skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this made me homesick for the hustling life that seems ingrained in New York life: sure, you can have a 9-5 job, but you "should" also have 2-3 other side projects -- whether it's the traditional entertainment dreams of writing a screenplay or doing standup, or increasingly common today: a startup at a co-working space. I got much more into photography after the 2008 recession...I needed portraiture for my portfolio, and there were lots of actors who needed headshots for cheap, so we would just arrange to meet up at Central Park on a weekend or after work.

Note: I'm not saying that living Ms. Baskin's life, or otherwise not being fulfilled with a 9-5 work life with satisfying home/nightlife, is the optimal way to live life. I'm just saying I had never even felt the pull until moving to New York, and it undeniably made me a more well-rounded person, at least in the arts.

I imagine it's just as easy to do what Ms. Baskin is described as doing elsewhere (at the end of the article, it says she's moving to the Bay Area)...but the mode of transportation in New York, plus just the density of creativity/craziness, makes NY stand out in my mind.
Thank you, now it makes sense to me! :)
I am quite pessimistic about the human regard for animals. It was very recently that we got to regard other humans as intelligent and deserving of respect - black people, an example in particular. By the time we get to accepting animals as deserving of respect, we might have killed most of them.
I could have used omnivores as well, the fact that they are obligatory carnivores is not relevant for my argument the way I see it. The fact is that, from the viewpoint of nature itself (supposing there is such a thing), it's probably OK to eat meat as animals do it.

By the way, now that you mention obligatory carnivores... another issue is that I don't think we can really sustain ourselves without killing animals one way or another. Agriculture starves animals by destroying natural habitats after all.
>> in fact, librarians become ever more valuable as the volume of available material increases

But we also have great tools to manage information, so now it becomes the classic battle of man vs machine and today , in order to be on top , you usually need to combine man and machine which requires a new type of librarian.

A lot of of this works is about attacking various angles of curation and book discovery, tagging books with more in-depth tags to allow better discoverability, giving book reviews, building better search engines , talking with users about books , etc.

But seeing this work mostly done by non traditional librarians, programmers and lay people, and rarely by librarians , i do wonder what role is left for traditional librarians.
> Ms. Baskin couldn’t afford to invest in a sophisticated website, so she built what she describes as a “really scrappy-looking” one. Customers could look at photographs of the helmets on the site but couldn’t order or pay for them there. Instead, they ordered them via email and paid with PayPal.

This is a great thing to think about. Many of us are getting lost in the details of it all with premature optimization while Ms. Baskin goes out there and just ships. She's truly someone to aspire to.
Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), discovering new things at public libraries, traveling around to different libraries, having a tan.
Someone on IRC asked me to post proof, so here's an archive of a google cache result (best I could find, sorry) on the site from before the comments were deleted:

http://185.10.231.85/ccc.html

It is however worth noting that this is only a small fraction of the comments that were deleted. When I commented on the page before the comments were shut down there was about 15 comments, most of them in English criticising the talk.

(Anyone mind specifying what they downvoted this for?)
Do their kids have friends, or are they just being dragged along on dad's vacation?
Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 7
you can definitely get some weak projects but if you like for example to see small businesses grow and you do web / graphics / marketing you can take them and see them through a campaign that is above what they've ever had and get results that they only hoped for. I've seen from my work a company go from a low / medium player in their market to near top dog because they became more visible. It wasn't just marketing of course, their service was always good just they didn't stand out amongst the clutter.

I've also had a lot of uninteresting work at companies too. Because the areas I consider fun, planning, strategy, communicating with the clients are handled by account managers and designer devs get 2nd hand info after the meetings. In a lot of ways the luster or shine of the project is gone and it quickly turns into a digital todo list.
The NSA reported using 3 hops for data dumps from their bulk surveillance store.
Gullible Facebook Users Duped by Mark Zuckerberg $45B Giveaway Hoax
How would the US Government even have a leg to stand on here?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10802192.
This is the eighth time this has been posted to Hacker News. Please stop posting this to Hacker News.
What is your relationship with those friends now?
I disagree. Numbers are irrelevant. The GP's contention was that if non-human animals think, then maybe they're making a conscious decision to consume the flesh of another creature. We, buying meat at the store, are radically disconnected from the life we're consuming. Killing the animal you're eating is a visceral experience — literally, there are viscera involved.

I submit that we would be much less sanguine about meat if we were more involved in its consumption than, "purchase, remove shrink-wrap, heat."
Archivists and collectors have always been deciding what was worth keeping and what to toss. The digital revolution is not new in this regard.
The myths Silicon Valley tells about itself and why we believe them
What research / researchers are you following?
A Moss Girl’s Guide to Japanese Moss Viewing
> It feels like half the time I download a Java/Maven project, there is some issue with the build that I have to spend time debugging. I'm not familiar with Maven, and Maven is pretty complicated, so this is a pain.

