skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just replied up in the thread, but overall the experience has been great. It was just too much of a culture shock for my wife and kids.

If you're looking for an inexpensive place on the mainland, I would suggest looking at small towns (under 10k people) adjacent to agricultural areas. Areas near or in the Appalachian Mountains would likely be beautiful and inexpensive, albeit a bit neglected culturally.

PR was hard to get set up because we couldn't move our possessions and had to start from scratch here. It also was difficult because there isn't a culture of "charity shops" that I was used to. Without a salvation army or goodwill or even garage sales, we had to buy everything new or travel for hours to find a store that sold used appliances.
Funny thing is that I use Scaleway also, and did not have any problems registering a credit card with them. Since online.net and scaleway seem to be the same or related somehow, maybe they should copy-paste the CC validation code from them or allow login with the same user.
Someone has to do this job, in fact the people working these jobs have the ability to job search after a certain period of time within their company.

To be honest this is stupid this has hit the front-page because there are so many shit jobs out in the world. And you can't complain for working at one of the biggest tech companies.
>Did you think that your savings account at the bank is just held as treasuries? The bank invests it.

It's actually a bit more complicated than that:

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
>there are sports which will cripple your health in long run, almost guaranteed.

So will sitting on your chair in front of a computer 8 hours a day. Everything in moderation.
yes. 1258 were added today.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/749927529457352704
Is updates a bother? If I didn't get notified (and you can turn that off) I'd never know if my apps were updated.

A lot of commentary tries too hard to invent problems with native apps to level the field with web app applications.
Top U.S. Science Organizations Hammer Congress on Climate Change–Again
Here is a link to all the emails:

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=&mfrom=&mto=&title=&...
The fact that these YouTubers are using their own site to make these insane videos where they win thousands of dollars is disgusting. All of the teenagers and children who watch them are spending their mothers' credit cards on these basically-a-scam websites thinking they are going to win thousands of dollars. This is gambling, this is extremely shady, and these guys need to be stopped.
"later research has questioned whether the belief is indeed a fallacy.[1][2] More recent studies using modern statistical analysis have shown that there is evidence for the "hot hand" and that in fact it may not be a fallacy.[2]"
Is this a new idea or a rebranded old one? Summerhill school?
> Use your imagination and try to think if there's anything about the push for multiculturalism and how it's being done that could be problematic.

You're asking me to make a strawman and argue against it. I'm asking people to explain their position and be specific about what they're against and what they want done about it.

> Germany has unrestrained immigration.

No they don't. They even have a handy website in English to explain what rules apply: http://www.bamf.de/EN/Migration/migration-node.html ; if you, as (I guess?) a US national landed in Germany and decided to stay and work, you'd find out fairly quickly that it's not unrestricted.

What they have done is fulfil their obligations under the Hague convention on refugees. This does not automatically grant the refugees indefinite leave to remain or German nationality.

> skepticism about Islam

What does this actually mean in practice, though? Does it mean allowing or encouraging officials to ask people their religion and discriminate against them on that basis?

The UK labour party is currently having a fight over the mirror image of this question, which involves distinguishing between the state of Israel, "Zionism", and people of Jewish ethnicity and religion. The distinctions are easily lost in careless rhetoric but very important.
I made an emulation platform called Start9 (http://start9.io), but it didn't got a lot of traction, my "cofounder" lost motivation, and I haven't yet found how to actually make money with it (I only have a handful of daily users).

That being said, I'm still extremely proud of it, at least from a technical standpoint, and will probably keep it running for a long time.
Over 3 years ago I posted https://shutdownscanner.com. Ironically, I'm considering shutting it down. Perhaps to relaunch as an open source project, maybe rewritten in ASP.NET Core.
Anyone have advice in opening up a project when decommissioning? I think it may still be useful to people so don't just want to turn the servers off.

I also posted https://unop.uk/tube (I built the original over 5 years ago) and I still use it pretty regularly, as the TfL site is so bloated for mobile use.
Also, it uses HTTP + Json rather than TCP + XML. Which is an instant win.
Honestly I think we are just finally seeing the effect of the fall of mass media - there is no real replacement for the traditional establishment newspapers with enough gravitas to give anyone confidence in our institutions - even the media currently considered quality is mostly whining, hysteria and buzzfeed adverts.
I don't think its just "made up work". There are some interesting attempts to push agile methods out to executives and that can be a challenge. Also the more senior one is, the more change that is happening in the organization you have to be at least cognizant of.
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That's the reality today. Everything is vulnerable. Your choice is to upgrade, stay vulnerable, or buy a different product.
I'd take my chances with vulnerabilities if that meant my phone would work. With recent versions of iOS it is to slow to open mail once the conversation thread gets too long (30+ replies). But that's beside the point. Nagging about upgrade is not something MS invented. Apple did
Depends on your definition of mature. The security was mature, but the UX was always garbage and there was never consensus in the ecosystem and huge swathes of critical features (like usable dns) have never been wholly adopted.

