skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My current undertaking is to build an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface.

We tried that in the 90's with Rapid Application Development (RAD), massive code-gen, and clunky workflow abstraction tools.

It didn't work. Coders simply cannot be replaced easily with power user's tools.

Unless you are building a product that is not differentiated in any way from your competitors. (Cost, functionality, services.. etc.) But if not, then how do you hope to stay in business?

Wix and Squarespace are nice, but lets acknowledge they are targeting a completely different market than corporate startups.
I found flights to Melbourne on flychecker at € 788
I don't dispute you can spend $1.40 on a can of beans if you're buying premium brand, but in Asda (a British supermarket chain brought by Wal-Mart a few years ago) I can buy a can of "SmartPrice Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce" [1] for £0.24 (about 33 cents) and a can of "SmartPrice Mushy Peas" [2] for £0.16 (about 22 cents), and a can of "SmartPrice New Potatoes in Water" [3] for £0.15 (about 21 cents).

If you can get those goods onto shelves profitably and spare a cent for an RFID tag, you could have a successful career in grocery retailing :)

[1] https://groceries.asda.com/product/baked-beans/asda-smartpri...
[2] https://groceries.asda.com/product/peas/mushy-peas/34117
[3] https://groceries.asda.com/product/potatoes-instant-mash/asd...
You can install a self signed certificate by Charles on your device and trust it. Then you can decrypt the traffic from your device using Charles as a proxy.
Really easy,really nice.
Am I misunderstanding, or do you seriously think NPR on-air talent is making in excess of $300,000/yr?
My AI and ML classes were majority Asian. But I guess they don't count since that doesn't fit the narrative for some people.
We have been programming for thousands of years
It's the risk-reducing position to take.

Risks: disease, child support, being viewed as "used goods" and otherwise debased, wasting high-value years that could go to raising a family (why buy the cow if you're getting the milk for free?), increased severity of a broken heart, wanting to avoid falling for used goods (increased divorce risk, awkward comparisons...), greater chance of false rape accusation...

Note that even non-broken condoms do a poor job of protecting against herpes and warts. You can somewhat treat them, but there is no cure.
> This makes her sound very inexperienced.

https://medium.com/@loorinm/becoming-a-software-engineer-is-... She was admitted to "Hack Reactor" in October 2015. Well that escalated quickly.
I would greedily read a write-up about this.
> In ongoing cases of people vs large mammals, the people always win.

Except in Africa, where elephants are often an unmanageable menace to human communities.
Interesting, because I assumed:

"That's incorrect. Cheaper produce is generally known to be the best produce.

For instance, it's summer in the northern hemisphere right now. You can't turn around without running into a ripe stonefruit (peach, plum, apricot).
Because the local trees are bearing right now, not only do you get high quality produce, but you get it for cheap because there's a glut of supply. But if you want an orange, you settle for an expensive, tasteless orange flown in from Chile, cause it's winter down there and that's when oranges become ripe."

was a response to "People like the author believe produce is cheaper because of poor quality."

but okay whatever you say.
They also have the silly "Security Image" which is supposed to alert me to a phishing site because I'm supposed to notice its absence. I'm guessing that's been effective roughly never.
If you aren't a vegetarian why would be it be 'kinda gross' in fact even if you are.

Protein powder is mostly whey, which is a milk component and most vegetarians eat dairy.
The ones you can name offhand (Steve Inskeep etc.) generally are.

http://www.andymboyle.com/2013/07/21/an-updated-look-at-ira-...
I had the good fortune to grow up when Have Gun Will Travel was first broadcast. One of my favorite episodes was Gun Shy, where Paladin travels to Montana and visits Ma Warren's boarding house.

Ma's house was famous for its food. Paladin lived in San Francisco and enjoyed the city's finest, and he was surprised and delighted with what Ma Warren prepared in this remote area. She was obviously a talented cook, but Paladin wondered how she got such a variety of quality ingredients. She explained.

Ma knew all the local farmers and ranchers, and they would bring her their best produce and meats to serve in her boarding house. In return, she cooked for them too!

Ma didn't have a reputation for poisoning her customers.

I wonder if Chipotle's problems had to do with being a big nationwide chain trying to be hyper-local, instead of just being someone who knew her neighbors and what they grew?
Maybe if we were constantly living among bears, bear attacks would kill more people.
There will definitely exist biases that exist in algorithms of this sort that are, at least in part, a result of the biases, intentional or not, that exist in the minds of those building the code and gathering the data to train it on. It's not unlike the real life example of using the world around you to train your kids about what's good or bad, or who to trust and not trust, etc. There will be patterns they infer that you may not have intended. But your selection of data to use as exemplars communicated information that will be assimilated regardless of your intentions.

But.

