skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of saving the rendered version of the app instead of recreating it server-side is very interesting. However I think this implementation limits its usefulness.

It would be very interesting to explore just sending the newly created page back to the server and then using it for new page loads. The state could be updated after the load. Code is needed to update the state anyway in normal usage.
WW3+TURKS+EROGAN+WANTS+TO+RULE+WORLD+LIKE+HITLER+-+YouTube
For some time I've found it to be far superior to Siri and Amazon's Echo.
> Just because the author fails to find his target audience does not mean these platforms are killing the web.

He didn't make that claim, that's a strawman. The social media things are not the normal web anyway. His point isn't complaining about his audience issues, it's about the closed silo nature of these systems that give them massive power as gatekeepers in ways that the normal web doesn't.

> People are smarter now.

Now that's just the rantings of a myopic futurist-cultist.
While I think that many of the world's higher education systems are moving towards optimizing throughput rather than focusing on truly engaging with students, it is wrong to assume that this trend only affects the humanities.

As a researcher in a STEM field (at US university) for only ~7 years I have often posited that many of the ideas which appeal to administrators result in a degraded academic experience for students. In turn, this can negatively impact research efforts.

I understand that this must be more frustrating to those in the humanities, as funding is more abundant in STEM, but my guess is that these same trends are harming the quality of research in all fields.
Ask HN: Tools of the Trade, 2016 edition
It's been over two years since the last solid Tools of the Trade and I'm sure a lot has changed. So which SaaS tools and services people are going to use in 2016 instead of hosting on their own?

Previous Threads:
joshu's original 2010 thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1769910
2013 edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235137
2014 edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8028704
I totally agree. I thought it was because I bought the Nexus 6P but no. It seems that on most devices I tried Google's voice recognition has gotten a lot better.
Stay in close touch with hundreds of people (2007)
Since this is likely just an embedded webview I'd strongly recommend people check out Paw (https://luckymarmot.com/paw). It's a native app and works great.
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Participating in the rest of human civilization?
Since you are changing the questions, I am going to copy them.

Q1. What's the culture like these days?

A1. Afaik (I've been here for only ~1.5 years), its exactly as it was before.

Q2. How does it differ from what's publicized?

A2. Not sure. What exactly is publicized? Do you guys know about the unicorns we get every so often?

Q3. Are they stagnating (or becoming slow-moving) internally?

A3. This is a definitely no. One of the teams I used to be part of, got reorganized since the project they were working on (after I left) didn't produce the results expected. All of this took less than 6 months.

Q4. Is it still possible to have a meaningful impact (contribute in a relevant way to a major project)?

A4. Yes.

Q5. In what ways would working at a startup be "better?"

A5. In NO way. Unless is my own startup.

Q6. Does it feel like a large bloated company, or still like a startup?

A6. The options aren't just "startup" and "large bloated company". There is at least one "large lean company", which is Facebook (at least for now).

Q7. How much politics is now present internally?

A7. As opposed to when?

Q8. What are examples of places that have a better culture, freedom, ability to make an impact, etc?

A8. My startup, that doesn't exist yet :P
What about paying to not see ads in search results? Website ads are a little different than search ads.
Interesting 2016 Predictions from Kevin Rose: VR Will Die
Most useful, thank you! I'll pass that link on immediately to some people that were wondering about just that a few days ago.
The money is still going to the creator, the same as the ad model.
Are Movie Theaters Actually Fueling Piracy?
"Text <person> I'm on my way home" while driving is useful. Also when I want to share my location so I don't have to answer when or how much longer should I get snarled in traffic. Alas.
You can cover all of the points you made by loading a Bitcoin wallet and having the plugin deduct fractions of a BTC when you visit these web pages, and when the wallet is empty ads are loaded instead. The main loser in this situation is Google, since the site creators get all of the money. Users may have privacy concerns since BTC transactions are on a public record, but you can keep creating new Bitcoin wallets automatically to mitigate this concern.
Feudal serfdom is the original Uber.
It's probably good to remind people yearning for the simple life that you can't make a living on most small farms, but it's not really surprising. The Green Revolution made it easy for a few people to feed a lot of people, fundamentally altering the ratio of farmers to consumers.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Green_Revolution

And despite concerns about food security, the US has consistently used agriculture as a bargaining chip in its trade agreements and foreign policy, opening our markets to countries that can produce food more cheaply than US operations can. Reagan, Hollywood's rhinestone cowboy, did a lot to destroy cattle ranching in the US by opening the market up to Canadian beef. Same dynamic.

