skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any benchmarks?
How does this compare with previous versions of gcc?
Holy crap! I don't know if this helps or hinders! ;)

Thank you for this resource, much appreciated!
Fairness is based upon the information presented before the courts. Unfortunately, information is expensive to produce and subjective in nature. The art of legal council emerges.

I love the principle of complete fairness, but how is this technically possible? Moving to a purely fact-based society may come at the expense of liberty.
And the answer: "Why does CNN show ads? To make money. Why does CNN include tracking services? To learn more about the reader, to show more targeted ads, to make more money. Why does CNN use social media buttons? To get people to share the article, to get more page views, to get more ad views, to make more money."

And as ads make them less money they show more of them, or more intrusive ones. They a/b test where to put them or how to make them "appear" suddenly on the hope of stealing a click, and they try to disguise them as other news stories. But the bottom line is that the ad supported web at the ad rates people can get, is challenging at best and in cases like Dr. Dobbs Journal, well they give up.
I'm not sure how charitable I have to be here. Let's say I personally don't find any of this convincing at all, and I don't feel a single statement rises to the level of an actual argument. It's gobbledygook.
What does higher consciousness mean: are there different levels of living?
Why too much German influence over Europe is not the right thing
It's been a thing for a long while, including in the US and Europe.

But this is Argentina. The vulnerabilities were most likely put there deliberately by the security services, of course they don't want them exposed.
tldr; This was a ~$500 medium-level security safe and he was unable to crack it via the electronics.
We are based in Bangkok. btw you can plug your own rates in at the bottom "Show Details"
You could /almost/ have this with newsbeauter and lynx, except that the RSS feed doesn't include points or comment number and lynx doesn't indent comments, so all comments appear at the same thread level which is somewhat confusing.
How good is your index if you don't capture local shocks?
The Most Common Reasons Why Software Projects Fail
> You can plug in your own rates at the bottom :-) just click "Show Details"
Didn't see that and it helps.

Still i think the parent comment is important. If what you selling is just UI design and coding hours then you are not selling a completed app. Working with the client to go from a napkin sketch or idea to a shipped product involves a lot more work. Perhaps you could update the footnote at the bottom of the page about hosting costs etc to also mention the costs of requirements gathering and shipping. Nearly all of my past clients assume these costs are marginal at most if they think of them at all. Some of the more naive ones have assumed that ongoing support and training was somehow magicly included for free.
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The great thing about shell scripting is that you use the same commands for interactive use and scripting. If interactive use is localized but scripting is not then that no longer applies.
I cannot and will not donate to any defense fund for someone accused of leaking classified material. Regardless of the reasons, moral or otherwise, they committed the crime. Now it's time to do the time. This should not even be a "Yes, but.." situation. Manning is guilty and deserves the punishment.
I recall at least one short story with that. (Eugene by Greg Egan) The main character previously worked in Social Security, who had to lay off everyone due to no one giving them money.

Anyway, you can directly donate to NASA. They just aren't allowed to promote it or somesuch.

http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PD_...
Plugging in rates would seem to be more applicable to me (a professional in the field) than to the target audience (people who don't know about app development.)

Maybe for the audience I think you're targeting: a few big buttons with labels such as "Thailand", "USA", "Western Europe", "Russia", "San Franspesive" and so on?
The features added in PEPs should be incorporated into the documentation -- if they're not, please file a bug -- so people mostly don't refer to PEPs except for historical purposes.

It's not code, but also see Raymond Hettinger's talk "Beyond PEP 8" on YouTube. Actually, pretty much any talk by Hettinger is worth watching:

http://pyvideo.org/speaker/138/raymond-hettinger
Strange that this is coming from telerik, a company that creates really heavy and closed javascript framework libraries, that you can probably load from their own domain. They definitely have their part of responsibility in that 'cruft'...
I owned only Nexii from 2011 on and I'm not even sure Google wants to update those thoroughly. They sacked 4.2 for Nexus S, 4.4 for Galaxy Nexus although they can run it (and they did with custom ROMs) just fine.

Last straw was the Lollipop update for the Nexus 5, where it turned out a perfectly working device into a nightmare with memory leaks, mobile radio drains and camera freezes, where a daily reboot was actually mandatory. Their bug report tracker is full of complaints, yet they didn't do anything and are casually talking about M. Sorry, I don't have to wait a year, then pray if my current device is going to be supported, or just cave in and get a new device the new Android revision will enter the market with.

So until customer experience becomes a priority, I'm not investing a single cent or a second of my time in Android.
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>"You need something that will motivate you to keep learning." This is so true and often forgotten.

I'm surprised that both you and OP seem to think this advice is rare, as I've personally seen it mentioned more than a few times. Professors always brainstorm ways to motivate students, employers always seek methods to motivate employees, etc. The answer always seems to be something in the lines of 'do what you love' which is so overused it loses its impact.

