skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to assume a generous use of the word "slave" here, as simply a parallel for the loss of freedom that would be experienced by being detained. As opposed to associations of that word to terribly abusive situations, because abuse is never OK.

> extortion - the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.

> exploitation - the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.

Well, since you're not threatening the person nor forcing them to enter into this arrangement, I don't really see how you can call it extortion. Unless you want to call leaving them in their current situation a threat, which would be kind of stretching the intent, as that would imply that I am performing violence (the execution of a threat) against every person in need that I am not helping.

You could certainly call it exploitation, with the reasoning that providing only basic care in exchange for the services they render is unfair treatment. This would along the same lines as the justification for minimum wage and other employee protections -- that there is some standard minimum that must be met for these relationships.

Of course, there are plenty of flaws with this analogy. I can gloss over most of them, except for the nuance that there is a reason as a matter of law that this person is in their original situation to begin with. I think a better parallel would be an exile, perhaps?

* Definitions derived from Google. Feel free to provide your own if you feel they are inaccurate and I will reevaluate.
Continuous Discussions Podcast: Ep 33 – Measuring DevOps
These cases involved brain tissues. So unless you're having brain surgery done, there are other more mundane complications to worry about.
I was thinking more... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge

But yes, that could totally be done! Only problem is everyone would have the result, which I don't think they'd like too much.
Interesting idea. I might look into expanding this.
The whole idea with the big thumbnail was that you can quickly have a glimpse at the content before you click on the link. If you are on mobile or tablet, you can almost read half of the landing page.
Shared vocabularies are hard :) My definition of trivial is "I can do it in less than half a day", which I've done this exact thing with before (to be able to navigate our office via our indoors Street View map)
As someone who hates exercising, I found myself compelled to return to stroll around new virtual worlds. That said, a proper game is always going to be more interesting ;)
Show HN: A support network for working remote – my idea to overcome cabin fever
Maybe the enjoyment you get from listening to the music is valuable in itself. There are worse things than pleasure. Just a thought.
I loved Blitz Basic. It was great how it gave you access to the whole Amiga. You could use the built-in commands, write inline assembly, and easily use operating system functions/structures. Modern "game BASICs", even the latest iterations of Blitz are limited sandboxes in comparison.

Mainstream Amiga programming in C or assembly language was very expensive compared to today. As a teen I couldn't afford Devpac, or the Hardware Reference Manual, but Blitz gave me what I needed to make real progress as a programmer. One of my friends even got texture-mapped 3d going, although it wasn't quick!
Some of them do something with the comments, unlike hckrnews.com which just provides a link to them. I do use hckrnews.com for my browsing though—the top 20 is very useful.
For fun I started porting the example over: https://gist.github.com/steveklabnik/f86cba4da1dc9c5c68e0

Then I realized that it wasn't totally clear to me what json_list_to_str_vector() should do, exactly, and so I don't even know how it would compare.

When this article was written Rust had a big runtime. It was a very different language. OCaml is pretty fast, but I would still expect Rust to fare much, much better today.
That's still consulting on the side. It's just that now you have the whole business doing it. It brings in income but is ultimately just a distraction, because you don't want to be doing it for years.
So walmart thought this startup was worth buying to manage all their different applications running in different clouds. Fast forward a couple years and they've now open sourced the entire product. That's pretty cool.
Thats because they were never properly rolled into the browser UI. They were either stand along programs you had to be running, or were implemented as "live bookmarks".
Seems like a perfect task for asciinema

https://asciinema.org/
If you let it run for awhile it eventually decodes.

I let it run past the "do you want to kill it" dialog for about 45 seconds more, then it hard crashed the tab.
East side Seattle metro: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Tolling/405/
A caloric deficit reliably leads to a reduction in weight, but the situation is more complicated.

Diet feeds back into resting energy expenditure (REE). Namely, a low-carb diet leads to higher REE than e.g. a low-fat diet.

Effects of Dietary Composition on Energy Expenditure During Weight-Loss Maintenance
https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1199154#...

> Conclusion: Among overweight and obese young adults compared with pre–weight-loss energy expenditure, isocaloric feeding following 10% to 15% weight loss resulted in decreases in REE and TEE that were greatest with the low-fat diet, intermediate with the low–glycemic index diet, and least with the very low-carbohydrate diet.

This is a change of REE on the order of ~10%, so not huge, but definitely significant.

When eating a similar diet, eating less certainly works. However, affecting TDEE through diet and exercise is an important consideration as well, and may be easier and more maintainable than caloric restriction. There are also issues with satiety and diet that are important for weight loss.

