skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kinda already happens all the time on reddit. And I'm always left wondering if the person is just a really good bser or is telling the truth.

I was thinking that for verification the person should link to their verified facebook/twitter/g+/etc page in the meantime.

I agree that this is gonna head south very quickly no matter what amazon does.
If you already have certificates, this is just an easier way to get them. You don't have to use the automated tool if it doesn't appeal to you.
Try a Buffalo Trace antique collection and you'll see why bourbon is a respected spirit among connoisseurs.

The problem is, making real bourbon is very difficult because you have to let so much evaporate off that producers lose a lot of product. E.g. 84% of the Buffalo Trace 2015 George T. Stagg evaporated off. That's a lot of lost product -- so they're opening these 53 gallon barrels and pulling out about 8 gallons of product. Producers don't like those numbers, but that's how you make real bourbon. So it leaves most people thinking they dislike Bourbon before ever having drank a real classic bourbon.

By comparison, Scotch is a very simple, cloying beverage. Scotch's complexity all comes from the peat, it's all show. If you pour enough peat in any whiskey it will taste roughly like Lagavulin. Bourbon is a more honest beverage, you're not covering anything up, which means a bad Bourbon is very bad and a good Bourbon is very, very good.

Scotch is the IPA of whiskey. It's criminal if you ask me.
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Really enjoyed this story, the pictures at the end are very rewarding to see.
These services don't want federation. At all.

XMPP is an awful soup of incompatible servers and clients, though.
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GNU seems like the China of software. They write their own version of all existing tools, simply so they can have a copy of it that completely adheres to their principles.
Did you ever try with a g2.8xlarge instance? 600px seems a little low res for printing.
As a left-wing/liberal/socialist, I both believe nobody should need to be on the street, and that it's totally unacceptable for the state to use force to put people in institutions without very strict checks on mental competence.

I find your notion that there's some slippery slope where we'll suddenly want to force people into institutions quite bizarre.

A lot of socialist thinking, on the contrary justifies the need for a welfare system and redistribution with arguments that true liberty is only possible once there are protections in place which ensures that you do not just have the legal opportunity to make your own choices, but also the means to realistically be able to make choices.

On that basis, the argument both for giving people help to get off the street and restricting the states ability to interfere if you chose untraditional lifestyles is the same: Maximizing liberty.

Now, given the old socialist joke that if you put two socialists in a room, you'll get three incompatible definitions of socialism, there may be socialists out there more gung-ho about institutionalizing as many people as possible, but I've not met any.

Conversely I'd hesitate to say it's a right wing issue, despite the fact that historically a lot of right wing governments have been very gung-ho about using draconian measures to force people off the streets and into institutions, including the use of police to remove them coupled with work-houses or even prison next to mental institutions, as many have had a long tradition of seeing homelessness or poverty in general as a sign of moral failings that need to be treated harshly.
My wife is a commercial litigation lawyer and I've always wondered about the similarities between legislation, contracts and code.
can't take credit for this idea, but i wonder why we haven't created a domain specific language for law & legislation.

language intended for verbal communication (ie. english) seems like a really poor option.
> Before Christianic ideas spread nobody (or very few) in the ancient world would bat an eye for slavery, slaining captives, eradicating whole villages and cities etc. Afterwards these things continue to happen, but with strong voices and agreement against them as immoral / inhuman etc.

IIRC the Christian bible doesn't bat an eye at slavery either or voice any dissent, rather upholding it as a moral virtue.

I don't see a big difference between justifying enslavement and murder because the bible tells them it's okay, and justifying it because it's what everyone else does. They're the same thing at the core but one has a superficial narrative that lasted.
None I know about, or I'd warn or not advertise them in the first place. So, far I've read of them here on HN, about an year ago or so, signed up and everything is good so far.

I don't know how they manage to offer storage at this price point, but I was quite surprised they had even lowered prices some months ago (10TB offer used to be ~10EUR and now the price's half of that).

Either way, git-annex has redundancy. The stuff that's important to me is replicated across multiple storages, so even if one goes down it won't hurt much. And, sure, I advise everyone, whatever technology and storage provider(s) they use to have backup strategy and consider for failures.
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Meanwhile, Qualcomm, which is developing the technology, plied journalists with breakfast and lunch in an effort to convince them LTE-U was totally benign.

