skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even some parts in Germany

My favorite joke video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJaXEYkKUuo

"70 million people in Germany don't speak Plattdeutsch" (Low German, which is on the North! More details in my other posts here). Here the bank robber doesn't, don't ask me which dialect is his.

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

I wish some native speaker would transcribe these joke videos for us who aren't.
The Fix: Could addiction–so often seen as moral–really be beaten with a pill?
What do you base this assumption on? Not only do, literally, thousands of people enjoy sex in public, but it was impossible to have sex in private before people got big houses with separate bedrooms.
My takeaway from this is just that I'm surprised at how many people are still trying to capture some money from cloud storage. On top of the already-enormous competition (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple), Box already had their exit, DropBox is trying to figure out their future and the author of that article is going for the smaller creative-business cloud storage market.

Is there really enough profit in that space to support that kind of differentiation? Especially when the big companies above don't need to turn a profit on their cloud offerings since it's part of their bigger platform, it seems like these companies are chasing after a phantom profit.

"In short, it stuck the landing when a lot of people were predicting a crash, achieving liquidity for its investors and employees along the way."

How is this true? As the article says at the top, they're currently trading for less than half of their IPO price, and the lockups are expiring. Given that the founder was diluted down to the ~5% ownership range, I suspect that employees got hosed on their stock options too. Especially considering that they presumably could have gotten more money elsewhere (if they were top-50 employees and made $200k before taxes, that's roughly $20k/year, again, before taxes).
Who-T: libinput and semi-mt touchpads
Sometimes the old ways are best (2007)
Are paper books really disappearing?
Please point me to the articles' irony. It's easy to miss in that mess.
This book is very good for people who try to fill the hole in their hearts with shopping or having things. I don't think there's a huge match there to HN's audience.
I've even started seeing registration systems that tell me that I've entered an invalid address if I do the [email]+[something]@gmail.com trick.

Twice now I was only able to register after removing the +[something] part of the email.

Is + actually an invalid email character (according to RFCs etc?). I couldn't find any reference to that when I looked.
I thought about submitting this article to HN, but I thought it would a waste of everyone's time. There was no "point" of the article. Except for maybe that helicopters are used in Davos.
Beacon Deployments: Hosting Industry
Regarding Isaac Asimov was trained as a chemist before becoming a science fiction writer. From his wikipedia article Around the age of 11, he began to write his own stories, and by age 19, after he discovered science fiction fandom, he was selling stories to the science fiction magazines. It would appear that his chemistry career came later.
Wouldn't the outcome that they just start investing less in women due to (subconscious) group association be just as likely? After all, if you're getting investment through your belonging in a certain group, and then never deliver, you're muddying the waters for other members of your group, whether that be expats, women, young founders, old founders, etc.

Even though I'm all for using your weaknesses as strengths,
getting back what's owed to you, etc, I'm seriously doubtful that "pullin'a 'olmes" is a cause for celebration. If anything, it tarnishes the image of female founders in the long term, and at best its short sighted revenge. There's a lot more good to be had if there were female founders publicly pulling a Zuckerberg or a Gates, and I'm sure there will be.
> who would drive a car for more than five years anyway? Just get a new one when the warranty expires.

That sounds ridiculous to me but it's probably a pretty common sentiment with people who spend 100k on a car, considering there are lots of people buying 25k cars who do the same, despite it probably not being a wise financial decision.
I don't agree that people have long thought these were linear pathways. My undergraduate education was more than 20 years ago and beyond having the "Biochemical Reaction Pathways" chart on my wall (http://web.expasy.org/pathways/ has been around 40 years) which clearly shows things as a graph structure, it was commonly taught that there were complex networks, regulated at many points.
The Battle Over CRISPR Could Make or Break Some Biotech Companies
The South Korean approach is far from rational in these matters though, I'd imagine stuff like this causes significantly more harm to these kids than their supposed "addiction".
Still nope. The things it animates and has big buttons for are not the things it is trying to teach - the operations of a stack.

I think the idea of a stack based "game" is a good one. Though as a Forth programmer I already play that game :)
I'm a relatively successful coder and entrepreneur. My one tip for you that can change your productivity by an order of magnitude:

Stop wasting your time reading/posting/liking on sites like HN, Facebook, etc.
Which is why I've qualified my statement, on account of it only being the case sometimes.
So that may account for the 3000 things. Add another 3000 for the things you don't collect, and double that, and you're still not close to 300k.
The other nice feature many electric cars have is that you can set them to turn on their heating at a pre-arranged time, and (assuming you've got it plugged in outside your home) it'll draw that power from the grid rather than the battery.
But still what? How many gas engines and transmissions in comparable luxury cars will last 8+ years without significant cost? The Tesla warranty is 8 years but the batteries will last significantly longer they will just have less than 80% of max storage (I believe that is the warranty threshold).

