skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture
Fetching External RSS Feeds Using JQuery and Google Feed API
Why I Put My Wife’s Career First
The way posts work on HN is a bit puzzling and not immediately obvious - I'll post something and then refresh the front page and won't even see it. The Reddit model seems simpler - I post something and it appears.
(help) I have exhausted all possible options for a gmail account recovery
I know I know HN isn't the right place for this but I seriously have no clue as to how I can get someone from Gmail/ Google to help me and since everyone that posts on HN is probably connected to someone else I figured I need to give it a shot. Mods just remove it if I am bothering :(

I want to delete the google profile attached to this gmail account since its still public and has my information all over it (not information I want portrayed since its dated/ my little brother messed with it years ago and now its the only thing that comes up besides my linkedin when searching for me)

And when I say I have exhausted all possible options the only thing left for me to do is hunt down some employees from social media and bother them over this really really small inconvenience. (Which I wouldn't like to do simply because I would be bothering these people from their day to day and would more than likely just get ignored anyways)

I trust HN with this Google Help Forum link rather than reddit

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/ocLrMa7Btic

https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/3kch98/is_it_possible_to_get_help_from_an_actual_google/
I don't understand how climate change isn't at the very top of the list of existential risks to human civilization. If your concern is warding off existing and urgent existential risks, and then you end up fucking around worrying about killer robots instead of solving the problem that is literally at your doorstep, right now, then something has gone very, very wrong.
Great article, this is absolutely true. My greatest managers and mentors have been the ones who delegated a domain to me without micromanaging or meddling -- it made me feel valued, as well as let me know I was fully accountable for the outcome. Meanwhile, they were free to focus on other areas of the business, or even pursue new opportunities.

For myself, I once had to forego an assignment that I wanted because my boss didn't think he could do without me. This was a wake-up call for me that I needed to "hire my replacement" to give me the ability to move on.
I'd like to clarify that we try not to make business decisions based on speculation. Just wanted to reassure myself that we're not wasting time filling out the application. Thanks for the reply.
How to postpone having your acct restricted when betting through a shitty bm
I knew it didn't look right, but didn't have time to look it up! I can't edit it now, but thanks for the heads up.
Ugh, I was so mad when I found that out! I still have to stop and think about it because I learned it the wrong way when I was little. (Just reverse the first part of the knot left-over-right or right-over-left and you will get tight, flat laces or floppy laces that point heel-to-toe.)
Art has been quite open source in its workings since centuries. Look at how artists were joining masters to learn the art and how they "forked" masters' techniques to create theirs. Personal vision is not precluded from open source, to the contrary it is encouraged.
Hi Jon, welcome to Hacker News. (I'm a moderator here.) I'm sorry that you felt singled out for ridicule—the comment I think you're referring to was indeed dismissive and supercilious and exactly the sort that we don't want on this site. Most of us are fascinated by computing history and have deep respect for the contributions of others.

I'm going to open that old thread so you can respond in it. But I also hope you'll stick around and give the better side of this community a chance to show itself. Getting newer software to run on older hardware is actually a common theme here and some of those posts are among the most interesting. It sounds like we have a lot to learn from you, so please feel welcome.
Physicists, here is a related question:

We have a gun that shoots electrons one
at a time due north. A little ahead of
the gun and in the path of the electrons
we have a beam splitter, that is,
a flat plate of material with horizontal
normal along the line from south
east to north west.

So, we fire the gun. The electron
hits the beam splitter. The wave
function splits with some going
east and the rest passing through
the beam splitter and going north.

One mile to the north of the beam
splitter and in the line of the path
of the wave function we have a
very good electron detector.
Similarly for one mile to the east.

So, we fire and some fraction of the
time we get a detection from the north
detector and the rest of the time,
from the east detector.

Now, let's move some of the mass of
the electron faster than the speed
of light: A little ahead of each
detector we have a very sensitive
detector of gravity (or, maybe charge).

So, as the two parts of the wave
function pass the gravity detectors,
we get a signal from both.
If the beam splitter sends 10%
of the wave function north and
the other 90% east, then
from the north gravity detector
we should get a signal
of 10% of an electron,
and from the east, 90% of
an electron.

Then, soon, one of the electron
detectors gives a signal,
of 100% of the mass (and charge)
of an electron. So, 90% or
10% of the mass (and charge)
of the electron moved
instantly,
faster than the speed of light.
along the line between the
two detectors.

Is this wrong? Why?

