skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Retool and equip yourself with valuable and skills that are in demand.

So precisely how does the US allow people to do that? Which programs are available which will keep a family of 4 fed, sheltered and clothed while the parents retool because their jobs are shitty and probably doing illegal things, and they know for a fact that the second they call their company out they're going to get fired?

No, you shouldn't be protected from your job actually disappearing (past getting paid off) - but you should be protected from your employer being awful.
Pricing for telepresence robot on the market varies from @300 to $15,000.http://telepresencerobots.com/comparison
It's good to have a rental service, but what would the rental price? What model of telepresence robot will you offer?

BTW, you should have a favicon for your website. It looks bad on the browser tab.
I weep to see people sharing my viewpoints. Too often, quasi-professional observers of industries would make stupid anecdote examples into attention grabbing but misleading and ultimately stupid stories.

To add to your examples (and to bring this closer to hearts of Hacker news audience): Google released Gmail, GMap, GWT, etc. after its initial success; Amazon unleashed AWS after domination of online marketplace; Microsoft jumped into Xbox after establishing itself as "the tech company." Most notably, Apple is only accepted as a mainstream "innovator" (with the slew of products like iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc) after its revival and domination; before that, they were merely a niche player and their products (the many colorful boxes) were never quite celebrated as later creation as market leader.
I think it's still ripe for abuse.

Case 1:

I write "I love cats!" You RT it. I edit it to "I am Al Queda." The FBI visits you.

Case 2:

I write "I am Al Queda." I edit it to "I love cats!" before you see it. You like cats, too, so you RT it. The FBI has a slow feed, so they see that you endorsed my Al Queda membership. They pay you a visit.

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From a systems point of view, when your whole stack is designed around immutability (so you can serve archives of past tweets from append-only CDNs, for example) it may be nigh impossible to add editing.
SF has far fewer trees than other cities. I agree that the city needs more trees but the city should plant them on sidewalks and other open spaces.

http://www.deeproot.com/blog/blog-entries/tree-cover-how-doe...
also https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/Landcover-Raster-D...
Good, they should have done this a long time ago.

It always would have been trivial to remove URLs from the data and throw it into metadata, where character limits do not matter.

Shame it took 2446 days for this basic idea to come to fruition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=804977
I was talking more about making it as regulated as alcohol and smoking are today, given that the actual side effects are no worse (and in fact might be more preferable).
Show HN: Animated list of common problems in curve fitting
The drivers stopped at the stop sign for significant periods of time are actually waiting for the stop sign to turn green.
Intel didn't miss the smartphone market. It simply made no sense (and still makes no sense) to go after a less profitable market.

When the margins on x86 cross below that of ARM chips, Intel will come in and destroy all the ARM manufacturers.
How to read papers without falling into a rabbit hole?
Bioscope – Making Video Creation Social (Unlike what video creation is today)
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My only question is if it is required that they mention 'I have cramps' explicitly publicly. Not sure if their menstrual cycle is anyone's business. There's also no reason for it to be taboo, but not sure where the balance of 'it is nbd, deal with it!' vs 'I do not really want to broadcast this information to my teammates' is.
The request is usually accompanied by "without singing" because they definitely know this trick.

In fact I think it's mostly not a test they use, or if it is it's to see how the person handles it, not that they can actually do it.
Edit seems much harder to implement. This basically adds some metadata to the Tweet model instead of embedding it within the body text. That's a change and it needs to be implemented all over, but it is pretty backwards compatible.

It seems that one of the fundamental assumptions is that Tweets are immutable. Changing that could break all kinds of things and would probably their systems significantly more complicated.
It is worth mentioning that building into the sky is expensive. Easy sure. But expensive. Each floor is more expensive than the one below it.

I'm not sure what the premium is though. Anyone know? What's the added cost for an apartment building as you go up?

Seattle has a lot of 2+4 construction. Where it's 2 floor concrete and 4 floors wood. I believe the limit used to be 2+2 but they raised it. Cheaper construction costs but also cheaper quality. These plastic and cardboard buildings won't be standing in 100 years that's for sure. Or so I'm told.
> When the margins on x86 cross below that of ARM chips, Intel will come in and destroy all the ARM manufacturers.