Maven actually simplifies a lot and luckily has been kind of the standard on Java for the last few years.

For simple projects, as long as you have a working jvm and mvn on the path it is just a matter of mvn build. Also IDEs, at least IntelliJ and NetBeans tends to understand pom natively.

For more complicated projects my gut feeling is they would have been even more complicated without maven.
I included Linux in the search based on this earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10802149
Everything you've written in your comment is true, but I don't think it responds to anything I've said: it just looks like you're trying to show off your knowledge of NT.
Do all your clients use the same stack? Most resellers use 1 big server and cPanel and (although I dislike GUIs and abstractions) I can say that cPanel is really good at what it does.

If you're not fond of cPanel and you want to use multiple VPSs you should definitely do it with docker, one container per client and then map them to a CNAME (e.g. www.website.com), you can use AWS, DO or any VPS provider with a mature API to automate the process, use logspout and ELK for logging and you're all set.

You can either choose to scale vertically (more servers) or horizontally (increase CPU/RAM).
Reuters' Endnote.

(have any of you guys tried it? Curious to hear your thoughts)
How Big Was the Universe When It Was Born
This is all you need. Good luck bro.

http://www.theodinproject.com/
Nine paradoxes with a statistical theme
It is the plight of a people. The same relation that the Holocaust has to the Jews of today. Perhaps you also think Jews should stop complaining about the Holocaust?
It's totally legal everywhere I've visited (and I don't know a country where it's illegal).

Work visas are a thing because countries want to control the ability for foreigners to compete with locals for local jobs. Canada's definition of work (http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/temp/work/about...):

"What kind of activities are not considered to be “work”?

An activity which does not really ‘take away’ from opportunities for Canadians or permanent residents to gain employment or experience in the workplace is not “work” for the purposes of the definition."

Working for my own US company isn't competitive to local workers.

Every country I've visited has a similar definition, though I can't say for sure if every country does, so it's best to check before attempting to go.
Danielle also created the Physical Cloud:

http://www.physicalcloud.co/

I have one on my meeting table; it is a great conversation piece!
Does any digital nomad could share a bad experience with laws against working remotely in a foreign country?
Database Containing 191M US Voters’ Personal Data Leaked Online
I too question automatically making money. I mean you can charge what you want, but you have to go after all the work, when it comes in you're on your own to complete it, even the most challenging stuff. Scope creep, customer service, complexity start eating away at your best estimates. Freelancing can be hard and you can easily fail every day just from having bad or less than perfect habits.
that could be, that if want to kill yourself using tablets then you have to plan and go out and buy them in advance, whereas if you want to kill yourself using the gas oven then its simple to turn it on and put your head in.

those who formulate a plan and carry it out are more likely to formulate an alternative plan if the one they initially had in mind wasn't going to be possible

those who act on impulse find that if they have to think about it, the impulse has gone

could be
That may be true, but there is clearly an argument against that premium manifacturer being the already giant corporation that licenses the os run on 95% of those machines.
If it were startup I'd say 'more power to them', even if they only shipped machines with windows preinstalled.
I find it incredible that they maintained a fire for 15 years, just from wood from the shipwreck.
If there was anything the frozen computer interface of the 70s needed to complete itself, it was silly Internet neologisms. Thanks, author, for bringing the worst of several eras together.
EDIT: There's a bug / feature with Algolia. The search doesn't return articles or comments marked as dead, so when a dupe is marked as a dupe Algolia doesn't return it.

Here are a few:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785200
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785223
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785286
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783711
>all women should be shunned, and you should never have any more relationships

Isn't this why we have the term: Eunuch
The whole poster's account is linkbait. The content is so bad it is a joke.
To dovetail off another HN thread (Free Springer math books)...after reading Bostock's piece, I suddenly realized that the classic Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkinson he quotes might be free...and it is! The 1999 version anyway:

http://link.springer.com/search?query=grammar+of+graphics

On Amazon, the cheapest available price is ~$55. For the second edition, which was printed in 2005 (and should be due to be free soon on Springer), it costs $132+
Very cool. It's amazing to me that the developer got it under 1KB.

This is the first I've heard of that project, but based on a quick skim, I can point out a few differences between it and Runiq - although the two are certainly similar in that they execute over a very simple plain-array-based AST. (Clearly miniMAL and Runiq were created with different ultimate aims in mind, so any fair comparison ends there. :) )

- Runiq is fully designed around async. (At first glance I'm unsure how you would express, say, an HTTP request or file I/O in miniMAL - i.e., anything which in JS would require a callback.) In Runiq it would look something like this:

; assuming 'print' and 'read-file' are defined in the DSL... ;
(print (read-file "foo.txt"))

- Runiq execution happens in parallel (taking a cue from functional languages) and the tree can be reduced stepwise; Runiq has a built-in mechanism for pause and resume. It looks like miniMAL executes wholesale, but I may be mistaken.