The algorithms, potentially, are a great source of biologically bias free pattern inferencing. That is, if all care has been taken to ensure that the algorithms that are created, and the data they are trained on, is as free of human bias as possible, what do we do, or what should we think, when that code reveals patterns about some among us, or even all of us as a whole, that we do not find flattering? Will we still blame the makers, or will we finally take a hard look at who we are?
Use this link instead, it bypasses the paywall, globally, everywhere, regardless of referer:

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/why-fruits-and-veggies-are-...
Wow, this guy tries to say that Sanders/Hilary are the beginning of the American version of this "famine". Yes Maduro made a mistake, but it is too far fetched to conclude a system caused this.
"Not trying to insinuate anything, just saying things how they are"... Well I've heard that logic before. (trump)
We are still at the level of blaming a system and not the people that run it.
I come from the Netherlands and to this guy we are probably "extreme leftist tree huggers", but at least we have the happiest people, food for everybody, healthcare AND room for refugees. Yeah real stupid that "socialism"...
This has only happened to me in apartment buildings; it's either some proselytizers, or people pretending to work for Con-Ed trying to scam me out of money. Either way they're trespassing, and in the latter case actively trying to harm me.

The last time this happened, I technically wasn't on the lease, so my wife discouraged me from following them around the building, introducing myself to the neighbors and breaking their spiel.
Whoa, that crosses the line. If you think someone is wrong, explain why substantively, not by digging up details from their résumé. Your snarky swipe at the end is particularly distasteful. Please don't do that when commenting here.

Edit: I see that we've had to warn you about this before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11624990). This is really not ok for this site, so if you do it again we will ban you.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11981661 and marked it off-topic.
I don't recall ever seeing a Slack ad. I just noticed more and more things starting to set up Slacks for their own purposes. The same tired "marketing" argument was used to try and explain Apple's success mid 2000s. It was equally wrong there, as evidenced by how everyone copied all of Apple's choices in touch UI and device form factors.

Slack offers:
- Multi-device presence
- Unread tracking
- Email notifications
- File upload to cloud storage
- Inline previews
- Profile pictures

Most of all, all of this just works by installing one app.

I really don't understand why, years down the line, people still insist marketing is more important than stuff that actually works well. Except denial.
It should be noted that BooXtream themselves call this watermarking 'social DRM'.
When concerned with robotics, several obvious ones come to mind around power and footprint.
I did not realize fire protection was uncovered by taxes.

"Many homeowners in Rural/Metro’s jurisdiction did not realize they had to pay for fire protection separately"
Perhaps there's more to it than snobbery? Take, as an anecdote, this list of food safety incidents in China [1]. Whether or not that's comparable to the issues in the North American food supply chain, someone felt that there was enough concern surrounding the quality Chinese food to write an article about it. Food for thought.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_China
Relevant:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601775/why-we-should-expe...

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
Exactly. The Aldi-principle: Sell a lot, with a low amount of labour (often even putting the pallet directly from the truck into the store), and it’ll be cheap.
File system is usually independent from storage media, with some exceptions

(and I would kind of avoid formatting external drives in "funny" FSs as I might want to read them in some other OSs. Unfortunately this usually means FAT32)

But I do have external media as HFS to work with Time Machine
What an offensive smear piece imho! Though I guess it resonates with a hyper racial-identity political world view - which I reject largely because Nazis, et al were the originators of this "born with invariant identity due to your 'race'" view.
Its less about xenonorphism and more about lower standards and willingness to work for wages that require 5 people to share an apartment.
Yea, I don't see what's new here, a lot of pizza assembly lines exists that can do it faster and better, for example this does the sauce faster, and can do the toppings too, (and guessing from the music :) it's an old machine)

https://youtu.be/rajNU2gels0?t=21

There are even pizza vending machines that are doing the dough too and the result doesn't look horrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lxiU8eLM
Long term the impact I see is better tourists and better cities.
Ditto for double-call signifying an emergency that I should pick up for, both for people I know and unknown numbers.
NPR's last CEO, Gary Knell, made about $750K in his last year in the job.

They have a number of highly paid mid-level people, such a diversity officer (Keith Woods) who makes $220K.

More notable hosts make over the stated $300K, including Steve Inskeep ($400k) and Michele Norris ($350K –– wage gap!).

Highest honors, at least according to the 2013 990 linked here[1], go to Renée Montagne, who pulled in $412,581.)

These are not fully loaded costs. You probably want to add 10% for D.C.-based employees for employee overhead incl. labor lawyers, retirement contributions, payroll tax, &c.

Not bad to be a corporation that doesn't pay taxes, takes federal taxpayer money, takes state taxpayer money, takes corporate gifts, solicits foundation grants, and asks for individual donations.

[1] http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/520/5209076...
I imagine this was posted for the insight about the financial industry which was OK.