Unless the world has moved on. Profitability happens over time, so even declaring a market unprofitable may shut you out for ever.
Just imagine the gargantuan changes that could be necessary for small tweaks like that. Twitter was built on RoR originally, so it was probably a pretty standard relational model, then they did massive scaling for huge read/write loads, then they did massive scaling for real time features, god knows how hard it would be just to add a foreign key. I really, really, want to take a day and just go through all their engineering blogs after only glimpsing a few..
Have a look at Kano on the raspberry-Pi even if you don't buy the kit you can download the image. It is a really well put together package which I can't recommend highly enough.
http://blog.kano.me
HA! San Fransisco is a dirty, 2 fisted drinking town, full-stop. It is not 'one of the most beautiful cities in the world'. Try Hamburg or Vienna. It is a port of call for those looking to escape polite society, be they gays, Chicanos, drunk miners, Russian trappers, whores, Burners, or whatever else isn't talked about on 5th Ave. Do not delude yourself into thinking San Fransisco's people care about anything but the prices of their vices. That is what makes SF great, it just wants to get sloppy drunk. Do whatever else you want.
Technical curiosity---if I use such a client, and two block chains disagree (on, say, some history that affects the current operation), then won't I end up choosing and sticking one?
Finding the core of an idea always takes more time than writing a wall of text. But in a world where a message is read much more often than it's written it makes no sense to offload this cost onto the reader.
MAL: A MyAnimeList Command Line Interface
Thanks for the reply, I am still searching but feeling a bit more optimistic now.
I will keep your advice in mind anyway I can.

It is quite hard to network living where I live right now, but I am trying to get out more to where people are. I am not sure where I can "network" online but I will try to figure that out in the coming days, maybe I should be more involved in online groups that do things that interest me.

I feel quite frustrated that I still don't have a job when some of my colleagues are making some progress, but this time allowed me to be more mindful on where I am at and what I might want.
I might not do well working for other people for a long time. I want to gain first hand experience and eventually create a company with people I meet along the way. For now I just don't know how to get there.

The original post was way more personal, that is mostly the reason for the throwaway account.
Thanks again.
All of Pennsylvania in general is highly undervalued. I spend one or two weekends in PA every month and am always puzzled by how little attention and investment there has been in the state during the last few economic booms.

PA is littered with top notch universities from corner to corner. It's culturally and historically richer than almost anywhere else in the US. You have a lush, green resource-rich landscape as far as the eye can see (and definitely no water scarcity). Absurdly affordable housing with a surplus of incredible historic architecture. Walkable colonial-era villages and small tightly clustered cities with intact historic shopping districts. Endless square footage of unused warehouse spaces. Huge beautiful parks including old growth forests, mountains, rivers. Fairly decent mass transit in the Philly area at least, (and a lot of legacy transit infrastructure ready to spring back to life at some point).

I'm not just talking about Philly and Pittsburgh either - so many smaller "rust belt" type cities in PA with so much to offer that are just completely overlooked. Like the entire Lehigh Valley for instance. Harrisburg is actually a really cool city when you get to know it - very diverse, lots of smart people there, excellent breweries and a lot of economic growth.

Plus we often overlook the fact that Pennsylvanians largely founded the SF Bay Area in many ways - look at the map of the SF Bay and you'll see the markers of PA everywhere. (hint the street grid of San Francisco is named after Philadelphia's)..

I think the main things that have held back PA is 1) it's been overshadowed by NYC 2) property taxes are absurdly high 3) it's still got a rust belt stigma to shake..

But otherwise for tech folks if you've never been it's really worth checking out
Yeah but of the 75mill iphone sold per quarter, how much are to old customers and new?

Be careful! at 95% world-wide saturation for smartphones the answer is very different now than it was in 2009...
Yes, many states in the US (and I presume other governments at some level around the world) have BAC level tests that are a legal limit which has a strong scientific correlation to of resulting in impaired driving and decision making.

I think there might be some debate over variance of correlation among different ethnicity and experience level of particular users, but I cannot recall any actual disagreement about the current legal BAC limits being close enough for the general population.

However that is the point being made by the parent article; that while presence of alcohol in someone's blood does have that strong scientific correlation there is as yet no strong scientific correlation for any of the legal limits currently in place.
I was with him 100% right until "as part of the systemd project". This isn't even about politics anymore, what the hell does application distribution have to do with init daemons? Is systemd just a dumping ground for whatever idea they currently think is great? One gets the impression that if Poettering wrote Pulseaudio today, he'd roll it into systemd...
Whilst Twitter has someone tweet the occasional gem, it's genuinely few and far between. I honestly feel that the format was great when it was only really programmers who used it (and even then I'm not so sure...) but limiting people to 140 characters, even discounting images and links, means most people can't convey views on most complex issues.

I have an unpopular view, but I'm firmly of the belief that all Twitter did was amplify the voice of celebrities - most of whom have not much to really say, made it easier for abusive speech to be targeted towards individuals and amplified moral outrage. Facebook has as well, but nowhere near as badly as Twitter.

Ironically, sometimes it's been for the better. But for every https://twitter.com/RabbiJason/status/728404847381204993 there is a https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/24046226568028979...

Sometimes you even get something like this:

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313417655879102464

Edit: like I say, it's an unpopular view! If only someone would tell me why my view is wrong or unreasonable. In 140 characters...

