skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General cultural belief in equality of both opportunity and outcome. Why should a real estate developer, and the whole horde of commissioned vampires that follow them, make 10x as much "over there" as "over here" when its the same product for the same people making mostly the same money at mostly the same jobs, just a different location?

Various standard of living effects, the $3M I'm not spending on similar housing in CA is improving my standard of living and retirement plans far beyond folks living there, after all its not like CA pays much more (maybe 30% tops, but the cost of living is like 2 times higher) or that stuff ordered from Amazon costs people in CA any less. Is it fair that I get a 90th percentile national salary but because I don't live in CA I get to experience a roughly 95th percentile lifestyle locally?

In post industrial world, once capital investments are worthless (capital as in giant factory, enormous milling machine, whatever its all scrap iron moved to China now) then the only worth is people, who can move around anywhere very quickly, yet they don't. This also impacts multi-site multi-office sized companies... the mantra for very small companies is everyone has to be at the same site in the same place in the same open office for 12 hours a day breathing each others coughs and sneezes because thats modern business, but how this interacts with multinationals is mysterious. I'll be honest, I have no idea how many offices my employer has, but I assure you its very large, I can't even be sure how many timezones... Work no longer requires physical plant investments, so where do / should people live if they no longer need to live in walking distance of the foundry or factory? If my boss lives and works at an office three states away, why do I need to drive 20 miles each day into an office to "work" "with" him? Its an aspect of economic belief that is in considerable turmoil where common beliefs when mashed up against observation create all kinds of strange cognitive dissonance.
GUN v0.2.0-alpha Release: Streaming Database and P2P Abstractions
I just saw an HN post about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9854223
Ask HN: What can we do to attract more potential customers?
The internet is a strange place. When we (3 of us) started out with our little service business, we had the idea of taking the service model and attempting to productize it by providing a fixed price and benefits. We wanted to make it completely transparent and do our best to provide a safe after sales process.

Our site: http://machinerepublic.com

Unfortunately, it has not worked out that way and we're really hoping to figure out a better, more unique angle to selling custom development services like this. We are not freelancers and don't want to take that approach, we do great work as a small team. Are our prices too high?

I know that search engines require us to be blogging and generating tons of content, but is that really where a small team like ours should be spending its time?

What has not worked for us:

- Social media advertising (Twitter, Facebook)
- PPC
- Submission to inspirational galleries

Our site gets about 1800 uniques a month, but clearly not from the right kind of people.

What's worked for you? Any help on this topic will be hugely appreciated.
They say on the foundation website that, in Canada, the overhead of doing that is too high to justify it. They're hardly getting in donations so any amount of overhead can detract significantly to the project. If it's serious overhead, that's a serious loss. So, they're just not doing it until they get enough donations to justify it.
What? What does getting along with your coworkers have to do with fixing anything? Are disagreeable people better at fixing glitches?
Slashdot's sortition was reasonably decent. Its moderation system, based on finite bounded votes (-2 - +5) though was inherently cripling, as well as the lack of convergence. Any one moderator could shift votes by a full step, regardless of how many others had moderated.

Despite a low (<6 digit) userID, I abandoned moderation a long time ago.

More recent developments have further deteriorated the site... Oddly enough, also utlimately trust-related.

And, it turns out, based on trust violations of another Dice property, SourceForge.
What are your thoughts on hiring someone you want to work with vs hiring someone you don't want to work with?
You can be a great developer and still write code that is shitty for others to read.

The best developer I ever worked with, CTO of a startup, had thoroughly-commented code, and usually chose code legibility over code concision.
Lying/deception is practiced by virtually all life forms, both for constructive and destructive purposes. It is a necessity for the resilience of complex organizational behavior.
Hm, well, I suppose I'm in agreement about many things, but also a little unsure of how to interpret PFP unless it is meant to be "PFP = Haskell".

I think the primary things I'd ask about or try to answer revolve around the use and interpretation of monads and the meaning of referential transparency.

Firstly, "using monads" is perhaps better read as "being explicit about the design of the monadic context you are in". Their original use is much more about creating nice semantical interpretations of imperative programs than their practical use today in Haskell, and, in this broader context they are tremendously useful in imperative PLs.

Indeed, it's perhaps proper to say that an imperative language is one where its statements can be thought of as living in what I like to call "some, unstated ambient monad" which has a number of control flow and stateful properties. In this sense, a lot of your argument, I believe, boils down to saying that (1) people appear to have intuition for a certain monadic context and (2) designing a language to implicitly live in that context is friendly. I agree strongly with both of those.