But the insight into recruitment at Facebook was fascinating, as well as article after that.

Strange, the linked article was just for finance, but if I clicked on the headline it lists all of the answers for that question, which I thought were more interesting.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-something-that-is-common-knowled...
There's a lot of western restaurants (Admittedly usually on the higher end) who change their menus seasonally, if not daily to reflect whats available. Its part of what the whole farm-to-table phenomenon is about.
Swift Playgrounds: Should we teach coding, or creativity?
This could be awesome. NASA is held up as having ridiculously low bug counts (probably for their launching actual rockets software) but I would love to add this to a corpus stretching from the Linux kernel to whatever I wrote last week and seeing what metrics can be pulled out
> How do these markets avoid food poisoning their customers?

If you buy veggies, it's on you to wash them.

If you buy prepared food that includes veggies, it's on the vendor to wash them.
Employees cost a business much more than their salary. There are benefits, taxes, insurance, administrative overhead, etc. There's also the cost of replacing them.
H2O HTTP/2 server 2.0.1 / 2.1.0-beta1 released
Developing the fastest HTTP/2 server
Lets start with the obvious - a modern food is disgustingly safe compared to what a human immune system is capable of handling. No matter what Madison Avenue has tried to convince the US public - a single or couple of bacteria won't kill you.

And if you mean prepared Chinese food - have you seen the burners under the woks - they look, sound and consume fuel at comparable rate to a jet engine. It is very intense style of cooking using high heat for small amounts of time. The surfaces (where all the nasty stuff is) on everything that has went trough it are thoroughly sterilized.

Stuff like pickling, acids in the dressing also make the non heat treated stuff safe.

It is hard for people with normal immune system to get hurt by modern food.
There's also a psychoacoustic effect: compressed audio sounds louder, even if at the same objective SPL. Probably because very loud sounds are naturally compressed by the mechanics of the ear system saturating at high SPLs, so artificially compressed signals are recognized as 'loud sounding'.
Here's the original paper: http://people.ee.duke.edu/~sorin/papers/rss16_chip.pdf

In short: collision detection checking across all of the edges in a PRM graph takes 99% of planning time and can be done compeletely independently.
Another one that is a great pain are the sites that insist upon asking for three letters from one's password to log in. This is all very well if one has an insecure password, but when I've created a 20-character password containing all the necessary characters then this makes it rather more difficult to enter the required values.
What's wrong with the original title? Would the subtitle "Airbnb has become so successful that hotels are losing business and tourist sites face being ruined" be acceptable?
That is exactly what I got from the article. I would suggest you to read it but that breaks the guidelines.

Even the original title reads "From Berlin to Barcelona; will Airbnb ruin our most loved cities?". If anything, you should ban the article.
Great article!

Apple contrasts [space sharing] with the static allocation of disk space to support multiple HFS+ instances, which seems both specious and an uncommon use case.

Really? I depend on this use case every year to safely test drive pre-release OS versions.
You appear to have missed the key word in what I posted, which is "escalate". For example:

> Answer "it's not true" - is calling opponent a liar.

That's literally what it's not doing. Equating these two things is escalating, i.e. substituting one utterance for a more provocative one and replying to that instead.

You may feel that the train of logic inevitably takes you there down a one-way deductive track. But there are many opportunities to get off that train, and good manners and civility demand that we do. If we don't, all disagreement ends in conflict, which is tedious (for everyone else) and destructive.

I wonder if there may be a crossed cultural channel here, because the gap between "you are wrong" and "it's not true" strikes me as tiny—not the chasm that you describe—and if anything, "you are wrong" sounds slightly less polite since it's more personal. This is the kind of thing that people with different cultural and language backgrounds routinely hear differently, and the presence of many different backgrounds on HN is one reason why we all need to be charitable in our interpretations.

p.s. I've fixed the typo for you.
> If so, why the implementation of LinkedList<T> doesn’t?

Because the stdlib doesn't want to expose too many unsafe APIs on its datastructures, giving it freedom to evolve the internals. And LinkedLists are considered a niche type anyway, not for general use.

As kibwen mentioned, you are free to create your own linkedlist implementation that exposes this API.

Rust has a heap, and you can free things directly if you need.
Let's assume basic economics. If more people like the author shed their belief that poor quality causes low prices then more customers would shop in Chinatown, which shifts the demand curve up. Now the supply and demand curves intersect at a higher price point.

Marketing has the side benefit of disassociating Chinatown groceries and low quality for the author's social circle. As a Chinese American, I feel this is a good thing.

