skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This never sits right with me. Diversity for the sake of diversity.

There is something to be said for trying to prevent (or break up) a monoculture. Monocultural companies are slow and rigid, and ultimately liable to lose perspective.
Really wish these HN links to download pages were HTTPS. Lots of people at Gophercon on untrustworthy conference wifi that probably wouldn't notice a MITM'd download page pointing to non-HTTPS binary downloads.
Check out this: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/08/fuzzing-at-...

They found 400 crashes.
"Moderators at subreddits like /r/NoStupidQuestions, /r/science, or many of the "Ask ___" subreddits are responsible for instilling the voice and culture of the subreddit."

I don't see how this is the case. Replace spam with 'off-topic' and you have it. It really isn't an earth-changing thing to filter spam/off-topic/rude/offensive commentary (and it could be argued that even on the larger sub-reddits, that a good job isn't necessarily being done of that).

"Instilling the voice and culture" sounds like self-aggrandizement to me.

But I would be willing to be corrected.
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That doesn't quite follow since SF and NYC are already the highest population densities in the US. The fact that the residents don't want to allow greater densities doesn't invalidate the correlation.
I do think there is some truth to the argument that individuals' actions have global consequences.

However, I do not think the US Supreme Court has real claim to be the final, global arbiter. Usurping power is, however, the US Supreme Court's demonstrated prerogative. It's pretty much how the institution began its life.
Last time I set a ringtone on my phone, John Kerry was running for president...
Works very well in typescript as well !
Why not?

Unity3d has been using Xamarin's .Net to build for Android and iOS (and many other platforms) for years now.
There are more factors that go into land valuation. A few I can think of: mean salary amount, unemployment rate, past and projected economic growth
I have been a python appengine user for last 2-3 years. It is really useful to get a prototype out fast.

But MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR Painpoints are:

- User : only google account supported

- email : only can use <appid>@appspotmail.com

- Image upload support

otherwise very nifty to get a site out in less than a day!
Fantastic?
I was answering the question of what made me choose a Microsoft phone. Offline maps has always been a strong differentiator of Nokia, now the owner of Navteq. I can't comment on the quality and extension of Open Street Maps. I gather that you are a satisfied user of osmand, so I recommend that you don't do anything different.
Three Days on the Startup Bus
The last time I saw a hire based on 'Culture', the developer turned out to be passive aggressive and catty with other developers, but got along great with everyone else. Really weird. I just care that you can handle the technical requirements and that you're able to communicate effectively. Everything else is up for grabs. As for diversity (particularly women), there have been literally zero resumes from women since I started doing interviews
Note: Boulder is great if you already make good money, like a small quiet life, have your partner, and value access to nature over access to people, music, culture, art, etc.
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It's a shame that three top contributions by multibillion companies combined hardly cover a decent yearly salary for a single developer.
So what exactly is it about the Naiad implementation that makes it so much better than Spark/GraphX? Is it just Rust vs Java, or is there something more fundamental about the model?
No, I'm simply not making the mistake of taking my own conclusions and assuming the author is making THAT point. Whether you are right or not, it's not the authors point with that line. NIMBY was the point.

As for whether you are right, you might think this personal mobility v capital mobility is a clever sounding point. It's dumb. The idea that one simple idea has led to concentrations of wealth is absurd. It's useful in life to actually think things through, rather than parrot phrases you've heard in econ 101. You are literally clueless.
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Tiko 3D Printer: Shipping Starts in November
Sad Elon Musk Is the Worst Elon Musk
And profits were only 181 million for the quarter..
> there have been literally zero resumes from women since I started doing interviews

I'd be interested to see some of the job ads. Do you have any links?
Where would one find the source data for property value analysis like this?
This sounds awesome—I would definitely consider this for our business that requires a lot of loaning out debit cards, remembering who last had one, and bugging people for receipts.

How does this interact with our bank account, and will it work with any account? Does it replay debit purchases 1:1 that we'd see on our bank statement, or are charges bundled somehow?

Our accountants say we should be building business credit and we are considering getting an AMEX card for partially that reason. There's no plan to have any sort of credit involved with Dash, I imagine?
There are some libraries you can use to abstract away differences between VPS providers:

https://jclouds.apache.org/

https://libcloud.apache.org/

https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/gophercloud/

http://www.openstack4j.com/

For playing with JVM stuff I found openstack4j easier to use from Scala and Clojure than jclouds.

I didn't downvote you, but I figure someone thought you were too off topic.
The negative tone of this comment may be off-putting for some, but aside from that, this is very insightful. Calling "we do this because we love the community" a veneer especially makes a lot of sense to me, based on what I've seen of Reddit mods.
> Until someone comes up with a way to make AGI guaranteed friendly, all AGI research is like high-risk genetic research experimentation, all the time, and with no obvious way to contain it.

