skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And it was interesting to see that they consider democrats the level headed bunch, and the more 'peaceful' party.

Well why wouldn't they? Just because Republicans run as the party of mature, responsible individuals who can see how liberal idealism sounds nice but will ultimately founder against the hard rocks of the real world doesn't mean that their real-world policy record bears out their propaganda. In fact, the Democrats are basically what most of the world considers responsible conservatives (eg: mature, responsible people who can see how idealism sounds nice but ultimately founders, and thus how stability is preferable above all else). The Republicans are considered far-right nationalists, warmongers, and religious crazies.

>So I don't think they're a fan of Obama personally (though I'm sure some are), I think it's the fact that they prefer democratic foreign policy over republican foreign policy in general, and see republicans as war mongering neocons.

Again: well yeah. Nixon went to China. Today's Republican foreign-policy establishment spent a lot of effort claiming that if we don't go to war with Iran, that if we in fact use diplomacy without invading, we're effectively Neville Chamberlain. They said exactly the same thing about Iraq, and look how that turned out.

If you want a mature, responsible conservative, vote for the Democrats. If you want an actual left, vote Socialist. The Republicans have been far-right since Bush II.
So there are solutions to this issue as others have pointed out. Full products are made around it.

There are a few ways to do it quickly and more down and dirty though. 1, do what lastofus suggested, it works and is simple.

2, and the way I have used with small groups when there is limited data for testing and we are using localhost databases for dev. First, check in drop/create scripts for ever element in the database. Second, create a sql script that inserts all the test data, users etc. Third, create a shell script that you can run that gets the latest DB scripts and insert script and runs it all. It won't scale for a long time, but it works for longer than people think. Then whoever is making a new change is responsible for updating the insert script to make sure it stays 100% operational. And personally, we always tied the db script checkin to the same code set checkin that had the breaking change if there was one. Otherwise if it wasn't a breaking change which was our goal usually it could go separate.

Of course, a migration framework is superior, but sometimes the weight of it just isn't what you need yet.
Specifically, investigation of police should the purview of the Federal Justice Department.
People who write legislation are not literally deities.
> "Microsoft needs Wizards"

This is tangential, but I'm surprised to learn the "rockstar programmer" thing people complain about goes so far back.
I think that any large business is already too large for the top to micromanage things. No human has enough time and free computing power in their head to do that. That's why I believe central planning run by humans is unworkable - we're too slow to handle the complexity.

But then again, successful micromanagement happens - it's usually called "strong leadership", "CEO with vision", etc. Apple with Jobs and Amazon with Bezos come to mind as past examples (not sure how Amazon is doing now, but there was a lot of praise written for Jeff's micromanagement), and the most visible current one would be Tesla and SpaceX under Elon Musk.
I don't think that's selfish. When someone dies, it's very normal and healthy to reflect on how we spend our own time, as we're reminded of how precious it is.
The algorithm is not the problem. The "good randomness" part is the entire problem.

Easy way to shuffle a deck is just to give each card a random 32-bit index and sort. You don't need to do anything fancy to get them shuffled up. The problem is, if your random number generator is predictable then the algorithm doesn't matter.
I know the knee-jerk reaction is to assume foul play

What? Not at all. If I see a report of an untimely and otherwise mysterious death the most likely possibilities are some hidden medical condition or a drug/alcohol mishap. Murder isn't that common, or easy to disguise as an accident.

Sad loss for his family and friends.
Josh taught me that people, above everything else, are the most important part of a company. Sage advice that may seem obvious but too many fail to remember.

I only knew him briefly, but I'm grateful for the chance to have known him. The other commenters are right, he was an incredibly positive person, and he did change Gainesville for the better. A great loss. My thoughts are with his friends and his family.
I share your skepticism. I have personally never accrued FF points while flying on an FF ticket, on any airline.
Every decent "stepper" [0] I've used allows you to both place the cursor within the bounds of the widget and spin the mousewheel [1] to rapidly change the value, and click the value displayed in widget in order to type in a new value.

[0] I've always heard them called "spinners".

[1] You could probably emulate this with something like a two-fingered horizontal swipe starting in the widget
> Please, tell me the reasons why zooming on a legible, usable design is necessary

Because what is "legible, usable" to most users still isn't to some. Not all of us have good eyesight. Some of us have horrendous eyesight. You may think that 16pt text is "legible", but for some users, nothing less than 32pt is readable.