In more detail, what about the
electromagnetic field
from the moving parts of the
wave function? E.g., if the
electron is detected at the
east detector, is there
an electromagnetic field
still from the path of
part of the wave function to the
north?
If data is a liability aren't we all worse off for knowing that?
Mesosphere open sources their open documentation site
Maybe I just use tar a lot, but I actually can remember all the flags I typically use and wouldn't use this :) still nice work though.

co workers have sent this to me multiple times

https://xkcd.com/1168/

it helps the characters name is also mine!
The relational interpretation is much more intuitive without any of the ontological extravagance.
After reading Swartz's post, I realize my own crush on djb is small by comparison.
OP here - You're exactly right, I looked at that front page and almost bailed. I thought this was much more interesting since it shows a simple example with code and matching output screens.
"Crew Dragon’s displays will provide real-time information on the state of the spacecraft’s capabilities – anything from Dragon’s position in space, to possible destinations, to the environment on board."

Um, that's a use case?

"Mars? Screw that. Let's hit the ISS for lunch first."
This has always been my favorite drawing app. Great to see it on the iPhone.
http://yasp.co/
We can open old threads when there's a reason, and I think the author of an article showing up to comment is more than reason enough. So I've reopened that thread for you. Comment away! Also, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10201327.
Tap. Pay. Done. (Android Pay)
Consciousness May Be a Lot Like Making Coffee, Say Scientists
Apple's shown that pro and consumer-level workstations and laptops have reached the maturity level where integration matters much more than optimization of components. Is it about time for integration between hardware designers and language designers? Languages that have message passing semantics could benefit from a particular hardware architecture that enables that. Functional languages with persistent collections might benefit from specific hardware designs.

I suspect that an Erlang-like language running on hardware specifically designed to support it could achieve tremendous scalability.
Yep. Wouldn't hurt to have Tokyo regions as well for Asia.
Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate
The recent Paul Graham essay (and discussion) is worthwhile reading on the topic of naming and .com domains:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030863
FYI this is what powers the interactive SQL engine for the SQL classes on the Khan Academy. If you've never seen them, it is really cool.

http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/168/sql-on-khan-academy-enabl...

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/s...
Old data is possibly uninteresting. That's debatable. But all uncollected data is freshly uncollected data.

I strongly believe in collecting as much granular data as possible. It's totally possible to throw it away after it has outlived its likely usefulness.

But if I want to calculate a new machine learning signal today , I can't wait six months to accumulate enough data. I want that data to exist. And the only solution is to overcollect. And to collect at a granular level so I can aggregate and transform later.

The liability and security concerns are real. The fact that most companies are stupid about investing in unnecessary big data infrastructure is real too. But a recommendation to spool to cheap offline or nearline storage immediately is interesting. A recommendation to throw data away seems like folly to me.
Flash-charging buses
Its also got to do with culture.

Americans have a deep love for car culture - and look at public transportation as social welfare [1].

American capitalism is also responsible for america having the most profitable multinationals in the world. Its just that it doesn't work very good for society but does allow money to multiply really well.

[1] http://www.vox.com/2015/6/12/8764819/why-american-trains-are...
Lem's language is so very powerful - some of the vivid imagery of his books (which I read as a young teenager) still haunts me to this day. Especially his ability to depict "alien" worlds/concepts that seem so close on the one hand but then continuously elude deeper comprehension and leave you wondering and in awe.
I have good memory but I always try to convert information into mental cards so I can draw associations, that is how I have learned all commands you can imagine. I deactivated the system file manager of my operation system long time ago because I got used to the terminal, and that is how I do everything in my personal computer.

For extraction of archives I am able to remember the commands like this. For files with "tar" extension I use "tar xf" (where "x" means eXtract and "f" file, I think so). Now, if the extension is "tar.bz2" add a "j", and "z" for "tar.gz". For "zip" files use "unzip" and start adding a prefix like "b" or "g" for "bz2" and "gz" files respectively:

file.tar -> tar xf
file.tar.gz -> tar xfz
file.tar.bz2 -> tar xfj
file.zip -> unzip
file.bz2 -> bunzip2
file.gz -> gunzip

https://github.com/xvoland/Extract
I use a little mnemonic phrase...
tar dash eXtract Zee Files (tar -xzf)

and

tar dash Compress Zee Files (tar -czf)

Yes, the z does nothing when extracting. But it helps me remember.
I read an interesting book once that distinguished clearly between data, information, wisdom and perhaps a couple of other levels of this hierarchy. Advice is usually not data. Data is raw, unprocessed information. Being awash in it is not necessarily valuable, but wisdom is a different matter altogether.
Err, I thought I covered it in my post, but let me make it clearer -

the question in this case isn't what is or isn't a risk, it's where is it better to spend more money. Considering the fact that climate change gets billions in funding and other x-risks get almost nothing, the arguement is, not that they're important, but that they need the money more.