The tesla powertrain as a whole should last a million miles or maybe more with nothing more than routine maintenance and some battery pack changes which will drop in cost over time. If battery pack changes get down to $5K (which seems very possible), and battery packs are usable for let's say 150K miles, then you get a car with a power train that runs for a million miles for about $45K in maintenance (add a bit more for tires and other incidentals) and then subtract the cheaper electric fuel cost. This is less than the cost to keep the power train running for a Mercedes S class for one million miles (which will probably require 4 or 5 transmissions and 4 or 5 motors to get to a million miles).

But realistically people don't repair 150K+ mile S classes because it would cost $30-40K to replace the tranny/engine plus all the other engine things while the car would be worth very little, so they junk it and buy a new car which means the cost of owning an S class for one million miles is more realistically the cost of owning 5 or 6 S classes.
Seeing a Tesla on the road is an everyday occurrence here in Calgary; they seem quite popular despite having only opened a store in the last year or so. There doesn't seem to be any issues with the cold.
This is not bad. Probably should hand one of these to every computer scientist I work with who is contemplating biological problems.

I think having it focus on cell biology, rather than just the information systems, is worthwhile.
While I am not going to question your cynicism, it would appear the aim was more to exploit the USA military not do a standard pump and dump. Look at the board.
Which part of that comment was an unsupported assertion? The "assertion" that documents leaked in 2013 are now several years old? The "assertion" that not every single capability the NSA has ever developed is now public knowledge?
Considering all the other needlessly laudatory press about Theranos you could look at it the other way around and say that the WSJ is not in the tank for Theranos.
There is no point in getting a friend involved. Just see how much sensitive data Amazon will give you without giving them any of your login credentials.
AUDUSD+Remains+Vulnerable+To+The+Downside
Hey guys,

I have a small Problem with your service, when I upload my resume (generated with xelatex)I will get this strange Error.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10966210
"So difficult, definitely requires installing 100MB of libraries and package managers."
Yes, the message is totally in keeping with John's character. "Contributed to lively corporate culture" is one way of putting it! ;)

http://www.toad.com

http://www.toad.com/gnu/

Things I've Put A Lot of Energy Into

Sun Microsystems

Sun is a computer manufacturer, long a leader in the technical workstation and database markets. Many Web pages are served from a Sun server. Sun is now a multi-billion-dollar company; working there made me financially independent. It was acquired by Oracle in 2010. I was its fifth employee, and later a consultant. I handled architecture, design, implementation, and debugging of Sun Workstations. Wrote and maintained bootstrap and diagnostic ROMs for the Sun-1, Sun-2, and Sun-3. Debugged first prototypes of Sun-1 and Sun-2, working with the hardware designer. Worked on first bringup ever of Unix on Motorola 68010 and 68020. Designed and diagnosed the chip designs for the SPARCstation-1 and SPARCstation-2. Straddled the hardware and software camps to locate, explain, and solve design, implementation, and manufacturing problems. Pulled many chestnuts out of fires. Debugged Unix utilities, kernel, device drivers, and CAD software. Diagnostics. Documentation. Electronic mail maintenance, support, and enhancement. Performance and code generation improvement. General technical support. Network relations. Contributed to lively corporate culture.
Twitter says 4 executives are leaving the company
When is the last time you've had a cold start issue? I mean even in the coldest climates block heaters are put into place. Cold destroys battery run time, it's physics.
[Warning] Watching this video may hypnotize you
Government doesn't seem to think so, given that they've talked about scrapping the 10 yearly census, which has been going on since 1801, during both of the last 2.
Fair point; more of us should imitate your attitude to these things.
Show HN: A basic chat app using React, Socket.io and Cosmic JS
It's shaping up to be the biggest, juiciest business story of the past year or so, bordering on scandal. It looks like the WSJ is doing its job.
Hi, author here. Yes, I've considered these instructions, but couldn't find any advantage over a sequence of plain instructions. The sequence properly deals with invalid inputs, pre-validation with pcmpxstrx isn't required.
They are reporting things that federal inspectors found. How is that "having it in for Theranos"?
May not be quite what you're looking for, but perhaps mapumental may help (depending on why you want the data)

https://mapumental.com/

It gives you time (not distance) between places, and it includes trains as well as buses. But perhaps you could use their API to tweak the results: https://github.com/mysociety/mapumental-scripts

Failing that, maybe try the NPTDR dataset: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/nptdr (again, times, not distances)
Now I understand why when I was in South East Asia there was sometimes a shift (about 10m), I thought it was a signal reception problem. I was using Symbian Maps (now Nokia Here). So the correction was not perfect.
How is it possible to block blue light without the screen color changing?
I wonder whether there is a window during pregnancy for a Zika infection causing microcephaly. eg, thalidomide caused different defects depending on which day of the pregnancy the mother took it -- take it on the Nth day and you get blindness, on the Mth day you get malformed limbs.

