skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a damn shame that X.509v3 doesn't support multiple signatures on a single certificate. That would really ease the transition to new signing algorithms. I can't really fault the CAs or browser developers here because X.509 doesn't facilitate forwards compatibility.
Things Amazon shut down without you noticing
Not sure, but "GitHub Library" seems too expensive.

"Master Kim" costs merely 5 mana, and is a 7/7 creature plus other benefits.
Way too cheap to summon.

The same stands for "Jez The Humble Monk". 4/4 creature for converted mana
cost of 3, which by itself is too cheap, and forestwalk and an ability on top
of that.

"Docker", the same as "Master Kim", except it's even cheaper.

"DevOps" seems more or less sensible, as it requires all the mana colours,
what by itself is difficult. But why made it an artifact? It works only once,
when put into play. It would made more sense for it to be a sorcery.

"Continuous Delivery" has too powerful and too cheap ability, and it's not
limited in any way in a turn.

And so on, and so forth.
That and you don't inhale cigar/pipe tobacco plus for whatever reason they don't appear to be addictive in the same way cigarettes are. In an ideal world I wish all tobacco wasn't lumped together with cigarettes because while I'm sure smoking a pipe/cigar has its risks my impression is those risks are no where as bad as with cigarettes. Unfortunately I've never been able to find any real studies on cigars/pipes in isolation.
>> Professor Norvig comes along and does it in a simple functional one liner.
>> Mind blown.

That is how I felt taking Martin Odersky's Scala course.
Is your method "getUserIfItExists(username)" or "doesUserExist(username)"?
Good point, many of the health scares we have can be appropriately rationalized by examining it this way.

The impact on socialized medicine is still significant when you consider an additional 1% of colon cancer cases in the population.
What You Absolutely Need to Know About BigData (infographic)
The Rise and Fall of .ly
In general, in Western economies, personal services that don't benefit significantly from scale or automation are going to seem reasonably expensive unless you are in the very top tier of income. Consider that $15/hour is about the wage floor and you probably need to add transit time and other overheads for an independent contractor.

So, yeah, it's hard to see a couple of hours of work costing less than $50 or so. And, if this is a weekly or more frequent expense, that starts to add up. I have a housecleaner come in every few weeks and it does help to keep my place in some semblance of order, but it's definitely a luxury expense and I would probably be too cheap to have it done weekly.
>Please name a country where selling or buying cigarettes is not legal.

There ya go[1]. It would have taken you 5 seconds to google this. The Country is Bhutan.

https://www.google.com/search?q=country+cigarettes+illegal&o...

> Strawman. By that logic we would not use safety belts or cars.

No, it's really not. Are you trying to say that we won't all die at some point?

That's also the argument a lot of people give for having dangerous hobbies, so it's not a strawman in the least.
There are only about 30000 fatalities from all car driving per year.
Without specific reference to any company, "Convincing an investor to invest in a company which is not, at the present moment in time, either profitable or cashflow positive" is not in any way exceptional or unnatural. That's the nature of the game in early stage investing.

They're all high-risk companies which, if you simply linearly project out where they are today, will "default to dying" (to use PG's phrasing). Sophisticated investors bet that they can perceive some X factor about the business, the market, or the founders which will cause the business to actually not achieve the default outcome. Usually they lose these bets. Occasionally they bet that two Stanford gradudate students who know nothing about business will nonetheless figure out a terribly difficult CS problem allowing them to unlock money from an oversaturated low-margin business that every smart analyst correctly believes has no future. If you invest in nine $STARUP_WHICH_FAILED_INGLORIOUSLY and one Google you do very well for yourself.

To misquote the Wire: "All in the game, yo."
Does anyone else think the illustrations accompanying the article are unnecessarily mean-spirited?
Thanks for taking the time to write this longer response to my relatively flippant one. It's also pleasant to see some positivity here about CSS, which in these halls is often decried as being complete junk (rather unfairly - not many things have stood the test of time so well, and remain mostly usable even when applied in a wildly different context from their initial humble origins).

That said, I'm a little surprised you see no value at all in CSS preprocessors; having spent over a decade writing CSS by hand (from the CSS 1 days), it was a moment of sheer joy when I started using Sass - probably more than five years ago now - and discovered variables and mixins could be used with CSS (and to a lesser extent nesting - though it's immediately obvious to anyone who looks at the actual output or thinks for a moment about how this works that it isn't a great idea to overuse it). I would find it very hard to go back to writing raw CSS.

If you're working on a team of developers all contributing CSS to a project, do you find that one CSS file is actually manageable? Do you not get merge conflicts? Does it require vast discipline?

100% agree with you about the quality of actual markup in 2015. It's miserable.
This might not necessarily refute your argument, but I wouldn't rely on Natural News as a source. They're a known source of pseudoscientific drivel.
>many of the failed South American countries.