(btw, climate change might not be an existential risk because it won't necessarily kill the entire human race).
I've been using it for years too. I like deliberately boring someone by asking them if they want to see me tie my laces. Then I do it, and they're like "wait, let me see that again..."
My understanding is that the gravity detectors would not detect 10% or 90% of an electron. One would detect 0% and one would detect 100%. You cannot measure the wave function directly. Attempting to do so collapses it.

When that waveform collapse happens, everything about the quantum state collapses: electromagnetic field, gravity, etc.
I've never had any major problems with a gTLD and email but I have had colleagues have spam filtering issues. I have used a .io domain and I haven't had a problem, although we don't email too frequently. I must say it is somewhat fashionable with startups now to get gTLDs or cute ccTLD. However, there is an ethical issue with io specifically. [1]

As for my own personal opinion, I'm getting far more used to seeing startups and other services on TLDs other than .com. I think consumers are getting used to it now as well, in fact a lot of clients I work with won't even type the address into the browser anymore. They navigate to it via Google. Also, if you need to change TLDs at some point there are plenty of successful companies that have done so. [2]

Namecheap, it's great. I like using it. I also use Google Domains which is surprisingly nice.

[1]https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...

[2]http://mashable.com/2013/01/08/business-domain-names/#eBSI4O...
I did not mean to imply that the volume of code was directly tied to its value. I understand that value stems from functionality and not from quantity of code. But functionality does stem from code, as jsprogrammer said. If your code does X, and X is valuable, then the code is valuable -- I don't see what's wrong with this line of reasoning.
Unlike HTML, btw, which started out as a loose subset of SGML but has abandoned the goal of SGML compatibility in favour of conceptual simplicity.
In all seriousness, who would actually use this?
It's a nice web gadget. However, I just go by this handy table, which is on a yellow stickie on my monitor:

NAME MODERN GNU TAR COMMAND
file.tar.gz tar xf file.tar.gz
file.tar.bz tar xf file.tar.bz
file.tar.bz2 tar xf file.tar.bz2
file.tar tar xf file.tar
file.tgz tar xf file.tgz (missing from web gadget!)
file.abcdef tar xv file.abcdf (*)
---
* If file.abcdf is actually any of the preceding formats;
i.e. GNU Tar doesn't just go by the suffix!

Nobody memorizes these, and I wouldn't want to turn into a nobody, right?

By the way, if you actually do need a command which performs a pattern match on a file name and dispatches some other command, why would you go through a web browser? You'd want this in your shell as a function:

$ dtrt x.blorch.zonk.bloop # "do the right thing"

Hello, we have "case"

case "$file" in
-* | --* ) echo "oops, $file looks like an option!" ;;
*.zip ) unzip "$file" ;;
*.rar ) ... ;;
*.tar.* | *.tgz | *.tar ) tar xf "$file" ;;
...
esac
I'm not using this until it handles SGI bru. Remember bru? No? Consider yourself lucky.
Why not just learn what the flags mean? If you're cargo culting it, and not learning the point of the "xfvz" (it means eXtract, from the specified File, with a Visual dump of the extraction, from a gZipped archived tarball) -- you'll never remember it.
Create a React-Native app with scrollable-tab-view component
In California, Uber Loses Another Round in Driver Debate
Collecting everything would never be the optimum strategy and apparently the least meaningful one economically.

For the unexpected extra values from history data, the possibility that the return value is greater than the associated total cost doesn't necessarily increases with the dataset size. If we look at the trends for history things, only those with scant availability and high quality will be of real values.

I agree with the author that a better strategy would be to start with some unique and useful questions, store data for a purpose (insight).

Asset or liability? It is not a black or white thing, it is a scale depends on the information value and fidelity. In information theories, the information quantity (entropy or bits) is inverse proportion to the available possibility.
The Climate Story Nobody Talks About
Spark Release 1.5.0
I linked you a very reputable source that contradicts what you're saying. In other words, you're simply wrong.
Speaking just about Docker and not commenting on this post in particular: IBM employs at least 5 people who dedicate their time to working upstream. Duglin, as an example is #11 on the contribution graph in your list

disclosure: I run partnerships for Docker.
He did it as a challenge though and didn't use any modern tools. With modern tools and knowledge it would be extremely quick, easy, and cheap.

I built a 2 story building with 4 rooms and even a cantilevered walkway for about $3500 and about 120 man hours (combined time of myself and 1 other person working on it). Probably would have been closer to 80 if I had a nail gun but I was poor at the time and didn't want to spend the money so I just used a hammer. Of course it wasn't legal but it worked well and was super sturdy. If I had to built it to code and follow all the regulations I wouldn't have even bothered and it would probably have cost me over $100,000 and taken over a year to build.

