skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea, but I would have thought companies would frown on expensive equipment walking out the door like that.
Version numbers are for marketing and legal. They are used as a way to bundle sets of features together and give them a name "You need to upgrade to X.Y.Z, $$ plz", and "If your version is older than X.Y.Z, you are no longer supported, go away or pay us lots of money. K thx bye". Marketing may place additional rules "Customers on X.Y.Z should be able to upgrade to A.B.C by clicking a button and giving us money.", but it's still owned by marketing (or at least the person wearing that hat).

Software engineers should only care about the information required to create a reproducible build. For that, all they need is a single value, be it a number, a hex string, or a name.

Resist the temptation to let the marketing team know about the internal build numbers. That way leads to madness. We went from a single version number to a 5 digit dotted number all because people kept putting the internal number into contracts and we had to inject new releases with the same marketing number. DO NOT DO THIS - it leads to madness!

Frequently the dotted number will map onto software branches, but don't link them directly - again, that limits your flexibility and (if completely artificial) will result in unnecessary code drift when the branches inevitably diverge over 5yr+maintenance contracts.
Video: Using Ninja Forms hack to create personalized videos for leads
I ran into a guy a year ago who commutes something like two hours a day. His wife and kid work/daycare in some outlying suburb, so at night he commuted 90 minutes to some other town halfway between his wife's job and home, eats dinner in a restaurant (every day), and gets home around 9.

WTF.
Don't forget that it was a State-appointed emergency manager that made the water source switch (from Detroit's supply to the Flint River), and the State DEQ that didn't enforce the correct Federal EPA guidelines for water corrosiveness. It's true that Flint has been mismanaged at the local level, but the State has fouled things up pretty well too.

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/10/top_state_...

[edit to add link]
Nothing says 'spam' like...
Seriously, Episode VII spoilers on Hacker News?! Not cool guys!
>the not-so-bright but got rich off the system anyway culture of Wall Street

Even if one puts a less cynical spin on it, it's absolutely true that a lot of the accumulated experience and human capital of an inside the beltway career is associated with working within and around a very specific system. Transplant a lot of people who work in DC elsewhere to an industry unrelated to the federal government and their skills just won't be as valued.
Mmmm... I'm on the patron side, not the provider side, so I can't say I've got enough experience to know. It is a bit of a mismatch, but it might still be worth a try.

Might come down to whether you can make a good offer for Patreon-supporter bonuses. I assume you're already freely offering it, so you probably want to keep doing that. (Or possibly need to; I've never read the Patreon agreement for producers.)

The other concern I'd have is that this sort of subscription service will tend to not have people cancel, then find out a year or more later that they were still subscribed and didn't realize it. I don't know if Patreon has policies or procedures for when that happens, if the patron feels like they've been "ripped off" because they forgot to cancel for a year. Most of what I'm patronizing doesn't have that issue.
A Special Relationship: The United States Is Teaming Up with Al Qaeda, Again
# Need to increment this count so it matches up with the length of the list we just created.

count = 1

count = count + 1

count = count + 1

count = count + 1

count = count + 1

count = count + 1
At this point I can only operate off of my memory. The Facebook ads privacy settings have changed quite a few times. For several years there was a page that, if I am remembering correctly, offered to allow you to opt-in to interest-based ads. For most of that time, at least for me, the actual "button" remained grayed-out and I received a message that said that I was unable to join the program at that time. How does one characterize this other than, "if I cannot opt in, surely my information is not being used in this way without my permission"?
In https://goo.gl/maps/pAQEyZSAEw92, the first one I clicked, there is decay and overgrowth everywhere.

The death of the city's economy is completely evident in that view alone...
Oil drilling expertise is globally mobile. If the oil is there and economically extractable, companies will supply the capital and equipment to get it out.

The interesting thing about the US is that it has run out of cheap oil, but was becoming self-sufficient in more expensive fracked oil (plus Canadian tar sands).

The middle east has a colossal delayed-Malthus problem in that some countries have populations that are entirely economically dependent on oil+gas revenue. Yemen would be fine if it had enough oil; as it is, it's running out of water and the civil war will continue until enough people are dead or fled that it's sustainable again.

I wouldn't bet on Saudi Arabia avoiding a civil war in the next 20 years.
The State DEQ applied the wrong federal standards: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/10/top_state_...
On escape velocity, necessary ruckus, and working at the edge of reason
We put together an answer to the questions that arised in this thread. Hope this helps: http://www.servicedenuages.fr/en/hackernews-feedback
Yeah, it's not markedly different than some places I've been, but it does look a bit more neglected, because of the overgrowth and lack of cleanup of a burned out building and overturned tree. The roads... Well, I live in California and I'm used to roads being shitty. I think a lot of smaller countries don't quite understand the cost of keeping such a large road network in order. The US is a very large place, and there are roads everywhere.

