skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm. Well, I just got to that point in the flow. It first required giving all your personal information (I put in fake stuff; also FYI the email went to my spam folder on gmail). There was no obvious way I could see to save the actual contract and show it to a lawyer before submission. I could only copy the image files of the text! I understand that you are working across multiple jurisdictions (so different templates), and using a 3rd party signing service, but I'm curious if there are plans to improve this. Let me know if you want UX etc. support for that; am happy to help!

Thanks for clarification re. consideration. (similar to what I considered for my binding pledge project, though yours is better!)
This hasn't garnered many responses, but I thought I'd share my research so far.

I've narrowed it down to Stormpath and Auth0.

I also considered:

* AuthRocket - no uptime page, were still in beta as of July 2014 (two years ago) - not mature enough yet

* UserApp - got their seed funding in 2014, too immature

* Okta - enterprise-focused, no public pricing for their "for Developers" product

* IdentityNow - enterprised-focused, no public pricing

* OneLogin - IT-focused

* Callsign - apparently mobile-only, trying to be passwordless, no public pricing, overall trying to solve a different problem than what I want

* Dailycred - feels abandoned, launched 4 years ago but still lacks team (according to Crunchbase), concerned about longevity

* Amazon Cognito - AWS-focused
Mathematicans whom I have known, Portraits by Fan Chung Graham
Can't believe you didn't input Duchamp's Nude Descending A Staircase ;)
Yeah I think it is going to get really big in a sleeper hit kind of way, much of the material is just superb, like nothing you've ever heard on the traditional radio, which is almost all overly hyped boring rubbish.

Our Fair City I actually sponsor and I give money to the independent efforts that impress me.

Horror in particular is exceptional with audio drama. We're Alive is better than any recent horror or action movie I've seen for the last three-five years with maybe the exception of the recent Mad Max. In the non-fiction realm History is also going to become intense I think, Dan Carlin is going to get plenty of competition.
Accenture to Unveil ‘Editable’ Blockchain Prototype
Oops, will do now.
Great work so far, I hope you can pull it off.

... Then just come up with some fake name and portfolio website because I have a feeling that people will want to pay less for automatically generated art even if in a blind test they would like it more than a "real" one ;)
I think that "Is there any value in what I do" a good question, but perhaps you can think about it differently. For example, "Should I write a book?" If you start to write a book and don't finish, have you wasted your time? If your answer to this question is "yes", then maybe writing a book is not a good idea for you. Again, it's getting into that category of wanting to have written a book, not wanting to write a book.

Instead you can decide to write. It might be a book. It might not be a book. In fact, if you have never written a book before, probably it's much better not to aim at writing a book. For example, even if you want to run a marathon some day, you don't get up out of bed, never having run before and say, "Today I am going to run a marathon". Instead you get up and run. You do that every day for a year or so and then you start thinking, "Maybe I'll run a marathon".

I think people get confused because they see people just write a book, or run a marathon or whatever. If you are Stephen King, you can wake up one day and think "I'm going to write a book" because you already have all the skills you need to organise and maintain yourself over the period of time you need. You also know that writing is something you feel comfortable doing day in and day out. And although I can do many things that Stephen King can't do, I can not just decide to write a book. It takes experience to get to that point.

Another trick that I use for this kind of thing is to think about what I currently do that feels like a waste of time. For example, sitting around and watching mindless TV. It's easier to think, "I'm not going to watch TV today". But the question is, what are you going to do? Suddenly the world opens up. You can do anything. Maybe it is running. Maybe it is writing a book. Maybe it is programming. You aren't wasting your time, but you also don't need some paralysing overarching goal either.
Also, 2.0 is the unification of BigCouch (Cloudant's work) with the old single node CouchDB.
There's also the consideration from the ad network side of things. This gives Google a lot more power in the ecosystem than they had before in theory if lots of people switch to it (which they will, because they don't have much of a choice).

Similarly with Instant Articles--the big players own the ecosystem and can enforce whatever constraints they want if they have enough leverage. In this case, it happens to provide a sizable benefit to end users so publishers and ad networks are really the only ones feeling the pain.
at the point you said this

> an example of why spending big on social programs doesn't produce long-lasting social benefits.

which is not a statement of opinion, but rather, is an unjustified assertion that conforms with your ideological agenda.

an opinion would have been something like "I prefer to vote for politicians that are fiscally conservative because I don't think the government has a good track record of implementing positive social change with spending programs"

but that's now what you said or how you said it. instead, you implied that social programs ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE are comparable in some meaningful way with a failed state that collapsed under the weight of corruption and authoritarian dictatorship.
I feel compelled to note that "giclée" is a fancy word for "inkjet printed". It has connotations of higher quality, but it's not a distinct process. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gicl%C3%A9e
A while back I was exploring the use of 'soft' formal methods to help in evaluating correctness of some new modules we had to develop.
I had come upon Alloy, which seems like a gentler introduction to formal methods (Unlike Z or Coq).