I bought a book from Home Depot on framing for about $20. It wasn't hard nor expensive to acquire the knowledge.

Buckminster Fuller proposed that homes should be built from pre-made components that can be assembled. I believe he (or maybe someone else referencing him) used the analogy if we built cars the same way we built homes, you would have to order all the parts from separate suppliers. You would have to hire an engineer to come up with the plans. Then you would have to hire workers to build it. And at several stages throughout the process you would have to pay the local government money to approve your plan and get permission to build it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnIXcIQtHvc

Technology has made things incredibly cheap, it's a lot of the building codes and regulations that are making it more expensive.
Clever (YC S12) is hiring senior software engineers
Right now the market for educational software is a mess. It’s incredibly difficult for developers to get their products into schools, and it’s even harder for them to scale. School districts spend tons of money on learning applications, but they have no way of knowing if students are even using the apps they’re purchasing. Teachers know there’s great software out there, but relatively simple challenges like getting 30 students logged in at once make using it impossible.

At Clever, we’re working to change all that. We provide schools with a free API and single sign-on solution that makes using educational apps a breeze. We’ve grown fast: after three years, we’re moving data for a third of all K-12 students in America (19M kids), and 44,000 schools are using us to manage their education apps. Our goals are much bigger than that, though. We want to be two things:

-a single place where schools can easily manage and analyze all the software they’re using, and

-a single identity that students can use to see everything they’ve learned across multiple apps.

We’re a team of 80 (34 engineers) based in downtown SF, and we’re looking for senior software engineers: people who can help us see around corners and mentor a sharp young team.

Check us out at https://clever.com/about/jobs, or check out our recent press here:
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/27/434667722/one-thir...
A user on HN has commented that Ellen Pao followed a wrong approach. I disagree. If she truly felt wronged in the way she described, then she had no choice. Discrimination is frequently subtle and by nature very hard to prove; moreso when the discriminating party is as powerful as KP. Her comments on the reasons for dropping the suit may indicate that she realized this quite late in the game.... while bruised she is unbowed and has chosen to beat a strategic retreat rather than engage KP in a losing battle.
Were her accusations true? Was KP blameless? I think the jury is still out. Maybe time will tell....
I was totally out of shape two years ago and started doing both lifting and running. My progress was quicker with lifting then running so I've chosen to focus more on lifting. I like the Immediate feedback of getting one more rep then previously instead of having to finish a run and then see my time. ALthough my cardio is not good by any means lifting three times a week and running two times a week has made me feel more energetic in my daily life. Since I have no desire to do races that's good enough for me. This may change now that i have a Xiaomi mi band, I've found my self spending more time on the Treadmill even if it's just walking so I can get that vibration telling me I hit my goal for the day.
7zip does most of them, but doesn't depend on the original tools.
Great! Otherwise drivers will be Uber's slaves.
Teaching the Platonic Dialogues through sandwiches
I was at MesosCon 2015 and watched Verizon start 50,000 (yes 50k!) containers on a 1000 physical node infrastructure using mesos in 73 seconds. If you're just going for speed of launching, that is pretty snappy :)

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/verizon-puts-50000-docke...
Domestic Imperialism: How developers are forcing homeless out of Downtown LA
If it is possible to be alive without a brain, then if you think about it that explains Donald Trump.
You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky
I think you're correct. A Show HN that goes nowhere fast will disappear and be seen by virtually no one. An equivalent in r/startups or similar will still be seen by a few people even if it doesn't attract comments or upvotes.
Insomnia REST API Client
Don't you need the z flag as well since filename is gzipped?
Bsdtar definitely supports -a. I'm on a phone so I can't help too much but its the first option after you Ctrl+f for getopt on https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/master/tar/bsd...
and actually, it's not even that much more expensive. You can get a CNC Sherline mill for something like a $1500. Sure - the work area is small, they're mainly aimed at e.g. model builders, but it's big enough for something like this, and they're real honest to goodness CNC precision machine centers.
I think the trouble arises when you try to connect that to consciousness and human experience. From my perspective ("me" being the version in me in the "current" universe or whatever), I only experience one timeline, and so the universe appears totally nondeterministic. What use is this to science or even philosophy?

I disagree that Einstein's intuition carried him through quantum mechanics. I rather think that history shows him to be probably on the wrong side of the EPR/Copenhagen split. Not only did he cling to determinism (and I think he would have believed in something stronger than MW, which is a sort of very-weak determinism) but he also constantly objected to "spooky action at a distance" aka quantum entanglement which has now been very well observed.