Small farmers will only make money by focusing on cash crops that are organic, local, and other adjectives that Whole Foods customers are willing to pay for...
was hoping you were going to give a standard resource where I can find alternatives for common bad designs
What about campaign c: show 9,900 people who recently looked at espresso grinders an ad for one, and 100 people who actually bought one an ad for something related that they might need. If you're harvesting that kind of data anyway, at least use it!

As a matter of interest, is someone who has previously purchased an espresso grinder more or less likely to buy one than someone who hasn't?
So once you've done this and you SSH in to the Windows box, I assume you just end up, basically, in a command window?

For example:

$ ssh username@windows.example.com

...

C:\>

Is that right?
> How do they think they can possibly compete against huge factory farms?

As with so many of these things, there's this idea floating around that the factory farms must be "bad" because they are big and wealthy, and that smaller, less efficient farms must be "good" because they are small and poor. Much like with all the other cases, this idea is somewhere between confused and blatant denial of reality.

Money is the unit of caring. The amount of money that you're willing to spend on something is how much you care about having it, as precisely defined by the point at which it's too expensive and you don't care enough to pay that much. The factory farms are big and wealthy because they provide what people care about: an efficiently produced, consistent solution to the problem of what to have for dinner.

If people really cared about their food coming from small, inefficient, "organic" farms then they would pay for what it really costs to produce food in that manner. The fact that people aren't willing to pay for it tells us that they don't actually care as much as they claimed. This is normal: most people will tell you they care deeply about something up until the point when you ask them to open their wallet, and then they remember that they don't care all that much.

It seems to me that what's really wanted here is better factory farms with modest adjustments to reduce pollution, antibiotics use, and improve animal welfare. That's entirely achievable. It won't be achieved by things like this article; it'll be achieved by somebody who sets out to make a better factory farm and builds a business around that.

This is already happening. http://spread.co.jp/en/ plan to have what could be a game-changing approach to vegetable farming up and running in 2017. Whoever gets that system to work well enough at scale seems likely to sweep the 1990s-style farms off the map. It's the exact opposite direction from what the "organic" farmers have been doing: no low-wage labour, no battles over land, no getting caught up in politics.

The next couple of years will be an interesting time for the food markets.
That too. Also engine design was contracted out.
So in general I should never move to a new software technology until all software with the old no longer exists?
And the page calls them "modules". Where is the new "taxonomy" you describe?
I agree with you, but for a different reason.

I work for a company uses these targeted ADs. 100% of the ADs I see are for what my company sells. Well 98%, sometimes I see ADs for services we are already using.

It would be cool if when I am reading an article about how do X, there was ADs for goods and services that help me do it. That would at least make me think about clicking. Instead, I only see my companies product, which is worse the useless.

My company is paying to advertise to itself. And if it is happening to us, it must be happening to others.
See also https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/ssh.exe-exa... once you've got it running. To work around a bug, you'll currently need to run `powershell -File -`

It's still way too early to us as a daily driver - lots of small bugs - but nevertheless interesting.
Apparently they actually tried unlike Grooveshark. [0] I don't think Grooveshark would have minded if someone cracked their "DRM" even while they were still in business. :)

[0]: http://lgms.nl/blog-1
> On a side note I find it ironic that people who had to hide who they are for most of history and maybe for most of their lives want to force the same thing on other people just because of their personal beliefs.