The CIA had a lot to do with that. It instigated coups against democratically elected heads of state and supported repressive dictators in most of South America in order to protect American businesses there.
How Red Meat Joined the 478 Other Things That Might Give You Cancer
Oil is also up there in the low single digit deaths per gigawatt-year and oil and coal are what Japan replaced all their nuclear power generation with after Fukushima.
It's from nitrate curing. Ham, bacon, mamy sausages, and most lunch meats go through this process. Sometimes the chemical is added directly via saltpeter, and sometimes indirectly via stuff like celery juice.
Regarding that part of "everyone else on earth will die sometime, of something", is there an ideal death graph that we aim to? I mean, do we know were are we trying to go?.

Just a curiosity, but it will be interesting if somebody is modeling such an "ideal death statistics" (like 0 car accidents, 0 cancer, 0 murders, 80% age related heart failure, etc...).
I think that HAProxy can work, but it needs assistance. As it doesn't allow you to use resolvable hostnames, you can't rely on DNS load balancing for microservices. As I said in my comment on the article, Consul + Consul-template works well for this.
I typically hate ranking lists like this, since I believe student completion rates are more important than enrollment. However, I did find some joy in finding a new MOOC I could add to the backlog of courses I need to take.
Seems like I remember the "peak uranium" studies suffered from the same faults as "peak oil". That there is estimated to be quite a bit of easily recoverable uranium left undiscovered. And a near infinite amount recoverable from seawater.
Really, we shouldn't use cars nearly so much as we do. But if we must, then the very modest inconvenience of having to wear a seatbelt is well worth the improvement in outcome should a crash occur.

That said, there's still plenty of controversy about all the laws around graduated carseats for children—that the carseat industry seems much more interested in emotional appeals than hard data is an obvious red flag.
There's not much surprise if the first version of a new design runs over budget; I'm interested in the costs of routine, serial production once those unknowns have been worked through. What about the 59 reactors already in operation, including Flamanville 1 and 2?
All sides in such arguments usually have a conflict of interest. The meat lobby is after money. The "regulate everything" crowd is after power.
Daily Report: Facebook Goes to India … Again
Facebook is not the only big tech company looking at ways to connect to the many people in the world who do not have access to the Internet. Google, for example, has discussed using drones, high-flying balloons and even low-cost satellites to beam Internet signals to remote parts of the world.

But perhaps no other company has managed to stir up as much controversy as Facebook. This week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive and co-founder, will visit New Delhi and is expected to discuss the Internet.org project.

When it was announced two years ago, Internet.org was described as a long-term effort to experiment with different means of connecting people to the Internet, starting with pilot projects in India. But Internet.org quickly faced criticism: Did Facebook’s project simply represent enlightened self-interest or a more cynical attempt to make sure that the next generation of people who come online are introduced to Facebook before anything else?

Since then, Facebook has retooled its free and low-cost offerings in India partly in response to that criticism. It has also embarked on an ambitious effort to bring high-speed Wi-Fi to remote villages in the Himalayas. It is difficult to say if that will be enough to ignite interest in Internet.org. But give Mr. Zuckerberg credit for tenacity.
I'm pretty sure the concentration of nitrates is way smaller in a raw celery (as in taken from your garden) than what they actually put on meat.
How Many Other Public Clouds Will Be Vaporized?
A lot of those questions are taken care on the forums. People tend to stumble on the same sticking points. But it part of learning to learn in this new medium.
>Unless all along he really was paying below market for the work his employees are doing.

Given that, as the article says, one actually complained to him about being ripped off on his salary, I'd say this was the case.

I agree with everything else you said. If an employer can afford to pay employees $70K and isn't coerced into doing so, more power to them. Such a salary isn't sustainable in all business. Market rate is most certainly not $70k/year to bag groceries.
If you don't have a legacy burden, just including and having the standard library use something like Maybe with a good comprehension syntax seems better than adopting the antipattern of using nil all over the place to start with.
Yep, Consul-template + HAProxy is great for a dynamic HAProxy solution.
The initial value is the piece of mind on the customer side plus ease of use/scheduling. With maid service, you're letting someone in your house unsupervised for long periods of time, so it becomes extremely important to have accountability built into the transaction.

I have considered getting a monthly maid service and I live in the DC metro- somewhere with a ton of choices on that front- and I have not quite pulled the trigger on it because I am pretty freaked out by paying someone to have unfettered access to my house. I don't even have anything expensive to steal or break! There is zero chance I would trust a maid from Craigslist.
a) Granted. But we're talking about a specificity after compiling to CSS of: section.myawesomesection { h2{..} } to section.myawesomesection h2 {..}. Definitely not wanting to create nests that are so deep the specificity is insane.

Could I have just given a class to the h2? Yep. But performance difference between h2.myclass{..} vs section.awesomesection h2{..}? Worth worrying over?