Anyway, as someone new to data science, I did not feel like I gained any new information after reading the article, and all the advice seems either intuitive or rehashed. Looking forward to read the HN discussion though.
But this wasn't a case of doing something good for America. Manning stated they did this because of America's stand on gay marriage. This was not an act of moral compassion for America, this was revenge. We should not reward people who violate laws simply because they claim they were doing it "for the good of America."
While it's true that the price of labor, production, transportation, etc, would affect the cost of the Big Mac, it's still ultimately up to McDonalds to set the price, deciding what sort of margin they want from the product, maybe taking into account stuff like brand recognition.

So, using something like the potato would eliminate that sort of "bias" to the product, as no one party controls the potato, and thus couldn't artificially set the price higher at a whim. If the price of the potato rose, it would be because the whole market reacted to some changes to transportation or production costs, not because management has decided that they want to build their brand as being expensive and exclusive (which we know happens with a lot of brand products).
Ask HN: Google Play keeps rejecting my App on Copyright violation. What to do?
I use the Google Image Search API to power up content in my app(s). Google Play review team says its Intellectual Property (copyright) violation - while they show the same content on Google Image Search.

Where am I going wrong?
How can I fix this?
Wc off by one error
It doesn't sound like they sold tons of tickets (e.g., demand wasn't that high), so unless they severely capped the number of tickets (which they probably should have done anyway), an auction wouldn't have yielded very different numbers.
Site with Access-Control-Allow-Origin header error:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://d3h99m5mv5zvgz.cloudfront.net/api/v1/features/list. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://estimatemyapp.com' is therefore not allowed access.
I like the colors; I found after a few seconds I was just looking at the colors and not the numbers. The 6 and 4 are a bit too similar in color, though.
The ultimate SEO position if you're in that field haha.
My comment wasn't meant to be normative but I can actually imagine an employer doing so while playing the CSR card. Maybe not in SV but any place where talent is not that scarce: sure.
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Rethinking the population pyramid
I have actually used daytime for a "real" use: as a quick and dirty way of eliminating the possibility of guest clock drift when running benchmark scripts inside of emulated guests with unreliable timekeeping. Obviously a bad idea for benchmarks measured on the order of seconds, but probably fine for benchmarks running for hours. ntpdate -q would probably work just as well though.
no shit!!
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Finally I get to read something like that. I'm not even a native English speaker, but non-sexism would be reading 'man-hours' and implying that men and women are meant, not differentiating both. After all, 'man-hour' is a not a new term that excludes women, like someone else already pointed out.

I'm very sure that excluding women wasn't their intent.
Well working in gov't I have a wide array of Skillcraft products, some are ok. So if I don't have to pay for the pens I request the Precision 305, it's not bad. But I mostly use Uni-ball Signo 207 pens (http://www.amazon.com/uni-ball-Retractable-Translucent-12-Pa...). I could care less about how someone couldn't wash away the ink but I really like how they write.

As for paper products I just use whatever skillcraft steno pads are available.
Most sites do it already:

http://www.compesis.com/
InfluxDB (YC W13) is hiring a React/JS developer
At InfluxDB, we're building a platform for storing, visualizing, and processing time-based data. Our data visualization team needs one more talented JavaScript developer who wants to build beautiful visualization and analytics tools with cutting-edge technology. We use React, Flux, Jasmine, Webpack, and Go (for our "middle-end").

This role will be based out of our SF office in SoMa, ideally. We have a passion for open source, and an appetite for making tools that other developers can't live without.

Want to join us? Apply here:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/influxdb/jobs/66167
Every time I look down the well known port numbers I imagine setting up a box with every protocol running.

A bit of an aside, how many people still use plain netcat? I switched to ncat years ago, and haven't looked back.
Sad yet not surprising. Argentina, sadly, continues to devolve into a complete joke of a country. I lived there for over ten years. I love the people and the beauty of the country. However, Argentinians seem to suffer from a cancer that causes them to be easily manipulated into voting the absolute worst politicians into power. These politicians proceed to rape and pillage the country and make a circus out of the whole thing. When you can watch this from the outside and see it for what it is It is down-right sickening. You want to yell: Wake the fuck up! Will they for the upcoming elections? If history is any indication, no, they'll vote in the same pandering socialists criminals who seem to always be able to convince the masses money will rain from the sky. And nothing will change.