- Runiq has no (built-in) JavaScript interop, although it would be trivial to add that feature via Runiq's DSL-building API. I specifically avoided adding any type of sytnax to talk to JS directly because I wanted Runiq to be a safe sandbox by default, with the option to add "dangerous" functions easily if need be.

But, that's super cool and I wish I'd come across that earlier!
I feel like your suggestion is extremely naive and wasteful of both hard drive space, transfer, and ram.

Please explain how you can put an entire system together that way in a non stupid way.
>Peddler Pop-Ups, rents out tricycles as pop-up shops.

How does she afford the insurance on those things? I say this because those things are pretty tricky to ride: you either have to go really slow or you need to ride with one hand on the handbrake at all times as the pedals will throw your feet off them if you try to slow down that way due to the momentum of the whole thing being much more than your typical bicycle. I bet lots of costumers would end up causing some cosmetic damage to cars and such, just getting used to riding them.
That is not what I meant. Of course racists exist in modern society.

I had a few African American roommates years ago. They would espouse beliefs that the slave trade is the reason they were in the position they were in financially. They were all enrolled in college, did not work and everything was paid for by their parents. I was washing dishes and going hungry. Now I own a house and was told by one of them it was due to my 'white privilege'. It's utter bullshit. Poverty is the problem, racism is the smokescreen the powerful hide behind while they run off with all the money.
Sadly, this is a total ripoff of Code 4 Startup: https://code4startup.com

Not just the same idea, or similar design.

Look at their projects!

It really bothers me that this is getting so much attention and that they're backed by 500 Startups, who didn't do their due diligence.
what are they going to do with millions of books, if they are incapable of decoding hard drives
Oh please. If the gas engine has to come on for the last couple miles of your commute, what's the problem? You're still only using a tiny amount of gas for a 54-mile commute. That's the whole point of cars like this: most of your trips fit within that range, or just barely outside it, so your overall gas usage is almost nothing.
I wasn't feigning anything. The GP was being unspecific.
Art's a lot easier to sell than software products.

Lean Startup, the 'premature optimization' that software entrepreneurs do, is an attempt to handle the sales end of a software business in a similar fashion to how the operations end is conducted. If just getting out there and schlepping your wares worked, more people would do it. Obviously shipping early and often is necessary, but if you ship too early then your MVP will be missing the 'V' part.
I like that mendeley can rename files according to a format, however it only works when it's setup to use its own local folder (which mirrors the mendeley cloud space).
They destroy those records shortly after you return the book, and fight government attempts to access those records.
Hi all - I made this. In case anyone is interested, I wrote up a statement about it here: http://greetingsfellowalienatedsubjectoflatecapitalism.com/#...
Many humans would kill you sooner than talk to you. Would I be wrong for making that same decision? I really think so. The lowest common denominator is not much of a moral compass.

To quote one of my favorite sci-fi books:

"The difference between raman (human-like aliens) and varelse (mere animals, with whom we cannot relate) is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have."
I hate to say this because it looks like a great article...

TL;DR
I worked very closely with Five9 for years. I can say that every company has their flaws but the key thing I took away from my time with them is that technology is in service of business goals, not the other way around. There were always discussions of what a "perfect" system might look like, and, every time, cooler heads prevailed. They simply did what was needed to meet their business goals and there's something admirable about that clarity.

Is Five9's product the best in call centers? No, but it's about an order of magnitude cheaper than the top product and works most of the time.
The sad irony is this startup is a "clone" (rip off) of https://code4startup.com.
> from the viewpoint of nature itself (supposing there is such a thing), it's probably OK to eat meat as animals do it.

This is an appeal to nature logical fallacy. Animals in the wild also commit infanticide and practice cannibalism. As natural as these behaviors are, they're not an instruction manual for how we should behave.

> I don't think we can really sustain ourselves without killing animals one way or another.

This is technically true, but we can drastically reduce the number of other sentient animals which suffer and die for no good reason, by switching to a plant-based diet.

> Agriculture starves animals by destroying natural habitats after all.

Animal agriculture is especially egregious when it comes to destroying natural habitats. The leading causes of rainforest destruction are livestock and feedcrops (source: FAO Livestock's Long Shadow), for example.
Frankly, I don't care about what percentage of the population gets X. Or Y. Or might get Z.

In the end, those studies are nigh worthless, because they are about some statistic. When you're a doctor, a statistic is nice because they can be partially right. I want custom medicine tailored to me!

