skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If any font maker read this. I would like to have a "bitmap" monospace font as a true type font in the same size as Consolas 15px.
With "bitmap" I mean high contrast super crisp, pixel perfect, that don't lose contrast without sub-pixel-antailias.
Are you referring to the touch ID replacement, or storage upgrade?
For everyone who thinks rails installs too much by default, and hasn't ever tried `rails -h` - here are some options:

--skip-gemfile
--skip-git
--skip-keeps
--skip-active-record
--skip-sprockets
--skip-spring
--skip-javascript
--skip-turbolinks
--skip-test-unit
If a bank has any reason to suspect that funds they are handling involve laundering they have very clear responsibilities to report them, and have strong incentives to do so as the watchdogs have real teeth.

It's rich because the police and banks in the UK can and do co-operate with the Italian authorities on criminal activities occurring in Italy, but at the end of the day the crime happened in Italy. Only someone with an axe to grind and predisposition against London would blame that on London.
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back when the only choice was terminal.app and iterm, iterm2 was a breath of fresh air. unfortunately, over the last 3 or so years, more and more features have been added that i will never use and the app has started to feel bloated. is there a minimalist alternative?
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Capital, which the government is trying to diminish by desperately printing money and forcing zero- or negative- interest rates to inflate the debt.
"If such a decency level would be available, I would be their customer" I guess others would too.
TuneCore CEO Praises YouTube
“Trying to displace low-cost lab tests is just such a tough area.”

"Disruptive innovation" fail.
As reference there are/were tools in something like MSSQL for dealing with XML.
The impossible task of creating a “Best VPNs” list today
In my experience, databases outlast the applications built on top of them, so it makes no sense to cut corners on the data modelling.

Except, of course, if the data only exists to support the application (some sort of buffer, cache, or session storage).
Your excessively close minded "blind patriotism" approach is exactly what is wrong with america.

"If you loved austailia so much, move back."

It's the same general concept that's pushed on outsiders and people with outside ideas of how to make america better. You are so deeply indoctrinated with your tiny world view that even debating other ideas is too much for you.
That's with a loadable JSON1 extension, which one won't find e.g. in Android.

Though checking now for this, someone has packaged a later version of SQLite with this extension [1]. I wonder if there is any possible performance advantage when using a system provided SQLite vs. one installed with the application?

[1] https://github.com/requery/sqlite-android
Many artists feel that the current state of affairs does harm them.
Bayesian Deep Learning
Thanks for that, I'll remember to add that myself in the future.
He begged on the streets once. Today, this entrepreneur owns an Rs 300m company
Princeton doesn't have any professional schools so no law degrees, medical degrees, or MBA's to fill the ranks with...
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Lots of websites have those browser requirements. Many of them aren't written in Rails. Care to explain your "absolutely confirms" logic?
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You fell in love with La Femme Nikita (1990)
Here is the newest one:

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My partner and I just kicked this off. We've got 6mo of runway and must acquire 100k freelancers in that time. Its chicken & egg, of course, we've decided to start on the talent side.

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The first beta release of PostgreSQL 9.6 is ready for download
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We worked very hard with our bandwidth providers to be able to provide the same pricing structure in India as in all of our other regions. It's taken us close to 2 years from first initially investigating the possibility of a datacenter in India to finally getting one launched.

We're very excited about it! =]
How do you know contrarian ideas?
if possible name startups that had bad ideas but became unicorns.
For SNAP they did the analysis of various policy steps that could result in administrative savings - https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/images/pubs... (it's a very wide image, so zoom in and scroll to the right until you hit "Policy Options").

Eliminating the asset test (the area where undoubtedly some government employees work full-time) would actually increase the program cost. Most of the savings are actually derived from juggling the numbers behind "the cost of a nutritious diet".