There are just huge differences in property styles in different parts of the US, and between urban and rural properties.
When to Hire a Roofing Inspection Contractor – LGC Roofing Blog
NYC is dirty city. When there's trash on the streets all the time its hard not to feel like everything is dirtier.

That being said, I feel like it depends on the stations. I would argue that the dirtiest stations in NYC are way way more gross. You got some pretty gnarly rat situations in some of the stations.
South side Chicago does not look like Flint. The streets are tree-lined, the worst buildings are boarded up, the houses are solid and most of them are brick bungalows. Many tens of thousands of people live there. The worst neighborhoods, like Englewood, are still kept up, and they're bracketed by middle-class neighborhoods like Chatham --- you might not feel comfortable in Chatham, especially if you're from lily-white Startuplandia, but it's a real neighborhood.

South side Chicago is bad in a lot of ways --- it's a direct result of decades of overt racial segregation, and crime is absolutely out of control --- but it isn't Flint.

A better analog would be Gary, Indiana (for people who don't know Chicagoland, Gary is a southeast suburb of Chicago).
The Magician vs. The Growth Hacker
Why the Bitcoin Price Chart Is Showing So Much Strength Today
Well, at least we have solutions to that, unlike young-child lead poisoning.
How the Universal Symbols for Escalators, Restrooms, and Transport Were Designed
Could you define "dramatic reduction"?
Where do you see spoilers?
Understanding how TLS downgrade attacks prevent email encryption
I did not see that comming. Mainly from Wikimedia, since the tone is like they've won a war against Evil Corp for freedom when it looks like they just screw with this person's life. Yes, wikimedia might have the legal rights to do this, but as the awesome community and organization they are this feels completely odd.
In the years of internet use before I started to use ad blockers.
Broda Barnes book [1] says, iirc, that high cholesterol levels are basically diagnostic of hypothyroidism. Usually people's superficial thyroid lab #'s look fine (TSH), but their body is not properly activating T4 -> T3.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=TJXf2ZqoxUIC
There are probably exceptions, but I imagine that there are very few people who love their city's public transit system--including European ones--if they have to ride it daily at rush hour.
Larry Niven examined the "ghetto" argument, and concluded that it's more of a country club.
Because a building burned down? It would be nice if they fenced it off, so it shows a lack of resources, but I'm not sure that view really indicates what you say it does.
Nintendo has a lot of clever hacks that Keen doesn't use: e.g., the 'trees' are also the 'clouds'. The 'victory' music is the Mario theme backwards. I suspect (Carmack and Romero are on here, and can totally correct me) that Keen has little music and plain grey backgrounds to fit into memory without resorting to those kinds of hacks.
After clicking the link to your book in Firefox, it is impossible to hit the back button to return to this page.
> Skip the big weapon. The propulsion system is your weapon.

Ah, the Kzinti Lesson.

But I think that a hollow asteroid that big would be difficult to aim, and to move - you're a very slow sitting duck that may not be able to swing its guns around on the enemy in time - and that's assuming there's only one target at a time.
> generally has less interest in equality of its citizens than EU countries.

Based on what?

> So there are parts of the US comparable to all the parts of the EU -- rich countries and poor ones.

The US is far more diverse and mixed than the EU, in every respect. You have those that are poor living blocks away from the wealthiest people in the world.

My own state of New Jersey is one of the most affluent, but also has one of the most dangerous cities in the whole country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey#Crime
Ordering a .Onion Certificate from DigiCert – DigiCert Blog
A quick Google gives an estimate of 4 million muslims killed since 1990 by Western, Christian nations.

That's a big number.
Wait a second, the south is known for its hospitality, and the north is known for its effi... ha, excellent!
3 Beacon Security Issues You Should Consider for Your Office
Also as someone who lives in Chicago there are tons of two track places in critical areas. They can't even single track. They just shut it down and make you jump on a bus. So it sucks in Chicago too.
Automaton: Monitoring and Logging at Quartet Health
And yet Ann Arbor is in East Michigan, and it's one of the best towns in the entire country, probably largely thanks to the University.
Count me as another DMV resident who now avoids the hot mess that is the Metro.

For me, the scary thing is that the multitude of issues the Metro has almost weekly means that another fatal incident can happen any day now. After the 2009 crash the trains all went to manual brakes so they could sort out the automatic braking system that failed. To my knowledge that still isn't fixed. That indicates to me that they're still way behind on getting safety under control, much less making the organizational changes required to avoid another fatality like the L'Enfant incident.