Two thoughts. First, in the same way that most genetics research is not human cloning, most AI research is not AGI research. The vast majority of research effort (and industrial investment) is focused on specific tasks: vision, language understanding, planning simple robotic motions, etc. This will likely continue to be true for a long time. Just as geneticists can agree not to apply their techniques to editing human genomes, AI researchers can (hopefully) agree not to attempt to combine their techniques into flexible general-purpose agents, at least until the technology exists to do so safely.

Second, there are plenty of ways to work on AGI that do not present immediate containment issues. You can design agents on paper, analyze their behavior with mathematical and theoretical tools, implement and test various subsystems, and even implement and run an entire AGI system on a system with a low enough clock rate that its effective intelligence is less than human. Yes, you need to be careful, and hopefully the field can come to a consensus on the things you shouldn't do. That said I think the primary concerns of a lot of people (Bostrom, etc) are less about academic research gone awry than about potential military or industrial projects, where an arms-race dynamic might cause people to ignore basic safeguards and aim directly towards building highly connected agents running on massively powerful hardware.
What's the use case? Where do you have a display, keyboard and mouse but no computer attached and no laptop at hand?

I never have this problem where I'd want to blow up my phone onto a bigger screen (with full mouse-based editing capabilities). But I guess it might be more common than I imagine.
This is good news.
Just out of curiosity, how App Engine with Golang is different than Digital Ocean with Golang????
I think the parent is actually referring to this JSX:

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html
The ability to write my own analyzers shouldn't be a substitute for a well-curated set of code analysis checks out of the box, though. I want to spend my time building my product, not building the tooling so I can build my product.

(Note that I haven't had the opportunity to play with VS2015 yet; for all I know, these checks from the Roslyn samples might already be provided with the IDE.)
I've written something like this, essentially just providing sum types, but it'e currently embedded in some code at work. If anyone is familiar with putting ES6 NPM libraries together and would like to help, I'd be happy to open source it.
What's the background/timeline? The book could be an crystallization or effort to exorcise the demon?? I find the idea of child support to be such an interesting pecadillo to garner such focus.
> Because you are a human being.

I gather that you find that argument convincing, but I suspect it's because you already accept the conclusion. To someone who does not already accept your conclusion, your argument is not likely to be very convincing.

> Do you think some people are born as subjects?

Yes, they are. Look at history; even look around today. It's not right, it's not moral, but it clearly is true that it happens.
Eh, I'm satisfied as to use in the US. The quality of the mapping they have for China is pretty bad... but I kind of figured it wouldn't be great from any other (english-language) provider either. Google Maps is better in some ways, but hard to access and still terrible at things like street addresses.
The numbers are heavily influenced by cost of electricity and time of use. Payback ranges from 1-5 years with an average user seeing payback in about 3.

Average 600W HPS lamps are 1.0-1.3 µmoles/watt. A complete fixture consumes 660 watts with ballast losses. They generally lose about 20% of their light due to reflectors (omni-directional lamp in a directional application).

This means that our 2.0 µmoles/watt fixture at 230 watt consumption can replace a 660 watt HPS fixture, provide the same amount of light, and have a nice payback.
I don't think most of reddit's content creators care one iota about freedom of speech.

Most people are used to vBulletin/phpBB/etc. forums that are strictly moderated. Besides, while the admins might have previously held a hands-off attitude, the subreddit moderators don't. Most subreddits have strict requirements for what can and can't be posted to them; go look at the sidebar of a big default like /r/pics or /r/askreddit. In this sense, reddit is far more restrictive than Digg, which just had a handful of site-wide admins (again, Digg had nothing like subreddits) enforcing a small amount of rules.

I can tell you right here that most of the people posting cat pictures to /r/aww, memes to /r/adviceanimals, discussions on /r/askreddit, etc. couldn't care less about their freeze peaches. They're not posting their cat pictures to /r/aww because of some mythical commitment to free speech; they're posting their cat pictures to /r/aww because that's where people post cat pictures. And the same goes for people who post to smaller, community-oriented subreddits: they're posting to these subreddits instead of various forums because they can reuse their existing reddit account and the subs are easily discoverable (Are you a fan of something? Then put an /r/ before it and you'll probably find a subreddit dedicated to it!). Probably the single biggest barrier to posting on forums is having to register a new account for each forum, and you don't have to worry about that on reddit.

