skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The goal is precisely feel good charity tourism as a safe adventure you don't need to quit your job over, so it seems like good advice to me.

That might be the nathan_f77's apparently stated goal, but nathan_f77 also states they do not really know what they want. Charity tourism is just disgusting racist white savior paternalism that exploits POC-in-former-colonies poverty for white-people-from-former-colonizer-countries ego inflation. You use the word 'safe' in quotes so I assume you know this: the phrase "safe adventure" is literally an oxymoron (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adventure). Charity tourism might just turn out to be one of those unfulfilling consumer experiences the poster is looking to avoid, wrapped in a feel-good veneer.
Most of the stand alone apps have offline capabilities, though(maps, mail, notes, messages etc). If you planned the trip chance is that you already have all the info available offline. Nevertheless I can see how this app may prove helful but I think it's far from a killer-app because it requires manual input anyway(i.e copy hotel(s) information from email)
I know. I am not saying this is simple. But if sufficient breakthroughs are achieved we might as well do better than state of art solar.
Which is odd since Tiananmen Square is one of the main tourist attractions in Beijing. Did the government conclude that all English speakers are using it as metonymy for 6/4 or that there's too great a chance that English-language materials about the place will discuss it?
If you use standalone accounts, then the liability is with Stripe. With managed accounts you're collecting all this information, Stripe charges an additional .5% and financial liability switches to you if Stripe cannot debit the merchant. I'm not saying one shouldn't be responsible for it, but it is a difference.

I would argue that the .5% you are paying to use managed accounts would include some sort of "insurance" against fraudulent merchants especially since one would hope Stripe is providing platforms with a similar level of verification compared to standalone accounts.

Ideally platforms would be aware of the differences and make the best decision based on their risk tolerance and UX goals, but after spending a fair amount of time in Stripe's IRC room in the past, people just want to build something and don't always go into the deep documentation listing some of these gotchas.
If you forward yourself the email with your plane tickets, trips should pick them up. But it is a huge pain if your flight, hotel, and car reservations go to different emails. The app doesn't consolidate anything, even between Gmail accounts, and switching accounts requires a restart of the app
What is the meaning of the 140 limit if this and that doesn't count toward it?

A 139 character message plus a 50 character uncounted URL won't pass through SMS. The 140 limit is from SMS. If you're going through SMS, meet the limit. If not, then chuck the limit, or pick another one. There is no way to rationalize any half assing like counting only these kinds of tokens or substrings in the message against a 140 limit but not others.
Yes, Obama endorsed HRC.
> It isn't court of law incriminating, but it's more than enough for the court of public opinion.

I doubt it; its reinforcing for the people that are already inclined to the belief and so need no additional evidence, and not likely to be particularly interesting to most of the rest of the public (who, in any case, has pretty much tuned out the whole issue by now.)
You wrote that people would have to choose between having no police and firemen, and having low housing prices.

You did not say "fewer" police and fireman. You said there would be none. It's clearly a ridiculous thing to say, and no matter how high housing prices get, it's very unlikely to become true. I'm not sure why you would try to defend such a silly and extreme statement. The existence of a single police officer disproves it.

You also said that lack of police and firemen would cause downward pressure on housing prices. That's also untrue. If you think that has happened, it is your job to provide evidence for it, not my job to provide evidence to refute it.

You can nitpick all you want about whether the numbers indicate a sufficient amount of police or not. That's moving the goalposts. You said there would be none, and that is untrue. You have no evidence that this has affected housing prices. So I can indeed just say "you're wrong," because the burden of proof is on you, and you haven't met it.
I don't want to speculate on who's account this is, and perhaps I'm missing something, but tokenizing the to/from addresses sounds like exactly the sort of thing you'd want to do before publicly releasing a lot of emails.

Replacing VIP@example.com with ##VIP1## allows you to release the messages without revealing the email addresses of every person they've ever interacted with.
I can think of a few other things the article doesn't touch on that influence me.

1) Once you become rich you also have a fair bit of say in what it is that you do. If you are an hourly worker stocking shelves at Walmart your autonomy is limited and the chance that boredom sets in is much higher than it might be for most white collar employees. Where white collar employee's is a proxy for rich.

2) An hourly worker can only grow their income linearly with the number of hours that they work. The rich often have huge leverage with the time they put in vs the amount of money they get out. Sales is one example of this, a hedge fund employee might be another case. This tends to favour the "you eat what you kill" type of compensation.