I love how you're comparing the choice of being a person who dehumanizes and threatens vulnerable people as like... a demographic to compare to being a woman, or being trans, etc.
This is why it saddened me to see Prismatic News shut down. It was a really great way to find new and interesting things outside that filter bubble of fb and twitter.
It may just be the settings in your SSH client (some of them are weird). Which SSH client are you using and have you tried any others?
Resources on Compiler Fundamentals
I think the marijuana industry will more resemble the wine industry. Large bulk producers will cover the cheap end of the market but there will still be many highly respected small players.
It's deep recurrent neural nets. It has made incredible progress in this area.
This is a cool idea. You have my respect.

Are you offering any guarantees? Can anybody be worried about relying on this income only to be dropped like many NY resolutions in March?

Is your "value to the universe" linked to your own generosity, or the projects available?
Surely it depends on the product - e.g. USB stick versus engagement ring.
Location: Chattanooga, TN, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, HTML/CSS, JS, Linux, git, etc... Some Android, GoLang and this and that. I pick up stuff quick

Résumé/CV: http://wilwade.github.io/resume.pdf

Email: wil@wilwade.com
Six thousand pounds of food on a tenth of an acre bringing in $20,000/yr. How's that for scaling down?

http://urbanhomestead.org/urban-homestead
Yes. From my Mac:

$ ssh mike@192.168.0.12
mike@192.168.0.12's password:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Mike>powershell -File -

PS C:\Users\Mike>
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Absolutely true. Fewer, but better quality.

With money as a motivator, we have ended up with a lot of keyword-spammy poor quality content.
That can be solved relatively simply with lookahead, can't it?
Mine usually point to a stackoverflow question that was closed with a 'not a suitable question for SO' message. I really hate those.
How much do you pay per visit?
It's good while it lasts, but being a subsistence farmer has its downsides. Once you get a few bad years in a row, or the government decides that farmers don't really matter so eff them, you will appreciate the profits you've put away during the fat years.
I'm partial to:

x = x or []
It's not an act. LPTHW is my Bible. I retake the courses every Sunday. Saying that I should hop on the Fortran train for stating that even advanced fearless Python users opt for 2.7 is heretics!
Location: NYC

Remote: Yes, depending on project

Willing to relocate: I'm in the process of buying an apartment in NYC, so probably not.

Technologies: Varying experience with frontend and backend web, iOS, Mac, distributed systems, embedded programming, and more.

Résumé/CV: http://sidnicious.github.io/resume/ and http://stackoverflow.com/cv/ssm

Email: sidney@s4y.us

- - -

I absolutely love learning new fields, so I'm fairly technology- and project-agnostic. Ever since I visited a friend at his DARPA challenge team I've told people that my dream job would be working on self driving cars (sadly NYC isn't the best place for that right now). Lately, I'm more likely to find myself dreaming about strong AI.

I was iOS lead at OkCupid and, before that, worked on their homegrown distributed matching system and web server. I've [hacked coroutines into C++](http://sidnicious.github.io/team/), started prototyping [a modern terminal](https://github.com/Sidnicious/Hoisin), and recently started writing a ZigBee stack to control my lightbulbs without a proprietary base station.

Most recently, I did a stint at [Keybase](https://keybase.io/) working on semi-open source end-to-end crypto.

I was in the third batch of Hacker School and, every once and a while, I volunteer at conferences like HOPE, events.ccc.de, and Maker Faire.

If it sounds like I'd be a remotely good fit for your project, feel free to drop me an email! I'd love to chat.
I think that's a different reading of what Distributed means for DVCS.

Git is about everyone having a full copy of a repo so they can go through the entire history and branch and commit freely. To actually move a project forward amongst several devs there will inevitably have to be synchronization using push/pull so there's no way to escape that.
>He didn't make that claim, that's a strawman.

Was it not implied from reading the whole article?

>social media things are not the normal web anyway.

What is normal? If billions of people are using social media would that not be normal still? How many people have to do a certain behaviour for it to become normal?

>> People can find [other] people who share the same ideologies in the social media platforms described.

It is a close silo.

>Now that's just the rantings of a myopic futurist-cultist.

Now that's just the rantings of a pessimist. How about things like the Flynn effect. Or do you have proof that people are not getting smarter or people are getting dumber?
See https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/57.