http://alloy.mit.edu/alloy/

Anyone have any experience using Alloy, or some other formal method?
A curated list of talks about React Native
I am working in US under TN status and you definitely need a computer science or engineering degree for anything tech related.
-11 in both eyes here. Seeing the same thing!
How about "Ask my wife to come down in 2 minutes"? :-)
A problem of insertion into ductwork of a passive-design system component, is that when the heating system runs at night, it will cause air to pass through the panels, and thus cool the building at night in winter.

Since the solar panel-system is passive in design, insertion into ductwork would be a new design issue.
Woohoo, lets get the lawyers involved!
I dunno, I think a lot of the hoity-toity types who are willing to overpay for art would be put off by knowing that it was done by computer. For them, the value is in the scarcity more than the aesthetics: they want to have something that their friends don't (and can't!) have. So if it were me, I would choose not to reveal that anyone who knows how to use github and an inkjet printer can reproduce the results.
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Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding – Tools for the Job
> Most, in fact almost all employers have fixed salary schedules for their positions and they simply will not deviate from these as a rule, nor will they entertain negotiation around them.

Most employers will happily tell you that this is the case. That does not mean that it is so. If you rate it, those doors will, at many companies, open. But you have to rate doing something that is Not Normal, and you have to be able to communicate why you rate having the people dealing with your hiring stick their neck out and do something that is Not Normal. This is hard. Few people (not just engineers) can do that. But it can be done.
Let alone self-maintenance. There goes the right to repair...
Sadly the site of the company that owns the Commodore name is full of 404 pages, notably the one linked to from the "Hardware" tab. http://www.commodorecorp.com
1. Running someone's random JavaScript code exposes me to malware, even on reputable sites (who have no control over the content of the ads they get from their ad network).

2. Tracking me across the internet violates my privacy (and feels creepy).

3. Ads that play video or audio are excessively intrusive. If the ads take up more of the user's attention than the web site, the web site isn't worth visiting.
Andreessen Horowitz-backed AllSet raises $2.35M to cut your restaurant wait
http://www.apple.com/au/shop/browse/home/applecare
Cloudant did it for their clustering implementation of CouchDB. See here: https://cloudant.com/blog/run-dmc-explains-network-partition...
I can't check right now but last I looked you can't share AMPed search results and I thought a few pages depending on how they were structured. I could be wrong but I don't remember being able to generate a good URL from some AMP pages.
Any news about APFS?
Right. And at Tarsnap I do exactly that -- but Tarsnap is designed to be profitable. For startups which lose money hand over fist, it may be hard to justify making such contributions until after they're acquired.
Heh, never heard of that one! The one in WA doesn't seem to have a wiki page but is here - http://esperancestonehenge.com.au/
The Swedish head of state does not live in Silicon Valley (and I would be surprised if the Swedish state is spending less than $250k/yr. in total on its monarchy).
Amazon Book and Kindle Search Hacks
I was the idiot who made the jump. While on VPN, no less. My work laptop has both GlobalProtect and Cisco installed as VPN clients. The GlobalProtect client broke but the Cisco client works fine - both require two factor authentication.

Everything seems to work so the unnecessary risk I took didn't cause too much harm.
China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth – Not Sure When
Virtual reality is not going to be big, it’s going to be everything
The similarities among mother/mom (English), mádre (Spanish), ma (Chinese, sorry if the intonation is wrong), ma/mata (Hindi) has perplexed me.
It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian 'chinanto/mnigs' which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ks' which kill cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.

What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. Old structural linguists get very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. Young structural linguists get deeply excited about it and stay up late at night convinced that they are very close to something of profound importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.
Somehow Kafka's writing appeals to many people around the world, and everyone feels it's close to their experience

I remember visiting his grave in Prague years ago and ahead of me, already at the grave, was an older woman with plastic shopping bags draping heavily from each hand, her head bowed deeply and silently as she stared at the grave. I stopped and waited. Five minutes later, she lifted her head slightly and turned and went on her way with her heavy shopping.
There's a good chance that's what happens. Auto-braking (level 1) is likely to become standard, like anti-skid braking. Full automatic driving (levels 3-5) will be options. Semi-automatic steering (level 2) may disappear as the higher levels start to work. The shared responsibility between driver and control system is too messy at level 2.
My personal favourite is facebook chat. Mobile site? "You have to use the app!" Request desktop site? Well well well, it appear to work just fine. Supremely annoying the one time a month I need to reply to someone's message...
People are confused. The end salaries are probably in the $110k-$150k range.
That's not quite true. It's a particularly high quality of ink-jet print. You can easily tell the difference between a giclee and the output of an HP OfficeJet.
It means exactly that it is so for almost all cases. There are always going to be exceptions, but those are just that: exceptions. There's a reason they're called "exceptions." Edit: the people who set compensation are very rarely the people that decide whether to hire you. The latter may communicate the salary HR dictates to them, but they almost never have negotiation power within their own employers' structure.
I think it's a global trend. If you can afford cheap data collection then why not do it?

