skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little OT...but have mutton flaps reached any level of popularity in bigger nations' cuisines? I'm thinking in terms of pork belly, which used to be a cheap cut of meat but now fetches $10 for a couple of slices in David Chang's New York restaurants. I've never heard of mutton flaps before but if it's that tasty as to wreck a Pacific nation's diet, I wonder if it'll be the next big thing served by Brooklyn food trucks.
As Jeff and I noted on Reddit [0], the author of AsyncSSH, Ron, is very responsive and his work is high quality.

The library is already pretty feature-complete, and just last week the latest release added ssh-agent client support. [1]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/41zycz/asyncssh_asy...

[1] https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/blob/master/docs/changes.rs...
Plant transformation and tissue culture.
Why would flipping cars over be preferable to making a blog post?

I don't understand.

Ok I mean like, sure, I'm aware that people argue that people shouldn't complain about riots for some reason or another. But claiming that riots are an inherently more legitimate way of addressing grievances than, communication that uses words other than chants, picket signs, or graffitti, seems absurd to me.
For those who do not know:

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

Texas is the only state that has it's own power grid, owned by the state. The stuff they are working on right now, including massive distributed battery systems, solar, more wind, etc. will be the one of the most advanced renewable systems in the world given the amount of power and consumption.

It's awesome to see how as 'relatively' small grid, operating on their own, can make progress without all the bullshit. (See Nevada...that solar situation is so fucked up.).
And here is 'The Shawshank Redemption' http://www.netflix.com/title/70005379 that loads a lot more, does not recommend any movies and has no watch movie button. Permissions are hard to get right. I guess the developers assumed no one would navigate to movies they don't have permission to watch.
Incredible. I'm actually scrolling HN during a break from 3 hours of trying to optimize a solution to this problem.

Came up with something like this but wanted to avoid ever having to update the entire list. A combo of Rubaxa Sortable's 'onEnd' option and Vue to render card properties in HTML attributes make it easy.
Here's mine in Scala: https://github.com/pathikrit/ScalaVerbalExpressions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10958399
I think the usefulness of insisting on reserving the term "MVP" for a successful experiment is that it could help prevent someone from spending months in development, telling themselves "we're building our MVP, we're building our MVP", and thus thinking, when they've built something but not yet shown it to anyone, that it is an MVP. No; you hope it is, but it may not be (and in fact, the odds are against you if you haven't discussed it with potential customers).

So this is not just a semantic quibble, but actually supports the thrust of the article. While you're doing market research experiments, you should call them that. When you actually strike gold, then you have an MVP.
Are there plans to do this for women's clothing?
Im assuming this isn't a euphemism for weed growing - so more info please?
Yes but I think we'll see more plutocrats running now. There's no possible limit on them using their own money.
Anyone from LendUp on here? I want to talk to you.
Yes. It makes things so much simpler. Your program do not have to be complex! It can exist entirely of functions that do not depend on their outer scope. You can basically change everything around them and the function will still work the same. And you do not have to look outside the function to understand what it does. You only have to know about the standard objects witch in JavaScript (ES5) is Math, Date, JSON and Error. Everything else is "required" when needed.
Hi there - sure! Shameless self-plug: https://www.justwatch.com (Disclaimer: I'm CTO there) - unfortunately canistream.it is quickly falling into disrepair, so we decided to provide a proper alternative.
Seems like the TL;DR would be something like: Man sees planet pass in front of the sun, but with fuzzy & bright bits & bulging where otherwise sharp edges around the planet & sun would be. Man then proceeds to explain why science is complementary to christianity.
Definitely agreed re: the meaninglessness of my promises; if someone's threat model were to include that degree of trust in a complete stranger, then there would be no point in that person using encryption to begin with.

Also agreed on all other counts; if all else failed, I have no doubt that a state actor could certainly extract our keys through targeted physical surveillance and/or force, which I don't think there's really a good workaround for short of raising our own army to protect a private bunker for air gapped release signing.

What this first iteration of the air gapped environment is meant to accomplish is to simply make it that much harder. Sure, the CIA can still probably break into my home and set up a surveillance camera to steal the encryption passwords of my keys without my noticing, but what they will no longer be able to do is steal them by tampering with my laptop while my head's turned in broad daylight.

As Cyph continues to grow as a company, we expect to have the resources to implement increasingly sophisticated OpSec measures.
Something's wrong here. My department has public, well archived, trivially crawlable syllabi going back to 2002. So I did a search of my own department's syllabi using the provided database, and discovered: zero of the entries returned are syllabi. They're just references to books.
I know. But it was supposed to mandate ipv6.
You can actually see it. Driving country (state) highways, from ,say, just west of Ft Worth, up to the border, hundreds of turbines. There's also a factory in between Ft Worth and Denton where, I believe, some pieces of the turbines are built and (I know) the larger section of the turbines are assembled. It makes sense as well, especially to the west, where wind is a near constant and there is nothing. Scrub from the central hill country to the border with New Mexico.
It's not an explanation of his success. His success is emblematic of campaigns with unrestricted money.
Most everyone I asked about it's failure said that they just didn't get Canada. It acted as it Canada was a 51st state.

