lot of cells to get precisely the correct one. One way to think of it is a big component of what CRISPR does is to make it easier to find the good edits (although it does also make good edits more likely).
No, the opinion is not even logically valid because there is nothing that shows Google's punishment of his server is required to reduce spam.

It's like eliminating poverty by killing all poor people. Yes, it would work, but the side effects are worse than the outcome.
These are not the basic incomes you are looking for.
I've had App Engine projects that were on Product Hunt and Hacker News for a day, and the bill for those days were close to 0. (it did exceed the free tier, but not by much)

You probably wouldn't want to run Reddit on App Engine, but anything with medium traffic or decent monetization should work out just fine.

The only other caveat is that it may depend on what the app does and how you utilize the datastore. If you don't consider cost of the datastore when building an app, it could end up being expensive like you mentioned.
Beautiful. We need more serendipitous moments like this. Like the 19th century experimentalists you read about as a kid.
Interesting -- though a quick scan of the evaluation data sets suggests that none of them are as large as the Twitter one (1.1B edges) or the uk-2007-05 one (3B edges) that we (and other distributed graph processing systems) use. Presumably this is due to memory limitations on the GPU?
Bloomberg's 'What Is Code' Feature Was a Massive Hit--Here's Why
If you prefer C# over Java, well, it is better. Learning both a new platform and a new language (especially Objective-C in the days Swift didn't exists) is a daunting task and Xamarin can ease the pain here.
Also it is great to be able to maintain a single code base for the data model layer (including persistance), network access etc.
And you can also use platform specific native APIs in C#.

The not-so-smooth part is the UI. You have two choices here: using the Xamarin Forms library which is a toolkit that maps high level UI component to natives ones, with the drawbacks of less customization.
Or to use the native UI tool (XCode designer for iOS, Visual Studio for WP; Xamarin Studio comes with a designer for Android) to create it. But in this case, you can't use data binding, which makes WP(F) developper very sad :(

As a hobbyist mobile student developer, I wouldn't have enough time to develop a multiplatform mobile apps without it. (note: they offer free Indie plan to student who ask for it).
I feel this is just begging the question. It's not about being "capable of empathy" but directing that empathy toward very specific groups of people. To illustrate: how much would you modify your behavior to accommodate someone who is offended by gay marriage?

So now we're left with: why this set of people?

And while I'm sure there is a complex framework of narratives and rationalizations and models of power structures, etc. in support of who gets to be in the in-group and who doesn't, to me it seems mostly like a case of mindless tribalism.

Presenting/accepting horrifyingly bad arguments like "you don't share my viewpoint because you're incapable of empathy" is not done because people actually believe in them, but as a signal of tribal membership.
I don't think so. The sever instances are definitely cattle. The current state, which is mutable and volatile, is persisted because it needs to be and that's the service provided. The server instances are identical and destructible... This cattle. The illusion of permanence may exist but if the migration fails, the persisted state dies and the user gets reset.
The full spectrum white rope lights are fairly common. I think the $1000/25meter is an extremely high markup.
Clinton subpoena claim undercut by lawyer's reply
Nops. The only winning move is not to play.
This was two or three years ago.
Fair enough. My point was that there is a place for such "private justice systems" because there are transgressions that the state has no authority over and no interest in persuing.
Yeah, this would have had to have happened two or three years ago or more. After a ContentID claim you file is disputed the video is restored and you have to file a real DMCA takedown notice. If that gets disputed, the video is again restored (though you'll likely end up with ten days of it taken down) and you have to file a lawsuit, same as any other DMCA takedown.
This word does not come from a good place and is meant to be a pejorative.

Equating male developers to slave owners is both sexist and racist as well. It's not ok to make that kind of comparison.
You can also open links like this in a private browsing window (works for me in firefox, probably would work in others too). The economist website appears to decide you deserve a paywall based on cookies or other tracking.
Uh oh. I created an "unsubscribe" filter a while ago to get rid of spam. It's been great for keeping my inbox clean but I just don't see stuff with an unsubscribe line anymore.
Stealing Lastpass Passwords with Clickjacking
Spotify urges iPhone customers to stop paying through Apple's App Store
Ask HN: Building Real time Data Platform to collect streaming data
I am building Real time Data Platform to collect streaming data from different sensors. I would then calculate some metrics based on the different data (factors) I receive and show in a real-time dashboard the data.