For example ghostery indicates 8-11 trackers blocked on major Hungarian news portals. I'd guess this is close to an average. Check a DailyMail article ;)
And Let's Encrypt have created open-source software and standard protocols for running an automated, free CA. So anyone (with sufficient money) could provide a drop-in replacement if needed or desired.
CouchDB is eventually consistent and does not guarantee consistency. Would a Jepsen test make sense?
That's true, but it's not exactly a high bar.

They gets lots of credit for being aware of the problem, but less credit for thinking they are doing better than they actually are.

It's too bad oil will be worth less eventually - otherwise they could just force themself to leave it in the ground, but the way things are going they had best convert it to cash as soon as possible.

It makes me wonder if it's economically long-term better for them to pretend not to have oil and develop their economy, vs. selling the oil.

Long term, which will give them more total cash?
There are other ways of doing this incrementally.

Yes, and they're all undesirable, unworkable, or useless, as your own post points out.
This year's “Doodle 4 Google” contest is underway
Ask HN: How to build something better than HN?
Let's say I want to build something that is better than HN, what do I need ? (Let alone the technical and coding side)
I bought the first edition of an O'Reilly book called CouchDB: The Definitive Guide a few years back.

Looking at the online draft version of the book, the tour chapter [0] still has version 0.10.1 in the example.

I wonder if there will be a second edition of the book covering mango, clustering and the new admin interface.

[0]: http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/tour.html
The earliest sounds that babies make tend to be "ma/muh" sounds, as they're smacking their lips to signal for food. Seems likely for language then to develop that sound into the word for "mother", the nearest object (food source as the case may be).
You wouldn't, SEL4 isn't designed for embedded systems. That's what NICTA's eChronos [1] is for : )

1: http://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/echronos/
Why do people hate JavaScript?

Is it because you're mixing it up with the DOM, especially the DOM of Internet Explorer of yesteryear? If so, scripting IE 6's DOM with Python would have been just as perilous.

Is it because you're mixing it up with Node.js, and its asynchronous complexity? If so, JavaScript doesn't have to work that way. And other languages could have been used the same way. Say, Node.py or Node.rb. Conversely, JavaScript could be framed in a normal, FastCGI apparatus, where everything runs more or less straightforwardly.

Is it because you're mixing it up with the messiness of NPM? See above.

Is it because JavaScript is dynamically typed, or because it has some other characteristic that seems less serious than languages like C, Java, or Go? If so, why not the same hatred for Python, Ruby, Perl, and Lua?

I myself like JavaScript's syntax more than all of the other scripting languages. I think the syntax for object literals and array literals is pleasantly terse. So is the dot notation for attributes. Combine that with how functions are first class, and you can chain them with dots instead of nesting them in parentheses. I like the new arrow syntax for functions, making the code even simpler.
Two deaths using Tesla's autopilot. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0yYJ8-Dyo
Cops pull over cars for traffic infractions for three primary reasons. The first is for driving safety, the second is for revenue, and the third is because it leads them to arrests of idiot criminals who can't be bothered to fix their tail lights.
Karma doesn't exist. Just drop them an anonymous email if you really feel the need to do something.
yeah mother in chinese is ma. I have always been curious about this as well.
As interesting as this is, I really don't think that IP blocks which are supposedly in North Korea are the limit of what their government/state apparatus has. I would not be surprised at all if significant blocks of IPV4 belonging to the Chinese upstream ISPs just across the border are also in use in locations geographically within North Korea.
AMP gives WSJ an incentive to serve a faster version. Why would they spend money improving their site - especially a big name like WSJ? Plus, from what I've heard from developers working at new sites, "our pages are faster and use less data" is a hard sell to the people in charge, who are more interested in integrating yet another ad platform.
A good exit from this is having computer skills.

The old-timers I see online are having the time of their lives on forums because online communities give recognition to geek cred, whatever industry it is in.

Maybe not everything but not nothing.