WMATA embodies the cautionary tale of an organization that has allowed incompetence, selfishness, and indolence to metastasize and paralyze a big organization to the point that it is killing people. It's going to take a whole new cadre of leadership to root out the blight at WMATA, not to mention the boatload of money that will be needed to pull out of the death spiral.

It's a shame, I bought my damned house partially because of its proximity to a Metro stop and now I avoid taking it.
>The other concern I'd have is that this sort of subscription service will tend to not have people cancel, then find out a year or more later that they were still subscribed and didn't realize it. I don't know if Patreon has policies or procedures for when that happens, if the patron feels like they've been "ripped off" because they forgot to cancel for a year. Most of what I'm patronizing doesn't have that issue.

Yeah, I wondered about that. I just sent Patreon a message to check.

I do already freely offer it, and would keep doing so. I could increase the speed of releasing new ones if I got enough patrons, and think of some bonuses to offer.

Edit: Patreon got back to me. They said it's fine. They pointed out there are ongoing email notifications when I do new stuff, and that patrons are pretty good about not forgetting they've paid money.

I'll at least try it.
The country will pick up the tab for Flint, because that is how the country works. The expectation that Michigan and then the federal government will provide assistance isn't something Flint invented: it's part of the deal.

Not enough money flows to places like Flint. Michigan just barely ekes out a return on dollars remitted to the IRS; they're in the bottom quartile of benecifiaries. Meanwhile, for every $1 a Floridian pays in taxes, they receive $4.50.

The historical reason Michigan is such a low drag on the USG has a lot to do with the businesses Flint enabled.

This is such a straightforward point to make, and so easily Googlable, that I feel like you have to have known it already. Some of your acerbic comments are interesting because they bring a perspective to these discussions that I (for one) wouldn't think to consider. This was not one of those comments.
Tuesday: the new gTLD info of the day
Nope, it definitely always said "dealer". I remember the original title being exactly 86 characters because HN told me so, and it still is. I removed "company" so it would fit in 80 characters.
FWIW: generics and boxed types allow you to write code without overflow, but there's plenty of real-world C++ that's full of overflows. Good C uses a small number of types and also avoids overflow...

Although we have different concerns, it's clear that a lot of thought has been put into the proposal, and it seems to achieve its/your goals pretty well. Don't let my concerns put you off.
I run an online shop in South Africa (pishop.co.za) and rather than get through PCI compliance and then still have to deal with a large amount of fraud we opted to use paypal, their lack of support forthe South African Rand (zar) is a bit of a burden. Also the fact that it's not easy to withdraw funds to a SA bank account adds some trouble
Please the most relevant link or links from the results of the search.

When I put "Muslim victims" I get something like

"a United Nations report from September 2014 found that “at least 24,015” Iraqi civilians — the vast majority of whom were Muslim — had been killed or injured by Daesh in the first eight months of 2014"

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/IQ/UNAMI_OHCHR_POC_...

(Edit: OK I've found one link: http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/unworthy-victims-wester... )

And can you specify the religious ideology based on which 4 million Muslims were apparently killed (since 1990)? And the quotes from the religious books that those who did these acts followed, like ISIS does for its acts and I can quote?

From my link with 4 million:

"US intervention in Afghanistan began long before 9/11 in the form of covert military, logistical and financial aid to the Taliban from around 1992 onward. This US assistance propelled the Taliban’s violent conquest of nearly 90 percent of Afghan territory."

The article is of course inaccurate, the U.S. supported the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan since mid-1979 even before Russia entered there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

So the deaths in Afghanistan resulted from raise of Taliban, for which the U.S. is partly responsible. In Iraq, the war between different Muslim entities was the "undesired" result of the U.S. actions (they expected "democracy").

I don't see Christian agenda in supporting the Taliban (!) or the Shia politicians in Iraq (because "democracy" -- Shia are majority there!). I think you can agree it's not the Christian religious values that motivate all that.
I've been using neopixels to great success in combination with particle.io chips. They have cloud events and you can send whatever data to them. I'm sending a payload like `{ "color":"blue" }` and then all listening LEDs change. Plus they are individually addressable and are reusable for other projects. It's not the same level of brightness I'm guessing.

Adafruit has a 24 neopixel ring with a particle slot. It's like $45 for everything for one. No hub.
If the system truly worked, there would be no children with lead poisoning in the first place. That there are places on earth where things are worse doesn't change that.
Qubes is very useable for day-to-day computing (though, being a linux desktop, might not be for everyone). It's just not a good fit for your usecase, because it includes gaming. I wouldn't hold my breath for this to change anytime soon. There are good reasons why the qubes GUI protocol is implemented the way it is, it's to keep untrusted data processing in dom0 to a minimum.

Qubes OS is very useable, as long as you don't need 3D acceleration. My solution to this is to have a seperate gaming PC that's completely untrusted.