Calories In -> Calories Out should only be a response to people who claim to be unable to control their weight. If they control how much they eat, they can control their weight. It does not make it helpful weight loss advice, though.
hear hear. I cannot honestly understand why that book is so popular.
How to Get the Best Skin of Your Life
People are already making mods to the C++ versions even without source code, doing the same thing that was done to make mods with the java version.

https://github.com/byteandahalf/MCPE-NativeMods/wiki/1:-Maki...
The affected add-on, or at least the one that prompted the bug report to be filed, has 46,755 users, not millions:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-overr...
we're using Replicated to build out our on-premises solution at npm. It's bee a great experience: along with providing a great UI for installing and pushing updates; it's been the impetus we need to push us to play with docker more, I've found that this mindset has helped the overall quality of our SOA.
As your business grows at some point it may be cheaper to run your own cloud (OpenStack or something else), and you can start migrating your workloads with a PaaS layer like this.

At my previous employer the loaded TCO for running in-house OpenStack was 45-50% of AWS (the company used both).
Not all 10x programmers are created equal.

Some of them leave a disaster in their wake. They're fast because they're sloppy, and don't take the time to refactor their new code into something maintainable. The team pays the price for that later.

I'm not suggesting John Carmack is one of those bad 10x developers, but they do exist. Just something to keep in mind.
I'm not 100% sure this is what the GP was referring to, but a common (and totally legal!) technique to prop up a flat or trending downward company is to start a share buyback program. You take cash that you have no idea what to do with anyway, and rather than return it to investors through a dividend, you start buying back shares. That props up your EPS, since there are fewer shares on the market, and you continue to make your numbers.

In addition, this helps to keep your share price high/growing, which benefits insiders who then sell the stock, knowing that the fundamentals of the business are shaky.

The best part is that all of this is done in the open, it's just that typical retail investors are not necessarily sophisticated enough to understand what's happening, and accept the company's argument that they're buying back their stock because it's "undervalued"
I think poor people hate wealthy not only because of corruption (use money to get power or get away with a crime) and lack of empty, but because they could do MORE http://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethi...
The long term effects of surgery are just coming to light. While, obviously, it is better to have an operation than die, it seems that you don't recover as quickly as your meat heals.

Anecdotal I know but I believe it took me 10 years to get over my bowel resection.

And then there's the anesthesia :
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hidden-dangers-of-...
If you disagree with something I said, please disagree with it directly with reasoning, without name calling, ad hominem, or strawmans, at the exact thread. If I use terms incorrectly, correct me, and better yet, give an ironman of what I was trying to say.
JS web frameworks benchmark
> We also didn't want it to fill up our inboxes with notifications when we didn't have time to read.

1) Why would this messaging system deliver fewer notifications than RSS (besides the fact that few sites use this system yet)?

2) Why are popups on my screen a better interface than a mail-like interface? I strongly prefer the latter if I'm receiving many messages; lots of popups seem unpleasant.
Maybe that's a poor description of a tool with full access to the entire class hierarchy of the .NET Framework. You could write a GUI program in it with WPF, although most people would take it as a kindness if you didn't.
No Python support. Moving on.
Chef heavy. Reminds me of AWS OpsWorks.

And by the way, it's not just OpenStack. Looks like it's also tooled for AWS.
your confirm email field isn't big enough for my email
weird because your main one is.
I graduated and found out I'm $200,000 in debt
> I remember

But all the six year olds who were left to fend for themselves and died as a result are unable to take part in this conversation.
Similar: http://httpstat.us
Laptop Makers Exaggerating Battery Life
From my read of the docs, try_files expands aliases, so the alias directives in your location blocks are unnecessary, causing nginx to look for /home/mysite/www/js/js/whatever.js
Sounds like Web slices, which Microsoft just killed off: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Slice
Despite what some confused people say, there's actually not enough seed funding. Many thousands more teams would try their hand at creating something, given the kind of help that successful startups have all required. Most would fail and try again. A few of them would change the world.

A team of skilled and committed people should not have difficulty raising $50k to work on something important. When the same team can easily get paid $500k+/yr working for existing companies, but can't raise seed funding, there's a big opportunity being missed.

The big shift in Silicon Valley will come when a firm decides to fund every worthy startup on their merits alone, doing away with the "culture fit" based screening process that everyone uses today.

Any top investor could raise a large fund and back every single worthy startup.
Heh, just "ied" will give you this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device

"ied package manager" works, though.
IFTTT supports weather data: https://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=weather

Or you could find a weather RSS feed and put that in an RSS2email service?
No, sorry, unfortunately I can't. Bought mine on eBay.de a few years ago. Now on eBay.com the auction format seems to be hardly used anymore for things like that. Hmm. Many direct imports though. Maybe my suggestion is outdated.
I anticipate that you had a comfortable childhood, yes?

