skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks!

Based on our design and testing, the solar should keep the vast majority of users charged up (it has for me!). As a backup we do support USB charging as well.
I use http://marxi.co, which is an excellent markdown to Evernote tool.

This has gotten me through many college courses. Working on my second MS right now.
odds on the A-10 and B-52 still being in service when the F-35 is EOL? I'd say better than not.
Get CEO with vision :-) Somebody who can deliver validated idea but no skills to execute.
Native support for taxes and shipping
You don't need proof as in mathematical proof.

You need proof as in legal proof, i.e. a paper saying "I used it".
Analysing 1.65M versions of Node.js modules in NPM
Mr Kennedy -- this is an interesting course synopsis, it looks like you've put a lot of good work into it. The course itself is not public access, but the materials are.

> The few features that are Python 3 specific will be highlighted as such (e.g. new dictionary merging syntax).

The print statement=>function is a pretty big one too. IMO it's not too much of a wart to import it from the future in order to straddle 2.x/3.x.

Anyone else who came hoping to read actual content on how to write more Pythonic code should consult this popular reference from Pycon '07 [1].

[1] http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/han...
FWIW I tried an Impossible Food burger and was also impressed. I cooked it without condiments and found it a little nutty but definitely in the same category as meat.
Solar-storm: A security exploit with Ethereum, not just the DAO
Rust in a Week
I'll take BEAM over JVM any day.
How about EJB?
I'm struggling to think of an application I'd prefer to be on Ethereum over Bitcoin. There is simply too much trust involved in distributed turing complete programs for the idea to be practical in the short term—what kind of fool would bet on a bug-free contract with their money?
Why so dismissive? Your opinion is also colored by your experience and preferences, and is no more valid than his.

Also, there is no requirement that meat substitutes be indistinguishable from meat to be considered edible.
You never heard of World Bank, BIS, FSB, whatnot?
> we risk creating an environment where everyone has to live in fear of false scandals.

I think this is an interesting concept and needs to be brought more to light.
> We need to tax those who're benefiting tremendously from the current economy

While I agree in part with the sentiment, I think this needs to be done carefully so as not to end up in a situation where everyone is at a disadvantage.

Take for example that a higher earner is able to afford a high deductible for his yearly health expenses. If you start taxing that person heavily to the point where they can't afford that deductible anymore, all you did was to increase the bucket of people who can't afford proper healthcare.

It's not just about taxing the richer, it's about adjusting the system as a whole.

Another example, this one personal: my wife and I earn a high combined income. Because of that, we're able to afford a more expensive apartment in our city's Downtown (not luxurious by any standard, just a little above the average in our area). That frees us from having to use a car most of the time (we have one that we use sparingly and incurs minimal yearly costs), which 1) drives down car costs 2) is friendly to the environment 3) makes us happier thanks to not having a long commute and 4) somewhat (although minimally) helps local government revenue because we're paying for bus fares. If we were taxed to a point where we couldn't afford our rent anymore and were forced to move to the suburbs, we'd see a dramatic increase in car costs (more gas, more frequent maintenance), we'd be joining the ridiculous lines in traffic during our commute, which would likely lead to more stress and more health issues, and we wouldn't be part of the group of people providing revenue to the local transit authority. So it's not like high earners can be indiscriminately taxed and that would only help other people but not impact those being taxed.

This discussion also comes down to the question, "who is a high earner?" I don't think people earning $100K+ (or couples earning $200K+) should be the target here, but executives earning millions upon millions every year, as well as the corporations they run.
They also have a very different food, cultural, and military environment than the isolated hobbits would.
I'm not really sure what you're reacting to. NOTHING in my message said that everyone wanted to be vegan, nor did I imply that everyone SHOULD.

So I totally believe you. As I said, I spent a long time as a meat eater and enjoyed the taste/texture, I haven't gone full vegan despite my ethical beliefs, and I spend money on luxuries while people suffer. I'm in no place to judge other people for their choices.

I won't comment on "ethically hunting" except to say that's ethical relative to some options, not objectively ethical, but that's a discussion for later.

As for not wanting a substitute - that's fine. But there are a few groups that do:

* Those of us that don't want to kill things, but still like the taste/texture (as you can see from other comments, being vegetarian doesn't mean you hated meat, nor does it mean you loved it and miss it. All kinds exist.).

* Those that want cheaper, healthier food. As an example, the US produces a vast amount of corn, and in fact covers 35% of the global corn demand...and corn for human consumption is a tiny, tiny sliver of that corn usage. Most goes to feed animals. A lot of calories go into feeding those animals, so that they can be killed and eaten. If we convert some portion of that process into feeding people instead of animals, we've just made food (calories) cheaper. (And currently, the cheapest food is often empty calorie - ironically corn syrup factors in to that). Presumably we'd want that food to be considered tasty to people, be that by simply making vegetables cheaper, or making meat alternatives tastier.