Matrix is lacking its E2E encryption but already has everything else. You can use Vector today to replace Hangouts or Skype completely.
Show HN: Cygnal: fork of Cygwin DLL for native Windows apps
I'd be fine with a perpetually updating XP as well. For that matter Vista, W7, W8.1, or W10 are all fine. For me, operating systems are a solved problem. It's boring infrastructure (IMHO) for which I value stability and security over any new feature that has been added in a long, long time.

I'm glad Microsoft has decided to settle on W10 for the long haul. I just wish their LTS operating system were a little skinnier. I'd rather have things like Cortana be an installable (or at least removable) application rather than a core part of the OS. I don't want it or need it so for me, it's just using resources and lowering the security of my machine and network.
> Set subjects are limited to maths, German, English and social studies, supplemented by more abstract courses such as “responsibility” and “challenge”

I'm not sure this would work for college freshmen (i.e. "fields"), but they seem to have limited the scope enough here.
Australia's Digital Transformation Office[0] is growing into something similar too.

All three of them are using Cloud Foundry as their platform. By way of disclaimer, I work for Pivotal, which is the leading donor of engineering to Cloud Foundry.

[0] https://www.dto.gov.au/
Okay, but which of the following two positions are you arguing for?

1. We don't have enough data about other solar systems, so we don't know where complex life might exist.

2. We don't have enough data about other solar systems, so complex life probably exists all over the place.

If you're arguing for the first position, fair enough; I might not entirely agree, but it is at least reasonable.

But I see too many people arguing for the second position, taking scarcity of data as a license to believe what they want to believe.
Oh how video games have changed. They've gone from sucking up all the quarters a kid had to turning them into a gambling addict and draining their parents' credit card.

Maybe they've not changed quite so much.
"buy first" means to have a policy of not doing it in-house unless there is no other option. In other words, they want 18F to subcontract out the work unless no one is able to meet their requirements. Whether this is a actually a good policy for a government to have is not at all clear to me.
> current urban development methods are ugly

Ironically, part of the blame lies with zoning. Zoning restricts housing supply, thus increasing housing prices and making securing a political deal expensive. When you get one, you want to make the most of it. That means lots of expensive apartments.

"Expensive" means luxury. "Lots of" means space maximimisation. (Since the political process has constrained supply, you need not worry about someone competing on design - availability is almost enough by itself.)

This is illustrated in a recent New York Times article, where several architectural features of older buildings either directly violate modern zoning laws or would be done away given as a side effect of them: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-p...
Not 'Rails' here, just some enhancements from the Active Support Core Extensions library, which can be included in your (non-Rails) project entirely standalone. I have found it to be a very useful supplement to the Ruby standard library. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions...
A brutally honest guide to help you get funding
Run ArchiveTeam Warrior -- http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warri... to help the Internet Archive create archival copies of websites and services that are being decommissioned.

Also BOINC from UC Berkeley -- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ -- to volunteer your processor cycles to scientific research. E.g. the current OpenZika project:

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/zika/overview.do
> It leverages the official API so I don't see why not.

There is something called Terms Of Service. Just because you use an API it doesn't mean you can do anything with it. It's important to read them, because they can get you into legal troubles if you don't comply with these terms.

You should be really careful with this "YOLO" mindset, especially if you are a professional developer.
What I'd like to see is a completely opt-in curriculum with introductory classes and transparent requirements. Simultaneous dense "civil education" class focusing on the specific applications of fields to everyday life. Teachers would only have interested students by definition, so they could offer more in-depth classes.

I wish somebody would try it. Nobody needs to know sines and cosines, and somebody who doesn't care about math is not going to appreciate being forced to learn. Conversely, everybody should understand percentages, calculating interest, etc. So the idea is, you'd run a "civil education" class around 8-9am, which would focus on a wide spread of practically applicable and necessary skills. Then there'd be regular "introductory classes" for each course, which would present the premise of a course, the requirements, and an overview of the topics covered, and further specializations and occupations the skill was necessary for. Then the rest of the school day would be opt-in classes.