Not that it would affect your superior meritocratic status or anything...
What are the other options? Cameras?
I'm not sure "IED" is the best acronym to go for, either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device
And maybe that enjoyment will make you a happier person in general, which will in turn make you more productive because you won't worry and second-guess yourself so much.
Talk frank about money with them, and build up good boundaries. If you need help learning how to say no, go hang out at a daycare sometime. There's a difference between being well-off and being loaded, loaded people can comfortably pay for the whole group's tab, the merely well-off can just buy his and his date's.

The main thing to keep in mind is to not take it personally. Also try to be more generous than you're used to being. It is a good thing to spread your wealth around, so long as you can keep it within the bounds of reason. It makes your life better in more ways than you can keep track of.

Another thing you might do is playfully adopt the alpha role. If they ask you to buy another round, you could sit back and be like, "sorry boys, daddy's all out of money, maybe you kids could go make your own," and have a good laugh about it.
Show HN: Uber for Events
How is this unhelpful exactly? It's a link to another discussion that readers might be interested in.
API mocking with Python and Go (service virtualization)
I've heard the argument before, not sure if it was backed with any real data, that perfect enforcement leads to wiping out tickets as a source of revenue, because people start actually obeying the law.

In some cases it actually makes things more dangerous, like red-light cameras appear to cause accidents, because people afraid of tickets start slamming on their brakes when the light turns yellow, and get rear ended.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/red-light-camera-backlash-cameras-c...
As hydropower is clearly the cleanest and cheapest source of electricity and would be used first in any location, bitcoin miners are essentially shifting other power consumers to carbon-based sources.
I am learning Haskell but it is very s-l-o-o-o-w to get to a point where I feel I am actually able to write useful software (probably my fault in fairness!). I have looked over the fence at OCaml and it seems it hits a sweet spot between practicality and rigor.

Can anyone advise on whether learning OCaml is worth it when compared to Haskell, considering I am on my way with Haskell, if only slowly? The lack of tooling on Windows (I write cross platform desktop software) and the maturity of the web frameworks (compared to Haskell) has put be off learning OCaml in the past...
I wouldn't ever make the assertion that a company should do something for any reason other than to make profit. Helping society is what non-profits are for, and that's why they receive tax benefits.
I had the same problem before realizing it is actually a "username" field. Maybe add a "confirm email" textbox because most of us are probably used to having one on all website signup pages?
He "gets" to do it because he became one of the best at it. I'm certain anyone that becomes the best at something can make money doing it!
Sure, maybe there would be a few "smart" companies that do a proper cost-benefit analysis and decide to budget for a faster upgrade cycle or that bigger chunk of change for decade upgrades... but most companies would file it as a problem "for somebody else" in a decade as most companies don't even seem to think past the next quarterly earnings report.
Is that true even with "generator expression" (Python's lazy evaluation)?
The OCaml version presented in the video isn't tail-recursive, either.
Is this a community/ support group or your startup? Noticed you are calling yourself 'founder'.
From someone who was in a similar situation in high school: thank you. The person who helped me out singlehandedly changed my life, I hope it works out just as well for y'all
Hey, I'm starting my first remote gig this week. How very, very timely.
Version 1.0 is always more sloppy than version 2.0, because with version 2.0, you have the luxury of 20/20 hindsight.
You are splitting the problem at the wrong place. Microservices is a well known thing and is what is providing the fire under unikernel research, you cannot simply ignore the aspect of "do the hard thing in a different environment" when talking about microservices.
There is no level of hash calculations that is acceptable.

It is crazy to have a currency that requires this dumb make-work of hashing which results in CO2 emissions. We live in a world of dangerous climate change and Bitcoin users want us to expel CO2 into the atmosphere with every currency transaction. That is dumb and not sustainable.
I love this idea. To come back to this page do I have to go through HN? I tried going directly to hi.remotetogether.com straight from a new tab and it does not work.

Unfortunately I will probably be not contributing at this current moment, as I am in the camp of "looking for remote work" and not "currently employed doing remote work" :)
For the love of God, do not use Shankar!

The book is just down right atrocious. The fact that it became almost standard in American universities speaks more of the power of networking than anything else. Shankar's book is anything but rigorous, quite on the contrary.

There are so many good QM books:

For an absolute beginner I'd recommend David Griffiths

Dirac's is very readable

Sakurai's is very good though a bit advanced

Whatever you do, it's difficult to go wrong by not using Shankar's
Is small, medium, and large really too complicated for a customer to understand? In particular if they're all identical otherwise (aside from battery remaining proportional); it will be an easy decision: pick the phone in the size you want. I can actually imagine Jobs releasing three sizes, but parity is key to promote simplicity.