* Those that want to reduce the impact on the world by domesticated animals raised for food. Methane is one output, but lots of sewage is another, just as an example. (Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1338/ )

If the above doesn't cover 100% of people, that's hardly a surprise. But the above is certainly greater than 0%. If you can point out what part of my message offended you, I'll see what I can do to correct it.
Here's the Full Transcript of Our Interview with DNC Hacker 'Guccifer 2.0'
Right, all those bad things you mentioned are not crimes, because we have not passed laws against them.
The links actually had the counterpoints I was going to make: hardware-level issues like device interactions and memory corruption. You're not going to figure those out just looking at source code. You need to see how the live value got inappropriately transformed by something that had no business transforming it. That said, the small counterpoints support the consensus in the links that debuggers could be relegated to a rare tool you break out rather than essential part of development. I'm personally undecided on the issue.

Whereas, I encourage Design-by-Contract interface checks, strong typing, and static analysis over TDD. You can use them in conjunction but you knock out more bugs with the former. Plus encode the assumptions in a simple way. Even better, what you knock out applies to all cases within the spec instead of what specific ones you thought to test.
Stochastic gradient actually performs better in terms of generalization performance! https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01240

The intuition for it is that when optimizing a machine learning objective all the way to machine precision, you at some point cross an (unknown) threshold where you are over-optimizing the parameters to the particular model class you're using, but that's probably too much faith in your model specification. So stochastic optimization and early stopping (before gradient is zero) provides a form of regularization.
> Scala

That means being chained to JVM. That is a big downside for me.
I think the crux of the matter is that human labor is losing its value, but the world is structured such that labor earns your place in society.

Many are losing their position in society as a result, resulting in varying degrees of dissonance and varying degrees of reactionary behaviors.

I find it difficult to blame any one group of people for their actions when they are losing at a game they never opted into and were never told the rules of. I also observe a lot of bigotry and lack of empathy coming from those who have a better grasp on this "game." It's toxic.

How do we re-adjust how we think about ourselves? What obvious truth are we missing regarding what humanity should be?
It's worth thinking about what scales and what doesn't scale so well. For example, names are relatively local conventions. We could expect to have to find better ways to describe resources, or perhaps "send processes rather than messages". Think about what's really interesting about the way Parc used what became Postscript instead of trying to define a file format for "documents" for printers ... (a programming language can have far few conventions and be more powerful, so ...)
Wish they would share some of that profiling code...
Why did Instagram thrive while others struggled to grow (fe Twitter)?
I have asked around previously. I didn't get much response. I posted a short list to my blog:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/10/bicycles-on-...

This list is not just software vendors. Some are webcomic artists. I was interested in any really tiny web operation actually making enough money to support the people running it.

I suspect the lack of response is partly due to low visibility and/or a desire to lie low. Small shops that don't want to grow into big corporations do not necessarily want excessive attention and also may not be well known enough (as a Micro ISV specifically) for other people to confidently say "Yup, this qualifies." A small shop doesn't need tons of traffic and money to support the few people working on it and may view excessive exposure as a bug, not a feature.
Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists
>So really “Segregated Witness” is about segregated signatures. Why the wacky name with the word “witness” then? I’m not sure… I think Bitcoin people just love inventing jargon.

Witness is standard term in cryptography, Bitcoin people did not invent it. For instance a signature can be a witness to the fact that you hold a particular private key[0].

>I am also confused about the security properties of the Lightning Network. What happens when one of the hubs gets popped? Can someone steal all of the unsettled transactions? Suddenly this proposed scaling element starts taking on the security properties of Bitcoin exchanges, which are notorious for being popped.

If "a hub gets popped" the attacker should be not be able to steal the unsettled transactions. If we were trusting the hubs, like say how we trust coinbase, the LN would be much much easier to design.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_knowledge
I don't dispute the figure, but in most cases when I say that phrase I'm trying to be hyperbolic to make a different point
Would you let an algorithm manage your relationships?
Without any reasons for your statement, it's just an empty contribution. Care to explain why?
> I initially thought it meant "how to have a good career", when it means "how to make a difference to the world".

This only makes sense if you read "good" as an adverb rather than a noun.
Not Just the 1%: The Upper Middle Class Is Larger and Richer Than Ever
This page has by far the worst scrolling interaction I've ever experienced.

First up : no scroll bar so there is literally no visual cue that I need to scroll. Scrolling "activates" the next portion of content.

Somewhere around the middle part : I can scroll and see the scrollbar, but WAIT! Another portion of the page starts hiding the scroll and hijacking the scrolling to show something. Uggggh again?

