skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, I had thought that Quora was a decent place but quickly found that it's full of the worst of the internet. I had answered some things and made some comments on answers and was quickly attacked for expressing constructive criticism. I think that it wasn't so much that people are negative but that they have come to expect vitriol from everyone on the internet that they were very defensive and in some cases offensive. I found it impossible to have reasoned discussion with people there. I really liked the format and the idea behind it, but unfortunately the internet seems to be broken. I do enjoy the weekly emails from Quora though, I just can't participate.

I also can't do reddit, partially because of it's negative reputation, but also I just don't have the energy to deal with it's terrible UX and having the wade through the crap to find the gold.
It may be. Oil has a really high energy density though.

Overall, surface mining of tar sands has to be one of the worst ways to get energy (in situ extraction techniques like SAGD do somewhat better).
They will probably not be using the public Ethereum blockchain, so the fork won't be relevant.
Like the big screen form factor. And multi window apps. And moving screen elements so you can easily reach them.
Back in the days I used to discuss at a few IRC channels with pretty high SNR. Sadly, these communities faded out.
See, all this is a very sad state of affairs.

We need an operating system, paid for it, and we just can't use it without going through regular troubles to ensure some sort of sanity.

Any attempt to have it the normal, guaranteed by law, way, are countered from Microsoft with either no reasons why, or very shallow explanations.

Looking at the boarder picture, at other windows products, licensing is becoming more expensive. At the same time, attempts that look like MS is opening itself to the world, are just a curtain that ensures user entrenchment on windows platforms.

This, so far benign behavior, is just becoming outright hostile at the moment (auto updates going against what we changed, and having new code to hard reset user changes, etc etc).

I get that this will sound like a sad rant, but that's how I feel about this whole windows 10 thing: It's just a really sad sad state of affairs.

Decades of progress, is this supposed to be it?
Presumably, when a credit card charge for a renewal of a recurring service fails, they don't send you to collections, they just cancel your account.
Really? Because I either live in or have spent a fair amount of time in those places and I promise you there's no overblown rhetoric involved here. This is what happens when a significant fraction of the world that previously was unable and unwilling to relocate suddenly begins spreading across the globe. Not only is what's going on real, it was easily predicted decades ago.
Jack in the Belfry
>I know Silicon Valley is conservative but this is killing it.

The area that is generally known as the innovation capital of the planet is conservative? Can't say I agree.
The recent employment report was dubbed solid by many economists. 94,391,000 Americans not in the workforce is not good no matter how you try to slice or spin it !
> it's not necessarily enough grounds to use the power and resources of the state to actively ban a substance

It's not enough grounds because the cost of enforcement is so high that it is equal to or surpasses the cost of the drugs themselves. That isn't the case with antibiotic soap--it's not an addictive productive, so it's unlikely that there will be dealers slinging triclosan on street corners.
They oughta get the guy behind Yandere Simulator to develop it.
eh, I went through the source code, seemed okay.
Its degrees as a geometrical measurement, not temperature. Its showing the course/angle of the wind at that location.
How is an investor in such a company supposed to actually get a return? Unless the company is paying dividends or something similar, the only payout comes from selling your shares or if the company is acquired at a premium. But who is going to buy these companies with a conservative "slow and steady" growth rate and market share?
Its been an interesting year for stories about how hot capital moves through the "globalized" world. It seems that there's been an uptick in these types of stories. Is there a connection with this uptick and the release of the Mossack Fonseca "Panama Papers" or is it simply getting harder and harder for obscene amounts of money to be discreet?
Have you seen the awesome list[1] Ramiro Gomez put together? Lot of great non-tech books on there.

[1] http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
If you liked this article, Mike gives more details around his work and life in a podcast interview: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/07/27/mike-birbiglia/
UK artists are heading to Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Warsaw - at least they were, until Brexit.

Now there's some interest in the cheaper seaside towns - Margate, even Bournemouth.

