skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Independent from what? I hear that rhetoric a lot in France from people who read Mediapart, an "independently funded" newspaper and website. Their slogan is something along the lines of "Only our readers can buy us."

I always found it quite ironic that their readership seems to feel like that guarantees impartiality.

On the subject of media bias, I suggest reading Matthew Gentzkow's work or even just a survey like this one: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shleifer/files/shleifer_cor...

TL;DR: Nope, ownership isn't the main factor in media bias.

"As important, Gentzkow and Shapiro [6] show that, after controlling for a newspaper’s audience, the identity of its owner does not affect its slant.1 Two newspapers with the same owner look no more similar in their slant than newspapers with different owners. Ownership regulation in the US and elsewhere is based on the premise a news outlet’s owner determines how it spins the news. Gentzkow and Shapiro produced the first large-scale test of this hypothesis, which showed that, contrary to the conventional wisdom and regulatory stance, demand is much more influential in shaping content than supply as proxied by ownership."
There's several private companies that make money selling compilers: Green Hills and PGI comes to mind immediately. Open compilers are good enough that commercial ones have to be better in general or on specific platforms to justify price. Plus, they usually integrate into other tools that do things FOSS cant or doesnt do well.

One area that's an untapped market is compilers that automatically and efficiently protect legacy code. I've seen academic and FOSS methods that do well. A thoroughly tested, supported, integrated with IDE option would probably sell well. A cross-platform even better.
The Unicode Consortium need to keep themselves in a job.
And then there are the valgrind tools other than memcheck: cachegrind (cache and branch-prediction profiler), callgrind (call-graph profiler), helgrind (thread error detector), massif (heap profiler), and probably more I forget.
> Libav on the other hand rather focuses on clean implementation and let's say better designed APIs.

This is weird to hear as a consumer of these libraries. When people ask why I prefer one or the other for my own use cases, I tell them that FFmpeg has the better API and the better format support (specifically vastly more pixel formats/depths in its lossless codecs). But regarding API, at least the parts that concern me, FFmpeg is a bit fuller and requires less boilerplate. libav* have a large surface area, so even minor affordances like avformat_alloc_output_context2 and avcodec_find_best_pix_fmt_of_list are helpful.

To be fair to Libav, due to being "downstream" FFmpeg has benefited greatly from their improvements, e.g. AVBuffer and the redone AVFrame management on top of it. They absolutely deserve credit for improving the API. But FFmpeg's API being effectively a superset of Libav, as a plain old user of the libraries it doesn't really make sense to target the latter.

That's to say nothing about the politics or people involved in the projects, it's just a matter of practicality.
I wonder if this influences the civilian population too, by promoting the idea that the only way for citizens to protect themselves is by being prepared to shoot their way out of any situation.
Since there is demand for a Founders at Work sequel, how about a way to submit questions to HN users and see their answers. e.g. /answers?id=dang would show your answers ranked by upvote. Going to /answers without a parameter could show users who have answered questions ranked by the sum of their answer upvotes. Then HN would be the sequel to FoW.
I was actually looking at OpenWRT devices at this price point for a possible project, but this looks a lot better for the price.
Interesting project, do you have any plans for firefox plugin ?
Also known as a bitcoin piñata: http://ownme.ipredator.se/
Javascript, locking and sound
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Remember that the police have far more resources available. Once someone demonstrates that they're actually a threat, the police still have the option of applying superior force but they have far more options for controlling when and where that happens and ensuring that innocent bystanders aren't needlessly exposed.

One example where the U.S. seems to be getting it right is high-speed chases, which seem to be becoming less common because it's not worth the safety risks in an urban environment and modern tech + resources make it unlikely that anyone can actually escape for that long. Sure, that'd make for a crappy movie but it's safer for everyone involved.
An aspect of viewing every transaction is that it allows you locate anyone geographically. As long as you buy a train ticket, or gas for a car, or a sandwich, your location is recorded.
Music lockers sort of terrify me.

I know there've been lots of complaints about them before,[0] and I think most of the early complaints are actually resolved now. But I still have a lingering bad feeling...

After playing a series of MMOs that subsequently died, or online games that then lost all their servers, I'm just really wary of putting all my trust in a central server somewhere.

Companies can die, or sell off parts of their business, make strange decisions about UI or storage without noticing how it destroys someone's music in edge cases.

I guess you're covered as long as you backup your music on a NAS too... but it's not crazy to assume you shouldn't have to do that, so I don't blame the author.

[0] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-03/29/music-lockers...
I was a lifeguard from the age of 16-22, indoor and outdoor, I learned to swim starting at age 4. Not once did a person drown at the facilities I worked, my watch or not. I probably rescued ~100 people in that span of time.