I have expertise in developing the front end; so it's not an issue. I am trying to find what is the best way to build real-time data platform ? what are some good and working architectures that you recommend (eg: Storm .. etc). Which technology stack do you advise (Node, Go, Scala, .. etc ) ?
It sounds like you're saying, "Programming was offered to them, but they didn't take it, so apparently they didn't want it."

But what was "programming"? Was it a skill/profession, or a lifestyle that was being offered to the women? I think it's often seen as a lifestyle - i.e. programmers only eat pizza and wear hackathon t-shirts and spend their free time playing video games. Of course this is wildly inaccurate. Good programmers need to only have knowledge and an interest and ability to learn more - what you eat, wear, and enjoy as a hobby shouldn't matter. But if you go to someone and ask if she wants to give up her own lifestyle and own interests to become a "programmer", she's going to say no.

I suspect that so many people enjoy the stereotypical activities that they're unable to separate out the programming lifestyle from the actual skills necessary.
Well if I asked your average brain-dead Java developer it would be to make your code more "generic" so you don't have to change a single line of code when requirements change, just tweak some XML somewhere!

And if there is one thing that Java developers are not, it is productive. I will usually be finishing off a project in Python while they are still coding getters/setters on their AbstractProxyFactoryFactory class.
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If you want to look at an intellectual property revenue distribution system that has some of these traits already you can look to compulsory licensing schemes like the one used for radio airplay in the US.

The basic idea of a compulsory licensing scheme is that publishers are compelled to take and producers to offer a license to play any item covered by the scheme. And that publishers pay into a pool which is distributed to producers based on usage.

An idea like this would be actively resisted by the large internet publishing companies ( Google and Facebook, etc. ) but would be much more fair for small producers.

Unfortunately producers do not have much of a lobby in the current environment.
Did you buy that latte 2 hours ago? Think about leaving the coffee shop
Which pronunciation of Seoul is it like?
The way Koreans pronounce it?
The way Americans pronounce it?
The way Europeans pronounce it?

I'm confused because Seoul doesn't have an 'e' sound in it at all, in Korean.
> The laws do not leave any room

This meme is repeated a lot about posession of child pornography, and is absoluely incorrect. Perhaps this is because in the UK the law had to be amended to include an exception, so that deliberately 'making' otherwise illegal images solely for the purpose of law enforcement was allowed as a defence. But (again, in the UK, but true for most other common law jurisdictions) there is still a 'mens rea' (that is, guilty mind, or intent) requirement, as with any crime.

EDIT: Also, there are no 'edge cases' in regard to sexting, at least in the UK at present, as the law allows the obvious defence that the images are of ones partner.
This map has much better pew pew sounds:
http://threatbutt.com/map/
You don't seem to understand what "abstraction" means in computer science. Hint: it's nothing to do with memory management. High level languages like Python/Ruby actually have less abstractions than lower level languages like Java because they don't need them, and Python/Ruby programmers tend to want to get stuff done rather than write a ode to the Gang of 4 in XML.
My favorite singer is Céu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9u
Basic economics don't disagree with me at all. Production in Germany is expensive. If price were the deciding factor German industry would be irrelevant. The reason it isn't is because these products are specialized high quality products. You don't buy them because they are cheaper than some competitor, you buy them because there isn't an alternative product.

The current euro situation certainly helps keeps prices down and allows more people to buy German products and that's a big part of why the German economy is doing so much better than anyone else. It wouldn't be much worse with a German currency either though.
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Someone coming from a female group which is definitely not lacking in IT complaining about the lack of females? Maybe you just don't understand what irony is.
The current model doesn't ensure that either (it's dependant on the unknown number of sales). If you want ensurance when you publish the ebook, some kind of subsidy or patronage is the only system that can do so; Kickstarter has had a few successes: https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?category_id=18...
Thanks for the interest and sorry re: the lack of email -- team made the decision to be relatively quiet while we were in the code cave. I have been crunching for the last six weeks in preparation for closed beta, which started Wednedsay. If all goes well, we will have something on AWS that actually works by the be of today.