I am personally not opposed to going full-throttle on something like SNAP - just send a free card to anyone with a SSN who requests one (I am sure agricultural and retail lobby would concur), but I think the potential savings are overblown - Medicare, SS and SNAP are generally tightly administered.
Maybe because it's easier to launch something that is motivated by profit (for a few people) than anything else?
I think a simpler point to make would be that no one should have special standing in the legal system except when issued a specific warrant. If one person can get this data without a warrant, then why would there be any kind of barrier against anyone else requesting this type of data for whichever individuals they feel like investigating/stalking/whatever? If there is a problem with that then someone has a responsibility to protect this data from EVERYONE who lacks a warrant.
inb4 dang comes and kills the fun
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The Bay Area does not have the 2nd worst traffic - off the top of my head, NYC, LA, and DC are often ranked higher in most articles on worst traffic, and from experience, I at least know that NYC and DC have it far worse.
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Make with Ada: ARM Cortex-M CNC controller
I wrote a docker-101-tutorial that's interactive to allow people to get Docker 'under their fingers':

http://ianmiell.github.io/docker-101-tutorial/
I was working on a massive CRUD project - hundreds of end-user customisable textarea fields. Despite this sounding like a project perfect for a NoSQL database, the in-house team that would be maintaining it were MySQL experts, and didn't want to support MongoDB or anything like that.

So, yep, we stored everything as serialized objects in the database. We had a separate table for 'change events', and whenever someone changed the contents of one of the textareas we stored it in that table. A worker would eventually update the the serialized object, but in the meantime, we would load the serialized object and apply all of the changes that had happened since it was last updated. Basically, an Event Sourcing pattern.

So it was either that, or the EAV route, or the 'end user altering the database' route. The latter two options sounded even worse. Our solution worked out pretty well. Admittedly, it only had a few hundred concurrent users, and even the biggest document was never more than 100K.

So, it can work, but YMMV.
Ask HN: How do you know contrarian ideas?
if possible name startups that had bad ideas but became unicorns.
Difference between a geek and a nerd?
I would like to shed some light on this "mafia expert".

Saviano is officially known in Italy to be a writer, way more than a journalist - actually he was completely unknown before his first book "Gomorra", which made him famous, and he admitted not to be "a journalist, (nor a reporter), ... but a writer" (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/24/mafia-autho...). I would add that in Italy he is pretty known to be a good show-man, even more than a writer.
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> So cheating would be a bad decision, since it may drastically affect your visibility on the site.

And may be one of the primary reasons for this "feature". I don't blame them, they are a marketplace and should encourage transactions on their platform.
The ‘three hares’ motif is an ancient mystery for our times
I found myself agreeing at first, but today, you could make much the same argument about computers, by which I mean the term "computer" is so overloaded from the original definition of a "machine to compute numbers/equations".

If you approach a more general definition, something like "a computer is machine capable of interpreting arbitrary instructions in arbitrary ways that as long as those instructions follow arbitrary rules can achieve arbitrary ends", saying a brain is an equivalent machine hardly seems reductive. It mainly seems pointless.
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That 7th century cult would've been defeated by Syria's military and other forces. How about letting countries defend themselves and fight their own wars and revolutions instead of interfering in their internal politics and making a mess nobody cleans because that kind of "cleanup war" would not be profitable?

We don't need to globalize every f conflict by meddling in...

And if we don't do this, we won't have to feel morally responsible and give welfare to refugees...
I'm not anywhere near an In-and-Out right now but I did learn: A) they have a secret menu, B) Animal fries look delicious[0].

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HPE wants Oracle to pay $3B for breach of Itanium contract
What caused ISIS?
The war in Afghanistan, and especially Iraq. The dictator was toppled, and not effectively replaced. Saddam may have not been the nicest guy, but he lead a fairly stable country. He was firmly in charge.

By not effectively replacing the leader of a country, it leads to a power vacuum, looking for someone to take that power. ISIS grew to fill that void. If you displace them, someone else will come along and take that power, potentially even worse than ISIS
As a med student/programmer, I thoroughly appreciate this write up. Excellent job, OP.

A funny aside: many of my classmates own Apple watches/Fitbit HRs. I've heard of at least one student looking back at her heart rate data from finals week and saw spike to 120 bps that was maintained throughout one of our more stressful 8-hour exams. Her fitness tracker registered it as "exercise."
The three Vitruvian values of architecture would be the standard for any software we would ship: Quality, Function, Beauty.

I know that "serving no wine before it's time" is a dated strategy but that's the way we would roll. (Look how messy iOS9 rollouts have been.)

It would be smartphone oriented and designed to help the desperate and disenfranchised via services at large. (Shelter, water/food, drug rehab, mental health, education jobs. etc.)

I would "monetize it" or generate the funds to support the software via donations so ultimately it would be a non-profit.
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Post-scarcity isn't nonsense, it's a distant future that will lead to vast social upheaval long before it's actually achievable. The problem is long term structural unemployment numbers that will continue to grow until our current economic system is no longer feasible.
Three hares