When you're around a pool that much, its almost instinctual. You can immediately spot weak swimmers, even on busy days. You develop the ability to "group" people, both by proximity and in terms of strength. Also, 95% of life-guarding is preventive. You can spot a problem before it actually becomes a problem, much the same way one might do while driving.

To this day whenever I'm at a pool or ocean, I'm scanning the water. I don't even realize I'm doing it most of the time. I'll be at a pool and ask a child to stop running, out of sheer habit. I'll see teenagers tossing a little kid up in the air in water too shallow, and ask them to stop, and sheepishly realize I don't work there. Ironically they always listen.
Ask HN: I just lost more than 80 points for no apparent reason?
Not that it has much importance, but still it feels a bit unkind.
Is this happening to all profiles?

Don't know if it's related, but I noticed this just after a comment I made started being upvoted a lot.
https://tor2web.org/
I, for one, get tired of the constant refrain of hero worship while these guys say that there number one job is to get home safely.

They are afforded terrible powers to intervene in, and disrupt, someone's life. That trade is made under the assumption that they do a dangerous job.

A benefit is afforded to them due to the responsibility that they bear.

Obviously, they want to have as much power with as little danger as possible. They want to maximize the benefit the receive (largely being above the law and a middle class existence) and minimize the repercussions of what they owe for it (possibly being in danger).

Its the same in other areas of American life where elites have abdicated their responsibilities but have become accustomed to the benefits afforded them to the point that they think it's owed to them. That has to change.

EDIT: for clarification and spelling.
In the US, most homicide victims are killed by another person of their own race, not by the police. This is true for whites, blacks, hispanics, etc. for the simple fact that races tend to segregate into neighborhoods. For all I know it's also true for non-racial demographics such as homosexuals. Simply put, if you're killed, it's most likely by someone you are related to if not by family then by proximity. This doesn't get a lot of media attention or create a lot of outrage, even though the numbers are much, much higher than police involved killings.

Just to take one example: Hundreds of people kill each other every year in cities like Chicago. Thousands more sustain non-fatal injuries. Sometimes dozens are killed in a single weekend. Homicides and shootings are way up, but police involved shootings by contrast are way down. This does get some local media attention but there is comparatively little national media or public outrage over this compared to relative few killed in police involved shootings.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-superin...

We have a much bigger problem with citizens killing each other than with police killing citizens. That's not to say that police are perfect, or not often overzealous, or that they shouldn't be held to a higher standard. But the reality is not nearly what is being portrayed by many media and political organizations.
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I grant part of that. But now _you_ have to tell me: How do you claim to know that no one was arrested and suffered life imprisonment? The point you seem to be missing is that you have no way of knowing!

This is the "wonderful" thing about the Patriot Act: Even as an American citizen, you could be disappeared and shipped to a foreign country for torturing... and there's a good chance no one would find out, for years, maybe forever. I don't think you have an idea of how significant this is. America does not operate under the rule of law.
>nor can afford to incorporate a business

You don't need to incorporate to be self-employed. The costs are essentially zero.
In terms of statistics being a cop is pretty safe? So many other occupations will lead to an early death?

Page 4, and 5 on:

Fhttp://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf

I don't want to argue with anyone, but I've always felt if police officers were given better training, and maybe required a bit more than a high school diploma, say an AA in psychology; we wouldn't have these posts? By better training, I mean less paramilitary emphasis?

I'll admit, I'm tired of the endless pullovers--for no reason other than driving an old car, or out past 10:30 p.m.

I'm tired of the Revenue Collection(that's not their fault! We need to tie income to violations in the United States, or lower fees altogether?) A rich man get a ticket--he tell the wife at dinner. A poor man gets a ticket; it just might be the last straw?

I'm just tired of being scared when they are around!

I don't think things are going to change for a long time. All I rely on is dash cams at present. No need for spending more than 20 bucks at Amazon? Those cheap ones work, and last a long time. Buy two--in case one breaks? I had on going over a year now. I haven't been pulled over since? Maybe I don't do out like I used to, or they see that little screen flip down?
60k would be a good salary for a developer a couple years out of school, in a low cost of living area... in 1998.

Second, I took at look at your sites. "Registier" is an awful name. Most people are not going to know how to pronounce it, never mind spell it. Second, you have typos on your sites, both personal site and company, that make you look even more unprofessional. One is even your own company name.
They don't now. But they would make basically the same thing if the bill to raise fast food workers' (and no one else's) wages goes through.
Ask HN: How to buy English skills in two week?
Money cannot buy everything, but I got saved some money that I want to spend to get out of mediocre english skills. I am in this state for last 20 years. My english has not improved much in this period. I cannot/should not live rest of my life wishing to have a good english skills to communicate my ideas.