For some reason putty works but iTerm has the backspace issue. Putty user: what's your $TERM?

Ctrl H works as a workaround BTW.
You have other options. Credit unions are particularly awesome.
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You should do whatever makes you happy and productive. So install 2.7 and ignore the people who say 3 is the future (unless you can work better in 3).
Yeah. She actually references the national statistics in her article; I'm surprised that apparently neither she nor her partner checked them out before starting the farm.
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A person with a core Mechatronics focus will probably be a great systems integrator. BD's core workforce are these PhD's in controls (usually from ECE departments).
Source: Am a Mechatronics Engineer with a Controls focus.

check out some of the work of BD's CEO (Marc Reibert). This (http://web.unair.ac.id/admin/file/f_7773_bigdog.pdf) is the summary paper on Big Dog, but they cite a bunch of the older Reibert papers on Controls designs for legs.
I grew up on a farm/ranch. We had about 5000 acres of land, split 3/2 pasture/fields.

Even that was barely break even with 14 hour days in the summers. Equipment upkeep and maintenance is the worst.
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Everything seems to run in circles, some apparently greater than others.
Exactly what I needed, just as I was about to start screwing with distance fields or the like. THANK-YOU!

Edit: I may have spoken slightly too soon, not since the technique isn't awesome, but because this isn't yet usable without an atlas generation tool that I don't know how to build.

As far as performance goes, this is rendering a 124-page PDF (I know, just the glyphs...) utterly without lag using the GPU, on a 16 Gbyte quad i7 box that can barely render a couple of pages under OS X Preview without significant pauses. Impressive and Incredible.
What's the alternative? Everyone running their own little proprietary stacks with none of the features or community or ease of use?
I discuss it in the preface http://intermezzos.github.io/book/
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Fair enough, it just hit too many of my "this seems sketchy" twitches. Would be nice if they had some mpeg 4 or whatever as well. I could break out ffmpeg but can't remember how to convert so I just don't bother. Other things to do in either case so no big loss.
Fossil [1] repositories include a distributed bug tracker (and also a distributed wiki and a distributed time-based notes system), and provides a browser-based UI.

I've only read about it, not played with it, so don't know how close it comes to what you are envisioning.

[1] http://fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
I joined Doximity earlier this year as a remote developer and I couldn't be happier. It's really cool having a true SF startup experience while still being outside the Bay Area.

If you're a Rails/JS developer out on the market, feel free to email me your resume and Github as well (skhan@doximity.com).

Unlike most startups you read about on TechCrunch, Doximity is already profitable and we're scaling fast (over 60% of US physicians on our medical network and 120+ people in the company). Our engineering team works hard at building software solutions for this lucrative market.

Lots of very talented full-stack engineers on our team, as well as a team of data science experts. Great opp for any solid Rails/JS developers looking for a change.

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They got their transition better than the Perl 5 to 6 transition, and arguably better than the Ruby 1.8 --> 1.9 --> 2.0 transitions.
The subsidies obviously don't specifically say, "big farms get this benefit, fuck the little guy!".

It takes the form of favoring monoculture farms (where economies of scale are more pronounced, but also the environmental impact is largest), or requiring significant compliance expenses and bookkeeping that smaller farms cannot handle (because the cost of bureaucracy is often fixed, so it is relatively higher the smaller the farm), or have been designed to favor farms in specific regions (where the majority of farmable land is already owned by a few large farm corporations).

This is one of the better sourced articles on the subject I could find in a quick googling (interestingly, it comes from a libertarian think tank, which makes them interesting bed fellows with the food justice and local farms movement): http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/agriculture/subsidies

Here's one from another, more left-leaning, source (but with almost no references, just opinion): http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/dont-end-agr...

The Michael Pollan books (specifically, The Omnivores Dilemma) do actually cover this in some detail, as well, and with good references, though it is a small part of the book.

I'm surprised so many people on HN think it is even a little controversial to suggest that large farms are favored by current regulation, enough that several people are requesting references. I kinda thought it was widely known. So, that's an interesting bit of news for me.