Next up, a few weeks of iterating on level design, difficulty level, etc, and then...
Yes, We built this and much, much more. You can contact us at https:/getdash.io and we can discuss more.
China probably will liquidate treasury holdings to fund their margin bank and other stimulus, and they will do it at a loss because global uncertainty is forcing yields down. Put simply, a lot of USD sequestered on China's balance sheet will find its way back into global commerce. Thankfully.
Notice the hijacking of the term "living wage", rather than calling it what it is, a bump to minimum wage.

A cynical political move, and completely in character for this Conservative government.
Notice the comment on the story:

"I had the exact same problems in the past. For me it helped just to register and immediately cancel a trial of Google Apps for the domain. It’s annoying to have this as a necessary step but at least it was like that done in just a few minutes (after I tried to find a contact email of Google for a much longer time). I tried it because I had other domains on the same server which didn’t had this issue. All domains which weren’t filtered had a Google Apps account in the past. So I thought it’s worth a try, and yeah it was solved."
Regarding the email issue, the addresses that you are able to add to the permissions list are very limited.

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2...
Logical validity only means that the argument works given its premises, not that the premises are correct.
At first, I was confused. The goal of most software projects is to cut costs and increase revenue for some line of business. How does bringing more women into programming help?

I asked my wife this question. Her answer.... It achieves the goal because women traditionally earn less money than men for the same job. I was stunned. Maybe she's right.
fun fact about linode: if it says automatic backups are on in your control panel, they can still be off on linode's end. I went to go recover from a recent snapshot, only to find our latest backup was 11 months ago. That it would be "on" on our end, and be broken for 11 months for a service i'm not supposed to have to think about, that really blew me away. But, to their credit, DO does not offer the same level of backups.
You're right that this is a possibility, and it's probably true in some cases. But there's also research that shows that women in the workplace often act less aggressive than men because they have a justified belief that if they didn't, they'd be viewed negatively and it would work out to their disadvantage.
I read through the article trying to find details about this "living wage" (thinking it was a basic guaranteed income to all individuals), which would be quite a big thing to introduce.

Then I realized the same as you, they just hijacked the term.
You just mansplained what it means to mansplain something. Are you offended by this remark?
Red Hat also run a hosted one called CapeDwarf.
The Rules for Creating VR Content Don’t Exist. That’s Exciting
I wrote a long reply but deleted it.

I think there are ways to solve all of your issues on android, including using a 3rd party home screen; but at the end of the day - these are not products that come down to measured specs against measured specs, these are products we use as an intimate part of our daily lives and as a result are subject to purely subjective factors being a core part of the decision making process.

I appreciate your opinion, it has helped me further understand why using subjective reasoning as a driving factor for technology purchases is no longer a sign of the uninformed/uninitiated, and is now instead (rightfully) simply a personal preference.
Google's C++ style guide recommends using int unless a fixed size is needed, such as binary compatibility in network code or file formats.
Huh? I've encountered the term "living wage" before, used to mean a minimum wage set high enough to cover reasonable expenses, but never heard it used to mean anything else. Are you trying to say that 7.2GBP (11.06USD) isn't a living wage, or something else?
You left out one of the huge benefits of app engine. Google are responsible for keeping the stack secure. You deploy your code, and can trust that it's running on a secure kernel, web server, etc.
Obama Should Stay Away from Ethiopia
Because I'm writing my own ;)

https://github.com/cmail-mta/cmail if you're interested.
Should we be cautious about messaging extraterrestrials?
And why do you think this stereotypical lifestyle is supposedly more appealing to men than women?
We have been keeping a note book, asking people for problems they face, and looking at problems we face. We just don't like any problems that we have discovered. The best idea so far is creating some sort of AngelList for the LP space or a version of Seeking Alpha for the private equity/venture capital community. Nothing worthwhile yet.
> I run a server on Hetzner that sends maybe 100k messages a week, and appears to have no problems with delivery.

