skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so that's why my electric tea kettle in the NL is so very much nicer than any I've ever used in the US. I ordered it from Amazon UK and got a plug adapter and it's fantastic. Wasn't even expensive.
No, it's not average music. It's the #1 music averaged over the population. If you don't understand the difference, you're there one who's average.
Interesting story! I've long wondered if the (over)excited voice of many a startup's marketing/onboarding/help copy is justified by customers liking it more than the alternatives. This seems connected.

>10% bump.

>15% bump.

>40% bump in sales.

>50%+ bump in sales.

Was that cumulative (i.e., 1.1 * 1.15 * 1.4 * 1.5 ≈ 2.7 total) or relative to the base figure?
Location: London, Hertford, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Nope

Technologies: CSS, HTML, enough JS to get by. Simple design.

Portfolio: http://quilor.com

Email: roy@quilor.com
Is it just my imagination, or are black people overrepresented in the top 5?
Not reading Facebook posts with any regularity can be a good way to improve your mood and not have to worry about what your life looks like compared to anyone else. But it's unfortunately now the biggest messaging app out there.

I switched to only having Messenger installed on my phone. If I really want to visit the site, I do so through the browser, and I post once or twice a year. I also have an extremely small list of friends on their compared to most people I know. This has let me strike the balance between being able to contact people easily and not feel like Facebook is a daily part of my life.
They're proud Americans.
Beating Uber with a PostgreSQL prototype
Oh, yes. The great Xilinx Parallel Cable III. Still works a treat!
I've used Python a lot more than Groovy but one thing I find myself missing from Python and other scripting languages since I discovered Groovy is the ability for a standalone script to retrieve its dependencies on startup. What this means is that if you put

@Grab(group='foo', module='bar', version='1.0.0')

at the top of randomscript.groovy you will have bar available to import by the time the script starts.
SpaceX successfully landed another rocket on a drone ship
It's low mental load, nonexisting physical load, not work. There isn't anything else they would rather be doing at that time, they can cruise through on automatic, the interaction with the environment is with simple direct manipulation... You might as well ask how can some people spend 168 hours a week breathing with no loss in oxygen capacity.
In addition to Namecoin there's also Onename, which used to use Namecoin and has now migrated to Bitcoin. Details on why and how it works are on their blog:

http://blog.onename.com/
I’ve got a few questions for virtual reality filmmakers
That's a good point. For those unfamiliar, see:

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm

Essentially, the intern has to be a burden to your organization. Granted, I've had coworkers who would qualify for that...
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Oh sweet, I didn't know that! :)
That paper has been criticised, e.g. by [1]:

doesn't measure trafficing, it only measures how many incidenses of trafficing are detected by the government. [...] This is important because we'd expect law enforcement detected cases of trafficking to go up under legalization, even if legalization reduced the actual number of trafficking victims. When prostitution is legal, victims of trafficing have less to fear by going to law enforcement (therefore making it more likely they will do so) and law enforcement can concentrate their efforts on prostitution operations that are still trying to avoid law enforcement, thus increasing their efficiency.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/49ivf2...
Easiest way to ensure no one was pissed off at the decision not to go with Boaty McBoatface.
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Whoever is interested in buying one: https://aisler.net/tltx/swc_usb/swc_usb
Oh yes, it is pretty widely available. What I meant was that it was smaller and easier to vendor: for example, you can produce an SQLite-style amalgamation file for it.
Eclectic software developers | Florence, Italy ONSITE | Italian language proficiency needed

Develer is a not so small company that develops software for third parties; our team is composed of passionate people who enjoy coding and learn new technologies. We are looking for software engineers to grow one of our teams working on embedded products.
The technologies we use are very varied, ranging from C++/Qt to React Native, from Go to Python because we work on very different projects: home automation software, medical equipment, mobile apps to control industrial machines.

We offer a developer-centric environment with the following benefits:

* 24/7 office access: work any time of the day you are more productive.

* Large desks in quiet offices, with large or multi monitors and powerful PCs

* Symmetric 100Mb internet

* Informal environment: free coffee, drinks and snacks, relax room with fussball, retrogaming, consoles, music instruments...

We require at least 2 weeks per month onsite and proficiency in Italian language.

Send us your CV and some code examples at https://www.develer.com/jobs/
With the caveat that yours and the version above are not the same. With properly written systemd units (e.g. using the notification API to signal when it's actually operational) the former will have fully started foo again before stopping bar (ignoring the lack of error handling in both examples..). Which may or may not matter.
ANDROID4ALLPEOPLE: The Anatomy of an Android Application
I understand, but as academics become "administrators" and their goals shift, there is a non-zero chance of the academics metamorphosing (or gradually transforming) into "clerks".
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Show HN: Glancd, a forum built around you, your friends, and the things you do
Only a fraction of young people are "talented". At least 50% of them will be ""below average"", whatever that means.
Well, as an Edinburgh resident I'm personally mystified as to why anyone would want to live in London! :-)

[NB Of course there are perfectly good reasons for wanting to live in London - just never appealed to me!]
Or not, because the next best alternative is much more expensive than SpaceX's current pricing.