I'd argue naming convention is important. They should just call it the iPhone [whatever] S, M, and L respectively. None of this iPhone 5se or 5sx which have been rumoured. Too confusing.
Op was stating you shouldn't follow that link and go "Hey, me too" or "+1" on the Github Issue.

Not that the link to the issue was unhelpful.
Knowing any single piece of information is not a big deal, but stringing them together is basically stalking which is illegal.
Its not the 'gap' or the 'upper end' which is important in itself though. Its the lower end - whether someone here has a reasonable life and ability to reach their potential. One way of raising this lower end is to redistribute from the rich which takes away very little of their potential for the above
I'm almost tempted to apply, but the application form is really discouraging for single founders.
The wealthy are getting huge raises and big golden parachutes. The workers are lucky to be getting a 3% raise in good years. Some of us have even taken pay cuts as they take bigger pay increases. The execs are basically stealing away our extra spending money and our kids college education. I'd argue the Wealth Gap follows a gap of empathy. Then look at how the wealthy use politics to misappropriate and destroy social security. They don't even care about the middle class workers as they become elderly.
Interesting. Do you have any specific examples you can remember? I read the book from the perspective that it wasn't verbatim research results, but example based results from their research. I found the connections between the test and result generally existed, although I would say the book got a bit muddy on reuse of a few key topic areas. It's definitely a dry book - it took me a while to get through as it didn't always hold my interest.

That being said I agree that I hope there's more to come.
Tell HN: Reddit RSS is broken
FYI - A recent change to Reddit's RSS feeds has broken several RSS readers, including Chrome's built-in reader. Apparently to prevent XSS?

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/428vdq/upcoming_reddit_change_switching_from_rss_20_to/

Looks like a fix should be coming next week.
Its absolutely incredible how year after year, Apple convinces people to continually upgrade their devices, as well as drive new customers to there business.

An important metric to note from there release however is that 66% of sales came from international markets.
Any chance you could send me a screenshot of what you're getting? info@remotetogether.com

hi.remotetogether.com should work. Got to resolve this problem. :)
How can it be exploitation if they have fully freedom in choosing to forgo the deal?

>As opposed to associations of that word to terribly abusive situations, because abuse is never OK.

Even if it was as bad as the association you are making, it is merely a choice.

>Unless you want to call leaving them in their current situation a threat

Here is where most people's moral systems break down. If their current situation involves death, then any deal where you benefit is seen as exploitation unless they think the exchange is fair. But doing absolutely nothing, offering nothing and taking nothing, is seen as a neutral choice. But only to an extent. If you turn away a starving child at your doorstep, the action is seen as abhorrent. But if don't donate money to help feed a starving child elsewhere, even though such an action is easier than helping the child at the doorstep, that is just normal.

There almost seems to be some moral corollary to the bystander effect.
And extremely easy to disprove at this point with brain scans vs capabilities. We know enough about the brain now to understand that some people are born with advantages (or disadvantages), whether that's in memory or social skills.
I can see how my original statement could be interpreted as praising the company directly. Allow me to clarify. I did intend to praise their actions. And I did intend to suggest that the current Microsoft is not necessarily the same company as relayed by pdkl95, because of these actions. Specifically, it is no longer clear that, "it is entirely against [Microsoft's] culture and history as a business to allow anything they control to be cross platform". History, well that can't be changed, only diluted with time. But culture can be changed.
These are not "wasted" resources; they create value, which is the trust for the distributed currency system. These are hashes based on real history of transactions, and their computations guarantee that these transactions have been recorded by third party.

(At least, that's how it should work if I understand the theory behind bitcoin correctly).
the fight over CRISPR (which is a discovery of nature, not a creation), especially the fight over the monopoly to apply CRISPR to other fields of science is another example of why the GNU General Public License (or something with as many teeth) is required to keep science open and free.
I think notch's success proves that it's better to make something than whine about how it's implemented
Introducing Tonic Endpoint and Literate APIs
One salmon costs more than a barrel of oil
States have had to pass laws preventing cities from setting unreasonably fast yellow lights to profit from violations.
The anesthesia is scary - my grandpa-in-law was never the same after he had surgery. He went in totally lucid and came out of surgury totally out of it with dementia-like symptoms. It was permanent and it made him have to go into a home. He didn't even know who I was anymore. The surgery itself was routine and very uneventful but the difference in mental function pre and post op were as dramatic as night and day - and permanent.

I mentioned it to my doctor in casual conversation and she says she has seen that happen before when older people have surgery, especially those in not so great health. The article says "researchers hit on two other factors that increased the chances a patient would become dramatically confused after an operation: being older than about 70." He was about 80.