Don't be hostile to those people.
Yes.
http://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#probability
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Reverb is hiring full-stack Ruby devs
This was just the other week: http://yahoo-security.tumblr.com/post/123981052855/font-pars...
(Posting from a throwaway account)

> for some people, [YCF] may be the difference between going to work at a big company and starting the next Airbnb

This is me. I applied to the YC summer batch and was rejected (I applied late, as a single founder, with only an idea). I've tried to push ahead anyway with my idea/startup and built a small prototype, but in the end decided to find a job. I have just now gotten a job offer from big G.

YCF looks really interesting to me. What should I do? Accept the job at G and then if accepted to YCF quit my job after 1 month? Any advice is appreciated
Why have Apple invented a tiny island?
A brain aneurysm can also do this, my friends mother in law died of one in her sleep while her husband slept next to her.
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That post is a perfect example of my bloggin issues. I wrote the first part and felt nobody cared so I didn't write the second one. I guess I should take my own advice and write that second part ;)
I think both parts sound like they're written by a thirteen year old. First with the force of mind of someone convinced they are right and know more than everyone else, and then with the uncritical eye of someone who accepts everything. Two sides of a thirteen year old unable to reconcile the irrationality of human existence in a world made of matter. An adolescent who cannot accept the contradiction of worldviews that makes for a balanced life.
But they didn't do that - they picked a random position between 1 (not i) and 52 each time, which gives a biased shuffle. Even if their randomness had been perfect, this would have been problematic.
Probably just their estimate of the toxicology backlog in Gainesville so bureaucracy.
I'm not seeing it either. For 1995, all I see are Ruby, Javascript, PHP, and ColdFusion.
We're requiring that you'll work on it full-time for 8 weeks, but we hope you'll commit to it longer; the most important founder trait to us is determination -- answering no to that question won't disqualify you, but we'd love it if you were able to answer yes!
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That's just Selection Bias - the bugs that fail the type checker don't get into production!
Are you saying Governors have no power over the cities that reside in their state?

From 1977 to 2003 Republicans were in control of Illinois executive office. 26 years in a row.

From 1972 to 1991, Jon Burge running the show as Chicago police commander.

Are you trying to say that Republican governors had no power to investigate/curtail the evil that was brewing under his leadership?

hehe.
> > here is a thought experiment from a European

> I don't know how American news reports stuff, but if this is the result, you're getting very filtered news.
CFML stands for "Characteristic Formulae for ML".

Characteristic formulae are a powerful concept of program logic. Simplifying a great deal, given a program M, a characteristic formula for M is a pair (A, B) of logical formula such that

1. {A} M {B}, i.e. if precondition A is satisfied, then the result of running program M satisfies postcondition B.

2. Whenever another program N satisfies {A} N {B} then M and N are contextually indistinguishable.

In other words, the pair (A, B) specifies everything that can be said about M in the ambient program logic. Note that a program logic does not necessarily admit characteristic formulae for all programs. Program logics that do are 'in harmony' with the operational semantics in that the logic makes exactly the same distinctions about programs that the operational semantics makes.

Characteristic formulae come the theory of communicating processes, see [1] for an overview.

[1] L. Aceto, A. Ingolfsdottir, Characteristic Formulae: From Automata to Logic.
It's certainly the abuser's fault. But if you can avoid the situation by literally doing nothing (not leaking the info) then you might have a moral responsibility if you do it. And a lot of people think leaking would be a good thing, but they generally only think of breakups and don't consider violence.
What's wrong with the idea of having limits on data collection and regulations around their storage? You can't prosecute someone for being the victim of hackers but you can (and should) for not applying reasonable efforts in safeguarding data or storing more than they should.
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It's not strictly about being a bad customer of the airlines... You can get free flights by being bad customers of other businesses offering airline miles (like credit cards) or by defrauding taxpayers (the well-known "buy dollar coins from the Mint" scam). This might even be profitable for the airlines. Sometimes.
to wit from the article:

The performance evaluation covered 19 months and concluded that Davis “displays a complete lack of objectivity combined with a clear bias against the police in spite of his own lengthy police career.”

That is a serpent choking down its own tail.
I agree, but that's a very different argument from "who are we, measly little ants to think we can understand..."
Great program, well done YC.

Also a good case study on what makes a good intro/landing page for a product. Quite a few "so how is this different" questions in these comments.
Nice piece of advice :)
A copy constructor that cannot be elided is a broken copy constructor.
Great, that is very encouraging. Thank you.
I like to turn lessons like this into triggers. In this case, the trigger is whenever I look up something and find a solution. The trigger should activate me wanting to document this: the original problem I searched for, and the resulting solution.
I've always found searching by space-separated substrings, matched in any order, to work vastly better for matching identifiers or file names. No confusion about how best to match a particular sequence of letters: either that sequence is an exact substring, and the string matches, or it isn't, and it doesn't. (If you want multiple substrings, separate the substrings with spaces.)