Of course, if there really is a difference, it would add up I suppose over a mega-site. So thanks for the food for thought. I'll have to weigh it versus developer happiness I get from the tidy style rules.

b) Well, if the markup changes, that can just as well change your CSS too.

At some point, some change in the markup, you're going to reexamine the CSS for it. It's not like you write the perfect CSS and walk away because it will always work with the document and all its iterations.

Of course, like you said, maintainability is an issue but it isn't exclusive to SASS or my use of nesting via section.myawesomesection either.

c) Styles that are in many places get noted and placed so they can be reused. But that one special snowflake of a rule that applies only to this section of content because my designer wants to especially call it out? The rule can be specific.

I'm not creating 200 line section.myawesomesection definitions. Reusable items are resuable. Specific items are specific (most often to overwrite a global style say like font, color, this specific absolutely positioned icon, etc). Generally a dozen lines or so. If longer, just like a function getting too long, and I rethink/rewrite.

d) I absolutely 100% will check out BEM. I'm no slave to SASS, nesting, or anything like that. I have no idea about BEM will happily switch if it is better.
I think some Mars missions have used a Moon slingshot to Mars, but I've never heard of Venus.
From the context it seems that it's just about cancer cases but it is very vague and could mean anything.
I understand the anger but at the same time I don't.

Overall unwrap() isn't good. Really it should be replaced by TODO WRITE ERROR HANDLING in 90% of its cases. That being said there are still good uses for it.

The main _safe_ use for unwrap() I find is when dealing with an iterator of Results/Options (which seems to happen a lot). The pattern:

.filter( |x| x.is_some() )
.map( |x| x.unwrap() )

Is safe, and I really don't know a more eloquent method of handling these operations.
More randomness or less (2012)
I also mentioned Aldi. They are small and without fee.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Households don't consume identical amounts of power. When an article discusses powering large numbers like this, it's using an average. If you don't know how much power your own house uses then you don't know how you compare to the average.

As for knowing or not knowing the exact number, do people not read their electric bills?
> And doesn't seem to be struggling from what I can tell.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/handy-san-francisco

http://www.yelp.com/biz/handy-los-angeles

http://www.yelp.com/biz/handy-chicago

Handy is also facing lawsuits:

http://gbdhlegal.com/wp-content/uploads/cases/Handybook-File...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/woman-sues-startu...
I simply expect them to be less powerful.
What about smoked fish?
I don't really disagree. As I said, if you take away all the constraints, what's unique about Coursera or any other MOOC, really?

That said, people with busy schedules, travel, etc. can easily get behind on a more time-consuming course and, at that point, the natural reaction is just to drop it.

My personal preference is to have structure but to build sufficient wiggle-room in that someone can catch up a week or two.
A critical reading of an annotated text can always be one's second reading of that text, you know.
The article mentions bacon but doesn't differentiate between cured and uncured varieties. I was under the impression that uncured bacon avoided some of these issues mentioned in the article.

Edit: Assuming you don't have any issues with animal fats and regular salt (I don't).
> Using that operator a single time or whatnot seems handy, but chaining it like that just seems like poor practice to me.

The whole motivation of the operator is for chaining.
How to legally own another person (by Nassim Taleb) [pdf]
To build or to buy?
Marginally interesting, the logotype for Stuttgarter Hoffbrau uses the Fraktur version of the capital S. When I moved to southern Germany, I'll admit it took longer than I'd like to figure out that those bottles didn't actually say "Guttgarter Hoffbrau".
If you're using marathon, check out bamboo, it can generate haproxy configuration files from templates which can be triggered by changes in marathon.
Cool stuff!
Shown
Almost all maids won't steal, but it's a great cover for thieves who want access to houses. You can't know which is which unless you get a good recommendation or hire the person and test it out.
Yeah, I probably should have used /s after that line.

> I was saying that entrepreneurs take significant personal and financial risks and there is a high rate of attrition for even good businesses.

I agree, and I think it's may just be a nasty feature of our country's demographics and the law of supply and demand.

I'm reminded of a post from a few years ago (I think I saw it here) examining someone's observation that a lot of engineering types were packing up and moving to Germany to start their company because failure would mean less financial hardship (that's not a great summary of the article). Here is an article in a similar vein (vane?). http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/think-we...
Web 3 or not, I'd see it as an extension of user sourcing, where users have various levels of moderation powers. I would guess these HN emails (I also received one recently and duly reposted) are triggered by some count of admins voting up unloved posts, maybe from a list filtered by a user karma threshold.

As Jeff Atwood says about StackOverflow, it should be possible for a sufficiently privileged user to do just about anything staff can do.