Brighton used to be on that list but it's almost as expensive as London now. Likewise Bath and Bristol. (Not seaside towns, but a big arts scene in the 60s and 70s, now very much gentrified.)

I suspect if people can't get out they'll head West and North. Parts of the West Country are almost affordable. Parts of the North are very affordable, but they're still in the dilapidation phase and don't seem to be in danger of becoming cool yet.
You should ask the people who do it. For example, I know there was a recent study around using MDMA to treat PTSD.

If the DEA can't come up with a study to show harm, the drugs come off the list in two years.
You'd have to add some redundency for the rotation of the planet. 58 earth days per mercurial day.
Coders At Work and Founders At Work. Immensely inspirational.
Just want to point out two truly outstanding eccentric English names mentioned in the article. Straight out of Dickens:

Urania Wallop: "Not long after the botched elopement/abduction, Urania ordered that her son be strapped to his bed."

Coulson Wallop: "[Jane Austen] was, however, less impressed by his dim-witted younger brother Coulson, whom she regarded as a cad given to drunken habits and indelicate language."
It's hidden behind a u/p prompt for a very good reason: that section of the site contains your personal info, payment information, shipping address, and so forth. It is absolutely necessary to require reauthentication to access that data.

Redacted example from my site: http://imgur.com/a/cL0t7
True, true comments.
For me at least, it's generally nice to find some toolkit in the language you're working in if you want to ease integration and usage (which is why I mentioned Servo and Piston). I've considered writing a GUI library, but even a simple one in Rust is alot of work. As the community grows and the language matures, I expect more people will take on filling in the gaps, so it's only a matter of time before something that suits my needs arises.
I suspect it's both a policy question and the fact that there's not really much of a consensus on wildcard validation in ACME (i.e. how to approach it, and whether it should be a topic for ACME or just a policy decision for the CA).

In terms of policy, wildcards encourage some users to both reuse the same certificate for multiple services (i.e. mail, website, api, etc.), and use certificates that are "broader" than needed (use wildcards everywhere because they're "easier", despite the fact that you only need a certificate for imap.example.com). This increases the impact of Heartbleed-like vulnerabilities significantly (in that unrelated services using the same key are suddenly all vulnerable to MitM attacks). It might not be the worst idea to give the ecosystem some time to get used to non-wildcard certificates in order to discourage that behaviour.

I think there's a good chance we'll see wildcard support sooner or later.
Well then I was totally wrong in this case :) But there are still a lot of instances of software names like that. All things GNU being the worst example, an entire ecosystem tainted with the label "Not Unix".
Most comments seem critical of the specific offer and risks of investing badly, not the idea of allowing smaller investments.
> Yes it's possible to have no credit card at all on file for your itunes account [-] though they go out of their way for you to not realize that

Funnily I tried to give apple some money through the app store but made the mistake of signing up with my German credit card when living in LA and was lost in a "we cannot accept this German CC with a LA address"-limbo and never was offered a way out. So I now have a crapple account that one cannot put money into without some apparently lengthy verification process and I therefore can give my app store credentials to friends who just need some xcode update :D
Like blended wing body configurations, propfan propulsion, "smart" materials with embedded sensors, this is an aerospace technology that has merit and has been studied for decades. It is not any closer to implementation in any commercial aircraft because existing designs work well enough and are far less risky to analyze and test.
It's not that they won't; it's that birds are harder to catch than things that can't fly.
Nitpick, the farthest distance of Mercury from the Sun on its orbit is closer to 0.46 AU and it spends most of the time there, so for safe estimate it is better to take this greater value for planet-Sun distance. I get around 100x100 km collecting square near the Earth and almost 50x50 km near the Mercury. Taking into account efficiency and design constraints, it's safer to estimate more like 200x200 km near the Earth and 100x100 km near the Mercury. Clearly, building this near the Mercury brings little benefit as opposed to building it near the Earth. If we built this on the surface of the Earth (seems cheapest, even if the area would have to be quadrupled due to night and atmosphere) it does look practically achievable in the future. Solar energy could sustain current consumption of the human civilization. Most alternative sources of energy are not rich enough to supplant nuclear energy. Solar energy seems to be the best contender.
I think you have to get in early and hope for an IPO. But anyone who buys after the IPO is probably a sucker.
My wishlist for a 'TV':