Edit 2: It's suddenly occurred to me that if someone was able to give a highly convincing argument in favour of Twitter's ability to convey all complex arguments and views and did so with a lengthy response, but there was no way of distilling the message to 140 characters... would that invalidate it?
Presumably when new robots start executing based on the signature of the smart contract and conducting tasks in line with the contract. The main goal would be the new machines, not necessarily the means to the end.
Source or it didn't happen.
Cops can tell if you're stoned. It's not that difficult. It's not like they never see it.
It seems they are doing some clever analysis of the data stored.
I created a space and added a link to the foursquare page of a local coffee shop that doesn't have "coffee" in the name or url. Then searched for "cafeteria" and got that result back. Tried the same with a local bar.
Well a whole lot of Swift 2 tutorials probably just go broken (correct me if I'm wrong).
Color 3D printing is pretty pricey still. For something of that scale you'd be looking at several thousand dollars, even breaking it down into small individual pieces.
I'm from Portland and I had smoked when I was younger as most people do, however I stopped around 20. 30 now and I smoke most days due to the legality change in OR.

Also have some friends in Denver who started back up after it became legal.

Just some more anecdotal 'evidence' to go off of.
Out of curiosity, is there a way for a non-citizen to vote?

I see the logic of requiring you to be a citizen, but it does nevertheless feel a little unfair -- I live here too, and I pay my taxes like everyone else.
It did. Even Otellini said so:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/paul-o...

And I'm not so sure they'll be able to go into ARM fabbing that easily. Margins of X86 are high, but they are selling less of them, so expanding to new market would have been a wise move.

To their credit, they tried twice and couldn't make it work. Not sure if things could have been different considering ARM is a licensable architecture other people can use.
It's a good article, with a simple-enough premise: large companies do one thing, well, and have difficulty changing to do another thing, perhaps less well at first but better later. However, this leapt out at me:

> In it’s infancy,

You'd think Harvard could afford an editor …
Did you get a lawyer? Sounds like something that a competent defense attorney could get squashed in about 10 seconds.
A pretty high fraction of each floor is apartments, the problem is that the apartments are huge. I'm pretty sure the penthouses actually span two floors. The lower floors probably have 2 or 3 units per floor.

More moderate apartment buildings would have had several units per floor, but that building was built to be the most prestigious in the city.
And regardless, while instincts are useful, I would rather analyze them and extract the underlying reasons for my instinctual reactions, rather than blindly acting on them at the emotional level. And at that point, I'm back to acting on data (though potentially drawing it from more sources, now).

In any case, to believe that your [survival] instincts are equally applicable to making sound business decisions is a bit silly, as that's pretty far removed from what they've been optimized to do.
If the idea's a complete autonomous, self-hosted system, then, of course it's interesting.

Especially, if it won't be English-only or, even better, could be taught other languages by a skilled end-user.
That's a good question. Not sure!
Jane Little, longest-serving orchestra musician, collapses and dies performing
Even Facebook has an edit feature for a long time now with a revision history of posts/comments. No issues of abuse. This isn't rocket science.
You lost me at workers "buying" fewer vacation days. Aren't they selling them? E.g. they give up 1 vacation day for $x.

Of course nobody is going to buy an extra work day, even if they like to work....
That time a patient’s heart procedure was interrupted by a virus scan
Honestly, I don't think that cute interfaces matter all that much. An ASR-33 teletype dialed into a Control Data 6600 with a Fortran compiler was a pretty damn cool thing to my ten-year-old self.
That's a recipe for disaster. You don't edit SMS, why should you be able to edit tweets?
How to Create a Powerful Voice for Your Business
oh yeah of course.. spent $15000 on lawyers already. unfortunately they are part of the eco system and i made a mistake to hire one who charges hourly at first. so he dragged it out. now i got one for a flat rate, and hopefully its done soon.
> Too bad Google isn't more aggressive at keeping malware out of the Play Store.

I don't know, how often do we hear about this kind of malware on Google Play?

Not nearly as often as I would have thought a few years back, especially given that Google does zero reviews of what gets uploaded.

I think their current system is working reasonably well, but obviously, it's not perfect.
this: http://imgur.com/a/Lm8Ia

No, seriously, pngquant is better. That said, my research into the matter is rather limited so if you know of a way to do PNG compression (while preserving transparency) and having no _noticeable_ loss of quality with ImageMagick then please do let me know.
Yup it's Buffet's favorite company in his portfolio.
How are they technically going to SMS the photos and links within 140 characters then?
You beat me to it. Very reminiscent of Manfred Macx's Python-based autonomous corporations if I'm remembering the book correctly.
To me, that suggests pairing would prevent me from ever starting to deeply concentrate on a problem.
Well, I am member of a cooperative grocery store chain, which has 10k employees and an annual income of about a billion.