The Qubes devs will not sacrifice the fundamental security properties of the system in the way you suggest to better service gamers.
Right. I live in a rural area in the West, lots of towns look like this (not as green). The town looks poorly maintained but fairly clean, not a lot of trash etc. I don't see the signs that I see in crime infested areas.
This sounds awesome. When are these changes coming to iOS?
I think it's awesome that you take this so seriously. I also think it's great that you ask companies to be upfront about compensation (I say this as an founder). It irks me when companies aren't forthright with potential hires.
Super-fast reactive acceptance testing with Chimp
I was expecting an explanation for why it's trendy right now to watch other people playing games.
There's no environmental protections or regulations of any meaningful kind, property is almost free, and there's a significant labor force of people willing to work for minimum wages.

It's not great for manufacturing. But it's not the worst place to do so.
Stunned that its that high, or that its that low?
Watch it. i've "calculated" more than a few project euler solutions this way.
Recently I've rewritten ES6 code to ES5, and have measured performance gains in doing so, not orders of magnitude faster but overall just a bit faster at everything. I think that even CoffeeScript does a better job at being succinct, and it transpiles to pretty fast ES5 code.
Reverse engineering 3D printer protocols
Table lookup tended to be fast in the old days before the CPU and memory timings got so far out of whack. Now you need to double check that the calculation isn't in fact faster for the range you are interested in.
77+ Filterable Hashtag Campaigns Gallery
Functional Components vs. Stateless Functional Components vs. Stateless Components
$1/month for a twice-a-month email that lists 2-3 shows/movies worth watching on Netflix/Amazon Instant. Could be new release/added or older 'gems'.

Bonus pts if it could sync up with my accounts to not recommend things I've already seen, but not required. More bonus pts if it could use my ratings for smarter recommendations.

Seems ideal to test out without writing any software -- just research and collect a list of 5-6 items and type up an email in MailChimp :)
In this case, the lead is in the water pipes, though. It's not the result of industry dumping waste into the river. (At least that's how I understand it.)
Introducing Ribbit – Watch, Flirt, Swipe. Live Video from Real People
"Much of our market economy operates on the assumption that when you buy/spend more you get more per unit of spending."

Supply and Demand says the opposite. The supply curve slopes upward, meaning that a higher per-unit price is required when the aggregate supply is higher.

Economies of scale apply in some situations, but people generally place way too much weight on them.
Machiavellian software engineering
The US is significantly bigger than the EU, actually. http://www.whereisbobl.com/2015/2015-06-alps/lrg/phpRprQU3.j... (doesn't include Alaska, which is another 1/3 or so the size of the continental US.)
But they are intelligent, according to your own definition:

"A computer that is thousands of times more intelligent than humans, means it can do things we might think are impossible. Come up with solutions to problems we would never think of in our lifetimes. Manage levels of complexity no human could deal with."

Or did you just redefine intelligence as: "the ability to tell what color the sky is?"
> It's space opera, which is a subgenre of science fiction.

That's an interesting view, but one which is nullified by:

> There's no definition of "science fiction".

Then the phrase has no meaning or use, and the statements "Star Wars is science fiction" or "space opera is a subgenre of science fiction" are semantically null, neither true nor false, just sequences of words that form grammatically valid sentences that communicate no meaning.

If "space opera is a subgenre of science fiction" is to be true, then "space opera" and "science fiction" both need to have definitions, and the definition of the latter must include at least everything included in the definition of the former. If either or both has no definition, then the statement has no meaning, and cannot be said to be true or false.

For
Children Can Teach Us So Much
There is no reason why 'big software' can not be made up out of small software pieces inter-operating. In fact those are the strongest and most maintainable systems.
Bear in mind this is HN. Upper-middle-class people tend to originate from upper-middle-class homes. What many of us grow up in is found to be "shocking" to the Brahmin class.
Sure, but assuming there isn't a serious bug in the baseband causing other spectrum users grief, how likely is it that someone will check your phone's baseband for tampering?

If you're a person of interest, the police can come up with a better reason to detain you than this.
A quick summary of visas and working in the USA
Perfect, bug-free software has economies of scale.

There is no such thing as perfect, bug-free software.

Once you start getting into any sort of maintenance, bug-fixing, feature creep- you lose all of the economies of scale of perfect software and replace that with the expenses the author discusses in the article.
>how do we ensure content creators get compensated for a service whose value lies in its innovation, and whose marginal cost is essentially 0?

I think the first step is to break the current distribution models for content. Essentially content creators relinquish their rights over their content which includes the ability to monetize the content. The social networks make billions on content created by their users...my answer, the content creators who have established followers, start hosting/publishing their content on their own websites and only use the social networks to redirect traffic to their own websites they control and they can monetize.