3) The people I know who become rich often do so not by diversification but typically from concentrating on one endeavor, typically a company. In this case the company tends to become a very large part of their life. They aren't always at their desk but they are always thinking about their company. Maybe this is just an offshoot of point 2).
From my experience it takes only 2-3 weeks for a C# developer to start writing F# code in the same imperative style as he/she used to in C#. That's the beauty of non-pure functional (aka functional-first) languages like F# and OCaml -- you can start writing imperative code and then gradually introduce functional patterns as you learn them.
Church is from autoadmit and probably well known to Aston (since they were both part of the PR community).
That's a really interesting phenomenon. It sounds like your subconscious mind decides that, after a lot of activity, now is the time for meditating and your conscious mind just has to go along with it. Best wishes to you.
The person interviewed in the article downplays the dangers of cults in general, without really talking about any of there activities aside from the films (which are the focal point of the article). Just saying kids, many cults are dangerous and many do a real good job seeming innocuous . Look up the BITE model, learn it and recognize it. https://www.freedomofmind.com/Info/BITE/bitemodel.php
I doubt there are a lot of people currently alive who associate the 'pilot' term with maritime activities, unless it's explicitly stated.
From $4.5B to Nothing: Forbes Revises Net Worth of Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes
They should have 64c or less days. Just to motivate people to rethink their writing.
>As for portability, assuming that one would be using each brand's backpack to transport each drone, they are actually very similar in size: GoPro: 540 x 320 x 150 mm DJI: 447 x 318 x 229

That's when the GoPro is folded in the bag?
http://archive.is/FXcao
Which is probably all that matters here. I can't imagine Clinton ever seeing serious legal punishment for this stuff regardless of proof, and Mr. Combetta has been granted immunity, but this stuff will definitely affect the election.
On the Spectrum of Abstraction
Serious question, what exactly is the "complexity that comes with it"?
It doesn't cost 1.5% to execute the refund hack onto a Visa/MC debit card.

It really depends where the cost is being eaten. Is Lyft eating this or is the driver? Why would anyone agree to a 1.5% reduction in earnings to get their money now instead of tomorrow/2 days?
It's the acceptance that no justice system can be 100% perfect.

As repeated in many other comments, it gives the innocent person a chance to be released, which is better than the zero chance.

Also as you say - 20 years in jail is a serious punishment, so it isn't eliminating the punishment, it's just only using a reversible one.

It also allows for improvements in the justice system over time.
6 months in tech are like 5 years in regular life...
Armory Enterprise Spinnaker Release v0.61
Yes, I have, and it's very taxing if I'm trying to do something high concentration. At least laptops make it easier to sneak off into a corner when there's code to write.

This is the number one factor for me preferring remote work. Commute and housing costs are also attractive, too, but an on-site job would be fine if it came with a private office.
Ah yes, Cryptowars I :-) As part of my involvement in the Java project I was building crypto classes that you could call from other objects. The NSA^h^h^hDepartment of Commerce was concerned. A couple of the things that were patented out of that project had to be cleared by them. Very odd experience.

The idea that a piece of software could not be legally exported from the US but could be fetched via FTP from Italy was pretty amazing in its dissonance. All of the representatives of the federal government I ended up interacting with all understood that the battle was "lost" but they were doing their part to slow or chill research or distribution.
Not sure what the appeal of inline base64 would be, though, over linking to a hosted file. Twitter is about sharing text, and arbitrarily long URLs mean mom and pop can achieve longer tweets by just adding http:// and using dashes.
NZ does a lot of geothermal so i know a little more about it than most but i'm no geologist. couple points - first, don't confuse depleting the ground water with depleting the heat. a lot of geothermal taps the heated groundwater and yes, you can screw that up by extracting more than is re-plenished. luck/geology is your guide for what the ratio is though. binary systems fare better as you pull the water out, suck off the heat and then inject the liquid back in. secondly, the big problem with geothermal is that the wells cost 10s of millions of dollars. the financial decisions far outway the technical ie, you have to spend $30-40M to get a well that's active upfront but it may take decades to get it paid back. hot dry wells are like throwing money into a pit and then paying someone else to burn it. if you're relatively small then you can eliminate this risk by running your own fluid up and down but remember these wells are only 20-30 cm in diameter. oh - and don't forget that if you mess it up, presurised ground water or mud will use your well to get through an impermeable rock layer and into an aquifer. there's some well head in Indonesia that's been pumping out cubic km's of hot mud for the last 20 years...
Java's networking capabilities are rock solid, battle-tested and have got very fast as it is used in many heavy duty back end systems all over the world
Exactly why I thought HN might find this story interesting, the 'we did it reddit!' factor is funny in light of the many times they've gotten things horribly wrong -- the Boston marathon bombing comes to mind.