We're dealing with a corporation -- I'm not sure we can count of them to "pass on the savings".
Have been thinking the popular social apps are failing at the job of making me feel connected to the people I'm closest with. My experiences generally amount to feeds of funny cat pictures, buzzfeed articles, reposted news stories, and photos from random birthdays posted by friends who I haven't seen in years.

This early version of Glancd (launched this week!) is an attempt to solve that problem by creating social in a way that makes me feel a part of the lives of my closest friends and family.

Concept: A message message board where the forums are the people you know and the threads are the things they do.

Compliments or criticism welcome!
Nothing in their argument requires such a dichotomy - just that the "talented" people who can afford to live in these areas are drawn from all across the US, meaning that most of the young people living there are priced out. Think about Silicon Valley, for example, and what happens to all the people who grow up there without the qualifications and skills to work in the tech industry.
SpaceX Nails Rocket Landing at Sea Again
To be honest, I hadn't considered the ramifications of using the company name as part of my username. You make a good point about the potential of being mistaken for representing the company in some official capacity and I will heed your advice and register under a different username.

I'm curious about the etiquette in regards to identifying myself as a SpaceX employee though. I originally joined to relay some of my personal experiences with the company, is it generally a bad idea to identify myself as an employee, or is the bigger issue in your opinion the use of the company name within my username?

Also, if I do identify myself as an employee, do you think it would be wise to maintain two separate accounts, one exclusively for discussing SpaceX/space related matters and another one for other possibly more controversial topics or is it no longer an issue as long as I have a more generic username?

I certainly understand your position and appreciate the advice.
>Because you grow crops on the roof, weave cotton in the basement, and build for furniture on another for?

There's this thing that lets you present those expenses to consumers - it's called pricing.

You have to pay more for road maintenance - you raise prices to cover it - I now see the actual cost of your product instead of it being subsidized by my tax money regardless of using them.
Earth: a problem that solves itself, if you wait long enough.
'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after David Attenborough
So you just don't use remote filesystems? That's a solution!

Honestly, whenever the init system is configured correctly, you don't run into these problems all ops know a story about. It helps that systemd makes it easier to configure dependencies so that only the units depending on remote fs stall when it is unavailable.
Name registries still exist in GNS and they are still usefull but anyone can be a registry for anybody. So in a cultural context where a registry is mainstream, names are almost unique. But registries became contestable, you can avoid them and we have to require them to be libre, open source, and forkable.

Look this chapter in this document :

> 3.3 Relative Names for Transitivity of Delegations

> Users can delegate control over a subdomain to another user’s zone by indicating this in a new record

https://gnunet.org/sites/default/files/paper_cans2014_camera...
Why Africa Needs More Science Fiction
The waterfall model (of software development) wasn't even originally (by Herbert D. Benington in 1956) meant to by applied in a strict top-down fashion, but in an incremental and iterative fashion and by making use of prototypes, which has probably always been clear to everyone except clueless managers with no software engineering background.
http://sunset.usc.edu/csse/TECHRPTS/1983/usccse83-501/usccse...
As a Brit we don't have anything as catchy. UKGBNI, or even just UK doesn't have the same ring to it. 'Enganld' wouldn't work because we're too diverse. It would be a bit like the SpaceX folks cheering 'California' in that I'm sure a lot of them are from elsewhere.

I've come across it in a few other contexts and I take it like a football chant.
Microsoft to retire support for SHA1 certificates in the next 4 months
https://github.com/mwarning/KadNode
Alan Shepard's Mercury Mission Is Carried on by Blue Origin 55 Years Later
It's a combination of fundamentals (although a couple require you already know them) and a specific stack (e.g., Rails + AngularJS). So assuming you meant BSCS/MSCS, the only reason you wouldn't just pick up some books or online courses and learn what you needed, was that you require the discipline and accountability of a formal, paid education.

I do recommend to everyone getting an MSCS that they take the thesis option and do a project relevant to their desired job.
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On slow storage systemd has some problems. Afair you can configure it to not be as parallel. That ought to help.
4 years self-teaching programming (web)while studying biology.
1 year interning and training with C# (wanted to get experience with a static-typed language before going all-in in software development)
2 years in the web game industry (dev).
3 years in the e-commerce industry (dev, then lead).