The lack of inventory didn't help either. The one closest to me had about 10,000 options for bath mats and bath robes. Everything else was out of stock and the food section had limited selection and higher prices than other nearby stores.
Ambition != working hard and smart

Spoken like a critic. Not a producer. I know lots and lots of smart people who know how to criticize but not to create.
My question was for IanCal, but since you chose to answer it, I'm happy to ask you the same thing: when you go to build an MVP, how do you decide if what you're doing is the "smallest" or if it will be "viable"? Walk me through your actual process.
First observation: why do countries like Tonga and Suriname have 2000+ movies available? Second: why do all the Arab countries have a similar movie count - around 460?
Blue Origin launches and lands recovered rocket
The Patient Who Diagnosed Her Own Genetic Mutation–and an Olympic Athlete's
It shouldn't have even gone this far.
I've never heard this argument before. Very interesting.
To be fair, that's a server-side error that will probably always occur (so the site is effectively permanently down), not like the original client-side error caused by users configuring their browsers in a way that site owners might consider hostile or otherwise not worth supporting.
New account because I don't wish to identify my affiliation publicly.

A user who posted before the New Year regarding his financial situation is someone I quickly found myself aspiring to. I didn't have alot of work for him but he was more than helpful for my project. After I learned a bit more about his background, family situation and journey to getting where he is now, I felt compelled to try to help him more.

During one of our many conversations I casually mentioned how my funded startup is suffering from an influx of chargebacks and fraud purchases. I regret not mentioning it sooner because this it was a problem we have been struggling to solve and in no time at all he solved it. He helped us and showed us some of the "carder tricks and tips."

Unfortunately because we (startup) are bound by certain financial regulations we couldn't hire him full time because of mistakes he made as a kid. I know he is still looking for work. I urge anyone who has any kind of work to contact him, I know he could desperately use it still.

Post in question is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813746 and here is his follow up for anyone who is curious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921576
This is truly hacking at its finest.
Crazy, about 20 years ago I read an article saying turkey tails were probably a huge cause of obesity in pacific islands. Then just now I wondered if I had confused them with mutton flaps...but no. Separate things! And it appears Samoa banned turkey tails in 2007 [0] until their desire to join the WTO _forced_ them to drop the ban completely as of 2016! Insanity.

Seriously, these people are being abused, are they not?

0: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/05/14/182568333/sam...
Ah, and the plot thickens. Yea, I just wished the article had made it clear in first few sentences which company we were talking about and what was going on.
Too Good to Be True
Oh man, wouldn't you want your phone to send GPS coordinates to Megacorp Electronics (TM) so that they can turn on your TV when you come home?

It's free, man. Sure, your TV will play some audio ads while you are entering the house, but then it'll switch to your favorite soap.
great article. sounds like sasha and lendup are in business for all the right reasons. hopefully their story inspires more like them.
America Hates Its Gifted Kids
Dynamically distributing a simulation over hundreds of physics engines
> Once you block someone, there is no way they can contact you directly.

Most carriers allow you to blacklist phone numbers (although that very well may not have been the case when those laws were written).
The US just nearly bankrupted VW

Reminds me of my grade school days. Mrs. Crabtree, why did you give me a C in math? "I didn't give you a C, you did that all by yourself."

When a company does what Volkswagen did, it needs to hurt very badly. Diesels are already disastrous from a public-health perspective, and VW made them that much worse.
Surely he deserves a black bar?
I'm actually both shocked and surprised how quickly Texas is transitioning to renewables with their, ahem, political climate, but happy nonetheless!

Warren Buffet should be ashamed of Berkshire Hathaway's role in strongarming the PUC in Nevada in NV Energy's favor.
Buying a lottery ticket and tweeting demands at Paul Graham are almost certainly feasible methods for obtaining several million dollars by the end of next week. However, neither method is viable because that's not the way things work: to a first approximation, lottery tickets lose and the evidence is that Paul Graham doesn't give millions of dollars to people he doesn't know when they tweet at him.

Unfortunately, it's easy to conflate feasibility with viability because anything that is infeasible is also nonviable: e.g. buying a ticket for last weeks lottery or tweeting demands at Charles de Gaulle. Fortunately, the Brikman's article does not fall into this confusion.