In fact, "free speech" can be a detriment. Lots of people were turned off to reddit when Anderson Cooper brought /r/jailbait to the public eye. People who could've been posting cat pictures to /r/aww instead hesitated and said "nah, I'm not gonna post this to the same site where people post sexualized pictures of children". I'm active in some IRC channels, and whenever reddit comes up, I always have one or two regulars saying things like "reddit is a shithole because they allow /r/coontown and /r/picsofdeadkids" (VERY VERY NSFW do not browse at work).

For every freeze peaches zealot lost when /r/jailbait was banned, they gained a dozen more users who didn't want to be associated with borderline child porn. If most people cared about freedom of speech above all else, 8chan would be the most popular site on the Internet. But instead, 8chan has a reputation for being a cesspool, and admitting to being an 8channer is a good way to become a pariah.
Ahead of time, it can be impossible, but usually is quite trivial.

But finding the set of likely candidates is not that hard.

There are some pathological code-bases that dynamically defines lots of methods, but they are not that common.
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I'm sure most HN users can empathize with how strongly you naturally feel about this, but please follow the site rules. Everyone needs to remain civil when commenting on HN, especially when emotions run high. It's the only way to preserve the community.
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Yeah, that comes across as a hand-waving dismissal. 203 out of 230 voters in a one hour window in a community of 31,000 is -not- indicative of consensus, no matter how you slice or dice it.
Oh, didn't know that!
That doesn't explain why the parents need to sleep, though.
When I look at what I was doing with a computer in 1993, and what I mostly want to do with a computer today, it should be really easy to do with a phone.

It's kind of weird to me that my phone is so massively powerful but gets used only for a bit of web-browsing and light game playing.

It doesn't feel like a 21st century solution.
This woman has a plan to fix SF's housing crisis but homeowners won't like it
Since 3D movies use polarized light, could this contribute to the nausea some people experience when watching them? Or is that just the fast movement (like video games) since nearly all 3D movies are action films.

edit: I now remember that 3d movies are projected using radially polarized light. The article only describes linearly polarization. There's also spiral and azimuth. Polarized light is really complicated.
>> Maybe as a side-effect of this processing, they also aid problem solving.

This is an interesting side effect considering when I have a tough coding problem, it keeps my brain churning for hours and it keeps me from falling asleep.

It's clear your subconscious comes to the forefront as your conscious part of your brain turns off during sleep. Having your subconscious solving complex problems is fascinating to me. I'm wondering how you could activate this on purpose, without having these issues keep you awake at night when you consciously can't let go of a problem.

The implications of this are pretty cool if you could pull it off.
I have not changed my ringtone since i've gotten a smartphone. It's only ever on 'ring' when i'm in private anyway (or sleeping). That's probably true for most people as well.
∃f(p)∈Arrogant Fucks
where p == programmers
...and listen to Tsipras reply, too...
MySQL of course!

(I work on the MySQL team, happy to answer any questions)
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> are they doing 10x better

10x?! Crumbs. How about 10% better with happier developers? I'd take that. It's also a claim I'd be very happy to put my name to.

On the other hand I would not be surprised if there are some projects that simply cannot be delivered without programming in an FP style, since otherwise the complexity kills you.
I wouldn't take this write-down to be any indication of failure. Just a likely business restructure. One year is nothing in the scheme of evaluating a business unit.

I like that you can get parts for these Nokia phones on the cheap and repair them. Also, if you can troubleshoot a browser on any Windows OS, you can troubleshoot a browser on a Windows Nokia.

My view is that these phones are a lot higher on the quality scale than 99 percent of droids and have less engineered fails than iphone.
It'd be nice to see the values adjusted for household income.
Judging by the comments we get on ProgrammableWeb and that I get in inbox, it seems like a toss up with developers that were once loyal to Microsoft. Some are so die hard that if you even suggest the idea of a future whereby Microsoft has challenges, they'd just as soon slit your throat. Others are clearly spotting greener pastures elsewhere and have decided its time to move on. But, while Satya Nadella has the challenge of competing forces to reconcile (budget vs. the long game), he seems to be keeping the best interests of developers in mind, or at least trying to.
As opposed to everyone else here, who is offering unequivocal fact? No, wait, everyone else here is offering opinions, too.
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I usually believe emphasis on diversity is a bunch of PC shit that distracts from the core tenants of building a good business (i.e. shipping a product, having ethics, making sustainable profit, etc.), but you really should hire women. That is, you should have a balance of sexes on the team (so I guess hire men if you're in a predominately women field). This is because we're human and one of the most engaging things we can do is interact with the opposite sex.

