skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Lots of websites require a browser that was released in the last 2 1/2 years?

I think you're seeing the web through SV tinted glasses.
"... a strong desire by incumbents to keep the place the same and not turn it into skyscraper-filled Guangzhou. For a lot of people not building housing is an important priority in their life that they will fight for."

Which is totally reasonable.

You or I may not like it, or disagree with it, or work against that idea, but it's incorrect to claim that incumbent property owners (anywhere) protecting their perceived value in the status quo is somehow wrong or morally bankrupt or misinformed or illiberal.
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Hackers Are Using New Tricks to Deliver Ransomware
i would say that valuing Theranos' IP at $76M is very generous as their portfolio of non-core patents has nothing to cover their proprietary Edison or whatsoever.

Given such generous valuation and multiple does that means Theranos' revenue is just somewhere between $8M (100x as Uber) or $800K (less fund ever raised)? That would be pathetic.
How SaaS Companies Track Customer Acquisition
I am curious that if we do get to Mars can we simply dig down or go under a mountain for warmth? You would not need a full on tunnel, just a system similar to geothermal heating
What is there to gain by putting your database in a container? A database probably has its own dedicated server so, your probably not deploying databases often and there's the added complexity of making your data persistent.
I can think of reasons for a lot of the colleges that produce many more congress members than their rank might lead one to guess (Georgetown is in DC, the military academies seem to make sense).

But why is Wesleyan such an outlier? It is a fine school, of course, but so are many of the others. Do they have some powerhouse poli sci program I am unaware of?
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I trained a machine to tell apart Trump and Clinton. Here's what it learned
The article is not talking about config files, which is one of the few valid reasons to do this, as with a config file you're almost always going to just want the whole thing once at initialization.

And even then, only if there's loads of config values. If you've only got 5 or 10, that solution is bad.

The article is implicitly talking about business objects.
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From another comment here, and his own words to describe how he arrived at his vision, it sounds like he's walking around his own factory and realizing it's set up very inefficiently.

I mean, maybe he just figured this out, but it does sound a lot like "shoot first, ask questions later" being spun into a positive.

Or, in less polite terms, "Not everybody's factory processes are as messed up as Tesla's."
>> "the remaining ones living isolated lives in alien countries with those countries supporting them by spending billions of dollars every year"

You're just assuming that refugees won't integrate. I know quite a few refugees all of whom are living good lives in their new countries and work in good jobs. Anecdotal evidence of course but you aren't providing any evidence for your statement.

>> "taking on ISIS once and for all"

What does that mean? It sounds like you think other countries can go in and kill 30-40k people and it'll be over. It's an ideology. Take the head off ISIS and someone else will emerge. They aren't the first extremist group and they won't be the last unfortunately.

>> "billions of ppl would like to move to Europe or USA"

Again, show me your evidence. From what I've seen a lot of refugees were very happy in their own countries. They had good careers, large families, and lots of friends. They were left with no choice but to leave or die. Your view of countries outside of Europe/the USA is likely heavily tainted by the media.
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Same story for me in SF. Would love to come back to Toronto if companies start compensating fairly.
Indeed you are right - I got my number from 24heures.ch, and it is comparing the number before both tunnels vs. the time after both are open:

http://www.24heures.ch/suisse/Le-tunnel-de-base-du-Gothard-r...
It does help with browser quirks, but if you aren't supporting <IE10, then you really don't need it. I've made it a point to pull out jQuery from every project I have. Nowadays, I can test in Chrome as I develop and then test any other browsers at the very end and I rarely have any browser specific bugs. Crazy how far web dev has come.
Can Cities Create Their Own Thunderstorms?
Dalai seems to be a mere mortal after all, and prioritizing Tibet over compassion in this case.
Guide to figuring out the age of an undated world map
Bucardo replication workarounds for extremely large Postgres updates
And even in the 00s, pre-Bezos, it was hitting stuff out of the park:

2014 - Stop and Seize -- this series about police confiscating hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists without charging crimes was a hugely eye-opening piece of investigative journalism...was widely discussed on HN too, IIRC: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/collection/st...

2013 - The WaPo shared in the Snowden-related Pulitzer, but on its own, I feel that it did some of the best work off of the material -- both in a technical and journalistic sense, including this one about NSA infiltrating Google data centers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...

2010 - Top Secret America -- this to me was a highly underrated project that attempted to expose how utterly out-of-control and ungainly America's national security apparatus is. If you read it before the Snowden revelations, you probably would have just nodded your head: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

And many more...It's unfortunate that a lot of resources are now being poured into aggregate-Upworthy-baity-headline crap...but honestly, even that material is pretty good. It's just super unfortunate that their headline writer has completely engorged themselves on social media marketing. WaPo truly has some of the worst headlines of any professional publication today.

edit: as an example of some of the great work under the "PostEverything" banner, which seems like kind of the WaPo's attempt to compete with Vox/BuzzFeed/Daily Mail...I bookmarked this piece from a widow trying to explain how "the second year without my husband is in some ways harder than the first"...one of the few non-technical bookmarks on my Pinboard. In retrospect, the headline isn't bad, but the writing is still profound...I've actually been visiting WaPo via URL directly just to see what guest columns have been published...just need a plugin to hide the headlines:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/04/...
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“Old” trendy creates more wealth than “new” trendy in May
This is why I moved upstate. Construction doubled my commute last week -- 15 minutes.

When I need to get to Manhattan, it takes me about 30 minutes more than it takes you to do so on a bad day, in the relative luxury of an Amtrak car.
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that opening ceremony tho...
The center of gravity of the shell starts coincident with the center of gravity of Earth. So as long as the shell keeps its integrity, and the center of mass of the Earth is inside the spherical shell, it is effectively unattached to the Earth by gravity.