What's even worst is to see the parallels between what happens in Argentina and the US political system only to see Americans fall prey to some of the same sick politics and not see the reality of what politicians are doing to us. That's another topic.
why is this though?

i get your point about 'chaps', its a term only ever used to describe a group of men. with 'man hours' its more difficult because the intent is never to talk about gender, just how much time something takes, and there are not commonly understood alternative terms for this (although maybe we need to pioneer an alternative...).

i'm also curious why you are offput from working with a group that is exclusively men because of the use of this term though? you are assuming its some kind of 'old boys club'. i think this is sexism

the perception of sexism won't go away until these groups get some women in them... i would find it hard to believe that there was a sexist intent behind that statement. it sounds like he is trying to be welcoming in fact... and to encourage diversity by not excluding you from this opportunity for such a weak reason as your gender.

maybe i am missing something obvious...
It makes sense. Believe it or not, a lot of the marketing and SEO opportunities are completely ignored on most projects. Google is a huge company. I doubt they are doing a good job with their own SEO on the smaller projects that aren't related to the search engine.
Does GCC support modules? http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html
I don't believe that any situation can't be a "Yes, but". That's too absolute a stance in any regard.
I use a different notebook, a Black n' Red wirebound hardcover, 8-1/4 x 5-7/8 Inches.

I usually use a Pilot Hi-Tec-C (0.3mm) pen and a Pentel Sharp (0.9mm) mechanical pencil with a polymer block eraser.
I'd suggest a more innocuous explanation: those who view her actions favourably are more "up to date" with her situation (including coming out as trans), while those who don't are less up to date and might not be aware.

In my personal situation, I feel that while some of the leaks were very justified, a lot of the material had no reason to be released [1]. Anyways, I don't pay much attention to the case, and wasn't aware that Manning was no longer a "he". If I had just skimmed the page before commenting I might have made the same mistake. I'm sure some people are doing it on purpose, but it's important to remember that for the highest-profile parts of the case Manning was still a "he".

[1] I'm not sure what camp that puts me in - I'm not opposed to the leak of a certain subset of the leaked material, but I do feel that by not redacting anything what Manning did was irresponsible.

Side note: is there no way to escape asterisks on HN?
Check out boto. It's Amazon's official library for interacting with AWS. It is written and tested well. I use it every day.

https://github.com/boto/boto
React's breakthrough was "pure render function", given a set state and props.

Polymer still needs a higher level framework like react. Many projects use polymer and react together.
I mean differential shocks -- you want the index/item to track the general price differences between the countries, and not be thrown off by a cow disease that drives up milk -- or a good just being cheaper because of favorable local conditions.

If insulin became expensive during the war, that was only because things became more expensive in general, right? That's what the index should capture: "you need 3x in dollar terms to buy the same stuff in Libya."
It sounds awesome if SEO is your field, but at the same time I have to wonder how much you'd actually learn.

I imagine they would not tell this person much insider info, because then they would be far too dangerous when they left google.
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Odd that browsers seem to be reducing in options, forcing people to reinvent - less efficiently - what used to be available by default.

In fact one of the conformance requirements for CSS2.1 is "The UA must allow the user to turn off the influence of author style sheets"; CSS3 isn't finished yet so I can't find that exact phrase in it but I think it should still be a requirement.
Beef is also taboo in India.
I happen to agree, Ive been working on it for the past year and its sort of killed my drive to work with something 'big' again.

That being said Barbican is quite good, which I think is due to its proof of concept being written in Go[1] before being ported.

If you want to learn decent testing Openstack is a good example, the code as a whole not so much. This also only applies if you want to use unittest or their custom test module, testtools. py.test is a much nicer way to do testing IMO

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=245rSZBdm9s
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Hey, thanks for that type of input. This is exactly why I posed the question on HN. I really have no idea on how to judge Python code, so that's why I put the question to the community. I am looking for good code, but I don't (can't) know it when I see it, so I trust you guys to lead me to it.

Thank you for all the good replies peeps!
So you believe that whistleblowers should be punished?
Open letter to Steve Huffman, Reddit's new CEO, with an offer to exchange values
I don't really understand why the drone hobbyist ask for the video to be removed.
The Programs I Will Never Write
"Surveillance tools don't surveil people, people do!"
was thinking about this, all the deepdream images we've been seeing look really similar because they all use the same network, would be interesting to use custom trained networks more variation
I've seen thos Black n' Red notebooks in our stationery store, but in 8.5 x 11. Have you been using them for a while?
"In one 25-day span this year, Joyce flew round trip to London 16 times, flights that would retail for more than $125,000. He didn't pay a dime."

How is that even possible? Did he never actually leave the airport?
I´m just a user and not a contributor (I don´t know the source code), but the project is following good webdev techniques

* https://github.com/web2py/web2py/

* https://github.com/web2py/pydal
You're basically describing stuff I was doing like 20 freaking years ago. Minus the Hive & Spark & Highcharts & d3.js - naturally.