Some remaining points include a lot around how monads are implemented/interpreted in Haskell today. That's a fine critique, but not one against the broader idea or against PFP at large.

Finally, wrt to referential transparency: this ultimately comes down to statements about what it means to have names and binding in your language. Strangely, such a primitive question spirals out into having enormous consequences. The nice thing about referential transparency is that it, more or less, is simpler than any other kind of name/reference that people often pick and therefore it's a good default state IF your goal is to make everyone opt into any more sophisticated ideas.

Again, I'm not a personal proponent of saying anything like "100% explicit is always the right answer". As noted, it's annoying, complex, and has external impact outside of mere value-semantics matching. So, in this sense I agree a lot here.

But in a broader sense, I strongly believe that it's no accident that the research behind PFP is as strong as it is. The core idea is not a CS one but instead in the free connection to logic provided by the Curry-Howard or BHK interpretations. As we design logics which are increasingly expressive and translate them to PLs we find increasingly that these PLs have properties of extreme regularity. This make them great foundational modes of which other languages should be based. I don't think those forces will be going away.

But languages are not always best suited for extreme explicitness and expressiveness. Metaphor and intuition are powerful tools that languages should take advantage of. These "metaphor langs" can be profoundly nice, have rigorous translation to foundational language, and thus share fantastic semantics. Ultimately today that's not so different from the embedded DSL story.
Bits of Advice for the VM Writer
I haven't used App Engine+Go yet, but did a bunch of work with AE+Python a while back.

The biggest difference is that you don't have to do any server management. You toss your app to Google, and they handle all of the deployment, distribution to multiple machines, load balancing, etc. I'm assuming that's the case for AE+Go as well.
> The "stop the world" phase of the collector will almost always be under 10 milliseconds and usually much less.

Well we can toss out Go as a suitable language for real-time applications such as video games and audio processing.
In-App Feedback Results in Fewer Negative Reviews
ICML 2015 and Machine Learning Research at Google
Trojandroid, a simple trojan android i made
Good they're contributing something back. They should sponsor more developers to work on infrastructure they could integrate into their offerings. Even from their evil perspective, they'd still be able to use their EEE strategy for people foolish enough to buy their non-standard version. They'd benefit from increased innovation and reduced costs as projects get bigger. We'd benefit with components that had financial support to keep improving and maybe get more security review than certain FOSS projects that have never heard of that.

So, it's in their interest to expand their role in open source software whether they intend to play nice or evil. They'll benefit and we'll possibly benefit either way. At the least, quality and innovation should both go up. Microsoft could always use more of those. ;)
Could you yield that the potential for one party getting abused is alot higher if it's a 10 year old and a 50 year old vs two 50 year olds? Seems pretty obvious to me but trying to be specific for the sake of argument.
> You can still inform people about the crime without showing the victims face or the actual explicit imagery.

Let's say society makes a fund for people that were abused as kids (horribile dictu). Those funds are there only to benefit those people so we'd better be able to prove they were really victims of what they say there were, otherwise people can just say "yeah that happened to me" and collect the money without ever proving they were victims.

You may want to forbid people from seeing the evidence for your abuse but then you can't expect people to believe you. When we believe in tales of rape without proof we smear the name of the accused.
DeployBot gets $1M investment
It would be simple if this was always true. But you can have cultural differences along lines that are legal to discriminate upon (and I don't mean technically legal like sexual orientation, but along lines that most would agree was a good reason to not hire). But being that there are legitimate reasons to not hire someone that can be abstractly classified (like with 'cultural fit') and since there is an incentive for the employer to do such (giving a detailed explanation of why someone wasn't hired just isn't in the employer's best interest), there is going to be a smoke screen by which employer's practicing illegal discrimination will be able to hide behind.

Short of always requiring a detailed reason why a candidate was passed over, there will always be the possibility to fudge an illegal act of discrimination to look like a legal one (and even a detailed explanation requirement wouldn't fully fix the problem).
The Hard Part About Creating New Teams Within an Engineering Organization
I can't wait for this to happen. I cannot stand lying, and it's my belief that a good majority of issues people face in their lives come down to lying or deceit (lying by omission).

How refreshing it would be if everyone was utterly sincere to each other.
Wonder if this could be expanded to generic images..
Air conditioning saves lives and causes less climate change than heating
do you have the link to it?
Should depend on why you want to work with them.

You want to work with them because they are competent and results-oriented? Good.

You want to work with them because they are eager and capable? Good.