One thing I'd change I guess, is working more on side projects to actually build things, and get computer science knowledge sooner.
Other than that, I'm quite satisfied with how things turned out and there are a lot of experiences and people I met that I wouldn't trade for anything else, so, I'd keep things the way they are. :)
This is software development and project tracking with JIRA on steroids
In my opinion Tcl really straddles the line between a language and a library. I've heard it favorably compared to GLib. When used from C it feels a lot more like a library than other scripting languages do (Tcl 8 even more so than Jim due to a greater C API surface).

I agree with you on writing in another language but presumably you wouldn't be considering libpipeline anyway unless you had to write C. My default approach when I need C to access some API is to write an extension to an interpreter from which to access it. I leave embedding an interpreter in C for when you can't do that.
1. You can't ever get a reference to regular objects that exist in other threads (workers). Communication with workers is limited to sending strings, copies of JSON objects, transfers of typed arrays, and references to SharedArrayBuffers.

2. I assume it was done at a low level so that multi-threaded C++ could be compiled to javascript (asm.js/WebAssembly).
22+ years professional history. 6 years as tech support or dev, 16 years+ as a PM

Things I would do differenly:

1) Stay technical longer. I moved into being a PM as I found it more challenging, but learning a few other languages wouldn't have hurt.

2) Start contracting sooner. It is the best thing I have ever done to improve my enjoyment of work, as well as being more lucrative and advancing my career.

3) Get a mentor when it could have made a difference.
When I was a child, I did translate knoppix boot messages, to my mother language, for a local project. In colours.

For me was great and rewarding, a nice learning experience, about livecd's initialization and linux in general at the time.

I don't feel like I could have accomplished the same experience trying to do the same with systemd (with my age and knowledge and resources at the time).

Still more difficult, being a Debian user, where systemd is not in the same shape than RHEL based distros, and documentation is out of sync, or missed in blogs...

What you propose reminds me to openrc or the gentoo dependency based init system.

I Love too the BSD/Slackware/busybox init style (single script init). But I'm a scripting mad.

One of my reasons to live, of and for, opensource, is the ethics and freedom behind it. Other one was being more K.I.S.S. on my system interactions than with MS based products.

I feel capital interests hurts some things very hard to obtain, in voluntary groups of people, using guerrilla warfare, and without any care.

Eventually I've deployed some Debian stable (Jessie) systems with sysvinit this same year, and I'm grateful that people in Debian did that option possible.

I'm not sure if a third, or a new option with modern syntax and sparse features as you say, could be better than the years we've been moving the world using sysvinit or upstart or others... but we, the tech people, seem to like new things!

Totally agree about the docs care, specially when there are distributors involved.

When there are changes in opensource, there should be a lot of more care IMHO than in closed products, and this is not always the case.

Unfortunately people, by brain nature, is driven a lot by media and marketing, two weapons of venture capital techs. And if service providers insert X and media inserts X, people who did never maintain a critical and complex deployments using X and did integrate a lot of things with them, starts talking about the smell of the clouds.

What implementation do you suggest, to reach what you propose? I think is not easy :)

My main feature request could be: reliable and malleable (not easy too).

> An improvement would be something with modern syntax, sparse features, and good docs.

Loved your tower of babel mess definition, upvoted just by that comparison.

Have a nice day.
Religion was at the center of everything when human knowledge was very limited, and religious claims could not be proved or disproved. While knowledge progresses, religion is still in the business of making claims about non-falsifiable things, but the amount of things non-falsifiable has been dramatically reduced; they have been pushed out of the center to the margin, where they can still keep on making non-falsifiable claims. They have been in a slippery slope since immemorial times: once they are caught red-handed, they adapt the message, even accepting newly established facts as an expression of their god of choice.

So yes, religion can not be disproved, since once you find out a fact which could disprove it, they basically say "you did not understand what we meant, we meant exactly this, and this how our god is responsible for this newly found fact".
Unless you're using webworkers, then javascript runs in the UI thread. If you do blocking IO in the UI thread, then things freeze.
> In opposition to what the authors see as the 'standard narrative' of human sexual evolution, they contend having multiple sexual partners was common and accepted in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.

> The book generated a great deal of publicity in the popular press, where it was met with generally positive reviews. A number of scholars from related academic disciplines such as anthropology, evolutionary psychology, primatology, biology, and sexology have commented on the book; most have been critical of the book's methodology and some of its conclusions, although some academics have praised the book.
> They should also implement a generics/template system.