Scroll some more : Scroll bar appears once more! I am free to scroll to the bottom of the page. Nothing makes me hate a webpage more than some shenanigans like this that breaks what a webpage should be.
Take a look here:

https://tekkie.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/sicp-what-is-meant-b...
Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists
This hurts:

"I want people to be able to copy URLs. I want people to be able to hack URLs. I’m not ashamed of my URLs …I’m downright proud."

I was in the same boat, for a while. We stored all our state in the URL so you could just copy, bookmark, or share the link easily.

But then Apple nerfed us:

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/36650

Now our webapp is just like every other webapp, with nothing useful in the URL.
Just starting learning, and am recording going through the official docs. This is more of a documentation of my experience than a teaching resource.

Feedback on official docs so far: the ?Sized section[1] was difficult to understand as presented

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/unsized-types.html#sized
We've really tried to make this experience as smooth as possible. The product comes with a superb magnetic dash mount for your phone. Frequently our app will show up on your lock screen in iOS, so you can just slide up to launch into the video view.

We will of course leverage whatever tools both platforms provide to make the launching experience as seamless as it can be! We can also take cues from accelerometers, the OBD port, and other sensors, as you mention.
That's a great point. I wonder if there's an elegant/clean way to denote that something is vegan but not changed to be vegan. "Naturally fat-free" is good, and the sort of plant logo that some restaurants use at least avoid the word "vegan" which may help.
> building equivalent Linux products for a fraction of the cost.

Would this have actually been cheaper for the government to integrate into their processes? Even though the sticker price is $0, Linux is not actually Free as in Beer for most people and organizations.
Rmilter now can sign mail that come from certain networks as well.
Good thing Bill Gates didn't follow this advice or he might be a nurse instead of starting the Gates Foundation!
SIGINT checker for program in C
Microsoft already does one day events in their stores. My SO who's an elementary school teacher took her class to one of them.
We had a lot of fun with Trygve and we all learned a lot. I'm glad that they've been pushing at these issues.
It will be interesting to see if Swift Playgrounds on iPad changes the landscape here.

Simple intro courses, but it's got real Swift compiler + runtime, and you can call straight into all the native APIs if you jump out of the guided tour.
I almost covered this case because I knew someone would (reasonably) ask, but didn't for length.

I checked everyone's dietary restrictions beforehand. I served fake meat without informing them at my wife's request, because she knew her father (who is stubborn southerner) and brother (who is mentally handicapped) would both refuse to like it immediately. (A visit to an all-vegetarian restaurant would later prove her correct).

In all other circumstances where I've served fake meat to others it's been very openly labeled and/or pointed out.

I'm inclined to agree with everything you've said, but Thanksgiving with the in-laws is a special moral situation, vegetarian or not :)
> What obvious truth are we missing regarding what humanity should be?

Highly educated / experts in their field of interest, in a society where money is no longer relevant, since all the logistics are fully automated?

Wait. That sounds familiar, from somewhere... Wait...

UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS

I truly hope humanity reaches that state someday, and it would be so good if it did so while I'm still alive.
Why millions of Americans – including me – own the AR-15 by Jon Stokes
Ikigai – Embracing the Japanese Approach to Aging
The Secret Prototypes of Valve's VR Lab
I assume their landing page is not up to date.

https://support.number26.eu/read/000001280?locale=en

Pretty sure they have customers in Ireland (some discussion about stamp duty on debit cards few months ago)
With literally zero solar charging and under normal usage, the battery should last over a month. Most people get at least some solar charging, though! If nothing else, at least while they are driving, parked at the grocery store, etc.
What's ironic because a stable link from Wikipedia must be some great way to improve one's SEO.
> won't even try any of these, sight unseen

I don't get this sentiment. I'm not close to vegetarian, but I go out of my way to try to eat less meat and when I'm not at the discretion of others (eating out, eating over at a friends house, etc) I prioritize my favorite meat-free foods, but nobody should be saying "its not meat? No way, never gonna try it, I am a blood thirsty carnivore". Even if you're like me and don't have the time, effort, or circumstance to cut meat out entirely, you should still at least try alternatives when they are presented to you.
Ethereum Developers Launch White Hat Counter-Attack on the DAO
Thanks so much. I do agree with you on the print statement to function, although other than choosing python 3 vs 2 you don't have much control over that.

As for the materials, good link. I'll be releasing 10 of the 50 topics as a free video series outside the course over the next few weeks.
My observer take is that you two (and perhaps others) seem to disagree on the definition of the word "disagreement" (haha).

Jacques appears to take a view that disagreement (or "picking battles") is tantamount to a fist fight, which obviously should be avoided. But, I think the OP and others discussing here rather think of of it as merely a difference of opinion, to be noted and moved past.
In that sense, "avoiding disagreement" is not helpful because they are not noted, but buried.
What other data will it collect from the port and forward via the link to the phone and futher upstream through the app?