I think online community is more important for older people than many of them realize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_symbolism#Relationship_w...
I like it. I noticed that the oval brushes were almost always of lower quality (in the sense of doing a worse job recreating the original). I think it's because you only take axis-aligned ellipses and not arbitrarily rotated ones, which might be fun to try too.
Well, I don't know what the next nMP looks like, but presumably it will have the same form factor, so... none of it is upgradeable (apart from RAM, but... RAM is basically infinite these days)?

I've had a lot of issues with it, specifically:

1. Does not send display signal over mDP consistently. I have 2x 30" Apple Cinema displays connected to it. Sometimes it boots up without displaying anything on them. I have to restart it several times, unplug-and-replug both mDP and USB (the Cinema Display needs USB plugged in to work), clear NVRAM, etc until I finally see the login prompt.

It's not my machine because my partner has the same exact machine with the same configuration and it happens to her.

This is with the D700's so... who knows.

2. USB power is hit and miss. Sometimes it won't power up my Apple keyboard (no key input registered, caps lock light won't turn on, etc). Sometimes it won't power up anything on a specific port/bus until reboot. Again, not machine specific.

3. The SSD (Model: APPLE SSD SM0512F) is slow. I paid $$$ for the 512Gb SSD (the 1Tb was some ridiculous $ at the time, and I thought the better allocation of $ was to the GPU -- I regret this decision now because I'm SOL and can't expand my internal storage. I have a SSD-on-USB3 connected now for my VMs and what not). Sometimes I launch Finder and have to wait like 4-5 seconds before it shows me my home directory. There's really not much in there. A lot of other FS operations take longer than expected.

It's a longer list than this, but I really feel this thing is a lemon.

Maybe they'll address all these issues in the next rev, but my 2008 MP was on its last legs and I needed something to drive two monitors.

The iMac 5k is basically an awesome screen with a free computer attached. You can throw it out (or donate it, or whatever) and buy a new one every 2 years with the money you'd spend on the nMP every 5-6 years. It might not be the most powerful computer in the world, but it's good enough for like 95% of use cases.
> I imagine all the legal regulations surrounding charitable donations and tax breaks.

There aren't. You can collect donations on behalf of an organization just about anyway you please. Many of them have Apps for that. It's super fun on iOS because you have to kick out to Safari to complete donations so you don't have to pay the Apple tax. Not that I would know about any of that...
No. I've employed people in California. You don't pay 70% extra. It's more like the 25-30 range.
Did Edward Snowden Draw His Main Inspiration from Ayn Rand?
Depending on the implementation of "assign visitors into buckets randomly", this should include a test to ensure the populations are correctly randomized. "Unsophisticated" users of these heuristics are prone to make terrible decisions if the treatment populations are not properly randomized (this can be due to systemic bias caused by e.g. caching, or treatment effects like survival bias).
It is truly unfortunate that among those perpetrating the smears are the public managers themselves, in the guise of doing their jobs.
If you have a wife and she does not mind studying you can have yourself a nice visa and a work permit in Canada
+1 to Bettertouchtool. I've been using it for the last year, and it is awesome. It meets all my needs of customizing a bunch of shortcuts to different apps.
Yeah.

> There are banks in the Muslim world that have thought about this, and one thing you can do is replace interest with something like a rent payment. The customer, the person who wants to buy the house, doesn't own it right away. Instead, the bank buys the house and puts it in a legal entity called a trust. Then, the customer makes monthly payments for, say, 30 years. Each month, they own a little bit more of that trust until, finally, the house is all theirs.

So that's pretty much a conventional mortgage, except you don't own it immediately. So it's not a loan because you only own the portion you've paid for, I guess.

> Now, not all Muslim scholars are OK with this. Some say this is just interest by another name. It's a religious loophole.
Not an insulated capture point. Backside of the example metal sign always cooled on backside by low temperature air.
No, I think that that was the direction phones were moving in anyway, and it was an obvious step.

I also think that fanboys like yourself give way, way too much credit to Apple for 'inventing' the form factor and the smartphone when they weren't even first to market with that form factor and other smartphones had been around for years.

They did what they do well - designed a good product with mass appeal at the high end of the market, they even lead the market. I'm not trying to claim they're somehow bad or just derivative (because I'm not a fanboy)
I made only one assumption - that "the JavaScript community" is a granfalloon. Any further assumptions you assume I made are not valid.
Brilliant. Thanks.
(For the uninitiated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12538640)
Any ad network folks here care to weigh in on how you view AMP and its impact on the industry? Seems like a major moat-building exercise ala FB Instant Articles since Google has all the leverage with publishers.
So what?

I transferred cash across the globe for peanuts. The underlying mechanism doesn't really matter to me.