As much as I like the idea of a bunch of scheming Qualcomm executives sitting around a giant conference table plotting to ply journalists with breakfast and lunch, maybe it's possible they were just being polite hosts?
Single sentence summary for any "authority" doing review on this to make a decision:

"Wi-Fi devices aren’t equipped to recognize the presence of an LTE-U device and don’t know that they should only transmit when the LTE-U device has scheduled itself to remain silent."

and that's why LTE-U cannot be allowed to exist

unless they are just looking for a reason to sell everyone new devices, again
Also stop calling yourselves architects. Job searching has become even harder.
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Cool hacks seem to be lightening rods for the humorless. There are entire contests dedicated to obfuscating code! This was a neat, unintuitive solution that he revealed in steps with a surprise ending. As an essay it worked perfectly.
> For greater certainty of abuse

FTFY

And are there any accountability or requirements for being familiar with the thing it is claimed to infringe? Should everything have to carry copyright notice signed by all copyright holders?
Another fun experiment would be to see how hard it is to unsubscribe.

I have found that some candidates do in fact unsubscribe you from the mailing list you are on... only to subscribe you to a different mailing list that they operate.
I know this is going to be an unpopular view, but Twitter is a zombie. They've come, they've gone but they don't seem to know it yet.

It's a case of scaling too far, before your revenue model can catch up with your size, I think.
First big news company, I think. And they send out free google cardboards to all Sunday home delivery subscribers. Pretty cool and interesting to see how that plays out.
One of the very, very few "Show HN's" I would give an A+ for the idea. Even better would be a focus on FTP, e.g., datasets available as bulk data without silly "API's". In the early days of the internet posting about such datasets was quite common. Meanwhile I have to continually write flex scanners to transform MySQL and JSON into something useable with kdb (someday maybe I can do all the munging in q). Not to mention all the "scraping". But I am so used to cutting through Javscript and other cruft it does not bother me anymore.

Dataset discovery. A+ for idea.
That is, IMHO, just the opposite of a "free market". "Chained market" fits it better.
The question is, whether Apple and Google think that something is wrong, or they think that everything is all right. They are the ones who set the rules. Will they receive more money when small companies will be able with less effort to reach the top ranks? I'm not sure.

I don't think that Apple can't change their ranking algorithms. And if they don't change them fundamentally for years, then probably they are OK from point of Apple. And users probably are OK with that too. And if ISV are suffering, who really cares? You can't pay for ads? OK, but BigCompany can, so we will sell ads to BigCompany instead of you. That's how capitalism works. So unless some government regulator forces Apple or Google to change ranking rules, I doubt, that anything would change.
I'm the author. Num inputs numbers and outputs statistics such as sum, range, variance, skewness, kurtosis, quartiles, and the like.

Example: echo "1 2 3 4" | num sum => 10

Num is a small shell script written in awk. It's a lightweight way to do descriptive statistics in the shell, without needing R/CRAN, Python/pandas, or a compiler.

Num a work in progress. Feedback welcome. The website has examples, functions, FAQ, and more. I'm happy to answer questions, take feature requests, and discuss statistics.
Not really. Cage free vs. caged or organic corn vs. non-organic corn is a feel good thing.

It all depends on what they eat. Both articles actually say this, but bury it for some reason.

Hens in a barnyard eating high quality feed supplemented by insects, etc have a different flavor and texture than hens just fed feed. "Eggland's best" taste different because they are supplemented with flax.

Similar phenomena exists with beef and pork. Grass fed beef tastes different due to more Omega-3 in grass. Danish pork tastes a little different because the pigs eat fish.
If only I could find something similar with cars. Whenever I get a new car I beat the crap out of it with various tools to test the durability of the body. I understand that this isn't anything to do with the purpose of the vehicle itself, but I want to make sure it's durable against unrealistic expectations. I suppose I could see the value in things like crumple zones that protect the passengers inside the vehicle, but unrealistic expectations and all. One day I'll find that car and be able to recommend it. Right now, I can't suggest anyone buy any car from any current major manufacturer.

As for your cable, I'd rather have the connector on my cheap USB cable pop off than drag my computer to the floor if I happen to snag it somehow. But to each their own, I'm glad you found a USB cable you like.
Thanks. Cube maps are on my short list. :)
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> arguing that local LTE is more efficient than wifi; and handsets should use local LTE base stations instead of wifi.