Let's also assume that the first round of robot-building made the Earth a perfectly smooth ellipsoid. So now you have a spherical shell on a spherical planet, standing on trillions of robot wheels. All the robots sync up, and do some math, and at the same millisecond mark, start turning their wheels.

So the shell starts spinning faster than Earth. Its increase in angular momentum is subtracted from Earth's angular momentum. The robots now have to link arms pretty tightly to keep their wheels in contact with the surface. They connect to each other with cables of adjustable length.

Escape velocity at Earth's surface is about 11.2 km/s. That's not practical due to atmospheric drag. Even a stable orbit at 200 km altitude requires 7.8 km/s. So the shell runs as fast as it can in air. Then all the robots simultaneously jettison their legs and spool out their cables, and the whole thing jumps in altitude.

Now they start sacrificing. The robots nearest the spin axis twist as hard as they can on their own cables, slowing their own spin and increasing that of the remaining robots in the shell. Then they let go and drop back to Earth. The next opposing rings of robots do the same. Eventually, you reach a point where a spherical ring section of the shell is spinning fast enough to keep the linkages under a reasonable amount of tension, entirely outside the atmosphere.

Now each robot deploys a solar sail, and angles it to accelerate the ring towards the winter end of Earth's axis, until Earth gravity starts pulling it back. Then the sails tack, and start pushing in the opposite direction. It's like pumping your legs on a playground swing. Eventually, the entire ring achieves Earth-escape velocity and flies off. Then you repeat with a new shell.

[Edit:] Actually, let's make the shell an ellipsoid with greater eccentricity than the Earth during the spin-up phase. The robots nearest the poles can therefore keep running with wheels on the surface until their arms get torn off. Then the polar discs get sacrificed.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?
I have several machines around the country that I need to remotely manage. Team Viewer has been unreliable and I'm looking to move our organization away from it.

Can anyone recommend a better remote management solution?
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We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that :)

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A paper "transitioning" has nothing to do with if the spirit of the paper is alive; aka WaPo spirit is dead, company lives on.

99% of the papers in the US are trash; the fact that you'd compare WaPo to them speaks to your knowledge of the industry and WaPo itself.
It's when no one believes in your idea for some time and you have just a few people who agree with your idea.

Airbnb
SpaceX
Amazon Echo?
I've thought about picking up sports again. A lot of my friends and fond memories as a kid came from my dad's Softball team. That isn't a bad idea at all thanks!
How does that happen? People's reservation wage goes up with income, not down.

I used to think that a BI would work, ten years ago, well before the current craze. But it was wishful thinking that I had never been challenged on.

We do know that an EITC or NIT increases work hours. It would make a lot of things that are wasteful economically viable for both parties.
> Churches are definitely a great community resource, but I imagine that many people (myself included) don't want to be preached something we don't believe in every week even if it means losing out on those community benefits.

Participating in a healthy church is way too much work if all you get out of it is the community benefits. Healthy churches:

* feed and clothe people

* take care of the abandoned people in society (foster kids, shut-ins, people with personality disorders, the homeless, people with immigration problems, addicts)

* talk people into apologizing to each other (yeah, like your mom and her sister after all these years)

* educate themselves about local issues (homelessness, drug use, poverty, etc.) with a mind towards helping somehow

* mentor and provide structure for prisoners and ex-prisoners

* are involved in global relief... they've been doing charity-water-style projects for millenia

* do all the normal boring stuff involved in maintaining and funding an organization with facilities

* do intense critical analysis (including studying dead languages) of the Bible and related resources

* provide educational opportunities to underpivileged children

* put on an 90-120 minute A/V production once a week

* provide huge amounts of child care services, including background checks, training, instilling best practices to ensure safety of children, etc.

* provide therapy for people that need it (techniques here vary a lot but every church does it somehow)

* provide mentoring and care for people entering new life stages (newlyweds, new couples, divorcees, recently widowed, etc.)

That is to say it only makes sense to explore if you are interested in God. If you aren't, consider looking for something else and good luck on your journey.

Yes, there are people (many of them) who just show up sometimes for the A/V portion of the weekend, but that's pretty much missing the point. Unsurprisingly, they tend to have a rougher time 'getting' the whole church thing.
Well, it's "not the normal scientific method." Although it's arguably a part of it. My objection may have been a bit strenuous, as the key word here is "pilot study." This is a pre-study study. Their only "hypothesis" here is "is a basic income experiment with real people even at all feasible"

They don't yet have a real hypothesis about basic income, at least not that they have presented. The questions here (https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income) are rhetorical and vague, which make for very bad hypotheses.

Personally I do not believe this study, as I see it described now, will yield any useful scientific knowledge. The results, if they seem favorable, will be used to influence public policy without regard to actual scientific merit and society will be subjected to the real experiment.

I would be much less concerned if I saw someone with a rigorous background in mathematics and economics developing an actual predictive model that could be falsified with specific tests. When the inputs are vague ("people") and the conclusions are subjective ("are people happy?") it is not scientific method.
Because every time that I've had to deal with the exchange of data to and from Salesforce it has been a massive headache. I also would strongly prefer to see Demandware stick to their agenda of using modern Javascript as a backend language that powers the platform, but now I worry that's going to either stall or be adjusted to use something else.
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I feel like this is a surprisingly common response (especially since so many people in the tech world meet a lot of practicing-but-nonreligious Jews). I have a lot of respect for UU organizations, but I just don't feel like I fit in with it, and I haven't found a good substitute. Solstice parties and their ilk are A) too rare for community-building and B) sort of a pallid imitation of real organizations.

Hobby groups and community organizations offer a bit of this, but it seems like there's a fairly specific identity/culture gap that's not easily filled with anything else for non-Jewish atheists/agnostics.