I am not good at persistence and consistency which are key to become good at anything you want to be. I am highly paid software engineer and I reached to this position by pure luck and talent. Now time has come that the talent alone is not enough. I want to achieve more and first step is to remove my inability to write/read/speak english fluently.

I know the best method people recommend is to read as many books as possible to become good at it. I have tried buying books and reading first few pages before forgetting about reading them again. I get impatient because of my slow speed and lack of vocabulary. The books of kids are not that interesting to keep me engage. My symptoms are close to ADHD but I have not consulted a doctor for that. For speaking its best to be among among natives but unfortunately wherever I work its all expats.

I got some money saved on which I want to spend in two full weeks to learn English.
I am thinking of taking leave from my office and pursuing to learn all about English in those two weeks. But I don't know what will be the medium to learn extensively in those two weeks. Please suggest me what can I do in those two weeks? Can I hire some professional that can spend full two weeks with me?
Or should I go into field and work in an environment (i.e. restaurant?) for two weeks that that will force me to speak with natives and learn from them?

I am thinking of posting a job description on different job portals to hire someone that can help in this regard. What should be criteria to hire someone for this purpose and what schedule we should be following in those two weeks (8 hours a day)?

I live in Seattle area.
In 2014 I have worked on http://exmerg.com but it wasn't until recently for it to start generating some passive income. Still, the infrastructure costs (AWS) are higher than the revenue, so money wise the balance is passive (not counting the hours spent building the service which I could use for client work).

The positive side effect of building it was having additional source of motivation to learn new things in various fields like UI/UX design, cloud services, business operations and other SaaS related stuff.

The main lesson it taught me was how much hidden work needs to be done to attract users and monetize a web service. I think a start-up that would make it easier to deploy, maintain and monetize web services would be an interesting one.
Are the commits from libav merged or cherry-picked/rebased? In any case, I would hope the stats were gathered with --no-merges; if not, that would indeed skew the stats.
True, but just what's there is already a great intro to many Rust concepts.
Very interesting comment, can you give any other examples of this?
That's, in the end, their prerogative. They can choose to give, but under a no-derivative licence, if they so wish.
Thanks. So the issue is that Monads save us having multiple returns? That makes sense.
Thanks! My next plan was probably a node-webkit downloadable version, but a Firefox version would probably be even easier. It doesn't rely on all that many Chrome APIs – basically just the start button, keeping track of/changing what page we're on and front-end<->back-end messaging. I haven't looked into it yet, but I'm sure Firefox has very similar analogs.

Are there any tools for cross-browser extensions like that? It would be nice not to have to duplicate all the code for such small differences.
Clojure and Scala are pretty good ideas, being modified versions of two leading programming paradigms, i.e. Lisp and Haskell respectively. Groovy is the most JRuby-like of those choices, and probably has far more traction than JRuby because it uses Java syntax and is more heavily promoted.
Are the coroutines scheduled across cores or do they all run in the same thread?
Funny, I was just reading an article about WIRED's startup of the week, Velocity, an app pushing for transactionless restaurants, kind of the same way Uber takes the payment step out of cabs. (ie, you still pay, but it's not a big process.)

BBC focuses on BTC, but maybe apps are the best path to the death of cash.

Of course you never truly get rid of an anonymous fungible medium of exchange. There were a surge in Tide detergent thefts starting a few years back, to use it as a currency.

1. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/24/startup-of-th...

2. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-are-...

3. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1?...

4. http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
There's a difference between the way you phrase it and the objective fact that most people who are killed by police are in fact people with lengthy and often violent criminal histories. Not all, of course. But most.
Startup of the Week: Velocity
Not only a decent amount of memory, but a very powerful GPU for its category (192 Kepler cores supporting CUDA compute) and a lot of features and expandability (SATA, USB 3.0, 1GigE, mPCI-e, etc). The primary target market is a dev board for automotive applications like dashboard rendering, machine vision for things like backup warnings, etc. But it's an extremely powerful machine for its size/power and has many potential applications for embedded processing.

It's been out for a couple years now, and what I'm really waiting for is an updated version with the new Tegra X1 SoC! Where's my Jetson TX1 NVIDIA?
I actually thought about being more careful with that but decided that replies complaining about it would probably strengthen the point.
Language exchange? What's your native language? Several years ago I found someone on Craigslist to exchange an hour of English for an hour of Spanish. We did this for several months. You can find several people to keep it interesting.
NVIDIA does have a 64-bit ARM chip in products today; the Tegra X1. Unfortunately they don't seem to have a dev kit available for it. It's a really interesting design too, a completely custom core that can use hardware or software translation of ARM instructions to its own internal instruction set, like Transmeta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver

It's speculated that NVIDIA wanted it to support both ARM and x86, but was unable to license x86 from Intel.
Correction: LocalStorage is synchronous not asynchronous.
This article is so short sighted, it's hard to know where to start. My advice is to delete it, as you may have trouble hiring engineers in the future and anyone will find this when they google your name / research your company. As an engineer, weighing the options you suggest in public is a massive red flag and I would always have a seed of distrust in the back of my head.