You want to work with them because they look kind of like you and like the same beers you do? Nope.
It is important to work with people who are you are comfortable working with.
Key distinction for sure, but how would transparency impact the people affected by the prejudice?

If you had evidence of harassment and violent threats against individuals and factored it into your decision to close a 150,000 community, would you release the information about the evidence?
CRISPR performs pattern matching on the DNA sequence immediately preceding the cut location where new sequences are added. While we have had CTRL-X and CTRL-V for awhile (in the other gene modification techniques you alluded to) CRISPR provides a cursor that allows us to precisely control where the CTRL-V takes place.

As for updating "live" code...that's a flawed, but not completely wrong analogy. Other techniques do rely on modifying the genome before "production", and in that sense CRISPR does enable us to edit DNA in cases that would have been impractical before, but it still basically requires performing the modification on each cell individually -- so there are still practical limits on deploying the technique.
Good job on shipping. Have not used it so I can't comment on the product itself.
Meta-observation: the fact that it's difficult to divine the intent of users on a site who'se primary claim to fame is being able to divine the intent of users suggess problems with the mechanisms in which the intent of users is divined.

Pretty much the point I'm planning on making to /u/krispykrackers the /r/modnews thread.
But does that mean you should do everything on your phone?

The 1993 computer probably cost at least 2000 USD. Today, you can get a phone, a laptop, a desktop computer, a tablet and a smartwatch for less than that. That's five devices with different form factors!

Is there really a group of users whose single device is a phone and they want to connect that to PC-style peripherals?
I don't think so. There are very divergent political, social, and religious views in my organization, which is a small one, and there is no real language policing going on. Myself and another coworker are the sole atheists working here, and of the two of us, he is a democratic socialist and I'm a Red Tory. There is no language policing here, and we do come to disagreements, but we know how to approach the issue in a way that is not preachy or judgemental. I think the key is not what the person's views are, but how they express them. If that guy in the corner is pushed out of the (B)org for having an unpopular view, that speaks to a bad working culture, because it doesn't encourage diversity of thought, but cultivates groupthink.
Spill the Beans: Keeping secrets can be bad for you
The recording in the dictionary link is a bit harsh/off. Here are some native Portuguese speakers saying it

http://www.forvo.com/word/c%C3%A9u/
Let's just unravel what it means to not want to work with someone: you are chipping away at them as a person who is trying to survive. You are an agent of natural selection in action. If that's part of your identity, I think you're a jerk. If it's not, then hire them and offer to help them out. Don't try to change them too much - just bring them back within the normal range. Offer them CBT or just be nice to them. At the very very least, if you're not hiring someone because you don't think you can work with them, tell them, and suggest they get some counseling.
There are two separate reasons for fitness standards.

The first is the one you're probably thinking of - you need to be so strong or so fast in order to do your job.

The second is more subtle, along the lines of "we want soldiers to have the discipline and willingness to follow rules that physical fitness signals." This is why they want a drone pilot, for example, to meet physical fitness standards.

Really, the military should have three fitness standards: one for all male soldiers, one for all female soldiers, and another for the soldier's specific speciality.
Actually, did I speak too soon? I looked back at python3wos and they have updated their package list.

It looks a lot like the one on py3readiness.org now, and it doesn't have all the nonsense like "tiddlywebplugins" that it used to have.
I like to think that we evolved sleep because it's better, in the wild, to be still and silent in the dark, than move around and make noise.

Since we can barely see in the dark and can't do anything anyway, wouldn't it be preferable to minimize the time spent defenseless against predators with better night vision? Staying still seems like a good strategy a lot of times, when most animal visions, night vision or not, is based on movement.

It doesn't answer, though, why the top of the food chain need to sleep too.
What happens when you want to work with is indirectly based on a protected class (for example, it isn't that you want to work with a man, but you want to work with someone who fits a list of qualifications that excludes most women but very few men)?
See my above post. As simple as possible is a far cry from simple. That is all I am saying.

I extend that into saying that people that can understand complicated things, as well, will have an advantage.
Same experience here. A few of my developers migrated our servers to DO 2 years ago to "save" a few hundred dollars. Turns out DO has planned downtime every other month and its cost us 100x more in staff and headache dealing with them. You can't run a SaaS or anything that requires uptime reliability (ie, any sizable business) . I've transferred our main site back to AWS. Also AWS dedicated pricing is now almost the same as DO, and much more reliable.