Kind of wish it hadn't been flagged and disappeared from the front page so quickly.
I know that Java's standard library is very complete. I know very little about Go's, but I presume that it's not more complete than Java's. Is Go's library easier to use than Java's? Is it significantly easier?
U.S., China Move Against Firm Suspected of Aiding North Korean Nuclear Program
Isn't a muse traditionally a source of inspiration that fuels your creativity?
So I think you are implying that if it's not negative news about the environment then people shouldn't be hearing it. I hate this attitude that the environment is indisputably in a headlong rush to hell. This to me is much more detrimental to the efforts to make positive environmental changes. The general public will not trust science if they are not being told the truth whether a particular truth supports a particular agenda or not.
Brother Helped to the Finish Before Collapsing in Dramatic Triathlon
You'd have to hide the antenna well to do this.
How YouTube threatened me to please EU president Juncker (French/Video)
This isn't incriminating at all. There's no mention of changing the content/body, only removing her address from the to/from fields. That's a sensible thing to do if she doesn't want her private email address to be public knowledge, and the presence of her address in the to/from field can be inferred since, you know, it's her inbox.

I feel like Hillary could hire someone to take her dog for a walk and millions of people would find it corrupt and scandalous for some reason.
Yes, it does. Pretty much the entire OS can be controlled by keyboard. You may have to turn on Assistive Services to make it work in all contexts, but it's definitely there.
not really, considering it'll get truncated
Google Search has been blocked over the last two years, even through the CN site that redirects to HK. Mobile is possibly an exception, but I never had an Android phone so don't know.
I like to get some classes in the local language for a couple of hours a day. You'll learn something new, meet some locals and you can often interact more with locals you meet afterwards when mangling a little of their language.
Totally. IMO it's equivalent to deciding whether to write a book in your native language or in another language you don't speak because they have more words in the domain of the book's topic.
Thousands of geotagged drug photos found in dark web archive
This seems to have taken place in July 2014, which is many months before the emails went missing (Mar. 2015). Even taking into account that he was apparently instructed to delete the email in Dec. 2014 (and forgot to), it still leaves a large amount of time between these two incidents.
GoPro's Karma drone
In fact, we're on the internet now, on a website that serves as an instrument for elevating discourse with its community standards!
5 Things you must have to make affiliate sale using FB Ads?
From the article:

"..Oracle has been using very aggressive tactics to sell its current cloud platform. The company's sales team has resorted to the "nuclear option" of threatening a costly and expensive audit of other Oracle software products, then offering to skip the audit if the customer agrees to add cloud services."

This will work well for them.
100% of donations directly fund patient care. We even pay the credit card processing fees out of our own pocket in order to keep the administrative costs at 0% for donors. If you donate $10, it'll be matched to $100, and every cent will go to the healthcare provider to cover the cost of the patient's care.

We can afford to do this by 1) raising money separately from a group of donors to cover our administrative costs and 2) enabling people who donate to patients to add a tip to help cover administrative costs (despite it being optional, ~2/3 of donors tip).

We're too new to have been rated by Charity Navigator. Regardless, even when we are rated I won't point donors there. I think Charity Navigator is a valuable tool (more transparency around nonprofits is a good thing imo) but I don't think it's an effective way of evaluating an organization's impact. It's focused on what % of donations nonprofits spend on programs (vs administration) but not on whether the programs work.
Day One Strategy – Part 7
Braintree has a similar product, albeit not instant: https://www.braintreepayments.com/products-and-features/mark...
The thing is they are marketing it for Spain (or European travel) in their video [0]. Maybe because Spain, France and Italy are in the top 4 travel destinations world-wide along with the US...

The focus of my critique (rant?) is that the presentation video only shows:

1- Ignorance about the destination with so many clichés and misleading stereotypes.

2- disrespect for many locals (like me)

> I'll be the one to tell you that the world is larger than the US, EU and UK

Brilliant observation, but if you are marketing your app for European travel, don't mislead travellers showing goats in a Barcelona street and show respect for the locals.

> The assertion that having data is a perfect replacement for an offline travel guide is a bizarre one.

Where is that assertion? It's a personal preference. As you may know there's not a single/universal way of travelling, there's also people that might prefer a satellite phone... Your preference of connectivity is irrelevant, but for many people having free wifi/4g renders this offline-first app useless in european soil.

Whenever I've visited the americas (north/south) a working SIM with a data plan has been enough for me...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ign2GmVEflw
The same FAA that has been unable to modernize the air traffic control system since, what, the 70s?
ZooKeeper. AIUI, creating your first set of ZooKeeper nodes is a serious PITA. My employer gave up before even started and decided to pay Cloudera for CDH even though we have _zero_ need for Hadoop.
Ask HN: Best way to get started in a different language
I've been a .NET developer for many years but would like to have experience in other languages/platforms so that I could apply for jobs requiring them. What's the best way to show exposure or experience? I realize I could do a personal side project but will that really be "good enough"? Are there companies that are willing to hire developers that don't have experience in a particular language and willing to see how long they take to pick it up? Also, I'm not looking to relocate so I would most likely be looking for a remote gig. Thanks.
The author touches on a problematic issue that most developed nations tend to ignore.