The premise here is that people don't retain knowledge from classes they don't care about anyways. I don't know if that generalizes; that would be the main point of critique for this approach. I think traditional schooling is based on the premise that you can force kids to learn. I've never seen any evidence or long-term studies to support this claim.
I launched https://www.pexels.com/ two year ago - a website to find free high-quality photos. It started as a side project. Now we have hundred thousands of visitors each month and three people are working on it.
Sorry, I meant (Old) Zealand. Not really. I'm genuinely concerned about the rise of the right in Europe as a whole and I see the UK referendum result as a great big red flag.
Making HTTPS Certificates
An empty wasteland of spam. Idea was amazing, had over 10,000 user-submitted items. But years later I have no interest in maintaining it. Oops :/
> Linguists don't seem to consider them less sophisticated

I never said AAVE is less sophisticated. I even went out of my way to make it clear that I'm not saying AAVE is less sophisticated.

AAVE contains grammar that is based on simplified English grammar. Simplified grammar sounds less sophisticated to a speaker of the original grammar. This makes AAVE sound less sophisticated to English speakers. Quod erat demonstrandum.

I'm not even a native speaker of English and this is obvious to me. Heck, this is immediately obvious if you try to learn English (or any language) as a second language: if you don't speak the language well people will treat you as less intelligent because you are not able to communicate at the same level of sophistication (simply because you lack the words and the grammatical details).

This isn't awesome. This certainly isn't how you'd want it to be if you could just define how things are. But this is how things are and it's certainly not unique to English. The same is true for German, Chinese, Japanese and I'm fairly certain I've heard similar anecdotes from people studying indigenous languages.

Please don't simply ignore my entire argument because you think I'm trying to go full Hegel and claim black people are less intelligent. You couldn't be further from reading me.
This works for me in some kinds of tasks. Sometimes when I don't feel like changing the plastic bags in the bathroom tray [1], thinking "ok, let me just remove this bag. I can put a new one (2nd half of the task) later." puts me in motion and I usually do the complete (rather stupid) task easily.

[1] Its a brazilian thing, we can't throw our shit paper in the toilet.
Anyone in any branch would be subject to charges for negligently incurring injury. I've heard a story about some guys in the Air Force who were written up for getting terrible sunburn while boating.
> Immigration is only unrestrained within the EU; EU free movement doesn't apply to either refugees from Syria or non-EU immigrants.

I think people are definitely frustrated with how the refugee crisis was dealt. There is a perception -- whether true or not -- that Merkel opened the floodgates for unfettered extra-EU immigration. You are right in that there seems to be no serious solutions to these perceived problems, just a build-up of anger.
Have you heard of or used signal?

https://whispersystems.org/

Same idea -- strong crypto that's usable for anyone. It uses the OTR Ratchet protocol which uses perfect forward secrecy. The app also provides a way to verify keys through an OOB channel.

I would recommend considering OTR Ratchet integration just like WhatsApp did recently.

PGP is not a good design choice for a messaging app as you're always using asymmetric crypto operations which are computationally intense -- not terrible on modern computers but will be dreadful on mobile devices. Also can you provide some more documentation on how the app leverages PGP? Hopefully conversation is not using the same private keys to encrypt. That is vulnerable to data or side channel leakage. The modern approach is to generate and exchange an ephemeral key. Also please provide information on key storage.

Rather than making vague security claims like "first-rate" and " Security++ to the greatest extreme" you should rather provide a threat model and explain why one can remain confidential and have authenticity against particular types of adversaries. No security tool is perfect and it's only a matter of time before an adversary breaks it. Developers are doing a disservice by claiming anything more.

Before you can claim a first-rate security tool you will need to face a lot of scrutiny first.
A few years ago I posted a link to my collaborative whiteboard web app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886353) and got encouraging feedback.

Some five year laters, it's still very active, with some 100k monthly (free) users, and paying customers, with the (modest) revenue being poured back into development.

I had a few (5 or 6) more Show HNs over time, but those projects failed to gather outside (or keep my) interest.
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How research into glowing fungi could lead to trees lighting our streets
Did a Show HN on https://clara.io ~1000 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6025427

We didn't get the biggest reception on HN, but we now have 200,000+ users, 500,000+ scenes, profitable and have strong growth. Still self-funding the project.
Out of context, this may sound like mildly cheerful news.

It is not.

Bulgaria is a doomed shithole, which has for many decades been ran by a murderous communist mafia, controlling every aspect of the economy and the legal system, while licking many foreign asses with equal dexterity (US / NATO, Russian, European, Ukrainian, Saudi, Israeli, Turkish - everyone whose ass is worth licking, Bulgarian "politicians" do it in order to secure _personal_ gains).