Regardless of the fact that the culmination of the article is that you don't REALLY want to be an asshole (I'm not so sure), it shows that:

A) You imply engineers are just people to build your dreams and dispose of when you're done. "I'll just not fire them". Good engineers can make or break your company.

B) You're hanging out with terrible advisors (camp 1? wtf)

> "You don’t get to the top without making a few enemies, though."
Most people don't make enemies of their employees or show such blatant disrespect.
They don't provide the same ABI (just mostly the same API), and in fact they have "so bumps" all the time, which means they break ABI compatibility with themselves all the time and need to increment the shared library major number.
OK, fine, but spherical earth is six thousand years old, right?
There is a significant percentage of the population without banking.

Traditional banks have always despised the poor. Historically this is why immigrants, union members, and other working class people formed credit unions.

I don't know why the unbanked can't use those. Something has changed. A traditional credit union wouldn't kick out a member just because he became unemployed.
>>It made me wonder in my own professional work: should I also focus more on getting things done instead of trying to find the best solution?

As an SDET who has dealt with code perfectionist, please just focus on getting things done and features shipped. Assuming that bugs aren't life & death in your product like car software to deploy airbags, or huge consequences/delays like a land rover destine for Mars missing its mark and flying off into space. Worry about all that perfectionist stuff later, when you're sure it actually matters. Until then, as long as your code isn't a hideous abomination, it's fine. Just ship it. If you have passionate QA/SDETs, they'll find the critical bugs and do performance tests if needed. This is especially true if the product had a good spec that it was developed around.

That said, don't take any shortcuts when it comes to security!
The language is Arc[0], a lisp dialect co-developed by pg. Hacker News itself appears to be a proprietary fork[1] but the language and original forum implementation are open source. Hacker News doesn't use a database, rather, flat-files and code running in RAM. The site began as a proof-of-concept for Arc but has understandably become something a bit bigger, and as a result people are sometimes shocked and bemused at how anti-modern it appears.

There are a couple of other HN clones running what I believe is the same software, like datatau[2] however I don't have any idea about other popular applications of the language, if there are any.

Kogir, dang and others can fill you in on juicier details, and feel free to use the email in the contact link below. I feel like this has come up often enough and is an interesting enough subject that it belongs in the FAQ.

[0] http://arclanguage.org/

[1] AFAIK, the staff doesn't share the various changes they've made to the algorithms publicly because there's apparently real money riding on ranking on the front page for startups and entrepreneurs, and they want to avoid gaming the system.

[2] http://www.datatau.com/
I don't think people need Linux, but solid web applications support. Web will always win, yet now web apps on phones still suck. We try to wrap them into hybrid, but I think centralised distribution model is temporary solution.

I think we need a way to easily switch between fullscreen tabs, navigation between tabs and solid hardware acceleration for web stack.
Also from the north but Taschenmunition hasn't been a thing since 2007.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taschenmunition
I think it acts asynchronous if you have multiple tabs for the same domain open at once.

The example given was:
"it spans multiple documents, and you want a sound to play in reaction to some external, asynchronous event if any of your documents are open."
I did exactly that. Ended up creating something new. It has meaning and it worked.
I speak Urdu and never found someone wanting to learn it.
As a developer I hated when I couldn't make my webpage play sound on ios. But as a user, it's the biggest relief in the world.

I hate autoplay, and if my phone had it, I would have to keep in on silent all-the-time, to stop from being rickrolled.
Pretty much agree with his general concerns, although IPC between web pages would probably bring some terrible security concerns, but this is a little off, IMO:

"Oh, and speaking of sound: on iOS, you flat-out cannot play sound unless somewhere higher up on the call stack is a touch gesture. Asynchronous sounds can't be done using the HTML5 audio tag, because... Apple are dicks, I guess?"

I'm fairly sure this is actually because I don't want a web page on my iPhone making sounds without going through notification preferences, and I'm the one that paid Apple, not the person who made the web page. ;)
Humans are part of nature, and you might be confusing arguments with logic.

The effective aspect of the scientific method that separates it from scientism is falsifiability. The comparison for falsification here is "GMO farming" versus "status quo farming"; nowhere is nature involved.
The argument is that you haven’t totally screwed them. They’re paid a decent salary from day 1. They’ve been completely de-risked"

60k is no where near a decent salary.

I wouldn't be surprised if your angel investors "have a change of heart".