But congrats to the DO team. They will only get better.
Hacking your way to space using open source technologies
Why limit applications to programmers? I looked through manually and found about a dozen companies each with non-programming technical openings, such as for biologists, physicists, or electrical engineers. The "programmer-only" requirement seems self-imposed by the site, and it would be trivially simple to organize non-programming-centric engineering positions. The same puzzles could be used as a barrier to entry, as the same type of thinking is needed in solving problems in scientific research or hardware engineering.

It's very hard to find hardware engineering startup jobs, and this is a space where your site could really stand out.
Can you not use the REST API of Postmark, Sendgrid, etc?
What Types of Companies Do Angel Investors Fund?
We could recalculate the donation amounts in pizzas + diet coke. How long was the pizza+coke runway extended by these donations?

Because these aren't enough to cover salaries, so it's logical that's going to be used for pizza.
> For instance many of the folks that are against vaccinations will regularly quote "studies" that are published in "journals" that are all made up to sell someone a book or some natural remedies.

I think one of the pressing necessities for the future is a way to categorize the "quality of science". This is seriously lacking at the moment.
There's a lot of unexplained jargon in this post, and the flow is confusing. The "tl;dr" doesn't even make sense on its own, and is never fully explained by the post.

Pretty bad content, IMO, but I'd love to hear why it's being upvoted. What are you all getting from it?
I get it. Dash coveys speed and convenience which is essentially the core value proposition here (vs expensing, handling petty cash etc.)

You also dash out to pick up some stuff for work. Probably the market segment they're shooting for.. The traveling sales big expense folks already have a solution (Amex). This is for the "long tail" of the rest of employees that go buy team lunch, a book, office supplies, etc.
The Internet Killed the Rock Star and Why That's Okay
ACM Please write to ARSTechnica and tell them NIST is legit.

http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm
That was the CEO though. Leaders will always (and should always) be treated differently than employees when it comes to personal views. Leaders often become de facto company spokespersons, and being outspoken against a lifestyle that your subordinates may engage in can have a lot of negative impacts at work, if your opinion is not clearly the majority opinion. This is especially true of the CEO—the 'face' of the company and main decision-maker.

So, I don't think what happened at Mozilla is a good example of the whole "guy in the corner" thing.
> Even in the 1990s the flaw in this reasoning was obvious. Men’s greater success in the workplace is largely a product of their privileged status as men: just imitating their behaviour won’t give women their status. Yet here we are in the second decade of the 21st century, recycling the same old advice.

Imitating their behavior won't give women their status, but not imitating their behavior might prevent women from obtaining that status.

Applying the obligatory car analogy, to drive somewhere you have to both release the brake and press the accelerator. Adopting speech patterns of the group you wish to join goes toward releasing the brake.
No, I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing that they knew an atomic bomb was possible before they started. From what I've read, no one in the phone industry thought something like an iPhone was even possible. I read a story that said that when Microsoft's phone engineers heard the iPhone announcement, they said, "that's impossible! It would have to be practically all battery." They disassembled one when it came out, and sure enough...
Show HN: I started a food podcast
This is typical of the tech industry, making it hard to cancel an account so you are forced to stay a customer and return. I think AOL used to do that, and had to pay to cancel your account.

Bloatware is nothing new either.

Instead of Photoshop some people would rather use Gimp:
http://www.gimp.org/
It sounds like you just read someone who said relationship drama between teammates is good for team building. I personally would expect it to have the opposite effect most of the time.
Point 4 in the first list is exactly why I wish people would stop trying to replace passwords and focus instead on augmenting them. Information codified physically (token or biometric) can be copied vastly more easily than information codified in neurons.
Mirror: http://obtainable-animal.surge.sh/memristor.htm
I work at the exchange...there's no off-shore sweat shop. There are no people in india running commands or coding for 90 hrs a week. Folks in multiple US cities fixed this problem, including myself. I've only read comments here previously until I saw all this speculation. Its funny people are so adamant in their theories despite no evidence besides circumstance.

It was a complex IT problem (no I can't get into more details) that we fixed. No hacking attempt, no conspiracy with the United Airlines Issue or WSJ...shit breaks.

Anyway, back to my idling in the background.
If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it!
http://map.norsecorp.com/

Cyberattacks originating from China is not a new variable
STEPS looks like a new project from 2006 with this 5-year progress report published in 2011... I can hardly believe Kay is recognized for that being that it's far too recent and none of it is mainstream.
Mobile and Video Trends in India, Africa, China and Caribbean
Self-evident is a strong word to use despite no actual evidence being presented.