Not really a new concept as /. had the notion of metamoderation, but a richer model with multiple levels of user.
How IT recruitment firms go international
Verschiebe Deine Kanban Projekte Auf Eylean Board
Why does the title have 'Dating' in it? Has nothing to do with romantic relationships.
This Guy Wins When Contestants Miss a Half-Court Shot Jackpot
I gave Handy(Book) a try, and consistency in who arrived was my issue. The first person they sent was absolutely fantastic, send her every week!. Trying to book her again was a nightmare, the docs didn't match the application, and support pointed me back at the documentation. Finally a month later, after several support calls and emails, I had the same cleaner booked. Success!

The morning of my appointment I looked online and they'd switched my cleaner. The new person arrived 45 minutes late, did a poor job, and tried to get me to book her outside of Handy.

Finding someone on Craigslist is easier and cheaper. Answer a random ad, asses quality after their first visit. Either book them on a recurring schedule or move on to the next ad. The only difference is paying with a cheque rather than a CC.
The amount of taxes and the laser-like focus of said taxation required to make basic income both workable and meaningful for the population at large won't really feel like taxes.

60% of all income above $X per year versus the 40% now is a tax, sure.

But the original comment was "The money for basic income will come from automation driven productivity improvements."

So you're going to make a new tax of 500% on sales of automation equipment? Or 50% of the money saved per year by your installation of automation equipment? And then hire several million auditors to go inspect every facility in the country every year to ensure that people aren't installing unregistered automation equipment?

There are already a bunch of tax laws on the books that should make those automation drive increases in profitability get taxed and go into the government's coffers. But companies are very adept at finding loopholes, getting new loopholes, etc. Structuring their business so as to minimize their tax burden. I think it's pretty obvious that just "raising taxes" won't accomplish enough revenue to make basic income work. So that means you've got to do something new, and something that probably won't feel like any previous tax ever levied.

While you might argue that if it's a tax it's a tax (and that's probably technically true) there's a huge difference between increasing existing tax rates and generating substantially new tax law.
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Postmortems like this are always a bit unfair. You ask employees who lost their job when the company folded what was wrong with the company, and they'll air every little complaint or inefficiency that existed within the company.

Isn't the ethos of Silicon Valley to 'hack it together' with tape and glue? Moreover, I'm pretty sure that's the reality of almost every high growth company. I'm sure you could find matching stories from within almost every winning unicorn: key bugs they didn't catch, poor decisions that cost them along the way, leadership gaffes, etc.

I think there are a couple interesting points to consider that the other comments address: difficulty of direct services, customer acquisition costs, 1099s. But we should expect more from reporters than to throw in every other possible anecdote they could dig up.
I've been using Swift for over a year now, which has had an Optional implementation from day one. I see a lot of people defending Java's implementation in this thread, can someone check my understanding? I did Java in a past life but am not super familiar with Java 8.

In Swift, types are non-optional by default. You can never end up with a null, the compiler makes it impossible. Optionals are out of the way until you need them, and if you use them properly (i.e. avoid the .get() equivalent), it's still impossible to crash from a null.

In Java 8, things can still contain null by default and you might not know about it, right? You can express that something is Optional in your API, but that's only marginally better than documentation, doesn't solve "unexpected nulls" whatsoever, and makes this only halfway to a solution and therefore broken entirely. Why not just use annotations?

Are my assumptions and understanding correct?
> AFAIK the general practice is to use ! for methods that perform a mutation in-place

That's not quite the usual statement of the rule: ! is for methods where there exists a "dangerous" version and a "less dangerous" version, to denote the more dangerous version. A common example of that is methods where one version returns a copy of the original object with some modification applied and the other version modifies the original object in place, but IIRCT that's not the only distinction it is used for in the standard library and, more importantly, in-place mutations that aren't paired with a "return-a-modified-copy" method don't get the !.
Report Links Some Types of Cancer with Processed or Red Meat
A lot of the problems with the gig-economy as it stands now is that too many everyday people feel that the elite startup entrepreneurs are trying to build a new feudal economy.If these entrepreneurs were more humble and just worked to empower the ones doing the gig then their reward would be greater. One could empower these hard working individuals by allowing them to set their own price, by building tools that they could use to gain credibility in the eye of their customers, and give them a stronger safety net longer they work. In order for capitalism to work, the ones who do the work need to be able to reap what they sow.
Many franchise systems work like this, I wonder if they had provided a business class on llcing and then required training , supplies, and maybe even equipment how a lot of these cos would turn out.
If you really know, then yes. On those on flight 93 seemed to know. But the other two planes didn't and they didn't do anything. Totally reasonable.

Where I in the hypothetical train scenario, I would not pull the lever. Because in truth, I don't <i>know</i> that the five people will be killed. One of them may look up in time, shout, and all of them scatter. But the one loner? He may be too absorbed in his task.

The details in these kinds of things really matter. They make or break the morality of the scenario. And the details in the train & lever scenario are implausible. The supposed level of certainty is too high.