Interesting, I do exactly this. In parts of my home the Verizon coverage is more reliable than my own wifi.
"You would want to set the temperature to 145..158 degrees, depending on your desired yoke consistency and then drop the egg in boiling water to finish the whites to 180 degrees."

I was unclear about what I was thinking. I was thinking using the sous vide hardware to prep water at 200F or 190F and try boiling in that, since trying to maintain that temperature by hand is very hard, or at least, very labor intensive. But my failure to communicate that well produced another interesting strategy from you.

And I have to admit I'm more searching for perfection in the abstract sense than interested in changing how I cook them. If perfect turns out to be "individually microwave the egg for 6 seconds, then cook in sous vide bath at 185F for six minutes, then boil for 3 more, then dump in ice bath immediately"... yeah, I'm not going to do that. But I'm intellectually curious.
Why do you even need a bill for this? It's against the Constitution!
Huh? The Chinese govt is known for not allowing foreign web companies lots of freedom to compete but there are certainly domestic search engines to compete with. Baidu has about 71% share of the search market in China.
That's the difference between computer science and programming. One is a science used to find better ways to solve abstract problems the other is "technology" the application of said science to "make a buck"... I mean solve problems for humanity.
> But who decides who has control over their mental faculties? Who decides who is competent? The state? The family? The physician?

Who is the most competent to make this decision? The medical professional. Of course government (advised by medical professionals) will set the policy which will constrain the possible decisions.

> Can you imagine scenarios where the state, or the family, or the physician are incompetent, selfish, or malicious in determining the competence of a person? I believe there are MANY such scenarios.

This could apply to absolutely everything: evil police officers taking bribes and releasing criminals, doctors not prescribing expensive medicine to save their hospital money, etc. Does that mean we do away with police protection and hospital services entirely? No, as in this case, we have to accept the risk of the person in authority to make the good decision.

I agree this issue is not black and white.
My take is that the success of any workplace process is more a matter of trust than methodology. And the placement of that trust has to be in the organization. Agile or waterfall or whatever, it doesn't matter if the organization doesn't engender the trust of the team members. Your comments suggest that that's the case here. Changing the process without changing cultural and structural dynamics in the workplace is going to be an empty exercise.

Good luck.
This is interesting because the one thing I can't stand about large electronic documents is that I can't remember where things are and things are constantly re-flowing and appear different every time you look at them. In contrast with books/paper (that I grew up with) I "just know" exactly where I read things and more specifically what the page and paragraph of something looks like. I can grab the book, flip to approximately the right area, see the location and then find the passage. So in some respects the idea of storing the search rather than the content seems quite similar.

Incidentally, annotations also provide strong anchors for this memory and a little doodle in the margins can "store" a lot of content for recall. Annotation capability on the internet seriously blows.
And still be affected by their policies? Doesn't sound like a good plan.
Absolutely! One of the reasons I wrote this post was experiences gained working in a team that had in effect become insolvent (in the tech debt sense).

In the end we went for a combination of large re-writes (which we didn't feel good about, heeding Joel Spolskys advice) and Strangulation Architecture.
exact estimate

I think you've imposed an unachievable standard here.

This is why I promote the idea that variation should be inbuilt into methodology

This may well work within an agile team deep in an organization, because the business of turning "effort" into costs is abstracted from you. At the end of the day, if you're a consultant with a client, they are going to ask you up front for a rough cost estimate. If you can't estimate the time you'll need with any level of confidence, how do you propose to land their business?
Obviously. If he were a Democrat, since this is something "good", the headline would have said "Democratic Congressman".

Same as if something bad happens the headline will say "Republican Congressman" but leave out party affiliation the other way.

Bias in journalism mostly isn't a matter of just making things up (Dan Rather aside) or injecting blatant opinions into news (though that happens sometimes too), but a matter of which stories get pushed and how they get framed.
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I'd be really surprised if that approach worked well for normal aircraft. Small propellors are less efficient than large ones, and you're putting virtually the entire wing in prop wash, which is going to screw up the airflow. I'm sure the approach works, but I don't see it working well compared to the more typical solutions with one or two engines on small aircraft.

I also don't see how this design makes VTOL easy. That design involves rotating the entire wing by 90 degrees to transition between horizontal and vertical flight. That's a huge complication over conventional aircraft where the wing structure is fixed. I can see how it might be a better approach if you already need VTOL, but if you're content with using a runway then using this design is going to massively complicate everything.