A regional chain, not national or international, but sizeable.

And it works, mostly because people aren’t members to become rich.

A few years ago the sibling chains in other states (which were organized in the same model) fused into one public corporation, quickly focused on profits, and ended up with corruption, and bankruptcy.

So, we’re not going to focus too much on profit anytime soon.
That just sounds like a nice person. Union/non union would never cross my mind if someone had a head injury.

What would cross my mind, even if I was a bad person, is that it sounds totally illegal to make someone keep working with a head injury (regardless of unions).

I don't know if it actually is, but I'm guessing mid-level UPS managers don't either.
I agree they make sense for some interbank and business transactions where you have counterparty risk, and it looks like several banks are interested in developing their own ledger with the Linux Foundation - https://www.hyperledger.org/.

But I wonder what would drive mass adoption for every day users - aside from a collapse of the current financial system.

For general public it doesn't really matter if AirBnb or Uber or Whatsapp are decentralised or not - we use them because they have reached a point through network effects where they have a ton of users/liquidity, are reliable and have smooth UX.

Also, I'm not sure storage issues are a solved problem for immutable decentralised databases.

Fast global microtransactions could be a useful consumer app but so far there is little need for those. And the UX for fiat->crypto->fiat transactions and wallets is far from what it needs to be for general public.
Couldn't really take you seriously after you called San Francisco "one of the most beautiful cities in the world." Yeah - it's a hip and cool city, but I don't know... Maybe get out of the Bay Area some more and see the rest of the world?
Yeah; a legit professional won't even touch a wedding for less than $5k. The bottom 80% of the market is too flooded with students and housewives charging $500 an event to be able to make a sustainable business out of it.
Not always:

> In February 2004, for example, Formations House created three companies: Corporate Nominees, Legal Nominees, and Professional Nominees. The second company owns the other two, while itself being owned by the first company. The third company is secretary for the other two, while its own secretary is the first company. The second company is director of the other two, while its own director is the first company. These three companies then became directors, secretaries and shareholders of other structures, in an increasingly baffling multidimensional web of crisscrossing lines of control. If you looked for the companies’ real owners, the most you could eventually discover was that the original three all owned, controlled and managed each other.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/19/offshore-ce...

This was fixed in law in 2008 in the UK, but for all I know there are jurisdictions that allow these sorts of shenanigans still.
JavaScript property lookup hasn't been forced into hash table access for probably a decade now.
Things I Learned Writing a Fibonacci Generator in JavaScript
Weight is a bad example. Weight alone is a terrible indicator of health. For someone suffering from an illness, gaining 20 lbs might be a return to normalcy.

It's also very dangerous from a mental health perspective to try to encourage a weight-loss program. Many people suffer from eating disorders that may or may not be under control.
What was it on the C64? I would have thought you would have had to write a program to do it. What is the command to spawn a zombie on the C64? Or to display a gif? Or to download data from an Internet service?
At first I thought this was serious, but I'm not sure now. Surprising that a couple of responses to the grandparent say that programming doesn't require deep focus!
> Contrast that with the agreed-upon work in the WHATWG HTML Living Standard discussed at https://blog.whatwg.org/js-modules, which is relatively finalized and is being actively implemented now in all browser engines.

Just to clarify, unlike TC39, the WHATWG HTML ("Living Standard") spec requires no consensus at all in order to add new features. Consensus is arrived at once all implementers have implemented the relevant features to the stable versions of their browsers.

To say that what is in the spec has consensus at the same time as browser implementers are beginning implementation (and expressing some concern over details) gets the WHATWG process backwards.
I did. The top result for "libdispatch linux" is a third-party library, and the second one is a project from Apple with very little activity (looked like a couple dozen LOC changed since the beginning of April) that sounds very far from "winding down" and looked to be more in the mode of "hey, it's open source, so you could theoretically run it on Linux if you wanted" that libdispatch has been in for over half a decade now — so it seemed like a fair question.
its not how many unsuccessful ones, its how big of success is the successful one..
PerfMon != logman/xperf, which exercise the same API this guy was struggling with.
I used acme-tiny to secure several domains on my server, including automated renewal via cron, running as an unprivileged user that only has access to the CSR, the ACME auth key, and the directory /.well-known/acme maps to, but not the server private key. Took about an hour to secure three domains, most of which was convincing OpenSSL to produce the right three CSRs with SubjectAltName set (to cover the "www." variants so I can securely redirect them).
That's good news!
The vast majority of college athletic departments lose money due to the vast majority of athletes being revenue losers.

It's more like a salary cap system with the salary cap set at a scholarship. The "league" basically breaks even after making enormous profits on a few athletes, and losing on all of the rest.

Disingenuous to call it slave labor, especially considering any athlete can quit at any time for any reason.