Rather than having to spend money on extremely bs team-building exercises to get your employees to not hate coming to work, just hire a team of balanced sexes. A bit of flirting, imagined sexual tension, and does-she-like-me-what-do-i-feel-about-him goes a long way to creating an atmosphere where employees don't burn out. (Just make sure to hire non-toxic people and avoid the all-guys-are-rapists / all-girls-are-sluts ideological extremists)
It's discussed at one of the links:

http://metrocosm.com/new-york-city-property-values-in-perspe...
Perhaps because it's HN, the discussion is focused on SF and NY. But it's SoCal and Florida that surprised me.
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> I think the long-term goal is for browsers to "natively" interpret/run ES6 code rather than forever transpiling to ES5.

That's not an opinion; this will actually happen. See this: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
I never felt the need of more polished interface. It just works.
We have determinists ready to ascribe all consciousness, life and life experience to biological mechanism and yet we still don't know the answers to fundamental questions such as this one.
Apparently Reddit has exactly 2 board members: Alexis and Sam Altman [1]. Why would Sam Altman, and by extension YC, have thought that Ellen Pao would make a good ("interim") CEO for Reddit?

This scenario should really be causing shareholders/board members to think about how dependent Reddit really is on moderator goodwill [2]. There needs to be a CEO and leadership team that can at least create a credible perception, if not the reality, that Reddit values moderators who donate their time to make the business viable.

For this purpose, it would seem you want a CEO who is going to be non-inflammatory (i.e., not Pao) and perceived as a relatively neutral arbitrator between the needs of shareholders for monetization and the needs of moderators for adequate support (i.e., probably not someone from a VC background). Considering how little it should actually cost the company to provide a reliable support network for mods, including honest, non-HR-speak communication, this hardly seems like a demanding task, but somehow they continue to manage it very poorly.

Does anyone know if there have been public comments by YC about any of these issues?

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/board.asp?p...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap...
Assuming it's céu as in the Portuguese word for sky, it's pronounced as /sɛw/ (in Brazilian Portuguese, at least). It sounds similar to "sell", only ending in /w/ rather than /l/.

http://pt.tfd.com/c%C3%A9u
Yeah, I'm lost, too.
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Wonder how many glitches we see today are because everyone gets along and doesn't know how to fix the issues. Sometimes disagreeable people are like that because we are tired of the stupid. ( hypothetically of course )
Personally i'd go for a more 'craft beer'-esque set of descriptors indicating taste, smell, color, etc. Subjective mind-body highs are impossible to map from individual to individual. I think a visual rating scale would work best to describe these effects (as opposed to words) like a 3/5 body high, 2/5 mind high, 6/5 munchie scale, etc.
I'm not from US, but I wonder, in the context of the current cultural shift and war on gay marriage, how are software companies looking at personal opinions on cultural matters like this one? Will that guy in the corner, who politely holds his views on a sensitive matter like gay marriage, make everyone else uncomfortable and, eventually, he'll have to leave?
It's up to the producer what properties of the original map are preserved. Wikipedia seems reasonable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram

(Note especially the table of algorithms)
Bit of a shameless plug, but we just announced official support yesterday on Heroku (https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/7/7/go_support_now_off...), graduating from our community supported buildpack. We allow you to pick pretty freely which databases and other services you want to you use from our add-ons. We also have a free tier.

Finally if you do give it a try would love to hear any feedback you have.
I have been really enjoying Go App Engine support for some time now. It's pretty convenient to write web apps in Go, although to be fair all my projects have been super simple. I don't really have any experience making anything beyond a simple forum.
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It is, I think, often more enlightening to ask the question "why do we awaken"?

I wonder if, a long time ago, some animal evolved the ability to enter brief periods of elevated activity. This was obviously highly advantageous for e.g. escaping predators, so over time this animal evolved to sustain this temporary boost for longer periods. Today, animals can sustain this boosted state for the majority of their lifetime. It is merely a matter of perspective that leads us to consider wakefulness to be "normal" and sleep to be something out of the ordinary.
For homeowners, there is no crisis. There is a wonderful time of prosperity. Homeowners are, by definition, not going to like any solutions to their prosperity.
Exactly. This is making Dallas County look expensive, when in fact it is one of the most affordable major metro areas in the US.

The "elite Texas counties" the article refers to are really a figment of data representation. Sure, those counties have neighborhoods or small towns that are stupid expensive, but they are the exception. All of them are highly populous, though; all five dark red counties (Dallas, Tarrant, Harris, Travis, Bexar) are in the top-20 most populous counties in the US.
Movies edited down to only the parts where non-white actors speak
Well, glad I'm not the only one.
Don't you lose a lot of usable energy by not having any optics to shape the radiation? The phosphor surfaces will just diffusely glow. Of course, with an emitting area that big, you also need huge optics to control it properly