If it's something like "only a risk during the second trimester", then that 28% chance becomes "100% during second trimester".
This is pretty normal for Luxury cars - I recall my wife getting pitched on a Range Rover and when she asked about gas mileage the salesman response was if you are worried about the gas cost this is not the car for you. But also the idea that you would keep a luxury car for more the length of the lease is generally understood(I thought) to be crazy you always trade in for the new and shiny...
How is it affecting their range though?
+1 This is a nice reminder about how "organic" this domain is. I agree, even if I read this cover to cover, I wouldn't be ready to nail a bioinformatics job interview.

As an armchair biologist (among other things,) this paper is a great next-level-of detail from the pop-sci knowledge that "DNA is the Program." Indeed, Wikipedia's illustration of the workings of a ribosome takes steps towards your point, @alexholehouse. It's jagged and sloppy, and while it appears clock-like in its machinations, one must immediately ask how that could be anything but an oversimplification. Is this the workings of the computer that interprets DNA's "program?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome#/media/File:Protein_t...

A final point, it's sobering to watch this and think that every movement of these proteins represents at least one doctoral thesis' worth of work. Although we have amazing ways of seeing these microscopic actions at play, we don't exactly have debuggers, REPLs or profilers that let us observe cells unaffected. Messy stuff.
5 Reasons Your Team Should Use React Native
Same goes for '8. Use JSX, ES6, Babel, Webpack, and NPM' - JSX aside, setting up this tool stack is totally unnecessary for a beginner getting started hacking on a Hello World app.

While I agree with you in theory, in practice learning how to use Babel/JSX and probably es6 are pretty essential to react. All the tutorials are written using JSX which necessitates a transpiler. And a ton of the supporting libraries are now in es6. If you are going to use react you're really going to need to figure out the es6 tool chain.
Thank you for all the comments. I've got to run off to work, but I thought I would give some quick responses to your thoughts:
0) The general idea here is that there aren't instructions, tool tips, or other helpful hints. You learn as you go by clicking around.
1) In my own testing of the game, I've found that kids like it this way and I've been surprised by how they can pick things up. Even my mother was able to make it through the game and she hasn't written a line of code in her life.
2) That being said, I've also tested the game on professionals and found that they don't perform much better and sometimes are worse than the kids. They seem less willing to play around and make mistakes.

Just my two cents...
He stopped by our offices last year on his way across the country and we took him out to lunch. He seemed genuinely thankful when I told him I'm an EFF supporter. Fun guy to talk to, and he's really into what the EFF is doing.
You're right, I haven't aware of that. I'll fix it.
How I Cut Google Play Music Energy Drain by 15% Using Eprof
HTML Standard now more community-driven
A lunchbox you won’t be embarrassed to use
Indeed my mistake, thanks for pointing it out. Being own proofreader is not an easy job. :)
It was much worse than that.

Back when I was a summer intern at Sun in 1987, it was common knowledge among the engineers at Sun that NFS stood for "No File Security", and the rpc mount protocol would trust the client to tell the server its host name, which the server would look up in /etc/exports to decide how much to trust it.

So if you know that Scott McNealy's workstation's name was "doober" (which it was), and it gave permission to a server named "mama", then on any workstation you could type:

% hostname mama; mount doober:/usr /mnt; hostname `hostname`

And you'd have Scott McNealy's /usr file system mounted.

This also worked over the internet!
Thanks for linking, I just started watching this.
>Shell corporations provide no real use
You pay for the heating in increased drag, via the front radiator grill, even when you don't actually want or need the heat.

Also worth noting that some, but not all, Leaf's have a more efficient Heat Pump based system which has less impact on the battery.
Don't use MS SQL server. It has serious issues with locking at scale that you can never get around. Apart from that, just make a choice and run with it.
“Technology keeps changing. Don't go chasing it.”
Ask HN: How to get notifications when girls delete all her boyfriend's photos?
I was trying to figure out from Instagram API, if there was a way to get a notification when a media post gets delete it.
Creating a More Resilient Cyber Infrastructure
> If they are not, then in principle nanotainers can not work because the sample size is too small.

I am the last person who wants to defend Theranos, but theoretically if there are only a finite number of ways for tissue contaminants to enter a sample, these contaminants could be corrected for with statistical methods and accurate results could still be possible.
There don't seem to any official numbers, but a drop of 25-40% seems to be a common range reported by owners. Of course 'cold' is a very relative term.
It had nothing to do with the DES chip, which was optional. The phrase was in the Sun-2 boot ROMs, which John wrote.
In order to change something, you usually have to break it first.
In js, are obj field names stable on insertion?