What are you talking about? MyPy has supported generics since before the 0.1 release: https://github.com/python/mypy/blob/v0.1.0/docs/source/gener...
11 tips for remote development teams
It sounds like you're suggesting there could be gaps in the middle of the lane, so only the area the tyre uses is paved, but that's surely missing the bigger picture:

80' is 7 or 8 lanes for highway traffic! Why is the road so wide?
I wouldn't think twice if you had in your profile something like "I work for SpaceX." Good to know, but not the source of your opinions. Your account is young enough that you can gain all that back without the boss in your name. This isn't my first account.

Plus, and I can't speak for everyone, but as a former would-be astronaut, this kind of stuff is tops to me. Info from insiders is always welcome. Consider starting a blog.

Thanks for taking my opinions into account.
I wouldn't mind if it died a little less loudly.
What is not addressed is that the article that inspired this post says in its second paragraph:

> they were all dismissed by condescending “gurus” who simply said that we had mislocated our files (I had the free drive space to prove that wasn’t the case) or that we must have accidentally deleted the files ourselves (we hadn’t).

Further, even if it was operator error, "Is this Apple's fault? Sort of." is a pretty bizarre way to lead into "it's 100% Apple's fault that the UX is confusing"(last quote paraphrased).
Hi everyone!

This is my first web-application that I created together with my brother.

It all began during a discussion about how disorganized my bookmarks are and how great it would be if there was a better way to save and organize our favorite websites. The discussion turned into a project and evolved into Buttons.

We know there are a few bookmarking apps out there, but none have a simple, uncluttered design, and most of them focus on social bookmarking or have too many ads. I also believe in the purity of code, minimal page load, and user performance. I built this application from scratch using no libraries, nor frameworks.

Your feedback about the design and our features is highly appreciated!

Cheers,

Owen
What does that retreat mean? What happens there? Sorry, never heard of such a thing so i'm curious.
That's written by a well known feminist anti-pornography and anti-prostitution activist, who was accused by her research assistant of fabrication and misrepresentation of data...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Farley
Quite a nice look. It's interesting how Physics and geometry problems are often best indicated with rough hand-drawn diagrams. If you draw a freehand triangle with chalk on a board, you can't help but seeing it as an idealised triangle - an indication of some symbolic representation engine in the brain.
They are overrepresented in popular music generally. Pretty much all pop music is derived from forms developed by african-americans: blues, jazz, disco, techno etc.
What are these "security concerns"?
'Boaty McBoatface' Ship to Be Called RRS Sir David Attenborough
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This is one of those turning points in human history.
"The name Boaty McBoatface will live on in the form of the ship’s remotely operated submarine, which will be dispatched from RRS Sir David Attenborough to allow the research crew to collect data and samples from the Arctic and Antarctic."
Genetic Code Has Its Limits
Interesting how some themes changed completely. You would never expect to hear "ballad of green berets" as top song anymore.

I think there is noticeable deterioration in music quality of the top hit during the past millenia. I guess it's combination of several factors: music getting cheaper, youngsters getting more money. And people in their thirties having more and more options on what to listen, so they are less likely to herd the record store on any one given single. I'd say music was still good in 86. (I was born then.)

From 2001 onwards it seems the teens started to swarm billboard social 100 or something. Boybands are out and music is suddenly OK again.
The problem is rather the combination of:

1. 2-3 floors houses, so low population density

2. narrow, middle-age style streets which means commuting by car is close to impossible

3. public transports already used way over their capacity (it's a small miracle every morning that on over-crowded tube platforms which do not have doors that people do not get pushed / fall on the tracks while the trains are accelerating 10cm away from their face - a miracle only thanks to british commuters being overly calm and courteous).

4. Very restrictive planning permissions which makes it very difficult to build anywhere outside of a few spots, which become covered with sky scapers, and a gvt / local councils determined to keep the real estate bubble going at any cost, including sponsoring 100% LTV loans with tax payer money, instead of allowing new developments.
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Depends on the disease. Disclaimer, I'm not a doctor or researcher! YMMV

Those diseases with active bad genes controlling the behavior of cells that are replaced at a fast rate would be more likely to effectively disappear after just the treatment, such as some blood or skin diseases.

Those who changes how the body grows (like say skeleton growth or other cells with slow replacement) would still leave the body in the condition it was in just before the treatment. They would effectively be chronic unless you can simultaneously fix the existing faults using for example surgery or a secondary therapy.

But they wouldn't continue to deteriorate in the cases where the continued activity of the bad gene drives the deterioration.

And syndromes caused by genes that only had to be active once (like in childhood) and now is dormant won't get fixed by gene therapy (but it MIGHT prevent it from being hereditary, if properly propagated in the body)
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Physicists explore superconductivity at the two-dimensional limit
The Fire Next Time - a book everyone should make time for. Short. Brilliant. Until I read I never grasped the utter lack of integrity in the world around me.
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Genesis is metaphorical.