1. High quality LCD panel
2. 'good enough' speakers (optional)
3. 4+ HDMI ports
4. no TV tuner, composite, component, etc.
5. Proper working HDMI CEC support
6. Make it as 'always on' as my Macbook or Apple Cinema Display – hit a button or activate a display and the screen comes on instantly.

For the premium model, add:

1. Ambient light detection to adjust brightness
2. Embedded RPi-like (or actually RPi) on a fifth 'overlay' input (i.e. the HUD/guide/etc). Make it open source, let people hack it and do fun stuff with it, build widgets, whatever.

Don't sell me on 'Your TV can do Netflix now!' Every device in my house with an LCD can play Netflix. My iPad from 2010 can play Netflix, and it can do it better than most smart TVs can. The only thing I own that uses 2.4 GHz that doesn't play Netflix is my microwave, and if it did I might actually use it.

If I buy a $70 AppleTV and it becomes obsolete, outdated, or can't support what I want, I can buy another $70 AppleTV. If I buy an $1800 SmartTV and the 'Smart' features become obsolete, outdated, or can't do what I want, then 50% of my value is gone.
I'll install this when it includes stuff to stop every other damn company from collecting their data.
That also doesn't seem so new to me? Microsoft has constantly tweaked what is or is not included in each SKU since the very beginnings of Windows.

If anything, these two particular complaints sound to me more that some users (especially small/medium businesses, but also some "semi-pro" users) have been using the wrong SKU for years and this is a necessary alignment shift.
Well the queen isn't really the top of the hierarchy as she would be in a human colony. She's simply one who has a particular job (reproduction) and thus greater needs. Not really any different from any of the other ants.
That's a good thing. Too much of the internet is people with nothing to say, saying too much.
You mean like those Samsung TVs that scanned your network shares even if you told it not to and sent the names of all the files it saw to a server somewhere?
PlushCare, Inc - plushcare.com | Fullstack | Fulltime
San Francisco, California

At PlushCare, we believe in helping every individual achieve health and happiness. We believe through the use of technology, we can create the ideal healthcare experience. Simply put, our mission is to challenge the status quo by providing every person convenient and affordable access to the best-trained doctors in the country. We allow patients to skip the waiting room and get diagnosed, treated, and prescribed medication by top U.S. doctors via smartphone. We're looking for people to join our team to help bring healthcare to the next level.

Interview Process: 30 min phone chat w CTO, a coding assignment (~1hr), and a half day onsite

Culture: Super fun, collaborative team. Everybody here shares the same ambition to make healthcare more transparent.

Feel free to shoot us an email at careers@plushcare.com for more information
Interesting, how do you heat the plate?
CMS Airship

Github: https://github.com/paragonie/airship

Docs: https://github.com/paragonie/airship-docs

Airship is a secure-by-default CMS that applies security fixes within one hour of their release by our team in the default configuration. Code delivery is secured by cryptographic signatures, a system similar to certificate transparency, and reproducible builds from open source components.

License: GPL

Language(s) Used:

PHP (version 7 with strict types)
Twig templates
SQL (currently only PostgreSQL 9.5)
JavaScript
jQuery
HTML5 / CSS3 (with no regard for legacy IE compatibility)

How to help: https://cspr.ng/blog/2016/09/contribute-airship-non-expert-s...