Finally, none of this appears to address the question of catastrophic failures versus benign ones. This design will greatly improve safety in the case where a motor just stops producing power. But for failure modes where, say, the motor catches fire or the prop comes apart, you've greatly increased the chances of a major problem.
This reminds me again of a problem I'm seeing on the Web. Every time a social network springs up, it seeks to "connect users" and "build communities." And every time it reaches critical mass, it tries to use its users as a product to be sold to advertisers. The only exception is Wikipedia, which the author of this article brings up, but as Wikipedia is more of a collaborative content platform than a social network I'll just relegate that to a tangential concern.

Is it not possible to create a social network where the product is the social network? Perhaps not. App.net attempted this, and wasn't able to generate enough money to both keep the lights on and pay its employees.

As someone who once founded a company that published game books, I'm acutely aware of the fact that people are rarely willing to buy content in this age of free information. So what, then, would make them willing to pay to be a part of a social network?
If I understand the gist of it, we can't call ourselves engineers because true "engineers" are blessed from on high by some self-ordained group, and given special rings while reciting a poem during a ritual? (yes, that's apparently a thing).

His problem is that his definition of engineering is ancient, not that many of those writing software aren't engineers.
Who are "these people"?

How do you decide which ones amongst them are "all there in the head"?

How do you distinguish between someone sane but eccentric that refuses to speak to you, and is filthy and lives rough vs. someone with a mental illness without applying force?

> If he was forcefully taken to the hospital, forcefully given medication, and recovered he would exclaim "Thank you for saving me!

Some would. Others, as I mentioned in an anecdote elsewhere in this thread, would sue you, appeal the case all the way to the supreme court, and win.

> If I had a mental disorder that made me go crazy--so crazy that it doesn't even enter my mind that I need help--I would hope that my government would restore my sanity (as I am unable to do so).

I would too. The problem is that not everyone living like this have mental disorders that make them incompetent to make their own decisions, and separating the ones with real medical needs from the eccentrics is not straightforward.

A large problem is also that often while the official motivation is to help, the impetus for the "help" is that others take offence at their presence or attribute moral failings to them and want them gone, and don't so much care whether or not it helps the person in question.
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Wow, Klabnik was involved? If he had done it on HN he would have had to #hnwatch himself...
The reason why you're not getting black applicants may include:

- It's hard to get hired by white companies, so a lot of black people stay within black-owned companies and communities.

- There are a lot of ways to search for and hire applicants; waiting for people to come to you will not necessarily result in the best candidate.

- Transportation is not as easy or available for poor or rural communities. It may be necessary to hire remote, or pay for relocation, or in the extreme cases open remote offices.

- The 'qualifications' may need to be revisited. What are you requiring as a qualification? Is it something a poor black person would have significantly more difficulty in achieving compared to a white person, due to socioeconomic disparities? Is it possible you could find other qualities that work as similar qualifications that black people might be more likely to have?

In order for there to be more black applicants, we need to help there to be more black applicants. This can mean many things, such as contacting local black communities and asking them what your company can do to help adults achieve a job at your company, or helping to improve the roadblocks for young kids to get a good education.

I know, I know; actually trying to help people can be a burden. But it will help people who continue to be oppressed by a society that does not care about them. You could continue to just wait for black people to work around the huge pitfalls society has set up for them, or you could help work to remove those pitfalls. It's up to you. Unfortunately.
You can weigh things with either metric or imperial units. Measuring volume when you want to know mass is a mistake you can make regardless of what units you're using.

I don't see how weighing the flour will help. A given volume of moist flour will weigh more than dry flour because of the water in it, so you'd still have a problem on humid days.
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not require a formal complaint from a third party
or right holder

I wonder if it's possible for a "third party or right holder" to explicitly state that they don't wish to start border measures.
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I'm certain the powers who come up with these treaties don't care about formalization; they have lawyer armies already.

A formal definition created by some "objective" third party would make it clear which concepts are axiomatic. If "sale" is an axiom, there is no further explanation except perhaps a link to a legal dictionary (or whatever). But maybe it can be clarified with explicit relationships.

This would all amount to another kind of legalese: a formal one based on explicit logic. It won't solve the inherent messiness of law, but it might clarify some things.
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Now let's talk about asbetos and tobacco if you please.

c'mon... your glasses are so rosy it's not even funny.