It's easier to determine what is feasible -- two app developers can build a restaurant app and put it in the app store -- than what is viable: build a restaurant app that people use. To be feasible, it only has to be technically possible for the developers to build an app. To be viable, it has to be useful enough that people use it.

One might say that viability is checking feasibility against non-technical goals. If the reason for building the app is to make money, feasibility is based on projected prices, costs, and sales. Viability about assessing those projections.

Brikman's position appears to be that a product is whatever can be put put in front of customers or potential customers. It's reasonably consistent with a world in which many things people tend to consider products are free or fundware. It's plausible.

But I can see why someone might choke on that, so YMMV.
I agree, this is the same kind of egregious misuse of this kind of law.
Would be interesting if the admin supported S3 or Dropbox as the sources and then generated the site to be at S3.
A "2xtall" for every size would be nice. I wear a small and most shirts run a bit short for my liking.
Manna – AI Utopia or Dystopia? By Marshall Brain
I found so much more in the article. To quote another poster.. Hubris. The overconfidence of management was shocking. Aggressive schedule drove the system problems quoted above, which were compounded by a lack of training and experience and understanding.
If it was just a set of software glitches, this could be recoverable... But 1.8bn in property investment meant that the show must go on, otherwise the debts would rack up quickly. So, aggressive expansion was the plan - but there was no foundation of experience to build on. Boom! A house of cards.

7 billion debt and no profits until 2021? That was the most telling story to me.
Sending Gift Songs Through Messaging
You don't have to limit your power "for the common good" (not that there's anything wrong with that), but then you have blackouts unless you're going to subsidize building out my generation capacity.
Hacking Food: 3 months on $6.50/day
It amazes me how well the stuff works most of the time, considering that it's a ridiculously just-in-time system where production must match consumption on a second-by-second basis. No other industry is like this. I think we badly need good storage solutions to decouple the two sides.
> Speaking in broad strokes (i.e. I'm sure there are plenty of individual examples to the contrary) the baby boom generation is the most selfish generation in recent history, voting to cut taxes and benefits for government and societal services after they had gotten their full use out of them.

The government spends more than ever as a percent of GDP:

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total_spending_chart

except for during WW2. This does not look like any recent austerity program.
Definitely! I'm just hoping for this 'aha!' moment, since it just feels like black magic for me.

I think conservative approach to fundamentals is a great way to build a robust language and the way it's presented to me suggests that's one of the objectives; however, for an outsider with experience in other, more lenient (and, obviously, bug-prone) languages, those constraints might appear too restrictive. I believe it's a transitional feeling though, hence calling them 'seemingly' arbitrary.
I've been using LendUp regularly just in an attempt to help rebuild my credit (I've never actually needed the loan). I think their service is fantastic and I really hope they remain independent and true to their mission as they grow.
Is anyone else puzzled by the idea of f.lux consuming 14 developer years (at least according to the article), it's an awesome app but that seems like a huge number for what it is: a gui interface to a very simple function*.

[0] http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/sct-set-color-temperatur...
> expat in some African or Asian country

There may have been some confusion as I apparently left out a word ("/in/ the US"). I'm only discussing privilege in the US.

I have no idea how these things work in Africa or Asia. Presumably there are similar situations in other countries, though that is a guess. Your scenario sounds reasonable - yes, the natives would have the privilege of starting with the "default" level of suspicion while the (white) foreigner has to overcome an extra scrutiny.

Privilege can be overcome. You specified a rich expat, and money can be a very effective way to make problems go away. However, a similarly rich native will probably have to spend somewhat less money in similar situations because of their privilege.
This has nothing to do with feminism. This is idiocy on the part of Disney and toy makers.
Not releasing toys with the main character of the production when you release toys with other characters is plain stupid.

This has everything to do with the fantasy demographic biases in the minds of the executives of toy making companies.
Security is a huge concern. Setting a TV channel the way you described is not useful. Checking with the fridge if I need milk on my way home, may be.

And yes, security is a huge concern. Privacy too.
Production costs in SA are very low.
Whereas off shore oil production is quite high
also shale oil.

Norway is an example of a western nation that cares quite a lot.
Life is more like backgammon than chess, imo.
Security is hard, no doubt, and even careful tests may not turn up all problems. Not testing your negative cases at all is such a basic failure, and an extremely common one too.
Sometimes? I was under the impression that it was standard practice.
> "I know it may seem ironic but fish and native staple foods do cost more than turkey tails," she says.

> James Sumner, president of the U.S. Poultry and Egg Exporting Council, says his organization didn't realize they were exporting turkey tails to Samoa until he learned about the ban.

> And since the late 1990s, the poor island nation of just under 200,000 people had been trying to join the WTO, hoping to improve its economy with a gross domestic product of less than $2 billion.