That volume (assuming non-spammy content, of course) would over time build up a positive reputation for your IPs, outbound addresses, and content.

A new or low-volume IP on Hetzner is going to have a harder time overcoming the initial suspicion Gmail saddles it with.
Native content does not earn content creators ad revenue. It does, however, earn FB ad revenue.
I was trying to make sure we were working from the same definition, but many people who were "mansplaining" might say the same thing.

Your comment made me smile, that would be ironic wouldn't it.

And no, I don't find the term offensive.
I'd like to discuss these ideas more in depth. Can I email you?
Antitrust is serious business, but seeing as there is no clear antitrust issue here, I'm not sure what you think getting lawyers involved will accomplish other than making it impossible to help you since your case is now an impending legal action.
Not blacklisted, just treated with higher suspicion by default.
The densest part of Chicago is approximately as dense as SF, but isn't so astronomically expensive.
Haha no, that's why I bought the coffee. I have a machine at home
I thought The Social Network was a superhero movie until I went to the Valley
Patents in machine learning? Can you elucidate on the "whole patent situation"?
Skilled gaming company (Koalah) Not really. Didn't know how to acquire customers. In a market that had too much stigma. It was always associated with gambling even though it was legal. Not a common problem that startups face.
It's like you're seeing into a machine's imagination. Look at the 8th-layer images of the pitcher, or the gorillas with improved prior, for instance. They're very close to layout sketches an artist might use to block out a painting or photograph before beginning the work.

Unreal. Strong AI is not as far off as we think. 15 years. Maybe 20.
OK, I'll bite. As someone who could reasonably be called a creative person, I've happily shared work for free or cheap. This is great as you say, but all indications are that I'd have to work worse hours, live rougher, and probably risk burning out several more times to have any chance of supporting myself full-time doing this. So I work a day job doing, well, rather less exciting enterprise work, and I make a comfortable income. Thankfully I'm also able to enjoy lots of free time and spend some of that continuing work on free/cheap creative projects. But the reality is that with the incentives as they are, or as you seem to be in favor of them being, the choice to put much more time into these projects is not one I'm willing to make.

In all probability the "invisible hand" or what have you is indicating that my time spent doing the day job is much more valuable, and I'm completely fine with that. In my own tortured estimation the creative stuff is pretty much all "crap" by your definition ;) and there is not much of it. But I suspect it is not the situation you're in favor of.

For reference here are links to some of the creative work, which has all been great fun doing, so again, compensation is not at all an issue.

A comedy arcade game about fracking in space (use Firefox or Chrome plz): http://guscost.github.io/spacefrack

An amusing Arduino project: http://guscost.com/2015/02/26/fun-with-tailgaters/

A small tutorial on complex numbers (the most successful content I've made): http://guscost.com/2012/08/06/degrees-and-freedom/

A library for wrapping Kendo UI widgets in React components (not as artsy but useful): https://github.com/guscost/kendo-react-wrappers

A music game for iOS (had to renew my developer subscription but it should be up tomorrow): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mixball/id578469049?mt=8

A cover which needs a lot of work and a professional mastering job: https://soundcloud.com/guscost/i-get-carried-away-semi-rough
how amazing is this! especially considering the focus right now is the lack of diversity in tech but its very clear that techies are taking a very direct step towards inclusion. Not that am saying the lack of diversity is a minor problem but with this upward movement of reaching communities like a country in west africa, the tech industry is defintiely trying to catch up and make up for it. Very impressive! Very happy for all the 10,000 students that will experience this.
Are you suggesting that you haven't seen that situation occur? I only learned the word last year, but I've definitely seen it happen in real life. I've even seen it used as the situation for sitcoms, which would imply that it's common enough for people to be able to relate to or at least understand.

Does it need its own term? I don't know how you'd gauge that. Clearly there are people who think it does. Enough of them have decided to use it that eventually I learned the word without seeking it out.