But back then I couldn't get any of my managers to understand or appreciate what I was doing. Fickle finger of fate.
Everyone has their own reasons for not actually fixing the root cause of so many problems, but I've found that the larger the company and the larger systems entropy that's been uncontrolled has manifested the less the business actually has any truly actionable control over actually fixing anything anymore - the inertia of old, bad systems that your business relies upon to keep the lights on is just too much to overcome. For starters, legacy application architectures and systems that just can't be offline nor actually fixed by a vendor can be a hard block. Add in so many vendors and contractors involved as standard for most large companies, add a lot of internal politics to the mix, and the reality becomes that the most cost-effective solution is sadly to just not fix anything and to just pay for PR damage and the credit monitoring and some more random security consultants to make people feel better somewhat.

A big component of real world security practice is that fixing things has real, serious costs and so businesses will compare those costs to the costs of simply not fixing them and rolling some dice.

Even the ever-critical Bruce Schneier understands and recognizes this reality.
The motherhood trap
I went to KFC the other day, since the McDonald's next door was way too busy. KFC doesn't always do better than McDs, at least in Beijing.
duiker's comments were more along the lines of how he's been underquoting.

Extremely common among early (or occasional) SWE freelancers IME, myself included.

IME, you can get to a point where you tally everything up and it comes to $65K, and then you start thinking, well this would be a fun side gig, and I have some free time I otherwise waste, and I sure could buy something cool with even $25K (after tax), and some of my estimates might be a little on the fat side, and this is a buddy (or isn't well funded, or both), and coding is fun enough that I sometimes do it for free anyhow, so I'll bid $45K.

And you've not accounted for the inevitable yak shaves, scope creep items, etc, but you got the work for $30K less than you should/could have.
The actual problem with learning "data science" is making inferences and conclusions which do not violate the laws of statistics.

I've seen many submissions to Hacker News and Reddit's /r/dataisbeautiful subreddit where the author goes "look, the analysis supports my conclusion and the R^2 is high, therefore this is a good analysis!" without addressing the assumptions required for those results.

Of course, not everyone has a strong statistical background. Except I've seen YC-funded big data startups and venture capitalists commit the same mistakes, who should really, really know better.

"Data science" is a buzzword that successful only due to obscurity and no one actually caring if the statistics are valid. That's why I've been attempting to open source all my statistical analyses/visualizations, with detailed steps on how to reproduce. (see my recent /r/dataisbeautiful submissions on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/minimaxir/submitted/ )
I've tried to make it very clear I have a high level of respect for proper journalism and even see that form of covering a subject as a form of art. That's some pretty high praise. The problem about paying for journalism is not many people see it as a form of art.

But that's just the issue with paying for journalism, I went off on a secondary topic about paying for news (more general).

My argument was that Fox News and most other mainstream media covering mostly trivialities and unimportant things could be replaced entirely by following trending topics on Twitter and one would miss nothing that actually matters. Any major events would be covered by the general public.
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"Man hours" is not a visual irritant. It is not saying that only men can do work. It is not a statement on gender. It is the most common and easiest to understand way to express an idea. You are being overly pedantic and rabble-rousing for no good reason.
Do you believe that if any possible law is broken by anyone under any situation the should always be punished or is it just this specific law? A stance such as yours seems to lack all nuance and would lead to some pretty ridicules outcomes if applied everywhere
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Fox? He used the Constitution to definite the terms. Are you arguing against the Constitutional definition of what a traitor is? What definition would you want him tried on in court if not the Constitutional one?
"Man hours" is a great sounding phrase. It sounds way better than "person hours". "Person hours" just doesn't flow as well. People aren't going to write song lyrics with the phrase "person hours" in them.

How about an acronym, like "thips", totals hours in persons. Throw a poet a bone.
Ask HN: Is Amazon AWS Beijing Accessible and Running?
The website indicates "limited preview" since 2013. Looking to make the hop from US based EC2 use to mainland china version for a startup. Separately, would prefer in Shanghai however. May go with plain vanilla webhosting and save myself the infrastructure headaches. TIA.
so, it sounds like you're saying we could get a "pretty good" or maybe "good enough" solution with nothing more complicated than a drastic bump in funding to public defenders' offices?
I kinda do, actually. maybe I will.

It was this game if you're curious:
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/the-black-cauldron/
Do you have a

#Ialreadysupportedgreekstartupswithmytaxpaimentsgreetingsfromgermany

badge as well?
Appreciate the kind words! Still working out kinks with image loading and positioning bugs.
Ask HN: Why do UK companies think that software development is cheap?
Just got asked from a reputable university to build a mobile phone application on (Windows, Android, iOS) with a CMS. The mobile apps are to include photos / videos / online shop / payment etc.

They wanted this done by 1st September, which is giving me 5 weeks to complete for the grand total of 3k.

Does anyone else find this on the low side?
Especially the greetz and rage. I knew quite a few on both sides 😂