It seems like something that's less "abuse" (at least in the sense that anyone's consciously doing it), and more a result of dirt-cheap imported food in a nation where most people don't have much money.
Wow, I didn't even realize I was following the same Ed Yourdon on flickr.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/

RIP, sorry to hear of the loss.
"An approximately rational truth seeking community can reasonably be expected to come to a reasonably good approximation of the truth, compared to what they have access to. As such, such a community can be used as an (approximate) indicator of the truth."

- You're writing about a rational truth seeking community when the user @afarrell is writing about majority of people. Do you see the difference? People (members of homo sapiens sapiens species) have not evolved to seek truth, but to survive and reproduce.

"Moral relativism can fall down a well."

- How can moral relativism fall down? What does that even look like? Fall according to what standard? Is the standard relative or not?
I am puzzled by so much fuss about one simple and small app (I am not questioning its usefulness, I am using it too). Every once in awhile (and frequently lately) it pops up on hacker news front page or somewhere on the web.
> 'a phase'

If you aren't a liberal by age 20, you don't have a heart. If you aren't a conservative by age 35, you don't have a brain.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/

My generation blamed the previous one, as well. "Don't trust anyone over 30", "Hope I die before I get old", etc.
Wealth is not a disadvantage. Period.
Same here (Czech Republic). I have been on a kick to change my pirating ways, and go legit for most things, but this shows why it's hard at times.

About 1/8th of the content for more money...

Shame there are no open source alternatives for movies.
(Most of my switching from piracy has been to open source software - Libre office, gimp, Inkscape, krita, audacity, Scribus, darktable etc. As I don't really play any games anymore it's been quite nice being on Linux full time instead of just through VMs)
Simple Contracts for C++ [pdf]
Now I want to see an article that compares the error messages from rust and D metaprogramming ... though admittedly, at least half of this is because you could call said article "D missed nosejob day".
Does anyone know if they cater to the recent immigrant? The USA credit score system is totally broken for people who have come recently to the country.
I use it, and I like it, and I think it works. But I also think they should really try to publish a paper on it, proving it works to improve e.g. people's sleep quality.
Totally, no problem with default implementations as long as they are generic. Java finally supports this, as well as Rust and others.
I also use Redshift,and an app called Twilight. It's fairly customizable if that's what you're looking for.
It's not considered hostile by the site owners https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10959363
in fact it's already fixed. My original comment was in the spirit of helping a fellow programmer find a possible bug. On the other hand I found themartorana's comment to be particularly snarky wrt a large proportion of web citizens that are increasingly worried about their privacy.

The fact that his own website doesn't seem to work at all is just very ironic.
Just a quick note from a U.S. subscriber (well, sometimes-subscriber, I subscribe a few months a year.)

Netflix is usually good at expanding their content across the countries they service. I would not be surprised if they increased their content availability over the months and years across all the countries.

Not being a Netflix apologist here, but I think you're eventually going to get to see more content.
i went to the target a handfull of times in canada.
most targets were in old zellers locations...

when they opened, they seemed like a bit more modern and cleaner zellers, but still in the same not so high traffic crappy locations.
the zellers theme was red, so was target...

people were excited about target opening based off experiences crossing the border and shopping at USA Target.

the USA stores differed from the Canadian stores.
1)canada target didnt have the same selection/inventory of products.
2)prices were significantly different... even when factoring in the exchange rate, it was still cheaper to shop at USA target locations on a trip across the border.

walmart here, atleast in locations near me in canada are far cleaner and newer looking compared to walmart USA. most existing were upgraded to "super centers" and several more locations are opening soon where as in the states they are downsizing and closing locations.
there is a whole bunch of stuff built but unreleased outside of the app.
Its good to hear this from TX. I want to see wind installations grown, given how affordable land is.
WRT being off topic;

It makes my blood boil th level of greed that humans are capable of: Some hipster asshole starts an "artisan pork belly" food truck and starts charging a ton for a food that was always cheap and never good for you, hence its cheapness...

But come on humanity. Punish such behavior.

/rant
He lost his job, was banned from using PC and internet during the trial, etc..
Of course, Google Chrome itself is probably less malicious than many of the other bundleware. I wonder how many would have supported Firefox doing the same thing in 2004.
> Error messages are much better, because the insides of templates never leak to users of the template

This is unequivocally a good thing - I think maybe my disconnect here in how excited I am compared to others is that I'm comparing it to the experience of debugging lisp macros and everybody else is comparing it to the bottomless pit of despair that is C++ template errors ;)
I'm the founder of threadbase. Thanks everyone for your kind words. I'd love to hear any comments or suggestions for what you'd like to see next or how we can improve the user experience. We're also looking for front-end/design help, as well as help with computer vision tech. Feel free to email me chris@threadbase.com.