Instead of meat-hating studies, show me tests I can conduct that can validate your assertions about my own body. What tests can I run reasonably? I can obtain the appropriate equipment.

(I replied here because reply was off. Deleted for a proper response)
So true. I have a similar story, and can add that people use all sorts of things to not work on the project. Smoking weed and drinking are common, but I have found analysis paralysis to be very common in smart people. Executing is hard for a number of reasons, and the hardest to get over is that you'll likely prove your idea sucks and was just braincrack [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8 (contains cursing)
Love "bananas". Gonna use that from now on.
My issue with it is the arbitrary way you've decided what 'level of cognition' is worthy of your protection.

Also, is there a definition of 'level of cognition' that you can give which encompasses fish, rats, birds, etc. (everything on the link you provided), and does not include ants?
> since population's loyalty is pretty sincere, thanks to the propaganda machine

Or is that we believe the population is loyal, because of the propaganda machine's affect on us?
Not sure what LE is doing here unless this is operated by an org in one of the states where it's illegal to publish this data.

e.g a Florida company publishing California voter records in Florida can't possibly be committing a crime.

I don't see why FBI would get involved either, since there doesn't seem to be any federal crimes happening here.
> So they don't know how blue lights do anything.

It appears that they also don't know whether the blue lights prevent suicides, or merely relocate them to somewhere besides train stations.

Regardless, reducing the number of suicides in train stations is not a bad goal ...

> Part of the reason the city concentrates its efforts here is because such “human accidents” are costly and can disrupt tens of thousands of passengers for up to an hour, weekly or even daily.

... but it is not really a goal that is motivated by concern for the people who might kill themselves.
> It is the plight of a people.

Modern African Americans have no more in common with the slaves on that island than I do with a random German or Spaniard from the same time period. That is to say the only commonality is skin color.

> The same relation that the Holocaust has to the Jews of today.

The parent comment to which I was replying is the equivalent of saying "hey look at this bad thing that happened to some Jewish people in 1710. Isn't the Holocaust terrible Germans should feel bad." It is nonsensical and ridiculous, and has no bearing on reality.

> Perhaps you also think Jews should stop complaining about the Holocaust?

The guidelines of the site and common civility prevent me from replying to this.
If you don't do it in-between your other work you can avoid the cost of context switching. And consider that you spend a lot more time refining your ideas (whether consciously or not), so I bet you'll be a lot more focussed during those 30 minute sprints than on average during your work days.
Heh. I am one of those old-school UNIX people, and this post does little for me. It's really just somebody's thoughts out loud.

It's also their first and only blog post on his blog which, now that I look at it, he calls "My random thoughts."

Hmmm. I'm wondering how this got upvoted...

Reading a little bit more about the person on their about page: "I was relatively successful,creating and managing over 10 websites on a dedicated server generating around 5000 users/day at peek time. Along the way, I’ve created a couple of softwares to promote websites, scrape data, post content, break captchas etc…"

I am wondering if this was just a hack?
https://www.worldcat.org/title/learning-perl/oclc/42854427&r...
Provided the application you're using supports it.

For example I just needed to insert some UTF-8 characters into MacVim, which doesn't support this palette. So I had to:

- switch to Safari

- open the palette and find the character

- make sure a text field is focused *

- double-click to insert *

- finally copy the character *

Those last few steps wouldn't be needed if one could simply copy just the character from the palette.

(Disclaimer: normally I would just search google for "Unicode _____", but wanted to try this after seeing it mentioned)
Was kinda sad they eventually replaced these Apple IIs with locked down macs you couldn't really program on. Might be heresy but they really should load up school companies with development tools instead of SimAnt or Oregon Trail or whatever. SimAnt was fun but I'm pretty sure I didn't learn shit from it.
I've been digital-nomading from a sailboat for the past 3 years... Works great as I get to have my office and take it wherever I want in the world (on the coast). See my previous comments for more info.

Since I sorta have a base for work I'd call myself a remote worker. I rarely work outside the boat, nothing ridiculous like working at a beach... So at the end of the day it's just a home office, so it's not too hard to get back into the work mindset after changing location as everything is static inside. Except my backyard changes all the time. I'm currently in downtown Barcelona after taking some time off the cross the Atlantic.

The lifestyle is not for everyone, sometimes it's quite hard, and I wouldn't say it helps my work that much... It's just something I enjoy doing (sailing and changing location), but have to compromise and do some work from time to time.
No, it was (an extensive) answer to your comment. Azure is their mid term plan for the future. It's their cloud OS. Software as a service, pay per months/annual is their business model to grow. As long as you run your Linux on their Azure they are happy to have you on board. Though, running other OS as guest OS on HyperV is just a by-product of the capabilities of the Azure cloud.