Normally I wouldn't expect getOwnPropertyNames to return them in the same order.
Well, if I was buying a Range Rover I would absolutely go for either the V8 diesel or Supercharged 5.0L petrol. Seriously, if you spend so much money on the car, I wouldn't bat an eyelid at the running costs. I had a 4.4L V8 Discovery 3 and that thing did like 12mpg. Would never swap it for anything else, it was such a pleasure to drive.
That's just the bizarre socialism we have in the US, where the all-powerful government is allowed to choose which corporations get contracts, and favorable legislation sets up a system where bribe-taking government workers are at the top, and corporations with strong "lobby" (bribery) powers form the second tier.
I'm honestly surprised just how much red tape there must be in the US health care system. Even fully socialized systems managed by the civil service get away with less bureaucracy over here in Europe, which is just insane (and the complete opposite of virtually everything else). And the US system is not even significantly more effective for it (if at all), despite being 50-100% more expensive per patient.

How did it end up becoming this broken in the first place?
Why We’re Building an Integration to Push Web Leads to Zapier
Why Small Businesses Are Getting LinkedIn Wrong
Yep, it was an old rule for an old time when back-end functionality, UI functionality and presentation could all get jammed into one *SP or PHP page. While the times changed the common wisdom remained. There is no reason for a component that's sole purpose is to be a component should not be self contained. It is a black box to the consumers.
If you go to this[1] page and click "View All", you'll see that it's "Verdana" or "Tahoma", two pretty common web fonts, that are likely to be the culprit.

[1]: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03c0/fontsuppor...
"Castling" had to have been invented by some brat prince who liked to just make up shit and nobody had the stones to say "No" to.
Does something something (except marketing) make this book specially relevant for computer scientists?
I mean, better than ordinary biology courses, wikipedia, etc.
I guess it depends on what you count as a premium car. 5 Series, E-Class, Lexus GS and similar premium cars crush the Model S in sales.

Sure, the Tesla is arguably more "premium" than the 5 Series and its competitors. But it's also hard to argue that the Model S is as premium as an S-Class.
Well, here in UK you structure the lease in such a way you pay 50% of the car's value over 3 years and then get a new one at the end(and just carry on paying). For example you can have a brand new Nissan Juke for like 150 pounds a month. If you make a decent wage it's crazy not to buy new.
What is missing is lubrication. There is too much friction in the requirements:

1. Use Chrome

2. Download and install an extension

3. Multi-step signup on Talkaboutjack

4. Confirmation email

5. start talking

6. potentially recieve spam

All of those things are going to cost your customers love from their customers. Sometimes a lot...if someone loves Firefox or Safari or IE or whatever IE is called these days. One of the keys to B2B is being careful when dealing with the other business's customers.

Those people aren't your customers and that means that you have to treat them better than your customers...and anyway, the end users of Talkaboutjack are unlikely to be your customers...they're just average people on the internet.

Anyway, this might be better as a "Show HN".

Good luck.
WolfenGo: a Wolfenstein 3D clone in Go
The proof of the pudding is in the tasting.

And the rating system on that site is in question of late due to a presently controversial number 1 game: Pandemic: Legacy. The rating system is highly subjective and many suspect is prone to "flavor of the week," ratings by people who don't take time to read the scale and objectively rate the games they play.

Monopoly could be rated so lowly because it is a popular opinion on the site that it's not a good game.

That being said I don't think the classics are disappearing or that they're bad games. A game like Mancala is seeing a resurgence as a mechanic in many popular games today. I think we can learn something from what made these games endure for so long and are starting to incorporate them into new games.

Don't let the rating system on boardgamegeek dictate what we think is a really good game until the objectivity problem gets sorted out.

update: An example of a thread that comes up every now and again: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1512907/new-rating-system-n...
Ask HN: Is Google Adsense worth it for a small website?
I've made a small website and over the past year it has averaged on a monthly basis 4000 visitors, 40% bounce rate, 4 min avg. sessions and 10,000 pageviews.

The website is focused on a niche area and takes a few hours to maintain each month as it's a directory of resources. Similar to Startup Stash (http://startupstash.com/), but a different area and on a smaller scale.

I've been doing cold-emailing to secure advertisers, managed to secure a few, but overall not a positive response. And it is a time intensive exercise; identify relevant companies, tailor the message etc.

So I've been thinking about using Google Adsense. Does this make sense for such a small website? Any other suggestions on how I can monetize a curated website? Not looking for huge sums, but it would be fun if it could generate something.

By the way, I'm new to all of this so appreciate any advice.
JavaScript doesn't guarantee the order of keys.

[edit]
Also, the API makes less sense because JavaScript isn't statically typed so you can make up the result object on the fly.

match('^(?<user>\w+)@(?<host>[^@]+)$', 'joe@example.com') => {'user': 'joe', 'host': 'example.com'}
Compromise and go with RethinkDB and F# on FreeBSD? This way no one gets what they want.