Some more technical details in case HN is interested:

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/05/keyggdrasil-continuum-cry... | How the auto-updater works (warning: cryptography protocols ahead)

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/06/php-security-platinum-sta... | The version 1.0.0 blog post

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/08/on-insecurity-popular-ope... | A comparison of the security of three most popular CMS platforms
I've been using mostly windows (7) for the past years, with a sprinkle of linux VMs for running databases and such.

Now, when upgrading, I think I'll buy a mac. I can't be bothered to deal with this crap any more.

But on the mac side, there's a lot of blocking of non-store apps and general walled garden-ness? Or is this just something I've conjured up in my paranoid mind?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12414548
You don't need to be concerned about Mercury's day unless they're on the surface, essentially. You do need to be concerned with the earth's, and their positions relative to the sun.
this is amazing! so trippy. You can really track the two storms (US East Coast and right of Hawaii). The eye of the storm is relatively calm at 0-6 km/hr.
The difference is Cloudflare is perfectly content to forward the backbone traffic unencrypted over public internet. In fact, they advertise this malfeature.

Anyway as I stated before the bar for calling it MITM is simply the intended behaviour of the protocol (HTTPS). Which is very much violated. Whatever negative or otherwise connotations the term has doesn’t change the fact that it is technically correct. Really all I’m arguing here. There’s plenty of better reasons to hate Cloudflare anyway.
Deep Work has been one of the most influential books about productivity.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...
Seneca's Letters to Lucilius helped me come to grips with the modest scale of my own achievements (or lack thereof) and the futility of further ambition at the expense of anything else.
How about, "Truly unique in our experience?"
Osiris-Rex spacecraft blazes trail for asteroid miners
can we get rid of all the dispensers popping up at work places, grocery stores, and more?
Hmm, I've tried and failed to understand QC a few times... I wonder if you could help me out here?

What is supposed to be interesting about the result at 15:15? As far as I can tell, the shader contains all the information that is presented as the output here, so it doesn't seem impressive. But he says "our calculation produced the complete answer perfectly with zero noise" as if this is a serious accomplishment? I don't get it.
Extreme Ownership by Joko Wilink

Team of teams by Gen. Stan McChrystal

Both of these are required reading for understanding how humans work together.
Why not get a linux-based system?
Then we could beam the energy back to earth using lasers so bright that they would burn plasma holes through our atmosphere and precisely target receiving stations where they would vaporize water which would power a steam turbine. Totally doable, I'd say we could get it up and running in a couple years.
Decade old hardware can do TLS fine. Barely working networks can do TLS just as well as they can do non-TLS.
FYI: For Your Improvement, A Guide for Development and Coaching (4th edition)

Several close colleagues & mentors recommended this book as their "career bible". I finally listened to them (took me 10 years, but finally did it). And glad I did.

In my opinion, it is the most infornation-dense, non-BS, completely actionable advice I have found in a business book. Strongly recommend. From my understanding, the 4th Ed is the one you want.

This is the way you take your professional & career life to the next level.

https://www.amazon.com/FYI-Improvement-Guide-Development-Coa...
The trustlesness comes with a heavy price of Proof of Work with its wastefulness, complexity and vulnerability to various attacks. I can understand why financial institutions don't want that part.
Voxel engine Unity3d
Bogleheads is self-contradictory in some ways. The Boglehead philosophy is to buy and hold assets without frequent trading. And yet the discussions are filled with financial noise. For a group of simple buy-and-holders, they like to micromanage (at least with words on the web) minute financial decisions.

A Boglehead thread should be something like this:

9/2/2016 Username said: I began regularly buying XYZ index fund.

9/2/2056 Username said: I began regularly drawing down XYZ index fund.

That's it. Instead they chinwag about tiny personal expenditures. I think a forum is not the best medium for such a community, given that a forum consisting of my model thread would be moribund.