I guess it can be said that the device needs to know when the car is in reverse gear. Personally I hate these rear view cameras that decide for you when you need them and have no way to turned on manually.

I would much prefer more control and less info leakage potential.

I also wonder how frequently would one have to carefully clean the camera lenses and solar panels for it to work, them being situated where they are. What's up with all those devices being designed to operate only on dry sunny days?
Seems like a case of imbalanced consequences.

If a company doesn't properly comply with a request, the company and some of its workers could quite possibly face criminal consequences. If the FBI's request is eventually found out to be invalid, very little of consequence will happen to the Bureau and even less to the employees.

Unfortunately, this imbalance isn't unique to the FBI or even law enforcement. Even most government regulatory agencies seem to enjoy a presumption of acting in good faith which gets the agency, and even more crucially the employees, out of trouble when they overstep.
You're still getting there at a point in time earlier than the universe permits. This is essentially the same as traveling backwards in time, and violating causality by allowing effect to precede cause.
2nd Paragraph: How do they know they are even bits? How do they know the bits are supposed to be numbers? What kind of numbers? Relating to what?

Etc
re hammocks. Thanks for tips.

re floating bed. That's interesting. Might have useful input on your idea of cloning it with the trampoline. I had to sleep on an army cot that uses similar material in small, square form. I layered egg shells and other padding on it about 2-4 ft high. Still sucked to sleep on. It's like the firmness or lack of give somehow propagates up into the feel on the back.

Now, a full trampoline has more give but usually with a large amount of weight or impact on a specific spot. I remember that laying on them barely moved them. It was just hard material that slightly wrapped around me. Did you have a way to deal with that in mind or a better type of trampoline that lacks those issues?
Yes, you can keep track of who clicked on the button and for example, if three clicked, you remove the button. (oh oh, just thinking of a fun game...)
Citation? My recollection is that imgur didn't show up until after the Digg exodus and happened on Reddit first, but maybe I just didn't see the Digg side of it.
Anyone can bake a cake. It's a lot harder to bake a billion cakes.
>are their lipids present spiking the flame, positively contributing to the cooking process?

They mention using coconut oil flecks to replace the beef's fat, so I imagine that'd contribute to the cooking process, "frying" it up a bit.
I have a similar experience.. The thing is that although many of us can work on one or other part of a complete product, it is pretty hard to focus on everything at the same time and build an entire product alone!

For me, I have identified my problem not as fear of failure but perfectionism. So I start questioning all little things and things move very slow. I am currently building a SaaS app, and I've built others before but none made me any money so far. But lately I've been tuning my strategy to make things work faster, and have been seeing some success on it. Some of my main points are:

* start with something very simple that has the minimum functionality, like drawing a chart if the app is to draw charts, etc.

* since I'm working full time on this, decide to implement a feature per day (until you have enough features for now).

* THIS ONE IS REALLY IMPORTANT: never leave an inconsistent and non-working application between two commits. Make sure that the version on your repo is always fully working even if it lacks features (it may not be between two commits, I hope you get the idea..).

* ANOTHER IMPORTANT ONE: when you have a stable app, do a release to your server, even if you have it mounted on a personal url. It will give you the feeling of being moving forward..

* When you have something usable enough for other users, invite them to use it. Non-technical people feel flatered if you invite them personally to test your application.
- Use a repo such as github (or gitlab for private projects). Commiting the code to those repositories will give you the feeling of moving forward every day. And if your local copy does not work anymore, you can always reset to the latest working commit..

I've been working on this project for much more time than I ever wanted (5+ years) and the points above have been what I learned from it.
Right, I understand the personal opinion. I'm just explaining why I feel alcohol has less stigma (aside from obvious historical class / race bias) and probably always will.

By "more than just a drug, it's a food", I mean in usage. It's made with food. People cook with alcoholic beverages all the time. A large part of some alcohol culture is pairing alcoholic beverages with food. When cooking with alcohol, a large percentage of the intoxicant is boiled away, so there is something to the flavor contribution as well. It makes sense given that it's a fermented food. (I do feel it is somewhat acquired, but a lot of foods are to be honest.)

Some people do binge on 4 or more sodas at a time. Some American stores sell 100-128 oz to-go soda containers after all. :) Even the "smaller" 7-11 Double Big Gulp, at 64 ounces, is over 5 standard serving (12 ounce) soda cans. Account less for ice, but still I bet it's over 4. Soda binging may not quite be as bad for your health as ethanol binging, but it's not exactly healthy either. On the other hand, there's nothing really wrong with a standard size soda every now and then. It is "empty calories" (like ethanol) but there's room for treats in life.

Many alcohol watering holes aren't exactly dens of moderation (4 drinks in a night really isn't). I am personally wonder if the "benefits of 1 to 2 drinks" is more the benefits of a moderate lifestyle in all aspects of life.