Of course this is mental masturbation and I'm missing nuance. I appreciate the conversation.
That's a good idea. Just bypass it internally and let the switch move freely, doing nothing. They'll learn to leave it alone pretty quickly.
Cool! I'll write it this week and get back to you.
When Machines Will Need Morals
RE: API and 'let users choose their balance'
Exactly :)

RE: 'big list'
Totally understand! It seems ever expanding todo lists are becoming a modern perpetual epidemic. Thinks to self, "If only we had good tools to make them easier to wrangle and learn from." ;)
Extra History is actually quite good for this.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5Aq7g4bil7bnG...
The poster I was replying to was working on an embedded device, and they would like a system that's similar to Android but more like regular Linux. Tizen is that system.

Samsung's policies on their devices have nothing to do with how another company might deploy Tizen.
That has almost nothing to do with the EU and almost everything to do with NATO, the massive number of US troops (they outnumber all European troops in Europe), nuclear deterrents, and shared foreign policy goals (i.e. managing the rise of China, combating terrorism, and deterring Russian meddling).
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Interesting paper. Casual contributor is very narrowly defined: made 1 (one) commit only. Would be interesting how some slightly less limited definition would change results, or not.

The analysis also excludes all contributions not in the form of commits. Of course including non-commit contributions is hard.

One minor nit: C is characterized as "strongly typed".
It all depends on what you are building. Objective C is absolutely fantastic for rapidly developing GUIs because of its dynamic runtime and flexible typing. On the other hand, C++ makes it a lot easier to write efficient, (relatively) safe data structures.

I find it extremely frustrating when I have to use either language in an area that it wasn't designed for.
This isn't purely a resource allocation problem. There are real people finding themselves homeless or in bad living conditions because of the explosion in rents in Dublin. Families shouldn't have to live in hotel rooms. We need to remember that the change and disruption that companies like AirBnB bring are not always good for society as a whole.

There is a supply and demand tension in Dublin over accommodation. Building more apartments, i.e. increasing supply, will help alleviate this tension. That doesn't mean we can't also tackle the problem from the other direction by reducing demand. AirBnB is demand.

It's hard to tell how much any government would want to pull on a lever that might reduce demand. Those tourists bring valuable outside revenue into the city. We need them too. There's lots to balance here. Let's not optimise just revenue.
Can any one point out when was this article written ?
He has some really valid points in there.
"Popular reputation" means "how it's commonly perceived".

I'm not saying Tizen is popular; on the contrary, I was trying to say that it has a reputation as a pointless also-ran Android clone. But past that prejudice, it's actually a competent Linux platform for embedded systems.
Fair point.

I was just providing a relatively simple solution to "...pop-over that cannot be removed and obstructs the page."
So her new mission is to create a drag and drop interface that can build every app every company would ever want, and she doesn't have a clue how to do it "but probably with React." Nice.

Solve coders recreating the same things over and over, by coding the next rapid application development environment. Sorry, sorry, the first RAD. Of course.
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I've had a similar experience with small turkish shops in Vienna. The vegetables are cheaper, fresher, and there's more varity than in the major supermarket chains.

I believe it comes down to centralisation. Major supermarkets only deal with large wholesalers than can deliver produce reliably to a large number of shops.

A small shop on the other hand is happy to buy a single crate of whatever salad just happens to be available cheaply.
Exactly. This is why I use the word prejudice. We can extrapolate this to Muslims. Though the conversation won't be as lighthearted.

I think snob effect is the main factor, as I listed it first. Assuming I jumped to xenophobia as the deciding factor is biased. Of course how we view Muslim immigrants and Chinese produce are orders of magnitude apart in impact.
Ask HN: What are some good Twitter accounts to follow?
I'm starting to minimize the amount of following I have on Twitter, and was wondering what Twitter accounts there were to follow that would make my feed more interesting or industry relevant. If it helps, I mostly do iOS, Go, and Ruby dev. Thanks!
Ng2-Drag-drop-tree: Text Modification and OSS Inception
No idea when it was created (probably early in Facebook's existence), but Stallman has people constantly update and add new stuff.
Search queries from the UK following the Brexit
> Copyright 2011-2013 Richard Stallman released under Creative Commons Attribution Noderivs 3.0 unported

2011 I guess
I'm curios, how do you use this feature to install different OS versions?
"Ruin" is hyperbolic and "ruin our most-loved" is over the top.
I turned off ublock so that I could load the stylesheet. Nope, stallman's site just looks like that. It's actually refreshing, just a radical departure from the status quo. Although, it is RMS so should've expected that...
Yes, if 80% of Stanford females are victims of sexual abuse (like 80% of female illegal immigrants crossing the border are).
I couldn't help but cringe every time the word "used" was used for "user" after the first occurence.
Fun fact when it's in the article? Third paragraph:

"APFS, the Apple File System, was itself started in 2014 with Giampaolo as its lead engineer...(he built the file system in BeOS, unfairly relegated to obscurity when Apple opted to purchase NeXTSTEP instead)"