There are some nuggets of financial wisdom, but for a lot of people there being a Boglehead is just a slogan.
You don't have to be a scientist in order to be well informed about matters that are very important to you.
Why the down vote? seriously? I am asking for clarification because I am interested if you were speaking about the upside or the downside? Its not at all clear.
I may be an anomaly here, but in my experience, at companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Intel, engineers already only code productively for a few hours a day. That has been my observation.
LoL, yea. Was trying to use several examples from different sports. I actually think the NFL has probably changed more due to better physical training. But, the NBA has also gotten dramatically better over time.
Raising venture capital as a founder that does not fit the stereotype
"The problem with HN for politics and economics is its decidedly Silicon Valley, libertarian and white male slant, often self-servingly pedantically amoral."
Yes a thousand times yes and also lacking in the kind of perspective you would normally hear from people who have struggled in life and learned some valuable life lessons.
/b/ also has some utility as a containment board - it's nowhere near perfect at keeping shitposters away from other boards, but it is a decent magnet for those that want to go crazy.
> ...HN applies a penalty for contentiousness (defined as lots of upvotes AND downvotes) to both articles, comments and users.

Unless I've misunderstood what you're saying, this simply isn't true.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister (http://amzn.to/2ckIYbJ)
<line-eater, are you there ?>

And now we know that the "NSA line-eater" was maybe not so mythical, after all (though not responsible for actually eating lines).
What a jailbreak is worth these days.. close to a million? So training course for a few grand by someone capable of developing a jailbreak (on numerous occasions*) should be a well-spent educational investment, even if no unfixed vulnerabilities are shared (obviously, they won't be).
An acquaintance recommended Peter Drucker's "The Effective Executive" as a first book to read about management. I found it very interesting and it changed my outlook on the value of tracking time, focusing on strengths and what contribution matters. (I am not a manager myself.)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Effective-Executive-Classic-Drucker...
Free trade maximizes GDP at the cost of further wealth inequality within the closed system of a nation.

There's a tipping point coming fairly soon where voters will logically prefer the short term benefits of protectionism vs additional inequality.

If capitalists want to continue down the path of free trade, they better be prepared to redistribute the additional wealth generated. That or find a way to disenfranchise a whole lot of pissed off citizens.
There are lots of ways to get a return. I helped start Lighter Capital (originally "RevenueLoan"), which invests a lump sum that gets repaid as a percentage of revenue (like a royalty). That model, Revenue-Based Financing, is harder to game than dividends (management can and often does make profit "disappear" but rarely has any incentive to make revenue disappear).

You can also have redemption rights or dividends. Depending on tax treatments these can be reasonably lucrative.

Of course, if you tautologically declare that the only payout is from an "exit" then no exit, no returns. But historically speaking "exits" are the exception, not the rule -- yet businesses have been aggregating capital and rewarding investors for centuries.
They would be the victim....
I agree. A great deal of social communicative data that is crucial to make meaningful connections is lost online. Even people who are good at reading and writing, and that's not very many, are deprived of a lot of real-time information that is automatically communicated in person, like tone, eye contact, facial positioning, and other signals. Humans are heavily dependent on those cues for successful interaction.

Further, the Greater Internet Fuckwad theory [0] applies -- taking away the complex risk calculations involved in face-to-face conversations causes people to discard social inhibitors like civility rather quickly.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/RkSu1kn.jpg
How do other companies collect OS-level data?
I've wondered how these apps go about stopping this stuff, given that Windows is closed source. Do they somehow get their hands on the source? Or is it all Reverse-Engineering?
Manslaughter requires negligence. Not all homicides are a result of negligence, i.e., shit happens.
Same here, thanks.
> You don't need to kill the bacteria. Just remove it.

I'm pretty sure the lipid-dissolving properties of soap kill bacteria by shredding their cell membranes. It's not effective against viruses, but neither is antibacterial soap.
I might.
I've never been happy with the 'desktop' linux distros. Not the look/feel/functionality, just install/setup issues and the distro version upgrade hassle.
I use arch linux for my dev work, but it seems like a chore to use that as a day-to-day system on a laptop. Maybe I'm wrong.