This is simplicity itself to code up. Here's quick and dirty python one, for example, that would get you started. It's so simple that I'm pretty sure it works, even though I haven't tested it.

def get_suggestions(xs,str):
"""return list of elements in XS that match STR, the match string"""
suggestions=xs[:]
for part in str.split(): suggestions=[x for x in suggestions if part in x]
return suggestions

This is also (or so I think) better to use. As a user you get a lot more control over what you're finding, and you don't have to think very hard about what chars to add in to eliminate items you don't want. So it's very likely you'll be able to quickly winnow your list down to 1 item.

And because it doesn't have any complicated workings inside it, it can be explained even to non-technical users, who can make good use of it.
I started my first business (web design) at 15 with a £1,000 grant from The Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust. It was a very significant amount for me. Without it I wouldn't have been able to start.

My family were on income support so the money went straight on a PC, internet, phone line, business cards and public transport to reach my clients to pitch them. Thankfully I still lived with my parents: no rent until I was earning.

$12k is a very substantial amount for an underprivileged kid who's making the Airbnb vs. large corp choice.

My grant was (lightly) means-tested. Did you consider means-testing as a way to make more of an impact past the ideological one?
Hey folks! Ben from Nylas here—happy to answer any questions. React and Flux have worked out really well for us over the last eight months, and we're excited to share more of our approach with the HN community!
I don't think there is ET. The probability that atoms fuse together to construct a organism that is capable of turning sun into bio-energy and multiplying itself just by chance is too small to have two civilizations in this universe.
The browser shouldn't really matter here, Windows renders fonts on kernel-level anyway.
sweet. thanks !
Have you read Digital Apollo by Dave Mindell? If not, do so. It is a much better researched text on the story of Apollo guidance, by a professor of aerospace history who works at the institution (MIT) formerly involved with AGC. In the meanwhile, the text at http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html will de-disinform you with regards to some of the article's mistakes.
I appreciate your refutation.
This submission reached third place on the front page before it was removed. I'd be interested to see whether certain user names and/or anonymized hashes of IPs always upvote atlasobscura articles. I don't understand why sites like reddit, HN, etc. hide the identities of who upvotes and downvotes things. It would be nice to be able to audit any submission or comment's vote tally at will.
Perhaps not, but I'm not aware of an individual developing a new drug within the last N years, for some large value of N.
IMHO, sanctions against an autocratic regime do not work; they just make the autocrat stronger. See, for example: Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, North Korea, Cuba, etc.

Sanctions against a democratic regime (for various definitions of "democracy") can work: for example, Iran, USSR, South Africa, etc.
Ben's only one of a growing number of high-profile frequent flyer bloggers: http://pointsbuzz.com/. As most of the strategies they promote for amassing ff points revolves around gaming sing up bonuses for credit card fees, the bloggers make money from affiliate fees for credit cards they promote. The airlines don't mind because they sell their miles to cc companies and gain customer loyalty. The credit card companies don't mind because they buy the miles for cheaper and use them as an incentive that is cheaper than the lifetime value of the customer.
Most direct investment is still forbidden due to the embargo... But I hope it will (somehow) boost the interest in exploring the Cuban startup scene.

[shameless plug] We're holding a meetup next Saturday in Havana: http://www.meetup.com/merchise/events/223604638/
If you're a U.S. resident, PPACA has made this a lot easier. I recently bought an individual health plan on healthcare.gov for $250/mo (not including subsidies). If you make less than $50k/yr the amount is further subsidized. It can be more if you have a family, but in any case, with a fellowship income of $6k/mo you should be able to buy a health plan, at least for those two months.
I guess it depends on exactly how "Libertarian" a view one is espousing.

"Why should I have to pay for a fire department? My house isn't on fire!" Yeah, that guy needs to move to Somalia. Not so he can experience what that degree of government-free state is actually like, but rather so the rest of us don't have to put up with that kind of idiocy.
I'm sure we don't disagree on the atrocities committed by the Soviets.

>"Sorry, that is simply not correct."

We may be at an impasse, because to me and many others, it is not only logically apparent that capitalism leads to state corporatism, but verified by empirical evidence throughout quite a bit of history. Can you explain why you disagree - I'm genuinely curious and open minded. Do you think it is not to the advantage of a capitalist entity to lobby for and obtain a government granted monopoly? Do you think that it is not to the advantage of capitalist entities to influence the political process in their favor as much as possible?
If there was no state presence at all, do you think it wouldn't be to the advantage of a capitalist entity to effectively create and exhibit control over one? Or, do you think these things have not, or do not, happen in reality?