Poverty and under development isn’t due to a lack of resources; it is merely the end result of a complete lack of responsible governance and institutions.

The absence of responsible governance and institutions cannot somehow be offset by directly interacting with individuals (peasants, out of work folks, women in need, etc.. ) who are basically desperate for any help right now, not long term solutions which may impact their nation as a whole.

It’s easier for NGOs to create all sorts of dependencies by handing over tools and practices to small communitities here and there and tell the world how incredibly successful they’ve been. As soon as the funds dry up or the particular NGO moves on to another project or country, all progress stops.

Fix the governance and build solid institutions that are capable of establishing and enforcing the rules of the road and the goals that need to be met and you’ll finally have a map to real and sustainable development.
Laetitia Birbes was invited, by YouTube, to interview EU president Jean-Claude Juncker. The full interview, in French, with English subtitles, is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=BY5rGTjrfLI

The video linked in this article describes the backstory of the event. TL;DR: What YouTube asked for, and significantly badgered Ventose to obtain, is not what they received.

Transcript of the first 20 seconds, from Ventose's meeting with a YouTube representative:

0:01 you're already asking very difficult questions to Mr. Juncker,

0:05 you're talking about corporations' lobbies,

0:06 you don't want to get on the wrong side of Youtube and the European Commission or of the people who trust you...

0:13 Well except if you don't care about having a long career on Youtube...

My rough translation of the description (from French):

Between pressure to influence, manipulation and censorship, I chose to refuse the role of a figurehead who was chosen to interview Juncker as a young YouTuber, and instead surprise Juncker and Youtube live with real questions about Europe which you had asked of me on the Internet: Luxleaks scandal, power lobbies, prohibition of chemicals and Europe, Barroso's appointment at Goldman Sachs, etc.

I could not resist and go to the end of this adventure without my Raj complicit Autodisciple chain to be my assistant and false for hidden cameras, and Ludo, Xav and Steph chain Dare who helped me to prepare to face a politician and helped greatly in writing the questions.
By 2020 Internet-less may become the killer experience :)
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personally if I were you I would use this as an excuse to learn Scala especially as you have a Java background.
Is it still the case that LoRa is a single vendor proprietary technology? When I looked into it a bit it seemed like only Semtech produced LoRa chips and that it wasn't an open standard like 802.11, so it is unlikely that we will see offers from other vendors.
What needs to be modernized?
We've created v0.61 to solve the following problem: Spinnaker is powerful but hard to install and configure; lots of sub-services. We've created a package that 'just works' to make it easier to install. Would love to hear feedback from anyone who gives it a try.
Shaping Your Slack
Change that today! /r/wicked_edge You don't have to use the fancy soaps / brushes to wet shave, but they do help. Buy a handle (~$25) and blades are dirt cheap QTY 100 for ~$12 - 20.
This is literally one of the top items on the front page.
Ah great, I'll do that! Thx.
Yes, that's a comparison of the dimensions of the two backpacks.
Assange is an alleged rapist. Also kind of a dick. So people have less sympathy for him.

People like Snowden 'cause he seems like a nice guy who genuinely believes in what he says.
I would use Nextcloud, Its pretty neat and you can also use WebDAV

Edit : Just in case you were looking for something Selfhosted.
No, it's gotten much worse with Windows 10: now it'll force you to spend 45 minutes downloading and installing updates (while you can't do anything else) and then rebooting, at whatever time it feels like it, even if you're right in the middle of a critically important meeting. I don't remember XP-7 doing stuff like that.
I imagine it's some of both. If I do a Google search for it, the top result and about half of the first page are about the protests, and the famous "tank man" image, which is no good at all from their point of view.
In fact that would be a nice thing to champion.

Unlike the trend that has most corporate ads show token ethnic people for "diversity" in numbers non representative of their percentages in the population and absolutely not representative of their corporate presence -- whereas e.g. the real Board of the company is 9 white men and an asian.

Non attractive people, on the other hand, or regular people, so to speak, are the vast majority -- fat, short, too tall, too skinny, etc.

So it would nice to have all ads display "attractiveness diversity". E.g. if a panel of independent "judges" deems that the people in the ad are too attractive (e.g. all model level pretty), the ad gets canned.

This would help with tons of people's complexes, things like anorexia, teenage anxiety, etc.
Removing her address isn't a big deal.

However the part about the 60 day retention policy and the user being able to choose which emails are saved past that policy might well lead to valid questions about the decision process on what was and was not retained.
It Takes More Than IoT to Make a City Smart
Here's a teaser for the karma recording live sound in a library:

https://youtu.be/6831JUHz_Wc