But, yay, open-source. Sure. Whatever.
I think someone should write a brutally honest and fun guide about how to reject giving funds.
scaleway is 3.59€ for arm bare metal. I love it ;-)
I run a Cygwin Bash script as a Windows service. (Yes, startable and stoppable with the Services panel, running in the background, and starting automatically on boot.)

It contains a loop which contains an ssh tunnel open with some port forwards.

Just yesterday, I cleaned a Windows partition to free up some space, with the help of "du -a . | sort -n" to find the biggest files/directories, then selective "rm -rf".

Windows doesn't ship with anything to help with this task. There are only third-party add-ons like WinDirStat.
I call it the "perfectly legal" defense. There are lots of people who will engage in morally reprehensible behavior for their own gain which is otherwise legal. When I find folks who are of that persuasion I seek to find ways to no associate with them (sometimes easy, sometimes less so).

Generally, if they do it "right", then cannot be sued. But you can shine light on their activity (like this article is) and shame them.
Are Business Insider literally copy/pasting quora responses to create news articles now?
> The formal NHS budget will rise by £35bn in the period form 2009/10 to reach £133bn.

> The formal NHS budget will rise by £35bn in the period form 2009/10 to reach £133bn.

Conversation is pointless with people who believe this. It's clearly, unambiguously, a misrepresentation of the facts. Why do you think everyone is writing STPs? (Do you know, without googling, what I'm referring to when I say STP?)
The amount of fraud and thieves inside the community would make your eyes spin. I've had to straight block trading with a large chunk of the world.

A big part of this stems from the concept that in-game items are not _really_ money. It allows these online casinos to flourish because it's 'just in-game skins'! It's actually really similar to japans Pachinko system where you don't win money.. but you win something that can be traded for money right around the corner. In reality land, I can cash out of valves ecosystem for around 20% of in-game currency and some of those skins are worth thousands of dollars...

These gambling sites really piss me off because they hurt the community. You have to remember, we're talking about young teenagers getting robbed from these guys, and it's not just their lunch money. We are easily talking hundreds of thousands to millions in revenue each year.
Oh come on, I was making an actually sophisticated argument, along the lines of:

A is true
A is likely to cause B
C is also true
C is likely to cause B
If B occurs, it is incorrect to blame only C

where A is the current exceptions made for the UK, B is a fairer deal (fairer to the other countries, which will be worse for the UK by definition) and C is your abusive ex-husband part.

And you're still comparing a mutual union of countries for their mutual and collective benefit to the Nazis?
The story wasn't told well in that post, but it is legit. I've heard him speak in person before. The way he tells it, he had three years of non-deployable time so it was the quickest way for him to accomplish his goal of getting into the Badwater ultramarathon to raise money for charity. Not ideal, but he knew that he would have time to fully recover from it.
Of course 90+ of those is messengers/facebook/twitter/instagram.
To be brutally honest, waiting for feedback stole my needed snap for deep thinking.
1679[1] days ago I launched Class Central[2] via a comment on HN. It was something that I built over the Thanksgiving weekend and received over 300 visits from that comment.

Two years later I got into Imagine K12. Now we are doing around $100k ARR, ~250+k monthly uniques, and have been used by almost 5 million people.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3289393
[2] https://www.class-central.com/
We school-educated people associate learning with authority and it's hard for us to truly grasp that education takes place most efficiently under conditions of freedom. Repealing Hitler's 1938 law against home education would be an important step for Germany.
The only viable solution, keeping both sides happy, is to have a kickass public transportation system.

I live in SF. Some of the working class people I meet live as far away as Richmond, Vallejo and Gilroy. They spend hours commuting back and forth; but they have no choice. It kills the 'quality of life', but what can one do?

If, for example, it was possible to get from Richmond to SF in 15 minutes at any time of day or night, it would make a world of difference. The pressure to live in SF would be eased, knowing that any time you wanted to enjoy the city life, it was a quick 15 minute ride away.

Communities hate more development, because people don't want to disturb their little paradise, which they worked so hard to create. And these days, it is much easier for people to move; heck, many people live nomadic lives, spending months here, and months there.

Something else to think about: an influx of residents has second-order effects: more schools, more police, more fire, etc. etc. Who'll pay for that? The taxes will flow over decades, but these things need to be built right away!
SolarCity modules last 35+ years – 40% longer than industry average