Capitalism is inherently a system which encourages the consolidation of power. I think the key issue is that while you've presented "government" as something inherently different than private market forces, often the two go hand-in-hand. If all government power in a capitalist state was removed, it would be only a matter of time before a "privatized" replica of the worst aspects of government is created, only this time without even any pretenses of not being controlled by a capitalist elite. You say "It doesn't matter what it calls itself", and I think that's something that can be restated. Power is abused by many who don't call themselves a government. There is little to no difference between capitalists who seek to control a government and a people, and the authoritarians you have called out.
Snowden Documentarian Sues US Over 'Kafkaesque' Harassment
FYI OpenBSD doesn't do PAM
How to keep body and soul together while freelancing?
I'm gonna be honest, I'd love to read more about your experiences. If you ever set up a blog, feel free to email me with a link.
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I'm not sure about appeal to nature here; biology seems rather centralized in a lot of aspects. An organism may be made of many cells, but each of those cells have a specific function. Kidney cells do not compute, and brain cells do not contract to pump blood. When a cell starts doing whatever is best for it locally, we call that "cancer". Centralized management arises naturally whenever there's a need for efficiency. So while there's a lot of distribution going on, I wouldn't say centralization is unnatural. It seems common enough on many different scales.
As non-american leaving here for 15 years now I think that Americans like binary options. Good/evil, democrat/republican, socialist/capitalist.

Often the media enforces that.
OpenSMTPD, OpenNTPD and LibreSSL aren't in FreeBSD.

To say that most cool stuff in FreeBSD comes from OpenBSD is pretty misleading. Certainly, FreeBSD has lots of cool things that come from other operating systems. :)
Yes, apart from the quote where she specifically backs up my assertion: “I wouldn’t say my decision to leave was directly related to my gender.”

Please, share with me her quote contradicting that saying that her leaving has to do with gender.
What was the post? I'd be curious to look into it, if you don't mind saying. (Edit: might be best to email hn@ycombinator.com.)
I don't think anyone is expecting "enhance enhance enhance ah, this person had $SUBSTANCE in their blood", but months does feel a bit long.

It'd be interesting to see what the bottlenecks are and how to improve them.
If the site can render responsively, is there a reason it can't be zoomed?

Both the reasons looking for zoom, and your reasons for not providing it seem reasonable. Is there some technical barrier for not enabling zoom?

Zoom is a first-class gesture on mobile, it is the second one after scrolling that you always expect to be there. On a desktop, you generally have more desktop than you need for a window, so it is possible to resize the window to adjust the size of the viewport. Responsive sites work nicely in the case. On mobile, there is no "window" and the device's dimensions themselves are the viewport. You can reorient the device to enable changing the width, but without zoom, you are taking away any ability to change the viewport.

Maybe zoom isn't a critical feature, but it is part of how the devices work. As a result, it is an expected interaction for those on mobile. Have you ever used a piece of desktop software where you couldn't resize the window - it drives you crazy. Ignoring expected behavior is contrary to good usability.
The ISO New England load zones are: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Northeastern Massachusetts and Boston (NEMA), Southeastern Massachusetts (SEMA)
and Western/Central Massachusetts (WCMA).
We're not changing the look and feel of HN. New markup will look the same, just work better.
As Sam said, take a semester off. I did that during college just for some personal exploration and its one of the best decisions I ever made. Once you get started with work, taking a 6 month break is MUCH harder - aka it'll never be this easy to get time off again.
Thank you for answering.

The same way students can take a semester off, could employed people take a sabbatical to focus on this?

Cheers
Well,

It's a fairly complete solution (imho) to the dilemmas in the first part, which is to say that I don't find the failed-efforts at solution contained in later part to be that interesting.
Oh wow, I would never take a pay cut to work somewhere as strenuous as Apple. I don't think I would ever work there at all, but certainly not for less money.
Now I got it, thanks for the explanation Wes, sounds very interesting indeed. Congratulations for the project.
Sad news.

Josh created a service that was a pleasure to use. I discovered so much music using it.

When Grooveshark closed, I moved to Spotify, which, IMO, has a very long way to go before it becomes what Grooveshark was in terms of music diversity.
Correct, but it is still a form of hacking, by way of social engineering. The ethics of it are dubious, certainly, but there's still something to appreciate in Kevin Mitnick types, even if they don't necessarily deserve to be lumped as "hackers" in the sense of technical prowess.

Engaging in human hacking and systems analysis of institutions like this can have high personal pay-offs, but it also often requires to revolve much of your lifestyle around it, so whether it's worthwhile varies.